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MAHARASHTRA, India, Sept. 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Cognosys Technologies has launched an end to end CogDAM Digital Asset Management suite with single click encoding service with live streaming capabilities based on Azure Media Services. This media service allows clients to have a single integrated environment to manage complete media portfolio in house with feedback, rating, user tracking as well as ability to push to media server right from the convenience of a mobile phone. Images and videos of any event can be immediately transmitted to server and encoded automatically in multiple video formats including MP4, flv, swf, avi, wmv, wma etc without any manual intervention. This enables clients to stream content to any user whether on their windows laptops, mac, iphone, ipad or andorid powered phones without spending days trying to encode in multiple video formats and then get it loaded to different media servers.

Additionally, this could be combined with Digital Management Rights to control access to content to offer subscription based services. Business use case of this service involves around: A) Corporate Intranet TV: Clients can have an internal streaming service to provide their employees, suppliers and clients about their products, to import trainings to their dealers or internal staff and also to propagate messages and event launches.

B) Corporate Training management software: Clients can use this to track trainings imparted to internal users and can track feedback, ratings as well as build a social community around their internal media catalogue. Managers can assign various compulsory trainings to their teams and track progress and ensure the teams have gone through the required training programs and required assessment.

C) Event Live Streaming software :Live streaming of content is an important requirement of any event and given the diversity of formats which is required to support each kind of personal devices users are having, it is necessary to have an integrated media services solution which is able to provide same in a unified manner. Instead of complex setup for live streaming users are able to stream content using a push to stream option without any technical knowledge. D) Encoding Service: Clients can convert from multiple different video formats including HLS streaming content , H .264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VC-1, Windows Media video, FLV, SWf etc with an option to create custom bitrate ,fps and audio formats.

E) On demand streaming service: Clients looking for media solutions can have nearly unlimited media storage on azure blob storage and offer on demand multiple format streaming service with Cognosys Digital Asset Management service.

About Cognosys: Cognosys Technologies, a Red Herring Asia 2012 Top 100 winner, is a Global ISV and technical consulting company leveraging cutting edge technologies to provide custom software solutions across diverse domains with special emphasis to healthcare, banking & financial services, ERP/ CRM, high performance Cloud/ Cluster computing, complex event processing, enterprise mobile applications and creative embedded deployments. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Cognosys Technologies collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses.

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Praetorian Labs and Crowd Sourced Investigations, LLC, today announced the launch of Connected To The Case, a revolutionary new approach to crime fighting that leverages social media to connect citizens with information that can solve crimes to the agencies investigating those crimes.

Using the power and reach of leading edge social media tools, Connected To The Case was designed to help law enforcement solve crime, return the missing and protect children from violence, exploitation and abuse by connecting the known to the unknown. With the click of a button, Connected To The Case utilizes profile information provided by users on Facebook and other social media platforms to show real-time results for how citizens are personally connected to active cases. These shared connections lead to greater awareness, which result in more tips being generated for law enforcement. Users who share information control their privacy every step of the way.

The ability to harness the true power of social media, and focus it on a case that needs to be solved will help law enforcement close cases more quickly and bring closure to the families of victims who are still waiting for justice, said Morgan Wright, CEO and Chief Crime Fighter of Crowd Sourced Investigations, LLC. As a former law enforcement officer and detective, I know full well the need to quickly and efficiently close active cases.

Praetorian Group and Praetorian Labs are proud to incubate Connected To The Case, a great resource that allows the general public to participate and help public safety and first responders solve crimes every day, said Alex Ford, CEO of Praetorian Group, the recognized digital platform leader in the Public Safety market with properties such as PoliceOne.com, FireRescue1.com and EMS1.com. We believe this innovation will have a profound impact in helping to improve society and assist law enforcement in the coming decade.

Connected To The Case has also been designed as a national community policing resource, allowing citizens and law enforcement to collaborate across jurisdictions and state lines to solve crime.

The ability to use modern technology to improve communication and information sharing between police and the community on crime issues is a force multiplier that is more relevant and needed than ever before, said Todd Miller, Director of Public Safety, Mankato, MN Department of Public Safety and Chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Community Policing Section. With budgets limited by current economic conditions, this free resource to law enforcement from Connected To The Case can be an effective means of helping make our communities safer.

In collaboration with the Officer Down Memorial Page (www.odmp.org), Connected To The Case will feature a permanent memorial and link to all the unsolved Officer Down cases for the last 20 years. We're excited to partner with Connected To The Case to bring more awareness to unsolved police murders, remarked Chris Cosgriff, Executive Director of The Officer Down Memorial Page. Where other leads have run dry, we're hoping that social media may provide new tips for investigators to follow so that justice can finally be served for these fallen heroes, their families, and fellow officers.

Beginning Oct. 1, law enforcement agencies will be able to pre-register for free access to Connected To The Case here: http://www.c2case.com/register. More information can be found at facebook.com/connectedtothecase or on Twitter - @c2case. The main website will launch Oct. 16th - http://www.c2case.com.

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Workers plant rice at a co-op farm in Nampo, North Korea, on May 12. The North Korean leadership has given indications that it may be preparing to implement measures to liberalize the country's economy.

Workers plant rice at a co-op farm in Nampo, North Korea, on May 12. The North Korean leadership has given indications that it may be preparing to implement measures to liberalize the country's economy.

An unusual parliamentary meeting is due to open Tuesday in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, amid speculation of sweeping changes ahead. In the first such confirmation from within the country, farmers told The Associated Press they would be given more control over their crops under new agricultural rules. Long seen as an economic basket case, North Korea now could be on the cusp of economic change.

A recent state television broadcast shows North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un, with a straw hat jauntily perched on his head, visiting a collective farm, examining a group of skinny cows. Nobody knows for sure what's happening inside North Korea, but the country may be on the verge of something big.

One recent pilot program allowed some farmers to keep 30 percent of their crops, instead of giving almost everything to the state as in the past. It also shrunk collective farms to just three or four people, according to Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University in Seoul.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center) visits the Pyongyang Vegetable Science Institute in the country's capital in this undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via the Korean News Service on Sept. 22.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center) visits the Pyongyang Vegetable Science Institute in the country's capital in this undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via the Korean News Service on Sept. 22.

"It's very important. They're making the family unit into the major, official production unit in state-run collective farms," he says.

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Re "Romney tries to stem damage from controversy" (Sept. 19):

It gets a little tiresome to hear the mainstream media say that Mitt Romney is undertaking damage control regarding his remarks concerning half the U.S. population. There is no damage control going on or is it needed when one speaks the truth. It appears that the mainstream media cannot stand to hear the truth and will attempt to marginalize those who speak it if it does not jibe with their version. The American public would do well to pay attention to what is said, especially when it is backed up by facts as is the case of Mr. Romney's remarks.

-- Lawrence A. Calabro, Northridge

The video that revealed an "off the cuff" statement by presidential candidate Mitt Romney regarding how he felt about a majority of Americans believing themselves to be victims when it comes to wanting government support is important to hear prior to the elections. Even if he felt those words were not communicated as elegantly as he would have preferred, they still reflect an elitist attitude that does not favor the middle and lower economic classes. It reminds me of a recent disagreement that I had with a Republican who criticized me for not thinking "rich enough" because I supported Obama. I replied with comments that seemed relevant to Romney's video "faux pas" - that I do

-- Isadora Johnson, Seal Beach

-- Marjorie Eisenberg, West Hills

-- Irving Leemon, Northridge

-- Robert Reilly, Long Beach

Is NASA so ashamed of GM, Ford and Chrysler not to select an American (icon) motor vehicle company to transport Endeavour through the streets of Los Angeles to its new and final home at California Science Center? CSC may have a "marketing arrangement" with Toyota, but NASA still owns and controls the shuttle until final release to the CSC. Endeavour should be pulled by a Detroit pickup with a large billboard in its bed listing all U.S. contractors that built this marvelous vehicle. So NASA, what form of political correctness is on display here?

-- Mario Marchisio, Rancho Palos Verdes

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News Corp's ( NWS ) $2 billion bid for Consolidated Media holdings last week will give the company control of Fox Sports in Australia and 50% ownership of Foxtel, which has near monopoly in the Australian pay-TV market. The company's current structure includes Fox Sports in the U.S. and some other countries along with the control of Sky Italia, which is a dominant pay-TV subscription service in Italy. The publishing business is going to separate soon and News Corp will focus entirely on media networks, films and pay-TV services internationally.

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The Strategic Advantage Of The Deal

Sports programming is a lucrative business and ESPN represents gold standard in the industry. Despite Disney ( DIS ) being a diversified media giant in terms of businesses it deals in, ESPN alone contributes close to 45% to Disney's value. This is due to high pay-TV penetration and high fee per subscriber charged by ESPN. Similarly, Fox Sports is critical to News Corp. Just in the U.S. alone, Fox Sports earns approximately $2.5 billion in annual revenues from subscriptions, thus contributing close to 15% to News Corp's stock.

Therefore, it makes sense for the company to aggressively pursue the sports programming market and getting full control of Fox Sports in the Australian market is the right move. A multitude of international media networks are result of joint ventures between big media companies from the U.S. and local media players. Wherever it makes sense, News Corp will try to convert these joint ventures to full ownerships. Sports programming is one such area given the high fee per subscriber potential and sustained demand among the viewers.

As far as Sky Italia is concerned, the value contribution is low. However Foxtel's story could be different since the company almost has a near monopoly over the Australian pay-TV market. News Corp could use this to its advantage given that it owns content as well, and continue to maintain that monopoly. It could also push on-demand content from its library and thus charge additional fee from subscribers.

Australian Market Is Small

Even though upscale, the overall market is small in Australia given its low population. The Australian population is less than 10% of the U.S. population and that renders the overall revenue potential a little low in comparison to many other potential markets. Additionally, it is not yet clear whether News Corp will be able to actually acquire Consolidated Media with its bid and it is likely that it may face some challenge from other bidders.

Our current price estimate for News Corp which stands at $26.50 , implying a premium of about 10% to the market price.

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