Mobile content to predict US election outcome?

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Obama leads in the mobile space too

27 October 2008: According to sales of election content in the US, Obama mobile content is proving significantly more popular than McCain content. Mobile messaging service provider Fun Text is providing multimedia message content for each candidate and the number of messages sent tie in with current election outcome predictions that Obama is in the lead.

Available to send to friends and family, the election content provides an easy way of conveying who you re supporting out of the two candidates.

Fun Text content is updated every day so there is always something new and topical but we hadn t anticipated that this could be such a great way of predicting who might win the US presidential election. Unlike an online poll where people are quizzed on their preference, this pulse takes into account people s actual use of this content, said James Pycock, director of Fun Text. Obama currently has 82 of the Fun Text vote, and McCain 18 . Clearly Obama has won the vote of the typically younger mobile demographic.

Mobile users are likely to increase their purchase and sending of such messages in the final run-up to the election, he continued Keeping a close eye on these figures is likely to give a good indication of who will win in the end.


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CSC chairman underscores company s commitment to expand Indi...

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CSC CHAIRMAN Underscores Company Commitment to Expand India Operations

Michael Laphen Visits CSC Operations in India

New Delhi, Oct. 15, 2008 CSC NYSE:CSC announced today that Michael W. Laphen, Chairman, President and CEO of CSC, began a six-day visit to India, where he will be sharing the company s strategic growth plans. He will also meet with CSC employees to discuss their role in the company s global business strategy. In addition, he will inaugurate the Noida campus, the largest CSC campus in India, and tour CSC locations in Hyderabad and Chennai.

CSC acquired Covansys in July 2007 and First Consulting Group FCG in January 2008, and has achieved full integration of both operations into the company s model of delivering One CSC to customers and business. With the acquisitions, CSC nearly doubled its headcount in India surpassing its annual headcount goal and is now home to the company s second-largest concentration of employees. CSC also achieved a 90 percent compound annual growth rate in terms of headcount in India in the last five years. The company s fully integrated World Sourcing center in India provides end-to-end India-led global delivery to its customers worldwide, has attained 100 percent revenue growth in fiscal year 2008 and has increased its operations from four to seven locations in India.
As the Chairman, President and CEO of CSC, Mr. Michael W. Laphen is responsible for the effective execution of CSC s business plan and for ensuring operational excellence in the delivery of services to clients around the globe. CSC has approximately 90,000 employees and reported revenue of 17.1 billion for the 12 months ended July 4, 2008.
It is a pleasure to be back in India to meet with the team and see the progress they have made in person, said Laphen. India is CSC s largest world sourcing location outside the U.S. and an important part of the company s global success. As a part of CSC s global delivery network, our operations in India are critical to the company s growth strategy in the Asia Pacific region and will help CSC realize our goal of Delivery to the world, from around the world.

We are honored to welcome our Chairman, President and CEO to our campus, said Rajendra B. Vattikuti, President of CSC s operations in India. As a CSC World Sourcing center, our goal is to significantly grow our operations and be a vibrant part of the Indian IT industry. Mr. Laphen s visit confirms the company s commitment to expand operations in India, support the Indian IT ITES industry and contribute to the development of the nation s software industry.

About CSC India
With centers in Noida, Indore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore and Vadodara, and approximately 19,000 employees, CSC is one of the fastest growing IT services firms in India. CSC s strong local presence enables the company to offer high-value technology solutions and a rich portfolio of services to customers across industry segments, including applications development and product support, infrastructure and BPO services, to clients worldwide. CSC India is consistently recognized in best employer award categories and houses the company s first Office of Innovation outside the U.S. For more information, visit in.country.csc.com.

About CSC
CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC s advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, CSC has approximately 90,000 employees and reported revenue of 17.1 billion for the 12 months ended July 4, 2008. For more information, visit www.csc.com.


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Documation awarded UKOUG PeopleSoft Partner of the Year 2008

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Documation were awarded UKOUG PeopleSoft Partner of the Year 2008 at the UKOUK Partner Award ceremony in London last week. The awards are a global first in being an Oracle Partner awards event voted for by customers. Documation were also named runner up in the Technology Partner of the Year category and were the only document management company to be recognised in the awards.

Andy Watters, Channel Manager for Documation reflected on the achievement, Documation is delighted that customers have chosen us for this award. We are so pleased that our effort to develop innovative and effective integration of our invoice management solutions with PeopleSoft, E-Business and JDE has been recognised. We look forward to continuing our partnership with the UKOUG, and establishing Documation as the leading provider of invoice management processing solutions for Oracle.

The UKOUG Partner of the Year awards were voted on by over 1,000 Oracle users across 20 categories, and recognised those organisations that the community believes has best supported users over the past 12 months.

The award winners will also be recognised and promoted at the annual UKOUG Conference Exhibition, held at the ICC, Birmingham, from 1st 5th December, 2008. Documation can be found on stand 68 throughout the four days of supplier exhibitions and also have secured speaking slots at both the JD Edwards Conference on the 4th November, and the PeopleSoft Conference 4th December.


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KOGNITIO REPORT SIX-MINUTE PODCAST DEBUTS ON ITUNES, F...

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BRACKNELL, UNITED KINGDOM 16th October 2008 Kognitio , a leading global provider of business intelligence BI and data warehousing solutions, today announced it has begun producing the Kognitio Report, a series of podcasts focused on BI topics in today s marketplace. The six-minute podcasts will be produced on an ongoing basis, and are available at no charge via the iTunes store...

The first Kognitio Report, available for download now, features industry analyst Claudia Imhoff, discussing how business intelligence is beginning to make inroads among frontline workers, enabling them to make the better decisions required in today s hyper-competitive marketplace.

Imhoff says the ability to analyse real-time data gives companies the ability to have a real conversation with a customer, and understand who they are, what their lifetime value is to the organisation, what their most recent purchase was and what they should suggest in terms of another purchase. She credits the enhanced ability for more companies to engage in BI to what she terms a perfect storm of faster data extraction, transformation and loading ETL processing, better storage technologies, and faster analysis tools. More importantly, she says there has been a distinct change in thinking among business intelligence professionals, who now realise that traditional BI processes should be incorporated into traditional business practices.

Speaking for Kognitio, the manufacturer of the WX2 purpose-built analytical database, John K. Thompson says these changes in business intelligence have increasingly allowed front-line workers to become more proactive in their dealing with customers. Thompson, Chief Executive Officer of Kognitio, Inc., says that data analysed at the transaction level can be used for forward-looking purposes, giving companies a complete shift in how business analytics and data warehousing is perceived from a value-add in the business, rather than a cost centre.

Additional Kognitio Reports will be available from the iTunes store as well as Kognitio s website at no charge, featuring industry analysts such as David Loshin, Lyndsay Wise, Richard Hackathorn and more. The six-minute reports are specifically designed to provide listeners with insights without requiring them to devote a significant amount of time.



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INSIDE Contactless Wins ACT Canada Lorne Boates Award

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Association Award Recognizes Development of Outstanding Applications Using Advanced Card Technologies

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 17, 2008 INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced that the company was recognized by ACT Canada, a nonprofit stakeholders membership organization that serves as the authority on contactless technology in the Canadian market, as winner of its Lorne Boates Award. The award validates INSIDE s role as a thought leader and innovator in contactless applications and its impact on the Canadian contactless market.

INSIDE s MicroPass contactless payment platform has rapidly commanded a market-leading position in Canada, helping to create adoption momentum for contactless solutions, said Catherine Johnston, president and CEO, ACT Canada. The company s committed efforts in meeting the need of Canadian bank card issuers and consumers made it a compelling choice for the Lorne Boates Award.

The INSIDE MicroPass contactless platform was chosen by Canadian issuers and card manufacturers because it was fully certified, secure, and available in abundant quantities to meet aggressive time-to-market deadlines. Coupled with the platform s proven performance in global markets, INSIDE MicroPass has emerged as the platform of choice for contactless payment in Canada. MicroPass platforms already power thousands of contactless consumer transactions in Canada s grocery, restaurant, theater, gas stations, and retail outlets.

We are delighted with the award and pleased to play such an integral role in Canada s adoption of contactless technology, said Kim Madore, vice president of sales and business development, Canada, for INSIDE Contactless. As Canada continues its migration to EMV, we will continue to work closely with card issuers and other organizations to support their requirements and simplify convergence of EMV and other non-contactless applications.

The ACT Lorne Boates Award was presented to INSIDE Contactless at ACT Canada s Cardware 08: Securing Payment conference, held October 8-9 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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A Star is Born!

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Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder who you are? Brian perhaps? Or maybe even Cheryl? With the Name a Star Gift Box, the possibilities are endless.

All wrapped up in a sophisticated steel presentation box, the Name a Star Gift Set gives everyone the ability to have a little bit of the universe named after them. In addition to a personalised certificate featuring the star s name, the box also contains an introductory letter, a certificate featuring the star s exact coordinates, a fact sheet and guide to star astronomy, not to mention a start chart, planisphere and a night sky book.

Perfect not just as a birthday or a Christmas gift, the Name a Star Gift Box is the ideal way for anyone to realise their dream of seeing their name appear in lights.

The Name a Star Gift Box is available from GettingPersonal.co.uk for 19.95, and this personalised gift can be delivered free-of-charge when more than 30 is spent in one transaction. Items can usually be dispatched within 24-hours.

GettingPersonal.co.uk offers a range of personalised gift sets, including the Name a Rose Gift Box, priced at 19.95, and the Name a Box of Chocolates set, which retails at 29.95.

Browse our range of Personalised Gifts including our personalised calendars and personalised mugs. To explore our range of personalised gifts further, please visit our website at http: www.gettingpersonal.co.uk
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St Bernard s High School, Rotherham, gives Meru Networks ...

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Meru WLAN provides reliable access to get students on line in all subjects

IP08, Earls Court, London, UK Wednesday, 1st October 2008 - Pupils at St Bernard s Catholic High School in Rotherham, Yorkshire can access Internet course materials instantly from any classroom in the building, thanks to a wireless LAN from Meru Networks.

The school wanted to provide reliable access for its 670 students throughout the school, so subject teachers can use Internet resources in any lesson, without having to move the class into a dedicated IT suite. The wireless LAN had to be reliable, and able to support up to 64 laptops at once.

Whole classes of students can access the network at the same time without interruption, said Paul Clark, Strategy leader for ICT at St Bernard s. This network gives more flexible access to our ICT facility, and will allow us to get laptops into all curriculum areas.

UK based Networks by Wireless won a competitive tender, convincing St Bernard s School that wireless LAN equipment from Meru Networks would succeed where other equipment had failed, and provide a network the school could trust.

The school has a new wired LAN, installed this year, and each classroom has a networked PC and an interactive whiteboard. Paul wanted to go further, and give each student network access, but was not convinced wireless LANs were up to the job.

We had tried a wireless LAN before, with a few access points in a small area, but we took it out a year ago, because it was unreliable, said Paul. After this experience, Paul was sceptical that any wireless LAN could meet his school s requirements: We had decided to move away from wireless and get things cabled in.

The demands of pupil access changed that. When a large number of laptops, wheeled to the classroom in a trolley, are handed to students at the beginning of a lesson, wired connections are simply impractical. So the school issued an invitation to network companies, to tender for a reliable wireless LAN that would allow instant access anywhere in the school.

The winner of that tender, Meru s fourth generation single-channel wireless LAN, avoids the unreliability and interference issues common place with legacy wireless LANs. Access points are placed on a single radio channel, eliminating the need for costly channel planning. Meru s coordinated access points ensure bandwidth is shared efficiently, everyone gets the best connection possible, and the network is managed centrally with its award-winning Air Traffic Control technology and System Director software.

Our biggest misgivings were that Meru s single channel architecture was different to every other wireless LAN vendor, said Paul. His technicians evaluated the product, before it was set up by Networks by Wireless.

The network was installed quickly by Networks by Wireless during the school s summer holiday, and was running smoothly before the pupils returned in September. Most vendors equipment requires a detailed site survey to position the radios and avoid interference, but with Meru s single-channel architecture, that wasn t necessary: The wireless part just worked, says Paul. The hardest part of the installation was upgrading the network with Power-over-Ethernet PoE injectors to drive the access points.

The network is future-proof, if the school needs faster network access in future, says Paul: We can upgrade to 802.11n when we need it - but 802.11abg meets our current needs.

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St Bernard s High School, Rotherham, gives Meru Networks ...

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Meru WLAN provides reliable access to get students on line in all subjects

IP08, Earls Court, London, UK Wednesday, 1st October 2008 - Pupils at St Bernard s Catholic High School in Rotherham, Yorkshire can access Internet course materials instantly from any classroom in the building, thanks to a wireless LAN from Meru Networks.

The school wanted to provide reliable access for its 670 students throughout the school, so subject teachers can use Internet resources in any lesson, without having to move the class into a dedicated IT suite. The wireless LAN had to be reliable, and able to support up to 64 laptops at once.

Whole classes of students can access the network at the same time without interruption, said Paul Clark, Strategy leader for ICT at St Bernard s. This network gives more flexible access to our ICT facility, and will allow us to get laptops into all curriculum areas.

UK based Networks by Wireless won a competitive tender, convincing St Bernard s School that wireless LAN equipment from Meru Networks would succeed where other equipment had failed, and provide a network the school could trust.

The school has a new wired LAN, installed this year, and each classroom has a networked PC and an interactive whiteboard. Paul wanted to go further, and give each student network access, but was not convinced wireless LANs were up to the job.

We had tried a wireless LAN before, with a few access points in a small area, but we took it out a year ago, because it was unreliable, said Paul. After this experience, Paul was sceptical that any wireless LAN could meet his school s requirements: We had decided to move away from wireless and get things cabled in.

The demands of pupil access changed that. When a large number of laptops, wheeled to the classroom in a trolley, are handed to students at the beginning of a lesson, wired connections are simply impractical. So the school issued an invitation to network companies, to tender for a reliable wireless LAN that would allow instant access anywhere in the school.

The winner of that tender, Meru s fourth generation single-channel wireless LAN, avoids the unreliability and interference issues common place with legacy wireless LANs. Access points are placed on a single radio channel, eliminating the need for costly channel planning. Meru s coordinated access points ensure bandwidth is shared efficiently, everyone gets the best connection possible, and the network is managed centrally with its award-winning Air Traffic Control technology and System Director software.

Our biggest misgivings were that Meru s single channel architecture was different to every other wireless LAN vendor, said Paul. His technicians evaluated the product, before it was set up by Networks by Wireless.

The network was installed quickly by Networks by Wireless during the school s summer holiday, and was running smoothly before the pupils returned in September. Most vendors equipment requires a detailed site survey to position the radios and avoid interference, but with Meru s single-channel architecture, that wasn t necessary: The wireless part just worked, says Paul. The hardest part of the installation was upgrading the network with Power-over-Ethernet PoE injectors to drive the access points.

The network is future-proof, if the school needs faster network access in future, says Paul: We can upgrade to 802.11n when we need it - but 802.11abg meets our current needs.

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