VIC:Melbourne suburb set for NBN connection

AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2011
VIC:Melbourne suburb set for NBN connection

By Kellee Nolan

MELBOURNE, Aug 3 AAP - It's been turned on in Tasmania and NSW, now Victoria is set
to connect to the high speed fibre-optic national broadband network (NBN).

Part of Brunswick, in Melbourne's inner north, will be the first Victorian area to
be connected to the fibre-optic cable NBN, on Thursday.

Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will be at Brunswick Town Hall to mark
the occasion, after officially connecting Kiama Downs and Minnamurra on the NSW south
coast in July, Armidale in northern NSW in May and three Tasmanian towns in August 2010.

Brunswick will be the first metropolitan area to be added to the NBN, which is aimed
over the next decade to provide the high speed fibre-optic cable network to 93 per cent
of Australians and a slower fixed wireless or satellite broadband for the remaining seven
per cent.

Brunswick is one of five sites chosen to be the first connected on the mainland to
test the network design and construction methods and provide information to help the network
roll-out.

Other fibre-optic test sites to soon be connected are suburbs of Townsville in Queensland
and Willunga in South Australia.

Senator Conroy on Wednesday announced work will also start on another six new fibre-optic
sites in Queensland, NSW and the ACT by January 2012.

The new sites, plus extensions of the current network sites, are expected to bring
more than 50,000 premises into the fibre optic network, with people able to access the
high speed broadband service about a year after work begins on their site.

Senator Conroy also announced areas surrounding Ballarat in Victoria, Darwin in the
Northern Territory, Geraldton in Western Australia, Tamworth in NSW and Toowoomba in Queensland
will also be the first to be provided with access to the fixed wireless network, which
offers download speeds of 12Mbps, compared with the 100Mbps of the fibre-optic technology
being delivered to 93 per cent of the nation.

"Thousands of premises in these locations will be provided with access to the fixed
wireless network that will offer peak download speeds of 12Mbps," Senator Conroy said
in a statement.

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WA:Minor magnitude two earthquake hits WA

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04-07-2011
WA:Minor magnitude two earthquake hits WA

A minor magnitude-two earthquake has struck an area 250 kilometres north-east of Perth.

Geoscience Australia says the quake hit Bonnie Rock early this afternoon (WST).

A spokesman says the earthquake was too far away from Perth to be noticed .. despite
some callers to radio stations reporting the shaking of windows and doors.

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QLD:Morcombe POI insists evidence is truth

AAP General News (Australia)
12-17-2010
QLD:Morcombe POI insists evidence is truth

By Christine Flatley

BRISBANE, Dec 17 AAP - A man who claims he abducted Daniel Morcombe has admitted his
various versions of events have been full of inconsistencies and lies.

Lawyers spent Friday morning picking apart the testimony of person of interest (POI)
P33, who has told an inquest that he and another male kidnapped the 13-year-old from a
Sunshine Coast bus stop in December 2003.

P33 gave a detailed account in the Brisbane Coroners Court on Thursday about how he
and his older male lover - a man known as P32 - drove Daniel to Brisbane and secreted
him in a cabin on an army reserve.

He said P32 subjected the teenager to abuse before killing him.

P33 said they then dumped Daniel's body in the Brisbane River.

Police have told the inquest that P33 is little more than an attention-seeker who cannot
be linked to the case.

P33 admitted on Friday that since 2004 he had "drip-fed" investigators with various
false accounts, saying he had done so because of his mistrust for police.

"I've told some lies, yes," he said.

Craig Chowdhury, counsel assisting coroner Michael Barnes, said: "There are significant
discrepancies and I want you to explain to me how you are making these inconsistencies?"

"I don't trust police ... that's my best explanation," P33 replied.

The court heard P33 initially only implicated P32 in the abduction and murder, and
only wove himself into the story last year.

He denied allegations he had concocted the story as a way of seeking revenge against
P32, who had reported him to police for abusing his daughter and possessing child porn.

P33 said he understood he could be charged with perjury if his latest testimony is
found to be untruthful, but remained insistent the version of events he has given in court
this week is correct.

His barrister, Sam Di Carlo, asked him: "You understand that this is your best opportunity
to give your evidence as truthfully as possible, and you also understand the effect on
Mr and Mrs Morcombe if you're lying?"

"Yes I do," P33 replied.

"Are you still saying you've been telling the truth over the last two days?"

"Yes I have."

P33 said he was eager to go with detectives to the Brisbane River to more accurately
show them where Daniel was dumped.

"I'm more than happy to take someone out and show them the exact location," he said.

"I'm absolutely 100 per cent confident that in one hour you will have that body."

Police have previously given evidence that thorough searches of that area of the river
have revealed nothing.

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FED:Drowning in election comment

AAP General News (Australia)
08-10-2010
FED:Drowning in election comment

By Don Woolford

CANBERRA, Aug 10 AAP - One of the more famous aphorisms in journalism is C.P.Scott's
"Comment is free, but facts are sacred".

The precept of the long-time editor-owner of that great journal of British liberalism,
the then Manchester Guardian, was - perhaps still is - taught in journalism schools.

Wonder what Scott would think of Australia's election campaign, where everyone drowns
in comment and even apparent fact is a slippery matter.

Google "Australian election 2010" and you get about 11,600,000 results, which no doubt
will have grown by the time this rave is finished.

A tiny percentage will be pure fact and a bit more will be sensible and serious analysis,
based on fact.

Most will be just someone's opinion. Nothing wrong with that, everyone's entitled to
an opinion. But do the rest of us need this Sargasso of half-baked prejudice from all
the blogs, all the social networking, all the tweeting, bleating and excreting.

And that's just the new media.

The old media (or is it the middle-aged media?) has been reinforced by ABC 24, Australia's
first free-to-air 24-hour news channel. It joins Sky News as a purveyor of constant news
or, more usually, views.

This has made that most baleful of developments, the 24-hour news cycle, more demanding
and frenetic than ever. Baleful because politicians feel obliged to constantly feed it.

They yap and they stunt all day and much of the night. Babies and garden gnomes have
never been in greater peril. Much of the media report and discuss their antics in excruciating
detail.

The politicians should retire to a cave for most of each 24 hours, wherein they would
think at leisure about policy which, in due course, they would announce and subject to
informed questioning.

The 24-hour television news service has also, and necessarily for 24 hours is a dreadful
amount of time to fill if you can't use soaps and game shows, brought a flood of that
other baleful development, journalists talking to journalists.

How seriously many take themselves; how grave their tones.

With them in full flight the campaign is in danger of disappearing up the commentariat's
collective rear end.

Newspapers (the aged media?) are perhaps the least affected. Many - including some
of the biggest and most regionals - don't get unreasonably excited by elections.

However the so-called opinion leaders slaughter forests daily to bring us the latest.

Well, not exactly the latest. More angled follow-ups - product differentiation, as
the marketers would say - of what's already been on radio, television and many websites,
including their own.

That usually means a melange of fact and comment, often not easily separable.

And even if a politician's words are reported straight and unadorned, it's only fact
at a superficial level.

After all, the average political utterance has much the same relationship to the journalistic
verities of truth and balance as Peter Pan has to reality. But once a journalist tries
to interpret said utterance, out comes comment.

There's a strange irony in all this.

Whatever you might think of the volume and variety and sheer nonsense that the wonders
of the information age have brought us, it does add up to a glorious anarchy.

It's way beyond the control of the political geniuses who direct modern campaigns.

Yet these geniuses try to exert ever tighter control over the political leaders and
the media who report them.

Staying on message and being risk averse matter hugely. So does - what a laugh - being authentic.

But we shouldn't get too high-minded about betraying Scott's noble vision. He was a
British MP for 11 years while continuing to edit his paper -- what would now be thought
a gross conflict of interest.

Television was still experimental when he died in 1932. He said (according to Wikipedia):
"Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it."

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Vic: Opposition pledge for Stawell Gift

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2010
Vic: Opposition pledge for Stawell Gift

EDS: Embargoed until 0001 AEDT Thursday, April 1

MELBOURNE, April 1 AAP - Australia's most famous foot race would be secured under a
Victorian coalition pledge to save the Stawell Gift.

The state coalition on Thursday will unveil a promise to double funding for the historic
Easter Monday race if it wins government.

The Stawell Gift was in danger of being moved from its home of 130 years amid a funding crisis.

The Victorian government has since committed $310,000 over three years to keep the
event in Stawell.

But the opposition says it will up that to $600,000 over four years if elected in the
November poll.

"Under a coalition government, Australia's most famous foot race will remain in Stawell,"

Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu said.

"The race has a long and proud history of discovering home-grown talent and has given
many young athletes their start."

Mr Baillieu said the money would fund the running and marketing of the Gift and help
it grow and attract new competitors.

The Stawell Gift is a foot racing meeting with 66 events over three competition days.

On Easter Monday, the final has a winner's cheque of $40,000.

In all, more than $100,000 of prize money is up for grabs over the weekend, with much
more working its way through the bookies ring.

Stawell, 235km northwest of Melbourne, is the closest big town to the Grampians National Park.

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NT: Man dies when light aircraft crashes at remote station

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-2009
NT: Man dies when light aircraft crashes at remote station

A man's died after his light aircraft crashed at a cattle station in the Northern Territory
outback.

Police say the pilot's Weight Shift Microlight Aircraft went down on Monday evening
at the Mary River Station .. a private hunting property about 250 kilometres south of
Darwin.

Police and members of the local health clinic found the body of the man at the airstrip.

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QLD: Main stories in today's The Courier-Mail

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2009
QLD: Main stories in today's The Courier-Mail:

BRISBANE, April 9 AAP - The main stories in The Courier-Mail today:

Page 1: Funding could be stripped from Australian aged care homes and vouchers of up
to $50,000 handed directly to residents in a radical aged care overhaul being examined
by the Federal Government.

Page 2: Continuation of aged care story.

Page 3: The Brisbane Lions have employed a private security firm to protect players
arriving and leaving the Gabba.

World: A salesman rescued a baby from a blaze ignited by a car bomb in a Shi'ite neighbourhood
in Baghdad yesterday, reaching through the shattered window and grabbing the boy after
the blast killed his mother and eight others.

Finance: Small unit holders in troubled toll road group BrisConnections were back in
the firing line yesterday after an attempt to relieve them of their massive liabilities
apparently foundered following a stand-off between the group's underwriters.

Sport: Wendell Sailor has labelled himself the Maroons' version of Winter Olympics
accidental hero Steven Bradbury, but his improbably Origin cameo is gaining steam.

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Fed: Consumers shy away from new homes and cars

AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-2008
Fed: Consumers shy away from new homes and cars

By Colin Brinsden, Economics Correspondent

CANBERRA, Dec 4 AAP - Consumers may need a further gee-up from the Reserve Bank of
Australia to get them spending, despite recent rate cuts.

Demand for cars and new homes has slumped, and even the lure of foreign goods appears
to have dried up.

A rush of new economic data released on Thursday - while not taking a full account
of the central bank's 300 basis points worth of interest rate reductions - suggests households
may need another prod next year.

Still, coal exporters are enjoying their moment in the sun, recording a 20 per cent
increase in demand during October, resulting in a record trade surplus of nearly $3 billion
in the month, while imports were flat.

"This surplus was achieved despite the escalating global financial crisis at that time,"

Trade Minister Simon Crean said in a statement.

"It indicates that Australia's export performance will play an important role in sustaining
our economy during this period of international economic instability."

Other data was far less positive.

October building approvals fell for a fourth straight month, dropping by a seasonally
adjusted 5.4 per cent to 10,730 units, to be 26 per cent lower than a year earlier.

Private sector house approvals fell 2.7 per cent to 7,507 units, a 20.4 per cent drop
over the year, while other dwellings - such as apartments and townhouses - tumbled 11.4
per cent to just 2,916 units, a slump of 38.8 per cent from a year earlier.

"The housing slide now poses a major risk to the economy and points to the need for
more rate cuts to ensure a recovery in housing helps prevent the Australian economy from
falling into recession," Master Builders Australia chief economist Peter Jones said.

"Stimulatory effects of the dramatic loosening of fiscal and monetary policy will take
time to come through and soft conditions in the housing market can be expected over much
of calendar 2009."

The data takes into account the 125 basis points worth of reductions by the RBA in
the cash rate in September and October. It has since cut by a further 175 basis points,
taking the rate to 4.25 per cent.

Financial markets are all but pricing in a cash rate below three per cent by mid-2009.

Macquarie Bank senior economist Brian Redican said the government's initiative to treble
the First Home Owners Grant for new homes should breathe some life into new home building
activity.

"But this initiative should be seen as a stop-gap measure ... we believe that policymakers
will continue to lower rates until they see evidence of a more sustainable turnaround
in housing market activity," Mr Redican said.

As part of its $10.4 billion economic stimulus package, the government has increased
the grant to $21,000 for the purchase of new homes until June next year.

The grant was doubled to $14,000 for first-time buyers purchasing an existing property.

Industry data released on Thursday also showed that despite lower rates and falling
petrol prices, motor vehicle retailers suffered their worst November performance in six
years.

The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries said 71,647 new cars and trucks were sold
last month, down 22.2 per cent when compared to sales in November last year.

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KEYWORD: ECONOMY WRAP

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SA: Doctors pay dispute resolved in SA

AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2008
SA: Doctors pay dispute resolved in SA

ADELAIDE, Aug 1 AAP - The South Australian government says a long-running pay dispute
with public hospital doctors has been resolved.

Health minister John Hill said the state's 2,370 salaried medical officers were set
to approve a new pay deal after a recommendation from the doctors' union.

The government has offered some senior doctors an annual package of up to $350,000.

"This is really good news for all concerned and most importantly for patients in public
hospitals and their families," Mr Hill said.

"The government is always concerned when patients are potentially affected in these disputes."

Industrial Relations Minister Paul Caica said the new agreement would help the government
both retain and recruit more medical officers.

At the height of the dispute many public hospital doctors handed in their resignations
amid complaints they could earn much more working interstate.

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KEYWORD: DOCTORS SA

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Fed: Smith urges Pakistan to hold elections ASAP

AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-2007
Fed: Smith urges Pakistan to hold elections ASAP

CANBERRA, Dec 29 AAP - Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has urged Pakistan to hold elections
as soon as possible and restore democracy following the assassination of opposition leader
Benazir Bhutto.

The 54-year-old former prime minister was assassinated on Thursday, plunging the nuclear-armed
country into crisis and triggering bloody protests.

At least 31 people have died in the violence, increasing fears a January 8 election
meant to restore civilian rule in Pakistan could be put off.

Mr Smith said he warned against any lengthy postponement of the election during a telephone
conversation with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Inam ul Haque last night.

"I conveyed the Australian government's view that democracy and the rule of law are
essential prerequisites for achieving peace and stability in Pakistan and the strongest
basis for combating extremism," Mr Smith said in a statement.

"I told Mr ul Haque that Australia strongly supports a return to democratic processes
in Pakistan, and the holding of elections at the earliest possible opportunity under conditions
allowing for full and safe participation."

Mr Smith said he expressed Australia's deepest sympathy to the people of Pakistan following
the death of Ms Bhutto.

"I condemned this act of political violence in the strongest terms," Mr Smith said
in a statement.

"On behalf of the Australian government, I urged all parties to exercise restraint
at a moment of great and grave difficulty for Pakistan."

Mr Smith said Mr ul Haque had thanked him for expressing Australia's support and sympathy.

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Fed: Senate inquiry to examine federal plebiscite laws

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2007
Fed: Senate inquiry to examine federal plebiscite laws

CANBERRA, Aug 21 AAP - A Senate inquiry will visit regional Queensland to hear first-hand
about the impact of the Beattie government's plans to forcibly amalgamate councils.

The upper house's finance and public administration committee is to examine federal
laws giving communities the power to hold plebiscites on proposed mergers.

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie at the weekend backed down from a threat to sack any
councils that held plebiscites on the issue.

The federal government is trying to capitalise on disquiet about the proposed council
mergers, as Queensland will be a key battleground at the federal election later this year.

Hearings will take place in Noosa (August 30), Emerald (August 31) and Cairns (September 3).

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KEYWORD: COUNCILS SENATE

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NSW: Eye doctor to keep practising despite child porn conviction

AAP General News (Australia)
04-05-2007
NSW: Eye doctor to keep practising despite child porn conviction

By Lisa Allan

SYDNEY, April 5 AAP - A Sydney eye surgeon who downloaded more than 10,000 images of
child pornography to his home computer over a six-year period has been allowed to continue
practising medicine.

But the NSW Medical Tribunal imposed restrictions on Dr Richard Wingate today, preventing
him treating patients under the age of 18 without a nurse present.

The tribunal considered three complaints brought by the Health Care Complaints Commission
(HCCC), following Dr Wingate's conviction for possessing child pornography.

The HCCC claimed he was unfit to practise medicine, arguing he was guilty of unsatisfactory
professional conduct and was not of good character.

The ophthalmologist pleaded guilty in 2004 after police found 66 images of boys on
his personal computer.

Dr Wingate was fined $6,000 and placed on a three-year good behaviour bond in 2005.

Police had extracted 66 images from approximately 600 contained on an external hard
drive attached to his home computer.

The images were of children, apparently under the age of 16, and included still shots
and sequential images explicitly depicting sexual acts.

Police also found a further 10,000 images that met the description of child pornography
on Dr Wingate's computer.

While he was never charged over those images, their existence meant Dr Wingate's conviction
"was not reflective of the full extent of his conduct," the tribunal said in its judgment.

Dr Wingate had initially said the images, which were downloaded from 1998 to 2004,
were "funny", the tribunal said.

While Dr Wingate had agreed his conduct had been "disgraceful and immoral", there was
no suggestion he had acted inappropriately in connection with his work, it said.

"The offence and the extent of downloading over a long period of time were serious,
and the motive was sexual gratification," the tribunal said.

"We think, however, that Dr Wingate appreciates the seriousness of his conduct and
... is unlikely to repeat the offence."

The tribunal, made up of Deputy Chairperson Judge Nigel Rein and Doctors Michael Giuffrida,
Jude Ng and Lindsey Napier, found it was not established that Dr Wingate was unfit to
practise medicine or that he was not of good character.

It allowed Dr Wingate to continue practising but ordered that he be supervised if dealing
with patients under the age of 18.

It also ordered Dr Wingate to continue treatment with a psychologist or psychiatrist
and to be reprimanded for downloading the images and for failing to provide accurate information
to the medical board regarding his sexual orientation.

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Fed: I won't choose my own portfolio, says Gillard

AAP General News (Australia)
12-05-2006
Fed: I won't choose my own portfolio, says Gillard

CANBERRA, Dec 5 AAP - New deputy Labor leader Julia Gillard says she will forego her
right to select her own portfolio on the front bench.

Instead, she and leader Kevin Rudd will work together to choose the right team, she says.

"As deputy leader I do have the entitlement to pick a portfolio, but I'm not going
to exercise that entitlement," Ms Gillard told the Nine Network.

"Instead I'm going to work with Kevin to shape the front bench team.

"The issue here isn't what's the particular job I get, or indeed anybody else gets,
the issue is how do we best have a front bench team to carry us through to the 2007 election."

Ms Gillard, who with Mr Rudd overthrew the leadership team of Kim Beazley and Jenny
Macklin yesterday, joined her leader in saying former rock star and environmental campaigner
Peter Garrett was sure to get a front bench job.

"I couldn't agree with Kevin more that Peter Garrett needs to be part of that front
bench team," she said.

"He's a great new addition to the Labor caucus and it's now time for him to step forward
and carry the arguments we know he can carry so well for Labor."

Ms Gillard swept aside questions relating to her promise earlier this year to support
Mr Beazley up to next year's election.

"Circumstances change. That was in March this year when there were some issues in the
Labor Party, and the words I spoke then I still mean," she said.

"It is about more than leadership. It's about Labor at every level making sure that
it's out campaigning in the community for change, and out there arguing with a Labor message
for what we would do differently in this country."

She deflected suggestions she might not always support Mr Rudd and defer to her own ambitions.

"We are probably eight to 10 months out from an election. It is, in political terms,
around the corner," Ms Gillard said.

"We will be focused on that election. Circumstances won't change."

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WA: Alleged heroin smuggler case continues

AAP General News (Australia)
04-28-2006
WA: Alleged heroin smuggler case continues

By Jo Prichard

PERTH, April 28 AAP - A court hearing against a Sydney woman charged with smuggling
heroin into Australia has been adjourned after her lawyers said they had new information
that should be raised with police.

Mother of two Thi Than Nga Ho, 37, appeared via video link in Perth Magistrates Court
today but did not plead to charges relating to importing the drug.

She was arrested in Perth after a flight from Singapore on February 28.

The court was previously told 2.6kg of heroin was hidden in the lining of her two suitcases.

If the amount of pure heroin is 1.5kg or more, it will be counted as a commercial quantity
and could lead to the maximum penalty of $750,000 or life imprisonment.

Counsel representing Ho's lawyer Mark Gunning today told the court he needed more time
because "new matters arose that he wanted to speak to police about".

Magistrate Steven Malley granted an adjournment until May 19.

A translator related the proceedings to Vietnamese-born Ho via video link to Bandyup
women's prison, where she is being remanded.

Singapore, where Ho flew from, has the mandatory death penalty for anyone caught with
more than 15 grams of the banned drug.

Melbourne drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van was executed in Singapore last year for
trafficking 400 grams of heroin.

The execution raised storms of protest in Australia after Singapore's government rejected
several appeals for his clemency.

He was caught at Singapore's Changi Airport en route to Australia.

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Fed: Big migrant intake for 2004-05

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2005
Fed: Big migrant intake for 2004-05

More than 123 thousand migrants have settled in Australia last financial year.

It's one of the highest intakes of the past 20 years and the biggest since the Howard
government came to power.

New Immigration Department figures show 123 thousand 424 people decided to call Australia
home .. the highest number since 1988 to `89.

The 2004 to 2005 intake is up by more than 11 thousand on the previous year.

Almost 45 thousand people .. or 36 per cent of the total .. have settled in New South Wales.

Victoria's the next most popular state with 30 thousand 581 migrants.

The Northern Territory attracted the smallest number .. with just 592 people settling
in the Top End.





Immigration Minister AMANDA VANSTONE says the figures show a steady rise in the migrant
intake over the past decade .. with arrivals increasing by 40 per cent since 1994 to 1995.

13 thousand 235 people arrived on humanitarian visas last year .. five thousand of
them refugees .. the highest number in a decade.

Skilled migrants account for the biggest number .. over 53 thousand .. more than double
the figure recorded in 1994 to 1995.

The UK provided the biggest number of migrants in last year .. with 18 thousand 220
Britons settling in Australia.

More than 25 thousand people settled from Europe .. including the UK .. over 33 thousand
have come from Asia and some 24 thousand from Africa and the Middle East.

About 21 thousand people settled from the Oceania region .. more than 17 thousand of
them from New Zealand.

About two thousand North Americans also settled in Australia last year .. and a similar
number from South and Central America.

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FED:Packer made more than $1m a day in final year,documents show

AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-2005
FED:Packer made more than $1m a day in final year,documents show

SYDNEY, Dec 29 AAP - Media and gambling magnate Kerry Packer was making more than $1
million a day in profits in the final year of his life, corporate documents show.

Mr Packer earned $393 million in the past financial year in profits from private investments
in property, plastics, chemicals and cattle, according to financial statements filed with
the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

The figures, published in today's News Ltd newspapers, show the 68-year-old made an
average $7.8 million a week in the past year, largely underpinned by some 258 million
PBL shares.

This was on top of hundreds of millions of dollars he received in sharemarket dividends.

Three of his companies, Samenic, Bareage and Consolidated Press Holdings returned a
2005 profit of more than three times the $120 million reported for 2004.

In particular, Samenic's $347 million sale of its Hoyts cinema business to a consortium
comprising West Australian Newspapers and PBL helped boost its net profit from $9.8 million
to $228.5 million.

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Fed: Howard can't guarantee Telstra won't cut jobs

AAP General News (Australia)
08-26-2005
Fed: Howard can't guarantee Telstra won't cut jobs

Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD says he cannot guarantee Telstra workers won't lose their
jobs once the telco giant is sold.

The government is free to go ahead with selling Telstra now it has the support of Nationals
senator BARNABY JOYCE, who had threatened to vote against the sale in the Senate.

Legislation allowing the Telstra sale will be introduced to parliament next month.

If it clears both houses, the telco could be sold as early as next year.

But Mr HOWARD has told Southern Cross radio he can't guarantee that job losses won't
occur after the sale.

He's also ruled out introducing laws to stop Telstra shifting jobs offshore.

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FOREIGN STOCKS ALLOWED TO LIST ON S KOREA BOURSE IN 1H00.

SEOUL, March 23 Asia Pulse - Foreign corporations can list their stocks on the Korea Stock Exchange from the first half of this year, Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Lee Yong-keun said Thursday.

In a report to President Kim Dae-jung, Lee also said the alternative trading system (ATS), an electronic stock transaction system, will be introduced from the second half.

The liberalisation is necessary to globalise the operation of the stock market, he said.

Mutual funds dealing with national bonds will be allowed immediately with the valid period for credit check-ups on businesses cut to three months from the current six months.

Thus far, foreign corporations have been permitted to list depository receipts and local currency bonds on the stock market.

The ATS will be introduced in the second half with the revision of the current relevant law provisions in an effort to catch up with the development and popularity of the Internet in the world, he said.

Mutual funds dealing with national bonds will be allowed in line with the policy to invigorate the bond market through attracting foreign capital into the market.

Yonhap

UK GOVERNMENT: Michael Wills unveils wireless revolution.

M2 PRESSWIRE-6 July 1999-UK GOVERNMENT: Michael Wills unveils wireless revolution (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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* Telecoms Minister launches new bridge to the Internet for millions

Video telephone calls, virtual offices for homeworkers and the remote diagnoses of patient illnesses are just some of the pioneering possibilties set to become reality under plans for broadband services unveiled today by Telecoms Minister Michael Wills.

Mr Wills announced that he intends to consult on auctioning large amounts of radio spectrum which will enable new suppliers to offer low-cost access to the information superhighway. The new frequencies will give access over radio links without the need to lay cables to subscribers' homes or rent a connection.

Mr Will's launched the consultation document, Wireless in the Information Age, at an event hosted by the Government's independent advisors, the Spectrum Management Advisory Group.

Mr Wills said:

"This is a very exciting development and the opportunities offered by this new technology are endless. This will give everyone cheap access to the Information Superhighway. In the future you will be able to send home videos over the network to relatives, make video telephone calls and create virtual classrooms for learning.

"We are experiencing an information revolution every bit as significant as the industrial revolution. We must grasp the opportunities this offers and ensure that Britain remains at the cutting edge of these new technologies.

"The Government will play its part and I look forward to seeing industry develop the innovative new services which will take advantage of this new opportunity."

Wireless in the Information Age asks for views on:

The choice of spectrum to be licensed, i.e. 40GHz and 28GHz;

The companies that will be permitted to bid for licences;

The number of licences to be provided; and

The geographical coverage of each licence.

The consultation periods ends on 30 September 1999.

NOTES FOR EDITORS

1. The announcement of spectrum for broadband wireless access forms part of the overall "Information Age" strategy for encouraging a competitive communications market and for ensuring that the opportunities are grasped by industry. Other elements include: the encouragement of competition in the last connection to the home and workplace through, inter alia, the provision of spectrum, enabling the UK to pioneer digital tv, lifting the broadcast entertainment restriction on BT and other PTOs and putting the UK in the vanguard of the next generation of mobile communications, through the proposed licences for 3rd Generation networks. At the same time, OFTEL are addressing the issue of access to BT's local copper loop in the context of the deployment of Digital Subscriber Line technologies through their "Access to Bandwidth" process.

2. The Consultation Document sets out ways in which major tranches of the radio spectrum may be made available for building wireless broadband networks and explains sharing issues with other services in each of the proposed bands. The document considers ways in which the spectrum might be packaged among operators to ensure the best competitive environment, both among terrestrial wireless operators, and in the context of the development of other wired and wireless networks (eg Digital Subscriber Line technology over existing telephone wires, Digital Cable, and Interactivity by Satellite) which have varying degrees of broadband capability. The document posits ways of licensing the spectrum, including the use of auctions.

3. The Minister made his announcement at an event organised by the Spectrum Management Advisory Group. This was set up a year ago as an authoritative and independent source of advice to Ministers and comprises members from all parts of the radio industry, users as well as providers.

4. One of the demonstrations at the event showed the speed of broadband connections by comparing the speed at which data was transferred over a wireless broadband link compared with a current 56kb/s modem link (currently the norm in most pcs).

5. Business and domestic users will not wish to have a broadband two-way connection for its own sake. The key will be what they can do with the resource and what third parties will deliver. Among the business applications are: high speed Internet access, the opportunity to transfer vast quantities of data quickly to clients and suppliers, video conferences, computer to computer links. Full involvement in electronic commerce will be a major requirement for businesses to remain competitive.

6. Opportunities will arise for more Home Working and for broadband radio links to rural areas. These connections will also create opportunities for new ways of providing education eg virtual classrooms, and delivering other public services. Tele- medicine will be an important development.

As for home use for entertainment the services include video on demand, home shopping and banking, interactive games, video telephony, exchange of photographs and home videos etc.

7. Copies of the consultation document, the accompanying report by Quotient and further information on SMAG can be obtained from the Radiocommunications Agency (RA) via both its website (http://www.open.gov.uk/radiocom/) or through the RA Library:- Radiocommunications Agency 8th Floor Library New King's Beam House 22 Upper Ground London SE1 9SA

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Beware of Fiscal Potholes in Congress's Latest "Main Street Fairness Act," Taxpayer Group Warns.

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Contrary to its name, legislation introduced today called the "Main Street Fairness Act" contains many unfair provisions that will adversely impact taxpaying consumers and business, according to the 362,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU). The bill, authored by Richard Durbin (D-IL) in the Senate and John Conyers (D-MI) in the House, would give the federal government's blessing to an interstate tax collection scheme known as the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA). NTU Executive Vice President Pete Sepp offered the following comments on the proposal:

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Despite its smooth title, the Main Street Fairness Act is riddled with fiscal potholes that would make the going decidedly bumpy for taxpayers. State revenue officials have long sought the required federal authority to tax beyond their borders, but with each passing year their arguments for SSUTA have become less credible.

We were told that 'tax-free shopping' was costing states enormous sums, even though businesses and customers involved in online transactions pay many levies such as property, profit, payroll, and fuel taxes. Additionally, many Internet purchases are already subjected to sales taxes. We were told that compliance with SSUTA would be a snap for businesses thanks to recordkeeping software, when in reality the cost and effort involved in complying with up to 15,000 jurisdictions' tax laws would be far from trivial. The bill's vague and ineffectual mention of 'small sellers' provides no promise of relief from these problems.

We were told that this legislation is necessary to level the playing field, even though the Internet has been small business' best friend. Because Main Street has an on-ramp to the Information Superhighway, mom-and-pop stores as well as sole proprietors can market their goods and services to the whole country or the world if they choose. Likewise, going online has allowed small firms to manage their overhead - from buying paper clips to retaining accountants - more efficiently than ever before.

Giving governments even more sweeping powers to tax won't restore any part of the private sector to health, especially the small businesses Americans are counting on to lead a resurgence in job and income growth. Furthermore, taxpayers are tired of being left holding the mop for state governments that refuse to clean up the wasteful spending habits causing so many of their current budget messes.

If Congress truly wants to be fair to Main Street, lawmakers should instead work on passing legislation like H. Res. 95, which affirms that Congress won't give states 'the authority to impose any new burdensome or unfair tax collecting requirements on small online businesses.' In doing so, they'll be paving the way to a much brighter future for our economy.

NTU is a nonpartisan, nonprofit citizen organization founded in 1969 to work for lower taxes, smaller government, and economic freedom at all levels. The group was among the first to support the federal Internet Access Tax Moratorium and oppose the states' Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. Note: For more on NTU's work in this and other public policy areas, visit www.ntu.org.

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Protecting your IP from outsider (or insider) claims when you sell your company.(Mergers, IPOs, and Venture Finance: Equities)

Intellectual Property (IP) is an umbrella term for the various legal entitlements which attach to the trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks and patents (software) owned by the business. All businesses have IP, but in the software business, IP may represent virtually all the company's value. However, not all IP is equal in value to the buyer and only some of it is of serious concern during due diligence and the definitive agreement negotiation process.

It should go without saying that trade secrets should be protected and good employee and contractor agreements can protect you from greed or malice. Trademarks and copyrights are relatively easy and inexpensive to get and you should obtain them. As time goes by and your company and products become successful and gain market visibility, they grow in value. However, relatively few buyers will care about trademarks in particular because they usually don't carry forward the company or product names associated with their acquisitions. Patents are occasionally very valuable, but more often not. We find few patents that can generate serious cash, particularly if a firm's products haven't demonstrated market acceptance. Few small software companies have the financial resources to defend them in any event. Nonetheless, buyers will want documentation on these aspects of IP to attach to the definitive agreement.

As a seller, you have to convince a buyer that you own the assets you're selling and it's unlikely a third party can make a claim to the contrary. Further, the representations and warranties you must agree to in the definitive agreement will largely focus on problems that might result from challenges to your ownership of the core software assets and specify the consequences to you if that happens. The reps and warranties negotiations are typically the most contentious part of the selling process and good planning and execution on the basics long before you decide to sell will make your life a lot easier. If you do nothing else, make sure you have documentation to establish clear ownership of the ideas and code in your software; this is a critical point. You must have written agreements with employee and contract developers that clearly state that your company owns their work product. If you don't, you are making a dangerous mistake.

Bill Montgomery, vice president, Corum Group, 10500 NE Eighth St., Bellevue, Wash. 98004; 425/455-8281. E-mail: billm@corumgroup.com.

 Company/ Description       Acquired by     Price/Terms        Revenues  Multiple  KnowledgeStorm    TechTarget      $58,200,000     $12,000,000      4.85   * Internet      (TTGT)          Terms: Cash     search                          and stock     engine     services  Cognos (COGN)     IBM (IBM)    $5,000,000,000  $1,020,000,000      4.90   * Business                      Terms: Cash     intelligence                    and stock     solutions  ePairs            Perficient       $5,000,000      $6,000,000      0.83   * Oracle-       (PRFT)          Terms: Cash     Siebel IT                       and stock     consulting  one45 Software    Cytiva           $1,430,000      $1,200,000      1.19   * Medical       Software        Terms: Cash     education     (CRXFF.PK)        and stock     software 

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GOLF: Tiger Woods' US Open bid has suffered a big blow after it was announced that the 13-time Major winner won't make make his competitive return from a knee operation until the year's second Major at Torrey Pines. The 32-year-old earlier this season had eyed up a clean sweep of the four Major titles but that ambitious bid fell at the first hurdle when South African Trevor Immelman won the Masters. Woods had hoped for a return to action ahead of the US Open at the Memorial tournament in Ohio next week.A But he will not attend that event and is also set to miss the Stanford St. Jude Championship in Memphis the following week. Woods still has a chance at the US Open though - he has won six times at Torrey Pines.

POWERBOATING: Qatar Team 96 will start today's Hypo Group Montenegro Grand Prix in pole position after Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al Thani and throttleman Steve Curtis set a blistering pace in Budva yesterday. Piloting the V12-powered cat, Sheikh Hassan and Curtis completed the pre-race pole lap in a time of 2m:19.78s to take first place ahead of Dubai's Victory 1, crewed by Nadir bin Hindi and Mohammed Al Marri, who posted a best time of 2m:21.37s. Third quickest were Norway's BJ Jacobsen and Jorn Tandberg in Jotun 90. Dubai's Bin Hindi is still confident of victory. He said: "The boat is absolutely beautiful. But Mohammed hasn't raced in Class 1 for something like seventeen months so we're still getting used to each other."

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The Dubai Financial Market made a welcome return to the green yesterday as the General Index climbed by 0.24 per cent to reach 5,657.17 points.

On the whole, industry sectors had a good day, though they perhaps did not recover as much as they would have hoped. Utilities lost 0.79 per cent to 4,543.27 and real estate slipped 0.04 per cent to 11,605.54, but those wereA the only two casualties.

Consumer staples did not move but all others advanced. Materials made the most progress with a 4.55 per cent leap to 11,605.54, while telecoms gained 1.18 per cent.

Trading was still low at 4,462 deals as the market's fractional climb gave no cause for confidence. Twenty-seven companies were in action but their fortunes were very mixed. Twelve moved forwards, with four unchanged and 11 falling backwards.

Al Firdous Holding took the day's best figures with a 4.81 per cent jump to dhs2.61, while National Cement Company won 4.54 per cent to dhs10.35. At the other end, GRAND and SALAM International were the biggest losers, tumbling 14.77 and 14.44 per cent respectively.

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Microsoft commits to the cloud.

Byline: David Ramli

Jun 29, 2011 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Fierce competition from web search firm Google has prompted software maker Microsoft to also offer its products over the internet. The new Office 365 version of its productivity programs suite will be sold on a pay-by-the-month basis and as a cloud computing solution with all documents stored online. The local partner in Australia for the new service costing between $A7.90 and $A15 per month is Telstra, while Google has chosen rival telco Singtel Optus. Companies with sensitive data however may not want to use Microsoft's data centre located offshore in Singapore.

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INDIA'S RADIUS INFRATEL TO INVEST US$112 MLN IN FY'12.

NEW DELHI, June 10 Asia Pulse - Betting big on the Indian government's fibre-to-home broadband plans, Radius Infratel on Thursday said it will invest around Rs 500 crore (US$112 million) in the current fiscal year for expansion, research and development of its business and technology.

"We will invest Rs 500 crore during current fiscal year (FY'12). These funds will be raised through loans and debt, we are currently talking with some financial institutions for the same," Radius Infratel Director Ashok Bansal said.

Radius' shared FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) infrastructure called NANO (Neutral Access Network Operations) is designed to simultaneously carry all IP-based services from multiple service providers (triple play and VAS), building management services (like intercom, surveillance feed, access control) and other customer-specific applications like home automation and much more to each household on a single strand of fibre.

"Currently, the company is working with Bharti airtel (BSE:532454) and are in talks with several other operators and service providers to partner with them," Bansal added.

The company is currently expanding in Delhi and surrounding areas including, Gurgaon, Noida and Dwarka. It plans to open its new office in Mumbai and Punjab within two months.

The company, which is in expansion mode, plans to hire around 100 middle and senior-level employees during the current fiscal year.

"Currently our workforce strength is around 95 people and we are planning to hire around 100 more at the middle and senior level during this fiscal," Bansal added.

The government is expected to connect 500,000 villages with Internet broadband services under the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) in next two years.

The government earlier had proposed creating a NOFN for providing broadband connectivity to rural areas initially up to panchayats.

Last year, telecom regulator TRAI had floated a consultation paper suggesting that optical fibre should be laid to connect 375, 000 villages having a population of 500 or more.

The project could be funded by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for non-skilled work and from the Universal Services Obligation Fund for material and equipment.

The optical fibre network would help various service providers and users get broadband through a variety of wired and wireless solutions. Till now, the broadband facility has been limited to metros and major cities.

There were nine million broadband subscribers at the end of April, 2010, of which a mere 5 per cent were in rural areas. The government had set a target of 20 million broadband subscribers by 2010 as part of the Broadband Policy 2004.

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PROFESSOR RECEIVES SAGAN MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATION.

Mesa, AZ -- The following information was released by Arizona State University:

Professor Jim Bell, planetary scientist at Arizona State University, is the 2011 recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science. The prize is named after the distinguished planetary scientist Carl Sagan (1934-1996), who through public lectures, television, and books, contributed significantly to the public's understanding of planetary science.

The Sagan Medal was established by the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society to recognize and honor outstanding science communication contributions by an active planetary scientist to the general public. It is awarded to scientists whose efforts have significantly contributed to a public understanding of, and enthusiasm for, planetary science. Bell is the twelfth recipient of the Sagan Medal and the first from Arizona State University.

A faculty member in the School of Earth and Space Exploration in ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences since early this year, Bell's professional interests primarily focus on the geology, geochemistry, and mineralogy of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets using data obtained from telescopes and spacecraft missions. He is widely recognized in the planetary science community for his cutting-edge research on Mars and for being an extremely active and prolific public communicator of science and space exploration.

Bell has been heavily involved in many NASA robotic space exploration missions, including the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Odyssey Orbiter, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the Mars Science Laboratory rover mission. As a member of the Mars Exploration Rover team, he has served as the lead scientist in charge of the Panoramic camera color, a stereoscopic imaging system on the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.

Bell's extensive involvement with NASA missions is matched by his career-long commitment to educational outreach and engaging the public in the excitement of science. His dedication to disseminating the photography and imaging results from the Spirit and Opportunity rovers in real-time on the internet is but one example of how he has helped to bring the excitement of exploration to the living rooms of many households around the world.

He is a frequent contributor to popular astronomy and science magazines like Sky and Telescope, Astronomy, and Scientific American, and to radio shows and internet blogs about astronomy and space. He has appeared on television on the NBC "Today" show, on CNN's "This American Morning," on the PBS "Newshour," and on the Discovery, National Geographic, and History Channels. He has also written three photography-oriented books that showcase some of the most spectacular images of Mars and the Moon acquired during the space program: "Postcards from Mars" (Dutton/Penguin, 2006), "Mars 3-D" (Sterling, 2008), and "Moon 3-D" (Sterling, 2009).

In addition, Bell is president of the Planetary Society, the world's largest public membership space exploration advocacy organization, and serves on a variety of committees and panels for NASA and the greater scientific community. He serves as a faculty advisor for the ASU chapter of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, and works closely with colleagues in the ASU Mars Education Program to help with teacher workshops and public speaking events.

"It's such an honor to receive this award, named in honor of one of my mentors. Like many colleagues from my generation, I was inspired by Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series in the early 1980s. When his show came along it was the first time that we could get the latest information about space directly from an expert who could actually communicate with people," says Bell. "It's hard to remember a time when you couldn't just go on the internet and get information. You could only find out about the latest discoveries in science if they happened to be on the nightly news or in the newspaper. I think that's why that show made such an impact, both on the general public, and on me in particular. I can trace my early interest in planetary science-and in communicating the excitement of science in general-to Cosmos and to Carl Sagan's patient, enthusiastic, and very personal style of science education."

The Carl Sagan Medal will be presented to Bell during the DPS 2011 meeting, Oct. 3-7, in Nantes, France.

Streaming Media East 2011 Exhibitor Profiles.(Company overview)

NEW YORK -- Streaming Media East 2011 takes place May 10, 2011 through May 11, 2011 at the Hilton New York in New York City.

Business Wire is the official news wire and online press kit service for Streaming Media East 2011. Breaking news releases and exhibitor press kits are available at TradeshowNews.com, Business Wire's trade show, conference, and event news resource.

Listed below are exhibitor profiles.

Company:	Digital Rapids
Booth:	207
Media Contact:	Mike Nann
Phone:	905-946-9666 ext. 135
E-mail:	mike.nann@digitalrapids.com
Web:	www.digitalrapids.com
Digital Rapids connects content to opportunity, providing the leading hardware and software solutions for bringing live and on-demand video to wider audiences and the latest viewing platforms. From encoding and streaming to management and delivery, our solutions for transforming and distributing media provide unparalleled productivity, quality, flexibility and efficiency while streamlining our customers' operations. Digital Rapids combines innovative technology with proven expertise to help our customers increase their revenues, expand their audiences, reduce their costs and improve their communications. Our products empower applications including Internet TV, IPTV, VOD, post production, mobile video, corporate and government communications, education, archive and more.
Company:	Discover Video, LLC
Booth:	5
Media Contact:	Mike Savic
Phone:	203-626-5267
E-mail:	mikes@discovervideo.com
Web:	www.discovervideo.com
Discover Video provides low cost H.264 Flash software multimedia encoders and transcoders for delivering live video/PC screen/VGA over wired and wireless (cellular) IP networks to PCs, Macs, Internet TVs, and mobile devices. Broadcasters, corporations, schools, government, and healthcare organizations use Discover Video for distance learning, training, event/meeting broadcasts, video trunking, video webinars, video conferencing, Internet streaming, and priority video alerts. Our solutions include encoders, decoders, live H.264 transcoders, VGA capture, Internet streaming/transcoding/storage network services, full webcasting/production services, portable video conferencing, Video on Demand, archive recorders, Media Distribution Systems, podcasting software, and emergency video alert systems.
Company:	EdgeCast Networks
Booth:	1
Media Contact:	Anthony Citrano
Phone:	310-396-7400 x7255
Web:	http://www.edgecast.com
Delivering any data, anywhere, anytime, EdgeCast is the world's fastest and most reliable content delivery network.
Designed to provide the fastest, smartest content delivery on the planet, EdgeCast consistently ranks among the top-performing CDNs in the industry.
EdgeCast SuperPOPs are at the center of the world's fastest data interchanges, meaning customer content is just milliseconds away from almost every broadband user in the world.
More than 2,000 of the world's busiest sites - Yahoo!, WordPress, LinkedIn, and Tumblr, to name a few - rely on EdgeCast.
Company:	Elemental Technologies
Booth:	403
Media Contact:	Lisa Epstein
Phone:	503-953-4743
E-mail:	lisae@elementaltechnologies.com
Web:	www.elementaltechnologies.com @elementaltech
Elemental Technologies is the leading provider of video processing solutions that enable multi-screen content delivery. The company pioneered the use of graphics processors for image processing and video conversion to support adaptive video streaming and traditional broadcast applications. Award-winning products from Elemental help content programmers, service providers and broadcasters bring video to any screen, at any time - all at once. Seven of the top ten media companies in the United States, including CBS, Disney and PBS, rely on unmatched solutions from Elemental. Founded in 2006, Elemental is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. To learn more, visit www.elementaltechnologies.com and @elementaltech.
Company:	Globecomm
Booth:	323
Ticker Symbol & Exchange:	GCOM: NASDAQ
Media Contact:	Fred Dugourd
Phone:	631-231-9800 x 1122
E-mail:	fdugourd@globecomm.com
Web:	www.globecomm.com
Globecomm Enterprise offers turnkey solutions allowing organizations to create a secure, private content delivery network for their corporate training, corporate communications and digital display.
With our Tempo media platform offering, we deliver streaming media services across multiple third-party networks to distribute across multiple Internet Content Delivery Networks to reach computers, televisions, and mobile devices around the world. The Tempo Master Control Suite provides an integrated solution for the publishing of live and on-demand events, live interactivity, network configuration, and administration. Tempo provides powerful analytics allowing you to communicate more effectively with your audience. As a managed network service, Tempo combines a robust software platform with Globecomm's help desk and field services to create the reliable solution your enterprise deserves.
Company:	Grass Valley
Booth:	205
Media Contact:	Denise Williams - Public Relations Manager
Phone:	1 503 526-8160
E-mail:	denise.williams@grassvalley.com
Web:	www.grassvalley.com
For more than 50 years, Grass Valley[TM] has been, and continues to be, at the forefront of on-air innovation. With hundreds of patents, numerous Emmy[R] Awards, and countless other industry accolades, Grass Valley is the only manufacturer providing solutions throughout the entire content creation chain--with cameras, switchers, routers, editors, servers, production automation systems, content multi-distribution, and more.
Our comprehensive portfolio spans a wide range of sophisticated solutions satisfying the needs of broadcasters, TV production facilities, and professional video users throughout the world. When you're watching news, sports, or entertainment programming, whether on TV, the Web, or mobile phone, you're watching Grass Valley at work.
Company:	Haivision Network Video
Booth:	327
Media Contact:	Mary Atalla
Phone:	(514) 334-5445
E-mail:	Matalla@haivision.com
Web:	www.haivision.com
Haivision delivers advanced technology for streaming, recording, managing, and distributing secure IP video and interactive media within the enterprise, education, medical/healthcare, and federal/military markets. Haivision is a private company based in Montreal and Chicago with a global sales and support organization distributing its products through value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide.
Company:	Harmonic
Booth:	405
Ticker Symbol & Exchange:	HLIT
Media Contact:	Paulien Ruijssenaars
E-mail:	Paulien.Ruijssenaars@harmonicinc.com
Web:	www.harmonicinc.com
Harmonic Inc. offers a broad, market-leading portfolio of video infrastructure solutions, spanning content production to multi-screen video delivery. Harmonic customers can efficiently create, prepare and deliver high quality, differentiated video services over broadcast, cable, Internet, mobile, satellite and telecom networks, while simplifying end-to-end asset management, reducing costs and streamlining workflows.
Omneon, now part of Harmonic, optimizes workflow for the production, distribution, and management of digital media with reliable, flexible and scalable video server and storage platforms. Harmonic's file-based Rhozet transcoding solutions facilitate the creation of multi-format video for Internet, mobile and broadcast applications and are used by media companies worldwide.
Company:	Highwinds
Booth:	101
Media Contact:	Jay Moore
Phone:	407.215.2449
E-mail:	jay.moore@highwinds.com
Web:	www.highwinds.com
Highwinds is a content delivery, network and IP services business that offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, including CDN, IP transit, transport, peering, colocation, content storage and IP software. The company delivers content and rich media over its high-performance RollingThunder network to millions of global users every day. Highwinds' CDN customers gain unprecedented command and control with its StrikeTracker console and open APIs. Highwinds is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., and maintains data centers around the world. For more information, visit www.highwinds.com.
Company:	Interxion
Booth:	107
Ticker Symbol & Exchange:	NYSE: INXN
Media Contact:	Richard Warner
Phone:	44 (0)207 375 7000
E-mail:	richardw@interxion.com
Web:	www.interxion.com/Services/content/
Interxion is a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving over 1,100 customers through 28 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion's uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. With connectivity provided by 350 carriers and ISPs, the world's leading CDNs and 20 European Internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion is a leading operator of content and connectivity hubs which provide ultra-available, highly secure technical facilities for the storage, hosting & distribution of premium online content.
Company:	Kaltura
Booth:	502
Media Contact:	Lisa Bennett
Phone:	646-290-5445
E-mail:	lisa.bennett@kaltura.com
Web:	www.kaltura.com
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. With over 100000 publishers, award-winning Kaltura is growing rapidly, with hundreds of sites joining daily. Beyond catering directly to web publishers, Kaltura's open framework provides the ability to create custom video applications with minimal time and effort. Kaltura's open source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as downloadable packages for leading platforms - such as Drupal, WordPress and MediaWiki. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third party services.
Company:	Limelight Networks
Booth:	131
Ticker Symbol & Exchange:	LLNW (NASDAQ)
Media Contact:	Leah Gladu
Phone:	678.891.1806
E-mail:	lgladu@llnw.com
Web:	http://www.limelightnetworks.com/
Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLNW) provides solutions that enable business and technology decision makers to profit from the shift of content and advertising to the online world, the explosive growth of mobile and connected devices, and the migration of IT applications and services into the cloud. Approximately 1800 customers worldwide use Limelight's massively scalable software services to engage audiences, enhance brand presence, analyze viewer preferences, optimize advertising, manage and monetize digital assets, and ultimately build stronger customer relationships. For more information, please visit http://www.limelightnetworks.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/llnw.
Company:	MediaPlatform, Inc.
Booth:	317
Media Contact:	Kelly Wanlass
Phone:	(801) 602-4723
E-mail:	kelly@wanlass.com
Web:	www.mediaplatform.com / www.twitter.com/webcaster
MediaPlatform, Inc. delivers best-in-class webcasting and media management technology to global enterprises and digital media producers. MediaPlatform's webcasting software enables high-impact presentations for lead generation, corporate communications and training. The company offers organizations the ability to take advantage of scalable cloud-based computing, as well as on-premises deployment, to present and manage rich media. With media management tools built on its platform, the company helps clients derive long term archive value from their investment in media content.
Company:	MIXMOOV
Booth:	302
Media Contact:	Hareesh Vazhaparampil
Phone:	33486220253
E-mail:	hareesh.vazhaparampil@mixmoov.com
Web:	www.mixmoov.com
MIXMOOV specializes in Online Video Editing.
MIXMOOV provides a white labeled, customizable, award-winning online video editing toolbox. Different modules can be put together to build products and services for creating and editing rich media content for web and mobile publishing.
Main modules include frame-level cut, effects & transitions, multi-track editing, text editor, video templates, web/mobile import & export, APIs for third-party integration and automatic video generation, etc.
The on-demand and on-premise versions of MIXMOOV provide online video editing for online video platforms, OEMs, websites, media agencies and enterprises.
Company:	Smart Encode, Inc.
Booth:	209
Media Contact:	Nelson Garces
Phone:	626-538-7465
E-mail:	info@smartencode.com
Web:	www.smartencode.com
Smart Encode, Inc. builds custom encoding systems to capture and digitize video and audio presentations. Our systems are cost effective solutions that can integrate into simple and complicated room environments and ideal for lecture and presentation capturing. We currently offer the Smart PiP Encoder capable of picture in picture video switching and capturing and text overlays, all in one simple to use system. The system records everything to a single file. Please visit us online for more information.
Company:	Sonic Foundry, Inc.
Booth:	113
Ticker Symbol & Exchange:	Nasdaq SOFO
Media Contact:	Tammy Kramer
Phone:	608.237.8592
E-mail:	tammyk@sonicfoundry.com
Web:	www.sonicfoundry.com
Sonic Foundry is the global leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, providing enterprise communication solutions for education, business and government. Powered by Mediasite, the patented webcasting platform which automates the capture, management, delivery and search of lectures, online training and briefings, Sonic Foundry empowers people to transform the way they communicate. Through the Mediasite platform and its Event Services group, the company helps customers connect a dynamic, evolving world of shared knowledge and envisions a future where learners and workers around the globe use webcasting to bridge time and distance, accelerate research and improve performance.
Company:	Unicorn Media
Booth:	213
Media Contact:	Andrea Graziani
Phone:	480-214-6430
E-mail:	andrea@unicornmedia.com
Web:	www.unicornmedia.com
Unicorn Media, Inc. is a digital media management provider that helps companies deliver media to any device, any time, anywhere, while providing real-time analytics on any platform. Unicorn's core services include Unicorn ONCE[TM], which allows content owners to ingest media one time and deliver everywhere and Unicorn VISION[TM], which provides real-time analytics across any Internet-connected device. These services are layered on Unicorn's core technology platform, Unicorn ELEMENTS[TM], which is a modular suite of workflow optimization tools that enable publishers to customize their online video strategy.

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