ST-Ericsson enables much greater choice in smartphone market

Manufacturers can use new family of platforms to quickly expand their smartphone portfolio

ST-Ericsson, a global leader in mobile platforms and semiconductors, has expanded its smartphone portfolio to enable device manufacturers to quickly develop handsets with open operating systems and high-end multimedia features at a range of different price points.

ST-Ericsson's new family of platforms will move the smartphone market forward by enabling consumers to choose a device that both suits their budget and provides the right combination of multimedia capabilities for them. The new platforms support open operating systems, such as Symbian and Linux, a rich web experience, a wide range of immersive applications and high-definition video. They also use ST-Ericsson's new power-efficient dual-core architecture to ensure that manufacturers can create powerful advanced smartphones with long battery lives.

Based on the existing U8500 solution, the extended smartphone portfolio allows handset manufacturers to reuse software across both high-end and mainstream smartphones, significantly speeding up the development cycle and reducing their R&D costs. ST-Ericsson will also add TD capabilities to the new portfolio so that handset makers can quickly develop smartphones for China's rapidly growing TD-SCDMA mobile standard.

'We are on the cusp of a new era in the smartphone market in which consumers across the world will be able to find a model that exactly meets their price and features criteria,' said Marc Cetto, Senior Vice President and head of 3G and Multimedia division at ST-Ericsson. 'This new range of platforms will make it cost-effective for handset makers to dramatically expand their smartphone portfolio.

Today, ST-Ericsson unveiled the U5500 - the second member of the extended smartphone family after the U8500. With a dual-core application processor, an HSPA+ broadband modem, support for high-definition 720p video, up to 12 Mpixel cameras, 80 hours of music play time, up to 10 hours of talktime, 35 days of standby and enhanced 3D, the U5500 will enable handset makers to bring next-generation smartphone technologies to the mainstream market. The U5500 will be sampling in the third quarter of 2010.

About ST-Ericsson
ST-Ericsson is a world leader in developing and delivering a complete portfolio of innovative mobile platforms and cutting-edge wireless semiconductor solutions across the broad spectrum of mobile technologies. The company is a leading supplier to the top handset manufacturers and ST-Ericsson's products and technologies enable more than half of all phones in use today. The company generated pro-forma sales of about USD 2.7 billion in 2009. ST-Ericsson was established as a 50/50 joint venture by STMicroelectronics and Ericsson in February 2009, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Deploy Google Apps with Migration Tools and Services by SADA Systems, Inc.

For Immediate Release

January, 2010 - North Hollywood, CA: SADA Systems, Inc., a leading Google Apps Enterprise partner, has been a key partner in providing migration tools and services for businesses making the switch to Google Apps since 2007. SADA used their experience migrating Google Apps to develop a set of tools and services that facilitate the migration process. Migration tools created by SADA are platform agnostic and may be used with leading email, calendar, and contact management solutions including Groupwise, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, and any other email platform with access to source data.

Novell Groupwise©
SADA provides custom migration services for mail, calendar, and contacts in Groupwise. SADA works closely with Groupwise clients to ensure a smooth migration. Groupwise migration services and tools from SADA include:

1) SADA works with the client to plan and execute email migration using IMAP.
2) SADA implements a custom tool to migrate personal contacts and calendar events.
3) By making use of OAuth (Open Authorization), SADA can complete the migration of user accounts and data without ever needing access to their passwords.

IBM Lotus Notes© and Domino©
SADA provideams a migration service for Lotus Notes that makes use of migration tools created specifically for this purpose by Google. SADA works closely with their Lotus Notes migration clients to plan the process of data migration. Our process ensures:

1) Superb data fidelity including all past present and scheduled calendar entries.
2) Rapid completion of the migration process.
3) Clients have the option to manually provision users, or let provisioning run automatically.

Microsoft Exchange©
Google and SADA provide tools and services that make the switch from Exchange to Google Apps nearly seamless for users. Our tools include:

1) Email migration tools and services for the enterprise
2) Migration of a client's Global Address List (GAL) using a custom tool created by SADA, and Google's own migration tools.
3) Personal contact and calendar migration through a custom solution that crawls user mailboxes and parses the information before posting the Exchange data it has gathered to Google.

Custom E-mail Migrations
SADA has developed custom server side migration tools for email platforms that are supported under Unix / Linux based environments such as AtMail, IceWarp Merak Mail Server, and Sun Java System Messaging Server/iPlanet, and others. As long as we are able to read the source data via file system access or IMAP our tools quickly and efficiently migrate data to Google Apps.

1)SADA works with the client to plan and execute email migration utilizing custom server side migration tools.

For more information, visit http://www.sadasystems.com.

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Epson Technology Supports Printing Applications for iPhone and Android Phones

Open-source library allows for simple development of universal driver for Epson printers

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Epson Corporation ("Epson", TSE: 6724) today announced global support for its open-source development kit, the ESC/P-R library, which assists product designers wishing to develop printing applications for electronic devices. With the kit, developers only need to create one driver in order to connect and communicate with any Epson inkjet printer that supports ESC/P-R.

ESC/P-R is a common language for selected Epson inkjet printers worldwide that supports every media type, paper size and associated printing mode available on those products. ESC/P-R allows many kinds of devices to connect and communicate with Epson printers, expanding possibilities for use with medical equipment, measuring equipment, electronic whiteboards, and at home with home electronics and game machines. It is especially suited for consumer electronics devices and embedded equipment.

The ESC/P-R development kit has already been utilized to develop printing applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and for phones using the Android operating system, enabling people with these devices to enjoy the outstanding image quality that Epson printers are known for. "ePrint" by Microtech Corp. and Epson's own "Epson iPrint" can be found in Apple's App Store, while CyCom Technology Corp.'s "CyPria" application is available for download from the Android Market. All of Epson's Wi-Fi capable all-in-one printers launched this year will support these applications.

The ESC/P-R language is designed to be easy to develop and maintain, as it removes the necessity to create and update separate drivers for each printer. It enables speedy printing of high quality images even from devices with a slow CPU, and does not require dedicated image processing memory. Development support will be provided by Epson Imaging Technology Center in San Jose and Seattle.

For further information on Epson's universal printing and supported printers, please visit this site:
http://global.epson.com/technology/driver.htm

Details about the ESC/P-R library can be found at this site:
http://global.epson.com/technology/driver_library.htm

For application development enquiries, please use the form on the following site:
http://www.epsondevelopers.com/home/contact

About Epson
Epson is a global imaging and innovation leader that is dedicated to exceeding the vision of customers worldwide through its compact, energy-saving, high-precision technologies, with a product lineup ranging from printers and 3LCD projectors for business and the home, to electronic and crystal devices.

Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the Epson Group comprises over 70,000 employees in 106 companies around the world, and is proud of its ongoing contributions to the global environment and the communities in which it operates. http://global.epson.com/

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