Port Wayne, IN (PRWEB) February 22, 2012

When it comes to electronics, it can be confusing for many shoppers to find the right product that fits their needs. Shoppers want a store that helps them sift through the seemingly never-ending flood of gizmos and gadgets to find the ideal item. One newly opened store currently celebrating its grand opening is the go-to place for a wide variety electronics. Established earlier this year by entrepreneur Timothy Sweeney, TLS Mega Mall features all of the electronics and accessories people are looking for.

TLS Mega Mall is now available at any time of day to customers via the web at http://www.tlsmegamall.com. There, shoppers will find an intuitive and user-friendly website that provides the ultimate experience to shop for electronics online.

Shoppers will find the web store to be straight forward and easy to use. TLS Mega Mall offers an impressive selection. Even those shoppers who don’t have much familiarity with online shopping will find that this is an enjoyable experience for finding online electronics.

While TLS Mega Mall is sure to please customers with the wide range of electronics they offer, shoppers are also sure to appreciate the amazingly low prices. From the home page to the checkout, this is the new premier store for buying electronic items.

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(PRWEB) February 16, 2012

They denote what smartphone technology is all about; easy access to all services. The blackberry smartphone is made with you in mind meaning that it incorporates the best smartphone software to ensure the phone does everything you might have in mind. It is no wonder that most of the top business executives have become locked on the Blackberry to ensure they miss nothing during their busy schedules trotting the globe.

Any credible smartphone reviews will give you models from RIM ranging from the amazing Blackberry Bold 9930, to the Curve series, and the Blackberry Torch, which is the first touch screen from the company. Some of the devices are Sprint smartphones meaning you get one of the best carriers in the US to sort you with connection issues and unlimited access to the Internet at all times. The experience is made better by the impeccable technology from RIM, which ensures quicker page download due to better OS than in any other smartphones and better image viewing due to the large screens. These unlocked smartphones are bound too make you understand why Obama is so keen on his device. Online shopping for these devices has also made it cheaper and more convenient to get the gadgets so, go ahead and enjoy the experience.

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(PRWEB) February 18, 2012

In the last 12 months NewsEngin Inc. has added 70 publications to the roster of news organizations that rely on its Ampere suite of cloud-based content production services, the company announced today.

Ampere combines end-user newspaper software and cloud-based services to drive the mission-critical journalistic and publishing processes of print and digital news organizations.

Some of the nation’s most prominent national and regional news publishers have come to rely on Ampere as their content management system since its debut three years ago.

“Customers have been plugging into NewsEngin Ampere at a steadily increasing pace for several years now, right on through the recession,” said George Landau, president and founder of NewsEngin (http://www.NewsEngin.com). “The success of our cloud service attests to the maturity of our software and our mastery of Amazon’s utility computing grid.”

NewsEngin uses Amazon Web Services to provide high-performance cloud services with unparalleled resilience, availability, data security and affordability.

“Amazon and its EC2 global computing grid have profoundly enhanced NewsEngin’s ability to launch and maintain redundant services for our customers,” Landau said.

Before the rise of cloud computing, NewsEngin already offered a mature suite of browser-based newsroom software written for the open-source LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP).

The company’s early embrace of LAMP has allowed NewsEngin to take full advantage of Amazon’s Linux-based grid, offering those battle-tested apps as a 24/7 cloud service.

NewsEngin has built a proprietary tool, “Gearbox,” to manage its Amazon resources in a way that allows early detection of and rapid recovery from virtually any sort of disruption, whether the problem affects a single virtual server or an entire region of the globe.

“We use Gearbox to deploy Amazon’s cloud resources with the expectation that individual components will inevitably fail,” Landau said. “For the cloud we design systems with physical and geographic redundancy so that when any part of the machine breaks, the outage is either invisible to end users or very short in duration — and always with no loss of data whatsoever.”

Most of the newsrooms using Ampere were able to go live in a matter of days, with no on-site training and no on-site servers. They further benefitted from NewsEngin’s practice of offering the richest set of content management tools at the most affordable license fees.

At the core of Ampere is software called GPS, a platform-neutral content-management system (CMS) designed to help journalists create, manage and repurpose all types of content. Sometime referred to as “newspaper software” or an “editorial front-end,” GPS helps organizations adapt quickly to the changing nature of news coverage and distribution, while also protecting legacy investments in pagination and web-publishing software.

GPS intelligently routes and packages all content eligible for digital publication and allows all newspapers, websites and broadcast properties in a company to track and share content.

Stories and text elements are written directly in GPS, using a full-featured word processor that requires no browser plugins. GPS features a powerful, intuitive plugin for Adobe InDesign (CS4, CS5 and CS5.5, for OSX and Windows).

Both GPS and NewsEngin’s InDesign plugin support newsrooms with traditional, centralized staffing as well as virtual newsrooms that distribute tasks such as editing and page design to workers in various locations.

On the back end, GPS can deliver edited stories to a web CMS for publication to PCs and mobile devices. Automatic categorization of content can automatically route Web content to the correct areas of a site or app.

GPS includes an intuitive digital-asset manager that can serve as a management dashboard for collected photos, audio and video files.

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Paso Robles, CA (PRWEB) February 15, 2012

Retail Anywhere, a leading provider of point of sale and retail management systems for midsize retailers, today announced that Northern Brewer of Minnesota selected and implemented Retail Anywhere POS with complete integration to NetSuite. Retail Anywhere POS and NetSuite provide an end-to-end, cloud based, multi-channel retail software solution for Northern Brewer.

Established in 1993 as a homebrew supply company, Northern Brewer has grown to be a multi-channel retailer with catalog, eCommerce, and three brick and mortar retail locations with sales supported by more than 100 employees and a 42,000 square foot warehouse. Northern Brewer sells everything an experienced or novice homebrewer needs and offers homebrewing classes to further support the needs and interests of their customers.

Northern Brewer’s legacy POS solution lacked sophisticated POS functionality and was vulnerable to downtime as it was an internet based solution. Functionality and downtime was holding the retailer back from achieving good customer service and streamlined efficiencies in the store. With a plan to expand the number of store locations and implement a multi-channel strategy, Northern Brewer relied on experienced POS provider Retail Anywhere.

“We needed a POS partner with a proven track record in the specialty retail space,” said Chris Farley, the founder and CEO of Northern Brewer. “ Retail Anywhere POS with integration to NetSuite will deliver a robust solution along with 360 degrees of visibility throughout our organization, allowing us to improve operations and ultimately satisfy our cross-channel shoppers.”

Retail Anywhere POS runs locally on POS hardware and utilizes Web services to support near real-time, bi-directional integration between NetSuite. The solution delivers an end-to-end, multi-channel retail management system with a single data source that helps midsize retailers unify their business and take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing.

“We were thrilled when Northern Brewer approached us for POS,” said Branden Jenkins, CEO of Retail Anywhere. “Their requirements and frustrations with previous POS solutions made them a perfect customer for early adoption of Retail Anywhere POS with integration to NetSuite. The integrated retail ERP system delivers a robust, cloud-based solution enabling Northern Brewer to achieve their plans for multi-channel retailing and company growth.”

As a NetSuite Solution Provider, Retail Anywhere provides its customers with NetSuite’s ERP platform and required NetSuite retail modules along with Retail Anywhere POS. Retail Anywhere also works with existing NetSuite users, like Northern Brewer, looking to adopt an integrated point of sale solution.

About Retail Anywhere

Retail Anywhere delivers an end-to-end, multi-channel retail management solution for midsize retailers designed to improve profitability and deliver enhanced customer service. The Retail Anywhere software suite offering includes; POS, merchandise management, eCommerce, financials, CRM, business intelligence, warehouse management, and mobile applications. With 28 years of experience, Retail Anywhere provides a complete solution with software, hardware, and services including a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model with low monthly fees and reduced upfront costs. For more information, please visit http://www.retailanywhere.com.

About Northern Brewer

Based in Roseville, MN, Northern Brewer is the nation’s largest online homebrew supplier and has retail locations in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee. Our staff has grown exponentially since opening in 1993 and many of our alumni have gone on to brew professionally. We’re dedicated to creating and maintaining resources like our online forum, homebrewing and winemaking classes, a line of instructional DVDs, and the Brewing TV webcast to keep homebrewers informed and connected. For more information, please visit http://www.northernbrewer.com.

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Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) February 13, 2012

uBoost, the nation’s premiere student motivation program, announced the results of its most recent pilot with a national test prep program proving that SMS messaging can radically impact the amount of independent test prep completed by students. uBoost customers can now utilize “texting with a twist” to increase student behaviors that they find most valuable in maximizing program participation and completion.

Results of the pilot were staggering. On average, students in the program group exhibited 87% more activity than students in the control group, as measured by number of questions answered correctly.

Pilot participants opted in to participating in the program and were split into two groups. The program group received texts reminding them to prepare for their December 3, 2011 SAT test. The nine text messages sent over the two weeks leading up to the test used social normative pressure, prizes, and status updates to drive more independent test prep. The control group did not receive any texts. When program participants completed test prep questions, they continued to receive their uBoost credits in addition to contest entries for prizes like iPads, gift cards, and iPods. Winners were selected and announced during the pilot period, encouraging participants to continue to work hard.

“This study proved that sending messages to users in relevant ways, such as texting, can dramatically increase logons, participation and performance,” said John Bower, CEO of uBoost. “Even students considered motivated and engaged can be influenced to do more work if properly triggered he user motivation ecosystem must include behavior triggers to be truly effective. Our customers are working closely with us to create customized programs that deliver relevant messages with the goal of driving usage, achievement and ultimately completion.”

Contact uBoost at info(at)uboost(dot)com to see how a motivation program can dramatically enhance student achievement.

About uBoost

uBoost provides an automated solution to deliver relevant recognition for positive behaviors and incremental academic achievement to drive motivation. Working with all age groups, curricula and achievement levels, uBoost partners with publishers, school districts, online schools, tutoring companies and private education companies to design and implement customized recognition and rewards programs that foster student motivation, improve classroom behavior, and encourage parent engagement.

uBoost appreciates that students are unique – that they learn differently and that intrinsic motivation varies across subject areas. uBoost’s platform encourages students to put forth their maximum effort by recognizing their individual academic achievements in the form of performance-based badges, coveted spots on achiever leader boards, daily email alerts, and award points redeemable for rewards including forty charitable giving opportunities and access to games only available on uBoost. Optionally, uBoost managed catalogs may include merchandise and gift cards ranging in value from $ 5 to $ 200.

New recognition tools, rewards, and contests are added regularly to keep up with users’ changing interests.

For more information about uBoost, call 866-921-4480 or visit:

http://www.uBoost.com

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Tilt Shift Photography created using Artensoft Tilt-Shift Generator

Moskow (PRWEB) February 09, 2012

Artensoft announces the release of Tilt-Shift Generator, a Windows tool to enable photographers simulate the appearance of a miniature scale model in post processing. Effectively replacing high-end tilt-shift lenses, the new software allows photographers simulating the tilt-shift effect in the post without using an actual tilt-shift lens. Available at a small fraction of the price of a real tilt shift lens, the new product offers a greater degree of creativity by providing many more options, tweaks and customization settings than even the highest-end tilt-shift lenses.

Background

The tilt-shift technique allows photographers tilting plane of focus, achieving selective focus effect and producing photos with characteristic ‘macro’ look. Pictures taken with a tilt-shift lens reproduce the look of a miniature scene shot up close, at a macro distance.

The effect has been known since advent of boxy, wooden large format cameras. Using flexible bellows for camera movements, large format photographers could turn any lens into a tilt-shift lens, reproducing faux-diorama shots without an extra investment.

Today’s photographers shooting 35mm film and all kinds of digital cameras can only achieve the effect by either using a dedicated, expensive tilt-shift lens or reproducing the effect in post-processing with photo editing software. With the most affordable tilt shift lens produced by a major manufacturer costing more than $ 1300, tilt-shift photography remains an expensive hobby for most amateurs. Technological constraints and limitations of even the best tilt-shift lenses (manual aperture, manual focus, stop-down or manual metering, lack of zoom etc.) make using these lenses inconvenient even to dedicated professionals shooting anything but still architecture and landscapes.

Post-processing images with image editing software gives photographers a feasible alternative at a small fraction of the price of a real tilt shift lens, offering nearly indistinguishable results while providing photographers far greater convenience, control and flexibility.

About Artensoft Tilt-Shift Generator

Tilt-Shift Generator offers enthusiast photographers an easy way of reproducing the ‘miniature‘ effect of a tilt-shift lens without actually owning one. The tool allows Windows users to emulate the selective focus effect by post-processing images taken with any camera, any lens at any setting.

Artensoft Tilt Shift Generator produces pseudo-macro images, simulating the ‘diorama’ look of a miniature scene by emulating razor-thin depth of field characteristic to tilt-shift photography. Offering far greater flexibility than modern tilt-shift lenses and available at a small fraction of the price of a real tilt-shift lens, Tilt-Shift Generator represents great value.

Pricing and Availability

Tilt-Shift Generator is immediately available. Prices start from $ 49 per license. Requires a PC running Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7.

About Artensoft

Founded in 2007, Artensoft designs and develops software for avid photographers running Microsoft Windows. Offering a wide range of photographic tools, Artensoft provides tools for creating photographic collages and photo mosaics, and offers the complete digital photo workflow solution enabling the development and processing of RAW files and images. Delivering powerful, easy-to-use applications for home and professional users, the company directs its resources towards software development and customer support, minimizing corporate overhead and delivering maximum value to its customers.

More information and free evaluation version of Tilt-Shift Generator available at

http://www.tiltshiftgenerator.com/

Artensoft

http://www.tiltshiftgenerator.com/

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V5.X Protocol Analyzer

Gaithersburg, Maryland (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

GL Communications Inc. a leader in providing PC-based test, analysis and simulation products and consulting services to the worldwide telecommunications industry, conveyed today the availability of its product V5.X Protocol Analyzer software.

Speaking to media persons, Mr. Vijay Kulkarni CEO of the company said, ” V5.x is a switching and signaling telecommunication protocol between Access Network (AN) and Local Exchange (LE) and operates only on E1 circuits.”

He added, “GL’s V5.x analyzer can be used to capture and analyze a stream of frames from the link between LE and AN. The analyzer provides V5.x based on ETSI / ITU standard in order to decode according to the corresponding standards. Supports capturing and decoding of LAPV5, ISDN Call Signaling – Q.93 as layer 3, Link Control Protocol (LCP), Protection Protocol (PP), Bearer Channel Connection (BCC), and PSTN.”

Some of the important features

·Displays Summary, Detail, Hex-dump, Statistics, and Call Trace Views, the contents of this view can also be copied to clipboard.

·Summary View displays LAPV5.x information and V5.x messages.

·Detail View displays easy to understand decodes of user-selected frame from the Summary View.

·Hex dump View displays the frame information in HEX and ASCII format the contents of this view can also be copied to clipboard.

·Statistics View displays statistics based on frame count, byte count, frames/sec, bytes/sec etc for the entire capture data.

·Call Detail Records isolates call specific information i.e. status of each call (i.e. Active/Completed), duration of completed call, Device No, Timeslot, Call ID, Call Status and Layer 3 Address.

·Call Detail Recording feature includes data link groups that help in defining the direction of the calls in a given network and form logical groups comprised of unidirectional (either ‘Forward’ or ‘Backward’) data links.

·Capability to export Summary View details to comma separated values (CSV) format for subsequent import into a database or spreadsheet.

·Capability to export detail decodes information to an ASCII file.

·Supports filter and search based on LAPV5 parameters and Q.933 layer parameters such as C/R, SAPI, EF Address, CTL, P/F, Call Reference #, ISDN Message Type, Called Party Number, Channel Number, Progress Description.

·Any protocol field can be added to the summary view, filtering, and search features providing users more flexibility to monitor required protocol fields.

·Remote monitoring capability using GL’s Network Surveillance System.

About GL Communications Inc.,

Founded in 1986, GL Communications Inc. is a leading supplier of test, monitoring, and analysis equipment for TDM, Wireless, IP and VoIP networks. Unlike conventional test equipment, GL’s test platforms provide visualization, capture, storage, and convenient features like portability, remotability, and scripting.

GL’s TDM Analysis & Emulation line of products includes T1, E1, T3, E3, OC-3, OC-12, STM-1, STM-4, analog four-wire, and analog two-wire interface cards, external portable pods, and complete system solutions. Capabilities include voiceband traffic analysis and emulation across all traffic types (voice, digits, tones, fax, modem), all protocols (ISDN, SS7, GR-303, Frame Relay, HDLC, V5.X, ATM, GSM, GPRS, LTE, etc.), and with capacities up to thousands of channels. Our newest products provide astonishing capacity and capture capability up to and including gigabit speeds.

GL’s VoIP and IP products generate / analyze thousands of calls and traffic simultaneously with traffic types such as frames, packets, voice files, digits, video, tones, noise, and fax. Almost all codecs are supported including G.711, G.729, AMR, EVRC-A,B,C, GSM, iSAC, and many more. Additional features include visual analysis, real-time listening, and recording. The product line also includes Ethernet / IP Testing capability that simulates and checks frame transport and throughput parameters of Ethernet and IP networks, including delay, errors and other impairments.

GL’s Voice Quality Testing (VQT) product line complements all of GL’s products. Using ITU-standard algorithms (PAMS, PSQM, and PESQ), GL’s VQT provides a widely accepted solution for assessing voice quality in the telecom industry. Voice Quality Testing across multiple networks (T1, E1, T3, E3, OC-3, OC-12, VoIP, Wireless, and Landline) is available.

GL’s Wireless Products perform protocol analysis and voice quality assessment on GSM, CDMA, UMTS, and LTE networks. Connections can be made to any wireless phone with automated call control, GPS mapping and real-time signal measurements.

GL’s Echo Canceller testing solutions provide the broadest range of simulation and analysis, including line and acoustic echo. GL’s compliance testing per G.168. G.167 and P.340 across TDM, IP, VoIP and Wireless networks is widely accepted in the industry.

GL’s wireless VQT solutions help assessing impairments to voice quality such as poor mobile phone quality, voice compression and decompression algorithms, delay, loss and gain in speech levels, noise, acoustic and landline echo, and other distortions are easily assessed and accurately measured.

GL’s Handheld data testers can test a wide variety of communications facilities and equipment including T1, fractional T1, E1, fractional E1, T3 and E3 modems, multiplexers, CSU, DSUs, T1 CSUs, DTUs, NTUs and TIUs and more. The testers provide convenience, economy, and portability for almost any interface, including RS232, RS-422, RS-530, X.21, T1, E1, T3, E3, and many others.

GL’s Network Surveillance and Monitoring products include Probes for TDM, IP, VoIP, ATM, and Wireless networks. An open standards based approach provides a scalable, feature rich, real-time access to network characteristics. Centralized or distributed access, efficient transport and database loading allow compatibility with 3rd party and standards based monitoring systems.

For more information about GL’s complete line of products,

Contact:

Shelley Sharma

Phone: 301-670-4784 ext. 114

E-mail: info(at)gl(dot)com

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Montréal, Québec, Canada (PRWEB) February 06, 2012

SherWeb, a world-leading provider of hosted business solutions, proudly announces that its founders, Peter and Matthew Cassar, have been named ACTION TI’s Personality of December 2011. This honorable mention, announced in the latest issue of their publication, underlines SherWeb’s important contributions to technology development and its astounding business success. Among other accomplishments, SherWeb has shown a 1332% growth rate from 2006 to 2010, won an IMPACT Award from Microsoft as Hosting Partner of the Year, entered the prestigious North American Technology Fast 500 list from Deloitte, brought its expertise to customers in more than 100 countries, and surpassed the 500,000 user count; an impressive resume that makes this company one of the most important players in the software-as-a-service field.

“It’s not a question of piling up prices and growing for the sake of growing,” explains Peter Cassar, CEO and cofounder of SherWeb. “We’re reaping what we sow. We’re not afraid of putting in the hours and our teams have done amazing work on countless occasions, which got us where we are today. This recognition is a strong indicator that we have the right formula for success. The challenge now is to maintain this momentum and surpass ourselves like we’ve done in the last ten years,” added the CEO.

ACTION TI is one of the most prominent IT partnership networks in Canada. Its selection of the Cassar brothers as their Personality of the Month testifies to SherWeb’s innovative operations and marketing strategies, the latter being mainly based on the company’s bilingual customer service, one of the best in the business. “Our business strategy is centered on our customers,” concluded Peter Cassar. “Ensuring their satisfaction is our ultimate goal.”

The winners of ACTION TI’s Personality of the Month are chosen every month. You can read more about the Cassar brothers in the latest issue of their publication. You can also refer to http://www.actionti.com to find out more about ACTION TI’s network.

About SherWeb Inc. – A worldwide award-winning hosted services leader ranked in the top 100 of the prestigious North American Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM and Microsoft 2011 Hosting Partner of the Year, SherWeb specializes in providing competitive email, collaboration, and backup solutions to businesses and partners around the world. Founded in 1998, SherWeb is a privately-owned company headquartered in Quebec, Canada. Its service portfolio includes Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010, Office Communications Server 2007, SharePoint Foundation 2010, Dynamics CRM, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, ActiveSync (iPhone), Web Hosting, Virtual Private Servers, SkyNox Online Backup, and more. For more information, please visit http://www.sherweb.com.

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Newly appointed GBD, Shopper Marketing, Ron Magliocco

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 27, 2012

Bob Jeffrey, Worldwide Chairman and CEO, JWT, today announced that Ron Magliocco has joined the agency as Global Business Director, Shopper Marketing.

In this newly created position, Magliocco will be responsible for expanding JWT’s existing shopper marketing capability for JWT Worldwide at the network and office levels, as well as strengthening and growing the JWT integrated marketing capabilities in North America by integrating JWT Action into existing client engagements and new business development activities. Magliocco will have a dual report to Fred Bidwell, Executive Chairman, JWT Action and Lew Trencher, Global CFO, JWT. Additionally, he will be partnering closely with Beth Waxman-Arteta, CMO, JWT North America.

“Ron Magliocco brings valuable worldmade client experience and a proven track record of new business success to this new role at JWT,” said Bob Jeffrey. “He will lead our growing integration with JWT in North America and will oversee the Global Shopper Marketing initiative for JWT to find new opportunities and resources to extend our shopper marketing experience across the network.”

Magliocco joins JWT from Ryan Partnership, where he was most recently Senior Vice President. In this role, he led the agency’s Shopper Marketing Center of Excellence. At Ryan, Magliocco also led the Nestlé Waters and Nestlé Purina PetCare businesses, where he utilized shopper insights to create marketing solutions for his clients’ brands at retail.

While at Ryan Partnership, he delivered growth for Ryan and its clients by creating a unified shopper marketing offering across insights and research, strategy, creative, activation and analytics teams. What was once a very small piece of Ryan’s business has grown to represent a significant share of the agency’s revenue and growth.

Prior to that, Magliocco spent six years at The Coca-Cola Company, where he held positions in brand marketing, consumer promotions and retail marketing. He has also held marketing roles at the National Football League Properties and TracyLocke.

“I’ve always admired JWT as a world-class agency producing unmatched strategic and creative work for top-tier clients across the world,” commented Magliocco. “From the moment I sat down with Bob, Fred and Lew, it was crystal clear to me that their desire to transform JWT into the first truly worldmade shopper marketing agency was well underway. I look forward to continuing that incredible momentum by identifying the shopper marketing assets JWT currently has across the network and building on that foundation in the future.”

About JWT

JWT is the world’s best-known marketing communications brand. Headquartered in New York, JWT is a true global network with more than 200 offices in over 90 countries employing nearly 10,000 marketing professionals. JWT consistently ranks among the top agency networks in the world and continues its dominant presence in the industry by staying on the leading edge—from producing the first-ever TV commercial in 1939 to developing award-winning branded content for brands such as Smirnoff, Macy’s, Ford and HSBC.

JWT’s pioneering spirit enables the agency to forge deep relationships with clients including J&J, HSBC, Brand America, Bloomberg, Bayer, Cadbury, Diageo, DTC, Ford, Kellogg’s, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, Nestlé, Nokia, Rolex, Royal Caribbean, Schick, Shell, Unilever, Vodafone and many others. JWT’s parent company is WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY).

Contact:

Erin Johnson

Chief Communications Officer

+1 (212) 210-7243 o

+1(646) 644-6576 m

erin.johnson(at)jwt(dot)com

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Miami, FL (PRWEB) February 01, 2012

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today introduced a new family of high-definition IP phones. They are the first that are engineered to fully leverage the power of Asterisk, the world’s most widely adopted open source communications software, and Switchvox, Digium’s award-winning unified communications (UC) system. With Digium technology on both the server and the phone, users will benefit from the best possible performance, unprecedented integration and a uniquely customizable phone system.

“Digium’s new phones mark the launch of the next chapter in our history of innovation,” said Danny Windham, president and CEO of Digium. “These are the first phones designed specifically for Asterisk—with the tightest integration possible between the phones and Asterisk. The success of Asterisk began with the transfer of power from the hands of the proprietary phone vendors to the hands of end-users and administrators of phone systems. And now we’ve done it again by bringing control to the desk phone. These phones are absolutely the easiest to install, integrate, provision and use with both Asterisk and Switchvox. And best of all, we’ve done all of this at a very competitive price point, providing our customers with the best value in business phone systems.”

Asterisk has always been about flexibility, allowing integrators and developers to create highly customized solutions. Likewise, Digium phones include an app engine with a simple yet powerful JavaScript API that lets programmers create custom apps that run on the phones. They aren’t simply XML pages; Digium phone apps can interface directly with core phone features.

“The app engine is a game-changing feature that will allow developers to write their own apps that run on the phones,” explained Mark Spencer, founder and chief technology officer for Digium. “We have a community of more than 80,000 users and developers who create amazing things with Asterisk. I look forward to seeing the cool apps they will create with these innovative phones. As usual, we’re enabling developers to create solutions limited only by their imaginations.”

Digium has leveraged this unique programming interface of the phones to create a suite of productivity applications that work with both Asterisk and Switchvox. Switchvox includes a unique web interface called Switchboard that gives each system user control of their personal communications environment. Digium has extended the capabilities of the Switchboard to the phone, putting advanced features like presence management, searchable contact directory, queue monitoring, recording and voicemail control, all at the user’s fingertips.

“We’ve had the opportunity to work with the phones early on, and for the first time, we’re using phones truly designed for Asterisk,” said Chris Green of Bema Information Technology. “Digium has delivered phones that simplify the most time-consuming portion of a system deployment—installation and provisioning. The phones automatically locate the server and assign the correct users, making our deployments faster than ever before. Additionally, the tight integration with Switchvox offers our customers an awesome user experience that’s just not possible with other phones.”

The Digium phones include the following models:

    D40—An entry-level HD IP phone with 2-line keys. This is Digium’s best value phone, designed for any employee in the company.
    D50—A mid-level HD IP phone with 4-line keys and 10 rapid dial/busy lamp field (BLF) keys with an easy to print paper label strip for the user’s most important contacts. This model is perfect for users who spend a lot of time on the phone.
    D70—An executive-level HD IP phone with 6-line keys and 10 rapid dial/BLF keys and real-time status information displayed on an additional LCD screen, allowing users to quickly navigate through up to 100 of their most important contacts. Designed for administrators or executives, the D70 offers top-of-the-line features.

Digium plans to have general availability of these new phones in April 2012. The MSRP for these models is as follows: D70 – $ 279, D50 – $ 179 and the D40 – $ 129. For more information, visit http://www.digium.com/phones.

ITEXPO 2012 attendees are encouraged to visit Digium at booth 901 to preview the phones.

About Digium

Digium®, Inc. provides Asterisk® software, telephony hardware and Switchvox business phone systems that deliver enterprise-class unified communications at an affordable price. Digium is the creator, primary developer and sponsor of the Asterisk project, the world’s most widely used open source communications software. Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a feature-rich communications server. A community of more than 80,000 developers and users worldwide uses Asterisk to create VoIP communication solutions in more than 170 countries. Since 1999, Digium has empowered developers to create innovative communications solutions based on open standards and open source software, providing an alternative to proprietary phone systems. Digium’s business communications products are sold through a worldwide network of reseller partners. More information is available at http://www.digium.com and http://www.asterisk.org.

The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, Asterisk SCF, Switchvox, AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Appliance and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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