WA:No better time for a carbon tax; Gillard

AAP General News (Australia)
08-12-2011
WA:No better time for a carbon tax; Gillard

JULIA GILLARD has dismissed the sentiment the current global financial turmoil is no
time to introduce a carbon tax, saying there's never been a better time to do so.

Ms GILLARD told a town hall forum in Perth last night she understands many people are
worried about the dramatic movements on global stockmarkets, the US debt problems and
the mayhem on the streets of London.

But she says Australia is different, with the country located near Asia, where their
economies are still growing and unemployment is low.

She says when treasury predicts the economy will continue to grow and create more jobs
while we cut carbon pollution by 160 million tonnes, we should do it.

AAP RTV jsj/wz/psm/

KEYWORD: CLIMATE GILLARD (PERTH)

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Fed: PM says cabinet still considering Singapore Airlines access

AAP General News (Australia)
02-20-2006
Fed: PM says cabinet still considering Singapore Airlines access

The Prime Minister says federal cabinet's considering a proposal to refuse Singapore
Airlines access to the lucrative Australia-US route.

Getting access to the route .. which accounts for as much as 20 per cent of Qantas's
profits .. has been an ambition of …

SA:Hospital cost row intensifies

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2011
SA:Hospital cost row intensifies

A row over costings for the new Royal Adelaide hospital has intensified .. with the
state Labor government and opposition at odds over documents the Liberals refuse to release.

The opposition says the documents show taxpayers will pick up the cost of providing
electricity to the new facility when it opens in 2016.

The opposition's DAVID RIDGWAY says the government previously claimed this would be
the responsibility of the private consortium building the new facility.

But Health Minister JOHN HILL has dismissed this .. telling the ABC the consortium
was never going to pick up the power bills for the next 35 years .. but will be arranging
for the power to be delivered.

He says it'll then bill the government for the power .. as part of the hospital's agreed
running costs.

AAP RTV tjd/tm

KEYWORD: HOSPITAL (ADELAIDE)

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NSW:Surviving twin hangs on to life

AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-2010
NSW:Surviving twin hangs on to life

A three-month old boy is clinging to life in hospital in New South Wales .. after the
death of his twin brother from an apparent genetic disorder .. which affects both boys.

But the surviving twin has been moved out of intensive care .. and is in a stable condition
in Newcastle's John Hunter Hospital.

A family friend says the twins suffer Apert syndrome .. a rare genetic disorder which
causes certain skull bones to fuse .. preventing the skull growing normally.

The twins were taken to the hospital on Monday afternoon by their parents.

A post-mortem examination is expected to be held today .. and police have spoken with
the 31-year-old father and mother.

The twins' three-year-old brother has reportedly been taken into the care of community
services as police investigate.

AAP RTV dmg/wjf/ajw/

KEYWORD: TWINS (SYDNEY)

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QLD:Govt moves to curb train violence

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2010
QLD:Govt moves to curb train violence

BRISBANE, Aug 18 AAP - The Queensland government has moved to crack down on violence
by allocating an extra 10 police officers to the railway squad.

Police Minister Neil Roberts told state parliament on Wednesday the officers would
take the strength of the railway squad to 64 members.

"This means an enhanced focus on providing a safe service for more than 66 million
passenger journeys on the network each year," he said.

Mr Roberts said half of the 10 officers would become operational this financial year,
with the second half coming on line in 2011/12.

"Last year the squad was involved in 178 operations, targeting criminal offences and
good order behaviour on the network," he said.

"During this period the squad conducted 27,669 hours of network patrols and issued
3304 infringement notices.

"They do a great job in difficult circumstances."

The announcement comes just days after two women were assaulted and had their car stolen
at the Coorparoo station in Brisbane.

AAP djb/pjo/was/maur

KEYWORD: RAILWAY

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QLD: Watson on song for an Opera House landing in May

AAP General News (Australia)
04-10-2010
QLD: Watson on song for an Opera House landing in May

By Darren Cartwright

BRISBANE, April 10 AAP - Teenage solo sailor Jessica Watson is hoping to make a grand
dry land return beside the Sydney Opera House in the first week of May, her manager says.

Watson, 16, who is aiming to be the youngest person to sail solo around the world,
is expected to complete her record-breaking journey about seven weeks ahead of schedule.

The Sunshine Coast teenager should re-enter Australian waters and pass Cape Leeuwin,
the most southwesterly point on the Australian mainland, sometime this weekend.

"It's all weather dependent, but the first week of May on current average speed is
what we are aiming for," her manager Andrew Fraser told AAP.

"We are sorting through all the logistics of that at the moment and the Opera House
is being considered.

"We are in discussions with several departments and we hope to finalise it next week."

Watson will time her entry into Sydney for a morning arrival to coincide with a major
onshore celebration.

"It will definitely be a morning, some stage late morning," Mr Fraser said.

Her journey on the 10-metre boat Ella's Pink Lady started from Sydney on October 18 last year.

It was originally expected to take eight months with a projected return in mid-June.

She has less than 4000 nautical miles out of 23,000 nautical miles (7500km out of about
43,000km) remaining in her attempt to be the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and
unassisted around the world.

"I spoke with her last night and she is in great spirits," Mr Fraser said.

"She is looking to get past Cape Leeuwin so she gets another Cape under her belt.

"Her average speed is about five knots so on a good day she covers about 100 nautical
miles (187km) a day."

AAP dac/sn/apm

KEYWORD: SAIL

2010 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

ACT: Canberra told to reform murder laws

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2009
ACT: Canberra told to reform murder laws

CANBERRA, Aug 27 AAP - The ACT government has been told it must introduce a raft of
reforms to address Canberra's dearth of murder convictions over the past decade.

Canberra's questionable strike rate, which has not resulted in a single murder conviction
for more than 10 years, has cast doubts over the strength of territory murder laws.

A month-long inquiry into the issue handed down a list of recommendations on Thursday,
calling on the ACT government to tighten up legislation to put it on a par with the rest
of the country.

But the territory government rejected as complicating an earlier bid by the government
to toughen its laws.

Among calls to increase manslaughter sentences, the committee asks for an expansion
of Canberra's legal definition of murder to include instances where an injury causes death.

Earlier, the ACT Police brought up the 2008 case of Glen Porritt, who killed his mother
after stabbing her multiple times in the head, neck and face, but was found not guilty
of murder.

The judge ruled he had not intended to kill her.

The committee also calls for the government to conduct its own sentencing inquiry,
as well as advising a direct lift in manslaughter sentences from a maximum 20 to 25 years
and from 26 to 31 years in aggravated manslaughter cases.

It argues the ACT Law Reform Advisory Council should be handed greater powers and consideration,
given to uniform murder laws across the country.

"The committee believes that there is some disquiet about elements of the law which
is exacerbated at the time of high profile cases," reads the report, which was tabled
in the ACT Legislative Assembly.

"One of the persistent themes that came out in both written and oral evidence was a
concern that people who had perpetrated violent crimes that resulted in death were not
being sentenced appropriately.

"There is strong support for harmonisation (of the laws)."

The committee rejected perceived community views that Canberra was soft on murderers,
saying the statistics did not back up that view.

It also dismissed the ACT government's attempted changes to draft murder laws, when
it tried to include the causing of serious harm in the murder definition.

The committee declared the change was complicating the debate making it harder to prove
intent before the act itself.

AAP cj/rl/it

KEYWORD: MURDER

2009 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

SA: Quick-thinking resident catches thief in shed

AAP General News (Australia)
04-19-2009
SA: Quick-thinking resident catches thief in shed

ADELAIDE, April 19 AAP - A quick-thinking homeowner caught a would-be thief by locking
him in the garden shed.

The homeowner, from Alberton in Adelaide's western suburbs, went to investigate noises
in his backyard just before midnight (CST) when he discovered a man inside his shed.

"The quick-thinking resident shut the shed door, locking the man inside and then called
for help," a police spokeswoman said on Sunday.

"Neighbours responded and together they were able to detain the would-be thief until
police arrived."

Police arrested and charged a 45-year-old male from Bedford Park with breaking into
the shed and theft.

Police said the man claimed to be looking for money for a bus fare home.

Bail was refused the he will appear in Port Adelaide Magistrates Court tomorrow morning.

AAP njl/jpm

KEYWORD: SHED

2009 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

QLD:Woman harvesting dead partner's sperm says he was her 'rock'

AAP General News (Australia)
12-13-2008
QLD:Woman harvesting dead partner's sperm says he was her 'rock'

BRISBANE, Dec 13 AAP - A Queensland woman granted permission to preserve her dead partner's
sperm has described him as her rock, best friend and soulmate.

Krystle Jane Ross, 23, made the application in the Queensland Supreme Court last week,
the day after her partner Thomas Takurau, 25, died in a tragic workplace accident.

While Justice John Byrne granted Ms Ross permission to preserve the sperm, a date has
yet to be set for hearing Ms Ross' application to actually use it.

Ms Ross has been unavailable for comment but in a posting made on her MySpace page
before Mr Takurau died, she wrote that she could not imagine her life without him.

"I am madly in love with the only man in this world that could possibly tolerate me
... Thomas, who is Maori, 25," Ms Ross wrote.

"(He is) a split personality Gemini and the most amazing and loving man I know!

"I love animals, thus my choice in boyfriend (joking baby, you know I love you)."

Both Ms Ross' and Mr Takurau's profiles state they someday wanted children.

"(He's) my rock, my best friend, my lover, my soul mate and my all, we've been together
just over two years and I couldn't imagine a day without him," Ms Ross' profile says.

It is one of only two known legal applications of this kind to be granted in Queensland history.

AAP djb/it

KEYWORD: SPERM (PIX AVAILABLE)

2008 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

Qld: Stabbing victim spoke to police before she died

AAP General News (Australia)
08-09-2008
Qld: Stabbing victim spoke to police before she died

BRISBANE, Aug 9 AAP - A woman fatally stabbed at a Brisbane adult store struggled with
her attacker and activated an emergency alarm for help.

Logan Police Inspector Peter Waugh said police found the woman with stab wounds at
the Everything Adult store in the south Brisbane suburb of Browns Plains about 8.50pm
(AEST) yesterday.

Insp Waugh said the woman, an employee of the store, had activated an emergency alarm
and was able to speak to police before she was taken to Logan Hospital, where she died
a short time later.

"Police spoke with the victim prior to her transport to hospital," Insp Waugh told
reporters in Brisbane.

However, Insp Waugh would not elaborate on what the 25-year-old victim told police
or if she had provided information about her attacker.

Police released a photograph of the man they believe was responsible for the attack
from the shop's security footage.

Insp Waugh would not comment on whether the attack itself had been recorded.

"A struggle has (happened) and the offender has then left the store and taken the victim's
white 1993 Toyota camry sedan," he said.

Insp Waugh said preliminary investigations indicate a sum of money was stolen from the business.

Police are looking for the woman's car with the Queensland registration number 371 CGK.

The vehicle has chrome hubcaps and a pink, yellow and red sticker on the front windscreen.

The alleged attacker has brown hair and is of medium build with an olive complexion.

He was wearing dark pants, white sneakers and a light sweater.

Anyone with information is urged to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

AAP nm/lh/mn

KEYWORD: STAB NIGHTLEAD (WITH PIX)

2008 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

Main stories in tonight's 1800 Seven News

AAP General News (Australia)
02-15-2008
Main stories in tonight's 1800 Seven News

SYDNEY, Feb 15 AAP - Highlights of tonight's Seven News at 1800.

- NSW firefighters have walked off the job in an hour-long strike.

- A family friend has found the body of a 66-year-old man near the kitchen of his flat
in Alt Street, Ashfield, in the Sydney's inner west.

- Australia will keep its troops in East Timor for as long as they are needed and will
do whatever it takes to defend the young democracy, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has vowed.

- Mackay has been declared a disaster zone after a record-breaking 625mm of rain fell
in one day, swamping the central Queensland city.

- Child protection workers in NSW are overwhelmed by almost 300,000 reports of possible
abuse every year, 10 years after a mandatory reporting scheme was introduced, a commission
of inquiry has been told.

- Residents and media were locked out of Sydney Airport Community Forum's first meeting
of the year to discuss the impact of the extension of the east-west runway.

AAP jel/

KEYWORD: MONITOR SEVEN 1800

2008 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

NSW: Main strories in today's Sydney newspapers=4

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2007
NSW: Main strories in today's Sydney newspapers=4

AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Page 1: The RBA says the credit squeeze may end cheaper home loans. Labor has unveiled
a tactical reworking of its industrial relations blueprint to make concessions to business.

Fosters says it has escaped the clutches of private equity raiders after tabling a 16.8
per cent rise in underlying net profit to $716 million.

Page 3: Mining giant Rio Tinto has won control of the Shovelanna tenement after a two-year
battle with Cazaly Resources.

Page 5: Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he has particular reservations about
the impact of a Tasmanian pulp mill on the marine environment as critics ramp up the campaign.

World: A property slump in the US hits investor confidence.

AAP kd/cmc

KEYWORD: MONITOR FRONTERS NSW 4 SYDNEY

2007 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

Qld: Sue Boyce to replace Santo Santoro

AAP General News (Australia)
04-14-2007
Qld: Sue Boyce to replace Santo Santoro

Brisbane businesswoman SUE BOYCE is Queensland's new Liberal senator.

She'll replace disgraced senator SANTO SANTORO .. the former minister for ageing ..

who was forced to quit the Senate over a share trading scandal.

Ms BOYCE has beaten former Liberal state leader BOB QUINN in a final two-person showdown
.. after the ballot went three rounds.

AAP RTV nt/cdh/rt

KEYWORD: LIBERALS QLD (BRISBANE)

2007 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

Fed: Logging would have lessened fire threat: Abetz

AAP General News (Australia)
12-13-2006
Fed: Logging would have lessened fire threat: Abetz

CANBERRA, Dec 13 AAP - Tasmania's bushfire crisis would not be so severe if the state's
forests had been logged rather than protected, Federal Forestry Minister Eric Abetz says.

Senator Abetz said today the severity of the bushfires, which have destroyed 14 homes
in Tasmania's east, called into question the value of making forests off-limits to logging
and grazing.

He blamed a build-up of fuel in wilderness areas for the severity of the fires.

"Many Australians are starting to feel cheated that they were sold a line that you
could simply lock up our forests and keep them forever," Senator Abetz told ABC radio.

"And then fire comes through and destroys the koala habitat, the alpine plant species
and, in Tasmania ... those areas that people have argued to be locked up are now just
there in ashes."

Firefighters have prepared a control line on the edge of the Wielangta State Forest,
which is the subject of a court battle by Greens leader Bob Brown who wants to prevent
the area from being logged.

Senator Brown today rejected Senator Abetz's arguments.

"The majority of the forest that we've been talking about in the Federal Court wasn't
burnt in the fire," he told the ABC.

The areas that had been burnt would recover quickly and remain an important habitat
for key species, Senator Brown said.

AAP dcr/drp

KEYWORD: BUSHFIRES TAS ABETZ

2006 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

Qld: Plane crashes into Brisbane house

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2006
Qld: Plane crashes into Brisbane house

BRISBANE, Aug 8 AAP - A light plane has crashed into a house in Brisbane's south-west,
police say.

MORE sc/tnf/sd

KEYWORD: PLANE

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NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=3

AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2006
NSW: Main stories in today's Sydney newspapers=3

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:

Page 1: Six months after it introduced a new timetable to fix massive delays on the
rail network, CityRail is still battling to run trains on time; Avian flu could kill up
to 214,000 Australians in a serious global outbreak, according to a new projection by
Australian experts; The number of frozen human embryos stored in Australia and New Zealand
has quadrupled over the past decade and for the first time exceeds 100,000, figures show.

Page 2: Foreign Minister Alexander Downer will travel to Jakarta next week to plead
for clemency for two of the Bali Nine drug smugglers sentenced to death.

Page 3: Former science minister Peter McGauran tried to influence the CSIRO to sever
ties with the Wentworth Group of respected scientists concerned about the environment,
a Senate committee hears.

World: Communist Party elders, including retired propaganda chiefs and Mao Zedong's
biographer, have issued a rare declaration denouncing recent media crackdowns and calling
for the reopening of an investigative newspaper (Beijing); Rising levels of carbon dioxide
are causing plants and trees to be less thirsty, which is resulting in a big increase
in water runoff from the land and multiplying the risk of floods, British scientists say
(London).

Finance: To chief executive Chip Goodyear's delight, it's beginning to get a little
predictable for BHP Billiton - another earnings release, another record profit.

Sport: Wallabies back Mat Rogers reveals he had considered quitting football and had
been worried about his own welfare following the tragic death his famous father Steve.

MORE dcr/hn/mon

KEYWORD: MONITOR FRONTERS NSW 3 SYDNEY

2006 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

Qld: Three escape Darling Downs prison

AAP General News (Australia)
12-02-2005
Qld: Three escape Darling Downs prison

A search is underway in Queensland for three men who escaped from the Darling Downs
Correctional Centre .. near Toowoomba overnight.

Police say the men .. all aged in their 20s .. are likely to be dressed in civilian clothes.

They were noticed missing during a routine check at the jail about one o'clock (AEST)
this morning.

The Chief Inspector of Prisons will appoint an independent inspector to investigate
the circumstances of the escape.

Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers.







+++ 25-year-old WAYNE ROCKY COOMBES was serving three years .. 11 months for break
and enter offences and armed robbery.

He's described as Caucasian and 176cm tall .. with hazel eyes .. brown cropped hair
.. and a skull tattoo on his shoulder.



+++ 29-year-old JAMES ALAN RYAN was serving five months for stalking .. theft and property
and drug offences. He's described as Caucasian and 174cm tall .. with a slim build
.. hazel eyes and brown shaved hair.

He has a dragon tattoo on his chest and the word mum on his inner right arm.



+++ 23-year-old PETR STUCHLIK was serving seven years and eight months for assault
.. property offences .. fraud .. and theft.

He's described as Caucasian and 185cm tall .. with a slim build .. green eyes and short
brown hair.

He has a pistol tattoo on his abdomen .. a panther on his back .. a leopard's head
on his chest and another tattoo on his right ankle.

AAP RTV lc/jv/bart

KEYWORD: ESCAPE (BRISBANE)

2005 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

Beaufort, Rear-Admiral Sir Francis

Beaufort, Rear-Admiral Sir Francis (b. Navan, Ireland, 1774; d. Greenwich, 17 December 1857) British naval officer and hydrographer, who in 1806, as Commander, published a method of measuring the wind at sea, initially based on the effects upon a frigate (such as the specific sails that could be carried). The Beaufort scale was eventually adopted by the Royal Navy in 1838. Beaufort became head of the Admiralty's Hydrographic Office in 1829, and transformed the office into the world's foremost hydrographic organization. He also introduced a set of letters for reporting the state of past or present weather. See BEAUFORT LETTERS
.

Getty Images selects SDLX for translation memory; Getty chooses SDLX Translation Suite to localize XML web content.

M2 PRESSWIRE-30 April 2002-GETTY IMAGES: Getty Images selects SDLX for translation memory; Getty chooses SDLX Translation Suite to localize XML web content (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

RDATE:04302002

Maidenhead, U.K. -- Multilingual Desktop Management, an independent division of SDL International, selling Desktop translation products to corporations and localization service vendors, announced today that Getty Images has chosen its SDLX Translation Suite to save time and costs on their website localization.

Following an exhaustive selection process, Getty Images chose the SDLX Translation Suite because it decisively simplified the translation process and reduced the cost of localizing its XML-based web content. Exploiting SDLX's simplified process for working with groups of files (vs. one at a time) and its simplified translator interface, Getty Images has already completed work on their first pilot project into Spanish.

Anna Bjarnestam, Senior Linguistic Architect at Getty Images, said: "After testing all the major tools in the TM marketplace, we chose SDLX Translation Suite as the most reliable tool for our localization requirements. SDLX Translation Suite allows us to save a considerable amount on translation costs by capturing repeated text and displaying untranslated text. We chose to work with Multilingual Desktop Management because of their robust tool offering, professional attitude, and expert advice. When SDL's services are added to the mixture, we have been able to acquire a complete solution for our multilingual developments."

"We are delighted to have been selected by the leader in its field of image library management", said Brian Briggs, General Manager, Multilingual Desktop Division. "We look forward to serving Getty over the months and years ahead as we continue to enhance our products to match the evolving needs of our growing customer base."

Notes to Editors:

About Getty Images

Getty Images, Inc. is a leading force in building the world's visual language through its innovative creation, sourcing and distribution of images, motion, fonts and related services to the communication industries worldwide. Through an award-winning collection of more than 70 million images and 30,000 hours of film, Getty Images provides the most striking still and moving imagery for creative, editorial and business professionals. Every day Getty Images products are used to create many thousands of compelling communications worldwide. A pioneer in migrating the management and distribution of visual content to the Internet, Getty Images continues to reshape and improve the way communications are produced around the world. Getty Images is a global business, with headquarters in Seattle and customers in more than 50 countries and 40 percent of its revenues from outside North America. For more information, please visit www.gettyimages.com

About SDLX Translation Suite

SDLX is also available in a high-end version, SDLX Translation Suite Elite.

With this version, translation agencies and corporate localization departments can easily centralize the translation memory solution and provide freelance translators with a free, downloadable edit module, SDLX Lite. Freelancers can use SDLX Lite at no cost regardless of the translation memory tool they already use; SDLX Translation Suite is standards-based, supporting Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) and OpenTag. In addition, SDLX is compatible with legacy formats such as RTF and TRADOS.

For more information about SDLX, please go to www.sdlx.com.

About Multilingual Desktop Management

The Multilingual Desktop Management (MDM) division of SDL International (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL') focuses exclusively in creating customer solutions based on a full range of globalization desktop productivity tools and process consulting. MDM's clients include global corporations, software publishers, translators and localization service providers worldwide.

More information can be found on MDM and SDL at www.sdlintl.com

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MySpace.com Partners With theglobe.com to Offer Members the Ability to Store and Share Information Online.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2000

MySpace.com (formerly FreeDiskSpace.com), a leading online information management company, today announced a partnership with theglobe.com (Nasdaq:TGLO), one of the world's leading community networks and providers of community services. Under the terms of the deal, theglobe.com's members will be offered 300 megabytes of virtual storage and will be able to store, organize, share and distribute their information online through a co-branded site.

MySpace's file storage and sharing services will be fully promoted throughout theglobe.com's flagship website (www.theglobe.com). The service enables users to share personal files and information with their online friends, family and colleagues.

"We are delighted to offer increased accessibility to online storage through one of the leading web community networks," said Ricky Aaron, CEO of MySpace.com. "Having the ability to reach theglobe.com's members will proliferate the use of our valuable service and broaden the conversion to file storage and sharing exclusively online. We're confident that theglobe.com's users will begin to see how online storage complements and facilitates all of the their online activities, such as collecting MP3s, sharing photographs with friends, and accessing important documents from any Internet connection."

"With MySpace.com's online storage solution, theglobe.com offers its users a virtually unlimited environment of free storage for their MP3's and other valuable files," said Ira Silberstein, director, Business Development, theglobe.com. "This partnership is another example of how theglobe.com is providing value-added services that enrich the community experience and further contribute to the growth of its audience."

About theglobe.com Network

theglobe.com is a network of communities that specializes in bringing people together around shared topics of interest. The Company delivers "community" through four different streams: its flagship website (http://www.theglobe.com) featuring the Company's best of breed community products (e-mail clubs and web site building tools); customized community solutions to other web properties; small business communities; and a vibrant games information network rated number one in the world by Media Metrix. theglobe.com currently distributes community services and games content to RollingStone.com, CBS Sportsline.com, Time Warner's Road Runner, Deja.com, alloy.com, AOL UK, Excite UK, DirectHit.com, OneMain.com and Chaitime.com.

Safe Harbor -- this press release contains financial information and includes forward-looking statements related to theglobe.com, Inc. that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, product delivery, the management of growth, market acceptance of certain products and other risks. These forward-looking statements are made in reliance on the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For further information about these factors that could affect theglobe.com's future results, please see the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prospective investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance. Actual results may differ materially from management expectations. Copies of these filings are available upon request from theglobe.com's investor relations department. theglobe.com, theglobe.com (logo), globeclubs, Happy Puppy, Kids Domain, Games Domain, WebJump, Chips & Bits, shop.theglobe.com, and uPublish! are service marks of theglobe.com, inc. or its subsidiaries.

About MySpace.com

Founded in 1999, MySpace.com (formerly FreeDiskSpace.com) is a privately held online information management company headquartered in San Francisco. MySpace provides a multi platform Internet hard drive, offering consumers and businesses a variety of features to store, organize, share and distribute their information online. The Company's objective is to enable members to access their information worldwide, while facilitating a seamless integration between the desktop and the Internet. For more information about MySpace, please visit the website at www.myspace.com. Reporters or analysts may contact Carmen Morales at carmen@myspace.com or 415/882-2154.

QUARTERDECK: Quarterdeck announces new initiatives for corporate and retail sales.

M2 PRESSWIRE-13 August 1998-QUARTERDECK: Quarterdeck announces new initiatives for corporate and retail sales (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

RDATE:130898

-- European sales director appointed to target corporate marketplace and expand retail presence

Quarterdeck (NASDAQ: QDEK), today announced the appointment of a new European sales director to expand retail market share and to aggressively target the corporate sector. David Brown, who has joined Quarterdeck from the British software firm PCSL, has gained a great deal of pan-European sales experience through working for computer companies such as Specialix Plc, DCA / Pacific Data, British Olivetti and Nashua.

David Brown will head the Quarterdeck sales team, that will be expanded over the coming months. This expansion is parallelled by the company's intention to further establish its presence in the retail market, as well as make a drive into the SME/Corporate sector.

Looking forward to implementing these initiatives David Brown, new European sales director, comments; "There is an excellent opportunity for us to seize a significant share of the market for computer helpware in small to medium sized companies. This marketplace is still in its infancy, and none of our competitors have as yet, offered a complete suite of products. for this part of the corporate market, or dominated the space. With licensed and networked versions of some of our existing products such as CleanSweep, as well as with the new network utilities that we have in the pipeline, we have the technology to take a large segment of the SME market."

Commenting on the appointment of David Brown as European sales director, Andrew MacDonald, Quarterdeck's European managing director and vice-president comments; "The network market is full of opportunities, but there are also a large number of new avenues we will be creating in the retail consumer market. Working within an expanding sales department, David will be playing an integral role in the implementation of our exciting plans."

Quarterdeck will be looking to develop a number of OEM and VAR agreements over the coming months and has plans for a comprehensive reseller accreditation programme.

About Quarterdeck Quarterdeck Corporation develops, markets and supports software that enhances the performance, user productivity and cost-effectiveness of personal computing in both standalone and networked environments. Current products address diagnosis and resolution of software and hardware conflicts, PC based communications and Internet connectivity, storage and hard disk management, system performance, and an Internet search engine. The company, provides its software solutions world-wide to individual, business and government/education users through retail distribution, resellers, direct marketing operations and Internet downloads. Quarterdeck Corporation is headquartered in California. Its European headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland.

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CertiVox Reinvents Secure Information Exchange for the Cloud.

CertiVox today revolutionized secure information exchange for the cloud with the launch of PrivateSky, a service that allows anyone to quickly and easily secure their web-based messaging - including Google Mail, Hotmail, Facebook and others - and confirm the identity of the sender for messages they receive without using usernames, passwords, certificates or complex workflows. Offering unprecedented simplicity and ease of use, CertiVox's free PrivateSky Connectors for Microsoft Silverlight and Internet Explorer and breakthrough PrivateSky service virtually eliminate the threat posed by phishing and spear phishing attacks by delivering all the privacy, authentication, message integrity and non-repudiation benefits of military-grade AES encryption.

Unlike today's public/private key-based encryption systems, CertiVox's innovative cryptographic technology requires only one key and recipients do not have to be pre-registered with the PrivateSky service to receive protected messages. With the PrivateSky Internet Explorer Connector installed, anything typed into any web page text entry box - including all social networking and blog posts and comments, forum entries, web-based email messages and more - for any recipient can be uniquely encrypted with a single click.

"We are offering the PrivateSky service for free to individuals to improve information security in an area that has not been well served until now," said Brian Spector, founder and CEO of CertiVox. "The individual's right to protect their data on the web has been ignored by the security industry and, as a consequence, now is being abused by attackers, unscrupulous governments and questionable business people.

"Until now, only large enterprises and governments have been able to adopt the complex and expensive techniques required to secure information exchanges. CertiVox's breakthrough key distribution technology means that individuals, from their browsers, now have access to the same sophisticated information security techniques used by governments and the military. And it's free."

According to Spector, the recent spear phishing attack against senior officials at the U.S. Department of State and the White House never would have happened had they been using the PrivateSky service in conjunction with their Google Mail accounts. It would have been immediately obvious that the messages they received did not come from the indicated sender, and were therefore suspect. Further, if the accounts had been compromised in some other manner, the encrypted content of the emails would have been secured from attackers.

The PrivateSky platform as a service employs CertiVox's innovative non-interactive key agreement technology which provides end-to-end encryption by issuing the user only one key, called a Sky Key. Unlike the public/private key protocol, which requires two keys for each user and a complex PKI infrastructure for encryption key distribution, the Sky Key enables the PrivateSky service to address privacy, authentication, integrity and non-repudiation without any of the usual complexity, cost or management overhead.

Keywords: Politics, Data Encryption, Information Technology, Information and Data Security, Information and Data Encoding and Encryption.

This article was prepared by Politics & Government Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Politics & Government Week via VerticalNews.com.

Good news about tests... but residents need more.

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I am writing this email after learning through your newspaper that RTA is considering to decrease the waiting period for candidates who fail in the Road Test. This is a very good initiative from RTA, however I have some more suggestions for RTA to lower the pressure on the "to-be Drivers". We all know that a lot of people visit Dubai on Visit Visa and these people are allowed to drive a vehicle if they have an international driving license even if they are from a country where the driving rules are totally different from the UAE, however the people from the same country are not allowed to drive if they are on a resident visa, which is a bit unfair.

I have a suggestion in this regard:

The people who come to UAE on a residence visa and go through a classroom and road training and appear in a road test, they should be allowed to drive even if they fail or pass the drive test. RTA should make three kind of results from a road test:

1. Pass

2. Probation

3. Fail, a person who shows no driving abilities should be failed, we have to keep the roads safe too.

The person who shows adequate skills, however he was not completely able to pass the test, he should be given a probationary license and he should be allowed to drive and if he drives for an year without getting any black point then he should be automatically changed to a full license. This is just a suggestion and RTA knows knows better how to run its business. I have been living in Dubai four months, apart from my country's license I additionally hold a Canadian license as well (unfortunately I don't hold a Canadian visa :-( ), now I can not drive so I can not take my daughter to any park or recreational area on weekends, I can not take my wife to hospital, etc, all these trips need a lot of planning and a lot of time as I have to keep a margin of an hour for taxi, etc. If I am allowed to drive then this will decrease a lot of pressure from me and I will be able to take good care of my family. I hope RTA should give adequate concern to this suggestion and act something on it

Thanks and best Regards

Abdul Aziz Khan

Dubai

A[umlaut] 2007 Al Sidra Media LLC

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Mobile technology, broadband flourish in Iraq Kurdish zone.

Summary: Kurdish region provides faster Internet, Facebook; No jamming there of mobile phone frequencies by military; Kurdistan saw investment much earlier than rest of Iraq

Like many young people hungry for change in the Middle East, 21-year-old student Meran Mubarak is embracing social media as fast as telecommunications advances allow in his Iraqi Kurdistan homeland.

He is lucky to live in Iraq's Kurdish zone, the prosperous northern territory whose semi-autonomous status and relative stability in the war-battered nation has allowed 3G mobile technology and faster Internet services to flourish far beyond what most Iraqis can expect.

"I am connected to Facebook and Twitter almost 24/7," said Mubarak, using the latest version of Apple's iPhone on the network of local provider Korek Telecom.

While the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein opened up the mobile phone industry and Internet access in Iraq, communication lines outside the Kurdish zone are still patchy.

But the Kurdish region was freed from Saddam's grip over a decade before 2003, and manages its own telecoms sector.

It has enjoyed virtual independence under Western protection since the end of the first Gulf War in 1991, attracting foreign investors as a relatively safe haven compared to the rest of Iraq, where gun and bomb attacks and assassinations occur daily.

The Kurdish telecoms industry, along with other investment sectors including oil, has boomed and avoided problems like military jamming as it has largely been spared the sectarian violence and insurgency that has afflicted the rest of Iraq.

Outside Kurdistan, poor data services and jamming of mobile phone frequencies by the military to prevent insurgents from detonating bombs remain a common complaint among Iraqis.

"The situation of telecommunications is very good in Kurdistan," said Hameed Akrawi, vice president of Korek Telecom, a mobile phone firm established in Arbil in 2001.

"We have more experience than the rest of Iraq, because we had freedom (earlier)."

FAST CONNECTIONS

In the Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil, which boasts smart shopping malls and Western-style coffee shops, citizens and visitors are able to use Mobitel's 3G mobile phones and connect to the Internet using Wi-Fi.

Mobile phones were first introduced to the Kurdish region in 1999 when AsiaCell was established as the first phone company in Sulaimaniya. It has a customer base of 8.5 million users throughout Iraq.

Korek, owned by a nephew of Kurdistan president Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), was established in 2001 in the region and has 3 million customers, while Kuwait's Zain started operations in the zone last October.

All three firms secured $1.25 billion licences each to operate in Iraq in 2007.

However, as in the rest of Iraq, companies operating in the Kurdish region also complain about a monopoly over fibre optic cables.

Allai Newroz Telecom, which introduced a fibre optic network to the Kurdish area in 2009, has a four-year renewable contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government and provides services in Arbil, Sulaimaniya and Dahuk.

Its network has become so overloaded that each separate neighbourhood coverage hub, catering in theory for 1,500 customers was often crowded with around 6,000 users, said Fateh Esmael, public relations director for Allai Newroz Telecom.

Telecoms companies say a lack of cooperation between Iraq's telecoms regulator, the Communications and Media Commission (CMC) and the Kurdish authorities is also hampering their work.

"The lack of fast broadband Internet has hindered Iraq's economic progress," said Diar Ahmed, chief executive of AsiaCell.

"CMC has no say here (in Kurdistan) ... There is chaos in the telecoms field in Iraq," he added.

But even though Internet download times are much faster in the Kurdish zone than in the rest of Iraq, they are still not speedy enough for tech-hungry young people like Mubarak.

"The Internet doesn't download fast enough. But I can still open e-mails and use Facebook," the university student said. (By Namo Abdulla;Editing by Serena Chaudhry and Pascal Fletcher/Elizabeth Fullerton)

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THE 'dreamtime' narratives of Australian aboriginals are being wrested into the 21st century with the ancient stories retold in new forms. Mark Rickards examines how aboriginal culture is being reinvigorated by its interpolation with American music in AUSTRALIAN RAP (RADIO 4, 11.30AM).

EVERY CHILD MATTERS (RADIO 4, 2.15PM) stars Sarah Lancashire (pictured) as Joanne, a social worker caught up in the scandal of a client who allowed her young daughter to be viewed dancing semi-naked on the internet. With the verdict imminent in the mother's trial, Joanne talks with an erstwhile colleague. What emerges brings everything into question about the case in a compelling drama.

TCHAIKOVSKY'S 5th Symphony builds from what the composer called 'complete resignation before fate' to ultimate transcendence, and was an inspiration to the Russian people in the war against Hitler. Hear it played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in RADIO 3 LIVE IN CONCERT (7.30PM).

SOUNDS OF THE 20TH CENTURY (RADIO 2, 10PM) arrives at 1956: when Lonnie Donegan gave the world a skiffle.

LinkedIn says "Peter" and "Deborah" are the top names for CEOs*.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network with more than 100 million members worldwide, today released LinkedInsights data that reveal interesting findings about the top names of CEOs. The LinkedInsights data also showed surprising correlations among the lengths of names that dominate certain fields. For instance, CEOs in the United States often have four letter names (like Jack and Fred).

According to the LinkedInsights data, the top five names for male CEOs globally are: 1. Peter 2. Bob 3. Jack 4. Bruce 5. Fred

The top five names for female CEOs globally are: 1. Deborah 2. Sally 3. Debra 4. Cynthia 5. Carolyn

"It's no secret that people often associate their title, employer and even their education as part of what defines them and their professional brand," said Monica Rogati, LinkedIn's senior data scientist. "What's interesting about this data is that we were able to discover a correlation between a professional's name and the industry or functional area in which they work."

For instance, in the U.S., there's an interesting relationship between the amount of letters and top names for professionals in certain functional areas. Sales professionals tend to have short names, around four letters (like Chip, Todd and Trey), while engineers tend to have longer names, around six letters (like Rajesh, Jeremy and Andrew). U.S. professionals in the food and restaurant industry tend to have longer French names (like Thierry, Philippe and Laurent).

"Typically hypocorisms, the shorter form of a given name, are used in intimate situations as a nickname or a term of endearment," said Dr. Frank Nuessel, the editor of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics (a publication of the American Name Society) and a professor of classical and modern languages at the University of Louisville. "It's possible that sales professionals in the U.S. and male CEOs around the world use these shortened versions of their name as a way to be more approachable and accessible to potential clients. Interestingly enough, female CEOs appear to prefer to use their full names and not nicknames, which could signify that they want to be taken more seriously and want co-workers to think of them in a more professional light."

Since there are millions of professionals on LinkedIn, and not every Peter or Deborah is a CEO, LinkedIn suggests the following tips to help you stand out from the crowd of other professionals who might share your name, but not your profession:

Claim Your Name

* Customize your LinkedIn Profile URL so that it's your firstnamelastname, one word with no spaces (ex. http://www.linkedin.com/in/SarahSmith). Not only will it get your profile to the top of web searches for your name, it also makes it easier to link to your profile in your email signature or on your business card. You can make this change easily on your "Edit Profile" page. (If your URL is taken already, you can also do lastnamefirstname.)

Show Off Your Skills

* Joe Smith 2.0 probably doesn't have the same expertise you have; so make sure you add relevant skills to your profile. After you've logged in, go directly to LinkedIn Skills to place skills on your profile with just a few clicks.

Make Sure You're Connected

* Who you're connected can set you apart from the competition and open doors for you. The magic number of connections on LinkedIn is 50 contacts. Your network can be made up of clients, co-workers, former bosses, vendors, friends and even family. When you're connected to trusted contacts on LinkedIn, your network can vouch for you and they can contact you when they see career opportunities that might be a fit for you.

To learn more about LinkedIn's listings of top names for professionals, check out our blog post.

*Methodology for Research

For the research on the top names for professionals, the LinkedInsights data team took a look at the more than 100 million public profiles on LinkedIn. The team then determined the "top" names by finding the most over-represented names within a specific population or functional area (like "names for female CEOs globally" for instance). Functional areas were derived from the self-reported title that each member has listed on his/her LinkedIn Profile. (For example, professionals in the food and restaurant functional area would include chefs, servers, hostesses, sommeliers, etc.)

About LinkedInsights

LinkedInsights aims to uncover valuable trends and patterns in the workplace that help professionals reach their career goals. The LinkedInsights team analyzes the aggregate movement of LinkedIn's massive member base in order to find actionable insights that help professionals around the world better manage their careers.

About LinkedIn

LinkedIn operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories. The LinkedIn website launched in 2003 and currently counts executives from all Fortune 500 companies as members. The company is privately-held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from user subscriptions, advertising sales and hiring solutions. LinkedIn is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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Telstra's T-Box joins crowded video market.

TelstraClear yesterday launched its version of the MySky personal video recorder.

And it is confident T-Box will sell better than Telecom-backed TiVo currently being sold with heavy discounts amid slow uptake.

Initially T-Box is limited to Auckland and Christchurch _ where TelstraClear operates the Saturn cable TV service.

But the telco says it is the starting point for an extended media operation once New Zealand broadband improves.

But as Sky's dominance grows will it continue to be allied with Sky TV with an extended reselling arrangement? Or might it eventually provide some competition for Sky?

The T-Box supports high-definition pictures and recording and can record 50 hours of programmes at high-definition quality, or 300 hours at standard digital definition.

Entertainment technology writer Philip Wakefield of screenscribe.tv is sceptical about exclusive content on T-Box.

But he gives a thumbs up to the look, saying its interface is streets ahead of other PVRs.

T-Box is another addition to the bewildering array of TV technology.

But it is also a sign of convergence as the telcos eye TV content as a way to increase broadband demand.

Like MySky _ and to a much lesser extent Telecom-backed TiVo _ T-Box links customers, discouraging them from moving to a rival.

But low sales of TiVo _ leading to heavy discounting _ have raised questions about the scale of a market for PVR's dominated by SkyTV and MySky.

The dominant pay TV operator is in nearly 48 per cent of homes.

Both broadcasters and telcos have warned about its increasing dominance over TV content.

TelstraClear is playing down comparisons between T-Box and TiVo, linked to Telecom and whose sale price has been knocked down from $920 to $360 after slow sales.

``T-Box is a very different proposition,'' said Steve Jackson, head of consumer markets for TelstraClear, the New Zealand offshoot of the Australian telecommunications giant Telstra.

``It's a television device and the starting point for us to move into broadband at a later date as fibre optic develops.''

One aspect of T-Box linked to Saturn ensures it will evade one of the problems that has limited TiVo's appeal _ Saturn has plenty of content. Saturn resells SkyTV's channels.

While initially focused on the TiVo set-top box and its PVR function when it launched in November, Australasian licensee Hybrid Television Services is focusing on its download facility ``Caspa'', available on several platforms to download movies and TV shows for the net.

Meanwhile, Sky is set to launch its own broadband download site.

Sky chief executive John Fellet said that after 30 years in the pay-TV business he was still surprised by the swift success of PVRs.

But Sky needs to grow and more people will be using broadband to download shows.

Which is why the slow progress of TiVo must be worrying for TVNZ, and the future success for Caspa is important to it. It is essential if TVNZ is to develop a role in internet TV and share in the revenue from pay TV, apart from putting product on Sky.

TVNZ owns one third of Hybrid Television Services, the remainder is owned by the Australian Seven Network.

TVNZ's situation in this country has some parallels with Australia.

Sky's controlling shareholder News Corporation owns 25 per cent of the dominant pay-TV company Foxtel.

The largest stake in Foxtel is held by Telstra, so as TelstraClear eyes a role in media there will be interest in how the pay-TV relationship develops with Sky.

MySky is at the heart of Sky's growth in the retail sector but as it grows there is more focus on its role as a wholesaler of programmes and its dominance of content.

Sky says that it is happy to have its licensed shows delivered on other platforms.

But free-to-air broadcasters have become wary about its influence along with the telco sector.

The most vocal has been Alan Freeth, chief executive of TelstraClear.

Freeth has been critical of its negotiating stance, objecting to Sky claiming exclusivity, limiting TelstraClear's ability to show additional channels on Saturn.

The issue came to a head after the last negotiations between Sky and TelstraClear. Steve Jackson said that the disagreement had been averted while the terms of the current content contract is played out.

But as Telstra uses T-Box as the foundation for its media aspirations there may be trouble ahead.

Steve Jackson said that the terms for the programming deal would be concluded in 2 years.

``We will be seeking new terms to ensure that we are able to obtain programming beyond the agreement with Sky,'' the TelstraClear spokesman said.

Snapshots US Disposable Nappies 2009 Provides 2009 Estimates, 5 Years of Historical Data and Five-Year Forecasts.

M2 PRESSWIRE-4 September 2009-Research and Markets: Snapshots US Disposable Nappies 2009 Provides 2009 Estimates, 5 Years of Historical Data and Five-Year Forecasts(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS

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Dublin - Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f8f80c/snapshots_us_dispo) has announced the addition of the "Snapshots US Disposable Nappies 2009" report to their offering.

Snapdatas Snapshots US Disposable Nappies 2009 provides 2008 year-end market size data, with 2009 estimates, 5 years of historical data and five-year forecasts. The Snapshots report gives an instant overview of the US disposable nappies market and covers regular disposable nappies and disposable training pants. It does not cover re-useable nappies. Market value is based on retail sales. The data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis. The Snapshots US Disposable Nappies 2009 forms part of Snapdatas Cosmetics & Toiletries industry coverage.

Snapshots Report Overview:

Executive Summary

The Executive Summary within a Snapshots report outlines the main findings of the report (market size, market shares and market forecasts)

Market size

Market size is the measure of the total value or volume of a particular product sold in a particular length of time. In our case it is the total amount of the market covered by a title in the last whole year, for example, in UK Beer 2005, all the beer consumed in the UK in 2004. The aim of the report is to tell how much of the product was consumed in the country discussed by value and by volume.

Market Segmentation

Market Segmentation is a segmentation of the market by key product categories, ideally by value and volume. For example: the yoghurt market can be segmented into: drinking yoghurt, flavoured yoghurt and natural yoghurt.

Market Share

Market Share is the share of each competitor in the market place and can be expressed in value or volume terms.

Market Share by Volume - each competitor's share of the total Market Volume

Market Share by Value - each competitor's share of the total Market Value

Distribution

This measure of the market relates to the different distribution channels to market for each product. The distribution can include the following channels

Consumer Goods example:

- Supermarket

- Hypermarket

- Discount Store

- Corner shop

- Internet

- Etc

Socio-Economic data

The key socio-economic indicators in each report will be:

Size of population

GDP - Gross Domestic Product

Inflation rate

Exchange rate

Forecasts

All market forecasts are based on statistical forecasting techniques based on historic performance (linear extrapolation of the market size, based on the five-year historical growth). These statistical tools are supplemented with qualitative parameters such as: industry expectation/opinion. Socio-economic drivers, new product development, technological advances, expected levels of market saturation etc.

Further Sources

In this section we include important websites such as trade bodies or trade associations relevant to the market. All sources whose data we have used in the report and who have given us permission to use their data are represented here.

All secondary sources in local and global languages are scoured, from government statistics to trade magazines. As the Snapdata model is unique as a product and non-competitive to specialist publishers, the company has also been able to develop strong relationships with companies such as Gartner and ACNielsen, who provide secondary data points to cross check research.

Key Topics Covered:

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- Page 9 - Market Forecast by Value (2009-2013)

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Avalon Properties, Inc. Declares Third Quarter Dividend

WILTON, Conn., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Avalon Properties, Inc. (NYSE: AVN) announced today that its Board of Directors declared dividends on Avalon's Common Stock (par value $.01) and the company's Series A and Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock. All dividends are payable on Nov. 15 to all stockholders (both common and preferred) of record as of Nov. 4, 1996. The Common Stock dividend for the third quarter of 1996 is 38 cents per share. This represents an increase of one cent per share from the prior quarter, or a 2.7% increase. The Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock dividend is 56.25 cents per share. An initial and partial dividend of 14.31 cents per share on the Company's Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock for the short period beginning Oct. 22, 1996 (settlement date) through Nov. 14, 1996 will be payable on Nov. 15, 1996 to all shareholders of record as of Nov. 4, 1996.

Avalon, named the NAHB Property Management Company of the Year for 1996, owns or holds an ownership interest in 45 stabilized apartment communities containing 13,334 apartment homes in six states and the District of Columbia. Eight communities with 2,854 apartments homes are presently under construction. Avalon Properties, Inc. is an equity REIT in the business of developing, acquiring and managing multifamily apartment communities in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the United States. More information on Avalon Properties may be found on Avalon's Web site at http://www.avalonprop.com.

Detailed press releases for Avalon Properties and quarterly information, including its Form 10-K, are available at no charge through PR Newswire's Company News On-Call/Quarterlies On-Call fax service and on PRN's Web site. For a menu of Avalon's press releases, or to retrieve a specific release, please call 800-758-5804, ext. 061544, or http://www.prnewswire.com on the Internet or on Avalon's Web site.

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Qualys Offers Free Vulnerability Scan Mapped to New Threats Revealed by SANS Top 20 Spring Update.

Apple OS X and Firefox and Mozilla Browsers Show Rapid Growth in Critical Vulnerabilities, Reinforcing the Need for Vigilance

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualys(R), Inc., the leading provider of on demand vulnerability management and policy compliance solutions, today announced the availability of its free SANS Top 20 Scan to help companies detect and eliminate the most dangerous vulnerabilities and threats impacting networks worldwide as revealed by the SANS Top 20 2006 Spring Update last week. The Qualys scan is mapped directly to these new threats using Qualys' market leading QualysGuard(R) on demand service. Most notable among the vulnerabilities the SANS Institute revealed was the rapid growth in critical vulnerabilities being discovered in Apple OS X, including a zero day vulnerability, and Firefox and Mozilla browsers. Qualys' free scan for the SANS Top-20 is available at https://sans20.qualys.com/.

"The continuing growth of client side based attacks, which are often a stepping stone to opening doors in your network and the growth of Mac OS X vulnerabilities reveal the importance of constant vigilance and ongoing testing by companies of all sizes on a regular basis," said Amol Sarwate, vulnerability lab manager at Qualys and a member of the SANS20 committee. "The changes announced by SANS last week reflect the dynamic nature of the evolving threat landscape. The SANS Top 20 is an invaluable tool for businesses to test their security posture against the constantly increasing and ingenious threats which appear on an almost daily basis."

The SANS Top-20 is designed by the SANS Institute and security experts from industry and government to provide organizations with a prioritized list of newly discovered exposures to their networks. Qualys is a contributing member to the SANS Top-20.

In addition to identifying new vulnerabilities in Apple OS X, Firefox and Mozilla which are becoming more commonly used across the enterprise, the SANS Spring update Top-20 also includes continuing discovery of multiple zero day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and a surge in commodity zero day attacks used to infiltrate systems for profit motives. The full updated SANS report can be found at http://www.sans.org/top20/2005/spring_2006_update.php.

The shift from server-side to client-side vulnerabilities was also a significant finding in the "Laws of Vulnerabilities" research published by Qualys last year. According to the research, more than 60 percent of new critical vulnerabilities occur in client applications. Client-side vulnerabilities require a user to take action, such as visiting a malicious website or opening an infected email attachment. The research can be found at http://www.qualys.com/laws.

The Qualys on demand model provides customers with immediate scanning for the latest vulnerabilities, such as the Top-20 listing, without the need for installing software or building out additional infrastructure. In addition to the free scan, the QualysGuard(R) solution detects new exposures in the SANS Top-20.

About Qualys

With more than 2,000 subscribers ranging from small businesses to multinational corporations, Qualys has become the leader in on demand vulnerability management and policy compliance. The company allows security managers to strengthen the security of their networks effectively, conduct automated security audits and ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Qualys' on demand technology offers customers significant economic advantages, requiring no capital outlay or infrastructure to deploy and manage. Its distributed scanning capabilities and unprecedented scalability make it ideal for large, distributed organizations. Hundreds of large companies have deployed Qualys on a global scale, including AXA, DuPont, Hershey Foods, ICI Ltd, Novartis, Sodexho, Standard Chartered Bank and many others. Qualys is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with European offices in France, Germany and the U.K., and Asian representatives in Japan, Singapore, Australia, Korea and the Republic of China. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com/.

NOTE: Qualys, the Qualys logo, and QualysGuard are trademarks of Qualys, Inc. All other products or names may be trademarks of their respective companies

CONTACT: Della Lowe of Qualys, +1-650-801-6123, or dlowe@qualys.com; or Stacy Simpson of Merritt Group, +1-703-390-1528, or simpson@merrittgrp.com, for Qualys

Web site: http://www.qualys.com/

CSG Systems International, Inc. to Hold Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2002 Earnings Conference Call.

CSG Systems International, Inc. invites you to participate in a conference call on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time to discuss the company's fourth quarter and full year earnings results.

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The one-hour conference call will feature CSG Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Neal Hansen and Peter Kalan, Chief Financial Officer.

To reach the conference, dial (303) 262-2130 and ask the operator for the CSG Systems International Inc. conference call, Neal Hansen, chairman.

A replay of the conference call will be available until midnight on Feb. 4 and can be accessed by dialing (303) 590-3000, passcode 519335. In addition, this call will be simulcast and archived on the Internet at http://www.csgsystems.com/ (Real Player required).

About CSG Systems

With worldwide headquarters in Englewood, Colo., CSG Systems is a subsidiary of CSG Systems International, Inc. . CSG and its wholly-owned subsidiaries serve more than 265 service providers in more than 40 countries. CSG is a leader in next-generation billing and customer care solutions for the cable television, direct broadcast satellite, advanced IP services, next generation mobile, and fixed wireline markets. CSG's unique combination of proven and future-ready solutions, delivered in both outsourced and licensed formats, empowers its clients to deliver unparalleled customer service, improve operational efficiencies and rapidly bring new revenue- generating products to market. CSG is an S&P Midcap 400 company. For more information, visit our website at www.csgsystems.com .

CONTACT: Liz Bauer of CSG Systems, +1-303-804-4065, liz_bauer@csgsystems.com

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Adu outplayed by Ralph; Jamaican scores 3 times in shutout.

Byline: Dave Surico

CHICAGO _ Freddy Adu was in the spotlight before D.C. United met the Fire Saturday at Soldier Field, but it was his Chicago counterpart Dumani Ralph who lit up the place.

The 2003 Major League Soccer rookie of the year continued a hot sophomore start with his first professional hat trick to lead the Fire to a 3-0 victory over United in front of a crowd 25,810.

"(Ralph is) a confident kid when he's in and around the box," coach Dave Sarachan said. "He strikes the ball well with both feet and he's a powerful kid. You add all that up and you're going to get goals."

The opening goal came after a hustling play from midfielder Nate Jaqua, who saved the ball from going out 35 yards from the D.C. goal. Andy Williams received a pass in the midfield and sent the ball down the right side to Ralph.

The Jamaican native faked past defender David Stokes and drove to the side of the goal. He had time to settle before putting the ball past goalkeeper Troy Perkins from a sharp angle in the 15th minute.

"They were all from acute angles," said Ralph of the goals, which tied him with Los Angeles' Carlos Ruiz in the MLS scoring race. "Like coach says, sometimes I overdo it. But the confidence I have, that once I get in the area, if I hit it good, I think I have a good chance."

Adu was the reason for the 10th largest lakeside crowd in Fire history. But those who expected something spectacular from the 15-year-old phenom were disappointed. The Fire knocked down Adu six times, applying a physical defensive philosophy that kept him in check.

Still, he had his moments.

In the 42nd minute, Adu split defenders with a nice ball to Ronald Cerritos who fired a shot from 16 yards out that Fire goalkeeper Henry Ring rejected. A few minutes later, Adu got a step on defender Kelly Gray and came in from the right end line. Ring slid out to take the ball off Adu's foot.

"I tried to take it and slide it right under the keeper and he made a great save," Adu said. "I took it just a little too far ahead of me so I had to toe-poke it."

For Fire defender Jim Curtin and his backline mates, mission stop Adu was accomplished.

"He was pretty good today," Curtin said. "He didn't get a chance to turn and run at us. We got a body on him, and knocked him around a little bit.

"You see flashes. He turned the corner on Kelly Gray and kind of left him in the dust. Kelly and I both looked at each other and kind of smiled. `He's fast.' At the same time we both said the same thing. For a 15-year-old to be doing what he's doing out there is pretty impressive."

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RARE Hospitality International to Broadcast Second Quarter Conference Call Live on the Internet.

Business Editors

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2003

RARE Hospitality International, Inc. (Nasdaq: RARE) today announced it will provide an on-line Web simulcast and rebroadcast of its 2003 second quarter earnings release conference call.

The live broadcast of RARE Hospitality International's quarterly conference call will be available on-line by going to www.rarehospitality.com and clicking on the link to Investor Relations. In addition, the broadcast can be accessed through www.vcall.com. Please go to the selected site at least 15 minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software. The call is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time on July 24, 2003. The on-line replay will follow shortly after the call and continue through October 23, 2003.

RARE Hospitality International, Inc. currently owns, operates and franchises 223 restaurants, including 182 LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants, 23 Bugaboo Creek Steak House restaurants and 16 The Capital Grille restaurants.

Reportlinker Adds Motion Sensors for Consumer & Mobile applications.

NEW YORK, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Motion Sensors for Consumer & Mobile applications

http://www.reportlinker.com/p0469982/Motion-Sensors-for-Consumer--Mobile-applications.html

The inertial sensor market for consumer electronics is growing very quickly due the fast adoption of accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers in mobile phones, tablets, game stations, laptops...

Market trends

The inertial sensor market for consumer electronics is growing very quickly due to the fast adoption of accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers in mobile phones, tablets, game stations and laptops. Indeed 20.3% annual growth is expected: from $847M in 2009, the motion sensor market will reach $2.56B in 2015! The MEMS accelerometer market will show very nice business opportunities in the coming years. Moreover this market will be strategic for many applications are expected to rely on 3-axis accelerometer + 3-axis gyroscope in a single package within 2015. There is thus a strong synergy between accelerometer and gyroscope technologies and players.

The gyroscope market is really thriving thanks to the successful introduction of 3-axis devices by ST Micro and InvenSense. While adoption in handsets is only starting to surge, (with iPhone since June 2010 and now with Android smartphones) the gaming market is quickly growing and additional markets are emerging like tablets or remote controls.

Compasses are also gaining strong market traction. 2010 was an incredible year for digital compass in handsets, but the market will find growth outside of the mobile phone area as well: on gaming, on DSC for advanced geo-tagging. It will be particularly interesting to monitor strategies of newcomers to compete against AKM who is way ahead in the market. Competition is gaining in intensity as the motion sensing market becomes increasingly attractive. More than 50 companies are targeting this business including large players and small companies. But in the consumer market only a few companies are really making money out of this business, while the others are struggling to make a decent profit.

Several levels of competition are shaping the market:

-- Competition among companies trying to offer a complete product family (accelerometers, gyroscopes andmagnetometers), either internally or with partners (STis partnering with Honeywell for example on electroniccompass).

-- Competition among devices: accelerometer, gyroscopes and electronic compass can provide functions, either alone or in combination with each other. So companies have to propose the best sensor or sensor combination for a dedicated function.

-- Competing business models: fabless companies (InvenSense for example) are competing against integrated device manufacturers (ST, Kionix, Panasonic, Epson Toyocom, Freescale). Optimization of the production cost is one of the biggest key success factors.

It is thus necessary for all players to work hard in order to really get the costs lower and produce on 8 inch wafer lines at a reasonable yield.

-- Hardware competing against software: companies such as Movea start to impact the traditional supply chain model by bringing a novel expertise in software and sensor fusion.

-- Technology competition: companies are proposing discrete devices (a 3-axis accelerometer, a 3-axis gyroscope) or sensor combination (acceleration sensor plus gyroscope, gyroscope plus electronic compass) either in a system-in package or on a single die, along with a transition from a

sensor offer to a solution offer (with sensor fusion).

Which company, business model, device will win? It is both a booming and fragmented market so multiple companies can have an important part of the business. Cost-effective production infrastructure is clearly important but as the market will be moving from device to functions, the software and "function delivery" part of the business will be more and more significant. This area is exciting and still far from being mature. We expect considerable evolutions in the next years as illustrated by the strong demand for more precise and long-term navigation solutions, including indoor pedestrian navigation. In parallel to the current race to develop ultra-low cost versions of motions sensors, few start-ups are working on revolutionary motion sensing technologies by using different sensing principle or different way of combining motion sensors, with compatibility to a low cost production infrastructure.

Report outline

-- MEMS accelerometers, MEMS gyroscopes, magnetometers

-- 12+ key groups of application for motion sensors are described: Mobile phones, Gaming, Personal Media Players, Mobile Internet Devices (Tablets & E-books), TV remote controls, Cameras, Camcorders, Laptop

- HDD, PC Peripherals , Sport, Handheld GPS, Others (Toys, Model helicopter)

- Market dynamics

- Technical trends

- Key players

-- Worldwide market metrics: 2009 - 2015 market ($M, M units, ASP)

-- 2010 market shares

-- 150+ companies included in the report

-- Report is a +300 slides PowerPoint presentation

-- Excel datasheet included

Key features of the study

The objectives of this report are the following:

--To provide market data on motion sensors for consumer & mobile products: key market metrics & dynamics:

- Unit shipments and revenues by type of sensor

- Average selling price analysis and expected evolution

- Market shares with detailed breakdown for each player

--To provide a deep understanding of motion sensor value chain, infrastructure & players for consumer business:

- Exhaustive list of players for each device under consideration

- Analysis on the new players and potential new entrants with MEMS technology

- Analysis on the strategies of the main players (12+ key players: ST, InvenSense, Bosch...) and definition of the different business models

- Description of the value chain, impact of the technical evolutions: packaging challenges, software challenge...

- List of key integrators worldwide and corresponding product platforms

--To provide application focus on application focus on key existing markets and most promising emerging ones: new features, technical roadmap, insight about future technology trends & challenges:

- Functions that are used, new features and specification requirements

- Performance roadmaps with functionalities (e.g. for gyroscopes: from current devices used for stabilization, gaming and user interface to very low-drift gyroscopes used for true pedestrian navigation)

- Integration roadmaps: combo sensors (IMUs), integration of MCU integration of algorithms & software

- Insight about future technology trends & manufacturing challenges: evolution of front-end MEMS manufacturing, new packaging technologies.

Companies Cited in the report

3DV Systems, Acer, Activision, Advancedmicrofab, Aichi Steel, AKM, Alpine, Alps Electric, Amazon, Analog Devices, Apple, ARM, Asus, Atmel, Baolab, Bosch Sensortec, Broadcom, BSkyB, Canal+, Canesta, Canon, Catapult Innovation, CEA Leti, Comcast, CSR, Dai Nippon Printing, Dalsa, Decathlon, Deep Di Semiconductor, Dell, DirecTV, Domintech, Electronic Arts, Epcos, Epson Toyocom, FreeMotion, Freescale, Fuji, Fujitsu, Futaba, Garmin, GlobalFoundries, Google, Hillcrest Labs, Hitachi, Hokuriku, Honeywell, HP, HTC, IBM, Iliad, InvenSense, ITRI, JVC, Jyve, KDDI, Kionix, Kodak, Kyocera, Lenovo, LG, Life Fitness, ogitech, Matrix, Maxim, Mcube, Medion, Memsic, Memsmart, Memstech, MESA Imaging, Micralyne, Microchip, MicroInfi nity, Microsoft, Mio, Motorola, Movea, Murata, Navteq, NEC, Nike, Nintendo, Nokia, NTT Docomo, Nuvoton Technology, Nyko, Olympus, Orbotix, Pace, Palm, Panasonic, Parrot, Pixart, PMDTechnologies, Polar, Primesense, Prolifi c, Qualcomm, Qualtre, RIM, Rohm, Sagem, Samsung, Sanyo, Seagate, See Technology, Senodia, Sensitec, SensorDynamics, Sharp, Sitronix Technology, Sixsens, Skyartec, SMIC, SMK, Softbank, Sony, SonyEricsson, Speedo, Sprint, SSS, ST Microelectronics, Star Trac, Sunrex, Technicolor, Technogym, TeleAtlas, TI, TomTom, Toshiba, Tronics, Trusted Positioning, TSCM, UMC, Universal Electronics, Verreon, Virtus Advanced Sensors, VTech, VTI, Wacoh, Western Digital, XSens, Yamaha, YF International, Yishay Sensors, ZillionTV, ZTE and many others...

Table of Contents

-- Introduction, Definitions & Methodology.......3

-- Executive Summary.........16

1) 2009-2015 Market Overview....42

2) Motion Sensors for Mobile Phones.........64

- Global trends

- MEMS Accelerometers

- MEMS Gyroscopes

- Digital compass

- Motion sensor combos

3) Motion Sensors for Gaming....131

4) Motion Sensors for Other Consumer Applications.............156

- Tablets & E-books

- DSC & Camcorder

- Laptops & Hard disk drives

- Personal media players

- TV remote controls

- Handheld GPS

- Sport equipment

- Other emerging applications

5) Motion Sensor Manufacturers..236

- Key players and revenues

- Market shares: accelerometers, gyroscopes, compass

6) Supply Chain Analysis.............249

- Recent changes in the industry and strategy of the main players

- Description of the value chain

- Business models of device suppliers: fables vs foundry strategy

-- Conclusions & Perspectives.........274

-- Annexe - State of the Art for Motion Sensing Technologies...276

- MEMS manufacturing technologies

- Trends in accelerometer manufacturing: FE & Packaging

- Trends in gyroscope manufacturing: FE & Packaging

- Trends in magnetometer manufacturing: FE & Packaging

-- MEMS & Sensor suppliers:

- Evaluate market potential of future technologies and products for new applicative markets

- Understand the differentiated value of your products and technologies in this market

- Identify new business opportunities and partners

- Monitor and benchmark your competitor's advancements

-- R&D centers

- Understand the impact of new manufacturing and packaging technologies for your business

- Evaluate market potential of future technologies and products for new applicative markets

- Identify the best candidates for technology transfer

-- Mixed-signal companies & ASIC manufacturers, Software specialists

- Spot new opportunities and define diversification strategies

WHO SHOULD BUY THIS REPORT ?

-- Consumer Electronic OEMs

- Evaluate market potential of future technologies and products for new applicative markets

- Screen potential new suppliers for introducing disruptive features such as low-drift gyroscopes and

IMUs ...

- Evaluate the benefits of using these new technologies in your end system

-- MEMS & packaging foundries

- Understand what are the applications that will drive the volumes in 2015

- Identify new business opportunities and prospects

-- Financial & strategic investors

- Understand the structure and value chain of the

consumer motion sensing industry

- Estimate the potential of new devices such as low-drift

MEMS gyroscopes...

- Get the list of the main key players and emerging

start-ups of this industry worldwide

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