Monthly Archives: September 2011

Apparel & Fashion, Art, Entertainment, Internet & Online, Marketing, Media, Retail, Shopping

make-me-beautiful.co.uk reviews trends at London Fashion Week

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26th September 2011 London, UK – London Fashion Week has hardly had time to get out of it’s high heels and massage it’s sore feet yet already journalists are waxing lyrical about this season’s trends. Award winning clip on earring specialist jewellers,www.make-me-beautiful.co.uk, were at Somerset House to meet colleagues, be wowed by suppliers and to survey the latest trends. Make Me Beautiful founder, Misae Richwoods, outlined three key trends in accessories for S/S12:

1. Get Feminine – With Bora Aksu, Jena Theo and Emilia Wickstead exhibiting bare-breasted models on the first day’s catwalk’s alone, London Fashion Week S/S12 steps away from it’s recent flirtation with androgyny to re-declare a passionate love affair with the female form. Think elegant curves and shapes, daintily finishing often with a subversive or slightly sinister twist adding a bit of playful cheekiness.

2. Geometrics Make a Statement – Powerful Aztec shapes with angular cuts and asymmetrical finishes make the season’s statement wear as Holly Fulton, Jaeger London and Sass and Bide all bounced the house in bold numbers. Brilliant Swarovski crystals, oversized pearls and multi-textural bodywork provide perfect staging and emphasis with sharp colours and spiky shapes that flashback the 80s

3. Keep it Natural – With florals (Erdem, Christopher Kane and Ashish) and animal prints (House of Holland) making their way onto the catwalk a range of decorative reminiscence backs it up with Cabinet including antlers, Renaissance featuring deers, Mawi showing their Minnie Mawi collaboration with Disney Couture and Les Néréides showing a whole arc full of cute characters and cheerful flowers.

Fashion156 Magazine tweeted afterwards, “LFW is so strong this season. Reminds me of McQueen’s LFW era when you walked out of his shows feeling you could bounce over a skyscraper.” Make Me Beautiful announce they will feature a curated collection of some of the most desirable and wearable pieces from some of the brightest designers as they increase choice in their specialist clip on earring collection. Look out for new designer partnerships being announced from late Autumn or follow Minxy’s Jewellery on Facebook or Twitter.

About Make Me Beautiful
Make Me Beautiful was the first site that made clip on earrings sexy and stylish again. Whilst other sites focus on peddling Pat Butcher’s left overs, Make Me Beautiful curates a fashion forward collection of the best of Britain’s talent with over 1,000 lines from leading designers all in clip on, screw on, spring loaded or other non-pierced designs. Make Me Beautiful serves customers in over 30 nations and three languages via it’s online web store at www.make-me-beautiful.co.uk together with partner sites from it’s headquarters in Wimbledon, London and customer service centre in Florida, USA. Make Me Beautiful is a trading name of Rising Dragon Enterprises Ltd.

Media Contact:
Misae Richwoods
UK 0208 123 9800 | USA 646 736 7768
press@make-me-beautiful.co.uk
www.make-me-beautiful.co.uk

 

Entertainment

Phoenix Actor & Advocate Tank Jones Stars in Avatar’s Brand New “Stitched” Comic Book Series

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Film star, advocate and vocalist Tank Jones, who played the irrepressible Walter Pruitt in the short thriller, Stitched, now lends his character to Avatar’s adapted comic books series by the same name.

Phoenix, AZ, Thursday – September 22, 2011 — Film star, advocate and vocalist Tank Jones, who played the irrepressible Walter Pruitt in the short thriller, Stitched, now lends his character to Avatar’s adapted comic books series by the same name. The first edition is scheduled for release this November.

Jones, who commutes between bases in Los Angeles and Phoenix, said, “I’m thrilled. I’ve been told I’ve achieved the ‘coolest Dad around’ status,” said Jones. “Who doesn’t want to be immortalized as comic book hero?”

A working film and television actor since 1996, Jones starred alongside Hollywood royalty the likes of George Clooney, in Three Kings. Other high profile projects include Any Given Sunday, Breaking Bad, Invasion, and the popular CSI series.

In Stitched, the fifteen-minute short thriller written by the acclaimed Garth Ennis, Jones guides co-stars Lauren Alonzo and Kate Kugler to safety after a helicopter crash in the Afghanistan mountainside. Pruitt must navigate the blistering terrain in the epicenter of Taliban-controlled territory. Bracing against hunger, thirst and injury, Pruitt refuses to give in and perseveres.

“Tank gave a terrific audition; it was obvious he instantly understood the character of Walter Pruitt. Working with him was tremendous- he delivered on every level, and I’d work with him again in a second,” said Ennis.

Things take a horrific turn when trio encounters something worse than enemy fighters – an ancient supernatural power known as, The Stitched. Blood thirsting, relentless and serving a twenty-first century evil, the predators inhabit the dead and stop at nothing to destroy their prey from stem to stern, literally.

The Stitched comic book series launches with a #1 issue authored by Ennis, adapted form his original screenplay. Mike Wolfer embodies Ennis’ story with gruesome imagery, and will continue to contribute to both scripting and artwork after the 6th edition. Stitched #1 is recommended for mature audiences for violence and strong language.

“It’s true, Pruitt’s a noble soldier who encounters an evil many are never subjected to,” said Jones. “But he’s motivated by his certainty that they will get home; they’re going to survive, even if the Calvary never comes.”

That same message resonated with Jones, himself a passionate advocate for making positive choices in the midst of adversity. In 2003, Jones founded a non-profit 501© 3 he named, Choices. “We want to convey to kids of every age is that they can practice integrity n their lives,” said Jones.

“We use the ‘K’ purposely, to convey our belief that while no one is perfect, each person has the ability to make good choices.” He often travels to Phoenix to speak to kids about issues such as peer pressure, respect and work ethic, working with school districts including Kyrene, Chandler and Tolleson.

Learn more about Choices online at http://www.ItsYourChoices.org

Jones has steadily earned household recognition of his unusual nickname – given when he was 2 – but not always for the reasons he’d prefer. Tank Jones is also the name of Levi Johnston’s (of Palin family folklore) former bodyguard. “I get all sorts of calls from publications like the Enquirer. But I’m not the same guy!”

Learn more about Tank Jones online at http://www.tankjones.com

Jones is anticipating the return of his character, Walter Pruitt, in Avatar Press’ new publication. Plans are in place to produce a full-length film version of Garth Ennis’ Stitched, due for release in 2013.

About Stitched:
The STITCHED short film is a joint venture of Avatar Press, Spitfire Productions Ltd., and Mischief Maker Studios. For more information on the STITCHED DVD release and comic book series, please visit the website http://www.FearTheStitched.com.

Press & Media Contact:
Scott Kelly
Black Dog Promotions
9920 S. Rural Rd., Ste 108
Tempe AZ, 85284 – USA
480-206-3435
scott@blackdogpromotions.com
http://www.blackdogpromotions.com

Financial

Sharon Lechter, Co-Author of Best-selling Rich Dad Series Serves as Keynote Speaker During Uganda’s 6th Annual Financial Literacy Week

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International best-selling author, entrepreneur, advocate and speaker, Sharon Lechter, will serve as a keynote speaker for the Sixth annual Financial Literacy Week in Kampala, Uganda, to be held from September 28th through October 1st, 2011.

Scottsdale, AZ, Thursday – September 22, 2011 — International best-selling author, entrepreneur, advocate and speaker, Sharon Lechter, will serve as a keynote speaker for the Sixth annual Financial Literacy Week in Kampala, Uganda, to be held from September 28th through October 1st, 2011.

A passionate advocate of financial education, Lechter has focused her efforts on developing tools to inspire families and children to create security and build wealth. As founder of Pay Yourself First, LLC, ( http://payyourfamilyfirst.com ) and co-founder and former CEO of the Rich Dad Company, Lechter’s earned continued acclaim for her work. She co-authored the popular Rich Dad Poor Dad series; and most recently, in conjunction with the Napoleon Hill Foundation, released two new books in the Think and Grow Rich series: Three Feet from Gold and Outwitting the Devil.

Uganda’s Financial Literacy Week is an annual event tasked with creating public awareness regarding finances. The mission includes promoting financial discipline such as saving and investing. The ultimate goal is to eradicate the cycle of poverty, ensuring sustainable intergenerational wealth and financial freedom.

“It doesn’t matter what language they speak, or what currency they use, parents everywhere want their children to succeed. The need for financial literacy is a global issue and I applaud Uganda for leading the charge in providing financial education to its young people. It is an honor and a privilege to participate in the Sixth Annual Financial Literacy Week,” said Lechter.

This year organizers plan to target a variety of public service professionals including teachers, nurses, students, uniformed officers, and women groups, and will conclude with a breakfast Saturday for business leaders and diplomats.

Martin D. Muhwezi, Managing Director of the Investors Club, LTD. in Kampala, said, “Financial Literacy is the ability to make informed judgments and effective decisions regarding the use and management of money. It is a life skill that every income earner or potential income earner needs to achieve their financial goals, and live a financially comfortable life.”

Welcoming Lechter with enthusiasm, Muhwezi said, “We plan to launch Financial Literacy clubs in high schools here in Uganda next year, and want to partner with Sharon to donate materials we can use to teach African youth and children the principles of money management.”

Lechter will share the podium with her husband, Michael Lechter, a leading intellectual property U.S. attorney, certified licensing professional and university professor and best-selling author, who served as an advisor to the original Rich Dad series.

Formerly a partner in the international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, Michael is an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University, and a lecturer at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Together with Sharon, the two own a number of small businesses, including the acclaimed Cherry Creek Lodge ( http://cherrycreeklodge.com ).

Upon return from Uganda, Lechter will continue to dedicate herself to promoting the message of empowered personal success outlined in, Outwitting the Devil.

Press & Media Contact:
Scott Kelly
Black Dog Promotions
9920 S. Rural Rd., Ste 108
Tempe AZ, 85284 – USA
480-206-3435
scott@blackdogpromotions.com
http://www.blackdogpromotions.com
http://cherrycreeklodge.com
http://payyourfamilyfirst.com

Business, Computers, Internet & Online, Security, Software, Technology

TrustTone Communications Appliances – BEST BUY for Email Encryption

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San Jose, CA, September 21, 2011 – TrustTone Communications, Inc., the leader in Email Encryption technology, today announced it has been rated Best Buy by SC Magazine. The Best Buy designation reflects the coveted Five Star rating for every aspect of the product – Features, Ease of Use, Performance, Documentation, Support and Value for Money. TrustTone continues to provide the most comprehensive feature set at the lowest cost.

“Simple, effective, secure. This is just what this doctor ordered.” notes SC Magazine.

“TrustTone is the perfect solution for email privacy compliance for organization large and small. The product offers depth of functionality and configuration flexibility with very low total cost of ownership,” said Hemant Thakkar, CEO of TrustTone Communications. “We are thrilled to earn the Best Buy designation by SC Magazinne. It validates our approach to creating value for our customers.”

About TrustTone Communications, Inc.
TrustTone Communications is a premier provider of highly secure, easy to use, email encryption appliances, email encryption servers, email encryption desktop products and hosted service for email encryption. The products are based on the foundation technology of Identity Based Encryption on PKI. TrustTone is privately-owned and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.

For more information, visit www.trusttone.com.

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Apparel & Fashion, Consumer Services, Internet & Online, Retail, Shopping

Weekly DiscountVouchers.co.uk Deals Help Brits Save on Top Brand Fashions

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20 September 2011 – UK consumers who want to refresh their wardrobes ahead of the autumn season can get hold of new styles from top name stores on a budget thanks to new deals announced by voucher codes site DiscountVouchers.co.uk. Joules, New Look and ASOS are among the big names available with saving through the website this week.

Home to more than 800 leading stores and retailers, DiscountVouchers.co.uk helps shoppers save money on all manner of top quality products and services. Clothing from New Look is on show right now with New Look discount code choices available such as 2 for £20 on men’s jeans and women’s printed t-shirts 2 for £14.

Another of the country’s best loved high street style outlets is featured this week on DiscountVouchers.co.uk in the shape of Joules. Consumers can bring their wardrobes up to date without blowing a fortune thanks to the new Joules clothing deals available including free delivery on all orders over £100 and £64 off a Catella Women’s Playsuit.

Kitting oneself with some new styles from another of the UK’s top stores – ASOS – can be done thanks to the DiscountVouchers.co.uk website offering new savings at the famous store. The voucher codes specialist is this week home to new ASOS discount deals which include up to 70% off in the ASOS outlet sale and also free delivery worldwide on all orders.

Doug Scott, managing director at DiscountVouchers.co.uk, comments, “Thanks to the fact that our site is updated all the time we’re always able to offer people massive savings on big brands. With the autumn season on the way we’re able to help people get money off at Joules, ASOS and New Look – a real boost to people’s wallets right now.”

DiscountVouchers.co.uk offers consumers money saving deals at major high street brands and specialist retailers, including stores like Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Travelodge, First Choice, lastminute.com and Boden.

For more information visit www.discountvouchers.co.uk
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About DiscountVouchers.co.uk
DiscountVouchers.co.uk features the latest money saving offers from a growing range of retailers, all updated in real time. Designed to help consumers save money with both leading high street brands and specialist retailers, DiscountVouchers.co.uk offers one of the widest choices of discounts available.

Part of ASAP Ventures Ltd, the company behind the award winning Carrentals.co.uk price comparison site, DiscountVouchers.co.uk is committed to offering a growing range of the best savings available online.

Media Contact
Context PR
Tel: 0844 448 1489
press@discountvouchers.co.uk

Contact Details: Oliver Jones
DiscountVouchers.co.uk (Asap Ventures)
www.discountvouchers.co.uk
0844 448 1489

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Consumer Services, Entertainment, Gaming, Internet & Online, Law

Report: 45% of online casino and gambling sites hold operating licenses not issued within the UK’s ‘whitelisted’ jurisdictions

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London, UK, September 20, 2011 — With players creating around 5 million new casino and online gambling accounts each year, the public remain unaware of risks associated with insufficient licensing and regulation.

The UK Gambling Commission maintains a ‘whitelist’ of countries which provide satisfactory regulation for online gaming licenses. If a casino does not have a license from one of these whitelisted jurisdictions then it is not allowed to advertise within the UK – but that does not prevent UK citizens from finding and joining these potentially risky sites.

Over 1,100 online gaming sites operate with licenses issued by whitelisted jurisdictions. This includes licenses from locations such as Gibraltar, Malta and Alderney, all of which the UK Gambling Commission considers to have sufficient regulation for player protection.

Over 900 casino and wagering sites, around 45% of the total, continue to hold licenses issued outside of the safe jurisdictions whitelisted by the Commission. These jurisdictions tend to have insufficient regulation, and lack satisfactory methods for mediation and resolution of players’ problems. Countless gambling sites are also operating with absolutely no license and a complete lack of regulation.

One newly launched website – www.Top20CasinoReviews.co.uk – aims to help UK players discover the safest online gaming sites.

“People usually have no idea if a casino has a license from a country approved by the UK Gambling Commission,” said Philip Jones, manager of Top 20 Casino Reviews UK. “With literally thousands of casino websites available to UK players, the new resource is dedicated to providing players with only the most reliable licensed casino information.”

The new site also allows players to view the top casinos in a variety of categories including casinos for mobile phones, sites offering live dealers via online video, and casinos accepting popular payment options such as PayPal and Ukash.

In addition to reviewing licensed casinos, the parent site at www.UKZap.com provides a full range of bingo, poker and sports betting reviews, as well as the Lucky Friends social site offering member prizes and free advice for players.

For additional information contact Philip Jones or visit www.UKZap.com

About UKZap.com :
UKZap.com is committed to providing the UK public with trustworthy online gaming information and resources. An important part of that commitment is conducting checks of proper licensing held by each gaming site as well as reviewing customer support and overall satisfaction of members. In this way UKZap.com assists UK players in discovering the most reliable casinos and wagering sites.

Contact:
Philip Jones, manager
UKZap.com
0844-588-5551
press@ukzap.com
http://www.Top20CasinoReviews.co.uk

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Technology

GuardTime Keyless Signatures Sign 98% of SEB Estonia Banking Transactions, Protecting against Fraud

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GuardTime, today announced that SEB Estonia, a member of the international SEB Group,has selected the Keyless Signature Service for assuring the integrity for all of their electronic banking transactions, providing customers with indisputable proof that the bank’s assets are protected against insider attacks, external breaches and fraud.

Mountainview, CA / Tallinn, Estonia – Tuesday – September 20, 2011 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ),creator of the patented Keyless Signature technology used to convert the trust relationship between business operations and data to one based on proof, today announced that SEB Estonia, a member of the international SEB Group, has selected the Keyless Signature Service for assuring the integrity for all of their electronic banking transactions, providing customers with indisputable proof that the bank’s assets are protected against insider attacks, external breaches and fraud.

Ninety-eight percent of all banking transactions at SEB Estonia are carried out electronically; at an ATM, online via the web, or through a mobile device. By signing their banking transaction logs using the GuardTime Keyless Signature Service, SEB Estonia can be assured that attacks against, and the misuse of, their systems and data becomes impossible to conceal.

“With GuardTime’s unique Keyless Signatures service, we are now able to independently prove the time, origin and content for all of our electronic banking transactions,” said Kaido Raiend, Head of IT Security Analysis for SEB Estonia. “As tampered data becomes mathematically-capable to detect, we have the legal proof necessary to confirm that the transactions were conducted and recorded at the times specified and that they remain intact and accurate” even if GuardTime ever ceased to exist.”

GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures ( http://www.guardtime.com ) are stored and archived with each and every SEB Estonia transaction log, providing SEB Estonia proof of time and integrity for the life of their data. As the signatures do not use any public/private encryption keys for long-term verification, the proof will never expire. The signatures are portable, thereby enabling SEBE stonia to electronically archive their signed logs without loss of legal strength; this substantially reduces the bank’s risk as well as their overall paper-based and digital archiving costs.

Around the globe, financial institutions, hardware manufacturers, Telco operators, cloud service providers, legal entities, and insurance companies are using the GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) service to make the electronic world a safer place; a world based on proof rather than trust.

About SEB Estonia:
AS SEB Pank, a member of SEB Group, is an Estonian financial group that serves private individuals, companies and the public sector. The bank is a universal bank that offers its customers a wide range of financial services. The more than 820,000 customers of SEB Pank Group are served by 1300 employees. The customers are served through many different channels such as 38 branch offices, 226 on-line post offices, 350 ATMs, 6191 POS-terminals. There are more than 500 000 debit and credit cards in use. ¾ of customers are served over Internet bank. For more information, visit http://www.seb.ee.

About GuardTime:
A Red Herring Global 100 Winner and Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award Winner, GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: trust. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of data integrity, signing authority, and time. The verification of the signature can be done both online and offline and does not rely on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. GuardTime’s mission is to change the world to one where keyless signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit or in the cloud.

Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing data.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz
MediaPR.net Inc
Singapore
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

Technology

LAN Systems Selected for Third Year as Best of Gwinnett in Best IT Service Category

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As a technology company and service provider, LAN Systems is committed to providing IT services and solutions that make sense for growing companies in the wider Atlanta and North Georgia area.

Norcross, GA, Tuesday – September 20, 2011 — Three years in a row, the readers and editors of Gwinnett Magazine have identified LAN Systems, a leading Atlanta Computer Support company, as Best of Gwinnett in the Best IT Service category. Each year the magazine opens the competition to selecting the Best in Gwinnett from over 30,000 Gwinnett County businesses. It is no small feat to be selected among the many nominations.

As a technology company and service provider, LAN Systems is committed to providing IT services and solutions that make sense for growing companies in the wider Atlanta and North Georgia area. Today, IT is required to maintain a competitive advantage in any industry and the more a company utilizes IT for its daily and strategic operations, the more benefit is received. Not long ago, companies struggled with implementing an IT infrastructure that would not consume more than it delivered, but now IT is an essential part of a thriving business. IT makes operations easy and contributes steadily to the bottom line.

“LAN Systems is honored to be selected as Best IT Service for the Best of Gwinnett for the third year,” said CEO Mary Hester. “Our dream is to provide IT service that always exceeds the expectations of our customers. We strive not only to make IT productive and problem free, but to serve the business goals of our customers. We are happy to know we are meeting that mark.”

Over the past few years, LAN Systems has been adapting its business and technology model to meet the growing demands of businesses. “Cloud Computing and online solutions are a large part of the modern IT infrastructure,” said Lauren Maxwell, VP Sales and Marketing. “Technological advances make Cloud and online solutions extremely affordable and robust.”

In order to provide the best in class IT service, support packages include onsite, remote and HelpDesk support bundled with monitoring options. This complete coverage is needed to address the needs of growing businesses and is recognized by LAN Systems as an essential part of today’s IT support.

About Gwinnett Magazine:
For more than a decade, Gwinnett Magazine has been the definitive source of business and lifestyle news from Gwinnett County. The magazine is published nine times per year, with six regular issues and three special issues – the annual Best of Gwinnett and People to Know issues plus the Wiki Guide to Gwinnett. It boasts a readership of nearly 100,000 local residents. For more information, visit: www.gwinnettmagazine.com

About LAN Systems:
LAN Systems is a leading Atlanta IT Consulting firm that provides people-focused IT solutions. As technology experts, LAN Systems helps companies make the most of their existing IT investment and choose the right solutions to fuel growth. LAN Systems is a leading provider of IT Solutions for growing businesses in the Metro Atlanta. For more information, visit: http://www.lansystems.com

Press & Media Contact:
Lauren Maxwell
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
LAN Systems
6015-D Atlantic Blvd
Norcross, GA 30071
770 662-0312
lauren@lansystems.com
http://www.lansystems.com

Technology

Arkibiz Partners with GuardTime to Provide Auditable E-Documents and Records Management in the Cloud

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Truly paperless, fully auditable, all cloud.

Singapore/ Kuala Lumpur – Tuesday – September 20, 2011 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), creator of the patented Keyless Signature technology used to provide indisputable proof of time, origin, and integrity for electronic information, today announced that its Keyless Signatures will be adopted by ARKIBIZ, a leader in cloud-based information management solutions aimed at providing proof of data and transaction integrity for e-documents and records management.

Up to 80% of today’s business information is created and managed in unstructured form; it is expected to rise to 90% or more in the coming years. According to recent IDC estimates, every 5.5 years ofdata managed by enterprises will grow by a factor of 10.According to collaborative research conducted by NetApp and marketing research firm ACNielsen, ERP, CRM, and corporate emails are the leading causes of this massive growth in data, where roughly 62% of the total enterprise data is affected.

Document and records management solutions have become an essential part of the everyday IT infrastructure. However, not all organizations can invest in enterprise-level solutions such as those from vendors like IBM, Oracle, and EMC. The Ebikko solution from ARKIBIZ is a cloud-based, full multi-tenant EDRMS solution with a highly-customizable workflow module. The rich functionalities of the EDRMS are accessed seamlessly through a web browser on the desktop without the user ever having to install any software.

GuardTime’s Keyless Signature technology is used by ARKIBIZ to sign the records and archived files managed by the ARKIBIZ EDRMS solution. This provides consumers with undeniable proof of authenticity and integrity of both the process and the data. Having audit-ready, independently-verifiable data that captures all transactions and documents solves a variety of compliance issues and a host of potentially business-damaging disputes otherwise left to trust. By converting trust to proof, companies can also reduce their dependency on paper-based transactions while improving overall productivity across their entire document workflow process.

“GuardTime’s innovative technology ( http://www.guardtime.com ) changes the game for the EDRMS market,” said Steve Kucia, Director of Global Sales and Marketing, ARKIBIZ. “With the integration of Keyless Signatures in our offering, our customers gain proof of authenticity for their data and surrounding workflow, regardless of the information being stored on their disks, crossing the wire, or hosted in the cloud.”

“Technologies brought to market prior to GuardTime’s patented Keyless Signatures have failed to deliver simple and lasting solutions for digital data integrity,” said Mike Gault, GuardTime CEO. “There has been an unacceptable amount of reliance on the various layers of security designed to ‘trust’ the data. This issue of trust is totally exposed in the cloud, where the data itself needs to carry with it the proof of time, integrity and origin. With GuardTime’s Keyless Signature Service ( http://www.guardtime.com ), an organization’s most valuable digital assets are assured with provable integrity regardless of where they are stored, who needs to verify them, and when.”

This announcement follows a string of similar partner integration deals that include such companies as Japan’s Brother Industries, web-hosting provider Joyent, whose customers include Twitter and LinkedIn, and cloud-based eDiscovery service provider, Cernam.

About ARKIBIZ:
ARKIBIZ assists companies in the management of their information according to their business lifecycles, enabling them to comply with local and international standards and regulations. ARKIBIZ provides cloud-based data management solutions for records, documents, business process information, and archives. ARKIBIZ Ebikko solution platform is sold by over 40 resellers in more than 10 countries.

About GuardTime:
A Red Herring Global 100 Winner and Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award Winner, GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: trust. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of data integrity, signing authority, and time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without the reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. GuardTime’s mission is to change the world to one where keyless signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing data.

GuardTime PR Contact
Victor Cruz, MediaPR
+1 978.594.4134
vcruz@mediapr.net

ARKIBIZ Contact
Steve Kucia, Director Global Sales and Marketing
+61 2 8005 7143
steve.kucia@arkibiz.com

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz
MediaPR.net Inc
Singapore
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

Art, Consumer Services, Entertainment, Internet & Online, Media, Music, Software, Technology, Web 2.0

MusiCHI Suite: The New Music Software Manager And Player Dedicated To Classical, Jazz Or Other More Demanding Genre Of Music Is Now Available

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MusiCHI Suite is the first integrated computer software application to manage your music files, completely dedicated to classical, jazz or other more demanding genre of music. It is the only digital music suite where the user can actually play and organize his music in an intelligent way, allowing him to change the order and number of columns on the screen and find his tracks in the most flexible manner. MusiCHI Suite includes 4 applications (Player, Ripper, Tagger, Library Manager), each optimized for their task, where newly introduced fields, such as Instruments, Composition, Period, Performers, Style, relevant to music classification can be utilized. Unlike other programs, in theMusiCHI Suite any field, any data, you see on screen is written inside the audio files , therefore, reducing the importance of the library, which becomes just the temporarily catalog of the files’ metadata, used only for fast and flexible searches. Bringing back the focus to the music files themselves and freeing you from any proprietary software library database.

Furthermore, we use a database engine that allows virtually unlimited size of libraries. MusiCHI Suite is a multi – library system , allowing for one more level of grouping, for example Classical, Jazz, World Music, etc. According to the library, the user interface, audio tracks data and tagging pick lists can change, since different styles of music have different logic and personalities: with classical music Composer/Composition is more valuable information than Artist/Album, for example.

The Suite is equipped with a complete reference database (MusiCHI Clean ©®) for classical music, where more than 5000 entries (composers, performers, orchestras, etc.) have been properly corrected and normalized with full respect of their local spelling (umlaut, accents etc.), i.e. the program is fully Unicode compliant. Furthermore, it has a composition engine search covering for the moment the integrated music collection of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Vivaldi. The composition engine search will soon be completed with the compositions of other famous composers.

MusiCHI Suite Version 2.1 comes with step by step tutorials and help files leading the user to learn the program and its powerful features quickly and easily. In Version 2.1, new capabilities have been added such as the possibility to play music files without them being part of a music library, the possibility to see the album/compositions covers in a graphical carousel view, the possibility to change the fonts sizes so that the user can play with the software remotely from his couch, the possibility to extract the content of the music library for printing via a spreadsheet. Furthermore, the player can read directly the CD booklet (in pdf format) with a single click, can browse any relevant internet pages linked to a track (Wikipedia etc.), potentially transforming the application to be a front-end to a music knowledge based system. Via the Windows clipboard, the Ripper can use, for its metadata, pretty much any source coming from the WEB or other documents. The playlists are now compatible with the m3u and m3u8 formats. In order to explore the numerous capabilities of the software, you can download from http://www.musichi.eu/index.php/en/downloaddemo, the free trial version (the full featured program with a limited activation time). We have also, included a demo librarywith prepared musical clips (courtesy of Hyperion Records), that can show how classical music can be tagged, “the MusiCHI way”. With these files you can experiment with the other tools of the Suite, especially our tag editor that is considered undoubtedly one of the best (if not the best) of its kind.

MusiCHI Suite Version 2.1 can play FLAC files up to 24 bits/ 385.2 KHZ, and offers additional support for MP3, MP4, APE, WMA and M4A. As we do not offer volume adjustment within the player, we do not add any digital distortion. MusiCHI Suite is ASIO Drivers compatible, including ASIO4ALL, allowing to by-pass the video sound mixer of Windows and achieving bit perfect digital output (we have passed bit transparency tests with a Weiss DAC202). MusiCHI Suite is designed to run on Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista or 7).

MusiCHI Suite is available in 3 versions: MusiCHI Studio (launching price 39 euros, approx. 54 US$) which includes the 4 applications (Player, Ripper, Tagger, Library Manager), MusiCHI Portable (launching price 19 euros, approx. 26 US$) a unique application that allows the user to transport and play all his digital music library on any other PC without any further configuration than plug a USB drive and MusiCHI Ultimo(launching price 49 euros, approx. 68 US$) which apart from the 4 applications, includes also the Portable Edition.

MusiCHI Suite is available through the website address: www.musichi.eu.

Contact details:
Myrto Skotida, T. +306974417252, m.skotida@musichi.eu

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