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Thursday, July 29, 2010 Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey   To the President of Syria, Mr. and Mrs. Bashar al-Assad Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad: At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria. Fox News: ▸ video ▸ story I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be coming back to the United States nor will she allow Sofia to return home. Sofia has been diagnosed with a severe medical condition that requires immediate treatment in the United States. It was scheduled to start on July 27, 2010, in New Jersey, the day after her abduction and was supposed to last until she reaches the age of 3. Any delay in the urgently needed treatment will result in a life-long disability for Sofia and make her dependent for the whole of her a... (more)

MontaVista Announces Carrier Grade Edition for ARM

BARCELONA, SPAIN -- (Marketwire) -- 02/28/12 -- MontaVista® Software, LLC, a leader in embedded Linux® commercialization services, today announced the release of MontaVista Carrier Grade Linux for ARM. In four years, the number of network devices will be double the size of the world population, according to Cisco VNI, 2011. This explosion roughly equates to four times the amount of network traffic ushering the world into the Zeta byte era. Providers of next generation network equipment can't build out this quadrupling of capacity using the traditional power hungry architectures. Every strategy from cloud computing to right sizing performance and power in the underlying hardware must be deployed in order to achieve the momentous goal in a power envelope the world's power grid can sustain. MontaVista has been pioneering many Linux first on ARM for over a decade. Key ... (more)

/ CORRECTION - DataLocker Announces New DL Personal AES Encrypted Storage Device

OVERLAND PARK, KS -- (Marketwire) -- 02/28/12 -- In the news release, "DataLocker Announces New DL Personal AES Encrypted Storage Device," issued earlier today by DataLocker Inc., we are advised by the company that the information in the third bullet should read "320 GB Capacity" rather than "500 GB or 1 TB capacity" and the first sentence of the "Pricing and Availability" paragraph should read "$249" rather than "$199" as originally issued. There was also a punctuation mark removed from the start of the final bullet. Complete corrected text follows. DataLocker Announces New DL Personal AES Encrypted Storage Device DataLocker Personal Makes Secure Storage Simple With an Emphasis on Ease of Use OVERLAND PARK, KS -- February 27, 2012 -- DataLocker Inc. (www.datalockerdrive.com), a leading developer of encrypted data storage products, today announced the new DataLocke... (more)

Halcyon Announces Spooled File Manager 9.0 For IBM i

PETERBOROUGH, England, February 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems management software provider, Halcyon Software, today announced a major release of one of its key products - the Spooled File Manager v9.0 for the IBM i platform. Spooled File Manager v9.0 is a comprehensive spooled file distribution and archiving tool which offers real-time spooled file monitoring, filtering and fast retrieval of archived spooled files. It performs actions on spooled files without the need for program changes such as automatically emailing the summary page of a report or converting them into PDFs or HTML web pages.  Major enhancements   The capability of archiving files has been substantially enhanced so that archived spooled files can be retrieved in sub seconds. There are no limits to the number of spooled files that can be stored within an archived file.   The new version now has ... (more)

Halcyon Announces Spooled File Manager 9.0 For IBM i

PETERBOROUGH, England, February 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems management software provider, Halcyon Software, today announced a major release of one of its key products - the Spooled File Manager v9.0 for the IBM i platform. Spooled File Manager v9.0 is a comprehensive spooled file distribution and archiving tool which offers real-time spooled file monitoring, filtering and fast retrieval of archived spooled files. It performs actions on spooled files without the need for program changes such as automatically emailing the summary page of a report or converting them into PDFs or HTML web pages.  Major enhancements   The capability of archiving files has been substantially enhanced so that archived spooled files can be retrieved in sub seconds. There are no limits to the number of spooled files that can be stored within an archived file.   The new version now has ... (more)

Amdocs Demonstrates Best-in-Class Benchmark Results for 220 Million Subscribers, Integrating Real-Time Charging and Service Control Platform (SCP)

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At Mobile World Congress 2012, Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced best-in-class results for the communications industry's first benchmark to report the performance of integrated real-time charging and SCP (service control platform) software on open (e.g. non-proprietary), cost-effective, hardware systems. The benchmark demonstrated support for 220 million prepaid and postpaid customers, the largest benchmark customer base ever reported. The benchmark ran Amdocs' Convergent Charging and SCP products on IBM BladeCenter™ servers and IBM Storwize® Unified Storage Systems at the IBM Telecommunications Infrastructure Center for Business Support Systems in Montpellier, France. The benchmark achieved groundbreaking performance, reliability and cost-efficient scalability. T... (more)

Cray's YarcData Division Launches New Big Data Graph Appliance

SEATTLE, WA and SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/29/12 -- YarcData, the newly-created division of Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) dedicated to providing "Big Data" solutions for enterprise customers, today announced the launch of the YarcData uRiKA graph appliance -- a purpose-built solution for Big Data relationship analytics -- at the 2012 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California. The uRiKA graph appliance fills an unmet need in the rapidly-growing Big Data market. While many critical Big Data problems are based on graphs, most current Big Data solutions are based on partitioned data structures that scale out on clusters. Current Big Data approaches, including graph databases, result in low performance on graphs since graphs are hard to partition across cluster nodes, are non-deterministic, and are highly dynamic. The launch of the uRiKA solution addresses the ... (more)

Aitech's New Rugged CompactPCI SBC Integrates Large Memories with High-performance Processor for ISR applications

CHATSWORTH, Calif., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true military embedded and mission critical computing technologies for environmentally-demanding military, defense and aerospace applications, now offers the C802, a 3U CompactPCI SBC (single board computer) based on the high-performance Intel Core i7 processor.  Speeds can be factory configured to a high performance 2.53 GHz, a lower power 2.0 GHz or an ultra low power 1.33 GHz depending on application needs.  (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120301/PH61852 ) The C802, the next generation of Aitech's popular C800 SBC, is an expansion to the company's growing CompactPCI-based product line.  The new board implements the latest in Intel's processing architectures while incorporating enhanced memory capabilities to enable system designers to maintain their technolo... (more)

Acquia Names Content Management Veteran Joseph Wykes Vice President of Global Channels

DENVER, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 03/20/12 -- DRUPALCON -- Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, today announced the appointment of recognized web content management industry leader Joseph Wykes as Vice President of Global Channels. Wykes joins Acquia from Percussion Software, where he served as President. During his ten-year tenure at the web content management software company, he led the company's expansion into the enterprise market, building strategic partnerships with ISVs, systems integrators and digital agencies. Wykes established an excellent track record for driving sales and launching innovative, award-winning products to meet customer and partner demand. "Acquia has made remarkable strides driving enterprise adoption of Drupal," said Tom Erickson, chief executive officer at Acquia. "Joe is a highly respected leader with a proven track record building world-c... (more)

Altera Showcases SoC FPGAs and Advanced Embedded Technologies at ESC DESIGN West 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) will showcase its latest embedded solutions at ESC DESIGN West 2012. Attendees visiting Altera's booth #1816 will learn about the company's SoC FPGAs, which integrate a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor into a 28-nm FPGA, and discover how they can get started now developing application software targeting this new class of device using the Altera SoC FPGA Virtual Target. Demonstrations in Altera's booth include a variety of FPGA-based embedded systems in the areas of video processing, H.264 video compression, music synthesis and image processing with multifunction printers. Altera will also showcase supporting technologies, including its latest embedded tools that simplify the design and development of FPGA-based embedded systems, along with a look into the future with upcoming techn... (more)

SUSE Releases Update to SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SUSE today announced the general availability of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Built using the recently announced SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service is the only managed client-server Linux solution available in the market today that has been specifically tailored for the unique needs of the retail industry. New features in this latest update help IT administrators enhance overall store operations and improve customer satisfaction. SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service includes a centralized directory-based administration server and point of service (POS) branch servers, as well as tools and templates to easily create, roll out and maintain operating system images for a wide variety of POS devices.  By using SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of... (more)

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