PlayPhone in European Footie Forecast Launch PlayPhone is to launch Footie Forecast, a new mobile football score prediction service set to become the must-have mobile accessory for any self respecting football fan. The service, fronted by footballing great Jimmy Greaves in the UK will also launch across Europe in Italy, Germany, and Spain. Launching in August in time for the new football season, the predictor service is derived from match history allowing for as close... Read Full Story
LONDON, UK September 5, 2008– mydeco, the online intermediary for the home design market, today announced that it has secured £7.35M in its second round of funding. Sofinnova Partners, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms, led the round in which other participants included SRPE, Amadeus Capital Partners and Burda Cross Media. This investment follows a seed round last year led by SPARK Ventures (who remain a major shareholder) and takes total funding to date... Read Full Story
Trinity™ Optical Switch Facilitates Bi-Directional Control and HD Video Cambridge, UK, Andover, MA., – 5th September, 2008 – Polatis Inc., a supplier of high performance optical switch technologies, will demonstrate ‘base station to HD camera connectivity’ – critical for outside broadcast applications – on it’s booth (8.B20) at IBC 2008, September 12th-16th. The demonstration will see the Trinity™ family of optical video routing switches facilitating bi-directional control and HD traffic over... Read Full Story
Brickstream Corporation is pleased to announce that they have signed a reseller agreement with Human Recognition Systems Limited (HRS), which will allow HRS to represent and sell Brickstream’s market leading, ClarityTM Video Analytic Appliance Atlanta, GA – 05th September 2008 – BRICKSTREAM CORPORATION - a leader in intelligent Video Analytics, announces a strategic OEM Reseller Partnership with Human Recognition Systems Ltd. to add the leading Clarity intelligent video analytics appliance to... Read Full Story
IT automation platform enables managed service provider to increase customer base by 25% and save 90 man hours per week ST. HELIER, JERSEY, September 4th 2008: Kaseya (http://www.kaseya.co.za), a global provider of IT automation software for IT solutions providers and public and private sector IT organisations, today announced that South African IT consultancy Netcad has transformed its managed service business following the implementation of the Kaseya IT automation platform. By using... Read Full Story
Microsoft Research today launched AutoCollage 2008, a desktop application that allows users to easily compile a set of individual photographs into one seamless collage. Available to trial from the Microsoft Research download site AutoCollage is an advanced computer vision and image processing program that assembles pictures into a seamless collage using methods such as object recognition and face detection. Having automatically identified interesting parts of pictures, AutoCollage combines... Read Full Story
MPEGIF and Open IPTV Forum presenting unique conference session on 11 September 2008 IBC 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 4 September 2008 – The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF), the largest advocacy group for MPEG technologies in the world, in cooperation with the Open IPTV Forum, are presenting a free full day MPEGIF Master Class titled “The Transition to a New Television Experience” on Thursday 11 September 2008 between 10am and 5.30pm bringing together industry experts representing... Read Full Story
4th September 2008, Peterborough. Kidney Research UK is to launch a pilot programme of national screening days for chronic kidney disease (CKD). The screenings will take place from September until the end of November in four centres across the UK. The national pilot is being conducted in association with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and aims to screen up to 2,000 people at four sites (namely London, Birmingham, Oldham, plus one other) each session targeting... Read Full Story
AMSTERDAM, September 4, 2008 – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced it will be a Gold Sponsor of this year’s Hosting Transformation Summit North America, the premier global forum for executives in the hosting, IT services and Internet infrastructure sectors. The summit will be held in Las Vegas from September 15th to 17th. In addition to the sponsorship, Phil Collerton, Interxion EVP Operations, will represent the company during a panel... Read Full Story
4 September 2008 Integrated risk analysis tools, DecisionTools Suite 5.0, enhances informed decision-making Risk analysis specialist, Palisade Corporation (www.palisade.com) continues its drive to help organisations make informed decisions with the launch of DecisionTools Suite 5.0. The new offering is an integrated set of tools that enable users to perform a wide range of sophisticated risk analysis and decision support tasks in order to reduce uncertainty. DecisionTools Suite 5.0, which... Read Full Story
