“The need for greater storage capacity will continue to expand in multiple directions and dimensions, but there will be an increasing scrutiny of all storage system purchases, with an eye to decreasing power consumption, footprint, and cost per GB in unprecedented ways,” said John Monroe, a research vice president at Gartner. “Performance will not be ignored, but a flexible balance of capacity, cost per GB, power and speed will become more crucial in fulfilling end-user storage demands at varied price points.”

Constellation
The Constellation 2.5-inch hard drive is offered in capacities of 160GB and 500GB with both 3 Gbps SATA and new SAS 2.0 interface running at 6Gb/s speeds. As the first SAS 2.0 nearline drive, the Constellation hard drive enables larger external storage topologies, 100% faster data throughput and higher signal strength over greater distances – dramatically increasing storage scalability. The Constellation family will begin shipping this quarter.

“Dell recognizes that increased capacity and high-reliability are key to enabling further adoption of small form factor storage within the enterprise. With new capacities, small form factor drives afford customers performance and power gains within the same rack space,” said Praveen Asthana, director of Dell Storage.

“As an industry-leader in storage, Dell is pleased to partner with Seagate and be one of the first companies to offer the Constellation family of drives to our customers.”

Constellation ES
The 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drive will be available in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, and with an enterprise-class SAS interface as well as a SATA version, and provides best-in-class capacity and performance. As the world’s only 7200-rpm 3.5-inch hard drive providing up to 2TB of storage, the record-setting capacity of Constellation ES hard drives are ideal for 3.5-inch based external storage architectures. With Constellation ES hard drives, customers don’t have to sacrifice performance in order to gain the highest capacities. The Constellation ES hard drive will ship in calendar Q3.

“Xyratex continues to work closely with Seagate to advance storage system innovation to meet both the performance and capacity-based market requirements,” said Todd Gresham, executive vice president and general manager of the Networked Storage Solutions Division for Xyratex. The new Constellation family of products complements Xyratex’s philosophy of delivering cost-effective enterprise-class, energy efficient storage solutions that help provide our customers the long-term investment protection they demand.”

With Seagate’s innovative PowerChoice technology, both Constellation hard drive models deliver the highest power-reduction savings ever offered in an enterprise-class HDD, and provide flexible, user-manageable options to deliver power savings without sacrificing performance, data integrity, or reliability. In addition, the Constellation family of drives are backed with field-proven, enterprise-grade reliability and rated at a full 1.2 million hours MTBF.

Delivering on Seagate’s commitment to add security features throughout its product portfolio, the Constellation family of drives are offered with optional self-encrypting drive (SED) technology and provide government-grade data security through the drive’s life cycle. SED technology makes drive retirement and disposal easy by eliminating the need for the numerous manual processes involved which are often incomplete, complex, expensive, or prone to error. For critical information that must remain secure, and because all systems are eventually retired, whether being relocated, re-purposed, or disposed of, the information on a Constellation SED hard drive remains AES-safe.

Seagate Unified Storage™ architecture delivers long-term business sustainability
Historically, the variety of drive interfaces, form factors and now, security solutions, can add complexity and increase costs for both IT professionals and OEMs. Making the wrong choice today creates storage islands in the data center with no easy path for upgrades – further complicating an already complex environment. The Seagate Unified Storage architecture converges best-of-breed technologies (Serial Attached SCSI, Small Form Factor and Self-Encrypting Drives) into a foundation for powerful yet simple storage that boosts business and operational efficiency while reducing cost and complexity.

The Seagate Unified Storage architecture delivers a storage foundation for companies that are proactively ensuring the long-term sustainability of their business through best-in-class IT practices. Companies will avoid the risk of impacting their own product quality, competitiveness, or profitability when their storage system infrastructure and data center footprint is optimized across power, cooling and performance density. Because the role of small form factor drives are important to the long-term efficiency and sustainability of any data center enterprise, Seagate will be extending this component into all tiers of its Unified Storage architecture in the future.

“With tightening IT budgets, Seagate is committed to delivering enterprise-class nearline storage solutions that ensure business sustainability by optimizing resources, reducing environment, energy or social impact and satisfying customer requirements without compromising performance,” said Sherman Black, senior vice president, Seagate Core Marketing and Strategy. “These new Constellation HDDs provide business continuity in the data center by offering the highest capacities, the lowest power, and the latest in enterprise-class data integrity with SAS 2.0 and AES government-grade encryption.”

For more information about the Constellation family of drives, in addition to Seagate’s other enterprise storage solutions, visit www.seagate.com.

About 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 .

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Constellation, PowerChoice and Unified Storage are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced today at Adobe MAX Japan that Adobe® AIR® and Adobe Flash® Player 10 software, key components of the Adobe Flash Platform, are being installed in record numbers by consumers and companies around the world. In less than one year after its initial release, there have been more than 100 million installations of Adobe AIR. Additionally, Adobe Flash Player 10 was installed on more than 55 percent of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its release, and is expected to surpass 80 percent by the second quarter of 2009, far outpacing the installation rate of past versions of the software.

“Adobe is the leader in enabling people to express themselves and connect with others globally, through the distribution of our world class client software,” said Michele Turner, vice president, product marketing for the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “The incredible traction we’re seeing with Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10 in such a short period of time is a clear indication that individuals and organizations across the globe rely on the Adobe Flash Platform for breakthrough interactive content, applications and video on the Web.”

Companies across a variety of industries have chosen Adobe AIR to deploy hundreds of applications that reach customers, partners and employees in new and engaging ways. The growing list of global brands using AIR includes the BBC, (RED)WIRE and The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. In addition, OEMs including Sony Japan are beginning to pre-install Adobe AIR on shipping computers, giving customers immediate access to the software. Companies such as COMEDY CENTRAL , My Space , Toyota Motor Corporation and the AOL Games site are using Adobe Flash Player 10 to deliver highly expressive and compelling user experiences, stunning audio/video playback and virtually universal reach across operating systems.

The Adobe Flash Platform is a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers for the development of Web applications, content and video that runs consistently across operating systems and devices. Adobe AIR enables developers to use proven Web technologies to quickly design and build compelling applications that extend outside the browser. In the last 12 months, there have been over 1 million downloads of the AIR software development kit (SDK), the free open source Flex framework and Adobe Flex® Builder™ by developers building Web applications using the Adobe Flash Platform. Adobe Flash Player content reaches over 98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops, and over 80 percent of online videos worldwide are viewed using Adobe Flash technology, making Flash the No. 1 platform for video on the Web.

Availability
Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10 are available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems as free downloads in 15 languages. For more information, please visit www.adobe.com/go/air and www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer .

About Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com .

Contacts
Matt Rozen
Adobe Systems Incorporated
415-832-2268

Monica Wallace
A&R Edelman
650-762-2903

This release represents a major milestone in Opsview's development and provides the foundations for significant new functionality currently under development. Opsview is a mature, stable and scalable application suite used for monitoring business critical IT systems in a wide number of organisations such as Allianz, Brittany Ferries, Irish Revenue, Plusnet, Winterflood Securities and The University of Surrey. Opsview is Open Source and made available under the GNU General Public Licence.

Opsview delivers significant cost savings over proprietary network monitoring software while delivering the same business benefits. Opsview provides centralised monitoring, shifting focus from fire-fighting to forward planning. Longer term monitoring of trends and service levels facilitates more accurate capacity planning and budgeting, saving time and money.

In summary, Opsview 3.0 provides the following additional capabilities:

    - Monitoring engine now based on Nagios 3
    - New performance graphing framework
    - Improved Data Warehouse
    - Even better performance, including faster reloads
    - Integration of Nagvis tool
    - Enhanced 'out of the box' configuration

"We think that the Opsview implementation at Trinity Mirror PLC has been very valuable; it has enabled us to leverage and extend our existing monitoring capabilities in a cost and time effective way. Opsview and Nagios will also enable us to make significant savings on our maintenance budget." said Gareth Bedford from Trinity Mirror Group.

Michael Walton, C.E.O. of Opsera, commented: "Delivering improved services with smaller budgets is a challenge faced by all IT departments. Opsview's enterprise features and performance provide the flexibility and value only Open Source software can deliver and is backed up with professional annual support, consulting and training services from Opsera and our partners."

For more information visit: http://www.opsera.com/opsview

To download Opsview software visit: http://downloads.opsview.org/

About Opsera

Opsera provides Open Source software and services. We also provide business analysis, technical architecture, development and support services based on Open Source software components. We work with companies to translate their business requirements into a cost-effective enterprise architecture, develop their web and business applications and run and support their systems on an interim or on-going basis.

    Contact details for media enquiries:

    Michael Walton
    Telephone: +44(0)845-057-7887
    Email: info@opsera.com

 
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comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released December 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed a record 14.3 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 13 percent versus the previous month. YouTube led the growth charge, accounting for 49 percent of the incremental gain in videos viewed versus November.

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Google Sites Adds to Lead in Video Market Share

In December, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with 5.9 billion videos viewed (41 percent online video market share), with YouTube.com accounting for more than 99 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 445 million videos (3.1 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 330 million (2.3 percent) and Viacom Digital with 291 million (2.0 percent). Hulu continued its growth trajectory, climbing 6 percent versus November to 241 million videos viewed.

    Top U.S. Online Video Properties* by Videos Viewed
    December 2008
    Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
    Source: comScore Video Metrix

    Property                       Videos            Share (%) of
                                    (000)               Videos

    Total Internet               14,318,722             100.0
    Google Sites                   5,905,854              41.2
    Fox Interactive Media          444,865               3.1
    Yahoo! Sites                      330,025               2.3
    Viacom Digital                    290,558               2.0
    Microsoft Sites                   247,903               1.7
    Hulu.com                           240,585               1.7
    AOL LLC                            197,135               1.4
    Turner Network                  183,948               1.3
    Disney Online                     148,434               1.0
    ESPN                                102,542               0.7

    * Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks.
      Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.

Google Sites Surpasses 100 Million Viewers in December

Nearly 150 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 96 videos per viewer in December. Google Sites surpassed 100 million online video viewers during the month, representing two out of every three Internet users who watched video. Fox Interactive ranked second with 56.9 million viewers, followed by Yahoo! Sites (42.8 million) and AOL LLC (31.5 million).

    Top U.S. Online Video Properties* by Unique Viewers
    December 2008
    Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
    Source: comScore Video Metrix

    Property                    Unique Viewers     Average Videos
                                     (000)            per Viewer

    Total Internet                  149,587              95.7
    Google Sites                    100,092              59.0
    Fox Interactive Media         56,895               7.8
    Yahoo! Sites                     42,761               7.7
    AOL LLC                           31,522               6.3
    Microsoft Sites                  29,534               8.4
    Viacom Digital                   27,370              10.6
    Hulu.com                          24,572               9.8
    Turner Network                  20,499               9.0
    Time Warner - Excl. AOL      17,294               2.8
    CBS Corporation                 14,840               3.7

    * Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks.
      Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.

Other notable findings from December 2008 include:

78.5 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
The average online video viewer watched 309 minutes of video, or more than 5 hours.
98.9 million viewers watched 5.9 billion videos on YouTube.com (59.2 videos per viewer).
48.7 million viewers watched 367 million videos on MySpace.com (7.6 videos per viewer).
The duration of the average online video was 3.2 minutes.
The duration of the average online video viewed at Hulu was 10.1 minutes, higher than any other video property in the top ten.

About comScore

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital marketing intelligence. For more information, please visit www.comscore.com/companyinfo.
 
 
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Contact:  Levi Loren, 800-959-8852.

According to Salary.com’s 2008 Wasting Time Survey, browsing websites not related to their work is the most common way employees waste time on the job – confessed to 15 percent more often in the survey than socializing with co-workers.  This behavior costs U.S. companies billions of dollars every year in lost productivity.  And for employees who want to get ahead, out-of-control web surfing costs them the chance to shine on the job.  A new software program, downloadable free from ComputerHelp.com, helps those who want to stop visiting MySpace, shopping for bargains, playing online games or checking the stock market get their work done for any specific time period they set (www.ComputerHelp.com ).

“At a popular online message board one day, I saw a member ask the site administrator to block them from the site because they were wasting too much time there,” says Levi Loren, creator of URL Blocker, ComputerHelp.com’s new self-control software program.  “I realized how strong website addiction can be and decided to make something that helps people stay away and get things done.”

The URL Blocker lets the user choose which site or sites to block according to a date or number of minutes or hours that they also choose.   Once a block is activated, the user cannot de-activate it except by uninstalling the program.  “This lets someone say, ‘I need to finish that report, so I’ll set up URL Blocker to block Facebook, Bookmaker and Movies.com for the next five hours,’” explains Loren.

The URL Blocker works for all Windows-based computers, and unlike other blocking software, takes effect automatically on both Internet Explorer and Firefox.  The program includes password protection, preventing others from blocking web browsing without the user’s knowledge or permission.  No data is collected before users can download the program, and the URL Blocker shows no ads.  “It’s 100% free,” Loren notes.

“We’re looking forward to hearing a lot of success stories about how people were able to keep their New Year’s resolution of not wasting time or procrastinating,” says Loren.  “Self-policing works much better than the company or boss preventing people from going to their favorite sites during work hours.  With the URL Blocker employees can set aside the time to get their work done and then reward themselves by going to YouTube.”

ComputerHelp.com, which created and is offering the free download of URL Blocker is also the publisher of a popular DVD with step-by-step instructions on how to build, upgrade, repair, and speed up your computer.  The new self-control program aligns with ComputerHelp.com's mission of helping people get the most out of their computers.

To download a free copy of URL Blocker simply visit www.ComputerHelp.com .

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With the economy faltering and jobless ranks growing, Fresh Apple (www.freshapple.com), a Chicago based medical marketing company is offering to help.

“We wanted to give back to an industry that has been loyal to us,” said Charlie Stone, CEO of Fresh Apple. “Since we have a professional studio with state-of-the-art, high definition equipment, we are offering to produce—for free—an online video resume for any Chicago area healthcare worker who has been laid off.  It is our hope that the video resumes will lead to amazing opportunities for those who participate.

Job applicants commonly use online video resumes to highlight their skill sets, accomplishments, and personality to potential employer.

“A professionally produced online video resume is a great way to cut through the paper clutter and rise above the rest,” commented Robert Boyle, a Fresh Apple producer. “Any Chicago area healthcare worker—who has been laid off – can contact us at http://www.FreshAppleCares.com. We will schedule a time for them to come to our studio to film their online video resume.  There is absolutely no cost to participate.”

Fresh Apple is a Chicago based medical marketing firm, dedicated to developing fresh multimedia exclusively for the health care industry.  Fresh Apple is a division of Stone Road Productions, Inc., 20 North State Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

For further information, contact:
Charlie Stone
Fresh Apple
http://www.freshapple.com
888-95-APPLE (27753)
312-399-4555 (Direct)

Fresh Help for the Jobless:  http://www.freshapplecares.com

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 5, 2009 - Adobe® Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Intel Corporation today announced plans to collaborate on the development to port and optimize Adobe® Flash® technology for the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100. This effort is expected to provide consumers with richer and more seamless Web-based and video viewing experiences through advanced Intel-based cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail connected AV devices.

The high-definition capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform, together with the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100, the first in a new family of purpose-built Intel System on Chips (SoCs) for CE devices, creates a powerful entertainment hub capable of delivering rich Web content and Adobe Flash based applications to an array of Internet-connected CE devices. Intel and Adobe are working together to optimize both the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Flash Lite™ for the CE3100. Intel plans to ship the first CE3100 with support for an optimized implementation of Adobe Flash Lite before mid-2009.

The two companies are uniquely positioned to support consistent, rich Internet content across PCs, laptops, netbooks, mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and now the TV, extending the shared business objectives of accelerating rich video and Internet content across the full breadth of consumer devices.

“The Intel® Media Processor CE 3100 is a highly integrated solution that provides a powerful, yet flexible technology foundation that will bring to life the high-definition capabilities of Adobe Flash,” said William O. Leszinske Jr., general manager of Intel’s Digital Home Group. “Our effort with Adobe is poised to accelerate a rich, yet relevant Internet experience on the TV that will provide consumers with access to a growing number of Flash based applications that will ultimately be enjoyed across a number of screens seamlessly, from the laptop to a MID and now the TV.”

Intel and Adobe have a long history of technical collaboration, including, most recently, being founding members of the Open Screen Project. Announced in May 2008, the Open Screen Project is designed to enable a consistent runtime environment across screens. The initiative has 20 major industry partners and is dedicated to enable Web content, standalone applications and full Web browsing across televisions, set-top boxes, mobile devices and other consumer electronics that take advantage of Adobe® AIR™ and Adobe Flash capabilities.

“The Open Screen Project is striving to remove barriers for developers and designers as they look to publish content and applications across desktops and devices” said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “The Intel® Media Processor CE 3100 provides a powerful platform capable of delivering outstanding Flash experiences to millions of homes as a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes makes its way into the living room.”

Adobe and Intel are also working together to bring an optimized implementation of Adobe® AIR™ technology to Intel’s digital home platform in the future.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com .

About Intel Corporation

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at
www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com .

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Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple’s Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.

Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple Expo in Paris.

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Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

Nokia is looking bruised. In November, the world’s largest mobile phone maker issued a profit warning for the fourth quarter after seeing a sharp cutback in spending by consumers on handsets.

The Finnish company had already shocked investors in September by revealing its market share of mobile sales would fall in the third quarter, partly because of aggressive price-cutting by competitors. It was the first year-on-year decline in three-and-a-half years.

Nokia is predicting that the handset industry’s sales will decline by 5 per cent “or more” in 2009 compared with this year because of the economic downturn.

It underlines how the world’s leading mobile manufacturers are seeing almost 15 years of uninterrupted hyper growth come to an end. The only other decline in handset sales was in 2001.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia chief executive, insists that the company is better placed to cope with the downturn than its competitors.

In handset-making, economies of scale are crucial and Nokia has them.

According to Gartner, the research firm, Nokia sold 118m mobiles in the third quarter of 2008 – close to the combined sales of its four nearest rivals: Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG.

Such dominance enables Nokia, for example, to have superior purchasing power with suppliers of components for its mobiles.

Mr Kallasvuo says: “When times are tougher, people who have stronger positions fare relatively better than the competition . . . So, overall, I believe many of our competitors will have limitations here in terms of their ability to do things.”

He also highlights the strength of Nokia’s brand and its solid balance sheet – the company had net cash of €2.9bn ($4bn) at September 30.

Such is Nokia’s confidence in its prospects that it has a target of increasing its market share of mobile sales in 2009, including smartphones – handsets that double as mini computers. Nokia has had a weaker range of smartphones for much of this year because it did not have handsets using touchscreen technology but the company is now addressing the shortcoming.

Nokia’s goal of increasing its market share in 2009 may also be assisted by the trend of consumers “trading down” to cheaper mobiles.

The company’s enduring strength has been in low to mid-priced mobiles and Mr Kallasvuo says: “The fact that we are commercial in all price points will give us the possibility, if the trade down happens, to sell another device, which is not always the case with competitors who have a more limited portfolio.”

Given the downturn, Nokia could well find it hard to persuade consumers to pay extra for the services it is starting to offer on mobiles. These range from digital maps and music to games, and Nokia is predicting they will generate €2bn of revenue for the company by 2011.

Mr Kallasvuo insists Nokia’s relations with the mobile phone operators – its most important customers – have not been damaged by its foray into services. Most of the operators have their own mobile services and therefore Nokia’s foray could jeopardise some of their revenue.

This possibility may partly explain why the big four mobile operators in the UK – O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile – chose not to sell Nokia’s flagship Comes With Music service in their shops following its global launch in Britain in October. Consumers who pay a premium for Nokia mobiles featuring Comes With Music get unlimited access to music by bands from all leading record labels. Mr Kallasvuo says there is “so much consumer interest” in the service.

One person familiar with Nokia’s Comes With Music service in the UK said initial sales had been “OK, but not earth shattering”. The person, who declined to be named, said some consumers were reluctant to pay extra for a mobile with the service – sold through Carphone Warehouse, the mobile phone retailer, and 3, the smaller mobile operator – given how piracy meant they could get the music free on the internet.

Nokia is seeking to consolidate its grip as the leading maker of handsets for emerging markets by launching mobile services relevant to developing countries in Africa and Asia. These include, for example, information for farmers about the market prices for their crops.

Mr Kallasvuo plays down the idea of more large deals to enhance Nokia’s capability in mobile services. Last year, it completed the $8.1bn acquisition of Navteq, the digital maps company, and Mr Kallasvuo says Nokia does not have “any big pieces missing” in its services portfolio.

Nokia may be well-placed to ride out the downturn but Mr Kallasvuo avoids saying whether it can eventually improve its profit margin. In 2007, Nokia said the operating margin at its devices and services business should be 20 per cent in 2009. Last month, following the profit warning, Nokia said the margin would in “the teens” next year.

Mr Kallasvuo will only say: “We will continue to combine market share and margins in the right way in order to maximise the bottom line.”

The App Store is a grand slam, with a staggering 10 million applications downloaded in just three days,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Developers have created some extraordinary applications, and the App Store can wirelessly deliver them to every iPhone and iPod touch user instantly.

Many of these amazing new applications take advantage of iPhone’s large display, Multi-Touch™ user interface, fast hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, built-in accelerometer and location-based technology to bring far more powerful applications to the mobile arena than ever before.

The App Store on iPhone works over cellular networks and Wi-Fi, which means it is accessible from just about anywhere, so users can purchase and download applications wirelessly and start using them instantly. Applications are free or charged to the user’s iTunes® account and the App Store notifies the user when updates are available for their apps. The App Store is also available in iTunes (www.itunes.com) running on a Mac® or PC, which syncs applications to the iPhone or iPod touch using a USB cable.

*Requires downloading software update sold separately for $9.95.

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Press Contacts:

Jennifer Bowcock
Apple
jennifer.b@apple.com
(408) 974-9758

Today introduced the new iPhone™ 3G, combining all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast* as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK. In the US the new iPhone 3G is priced at a stunning $199 for the 8GB model, and just $299 for the 16GB model.** iPhone 3G will be available in more than 70 countries later this year, beginning with customer availability in 22 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—on July 11.

Just one year after launching the iPhone, we’re launching the new iPhone 3G that is twice as fast at half the price, said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “ iPhone 3G supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync right out of the box, runs the incredible third party apps created with the iPhone SDK, and will be available in more than 70 countries around the world this year.”

iPhone 3G gives users ever faster access to the Internet and email over their cellular network with quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA for voice and data connectivity around the world. iPhone 3G supports Wi-Fi, 3G and EDGE networks and automatically switches between them to ensure the fastest possible download speeds. The new iPhone 3G also makes it easier to multi-task with simultaneous voice and data communications, so with iPhone 3G you can browse the web, get map directions, or check your email while you are on a call.

iPhone 3G includes the new iPhone 2.0 software with both the iPhone SDK and key enterprise features such as support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to provide over-the-air push email, contact and calendar syncing as well as remote wipe and Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access to corporate networks. The iPhone SDK allows developers to create amazing applications that leverage the iPhone’s groundbreaking Multi-Touch™ user interface, animation technology, accelerometer and GPS technology on the world’s most advanced mobile platform.

iPhone 3G includes the new App Store, providing iPhone users with native applications in a variety of categories including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. The App Store on iPhone works over cellular networks and Wi-Fi, which means it is accessible from just about anywhere, so you can purchase and download applications wirelessly and start using them instantly. Some applications are even free and the App Store notifies you when application updates are available. The App Store will be available in 62 countries at launch.

Additional features available with the iPhone 2.0 software include the ability to do real-time mapping and track your progress with GPS technology, mass move and delete multiple email messages, search for contacts, access a new scientific calculator, turn on parental control restrictions for specified content, save images directly from a web page or email them to your iPhone and easily transfer them back to your photo library on your Mac® or PC. iPhone 3G delivers an amazing 10 hours of talk time on 2G networks and 5 hours using 3G, with up to 5 to 6 hours of web browsing, up to 7 hours for video playback and up to 24 hours for audio playback.

iPhone 3G takes advantage of MobileMe™, a new Internet service that pushes email, contacts, and calendars from an online “cloud” to native applications on iPhone, iPod® touch, Macs and PCs. With MobileMe email, messages are pushed instantly to iPhone, removing the need to manually check email and wait for downloads, and push keeps contacts and calendars continuously up-to-date so changes made on one device are automatically updated on other devices. With iPhone, you can even snap a photo and post it directly to a MobileMe Gallery to share with friends and family.

iPhone 3G will be available in the US on July 11 for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 8GB model and $299 (US) for the 16GB model in both Apple and AT&T’s retail stores and requires a new two year contract with AT&T for qualifying customers. iPhone 2.0 software will be available on July 11 as a free software update via iTunes® 7.7 or later for all iPhone customers. For further information about iPhone 3G pricing and availability in the US and internationally, visit www.apple.com/iphone.

*Based on 3G and EDGE testing. Actual speeds vary by site conditions.
**Based on iPhone 3G (8GB) and first generation iPhone (8GB) purchases. Requires new two year AT&T rate plan, sold separately.

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Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

World record breaking (x4) event witnessed around the globe as giant zoetrope and football freestyler wow the crowds

BRAVIA-drome: Vital Statistics

• The optimum speed of the BRAVIA-drome is 44kph
• The BRAVIA-drome can reach speeds of over 50kph
• The BRAVIA-drome measures 10m in diameter
• It takes ten men three days to fully assemble the BRAVIA-drome
• The BRAVIA-drome is transported by two 40ft trucks
• It took six weeks for the BRAVIA-drome to be built in full for the first time
• Weighing in at ten tonnes, it is the biggest zoetrope ever built

Motionflow
Motionflow is a technology that eliminates the jerkiness sometimes experienced on standard TV sets. It does this by creating an additional, transitional picture - which it then inserts into fast-moving sequences. By increasing the number of images, a BRAVIA TV can display even the fastest sports scene smoothly and eliminates judder. The transitional images are created by examining the pictures that immediately precede and follow the next image in the sequence. So, for example, Motionflow looks at the flight of a football, to work out how it gets from the footballer’s foot to the goal, and inserts the relevant transitional images.

Differences in Frame Rates
Please note that televisions in certain regions are advertised as featuring 240hz Motionflow, however the picture quality is the same. TVs in Europe use PAL, with a 50hz standard frequency; US TVs use NTSC with a 60hz standard. A four times increase in frequency using Motionflow results in the 200hz for PAL countries and 240hz in NTSC territories.

Sony manufactures audio, video, communications and information technology products for the global consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, game and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be one of the world’s leading digital entertainment brands. Sony recorded consolidated global annual sales of EUR 55.44 billion (yen 8,871 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, based on an average market exchange rate for the same period of yen 160.0 to the EUR. It employs approximately 180,500 people worldwide.