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Opens Pay-Per-Call Center to over 2,500 Merchants

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Following a successful pilot program, ShareASale.com, Inc. today announced the availability of the ShareASale Pay-Per-Call Center to its entire network of over 2,500 Merchants.

"Pay-per-call offers a great new revenue opportunity for both merchants and affiliates," said ShareASale CEO Brian Littleton. "Affiliate marketing is no longer just online. Consumers who were more difficult to reach in a purely online environment are now a new audience for affiliates to target. The system is simple to set up, easy to use, and integrates with a merchant's traditional online initiatives."

Powered by RingRevenue, ShareASale Pay-Per-Call already features more than 30 pay-per-call campaigns available to affiliates, with commissions as high as $50.00 per-call. Since affiliates can now get credit for sales that start online but end up completing over the phone, merchants can keep phone numbers on their landing pages and avoid having to create multiple landing pages for affiliate traffic.

"We've been looking for ways to grow our affiliate program, and this is it," said Todd Wilson, President of BabyFans.com and a ShareASale merchant. "We want more calls. They convert at a much higher rate than clicks, and our average order value for sales closed over the phone is much higher than for sales closed online."

"Seeing pay-per-call take off this quickly with one of the most respected retail networks in affiliate marketing is really exciting for us," said Jason Spievak, RingRevenue co-founder and CEO. "When merchants see the platform, they can't believe how easy it is to use. And it gives them the flexibility and control they need to offer generous call-based commissions and achieve the target ROI for their campaigns."

The ShareASale Pay-Per-Call Center has been fully integrated into ShareASale Merchant and Affiliate accounts. To learn more, please visit http://www.shareasale.com/paypercall.

About ShareASale, Inc.

Chicago-based ShareASale is a provider of e-commerce tracking and affiliate management solutions for retailers. By facilitating relationships between affiliate marketers and over 2500 merchants, ShareASale helps its clients tap into new sources of revenue. Since 2001, ShareASale has been committed to driving all around profitability based on fair, honest and proactive practices. For more information about ShareASale, please visit www.shareasale.com.

About RingRevenue, Inc.

RingRevenue tracks and manages calls even better than clicks, making it easy for affiliate networks and advertising agencies to track purchases made by phone. RingRevenue's patent-pending pay-per-call platform makes it easy for online and offline publishers to promote call-based campaigns through the leading affiliate networks, and the company's proprietary call quality processing engine ensures delivery of the highest-quality callers to advertisers. RingRevenue provides its pay-per-call platform to several leading affiliate networks and agencies. For more information about RingRevenue or to schedule a demo, please visit www.ringrevenue.com or call 866-943-6426.

RingRevenueTM and Track Calls Like ClicksTM are pending trademarks in the U.S. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Other product or company names mentioned may be trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.

    Source: ShareASale, Inc.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young released the second report in its "Groundbreakers" series today during the annual Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, California. The report, titled Scaling up: why women-owned businesses can recharge the global economy, details how women entrepreneurs are critical drivers of economic growth and provides resources and insights for private sector, government and NGO leaders who are seeking to close the gender gap.

Worldwide, women own or operate 25-33% of all private businesses, according to the World Bank. Ernst & Young's Scaling up report highlights key barriers to growth and unique characteristics of women-owned businesses, which historically do not reach the size and scale of businesses owned by men. The report notes several key barriers that must be overcome -- including addressing issues of employment, opportunity, lack of role models and access to financing, among others.

In the US, for example, women are starting businesses at nearly twice the rate of men -- if these women entrepreneurs started with the same capital as men, they would add 6 million jobs to the economy in 5 years, according to research from Babson College referenced in the report. The report also notes that, according to a new study by the Center for Women's Business research, women create or maintain more than 23 million jobs, or 16 percent of all US employment.

The global recession could cause the loss of 25 million jobs worldwide by the end of 2010 and could reach 57 million if the recovery doesn't achieve momentum, reports the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

"We have seen good progress with microfinance in helping women start and grow their businesses - this success is in the early stages," said Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair of Ernst & Young. "We must focus and accelerate our efforts to scale women entrepreneurs into the global economic growth engines that they are. It's not only about gender equity, it's about job creation and growth."

The "Groundbreakers" report, which analyzes data and research from organizations including the World Bank, the OECD, and The World Economic Forum, details targeted support and initiatives that can accelerate the growth of women-owned businesses and add millions of jobs to the struggling global economy. These recommendations include:

    --  Ensure that women entrepreneurs are not hampered by discriminatory laws
        --  Although women represent 40-50% of businesses in developing
            countries, the World Bank/IFC's Doing Business project has
            identified several legal and regulatory barriers facing women. Women
            are prohibited from working after 8 p.m. in certain Gulf States and
            in other parts of the world women require the permission of husbands
            or fathers to open a business, a bank account, obtain a passport or
            enforce a contract.
    --  Help women-owned companies scale their businesses by meeting their
        distinctive needs
        --  These needs include lack of access to capital and business networks.
            While women own about 30% of US businesses, only about 5% of all
            equity capital investments in the US go to businesses headed by
            women and just 3% get investments from venture capital, according to
            Babson College research. Women appear more reluctant to apply for
            loans -- more than 10% of men seek external equity financing, but
            less than 2% of women do the same.
        --  Most programming offered through both public and private sectors is
            dated and focuses on starting, rather than growing, a business. Few
            programs instruct women on accelerating business growth, according
            to the Center for Women's Business Research.
    --  Improve women's access to the global supply chain

        --  At present, global spending on supplier diversity is largely
            undocumented, according to WEConnect International. However, only a
            fraction of governments and large corporations actively source from
            women-owned businesses. With the exception of members of the Billion
            Dollar Roundtable, which spend more than US$1 billion on purchasing
            from minority and women-owned businesses, less than 2.2% of large
            corporations' procurement budgets and only 3.4% of federal
            government contracts go to women-owned businesses.

Scaling up highlights several successful public and private initiatives geared toward helping women entrepreneurs such as: The World Bank's Gender Action Plan; American Express' OPEN initiative; Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Women initiative; The Nike Foundation's investment in girl's education; Vital Voices Global Partnership; the US State Department's Pathways to Prosperity program; and Ernst & Young's Entrepreneurial Winning Women program.

The "Groundbreakers" report series can be downloaded at www.ey.com/groundbreakers.

About Ernst & Young

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/11/09 -- Karacha.com, the online destination for quality musical instruments and accessories, has today launched a Christmas sale, offering up to 83% off on a variety of products.

The continuing recession means that for the majority of people in the UK money is still tight and as a result Christmas shoppers everywhere are tightening their belts and looking even harder for deals and discounts on gifts for their loved ones.

Luckily, Karacha is on hand to give Christmas shoppers a boost with a number of great savings including 25% off all Archetto violins which are available in a variety of colours and finishes.

Adam Ewart, Founder of Karacha.com commented: "Christmas is fast approaching and people across the UK are starting to make their Christmas present shopping lists, planning what to buy for friends and family this year. With tight budgets influencing the purchasing decisions of so many shoppers this year, we hope that by offering significant discounts on our products people will still be able to buy their loved ones the perfect gift without breaking the bank."

Karacha recently launched a Carmichael saxophone range with instruments available in a range of colours including red, blue and more traditional gold and silver, all of which are constructed from a high grade brass alloy and make perfect Christmas gifts for musicians of all ages and abilities - including complete novices.

The Carmichael range is also available with a starters guide from Hellosaxophone.com providing a complete guide to self-learn the saxophone from setting it up to playing your first songs. A wide variety of other student-level instruments are also available which have received great reviews including a clarinet, flute and percussion range.

For more information, please call 0845 200 83 43, visit www.karacha.com or follow Karacha on Twitter - www.twitter.com/adamewart.

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LXE to Offer Factory-licensed Wavelink Terminal Emulation and Industrial Browser Software across its Windows Mobile(R) and Windows(R) CE-based Family of Mobile Computers

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LXE Inc., the rugged mobile computer business of EMS Technologies, Inc., announced today that it has expanded its relationship with Wavelink to now include pre-loading and pre-licensing Wavelink Terminal Emulation and Wavelink Industrial Browser software, in addition to existing Wavelink(R) Avalanche Mobility Center(TM) enablers, on all of its Windows Mobile(R) and Windows CE-based mobile computers. LXE can now deliver Wavelink licensed software, enabled for its mobile computers, directly from its Norcross manufacturing facility.

With Wavelink software pre-installed on LXE computers, customers have readily available access to industry-leading software that manages their devices and connects them to host systems. Wavelink Terminal Emulation certification on LXE Windows Mobile and Windows CE-based mobile computers also enables the use of Wavelink Speakeasy plug-ins for rapid deployment of LXE devices in voice logistics applications. Product licenses for Wavelink software can be enabled either through existing Wavelink channels or, as a result of the expanded relationship, through purchase directly from LXE. LXE is including the first year of Wavelink maintenance free with the purchase of Wavelink Terminal Emulation or Industrial Browser licenses from LXE.

"LXE is committed to delivering innovative and reliable products to the marketplace. Many of our partners have standardized with Wavelink software as part of their solution implementations. Working with Wavelink ensures that our partners and customers have the ability to take advantage of many of the features and functionality that Wavelink is known for," said Steve Newell, LXE's general manager. "Including Wavelink software further supports our commitment to providing products that help customers gain efficiencies through data collection."

"We have enjoyed a great relationship with LXE for many years and are excited to expand our partnership to offer pre-licensed Wavelink software on all LXE Windows CE-based devices," said Steve Bemis, Wavelink vice president of worldwide sales. "This agreement further strengthens our position within the industry as Wavelink software ships on more mobile devices than all of our competitors combined."

LXE Windows Mobile and Windows CE-based mobile computers, with the addition of Wavelink's Terminal Emulation and Industrial Browser software, are now available for immediate order or purchase.

For more information on LXE handheld, wearable, and vehicle-mounted computers, go to www.lxe.com. More information about Wavelink solutions is available at www.wavelink.com.

About LXE Inc.

LXE, a division of EMS Technologies, is a leading manufacturer of rugged vehicle-mounted, handheld and wearable mobile computers. LXE helps companies extend corporate networks to mobile workers in demanding conditions by providing easy-to-use, tough and reliable wireless computers. LXE products are used by organizations worldwide to drive down costs and improve customer satisfaction. Visit www.lxe.com or www.ems-t.com for more information.

About Wavelink

Founded in 1992, Wavelink Corporation is the leading provider of multi-vendor mobile application development and mobile device and infrastructure management software. Wavelink's technology solves the unique challenges involved in deploying, managing and controlling today's enterprise mobility systems, and facilitates peak performance from frontline staff. Wavelink's emulation product family is the industry standard in providing host connectivity solutions. More than 10,000 companies in the retail, manufacturing, government and logistics industries rely on Wavelink to accelerate application delivery, reduce device management and support costs, and tighten network security. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.wavelink.com, or call 888-697-9283 from the USA and Canada or +800-9283-5465 outside the USA and Canada.

Wavelink and Avalanche Mobility Center are trademarks of Wavelink Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

    Source: LXE Inc.

PISCATAWAY, N.J., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Telcordia today announced highlights from new research written by a major independent research firm that sheds light on one of the greatest challenges facing enterprise IT departments: managing the configurations and security postures on thousands of network devices across a globally dispersed IP infrastructure. The new whitepaper details a litany of IP network vulnerabilities due to lapses in security, compliance and proper configuration, and spotlights the need for solutions such as Telcordia® IP Assure, a scalable, non-intrusive software solution that detects and helps to rectify configuration errors in IP network devices.

The whitepaper, entitled "IP Network Configuration and Vulnerabilities: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You," covers how misconfigured infrastructure, unknown ingress/egress points and basic vulnerabilities to core networking equipment threaten business continuity and affect organizations' bottom lines. With the Open Security Foundation stating that - in 2009 alone - 37 organizations lost almost 132 million sensitive records through external hacks, large organizations need a safeguarding technology such as IP Assure that continually analyzes IP networks in their entirety, not just on a per-device or per-protocol basis, and delivers real-time, multi-level, multi-protocol views and topologies.

As underscored by Yankee Group Senior Analyst, Phil Hochmuth, the research firm that authored the whitepaper, "More and more organizations are opening their networks to external business partners, suppliers, contractors and customers, and all this increased connectivity introduces more complexity, which creates management and operational challenges for network and security operations teams. With the rapid pace of change within an infrastructure due to equipment modifications and security demands, those teams need a solution that offers a complete view of the state of the network, including compliance, network vulnerability mitigation, traffic/infrastructure engineering and application troubleshooting."

IP Assure already helps worldwide organizations to improve the security and operations of their IP networks, including a high-profile branch of the U.S. Federal Government where severe security breaches and compliance issues were detected and eliminated. For more information, visit www.telcordia.com/collateral/casestudies/ip-assure-casestudy.pdf.

"Enterprises now can measure by-the-hour or by-the-minute data on revenue or productivity lost if their critical network connections go down," said Adam Drobot, CTO & President, Advanced Technology Solutions, Telcordia. "IP Assure significantly reduces costs associated with configuration errors that can add up to millions of dollars per year for a Global 2000 organization."

Telcordia will host a Telcordia® IP Assure Forum featuring an analyst presenter from Yankee Group entitled "Is Your Network Really Secure?" on November 18, 2009. For more information on the event, visit http://www.telcordia.com/news_events/events/2009/ip-assure-webinar.html

For more information about Telcordia visit www.telcordia.com. For more information about Telcordia IP Assure, visit http://www.telcordia.com/products/ip-assure/index.html.

*Following is excerpted from a commissioned work conducted by Yankee Group on behalf of Telcordia as of November 2009.

About Telcordia

Telcordia, a global leader in the development of fixed, mobile and broadband communications software and services, enables Communications Service Providers (CSPs), enterprises, suppliers and government entities to successfully deploy innovative and advanced services that help our clients realize operational efficiencies, drive revenue, and maintain a competitive edge in the new era of services-dominated communications. Telcordia has globally trusted expertise in software and services to meet the needs of customers and partners, including consulting, next-generation OSS, network and application interconnection, service delivery and charging solutions, industry research and new technology development. Telcordia is headquartered in Piscataway, N.J., with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Central and Latin America. (www.telcordia.com)

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