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INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Inkubook (http://www.inkubook.com) -- the fun, collaborative website where users of all abilities can turn digital photos and ideas into a professionally printed photo book (http://inkubook.com/gift_cards) -- is providing gift buyers a unique option for the creative loved ones in their life. Inkubook gift cards can be purchased in any denomination and redeemed by recipients when they log on to Inkubook to create a photo book or calendar that will be a treasured keepsake long after the holidays pass.

"Gift cards are always popular gifts because they allow the recipient to choose their gifts. The Inkubook gift card is the ultimate option for allowing your loved ones to truly create a unique gift," said Dave McCauley, president of Inkubook.

    To purchase an Inkubook gift card:

    -- Log on to http://www.inkubook.com/gift_cards and click the "Order Now"
       button.

    -- Choose the denomination and whether you'd like to e-mail it or print
       and send it the traditional way.

    -- To redeem, your loved one enters the code on gift card into the Promo
       Code box during checkout after creating his or her unique gift.

For more information about Inkubook gift cards, or to begin creating your photo book or calendar today, log on to http://inkubook.com.

About Inkubook

Inkubook, an Author Solutions brand, is an easy-to-use online photo book creation service that enables people to make drop-dead-gorgeous photo books in minutes. With Inkubook, it's simple to upload photos and then drag and drop them onto creative layouts to make a fantastic book. Inkubook creators can invite friends to contribute text and photos, which makes collaborative book- making fast and fun. For more information on Inkubook, or to begin creating your photo book today, log on to http://www.inkubook.com.

About Author Solutions, Inc.

Author Solutions, Inc. (ASI), which is owned by Bertram Capital, is the world leader in the fastest-growing segment of publishing. Through its Author Services brands iUniverse, AuthorHouse, AuthorHouse UK, and Wordclay, ASI enables more authors to self-publish, promote, and sell their books than any other company in the world. Visit http://www.authorsolutions.com for more information.

    Media Contact:
    Kevin A. Gray
    Inkubook
    317-246-9348
    kgray@authorsolutions.com

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SOURCE Inkubook

NEW YORK, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Animoto (http://animoto.com), the website that lets users quickly and easily create professional-quality videos from their own photos and music, today announced new features that turn regular Animoto videos into beautiful, one-of-a-kind online holiday greetings. A dreamy, whimsical snowscape sets the scene for the video greetings, and coupled with a new text feature that allows users to narrate their videos through elegant captioning, Animoto holiday greetings stand out as the most personalized, vivid, and festive way to send holiday sentiments to friends and loved ones.

To complement the holiday greetings, Animoto has also enabled users to give its popular $30 annual subscriptions as gifts this holiday season. Moreover, a new holiday genre will be added to Animoto's library of music.

"Millions of people from around the globe are using Animoto as a more emotive way to share their special photographs with family and friends," said Brad Jefferson, CEO and Co-founder of Animoto. "Animoto users will now be able to turn their Animoto videos into neatly packaged, professional-quality e-greeting cards in time for the holidays. We hope these highly personalized, yet easy-to-make Animoto holiday greetings will become part of many holiday traditions."

Animoto is an innovative and cost-effective way to share the holiday spirit:

-- Creating an Animoto video and sharing as an e-greeting card is free for 30-second videos or $3 for full-length videos. Annual subscriptions to create an unlimited number of full-length videos are $30

-- Give the gift of Animoto - $30 All-Access Passes (annual subscriptions) make great holiday gifts: http://holidays.animoto.com/

-- Spice up holiday parties by downloading videos in DVD-quality and showing them off on big-screen TVs or projectors

To create an Animoto video, users simply upload their images, add some optional text, and pick a soundtrack, upon which Animoto returns a unique, energetic and emotional video orchestration. The heart of Animoto is its Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor using the same sophisticated post-production skills and techniques that are used in television and film. The technology takes into account every nuance of a song: the genre, song structure, energy, rhythm, instrumentation, and vocals. No two videos are ever the same; even videos generated with an identical set of images and music will each have a completely distinct set of motion design. For more information about Animoto's holiday offerings please visit: http://holidays.animoto.com/.

About Animoto

The founders of Animoto Productions include veterans of the entertainment industry who share a passion for helping people better share their stories and express themselves through online media by innovating technologies in the field of video production. Animoto Productions, founded in August 2006, is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Visit http://animoto.com.

SOURCE Animoto Productions

ATLANTA, Dec. 2, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today issued the following memo to its more than 75,000 employees worldwide from CEO Richard Anderson and President Edward H. Bastian.

 To:           Delta Air Lines Colleagues Worldwide

 From:         Richard Anderson
               Ed Bastian

 Subject:      Delta to Manage 2009 Capacity Due to Global Economic
               Slowdown and Softening Traffic

As always, we want to make certain that Delta people are the first to know about changes to our business. That is why we are sharing with you now that later this morning at an investment conference in New York, we will announce plans to decrease systemwide capacity, for both Delta and Northwest, during 2009. This action comes as a result of the global economic recession and weaker demand for air travel.

Systemwide 2009 capacity will be down 6-8% year over year. Domestic capacity will be down 8-10% and international capacity will be down approximately 3-5%. These numbers include the full impact of previously announced 2008 capacity reductions.

Delta has established itself as an industry leader. Once again, Delta must take the necessary steps to adjust our business accordingly and make certain seat capacity meets customer demand. These economic hurdles are difficult, and we remain committed to building our company on a durable financial foundation with industry-leading liquidity. Remember that speed wins so we will be decisive and not delay. As Rules of the Road states, "Speed in execution is the difference between success and failure."

Even with the economic recession, we are achieving significant benefits from our merger and will continue to do so. The merger has allowed us to develop growth opportunities as we connect the networks to create new revenue streams neither airline could have achieved independently. We will continue to follow the Flight Plan to invest in and further diversify our international network in the Pacific, Africa, India and the Middle East to help mitigate the risk from specific regional economies. We will remain focused on, and continue to adapt to, the rapidly changing global economy to better align supply with demand.

We are taking these actions to secure your careers and return us to sustained profitability. In the meantime, we are analyzing the impact on staffing as it pertains to these capacity reductions and, as in the past, we will offer voluntary programs to adjust staffing needs. We will continue to make decisions that are in the long-term interest of our colleagues, customers, shareholders and the communities we serve.

Thank you for your focus in executing on the Flight Plan, in spite of fuel at record levels earlier this year and now the unfolding economic recession. We have a solid cash balance, best-in-class cost per available seat mile (CASM) and your operational performance is head and shoulders above the rest of the industry. We thank you for the incredible work you do for our customers every day. Together, we will get through this new challenge and build a stronger Delta.

   Ed                Richard

About Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines is the world's largest airline. From its hubs in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York-JFK, Salt Lake City and Tokyo-Narita, Delta, its Northwest Airlines subsidiary and Delta Connection carriers offer service to more than 375 destinations worldwide in 66 countries and serve more than 170 million passengers each year. Delta's marketing alliances allow customers to earn and redeem either SkyMiles or WorldPerks on more than 16,000 daily flights offered by SkyTeam and other partners. Delta and its 75,000 worldwide employees are reshaping the aviation industry as the only U.S. airline to offer a full global network. Customers can check in for flights, print boarding passes, check bags and flight status at delta.com.

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CONTACT:  Delta Air Lines, Inc.
          Corporate Communications
          404-715-2554

SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TAM's (NYSE: TAM; BOVESPA: TAMM4) Technological Center, located in Sao Carlos in the interior of the state of Sao Paulo, has just been certified by the European aeronautics authority, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), to perform maintenance on Airbus A321 and A330 aircraft. With this, TAM is expanding the services offered by the Technological Center and will have EASA 145 certification for all models of airplane handled in its maintenance center, including A319/A320/A321/A330 and Fokker-100 aircraft.

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EASA 145 certification allows TAM to perform all major scheduled maintenance activities (C and D checkups) on aircraft registered in any country of the European Community. The issuance of the certificate was preceded by extensive auditing, in which all technical and quality processes of TAM's Technological Center were exhaustively verified.

Obtaining this certificate for the A321 and A330 models is in line with the company's strategy of transforming the Technological Center into an MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) business unit for offering aircraft maintenance services to third parties.

TAM's Technological Center is also certified by the National Agency of Civil Aviation (ANAC) to perform maintenance on Airbus A319/A320/A321/A330 and Fokker-100 aircraft. In addition, it has DIRMAB certification to perform checkups on the Presidential Plane, the Airbus ACJ (Airbus Corporate Jetliner). The company is continuing with the process of certification for maintenance on components of Boeing aircraft that are being incorporated into the TAM fleet.

Since January of 2007, TAM has been the only Brazilian airline to have IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) certification, the most complete and accepted international credential in operational safety. Its IOSA certification has been renewed up until January of 2010 following the completion of the auditing process conducted by independent technicians accredited by IATA (International Air Transport Association) in November of 2007. The audit attested to the company's adherence to 940 requirements for safety and operational quality.

Installed in its own space of 4.6 million square meters, TAM's Technological Center has already received R$ 185 million in investments since its inauguration in 2001. In addition to its maintenance hangars, the TAM complex in Sao Carlos includes all workshops, with a capacity for review of more than 2 thousand aviation components -- from radio control boxes to landing gear.

SOURCE TAM

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Revenue Management Systems, Inc. ("RMS, Inc.") is pleased to announce that it has been selected by OpenSkies, the new airline from British Airways, to provide it with state-of-the-art revenue management, inventory control, and reporting tools. OpenSkies will use airRM, the innovative revenue management software developed by RMS, Inc., to help identify sales opportunities and maximize passenger revenues. The software, which allows airlines to closely control pricing and analyze performance through a suite of features, has been implemented and is fully operational.

"The difficulties of the current economic environment have made effective revenue management more important now than ever," said Jonathan Rossman, Manager of Revenue Management for OpenSkies. "airRM's next-generation reporting and yield management tools will help enable OpenSkies to succeed in these challenging times."

"We are excited to be working with OpenSkies as they take advantage of the new U.S.-Europe Open Skies agreement. A wealth of tools are available in airRM and we are happy to continue providing our customers with viable solutions for their specific needs," said Scott Schade, CEO/CTO of RMS, Inc.

About OpenSkies

OpenSkies launched its first route on June 19 with daily flights between Paris' Orly and New York's JFK Airport, and commenced service between JFK and Amsterdam on October 25. OpenSkies offers a truly premium and intimate travel experience. The airline provide superior customer service and innovative features, including 6 foot, fully flat beds in business class, personal entertainment units with 50+ hours of programming and creative and healthy meal service. More information about OpenSkies is available at www.flyopenskies.com.

About Revenue Management Systems, Inc. and airRM

RMS, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 1996 that specializes in the design, development and support of innovative revenue management software solutions. The combination of superior software and personalized customer service offered by RMS, Inc. has prompted airlines such as Westjet (Canada), Transavia.com (The Netherlands), Vueling (Spain), and JetBlue (USA) to choose RMS, Inc. as their revenue management partner. RMS, Inc. is headquartered in Seattle, Washington (USA) with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) and Barcelona (Spain).

airRM was developed by RMS, Inc. in cooperation with a number of the most successful new generation airlines in the world. The result is a revenue management system that is broad in feature and function yet focused on helping users take full advantage of available information in order to make better, more informed, more profitable decisions. In addition to the features and functions expected from a traditional system, airRM provides a new perspective in airline revenue management with ground breaking tools not available in any other system on the market today.

More information about airRM and RMS, Inc. may be found at www.revenuemanagement.com.

    Source: Revenue Management Systems, Inc.