Combating child marriage in Niger

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PR Newswire - December 28, 2010

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iPhone 4 already in scarcity in Russia

Apple is a strange company when it comes to Russia: while it a whole bunch of loyal fans here including our own President has, the biggest fan seems to be the company often acts, as ever care to the market and its potential. The company holds delayed launches of its ultra popular products and negotiates prices with local retailers, the Apple gadgets far from affordable for most of the population of the country.

In this situation, it's really no wonder, that most people looking for a specific device from Apple, a way to get outside the official market which is not available. This trend completely spoiled sales of the iPhone 3 g and 3GS back then people arrived on aircraft from the United States with their cases full of Apple gadgets and everyone who actually wanted to an iPhone have actually had one through time, began the official sale. I guess this can happen eventually to iPad where finally officially here (overpriced as usual) as Russian planes and airports are full of people, with you and no one even knows if the devices will be available here actually officially!

But the latest iPhone model seems to be an exception here as it is definitely turn into a real scarcity and although to the high price is willing to pay, you will have little chance to do so or geraumer must time finding a place to get to spend the money. Mobile carriers to sell the smart phones in Russia agreed with Apple, have from reported a huge increase in sales and the devastating fact that the first batch the gadgets imports has sold after Russia within the first weekend of sales. But to be fair, we should mention here, that sources close claim to negotiations with Apple that this initial batch only is 14-20 thousand devices, let it no surprise that it so soon to an end.

The interesting part is that the overall situation with the launch sales can be described by iPhone 4 in Russia definitely as a mess: while everyone was accepted to the 22. September to start decided to begin a retailer, two days before selling gadgets that (with Apple on a specific date agrees) - and other retailers followed obviously not to lose the most passionate first customers.

The dealer who was responsible for the false start of sales only offered the gadgets in a shop in Moscow and a line of a few hundred people was quickly collected your hands on the shiny new devices to wait on the midnight and an opportunity. It's no wonder that quickly activated the line in a lot of squeezing opened the doors of the store - buy the first 50 people to iPhone 4 especially 50% discount in Exchange could get for your iPhone 3GS. And the discount is a nice, especially the 8 GB version price of about $1070 and 16 GB price is over $1,200.

Generally cause iPhone not so much interested in Russia because it looked too much like a remake of the previous model and came up with a large delay of more than half a year after it was introduced in the United States so that not even a novelty considered it the most tech-savvy users when it was finally available. And iPhone 4 is a very different company so people are eagerly return to the "good" Soviet tradition of waiting in lines!

Probably in Moscow it is more or less realistic, find it and buy it - least immediately after each new batch arrives and provided that you have arranged some retailers with for a pre-order. In fact, he was all mobile operators and retailers Russia devices you want to sell and not everywhere I, a reference to a specific store have found where the devices are available - everywhere I just invited to online bookings while writing I have checked the websites of the post. I don't know, it could be possible, that you expect that easy to go buyer from a store to a different hunting for your iPhone but this is definitely too much to do for an iPhone.

In fact, even try to pre order it from one of the retailers did not work for me – no matter, how hard I tried, my contact details be notified when the device is available to leave I was immediately forwarded to your website without any chance of actually understanding, when the precious gadget is available. And I am afraid really Apple buyers again - but this time will lose could because people of waiting for get tired and find an alternative way, eBay will send the device or where no one will expect other online auctions that a buyer to be dammed for hours in a crowded place.

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TDS and US Cellular presented at Citi's 21st annual entertainment, media and Telecommunications Conference

TDS and US Cellular presented at Citi's 21st annual entertainment, media and Telecommunications Conference

PR Newswire - December 28, 2010

CHICAGO, 28 January 2010/PRNewswire / telephone and data systems, Inc. (NYSE: TDS;) (TDS.S) and United States Cellular Corporation (NYSE: USM) presented together on Citi's 21st annual entertainment, media and Telecommunications Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on Jan. 4, 2011, at 3: 45 P.m. Mountain time.

Mary N. Dillon, U.S. cellular President and Chief Executive Officer and Kenneth R. Meyers, TDS executive Vice President and chief financial officer, presented. Jane W. McCahon, Vice President, corporate relations of TDS will also participate.

The presentation will be both live and on-demand webcast. To the webcast on the net listen, visit the presentation page of www.teldta.com at least 15 minutes before the scheduled presentation to register, download and install any necessary multimedia streaming software.

About TDS

Telephone and data systems, Inc. (TDS), a Fortune 500? company offers wireless, local and long-distance telephone and broadband services to about 7.2 million customers in 36 States through its business units, U.S. cellular (wireless) and TDS Telecom (wireline). Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, workers TDS 12,300 employees September 30, 2010.

Visit www.teldta.com for comprehensive financial information including earnings releases, quarterly and annual filings, information for shareholders and more.

About US Cellular?

U.S. cellular Corp., the nation sixth-largest wireless carrier, offers comprehensive wireless products and services, excellent customer support and a high quality network of about 6.1 million customers in 26 States. The Chicago-based company employs approximately 8800 full-time equivalent partners as of September 30, 2010. At the end of the quarter in the telephone and data systems, Inc. 83% U.S. cellular ownership.

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Company code: NYSE: TDS, NYSE: USM, TDSS, NYSE: TDS.S

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Brainware presented at 13th Annual Needham Growth Conference

Brainware presented at 13th Annual Needham Growth Conference

PR Newswire - December 28, 2010

ASHBURN, VA., 28 January 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall / - Brainware, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent data capture and search company solutions, today announced that executives of the company on the 13th Annual Needham Growth Conference held in New York Palace Hotel in New York City from January 11-13 are present. Brainware's presentation is expected to start at 8: 40 pm EST on Thursday, January 13.

While perhaps you are planning meetings of event for one-on-one meetings available and interested parties through their Needham representative Brainware management.

On the 13th Annual Needham Growth Conference

Needham & company, LLC's 13th annual growth Conference is a forum for institutional investors and venture capitalists, the latest updates from senior management teams of both public and private companies in the areas of clean technology, communications, consumer, enterprise infrastructure, to hear industrial and diversified growth, Internet - digital media, medical devices, semiconductors and semiconductor equipment and software & services. Needham Growth Conference ("NGC") has as the largest and best-known growth Conference in the industry. With over 1,500 institutional investors and venture capital professionals who probably it has become one of the most visited conferences on Wall Street. Over the course of three days, participants in moderated presentations including the Q & A with companies as well as thematic panels can participate with industry experts. The Conference hosts typically more than 325 growth companies and design meetings between investors and companies. About twenty percent of NGC's moderators are later private companies today to present our commitment for tomorrow's leaders and Government. Meetings will be available. Please contact your Needham seller for registration details because space is limited.

About Brainware, Inc.

Brainware, Inc. is an innovative provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions to eliminate costly manual data entry 2000, quickly enabling global process large amounts of documents and retrieve data from across the enterprise. Its solutions were built from the ground up to manage unstructured data without templates, exact definition, taxonomies, or indexing. With headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, Brainware has worldwide sales and operations to support its North America, UK and European offices. Brainware customers include Airbus, Alcon, Alltel (now Verizon Wireless), Amgen, Anadarko, BB & T, British American tobacco, Continental Airlines, CORT, Gardner Denver, Halliburton, her Majesty's prison service, Johns Manville, Kimberly-Clark, KPMG, NHS Steria, Newell Rubbermaid, Philip Morris International Service Center Europe, Reynolds and Reynolds, Rockwell Automation, shell, Southern Company, Sun chemical, the Bank of New York Mellon/SourceNet, TriZetto and many others. For more information please visit www.brainware.com.

Contact: Robert Zoch public relations specialist Brainware, Inc. 703-948-5831 Robert.Zoch@brainware.com

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CloudContacts now into handshake Salesforce leads

When it comes to sales, I know one thing for sure: I am an absolute zero in sales. Fortunately, my work is not related to sales – I'm sure I would have starved if I had to sell something to help. I tried to sell a piece of software in the midst of the recent recession as a form to the diversification of income sources - and failed miserably so instead of diversification I just a lot of wasted hours have.

And because people tend to admire the qualities you have not, I definitely admire to convince sales people and their mysterious talents other to buy something you sometimes don't even need.

Because I admire you, I definitely think you deserve the best software, Web and mobile applications to increase your productivity. Now CloudContacts innovative business card scanning service that we simplify first reviewed here one more step makes other things for seller by launching their integration with Salesforce.

As CloudContacts users know this is the easiest way that get business cards online and use newly acquired contact information to people on the major social networks like LinkedIn or Twitter or in desktop software such as Outlook to quickly create innovative service. Now CloudContacts goes a step further and integrated service with Salesforce CRM.

The integration works by quickly among the scanned business card already immediately in the user account in Salesforce - save valuable time for sales representatives. Of course, CloudContacts will not help in the whole process leading conversion but simplification is extremely helpful step because need you upload the contacts manually at all. The whole process takes way a few seconds, so networking at industry events and conferences is now more efficient!

This new feature will start shortly before the Salesforce gives Conference next week and is free for all users of CloudContacts. In other news CloudContacts is not only add new useful functions but also rapidly grow, how the number of cards processed you compared to the previous year more than doubled and report with customers from almost all over the world! If you manually scan your cards still, take a closer look at CloudContacts, this may be the right tool.

Full disclosure: Allen, the owner of the CloudContacts is a friend.

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Site speed and comfortable shopping tools provide sears.com and kmart.com shopping destinations of choice this holiday season

Site speed and comfortable shopping tools provide sears.com and kmart.com shopping destinations of choice this holiday season

Millions of products and new shopping features give customers, affordable product selections and easy shopping

PR Newswire - December 28, 2010

HOFFMAN ESTATES, ill., 28 January 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall / - Sears Holdings today announced that millions of customers sears.com and kmart.com make holiday shopping simple, fast and cost-effective chose this year. Customers preferred sears.com and kmart.com for the depth of product selection, great prices, and their many online features that make shopping easier to order.

"We appreciate that our customers are, this holiday season a success for sears.com, kmart.com and our family of Web sites made", said Imran Jooma, President of e-commerce at Sears Holdings. "We offer any online shopping function, buy from online, in - store and pick up mobile shopping to personal shopper, is available as we make easy and convenient for your busy life - especially during the holiday dedicated to customers online shopping experience."

Customers also used the hot deals sears.com and kmart.com offered selection of more than 16 million products of toys and clothing to tools, electronics and appliances. While making for incredible holiday gifts shop used shopper sears.com and kmart.com online shopping tools and practical services in greater numbers than ever before. Here are just some of the many ways customers speed and convenience when shopping on sears.com and kmart.com enjoyed:

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Google rushes to Russia World Cup results... congratulate and offended Russians

Google is known for his passion to various doodles to celebrate tons of global and local events - quite often the company changes its logo on the pages of all local domains or only specific ones depending on the event of the day. As some of you know Russia decided yesterday over a significant reason to celebrate as FIFA, to keep the World Cup in 2018 in Russia - for the first time in Eastern Europe.

Russian football fans and pretty much everyone else are of course very pleased with the opportunity and celebrate. The celebration to support, Google offered a new Doodle for the Russian domain with the Russian flag and soccer balls.

This special attention to our seemingly local celebration of the international Internet giant is certainly nice if not for a fact: someone in the Office Google made a mistake in the colours of the flag so it was white-blue red white red blue instead of the right.

Russian users online discussing which were news, despite the late hour of the night (it was after 1: 00 in Moscow) quickly noticed the error, and someone must have it reported to Google. This led to the Doodle total closer until 2 am and then restore it with the correct flag show.

Google's Russian Office was contacted for clarification and offered: you say someone made a mistake and used the wrong colors. Obviously, they offered an apology for the country and Internet users that are now apparently offended with the error.

Not to complicate things further, here I only uploaded the correct version of the Doodle with the Russian flag (I know, it is to remember the simplest), but for those of you who demonstrate some evidence that the whole situation existed, here is the link to Russian it happened, no matter how crazy it may sound.

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Make a new year's resolution to learn a new language to mango Passport ® mango languages

Make a new year's resolution to learn a new language to mango Passport? mango languages

PR Newswire - December 28, 2010

FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan, 28 January 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall /-.

WHO: Mango languages, a Farmington Hills-based provider of language learning programs.

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101228/DE22469)

What: Mango Passport?, Mango's latest language learning product for people who want to successfully learn and communicate in a new language. It helps the users to gain an understanding of culture of a country.

Mango Passport? different from other language learning programs because it teaches users conversation skills, situations, not random words and phrases can be used together. Courses give the language that you user, need to successfully navigate a foreign country to find authentic cultural experiences and to engage without offending natives in polite conversation.

After the purchase, mango Passport? is directly downloaded from Mango's site and from home or office computer or laptop of user accessed (Mango's programs were available only through libraries, schools and government organizations). Mango Passport on the go!, a MP3-audio version (with a PDF companion guide), which on iPhones, iPods and other MP3 devices can be used is also available.

STATS: Aside from weight loss, improvement of the spirit Americans tops list of self-improvement new year's resolutions this year according to a survey by ISI translation services in November 2010. The nationwide survey asked 1000, from a list of five "self improvement" to choose new year's resolutions Americans make this year. 7.5% chose learning a foreign language. The survey also showed that the younger age groups learning chose at higher rates than their older counterparts. All beat the average - 8 percent, 9 per cent and 11 per cent (or) as personal improvement target age group 18-24, 25-34 and 35-44 select.

Contact: a complete list of languages and more mango Passport? details on mango's-website at www.mangolanguages.com.

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SmsCoin user-friendly way to add, an extra revenue source for your website

Today I'm introducing SmsCoin, a new monetization tool for all types of online publishers and our sponsor for the month. SmsCoin is a company that add a wide range of SMS-based tools to the an extra monetization data source (or at least an additional payment tool) offers to any online business which allows payments from more than 87 countries.

Premium SMS services that the company offered currently support for companies from more than 40 thousand Web sites, including some of the largest social networking gaming and dating websites in Russia (so if you hear Russian DST is buy, participate in something like Twitter in your beautiful investment in Facebook remember, this is how you make a good portion of their money online here). The list of customers is really global as SmsCoin numerous online and real-life companies in Europe and the USA as well as building on your success in Russia, serves where originally started.

The process is actually dead simple for those of you who don't know how such mobile payments work. A site owner is a payment gateway by using a script, sell or grant access to a particular content or service on the website provided. Visitors are with a link to view the prices and encouraged to send an SMS to a short number following specific instructions. If you choose to pay, send the text message and your account with mobile carrier pays a certain amount. A small part of the amount SmsCoin processing fee will be withheld as a carrier gets its share during the Publisher Gets the rest of the crowd.

The advantages are obvious: payments are instant and don't have anything other than a cell phone from a consumer - to everyone without even a PayPal account or credit card to pay. But it is of course obvious disadvantage: the simplicity of the service makes it a welcoming destination for all kinds of fraud that to make it as a quick option some bucks and run away show could never get back be found.

But as with any other payment provider, shopper on the payment provider for security leave numbers - you should instead should attention to who you money and why - pay and the only way to security here is common sense. Another disadvantage of SMS payments usually the high commissions are calculated by mobile network operators (vary from 30% and by country) so you should carefully study the list of countries and of the amounts get your visitors how much prices in payouts to know world pay.

The tool is definitely universal enough for almost all publishers to add it as an additional payment tool. If you want certain parts of your website contents to your block paying guests or look for donations for what increase in mind, the company has a ready-made solution for you. And these are actually the easiest tools you have: you can download user content in exchange for an SMS message, adding funds to accounts in online shops or games or even numbers for premium show to get a good ranking on your site.

For each Publisher, it is important that each new service that you add to your Web pages is reliable and easy to integrate. And when it comes to money, it is even more important. This is why SmsCoin offers more than 150 ready-made scripts for the vast majority of the popular content management systems, including even WordPress (so if you decide to sell your eBook directly to your blog without any additional intermediaries, you will be able who know without a huge deal of coding to implement).

Here in Russia mobile payments market is huge and SMS messages actually serve as the main payment gateway for many sites. It is definitely useful in a country where not everyone has a credit card (or you know how it other than use, withdraw money from ATM or not trusted banks enough, withdraw everything as soon as the funds) and competitors are local PayPal ponderous creatures, who take age will add resources and a huge fee, if you ever tried withdraw it. So it's no wonder that here can buy practically anything online with a text message.

It is of course in the United States and in Europe the situation with micropayments in more friendly common way, users and publishers. But still given that there is no registration or setup fees, why not give it a try - who know your audience could appreciate the extra payment option. And because SmsCoin currently worldwide works with mobile operators in 87 countries, for some users it might just be the most attractive option, and you appreciate your efforts.

In addition, there are some areas where such services have to offer something unique. In fact, where I see a huge potential for popular blogs with SmsCoin SMS is in: chat solution. A blogger just is a sidebar widget received the texts (and display links!) about SMS messages from the visitors for a fee - and adds an additional source of income for the blog linked not all efforts of a sales team is. Can you imagine how many want to be featured startups on all sides of the TechCrunch for a few minutes and a small fee?

Full disclosure: SmsCoin is, as already mentioned, currently Profy sponsor.

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Russian village got almost named after a torrent site in a publicity stunt.

I know that sounds ridiculous and even incredibly but the story has received attention in the Russian news sources and blogs - actually the story as it is really true. I've tested, the news is not no matter now discuss how fitting it for the day could be dated April 1st, but is the entire Russian blogosphere Russia supposedly has now a village named after a site - a site that often criticized in the box and discussed in courts of torrent tracking and p2p sharing works. The only problem is, the story was actually has to be a fake, designed probably specifically for PR purposes, but the idea definitely value that mention is.

TorrentReactor.net, has a claimed the top 10 torrent indexers in the world that is hosted in Russia to about 150 thousand $ have paid, the right to a Russian village named gar is located in the region of Tomsk in Siberia rename to get. The idea was discussed with the population of the village (a total of 214 persons), and people are told to the idea of replacing your short and slightly strong name with a longer after the purchase site support. I believe that with each their small part of the donation such support immensely, especially given the poverty of the people in such small villages reach idea could have helped.

The irony of that selected village is that it is near the nuclear reactor Seversk is interesting similarities in the name of the site and brings. In fact, the award-winning village is noticed instructed randomly after you have carefully selected a number of small villages close to various nuclear reactors around the world - and the number 377 happened be happy for the gar village. And because gar from the Russian can be translated as "burned", I think people should not completely unhappy to get rid of your pretty unpleasant name and something fresh and very contemporary. The only downside here is that until recently that had village only 3 PCs with only one of you with dial-up Internet access, so had no chance to know such website existed - let alone use it.

The agreement was said be permanent so that the village allegedly to its unusual name to keep. And while it is quite obvious that the objectives here are especially PR-related site owners claim that actually support a slowly dying village (which are numerous in Russia) and pioneer one completely new movement with various Internet companies, the support of the other real life settlements with their inhabitants such donations wanted to bring significant PR

The carefully crafted story was quickly tremendous attention among Russian Internet users and visitors actually TorrentReactor.net and many people believed the story true, (in fact, it has even by one of the most prestigious Internet news resources without any subsequent update as of this writing been reported and because this was where I first saw me the story, it was hard not to believe it was true) to be. But some of the local reporter decided to go as far as contact confirm the village authorities the story - in Tomsk and quickly found out that the story with reality had nothing to do. But in fact a representative of such authorities mentioned that while you have received no offers from someone, like it would have considered you if came as the State of the roads in the village is so poor, could really need such an investment.

But even if this story never turned to be real comments demonstrated that the number of people who were ready to buy a House and move around the village was very significant, would like Internet users hoped that torrents somehow be legally miraculously in the village. Now I would definitely recommend renaming a small (or perhaps not so small) town somewhere it should in Europe in the Pirate Bay - definitely exist, and it could quickly turn into a crowded destination with the right promotion and a monument to a torrent (no idea how it should look like, but I think, an online competition could result in a good number of interesting projects) directly on the main square of the city as a place of pilgrimage for all active torrent users of the world. And a small note for Google from the Russian user: should definitely invest in buying Russian post and rename it to Gmail – was this a huge PR campaign and we would finally received a prospect actually receive our e-Mail messages.

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To snowy to travel work today? Regus offers more than 125 business lounges along the East Coast freely use geschneit-In workers

To snowy to travel work today? Regus offers more than 125 business lounges along the East Coast freely use geschneit-In workers

PR Newswire - December 28, 2010

NEW YORK, 28 January 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall / - the Blizzard sweep along the East Coast has left many today to reach the offices. A snow day can be a thrill for elementary schoolers and adults, but many employees despite still works not in the position, their offices need to travel. Working from home is an option for many, but with the children the to the until date, it may not all be the most productive working environment. Be essential for those who can be stranded with a professional workspace in another city.

Regus, global leader in flexible workplace solutions has more than 125 locations in regions affected by the Blizzard. Each Regus Centre offers a business lounge with high-speed Internet access, use of administrative support and refreshments.

What: Regus loads employees relating to free of charge to their offices using a Regus business lounge at the location closest to you by end of the day on Thursday, December 30th trips are. Simply present your card and enjoy uninterrupted productivity of a full day. This offer is open only to Regus centres during the snowstorm. The most up-to-date listings of the centres that open call in your area please 1-800-OFFICES.

Who: Regus is the world's largest provider of fully furnished offices. The company offers its customers a complete range of cost-effective business ready work products including fully furnished, fully equipped private offices, meeting rooms with in-place business and administrative support services. Regus network of ready-to-use offices, meeting rooms and business lounges offers businesses and mobile professionals a flexible, high-performance alternative to hotels, copy shops and Kafes.

When: Tuesday, December 28 to Thursday, December 30, 2010 during regular business hours.

Where: the Regus find nearest go to www.regus.com or call 1-800-OFFICES.

Why: Regus' business lounges are designed to productivity, offers a professional place out of the Office work to increase. All Regus more than 1,100 business lounges across the globe offer high speed Internet access and refreshments. Business lounge use includes access to administrative support for document or presentation preparation and use of local business support staff for booking local venues, restaurants and travel arrangements.

About Regus

Regus, leading global provider of innovative workplace solutions with 1,100 locations in 500 cities and 85 countries, offers products and services of fully equipped offices to go to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the world's largest network video communication Studios.

Visit for more information www.regus.com.

Journalists can also visit the Regus online press centre at www.regus.presscentre.com.

Contact: Julia Gaynor affect strategies (212) 398-9680 jgaynor@affectstrategies.com

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