The online store continues to cater for all skin care types and conditions. There now seems to be a wider variety of professional skin care products, cosmetics, self tanning and natural skin care solutions.

Some of the professional brands to find on CiaoBellaOnline.com.au include: Dermalogica, nimue, ASAP, Gatineau Paris, Pure Fiji, Youngblood Mineral Cosmetics, Fake Bake, Sun FX, St Tropez, Botanical Extracts and Refreshed Lemon Myrtle.

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The 2nd annual 2009 ASMA study included a review of 34 automotive website providers. The report reviews each company's ability to enhance a dealer's online presence and search marketing experience. The results of this year's study were first announced at the Digital Dealer Conference in Nashville, where ASMA awards were handed out to a select group of industry leaders identified by the report.

The ASMA report identifies 9 outstanding companies that Pasch says, 'Should be on the short list of any car dealer looking for an Internet marketing platform.' These companies, according to Pasch, are providing car dealers with the best tools for search marketing and search engine optimization.

Members of the automotive community can use the data provided in the 2009 ASMA study as a guide for discussions with automotive platform providers and as a foundation for an educated evaluation of automotive marketing platforms.

Brian Pasch, CEO of the Pasch Consulting Group, is the underwriter of the study. According to Pasch, 'With a growing number of automotive website platforms for dealers to choose from, it was decided that the industry needed an independent and unbiased review of website technology providers.'

Dealers can obtain copies of the report for $75 by calling the Pasch Consulting Group at 732-450-8200 or sending an email to carrie@paschconsulting.com .

About Pasch Consulting Group

The Pasch Consulting Group is an automotive Internet marketing company and works with all major dealer platforms when providing Internet marketing services to car dealers across the nation. PCG focuses on off-site SEO strategies, geo-targeted lead generation, search engine marketing and Internet reputation management.

Brian Pasch is the CEO of the Pasch Consulting Group. Brian is an 20-year veteran of the direct marketing industry. His career has spanned both management and technology roles.

PCG works for and with an ever-growing number of businesses large and small from all over the country to maximize results of their digital marketing efforts.

Visit their automotive marketing website at: http://www.dealer-seo.com

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LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK — Fox Audience Network (FAN), a division of News Corporation, and WPP (WPPGY:NASDAQ) today announced a partnership to provide marketers with more accurate and in-depth information to increase the effectiveness of their digital marketing investments.

FAN will work with units of WPP's Kantar and WPP Digital under the terms of the new partnership. These collaborations will provide marketers with better insight across inventory aggregated by both FAN and the Media Innovation Group of WPP Digital.

WPP companies will gain access to FAN's Audience Segmentation service to enrich their insights, planning and measurement offerings. The enhanced audience segmentation services will enable WPP clients to understand and reach highly customized yet anonymous groups of consumers who share relevant interests, such as autos, games, movies or music. In addition, FAN will gain access to deep consumer insights from Kantar, the research arm of WPP, broadening the information available in its Audience Segmentation platform.

'There is more data than most online marketers know what to do with but not enough insight or action,' said Mark Read, CEO of WPP Digital. 'We are delighted to be working with FAN to integrate Audience Insights into the various WPP platforms, extending FAN's analytics across more publishers and more channels, online and offline, than ever before.'

'In working with WPP, we gain a valuable partner as we extend our Audience Insights platform, which already covers more than 80% of online consumers in the U.S., into the most comprehensive audience analytics service in the industry,' said Adam Bain, President of Fox Audience Network. 'Together, we will create new insights for marketers about who is visiting their digital properties and how particular audience segments are responding to marketing messages.'

Specifically the partnership includes the following:

• Compete, a division of Kantar Media, will integrate enhanced features from FAN's Audience Insights platform into its Compete PRO offering, the leading online measurement and digital intelligence service (found at www.compete.com).

• WPP Digital's Media Innovation Group will incorporate elements of the FAN media planning suite into ZAP, its proprietary digital advertising platform.

• FAN will aggregate additional retail and other information on an anonymous basis from Kantar Media into its Audience Insights platform to provide more robust audience segments to advertisers.

About WPP
WPP is the world's largest communications services group. Through its operating companies, the Group provides a comprehensive range of advertising and marketing services including advertising; media investment management; information, insight and consultancy; public relations and public affairs; branding and identity; healthcare communications; direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing and specialist communications. The company employs 145,000 people (including associates) in 2,400 offices in 107 countries. For more information, visit www.wpp.com.

About FAN
The Fox Audience Network (FAN) is a unit of News Corporation that supports monetization efforts across the company's online content portfolio, as well as third-party publisher sites. FAN leverages proprietary advertising technology to create highly-targeted advertising campaigns for a wide range of marketers, while also delivering cutting-edge tools and services to third-party publisher partners, advertising agencies and research companies. FAN works directly with hundreds of advertisers to develop customized marketing programs that optimize both branded and performance-based strategies. The company also developed and manages a self-serve advertising platform, which is currently utilized by more than 30,000 advertisers. In all, FAN reaches more than 158 million consumers each month* and owns partnerships with more than 700 online publishers.

*Source: comScore Media Metrix, September 2009

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New York - CashEdge, Inc. (www.cashedge.com), the preeminent provider of financial account aggregation services to brokerages, wealth management firms and financial advisors, today announced that its industry leading aggregation solution, AllData Advisor, is now available to financial advisors via online, self-service subscription.

The availability of the self-service subscription model offers independent financial advisors the opportunity to take advantage of recent enhancements to AllData Advisor, which include new, highly intuitive and customizable features that help advisors provide better advice and capture more assets. Financial advisors can visit www.AllDataAdvisor.com to subscribe to the aggregation service today.

"Account aggregation is a critical tool for today's leading financial advisors, enabling them to provide more targeted guidance, capture held-away assets and improve client satisfaction and retention," said Tom Roberts, Senior VP & General Manager of Wealth Management for CashEdge, Inc. "CashEdge is committed to making account aggregation accessible and affordable for all advisors. By offering AllData Advisor directly to advisors through a simple, cost-effective self-service subscription, all advisors have the opportunity to benefit from a holistic view of their clients assets."

AllData Advisor is currently used by thousands of advisors nationwide and offers the widest and deepest aggregation coverage in the market with more than 10,000 sources, including banking, investment, retirement, insurance, credit card, mortgages and annuities. AllData Advisor also integrates with leading wealth management platforms, such as Albridge, eMoney Advisor and MoneyGuidePro, which enables advisors to fold account aggregation into their current processes and leverage the investments they've already made in various technology solutions.

CashEdge will be hosting an informational webinar titled, "Account Aggregation: the Best Investment an Advisor Can Make," on November 17, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. EST. All financial advisors are invited to attend. To register, please visit www.AllDataAdvisor.com.
About CashEdge Brokerage & Wealth Management Division

CashEdge is the preeminent provider of financial account aggregation services to brokerages, wealth management firms, financial advisors and providers of personal financial management applications. These services are highly secure and provide a holistic view of a client's or consumer's financial picture, delivering aggregated data from more than 10,000 sources, including banking, investment, retirement, insurance, credit card, mortgages and annuities. For more information, visit www.AllDataAdvisor.com. The Company is headquartered in New York with offices in Silicon Valley and India. For more information, visit www.cashedge.com.

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Google Commerce Search brings retailers:

* Ultra-fast speed and accuracy, by leveraging Google's platform to provide sub-second response time to customer queries. Commerce Search also uses proprietary ranking technology to analyze the products in each data feed and serve the most relevant match. High quality, lightening-fast search increases conversions, as customers can quickly find specific products without having to navigate complex hierarchies on a website.

* E-commerce-specific search features, like parametric search, sorting, spell checker, stemming, and synonym suggestions. These features allow users to easily refine their searches. Retail-specific features like product promotions and product boost allow administrators to fine-tune their marketing approach in real-time and maximize conversions. The rich Commerce Search API also allows retailers to fully customize the search experience on their website.

* Deployment and scaling ease, because Commerce Search is hosted by Google and fully based in the cloud. Retailers can implement the tool very quickly and don't need to worry about maintenance. Using the hosted Google platform also allows retailers to scale without concern for seasonal peaks or valleys.

* Integration with Google tools, like Google Analytics™ and Google Product Search™. Retailers can measure changing conversion rates through Commerce Search integration with Google Analytics on their website. E-commerce vendors benefit from providing a single feed of their catalog items to power Google Commerce Search for their website store and for indexing on Google Product Search. This helps retailers reduce costs and increase consistency across their inventory.

"We're excited to bring Google Commerce Search to market in time for the holidays," said Dave Girouard, president, Google Enterprise. "To date the technology powering retail website stores has not kept pace with innovation in search. Google Commerce Search will help customers find accurate results extremely fast, to the benefit of retailers and customers alike.'"

Birkenstock USA has implemented Google Commerce Search on one of their online properties and found it made an immediate impact on their business.

"'Google Commerce Search is improving user satisfaction -- bounce rates have decreased and we're seeing more return customers,' said Jeff Kilmer, COO, Birkenstock USA. 'The search results are ultra-fast, so customers more easily find the specific products they're looking for. We deployed Google Commerce Search quickly and easily, and we've seen dramatic conversion improvement since implementation. It has also meant a better shopping experience for our customers, which is critical given the holiday season rush."

Better searching means better conversions and a better online shopping experience. Learn more about Google Commerce Search at www.google.com/commercesearch.

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Web CEO, LTD, a developer of the premium SEO software suite for search engine optimization and web promotion, announces discount prices on the best-featured editions of Web CEO: Web CEO SmallBiz Unleashed and Web CEO Professional Unleashed.

Web CEO is available at discounted prices from November 3 till November 21. During this time Web CEO SmallBiz Unleashed is 62% off the regular price and Web CEO Professional Unleashed is 52% off.
Having entered the SEO tools market almost 10 years ago, Web CEO won popularity among both novice and professional search engine optimizers. Combining all necessary web-marketing tools into one suite is not the only secret of Web CEO's success. Our developers keep watch on industry changes and implement updates into the software.

Nowadays, when successful Internet marketing means more than just search engine optimization, web marketers need special tools for social media promotion. Innovativeness, constant research and responsibility are secrets of Web CEO's success.

One more feature of Web CEO is the theoretic Internet marketing knowledge that is provided with the software. All Web CEO editions includes search engine marketing training and certification. Besides the Web CEO University training course, the software users receive SEO MixTour, a free newsletter full of SEO news, web marketing basics, tips and advice on web promotion.

Web CEO special prices allow anyone to take advantage of the Web CEO Unleashed editions at attractive prices. Learn more on the discount prices at http://www.webceo.com/pricing/index.htm#exclusive

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The CIO CEE conference (www.europecongress.com/index.php/events/ciocee) will focus on competitive intelligence, key input for successful budgetary and strategic business planning.

The CIO CEE offers the perfect platform and the opportunity to join and network with the CIO's from various verticals in the industry, experts in thought-provoking sessions to help develop and implement the company strategy for the upturn. The participants will learn how to optimize their process costs, how to add value into their business by identifying potential in the latest industry innovations, better customer understanding and to learn how to exploit latest competitive IT intelligence. The CIO CEE Conference will allow the participants to have the opportunity to meet with the CIO's from various industries who are actively seeking new solutions and expertise, benchmark best practices, walk away with qualified leads, and to discuss the hottest trends in the market.

The conference will have a cutting edge conference agenda with key speakers addressing topics such as: IT outsourcing in the financial crisis period or how it could improve core in the Business activities, process re-engineering, and how to save on procurement, the future in software, Agile vs Waterfall, IT security, cloud computing, green IT, and other.

The CIO CEE Conference is an international event which will gather the key speakers and experts from the Central and Eastern European countries.

CEEOA brings together the Associated bodies of the CEE region in a powerful, active and developing association to exchange thought leadership and network to position the Central and Eastern European region as competitive alternative to other global IT and business process outsourcing destinations. As one of the main objectives of CEEOA is to increase regional and international competitiveness through improving business viabilities and services delivery capabilities of the CEE Service providers and sharing of best practices, expert information and research findings, benefits and innovative solutions of outsourcing industry.

CEEOA supported the event with the aim to popularize IT Outsourcing services of the CEE providers. According to the research 'Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2008' the value of the IT outsourcing market in the CEE region reached 3 bln US dollars. The research provides an evidence of the rapid development of IT outsourcing services market in the Central and Eastern Europe. As there has been a shift from simple cost savings as a motivation to valuing the experience of outsourcing services providers and efficiency of cooperation between the client and provider teams. The advantages of the CEE countries such as cultural compatibility with Europe and North America, technical and business experience are of great value for the clients.

CEEOA consider the support of the CIO CEE Conference to be a great opportunity to present the potential of the CEE providers and to show how IT outsourcing services could be used in successful budgetary and strategic business planning, and how outsourcing could help to optimize the business process costs.

Europe Congress

Europe Congress (www.europecongress.com) provides high level strategic business and deal flow information platforms around Europe, mainly in the Central and Eastern European countries with tailored practical conferences, events, seminars, trainings and sports hospitality. Europe Congress produces events in major cities: Prague, Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest, Brussels, Berlin and Vienna, just to name few. The main objective of Europe Congress is to offer the C-Level Executives the opportunities to network and most importantly to walk away with qualified leads and high level of satisfaction.

About CEEOA

Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) (www.ceeoa.org) was founded in 2008. The members of the association are the leading national IT and Outsourcing associations from the Central and Eastern Europe, among them Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association (HOA), Employers' Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) and ASPIRE - Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies (Poland). One of the main objectives of CEEOA is to promote the Central and Eastern European Region as competitive alternative to other Global offshoring destinations, and to increase services delivery quality and volume to the recognized standards.

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SADA was one of the original Google Enterprise partners in Google Apps. Since becoming a Google Apps Enterprise Partner SADA has had the opportunity to assist in the implementation of Google Apps for both educational and enterprise organizations. SADA has become one of the nation's leading providers of Google Apps implementations since becoming a partner in 2006. Project requirements for several implementations required the creation of custom tools to meet the needs of the client. These custom tools included utilities for the provisioning of accounts, synchronization with a client's existing identity management solution, and others. SADA realized an opportunity was available to help VARs grow their Cloud-based practice, while reducing their costs.

"There are millions of Small or Mid-size Businesses (SMBs) in the country," says Tony Safoian, president and CEO of SADA Systems, Inc. He adds, "Our goal is to ensure that, for every SMB, there is a skilled VAR to help them deploy cloud-based solutions that save them money." SADA is accepting registrations from interested VARs now, and the CloudToolKit officially launches later this month. For more information, and to sign up visit www.cloudtoolkit.com

SADA Systems, Inc. is a privately held information technology consulting, outsourcing, and development firm founded in 2000. SADA works with its client base to develop innovative technology solutions to business challenges. SADA designs, delivers, deploys and supports a holistic, cutting-edge suite of best-of-breed technologies. This allows organizations to leverage Information Technology to achieve new levels of effectiveness, efficiency, and collaboration. SADA is headquartered in North Hollywood, CA, but participates in projects world-wide. For more information, visit http://www.sadasystems.com.

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Along with describing what the new FTC rules require and may not require of businesses and bloggers, Sifleet and Yudkin discussed five reasons it makes sense to comply with the new regulations:

1. Stay out of trouble. Although it's most likely the FTC will pursue egregious violators who have deep pockets, small players are nevertheless vulnerable to legal hassles and fines if they do not comply with the new regulations.

2. Reduce other risks. Compliance with the new rules will help things go better for you if you get called before the FTC or a brother federal agency for another issue.

3. Earn credibility. As awareness of the new guidelines spreads, potential clients and customers see you in a positive light when you're clearly complying.

4. Avoid second-hand problems. By complying with the rules, you're perceived as less liable if a rogue affiliate or reviewer acts wildly on your behalf.

5. Prevent business damage. Although those based outside the US might think the FTC has no jurisdiction over them, if they have customers, affiliates, web hosting, shopping cart services, etc. based in the US, by complying they avoid those aspects of their operation being targeted by the FTC.

Massachusetts attorney Jean Sifleet of Smartfast.com, the featured expert on the FTC recording, has decades of experience advising both startup and established businesses on safeguarding intellectual property and preventing exposure to liability. She also has a distinguished record of explaining legal issues and their business implications clearly to non-lawyers. Jean Sifleet is the author of three books, including Advantage "IP": Profit From Your Great Ideas, as well as a three-time entrepreneur.

Marcia Yudkin of Yudkin.com, the interviewer on the FTC recording, is the author of 6 Steps to Free Publicity, now in its third edition, and 10 other books. Known world-wide as an expert in creative marketing, Yudkin helps business owners and organizational marketers reach new and existing customers powerfully and cost-effectively.

The recorded program on the new FTC guidelines may be purchased in downloadable MP3 format for $39.97 or as a CD for $42.97, including shipping.

To purchase the MP3 or CD recording on the new FTC rules and how bloggers, publishers, entrepreneurs and business owners can comply with them, go to http://www.yudkin.com/ftc.htm .

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DULUTH, Ga. – NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR ) announced today that it has purchased the assets of Netkey, Inc., a market-leading provider of kiosk and digital signage software applications used by leading companies to deliver a growing range of multi-industry self-service applications such as gift registry, guided selling, endless aisle and human resources functions. Terms were not disclosed.

ABI Research predicts that companies will spend more than $1 billion globally on digital signage solutions next year, growing at an average of 20 percent per year for the next five years, while kiosk deployments will grow an average of 19 percent per year during the same period.

Netkey's enterprise software platform uses a proven scalable architecture that enables fast and flexible development of applications for kiosk and digital signage-based solutions. NCR will combine Netkey's software platform with its own technologies to provide a best-in-class enterprise solution, which includes software applications, one of the broadest hardware portfolios in the industry, and a suite of services. NCR will continue to provide multivendor hardware support with the Netkey solution.

Headquartered in East Haven, Conn., Netkey has over 75,000 kiosks and digital signs installed by more than 400 clients in the retail, finance, transportation, and government sectors. Many of these customers also use NCR 's kiosk, self-checkout or point-of-sale solutions.

'This acquisition makes perfect sense from a customer perspective,' said Jenny Hinsman, vice president of kiosk solutions for Pitney Bowes. 'We use Netkey's application on NCR 's hardware for our Mail & Go Shipping kiosk. We now have one point of contact and, more importantly, are dealing with one company that is now even better positioned to lead the advance and growth of the self-service industry.'

Netkey will provide NCR with a robust digital signage application that is built on the same platform as Netkey's kiosk applications, making NCR's solutions faster to deploy and easier to support.

'Consumers increasingly expect to interact with companies when and how they wish, and businesses are responding by offering their customers a seamless experience across the channel of their choice,' said Mike Webster, vice president and general manager for NCR 's retail line of business. 'This acquisition will enable NCR to help its customers across multiple industries with kiosk and digital signage solutions that deliver more effective transactions, promotions and information as part of a merged channel strategy.

'In doing so, NCR will take a best-in-class solution, combine it with best-in-class hardware and services, and deliver compelling competitive advantage, ultimately on a global basis. Our approach is an example of NCR executing its software-driven, hardware-enabled and services-led corporate strategy.'

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SANTA CLARA, CALIF. – iPHONE DEVELOPER SUMMIT — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today released new product offerings for the iPhone that extend enterprise functionality to service both internal employees and external end users. The new capabilities enable secure device management, rich application development, as well as a complete solution for mobile banking. With these releases, Sybase enables organizations to adopt iPhone as a strategic platform.

Sybase's new iPhone support includes key components of its comprehensive, best-in-class mobile platform. Afaria® now provides industry-leading enterprise device management and policy enforcement for iPhone. SQL Anywhere® database and synchronization technology now brings a proven, scalable way to extend information in enterprise relational databases to line of business applications running on iPhone devices. To meet the growing demand of consumers for mobile banking solutions, the company announced availability of its leading mobile banking iPhone application through the Sybase® mBanking 365™ platform.

'While Apple has made significant progress in making the latest version of iPhone enterprise-ready, there are still a number of challenges in provisioning, management, security and application enablement,' said Jack Gold, President of J.Gold Associates, LLC. 'To achieve true enterprise-class capability, companies should deploy a comprehensive, open, third-party mobility platform capable of filling these gaps. Solutions like Sybase's mobility platform not only support companies looking to proactively deploy iPhones but also to respond to the rapidly growing population of information workers bringing personally-owned smartphones into the enterprise.'

'The popularity of the iPhone and speed at which it has entered the workplace magnifies the challenges of managing and supporting the growing diversity of device types in the enterprise,' said Mort Rosenthal, CEO of Enterprise Mobile, a mobility systems integrator and outsourcer. 'Today's announcement exemplifies Sybase's proven history of rapidly meeting customer demand through open, best-in-class solutions. We are confident that our strategy and enterprise mobility services are future-proof with Sybase.'

'We are significantly expanding our iPhone offerings with advanced enterprise-ready features that are consistent with Apple's direction,' said Raj Nathan, SVP and CMO, Sybase. 'As an increasing number of consumers bring personal smartphones into the enterprise, there is a greater need to extend high levels of application performance, functionality and security to a wider range of mobile devices. Sybase continues to deliver the technology that customers require to fully embrace mobility within their enterprises.'

Delivering on customer demand for helping make iPhone an enterprise-ready, strategic platform, Sybase offers the following new capabilities:

Device Management

* Over-the-air provisioning and certificate-based policy enforcement
* Enforceable administrative policy lockdown control (i.e., passcode, WiFi, VPN/APN, IMAP/POP email settings, and application usage/installation restrictions)
* Accurate compliance reporting
* Device authentication to a corporate directory

Database and Enterprise Synchronization

* Bi-directional synchronization between iPhone and Sybase ASE, SQL Anywhere, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and MySQL databases proven to scale from 1 user to 100,000s of users
* Enterprise-caliber data management and synchronization technologies designed to operate in heterogeneous environments without regular on-site IT maintenance

In Related News
Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce, announced availability of its mobile banking iPhone application through the Sybase mBanking 365™ platform. BBVA Compass is one of the first adopters of the mBanking iPhone application. Click here to view demo of Compass MobileSM.

Sybase today announced the latest release of Afaria®, the industry's leading mobile device management and security solution. Afaria 6.5, a key component of the Sybase's comprehensive mobile platform, comprises new hosting options via a highly-secure multi-tenant infrastructure, enhanced security updates, and a new policy based model for enabling simplified device management across a range of platforms and smartphone devices including iPhone.

Please see press releases at www.sybase.com/press.

Availability
Afaria 6.5 with iPhone support will be generally available in mid November. To learn more about the features and functionality in the new release of Afaria, visit www.sybase.com/afaria. The SQL Anywhere for iPhone beta program is now open, visit www.sybase.com/sqlanyiphone. Sybase will be featuring its latest iPhone solutions at the iPhone Developer Summit, November 2-4, Santa Clara Convention Center. Please visit booth 113 for interactive demos and more information.

Analyst Perspective
Sybase was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant in its 2008 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Enterprise Application Platformsi and was recognized as a mobile middleware market leader for the seventh consecutive year by IDCii. The full reports can be obtained at www.gartner.com and www.idc.com.

About Sybase
Sybase is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world's most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com. Read Sybase blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the 'Leaders' quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

iMagic Quadrant for Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms, Publication Date: 18 December 2008, by William Clark and Michaeacl J. King, ID Number: G00162969.

iiIDC, Worldwide Mobile Middleware 2009-2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares report, Doc # 219186, July 2009.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the availability of Backup Exec System Recovery 2010, a complete data and system backup and recovery solution for small businesses. Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 automates the backup process of an entire system or individual files and folders without disrupting user productivity, and enables quick restores to the same or dissimilar hardware, virtual machines or remote locations. Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 introduces new support of the latest Microsoft operating systems, including Windows 7, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, easing the transition to the new platforms and ensuring continued protection during migration. With the new release, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery will also support Linux operating systems later this year.

'Today's small businesses need the peace of mind that only comes with a cost-effective, reliable backup and recovery solution that will protect their information and systems to minimize downtime and avoid disaster,' said Pat Hanavan, vice president, Symantec Information Management Group. 'Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 provides small businesses with affordable protection so they can easily recover what they need, when they need it and to whatever physical or virtual environment they want.'

For small businesses, backup and recovery is both a challenge and a concern. According to a recent survey¹ of 1,650 small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and their customers, there is a large discrepancy between how SMBs perceive their disaster readiness and their actual level of preparedness. According to the survey, SMBs noted they were confident in their level of disaster preparedness (84 percent), but their practices reveal that this confidence is unwarranted.

The average SMB has experienced three outages within the past 12 months, with the leading causes being virus or hacker attacks, power outages or natural disasters. This is alarming as almost half report they do not yet have a plan to deal with such disruptions. While most companies deploy some form of backup, only one in five (23 percent) back up on a daily basis and 40 percent back up monthly or less. The survey also demonstrates small businesses that lose data due to disaster also lose sales and customers.

Backup Exec System Recovery provides small businesses with a single, easy-to-use solution for backup and recovery. Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 now includes Symantec's patent-pending Granular Recovery Option, previously optional. This capability allows small businesses to back up an entire file server, desktop, laptop, virtual server or critical application server, such as Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft SharePoint, and then restore granular items such as individual Exchange emails, SharePoint documents or individual files in minutes. Backups can be saved to a variety of disk storage devices and can be copied to an off-site location or secondary disk device for disaster recovery purposes.

In addition, Backup Exec System Recovery adds new support for the latest virtual environments, including VMware vSphere 4.0, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, and Citrix XenServer 5.x. This new support ensures that the more technical small businesses that integrate virtualization into their IT environments can convert physical systems to virtual machines through Backup Exec System Recovery for disaster recovery or testing purposes.

Organizations can easily manage their backup environment at local and remote locations from a single, centralized console with Backup Exec System Recovery Management Solution, available with Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 at no additional charge. Channel partners can benefit from this feature as it provides them with complete remote control over their customers' backup environments through a VPN connection, allowing them to create, edit and distribute backup jobs, policies, installation packages, upgrade packages and client settings and enables remote recovery of volumes and/or complete systems. In addition, the Backup Exec System Recovery product line includes editions that backup and recover Microsoft Windows Servers, Microsoft Windows Small Business Servers as well as desktops and laptops.

Click to Tweet: @Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 provides backup and recovery for small businesses across Windows and Linux

Supporting Quotes

'Small businesses today have to do more with less and are looking for simple, affordable solutions like Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 to handle their IT backup and recovery needs,' said Gene Bumgardner, Director of Technical Services, OFM Computer Systems, Inc. 'Symantec's innovative approach to backup and recovery gives us the opportunity to help our small business customers protect and manage their information and systems while allowing us to grow our business and improve services revenue.'

'As a small business and an IT consulting company, we rely on Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery to protect and manage our information and systems, as well as our clients' systems,' said Andrew Chic, systems administrator, Prophet Business Group Ltd. 'We are confident that in the event of a disaster or outage, Symantec will recover our information or complete systems within minutes so there is no disruption to our business.'

Availability and Pricing

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 is available now for a suggested price of $795 USD per server and $69 USD per desktop. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Linux Edition is scheduled to be available later this year for a suggested price of $495 USD per server.

About Business Solutions from Symantec

Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven world with storage management, email archiving, backup and recovery solutions.

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

Note to Editors: If you would like additional information on Symantec Corporation and its products, please visit the Symantec News Room at http://www.symantec.com/news. All prices noted are in U.S. dollars and are valid only in the United States.

Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Forward-looking Statements: Any forward-looking indication of plans for products is preliminary and all future release dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any future release of the product or planned modifications to product capability, functionality or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

¹ Applied Research, Small and Mid-Sized Disaster Preparedness Survey, Sept. 2009

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The number of new file-sharing sites hosting unauthorized, copyrighted content skyrocketed over the last three months, according to McAfee, Inc.'s (NYSE:MFE) Third Quarter Threats Report. The report also shows that spam, malware and Web-based threat creation has reached record levels in the last quarter, and that cybercriminals are extorting site-owners with threats of DDoS attacks.

Piracy Undeterred by Pirate Bay Shutdown

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of a 300 percent jump in the creation of file-sharing sites that occurred while a famous torrent site - or a site which can host links to copyrighted content - The Pirate Bay, was prosecuted in Sweden. As users develop more sites to share content, malware writers are creating sites to trick users looking to download copyrighted material into downloading malicious programs. McAfee predicts the number of these malicious sites will increase during the fall and holiday blockbuster film seasons.

Many of these sites sprang up to scam users of The Pirate Bay who were looking for a new place to download copyrighted material.

McAfee researchers observed that users began creating their own sites to support The Pirate Bay community when the site was in the process of being shut down. When the site was back up after only 24 hours, the new torrent sites disappeared quickly.

McAfee Labs' analysis revealed peaks in the creation of these sites which correlate to major events in the film industry. During the release of the summer blockbusters McAfee observed a peak, as well as during this year's Oscar Season and 2008's holiday movie season. McAfee expects a similar peak during this year's fall release of 'Oscar-bait' films and the holiday season.

Spam, Malware and Web Threats at an All-Time High

The McAfee report also found that spam and malware levels have reached an all-time high, with threats surpassing previous records in the last quarter. Web-based attacks have also increased as cybercriminals take advantage of celebrity deaths and natural disasters.

Spam reached its highest level in history, breaking the previous record set in the second quarter of 2009 by 10 percent. Spam now comprises 92 percent of all e-mail. When compared with the third quarter of 2008, spam jumped 24 percent.

Web-based attacks are the newest hot threat vector, and have become one of the most dangerous tools cybercriminals utilize. These attacks can target anyone who visits a malicious Web page, and are delivered to users through spam, phishing, social networks and even through redirects from hijacked legitimate Web sites. Fifty-five percent of all malicious URLs are hosted in the US, and cybercriminals are getting increasingly effective at utilizing SEO techniques to drive traffic to these bad sites. Malware authors take advantage of news stories like the death of celebrities and natural disasters to hide their malicious intentions.

DDoS for Sale

In the last quarter, McAfee Labs observed many new denial-of-service attacks, including some that demand ransom. Four Australian sports betting companies were taken down during key events like the football and rugby finals, resulting in millions of dollars of losses.

DDoS as a service is growing in popularity, with many cybercriminals offering botnets comprised of thousands of zombie computers to attack sites for the highest bidder. These botnets are capable of knocking even some of the most-protected sites offline. Cybercriminals will even offer a 'demo' performance for a few minutes to prospective buyers. The Threats Report includes images of some of these offers.

The McAfee Labs Third Quarter Threats Report can be downloaded here: http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/reports/7315rpt_threat_1009.pdf

About McAfee, Inc.

McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is committed to relentlessly tackling the world's toughest security challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com

NOTE: McAfee and any additional McAfee marks herein are registered trademarks of McAfee, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. McAfee Red in connection with security is distinctive of McAfee brand products. All other registered and unregistered trademarks herein are the sole property of their respective owners. (C) 2009 McAfee, Inc. All rights reserved.

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BOSTON - As retail banks struggle to recapture customers in the wake of the global economic crisis, emerging generational differences in the way consumers wish to bank will require financial institutions to adapt to the divergent needs of their customers, reports a study released today by Microsoft Corp. at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo.

The Microsoft 'Millennials and Baby Boomers Banking Channel Preference Survey 2009,' conducted by Washington, D.C.-based KRC Research, found that adult millennials (ages 18–29) and baby boomers (ages 45–63) prefer very different channels for their banking activities. These preferences vary from high-touch, in-person experiences at the branch to more automated experiences on the Web, on mobile phones or at interactive kiosks.

'Generational differences are a challenge for banks as they try to create consistently positive, integrated banking experiences, regardless of channel,' said Colleen Healy, general manager, U.S. Financial Services, Microsoft. 'Banks are building loyalty with boomers today primarily through in-person retail branch interactions, while creating new offerings via online and mobile channels to attract millennials, the next generation of customers. Microsoft is focused on helping banks create this seamless, connected experience across multiple screens and channels, tied together through cloud computing.'

Varying Channel Preferences

The Microsoft study shows that different generational groups of respondents have very different preferences for conducting banking transactions. Millennials represent an untapped customer base for banks, but they have specific high-tech needs in terms of how they communicate and network with their financial institutions. For example, they are much more likely than baby boomers to use Web banking (49 percent versus 35 percent) and to find online service capabilities to be very important when researching a new bank (54 percent versus 42 percent).

Baby boomers, on the other hand, are much more likely to prefer banking transactions in person at a branch (44 percent versus 32 percent), and half (50 percent) report that they never bank via the Web using a personal computer or phone browser.

Millennials and Baby Boomers Find Common Ground on Bank Criteria

While generational gaps in banking channel preference exist, both millennials and boomers found similarities in their criteria for choosing a new bank. Customer service ranked as the highest priority for both millennials and boomers (98 percent versus 96 percent), followed by rates and fees (97 percent versus 96 percent) and superior security against identify fraud (96 percent versus 95 percent). Also ranking high were access to bank retail branches (95 percent versus 94 percent) and insurance on deposit accounts (92 percent versus 92 percent).

About the Survey

Washington, D.C.-based KRC Research conducted the Microsoft 'Millennials and Baby Boomers Banking Channel Preference Survey 2009' Aug. 23–30, and garnered responses from more than 600 adult millennials between the ages of 18 and 29 years old and baby boomers between the ages of 45 and 63 years old. The full results are available at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/msfinancial/Default.aspx.

About Microsoft in Financial Services

Microsoft's Financial Services Group provides software that helps financial firms transform the customer, employee and operations experience so they can maximize opportunities for increased market share and profitability. Microsoft software helps empower people and IT staff within financial firms — and across key focus areas such as advisor platforms, channel renewal, insurance value chain, enterprise risk management and compliance, and payments. Through a combination of Microsoft- and partner-provided solutions, customers enable their employees to turn data into insight, transform ideas into action and turn change into opportunity.

More information about Microsoft's Financial Services Group can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/financialservices.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq 'MSFT') is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Note to editors: If you are interested in viewing additional information on Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft Web page at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass on Microsoft's corporate information pages. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may since have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft's Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.mspx.

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Bole joins Europe's largest independent digital marketing agency with a wealth of high-level experience in the technology sector. An accomplished senior executive with a track record of running successful pan-global operations, he will take over the day-to-day management of bigmouthmedia's offices in Europe and the US as the company embarks upon the next stage of its development.

"I am delighted to be joining bigmouthmedia at such a pivotal moment in its development. It has a fantastic brand, a gilt-edged client list and is uniquely positioned to gain competitive advantage in an exploding sector, so I'm very much looking forward to being part of the next stage in the company's growth," said Bole.

Bole has 20 years experience working with dynamic, fast growth companies. He spent 12 years at Nokia in a variety of roles across the mobile giant's European and Far Eastern operations before ultimately rising to the position of Vice President. After leaving the company in 2001 he served as President and COO of the telecommunications software company Incomit prior to its acquisition by BEA systems in 2005 and most recently was Chief Executive Officer of mobile social media services provider ShoZu.

"The search for a new Group CEO has been intensive, and I believe that in Mark Bole we have picked a winner. He has held roles at a very senior level with several technology heavyweights, and has coal-face experience of running complex multi-territory European organisations as well as mergers, acquisitions and the challenges these events can throw up. He is supremely well qualified for the position" said Steve Leach, Executive Chairman at bigmouthmedia.

The announcement will see Leach - who founded bigmouthmedia from an Edinburgh basement in 1997 and turned it into a multinational company operating in ten countries and 30 languages - transition to an executive chairman position directing group strategy.

"My initial vision was to make bigmouthmedia the biggest brand in search and I think we've done pretty well on that front, but now this agency is ready for a new, even greater future. While my time as CEO has been both enjoyable and demanding, I believe the company will benefit from a fresh perspective, and am taking on a new role to allow that to happen," said Leach.

About bigmouthmedia
Founded in 1997, bigmouthmedia is Europe's largest and most experienced digital marketing agency and was rated the UK's #1 Search agency for search engine optimisation and PPC in the 2009 NMA Marketing Services Guide.

Bigmouthmedia's 200+ online marketing experts across 12 international offices maximise online brand exposure for its clients by means of integrated digital strategies incorporating SEO, PPC, Social Media Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Display Advertising, Online PR and Copywriting.

Bigmouthmedia's multilingual digital solutions deliver outstanding ROI for over 300 world leading brands including British Airways, Tesco, ebay, Sky, Cisco, BT, Comic Relief, Barclaycard and Europcar.

Bigmouthmedia also provides up to date daily digital marketing news

For further media information please contact
Iain Bruce
Media Strategist
bigmouthmedia
51 Timberbush
Edinburgh
EH6 6QH
(44) 131 555 4848
twitter.com/bigmouth_aff

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NEW YORK and BOSTON — CashEdge, Inc. (www.cashedge.com ), the leading provider of Intelligent Money Movement™ services, and mobile commerce enabler Firethorn Holdings, LLC, a Qualcomm company (Nasdaq: QCOM), announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic relationship to bring to market an integrated mobile person-to-person (P2P) payments solution integrating CashEdge's POPmoney P2P payments service and Firethorn's Mobile Wallet solution.

The integrated mobile P2P solution will enable financial institutions to offer their customers the ability to send electronic payments using CashEdge's POPmoney from within their Firethorn mobile banking application, by simply using the email address or mobile phone number of the recipient. This comprehensive mobile P2P banking solution will give consumers greater control over their finances, enabling them to pay other people whenever and wherever they want.

The convenience and security of using a service offered by one's existing financial institution is compelling for consumers. According to CashEdge's 2009 consumer survey, 77 percent of consumers would prefer to use a P2P payments service offered through their financial institution compared to an independent service.

'Consumers are demanding new payment solutions, particularly the ability to conveniently and securely send payments while on the go,' said Ben Ackerman, Vice President of product strategy for Firethorn. 'This Firethorn and CashEdge relationship is an excellent fit, both in terms of business and technical capabilities. We already have many common customers and prospects who have been asking for a holistic P2P solution, and now we can put those customers on the path to mobile commerce.'

"Firethorn's Mobile Wallet application is an innovative service that successfully helps meet the demands of today's consumers for easy and convenient mobile banking solutions," stated Neil Platt, Senior Vice President and General Manager, US Banking, CashEdge Inc. "CashEdge is always looking for opportunities to broaden the scope of our services and deliver cutting-edge services to financial institutions, and working with Firethorn further enables us to meet those goals."

POPmoney is the first email and mobile person-to-person payments (P2P) service for financial institutions that allows customers to send an electronic payment, from within the online or mobile banking site, by simply using the email address or mobile phone number of the recipient. Likewise, the recipients of the payment can receive the funds directly into their account. Firethorn's Mobile Wallet solution enables bank customers to use their mobile devices to view account balances, check credit card balances, transfer funds between accounts, view and pay bills, and access other services such as loyalty programs and targeted offers.

CashEdge will showcase POPmoney at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference on November 3 - 5, 2009 in Boston, at booth #725.

Firethorn can also be found in the exhibit hall at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference on November 3 - 5, 2009 in Boston, at booth #232.

About Firethorn
Firethorn Holdings, LLC, a Qualcomm company (Nasdaq: QCOM), is providing an important link in the emerging mobile commerce ecosystem. As a pioneer in mobile banking, Firethorn is transforming the traditional wallet into a streamlined, efficient and protected mobile revenue channel that will bridge relationships among financial institutions, retailers, wireless operators and consumers. Firethorn's innovative technology creates easily accessible, branded and personalized mobile commerce channels that give consumers access to their accounts, offers and transactions while on the go. For more information about Firethorn, visit www.firethornmobile.com

About CashEdge
CashEdge is the leader in Intelligent Money Movement™ services providing innovative payment solutions to financial institutions for their retail and small business banking customers. CashEdge's services include mobile and online person-to-person (P2P) payments and small business payments. CashEdge currently serves hundreds of leading financial institutions, including seven of the ten largest banks in the country.

CashEdge's industry leading products include POPmoney™ for person-to-person payments; OpenNow®/FundNow® for new account opening and funding; TransferNow® for Consumers, which includes Me-to-Me Transfers and Third Party Transfers; and TransferNow® for Small Businesses, which includes Invoicing, Me-to-Me Transfers, Employee Payments and Vendor Payments. All CashEdge products are supported by industry-leading risk management capabilities that leverage proprietary technology to help financial institutions mitigate risk and decrease fraud exposure.

The Company is headquartered in New York with offices in Silicon Valley and India. For more information, visit www.cashedge.com

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A few examples of last months less expensive and more unusual sales are: In Musical Instruments, a rare Conn Saxophone, sold for $40,000; in Books, an original Benjamin Franklin Almanac dated from 1754 sold for $7,800; and in the "Bizarre Items" category, an auction for a Brand New Mechanical Bull was sold for $8,100.

When WhatSellsBest.com publisher, James Massey, was asked which October (Top 20) auction surprised him most, he replied: 'Watching an Old Pair of Binoculars collect a final bid of $10,166 was definitely surprising."

To see the complete list of Top 20 Best Selling eBay items, with photos visit: WhatSellsBest.com

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Gary Fearnall, Vice President, Interactive for Cineplex Entertainment states, 'Development of the mobile site was surprisingly easy thanks to the flexibility of Agility. We were able to repurpose all of our existing content and data in a timeframe that was exceedingly short. The best part for us is that we don't need to do any additional production work in order to support the mobile site.'

The new mobile site is managed with the same Agility Content Management System back-end operation as the main Cineplex.com website. Mobile functionality and search engines for websites have become increasingly popular with the mainstream nature of the IPhone, Blackberry and other smart phones. Mr. Fearnall was enthusiastic about the ability of the mobile site, saying 'We are impressed with the instant bump in traffic from mobile devices.' The site was designed by Cineplex to work specifically on these devices, and will make it easier for movie-goers to search and find the theatre location closest to them and show times.

The process of mobilizing the Cineplex site through Agility was easily managed by the Edentity web team. Andre Small, a developer at Edentity, was quoted as saying 'We were very pleased to see how easy it was to implement the Mobile Cineplex site on the Agility platform.'

Jon Voigt, CTO of Edentity, felt the site exemplified the abilities of the Agility software. 'The Cineplex mobile site is another example of how Agility's trademark flexibility allows management of stunning sites for any platform'.

About Agility
Agility is a Software-as-a-Service web content management system for managing vibrant, feature-rich websites. The easy to use, browser-based system allows efficient content editing, streamlines multi-language requirements, maximizes search engine optimization, and more. Agility is backed by industry leading implementation and support teams and includes monthly updates with every account. Agility was development by Edentity Web Systems in Toronto Canada and is running sites for Uncle Ben's, Campbells, XFX Force and Cineplex.
www.agilitycms.com

About Cineplex Entertainment LP:
As the largest motion picture exhibitor in Canada, Cineplex Entertainment LP owns, leases or has a joint-venture interest in 129 theatres with 1,328 screens serving more than 63.5 million guests annually. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Cineplex Entertainment operates theatres from British Columbia to Quebec and is the largest exhibitor of digital, 3D and IMAX projection technologies in the country. Proudly Canadian and with a workforce of approximately 10,000 employees, the company operates the following top tier brands: Cineplex Odeon, Galaxy, Famous Players, Colossus, Coliseum, SilverCity, Cinema City and Scotiabank Theatres. The units of Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund, which owns approximately 99.6% of Cineplex Entertainment LP, are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol CGX.UN). For more information, visit www.cineplex.com.

About Edentity Web Systems
Edentity is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that provides the technology and expertise to build, host and manage websites or web-based business applications. Their successful track record of delivering sophisticated web projects, on time and within budget, has helped make them the fastest growing web development company in the country. Edentity was on the Profit Magazine list of the 50 fastest growing companies in Canada in 2006 and 2007. Their clients include Cineplex Entertainment, Corus Entertainment, BBDO Toronto, JWT Canada, Tribal DDB Canada and Draft FCB.
www.edentity.ca

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DULUTH, Ga. – NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR ) announced today that it has purchased the assets of Netkey, Inc., a market-leading provider of kiosk and digital signage software applications used by leading companies to deliver a growing range of multi-industry self-service applications such as gift registry, guided selling, endless aisle and human resources functions. Terms were not disclosed.

ABI Research predicts that companies will spend more than $1 billion globally on digital signage solutions next year, growing at an average of 20 percent per year for the next five years, while kiosk deployments will grow an average of 19 percent per year during the same period.

Netkey's enterprise software platform uses a proven scalable architecture that enables fast and flexible development of applications for kiosk and digital signage-based solutions. NCR will combine Netkey's software platform with its own technologies to provide a best-in-class enterprise solution, which includes software applications, one of the broadest hardware portfolios in the industry, and a suite of services. NCR will continue to provide multivendor hardware support with the Netkey solution.

Headquartered in East Haven, Conn., Netkey has over 75,000 kiosks and digital signs installed by more than 400 clients in the retail, finance, transportation, and government sectors. Many of these customers also use NCR 's kiosk, self-checkout or point-of-sale solutions.

'This acquisition makes perfect sense from a customer perspective,' said Jenny Hinsman, vice president of kiosk solutions for Pitney Bowes. 'We use Netkey's application on NCR 's hardware for our Mail & Go Shipping kiosk. We now have one point of contact and, more importantly, are dealing with one company that is now even better positioned to lead the advance and growth of the self-service industry.'

Netkey will provide NCR with a robust digital signage application that is built on the same platform as Netkey's kiosk applications, making NCR's solutions faster to deploy and easier to support.

'Consumers increasingly expect to interact with companies when and how they wish, and businesses are responding by offering their customers a seamless experience across the channel of their choice,' said Mike Webster, vice president and general manager for NCR 's retail line of business. 'This acquisition will enable NCR to help its customers across multiple industries with kiosk and digital signage solutions that deliver more effective transactions, promotions and information as part of a merged channel strategy.

'In doing so, NCR will take a best-in-class solution, combine it with best-in-class hardware and services, and deliver compelling competitive advantage, ultimately on a global basis. Our approach is an example of NCR executing its software-driven, hardware-enabled and services-led corporate strategy.'

About NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR ) is a global technology company leading how the world connects, interacts and transacts with business. NCR 's assisted- and self-service solutions and comprehensive support services address the needs of retail, financial, travel, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, gaming and public sector organizations in more than 100 countries. NCR (www.ncr.com) is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.

NCR is a trademark of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries.

Note to investors - This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements as to anticipated or expected results, beliefs, opinions and future financial performance, within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include projections of revenue, profit growth and other financial items, future economic performance and statements concerning analysts' earnings estimates, among other things. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause NCR's actual results to differ materially.

In addition to the factors discussed in this release, other risks and uncertainties include those relating to: the uncertain economic climate, in particular the current global credit crisis, could impact the ability of our customers to make capital expenditures, thereby affecting their ability to purchase our products, and consolidation in the financial services sector could impact our business by reducing our customer base; the timely development, production or acquisition and market acceptance of new and existing products and services (such as self-service technologies), including our ability to accelerate market acceptance of new products and services; shifts in market demands, continued competitive factors and pricing pressures and their impact on our ability to improve gross margins and profitability, especially in our more mature offerings; the effect of currency translation; short product cycles, rapidly changing technologies and maintaining a competitive leadership position with respect to our solution offerings; tax rates; ability to execute our business and reengineering plans, including potential impact from our recent transition from a business unit to functional organizational model; turnover of workforce and the ability to attract and retain skilled employees, especially in light of continued cost-control measures being taken by the company; availability and successful exploitation of new acquisition and alliance opportunities; changes in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the resulting impact, if any, on the company's accounting policies; continued efforts to establish and maintain best-in-class internal information technology and control systems; and other factors detailed from time to time in the company's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reports and the company's annual reports to stockholders. The company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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The agreement sees Vodat become BroadVision's Master Partner and the only UK reseller for its eMerchandising SAAS solution. The technology works independently from the retailers web site and makes it easy to set up incentives, promotions, cross selling, recommendations, bundles, offers, companion deals and shipping discounts which can increase a retailers AOV up to 40%. This solution will be hosted by Vodat who have been selected as a strategic BroadVision® partner in the United Kingdom due to the company's extensive retail expertise.

The eMerchandising™ solution is a low-cost, low risk solution that enables retailers to support their online efforts at a minimal investment and a percentage revenue share for the increase in sales.

For more details about eMerchandising please visit http://www.vodat-int.com/emerchandising-shopping-cart-incentives.asp

Mike Bielinski, CEO at Vodat International, said, "This is an exciting partnership for our business. There are many retailers who are still without an online presence or are in the early stages of offering an online store. This solution presents an affordable and exciting piece of technology that will help retailers not only understand their customers better but also help them to grow their business and increase the average order value within a customer's shopping basket."

Ian Heggs, NEMEA Regional Manager at BroadVision, said, "We selected Vodat as our strategic partner due to the company's extensive retail experience. Vodat is a forward-looking business keen to embrace new technology to help retailers develop further and we're looking forward to working together in the UK. This low-cost investment can help retailers develop and make a big difference to growing their online efforts."

For more information please visit http://www.vodat-int.com/news_article.asp?ID=28

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