Introducing the Porsche Design P’9981 Smartphone from BlackBerry

Engineered Luxury Meets High-Powered Performance

Today, Porsche Design and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM – News)(TSX: RIM.TO – News) announced the elite new Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry®. Designed by Porsche Design, in collaboration with RIM, the luxury brand’s first smartphone delivers engineered luxury and performance.

The Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry is instantly identifiable as a Porsche Design product. The exclusive material choices for this unique smartphone include a forged stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back cover, sculpted QWERTY keyboard, and crystal clear touch display. This customized Porsche Design P’9981 comes with an exclusive Porsche Design UI and a bespoke Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app experience. It also includes premium, exclusive PINs that help easily identify another P’9981 smartphone user.

“Since 1972 Porsche Design has presented milestone products with iconic style, and the P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry will be our next landmark,” said Dr. Juergen Gessler, CEO Porsche Design Group. “The pure and distinctive design, coupled with authentic materials and an emphasis on the manufacturing process, perfectly match our philosophy and complement the Porsche Design product assortment.”

“This collaboration stems from a shared belief that form equals function,” said Todd Wood, SVP for Industrial Design, Research In Motion. “The Porsche Design P’9981 is a truly modern luxury smartphone, where the timeless style of Porsche Design meets the unmatched mobile experience provided by BlackBerry.”

Powerful hardware and software

The Porsche Design P’9981 is built on a performance driven platform that features a 1.2 GHz processor, HD video recording, 24-bit high resolution graphics, and advanced sensors enabling new augmented reality applications. It comes with 8GB of on-board memory, expandable up to 40GB with a micro SD card.

BlackBerry® 7, the operating system for the new Porsche Design P’9981, includes a next generation BlackBerry® browser with a fast, fluid web browsing experience that is among the best in the industry. It also features Liquid Graphics™ technology, which delivers a highly responsive touch experience with incredibly fast and smooth graphics.

The Porsche Design P’9981 includes built-in support for NFC (Near Field Communications), which will enable many new and exciting capabilities.

The Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry will be available from Porsche Design stores later this year.

For more information please visit www.BlackBerry.com/ae/P9981smartphone or www.BlackBerry.com/sa/P9981smartphone

About Porsche Design

Porsche Design is a luxury brand with a special focus on products that are technically inspired. The brand Porsche Design was founded in 1972 by Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. The products are the embodiment of functionality, timelessness and purist design. They impress by the technical innovations they incorporate. The product portfolio includes watches, sunglasses, luggage, electronic products, a line of fragrances for men as well as a sport and fashion collection. All products of the brand are designed at the Porsche Design Studio in Zell am See, Austria, and are sold worldwide in the brand’s own stores, in franchise stores, shop-in-shops, quality department stores and exclusive retailers.

About Research In Motion

Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999. Today, BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. RIM is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ: RIMM – News) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM.TO – News).

MontaVista Announces an Advanced Linux-Based Application Environment for High Speed Packet Processing

Bare Metal Engine(TM) Enables Dynamically Configurable Data Plane for Multi-Core SOCs

MontaVista® Software, LLC, today announced dynamically configurable data plane capabilities in the MontaVista Bare Metal Engine™, offering a single development environment that dynamically scales from the high performance services of Embedded Linux to dedicated near zero overhead bare metal environments for packet processing. MontaVista’s Bare Metal Engine, or BME, enables network equipment providers to use a single Linux development environment and tool suite without sacrificing the performance formerly only achieved from an application running on a semiconductor’s executive.

Major chip vendors that target the data networking space have created proprietary runtime executives as a part of their multi-core strategy. The goal of these executives is to create an easy way to dedicate SOC to an application with minimal overhead, i.e. maximize the performance of the underlying hardware. These proprietary executives do a great job at removing the overhead of an operating system (proprietary or Linux), however they all introduce a complex proprietary runtime environment on the underlying hardware. As such they require different compilers and lack sophisticated debug, trace, and analysis tools typically associated with Linux. This creates two major problems: greater overhead for development and maintenance of a product and the inability for a developer to debug or optimize an application in the executive environment.

MontaVista’s Bare Metal Engine removes the problems developers have been experiencing due to the inability to debug with semi executives. With the BME tool suite, MontaVista delivers a common toolset for compiling, profiling, tracing, and debugging in Linux and Bare Metal applications. BME has been measured to exceed 99% of a semiconductor’s runtime executive performance. BME can also be extended to any processor architecture creating even greater benefits to NEPs using more than one multi-core SOC vendor, by providing greater application portability.

For the next generation of network equipment, scaling performance to 40Gbps and 100Gpbs is important, but the demands put on this equipment will hardly be homogenous. While multi-core SOC’s offer new possibilities for combining multiple applications on a single chip, the next frontier for the data plane is the ability to dynamically reconfigure a line card for the changes in network demands. This ability to hot swap bare metal applications as needed without affecting services will be a key differentiator in making the data plane more powerful and efficient. Bare Metal Engine gives developers the ability to design systems that can instantly reallocate SOC resources based on traffic demands without rebooting. This can be reallocation between the control plane and data plane, or even reallocating the Bare Metal applications between IP Sec and IP Forwarding, for example.

“In the past the only way a developer could get this level of performance was by running an application with a semi library in ‘bare metal’ directly on the hardware. This was great for performance, but not convenient for development and debugging. Developers had to choose between tools and performance,” said Patrick MacCartee Director of Product Management. “No longer does this choice have to be made. With MontaVista’s Bare Metal Engine developers get the benefits in both worlds! Bare metal performance previously only found in a semi’s proprietary executive, with the tools and support of a Linux ecosystem.”

MontaVista’s Bare Metal Engine is currently available for the Cavium OCTEON™ II family of processors, with multi-core Intel and ARM processor support available in the near future.

About MontaVista Software
MontaVista Software, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM – News), is a leader in embedded Linux commercialization. For over 10 years, MontaVista has been helping embedded developers get the most out of open source by adding commercial quality, integration, hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the MontaVista development community. Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time to market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux. To learn more, please visit www.mvista.com

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Processor Powers First Nokia Lumia Smartphones

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM – News) announced today that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon™ mobile processors power the first Nokia Lumia smartphones, the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710.

This marks Nokia’s entrance into the Windows Phone ecosystem and is the latest step in the mobile industry’s high-speed transition towards mobile computing. The Snapdragon processor’s unique engineering enabled Nokia to substantially accelerate the time to market of the products.

“We are proud that our deep collaboration with Nokia resulted in smartphones that were developed in only six months based on our Snapdragon platform,” said Enrico Salvatori, senior vice president and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies Europe. “The level of integration in Snapdragon and the optimization for Windows Phone 7, as well as the efforts of two strong teams, delivered these great devices.”

The Snapdragon S2 class of processors provides a best-in-class mobile experience, including high-performance mobile computing with prolonged battery life and next-generation graphics for Nokia’s Lumia phones. Lumia users will also experience rapid network connections and fast, responsive Web browsing.

“The collaboration between Nokia, Qualcomm and Microsoft has been extremely successful,” said Jo Harlow, head of Nokia’s Smart Devices business unit. “Qualcomm played a significant and very active role in helping develop the first Nokia Lumia smartphones, without which we would not have been able to bring the products to market so quickly.”

As one of the largest providers of wireless chipset and software technology in the industry, Qualcomm has one of the most diverse chipset and software product portfolios spanning multiple device classes. Specifically, the S2 processors are optimized to enable HD videos in the browser, a rich gaming experience, top-quality pictures and video.

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM – News) is the world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. For more information, visit Qualcomm’s website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.

Navizon Unveils Indoor Positioning Technology

Navizon Inc., a leading provider of geolocation technology, today unveiled Navizon Indoor Triangulation System (I.T.S.). With the addition of Navizon I.T.S. to its global positioning technology combining GPS, Wi-Fi and cellular signals, Navizon is the first company to offer a Global Micropositioning solution.

“Navizon I.T.S. breaks new ground in the location industry adding room-level indoor location to Navizon’s global positioning solution,” says Cyril Houri, founder and CEO of Navizon. “We call the combination of these two technologies Global Micropositioning because they allow for precise and easy-to-read geolocation anywhere in the world – outdoors and indoors. It closes the location information gap left from prior technologies.”

The creators of Navizon I.T.S. are the same technology developers who patented and added Wi-Fi and cellular triangulation to satellite-based location technology, which is used every day on most mobile devices around the world. The team also created the first I.P. address-based location technology for online businesses in the early 2000s, a technology that now is ubiquitous.

According to Houri, the potential applications for Navizon I.T.S. are extensive and powerful:

• Positioning: Pinpoint your location within a building, campus or other venue (Where am I?)
• Tracking Systems: Businesses or individuals can track the whereabouts of a specific device in an indoor environment (Where is he/she?)
• Monitoring and Surveillance: Retail stores and shopping malls can map consumer traffic patterns and habits electronically; government buildings, monuments and corporate campuses can monitor crowd movement and potential security risks (How many people are here and what are their traffic patterns?)

Navizon I.T.S. tracks the location of all Wi-Fi enabled smart phones, tablets and laptops in realtime and with room-level accuracy without requiring the installation of an app on the device. The location determination is performed by small Navizon devices, called “nodes.” Navizon’s I.T.S. nodes are located within 100 feet of each other covering a three dimensional area, such as a multi-story building or multi-building campus.

According to Houri, “No wiring or complicated set-up is necessary. The nodes are strategically arranged to ensure reliable triangulation, and plug into an electrical outlet for power, automatically configuring into a wireless network.”

Once a node network is in place, Navizon I.T.S. constantly computes the locations of all Wi-Fi enabled devices in the area and securely delivers them as a cloud service to the network owner. The location of wireless devices can either be displayed on a browser window with Navizon’s user interface or accessed via an Application Programming Interface.

While Navizon ITS system can monitor movement or traffic patterns, no personal information transmits over the system and identity privacy remains intact. Organizations like hospitals that need to know the location of its employees can choose to enable an identity feature.

Navizon I.T.S. sites will also benefit users of the existing Navizon mobile app, which provides accurate positioning anywhere using a combination of GPS satellite signals, neighboring Wi-Fi hotspots, and cell phone tower signals. By installing the Navizon app on their mobile, users are able to combine Navizon-One’s global positioning capability with the Navizon I.T.S. accurate indoor triangulation technology. With more than one million global users, the Navizon application allows individuals to map their locations and broadcast them to other devices of their choosing using the Buddy Radar. When a Navizon enabled device enters an I.T.S. site, the app seamlessly employs the node network to accurately determine the indoor location.

Ordering and installing the Navizon I.T.S. system is simple, fast and cost effective. Pricing of the system starts at $350/month per site and delivers priceless data. For more information, visit http://www.navizon.com/.

About Navizon, Inc.

Developing Global Micropositioning technology, Navizon, Inc. is the creator of Navizon-One, a global positioning system combining GPS, Wi-Fi and cellular signals, and Navizon I.T.S., its accurate indoor location positioning system. Founded by a team of geolocation veterans, Navizon was the first company to add Wi-Fi and cellular triangulation to satellite-based GPS. The same team created the first I.P. address-based geolocation solution in the early 2000s Navizon develops geolocation solutions that allow businesses and individuals to maximize their technology to work and live more efficiently.

Semaphore Releases T-BOX Gateway

Semaphore, a CSE Global company, has released T-BOX Gateway, an advanced protocol converter system that provides immediate Internet and cellular access to any local controller or electronic device.

Model TG-200 T-BOX Gateway, with its Ethernet, GSM cellular modem, serial RS232 and RS485 ports, is a robust option for universal connectivity between remote devices, control rooms, and users in virtually any location. It offers a quick and simple solution to connect multiple devices across multiple protocols and communication standards.

T-BOX employs an innovative, decentralized architecture that enables the complete integration of programmable automation, alarm management, data logging, and IP telemetry in a single, rugged package. Simple yet powerful platforms leverage web technologies and push messaging via e-mail, SMS text and FTP. T-BOX systems are easy to configure and offer dramatically reduced costs versus traditional PLC and SCADA system architectures.

Semaphore’s Kingfisher and T-BOX RTU products are ideal for a broad range of monitoring and control applications in the broadcast / telecom, infrastructure management, oil & gas, power, transportation and water / wastewater industries. For more information about Semaphore solutions, visit www.cse-semaphore.com, or contact Semaphore at 1200 Chantry Place, Lake Mary, FL 32746, 407-333-3235.

About Semaphore
Established in 2006, Semaphore was the result of a merger of two CSE Global companies, RTUnet, of Australia, and TechnoTrade SA, of Belgium. For over 20 years, these companies have provided leading solutions for telemetry, automation, and remote monitoring and have an installed base of 100,000 devices. For more information, visit www.cse-semaphore.com.

Semaphore is a wholly owned subsidiary of CSE Global, a worldwide technologies provider in the industrial automation, telecommunications, environmental and healthcare markets. Headquartered in Singapore, it has more than 1500 qualified and technical staff operating a network of over 30 offices in 20 countries, spanning the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Its truly international business landscape is reflected by the fact that more than 90% of annual revenue is derived from outside Singapore. For more information, visit www.cse-global.com.