Mar 01

IDmachines and Probayes join forces to bring powerful predictive analytics to the United States’ enterprise security and information technology markets.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brookline, MA USA, 27  February 2010.
Probayes Technologies (Grenoble, France) has joined with IDmachines LLC (Brookline, MA, USA) to bring its security and productivity solutions based on Bayesian modeling, inference and learning to the United States marketplace. Probayes Keystroke Dynamics, Fraud Detection and Operational Risk Management products provide strong authentication and security in depth in addition to powerful predictive analytics. These end-user applications are supported and complemented by a Software Development Kit (SDK) and Bayesian modeling toolkit to speed use of knowledge development for security and a wide range of applications across disciplines.

Today’s security solutions need to address a dynamic and wide ranging array of threats. Even better it would predict them. Probayes and IDmachines find that products such as keystroke dynamics and fraud/incident detection are a natural complement to other strong authentication techniques. The two companies bring decades of experience with security and machine learning to its end-user, integrator and original equipment manufacturer partners. The end-user products are targeted at large scale infrastructure and enterprises. IDmachines brings a particular expertise with organizations that look to leverage the Personal Identity Verification Interoperability (PIV-I) such as Federal, State and local government as well as financial services and other critical infrastructure sectors.
Probayes products are currently used by leading European Union financial institutions and Global 100 organizations. Emmanuel Mazer, CEO of Probayes, stated “Knowing Sal D’Agostino for a long time, I am very proud to work with his company. By partnering with IDmachines, I am sure our US customers will benefit from their high level of commitment and recognized security expertise. This will ensure the successful deployment of our products, and a quick return on customer investment.”
“IDmachines is very excited at the opportunity to work with Emmanuel Mazer and his team at Probayes. Having worked with Emmanuel over the last 3 decades one can only be amazed at the timeliness and elegance of the important innovations he has brought to market in machine learning. The ability of organizations and their networks to deploy security in depth and for the network to learn provides tremendous potential for enterprise security and improved delivery of goods and services to its customers. Keystroke dynamics and fraud detection are only the first examples of how Probayes and its partners and customers will leverage the tools of probability.”

The ability to identify anomalies goes to the heart of most security solutions. Probayes solutions provide an ability to include new and broader information into analysis engines that can identity and predict these anomalies. Cyber security that combines strong authentication techniques with security in depth improves security measures and enables global transactions and access. The demand for enhanced cyber security solutions includes the need to access cloud computing services and is particularly true in the current environment of widespread attempts at fraud.
“It’s important that these security and learning tools get put to work in building 21st century networks and products” commented Mr. D’Agostino.

Contact:

Sal D’Agostino
IDmachines LLC
1264 Beacon Street
#5
Brookline, MA 02446

sal@idmachines.com

+1.617.201.4809

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About IDmachines:
IDmachines works with its customers to enable identity and security using standards based solutions. Across government, critical infrastructure and other enterprises IDmachines enables the migration to a single high assurance multi-purpose identity credential and global interoperability. IDmachines help end-user, system integrator, and manufacturing and services organizations achieve game changing developments in the identity, access and security world.

About Probayes:
Probayes provides software for predictive analytics solutions. A spin-off from the French CNRS research lab, it was founded in 2003. Probayes has developed unique technology allowing its customers to easily extract from data using existing expertise predictive models to address key business requirements. The applications cover a wide range of fields including, user authentication, trajectory prediction, and fraud detection.

Feb 22

Okuma Group: Debt of PIGS Weighs On European Union.

“Okuma Group” says that the European Union bails out the pigs, attention will turn to the UK.

Asia-based asset management firm, Okuma Group apparently believes that the United Kingdom is likely to be the focus of Speculator attention in the event of an EU bailout of the PIGS nations.

PIGS is the acronym given to Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain who represent the most indebted economies in the European Union. Recently, Greece has seen the yield on its 10 year treasury bill exceeds 7% thanks to speculators betting that the country is likely to default on its debt unless a bailout is mounted by the European Union. In stark contrast, the yield payable on a 10 year German bund currently stands at 4%.

Despite public statements to the contrary, Okuma Group believes that the EU will eventually orchestrate a bailout for the beleaguered PIGS nations and that, speculator attention will shift towards the UK which does not use the single currency.

The firm believes that the UK’s 10 year gilt may see its yield increase significantly which would spark interest rate rises in other long-term debt sectors including mortgages. A source close to the firm said that there was a distinct possibility of the UK having to turn to the International Monetary Fund for a bailout.

The Bank of England recently announced its decision to pause its program of quantitative easing after the UK emerged from its longest recession since World War II but many economists believe that the central bank may need to restart the program as confidence wanes in the current and next government’s ability to reduce the country’s public sector debt burden.

Okuma Group continues to advise clients to divest themselves of sterling denominated assets including cash.

Feb 19

Okuma Group – Commodity Currencies Are Best Bet.

“Okuma Group”: The Canadian and Aussie dollars are the best bet for those wanting to hold paper money.

Okuma Group analysts have reiterated their advice to those holding US dollars, Sterling and the Euro to convert their holdings into commodity currencies like the Australian and Canadian dollars.

The Asian-based broker apparently believes that Canada and Australia’s economies stand to benefit significantly from the abundance of natural resources they harbor.

The US imports more oil from Canada than it does from Saudi Arabia and the country has vast reserves of crude in its relatively untapped oil tar sands. Australia has massive reserves of iron ore and gold which continue to be in great demand by emerging nations.

Okuma Group analysts point out that, in addition to the countries’ natural resources, their banking systems have emerged relatively unscathed from the credit crunch that proved so debilitating for their counterparts in Europe and the United States and, as such, have not suffered from the crippling effects of huge levels of public debt.

The Canadian dollar has gained significantly against a basket of currencies as the Aussie dollar and Okuma Group has suggested that those needing to hold paper currencies, convert their sterling or USD currency at the earliest possible opportunity.

Jan 11

Print Manager Plus 2010 Cuts Office Printing Costs Up to 75%

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Software Shelf announce the release of their newest and most powerful all-software solution to printing administration

Print+Manager+Plus+2010 Print Manager Plus 2010 Cuts Office Printing Costs Up to 75%

Palo Alto, CA, Clearwater, FL and London, EnglandSoftware Shelf, the leading provider of print management solutions for all operating systems, announced the release of their newest and most powerful all-software solution to printing administration and print cost reduction ever available – Print Manager Plus 2010®.

Despite the ever increasing availability of paperless office solutions, today’s businesses, schools, healthcare and other institutions still spend as much as 5 percent or more of their revenues on printing related hardware and consumables. The cost of printing continues to eat into many profit lines.

Print Manager Plus 2010 not only makes printing 100 percent more efficient, it enables fast, state of the art print controls and accounting, significant reductions of waste and increased cost savings – all while dramatically lowering IT and hardware resource requirements for any organization.

Marking a milestone in the development of all print management solutions, Print Manager Plus 2010 eliminates the need to deploy complex and expensive hardware solutions. In fact, Print Manager Plus 2010 is the only fully functional all-software solution available supporting all printers, plotters and multifunctional devices on the market today. It also monitors printing on all Microsoft, Macintosh, Unix, and Linux operating systems – and it does so at a fraction of the cost of any other IT product available.

“We’ve brought complex print management technology to each and every type of business, academic and institutional organization throughout the world,” noted William Feeley, CEO of Software Shelf International. “With Print Manager Plus 2010, we have now exceeded even the most complex hardware solutions available today and did so while continuing to dramatically reduce printing and print management costs to organizations of any size.”

Packing powerful new features into its market leading solution, Print Manager Plus 2010 contains many new and exciting print controls and accountability tools set to reduce the hidden costs of printing throughout any network.

Print Manager Plus 2010 contains the industry’s first native Active Directory integration compatible with Windows Server 2008 and all previous Windows Operating systems. It is a completely integrated platform to control, audit and precisely manage entire printing environments with unsurpassed speed, security and efficiency.

From the individual IT manager to the CFO, Print Manager Plus 2010 is also packed with extensive new reporting features, including over 130 built-in reports, enabling printing to be tracked, controlled and billed for if required, and does so at any level of granularity.

New security related features enable easy compliance to regulations such as HIPAA security rules and similar rules of UK and European Data Protection regulations, as well as Sarbanes Oxley in the US.

Print Manager Plus is a Green product featured by ‘Guide Me Green’ as software that is saving 150,000 trees every month due to the paper savings it achieves for its customers.

For a full listing of all new features, click here.

Pricing and availability

A free, fully functional trial version of Print Manager Plus 2010 is now available for download at http://www.softwareshelf.com

About Software Shelf

Software Shelf was established in 1994 in Silicon Valley by Bill Feeley. Its flagship product Print Manager Plus is used by thousands of companies, schools and government offices worldwide. The company provides tech support from its offices in the US and UK and from its partners and resellers in 62 countries. For a fully functional evaluation of the product, please email sales@softwareshelf.com or contact us. Software Shelf and Print Manager Plus are trademarks owned by Software Shelf worldwide.

For further information, please contact:

Bill Feeley
Software Shelf International, Inc.
601 Cleveland Street
Suite# 710
Clearwater, FL 33755
United States
Phone: 727-445-1920
Phone: 800-962-2290
Fax: 727-445-9223
Email: bfeeley@softwareshelf.com
Website: http://www.softwareshelf.com
Blog: http://softwareshelf.blogspot.com

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Nov 05

Gold record!

We believe to get used to news as “the gold, new highs” but every time, this noble metal, refuge asset , we are surprised with paranormal effects…
Under some authoritative voices, this rise was announced ,  few days ago someone talked about a conspiracy against dollar, it was an article on Independence about  Arab countries, China, Russia, Japan and France that were negotiating to end the dollar as the currency of reference in the Market.
After few days the European Central Bank,  with the central banks of the euro zone and the Swiss central bank, came to an agreement to sell its gold reserves with the goal of balancing the European financial market.
Just two days ago, on 3 November, the gold prices arrived another record, by a total $ 1064.99 an ounce (exactly 1.097).
Probably a strong “push” has been given by the Central Bank of India announcement about acquisition of  considerable quantity of gold.
Not only.
As if it was already written in some “secret” papyrus, here comes a new weakening of dollar.
The effects on the market and the economy are obvious, the effects on “small” consumers, people, are different.
It should be relevant that this time is the best one to sell their gold, the actual quote, in fact, allows you to have a lot of cash money from the sale of gold and  gold jewelry even if at low caliber.

News by: Gold selling | We buy your scrap gold online – Cashgold

Nov 03

Learn.com Establishes EMEA Headquarters in London, UK

London, UK – November 2, 2009Learn.com®, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, announced today that the company as officially opened its EMEA headquarters in London, United Kingdom to address the global demand for its award-winning Learning Management System (LMS). The company cites recent wins with large European based organizations has indication of a trend for rapid growth within the market for the company’s highly adaptable LMS.

“Learn.com’s international client base continues to expand and the opening of our London office allows us to better support our EMEA clients,” said Jim Riley, President and CEO of Learn.com. “This move highlights the strategic importance of the growing e-learning and learning management sector around the globe and our focus in bringing the number one selling cloud-based LMS to new markets. In fact, we are already planning additional office openings in the U.S. and international locations for 2010 to keep up with worldwide demand.”

The company named Bob Ward, Executive Director of EMEA. Mr. Ward is responsible for sales as well as partner and reseller relations across the region.

Interested parties are encouraged to contact the Learn.com EMEA headquarters at:

Gainsborough House
81 Oxford Street
London, W1D 2EU
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 20 7903 5108 (Main)
+44 (0) 20 7903 5333 (Fax)

About Learn.com
Learn.com® is the worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity with more than 50 million end users around the globe. Our broad suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications can fully automate the employee development lifecycle from pre-hire to retire® within organizations of all sizes, from the growing business with fewer than one hundred employees; to the global enterprise managing internal and external initiatives with millions of users in multiple languages. Learn.com’s unwavering commitment to understanding client needs, goals and objectives allows us to partner with our clients to help them realize low TCO and high ROI.

The Learn.com family of solutions includes the award-winning LearnCenter® learning and talent management suite, the WebRoom® Web conferencing suite, the PeopleCenter®, Application Builder, FormFlow® Custom Form Creation and the 1,000 title Learn2.com® online course library.

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