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July 2nd, 2009

New StrongMail Survey Shows Social Media is Emerging as a Direct Marketing Channel

Email Marketing and Social Media are top two areas of increased investment for marketers in second half of 2009

Redwood City, Calif., June 15, 2009 – StrongMail Systems, Inc., the leading provider of commercial-grade solutions for marketing and transactional email, today announced new survey data that points to the emergence of social media as a direct marketing channel and significant planned investment in email marketing and social media programs in the second half of 2009. StrongMail also announced a new framework to help direct marketers effectively leverage the two channels beyond the common “sharing” tools offered by other providers. The results and recommendations outlined in this announcement are based on data from more than 500 marketers who responded to an online survey from May 21 to June 1, 2009.

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July 2nd, 2009

StrongMail Expands Strategic Services Practice to Help Email Marketers Drive More Value from Their Programs

Newly appointed industry veterans Ryan Deutsch and Kara Trivunovic to serve StrongMail customers with best-in-class email marketing expertise

Redwood City, Calif., May 26, 2009 – StrongMail Systems, Inc., the leading provider of commercial-grade solutions for marketing and transactional email, today announced two key appointments to StrongMail’s Strategic Services practice that position the division for continued innovation and growth. StrongMail’s resident email thought leader Ryan Deutsch has been promoted to vice president of Strategic Services and will lead the division, while Kara Trivunovic, a respected industry veteran and founder of The Email Advisor, has been hired as senior director of Strategic Services.

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July 2nd, 2009

StrongMail Brings On-Premise Email Marketing to the “Cloud”

New cloud version of StrongMail Message Studio 5.0 combines the benefits of installed software and SaaS in one versatile solution offering superior economy, reliability and ease of ownership.

Redwood City, Calif., April 22, 2009 – StrongMail Systems, Inc., the leading provider of commercial-grade solutions for marketing and transactional email, today announced new “cloud-ready” versions of StrongMail Message Studio 5.0, which was officially launched today in a separate announcement.

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June 29th, 2009

New InstallShield 2010 Enables Authoring of High Quality Virtual Application Packages

SCHAUMBURG, IL–(Marketwire - June 29, 2009) - Acresso Software announced today the availability of InstallShield 2010, with support for web applications and virtual applications. The virtual application option natively creates packages in the Microsoft App-V format, the industry’s most broadly used application virtualization technology. Continuing a strategic development partnership with Microsoft, InstallShield 2010 enables organizations to successfully deploy App-V by creating applications in that virtual format without the need for conversion. The first and only offering of its kind, InstallShield continues to deliver innovative technologies that improve the quality and reliability of software installations worldwide.

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June 25th, 2009

Fujitsu Inks Long-Term IT Infrastructure Services Agreement With Alliance Data

Fujitsu America today announced it has entered into a long-term outsourcing agreement with Alliance Data, a leading provider of loyalty and marketing solutions derived from transaction-rich data. Under terms of the agreement, Fujitsu will assume the Alliance Data Information Technology Services (ITS) function, which services Alliance Data business units, as well as five other existing clients.

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June 18th, 2009

JDSU Introduces First Centralized Remote PON Test System for Faster Turn-up and Restoration of IPTV and Other Broadband Services

Milpitas, Calif., June 18, 2009 – JDSU today introduced the first centralized remote Passive Optical Network (PON) test system, a unique solution that tests point-to-multi-point networks from the central office (CO) using a web browser. This application is a complementary application to the widely used JDSU Optical Network Management System (ONMS) that includes point-to-point fiber monitoring and GIS based outside plant documentation. The system supports service providers migrating to PON by delivering a fast and cost-effective method of turning up and restoring IPTV and other broadband services to meet users’ quality of experience expectations.

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June 16th, 2009

JDSU Adds Industry-First Line-Rate 10GigE Capture/Decode Test Features to Widely Adopted T-BERD®/MTS Platform

Milpitas, Calif., June 16, 2009 – JDSU today introduced new features to its widely adopted T-BERD®/MTS-6000A platform, making it the first portable test instrument to include line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) capture and decode, dual-GigE port packet capture and decode, and packet capture and decode of emulated application layer traffic (TCP, FTP, and HTTP).

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June 15th, 2009

JDSU Introduces New Industrial Diode Laser Solution For Automotive and Electronic Manufacturing Applications

Milpitas, Calif. and Munich, Germany, June 15, 2009 – JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU and TSX: JDU) today announced availability of the Industrial Diode Laser (IDL) 200 Series systems and modules that will help end users and systems integrators improve the uptime of their instruments and lower maintenance costs when compared to the use of similar bar-based products. The new IDL 200 Series will be integrated into production tools designed exclusively for manufacturing processes that include plastics welding in the automotive industry and selective soldering in the electronics industry.

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June 11th, 2009

Fujitsu Introduces Innovative Technology to Streamline Web Searches

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – June 11, 2009 – Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. announced Xurch(TM), a new Web search browser plug-in that makes Web searching easier. Once users install the Xurch plug-in into a Firefox(R) or Internet Explorer(R) browser, a “Xurch Cloud(TM)” appears when performing searches on a growing number of search engines and popular websites. The Xurch Cloud box, or tag cloud(1), provides users with suggested words for refining their searches, letting them quickly iterate through several refinements and zero in on the information they are looking for.

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June 9th, 2009

Vyatta Raises $10 Million in Series C Round Led by Citrix

BELMONT, CA–(Marketwire - June 9, 2009) - Vyatta, the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today announced it has completed its Series C round of financing led by Citrix Systems, Inc. The new funding round also includes existing investors, Comcast Interactive Capital, Panorama Capital, and ArrowPath Venture Partners. As part of the investment, Gordon Payne, senior vice president and general manager of the Delivery Systems Division at Citrix, has joined the Vyatta Board of Directors where he will assist the company in its next phase of development. Today, Vyatta also announced that it has joined the Citrix Ready™ product verification program to create solutions for customers deploying cloud computing infrastructures (http://www.vyatta.com/about/press_releases.php?id=60).

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