KARLSKRONA, Sweden, May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The meteoric growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the mass adoption of cloud services are driving the development of new storage architectures to store the massive quantities of data being generated. Compuverde today announced that its hyper-converged, web-scale vNAS solution enables cold storage for MSPs, ISPs, telcos and storage hardware manufacturers seeking to offer "cold cloud" services at a higher performance than current offerings on the market. For more information, visit http://compuverde.com/resources/performance/.
It is clear that even a linear growth trajectory for storage is insufficient to deliver the quantity of storage needed for data produced by the IoT.
-- Cold storage for safekeeping: Cold storage warehouses the huge amounts
of data that an organization wants - or is required - to keep but
doesn't need to be accessed regularly. This frees up server space,
allowing the organization to run faster and avoid additional hardware
expenditure.
-- Software-defined is not enough: Most open source solutions are not
mature enough to be hosting in a production environment due to imperfect
connections with the user interface or custom code written by the
vendor.
-- Massive scaling capabilities, lower cost: Compuverde supports massively
scaled-out cold cloud storage infrastructures at a higher performance
per dollar than open source cold cloud solutions.
Stefan Bernbo, CEO and founder, Compuverde, said:
"In a world with Big Data and billions of connected devices, greater storage capacity has become an absolute business necessity. Cold cloud is the latest example of MSPs, ISPs and telcos seeking options for storing this data and presenting a competitive storage offering to its customers. Compuverde enables the delivery of high IOPS on low-performance, inexpensive hardware, enabling service providers to meet customers' changing storage needs at an attractive price point."
About Compuverde
With Compuverde, you get a self-contained and flexible hyper-converged storage solution completely built upon software-defined principles. Offering a single file system spanning all servers while providing full horizontal cache synchronization, Compuverde delivers extreme performance, scalability and reliability. Based on constructive and innovative principles while combining software efficiency with hardware flexibility, Compuverde provides the entire software stack with storage, cache, multiple operating system and protocol integration. For more information, please visit http://www.compuverde.com.
Roundshot Livecam D2 - The 66 Million Pixel Webcam With New Content Software
LUSTDORF, Switzerland, May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
With a resolution of up to 66 million pixels and a new multimedia Content Software the
Roundshot Livecam of Swiss camera producer Seitz Phototechnik AG is positioned in the top
league of webcams.
The weatherproof Livecam is a powerful e-marketing tool for tourist destinations to
boost website traffic and visits. Seamless documentation of construction progress in time
lapse, high resolution weather information for airports or meteorology or destination
marketing for tourism associations and cities are additional examples of applications with
high potential.
The Roundshot Content Software has gone through a complete redesign, giving maximum
space for the image in full screen, placing the visitor right in the middle of the
landscape. With its possibility to deeply zoom into the image, the website lets the user
discover many fascinating details. A large number of captivating functions provide a high
level of interactivity.
Every 5 to 10 minutes the Livecam camera system produces a seamless panorama of up to
360 degrees. This is how a continuous and up-to-date documentation of the environment is
possible, generating a data base of 100 GB per year or more.
New, playful Livecam apps for IOS or android smart phones or tablets display the high
resolution images on mobile devices. A screensaver program loads the most up-to-date or a
series of "best shot" panoramas on the computer screen. The high definition panoramas can
also be broadcast as rotating images on television or through a network of screens, for
example in a weather channel or for destination marketing. All content software tools are
fully customizable in the Roundshot backend (CMS) website.
Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge Releases Competition Details
ABU DHABI, UAE, May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
The organizers of the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) have
released details about the competition, in addition call for "Intention to Participate and
Request for Information (ITP-RFI)". MBZIRC was launched in February 2015 as a major
international robotics competition that will be held every two years, offering prizes
worth a total of USD 5 million, with the first challenge scheduled to be held in November,
2016.
The inaugural 2016 competition will consist of three Challenges and a triathlon type
"Grand Challenge." The competition will take place in an outdoor open arena the
approximate size of a football pitch. Challenge 1 requires an unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) to locate, track and land on top of a moving ground vehicle. Challenge 2 requires an
unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) to locate and reach a second ground vehicle, and locate and
physically operate a valve on a side of the vehicle. Challenge 3 requires a team of UAVs
to collaborate to search, locate, track, pick and place a set of static and moving
objects. The Grand Challenge requires a team of robots (UAVs and UGVs) to compete in an
event that combines Challenges 1, 2 and 3. Performing such tasks requires the development
of advanced and innovative solutions in key robotic technologies.
"One of the goals of this competition is to pose challenges that will inspire the need
for true research and advancement of the state-of-the-art," said Dr. Tod Laursen, Khalifa
University's President. "Robotics technology is poised to change almost every aspect of
our lives, and the UAE, with its focus on innovation, wants to be a hub for the creativity
needed to spur these changes. Competitions are just one of the ways that this can be
achieved. Some of the components of this challenge are not readily achieved by techniques
available in the open literature today; new inventions and innovations will be required to
achieve success. The outcomes of this challenge will therefore be an exciting prospect for
the future of the robotics industry."
Teams interested in participating in the competition and applying for sponsorship are
requested to submit an online application form at http://www.mbzirc.com by 15 June
2015. Also, individuals can look for more information on MBZIRC on social media via
#MBZIRC on Twitter and Facebook @MBZIRC.
Incredible Comes to New York: ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih Announces Availability of ZenFone 2 in North America
KEY POINTS
- ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih revealed local pricing and availability of ZenFone 2, ZenBook UX305, and ZenBook Pro UX501
- Intel Vice President Aicha Evans joined Chairman Shih on stage to celebrate the long-term partnership
- Instagram sensation Robert Jahns commended ZenFone 2 camera technology and endorsed the See What Others Can't See photography campaign
NEW YORK, May 18th, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih today introduced ZenFone 2 and the latest ZenBook models to the United States and Canada at the Incredible Comes to New York press event. Hosted at the sophisticated and stylish Gotham Hall in Manhattan, the event showcased a line-up of meticulously-crafted products in their North American debut and featured a stunning acrobatic dance performance creatively highlighting photography with ZenFone 2.
ZenFone 2 is the flagship ASUS smartphone designed to be an empowering luxury for everyone to enjoy. A marvel of craftsmanship and engineering, ZenFone 2 features a 13 MP camera with ASUS-exclusive PixelMaster camera technology, the brand-new ZenUI user interface, Dual-SIM, Dual-Active (DSDA) capability, and incredible performance that delivers a premium smartphone experience to users. ZenFone 2 is coming to market in the United States unlocked and contract-free, giving users freedom to enjoy the smartphone on the service provider of their choice.
"ZenFone 2 has been incredibly popular with consumers in Asia and Europe, and we are very excited to bring this empowering luxury to North America," said Mr. Shih. "Striking the perfect balance of beauty, functionality, and performance, ZenFone 2 embodies every aspect of the ASUS In Search of Incredible brand spirit to provide an unparalleled experience to users."
Aicha Evans, Intel Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Communication and Devices Group, joined Mr. Shih onstage in celebration of the long-term partnership between the two companies. "We are excited to support ASUS in bringing the popular ZenFone 2 to North America," said Ms. Evans. "We are proud that our long-standing relationship with ASUS continues to deliver innovation. With the ZenFone 2, people will have a great mobile experience in an affordable and sleek form factor, enabled by the 64-bit Intel Atom processor together with Intel's LTE-Advanced XMM 7260 modem for fast and reliable cellular speeds."
Also making an appearance at the event was digital artist and Instagram sensation Robert Jahns, who endorsed the ZenFone 2 See What Others Can't See photography campaign, a global campaign designed to showcase the advantages of ZenFone 2's PixelMaster camera technology.
See What Others Can't See -- ASUS ZenFone 2
ZenFone 2 is the new flagship smartphone in the hugely-successful ASUS ZenFone family, featuring an all-new design, 13MP PixelMaster camera, and uncompromising performance delivered by a 64-bit Intel(®) Atom((TM)) Z3580 ('Moorefield') processor with up to 4GB RAM. An Intel LTE-Advanced modem provides ultra-fast and reliable 4G/LTE connectivity. Building on the success of ZenFone and leveraging a quarter-century of engineering accomplishments, the highly-anticipated ZenFone 2 provides a wealth of exciting new features and a refined ASUS ZenUI experience to deliver a new level of empowering luxury for everyone.
ZenFone 2 has a gorgeous, all-new design that employs iconic Zen design elements, such as a sleek, brushed-metal finish and concentric-circle detailing, and introduces new refinements, including a graceful curved case that tapers to an incredibly-thin 0.15 inch at the edges. The exclusive Ergonomic Arc design provides a comfortable, secure grip, and features an intuitively-placed volume-control key on the rear of the phone within easy reach of the user's index finger. The 5.5-inch Full HD IPS screen has a large 72% screen-to-body ratio that provides a maximized viewing experience, while reducing ZenFone 2's overall size.
ZenFone 2's 13MP PixelMaster camera with its f/2.0 wide-aperture lens lets users quickly and easily capture beautiful, high-resolution photos with zero shutter-lag. Camera features, including Low Light mode, Backlight (Super HDR) mode, and Super Resolution mode, ensure incredible photos even in dimly lit situations.
ZenFone 2 has a 3000mAh battery that provides more than enough power to get through the day, and it also features BoostMaster(1) fast-charge technology for dramatically-reduced recharge times.
World's slimmest 13.3-inch QHD+ ultraportable - ASUS ZenBook UX305
ZenBook UX305 has a subtle and refined new shape that incorporates the DNA of the classic ZenBook. It features an elegantly-tapered design with smooth, comfortable edges and diamond-cut highlights that subtly emphasize the sleekness of the 0.48inch-thin case - and it weighs just 2.64lbs. The UX305 is available in crystal white, champagne gold and obsidian stone black.
ZenBook UX305 is powered by an Intel Core((TM)) M processor, a remarkably power-efficient processor designed for ultra slim devices that effortlessly delivers smooth performance. In combination with up to 8GB of RAM and an ultra-fast up to 512GB SSD, UX305 delivers impressive all-round performance for daily computing.
A stunning ultraportable needs a display that's out of the ordinary, so ZenBook UX305 is fitted with an ultra-sharp 13.3-inch in-plane switching (IPS) multi-touch display with an up to QHD+ resolution of 3200 x 1800 pixels and wide viewing angles. This display has five times (5X) the resolution of a standard HD display, and features an amazing pixel density of 276PPI for crisp, vivid and lifelike images and video. With 300cd/m2 brightness, a contrast ratio of 770:1 and an ergonomic anti-glare coating, blacks are deep, whites are stunningly pure, and the wide color gamut (72% NTSC) ensures accurate colors.
ZenBook UX305 is also equipped with three SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports for data transfers that are up to ten times (10X) faster than USB 2.0. One of the USB ports supports ASUS Charger+ technology for rapid recharging of mobile devices. A USB-to-Ethernet adapter is bundled with UX305, along with a mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter - enabling easy connection to an external monitor.
A perfect blend of power, elegance and performance - ASUS ZenBook Pro UX501
At the heart of ZenBook Pro UX501 is the ultra-powerful quad-core Intel Core i7-4720HQ processor, providing effortless performance for any task. With a massive 16GB of RAM, multitasking is super-smooth and there's plenty of processing horsepower in reserve for even the most intensive number-crunching tasks.
ZenBook Pro UX501 also features the amazing new NVIDIA(®) GeForce(®) GTX((TM)) 960M graphics-processing unit (GPU) for gaming-grade graphics performance. With up to 4GB of fast GDDR5 video memory, users enjoy silky-smooth 4K/UHD video playback, effortless 3D rendering, and immersive gaming with ultra-high frame rates.
ASUS VisualMaster displays set the standard for laptops, incorporating some of the very latest technology to give users unrivaled visual clarity and detail. ZenBook Pro UX501 has a 15.6-inch multi-touch display with a pin-sharp 4K/UHD 3860 x 2160 resolution -- four times (4X) higher than Full HD - and an incredible pixel density of 282PPI for stunningly-detailed and lifelike images. IPS technology with wide 178-degree viewing angles ensures that colors and contrast are not degraded from any viewing position.
Ultra-fast storage is essential for fast boot times and effortless file operations, so ZenBook Pro UX501 is available with the world's fastest SSD. With a PCI Express(®) (PCIe(®)) x4 interface and up to 512GB capacity, the read/write speeds of up to 1400MB/s are twice as fast as competing PCIe x2 models, and 16 times (16X) faster than common SATA 6.0Gbit/s hard disk drives. And with no moving parts, ZenBook Pro UX501's SSD is both reliable and totally silent.
An advanced thermal-management system combined with ZenBook Pro UX501's 96Wh lithium-polymer battery means that users won't need to find a mains-power outlet for up to six hours - and even beyond..
AVAILABILITY & PRICING
ASUS ZenFone 2 will be available in red, black, gray and silver from May 19th, 2015, costing $199 for the 2GB RAM/1.8GHz version with 16GB storage and an Intel Atom Z3560 processor, or $299 for the 4GB RAM/2.3GHz version with 64GB storage, an Intel Atom Z3580 processor and a BoostMaster charger. It will be available to order from Amazon.com, B&H, Groupon.com and NewEgg.com in the US and NewEgg.ca, NCIX.com, Canada Computer and Memory Express in Canada.
ASUS North America Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/asus.n.america
About ASUS
ASUS is a worldwide top-three consumer notebook vendor and maker of the world's best-selling, most award-winning motherboards. A leading enterprise in the new digital era, ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today's digital home and office, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktop and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, netbooks, servers, multimedia devices, wireless solutions, networking devices, tablets, smartphones and wearables. Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 4,326 awards in 2014 and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with its Eee PC(TM). ASUS has more than 13,600 employees around the globe with a world-class R&D team of 4,500 engineers. Company revenue for 2014 was approximately US$14.5 billion.
NCS Technologies' Cirrus LT, the Only PCoIP Zero Client Laptop, Now Available in Australia through Impact Systems Technology
Virtual Notebooks Deliver Security, IT Simplicity & Lower Total Cost of Ownership
GAINESVILLE, Va., May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- NCS Technologies, Inc. (http://www.ncst.com), an innovative American computing systems manufacturer, today announced that the Cirrus LT zero client laptop is now available in Australia and New Zealand. Cirrus LT is highly secure and delivers all the capabilities PC users demand. The laptop has a 14-inch screen, 6-cell battery, and available docking station, integrated smart card reader and Wi-Fi.
Thin client and zero client end users access office applications virtually - email, word processing, spreadsheets and presentations - that are hosted in data centers. Zero client PCs are differentiated by having no operating system, no local storage and don't retain persistent user data. Antivirus protection is not necessary. IT departments that implement zero clients improve management, reduce maintenance and administrative complexity and realize a lower total cost of ownership.
Cirrus LT uses the Teradici PCoIP(®) protocol to ensure superior computing performance. PCoIP compresses, encrypts and encodes the computing experience at the data center and transmits only pixels across the network to the end user. PC users have secure, fully functional access to all applications. Cirrus LT takes advantage of the strongest security protocols, AES-256 cryptography and NSA Suite B ciphers.
Engineered for a highly efficient administrative experience, Cirrus LT works with VMware Horizon View and Amazon WorkSpaces cloud services. The laptop supports copper, fiber and Wi-Fi connectivity.
Cirrus LT is distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Impact Systems Technology Pty Ltd., one of the leading OEM/ODM PC providers and distributors in the two countries. Cirrus LT launched in the U.S. in 2014 and is focused on government, finance and healthcare - and wherever users demand security, mobility and efficiency. Cirrus LT is also distributed in Europe.
NCS is the world leader in delivering mobile PCoIP devices. In addition, NCS offers an end-to-end portfolio of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions. NCS also manufactures commercial-off-the-shelf computers, high-end workstations, ruggedized PCs and servers, and custom-built high-performance servers.
Begins Global Roll-out of Leather-Clad Smartphone with Best-in-Class Camera
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Customers in key markets around the world will finally get their chance to own the latest advanced smartphone from LG Electronics (LG), one which industry experts have widely praised for its exceptional camera, vivid and expansive display, and willingness to set new rules in defining what a premium mobile device can be.
LG G4 will begin rolling out this week to consumers in key markets around the world, continuing throughout the month into June and beyond as more retailers and operators see what LG G4 has to offer their customers. Starting in Hong Kong, the G4 will follow with rollouts in Turkey, Russia and Singapore, eventually including most of Europe, North America, CIS, Southeast Asia, Middle East/Africa and South/Central America, coming to approximately 180 carrier and retailers.
Highlights of the LG G4 include:
-- Handcrafted, genuine full grain leather (see LG's leather artisan at
work at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T9ejKpcunE) back cover in six
beautiful colors in addition of three unique material covers with 3D
patterns
-- Rear-facing camera featuring a rare F1.8 aperture lens and 16-megapixel
resolution supported by Color Spectrum Sensor (CSS) and a new Manual
Mode
-- Front-facing 8-megapixel camera and Gesture Interval Shot for perfect
selfies every time which can then be saved to the removable microSD
card*
-- Vivid IPS Quantum Display which offers 20 percent greater color
reproduction, 25 percent improvement in brightness and 50 percent
greater contrast
-- First smartphone to utilize Qualcomm's newest Snapdragon(TM) 808
Processor with X10 LTE for the best balance of performance and power
savings
-- High-capacity 3,000mAh removable battery and supporting Quick Charge 2.0
(enabled with Quick Charge 2.0 certified adapter, sold separately)
-- Slim Arc exterior design for a more comfortable grip and greater
durability when dropped
-- Easily captures 4K video and play backs on Ultra HDTVs with support
through Analogix SlimPort® NANO?CONSOLE®
"The LG G4 is our most ambitious smartphone yet because it is unlike any other flagship mobile phone on the market today," said Juno Cho, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. "Our vision is to create our own set of standards without worrying about what trend other smartphones are following. We think we have a winning formula because the initial reaction to the G4 has been tremendously positive."
Prices and additional purchase details will be announced locally at time of availability, and may vary by carrier and market.
*mircoSD card sold separately
About LG Electronics MobileComm USA, Inc.
LG Electronics MobileComm USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the U.S. sales subsidiary of LG Electronics USA Inc., a global innovator and trend leader in the global mobile communications industry. LG is driving the evolution of mobile forward with its highly competitive core technologies in the areas of display, battery and camera optics and strategic partnerships with noted industry leaders. LG's consumer-centric products --- including the flagship premium G Series models --- incorporate unique, ergonomic designs and intuitive UX features that enhance the user experience. The company remains committed to leading consumers into the era of convergence, maximizing inter-device connectivity between smartphones, tablets and a wide range of home and portable electronics products. For more information, please visit http://www.LG.com.
Supermicro® Ultra Series, TwinPro(2)(TM), FatTwin(TM) SuperServers, SuperBlade®, SuperStorage, and 10/40GbE SDN Switches Enable Rapid Deployment of OpenStack Solutions
Industry's Widest Range of End-to-End Server, Storage, and Networking Solutions Combined with Best-in-Class Software Partnerships Enable Complete Cloud-Scale Infrastructure Solutions
VANCOUVER, Canada, May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing collaborates with industry leading OpenStack partners to exhibit complete compute, storage and network/controller nodes at the OpenStack Summit this week in Vancouver, Canada. The Supermicro advantage encompasses open standards-based architecture, first-to-market advanced technologies, integrated server management software, global onsite services and support and an expanding ecosystem of best-in-class open source software partners.
"Supermicro drives next generation open source Infrastructure as a Service into enterprise, data center, and cloud environments through our extensive range of server, storage, networking and management solutions," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "Our latest Ultra, TwinPro, FatTwin, SuperBlade, SuperStorage and top-of-rack SDN switch solutions provide the best performance, flexibility configurability and reliability required for the dynamic, highly scalable environments. With an expanding ecosystem of deployment partners and best-in-class software solutions, we are delivering total rack solutions for any scale application."
OpenStack Infrastructure Solutions
Compute Nodes - 1U/2U/2U Ultra/2U Hyper-Speed/2U EX DP 32 DIMMs/3U MicroCloud/4U FatTwin(TM)/7U SuperBlade® supporting quad Intel® Xeon® E7-8800/4800/2800 v2, dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 or E3-1200 v3 CPUs, up to 24x DDR4 DIMMs up to 1.5TB, SAS3 12Gb/s, NVMe, 10GBase-T, 10G SFP+, 40G and InfiniBand Titanium Level, High-Efficiency (96%) Digital Power Supplies (SYS-1028UX-CR-LL1/-LL2, SYS-6018U-TRT+/-TRTP+/-TR4+/-TR4T+, SYS-1028U-TNRT+/-TNR4T+/-TNRTP+, SYS-1028U-TN10RT+, SYS-2028U-TRTP+, SYS-2028U-TNRT+/-TNR4T+, SYS-2028UT-BTNRT/-BC1NRT SYS-5038ML-H12TRF, SYS-5038MA-H24TRF, SYS-F618R2-FT, SBI-7228R-T2F/-T2F2/-T2X, SBI-7128RG-X/-F/-F2, SBI-7127RG/3, SBI-7126TG, SBI-7428R-T3/-T3N, SBI-7147R-S4F/-S4X)
Storage Nodes - 2U/4U 4-Node FatTwin(TM)/4U 90x JBOD/7U SuperBlade® supporting SAS3 12Gb/s, NVMe, up to 8x 3.5" hot-swap HDD per U (4U FatTwin), 90x 3.5" top-load hot-swap HDDs in 4U (4U JBOD), systems support 16/24/36/72/90 drive bays (SSG-2028R-E1CR24H/24L, SSG-6038R-E1CR16N, SYS-F628R3-RTBN+/-RTBPTN+, SSG-6048R-E1CR36N, SC946ED-R2KJBOD, SBI-7128R-C6/-C6N)
Controller Nodes - 1U/2U SuperServers supporting dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 CPUs (up to 160W TDP) up to 24x DDR4 DIMMs up to 1.5TB, SAS3 12Gb/s, NVMe, 10GBase-T, 10G SFP+, 40G and InfiniBand Titanium Level, High-Efficiency (96%) Digital Power Supplies (SYS-6017R-72RFTP+, SYS-2028U-TNRT+/-TNR4T+)
Network Switches - 1U Top-of-Rack Switches in front or reverse airflow configurations supporting up to 48x 10GbE ports plus 6x 40GbE ports (SSE-X3648S/SR SDN enabled, SSE-X3848T/TR, SSE-X3848S/SR, SSE-G48-TG4, SSE-G2252, SSE-3348S/SR)
SuperRack® Solutions (SRK-42SE-02)
-- 42U-320TB (SRS-42E112-CEPH-01) - Integrated Ceph Rack, 3x Mon, 8x 2U
OSD, Networking & PDU
-- 42U-1.08PB (SRS-42E136-CEPH-01) - Integrated Ceph Rack, 3x Mon, 9x 4U
OSD, Networking & PDU
-- 42U-2.16PB (SRS-42E172-CEPH-01) - Integrated Ceph Rack, 3x Mon, 9x 4U
OSD, Networking & PDU
Server Management Software -Supermicro Server Manager (SSM) manages wide portfolio of Supermicro servers deployed across datacenters and enables remote health monitoring, power management and firmware upgrades with a single console. SSM through automation capabilities such as REST API and CLI accelerates deployment and maintenance of servers from independent nodes to Hyperscale clusters. SSM is also packaged with Supermicro Power Manager (SPM) that can manage power on heterogeneous server vendor products and Supermicro Update Manager (SUM) that provides strong CLI interfaces for firmware upgrades.
Onsite Service and Support - Global Program Provides Rapid Hardware Maintenance Response for Supermicro Customers. Features 24 x 7 x 4 or next Business Day hardware maintenance response to Enterprise Customers with complete Supermicro SuperServer solutions. SOWs provide access to Service & Support Integration and maintenance resource augmentation.
Supermicro end-to-end hyper-converged solutions will be on exhibit at OpenStack Summit 2015 in Vancouver, Canada May 18th through the 22nd at the Vancouver Convention Centre. For more information on Supermicro's complete range of high performance, high-efficiency Server, Storage and Networking solutions, visit http://www.supermicro.com.
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About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions® for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green®" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
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Ricoh unveils brighter, sharper line of projectors for business and education
New models, including Ricoh's first HD projector, expand options for increasing communications in meeting rooms and classrooms
MALVERN, Pa., May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh today announced seven new projectors that fit into a wide range of business and education applications. This new lineup includes Desk Edge, Short Throw, and Standard Install models that help businesses and schools collaborate more effectively in today's dynamic communications environment.
"Our projection technology has evolved rapidly to offer customers a wide range of features and solutions," said Matt Sakauchi, Vice President, Visual Communications Group, Ricoh Americas Corporation. "These new projectors are brighter, easier to position, and offer greater connectivity to bring participants together for better, more effective information sharing sessions."
The new systems - which will be on display during InfoComm 2015, June 17-19 in Orlando, FL at Ricoh's booth #4043 - include:
-- A short-throw projection system capable of displaying an image between
60 - 400 inches diagonal at a resolution of up to WXGA from 24" -
169.6". Ideal for mounting in education settings, the new RICOH PJ
X4241N and RICOH PJ WX4241N series enables an instructor to stand in
front of a screen without casting a shadow or being blinded by glare.
Presenters can use an optional electronic pen to mark up the image or
drive the device (PC, laptop, etc.) that is projecting the image. This
de facto interactive whiteboard system can be part of an online
interactive conference involving more than 160 people.The series
includes improved brightness over predecessor models at 3,300 lumens. A
new 360-degree installation capability makes it easy to project images
onto floors and ceilings for striking presentations or marketing
experiences. Standard Miracast functionality creates a peer-to-peer
wireless connection enabling the projector to display content directly
from Microsoft Windows and Android mobile devices. Standard wireless and
Wi-Fi connectivity on the PJ WX4241N, a first for Ricoh, enables users
to simultaneously operate the device from either network, especially
helpful for hosting guest presenters. Other new features include 4-point
Keystone correction, MPEG4 files played back from a USB drive, and
WPA2-Enterprise security.
-- A new desk-edge system designed to be placed on the end of a conference
room table, which frees up working surface and directs heat, glare,
wires and fan sounds away from the participants. The RICOH PJ X3351N and
RICOH PJ WX3351N are capable of projecting an image 40 - 400-inches
diagonal from a distance of 30.3" - 481.9" at a resolution of up to
WXGA. Ideal for business, the portable systems are brighter than
predecessor models at 3,500 lumens and include the same 360-degree,
Miracast, wired/wireless connectivity and wireless security as the new
short-throw models.
-- A new line of brighter Standard Install projectors, including Ricoh's
first HD projector. Designed for small-to-mid-sized conference rooms,
the RICOH PJ X5460, RICOH PJ WX5460 and RICOH PJ HD5450 projectors
display images up to 300-inches diagonal at a resolution of up to 1080p.
Full HD is ideal for engineering designs, spreadsheets, and other
detailed documents where high resolution is critical.
The systems project their bright crisp images with an output of up to 4,100 lumens, higher than their predecessors, and offer a lamp life of up to 4,000 hours (Eco mode). Like the short-throw and desk-edge systems, these projectors offer keystone correction to rectify image distortion, as well as automatic brightness control and energy-saving standby mode. All of the new systems have 10-watt speakers and support 3D content with optional glasses.
The projection systems are available now.
MODEL RANGE RESOLUTION/LUMENS MSRP
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RICOH PJ X5460 Standard XGA/4000lm $1,020.00
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RICOH PJ WX5460 Standard WXGA/4100lm $1,188.00
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RICOH PJ HD5450 Standard 1080P/3500lm $1,435.00
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For details on Ricoh's full line of products, services and solutions, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com.
|About Ricoh|
Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in about 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2015, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,231 billion yen (approx. 18.5 billion USD).
The majority of the company's revenue comes from products, solutions and services that improve the interaction between people and information. Ricoh also produces award-winning digital cameras and specialized industrial products. It is known for the quality of its technology, the exceptional standard of its customer service and sustainability initiatives.
Under its corporate tagline, imagine. change. Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness the collective imagination of their employees.
Mentor Graphics Tessent Hierarchical ATPG Solution Selected by Mellanox Technologies for Giga-gate Designs
WILSONVILLE, Ore., May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Mellanox Technologies has standardized on the new Mentor® Tessent® Hierarchical ATPG solution to manage the complexity and slash the cost of generating test patterns for their leading-edge integrated circuit (IC) designs. Using Tessent Hierarchical ATPG, Mellanox has significantly reduced both the processing time and system memory needed to generate the huge number of manufacturing test patterns needed for high-quality IC test.
"The time needed to generate test patterns has been growing rapidly with each new design cycle, thus increasing our test-related costs," said Evelyn Landman, VP of Backend Engineering at Mellanox Technologies. "Moving to Mentor's Tessent Hierarchical ATPG flow has allowed us to significantly reduce turnaround time on current designs. Because this solution is highly scalable, we expect to continue using it on our future designs."
The Tessent Hierarchical ATPG flow uses a divide-and-conquer approach to break down the overall ATPG task into smaller, more manageable pieces. Compressed patterns are first generated for each design core in isolation, then automatically retargeted to the chip level and merged to minimize test time. Compressed patterns are then generated for top-level interconnect and glue logic. This process removes the final DFT and compute-intensive pattern generation steps from the critical tape-out path, adding predictability to the test flow.
The hierarchical ATPG approach significantly reduces runtime and memory footprint compared to running ATPG for all blocks and interconnect at the top level. Reductions in runtime in the range of 5x-10x are typical, and memory footprint savings can be even greater. Hierarchical ATPG often reduces pattern count (and consequently test time) by as much as 2x due to increased efficiency in how scan channels are used across all of the cores.
"Many of our customers are using hierarchical design methodologies to manage the size and complexity of their designs. It has become clear to most of them that their test generation flow has to mirror this hierarchical approach," said Stephen Pateras, product marketing director for Mentor's Tessent DFT and ATPG products. "Our new hierarchical ATPG solution is not only scalable for 100M+ gate designs, but it helps improve schedules by allowing DFT and ATPG to be moved earlier in the design cycle and to be more easily distributed among different groups."
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last fiscal year in excess of $1.24billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor, and Tessent are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.)
For more information, please contact:
David Smith
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1135
david_smith@mentor.com
Essar Foundation Signs MoU With National Skill Development Corporation
MUMBAI, May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
- Essar Foundation Commits to the National Skill Development Mission
- Ajeevika Program Aimed at Employability and Skill Enrichment of Youth Launched
- 1,000 Youth Targeted for the First Phase of Skill Training in Customer Service, Tele
Calling and Marketing & Sales
Essar Foundation, the CSR arm of multinational conglomerate Essar, today said that in
order to improve the employability quotient of youth in the country, it has signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Skill Development Corporation to
provide job-oriented vocational training. In the first phase, 1,000 youth across 8 cities
will be provided training in Customer Service, Tele Calling and Marketing & Sales skills.
Essar Foundation shall fund the programme to the tune of Rs. 40 lakhs and provide
systematic direction to the initiative. The Foundation shall also extend its support in
ensuring linkages towards employing the trained youth.
This collaborative skill development programme, named 'Ajeevika', was launched with
Mr. Dilip Chenoy, MD & CEO, NSDC and Mr Deepak Arora, CEO, Essar Foundation, signing the
MoU documents. The first batch is expected to begin training by June 2015 in Delhi NCR and
Ahmedabad.
During the signing event, Mr. Chenoy said, "Collaboration is the mainstay of any
significant developmental initiatives and strategic partnerships towards achievement of
national goals have caught up as a trend in India, especially, as corporates have stepped
up their roles with integrated and sustainable CSR programmes. We are happy to join hands
with Essar Foundation to provide employment opportunities to young people to access
opportunities provided by economic growth and make that growth more inclusive."
"Statistics suggest by 2020, India is set to become the world's youngest country with
64 per cent of its population in the working age group. This would mean much greater
thrust on skills that make the youth job-ready and employable in real market scenarios. We
are very happy to partner with NSDC to develop productive, employable and skilled
workforce in the country. Essar Foundation is already active in skilling the youth in the
rural and semi-urban areas and with this programme, we can take our initiative even
further," said Deepak Arora, CEO, Essar Foundation.
Based on the success of the programme, the scope and profile will be expanded in the
subsequent phases. NSDC, with its nodal institutions across the country, shall execute the
identification, training and management of the structured skill development programme. It
shall introduce and integrate vocational courses in semi-urban and urban areas across the
country. The programme shall focus on underprivileged sections of society and backward
regions of the country. Similarly, focus shall be significantly on the unorganized or
informal sector workforce, where induction of new skills shall provide the edge the
industry is seeking.
About Essar Foundation:
Essar Foundation is the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Essar committed
to making positive impact in communities across more than 500 villages of India. The
Foundation facilitates development initiatives in line with provisions under the
Companies' Act, 2013, and aligns its vision with Essar's philosophy of 4Ps - PEOPLE at the
core, PROGRESS towards aspirations, POWER of synergy, and PASSION with compassion.
About National Skill Development Council (NSDC):
NSDC is a non-profit company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 ("Act") and
obtained the license under Section 25 of the said Act and established as a public private
partnership with the object of developing unskilled and semi-skilled labour force into
productive and skilled labour and to establish, manage, run and support institutes and
polytechnics for achieving this objective. The main object of the NSDC is to provide
employment opportunities to young people to access opportunities provided by economic
growth and make that growth more inclusive and shared with focus on underprivileged
sections of society and backward regions of the country, thereby enabling a move out of
poverty; similarly, focus significantly on the unorganized or informal sector workforce.
China Unicom Launches World's First 399RMB 5" 4G LTE XiaoLaJiao Smartphone Powered by Marvell's ARMADA Mobile SoC
Marvell's quad-core 64-bit ARMADA Mobile PXA1908 platform features field proven 5-mode 4G LTE modem, integrated location and sensor fusion hub and supports the latest Android L
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) a worldwide leader in providing complete silicon solutions from mobile communications to storage, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud infrastructure, digital entertainment and in-home content delivery and Kinoma® software enabling the "Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle," today announced China Unicom launched the world's first 399RMB 5" 4G LTE XiaoLaJiao smartphone powered by Marvell's ARMADA® mobile PXA1908 platform. Marvell was selected for its cost-effective, field-proven 5-mode 4G LTE modem technology, which features quad-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex A53 with NEON, efficient power management and battery charging capability, and integrated location and sensor technology. Formally launched on April 17(th), the HongLaJiao smartphone for China Unicom supports the world's most popular cellular modes including: 4G/TD-LTE, FDD-LTE, 3G/WCDMA and 2G/GSM.
"I am very pleased to see XiaoLaJiao launch the world's first 399 RMB 5" 4G LTE smartphone, the HongLaJiao, for China Unicom. We are proud to power high performance and cost effective smartphones for China Unicom to make their 4G LTE services more accessible to the masses," said Weili Dai, President and Co-Founder of Marvell. "I believe our industry leading 4G LTE technology and our close collaboration with top global operators and OEMs have significantly accelerated the mass adoption of affordable 4G LTE smartphones in China and around the world. I am thankful for the dedication of XiaoLaJiao and Marvell's global engineering teams in launching this great product."
"We are proud to partner with Marvell to introduce the latest 4G LTE smartphone, the HongLaJiao," said Ku Wei, General Manager of China Unicom Vsens Communications. "Marvell's field-proven mobile solutions have helped us accelerate the mass adoption of 4G LTE devices and provide consumers with powerful performance, premium design and quality at an attractive price point. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Marvell."
"The launch of the HongLaJiao smartphone is a milestone for XiaoLaJiao and we are thrilled to deploy the world's first 399RMB 5" HD 4G LTE smartphone with Marvell's technology," said Wang Xiaoyan, President of Yusun Communications Device and Founder of XiaoLaJiao. "In our search for a partner, we knew that Marvell provided best-in-class and cost-effective solutions that would integrate seamlessly with our vision. We look forward to future opportunities with Marvell and are excited to further our collaboration."
Marvell's ARMADA mobile PXA1908 platform is a quad-core 64-bit application and communications mobile System-on-Chip (SoC) that provides high-performance and low-power mobile computing for media-centric mobile devices. It features the latest wireless connectivity technology and supports all global broadband standards for seamless global roaming, and latest Android OS, including Android 4.4 Kit Kat and Android 5.0 Lollipop. The solution incorporates the performance of a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53, running at 1.2GHz, and Marvell's mature 5-mode modem technology to provide a low-cost Linux and Android mobile platform.
Key features of the HongLaJiao smartphone include:
-- 5" HD (1280x720)
-- 4G LTE TDD/FDD with DSDS
-- Quad-core A53 1.2GHz
-- 8MP rear camera/2MP front camera
-- 8GB Flash and 1GB RAM
-- Android 4.4 KitKat
Key features of Marvell's ARMADA PXA1908 include:
-- Quad-core A53, up to 1.2 clock speed
-- Support up to 720p display, 1080p video decoding and 720p video encoding
-- Improved imaging processor to support 8MP camera sensor
-- Advanced power management and audio codec for power efficiency and audio
performance
-- Integrated location technology
About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a global leader in providing complete silicon solutions and Kinoma software enabling the "Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle." From mobile communications to storage, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud infrastructure, digital entertainment and in-home content delivery, Marvell's diverse product portfolio aligns complete platform designs with industry-leading performance, security, reliability and efficiency. At the core of the world's most powerful consumer, network and enterprise systems, Marvell empowers partners and their customers to always stand at the forefront of innovation, performance and mass appeal. By providing people around the world with mobility and ease of access to services adding value to their social, private and work lives, Marvell is committed to enhancing the human experience.
As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit http://www.Marvell.com.
Marvell, the M logo, ARMADA and Kinoma are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Cavium Partners with Canonical to Demonstrate Optimized Cloud Infrastructure with OpenStack at Scale on ThunderX(TM)
Demonstration of fully virtualized workloads optimized for 48 core 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, is partnering with Canonical to demonstrate OpenStack on a cluster of ThunderX reference servers deploying leading server applications at the OpenStack Summit during the week of May 18, 2015 at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC. The OpenStack Summit is a five-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software and recognizes the growing importance of OpenStack to Public and Private Cloud infrastructure.
Cavium and Canonical have partnered to deliver a complete optimized solution for ThunderX that includes the Ubuntu Operating System and most current release of OpenStack. Ubuntu is the world's most popular operating system for OpenStack and enables customers to build an enterprise-scale cloud from provisioning to deployment and management. The partnership between Canonical and Cavium includes core support on ThunderX for key management and provisioning tools such as Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) and orchestration management tool JuJu that accelerate system and workload deployment.
Cavium has integrated functionality in ThunderX that is critical for the most demanding Public and Private Cloud workloads. This functionality includes:
-- virtSOC(TM) technology the delivers full system virtualization and
SR-IOV capable IO. Hypervisor support for both KVM and Xen are fully
enabled.
-- Integrated security, networking and storage hardware accelerators.
Easily enabled with standard kernel and library interfaces these
hardware accelerators provide significant performance improvements in
key cloud workload elements such as security, storage and big
data/analytics.
-- Fully integrated I/O that includes 10G and 40G Ethernet, PCIe Gen3 and
SATAv3. ThunderX delivers leading bandwidth and low latency across all
of these optimized interfaces.
-- Support for industry standards that include UEFI and ACPI along with
upstream support in the Linux Kernel, GCC Toolchain and OpenJDK Java.
The demonstrated OpenStack infrastructure will provide support for workloads that include
-- Cloud storage with CEPH object and block storage that utilizes ThunderX
storage accelerators and integrated SATAv3 controllers.
-- Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics that is well suited to the
ThunderX's storage and big data accelerators.
-- Distributed data bases such as MySQL and Cassandra.
-- Additional popular Cloud applications such as Redis, Varnish and NGINX.
"This is another important milestone in the Canonical and Cavium partnership as we combine our core expertise to deliver the leading Public and Private Cloud infrastructure on ThunderX," said Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu and Canonical. "The OpenStack Summit is a key industry venue to showcase the optimized platform that ThunderX enables for Cloud deployments. The impressive level of performance on the 48 core ThunderX system coupled with Canonical's LXD container hypervisor clearly shows that ThunderX will be an excellent choice to provide the efficiency, scalability and performance required by today's most demanding Cloud environments."
"Canonical's public demonstration of OpenStack on ThunderX is yet another key proof point supporting Cavium's focus on Public and Private Cloud partners and end users. ThunderX was architected specifically to address the performance and deployment requirements of the world's largest Cloud environments," said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement at Cavium. "The collaboration with Canonical continues to highlight Cavium's aggressive focus on building the industry's most complete technical and commercial ecosystem for ARMv8 based servers. We look forward to continuing to build on the OpenStack infrastructure for more application and end user deployments."
The ThunderX product family is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8 server processor for next generation Data Center and cloud applications. With high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators, integrated feature rich high bandwidth network and storage IO, fully virtualized core and IO, and scalable high bandwidth, low latency Ethernet fabric ThunderX enables best in class performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes multiple workload optimized SKUs that enable servers and appliances that are optimized for compute, storage, network and secure compute workloads. The ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8-A architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA and SBBR standards and is widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and SW tool and application vendors.
About Canonical
Canonical is the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project and the leading provider of enterprise services for Ubuntu cloud deployments. Ubuntu delivers reliability, performance and interoperability to cloud and scale out environments. Telcos and cloud service providers trust Ubuntu for OpenStack and public cloud and it is used by global enterprises such as AT&T, Comcast, Cisco WebEx, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, China Telecom, Korea Telecom, NEC, NTT, Numergy and Time Warner Cable.
Canonical's tools JuJu and MaaS raise the bar for scale-out orchestration in cloud environments. With developers, support staff and engineering centers all over the world, Canonical is uniquely positioned to help its partners and enterprise customers make the most of Ubuntu. Canonical is a privately held company.
About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access and service provider equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.
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LUMIX DMC-G7 Never Lets You Miss a Photo Moment and Delivers a Superb Photographic Experience
NEWARK, N.J., May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic is proud to introduce the LUMIX DMC-G7. The revolutionary Panasonic LUMIX G7 offers Panasonic's exclusive 4K PHOTO feature that taps the high resolution of 4K Ultra HD video to improve the speed of photo capture. With the exclusive 4K PHOTO feature you are able to pause and extract high resolution pictures from 4K video so you will never again miss that one special moment. The LUMIX G7 is also compatible with over 24 compact lens options and is built on the next generation interchangeable lens camera standard (Micro Four Thirds) that is "Changing Photography" and pioneered by Panasonic. The "Mirrorless" Micro Four Thirds design enables a lighter, more compact camera body, while also offering cutting-edge 4K video, audio, creative controls, wireless, super-fast intelligent-focusing and exposure technologies not possible with traditional DSLRs. The LUMIX G7 will be available at shop.Panasonic.com and LUMIX authorized retailers.
4K Capability Delivers a Change in Photography - 4K Video and 4K Photo
The LUMIX G7 records stunningly smooth, high-resolution QFHD 4K video in 3840x2160 at 30p or 24p in MP4 in addition to the Full-HD 1,920 x 1,080 60p video in AVCHD Progressive or MP4 (MPEG-4 / H.264) format with practical full-time Auto Focus (AF).
Taking advantage of 4K video recording capability, users can lock in on a split-second photo using the exclusive "4K PHOTO" feature on the LUMIX G7. With 4K PHOTO, users can extract fleeting photo moments at 30 frames per second in printable 8-megapixel equivalent resolution, by playing back and extracting a precise photo frame of a special moment from the 4K file to save as a photo. Three new exclusive functions are offered to make 4K photography even easier; 4K Burst Shooting, 4K Burst S/S (Start/Stop) and 4K Pre-burst. The 4K Burst Shooting allows almost *unlimited shooting at 30 fps, which can be initiated by pressing the shutter button and releasing it once you are satisfied the image has been captured. The 4K Burst S/S (Start/Stop) mode starts consecutive shooting with a single press of a shutter button and stops it with the second press, which is more suitable for the shooting opportunities requiring longer waiting time. And the 4K Pre-burst automatically records a total of 60 images right before/after the shutter release. All of three 4K Photo modes allow you to save images in 8-megapixel equivalent high resolution; 3840x2160 (16:9), 3328x2496 (4:3), 3504x2336 (3:2), 2880x2880 (1:1) without missing that unique photo opportunity.
-- Motion pictures with their file size set to [FHD],[HD]or[VGA]in[MP4]:
Recording stops when the continuous recording time exceeds 29 minutes
and 59 seconds or the file size exceeds 4GB. -Since the file size
becomes larger with [FHD], recording with [FHD] will stop before 29
minutes 59 seconds.
-- Motion pictures with their file size set to [4K] in [MP4]: Recording
stops when the continuous recording time exceeds 29 minutes and 59
seconds. (You can continue recording without interruption even if the
file exceeds 4GB, but the motion picture will be recorded and played
back in separate files.) *Max.29 min 59 sec.
High Photographic Performance - Picture Quality and Response
The LUMIX G7 integrates a 16.00-megapixel Digital Live MOS Sensor that achieves both higher resolution and higher sensitivity image recording with minimum noise. The Venus Engine image processor with quad-core CPU enables high speed signal processing. The advanced Multi-process NR (Noise Reduction) applies effective noise reduction and detail processing according to each component frequency. Plus, newly added Random Filter reduces chromatic noise in the image even more naturally. As a result, ISO 25,600 is achievable. The Venus Engine also improves accurate reproduction of each color not only in color phase but also in saturation and luminosity. In addition, the Venus Engine in LUMIX G7 excels in diffraction compensation making the resulting image crisp and clear even when shot at a small aperture.
The Top Level of AF Performance Among Conventional DSLRs and Mirrorless Cameras
The LUMIX G7 uses Contrast AF for its focus system that excels in both speed and accuracy. The LUMIX G digital interchangeable lens is capable of digital signal communication at max. 240 fps, allowing focusing that is impressively quick and smooth. The Contrast AF system in the G7 is further enhanced by Panasonic's integration of DFD (Depth from Defocus) technology, originally introduced in the now legendary LUMIX GH4, which even shortens the time to focus. It calculates the distance to the subject by evaluating two images with different sharpness levels while consulting the data of optical characteristics of the current lens at that moment. As a result, the LUMIX G7 achieves ultra-high speed AF of approx.0.07 sec*(2). This improvement becomes even more beneficial as focal length increases. The speed of burst shooting is dramatically faster than its predecessor the G6, boasting high speed burst shooting at 8 fps (AFS) / 6 fps (AFC) to capture fast moving subjects accurately in-focus.
The Low Light AF makes it possible to set focus on the subject more precisely even without an AF assist lamp in extremely low-lit situations all the way down to -4EV, which is as dark as moonlight. Furthermore, the LUMIX G7 newly integrates Starlight AF which allows users to shoot a star in the night sky with auto focus. This can be achieved by accurate calculation of contrast value in each tiny AF zone.
In addition to the conventional Face Recognition AF, the LUMIX G7 incorporates Face / Eye Detection AF which automatically sets focus right on the eye of human face. With the Pinpoint AF, users can magnify the target area to set precise focus. With the new algorithm of AF Tracking, not only the color but also the size and motion vector of the target are recognized, enabling the camera to lock on the subject even more securely. The result is AF tracking performance of approx.200% or greater which prevents the camera from losing the subject*(3).
Improved Mobility Supported by Mechanical Advancements
To further enhance the ease of use in capturing 4K photos, the LUMIX G7 comes with a new drive mode dial in addition to the front/rear dials for the first time among all LUMIX G cameras. The drive mode dial enables activating 4K photo mode very quickly. Users can change settings such as aperture, shutter speed with the front/rear dials and can also customize the assignment of functions as well as on Fn buttons. It is also possible to make a temporary shift of dial functions with Dial Operation Switch. For example, users can adjust white balance with a front dial and set ISO with a rear dial while choosing the shutter speed or seeing the noise effect, which is helpful in complex lighting situations. Either AFS/AFC/MF can be switched with the dedicated focus lever.
The LUMIX G7 boasts a high-precision, high-speed dual OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) displays for the LVF (Live View Finder). Increasing the resolution of display area to 2,360K-dot, the LVF boasts approx.1.4x / 0.7x (35mm camera equiv.) magnification and 100% field of view and eye point of approximately 17.5 mm. Thanks to the newly designed large eyecup, the visibility of LVF is dramatically improved. The image output between the LVF and the rear monitor is switched automatically with the eye sensor on the LVF. Adoption of OLED achieves high speed response with minimum time lag while enhancing the resolution. Notably, the OLED for the LVF in the LUMIX G7 boasts 10,000:1 high contrast for superior color reproduction. Now the excellent visibility comes closer to the Optical View Finder. On the other hand, live view image can be displayed in monochrome through the LVF which enables shooting concentrating on contrast.
Adopting a static-type touch control system, the 3-inch free-angle rear monitor with 1040K-dot high resolution features approx.100% field of view. Notably, it boosts the maximum luminance by more than 50% compared with the predecessor. As a result, the LUMIX G7 secures higher visibility even in the sunny outdoors.
Last but not least, the LUMIX G7 is equipped with a large, ergonomically designed grip. It fits well in the users hand and offers stable grip even in one hand.
Other Features
-- UHS-II SDXC/SDHC Memory Card Compliance NEW The G7 features the
compatibility with the SDXC/SDHC Memory Card of the highest performance
BUS class UHS-II in addition to the conventional UHS-I.
-- Max.1/16,000 sec High Shutter Speed NEW The GF7 offers a shutter speed
at max. 1/16,000 sec (electronic) not only to capture spur-of-the-moment
of a fast moving subject but also to use a high-speed lens with open
aperture even in outdoors, to give impressive defocus.
-- Easy Wireless Connectivity via Wi-Fi® with Smartphones ADVANCED The
LUMIX G7 integrates Wi-Fi® connectivity (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n) to offer a
more flexible shooting experience and instant image sharing with easy
operation. Once connecting the camera and smartphone/tablet installing
Panasonic's dedicated application software Panasonic Image App for iOS /
Android, users can shoot, browse and share images remotely. The LUMIX G7
also integrates Jump Snap. By holding the smartphone in your hand or
having it in a pocket, the smartphone detects the highest position when
the user jumps and releases the shutter of the camera. It lets users to
photograph themselves jumping as if they are flying in the air.
-- Creative Panorama (ultra wide) ADVANCED The Panorama Shot function
allows shooting horizontal/vertical ultra-wide panoramic image by
shooting sequent pictures easily. This is in addition to the standard
Panorama function.
-- 3.5mm Microphone Socket
-- Focus Peaking
-- Silent Mode
-- Level Gauge
-- WB (White Balance) Bracket
-- Creative Control with 22 Filters
-- Time Lapse Shot / Stop Motion Animation
-- P/A/S/M mode for Video Recording
-- iA+ (Intelligent Auto) Mode for Photo and Video
-- Scene Guide with 20 Sample Situations
The LUMIX G7 will be available mid-June in three configurations. Black with a 14-42mm kit lens, pewter/ gun metal with 14-42mm kit lens at $799.99 and in black with a 14-140mm kit lens at $1099.99.
-- The "AVCHD" is a high definition (HD) digital video recording / playback
format jointly established by Panasonic Corporation and Sony
Corporation.
-- "AVCHD Progressive", "AVCHD", the "AVCHD Progressive" Logo and the
"AVCHD" Logo are trademarks of Panasonic Corporation and Sony
Corporation.
-- Android and Google Play are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Google Inc.
-- IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U.S. and
other countries and is used under license.
-- All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective
corporations.
-- Some accessories are not available in some countries.
-- The use of recorded or printed materials that are protected by copyright
for any purpose other than personal enjoyment is prohibited, as it would
infringe upon the rights of the copyright holder.
-- Design and specifications are subject to change without notice.
To learn more about Panasonic's line of LUMIX Digital Cameras and other consumer electronic products please visit panasonic.com and http://www.lumixlounge.com. You can also follow Panasonic on Twitter (@PanasonicUSA) and Facebook.
About Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company
Based in Newark, NJ, Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company is a division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation. The company offers a wide range of consumer solutions in the U.S. including products from VIERA Life+ Screens, Blu-ray players, LUMIX Digital Cameras, Camcorders, Home Audio, Cordless Phones, Home Appliances, Beauty, Grooming, Wellness and Personal Care products and more. In Interbrand's 2014 annual "Best Global Green Brands" report, Panasonic ranked number five overall and the top electronics brand in the report. To learn more about our products, visit panasonic.com. Follow Panasonic on Twitter @panasonicUSA; additional company information for journalists is also available at http://www.panasonic.com/pressroom.
*(1 )Contrast AF with DFD Technology works only with Panasonic Micro Four Thirds lenses.
*(2 )In AFS, With LUMIX G VARIO 14-140mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / POWER O.I.S. (H-FS14140)
Graphic Watch From Zurich Travels the World: Partime on Board Swiss International Airlines
ZURICH, May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
A special Partime watch model will be available on Swiss's 120 planes from June.
Eleven other models have already been introduced into Swiss's online shop range this year.
The young watch brand from Zurich is going on board Swiss International Airlines as
part of its duty free range this summer with a new design. The Partime Swiss Edition can
only be purchased at an altitude of 10,000 metres. The watches are numbered and are
available exclusively to passengers of Swiss.
Shortly after the launch on Swiss, the complete Partime collection will be exhibited
at the China Watch & Clock Fair in Shenzhen from 25-28 June 2015. This has been
facilitated by the new free trade agreement with China.
Advision AG, based in Zurich, produces limited edition graphic timepieces in
Switzerland. The man behind the brand is inventor Andreas Mossner. Partime watches have
been sold up to now at watch shops in Swiss tourist locations and online throughout the
world: http://www.partime.ch
Available exclusively on board Swiss International Airline: Partime Swiss Edition. 45
mm, polished stainless steel case, numbered, waterproof, LCD display, digital time display
at the touch of a button, battery life 2 years. Swiss made. CHF 590.
Contact:
Advision AG Partime, Andreas Mossner, poste restante, CH-8037 Zurich, Switzerland,
Tel. +41-43-422-00-11, info@partime.ch http://www.partime.ch
Microsemi to Exhibit Industry-leading Products, Present Expertise at Single Event Effects Symposium Coupled with Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices Workshop
Tradeshow Takes Place May 18-21 at San Diego Marriott in La Jolla, California
WHAT: Microsemi Corporation, a leading provider of
semiconductor solutions differentiated by power,
security, reliability and performance, will be
participating in the Single Event Effects (SEE)
Symposium coupled with the Military and Aerospace
Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) Workshop in La Jolla,
California May 18-21, 2015. Microsemi will be
exhibiting at booth #3 where the company's experts will
showcase newly introduced RTG4(TM) radiation-tolerant
field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and LX7730
telemetry managers, as well as a variety of its
radiation-hardened DC-to-DC converters, precision
time and frequency solutions, linear and point of load
(POL) hybrids, custom hybrid solutions and radiation-
hardened discretes including the broadest portfolio of
JANS Class diodes and bipolar products.
Microsemi will also share its engineering team's
expertise by presenting two papers: "Single Event Upset
Characterization of Fabric SRAM in 65 nm RTG4 Flash-
based FPGA" presented by Dr. Nadia Rezzak, staff device
engineer, system-on-chip products group; and "Single
Event Effects in Microsemi's Radiation-tolerant
Reprogrammable RTG4 Flash FPGA" presented by Durwyn
Dsilva, senior engineer, system-on-chip products
group. In addition, Ken O'Neill, director of marketing,
space and aviation for Microsemi's system-on-chip
products group, will deliver an invited talk on
"Microsemi Next Generation Radiation-tolerant FPGAs"
and Dr. J. J. Wang, senior principal engineer, system-
on-chip products group, will chair the "Devices and
Technologies" session.
WHY: The SEE Symposium coupled with the MAPLD Workshop
addresses all aspects of single-event effects in
microelectronic and photonic devices, circuits and
systems. Microsemi offers one of the industry's most
comprehensive portfolios of space products and has the
capability to resolve the most difficult problems with
its high-reliability solutions.
WHERE: The Microsemi team will demonstrate products and engage
with attendees at booth # 3 at the tradeshow, which is
being held at the San Diego Marriott La Jolla, located
at 4240 La Jolla Village Dr. in La Jolla, California.
WHEN: Microsemi's involvement in the symposium will take place
Wednesday, May 18 through Thursday, May 21, 2015 during
show hours.
Dr. Wang's "Devices and Technologies" session will take
place May 18 from 10:30-11:20 a.m.
Dr. Rezzak's
"Single Event Upset Characterization of Fabric SRAM in
65 nm RTG4 Flash-based FPGA" paper will be presented
May 19 from 3-3:20 p.m.
Dsilva's "Single Event
Effects in Microsemi's Radiation-tolerant
Reprogrammable RTG4 Flash FPGA" paper will be presented
May 19 from 4-4:20 p.m.
O'Neill's "Microsemi Next
Generation Radiation-tolerant FPGAs" invited talk will
take place May 20 from 10:40-11:10 a.m.
About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense and security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions, setting the world's standard for time; voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Ethernet solutions; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,600 employees globally. Learn more at http://www.microsemi.com.
TechFaith to Commence Shipments of Ruggedized Smart Watch into the European Union in Q2
BEIJING, May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- China TechFaith Wireless Communication Limited (NASDAQ:CNTF) today announced it will begin shipping its ruggedized smart watch, the A-Watch, into the European Union. Shipments are expected to begin in the second quarter of 2015.
TechFaith's A-Watch is a ruggedized smart watch. Designed on the popular Android 4.3 OS, the smart watch can be used as a standalone wearable or paired to the user's Android-based smart phone of choice. The A-Watch is ideal for on-the-go use and comes with a full array of active life applications that can be used without pairing the smart watch with a smart phone. Applications include a Personal Fitness Manager, which features a heart rate sensor, calorie and cadence managers, and an activity intensity manager, among others. The Mobile Companion Manager, features a convenient phone call interface, text messaging, email notification capabilities, and weather and full time functions, among others. The ruggedized A-Watch smart watch was designed with an always glanceable LCD screen, is water proof up to 10 meters, and has a high capacity battery.
Mr. Deyou Dong, President and Chief Operating Officer of TechFaith said, "We are excited about our A-Watch smart watch. By building off of our expertise, we have solved a few of the major hurdles other entrants have stumbled on. For example, our A-Watch is ruggedized and waterproof. These features are fundamentally critical to consumers if they are going to be using the sought after on-the-go fitness programs a mobile smart watch is ideal for. Equally important, our smart watch is not pigeon-holed by a closed operating system. By designing an Android based smart watch, consumers will be able to use the ruggedized A-Watch as a standalone wearable or they can connect it with their favorite Android-based smart phone. That is a powerful differentiator for us because the Android operating system is the World's most popular and the ecosystem continues to evolve and bring powerful new Android-based applications to consumers on a seemingly never ending pace. We think we have a real winner given the intuitive interface, robust and flexible operating system, powerful battery, and the high convenience our attractive, ruggedized A-Watch smart watch offers."
About TechFaith
TechFaith (NASDAQ: CNTF) is a leading global mobile solutions provider for the global mobile handsets market (previously called the ODP (Original Developed Product) business)). The Company is a leading developer of ruggedized mobile phones and other devices for differentiated market segments, including the rapidly growing Smartphone market targeting wireless mobile phone network operators, end users and sports enthusiasts. For more information, please visit http://www.techfaithwireless.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
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SOURCE China TechFaith Wireless Technology Limited
China TechFaith Wireless Technology Limited
CONTACT: Jay Ji, China Techfaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited, +86-10-5822-8866, ir@techfaith.cn; David Pasquale, Global IR Partners, +1 914-337-8801, cntf@globalirpartners.com
SURE universal remote from Tekoia is the elegant, appliance-integrated app for Android
that turns your smartphone into a remote to control your connected home. With SURE's
impressive Infrared (IR) and WiFi communication features, users are able to control their
smart appliances and forget about the hassle of multiple remotes scattered around the
house.
Key points:
- SURE universal remote can control around a million IR appliances such as
TVs, amplifiers, and cable boxes eliminating the need for multiple remotes in your
living room
- Supports streaming of pictures, videos and music from your smartphone to your
smart TV such as the LG smart TV and Samsung smart TV
- SURE integrates with streaming products such as Roku, Apple TV and Google
Chromecast to display pictures, videos and music to non-smart TV's
- SURE is the stress-free way to take control of your connected home.
Tekoia [http://www.tekoia.com ], the provider of smart universal remote solutions for
digital media, smart appliances and the Internet of Things, today announces the global
launch of SURE universal remote the Android app that turns your smartphone into a remote
to control your connected home. By using SURE, people can forget about having different
remotes for their TV, sound system or other smart appliances in the home.
SURE universal remote enables users to control appliances within the home via a
simple-to-use, slick and intuitive mobile app. Using IR and WiFi technology, SURE can
control smart TVs such as LG smart TV and streaming products such as Roku.
As mentioned, SURE supports streaming TV and media player, Roku. Using the app, users
have the ability to control their Roku 3 through WiFi and stream pictures, videos and
music from their phone to their TV. Meaning users can achieve advanced smart TV
functionality with Roku and SURE even if they don't have a smart TV. SURE can also be used
as a keyboard when supporting the Roku service to simplify search for your favorite
program.
For LG smart TVs, SURE can also serve as a mouse, allowing for games to be played with
a wave of the hand using the user's smartphone.
"How often do you find yourself wasting time looking for remotes around the home? Or
when you have found it how often does it need new batteries? We created SURE universal
remote to solve this problem. The remote control like many products before it is outdated
and it became apparent to us that the smartphone is becoming much more augmented with
every new model, so why not have it replace our remote controls as well?" said Viktor
Ariel, CEO, Tekoia.
"The main reason people are adopting smart technology within their homes is because of
how seamless and efficient it is. So why should they accept anything less with how they
can control these appliances? SURE empowers users to control their smart appliances in a
quick and easy way. Just the way it should be," continued Ariel.
Tekoia is developing software solutions for a smart universal remote that can be used
with digital media, home automation, and IoT devices. Tekoia's Smart Universal Remote
(SURE) platform puts users in the center of the remotely controlled universe. An
Israel-based company, Tekoia is founded by an experienced management team with vast
knowledge of mobile devices, consumer electronics, and international business
collaboration. The SURE Universal Remote received the top innovative technology prize at
the Israel Conference 2014.
Nirvana XP Certifies Four Epson Printers For Its Tablet-Based Restaurant Mobile Application Platform
Use of One Mobile Application Platform For All Business Needs Maximizes Guest Experience & Restaurants' Profitability
CHICAGO, May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- National Restaurant Association (NRA) --Epson America, Inc., a leading supplier of value-added Point of Sale (POS) solutions, today announced that Nirvana XP, a single, mobile application platform for the food and beverage industry, has certified four Epson printers for use with its tablet-based restaurant management platform. Nirvana XP chose the Epson Omnilink(®) TM-T88V-i to enable seamless Web-based printing from Nirvana XP's cloud-based platform. For its in-store POS application suite, Nirvana XP selected Epson's TM-T20II receipt printer in both Bluetooth and WiFi versions and the TM-U220B impact printer for reliable kitchen printing. Nirvana XP is launching its new integrated mobile application platform at NRA. The solutions are available from Nirvana XP today, and will be shown at NRA, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, May 16-19 at booth #8442.
According to the recently released National Restaurant Association report "Restaurant Industry 2020: A Snapshot of the Future," Industry competition will continue to intensify in the years ahead, and operators will have to focus on offering elevated levels of food and service in tandem with technological enhancements. Nirvana XP taps into development by teaming up with Epson and providing restaurants with the best technology available for enhanced service.
The National Restaurant Association report also states that "nearly four in 10 consumers say they will be likely to use an electronic ordering system and menus on tablet computers." Nirvana XP and Epson together enable consumers to more easily place in-store, takeout and delivery orders and provide feedback from their mobile devices.
"A lot of restaurants are seeing an increase in table turn when mobile devices are used," said Tom Kettell, director, commercial channel sales at Epson. "Nirvana XP's truly integrated mobile application platform perfectly complements our intelligent- receipt and kitchen printers that seamlessly work with any iPad and Android tablet devices, making it easier for restaurant owners to run a more efficient and profitable establishment."
"Mobility is transforming the way the food and beverage industry run their businesses and interact with their customers," said Kris Parikh, founder & CEO of Nirvana XP. " Together with Epson, we are better able to allow businesses to manage their dining floors, in-store orders, online and web orders, billing, real-time customer feedback, analytics and much more with a single mobile application platform, so they can eliminate multiple vendors and fees."
Epson OmniLink TM-T88V-i
With built-in processing power and unique ePOS(TM) Print and Server Direct Print technologies, Epson's OmniLink solutions support web-based printing from any mobile device with no print drivers, plug-ins, PCs or costly application changes. They also enable mobile devices to communicate directly with peripherals connected to OmniLink TM-T88V-i, such as a bump bar, kitchen display or up to 20 slave kitchen printers. http://pos.epson.com/Products/prodsSmartPOS.html
Epson TM-T20II
Epson's tablet POS-friendly TM-T20II is fast, reliable and supports all the leading mobile operating systems including iOS, Android and Windows. It features printing up to 200mm/second, high reliability, multiple ease-of-use features, dual interfaces and print options that reduce paper usage up to 30%. https://pos.epson.com/Products/prodsRECEIPT.html
Epson TM-U220
Epson's tablet POS-friendly TM-U220 impact receipt and kitchen/bar printers are compact, reliable and optimized for high-speed throughput. They work right out of the box with mobile POS applications and can print directly from iOS, Android and Windows devices. They feature two-color printing for exceptions, right-side-up printing and crisp, clean logo printing. http://pos.epson.com/products/TM-T20IIPOSReceiptPrinter?ProductPK=689
About Nirvana XP
Nirvana XP(TM) is an intuitive, single, mobile application platform for all your business needs. It brings multiple applications onto one simplified platform. Founder Kris Parikh developed a quick, intuitive, truly integrated, and secure mobile application platform by combining cloud-based technology and mobility. Nirvana XP offers an all-in-one, feature-rich, fully customizable, and affordable solution for business owners with integrated order management and performance, streamlined inventory tracking, customer relationship management, and real-time cloud reporting.
Fully customizable, the current product offering is focused on full service restaurants, quick service restaurants, cafes, coffee shops and similar businesses utilizing mobile iPad and Android tablet devices. For more information and for a free trial, go to http://www.nirvanaxp.com/
About Epson America, Inc.
Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Long Beach, CA, Epson America, Inc. is the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, a global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality technology products that meet customer demands for increased functionality, compactness, systems integration and energy efficiency. For over 40 years, Epson's advanced technology has been at work in millions of POS systems around the world. Today Epson's Business Systems Division continues to bring industry-leading, open architecture, smart technologies to the point of service. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Epson), Twitter (http://twitter.com/EpsonAmerica), and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/EpsonAmerica).
EPSON is a registered trademark and EPSON Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark of Seiko Epson Corporation. OmniLink is a registered trademark and EPOS is a trademark of Epson America. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
S2C Single VU440 Prodigy FPGA Prototyping Board for Xilinx Virtex® UltraScale 440 FPGA Now Available
Prodigy(TM) VU Logic Module Boasts Smallest Form Factor, All-Purpose, Stand-Alone Prototyping System
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --S2C, Inc., a leading provider of FPGA-based rapid prototyping solutions, has announced the availability of its Single VU440 Prodigy Logic Module that supports the latest Xilinx Virtex UltraScale 440 FPGA. The Single VU440 Prodigy LM is the smallest form factor (260 x 170mm) stand-alone FPGA prototyping system and provides:
-- 2x density and 20% more user I/Os compared to the V7 series
-- 8 high-performance all-purpose Prodigy connectors for a variety of
system interfaces and 2 GT connectors for high-speed serial connectivity
-- DDR4 and built-in PCIe3 support
-- Full scalability - can be used as standalone or in Cloud Cube enterprise
modes
-- Abundant add-on features http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20150202/173019LOGO
Multiple Single VU Logic Modules can be conveniently connected together to expand capacity, and up to 16 Logic Modules can be configured in a Cloud Cube, enterprise-class prototyping system to support a large-scale SoC design.
The Single VU Logic Module features 6(th) generation remote management functions through either USB or Ethernet. Prodigy Player Pro Runtime Software is included and can be run on both Windows and Linux computers to perform basic functions such as FPGA download, write/read on-board SD card for off-line download, clock and reset set-up, I/O voltage settings, hardware monitoring, and self-test. The Player Pro Runtime Software also supports Virtual SWs & LEDs for simple tasks such as changing a setting or indicating a condition remotely, and automatically determining what daughter cards are installed on Logic Modules or cable setups between connectors.
"Our customers are now able to take full advantage of the power of Xilinx's Virtex UltraScale FPGA devices with our Single VU440 Prodigy Logic Module," commented Toshio Nakama, CEO of S2C. "The Single VU Prodigy Logic Module is thoroughly integrated into our Prodigy Complete Prototyping Platform giving our users the most comprehensive solution in FPGA prototyping. Our complete solution allows users to realize benefits throughout the design flow and accelerate time-to-market."
Availability
S2C's Single VU440 Prodigy Logic Module is available now. Contact your local sales representative for pricing.
About S2C
Founded and headquartered in San Jose, California, S2C has been successfully delivering rapid SoC prototyping solutions since 2003. S2C provides:
-- Rapid FPGA-based prototyping hardware and automation software
-- Prototype Ready(TM) IP, interfaces and platforms
-- System-level design verification and acceleration tools
With over 200 customers, S2C's focus is on SoC/ASIC development to reduce the SoC design cycle. Our highly qualified engineering team and customer-centric sales force understands our users' SoC development needs. S2C systems have been deployed by leaders in consumer electronics, communications, computing, image processing, data storage, research, defense, education, automotive, medical, design services, and silicon IP. S2C is headquartered in San Jose, CA with offices and distributors around the globe including the UK, Israel, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. For more information, visit http://www.s2cinc.com.
Media Contact
Rob van Blommestein
S2C, Inc.
Email: robvb@s2cinc.com
(408) 213-8818
Prototype Ready is a trademark of S2C. S2C acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products.
Graphic Watch From Zurich Travels the World: Partime on Board Swiss International Airlines
ZURICH, May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
A special Partime watch model will be available on Swiss's 120 planes from June.
Eleven other models have already been introduced into Swiss's online shop range this year.
The young watch brand from Zurich is going on board Swiss International Airlines as
part of its duty free range this summer with a new design. The Partime Swiss Edition can
only be purchased at an altitude of 10,000 metres. The watches are numbered and are
available exclusively to passengers of Swiss.
Shortly after the launch on Swiss, the complete Partime collection will be exhibited
at the China Watch & Clock Fair in Shenzhen from 25-28 June 2015. This has been
facilitated by the new free trade agreement with China.
Advision AG, based in Zurich, produces limited edition graphic timepieces in
Switzerland. The man behind the brand is inventor Andreas Mossner. Partime watches have
been sold up to now at watch shops in Swiss tourist locations and online throughout the
world: http://www.partime.ch
Available exclusively on board Swiss International Airline: Partime Swiss Edition. 45
mm, polished stainless steel case, numbered, waterproof, LCD display, digital time display
at the touch of a button, battery life 2 years. Swiss made. CHF 590.
Contact:
Advision AG Partime, Andreas Mossner, poste restante, CH-8037 Zurich, Switzerland,
Tel. +41-43-422-00-11, info@partime.ch http://www.partime.ch
Youku Tudou Co-founds Star Video Alliance to Further Gaming Video Ecosystem
BEIJING, May 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Youku Tudou and Star Game, a leading game media and marketing company, co-founded the Star Video Alliance to create a new premium standard for gaming video content in China. Using Youku Tudou's position as China's #1 online video platform, the Star Video Alliance will bring together leading gaming media to build a comprehensive vertically integrated gaming video ecosystem.
This alliance marks a milestone as an industry first dedicated gaming video ecosystem. This wide-ranging gaming video and media platform will use Youku Tudou's multi-screen distribution and big data to empower game producers, content creators and users to accelerate the growth of the gaming video ecosystem on Youku Tudou.
With the founding of the Cloud Entertainment business unit in December 2014, Youku Tudou has maximized the impact of gaming video content across its platform. Currently, six of the top ten U/PGC channels are dedicated to gaming videos averaging daily video views of 50 million amid over 2,000 active U/PGC gaming video channels on Youku Tudou.
Leo Yao, President, Cloud Entertainment of Youku Tudou says, "Youku Tudou is committed to building a multi-screen media and entertainment ecosystem. Now, by founding the Star Video Alliance backed by strong partners, we continue to expand our ecosystem by building a complete platform that brings together the entire gaming video community on Youku Tudou."
About Youku Tudou Inc.
Youku Tudou Inc. (NYSE: YOKU) is China's leading Internet television company. Its Youku and Tudou Internet television platforms enable users to search, view and share high-quality video content quickly and easily across multiple devices. Its Youku brand and Tudou brand are the most recognized online video brands in China. Youku Tudou's American depositary shares, each representing 18 of Youku Tudou's Class A ordinary shares, are traded on the NYSE under the symbol "YOKU."
SOURCE Youku Tudou Inc.
Youku Tudou Inc.
CONTACT: Jay Chen, Communications Director, Youku Tudou Inc., +86-10-5885-1881x7161, jaychen@youku.com
Numenta and Cortical.io Form Strategic Partnership
VIENNA and REDWOOD CITY, California, May 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Numenta, Inc., a leader in machine intelligence, and Cortical.io, an innovator in
natural language processing (NLP), are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to
create a new computing approach to understanding text. As part of the strategic
relationship, Cortical.io has taken a broad general license to Numenta's Hierarchical
Temporal Memory (HTM) technology, and Numenta has taken an ownership position in
Cortical.io. The combination of Cortical.io's Semantic Folding technology and Numenta's
HTM technology enables a host of exciting applications that have challenged computer
scientists for decades, including sentiment analysis, automatic summarization, semantic
search, and conversational dialogue systems.
"Cortical.io's Semantic Folding technology is a clever and elegant way to feed natural
language into our HTM technology," said Jeff Hawkins, founder of Numenta. "Cortical.io
takes advantage of the semantic encoding and predictive modeling of HTM systems in a way
that will lead to significant advances in natural language processing."
"Natural language understanding is one of the central problems of artificial
intelligence," said Francisco Webber, founder and CEO of Cortical.io. "We aim to build the
next generation of NLP, Language Intelligence, and in so doing, show the path to broadly
applied machine intelligence."
Building on their existing commercial product, the Retina API, Cortical.io will make
the combined technologies available through their industrial-grade cloud service for
customers ranging from innovative startups to international corporations.
Numenta, Inc., was founded in 2005 to be a leader in the emerging field of machine
intelligence. Numenta builds technology that helps companies automatically and
intelligently act on machine generated data. Its biologically inspired machine learning
technology is based on a theory of the neocortex first described in co-founder Jeff
Hawkins' book, On Intelligence. Its first commercial product, called Grok
[http://groksolutions.com ], offers a breakthrough solution for anomaly detection for IT
Operations. In addition, Numenta has created NuPIC (Numenta Platform for Intelligent
Computing) as an open source project (http://www.numenta.org ). Numenta is based in
Redwood City, California.
Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, Cortical.io is a science-based start-up that has
developed a fundamentally new approach to Natural Language Processing (NLP), Semantic
Folding, inspired by the latest findings on the way the human neocortex processes
information. By representing language with highly efficient semantic fingerprints, the
Retina API is the first semantic engine that painlessly handles the avalanche of text data
experienced by global business today - in any language and in real-time. A US subsidiary
has been incorporated recently.
Numenta Media Contact: Betty Taylor, Krause Taylor Associates:
bettyt@krause-taylor.com
Cortical.io Media Contact: Marie-Pierre Garnier, mp.garnier@cortical.io, Tel.:
+43-664-263-92-25
OPEN, an International Online Educational Development Company, Announces Its First Product Launch with "Turtle Trails - Save Me!" Conservation Education Game Application in Hawai'i
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- One Planet Education Network® (OPEN) launches "Turtle Trails - Save Me! I am the Hawksbill Turtle" conservation education game application for Apple iOS and Google Android mobile devices this week, it was announced today by OPEN's Founder and Director George Newman.
Turtle Trails is the first in OPEN's Save Me! Series of educational games and related community action education programs for children, ages 6-13.
Turtle Trails teaches the player to help critically endangered Hawksbill sea turtles navigate the land-based stages of their reproductive cycle at Halape, a beach within Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, while avoiding numerous human-caused and natural hazards.
"OPEN will expand this initiative to other national parks, marine sanctuary sites, aquariums and museums in order to reach parents and school groups who come to these highly visited public venues," explains George Newman, Founder and Director of OPEN.
The app is currently available at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park's Kilauea Visitor Center and Jaggar Museum, and bookstores at those locations, and is being distributed at NOAA National Marine Sanctuary - Mokup?papa Marine Discovery Center in Hilo, Hawai'i.
In addition to Apple iTunes App and Google Play stores, and links to the same on the OPEN website (http://www.oneplaneteducation.com), Turtle Trails $4.99 app can be purchased for download at those physical locations via open Wi-Fi links as well as traditional cellular services that connect prospective customers to dedicated site-specific Turtle Trails websites.
Additionally visitors to such park and sanctuary venues who have purchased the game will also be entitled to receive a free copy of the $150 Turtle Trails curriculum, which they can use for home schooling or offer to a school or teacher of their choice.
A portion of the gross revenue proceeds from both game apps and curriculum sales will go to support programs at the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, the National Marine Sanctuaries, and Hawksbill sea turtle recovery programs.
The accompanying standards-based curriculum and teacher guide is targeted at 3-8(th) grade levels, and is sold separately with accompanying game to schools, home schools and after school programs in the US and worldwide.
Turtle Trails, with a score by Clifford Anderson was developed in partnership with BriskMobile, Inc. of Toronto and with the cooperation and support of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park's scientific interpretation and educational experts; Hawai'i Pacific Parks Association (the nonprofit partner managing park bookstores in Hawai'i and American Samoa park stores); NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries; and the Hawai'i Wildlife Fund.
OPEN has enjoyed the research and development support from the US Department of Education Institute of Education Science, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and NASA.
About OPEN
OPEN is an online educational program development company, with a content focus on the Global Grand Challenges of the 21st and 22nd Centuries. The Company is currently developing a comprehensive series of interrelated STEM-based learning applications and action education programs for youth of the world.
For more information on our education programs, and to view the Turtle Trails Game Trailer, Please visit our website - http://www.oneplaneteducation.com or write us - info@oneplaneteducation.com or call - +1 617 818-7514
SOURCE OPEN
OPEN
CONTACT: Michael Jensen, Jensen Communications: 626-585-9575, mj@jensencom.com
Qualcomm Bolsters AllPlay Smart Media Platform with New Features for Streaming Music Wirelessly Throughout the Home
New features include Bluetooth® to Wi-Fi streaming, custom audio settings and optimized synchronization
SAN DIEGO and SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) has announced major feature additions to the Qualcomm® AllPlay(TM) smart media platform including Bluetooth® to Wi-Fi re-streaming, custom audio settings and optimized synchronization. Additionally, Hitachi America, Ltd. today announced the launch of three Wi-Fi speakers powered by AllPlay.
AllPlay provides consumers with multiple streaming options, including a new feature to combine both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi whole home streaming. Now, all local or cloud-based music on a consumer's smartphone can be streamed to any Bluetooth-compatible AllPlay speaker and then re-streamed over Wi-Fi to multiple AllPlay speakers, all in synch. This allows simple wireless connectivity to individual speakers or an entire home audio system over the user's existing home Wi-Fi network. This functionality provides a distinct advantage over Bluetooth-only speakers, which are limited to one-to-one streaming.
The Hitachi Wi-Fi speakers offer seamless streaming of high-quality local and cloud-based audio content - with the high performance and versatility of Wi-Fi and the convenience of Bluetooth. They will be available nationwide at a US retailer later this month at three affordable price points.
"Our adoption of the Qualcomm AllPlay platform for our networked audio portfolio further showcases our commitment to bringing consumers products with truly exceptional sound quality, reliability and ease-of-use in the wireless whole-home audio category," said Bill Whalen, Director Product Development, Hitachi America, Ltd., Digital Media Division. "We're dedicated to providing consumers with easy to use, high-quality audio products - and the AllPlay platform allows us to do just that."
"The range and capacity of Wi-Fi coupled with the ubiquity of Bluetooth is a game-changing combination for manufacturers and consumers alike," said Sy Choudhury, senior director of product management, Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc. "AllPlay device manufacturers like Hitachi and Monster, which introduced its SoundStage line of AllPlay-powered speakers at Best Buy last month, can now offer their customers more connectivity options and access to myriad streaming services throughout their home with this new capability."
Additional features available for manufactures to evaluate later this month are:
-- Custom Audio Settings: Manufactures now have more ways to differentiate
their products and provide their customers with greater control over
their wireless music experiences with custom sound equalization settings
and channel selection capabilities.
-- Optimized Synchronization: To meet the performance demands for true
stereo and multi-channel wireless audio in the home, AllPlay now
supports synchronization between devices of under 100 microseconds,
making the platform suitable for both multi-room and multi-channel
wireless audio streaming.
-- Line-in to Wi-Fi Re-streaming: Manufacturers can now build devices
powered by AllPlay that take in audio from line-in sources, such as CD
players or turntables, with the ability to re-stream to other AllPlay
speakers around the home.
In addition to the platform advances, even more audio equipment manufacturers have announced plans to introduce AllPlay products, including ASUSTeK, Vestel and Magnat.
The AllPlay platform is built upon the AllJoyn® software framework, an open source software and services framework and collaborative open source project of the AllSeen Alliance. AllJoyn enables hardware manufacturers and software developers to create interoperable products that can discover, connect and communicate directly with other AllJoyn-enabled products.
About Qualcomm Incorporated
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm's licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm's engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of its products and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. For more information, visit Qualcomm's website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.
Qualcomm AllPlay is a product of Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc.
Qualcomm is a trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and other countries. AllPlay is a trademark of Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc. Wi-Fi is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. AllJoyn is a trademark of the AllSeen Alliance. Other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Towering Oceans by Zig Zag Zoom, a Next Generation Tower Building Game that Takes Mobile Gamers to New Heights!
Resource Management Sim Mobile Game that Combines 3D Graphics, Character Collection, Deep Customization, Horizontal Navigation, Fun Quests and Social Features
LOS ANGELES, May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Zig Zag Zoom's mobile game Towering Oceans takes tower building to a whole new level. Developed by SAN Games, this resource management sim game has 3D graphics, character collection, detailed customization, horizontal navigation, fun quests, and robust social features. Aligned with Zig Zag Zoom's mission to Have Fun and Do Good, the game's premise highlights rising sea levels produced by climate change. For assistance with climate change and clean energy themes in the game, Zig Zag Zoom consulted with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), one of the world's largest environmental organizations.
News Facts
-- Towering Oceans, a 3D resource management simulation mobile game, is
available today on the iTunes App Store and is the second game to
release from Zig Zag Zoom, the company founded with the mission to Have
Fun and Do Good.
-- Towering Oceans features deep game play and multiple innovations
including 3D graphics, character collection, detailed customization,
horizontal navigation, fun quests, robust social features and more.
-- The game's premise highlights a world altered by sea level rise. For
input on climate change themes in the game, Zig Zag Zoom consulted with
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), one of the world's largest
environmental organizations.
Towering Oceans Features
-- BUILD YOUR OWN 3D ECO-TOWER! This is the only tower, resource
management simulation game where you can build a skyscraper in the seven
seas!
-- MANAGE & OPTIMIZE YOUR COMMUNITY
-- Salvage materials, save your friends, and build new homes in your
tower.
-- Become an entrepreneur, and start a collection of floating
businesses.
-- Discover desert islands and build a whole new civilization with the
friends you saved! Soon, you'll be managing the whole population.
-- EXPLORE & TRAVEL TO YOUR FRIENDS' SHIPS
-- Upgrade your ship to go further and faster across the seven seas.
-- Visit your friends' ships to compare towers and share building tips!
-- MEET NEW FUN CHARACTERS WHILE TRAVELING THE SEVEN SEAS
-- Talk to Dr. Jones to receive new adventures and quests across the
seven seas.
-- Team up with construction robot "Mr. Snark," your own personal
ARK-itect.
-- Work with the mysterious Kitty-Gal to boost your ship's output.
-- Collect "Hero" characters to add high skills and high fashion to
your ship!
Towering Oceans Story
Rising sea levels have covered the earth and you've lost your beloved leaving you with only one tiny ship. Luckily, the guardians of the seas are here to help! Build your seagoing tower high, and venture into the open ocean on a quest to find your beloved and save humanity.
On your sailing way, you need to decorate and customize your ship, fuel your engine with recycled material, and go green by upgrading your engine to run on sustainable power!
As the Tower Captain, you will need to manage your residents, keep them fed, clothed, and happy, and match their skills with their dream jobs. Recruit special Hero residents to help keep things shipshape! Perfect your ship, and sail far enough to visit new oceans. Cast a wide net in the search for your lost loved one, and possibly an undiscovered island.
Quotes:
Thomas Kang, CEO of Zig Zag Zoom: "Towering Oceans is a truly unique, one-of-a-kind mobile game for everyone that combines great entertainment with awareness for environmental issues in a seamless way. The game's beautiful art and multiple innovations exemplify the teamwork between Zig Zag Zoom and San Games, the development team behind Towering Oceans."
Gunjoong Kim, CEO of San Games "Our partnership with Zig Zag Zoom helps expand our reach to millions of the mobile gamers in Western markets. We're proud to work with EDF and Zig Zag Zoom's mobiliz3 platform so we can make it easy for mobile gamers to give back to society."
Resources:
Towering Oceans web site
Zig Zag Zoom web site
San Games web site
EDF web site
About Zig Zag Zoom
Based in Los Angeles, CA, Zig Zag Zoom (Z3) is a mobile game publisher built on the principle that people want to both Have Fun and Do Good. Z3's mission is to be a world-leading network for mobile games that Entertains, Connects, and Empowers millions of daily users to support the causes they care about by simply playing fun mobile games. Founded by a team of former senior Disney executives and partnered with China's largest independent mobile gaming platform iDreamSky, Z3 has decades of combined game development and publishing experience, as well as exceptional access to the Chinese market. Along with a slate of games releasing in 2015, Z3 is launching mobiliz3, a proprietary platform that empowers gamers to support their favorite causes while playing their favorite games. Z3 seeks to change the world for good...one game at a time. The company can be found online at http://www.zigzagzoom.com
About San Games
SAN, a game developer based in South Korea, stands for "Superb Artisans Nest" and is designed around flexibility to adapt to the fast-moving pace of technology trends and changes.
SAN's goal is to lead the gaming market through the next era and provide the best quality content on the market.
Skillz Brings Live Streaming and Instant Replays to Mobile eSports
Players will be able to broadcast live gameplay and instant replays from all Skillz games to content-sharing websites like Twitch, Azubu and YouTube.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillz, the worldwide leader in mobile eSports, today unveiled its real-time encoding and streaming technology that allows players to broadcast eSports action from any Skillz-enabled game to any content-sharing website. Bundled into the free Skillz software development kit (SDK), live gameplay streaming will help game developers acquire new players while engaging and retaining their existing audiences.
The Skillz streaming technology is the first to enable live, over-the-air streaming for games built in any development framework, including popular engines like Unity, Marmalade, OpenGL, UIKit and Cocos2d. While other technologies are limited to specific game engines and only enable post-game sharing, Skillz works with any game to transmit real-time gameplay from eSports competitors around the world.
Just as televised competition and live web streaming have become an integral part of popular sports like baseball, basketball, and football, live streaming and video replays are essential functionality for eSports. In 2014, eSports viewership rose over 88%, reaching 134 million people according to SuperData Research. Frank N. Magid Associates, a leading research analyst firm, predicts that the cash competition market in electronic sports will surpass $9 billion in revenue by 2017.
"As video games evolve into the next generation of sports, mobile is leading the way," said Andrew Paradise, Founder and CEO of Skillz. "If Twitch, YouTube and Azubu are the next ESPN, NBC and FOX, Skillz is creating the next NFL, NBA and MLB by enabling game developers to host eSports competitions in any mobile game."
Founded in 2012, Skillz provides mobile developers with a full-service eSports tournament platform that can be integrated into any mobile game in under one hour. The platform, which has been integrated into over 800 games to-date, allows players in 150 countries to compete for cash or virtual currency. The company currently hosts over 150,000 tournaments per day and pays out more than $50,000 daily in cash prizes.
Players interested in competing can visit skillz.com.
Developers interested in implementing the Skillz SDK can visit: developers.skillz.com/developer/.
For press materials, please visit: skillz.com/presskit
About Skillz
Skillz is the worldwide leader in mobile eSports. The company believes in making mobile games more fun and competitive for players while making game creation more lucrative for developers. Skillz eSports tournaments create direct revenue for game developers while enhancing rather than interrupting the gamer experience. Founded in 2012, Skillz has offices in San Francisco and Boston, and the company has raised $13.3M in funding led by Atlas Venture. To learn more, visit http://www.skillz.com.
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CONTACT: Hana Sayeed, SSPR, hsayeed@sspr.com, 719-634-1180
Qualcomm Expands Industry Collaboration to Grow the Internet of Everything
--Qualcomm increases customer momentum in the smart home, wearables, automotive, smart cities and health care segments--
SAN DIEGO, May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiaries, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. , Qualcomm Life, Inc. and Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc. (QCE), are achieving significant adoption of their broad connectivity, computing and solutions for the Internet of Everything (IoE). Driven by the significant growth and diversity of interconnected devices, Qualcomm companies are delivering the solutions and collaborating with technology leaders to empower manufacturers to create the best connected experiences in homes, businesses, cars and cities.
"The Internet of Everything encompasses a vast, growing ecosystem of billions of new connections. In order for the Internet of Everything to truly deliver value for individuals, communities and companies, the industry needs technology leaders with the right scale and resources," said Derek Aberle, president, Qualcomm Incorporated. "Qualcomm is well-positioned to provide the most advanced connectivity, computing and interoperability for devices and machines in smart homes, automobiles, wearables and smart cities. Our technologies are already driving this new era of intelligent connectivity and computing, and we will continue to invest in these emerging segments."
Intelligent Connectivity for the Smart Home
For many people, the Internet of Everything will come to life in their homes, where dozens of devices, systems and things will be connected. Pairing the right mix of connectivity and computing capabilities is essential to address the varying needs of the IoE. Qualcomm Atheros offers a full suite of low power, feature-rich solutions that have connected more than 120 million smart home devices in the past year - including consumer electronics, appliances and lighting systems. Qualcomm Atheros is making Wi-Fi feasible for a multitude of new devices in the home and office; the platforms enable lower power to ensure better usage and simpler implementation with ease of configuration and interoperability. In addition, QCE's Qualcomm® AllPlay(TM) smart media platform, which is based on the AllJoyn® open source projects, a software and services framework from the AllSeen Alliance, has a network of 18 manufacturers and 18 music streaming service providers who have integrated or have announced plans to integrate AllPlay for wireless whole-home audio.
Customized Connectivity and Compute for Wearables
QTI is helping its customers innovate in the wearable segment by providing a fully integrated platform including low power processing, compact chipset form factors, support for range of sensors, and breadth of connectivity - 3G/4G LTE, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. Based on QTI's solutions, our customers already offer more than 20 wearable devices ranging from smart watches and fitness trackers to wearable cameras and digital eyewear shipping in more than 30 countries. Additionally, QTI has more than 20 new commercial designs currently in development, bringing new capabilities and user experiences to consumers.
Defining the Future of the Connected Car
QTI is transforming the in-car experience with technologies to connect cars and create a better, safer driving experience. Qualcomm Technologies has more than a decade of vehicle connectivity leadership, having delivered the first embedded 3G/4G solutions for automobiles, and QTI has now engaged with more than 40 connected car programs from more than 15 OEMs.
Today, there are more than 20 million connected vehicles deployed globally with QTI's Qualcomm® Snapdragon(TM) LTE and 3G modems, the most widely used wireless solutions for cloud-based entertainment, safety and security applications. The high speed, reliable connectivity provided by Snapdragon LTE modems is the cornerstone of next-generation, connected driver experiences, enabling navigation and infotainment services including real-time mapping, HD Video, multimedia streaming, gaming and more. Qualcomm Technologies' automotive solutions also include the Snapdragon 602A automotive-grade infotainment processor, Qualcomm Atheros' Qualcomm® VIVE(TM) QCA65x4 to support Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC), QTI's Qualcomm® WiPower(TM) wireless charging for consumer electronics in the car and Qualcomm Halo(TM) wireless charging for electric vehicles.
Intelligent Connectivity for Smart Cities
To help meet the needs of rapidly growing urban populations, QTI is delivering solutions for smart buildings, energy, infrastructure, transportation and other emerging municipal applications. The company is involved in more than 20 active engagements to provide smart, sustainable connectivity that helps cities modernize while reducing operational costs in areas including municipal Wi-Fi, water usage, recycling, lighting, transportation, energy and infrastructure. Cities around the world are implementing smart connectivity today, leveraging a full suite of QTI's solutions, including 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, and small cells, as well making use of the AllJoyn open source project from the AllSeen Alliance in various industrial applications.
Connected Health Care at Scale
Qualcomm Life is building a large mobile health ecosystem, with approximately 500 customers and collaborators including Cerner, AMC Health, Roche and Walgreens. With the 2net(TM) Device Connectivity Platform, the HealthyCircles(TM) Care Coordination Platform and now HealthyCircles Mobile, Qualcomm Life is making connected health a reality by enabling seamless care from the hospital to the home. Qualcomm Life's transformational 2net and HealthyCircles Platforms are providing the scalable infrastructure for a new generation of connected health solutions and reaching chronic disease patients who need chronic care management tools the most. These technologies allow secure and reliable sharing, transmission, and cloud-based storage of health information. By liberating vital health and biometric data, Qualcomm Life is developing solutions that enable continuous care, informed interventions, and better management of at-risk populations.
Enabling Interoperability Among Devices
The AllSeen Alliance, of which QCE was a founding member, is a cross-industry consortium dedicated to enabling and driving the widespread adoption of products, systems and services that support the Internet of Everything with an open, universal deployment framework. The Alliance now counts more than 140 companies among its members, including Electrolux, Haier, LG, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, LIFX, Honeywell and many others. The Alliance is committed to growing IoE through the adoption of the AllJoyn open source framework that is platform, OS and hardware agnostic to enable seamless device discovery, connectivity and interoperability. Today there are 75 AllJoyn-enabled products, services, and applications that have been announced by Alliance members. QCE continues to actively participate in the Alliance, and Qualcomm companies use AllJoyn to solve for interoperability in segments such as smart home and smart cities.
About Qualcomm Incorporated
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm's licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm's engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of its products and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. For more information, visit Qualcomm's website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.
Qualcomm, Snapdragon, WiPower, 2net and VIVE are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and other countries. Qualcomm Halo is a trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. AllPlay is a trademark of Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. HealthyCircles is a trademark of MyTeleHealth Solutions, LLC, registered in the United States and other countries. Qualcomm AllPlay is a product of Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc. 2net and Healthy Circles are products of Qualcomm Life, Inc. AllJoyn is a registered trademark of the AllSeen Alliance. Other products or brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Qualcomm Contacts:
Jon Carvill, Corporate Communications
Phone: 1-858-845-5959
Email: corpcomm@qualcomm.com
- The No. 1-selling waterproof case brand now doubles iPhone 6 battery life -
SAN DIEGO, May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Top of the mountain, five percent battery remaining, no outlet in sight. Decision time: go back or keep going? Adventurers can now go further in almost any condition with FRE Power from LifeProof, doubling the battery life of iPhone 6.
FRE Power incorporates advanced battery technology into LifeProof's thin, sleek, four-proof protective case. Guarding against damage from water, drops, dust and snow, FRE Power also doubles the battery life of iPhone 6 to help adventurers charge ahead to climb the final peak, ride out the last wave and push through the 26(th) mile.
"Combining LifeProof's four-proof technology with a full extra battery charge means you can go further than ever before," said LifeProof President and CEO Pete Lindgren. "Extended adventures don't require dropping off the grid or skipping the perfect playlist. With FRE Power and iPhone 6, you're able to map trails, stream your music and capture video like never before."
FRE Power's lithium ion battery boasts 2,600 mAh of power that engages with the press of a button. Smart charging technology gets the iPhone 6 to a 100 percent charge, then automatically stops - saving extra power for later when it's needed most. Plus, status LED lights show how much battery life is remaining on the case in 25 percent increments.
FRE Power is waterproof to 6.6 feet (2 meters) for one hour, drop proof up to 6.6 feet and is totally enclosed from dirt and snow when the case and all ports are sealed. A built-in screen protector helps keep the brilliant iPhone 6 display safe from scratches, yet allows for uninhibited touchscreen access. It meets military standards for drop and shock and offers industry-leading IP68 protection against solid and liquid ingress.
Enhance the mobile technology experience even more by pairing FRE Power with LifeProof's latest universal accessory line, LIFEACTIV. A low-profile, locking QuickMount adaptor securely adheres to FRE Power and, using a mechanical/magnetic system, connects to a variety of accessories for on-the-go use. A Bike + Bar Mount, Belt Clip, Multipurpose Mount and Suction Mount are all available now at lifeproof.com.
FRE Power for iPhone 6 is available now for $129.99 on lifeproof.com and coming soon to select retailers. For additional information, visit lifeproof.com.
About LifeProof:
LifeProof(®) encourages technology users to unleash the remarkable by taking their smartphone and tablet devices on every adventure regardless of dirt, sand, water, rocks and other environmental hazards. LifeProof premium cases boast four-proof protection for smartphone and tablet devices and provide freedom from environmental constraints. LifeProof is the No. 1-selling waterproof case in the U.S. and is committed to inspiring its customers to live an active, no-limits lifestyle.*
* Source: The NPD Group/Retail Tracking Service: Cell Phone Device Protection/Units Sold 1/2014 - 12/2014
The LifeProof name and LifeProof trademarks are the property of Treefrog Developments, Inc. registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
ANGLETON, Texas, May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: BHE), a leading integrated contract manufacturing provider, today announced that its Angleton, Texas manufacturing facility recently achieved the aerospace AS9100C quality certification.
AS9100C is the 2009 revision of the aerospace standard ("AS") containing requirements for establishing and maintaining a quality management system (QMS). AS9001C includes the requirements of ISO 9001:2008, plus additional requirements for the aviation, space and defense industries.
The Angleton facility now holds four key certifications: (aerospace AS9100C, ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, and ANSI/ESD S20.20), which are audited annually by industry standard registrars for sustained compliance.
Gayla J. Delly, President and CEO of Benchmark, stated, "Obtaining this certification in our Texas facility reflects our continued dedication to the highest standards of quality to serve our aerospace, defense and space customers and expands the global number of Benchmark sites with AS9100C certifications to thirteen. Growth in these high reliability markets is a strategic focus for Benchmark, and we are committed to expanding our competencies and certifications to the meet the local, regional and global needs of our customers."
About Benchmark Electronics, Inc.: Benchmark Electronics, Inc. provides integrated manufacturing, design and engineering services to original equipment manufacturers of industrial control equipment (which includes equipment for the aerospace and defense industry), telecommunication equipment, computers and related products for business enterprises, medical devices, testing and instrumentation products. Benchmark's global operations include facilities in seven countries, and its common shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BHE.
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CONTACT: Lisa K. Weeks, 979-849-6550 ext. 1361, lisa.weeks@bench.com
IoT Home Automation The Next Big Thing For Security Cameras
Remocam, an IoT security camera, says the future is now
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Dropcam's debut in 2009 and its rounds of funds and successful acquisition by Nest established a legendary story for the following contenders such as Canary, Piper, and many more DIY home security cameras. Everyone wanted to follow in Dropcam's footsteps. In the course of the last five years since Dropcam's first appearance, home security cameras have been improving. They have become more affordable, easier to setup, and better integrated with their mobile apps, etc. So what's next for home security cameras? Are they dying down? Is the demand still there?
The team of Remocam brought in a new insight into this US home security camera market. The next step for a home security camera, they claim, is Internet of Things (IoT) home automation.
Remocam, an IoT security camera which is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to raise $50,000, claims that it will open a new phase of security cameras, DIY home security cameras with home automation capability. Click here to check out Remocam's Indiegogo Campaign.
One of the founders of Remocam, Paul Lee, says, "In the last few years, DIY home security cameras have made an affordable, easy-to-set-up home security system possible. Not every camera delivers the similar quality of security monitoring, but from $70 to $300, you can place a wireless camera at home by yourself now. Now, people want more from these cameras. They don't just want the camera to watch what's happening at home. Imagine if with this camera, you can turn on and off lights, TVs, and other electronics at home as if you are home. That's what IoT is, what home automation is, and what Remocam is."
Currently Remocam can turn on lights, TVs, and other electronic devices that come with IR remote control. Because of Remocam's IR receiver and release sensors, Remocam can virtually act as a universal remote-control for devices at home. Remocam also offers IR-controlled light bulbs (RemoBulb), power socket (RemoHub), and an automatic pet feeder (RemoPet), along with the camera.
The team's vision doesn't end here. They claim that they plan on integrating IR, RF, and Z-wave technology in the next version of Remocam, so that it will increase the range of devices they can control in homes.