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Crest Partners with Versatile Credit to Offer Faster Approvals

DRAPER, UTAH and MECHANICSBURG, PA. (PRWEB) November 11, 2014

Crest Financial, an industry leader in “No Credit Needed” financing, is teaming up with Versatile Credit to offer faster and simpler approvals to consumers.

Versatile Credit’s unique self-service kiosk-based solution combines the applications for Synchrony Financial, formerly GE, and Crest Financial to make the entire process easier and more secure. A consumer only needs to enter their information once and they are able to get their approval status in seconds from both lenders.

Most retail companies offer multiple types of financing. That process usually goes something like this: fill out a form; wait to see if you are approved; fill out more forms; repeat until you get approved.

Crest Financial offers consumers a better solution and with the help of Versatile Credit, the process is made simpler. Versatile Credit integrates Crest Financial’s application to provide the easiest and most seamless approval process for consumers. With this convenience, consumers get approved when they otherwise might have left without merchandise.

Versatile’s platform allows consumers to fill out fewer forms. The kiosk offers a waterfall capability that transfers information from one form to another. After filling out an initial form to apply for credit with Synchrony Financial, consumers only need to fill out two additional fields to receive a decision from Crest Financial.

“We are excited to be able to offer our “No Credit Needed” financing to more consumers by partnering with Versatile Credit,” said Clint Cowley, chief operating officer at Crest Financial. “This will help us help consumers get the financing they need.”

Retailers using Versatile Credit typically see a 20 percent rise in applications. Because Crest Financial has around a 90 percent approval rate they provide even more approvals for consumers. The application process using a Versatile Credit in-store kiosk is secure and completely private. Since 2007, consumer applications using Versatile Credit have resulted in more than $ 8 billion in approved transactions.

Versatile Credit’s innovative system allows consumers to know their finance options and find the plan that works best for them. Partnering with Versatile will allow Crest Financial to reach new consumers and provide “No Credit Needed” financing to more consumers throughout the country. It also makes the approval process quick and easy for all consumers with faster applications and a completely private process.

The process is simple and affordable for retailers as well. Versatile offers a range of floor- standing and countertop kiosks that fit all retail environments along with all-inclusive monthly service plans. All a retailer needs to provide is a small amount of space and an Internet connection. To find out more visit: http://www.versatilecredit.com.

About Crest Financial:

Crest Financial, with its corporate office located in Utah, is an innovative provider of financing and marketing solutions for retailers nationwide. Crest Financial is an industry leader in “No Credit Score Needed” financing. Since opening in 2005, Crest has helped finance thousands of satisfied consumers. For more information, call 855-28CREST or visit http://www.CrestFinancial.com.

Crest Financial Media Contact:

Lindsay Bragg, Public Relations and Marketing Specialist

lbragg(at)crestfinancial(dot)com

855-282-7378 x777

About Versatile Credit:

Versatile is a multi-disciplinary technology company with solutions across the mobile, digital signage, IT infrastructure, software and hardware landscape. The company’s products are utilized by Fortune 500 companies, leading financial institutions and large and small retail organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.versatilecredit.com.

Versatile Credit Company Contact:

Rob Meyer

Executive Vice President, Product and Marketing

717-620-2557

rmeyer(at)versatile(dot)com

Versatile Credit Media Contact:

Jon Daum

Daum Weigle Inc.

858-538-9755

jdaum(at)daumweigle(dot)com







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Addison-Wesley Professional Showcases The New School of Information Security at RSA 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) April 7, 2008

    News Facts

— The New School of Information Security, by Adam Shostack and Andrew Stewart, focuses on a future vision for the security industry, centering on what threats companies now face and how they can best face them. The book discusses why security is failing, provides a pragmatic approach to spending, and helps organizations evaluate and structure their security programs. For more information, visit http://www.informit.com/title/9780321502780. The book is also Safari Books Online-enabled and available at http://safari.informit.com/9780321502780.

— The forthcoming Software Security Engineering provides readers with a set of sound practices they can adopt selectively to increase the security and dependability of software, both during its development and its operation. For more information, visit http://www.informit.com/title/9780321509178. Author Gary McGraw will be speaking at the track session Electronic Voting: The Politics of Broken Systems (Thursday morning at 10:40 in Green Room 103).

— Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses helps security professionals, technical managers, students, and researchers understand and prevent specific crimeware threats. Security experts Markus Jakobsson and Zulfikar Ramzan have brought together chapter contributors who are among the best and the brightest in the security industry. For additional information, visit http://www.informit.com/title/9780321501950.

— The recently released dotCrime Manifesto, written by Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker, begins with a revealing new look at the challenge of Internet crime- and a surprising look at today’s Internet criminals. The book examines why the Internet’s lack of accountability makes it so vulnerable, and how this can be fixed – technically, politically, and culturally. For more information, visit http://www.informit.com/title/9780321503589. This book is also Safari Books Online-enabled available at http://safari.informit.com/9780321503589. Author Hallam-Baker will be providing two track sessions, including Security Usability: The New Challenge (Tuesday, April 08 at 4:10 PM, Red Room 309) and Extended Validation: Raising the Bar for Internet Trust (Thursday, April 10 at 9:10 AM, Red Room 308).

Author Bios

Adam Shostack, co-author of The New School of Information Security, is part of Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle strategy team, where he is responsible for security design analysis techniques. Before Microsoft, Adam was involved in a number of successful start-ups focused on vulnerability scanning, privacy, and program analysis. He helped found the CVE, International Financial Cryptography association, and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies workshop. He has been a technical advisor to companies including Counterpane Internet Security and Debix.

Andrew Stewart, co-author of The New School of Information Security, is a Vice President at a US-based investment bank. His work on information security topics has been published in journals such as Computers & Security and Information Security Bulletin. His homepage is homepage.mac.com/andrew_j_stewart

Gary McGraw, co-author of the upcoming book Software Security Engineering, is the CTO of Cigital, Inc., a software security and quality consulting firm with headquarters in the Washington, D.C., area. He is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author of six best selling books on this topic. The latest is Exploiting Online Games (Addison-Wesley, 2008). His other titles include Java Security, Building Secure Software, Exploiting Software, and Software Security; and he is editor of the Addison-Wesley Software Security series. McGraw has also written more than ninety peer-reviewed scientific publications, authors a monthly security column for darkreading.com, and is frequently quoted in the press. Besides serving as a strategic counselor for top business and IT executives, Gary is on the Advisory Boards of Fortify Software and Raven White. He serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the School of Informatics at Indiana University. Gary is an IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors member and produces the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.

Markus Jakobsson, Ph.D. co-author of Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses, is currently principal scientist at Palo Alto Research Center, and an adjunct associate professor at Indiana University. He has previously held positions as principal research scientist at RSA Laboratories, adjunct associate professor at New York University, and was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories. He studies the human factor of security and cryptographic protocols, with a special focus on privacy. Markus has co-authored more than a hundred peer-reviewed articles and is a co-inventor of more than 50 patents and patents pending.

Zulfikar Ramzan, Ph.D. co-author of Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses, is currently a senior principal researcher with Symantec Security Response. He focuses on improving the security of the online experience, including understanding threats like phishing, online fraud, malicious client-side software, and web security. In general, Zulfikar’s professional interests span the theoretical and practical aspects of information security and cryptography. He is a frequent speaker on these issues and has coauthored more than 50 technical articles and one book.

Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker has been at the center of the development of the World Wide Web, electronic commerce, and Internet security for more than a decade. A member of the CERN team that created the original Web specifications, his list of design credits has few rivals and includes substantial contributions to the design of HTTP, the core protocol of the World Wide Web. A frequent speaker at international conferences with more than 100 appearances over the past four years and numerous media interviews, Hallam-Baker is known for his passionate advocacy of what he calls technology for real people. His mission is to democratize technology, making technology serve the needs of the ordinary person rather than interest technologists or an artificial business model. The dotCrime Manifesto serves this mission by reaching out beyond the field of network security specialists to provide a firsthand, accessible account of the measures needed to control Internet crime.

OnSecurity Video Podcasts by author Gary McGraw

— Software Security and Cybercrime (video); link: http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e= 528856b1-a838-4564-a2dc-ab3629920529

— Software Security: Building Security In (video); link: http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e= 877e9cce-7f1a-4d3b-821e-2d0d9ae74655

— Breaking Barriers to Security Implementation (video); link: http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e= 37b269bd-1aaa-4169-b276-e3229d984ef2

— The Implicit Demand of Software Security (video); link: http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e= 4fc6bda8-c8c0-426e-b7ad-07275d636f34

All OnSecurity Podcasts also available at iTunes.

About Pearson Education

Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education is the global leader in educational and professional publishing, providing scientifically research-based print and digital programs to help people of all ages learn at their own pace, in their own way. Professionals, leaders, academics, experts, and consultants draft the books and online resources that help develop today’s and tomorrow’s business leaders. Top technology companies that have chosen Pearson Education as their publishing partner include IBM, Symantec, Cisco, Adobe, and Macromedia. The company is home to such renowned publishing and information portal brands as Informit.com, Prentice Hall Professional, IBM Press, Addison-Wesley Professional, Peachpit Press, Cisco Press, Sams Publishing, and Que Publishing. Pearson Education is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. In addition to Pearson Education, Pearson’s primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

About InformIT

InformIT is the online publishing arm of Pearson Technology Group, the world’s largest provider of professional reference content on operating systems, networking, programming, certification, web development and design, information technology, and engineering. InformIToffers authoritative, accurate content written by the experts in the field from leading technology publishers, including Prentice Hall Professional, IBM Press, Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Sams Publishing and Que Publishing -names technology professionals and home and office computing users trust.

Technorati Keywords: Software Security, IT, Technology, RSA Conference, Computer, Book, Publishing.

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Digital Screenmedia Association and NEC to Host Webinar: Menu Boards and Beyond: Understanding the Digital Dining Experience on November 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm ET

(PRWEB) November 11, 2014

On November 18, 2014 at 2:00 ET, The Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) and NEC will present “Menu Boards and Beyond: Understanding the Digital Dining Experience,” a discussion on the multiple ways restaurants can use digital engagement to create better dining experiences for customers.

Attendees may register via digitalscreenmedia.org

Digital menu boards have found their way into restaurants of all shapes and sizes. But, digital menus are only the beginning and have opened the door for restaurants to engage their audiences through more channels and learn from their customers.

This detailed webinar will cover the value of menu boards, interactive screens, mobile payments, and proximity marketing as new ways for restaurants to engage and delight customers while creating loyalty that lasts. The webinar will also present a strategic model for creating digital experiences, and give attendees best practices to take away from the discussion.

Speakers for the webinar.

Rich Ventura, Vice President of Product Marketing and Solutions, NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc.

Paul Flanigan, Executive Director, Digital Screenmedia Association

“Restaurants are one of the most social gathering points in any culture,” said Ventura. “It’s clear that digital engagement is an ecosystem, from menu boards to mobile phones. And having a solid understanding of what it takes to put a network in place is critical to success.”

For more information and to register, attendees can visit the DSA online.

ABOUT THE DSA

The DSA is an independent, non-profit association, whose mission is to advance the growth and excellence of the global digital signage, interactive kiosk, and mobile community through advocacy, education and networking. Members include users of digital screenmedia in all vertical markets including retail, hospitality, food service, and healthcare, as well as manufacturers, resellers, and distributors of hardware and software, network operators, integrators, advertising agencies, consultants, analysts, publishers, trade show organizers, and service companies. http://www.digitalscreenmedia.org

About NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc.

Headquartered in Itasca, Ill., NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc., is a leading designer and provider of innovative desktop LCD monitors, commercial- and professional-grade large-screen LCD displays, a diverse line of multimedia and digital cinema projectors, and integrated display solutions. NEC Display Solutions develops leading-edge visual technology and customer-focused solutions for a wide variety of markets, including enterprise, healthcare, education and digital signage. For additional information about NEC Display Solutions of America products, call (866) NEC-MORE, or visit the website at http://www.necdisplay.com. For digital images, please visit http://necdisplay.com/digital-media-library. Follow us on our social media channels: Facebook,YouTube, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn.







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AccuWeather.com

Exton, PA (PRWEB) August 26, 2008 – August 26, 2008

Scala®, a leading provider of end-to-end solutions for the connected signage market, today announced Scala InfoChannel 5 users will have direct access to AccuWeather.com’s high-definition content for digital signage through the popular “AccuWeather.com Content for Scala InfoChannel 5.”

As Scala’s premier weather partner, AccuWeather.com provides HD-quality weather and news- related content that draws attention to digital signage screens. Assisting in the development and execution of the integration was Téléciné Multimedia, a multi-media graphic design company and Scala Certified Partner. Téléciné creates world-class, award-winning content for digital signage deployments, specializing in multiple languages and multi-national networks. Together, the three companies focused on creating a full suite merging innovative creativity with superior production quality.

“Nothing draws eyeballs to digital signage screens like up-to-the-minute, relevant, local weather,” said Scott Homan, Meteorologist and Director of Out-of-Home Media at AccuWeather. “Now it’s easier than ever to experience the audience-building benefits with this sophisticated integrated solution for the Scala platform.”

AccuWeather.com’s Content for Scala InfoChannel 5 is based on AccuWeather.com’s library of modules and is fully flexible, allowing for branding opportunities and providing an extremely simple setup. Featuring highly localized, accurate, reliable, and quality-controlled weather forecasts for more than 2.7 million locations worldwide, AccuWeather.com provides entertaining broadcast personalities, animated Doppler radars, weather icons and unique weather indices.

“Having an integrated news and weather solution from AccuWeather provides easy access to dynamic feeds for Scala digital signage networks around the globe,” says Jeff Porter, Executive Vice President for Scala.

“This was a very exciting project for us. Scala users can now insert great AccuWeather content into any digital signage project, quickly and easily,” said James Fine, President of Téléciné. “Users can select from over 60 templates. You no longer need to be a programmer to give your advertisers the benefits of the huge bank of AccuWeather current, relevant and attractive data for digital signage. We designed and created the exact production tool that you wanted to have.”

The newly integrated content will be featured at the upcoming Scala Connected Signage Conference, September 14-16, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA. For those interested in a sneak peak of the AccuWeather.com’s content for Scala InfoChannel 5, a webinar will be held on September 4th, at 1:30PM EST. For more information, please visit http://www.accuweather.com/scala or send an email to mailto:sales @ accuweather.com.

About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com:

AccuWeather, The World’s Weather Authority®, presents accurate, localized, branded forecasts and severe weather bulletins to over 110 million Americans each day via the Internet, mobile devices and IPTV, through the airwaves, in print and on digital signage. The 113 meteorologists at AccuWeather deliver a portfolio of customized products and services to media, business, government, and institutions, and inform millions of visitors worldwide through the free AccuWeather.com website. AccuWeather also provides content onto more than 20,000 third-party Internet sites, including CNN Interactive, ABC’s owned and operated stations, The Washington Post and The New York Times. Visit http://www.accuweather.com for more information.

About Téléciné:

Established in 1986, Téléciné has been on the cutting edge of Digital Signage since the very beginning, starting with our first major installation in 1996.

Whether a client requires a completely unique in-store design for digital displays, the most creative content for those displays, or a full information system designed and installed worldwide, Téléciné has the people with the knowledge and experience to get the job done right. Téléciné has recently won international awards for its work including the Mobius Award, the Digi, POPAI and Marcom.

Téléciné has built its reputation for great Digital Signage by striving for the highest possible quality. Téléciné consistently delivers signage systems and content that meets all goals, and exceeds all expectations. More information is available at http://www.telecine.ca.

About Scala:

Scala is the leading global provider of dynamic solutions for the connected signage industry including digital signage software and advertising management software for both digital and traditional signage networks. The company’s connected signage solutions are used for dynamic signage networks in retail, education, entertainment, government and other industries for diverse applications such as retail advertising networks (retail TV), corporate communications (employee TV), digital menu boards, digital posters, community access channels (cable TV), hotel lobby signage and information channels, gas pump “toppers”, billboards, outdoor advertising, interactive touch-screens and kiosks, etc. Scala pioneered the connected signage industry and today remains the world’s leading provider of solutions for creating digital signage networks, driving more screens than all competitors combined. The Company provides enterprise class advertising management solutions for both digital and traditional signage networks to the world’s largest outdoor advertising companies including CBS Outdoor, Clear Channel Outdoor, Magic Media, Reagan, Adams Outdoor Advertising, and many more. The Company’s cutting-edge digital signage platform powers thousands of digital signs around the world including the digital signage networks of Rabobank, IKEA, Burger King, T-Mobile, Virgin MegaStore, EuroDisney, McDonalds, Warner Brothers, Ericsson, The Life Channel, Rikstoto, FuelCast, Repsol, Shell, NorgesGruppen and many more. Scala is today headquartered near Philadelphia, PA and has wholly-owned subsidiaries in Canada, The Netherlands, France, Norway, and Japan with a direct presence in a number of other locations and countries. More information is available at http://www.scala.com.

©2008 Scala, Inc. 350 Eagleview Blvd. Exton, PA 19341. Scala, InfoChannel, and the Exclamation Point Logo are registered trademarks of Scala, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective organizations.

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Lucky Jets Announces a Strategic Partnership with Player’s Network to Serve as their Exclusive Private Jet Service Provider

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) August 27, 2008

Players Network (OTC Bulletin Board: PNTV.OB – News) is proud to announce a strategic partnership with LuckyJets LLC, to offer Private Jet Charters and Shared-Flight Solutions to their Casino-bound Players.

As part of an overall sponsorship and branding package, Players Network will produce and distribute original television programming featuring LuckyJets, as well as LuckyJets’ commercials to air on all Players Network’s programming platforms.

LuckyJets is creating a seamlessly perfect travel experience for VIP Players. This Door-to-Door travel experience begins with Limo transportation from the VIP’s home or office, an impeccable Private Jet experience, drop-off on the runway, Limo transportation to the Casino Door, and full-service VIP Concierge Services upon request.

Get lucky! Make your reservations today at LuckyJets.com or call: 1-888-8LUCKYJETS (888-858-2595).

About Players Network:

Players Network is a Digital Media Company that focuses on producing and distributing original content about the Las Vegas and Gaming Lifestyles for its own VOD Channels on television in more than fifteen million homes in the US over Comcast Communication, TiVoCast, Verizon, AT&T, Direct TV; on its Broadband Network at http://www.playersnetwork.com, Google, YouTube, Yahoo Video, Hulu and Blinkx; for DVD Home Video, mobile platforms, and through worldwide television distribution and syndication. Players Network has a 10-year history of providing consumers with high-quality programming about the excitement, passion, sizzle, sex-appeal, entertainment, celebrity and non-stop heart-pumping adrenaline of the Gaming and Las Vegas Lifestyles.

About LuckyJets:

LuckyJets is a Full-Service, Door-to-Door, Shared-Flight Private Jet Company, serving a specific niche in the Private Jet Industry. LuckyJets brings together passengers with similar itineraries, traveling to Casino and Resort destinations around the World. The LuckyJets team is led by Founder and CEO Reza Karamooz, a seasoned Entrepreneur and Technology Expert.    

Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act

With the exception of the historical information contained in this Release, the matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that may individually or mutually impact the matters herein described, including but not limited to: the ability of the Company to increase revenues in the future due to the developing and unpredictable markets for its products, the ability to achieve a positive cash flow, the ability to obtain orders for or install its products, the ability to obtain new customers and the ability to continue to commercialize its products, which could cause actual results or revenues to differ materially from those contemplated by these statements.

http://www.luckyjets.com

http://www.playersnetwork.com

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Widget Delivers Fast, High Impact Social Media Digital Marketing Campaigns at Low Cost

Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 4, 2008

The pressure is on for marketing departments and advertising agencies to deliver fast, measurable results on social media campaigns – on a budget. While digital marketing spend is projected to double from 2007 to 2009, the tight economy is causing marketers to heavily scrutinize their spending priorities. Enter Wyndstorm Corporation (http://www.wyndstorm.com) (OTC/BB: WYND), the ideas to revenues social media company, and its social media widget, Socialframes™, delivering 3D virtual world experiences that engage users, encourage social interaction and the viral growth of campaigns, and maximize return on advertising investment.

“We’re taking a really hard look at Socialframes as it’s a very innovative and cost-effective approach to social media,” says Katarzyna Warzecha, New Business Director-Central&Eastern Europe, Avon. “This is just the kind of social media application that would bolster the success of our new media programs, and for a price about a tenth of the cost that you’d expect from a widget that is so feature rich.”

As marketing around the Olympic games demonstrates, a variety of major brands, such as Kleenex and Speedo, have upped their digital marketing spend – in the case of Speedo to 100 percent of spend on digital marketing and public relations.

But, as Marian Sabety, president and CEO of Wyndstorm Corporation notes: “You don’t have to be a major brand or even spend like one to participate in the social media advertising trend. You do have to know how to select effective digital marketing solutions, have the right creative, and be able to leverage social media for its viral potential,” says Sabety. “It helps the marketing budget to use customizable, turn-key social media solutions that can go to market with speed and precision.”

Wyndstorm’s Socialframes is such an application – an innovative social media virtual worlds application in the form of a widget, a small snippet of code that can easily be added to a Website or an end user’s social media site, such as Facebook or MySpace. Socialframes delivers a compelling user experience that encourages viral growth, better reach, branding promotions, community member loyalty, and total user engagement with social interaction among friends and advertising video and content.

In Socialframes, users explore, play with friends, and interact in the virtual world with 3D avatars, AV-chat, and interactive gaming options. In the background of this virtual world, marketers serve up contextual, targeted in-screen advertising in multiple forms, including video and hotlinks. On the back-end, marketers can access a variety of reports and metrics, including user data and behavior, and analyze interests among user social groups. The room collection currently includes: a coffee shop, a restaurant, a travel destination, street entertainment venues, a travel information center, and a movie cinema – all tailored to the marketing needs of a campaign and user interests.

“Socialframes offers marketers the ability to serve up marketing content into a dynamic virtual world with features that are earning us praise in front of all kinds of marketers,” says Sabety. “If household name companies like Johnson & Johnson are getting into the social media space, why not your company?”

About Wyndstorm Corporation

Wyndstorm Corporation is the ideas-to-revenues company, providing end-to-end social network technology and online marketing services. They design, build and host social media, multi-user gaming, online entertainment, and ecommerce Web properties. Utilizing pre-built and custom applications, the company provides Web 2.0 technologies for online destinations with 2.5D virtual platforms, advergaming, interactive entertainment, and social network-based viral marketing opportunities. Socialframes™, a destination 2.5D interactive widget utilizes interactive entertainment and profile-based in-scene media push, is an example of the strong value applications Wyndstorm offers. Wyndstorm Corporation trades on OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol WYND. For more information, go to http://www.wyndstorm.com.

The information contained in this press release contains “forward-looking statements,” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. A forward-looking statement is one which is based on current expectations of future events or conditions and does not relate to historical or current facts. These statements include various estimates, forecasts, projections of Wyndstorm’s future performance, statements of Wyndstorm’s plans and objectives, and other similar statements. Forward-looking statements include phrases such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “predicts,” “estimates,” “assumes,” “projects,” “may,” “will,” “will be,” “should,” or similar expressions. Although Wyndstorm believes that its current expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, it cannot assure that the expectations contained in such forward-looking statements will be achieved. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in such statements. Investors should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release, as they speak only as of the date of this press release, and Wyndstorm expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to publicly release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein.

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Scala Invites Americas’ Scala Certified Partners to the Annual Scala Connected Signage Conference

Exton, PA (PRWEB) September 5, 2008

Scala, the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for the connected signage market, today announced it will bring together Scala Certified Partners from the Americas for the annual Scala Connected Signage Conference (formerly Scala Partner Conference/MISA User Group Meeting) on September 15 – 16 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Philadelphia. The conference will take place immediately prior to the Digital Signage Expo East show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center September 17 – 18.

The Scala Connected Signage Conference is an educational forum for our Scala Certified Partners and customers to exchange ideas and network with industry leaders and peers from around the continent. Attendees from all backgrounds (sales, technical, marketing, etc.) will find the presentations and sessions valuable and the face-to-face time with Scala team members and partners even more valuable.

“This year we’re reformatting the conference agenda a bit to ensure that our attendees get the most value out of the conference. We are offering more than 30 interactive sessions with tracks to suit everyone,” says Kristin Belas, Marketing Communications Manager for Scala.

This year the conference will include sessions specific to Scala Ad Manager (formerly Charting Pro), a new product family that rounds out the Scala Connected Signage platform. Attendees will learn all about Ad Manager and how it completes the Connected Signage platform.

“This has been an exciting year for Scala in so many ways and we look forward to sharing that excitement with our partners and customers,” says Andrea Waldin, Director of Marketing for Scala. “Scala has experienced many changes over the past year including the acquisition of MISC and the formation of our new Scala Connected Signage platform. The conference will serve to inform and prepare our Scala Certified Partners for an exciting year in 2009.”

The conference will also host an industry partner exhibition area. Partners who have signed up to exhibit at the conference include:

-Avocent – Avocent (http://www.avocent.com) is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure management solutions for enterprise data centers, small/medium businesses and branch offices.

-Equus Computer Systems – Equus (http://www.equuscs.com) is one of America’s largest manufacturers of build-to-order desktops, notebooks and servers.

-Matrox — Matrox (http://www.matrox.com) has earned its reputation as industry leader and innovator in today’s most state-of-the-art technologies, designing software and hardware solutions in the fields of Graphics, Video editing and Image processing.

-Magenta Research — Magenta Research (http://www.magenta-research.com) is the industry-recognized leader in the adaptive distribution and switching of video/audio/control signals over CatX cable, DVI over fiber and/or Cat6 and more recently, HDMI over Cat6.

-MediaVue/SeaGate – MediaVue (http://www.mediavuesystems.com) designs and builds fanless and solid state PC’s for digital signage and other demanding applications.

-AccuWeather — AccuWeather, (http://www.accuweather.com) The World’s Weather Authority®, presents accurate, localized, branded forecasts and severe weather bulletins to over 110 million Americans each day via the Internet, mobile devices and IPTV, through the airwaves, in print and on digital signage.

-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (http://www.samsung.com/us) is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies.

-LG Electronics — LG Digital Display Company (http://www.lge.com) is the largest TV flat panel display manufacturer in the world, a leading producer of LCD and plasma TVs and one of the world’s top plasma module makers.

-Wincomm — Wincomm (http://www.wincomm.com.tw) provides competitive Digital Signage/Embedded PC products with best cost/performance, unmatched development speed, and excellent quality.

-Minicom Advanced Systems — Minicom Advanced Systems (http://www.minicom.com) manufactures KVM solutions for the management of servers and computers that facilitate control of enterprise and corporate IT environments.

About Scala:

Scala is a leading global provider of digital signage and advertising management solutions. By combining digital and traditional signage systems, Scala has become the world’s first connected signage company, offering the leading platform for content creation, management and distribution in digital signage networks, and the first unified platform for advertising management of both traditional and digital signage networks. The company’s solutions are used in retail, education, entertainment, government and other industries for diverse applications such as retail advertising networks, corporate communications (employee TV), traditional and digital billboards, digital menu boards, digital posters, cable TV, hotel lobby signage, gas pump toppers, outdoor advertising, interactive kiosks, etc. Scala pioneered the digital signage industry and today drives over 200,000 screens worldwide; more screens than all competitors combined. The company’s digital signage customers include Rabobank, IKEA, Burger King, T-Mobile, Virgin MegaStore, EuroDisney, McDonalds, Warner Brothers, The Life Channel, Rikstoto, FuelCast, Repsol, Shell, NorgesGruppen and thousands more. Advertising management customers include CBS Outdoor, Clear Channel Outdoor, Magic Media, Reagan, Adams Outdoor Advertising, among others. Scala is headquartered near Philadelphia, USA and has subsidiaries in Canada, Netherlands, France, Norway, Japan and also over 450 partners in more than 60 countries. More information is available at http://www.scala.com.

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Videotels HD2600 Industrial Digital Signage Media Players Recently Selected by Audio Video Distributor for Healthcare Facilities Nationwide

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) November 11, 2014

When Horton & amp; amp; Associated , a unique provider of audio and video equipment for health care facilities nationwide, sustainable necessary equipment for use in hospitals and treatment centers, he chose and HD2600 DVD player to become its industrial reliable solution.


Specifically designed as UL-approved and comply AnnexQ for use in hospitals and health facilities, the HD2600 allows these facilities to improve communication, educate, interact, entertain, and educate patients . It is a real content loop commercial DVD player designed for rugged use and displays video content on any screen. The HD2600 is designed to run on, automatically play and automatic repeat loop without any manual intervention.


“The industrial-grade DVD players Videotel and industrial media players certainly fill a need in the healthcare market we constantly service,” said Daniel Horton, president of Horton & amp; amp ;. Associates

The HD2600 is unmatched in quality and reliability. For health care facilities that require reliable digital media solutions to improve the patient experience, the HD2600 DVD player is the perfect solution, allowing continuous playback 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days year. Built to handle the tough demands of video content loop, the HD2600 is ideal for environments that want a cost effective solution to inform and entertain patients.


“Horton & amp; amp; Associates is unmatched in the quality of services they offer to their customers Videotel is proud to partner with them to trusted digital media players that facilitate a positive experience for patients,”. said Lisa Schneider, Vice President of Videotel business development and market strategy. “The HD2600 is the perfect solution for any medical facility looking for compact, reliable digital media players to communicate, entertain and educate patients. “


About Videotel Inc.


Based in San Diego, CA, Videotel is the leading manufacturer and distributor of the Nation of industrial Looping DVD players, digital media players, players Digital Signage, Interactive Digital Signage solutions, digital signage, digital custom Kiosks & amp; amp; PLV. Videotel has over 34 years of market experience in the development of the next generation and the niche of simple digital video products and industrial solutions. To learn more about Videotel Inc., visit http://www.videoteldigital.com or call us at 800-878-4056.


When Horton & amp; amp; Associates, a unique provider of audio and video equipment for health care facilities nationwide, necessary durable equipment for use in hospitals and treatment centers, he chose Videotel Inc. and its industrial HD2600 DVD player become his reliable solution.

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Former AtHoc Department of Defense Mass Notification Expert Joshua Shipman Appointed to Desktop Alert Inc. Advisory Board

Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) November 11, 2014

Today Desktop Alert Inc., the ‘less than one minute alerting platform’ used by the U.S. Military and numerous healthcare and corporate organizations worldwide, announced that the company has appointed Joshua Shipman to the company’s advisory board.

Prior to his employment at AtHoc, Mr. Shipman served in the United States Air Force as a Systems Architect at U.S.NORTHCOM and NORAD Theater Communications Coordination Center (TCCC) , NATO HQ AF SOUTH in Naples Italy, multiple Air Force locations, and subsequently deployed enterprise ip-based mass notification systems at AETC, ACC, AMC, PACAF, Patrick AFB, Eielson, Elmendorf, Joint Base San Antonio as an employee of AtHoc.com. While employed at AtHoc Mr. Shipman oversaw enterprise deployments and ongoing operations for all AtHoc USAF MNS systems. Mr. Shipman also managed MNS deployments at Army Corps of Engineers, TRANSCOM, and numerous other deployments.

“Desktop Alert is pleased with the addition of Mr. Shipman to our advisory board. His wealth of experience and knowledge insures that Desktop Alert will not only remain competitive in the federal sector and beyond but also bolster our companies overall value proposition to all markets,” said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder Desktop Alert Inc.

“I am honored by the appointment to the Desktop Alert advisory board,” said Mr. Shipman.

“After careful evaluation it was clear to me that Desktop Alert brings a simplistic approach to offering a state-of-the-art notification capability at an affordable cost. When notifying users seconds count. What is most critical is reliability, ease of use, and delivery time. In a DoD environment the system must also be able to operate in unique, secure, network environments and not be easily susceptible to failure when changes occur within those environments. Desktop Alert’s solution to Mass Notification encompasses all of these things and more. I am honored to partner with Desktop Alert and look forward to contributing to their continued success in bringing an affordable and reliable notification capability to DoD and beyond,” Shipman added.

“When lives are at stake, second’s count. Desktop Alert is the only known DoD vendor with a 10 second poll rate capability for network alerting beit a on-premise or cloud-based deployment of our notification system. A five year review of our DoD client reports indicate 99% of all network alerts were and continue to be received in less than 60 seconds with a bulk of the alerts being received in under 30 seconds. Latency-based network alerts introduce the risk of failure to all missions. We hang our technological hat on the speed of the alerts delivery, the speed of the alerts receipt and doing so with little to no deprecation of the networks bandwidth,” said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder Desktop Alert Inc.

About Desktop Alert Inc. http://www.desktopalert.net

Desktop Alert provides an array of end-point integration’s with customers public address systems (Giant Voice), intercom systems, commanders channels, e-mail platforms, DSN-based and cloud-based telephony and sms message systems, network desktop alert popups, national weather service zip code based alerts, digital signage, cable tv, numerous social media systems, CAP server alert, external system sensors such as temperature devices and fire alarm systems.