Attachable QWERTY Keypad, Animated Touch Screen Interface, and Advanced Web Browsing Offer Latest in Wireless Phone Style and Function

Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. (LG Mobile Phones) announced that the LG Versa(TM) will be available on the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and data network beginning March 1. With its elegant chrome border on a bar design, animated 3-inch touch screen interface with tactile feedback and an attachable QWERTY keypad, the LG Versa will be an MVP (Most Versatile Phone) for customers.

Customers can personalize their LG Versa phones based on their messaging needs — either attach the QWERTY keypad to their phones or leave the keypad at home. The LG Versa’s home screen is transformed into a sizzling, animated 3D interface and customers can quickly customize three different home screens with their favorite shortcuts. The built-in accelerometer rotates the screen automatically from portrait to landscape, and customers can use rotation movements to steer games. The HTML Web browser includes Flash and RSS feed support, and customers can keep up to three windows open and switch from one window to the other to view pages.

Additionally, the phone comes packed with Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music with Rhapsody and V CAST Video services. V CAST Music with Rhapsody allows customers to choose from more than 5 million songs over-the-air, download the master copy of their songs to their PCs free of digital rights management (DRM) software and sync their favorite tracks, albums and playlists from their PCs to their LG Versa phones using the included USB cable. V CAST Video allows customers to download or stream video from the best names in news, sports, entertainment and more.

The LG Versa supports productivity tools — such as Visual Voice Mail so they can prioritize their messages — while Verizon Wireless’ VZ NavigatorSM service transforms the phone into a navigation device at a fraction of the cost of most GPS systems. In addition, the LG Versa is compatible with Mobile Broadband Connect to allow customers to use their phones as a modem by linking their laptops to their phones to establish a broadband connection anywhere within Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Broadband rate and coverage area.

VERIZON WIRELESS LG VERSA

Additional features and capabilities of the LG Versa include:

  • Virtual QWERTY keypad
  • 2.0 megapixel camera and camcorder with autofocus, flash and image editor
  • SmartPic technology for improved image quality
  • Camera resolutions: 1600 x 1200 (default), 1280 x 960, 800 x 400, 640 x 480, 320 x 240 pixels
  • Face detection — automatically detect a face when taking a picture
  • Zoom: up to 2x
  • Image editor: zoom, rotate, crop, add frames and icons, and write over images
  • Video resolutions: 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 176 x 144 pixels (default)
  • Video recording time: 30 seconds for sending or up to one hour for saving
  • Video player for WMV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2 formats
  • Customizable brightness, white balance, shutter sound, color effects, photometry, and self-timer
  • Music Player
  • Music player for .mp3, .wma, unprotected .aac and unprotected .aac+ formats
  • Multitask while playing music — hide player to send messages, edit contacts, and browse the Web
  • Create and manage playlists
  • Music Library — organized by artist, genre and album
  • Music Only Mode (RF off except Bluetooth(R))
  • microSD(TM) memory port with up to 16 GB support (16 GB card available in mid-March)
  • USB Mass Storage — transfer files between microSD card and PC
  • Bluetooth Version 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) –
  • Supported profiles: headset, hands-free (car kits), dial-up networking, stereo phonebook access, basic printing, object push (for vCard and vCal), file transfer, basic imaging, and human interface device
  • Animated three-dimensional interface for home screens – customize up to three home screens with favorite features and applications
  • Module home screen when QWERTY keypad is attached
  • VZ Navigator-capable — get visual and audible directions to thousands of destinations, locate businesses and other points of interest, get maps of a location and share directions with others
  • Chaperone(R) Child-capable — allows the LG Versa to have its location shared with family members via the Chaperone Web site, the Chaperone(R) Parent application or Child Zone(R) SMS alerts
  • Chaperone(R) Parent-capable — with the Chaperone Parent application, customers can view location information or be notified of the whereabouts of the Chaperone Child phone
  • Visual Voice Mail — delete, reply and forward voice mail messages without having to listen to prior messages or voice instructions
  • Mobile Web-capable — customizable, enhanced wireless access to the latest in news, sports, weather and more
  • Mobile Email — access MSN(R) Hotmail(R), America Online(R) and Yahoo!(R) accounts to exchange e-mail
  • Media Center-capable — downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services and more
  • Mobile IM using AIM(R), MSN, Yahoo!
  • Auto Screen and Key Lock — prevents unwanted key actions
  • 2.5 mm headset jack
  • Text, picture and video messaging
  • Supports threaded messaging
  • Personal organizer with calculator, EZ Tip Calculator, calendar, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, notepad, and drawing pad with character recognition
  • Speakerphone and voice commands
  • Bilingual interface — English and Spanish
  • Phonebook with up to 1,000 entries with multiple contacts
  • TTY/TDD-capable
  • In Case of Emergency contacts
  • Frequency: 1.9 GHz CDMA PCS, 800 MHz CDMA
  • Data transmission: EV-DO Revision A (Rev. A)
  • Dimensions: 4.16″ (h) x 2.07″ (w) x 0.54″ (d)
  • Weight: 3.81 ounces
  • Hearing Aid Compatibility = M4/T4
  • SAR: head 1.38 W/kg, body 0.764 W/kg
  • LCD: 262K color TFT, 480 x 240 pixels, 3.0″
  • Ambient light sensor controls the brightness on the LCD according to surrounding light
  • Proximity sensor turns LCD off when a customer is placing a call on the LG Versa
  • External LCD: monochrome OLED, 56 x 120 pixels, 0.94″ (only available on the QWERTY keypad attachment)
  • Standard battery: 1,100 mAh
  • Usage time: up to 290 minutes or
  • Standby time: up to 430 hours

Pricing

The LG Versa will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores beginning March 1 for $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.

Customers can get the most out of their LG Versa with Verizon Wireless’ Nationwide Premium calling plan. Starting at $79.99 monthly access, the Nationwide Premium calling plan includes unlimited messaging, VZ Navigator, Mobile Email and V CAST VPak, plus unlimited megabytes for Mobile Web and Media Center. Mobile Broadband Connect can be added to their plans for $59.99 monthly access for 5 GB, and Visual Voice Mail is available for $2.99 monthly access, per line, plus airtime or megabyte charges and messaging fees, depending on a customer’s plan.

For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.


Strategic partnership enables immediate data protection regardless of operating system

Mobile Armor, Inc., the leader in mobile data protection for the U.S. Government and recipient of the largest single award for data-at-rest encryption, has teamed with Seagate to provide a complete data protection solution that leverages Seagate(R) Momentus(R) self-encrypting hard drives to deliver powerful security for laptop computers. This collaboration delivers management, authentication, and auditing capabilities for laptop PCs powered by Seagate Momentus 2.5-inch hard drives and running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems.

With the proliferation of data theft and the continued loss of confidential and sensitive information, organizations are constantly searching for data loss prevention solutions that can manage encryption in mixed hardware and software environments.

Organizations today are also challenged with proving compliance and meeting other corporate governance requirements. The associated risks in not being able to do so include financial impact, audits, customer turnover, and lost productivity.

“Seagate’s collaboration with Mobile Armor gives organizations an easy-to-deploy full disk encryption (FDE) solution that automatically encrypts data and manages multiple policies and controls to greatly simplify laptop security for IT administrators and end users,” said Joan Motsinger, Seagate(R) vice president, Personal Systems Marketing and Strategy. “Our joint mission enables fast, cost-effective deployment of powerful plug-and-play data security, making it easier for enterprises and government agencies to protect digital assets from theft and loss.”

The Momentus FDE (full-disk encryption) notebook hard drives, 5400- and 7200-rpm models with capacities of up to a half-terabyte, helps protect against unauthorized access to information on lost or stolen notebook computers. Part of the Seagate(R) Secure(TM) family of self-encrypting drives, the Momentus FDE drives feature government-grade encryption that delivers powerful security for confidential customer or corporate information on executive notebook computers, critical customer data on field sales and customer support notebook PCs, and sensitive information on personal notebooks.

Seagate Secure technology is a security platform that couples strong, fully automated hardware-based full-disk encryption with leading security-based software applications to deliver centralized encryption key management, multi-factor user authentication and other capabilities that help lock down personal computer and data center storage. Seagate Secure technology uses AES to encrypt all hard drive information transparently and automatically at full interface speed to prevent performance drags common among traditional software encryption products, giving organizations an easy, cost-effective tool for complying with the growing number of data privacy laws calling for the protection of consumer information using government-grade encryption. The data security platform also makes it easy to repurpose and retire computers and hard drives without compromising sensitive information; all data stored on the drive is rendered unreadable by simply deleting the encryption key.

“Mobile Armor is pleased to augment our security platform previously validated by our largest-in-the-world implementation of centrally-managed encryption and enterprise key management with the Seagate(R) hardware security solutions,” said Mobile Armor Chairman and CEO, Chand Vyas. “This collaboration marks a new generation of integrated solutions, where enterprises and government agencies can now manage and audit all their security from a single unified policy and management console which is device and platform agnostic.”

Mobile Armor

Mobile Armor, Inc., is an innovator and a visionary leader in data protection technology, headquartered in St Louis, Missouri. Mobile Armor is an American company that provides domestically developed trusted data security solutions to commercial and government organizations. Notable customers include the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, civilian agencies and customers in healthcare and financial services verticals. Mobile Armor offers a solution that provides centralized management of all mobile devices, including desktops, laptops, PDAs, smart phones, and removable drives (including thumb drives). The company is a recipient of the coveted DoD Data at Rest Tiger Team award for its data encryption products. Mobile Armor technology is certified to meet the standards and guidelines for security set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Additional information regarding Mobile Armor can be found at www.mobilearmor.com.

Seagate

Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disk drives and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate’s business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world’s growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com/.


5280 Solutions(R) LLC, a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for Microsoft SharePoint(R), today announced that it will be exhibiting new versions of Dynamic Filer(TM) and Dynamic Payables(TM) at Microsoft Convergence 2009 in New Orleans, La., March 9-13, 2009.

Microsoft Dynamics users are invited to stop by booth # 838 to see the ease of use both solutions offer to organizations.

“Both of these products leverage the power of Microsoft SharePoint,” said Troy Kloberdanz, Vice President of 5280 Solutions. “Dynamic Payables utilizes SharePoint, Windows Workflow Foundation and our document-capturing capabilities to enable accounting teams to reduce the cost of invoice processing, handle increased volume, increase accuracy, and maintain service levels with less staff. Dynamic Filer provides a low-cost solution to scan, index and search for documents in SharePoint directly from Dynamics and other business applications.”

Dynamic Payables (www.dynamicpayables.com) is a full-featured Web-based payables management solution designed to automate invoice processing by providing a flexible, open and extensible workflow.

It provides users with enforceable controls, a dashboard of key performance indicators (KPI’s), and reports which significantly increases visibility of outstanding invoices, exceptions, bottlenecks, productivity issues, and available discounts. The newly released version 2.0 provides various new enhancements including an easy-to-use workflow designer.

Dynamic Filer (www.dynamicfiler.com) is a low-cost solution that automates the process of scanning and filing paper documents into SharePoint from any scanner or multi-function printer (MFP).

It provides automated indexing and offers searching for documents directly from existing business applications. Users can link and search for documents from Microsoft Dynamics and other business systems using a single key. Set-up and configuration are quick and easy using Dynamic Filer’s point and click method. In the latest version, indexing and searching are provided even when a business application is not available.

To learn more about Microsoft Convergence Conference 2009 please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/convergence/neworleans09/default.aspx

Source: 5280 Solutions LLC


Nokia’s  revolutionary digital music offer, Comes With Music, will be commercially available in Australia on 20 March 2009 together with the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia’s first mass market touch screen device.

“While the hot-selling Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has already sold a million devices worldwide*, Australians we will be among the first in the world to get their hands on a Comes With Music-enabled Nokia 5800 XpressMusic when it hits the stores next month,” said Emile Baak, General Manager, Nokia Australia and New Zealand.

“We believe that Comes With Music offers great value and will revolutionise the way music lovers can explore, discover and enjoy music. By combining Comes With Music with the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic we are providing a great music great offer on a great device,” he said.

The Australian Nokia Music Store has over 4 million tracks from local and international artists. Consumers can either download direct to their 5800 XpressMusic handset or direct to PC and transfer the music across to the device and, unlike most subscription services, anything they download is theirs to keep.

“The fact that you get to keep your downloaded music is what makes Comes With Music unique and great value,” Baak said.

Music lovers can stay connected to the music they like, yet no longer worry about the cost of purchasing music by single tracks or album. The freedom and simplicity of the service is unparalleled.

Nokia’s other Comes With Music markets to date are the United Kingdom and Singapore.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

As a handset, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers all the music essentials, including a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks and support for all main digital music formats, and a 3.5mm jack.

Built-in surround sound stereo speakers offer the industry’s most powerful sound.

The touch screen interface features an innovative ‘Contacts Bar’ which lets consumers highlight four favorite contacts on their home-screen and, through a single touch, track a digital history of recent text messages, emails, phone logs, photos and blog updates.

As people around the world use their phones in different ways, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers a variety of input methods including a virtual alphanumeric keypad, a virtual computer-style QWERTY keyboard, a pen stylus — and for true music enthusiasts, a plectrum will also be included in box.

The 3.2″ widescreen display brings photos, video clips and web content to life in vibrant color and true clarity. With a 16:9 aspect ratio and 30 frames-per-second playback and 25 fps recording, the device is ideal for VGA quality video recording and playback.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and, with a single touch, images or videos can be shared via a favorite online community, such as Share on Ovi, Flickr, or Facebook.

Pricing and Availability

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be available on various service provider plans and from leading retailers from 20 March 2009.

The recommended retail price for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic with 12 months subscription to Comes With Music is 979 AUD. The 5800 XpressMusic will also be available with selected service providers with an 18 month Comes With Music subscription at an RRP of 1109 AUD.

*Nokia announced on 23 January 2009 that it has shipped its millionth Nokia 5800 XpressMusic device.


Ricoh Launches the RICOH Pro C900s Color Production System

Flexible System Offers Fast Color Printing and Versatile Scanning, Copying and Document Storage

The Production Printing Business Group (PPBG) of Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the official launch of the RICOH(R) Pro C900s, a production-class multi-functional color system designed to address customers’ needs to produce high-quality, efficient and affordable printing, scanning and copying in one system. This flexible system is targeted at Corporate and Commercial professional print environments with demanding application needs and duty cycle requirements up to 400,000 color images per month. The RICOH Pro C900s, with its scanning capability, is the next generation of the RICOH Pro C900, which PPBG officially launched at GRAPH EXPO in October 2008.

The RICOH Pro C900s offers printing, scanning, and copying functionality allowing customers to complete a wide range of applications within one encompassing system. Like the RICOH Pro C900, the RICOH Pro C900s delivers maximum productivity for immediate turnaround time, while also offering time- and money-saving scanning, copying and document storage solutions. Customers are able to save valuable production time by scanning hardcopy originals directly into any TWAIN-compliant desktop application such as Adobe Photoshop. The RICOH Pro C900s can scan and then distribute documents to a variety of Scan-to destinations such as email, URL, FTP, SMB, Fiery Hold Queue, mailbox and more. The Pro C900s includes Fiery Remote Scan utilities and well as Ricoh GW scanning utilities, both of which provide TWAIN scanning functionality.

Central to the operation of the RICOH Pro C900s is a server-based EFI Fiery(R) Print controller. The Fiery platform optimizes the Pro C900s with top speed, quality, and advanced color management and integrated work-flow utilities that provide the customer with complete control over digital file processing at every stage of production. The Fiery is an open, flexible solution addressing the demanding requirements of Commercial Printers and Inplant Central Reproduction Departments. The Fiery controller is a standard component of the Pro C900s and includes a number of value-added workflow and job automation utilities such as EFI Impose, Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Standard Edition, EFI Hot Folders, Fiery Spot-On, Fiery FreeForm, PPML support, Creo VPS support and more.

Additionally, the RICOH Pro C900s offers a wide range of advanced in-line finishing options that can be configured to customers’ exact requirements, providing enhanced flexibility and efficiency. Options include the RB5000 Ring Bind Unit which automates the entire binding process so operators can prepare incoming jobs while additional jobs are being ring-bound, and the SK5000 High Capacity Stacker which enables longer unattended print runs, providing up to 10,000-sheet stacking capability. The GB5000 Perfect Bind Unit automatically trims up to three sides of collated pages and applies perfect binding without operator intervention, reducing labor costs. Other finishing options include the CI5010 Cover Interposer, the ZF4000 Z-folding Unit, the SR5000 Stapler / Finisher, the BK5010 Production Level Booklet Maker, the GBC StreamPunch III Punch Unit and the BK5000 Saddle Stitch booklet maker.

The Pro C900s is engineered to provide maximum uptime and reliability to customers residing is demanding print environments. The Pro C900s incorporates Trained Customer Replacement Units (TCRU’s) that enable trained operators to replace key components on the system without the need to dispatch a field engineer. In addition, Ricoh bundles remote diagnostics, troubleshooting and online consumable ordering through the included @Remote diagnostic solution.

Integrated technology includes a paper registration and skew control unit providing (+/-) .5mm back-to-front image registration. The Pro C900s incorporates developer pre-mixed toner along with a single direction development process to ensure consistent color reproduction from print-to-print and across long print runs. In addition to this the LCIT RT5020 large capacity trays incorporate air-assist paper feeding for sheets up to 13″ x 19.2″. The Pro C900s handles media basis weights from 16lb bond to 110lb cover and prints at rated speed regardless of basis weight.

“Launching the RICOH Pro C900 last year was a significant milestone for PPBG and we’re equally excited to introduce the RICOH Pro C900s in 2009,” said Carl Joachim, vice president of Marketing for PPBG, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Continuing to introduce innovative and high-quality Ricoh products in the production category is a top priority for PPBG and we’re proud to bring another affordable solution to our customers through the RICOH Pro C900s.”

The RICOH Pro C900s is available at a suggested retail price of $136,500 for the standard configuration. For more information on the C900s and other PPBG products and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com/ppbg/.


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