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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Internet Innovation Alliance, a broad-based coalition supporting broadband availability and access for all Americans, today released the following statement in support of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) Adoption Plus ("A+") program:

"We commend the NCTA for launching this innovative new program that aims to directly provide broadband Internet access to unserved middle school students. This public-private partnership will provide up to 3.5 million middle school-aged children in low-income households with access to high-speed Internet and the opportunity to benefit from educational and life-enhancing tools. The A+ Program is a strong statement by the cable industry that broadband is a necessary technology for advancing America's education system, and no child can afford to miss out.

"The A+ Programs epitomizes the enormous possibilities of public-private partnerships that maximize creativity and social entrepreneurship. Participating cable ISPs will provide funding to help identify eligible children, reduce costs for broadband service and a cable modem by 50 percent, and offer free installation of broadband service. Participating school districts would defray the cost of identifying and verifying eligible students, conducting the qualified digital literacy programs, and other administrative tasks.

"Over 90% of Americans have access to broadband but only 63% opt to sign up for service. This innovative program will tackle the most commonly-identified barriers to broadband adoption, including lack of digital literacy; failure to understand the benefits of broadband; and affordability (both of devices and monthly service). By allowing more children to take this key first step through the A+ Program and get online, the NCTA and its partners are making a significant contribution toward the ultimate goal of universal broadband for our country."

About The Internet Innovation Alliance

The Internet Innovation Alliance is a broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations that aim to ensure every American, regardless of race, income or geography, has access to the critical tool that is broadband Internet. The IIA seeks to promote public policies that support equal opportunity for universal broadband availability and adoption so that everyone, everywhere can seize the benefits of the Internet - from education to health care, employment to community building, civic engagement and beyond.

    Source: Internet Innovation Alliance

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/01/09 -- Editors Note: There is a photo and a video available with this Press Release.

As world leaders gather in Copenhagen to agree new global targets for CO2 emissions, here in Britain the humble fridge freezer is ready to step up and play its part in saving the planet by reducing the UK's CO2 emissions by 2 million tonnes per year and saving Pounds Sterling 220 million in grid balancing costs.

Three of Europe's most innovative companies, white goods manufacturer Indesit Company, energy supplier npower and RLtec, the smart grid technology company, are ready to begin a UK trial of fridges fitted with grid-balancing technology.

The dynamic demand technology, developed by RLtec and Indesit research teams, helps to maintain the balance between supply and demand across the national electricity grid. From this month and through 2010, up to 3,000 UK npower customers will be supplied with Indesit Company dynamic demand fridges and fridge freezers, free of charge, in what will be world's first residential test of the technology.

Commenting on the technology, Lord Hunt, Minister for Energy and Climate Change, said: "Dynamic demand is an exciting technology with the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the grid's capacity to absorb wind energy - key elements of the government's energy strategy for renewables.

"I welcome the demonstration project led by npower, Indesit Company and RLtec. The trial will help us gain a better understanding of how dynamic demand can work to reduce our use of fossil fuels. If successful it could help pave the way for the uptake of this technology nation-wide, which could result in significant carbon savings of around 2 million tonnes CO2 a year or higher."

Dynamic demand is approved as a Demonstration Action by Ofgem under the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) legislation and this initiative will contribute towards npower's carbon reduction obligations.

Indesit, one of the largest appliance manufacturers in Europe, is the design and production partner for the project. Each fridge will be monitored in real time by a data collection system, which will feed back to researchers all the information needed to assess the potential carbon emission reduction which the system could provide in an everyday environment. Following the initial roll-out of 300, a total of up to 3,000 Indesit fridges and freezers of different types and models will be deployed so that the carbon savings from dynamic demand can be assessed and calculated against a full range of different products.

Andrew Howe, CEO of RLtec, explains, "Appliances fitted with our dynamic demand technology automatically modify their power consumption in response to second-by-second changes in the balance between supply and demand on the grid. This means that the amount of carbon-emitting generating capacity used to maintain that balance can be dramatically reduced. What's more, it's effectively a silent solution as it doesn't affect appliance performance in any way and no action is needed on the part of the consumer."

"We are really pleased to have Indesit as the manufacturing and design partner and are delighted that npower have chosen to use dynamic demand to meet its CERT obligations," added Howe.

Bob Jackson, Acting Head of Energy Efficiency at npower, said: "Dynamic demand has the potential to reduce the amount of carbon emissions significantly - so these trials with domestic customers are very important and we hope they will show the impact that this technology could have in the UK and around the world."

Adriano Mencarini, Indesit Company Innovation & Digital Design Director, said: "We are delighted to be involved in this project and to play a pioneering role in the world of smart grids. The efforts of our highly specialised research team, working in partnership with RLtec in the UK and Italy has allowed us to develop a very new approach to energy saving. We have a long history of innovation and our strong environmental credentials have won numerous awards over the years. It is therefore extremely important to us as a business to be involved in a project which will potentially have a positive impact on energy consumption and the environment and I very much look forward to seeing the first results early next year."

For those consumers who would like to express an interest in taking part in the trial please email full contact details to Dynamicdemandrequests@npower.com

About Rltec

RLtec is a UK-based energy company that contracts with grid system operators to provide energy balancing services using appliances equipped with dynamic demand. At the same time it contracts with white good manufacturers and industrial and commercial companies to install the technology into end appliances such as fridges, electric heaters, and air conditioning units. In addition it can install its technology into large existing power-consuming units, such as commercial refrigeration equipment. The company works in the UK, the US and certain EU member states, as well developing nations like South Africa.

Based in London, RLtec has been operating for several years. It is privately owned and has received investment from the Low Carbon Accelerator, NAXOS Capital Partners and the Carbon Trust.

For more information please go to: www.rltec.com

About Indesit Company

Indesit Company is Europe's second biggest producer of home appliances by market share. It leads the market in Italy, the UK, Russia, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria and the Ukraine and is one of the leaders in France, Poland, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Greece. Founded in 1975 by the current chairman Vittorio Merloni and listed on the Milan stock exchange since 1987, the Group posted sales of EUR 3.2 billion in 2008, having turned out 15 million appliances (washing machines, dryers, washer-dryers, dishwashers, fridges, freezers, ovens and hobs). Indesit Company operates through 16 production facilities (Italy, Poland, the UK, Russia and Turkey) and 24 commercial branches worldwide and has 17,000 employees. The Group's main brands are Indesit, Hotpoint-Ariston and Scholtes.

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Raymond James 2009 IT Supply Chain Conference

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Insight Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSIT) (the "Company") today announced that it is scheduled to participate in the following upcoming investor conference:

Raymond James 2009 IT Supply Chain Conference

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 10:20 AM ET

InterContinental The Barclay New York

Participants: Anthony Ibarguen, Interim President & CEO and Helen Johnson, SVP,
Treasurer

The Insight presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet at https://www.insight.com/pages/investor_relations.web?source=investorrelations where you can also view other recent Webcasts, downloadable slide presentations and other investor information.

About Insight

Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a leading provider of brand-name information technology ("IT") hardware, software and services to large enterprises, small- to medium-sized businesses and public sector institutions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The Company has more than 4,900 teammates worldwide and generated sales of $4.8 billion for its most recent fiscal year, which ended December 31, 2008. Insight is ranked number 484 on Fortune magazine's 2009 'Fortune 500' list. For more information, please call (480) 902-1001 in the United States or visit www.insight.com.

    Source: Insight Enterprises, Inc.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/01/09 -- Theravance, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX) today reported that equity awards were made to three new employees. Pursuant to Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5635(c)(4), the equity awards were granted under the Theravance, Inc. 2008 New Employee Equity Incentive Plan, which the Board of Directors of Theravance adopted to facilitate the granting of equity awards to new employees. In accordance with Nasdaq rules, these grants were made under an equity incentive plan without stockholder approval. Nasdaq rules require a public announcement of equity awards to be made under this type of plan. Three employees were granted options to purchase an aggregate of 8,000 shares of the Company's common stock, which options vest over four years and expire in 10 years assuming continued employment. No officers received any award under this plan. The exercise price for the option shares granted is $13.73, which was the closing price of Theravance common stock on the Nasdaq Global Market as such price was reported by NASDAQ on the date of grant.

About Theravance

Theravance is a biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of internally discovered product candidates. Theravance is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule medicines across a number of therapeutic areas including respiratory disease, bacterial infections and gastrointestinal motility dysfunction. The company's key programs include: VIBATIV(TM) (telavancin) with Astellas Pharma Inc. and the Horizon program and Bifunctional Muscarinic Antagonist-Beta2 Agonist (MABA) program with GlaxoSmithKline plc. By leveraging its proprietary insight of multivalency toward drug discovery, Theravance is pursuing a next generation strategy designed to discover superior medicines in areas of significant unmet medical need. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.theravance.com.

THERAVANCE®, the Theravance logo, and MEDICINES THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE® are registered trademarks of Theravance, Inc.

VIBATIV is a trademark of Astellas Pharma Inc.

Contact Information:
Michael W. Aguiar
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
650-808-4100
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SAN JOSE, Calif. & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Avago Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced the completion of the previously announced redemption by its wholly owned subsidiaries, Avago Technologies Finance Pte. Ltd, Avago Technologies U.S. Inc. and Avago Technologies Wireless (U.S.A) Manufacturing Inc., of the remaining $318,496,000 of their 10-1/8% Senior Notes due 2013 and the remaining $45,681,000 of their Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2013.

    Source: Avago Technologies Ltd.