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TORONTO--(Marketwire -06/12/12)- Social media is gaining a foothold in Canada's workplaces, with personal and professional use overlapping at work, according to the latest survey results from global workforce solutions leader, Kelly Services. Approximately 15 percent of employees approve of the personal use of social media during work hours, while many more view it as disruptive to workplace harmony.

Approximately 54 percent of survey respondents believe that mixing personal and professional connections through social media can cause problems in the workplace.

The findings are part of the latest survey results from the Kelly Global Workforce Index (KGWI), an annual survey conducted by Kelly Services. Nearly 170,000 people in 30 countries participated in the survey, including almost 8,000 in Canada.

"For many workers, social media has become a tool to help them make career decisions and to search for jobs," said Kelly Services Vice President and General Manager of Canadian Operations Kristin Supancich. "But alongside the positive aspects, there remains nervousness about personal and professional uses intermingling."

With the talent war for highly-skilled workers in full swing, it's important to note that more employees with professional and technical skill sets feel it is acceptable to use social media for personal use at work (17 percent) compared to those without these skill sets (12 percent).

Results of the survey in Canada show:

"From the employer's perspective, the saturation of social media in the workplace is occurring faster than any rules designed to manage it," Supancich said. "While many employees are quick to see the benefits, managers are grappling with a host of complex issues relating to privacy, monitoring, and control of sensitive business information."

Complete findings are published in a new report, When Two Worlds Collide - The Rise of Social Media in the Workplace. For more information about the Kelly Global Workforce Index including key regional and generational findings, please visit the Kelly Press Room. Canadian results can be found by visiting kellyservices.ca.

About the Kelly Global Workforce Index

The Kelly Global Workforce Index is an annual survey revealing opinions about work and the workplace from a generational viewpoint. Launched in late 2011, approximately 170,000 people from the Americas, APAC and EMEA participated in the survey. Results will be published throughout 2012 on a variety of topics such as employee retention, social media and the highly virtual workplace.

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FOSTER CITY, Calif., June 12, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EFI(TM) (EFII), a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced PrintMe Mobile 2.2 software which gives IT departments the ability to better control and manage printing from tablets and smartphones in the enterprise. PrintMe Mobile's new capabilities enable leading job accounting applications including Equitrac and PaperCut to track printing from smartphones and tablets. PrintMe Mobile also enhances access control to printers throughout an organization, and provides local release printing to ensure sensitive documents never leave the corporate network and are only printed when requested by a user. A full version of PrintMe Mobile 2.2 software is available for download and a free 45-day trial.

With PrintMe Mobile 2.2, IT departments can account for all printing originating from mobile devices, and implement policies to control access to printers based on a user ID. EFI has added advanced user authentication to enable integration with a corporate LDAP server. This helps companies improve the accuracy of job accounting software by tracking mobile print jobs in the system based the specific user who is printing. IT departments can also use PrintMe Mobile to create and enforce policies to control which printers can be used and what types of printing options are available (black/white or color, stapling, advanced finishing, etc.) for each specific user or groups of users.

"The explosion of tablets in the enterprise has created a serious challenge to tracking, managing and reporting print jobs," said Chris Dance, CEO of PaperCut Software. "The standard AirPrint print job is anonymous and does not provide a way for companies to track who printed it. With PrintMe Mobile working together with PaperCut, companies can now bring mobile printing in line with their job accounting rules in order to properly account for print activity and reduce overall consumables."

PrintMe Mobile 2.2 also delivers secure printing for organizations that have highly sensitive content or tight restrictions on information leaving the company network. Users can send print jobs from anywhere to an internal print queue and release the print using their mobile device once they are standing at a printer.

"For IT departments that want complete mobile printing coverage with the best control, EFI PrintMe Mobile is the industry's only product that provides flexibility, simplicity and security," said John Henze, vice president of Fiery marketing for EFI. "PrintMe Mobile integrates seamlessly into a company's network and security infrastructure to mitigate the IT costs and security risks of supporting mobile printing for all enterprise users. By providing an often overlooked but critical user need for mobile printing, IT departments can increase productivity while reducing help desk costs."

About EFI PrintMe Mobile

PrintMe Mobile is the only enterprise software that enables direct Wi-Fi printing from iPads, iPhones and Android devices, from within the application they are using, to any existing network printer regardless of brand. Users enjoy the ease of simply selecting print within their application and printing to the printers that automatically populate in a drop down menu. Developed for the enterprise, PrintMe Mobile works across multiple subnets, is scalable to thousands of users, and provides powerful management and job reporting capabilities for IT administrators. The software is simple to use, manage, and deploy, often installing in less than 20 minutes. (view demo here.)

EFI logos and EFI PrintMe Mobile images are available in the EFI press room.

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D-Link's MovieNite Plus streaming media player accesses a whole lot more content than its little brother, but keeps the price well under control at $80.

Roku may have a worthwhile competitor on its hands. D-Link has has just announced an addition to its media-player line, the D-Link MovieNite Plus.

The MovieNite Plus, also affectionately referred to as the DSM-312, carries on the tradition of a small set-top box designed specifically to stream media from the Internet. D-Link introduced itsMovieNite player (DSM-310)earlier this year at a surprisingly low $49, sold exclusively through Walmart. At the time of its release, the MovieNite struck us a potentially strong competitor to the wildly popular Roku box, but we had some concerns over the MovieNites limited content resources.

Thats where the Plus in the MovieNite Plus comes in. While the $49 MovieNite player is limited to streaming media from six providers (Vudu, Netflix, Pandora, YouTube, Picasa, and mydlink) the MovieNite Plus will source content from up to 130 different channels and play it back in 1080p resolution (when available). The most interesting additions to channel line-up include Flickr, Crackle, Facebook and Twitter. D-Link also indicated Hulu Plus would be on-board later. Amazon Instant Video does not appear to be on the roster for the moment.

The MovieNite Plus will run buyers $80 and is slated to hit both virtual and brick-and-mortar shelves in July. For now, pre-orders are being accepted at Amazon.com.

It remains to be seen if the MovieNite Plus has enough going for it to lure away would-be Roku customers. The Roku, for now, still offers access to more desirable content and it can play games, to boot.

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Police surround home in hunt for Auburn suspect Police surround home in hunt for Auburn suspect Alabama authorities say two men are now charged with hindering the search for a man suspected of killing three people and wounding three more during a party near Auburn University. Authorities searching for a man charged with fatally shooting three people near Auburn University converged Monday night on a house in Alabama's capital where they believe he may be hiding. Apple kicks Google Maps off iPhone, adds Facebook Apple kicks Google Maps off iPhone, adds Facebook Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to show off new iPhone software, updated Mac computers and provide more details on future releases of Mac software when he kicks off the company's annual conference for software developers... Steve Jobs' vendetta against Google remains alive, nine months after the Apple co-founder died feeling betrayed by a company he once embraced as an ally. 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BLAIRSVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A Ku Klux Klan group wants to join Georgia's "Adopt-A-Highway" program for litter removal, which could force state officials to make difficult decisions on the application.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/LTKlcS ) reports that state officials could be forced to choose between approving the request, denying it and facing a likely legal fight or ending the state's 23-year-old Adopt-A-Highway program. The program features road signs for groups who volunteer to help beautify state highways.

At issue is an application filed by International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Union County involving a one-mile stretch of Ga. 515 in the Appalachian Mountains.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is reviewing the request. State officials plan to meet with lawyers from the state Attorney General's Office on Monday to decide how to proceed.

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Imagination Technologies, the British manufacturer of Pure digital radios, has boosted its control of Audioboo, in a complex deal with another Audioboo investor, UBC Media Group (LSE: UBC.L - news) .

Imagination and UBC have worked closely on digital radio projects in the past, and plan to use Audioboo to fuel interest in traditional broadcasting services and devices.

Simon Cole, UBCs chief executive, said: "It's an incredible tool. It's incredibly simple and does an incredibly simple job which nothing else does.

We have both got bodies with bruises on them from trying to develop digital radio over the last ten years [and established that] the space we are both interested in is the connected device.

The big move in media is from a space where you stuck a transmitter on a hill and broadcasted to people who listen or watch you, to one where it is two-way.

Hossein Yassaie, Imaginations chief executive, added: If you want people to contribute to radio, Audioboo is the most effective way of doing that. Its about making the broadcasting industry much more modern much closer to where the internet is [in terms of harnessing user-generated content].

Imagination, which already owned just over a third of Audioboo, has swapped its shares for a stake in UBC Media, making UBC Audioboos biggest investor with just over 40pc of the firm.

Under the terms of the deal, Imagination has also acquired UBC shares for cash, handing it a total of 9.8pc of the listed media business. Shares in UBC jumped more than 20pc to 2.29p in morning trading, pushing its market capitalisation to nearly 4.5m.

The agreement values Audioboo at around 1m - far short of other social networks. The firm, which allows users to share short audio files swiftly and easily, has 300,000 registered subscribers and is growing that figure at around 7pc a month.

Audioboo's founder, Mark Rock, and around five individual investors own the rest of the business.

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