Medical Monday with Summit Medical Group Video Shoot

Livingston, NJ (PRWEB) February 03, 2012

M.INK Productions®- which delivers superior digital content consultation, creation and award winning services in a high tech world – has earned three digital marketing and communication awards in the 2011 AVA Awards competition for its production work with Summit Medical Group.

The award-winning M.INK Productions team has also earned national recognition for its digital content creation from MarCom Awards and Healthcare Advertising Awards.

AVA recognizes outstanding achievement by creative professionals involved in the concept, direction, design and production of media that is part of the evolution of digital communication. Work ranges from audio and video productions to websites and social media sites that present interactive components such as video, animation, blogs, and podcasts – to other forms of user-generated digital communication.

M.INK Productions’ winning entries include:

Platinum – Summit Medical Group Medical Monday, Web Video/Medical External Category

Gold – Summit Medical Group Virtual Tour, Web Video/Company Overview Category

Honorable Mention – Summit Medical Group Live Well Sports & Health Festival, Web Video/Event Category

There were more than 1,700 entries from throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries in the 2011 competition. Entrants included digital professionals from audio, video and film production companies; web developers; advertising agencies; PR firms; corporate and government communication departments; and independent creative professionals such as designers, producers, directors, editors and shooters.

AVA Awards is sponsored and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP). The international organization consists of several thousand production, marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, and free-lance professionals. AMCP administers recognition programs; provides judges and rewards outstanding achievement and service to the profession. As part of its mission, AMCP fosters and supports the efforts of creative professionals who contribute their unique talents to public service and charitable organizations.

Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.

Winners were selected from over 200 categories in Audio, Video, and Web-based production. About 14% of the entries won the Platinum Award, the organization’s top honor. A complete list of Platinum Winners can be found on the AVA Awards website at http://www.avaawards.com.

About M.INK Productions

M.INK Productions® LLC is a content creation organization for the digital age – conceptualizing, writing, producing and creating high quality digital content for the Internet and Television. With creativity and innovation, M.INK Productions helps companies (small, mid-size or large) take a quantum leap forward, or simply keep competitive, by creating Web Originals that supports their brand, educates and engages current customers, attracts new ones, and/or increases revenue. Video is one of the most powerful tools for branding, reaching customers and strengthening social media presence. M.INK Productions helps clients of all sizes meet their video needs for marketing, PR, and social media and more, by consulting, training, providing on-camera and voice-over talent and creating high quality, original content – presenting and communicating their message to sponsors, investors, customers and employees. M.INK Productions is also the creator of successful web original business news show, IFV News, http://www.ifvnews.com. Our sister company StringStream Media creates original music and sound design for M.INK Productions and other companies. For more information, visit minkproductions.tv.

About Summit Medical Group

Summit Medical Group (SMG) is the largest privately held multispecialty medical practice in New Jersey. SMG has pioneered information technology advances in health care with its early adoption of electronic health records and e-prescribing. With more than 270 highly qualified healthcare providers, it is one of the most unique health care models in the state. SMG has an award-winning customer service program and NJBiz magazine has named it one of New Jersey’s “Fifty Fastest Growing Companies”. SMG treats more than 55,000 patients per month at its main campus in Berkeley Heights, as well as its satellites in Berkeley Heights, Morristown, Millburn, Short Hills, Springfield, New Providence, Warren, and Westfield. As one of the East Coast’s premier multispecialty groups, SMG has provided exceptional primary and specialty care since 1929. For more information, summitmedicalgroup.com.

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CompacTag

Tacoma, Washington (PRWEB) December 31, 2011

Ascendent ID, the leader in expanded functionality long range RFID for Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) introduces its longest-life CompacTag for vehicle access control at parking facilities, college campuses, and gated communities.

Utilizing the same small footprint of two inches long by just over an inch wide, Ascendent ID’s newest CompacTag raises the bar for value and performance in a small package with a 6 year expected tag life.

“Our customers have emphasized the need for longer-life tags in a small footprint and we have listened and delivered. Our newest CompacTag has an expected life of over 6 years, which will translate into an even lower cost of ownership over the useful life of the AVI system,” says company President, Doug Crane. “We were able to significantly increase tag life without increasing our trademark small footprint.”

The new CompacTag is compatible with all of Ascendent ID’s readers; which have an adjustable read-range to enable the CompacTag to be read from just a few feet up to 30. As with all of Ascendent ID’s tags, customers can specify the facility code and tag identification numbers at the time of order to simplify tag management.

Ascendent ID’s tags for Automatic Vehicle Identification are mounted on the inside of the windshield using double-sided tape or hook-and-loop fasteners for applications which require a transferrable or removable mount.

Ascendent ID’s long-range AVI systems are compatible with virtually every manufacturer of vehicle access control systems and can be used as a long-range drop-in upgrade for proximity readers and tags. Every Ascendent ID reader ships with both RS232 and Wiegand interfaces standard.

All readers and tags support Ascendent ID’s advanced reader-to-tag protocol for precise control of gate triggering, elimination of false reads, and support of systems incorporating anti-passback. Tags with the optional security feature prevent unauthorized use in the event that the tag is stolen from the vehicle’s windshield.

Ascendent ID’s products provide a hands-free solution for Automatic Vehicle Identification. Drivers focus on driving the vehicle, not holding a card out the window or pressing a keypad. As a result of the small size and the reader’s variable read range, Ascendent ID’s CompacTags are suitable for a variety of applications including weigh scale automation, high security applications requiring reader-to-tag AES encryption, and unattended load tracking. Our battery assisted tags have many of the same benefits of fully active RFID tags, but offer significant advantages in cost, longevity, and more precise control of read distance and direction. Ascendent ID’s readers provide control of multiple lanes or gates, with each lane having its own discrete output to interface to the access control system. For standalone operation, Ascendent ID’s readers can be configured to store a list of authorized tags and provide a gate trigger when a tag in the list is read.

About Ascendent ID:

Ascendent ID is the premier manufacturer of long range RFID used for process automation, yard management, and Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) for parking, security, and tolling applications. Its portfolio of versatile products includes multi-zone RFID readers, long-range RFID tags with rewritable tag ID and memory, and integration software for targeted markets. Ascendent ID’s products are available through installation and integration partners worldwide. For more information about Ascendent ID, please visit http://www.ascendentid.com

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Don Blanton

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 31, 2011

Blanton teamed with Jeff Straus, the President of Countdown Entertainment, and the Executive Producer of Times Square 2012, to create the role of the live event Emcee-Host for the show watched around the world by more than 2 billion people.

Don Blanton is no stranger to show business. He was one of the youngest radio personalities in the country as well as a DJ & pioneer in the disco era.

After spending many years with his mentor, Dick Clark, in Times Square, Blanton realized that there needed to be entertainment as well as a host to inform the loyal crowd as to what was going on during the show. As the story goes, 11 years ago, the NYPD was afraid to have someone on a Public Address system, as the fear was that the crowd would become too excited and break through the barriers. “They did not have the budget for a celebrity host,”Blanton said as he volunteered as the host to prove that his theory was correct.

11 years later he is still at the helm and volunteers and donates his talents free of charge. Don says, “I do it because I truly love it. It is the highlight of my life! I had also wanted to share the spotlight with Dick Clark, and my first big year was the year that Dick became ill. I never got my moment with him, but we are still close friends to this day.” Don and Regis Philbin created a tribute to Dick Clark in Times Square and sent the feed to Dick’s hospital room. Blanton remarked, “I wanted Dick to know how much, we all missed him, as that was the first year he (Dick) had missed in many years.” This year also marks the 40th anniversary of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on ABC.

Blanton remarks, “The first year we were allowed six lines, and the script grew every year, until now, it is 52 pages of dialogue.” Blanton, along with Countdown Entertainment and the Times Square Alliance created many performances in order to create the event you see today. Don remarks, “The people were becoming bored with just the ball drop, and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve only showed the people in Times Square as a backdrop for performances they had taped in June or July.” Today the event boasts live performances, and every network and media outlet covers the the Times Square Celebration around the world.

Don was also responsible for introducing the television hosts, Ryan Seacrest, Anderson Cooper, and Carson Daly to the crowd before their broadcast. Countdown Entertainment and the Times Square Alliance created the wishing wall in the Times Square Information Center where people write their wishes on pieces of confetti, which are dropped at midnight, and became one of the highlights of the Toshiba hourly countdowns.

Don is also the CEO and President of The WOW Factor, Inc., an award-winning production company which manages and creates the content for some of the most famous signs in Times Square. (e.g. Coca-Cola, Toshiba, TDK, Hyundai and Xinhua News)

Blanton and his team at the WOW Factor also produce the official countdown animations and graphics shown underneath the ball at midnight on the Toshiba-Vision screens. These countdown animations have been used in hundreds of shows and documentaries, as well as featured in the newly released Gary Marshall film, “New Year’s Eve.”

In the past, Don created the hourly countdowns with Jeff Straus which were sold to Coca-Cola and for the first time in history, the cameras showed the ball drop and cut to the Coca-Cola sign for the official countdown. He also helped sell some of the past major sponsorships, including General Motors.

Don Blanton is truly a Times Square icon, and was honored at the 100th Anniversary of the “Crossroads of the World” as being 1 of the 100 people who has changed the Times Square landscape and has helped to build Times Square 2012 into a world class event!

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The Executive Office Center at Fresh Meadows, which is decorated with nearly 70 black and white photographic images of historic Queens, obtained from the Queens Historical Society, has launched an online gallery of its photos. The office center, serving Queens and Long Island with virtual office services, and serviced office space, welcomes visitors who are interested in viewing the actual display.

“The photographs dramatically illustrate how life in America has changed over the last 100 years,” said Jack Blumner, Executive Director of the office center. “When we opened last October, we thought it would be interesting to use historic images of Queens to decorate the office building rather than traditional artwork. It’s impossible to walk past some of them. They just stop you in your tracks.”

“Some of the photographs go as far back as the late 1800s, to the time before Queens was even a borough,” said Mr. Blumner. “There is a wonderful photo of the old Queens Court House in Long Island City, taken in 1887.” Others from the same time period include an image of the Flushing Post Office in 1895, and a 1895 image of the Van Siclen farm, the present day site of St. John’s University in Fresh Meadows.

Several photographs depict the turn of the century amusement park in East Elmhurst known as North Beach, which later gave way to the landing fields of LaGuardia Airport (shown in 1939, when it opened).

There are numerous images that show the development of the infrastructure of the borough over the years. There is a picture showing the construction of the Whitestone Bridge (1939), another of the building of the Queensboro Bridge (1915), and a 1908 photo of the construction of the Flushing 7 train line.

Queens was once home to some famous personalities, such as World Heavyweight Champion, James Corbett. A 1903 photo shows Corbett out for a carriage ride with his wife and two pooches, smiling amicably at the camera.

No photographic retrospective of Queens would be complete without photos of the 1964 Worlds Fair in Flushing Meadows Park. That marvelous summer, when the world came to Queens, is recalled in several photos of the Fair.

Few people who live in Queens today will remember that Flushing Meadow Park was also home to the 1939 Worlds Fair. One of the buildings that was built for the 1939 Fair later became the temporary home of the United Nations, from 1946 to 1951. A photo on display in the Executive Office Center conference room shows the historic vote by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947 to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish.

About the Executive Office Center at Fresh Meadows:

The Executive Office Center at Fresh Meadows is the premiere provider of furnished full-serve office space and virtual offices in Queens, NY. Day suites and meeting rooms are available at hourly, daily and weekly rates. High quality video conferencing services are also available at the center.

For further information about the office center, contact Associate Director, Mary Abrams, at 718-475-2121. The office building is accessible by the Q17 bus, which stops nearby at the intersection of Horace Harding and 188th Street, and by the Q30 and Q31 buses, which stop at Utopia Parkway and 64th Avenue.

Copia Interactive, LLC, creator of one of the largest, independent, full-­‐featured    digital content platforms, announced today the    general availability of its Copia platform at http://www.thecopia.com.

Copia is a single software platform that unites content, community, collaboration, and    commerce to    deliver digital    content across    an array    of devices. It is the only    platform designed to provide a single portal to all of a users’ digital    content and social activity,    creating a unified experience unrivaled in the market. In addition to Tier-­‐1    content    availability, Copia users enjoy a richer, deeper engagement with content and community,    driving greater consumption — and greater revenues for Copia and its partners. Copia’s “Powered    by Copia” white-­‐label    solutions bring the advantages of its platform to Copia’s partners in the media, hardware, telecom and other related industries.

“Copia gives users the best of what the social    media and digital content worlds have to offer”, states Ben Lowinger, EVP of Copia Interactive.    “Copia’s main goal is to make content consumption more social”, he adds.

A Single Portal to Digital Content and Social Activity

Copia is the first platform to    seamlessly merge social media and    digital    content, with features such as a digital    bookstore with a vast content catalog, note-­‐taking    and sharing, group chat, online book clubs, library comparison, activity    feeds, unique self-­‐publishing tools, user recommendations, a proprietary community value system, and more. Copia    users enjoy a    singular, wholly shareable on-­‐line    experience — all    their media,    all    their friends,    all    in one    application.

Copia is a self-­‐contained social network that links to existing Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts as well, so users can easily    share content across major social networks and connect with others    with similar tastes    and interests.

Copia has a substantial content catalog, currently featuring over 9.2 million electronic and    physical books and    9 million    songs, as well as over 15,000 digital textbooks from leading educational publishers. But Copia is about more than    just books: it has been    developed    to    aggregate content from a multiplicity of sources — magazines,    newspapers,    music,    games, movies, and more    — into a seamless user experience.

Copia is a hardware-­‐neutral    platform: multiple devices offer the same content experience, and    users can    choose their    own    hardware. Users can    access content on    all their devices, and    Copia keeps everything up    to    date through    the    cloud. Copia is available now on    a multiplicity of devices, including desktop    readers, iPad, Windows 7 touch, Android    tablets, and the    Blackberry Playbook.

About Copia

Copia (http://www.thecopia.com)    unites content, community, collaboration, and commerce    in a    single    software    platform to    deliver multi-­‐genre digital media across an    array of computing, mobile, personal entertainment, and    eReading devices.    With Copia,    users engage more deeply with content and community through an innovative,    rich, and unified interface    — all their media, all their friends, all in one    application. Copia also    provides highly customized, co-­‐branded,    white-­‐label    solutions    through its    “Powered by Copia” program.

The Copia    platform is developed by Copia Interactive,    LLC — a portfolio company of DMC Capital    Funding,    LLC    (http://www.dmccapitalfunding.com), the venture capital arm of    the DMC group of    companies.    The DMC group comprises top    enterprise and    consumer technology companies with    a heritage that spans more than    50 years’ investing in, developing,    manufacturing, and distributing market-­‐leading    consumer-­‐electronics    products.

]]> http://www.anamartins.com/copia-redefines-the-online-content-and-social-experience.html/feed 1 http://www.anamartins.com/alarmwatch-inc-takes-security-technical-sales-training-workshops-on-the-road.html http://www.anamartins.com/alarmwatch-inc-takes-security-technical-sales-training-workshops-on-the-road.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:02:20 +0000 sahabatnet http://www.anamartins.com/alarmwatch-inc-takes-security-technical-sales-training-workshops-on-the-road.html AlarmWATCH, Inc., a Maryland-based security business partner and one of the largest UL-certified central monitoring stations serving independent alarm dealers nationwide, will take its custom ‘AlarmWATCH University’ (AWU) workshops on the road in 2012 to give more security dealers new competitive advantages.

As the last days of 2011 wind to a close, U.S. security dealers are gearing up for another year of challenges to protect their business and residential clients from emergent threats such as fire, burglary, computer hacking and personal identity theft. AlarmWATCH, Inc., best known for its ‘out-of-the box’ and innovative security offerings and best business practices, will expand its sales and technical trainings to dealers in Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and other states.

“Our industry changes rapidly and so do the needs of our dealers and end users,” said Guy Kline, V.P. of Sales and Marketing for AlarmWATCH, Inc. “These workshops deliver a one-two punch for many types of security companies and vertical industries who want to diversify their offerings. For the past few years, mid-Atlantic dealers saw a great benefit from our trainings and expert industry advisors to increase their monthly recurring revenue (RMR) and up sell their products and services. They told other dealers about the programs, who in turn asked us to expand on them. These once “exclusive” technical and sales trainings were only available through the AWU, adjacent to our facility. Now, we’ll expand them to dealers in other states who want the same competitive advantages.”

Nearly one thousand security dealers in the U.S. rely on AlarmWATCH, Inc. for its state-of-the art monitoring facility, responsive customer care team and uniquely different sales and operational strategies.

Through trainings at the AWU, new and seasoned security owners and their sales and technical teams keep abreast of the latest sales techniques, the most recent remote web access, video surveillance and VOIP solutions and best business practices to effectively run their operations. Courses include new product trainings, by invited distributors and manufacturers, as well as presentations from industry consultants who specialize in security sales, business management and key practices necessary to dealers’ success in today’s market. Dealers will benefit from a comprehensive array of business and marketing services available through AlarmWATCH, Inc. They can also attend fun networking events and competitions designed to spar new business growth, including the annual Protect-a-Thon football challenge, which will expand in the coming year.

In January 2012, AlarmWATCH kicks off their road show with a triple header full-day training in Hunt Valley, Maryland to help dealers improve their bottom line. Morning sessions feature Marc Gilbert, a security business expert in financial management and RMR services, who will discuss ‘How Healthy is Your Business?’ “Marc takes security business owners through a sequence of steps to place value, track and manage their assets and consider how to leverage and maximize their businesses for the day they will retire,” said Kline. Over lunch, Brian Villari, a security industry insurer, will educate dealers on a variety of insurance options, relevant to their business. The afternoon session features Donna Morreale, a leading security industry expert who mentors dealers through AlarmWATCH’s new Intensive Care Sales Training Program. “Morreale’s prescription for success for sales specialists, sales managers and business owners guarantees new sales,” said Kline. “This session is packed with information and techniques that dealers can use immediately.”

In February, 2012, AWU takes its team to Virginia Beach to introduce new dealers to technical information on DSC’s Impassa…the next generation of self-contained security systems and new solutions for cellular and Internet-based communications.

Independent security dealers and those in vertical markets who want to diversify their products and services can contact Guy Kline at 866-500-8808 or via email at guykline(at)alarmwatchinc(dot)com to learn more about all of its AWU courses and business solutions. Alarm dealers are encouraged to sign up to receive the 2012 schedule of AlarmWATCH workshop trainings through e-news alerts at [http://www.alarmwatchinc.com/signup.

About AlarmWATCH, Inc.

AlarmWATCH, Inc. (http://www.alarmwatchinc.com) is a full service UL-Certified Central Monitoring Station, capable of handling all alarm formats to protect commercial and residential properties from crime and emergent threats. Founded in 1990, the company has developed a solid reputation for its fast response time, distinctive offerings of innovative security products and top-notch dealer support services for the security monitoring industry. With state-of-the-art software and hardware programs and an individualized approach to customer care, AlarmWATCH dealers can ensure optimal security monitoring performance and offer a comprehensive range of security protection products and services unique to each client’s preferences and needs.

“With the Technical Conference 2012, we are offering a unique benefit to our members, says François Fernandès, acting head of the PDF Association’s Technical Working Group. “They have the opportunity to bring their development teams up to date on PDF standards over two intensive, cost-effective days.”

The conference will cover a range of themes, from processing incoming documents (scanning and OCR), to printing transparencies, device control using PDF/VT job tickets, embedded PDF/A files and signatures, and validation of existing PDF documents. Participants will have two presentations running in parallel to choose from at any time, allowing them to choose the most effective session for their needs.

Immediately after the welcome, the seven different PDF standards will be introduced in a “crash course” style overview: 7 Minutes with a PDF Standard by experts in each area. Additional presentations will provide opportunities for learning more about individual PDF standards.

Sessions will cover such topics as color data, scanned PDFs and OCR, and even fonts in the context of the standards. The conclusion of the event will take a look at the prospects for PDF 3.0, as three visionaries each present possible scenarios.

Our line up of expert speakers ensures participants receive thorough training and answers to all their questions. There will be plenty of time across both days of the event for intensive exchanges of ideas.

View the full agenda and register now at http://www.pdfa.org. Registration is 100 Euro for each member attending and 2,000 Euro for each non-member.

Web conferencing will be set up for PDF Association members who are unable to attend in person. Further information will be available soon.

About the PDF Association

Formerly known as the PDF/A Competence Center, the PDF Association is an international organization promoting awareness and adoption of open standards in digital document applications using PDF technology.

The association facilitates communication, connections and the sharing of expertise and experience with interested parties worldwide. The current membership includes over 100 enterprises and numerous individual subject-matter experts from more than 20 countries.

The management board includes industry leaders from callas software GmbH, Compart AG, Crawford Technologies Inc., intarsys consulting GmbH, LuraTech Europe GmbH and NetCentric US. The association’s chairman is Olaf Drümmer, CEO of callas software GmbH. Duff Johnson, President of NetCentric US is the deputy chairman.

Anthony von Mandl is the first Canadian business leader to receive this award which has been bestowed on some of the most influential leaders in the world. Past winners include Mikhail Gorbachev, Benazir Bhutto and Howard Schultz, among others.

The award’s namesake, Warren Bennis is a pioneer in the field of Leadership Studies and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. Today, in his early 80’s, Bennis continues to serve as a highly-respected organizational consultant and personal coach for some of the world’s most influential business leaders, including Jack Welch and Howard Schultz.

Each year, GILD presents the Warren Bennis Award for Leadership Excellence to two leaders who exemplify the traits of Linkage’s High Impact Leadership Model. Sharing the spotlight with von Mandl is this year’s other recipient, A.G. Lafley, former Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of Proctor & Gamble.

In his acceptance of the award, Anthony von Mandl delivered a 90-minute address to the audience of more than 500 business leaders from global organizations such as BMW, Boeing, Deloitte, Dow Chemical, Kraft Food, Microsoft, Nike, Nokia and Pfizer. He spoke to his humble origins as an independent wine merchant and his unwavering commitment to his vision: To build one of the world’s 10 most recognized wineries in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada. This commitment to his vision enabled him to overcome obstacles by innovation in order to self-finance his dream by creating a portfolio of distinctive brands and quality products including mike’s hard lemonade® which has achieved iconic brand status. He also shared several key learnings that have enabled his Company to evolve into a leader in the alcohol beverage industry and continue to underpin his personal leadership philosophy that guides his businesses today. The inspirational talk earned von Mandl a standing ovation in recognition of his professional accomplishments and an illustrious career spanning almost 40 years.

“To call this recognition an honour is an understatement,” says von Mandl. “It represents a profound personal and professional achievement for everything our Company has accomplished. I proudly share this prestigious accolade with each and every team member at the Mark Anthony Group.”

A former Canadian YPO Chairman and International Board Member, von Mandl has served on the Advisory Boards of the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and the Sauder Schools of Business at the University of British Columbia. In 2005, he was awarded British Columbia’s highest distinction, the Order of British Columbia and in 2006 was inducted into the British Columbia Restaurateurs Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was presented with the Okanagan Wine Festival Society’s Founders Award for his leadership and unwavering support of the Okanagan Valley.

About The Mark Anthony Group of Companies

The Mark Anthony Group is the major Canadian owned company in the beverage alcohol business. It is a diversified, private business founded by company CEO Anthony von Mandl, and has been built from the ground through innovation not through acquisitions. In addition to being a leading importer of fine wine and beer across Canada, Mark Anthony is number one in the Ready-to-Drink category in North America, having founded the Premium Adult Beverage category in the USA and the spirit cooler category in Canada with the introduction of Mike’s Hard Lemonade. Mike’s Hard Lemonade®, an iconic brand which in 2010 earned the distinction of being named the ‘Company of the Year’ at The Beverage Forum, the annual global beverage industry conference. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding performance in the beverage industry for companies under $ 1 billion in revenue. Stanley Park Brewery, Canada’s first sustainable and technically most advance brewery producing unique Belgium style beers is a member of the Mark Anthony Group, who are also an exclusive distributor for SAB International Brands in Canada, including Grolsch, Peroni and Pilsner Urquell. Mark Anthony’s Fine Wine Division imports prestigious leading international wines from houses that include Antinori and Louis Latour and distributors of Mission Hill Family Estate winery in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Mission Hill is an internationally renowned landmark winery which has been called “the gold standard of wineries” by Condé Nast Traveler and in 2011 won the ‘Canadian Wine Producer of the Year’ award at the International Wine and Spirit Competition in London, United Kingdom. http://www.missionhillwinery.com

About Linkage

Linkage works with leaders and leadership teams worldwide to build organizations that produce superior results. For over 25 years, we have delivered on this promise by strategically aligning leadership, talent, and culture within organizations globally. We do this by providing strategic consulting on leadership development and talent management topics and through our learning institutes, skill-building workshops, tailored assessment services, and executive coaching. Linkage’s Global Institute for Leadership Development (GILD) is a unique experience for leaders and leadership teams that provides transformational growth in areas proven to differentiate superior leaders from average leaders. The core of the experience is a five-day immersion program that integrates the best learning methods employed by university executive education programs, leadership academies, and large-scale, global conferences to deliver accelerated growth.

SUNTEC CITY: THE FIRST MALL IN ASIA TO PROVIDE FOR PAYING BILLS VIA HANDPHONE

TelePay, developed by mobile payments facilitator Systems@Work, allows shoppers to pay for goods and services securely and conveniently

Singapore, 18th April 2002 – Mobile payments facilitator Systems@Work today launched TelePay at Singapore’s largest shopping mall, Suntec City. TelePay is a unique mobile payment system that allows shoppers to pay for their purchases easily, securely and conveniently, with just their personal mobile phones.

TelePay is the result of the efforts of a consortium formed by Systems@Work, Gemplus Technologies, Mobile e-Services Bazaar of Hewlett-Packard (HP), VISA International and Suntec City. The consortium was presented the Award of Mobile Payment Solutions from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) under the Call for Collaboration Initiative of its Wired With Wireless Programme in October 2001. Led by Systems@Work, the consortium’s objective is to provide Singapore with a proven, robust, and easy-to-use mobile payments infrastructure for consumers, businesses and the government.

Said Mr Ng Fook Sun, CEO, Systems@Work, “Systems@Work is committed to help shape and create a mobile lifestyle. Together with our consortium partners, we are able to synergise best-of-breed solutions into a payment infrastructure that is robust and easy to use. This is an important step for the consortium towards providing a nation-wide mobile payments system for Singapore. This project also underscores the unique competitive offering of TeleMoney as a solution applicable to not just the Internet but also the wireless channels.”

Using TelePay, shoppers no longer need to present card or cash at point of purchase. All they need is their personal mobile phone that acts as an authentication and authorisation device. TelePay is simple, convenient and secure to use. It links a person’s mobile phone to his or her preferred payment method such as credit card, debit card, direct debit to bank account and subsequently stored value.

TelePay is designed to be a cost-efficient payment infrastructure for retailers, while providing greater convenience to their customers. It is estimated that retailers can save an estimated 60% of total annual terminal infrastructure costs. In addition to direct savings in infrastructure costs, both the retailers and customers now have an added convenience of accessing their transaction records online.

The system is easy to implement at low costs and causes minimal disruption to operations as participating merchants need only register with System@Work for a merchant account. Devices supporting multiple payment methods, such as the HP Jornada PDA or the merchant’s PC-based Point of Sales (POS) are linked to manage TelePay transactions. The HP Jornada’s wireless capability makes it portable and enables payment settlement to be conducted anywhere inside or outside the shop. This brings added convenience to customers as well as merchants. With the friendly user interface, staff are able to learn how to operate TelePay easily.

“TelePay is a mobile e-service that will enable consumers and businesses to derive new value from the Internet and represents a significant step towards making the vision of a wireless future a reality for all,” said Kelvin Tan, Director, Mobile E-Services Bazaar, Asia Pacific, Hewlett-Packard. “HP is committed to extending its infrastructure capabilities, information appliance leadership and mobile e-services expertise to help partners like Systems@Work in incubating and promoting innovative wireless applications for Singapore and the Asia Pacific region.”

The system has been under intensive technical trials for the past three months. Today marks the start of the first phase, where the consortium is working closely with about 50 merchants in Suntec City. The next few months will see the consortium embarking on a whole series of marketing and promotional activities targeted to encourage consumer sign up and usage. The consortium feels that Suntec City is the ideal venue due to its huge size, wide merchant mix, and its management pro-technology approach.

Said Suntec City’s CEO, Mr Wong Ah Long, “We are very pleased to work with our partners in providing TelePay. Suntec has over two million visitors every month. We are always happy to introduce solutions, technology-based or otherwise, that add value either to our tenants, or to their customers. We believe TelePay will be one such solution.”

Suntec and Systems@Work also kickstarted the next phase of their partnership by signing an MOU to develop a non-queue wireless parking payments service for the complex’s huge car park. Called TeleParking, the service enables visitors to Suntec City to pay for their parking fees via their mobile phones and possibly other mobile devices from anywhere within Suntec City. This service saves time and the hassle of having to look for and queue at Autopay Parking Systems. The service is expected to launched within the next 6 months.

Besides TelePay, customers can use the same TeleMoney number and PIN to make payments via other applications supported by TeleMoney over multiple channels including Internet, mobile and proximity (over-the-counter), such as TeleCab in CityCab taxis, online ordering for photo prints via FujiFilm’s Print@Fujicolor or online payment of donations to the Rotary Club. For the complete list of shopping experiences accepting the TeleMoney Mobile Payments Solution, please log into http://www.telemoneyworld.com.

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For further information, contact:

Systems@Work Pte Ltd:

Ms. Stacy Ang

The Right Spin Public Relations

T: +65 6774 9511    F: +65 6778 8638

Mobile: +65 9742 7942

E-mail: stacy@therightspin.com.sg

Mr Wee Tee Jin

The Right Spin Public Relations

T: +65 6774 9510 F: +65 6778 8638

Mobile: +65 9746 2199

E-mail: teejin@therightspin.com.sg

Suntec City:

Lee Teck Heok

Tel: +65 6825 2836    F: +65 6294 0880

E-mail: leejunior@sunteccity.com.sg ¤

Annex 1

About Systems@Work Consortium

A consortium of five partners led by Systems@Work was presented with the Award of mobile payments solutions from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore under its Wired With Wireless Call for Collaboration program in October 2001, to deploy a nation-wide mobile payments system (MPS) for Singapore.

This consortium comprising Systems@Work, Gemplus, Mobile e-Services Bazaar of Hewlett Packard, Suntec City and Visa International (jointly known as the Systems@Work Consortium) provide unique combined capabilities to ensure that Singapore will have a proven, robust and easy to use mobile payments infrastructure service for consumers, businesses and the government.

About Suntec City

Suntec City is Singapore’s largest integrated office, retail and exhibition complex, totaling some 7 million sq feet. Owned collectively by 11 of the richest Hong Kong tycoons, Suntec is designed to synergistically meet the needs of the business community. The civic heart of Suntec is the Fountain of Wealth, the largest fountain in the world.

Some 15,000 people in over 700 companies operate from Suntec’s five high-tech office towers, comprising mainly finance, technology, and professional services – Asia’s Vertical Silicon Valley. In addition, some two million people visit Suntec every month. The exhibition centre is the preferred venue for events large and small. With over 250 shops in the shopping mall, its own cineplex, church, health centre, and landscaped gardens, Suntec is a self-contained city within the city.

For further information, please visit http://www.sunteccity.com.sg, or call (65) 6295 2888.

About Systems@Work

Systems@Work is a secure, end-to-end mobile electronic payment technology company with its headquarters in Singapore. Its patented TeleMoney technology enables a mobile phone to be used as the device to make convenient and secure payments. TeleMoney’s users can transact via multiple Internet and wireless access channels such as the Interactive Voice Response, the Wireless Application Protocol and the Short Message Service, and select to pay from multiple payment methods such as credit cards, debit cards, prepaid cards, charges to phone bills and direct debit.

Systems@Work builds and operates secure payment and billing gateways for financial institutions and corporate clients as an ASP. The services are called TeleMoney ShopperAssure and TeleMoney BusinessAssure for B2C and B2B marketplaces respectively. Systems@Work also provides consultancy, builds, operates or licenses the TeleMoney technology to companies with large customer bases that would like to have their own private secure mobile payment services.

Gemplus is the world’s number one provider of solutions empowered by Smart Card (Gartner Dataquest 2001). Gemplus helps its clients offer an exceptional range of portable, personalized solutions that bring security and convenience to people’s lives. These include mobile internet access, inter-operable banking facilities, e-commerce and a wealth of other applications. Gemplus will be the partner that oversees the end-to-end security requirements for the new mobile payment service.HP collaborated with its Bazaar member, Systems@Work, to deploy the infrastructure solutions to power the application. TeleMoney will be ported over to HP’s Internet Operating Environment (HP development software and tools which comprises XML-based middleware products, wireless application and distributed transactions technologies). Together with the HP Bluestone Total-e-Server, an application server and HP Jornadas utilized as the merchant device, HP delivers comprehensive support to the multi-mode payment solution.

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