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Top Telecom Industry Analyst Looks to iCore to Streamline Voice and Data Communications

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- iCore Networks, the D.C. metro area's leading provider of Voice over Private Internet (VoPI) services, has added Current Analysis to the growing list of customers on the worldwide iCore voice and data network.

Current Analysis is known for its Competitive Response solutions which provide tactical, actionable, competitive intelligence to help fast-paced companies compete in the highly volatile telecommunications, networking and business software markets.

"We had been experiencing call quality and downtime issues with another hosted services provider," said Bob Norberg VP of Development & IT. "We decided that iCore offers the best solution to address these issues and improve our ability to market our business intelligence products and services." iCore's voice quality is consistently rated as equal or better than landlines by independent rating firms, and its data services are rated just as highly.

"To be selected as the voice and data services provider by one of the top research firms in the telecom industry is a huge vote of confidence," said iCore CEO and Chairman Stephen Canton. "It's a strong indication that we are becoming a dominant player in the hosted VoPI services marketspace."

iCore will provide Current Analysis with a full suite of voice and data services, along with redundant circuitry, to increase and streamline communications between 80 users, 20 of whom are in remote locations.

Since a growing number of Current Analysis users are based in foreign countries, the company is also looking for a secure and reliable network that supports its expanding worldwide presence. "Through our Cisco-based networking solution, we're able to provide that high level of security and reliability," said Canton.

Added Canton, "We think it's notable that Current Analysis, which is in the business of providing a competitive intelligence advantage, is going with iCore to gain a competitive advantage in voice and data networking."

About Current Analysis

Current Analysis (www.currentanalysis.com) has been helping leading technology companies improve their competitive responsiveness since 1997. Sales teams, product managers, and marketing professionals rely on Current Analysis for the latest competitive analysis and tactical advice. Current Analysis' structured, rapid competitive response solutions help companies improve their business performance and create a repeatable process advantage over competitors. The company serves more than 30,000 users at over 200 enterprise clients across the telecommunications, networking, and business software industries.

About iCore Networks

iCore is a managed networking and Voice over Private Internet (VoPI) company named number 29 on this year's Inc.500 list of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. iCore offers small and medium-sized businesses a cost effective, simple solution to their voice and data needs. Unlike VoIP, VoPI provides a managed, secure, hosted, end-to-end voice and data system that gives small and medium-sized businesses the same capabilities enjoyed by Fortune 500 companies at a savings over their current voice and data providers. iCore backs those capabilities with the most customer-oriented employees in the industry; unprecedented reliability and disaster recovery tools; and world-class employee support and training. For more information about iCore Networks, please visit http://www.icore.com.

    Source: iCore Networks

EDISON, N.J., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rev up your scooter and deliver big profits in Pizza Delivery Boy from Majesco Entertainment Company (Nasdaq: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market. This unique Wii(TM) action title lets players use the Wii Remote(TM) as an all-in-one kitchen utensil and driving wheel to cook and deliver pizzas to hungry customers in three bustling towns. Players must beware, though, as a number of obstacles stand between them and the coveted title of Pizza Boy of the Year!

"Pizza Delivery Boy combines made-to-order pizza preparation with fast and furious driving that delivers on fun," said Gui Karyo, Executive Vice President of Operations for Majesco. "Wii owners can look forward to an addictive experience that mixes two proven gameplay mechanics into one unique entertainment product."

When three brothers mismanage their successful pizza restaurants and the businesses start to falter, the bank manager threatens to shut them down if they don't return to profitability. It's up to you, the new hire, to restore the ailing pizza parlors to their past magnificence. But the task won't be easy. Players earn money by making and delivering pizzas throughout three busy towns crawling with scoundrels and hazards like hungry dogs and oil slicks. Players can also unlock faster vehicles and earn extra cash on their days off by taking on various side missions, including street racing and cooking competitions. New hires who rake in the dough will rescue the family business and become a local hero!

Developed by Attractive Games LTD, Pizza Delivery Boy is expected to release Winter 2010 and is rated E for Everyone. For additional information about Majesco's exciting line of products, please visit www.majescoentertainment.com.

About Majesco Entertainment Company

Majesco Entertainment Company is a provider of video games for the mass market. Building on more than 20 years of operating history, the company is focused on developing and publishing a wide range of casual and family oriented video games on Wii(TM), Nintendo DS(TM) and other leading systems. Franchise highlights include Cooking Mama(TM), Cake Mania® and Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum. The company's shares are traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol: COOL. Majesco is headquartered in Edison, NJ and has an international office in Bristol, UK. More information about Majesco can be found online at www.majescoentertainment.com. @Majesco is on twitter or at www.twitter.com/majesco.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kingland Systems, a premier provider of financial services software and data solutions, today announced it will embed IBM's InfoSphere Master Data Management Server and other IBM software into its 360 Data(TM) line of enterprise data management solutions for the financial services industry through an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM. This agreement marks an expansion of Kingland's relationship with IBM, focusing on worldwide Master Data Management (MDM) software and data solutions, optimized for large financial services institutions.

David Kingland, President and CEO of Kingland Systems, says that, "in this era of risk sensitivity, mergers and acquisitions, and evolving compliance regulations, the need for highly accurate data and enterprise-class MDM software has never been greater. Our years of experience have shown us that financial services enterprise data problems require customizing the solution to the precise needs of the client, so we chose to team with IBM, whose new MDM software products are built for customization and will enable us solve our customers' problems much faster and more precisely."

"Through the technologies and industry-specific expertise we are bringing together, Kingland and IBM can deliver master data management solutions that are tailored to the unique needs of financial institutions," said Rob Thomas, vice president, Information Management, IBM. "By incorporating IBM technologies into its own offerings, Kingland can more quickly deliver flexible and scalable financial services master data and software solutions."

To address customers' needs for customized MDM solutions, IBM recently introduced Master Information Hub, an optional component of InfoSphere Master Data Management Server 9.0. Master Information Hub was created for businesses seeking to build a master data management system that includes custom-built data domains in addition to IBM's pre-built domains for customer, product and account. These customers can use Master Information Hub to develop a custom MDM environment to establish a trusted view of any type of master information. For example, using Kingland's "securities and corporate hierarchy" domains together with IBM's MDM Server, a bank's risk operation would gain access to a comprehensive view of all enterprise holdings, clients, subsidiaries, and complex business relationships from across multiple lines of business.

Kingland's 360 DataTM includes two types of outsourced reference data solutions, 360 Data Master File and 360 Data Reference Desk. 360 Data Master File is a managed data solution that provides clients with a highly accurate database of business entities, securities, complex relationships, events and other types of financial services data. This master file is managed with client-specific business rules and includes a concordance to multiple industry and client-specific identifiers, and can be provided via file or web services. The 360 Data Reference Desk solution provides "on demand" data cleansing, augmentation, and validation for critical business processes such as client on-boarding, risk analysis, and compliance functions.

Both solutions are supported by Kingland's proprietary suite of data management software, IBM's new Master Information Hub, and Kingland's extensive database of more than 4 million global securities and 5.25 million unique industry identifiers with linkages to more than 900,000 business entity records and corporate hierarchies.

Kingland will also be launching a new financial services optimized MDM platform in 360 Data Enterprise Hub. Developed using IBM's InfoSphere Master Data Management Server, 360 Data Enterprise Hub will provide financial institutions with industry specific data domains, feed handlers, business process and data management workflows, user interfaces, data maintenance and quality processes that are all optimized to support the wide variety of data critical to large banking, capital markets, and other financial services firms.

Tony Brownlee, head of financial services MDM at Kingland says, "the combination of IBM's investment in MDM and Kingland's financial services data expertise will be powerful for our customers. Our focus with 360 DataTM is enterprise scalability, customizable data models, flexible architecture, and as always, highly accurate data." The 360 Data suite of solutions helps companies drive cross-organizational revenue growth, manage enterprise risk and compliance, and reduce overall IT costs in their enterprise data management projects.

About Kingland Systems

Kingland Systems is a full service technology services firm and a leading provider of outsourced reference data management, data cleansing, and other master data management solutions; serving large banks, insurance companies, broker dealers, and accounting firms since 1992. Kingland operates one of the largest data cleansing operations in the industry, located on-shore in the US and provides highly accurate, enterprise data management solutions, data management software, and professional services. Kingland's data solutions support more than 500,000 professional users in over 140 countries.

For more information about Kingland Systems and its businesses, please visit: www.kingland.com

    Source: Kingland Systems

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Xiotech Corporation announced today that Tech Awards Circle has selected Xiotech's Emprise(TM) 7000 Edge storage system featuring patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE(TM)) technology as the winner of its 2009 Gold Award for Best Midrange Hardware.

"This award is further validation that our Emprise storage systems, and the ISE technology they are built upon, are delivering superior value to end users," said Xiotech President and CEO Alan Atkinson. "We look forward to talking more with organizations implementing virtual servers and desktops to ensure they're deploying the right storage for their particular needs. With blazing performance, 100 percent usable capacity, a five-year hardware warranty and dramatically lower energy costs than other products on the market, our Emprise systems offer unique solutions and benefits for virtualized environments."

Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

"Despite overwhelmingly strong competition, Xiotech exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized with our Gold Award for Best Midrange Hardware," said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. "Our judges were pleased at the level of submissions from all the vendors entering this year's competition, so to be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation unrivaled in the high-tech community."

The Emprise 7000 Edge storage area network (SAN) solution supports up to 10 ISE (160 terabytes). It can be easily upgraded as needs evolve to Xiotech's Emprise 7000 system, which supports up to 64 ISE (1,024 terabytes), providing true investment protection. In addition, Emprise 7000 Edge includes Web Services-based management via ICON Manager and simplified provisioning and management of storage in virtualized server environments via Virtual View.

More information about Tech Awards Circle, including the full list of winners, is available online at http://www.techawardscircle.com or by email at info@techawardscircle.com.

About Tech Awards Circle

Tech Awards Circle was established this year to truly honor the best of the best in technology. Tech Awards Circle is not affiliated with an analyst firm or a media company, both of which are directly supported by tech vendors through consulting relationships or advertising sales, so it is uniquely unbiased and immune to conflicts of interest. Entries are judged by an independent circle of journalists, including product reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise-class computing. To prevent these judges from being unduly influenced by vendors, they have agreed to remain anonymous. For more information or to be added to the mailing list please visit www.techawardscircle.com.

About Xiotech

Xiotech Corporation delivers the highest storage value available today based on its Intelligent Storage Element (ISE(TM)) technology. With ISE, Xiotech® products deliver 100 percent usable storage capacity with no drop in performance. Drives are fully utilized, provide more performance with less hardware because of their efficiency and enable organizations to scale their storage infrastructures up and out with unmatched flexibility. Additionally, Xiotech significantly reduces storage operation and management costs with the patented self-healing technology of ISE and the industry's only five-year hardware warranty. Also, the ICON Manager user interface integrates and automates storage operations across the array, server and virtual machine layers. With these technologies, Xiotech stands alone in its ability to lower an organization's total cost of ownership for storage.

Xiotech is based in Eden Prairie, Minn., and maintains major facilities in Colorado Springs, Colo. and Hyderabad, India. For more information, visit www.xiotech.com, email info@xiotech.com or call toll free 1.866.472.6764.

SOURCE Xiotech Corporation

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruder than Rush, more obnoxious than Olbermann or harping like Geraldo?

Investigative reporter Lawrence Carpetburner (actor and comedian Jim Meskimen) has proclaimed his signature Elbows on the Table series of hard-edged celebrity book interviews as the greatest ever recorded. (www.elbowsonthetable.com)

The seven episodes to date show Carpetburner's cigarette smoke in-your-face style confronting multiple fiction characters from L. Ron Hubbard's pulp fiction tales of the 1930s and '40s included in the Stories from the Golden Age print and audiobooks (Galaxy Press, 2009).

"This is the best of 'attack' journalism," says Carpetburner. "I really pounced on these guys."

Each of the seven episodes of Elbows on the Table begins with a deceptively simple opening line for celebrity book interviews, "Good evening, I'm Lawrence Carpetburner..." then acknowledges the show's sponsor, "Pulp Cigarettes -- the cigarette you never smoke -- you merely hold."

"Carpetburner's rude and inconsiderate style unintentionally results in some of the funniest book trailers ever produced," said John Goodwin, president of Galaxy Press. "But we want fans to be the ultimate judge."

After watching the videos, email your name and address noting your favorite episode to pr@galaxypress.com and receive a free swing music CD valued at $20.00.

The Elbows on the Table series (available at www.elbowsonthetable.com or www.youtube.com/elbowsonthetable) was conceived by Carpetburner (aka Meskimen www.appliedsilliness.com) to explore the Stories from the Golden Age fiction series of novels and audiobooks (Galaxy Press, 2009). The interviews can also be downloaded on iTunes.

"We're having a blast recording this series of character-based interviews," said Meskimen. "The mock interview format allows all the actors to have fun bringing these vividly-written characters off the page so we can enjoy them in the flesh, face to face."

The Stories from the Golden Age is a collection of 153 stories written by L. Ron Hubbard using one of his 15 pen names during the 1930s and '40s. Hubbard wrote in several genres, ranging from science fiction and fantasy, to action-adventure, mystery and western, and even a bit of romance. These stories have been reproduced in their original format as both a trade paperback using original pulp artwork and inside illustrations, and as unabridged, multi-cast audiobooks with original music and fully-produced, movie-like sound effects. Go to www.goldenagestories.com.

SOURCE Author Services, Inc.