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Metavante
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Data Quality
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| Antenova.
Antenova announces availability of GPS RADIONOVA® M10214-K1 evaluation
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Antenova, the integrated
antenna and RF solutions company, announced the availability of
GPS RADIONOVA M10214-K1 Evaluation Kits. Including the M10214-A1
RF Antenna Module, the world's smallest RF antenna module incorporating
a SiRFstarIII GPS chipset and optimized with Antenova's high efficiency
complementary GPS antenna, the M10214-K1 Evaluation Kit provides
designers and developers a complete GPS solution in a box for the
development of GPS enabled devices.
"Location is rapidly
becoming a pervasive application in mobile devices, even outside
of the traditional personal navigation devices," stated Greg McCray,
CEO of Antenova. "The small size and high performance of Antenova's
GPS RF antenna modules in varying orientations make it an ideal
solution for embedding GPS functionality into a variety of mobile
applications, including mobile phones, PDAs, portable media players
(PMPs), trackers, personal safety devices and a multitude of other
location aware devices. The M10214-K1 Evaluation Kit is an attractive
product as it enables customers to actually develop a complete working
GPS solution and allows them to become more experienced with the
benefits of the RF antenna modules earlier in the design cycle.
Because the M10214-A1 RF Antenna Module is the smallest single package
GPS system solution to combine SiRF's GSC3LTf GPS receiver IC and
requires no customization, we're experiencing tremendous demand
for the modules, particularly from companies looking to shorten
design cycles and/or with little or no RF resource."
The GPS RADIONOVA M10214-K1
Evaluation Kits is a complete GPS solution in a box and consists
of two M10214-A1 RF Antenna Modules, one test board, a USB cable,
User Guide and CD-ROM with further documentation. The Evaluation
Kit provides users with the hardware and proper procedures to evaluate
the M10214-A1 GPS RF Antenna Module performance. And when used with
the free downloadable SiRFDemo software from the SiRF website, it
enables users to run the GPS receiver in real-time to collect data
for further analysis.
McCray added, "There
has been overwhelming demand for the Evaluation Kits from our sales
channel. The increasing interest and support of Antenova's products
continue to demonstrate our leadership in providing customers the
broadest range of high performing antennas and RF solutions for
mobile and consumer electronic devices."
The GPS RADIONOVA M10214-K1
Evaluation Kits are available worldwide.
For more information please
visit http://www.antenova.com
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| Nomad.
Metavante Acquires Nomad Payments. 10 January 2008 |
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Metavante Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: MV), a leading provider of
banking and payments technology, today announced the acquisition
of London-based Nomad Payments Limited, a leading provider of prepaid
and debit card processing and licensed software. Nomad will now
operate as Metavante Technologies Limited, part of the Metavante
International Group.
The acquisition is expected to add approximately one percent to
Metavante's 2008 revenue and have no significant impact on the company's
profitability in 2008. The purchase price was approximately $58
million.
Nomad is an early leader and innovator in the European prepaid
payments market, providing processing services for many different
types of payment providers, including gift cards, money share cards,
which enable individuals to provide cash to relatives living, studying
or traveling abroad, and general purpose prepaid cards that can
be used as an alternative to a bank account.
"Acquiring Nomad presents Metavante International Group with the
opportunity to establish a European center of operations, with a
blue-chip client base, multi-currency capabilities, high volume
processing platform, proven business model and an established European
sales channel," said Frank R. Martire, Metavante president and chief
executive officer.
Significant market opportunities include financial institutions,
retailers, government agencies, program managers, open loop gift
cards, professional organizations and affinity groups.
"Metavante's extensive experience in prepaid processing is complementary
and easily transferable to the United Kingdom market," said Donald
W. Layden, Jr., president of the Metavante International Group.
"It also offers a rich opportunity to expand the prepaid processing
value chain by offering synergistic Metavante services such as closed
loop and loyalty programs, and fraud monitoring to U.K. and European
markets."
"Prepaid cards as a direct substitute for today's cash and checks
give Europe's banks an ideal mechanism to achieve efficiencies after
Single Euro Payments Area is in effect," said Gareth Lodge, senior
analyst with TowerGroup, the global research and advisory firm.
"TowerGroup estimates that by 2010, prepaid card usage will be EUR75
billion, a 600 percent increase over 2005, and 375 million cards
will be in circulation, a 1,000 percent increase," he added.
According to John Yeomans, Nomad CEO, "joining an established and
successful prepaid processor like Metavante will enhance Nomad's
products and services, and enable them to be offered to a wider
range of clients throughout the U.K. and Europe. Our company will
greatly benefit from both Metavante's financial strength and established
credibility with financial institutions, making us a more formidable
competitor in our marketplace."
Nomad was established in 1991 as a card payments software provider,
establishing its payment division in 2005. Debit and prepaid card
processing clients include the Bank of Ireland, Clydesdale Bank,
Newcastle Building Society, IDT Financial Services, and Tuxedo Money
Solutions. Licensed software clients include Bank Zachodni WBK,
the fourth largest bank in Poland, and ING Ukraine and Romania,
BRD - Groupe Société Générale, and EFG Eurobank, which operates
in Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine. Since 2000, Nomad was funded
by a venture capital syndicate comprising Spark Ventures investing
through Quester VCT plc, Quester 4 VCT plc and Quester Venture Partnership
and Foresight Group investing through Foresight 4 VCT plc.
In the United States, Metavante Payment Solutions delivers electronic
money movement through an integrated payments network, including
an ATM/PIN-debit network in NYCE, mobile banking and payments delivered
through NYCE, a check image exchange network in Endpoint Exchange,
online bill pay, healthcare payment solutions, a suite of payment
cards and automated clearing house (ACH) processing. Metavante can
help clients grow revenue by capitalizing on the expanding electronic
payments markets, including financial, healthcare and government
payments. Metavante offers clients the efficient and integrated
resources necessary to offer their customers a broad range of payment
options and touch points.
For more information please
visit http://www.nomadsoft.com
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| Datanomic.
Data Quality Product of the Year 2007. 24 January 2008 |
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Data quality specialists
Datanomic today announced that dn:Director 6.1, has won coveted
recognition from the SearchDataManagement.com 2007 Products of the
Year awards by winning the Silver Award in the ‘Data Quality’ category.
The awards were presented
by the editors of TechTarget’s Enterprise Applications Media Group.
The products were judged by the SearchDataManagement.com editorial
staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts,
and consultants. Winners were selected according to innovation,
performance, ease of integration into existing environments, functionality,
value, and ease of use and manageability.
The recent Gartner Magic
Quadrant for data quality platforms (Gartner, June 2007) said that
much of the market's innovation has been coming from outside of
the U.S. and the judges of SearchDataManagement.com agreed. Cambridge,
UK-based Datanomic pulled in high marks for dn:Director 6.1 with
its unified foundation and easy-to-use interface, which helps business
and IT users work collaboratively to understand, improve, protect
and control the quality of all types of data.
Judges also noted Datanomic
dn:Director 6.1's innovative data quality features, including support
for structured and semi-structured data. The text analysis functions
allow users to rapidly profile text data such as product names and
descriptions and guides the creation of new ontologies to parse
free-format text into structured data items. dn:Director is built
around a Java framework, which allows the client server architecture
to be simply deployed on a wide-range of platforms.
dn:Director has consistently
out-performed other data quality tools by between 20 and 40 per
cent. Datanomic’s dn:Director continues to go from strength to strength
and over the past twelve months has been hailed by industry analysts
as the world’s most flexible data quality and integration software.
The dn:Director platform is designed to understand, improve, protect
and control the quality of information in decision support systems
and applications, enabling effective new system implementations,
master data management, regulatory compliance, CRM, ERP and business
intelligence.
In the wider market,
the dn:Director platform has become the benchmark by which other
vendors compare their own functionality. Demand for Datanomic’s
solutions has become so popular that rival companies have even resorted
to branding themselves as Datanomic in an attempt to capture leads.
SearchDataManagement.com
is the Web's best guide for data management professionals and business
leaders. With its combination of news, learning guides, expert advice,
white papers, Webcasts and customized research, SearchDataManagment.com
offers a rich collection of insight on how to efficiently manage
the data supply chain. The site also offers tips on vendors, product
selection, and expert advice. SearchDataManagement.com is part of
the TechTarget network (www.techtarget.com).
For more information
please visit http://www.datanomic.com
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