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MediaSwitcher Web™ app streamlines commercial and home entertainment with TVs tuned to perfection

Austin, TX (PRWEB) February 21, 2012

Real Software, creator of cross-platform software development tools, today announced that its product, Real Studio, was used to create an application that seamlessly tunes TVs at Toby Keith’s I Love this Bar & Grill and other locations worldwide. Developed in only three months, the MediaSwitcher™ app from Just Add Software, LLC provides home or commercial media automation switching quickly and easily. Supported by Mac, Windows, Linux and the web, the system is user-friendly and flexible, offering plenty of customizable features to fit users’ needs.

Toby Keith’s I Love this Bar & Grill deployed the software to streamline entertainment and will continue to expand on app features and to new locations. Video content is delivered from unique channels in sports, news and music, as well as a restaurant’s own live music, which is broadcast throughout the venue. Since implementing MediaSwitcher, bartenders can now easily change channels for customers in one place without walking around to each individual TV. Over the coming months, the software will be implemented at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar locations in Dallas, Texas, Rancho, California and Rosemont, Illinois.

“Real Studio is so user-friendly and flexible that it allows me to develop something that is simple to complex,” said MediaSwitcher developer Jon Ogden. “With Real Studio Web Edition, I can re-use code from desktop projects and deploy the app easily to virtually any platform or environment I need, including the iPhone or the iPad. I can also customize easily per the customer requirements.”

Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill chose MediaSwitcher for distributed video for the following reasons:

With Real Studio Web Edition, Jon was able to re-use most of his MediaSwitcher code and released MediaSwitcher Web, a web-based version of his software that does most of what the desktop application does. Because of the ease and speed in development which Real Studio provides, he now has customers using his software packages all over the world, with customers in Europe, Australia, Nigeria and Malaysia.

About Real Studio

Real Studio is a full-featured cross-platform software development tool suited to creating a wide range of applications, from utilities to enterprise-class applications. Real Studio Personal Edition for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X is priced at $99 and is geared for hobbyists and students. Real Studio Professional Edition, required for cross-platform (Mac OS X, Windows and Linux) compilation, is $299. Real Studio Enterprise Edition, made for full-time developers, is priced at $995, and the ability to develop and deploy on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and the web. Real Studio Web Edition is now available and priced at $599. For more information or to download Real Studio today, visit Real Software at http://www.realsoftware.com/download.

About Real Software

Real Software provides Real Studio, a cross-platform desktop, console and web development tool. Real Software was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. For more information visit http://www.realsoftware.com or call 866.825.2114.

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Film Shows the True Story of the Rise of America’s Most Controversial Politician

Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) February 21, 2012

TV About Movies® today announced the Sarah Palin documentary movie “The Undefeated” will make its network television premiere on REELZ on Sunday, March 11 at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. “The Undefeated” chronicles the rise from obscurity to national prominence of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Starting during the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989 when Palin worked a commercial fishing boat she owned with her blue-collar husband, “The Undefeated” shows the struggles, the victories and the setbacks during a controversial career. “The Undefeated” was written / directed by Stephen K. Bannon and produced by Glenn Evans and Dan Fleuette of the Victory Film Group.

“We’re thrilled to have yet another opportunity to bring a big story to viewers,” said Stan E. Hubbard, REELZCHANNEL CEO. “Sarah Palin is a charismatic figure who burst onto the political scene, and whatever your leanings, if you have any interest or curiosity in politics, social change or the Sarah Palin phenomenon, this is a must-see movie.”

“We are incredibly excited that REELZCHANNEL has made the courageous decision to present the network television premiere on the same weekend as the fictionalized hit-piece by HBO,” said Stephen K. Bannon, who also hosts KABC’s nationally syndicated radio show ‘The Victory Sessions’. “‘The Undefeated’ is the story of ‘Everyman’ – of how through grit, determination and force of character one can make an impact in modern America.”

Glenn Evans said “We intend to have a full-court press to ensure that everyone in America has an opportunity to see ‘The Undefeated’ on REELZCHANNEL. Given the extraordinary success REELZCHANNEL had in releasing ‘The Kennedys’, which garnered ten Emmy nominations, ‘The Undefeated’ could not have a better home for its network television premiere.”

Amy Siskind of The New Agenda in her review of the film titled: “The Movie I Wish Hillary Had Made” published in The Huffington Post wrote “When the credits rolled at the end of the pre-screening of ‘The Undefeated’ my first thought was this: Why didn't Hillary's advisors think of this?”

The film also includes leading prominent political commentators Mark Levin, Tammy Bruce and Andrew Breitbart as well as conservative activists Kate Obenshain, Sonnie Johnson and Jamie Radtke. Additionally, the film features interviews with Alaskan civil servants, elected officials and advisors who were involved in Alaskan politics during Governor Palin’s tenure.

Encore Presentations for “The Undefeated” on REELZ:

-Monday, March 12 at 10pm ET/ 7pm PT

-Sunday, March 25 at 5:30pm ET/ 2:30pm PT

About Victory Film Group

Victory Film Group, via its subsidiary Victory Films, develops, produces and distributes documentaries and films that address today’s leading political, socioeconomic and cultural issues while incorporating the conservative perspective. Victory and its founders have written, directed and released five films which are considered amongst critics to be one of the best conservative-themed collections in film history.

Past productions include: “Generation Zero”: “Fire From the Heartland”: “Still Point in a Turning World”. Current films in production include “Occupy Unmasked”, the untold story of the Occupy Movement, and a new film on America’s leading government watchdog Judicial Watch.

About The Victory Sessions

The Victory Sessions is a nationally syndicated radio show hosted by Stephen K. Bannon from its home station of KABC in Los Angeles. The Victory Sessions is the “thinking man’s radio” – a sophisticated and impassioned program for people who want to understand today’s events and how it shapes their lives.

About REELZCHANNEL

REELZCHANNEL—TV About Movies® is an independent cable and satellite network devoted to delivering entertaining and informative programming that is all about movies, including the celebrities, fashion, music and stories behind the stories. With shows featuring movie and entertainment experts including Leonard Maltin, Richard Roeper and Sam Rubin, viewers get trusted insight into movies wherever they’re playing, whether in theaters or at home.

REELZCHANNEL reaches more than 62 million homes on DIRECTV channel 238, Dish Network channel 299, Verizon FiOS TV channel 233, AT&T U-verse 799/1799 HD and cable systems nationwide. Find REELZCHANNEL in your area by entering your zip code at http://www.reelz.com/watch. Owned by Hubbard Media Group, REELZCHANNEL is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM with an entertainment bureau in Los Angeles.

For more information, please contact the REELZCHANNEL Media Line

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Redditors are well known for posting memes, self-referencing jokes and collecting upvotes and karma. But writing legislation to protect the Internet? That's something new, and it's happening at "r/fia," a Reddit community that's writing the Free Internet Act, or FIA.

The goal of the act is stated on the sidebar of the subreddit:

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"To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation by preventing the restriction of liberty and preventing the means of censorship. FIA will allow internet users to browse freely without any means of censorship, users have the right to free speech and to free knowledge; we govern the content of the internet, governments don't. However enforcements/laws must also be put into place to protect copyrighted content."

Austrian Reddit user and apparent Pulp Fiction aficionado "RoyalWithCheese22" started FIA. Royal's inspiration came from concern about global internet censorship and bills such as SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act).

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"My initial idea came up when I noticed all these laws popping up," says Royal. "I got the impression it’s a worldwide trend of people trying to clamp down on the Internet. I thought, inspired by the recent success Reddit had with SOPA and PIPA, maybe I should suggest another solution to this. One that not just deals with a single law or proposed treaty but one that handles all of that."

Royal was quick to point out that while he may be a moderator of the subreddit, he doesn't proclaim himself to be the director of the FIA movement.

"I’m not the leader, this is a real community project," he says. "Whatever the community decides will be done."

Another Reddit user, "Downing_Street_Cat" (who hails from the UK) saw Royal's original FIA post and started the subreddit dedicated to the cause.

"We’re aiming to create a piece of legislation that’s international and that promotes Internet freedom that prevents bills such as SOPA and ACTA," says Downing_Street_Cat.

The current draft reads like a cross between a congressional bill and an international treaty.

FIA calls for protecting the Internet against government censorship and protecting Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and users from being held liable for hosting or viewing copyrighted content without their knowledge. It demands network neutrality, while also calling for users to receive notification before data is removed from "web pages or cloud storage."

After those provisions, which sound like they could be found in domestic legislation, FIA gets international. It states that "laws of individual countries (who have signed this treaty) shall not be applicable to the Internet," and "no country shall have reigning power over the Internet." It also completely bars extradition for Internet-related crimes, requiring those convicted of a crime to be tried "in the court of their residing country."

"I hope for a global treaty," says Royal. "A global treaty to guarantee Internet freedom, to guarantee there will not be excessive censorship and third party liability."

It remains to be seen whether the provisions of FIA stand a chance of making it into law. And neither Royal nor Downing_Street_Cat want the community to be closed to legal experts only.

"We want to make it open source so anyone can join," says Downing_Street_Cat.

As for Royal, he sees FIA as an undertaking in preserving democracy.

"The Internet is just a means to get what I really want," he says. "My main goal is democracy. I think the Internet is one of the greatest inventions ever made. It’s the first time I see a real possibility for democracy in the world."

It's not entirely unexpected that the Reddit community would organize such an innovative political undertaking. Redditors were instrumental in drumming up online opposition to SOPA and PIPA, and the site was one of the first to announce a Jan. 18 blackout to protest those bills. And "pro-Internet" politicians, such as Colorado Rep. Jared Polis, have made "AMA" appearances (a public, text-based Interview) on Reddit.

Crowdsourcing legislation is not new, either. Last year, citizens of Iceland crowdsourced a new constitution. Royal credits Iceland's experiment with providing some inspiration for FIA.

“I think it’s a great idea to have people write the actual laws,” he says.

Do you think the Free Internet Act will have an impact on actual law? Sound off in the comments below.

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SEOUL, KOREA and SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire -02/21/12)- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO - News) today announced that LG U+, the leading total telecommunication service provider in Korea, will trial two Cisco mobile Internet solutions to deliver voice, video and messaging services to LG U+'s rapidly growing number of 4G long-term evolution (LTE) customers.

The Cisco® V2oLTE (Voice and Video over Long-Term Evolution) solution, based on the Cisco ASR 5000 Series multimedia core platform, will help LG U+ meet the performance challenge of carrying voice traffic over LTE. Cisco provides a complete solution for V2oLTE that includes the industry's highest-performing Call Session Control Function, unique deployment flexibility and a comprehensive application layer portfolio.

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VoLTE is a standard way of delivering voice and messaging services for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network, which is an all Internet Protocol (IP) system. The system utilizes IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) specifications as its basis. LTE is a wireless broadband technology that supports roaming Internet access via mobile phones and devices. It has been labeled fourth-generation, or 4G, technology because of its download speeds and quality are superior to existing 2G and 3G networks. LG U+ is experiencing rapid growth in 4G LTE devices. As LG U+ approaches millions of LTE customers, it needed a high-performance solution to manage the resulting growth in signaling traffic. With its industry-leading scalability and reliability, the Cisco ASR 5000 Series provides LG U+ with a cost-effective increase in performance and capacity without adding a large amount of additional equipment. The Cisco ASR 5000 Series provides significant cost savings for LG U+, as it reduces the number of Call Session Control Function nodes in the network, a central component to signaling and control within the LG U+'s IP IMS network. In addition, the Cisco ASR 5000 Series has the control-plane capacity to handle message floods during mass registration events and increasing amount of control traffic that is occurring as smart devices and applications proliferate. The Cisco ASR 5000 Series is also designed specifically for mobile broadband networks and features a distributed architecture with maximum scalability and integrated intelligence. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) mobile data traffic in Korea will grow eightfold from 2011 to 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 50 percent. Overall, in Korea, mobile data traffic is expected to grow two times as fast as fixed IP traffic from 2011 to 2016. This rapid growth raises the demand for high-quality mobile broadband networks.

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"LG U+ has always prided itself on the quality of its voice services, and we expect to provide the same level of quality to our 4G LTE customers. We expect the Cisco V2oLTE solution will help enable us deliver the highest levels of performance, quality and reliability to our customers -- anytime, anywhere." Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president and general manager, Mobile Internet Technology Group, Cisco
"We are proud to be a part of LG U+'s efforts to improve its IP IMS network for the benefit of its customers. We look forward to working with LG U+ over the coming months to develop and deploy these innovative Cisco Mobile Internet solutions."

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After years of development, China’s mobile Internet industry has entered a period of rapid growth and overall consolidation.

I. Overview of China’s Mobile Internet Industry

By the end of 2010, China's mobile Internet industry was worth RMB 293.69 billion, and the figure for 2011 is expected to top RMB 400 billion.

The year 2011 witnessed an emerging trend of consolidation in China’s mobile Internet industry. In August, Google took over Motorola Mobile; in December, Nokia announced it would abandon Symbian OS. All these incidents signified that the mobile Internet industry has entered a period of overall consolidation.

In addition, mobile Internet has been included in the strategic emerging industries of China, which gives a strong driving force for its rapid growth and overall consolidation.

II. A Nationwide Mobile Internet Industry Taking Shape in 2011

Geographic pattern: The key regions are located in the south, the north and the west. China's mobile Internet industry is largely clustered in four regions: the Pearl River Delta in the south, the Circum-Bohai Sea in the north, the Yangtze River Delta in the east and the West Triangle centered on Chengdu, Chongqing and Xi'an, which altogether contribute more than 90% of the industry’s total output.

Structural pattern: The industry has experienced a rapid growth, with mobile terminals in the dominant position. In July 2011, there were 318 million mobile Internet users in China. In 2010, the country’s output value of mobile terminals came to RMB 215.57 billion. While the mobile terminal industry remained in the dominant position in 2011, the mobile software and application industries also experienced a noticeable growth.

Investment pattern: Enterprise investment is active, while direct government investment is rarely seen. In China, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises are the major investors of the mobile Internet industry, while the government only funds a number of state projects initiated by the Ministry of Science and Technology. In the first half of 2011 alone, there were as many as 31 disclosed investment deals in mobile Internet, among which 24 had a total disclosed value of $318 million.

III. Four Noteworthy Trends of Mobile Internet in 2012

Supporting technology: Bandwidth of telecommunications networks determines the carrying capacity of the mobile Internet. By September 2011, 237 operators had launched the LTE service, covering commercial use, trial use, testing and research. In the future, TD-LTE will reach 2.7 billion people in China, India and Japan. The broadband telecommunications networks will provide bandwidth guarantee for a wide range of mobile Internet software and applications.

Terminal technology: Innovative mobile smart terminals integrating mobile cloud services will be widely applied. In the future, the "cloud + client" model featuring "strong background" and "thin client" will become a key trend for the innovative mobile smart terminals.

OS: Smart terminal OS will become a crucial area in the mobile Internet industry. Google's Android and Apple's iOS have become two mainstream operating systems for mobile terminals. With the rise of the new-generation Web technology HTML5 and cloud computing technology, Web capabilities have expanded dramatically. How can controllable and proprietary mobile OS be developed? There is much to do to explore the development method and trend of OS.

Security issues: With the speeding popularization of mobile Internet applications, information security issues become conspicuous. As users use the mobile Internet on mobile devices, hackers have set eyes on the platform, and security has become a key topic. Mobile information security at user, network and national security levels is likely to draw great attention.

About CCID Consulting Co., Ltd.

CCID Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter known as CCID Consulting), the first Chinese consulting firm listed in the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (HKSE: 08235) and the first consulting firm which gets ISO 9001 international and national quality management system standard certification, is directly affiliated to China Center for Information Industry Development (hereinafter known as CCID Group). Headquartered in Beijing, CCID Consulting has so far set up branch offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi’an, Wuhan and Nanjing with over 300 professional consultants after many years of development. The company’s business scope has covered over 200 large and medium-sized cities in China. With its powerful industrial resources, information technology and data channels, CCID Consulting provides customers with public policy establishment, industry competitiveness upgrade, development strategy and planning, marketing strategy and research, HR management, IT programming and management services, investment and financing, and M&A. The company's customers range from government departments at all levels and diversified industrial parks, to industrial users in strategic emerging industries in new generation information technology, energy saving and environmental protection, biological science and technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials, and new energy. CCID Consulting commits itself to become the No. 1 advisor for urban economy, the No. 1 consultancy for enterprise management, and the No. 1 brand for informatization consulting in China.

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