http://www.realwire.com/ Most recent 15 articles distributed by RealWire en-gb Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss News enquiries@realwire.com (RealWire) Copyright (c) 2013 Realwire limited 60 http://www.realwire.com/images/realwireRSS.png http://www.realwire.com/ http://www.realwire.com/releases/Top-tips-on-how-to-piggyback-a-news-story If you want to create a media storm, read on. From piggybacking on news stories to creating online sensations, PRmoment shares some PR-insider secrets this week.Piggybacking on the news: Surfing the wave of a news story to generate publicity is a tricky balancing act. We ask newsjacking experts the secrets of using latest news to build a brand’s reputation. Good and Bad PR: When Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement, sharp-acting PROs went into overdrive... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Top-tips-on-how-to-piggyback-a-news-story http://www.realwire.com/releases/Birdstep-Technology-Appoints-Former-Cisco-Executive-Massimo-Migliuolo-To-The-Board (Oslo, 21 May 2013) Birdstep Technology has announced the election of Massimo Migliuolo to Birdstep's Board of Directors.Migliuolo brings more than 20 years of experience of strategic business development, architecture sales and go-to-market strategy, especially in the mobile and cloud industry. He lives and works in Europe and he is an experienced global business leader with a proven track record in building digit growth businesses in innovative markets. Migliuolo is currently an entrepreneur in the... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 16:11:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Birdstep-Technology-Appoints-Former-Cisco-Executive-Massimo-Migliuolo-To-The-Board http://www.realwire.com/releases/Actian-ParAccel-Offers-Streamlined-SQL-Access-to-Hadoop-Data Hortonworks Alliance and Support for HCatalog Power Advanced Analytics on Hadoop DataRedwood City, Calif 21 May, 2013 – Organisations are encountering significant challenges running advanced analytics on big data stored in Apache Hadoop. To address this need, Actian today announced general availability of its Hadoop On Demand Integration module v2.0 for ParAccel, including support for HCatalog, the centralised metadata repository supported in several distributions of Hadoop, notably Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP).ParAccel’s enhanced On Demand Integration... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 15:20:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Actian-ParAccel-Offers-Streamlined-SQL-Access-to-Hadoop-Data http://www.realwire.com/releases/LTE-World-Summit-Announces-Shortlist-for-LTE-Awards London, 21 May 2013 – Submissions for the Telecoms.com LTE Awards have reached record numbers again this year as the organisers of LTE World Summit, which provides the backdrop for the awards, today announced those companies on the shortlist. This comes as the industry evolves and LTE continues to become the mainstream global technology for 4G networks.Mike Hibberd, Editorial Director at Telecoms.com, says: “The move to LTE represents one of the most important shifts in... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 15:14:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/LTE-World-Summit-Announces-Shortlist-for-LTE-Awards http://www.realwire.com/releases/Global-Visions-Text-Comparison-Software-Docu-Proof-Recognized-by-the-EMA-for-Regulatory-Submissions With Docu-Proof, annual update and change notification fees reduced by 50%Montreal, CANADA, May 21, 2013 – Global Vision, the industry leader in the development of automated proofreading solutions, today announced that Docu-Proof has met compliance requirements as a text comparison software solution by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for pharmaceutical companies using parallel distribution methods of medicinal products.For pharmaceutical companies, deployment of Docu-Proof would result in cost savings of 290 euros per submission versus performing... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 14:42:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Global-Visions-Text-Comparison-Software-Docu-Proof-Recognized-by-the-EMA-for-Regulatory-Submissions http://www.realwire.com/releases/Macro-4s-mainframe-performance-and-fault-analysis-solutions-will-support-IBM-COBOL-51-at-launch- Global software and solutions company Macro 4 has today announced that its mainframe performance and fault analysis solutions will support the new IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V5.1 when it is launched in June. “Over the 45 years Macro 4 has been delivering performance and fault analysis solutions for mainframe users we have always worked closely with IBM to ensure we support new releases of COBOL from day one, and the same is true for... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Macro-4s-mainframe-performance-and-fault-analysis-solutions-will-support-IBM-COBOL-51-at-launch- http://www.realwire.com/releases/Vesta-Introduces-New-Mobile-Wallet-for-Prepaid-Operators-featuring-Integrated-Suite-of-Financial-Services Vesta PayMobile™ wallet expands mobile payment platform to include money transfer, international top-up and bill payment.  Dundalk, Ireland — May 21, 2013 — Vesta Corporation, a leader in mobile payment solutions, announces the availability of the Vesta PayMobile™ wallet, a smartphone application that enables mobile operators to offer core financial services to their prepaid customers. Powered by partnerships with leading consumer brands Xoom, PreCash and Prepaid.com, the app builds on Vesta’s core account reload platform to... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Vesta-Introduces-New-Mobile-Wallet-for-Prepaid-Operators-featuring-Integrated-Suite-of-Financial-Services http://www.realwire.com/releases/Halcrow-uses-RISK-from-Palisade-to-determine-level-of-flood-resilience-required-for-UK-water-assets Halcrow (www.halcrow.com), a CH2M HILL company, uses risk analysis software from Palisade as a key element in its programme to mitigate the consequences of severe flooding in the UK.  @RISK is used to quantify the uncertainties in Halcrow’s process that determines the risk faced by critical assets such as water treatment works and pumping stations and weighs it up against the cost of appropriate preventative measures.Halcrow first identifies the likelihood that a site will be... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 11:01:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Halcrow-uses-RISK-from-Palisade-to-determine-level-of-flood-resilience-required-for-UK-water-assets http://www.realwire.com/releases/Easynet-scores-industry-first-with-EtherStream-V Easynet is first to market as it launches new bonded fibre access product London, 21 May 2013 – Easynet scores an industry-first today with the release of EtherStream V, which bonds ‘fibre to the cabinet’ (FTTC) to give businesses bandwidth of up to 160Mbps. Download speeds of up to 320Mbps will be available within a few months. With a history of pioneering technology in the UK, Easynet was the first to begin Local Loop Unbundling,... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 10:43:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Easynet-scores-industry-first-with-EtherStream-V http://www.realwire.com/releases/Backdrop-of-Economic-Pessimism-Forces-UK-Consumers-to-Re-Think-Loyalty-to-Brands Epsilon Survey Finds Rewards Programmes Low-Driver in Battle to Win-over British Consumers  London, UK (21 May, 2013) – Epsilon, the global leader in delivering direct-to-consumer connections that drive business performance, today announced the UK results of the 2013 Consumer Loyalty Study in the report, Invest in Your Customers, and the UK Could be The Jewel in Your Retail Crown. The study revealed that only about a fifth of Britons (22%) feel strongly about their own... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 10:34:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Backdrop-of-Economic-Pessimism-Forces-UK-Consumers-to-Re-Think-Loyalty-to-Brands http://www.realwire.com/releases/Have-you-tried-our-PR-Salary-Checker Are you on the right salary for your PR experience? Are you relocating and need to know the average salary for that region? Or maybe you need affirmation that your PR job’s current salary falls under the UK national average.PRmoment’s Salary Checker can help. We've done the research for you, working with ICM Research in partnership with Prospect Resourcing. To get our results, we carried out a self-completion online survey amongst our database of UK... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 10:28:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Have-you-tried-our-PR-Salary-Checker http://www.realwire.com/releases/Hitchcock-Brings-New-Personality-to-IVR-with-SpeechStorm-Personas Aligning voice and tone to customer needs makes call centre interaction easier and friendlierBelfast, 21 May, 2013 – Leader in phone and mobile customer service, SpeechStorm, today announces the general availability of the latest release of its Interactive Voice Response (IVR) application, code-named ‘Hitchcock’.  The main feature of the new version is the introduction of SpeechStorm Personas, which enables customers to have different experiences of call centre IVR and self-service, depending on their profile, behaviour, or... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 10:06:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Hitchcock-Brings-New-Personality-to-IVR-with-SpeechStorm-Personas http://www.realwire.com/releases/Telefonica-Named-A-Global-Leader-in-M2M 2013 benchmarks by Analysys Mason and Machina Research  both place Telefónica as a global leader in the provision of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications servicesMay 21 2013 - Telefónica Digital has been highlighted as a global leader in M2M Communication Service Provision (CSP) by two separate analyst houses. Analysys Mason, in their 2013 M2M Scorecard, placed Telefónica in the ‘Industry Icons’ category. While in their annual benchmarking study, Machina Research noted that ‘Telefónica is the company that... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Telefonica-Named-A-Global-Leader-in-M2M http://www.realwire.com/releases/HGST-Launches-The-Highest-Capacity-Hard-Drive-For-The-Mainstream-Mobile-Market With the Highest Storage Density of Any Hard Drive Today, HGST Delivers 1.5TB Capacity in a Standard 2.5-inch 9.5mm Form Factor, Targeting Notebooks, External Hard Drives, Gaming Consoles and All-in-one Desktop PCs  LONDON, 21 May 2013 – HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC) continues to push technology innovation by offering the highest storage density (MB/mm3) of any hard disk drive (HDD) today. The new Travelstar® 5K1500 is... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 09:02:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/HGST-Launches-The-Highest-Capacity-Hard-Drive-For-The-Mainstream-Mobile-Market http://www.realwire.com/releases/Dunross-Co-Selects-HiSoftware-for-SharePoint-Security Investment Company Chooses HiSoftware Security Sheriff SP to Classify, Restrict, Encrypt and Track DocumentsNashua, NH, USA and Gothenburg, Sweden – May 21, 2013 – HiSoftware, a leading provider of compliance and security solutions for SharePoint, today announced that Swedish-based Dunross & Co, an independent international investment company, has selected HiSoftware Security Sheriff™ SP to secure content in its SharePoint 2013 environment. Following a review of SharePoint security products in the market, HiSoftware was able to... Source: RealWire Tue, 21 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100 http://www.realwire.com/releases/Dunross-Co-Selects-HiSoftware-for-SharePoint-Security