UK (MMD Newswire) January 27, 2012 – - Government investment in technology and innovation will enable Britain’s world leading digital businesses to benefit from future advances in technology and help them bring new products to the marketplace, Business Secretary Vince Cable announced today.

The new Connected Digital Economy Catapult centre will be a hub for the best innovations in the digital sector, focusing on where new advances can be made in areas such as:

- addressing the challenges and opportunities of building a sustainable digital media and content business.

- researching the impact of new technologies, such as augmented reality, will have on existing platforms and the potential infrastructure changes needed to support them.

- looking at how our devices, our clothes, our cars, and other consumer goods become better connected to enhance the physical nature of our lives.

The Connected Digital Economy Catapult will also help transfer knowledge and experience from the digital industries to non-digital businesses and help them see the value that it could add to their business. For example, the music industry went through dramatic changes when it embraced digital technologies, it also experienced a great number of challenges particularly around intellectual property. Today businesses are making similar changes in industries such as media and retail which will benefit from the experience the music industry can provide.

Making the announcement at augmented reality firm Holition in Shoreditch which uses 3D digital technology to provide advertising in the retail sector, Business Secretary Vince Cable said:

“Long term investment in our economic strengths and being at the forefront of technological development are essential if we are to achieve sustainable and balanced growth.

“We have world leading, innovative businesses in the ICT, digital and creative sectors which have considerable potential for growth. For instance, a few years ago, there were just fifteen technology start-ups around Old Street and Shoreditch – now there are hundreds of high-tech companies in the area, including Holition where I am today.

“The Connected Digital Economy Catapult is a practical way in which Government can support industry to maintain its competitive advantage so that they can continue to be leading the way in making products and services that people want.”

Creative Industries Minister Ed Vaizey said:

“The Internet has effectively ended any distinction between digital and creative industries. This Catapult centre will help bring together key parts of the UK economy.

“The centre will enable businesses to use resources they could only dream of obtaining on their own. It will help businesses realise new ideas and turn them into new products, new jobs, and new growth.”

Iain Gray, Chief

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January 18, 2012 (MMD Newswire) — Earworms accelerated language learning technique continues to make music, as company wins prestigious international trade and industry award for its export success

Music may well be the food of love, but for award-winning UK company, earworms, music is also the universal language. The company has just been honoured with the ‘international trade and industry award 2011 for small to medium sized business for export success’, in a prestigious ceremony at the House of Lords. The well deserved award was presented to company founders, Andrew and Marlon Lodge by Minister of Trade, Lord Green, in recognition of the company’s export success.

earworms was founded in 2004 by the two brothers, following Marlon’s experiences as a language tutor. Teaching the vagaries of the English language to Japanese students, he would sometimes play his guitar to lift the mood. He soon realised his pupils found the ‘memory hook’ of a rhythm made the repetition and intonation of new words more memorable and helped reinforce useful words and phrases deep in the subconscious mind. Easy to understand, easy to reinforce and easy to recall, music seemed to trigger instant results for the students, who were not only learning a new, foreign language, but also enjoying the process at the same time.

A successful grant application by Andrew to develop this ‘musical memory concept’ resulted in a studio conversion in the family house and the earworms recording studio was ready to begin making music.

The technique, known as accelerated language learning through music, quickly became a no 1 best seller on iTunes USA audible books. In addition to selling direct from the company website, earworms created strategic partnerships with major international publishing houses such as Berlitz and Langenscheidt. Understanding the value and power of harnessing state of the art digital media, and developing its technologies in partnership with organisations such as Apple and Android, the company has maintained its industry edge in the form of MP3 downloads and Applications.

Andrew, earworms’ ceo, said “this award is very important to us – it provides recognition that our strategy was correct and the energy we have put into the business was well invested. We have ambitious plans to extend the range and depth of our courses and also to have a version for schools. We think language learning should be fun and natural and we are delighted to find so many people agree.”

The earworms course is currently available in 23 languages including Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, Portugese, Greek, Cantonese and Dutch. The multi based

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January 11, 2012 (MMD Newswire) — Mr. James Loeffler, President, LegalEye Inc. Mr. Loeffler has been selected to speak at the 2012 Annual Conference of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM). Mr. Loeffler is slated to speak on the topic of Implementing Alternative Fee Arrangements – Taking the Devil out of the Details.

A CPA, CFE and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Jim is President and CEO of LegalEye Inc. (www.LegalEyeROI.com), a software and consulting company dedicated to helping both law and claims departments and law firms reduce costs, manage expectations and improve performance. LegalEye™ Spend Management Software fosters collaboration between in-house and outside counsel through automated bill reviews and by providing visibility throughout the invoice-to-payment process.

Customers also value LegalEye’s™ dynamic dashboarding and reporting capabilities, and flexible, collaborative budgeting options. LegalEye™ Consulting harnesses the knowledge of CPAs and Lean/ Six Sigma Black Belts (continuous improvement experts) to deliver financial clarity and streamlined processes to both departments and law firms, with a specialization in alternative fee arrangements. Jim has twenty years of financial, operational and information technology experience, which includes leadership roles with Ernst Young LLP, Campbell Soup Company and MBNA America (Bank of America).

As a CPA, Jim has developed and implemented scalable data mining and analysis protocols, financial reporting structures and data visualization solutions that engage diverse groups of stakeholders. As a CFE, Jim has worked with financial institutions and the FBI on fraud investigations and has significant experience in corporate and legal compliance. He is a frequent speaker on fraud-related topics. As a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Jim has successfully applied proven Lean/ Six Sigma continuous improvement concepts, tools and methodologies to high-profile legal spend management initiatives. Jim has addressed general counsel, law department managers and attorneys on the topics of budgeting for improved performance, crisis management and managing alternative fee arrangements.

A graduate of John Carroll University with a double major in Accounting and Finance, Jim received a full tuition scholarship from the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned his MBA. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the American Society for Quality and the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, where he co-chairs the Alternative Fee Arrangements Committee and is a State Chair for Pennsylvania. Jim also serves two Pittsburgh-based charitable organizations (Genesis and HEARTH). He enjoys golf, tennis, platform tennis and playing music.

The CLM conference will be one of the largest, fully inclusive defense industry conferences in 2012. It will be

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Over a hundred Artists, writers and producers representing over a thousand copyrighted works have joined with Alki David to re-file the historic lawsuit against CBS Interactive/CNET.

Los Angles (MMD Newswire) November 15, 2011 — Singers Songwriters and Performing Artists have joined Internet media mogul Alki David and have re-filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit implicating millions and potentially billions of dollars in revenues obtained by CBS subsidiaries CNET and CBS Interactive by fostering and popularizing piracy of copyrighted works.

Baker Marquart LLP, the law firm representing Alki David and the Justice for Artists Coalition (www.justart.net), have stated in the complaint that “CBS Interactive has quietly made billions by inducing the public to break the law, by providing them the file-sharing software and step-by-step guides, on exactly how to do it. No one has held Defendant accountable for this. Until now.”

The complaint argues that CBS Interactive and CNET maintained an ongoing enterprise of distributing peer to peer file-sharing software and DRM removal software (which its own editors have admitted is illegal), with many detailed reviews and tips on how to use the applications and to induce infringement of known protected intellectual properties that include performances of Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, Madonna and Britney Spears.

“PM Dawn, Slick Rick, Ron Brows, Sugar Hill Music, Luther Campbell aka Luke Skywalker, Pretty Ricky, Dough E Fresh, H-Town and many others have joined the rapidly growing Coalition, “We have only scratched the surface. Many more rights-holders are coming forward representing tens of thousands of more intellectual properties but the verification process for identifying ownership is long and detailed, so we will keep on adding as we go.” added Alki David

“CBS Interactive is the Pirate Bay of Corporate America, have literally distributed Pirate Bay search and download tools and many others” continued Mr. David. “Ironically, I am demonstrating for the same reasons as the folks of Occupy Wall Street, with whom I have a great deal of sympathy. As this lawsuit is expanded it will also highlight lobbyism and monopolistic behavior at its very worst.”

“CBS sued my company FilmOn for not being a Cable Company, when that’s exactly what it is. We deliver pay television to subscribers whereas CBS have in fact systematically gained market share over their competitors with their insidious infringment tactics. FIlmOn is a small company and it pays millions of dollars a year in license fees to channels, for the right to distribute them. I am livid at the hypocrisy of CBS and what

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