Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ:HLIT) today announced that ASTRA Platform Services GmbH (APS), a subsidiary of SES ASTRA (LX: SESG), has selected Harmonic’s internationally acclaimed DiviCom® Electra® 7000 high definition (HD) encoders and DiviTrackIP™ statistical multiplexing for a network upgrade designed to substantially enhance and expand its HD MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) service. APS operates one of Europe’s most modern satellite broadcast centers, transmitting over 200 television and audio channels to subscribers throughout Europe from its headend in Germany. As a result of this upgrade, APS is able to strengthen its service portfolio while delivering unparalleled HD picture quality at very efficient bit-rates.

Orchestria, weltweit führender Anbieter von Informationsschutz- und Kontrolllösungen, hat heute seinen Zusammenschluss mit Voltage Security, globaler Markführer für Datenverschlüsselung, bekannt gegeben. Orchestria 6 ist eine umfassende Suite aus DLP (Data Loss Prevention)-Produkten und stellt jetzt die E-Mail-Verschlüsselungsfunktionen von Voltage SecureMail bereit.

Orchestria, numéro un dans le domaine de la protection et du contrôle de l’information, a annoncé aujourd'hui qu'elle avait noué un partenariat avec Voltage Security, le chef de file mondial du chiffrement de l'information. Orchestria 6, une gamme complète de produits voués à la prévention des pertes de données, intègre maintenant les fonctions de chiffrement des messages électroniques de Voltage SecureMail.

Worldwide consumer broadband connections will grow from 323 million connections in 2007 to 499 million in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide consumer broadband connections penetrated 18 percent of households in 2007, and by 2012, households with a broadband connection will reach 25 percent.

With competition heating up for video services in Europe, operators will employ VOD (Video On Demand) as a key differentiator in acquiring new subscribers, with evidence suggesting that the move from near-VOD to true VOD dramatically increases buy rates. VOD is fast becoming a must-have feature; and for those operators with the technology already in place, the next step is to differentiate even further via HD VOD, along with increasing the size of the content library. In a recent report, ABI Research categorizes the growth of VOD subscriber levels in the contexts of programming and functionality.

With gas prices maintaining never-before-seen levels and airlines simultaneously cutting flights, reducing perks and increasing fares, many consumers have been left to wonder if the days of cheap travel are over. Not so, says Cheapflights.com, the search engine that continues to make it easy for travelers with flexible schedules to find cheap deals to destinations around the world. In its just-published report entitled “Travelnomics: Getting a Good Deal in Today’s Economy,” Cheapflights offers easy-to-understand analysis and advice behind the multitude of challenges facing the travel industry. A number of strategies for consumers looking to score a good deal are also outlined in the report.

Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) and Imprivata® Inc., the converged identity and access management appliance company, have entered a strategic partnership which enables Siemens to offer the Imprivata OneSign™ platform for strong authentication, enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) and physical/logical convergence to its customer base. Users of solutions such as Soarian® Portal, a web-based portal that provides secure access, will be able to seamlessly integrate OneSign into their Siemens and non-Siemens application environments.

ION Television today announced a station affiliation agreement with WRCX–TV in Dayton, the nation’s 62nd largest TV market, which represents approximately 511,000 television households.

MRG Document Technologies (MRG), a provider of compliance and documentation services for the financial industry, announced its inclusion in Mortgage Technology Magazine’s Top 50 Service Providers list for 2008.

First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:FSLR) announced today that it will build a 10 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) power plant for Sempra Generation near Boulder City, Nevada. First Solar will design, engineer and construct the turnkey PV power plant and will provide monitoring and maintenance services for the plant over its lifetime. Sempra Generation will be the developer for the project, and will own and operate the PV power plant once completed. Construction began in July, and the 10 MW PV power plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2008. The solar modules to be deployed in this ground-mount project will be produced at First Solar’s manufacturing facility in Perrysburg, Ohio.

LIN TV Corp. (NYSE: TVL), a local television and digital media company, today reported it has the number one television station web site in 15 of its 17 markets and the number one overall media web site in 12 of its 17 markets based on “visit time”, according to May 2008 data recently released by Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service for Internet measurement. That marks an impressive increase over the same period in 2007, when LIN did not have a number one web site in any of its markets.

China’s national TV network has selected WebTrends Inc., a leading provider of web analytics and online marketing solutions, to generate insight about visitors across multiple web channels during the 2008 Olympic Games.

According to a recent report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for information about the telecommunications and networking industries, significant new Ethernet Switch product introductions should help propel market growth, especially over the next year, as products geared towards the data center begin to ramp in the second half of 2008 and the first half of 2009.

MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS), the nation’s leading provider of unlimited wireless communications service, earned the highest ranking in the J.D. Power and Associates third annual Prepaid Customer Satisfaction Study.

D3Publisher (D3P), a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, together with its parent D3, Inc., today announced the promotions of Yoji Takenaka to president and chief executive officer of North America and Europe and Hidetaka Tachibana to chief financial officer of North America. In their new roles, Takenaka will continue to direct all operations in North America and Europe and Tachibana will continue to oversee key investor relationships and activities as well as strategic growth opportunities in North America.

The Board of Directors of AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME) declared a regular quarterly dividend of six cents per share for the third quarter ending September 30, 2008.

Quorum Business Solutions, Inc. (“Quorum”), a leading provider of business and information technology solutions for the oil, gas, and renewable energy industry, announces the release of QuorumTIPS Gathering. Previously two distinct products, QuorumTIPS Gathering incorporates the functionality from both of the products into a single, consistent system. With Quorum TIPS Gathering, clients have the option of implementing a completely integrated solution inline with the seamless business processes of gathering gas from the wellhead and processing it straight through to the tailgate of the plant, or installing select modules to address specific needs associated with either gathering or processing assets. The new offering is the only fully integrated solution available on the market.

Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) today announced that its partner, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. (J&JPRD), submitted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for RISPERDAL® CONSTA®[(risperidone) Long-Acting Injection] to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval as monotherapy in the maintenance treatment of bipolar I disorder to delay the time to occurrence of mood episodes in adults.

Pricester.com, Inc. (OTCBB:PRCC) has indefinitely waived all fees for its online shopping portal, accessible at www.pricester.com or directly at www.pricester.com/shopping, for those serving in the Armed Forces, including veterans and their family members.

The American Hospital Association’s Career Center, today announced the launch of a new scholarship program—the National Healthcare Career Network Scholarship program. Health care is ‘People taking care of People’. It takes a special person to commit to a lifetime of caring for others and this work happens in many ways throughout the health care system – direct care with doctors and nurses to critical services functions to hospital administration.

Plaxo gab heute bekannt, dass eine niederländische Version seines „Next-Generation Social Network“, Pulse, zur Verfügung stehen wird. Nach dem neuesten explosiven Wachstum stehen die Niederlande bei der Nutzung von Pulse an dritter Stelle (nach den Vereinigten Staaten und Großbritannien) und haben die höchste Anzahl von Verbindungen pro Nutzer erreicht. Dieser Schritt folgt der Lokalisierung von Plaxo ins Französische, Deutsche, Japanische, Portugiesische, vereinfachte Chinesische und Spanische im vergangenen Jahr.

Image Metrics, the leading provider of facial animation solutions to the entertainment industry, has projected life onto a photo-real CG heart that sings about its loss of love in Gnarls Barkley’s latest video, “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul,” from the recently released album, The Odd Couple.Radical Media, producers of the video, turned to Image Metrics because its unique facial animation solution was the only one able to exactly capture lead singer Cee-Lo’s lips for translation onto the digital heart. The project is Image Metrics’ first music video collaboration with Gradient Effects, which designed and developed character animation for the CG heart.

BigBand Networks, Inc., (NASDAQ:BBND), a leading provider of video networking solutions, today announced that it will issue a press release reporting financial results for the second quarter 2008 ended June 30, 2008, immediately following the close of the market on Thursday, July 31, 2008.

Syntel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNT), a global information technology services and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) firm, today announced financial results for the second quarter, ended June 30, 2008.

AskMen.com, the Internet's top men's lifestyle site, today unveiled the results from the AskMen.com Great Male Survey. More than 70,000 AskMen.com readers took the survey, which was broken down into five sections: Lifestyle, Dating, Sexuality, Power & Money and Men in 2008. The AskMen.com Great Male Survey contained over 150 unique and thought-provoking questions that dove directly into the psyche of the modern male. AskMen.com also teamed up this year with Yahoo! Shine (http://shine.yahoo.com), a leading lifestyles website for women, to host the Great Female Survey asking Yahoo! Shine readers to weigh in on selected questions from the AskMen.com Great Male Survey. The survey included 40 questions focusing on dating and sexuality and drew close to 10,000 respondents over a four week period. Readers can view the results from the AskMen.com Great Male Survey at http://www.AskMen.com.

TechTarget, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTGT) today announced preliminary financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008. The Company estimates total revenues for the second quarter to increase by approximately 20%, to approximately $29.4 million, compared to $24.6 million for the second quarter of 2007. The Company estimates online revenues for the second quarter to increase by approximately 28%, to approximately $20.8 million, compared to $16.3 million for the second quarter of 2007, and adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, as further adjusted for stock-based compensation) to decrease by approximately 1%, to approximately $7.5 million, compared to $7.6 million for the second quarter of 2007.

Glu Mobile Inc. (Nasdaq:GLUU), a leading global publisher of mobile games, today announced that it is currently developing a new TRANSFORMERS mobile game, TRANSFORMERS G1: AWAKENING, scheduled to launch worldwide this Fall. TRANSFORMERS G1:AWAKENING will take players back to the TRANSFORMERS’ roots and include characters, storyline and classic visuals from the original GENERATION 1 series – the hugely popular original cartoon that spawned a pop culture phenomenon.

Tabreez Verjee, president of GoFish Corporation (OTCBB: GOFH, www.gofishcorp.com), a leading online entertainment and media network specializing in immersive brand opportunities, will be presenting at the RBC Capital Markets 2008 Technology, Media & Communications Conference. GoFish will be among other leading companies presenting to members of the investment community during the conference, held at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco from August 5-7, 2008.

Eclipsys Corporation®, (NASDAQ:ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, today announced it has hit strong pharmacy benchmarks in the first six months of 2008, with the company meeting its target to double the number of sites live on its Sunrise Pharmacy™ integrated pharmacy information system. Introduced to the marketplace two years ago, the solution is now used by more than 1,000 trained pharmacists and technicians to provide the highest levels of medication management and clinical outcomes.

Monotype Imaging Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has expanded its Monotype®, Linotype® and ITC® typeface collections with more than 100 designs. The fonts can be previewed and purchased from the company’s e-commerce sites: Fonts.com, Linotype.com, ITCFonts.com and Faces.co.uk.

Plaxo a annoncé aujourd'hui la disponibilité d’une version néerlandaise de son réseau social de la prochaine génération, Pulse. Suite à sa croissance explosive récente, les Pays-Bas sont devenus la troisième source principale de trafic dans Pulse (après les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni) et revendique le plus grand nombre de connexions par utilisateur. Cette initiative suit la localisation de Plaxo en français, allemand, japonais, portugais, chinois simplifié, et espagnol l’année dernière.

In the past, deep packet inspection (DPI) vendors have used in-house platforms for testing. However in 2007, Service Providers (SPs) benchmarking the capabilities of various DPI vendors, has made it necessary for third-party tools to give an impartial analysis. The demand for third-party validation has given a leg up to the DPI test equipment market.

AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME) today announced that its Board of Directors has increased the authorized level for repurchases of its common stock by $50 million. This increased authorization will be added to the approximately $18 million that remains available from an existing $50 million authorization approved by the Board of Directors in January 2008. Today’s action brings the total amount authorized for share repurchases to approximately $68 million.

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today named Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as chief executive officer. Upon his arrival in September, Mr. Johnson will also be appointed to the board of directors. The company also announced today that Scott Kriens will continue as chairman of the board and will remain active in the areas of strategy and leadership development.

Faced with the question, “Who has the right plan for America’s economy?” presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are going head-to-head on election issues at OpposingViews.com.

The students of Lighthouse Community Charter School have found a new way to harness their brainpower. In March 2008, the school started using the full suite of neuroscience-based Fast ForWord® products from Scientific Learning (NASDAQ:SCIL) to enhance the learning capacity of struggling readers. In just 12 weeks of using the software programs, two-thirds of the participating students have shown at least half a year’s gain in reading skills.

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of ambulatory healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today announced that the Illinois Primary Health Care Association (IPHCA), a nonprofit trade association that represents community health centers (CHCs), has selected NextGen Healthcare’s suite of enterprise software solutions. Products selected for implementation into member organizations include NextGen® EMR (Electronic Medical Record), NextGen EPM (Enterprise Practice Management) and the NextMDsm patient portal, as well as Quality Systems’ integrated EDR (Electronic Dental Record) and hardware. In addition, IPHCA will deploy NextGen Healthcare’s NextGuardsm Data Protection Services, which provides off-site, web-based data archiving, retention and disaster recovery preparedness services.

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced the latest addition to its HD ultrasound family of products. The Philips HD15 ultrasound system provides physicians with superb imaging and workflow performance in a cost-effective system.

ESI Group (ESIN FR0004110310), ein Vorreiter und weltweit führender Lieferant von Software zur digitalen Simulation von Prototyping- und Fertigungsprozessen, hat heute die Freigabe von Virtual Performance Solution 2008 bekannt gegeben, eines außerordentlich vielseitigen Softwarepakets, das den steigenden Bedarf nach skalierbaren Simulationslösungen und Multi-Domain-Optimierung abdeckt.

Today at the 2008 Comic-Con International, Glu Mobile Inc. (Nasdaq:GLUU), a leading global publisher of mobile games, unveiled SUPERMAN/BATMAN, a new game coming to mobile phones around the world this winter. SUPERMAN/BATMAN, developed and published by Glu through its licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, is based on the BATMAN and SUPERMAN mythologies and is about the joining of the super heroes on a quest to fight evil. Glu’s launch will mark the first mobile game to feature the world’s two most beloved super heroes.