Archive for October, 2007

HPA Awards Celebrate Excellence in Art & Science of Post Production

WHEN:
November 1st, 2007
6:00 pm Check-in & pre-show reception
6:30 pm Theater doors open
7:00 pm Awards Show
Cocktail reception immediately following the show.

WHERE:
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
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DataDirect Networks S2A Storage Systems Combine with Vizrt’s Ardendo Systems to Deliver Scalable, Real-time Storage for Asset Management and Archiving

Chatsworth, CA/Bergen, Norway – October 29, 2007 – DataDirect Networks, a leading provider of scalable storage systems for performance and capacity-driven applications, has teamed with Vizrt to demonstrate their combined solution for real-time media asset management (MAM) and near-line storage for broadcast and digital archiving. more

Boxer Films’ Rob Groenwold has directed a new campaign for Travelocity in which the company’s Roaming Gnome mascot lives out travel fantasies—with comical results.

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Hyena Editorial’s Keith Salmon has edited a new spot for Chevrolet that tells the tale of two American icons through the prism of a single football play.

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Editopia, (www.editopia.com) an open source technology company for the online video market, today announces the release of NCode, a server-side video encoding solution that enables web developers to easily add video to flash encoding to their websites. NCode will encode virtually any video format to FLV. Its open source and free to use licensed under the GPL. An enterprise edition will soon be available offering support, indemnification and rights for fee based codecs.
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http://www.whatisaggressive.com/JUANES/JUANES_ME_ENAMORA.mov

For Colombian mega-star Juanes, the music video directing duo Aggressive, a.k.a. Alex Topaller and Dan Shapiro, created the video for “Me Enamora,” the first single off his new album La Vida es un Ratico (Universal Music Latino). The single has skyrocketed to #1 in all Latin markets, holding its place for over 4 consecutive weeks, and tops the charts in 14+ countries worldwide. Juanes is also the featured artist for the month of October on MTV Tr3s. The music video was so successful, that at Universal’s request, Aggressive adapted elements from the video to integrate into Juanes’ live performance at the MTV Tr3S Los Premios Awards 2007, where he was the featured presenter. more

Record sales of $8,223,216 result in 80% growth in net income to $1,817,405

MARKHAM, ONTARIO, October 29, 2007 – Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSXV: STC), the premium provider of telephony and network hardware and software products supporting telephony, wide area networks and Internet infrastructure, today released highlights of its results for the financial year ending June 30, 2007. more

Company Continues Investment in New Talent and Technology

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Shooters Post & Transfer (www.shootersinc.com), the creative-driven, post-production house located in Old City Philadelphia, has added two new editors/visual effects designers to its team – Chris Magliozzo and Mike Wardner. Magliozzo joins Shooters following nine years at Crew Cuts, New York; Wardner was with the San Francisco-based Rough House Editorial for five years. more

BERLIN, GERMANY and HUNTSVILLE, AL – Oct. 29, 2007 – snom technology AG, developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones, and Digium® Inc., the Asterisk® company, today announced their renewed partnership agreement to offer integrated, SIP-based telephony solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. snom has signed on as a Digium/Asterisk Premier Interoperability Partner, which will give broad support for Asterisk Business Edition telephony features on snom phones. SMB customers will receive a tightly integrated, standards-based solution with simplified provisioning, and the delivery of new capabilities and features.

“By partnering with innovative companies like snom we can offer the business community more options and features when building high-end telephony systems based on Asterisk,� said Bill Miller, VP of Marketing and Product Management. “The interoperability between Asterisk Business Edition and snom IP phones ensures flexibility and broad support for Asterisk. We look forward to furthering our reach in the marketplace through this partnership.�

snom’s highly configurable and interoperable IP desktop phones and the new snom m3 IP DECT phone will be combined with Digium’s Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. Through a combination of the snom and Digium offerings, SMB customers will have access to advanced telephony solutions which are more affordable compared to proprietary systems. Additionally, these new offerings will give customers the control, rapid feature development and deployment, and rich feature base that the Asterisk community and its partners provide.

“Digium’s Asterisk Business Edition offers a high-end solution for SMBs,� said Michael Knieling, CFO and executive vice president of marketing and sales for snom. “Combined with snom’s family of phones, companies can now have a VoIP phone system that offers all of the high-end features of an enterprise solution.�

All snom VoIP telephones, including the 300, 320, 360 and 370, are highly configurable and easy to manage through the keypad-cursor, dedicated function keys and menus, or Web browser, and offer user-friendly features like full-programmable keys and downloadable
ringtones. snom phones offer a complete implementation of the IETF’s latest
recommendations for standards-based authentication and content security (SIP(s)/sRTP). Their new IP DECT, the snom m3, is the company’s cordless offering. The snom m3 provides an optimal VoIP communication system for the enterprise, SMB or home office.

About snom
snom technology AG develops and manufactures Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones and related equipment based on the IETF open standard, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). Recognized for its high quality, customizable and cost-effective business solutions, snom is also differentiated by the company’s 10-year history in the VoIP industry, and its dedication to high security standards. All of snom’s software exists in the firmware on the phones – making it easier for users to download updates and new features. snom customers benefit from the interoperability and flexibility that the snom telephones offer, including plug and play integration and universal compatibility with any SIP-based telephony platform. Additional information on snom can be found at www.snom.com.

About Digium
Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has grown to become the open source alternative to the traditional communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less than proprietary voice communication platforms. Digium makes Asterisk available to the open source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and uses business-class Asterisk to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company’s product line also includes a wide range of hardware to enable resellers and customers to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems. This year alone, more than 12 billion new minutes of phone calls will be made using Asterisk. More information is available at www.digium.com.
The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, Asterisk Business Edition, AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Appliance and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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Customers, Integrators and Resellers to Benefit from Unified Management System

TINLEY PARK, IL, and BOSTON, MA — (October 29, 2007) — NeoPhonetics®, a telephony provider that designs, implements and supports custom VoIP systems for enterprises, today announced the launch of its Unified Management System for Enterprise Asterisk® systems. The Unified Management System is an industry first – providing large enterprises with centralized management capabilities across multiple Asterisk servers located at multiple locations throughout the world.

“Like all of NeoPhonetics’ best initiatives, the Unified Management System was driven by customer needs,� said Chad Agate, CEO of NeoPhonetics. “Multi-site enterprise customers needed a centralized management system that simplified Asterisk installation and maintenance while also enabling advanced unified communications, call center functionality and VoIP monitoring and reporting. We didn’t find a user interface with these features for redundant, multiple server systems, so a number of customers encouraged us to develop it, and here we are.�

With Asterisk’s unique interoperability and flexibility, NeoPhonetics’ Unified Management System is able to provide simple, non-technical, rapid deployment and maintenance of Asterisk across large enterprises – allowing for automated, Web-based configuration and provisioning of Asterisk/Polycom installations as well as real-time monitoring of an enterprise’s entire VoIP performance.

The system’s core features include:

• Redundant, distributed Asterisk servers that deliver enterprise-grade call quality and performance for any size company with locations throughout the world.
• Centralized management of distributed telecommunications VoIP PBXs.
• Real-time monitoring of network performance and call quality.
• Automated provisioning of telephones, call routing and PBX configuration for rapid first boot installation and simplified ongoing maintenance.
• Advanced unified communications, call center functionality, and customizable, integrated business processes based on SIP, XML and SQL open standards architectures.

In addition to fulfilling the needs of enterprise customers, integrators and resellers will benefit from the Unified Management System as well. According to Agate, “Business development for this system is still in the early stages, as we have been focusing our efforts to date on perfecting the technology behind the solution. Now, we’re looking forward to lively and productive conversations with the VoIP community on where and how to take this management system for Asterisk.�

The Unified Management System will make its debut during Digium Asterisk World (Oct. 30 – 31 in Boston), where NeoPhonetics is exhibiting at booth D-1020 and also a sponsor. Additional information on Asterisk World can be found at www.digiumasteriskworld.com/2007/boston/web/.

For an online demo of the Unified Management System GUI, please visit www.neophonetics.com.

About NeoPhonetics
NeoPhonetics designs, implements and supports custom VoIP telephony systems for enterprises with at least fifty employees. With a specialty in open source Asterisk® installations, NeoPhonetics creates solutions that offer more features, flexibility and cost effectiveness than traditional telephony systems. The company differentiates itself from other providers by offering on-site network design and integration as well as 24/7 support. In 2006, NeoPhonetics received the “Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award� by Frost & Sullivan for its role as an emerging company with vast potential in the enterprise telephony equipment services market. Additional information can be found at www.neophonetics.com.

NeoPhonetics and the NeoPhonetics logo are registered trademarks of NeoPhonetics. Asterisk and the Asterisk Business Edition are registered trademarks of Digium Inc.

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