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DGAP-News: IMMOFINANZ AG / Key word(s): Real Estate IMMOFINANZ AG becomes the first real estate company to join the ATX five

07.03.2012 / 14:55

The ATX committee meeting on 6 March 2012 officially approved a step that was signalled mathematically several days before: as the first company in the real estate branch, IMMOFINANZ AG successfully completed the leap into the ATX five Index. The IMMOFINANZ share was first added to the leading index of the Vienna Stock Exchange in March 2011.

Yesterday evening, the ATX committee confirmed the adjustment of the ATX five: The IMMOFINANZ share replaces Telekom Austria and represents the first property company in the Austrian top five. During the last five trading days (at the end of February) IMMOFINANZ AG outpaced Telekom Austria and thereby met the respective stock exchange requirements. The new composition of the index will take effect on 19 March.

Only one year after inclusion in the ATX, we have now joined the ATX five - which further underscores the importance of IMMOFINANZ AG for the Austrian financial market. This will give us greater visibility and strengthen our position in the leading index - and should also have a positive effect on the share development, commented Eduard Zehetner, Chairman of the Executive Board of IMMOFINANZ AG. The IMMOFINANZ share now joins OMV, Erste Group, Voestalpine and Andritz as one of the five largest stocks in Vienna.

The ATX five is a price index that is weighted by market capitalisation, and comprises the five ATX shares with the highest weighting. The calculation is based on the ATX and takes place in real time. The ATX representation and fundamental factors are also used for this calculation, with the weighting of the individual shares identical to their standing in the ATX. The last change in the composition of the ATX five was made in December 2010. The ATX committee meets quarterly at the beginning of March, June, September and December.

On IMMOFINANZ Group IMMOFINANZ Group is one of the five largest listed property companies in Europe and is included in the leading ATX index of the Vienna Stock Exchange. Since its founding in 1990, the company has compiled a high-quality property portfolio that now comprises more than 1,600 standing investment properties with a carrying amount of approx. EUR 8.7 billion. The core business of IMMOFINANZ Group covers the acquisition and management of investment properties, the realisation of development projects and the sale of objects. IMMOFINANZ Group concentrates its activities in the retail, office, logistics and residential segments of eight regional core markets: Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Russia. Further information under: http://www.immofinanz.com.

Contact: For additional information contact:

INVESTOR RELATIONS

Stefan Schnauer Head of Corporate Finance & Investor Relations IMMOFINANZ AG M +43 (0)699 1685 7312 investor@immofinanz.com

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NEW YORK, March 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reis, Inc. (Nasdaq:REIS - News) ("Reis" or the "Company"), a leading provider of commercial real estate market information and analytical tools, announced that it will release its fourth quarter 2011 results on Thursday, March 8, 2012. The complete release will also be available directly at either of the following web pages:

http://www.reis.com/investors

http://www.reis.com/pressreleases

The Company will host a conference call. This call is for the benefit of existing and prospective stockholders, stock analysts, and other interested parties to discuss the third quarter results and other matters.

Date: March 8, 2012

Time: 4:30 PM ET

Listen via Internet: http://investor.reis.com/

Dial-in number (U.S. and Canada): (877) 390-5537 Dial-in number (outside U.S. and Canada): (760) 666-3763 Conference ID: 59680037 or "Reis"

Toll-free: 877-390-5537 International: 760-666-3763 Access code: 59680037

A replay of the conference call will be available from shortly after the conference call through midnight (ET) on March 22, 2012 by dialing (800) 585-8367 from inside the United States or Canada or (404) 537-3406 from outside the United States and Canada, and referring to the conference ID: 59680037. An audio webcast of the conference call will also be available on Reis's website at http://www.reis.com/events and will remain on the website for a period of time following the call.

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Reis, Inc. to Announce Fourth Quarter 2011 Results on Thursday, March 8, 2012

Most new gTLD applicant do not necessarily want to earn money from their domain name extension!

.BRANDS, for example, will be using their domain names for themselves and they will not earn money from the sale of domain names.

So, who are these new gTLD applicants who do not want to earn money from selling domain names and who do not want to spend money in an application? Who are these applicants who can have the benefit of applying "for free" and acquire the visibility of launching a new domain name extension?

Applying for a ."French city", is a nightmare as it has to go through the long process of a Call For Tender. A city cannot just select service providers and apply. This is not allowed in France. I believe many French cities won't have applied mainly because of this reason, but not only:

So how does a city acquire its own Top-Level Domain, avoiding costs and most of what is in the list above?

There are strong organizations specialized in the process of acquiring a Top-Level Domain with ICANN and who will apply for a city TLD in exchange of a letter of support (or a letter of non objection) and a little communication.

Such organizations provide:

Such organizations are the ones who can make a profit from selling the city's domain names.

In exchange, the city acquires:

Such cities may earn a representative seat on the board but do not own the Top-Level Domain.

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A New Generic Top-Level Domain Can Be Free

By Robert Mann

Westminster Canterbury Richmond (WCR) is a high-end continuing-care retirement community in Richmond, Va., designed for older adults who are able-bodied, active and involved. It is home to about 900 residents, and 750 employees work there.

The community has been growing, and as it expanded, WCRs commitment to securing its customer information became paramount. For IT, that meant taking a number of steps to protect not only the information of its residentswhich includes financial data and health care recordsbut also the companys proprietary information, for competitive reasons.

For an organization such as WCR, whose residents put high value on privacy, a leak of internal data, or worse, of resident information, could cause irreparable harm to its brand and image. Beyond that, the federal Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates the protection of individuals identifiable health information. No one at WCR wanted to take the risk that any of our information would end up in the public domain.

The IT department took a number of steps to protect WCRs data. These included encrypting all office laptops with PGP Whole Disk Encryption (now Symantec); using our Fortinet FortiGate Firewall to prevent data leaks; protecting Social Security, credit card and patient numbers; and encrypting email with Fortinet FortiMail Appliance.

We started at the desktops and extended from there, making data protection an organizationwide initiative. As part of that effort, we also banned the use of flash drives, which we believe pose too great a security risk.

However, our staff needed to use portable drives, whether to share financial information with investors or for a marketing presentation. So we looked for alternatives.

We evaluated a number of encrypted flash drive options. Each had something that made us steer clear of it. Some were susceptible to key logger software; others required IT to update their software at regular intervals. Thats when we turned to the LOK-IT Secure Flash Drive. The encrypted flash drive has a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation, or government-level security, which means that it meets one of the highest standards set by the federal government for encrypting and securing data.

Some drives use encryption that must access software on a computer, but encryption on LOK-IT is performed on an internal USB controller. To gain access to the drive and the data within it, users punch a pin code into a 10-key PIN-Pad, much like an ATM.

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ST. LOUIS, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Amdocs (NYSE: DOX - News), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced that Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan has given Amdocs two Stratecast Global Market Share Leadership awards for 2011. By receiving these awards for rating, charging and other core billing*, and for total billing, Amdocs is recognized for its excellence in capturing the highest revenue market share for each respective category within the global communications industry.

Leading analyst firm, Stratecast named Amdocs as the top vendor in the "rating and charging and other core billing" domain with a revenue-based market share of 19.7 percent. According to Stratecast, this domain is growing in importance in the communications market and currently represents 70 percent of the global, end-to-end billing market. Amdocs was also named the leading vendor in revenue market share for the overall billing market, which in addition to rating and charging and other core billing, includes the mediation, policy management, interconnect and settlements and partner management segments.

According to Stratecast, the key drivers behind Amdocs' success are:

"We are convinced that Amdocs will remain a leading global supplier of billing software and services for communications services providers for the foreseeable future," said Karl Whitelock, director OSS/BSS strategy at Stratecast. "Amdocs is constantly demonstrating its ability to anticipate and meet market needs which contributes to its high market share. An example is the acquisition of Bridgewater Systems which, according to our analysis, positions Amdocs as a leading vendor in the policy management and data monetization domain."

Another example of Amdocs' product strength is the company's convergent charging product, based on Amdocs' innovative turbo-charging technology. According to Stratecast's research, this technology provides unmatched performance levels and scalability, while reducing hardware and software costs to cost-effectively support growing numbers of subscribers and events.

"Our leading product portfolio together with our experience in providing a wide range of professional services such as consulting, implementation, system integration, ongoing support, maintenance and managed services to the communications industry over a period of 30 years has given us deep insight into what service providers need to succeed," said Rebecca Prudhomme, vice president of product and solutions marketing at Amdocs. "The innovative solutions that drive our product roadmap are the result of our high investment in R&D and the insights we gain through the successful deployment of hundreds of complex, large-scale projects."

The Stratecast analysis covers revenues from license and professional services fees, including installation, maintenance, service bureau, cloud and managed services. The analysis is based on billing vendor and service provider interviews, responses to a direct market questionnaire, information from public sources, and raw market data.

Amdocs' billing solutions support some of the world's leading service providers including AT&T (US), Comcast (US), Rogers Communications Inc. (Canada), Vodafone Netherlands, Elisa (Finland), XL Axiata (Indonesia) and FarEasTone (Taiwan).

* Included are accounts receivable, collections, bill presentment, voucher and replenishment management.

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Amdocs Leads in Global Billing Market Share, Analyst Firm Reports