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gADOHI USqUANIgODI Native AMERICAN Spiritual CENTER calls for donated items in good condition until July 21 for a fundraiser to be held July 23, from 9 a.m. to noon, at 231 Morgan Road. Partial proceeds go to a food program and provide assistance to a community agency, this is a 501-(c)3 organization run by donations whose mission is "Preserving the Past to Protect the Future." Contact Rose Little Deer, call (575) 751-1081.
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CA[+ or -]N MDWCA advises that the annual Consumer Confidence Report has been prepared and is available for review at the MDWCA office at 648 Fern[sz] ndez Road in Ca[+ or -]n. Call 758-9329 for questions or more information.
EL SALTO MDWCA BOARD MEETING, is Tuesday, July 12, 7-8:30 p.m., Arroyo Seco/Valdez Community Center. This is a regular board meeting, topics include selecting an engineer for system upgrades and semi-annual financial report. Details? Email bones1@newmex.com.
LA MERCED DE CRISTBAL DE LA SERNA meets every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., at the Llano Quemado Community Center on Hot Springs Road. All heirs encouraged to attend. Agenda posting is at the Ranchos de Taos Post Office. For more, call Elden Torres, (575) 770-3615.
TALPA MUTUAL DOMESTIC WATER CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION'S annual Consumer Confidence Report is ready to view. For copies, contact Raul E. Vigil at (575) 751-4373 or stop by the Talpa Community Center.
TAOS REGULAR PLANNING & ZONING MUNICIPAL COMMISSION MEETING. Conference Room 109, Town Hall, 400 Camino de la Placita. Call (575) 737-2646.
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CANCER SERVICES FREE FAMILY RETREAT. Cancer Services of New Mexico's Family Cancer Retreat is Sept. 16-18 in Glorieta, N.M. This free program provides the state's adult cancer patients/survivors and their loved ones, tools and information such as treatment options, navigating the health care system, palliative care, meditation, family communications, nutrition, using the Internet effectively and more. Download application at www.cancerservicesnm.org or call Mike, (505) 239-4239.
FLAG RETIREMENT CEREMONY at Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park will be held Saturday (July 2) at 11 a.m. If someone has flags to retire but cannot attend, flags can be dropped off at the memorial, Angel Fire Visitor Center or Angel Fire Fire Department Station. For more, call Heritage Educator Kate German, (575) 377-2293.
N.M. "SUNSHINE" WEBSITE (Transparency for New Mexico) is www.sunshineportalnm.com: The State's Office of Information Technology's new web portal shares current information on cash status, investment account balances, budgets/expenditures, purchases (vendors), revenue generation, capital projects (including broadband's status statewide), state employee salaries, and fiscal health.
SUMMER HERB WALKS, in Taos mountains June through September with herb guru Rob Hawley. Learn and identify healing plants for wildcrafted products. Taos Herb Company, 710-J Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Albertson's Plaza. Visit www.taosherb.com. Call (575) 758-1991.
TAOS FIESTAS are July 22-24. "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow/Ayer, Hoy y Ma[+ or -]ana," is this year's theme. Key dates are Friday, July 22, 5:30 p.m., Coronation Mass, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and procession for Opening Ceremonies, Taos Plaza. Saturday, July 23, 10 a.m., Children's Parade, beginning at Enos Garca Elementary, 8 p.m. Baile Encantada at Town of Taos Convention Center, Civic Plaza Drive. Sunday, July 24, Historical Parade, along Paseo del Pueblo Sur and Albright Street. Musicians will be performing live music on the plaza all weekend. Details at www.fiestasdetaos.com.
TOWN OF TAOS PUBLIC, ONLINE AUCTION WEBSITE to dispose of items no longer needed, see this eBay type of site, www.publicsurplus.com, a perpetual auction with items regularly added, so check back often for new listings. Contact Carol A. Valade, town of Taos fixed assets clerk, cvalade@taosgov.com, (575) 737-2584.
WEEKLY WOMEN'S DISCUSSION GROUP, first Wednesday monthly (next meeting July 8), 7 p.m. for those who are looking at the last third of their life. Topic is "De-constructing the myth of aging, creating a brilliant third act." Bring a snack, 472-A Hondo Seco Road. Contact clm@claireworks.com or call (505) 363-2164.
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HELP-NM CHILD & ADULT FOOD PROGRAM: Provides $100-$800 per month in food reimbursement for nutritious meals you prepare for at least one person who lives outside your home. If you qualify, you can receive reimbursement for your own children's meals. Call (575) 758-3988.
SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAMS:
n TAOS: Providing nutritious meals to children 18 and under, and to persons with mental and/or physical disabilities, 18 and over, in the Taos area during the summer months. Taos Municipal Schools Student Nutrition Program sponsors the program through Aug. 5. Children 18 and younger are eligible for meals at any one of the sites in the Taos Municipal School District area. Community members or organizations interested in hosting a meal site are encouraged to call (575) 758-5288 or 758-5214 for details. A list of current meal sites will be posted at www.taosschools.org.
n PE[+ or -]ASCO: Pe[+ or -]asco Independent Schools sponsors the Seamless Summer Feeding Program for Children. Meals available at no charge to children 18 and under, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. Meals will be served at the following sites: Pe[+ or -]asco Schools Cafeteria, breakfast 7-8 a.m., lunch, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Vadito Community Center, Picuris Road, lunch, 11 a.m.-noon.; Chamisal Community Center, State Road 76, lunch, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Picuris Gymnasium Picuris Pueblo, lunch 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Questions? Call at (575) 587-2502 ext. 1107.
EIGHT NORTHERN FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM, an alternative program to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), serves low-income Indian households including non-Indians living in any of the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos, Taos County and Pe[+ or -]asco.
All eligible households are encouraged to apply. Simultaneous participation in SNAP and FDPIR is not allowed. FDPIR is located in Nambe Pueblo at 362 State Road 503. For more, call toll free, 1-800-734-2488 or locally, (505) 455-2288.
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ADOPT-A-THONS, Saturdays from 12:30-2:30 p.m., Stray Hearts Animal Shelter volunteers bring pups and kittens weekly to Puss 'n Pooch patio, 120-G Bent St. in John Dunn Shops for fun interaction. Call (575) 751-1718.
'SPRING TIME IS MOUSE TIME!' Taos Feral Feline Friends has great 'mousers' available for adoption -- two cats for $15 includes spay/neuter and all vaccinations. Check out the very cute, tame kittens too. Call (575) 737-9208.
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ANTHROPOSOPHICAL STUDY GROUP, 10 a.m., meets every second Sunday 10 a.m., third grade classroom. New Sunday series: "Spiritual Hierarchy." For adults only. No child care provided. Open to anyone interested in learning more about the philosophy underlying Waldorf Education and the works of Rudolf Steiner, at Taos Waldorf School, 9 Ben Romero Road. Call Silke (575) 751-0321.
NEW MEXICO PRE-K LOTTERY, applications now available at UNM Taos Kids Campus and UNM Taos Early Childhood Center. For details, call (575) 737-6295 or 737-6255.
TAOS ACADEMY holds its regularly scheduled governing council meeting on Monday (July 6), at 5:30 p.m. at the new location, 110 Paseo del Ca[+ or -]n West. For details or an agenda, call (575) 751-3109.
TAOS INTEGRATED SCHOOL OF THE ARTS. There are still a couple of spots available in the 5th and 6th grades for the 2011/2012 school year! For more information, contact Connie at 758-7755 or email her at connie@tisataos.com.
VISTA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL is accepting applications for grades 9-12 for the year 2011-2012 -- a free, public, Expeditionary Learning School. For more information, call Billy Archuleta at (575) 758-5100, ext. 101 or visit www.vghs.org.
Taos public transit schedules
THE TAOS EXPRESS: A nonstop weekend bus service between Taos Plaza and Santa Fe Friday through Sunday, stops in Santa Fe to allow for connections with New Mexico Rail Runner train service. Direct service also available to Santa Fe Airport by reservation; $5 per adult one way ($10 round trip). Children 10 and under ride free with accompanying adult. Reservations required. ADA compliant. Luggage accommodated, seasonal bike and skis/snowboard racks. Details and reservations at www.TaosExpress.com or call 751-4459.
TOWN OF TAOS LOCAL CHILE LINE TRANSIT SERVICE: Runs Monday through Friday around town (no Saturday service), 50 cents one way; $1 round trip. Seniors and individuals with disabilities, 25 cents one way; 50 cents round trip. For details go to www.TaosGov.com, click on "Transportation" at the top of the page, or call 751-4459.
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(BW)(VA-DAON) IdentityX Wins Cyber Security Category at American Technology Awards
Innovative security platform honored by TechAmerica Foundation
Technology Writers
RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE) - Jun. 16, 2011--
Daon has been named the winner in the Cyber Security & Authentication category for the American Technology Awards, which bestows the only "Best Of" awards that recognize all technology products and services for the technology industry. The award was attributed to IdentityX?, the mobile authentication solution that significantly decreases the risk of unauthorized transactions, protecting businesses and consumers against on-line fraud and hacking.
"We are honored that TechAmerica Foundation has selected Daon as its top cyber security and authentication innovator," said Tom Grissen, Daon CEO. "Recent on-line security breaches clearly demonstrate that the time of hardware tokens has passed. Password based tokens alone fall short of the sophisticated security needed to enable trusted interactions whether they are exchanges made from your office, home or via mobile devices. IdentityX is a unique, patented security platform that offers the public and private sector a cost-effective, easy to use, risk-aware solution that can easily be added to existing business applications."
Unlike other cyber security technologies, the IdentityX platform enables organizations to set identity authentication requirements based on the level of risk associated with each digital interaction. The authentication needed can range from the simplest soft token to a sophisticated fusion of GPS, PIN password, and biometrics (e.g., voice, face and palm). IdentityX interacts with the end user's mobile device and does not require additional hardware.
"We had a lot of nominations for these prestigious awards, and we congratulate Daon for their winning achievement," said Senator Bob Bennett, Chairman for TechAmerica Foundation. "TechAmerica Foundation is excited to highlight Daon, as it continues to influence technology development throughout the rest of the world."
About Daon
Daon, the company behind IdentityX, is a leading provider of identity assurance products and services worldwide. Daon's COTS products are scalable, flexible and proven in the most challenging real-world environments and have been selected to secure hundreds of millions of identities around the globe. Daon's offices are located in Washington, DC, Canberra, Dublin, London and Singapore. Visit www.daon.com and www.identityx.com.
About TechAmerica Foundation
TechAmerica Foundation educates industry executives, policy makers and opinion leaders on the promise of technological innovation to advance prosperity, security and the general welfare.
Daon
Catherine Zipf
Senior Marketing Manager
+1 703-984-4041 catherine.zipf@daon.com
KEYWORD: United States North America New York Virginia
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: Technology Data Management Internet Networks Software Telecommunications Security Mobile/Wireless
CATEGORY KEYWORD: Award
Source: Daon
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M2 PRESSWIRE-May 30, 2011-: Motorola Mobility and Nextel Unveil Motorola i786wa"[cent sign] - A Device Designed with the Modern Woman in Mind; Motorola i768wa"[cent sign] combines agile communication and multimedia features in an attractive and sturdy handset(C)1994-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS
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SAO PAULO -- Motorola Mobility, Inc. and Nextel announce Motorola i786w (TM) , a device with a unique design that fits the lifestyle of the modern woman who needs to communicate instantaneously no matter where she is.
The clamshell handset comes in lilac with grey details. Features include high-performance Push-to-Talk instant communication , a 2-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and 180MB of internal memory, expandable to 8GB.
The slim handset, with a 2-inch internal display and 1.6-inch external display, features an MP3 player, Bluetooth Stereo, microUSB connectivity and GPS.
"Motorola i786w shows our commitment to providing the female consumer with a stylish device that offers the convenience of Nextel's Push-to-Talk service and multimedia features," says Tiago Galli, products and services director, Nextel.
"Motorola i786w completes our portfolio with a perfect option to meet customers' needs, with a device offering convenience and personality through its design and mulitmedia features," says Wagner Mendonca, iDEN sales director, Motorola Mobility.
Motorola i786w offers full access to the Nextel suite of communication services, including Direct Connect, International Direct Connect, Mobile Telephony, Messages and Location Services.
The handset is available through authorized Nextel channels for R$ 649 or 10 installments of R$ 64.90. For additional information, please visit www.nextel.com.br .
Nextel Services
Nextel offers a number of services in the same handset based on the iDEN technology developed by Motorola:
o Direct Connect: digital radio enabling unlimited conversation in complete privacy with team members, suppliers and other Nextel users at the simple touch of a button.
o International Direct Connect: permits immediate connection at the touch of a button with any Nextel user located in Brazil, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, El Salvador, Peru and Chile.
o Mobile telephony: local, long distance and international calls over the telephone network from any Nextel device.
o Messages: permits the transmission and receipt of text messages and the attachment of photographs, images and audio files.
o Location services: Integrated GPS provides the coordinates of the user's position and enables location services such as Nextel GPS and iAlarm. About Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE:MMI) fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices. For more information, visit motorola.com/mobility .
Media Contacts (for media and analysts only): Luciana Vedovato
+55-11-3847-6686
luciana.vedovato@motorola.com
Motorola Mobility, Inc. Gonzalo Navarrete
+55-11-3847-6686
gonzalo.navarrete@motorola.com
Motorola Mobility, Inc.
About Nextel Brasil
Nextel has been operating in the country since 1997 and has invested more than R$ 5.3 billion. Currently the company has more than 3.3 million corporate users in its coverage area, which comprises 386 cities in the states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Parana, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Goias, Bahia, Ceara, Pernambuco, Espirito Santo and Distrito Federal. For further information, visit www.nextel.com.br .
About NII Holdings
NII Holdings, a public company based in Reston, Virginia, USA, is a leading operator in the mobile communication area for corporate clients in Latin America. NII Holdings has operations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile, offering solutions that integrate digital cellular telephony, text messages, internet access and Nextel Direct Connect(r), enabling communication via digital radio among Nextel users, all on the same device. NII Holdings, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company whose shares are traded on Nasdaq under the NIHD symbol and are part of the Nasdaq-100 Index. For further information, please access www.nii.com .
MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. (c) 2011 Motorola Mobility, Inc. All rights reserved.
Nextel, the Nextel logo and Nextel Direct Connect are registered trademarks used by Nextel Communications, Inc.
Motorola i768w(TM) combines agile communication and multimedia features in an attractive and sturdy handset
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IntelliNAC[TM] to Speed Billions of Transactions, Strengthen Security and Deliver Unprecedented Flexibility
SAN DIEGO -- ETA Annual Meeting & Exposition -- Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) today introduced IntelliNAC, a high-density, multifunction point-of-sale network access controller that speeds transactions for financial institutions, merchants and other entities whose businesses benefit from processing large volumes of payment transactions securely, and gives Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) a unique selling point to offer to their merchant customers. IntelliNAC builds on Hypercom's industry-leading secure networking technology that is considered the platinum standard for modern, high-performance transaction networks, routing billions of transactions daily for hundreds of financial institutions worldwide.
"Merchants frequently experience spikes in data transactions and face increasingly complex criminal attempts to hack their payment systems, all of which hurts profits and damages the brands of acquirers, ISOs, merchants and others," said T.K. Cheung, Vice President of Global Quality and Security at Hypercom Corporation. "IntelliNAC's advanced telecommunications capabilities integrated into a secure, high-density unit specifically designed for point-of-sale dial and IP communications deliver even more advanced security and transaction capacity than our current networking products."
Unlike competing products, the IntelliNAC authenticates transactions via Public Key Infrastructure standards required for PCI-DSS compliance and does so in multiple secure zones, meaning that the public key or certificate is never exposed. IntelliNAC is also vendor agnostic; with the IntelliNAC as the backbone of their secure payment systems, ISOs can offer to merchants payment terminals from any manufacturer, any payment application and any networking technology.
Also unlike competitors' products, IntelliNAC enables ISOs to grow their businesses and lower their total cost of ownership by employing one integrated product to consolidate secure transport of their entire product offering: debit, credit, gift and stored value cards, electronic benefits transfer, age verification, prepaid, check conversion, electronic signature capture and advertising, as well as transaction processing and terminal downloads. Additionally, the system provides real-time reporting of their daily operations and transactions volumes.
The IntelliNAC system enables acquirers and processors to control end-to-end transaction transport on their own, thus eliminating the need to employ multiple third-party vendors and allowing ISOs to deploy quickly and securely their terminals and services to the field. IntelliNAC's standards-based design facilitates easy migration from legacy systems to IP, and rapid adoption of emerging technologies such as VoIP carrier systems in the future. The system's expandable platform design protects customers' investments against future growth in transaction volumes at significant scale. Hypercom also has plans to add mobile to cellular gateway support.
Futureproof Integration for the Most Demanding Network Environments
Hypercom's IntelliNAC concentrator utilizes an advanced, high-density Digital Signal Processor network interface module that supports a full family of analog boards supporting PSTN connection or T1, E1 boards supporting CAS and ISDN PRI trunks on a single card. As a result, a single 19-inch-wide chassis can support up to 16 digital trunk lines totaling 480 multispeed, multiprotocol modem or data ports. The chassis also supports TCP/IP network interface cards, allowing a user to mix and match dial and IP transactions within a single, common platform designed for flexibility.
In addition to the network access interfaces, the IntelliNAC system uses Secure Socket Layer to encrypt and transmit transactions virtually instantaneously. The high-density, multifunction network access controller supports an array of host connection options such as X.25, SNA or TCP/IP, plus Wide Area Network interfaces supporting use of IP VPN.
Other features include hot-swappable components and dual AC or DC power supplies, dynamic multiprotocol dial access software, powerful transaction routing and load balancing functions and protocol conversion. For IP networking users, IntelliNAC can directly connect to the Internet and provides firewall function to protect a corporate LAN.
The feature-rich IntelliView[TM] network management server system and associated applications for IntelliNAC provide all of the tools needed to manage high-volume point-of-sale/point-of-transaction networks in true client/server architecture. Specifically designed for transaction networks, these systems provide features for status monitoring and detailed reporting, configuration management, activity and performance statistics, alerts and alarms, transaction statistics and analysis, remote downloads and upgrades.
About Hypercom
Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products, software solutions and services. The Company's solutions address the high security electronic transaction needs of banks and other financial institutions, processors, large scale retailers, smaller merchants, quick service restaurants, and users in the transportation, petroleum, healthcare, prepaid, self-service and many other markets. Hypercom solutions enable businesses in more than 100 countries to securely expand their revenues and profits. Hypercom is a founding member of the Secure POS Vendor Alliance (SPVA) and is the second largest provider of electronic payment solutions and services in Western Europe and third largest provider globally.
Hypercom is a registered trademark of Hypercom Corporation. IntelliNAC and IntelliView are trademarks of Hypercom Corporation. All other products or services mentioned in this document are trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners.
This press release includes statements that may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding market acceptance of new products, product capability and performance, product competitiveness, product sales, revenues and profits and market share. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include: industry, competitive and technological changes; the loss of, and failure to replace any significant customers; the composition, timing and size of orders from and shipments to major customers; the success of the launch of our next generation networking technology products and the related customer acceptance of said products; inventory obsolescence; market acceptance of new products and services; compliance with industry standards, certifications and government regulations; the performance of suppliers, contract manufacturers and subcontractors; risks associated with international operations and foreign currency fluctuations, the state of the U.S. and global economies in general, risks associated with the Company being merged with and into VeriFone Systems, Inc. as contemplated by a definitive merger agreement between the two companies, and other risks detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's most recent 10-K, as amended, and subsequent 10-Qs and 8-Ks. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made and are not guarantees of future performance. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. HYCP
--Netflix-Class Services Can Be Built Overnight and Delivered Cheaply
--Verizon Attacks the Scaling of Internet Video Delivery
--Management and Security so Content Owners Can Track Assets Verizon, with its global network reach, is setting out to revolutionize the delivery of digital videos to the home, which is likely to trigger a global response from telcos everywhere, trying to follow suit in their own territory.
Verizon has developed the ability for anyone with content rights to create a Netflix type of online video service overnight. Instead of needing an application to be written for each and every device before it can play on them, this service will take content delivery and make it a cloud application, likely to need only a browser in order to play the content. The company says that it has multiple backbone lines across the globe delivering video at between 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps for this service.
Verizon has lined up best-of-breed technology suppliers, including Technicolor for content creation and post-production knowhow, Motorola for media transformation and digital workflow, Alcatel-Lucent for content delivery and unicast adaptive streaming and Hewlett-Packard for high-end ProLiant servers.
Faultline said a few weeks back, reporting from the IPTV World Forum in London, that wholesale CDNs were going to be all-the-rage, and that many of the suppliers there were targeting the space. Well, Verizon has gone one better, and brought three years of effort, the involvement of hundreds of employees and what by telco standards is a meager budget of $370 million to bear on something more than a CDN. This is an all-singing, all-dancing management suite and network that will change media distribution on the Internet and in the process attract the major TV broadcasters, and even some of Verizon's rivals, causing them to put more and more assets onto the Internet in more and more places.
Right now the US national broadcast networks--Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC--all build their own major Web portals, but their content could be distributed through hundreds of partners on the Web, except for one thing--once that content is out of their hands, how do they know that it won't be stolen, pirated, and generally used, but not paid for, in any number of ways?
One answer to that has been the creation of specialized services such as Hulu and Hulu Plus by broadcast network owners, which keeps such content under the networks' direct control--but eventually they would love this to be like physical DVDs--with inventory controlled, yet distributed widely, not only around the US, but around the world to thousands of retailers, with delivery, transcoding, and encryption all taken care of and delivered as unicast streams to consumers on any device imaginable. A sophisticated management system for such an undertaking is a must, given the complex content distribution rights they each have for their content.
Overnight, Verizon solves two problems by introducing such a service--it can vie for business with customers like Hulu and Netflix, offering them a route to market in return for cash. At the same time it would then take a great video weight off its core Internet lines, distributing them instead to secure appliances servers all over its network for last-mile access delivery by the network, which controls the consumer's broadband line.
So day one this goes up against Akamai and other CDNs, and although Verizon does not describe the internal network architecture to its digital media services system, this will create great deals for some of the innovators in their field of CDNs and video transcoding for supply contracts with Verizon.
But the implications and the rivalry don't stop there. Verizon is trying to manage every aspect of the process, so videos ingest into the system via the Web; workflow management to deliver orders (video streams) to Web retailers and on to customers; security and delivery of packages in the appropriate DRM and format for a given device; fault tolerant mirrored central servers for the US in southern California and northern Virginia; a metadata management scheme so that content owners can pick their own metadata, and then choose which search engines to expose this to.
We are making the assumption that the management of transcoding should take place as close to the edge of the network as possible--Verizon doesn't want multiple copies of the same content travelling over and over again across its network, so some form of local storage and local transcoding has to be assumed or else a different screen resolution on a device means delivering it to that region all over again.
This is why it is so important that content businesses can get a transparent report of where its assets lie in the network at any point, and how much of the content has been consumed--Verizon talks about SKU reporting (reporting of stock keeping unit codes) and about a unicast delivery service as part of the overall media platform, and this not only includes delivery, but packaging--so which combination of cross promotions and other video assets will travel together with the content--and this will extend to advertising.
Verizon says that its advertising platform will include real time and localized ad insertion and advertising placement analytics, even down to personalized advertising delivery. This is a hugely ambitious play to carry video over the Internet as an advantage, not a liability.
Verizon removed the cover on all of this at the NAB Show in the US this week and said that already four of the top five US TV networks were trying the system out and that it additionally has service trials with Turner Broadcasting, Hearst Magazines and The Associated Press. It also insisted that rivals such as cablecos and existing services such as Netflix are openly invited to become customers.
At first glance, this is a major US telco offering a video management service like Brightcove, but in truth this is the company's answer to the massive increase in video traffic which will create a separate network inside the Verizon network, segregating that traffic. In the words of Verizon technology VP Stuart Elby, "Video travelling over the Internet is going to suffer in quality, we are going to hit a capacity wall. We wanted to introduce this service before our customers hit that wall."
Another thing this is going to affect is how we search for commercial video on the Internet. Companies like TiVo, Rovi and NDS have all made major plays to help pay-TV operators create search indexes in the cloud, much of which relates to having reliable metadata available for search engines. Verizon customers will be able to decide which search vendors have access to its metadata to find its content, which could provide significant video leverage against the likes of Google.
Verizon says its digital media service is the first of its kind and will automate previously manual workflow processes associated with formatting, managing and delivering digital media to virtually any device or platform on a large scale. As a result, content owners and digital retailers will be able to more effectively produce, manage and distribute premium programming to consumers when, how and where they want to view it.
Verizon says that the majority of the patent-pending technology was created by its own staff, with only some additional technology brought in from its list of technology partners. So far about 200 Verizon developers have worked on the project, in addition to hundreds of other non-developer staff.
The service, under development at Verizon for nearly three years, is currently in a second beta with nine charter content-creation companies. It will be available for commercial release sometime in July, said David Rips, president of the Verizon division that's overseeing the project.
This report first appeared in Faultline.
DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3eeb24/chile_telecommunic) has announced the addition of the "Chile Telecommunications Report Q4 2010" report to their offering.
Business Monitor International's Chile Telecommunications Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, telecommunication associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on Chile's telecommunications industry.
BMI has introduced ARPU forecasts for the Chilean market this quarter, with data showing a declining trend over the next five years. Chiles mobile operators reported a boost in ARPU in 2008 but the decrease returned in 2009, a trend BMI sees continuing. However, in comparison to other markets in Latin America, the decline will be slight as pressures on voice service revenues are countered by the strong interest in mobile broadband and mobile data services. BMI expects mobile data will continue to grow as a proportion of operators overall revenues, providing some relief to the low cost subscribers entering the market.
Data from mobile operators show an increase in mobile subscribers in the first quarter of 2010, with growth higher than the four previous quarters, seeming to show no real impact from the earthquake in February. The increase in subscriptions may be a reaction to the earthquake, as Chileans sought to contact friends and family in the aftermath of the event. Operators offered free messages and extensions for paying mobile bills in order to ease the burden on those most affected by the earthquake. The response by operators and the regulator, Subtel, highlight the developed nature of Chiles telecoms market with networks brought back on line within days of the event. Incumbent Telefnica de Chile also announced it would be replacing its cabling in the region worst hit by the earthquake with fibre-optic cabling, bringing in the latest technology to the region that will help boost the local economies and businesses in the areas affected.
Chile's telecoms operators have long been very forward looking, offering the latest services to the market and competing effectively. For this reason Chile has remained near the top of BMIs Business Environment Ratings. Its weaknesses are few, with a strong Country and Industry Risk scores. However, with a small population, opportunities are more limited, which, when coupled with difficult topography, hold Chile back from reclaiming its place at the very top of the Ratings.
Nonetheless, Chile continues to be a highly developed telecoms market, and one that is emulated by several of its peers. Data from Subtel indicate that around one third of broadband subscribers are using a mobile connection for their internet requirements. At this rate of growth, mobile broadband may well become the preferred technology in future although fixed operators have rolled out faster broadband speeds in an attempt to maintain their competitiveness. The competition for dominance in the broadband market continues to heat up, as fixed operators face down the strong challenge presented by mobile operators with broadband services.
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* Executive Summary
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Consumers wanting a feature-packed mobile only have to look as far as the new Nokia 6730 classic, which will be available exclusively across Vodafone's global footprint. Mobile Internet, Vodafone Music Client, and personal and business email access, along with mobile navigation capabilities, are all included in the Nokia 6730 classic. The device uses S60 software, which means customers can easily download their choice of additional applications from the Web.
Peter Becker-Pennrich, director of terminals marketing at Vodafone, said, "The Nokia 6730 is a great all-round handset--just as perfect for mobile Internet users as for music fans who want to take their tracks with them. This product follows a successful line-up of Vodafone exclusive devices from Nokia and is another great example of our collaboration."
Call him Charlie. Everyone else does. With cropped gray hair and an intense gaze, Dominican Fr. Charles E. Bouchard, 56, arrives for an interview looking corporate-casual in a pressed blue plaid sports shirt. Only for a photo later does he express a preference for donning the habit that marks him as a member of the Order of Preachers.
Last December, saying it was time to do something new, Bouchard announced his decision to resign at the end of this year after 18 years as president of Aquinas Institute of Theology here. Aquinas, founded in 1925 by Dominican priests, is no longer the kind of seminary your father might have known. Like the remaining handful of other graduate theological schools run by religious orders, Aquinas has over the years reinvented itself, packaging its programs anew and opening them to lay women and men pursuing spiritual enrichment, professorial careers or educational, pastoral and administrative jobs once reserved for priests and nuns. Of about 275 full- and part-time students currently only 25 or so are religious-order seminarians. Of the rest, laypeople outnumber all religious two to one; more than half are women; and roughly a dozen are Protestants.
Dominican Fr. Richard A. Peddicord, an associate professor of moral theology at Aquinas and its president-to-be, said he sees Bouchard as succeeding in his role--navigating often rocky waters--being persistent, collaborative and quietly persuasive, "a great communicator ... skilled at articulating mission and getting people to see the value of it."
Bouchard grew up in Superior, Wis., where his parents ran a fishing resort and his father, a marine engineer, was active in Democratic politics, Bouchard attended a minor diocesan seminary in La Crosse, Wis., and at the same time, though not in the same class, was another Catholic leader who now resides just blocks away: Archbishop Raymond Burke. Bouchard went on to attend St. John's University, a Benedictine school in Collegeville, Minn., where he got a bachelor's degree in French, and then to Aquinas Institute--then based in Dubuque, Iowa--for his theological training before he was ordained in 1979. A doctorate in moral theology from The Catholic University of America prepared him to become an associate professor of moral theology at Aquinas in 1986. Three years later, he was appointed president.
Under Bouchard's leadership, the school's enrollment has nearly tripled, and programs have expanded in depth and breadth.
For example, 15 years ago Aquinas came up with what Bouchard saw as the "ideal model" for delivering courses toward a master's degree in pastoral ministry to laypeople in dioceses without nearby opportunities for advanced theological study: A diocese would provide classroom space, an on-site director and overnight accommodations for visiting Aquinas faculty members. Students would supplement classroom instruction with online work.
The Oklahoma City archdiocese signed up first and continues. The diocese of Kansas City, Mo., jointly with the archdiocese of Kansas City, Kan., enlisted later as did the diocese of Colorado Springs, Colo. And then came what Bouchard describes as the "biggest disappointment" of his presidency: The two Kansas Cities and Colorado Springs, each under a new bishop less friendly to Aquinas' lay ministry programs, dropped out after a few years. The new prelates of the two Kansas Cities and Colorado Springs were all priests of the St. Louis archdiocese.
Bouchard answers all questions, at times limiting his words, projecting a diplomat's inborn sense of how to disagree without being disagreeable.
"For various reasons the bishops [of Colorado Springs and the two Kansas Cities] either did not support the promotion of laypeople in ministry or did not see this as a good model to prepare for it," Bouchard said. "In one case, a bishop told me that they didn't need people with graduate degrees, that what they really needed were catechists.
"In the other case, the bishop objected to the fact that we were teaching laypeople to preach, and he insisted that it was impossible for laypeople to preach, and I said I disagreed.... I think some of the bishops were concerned that it would create confusion with the proper role of the priest who preaches the homily.
"Because of two failures and the money and energy required to start a program like that, we just felt that we couldn't risk that again," said Bouchard.
But there have been compensating successes. High on that list has been a decade-old master's degree in health care mission, where senior health care leaders, mostly laypeople, learn "to think theologically about the mission of Catholic health care." Students meet at the school three or four times a year and otherwise do their work by Internet. The program, unique in the country and nationally recognized, has attracted students from coast to coast. "At one point, we had so many representatives of a typical staff in Catholic health care that we joked about starting our own system," Bouchard said.
And then there is the program Bouchard is most proud of: a doctorate in preaching. Aquinas is the only Catholic theology school nationally to offer that degree. "It really fits with the Dominican charism, and God knows, the church needs it," Bouchard said wryly.
Bouchard refuses to be drawn out about his personal stands on such touchstone issues as relationships with the St. Louis hierarchy. For the first years of his presidency, Bouchard worked with the late Archbishop John May, who helped Aquinas move to the St. Louis Jesuit campus in 1981 and gave its programs virtually unqualified support. Then came Archbishop Justin Rigali, who quietly demanded that laypeople stop preaching at the Eucharist--a practice May had allowed as an exception to canon law. Today, nonordained students and Aquinas faculty preach at midday prayer.
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When Rigali was moved to Philadelphia, Archbishop Raymond Burke moved in, soon alienating many a St. Louis Catholic with his take-no-prisoners persona.
"Our communication hasn't been as good as I wish," is all Bouchard will say of the St. Louis prelate who years ago signed his yearbook at the minor seminary. Said Bouchard, "Perhaps I am partly to blame."
Two years ago, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ordered inspections of all U.S. Catholic seminaries, sparked in part by concerns over homosexuality among would-be priests. At the time, Bouchard was quoted as calling the coming examinations "needlessly offensive" to celibate homosexual priests and seminarians.
In September 2005 a committee of four priests and a laywoman spent several days at Aquinas in what Bouchard says turned out to be not the "gay inquiry" it was widely rumored to be, but a broader look at standards for admission and preparation of priesthood candidates. Weeks later the reviewers' report came back with what he describes as "numerous factual errors," so the school returned it--and is still waiting to hear back.
Peddicord said he counts himself lucky to be inheriting the programs, faculty and "great infrastructure" Bouchard has built.
He's referring to Aquinas' move two years ago from a building leased from St. Louis University to new quarters a few blocks away and more than twice as large--an old adding machine factory, stunningly renovated for $5 million and financed by an undisclosed amount of debt. Both Aquinas and St. Louis University needed more space.
By Bouchard's account, the school's annual budget is $3.2 million, its endowment stands somewhere short of a relatively negligible $4 million, and its main source of income is students' tuition. To make ends meet, he says, the school must "beg for a living," and not just from alumni, who "don't generally have the kind of money to become major donors."
The Lilly Endowment has stepped in with two grants, one for $1.7 million to build awareness of lay ministry in St. Louis-area parishes, one for $1.9 million to attract college students to lay-ministry careers. In both cases, the concept has sometimes proved a tough sell, Bouchard said. "I think as a church we're still ambivalent about lay ministry."
Some students arrive at Aquinas already working in church jobs, and others who want them generally find them, he said. "The bigger problem is the career path in lay ministry. Can they advance? Can they end up with a decent salary?"
After he resigns at the end of this year, Bouchard will begin a sabbatical semester at the University of San Diego, beginning Jan. 1 and followed by a job as vice president for theological education for St. Louis-based Ascension Health, with 47 hospitals and 100,000 employees, the nation's largest nonprofit Catholic health system.
As he reflects on his tenure, he acknowledges that one thing has remained constant: jokes about the cozying up in St. Louis of Jesuits and Dominicans. The jokes began when Aquinas was preparing to move to the Jesuit St. Louis University campus. Much was made of the historic rivalry of the two orders, which dates to the 16th century, when they were locked in bitter dispute over the relationship between grace and free will. Even now, Bouchard says he enjoys teasing the Jesuit seminarians in his course on Introduction to Catholic Morality.
"There are about 17 Jesuits in the class, five or six Dominicans, and five or six women," he says. "The Jesuits are very serious. Sometimes I have to tell them I'm teasing them."
SUSAN C. THOMSON
St. Louis
[Susan C. Thomson is a freelance writer living in St. Louis.]
JUNO BEACH, Fla. -- FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE:FPL) today announced that it plans to report first quarter 2006 financial results in a press release to be issued before the opening of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, May 2, 2006. In conjunction with the issuance of the press release, Lew Hay, chairman, president and chief executive officer of FPL Group, Moray Dewhurst, chief financial officer of FPL Group, and other members of the company's senior management team will discuss results during an investor presentation to be webcast live beginning at 9 a.m. ET/8 a.m. CT on May 2.
The listen-only webcast will be available on FPL Group's website (http://www.FPLGroup.com) by accessing the following link, http://www.FPLGroup.com/investor/contents/investor_index.shtml. The slides accompanying the presentation may be downloaded at http://www.FPLGroup.com beginning at 7:30 a.m. ET on the day of the webcast. For persons unable to listen to the live webcast, a replay will be available for 90 days by accessing the same link as listed above.
FPL Group, with annual revenues of more than $11 billion, is nationally known as a high quality, efficient, and customer-driven organization focused on energy-related products and services. With a growing presence in 26 states, it is widely recognized as one of the country's premier power companies. Its principal subsidiary, Florida Power & Light Company, serves 4.4 million customer accounts in Florida. FPL Energy, LLC, an FPL Group competitive energy subsidiary, is a leader in producing electricity from clean and renewable fuels. Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.FPLGroup.com, http://www.FPL.com and http://www.FPLEnery.com.
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PULLMAN, Wash. -- Comtech AHA Corporation (AHA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL), today announced its membership in the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association). Since 1997, the SNIA has been a leader in assisting in the development of solutions and standards for the storage networking industry.
"Comtech AHA's focus on lossless data compression technologies enables faster data transfer rates at a time when the IT industry is moving larger volumes of data more frequently over longer distances," said Wayne M. Adams, chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). "AHA's membership enriches the SNIA's expanded focus on its information lifecycle management, data protection, data movement and security initiatives -- resulting in professional education, solution best practices, and implementable product standards."
AHA has a long history in the storage industry of supplying lossless data compression integrated circuits, intellectual property, and board solutions to customers worldwide. Reducing data size and transmission time are the key benefits of AHA's line of compression products. For more than fifteen years, AHA's application-specific compression algorithm devices have been improving performance in data storage, copiers, printers, scanners and other imaging equipment. The AHA361-PCIX Internet protocol accelerator is AHA's newest compression product and was designed to increase the data transfer rates in applications such as storage area networks, web servers, web accelerators and web traffic appliances including load balancers, firewall VPN servers and integrated routers/switches.
"As providers of lossless data compression hardware, Comtech AHA is excited to become a member of the SNIA," said Bill Thomson, President of AHA. "Our compression products typically halve the storage requirements for computer data and can double the effective transmission speed of network links. We believe that by joining the SNIA we can expose our technology to a broader audience and tailor our products to the specific needs of storage and networking users."
About the SNIA
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit organization made up of more than 300 companies and individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share a common goal: to set the pace of the industry by advancing the adoption of storage networks as complete and trusted solutions. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For further information, visit http://www.snia.org.
About AHA
Comtech AHA Corporation develops and markets superior integrated circuits and intellectual property core technology for communications systems architects worldwide. AHA provides flexible, cost-effective solutions for today's growing bandwidth and reliability challenges. Located in Pullman, Wash., AHA has been setting the standard in Forward Error Correction and Lossless Data Compression technology for more than a decade and offers a variety of standard and custom IC solutions for the data communications industry. Comtech AHA Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL). For more information, visit www.aha.com.
Forward Looking Statements:
Certain information in this press release contains statements that are forward-looking in nature and involve certain significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from such forward-looking information. Comtech Telecommunications Corp.'s Securities and Exchange Commission filings identify many such risks and uncertainties. Any forward-looking information in this press release is qualified in its entirety by the risks and uncertainties described in such Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
