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MURRAY HILL, N.J., May 21, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The production process for powdered metal parts can be greatly enhanced by precisely controlling the chemical carbon potential of the sintering atmosphere. This is the focus of a paper to be presented by Linde engineers at PowderMet 2012, sponsored by the 2012 International Conference on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials, to be held June 10-13 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.

The paper, entitled, Improved Quality by Carbon Potential Control in Metal Injection Molding Sinter Furnace Atmospheres, will be presented by Tony Palermo, Metallurgy Program Manager for Linde in North America, and Akin Malas, Head of Heat Treatment Industry Segment, also from Linde. The paper describes a means to control the chemical carbon potential of the sintering atmosphere in order to produce higher quality product while, in effect, lowering the cost of production, enhancing customer satisfaction, and expanding the current and future market penetration of parts produced by metal injection molding and powder injection molding.

"There are a number of practices which, if not controlled properly, may contribute to the generation of defects or insufficient sintered part properties or appearance, which reduce quality, increase costs, and lead to dissatisfied customers and, ultimately, diminished market share," Palermo points out in his paper. "We have found that one of the root causes of these problems resides in the surface decarburization or carburization of the sintered parts which may be the result of carbon potential fluctuation in the sintering process."

The problem can be eliminated by using the Linde SINTERFLEX(R) carbon control system to precisely manage and control the carbon potential in the furnace throughout the sintering process. The new technology uses continuous atmosphere sampling, a proprietary oxygen probe, and a carbon monoxide analyzer to continuously calculate atmosphere carbon potential and provide the addition, when needed, of an appropriate trim gas mixture to maintain carbon potential within a desired, pre-set range. "The objective of this technology is to maintain a furnace atmosphere carbon potential that contributes to the processing of sintered parts that meet required, or desired, carbon composition and consequent properties," Palermo said.

"The SINTERFLEX system takes the guesswork out of maintaining the proper atmosphere in the furnace. By precisely controlling the carbon potential in real time, the system can produce consistently high quality parts every time," said Palermo, who will co-present the paper at the Enhanced Processing Session on Monday afternoon, June 12.

The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 50,500 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2011 financial year, it achieved sales of EUR 13.787 bn (USD 18.1 billion). The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment -- in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The Group is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

For more information, see The Linde Group online at http://www.linde.com

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LINTHICUM, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Continuing its drive to help service providers boost revenue and better differentiate the customer experience, Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ:CIEN - News), the network specialist, today unveiled OneConnect Intelligent Control Plane, its next generation control plane software. OneConnect introduces a new level of programmability and advanced virtualization features for the Wide Area Network (WAN) as well as enables rich policy-based control more extensively across the network. As a result, many network operators deploying Ciena OneConnect can benefit from more than 40 percent bandwidth savings for service restoration, up to 30 percent latency reduction in highly meshed networks, and new differentiated service offerings including secure Optical Virtual Private Networks (O-VPN).

Cienas leadership in control plane technology stems from a 12 year history of innovation and live field deployments in some of the worlds largest, most mission-critical and most performance-demanding networks, representing thousands of nodes and hundreds of thousands of circuits. In fact, more than 90 percent of field-deployed Ciena Packet-Optical Switching systems run Cienas control plane for automated service creation, mesh restoration and service differentiation with some customers reporting unprecedented 99.9999 percent (six-9s) reliability due to the performance and robustness of Cienas control plane technology.

Building on this heritage, OneConnect includes numerous engineering innovations and optimizations it creates, manages and restores bandwidth services faster, and with a richer set of policy options, than competitive control plane offerings. The next-generation OneConnect control plane software is also being made available on Cienas multi-layer 6500 Packet-Optical Transport platform, amplifying the benefits of a common intelligent control plane broadly across the network when combined with Cienas switching systems.

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o More than 15 Tier One service providers leverage Cienas control plane for global mesh capabilities for service differentiation, streamlined service activation, and increased network reliability

o Regional operators for local capacity expansion and service flexibility in backbone networks; and,

o Global enterprises for mission-critical Enterprise IT with distributed intelligence and dynamic restoration.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Comcast Spotlight, the advertising sales division of Comcast, is launching Comcast Media 360 (CM 360), a new business unit focused on helping marketers take advantage of rapidly developing cross-platform advertising opportunities. CM 360 will be led by Group Vice President Andrew Ward.

The Comcast Media 360 team will build on Comcasts investments in making content available whenever and wherever consumers want to watch it, with scalable advertising solutions focused on three primary components:

Comcast Media 360s marketing solutions include on-air advertising across dozens of networks in more than 80 markets, dynamic ad insertion (DAI), long-form video-on-demand (VOD) content, interactive program guide (IPG) banner messages, XFINITY.com and mobile applications.

Viewers increasingly expect to control where, when and how they watch their favorite shows, while advertisers are focused on delivering the right message to the right audience at the right timeand Comcast Media 360 is the bridge that will link them, said Charlie Thurston President of Comcast Spotlight. Were singularly focused on delivering impressions, and by putting all of our resources together, we can offer an unmatched marketing solution that delivers those impressions on TV, online and on-the-go.

Starcom MediaVest Group Exchange (SMGx) secured the participation of three clients to utilize CM360s capabilities, with campaigns scheduled to run later this year.

Comcast Media 360 will provide advertisers with the opportunity to not only execute an integrated, cross-platform campaign at scale, but also understand, for the first time, how multiple screens work together, said Tracey Scheppach, Executive Vice President of Innovations at SMGx. Our clients are demanding addressability, interactivity and accountability on all platforms. The formation of CM360 is a huge step in that direction.

About Starcom MediaVest Group

Starcom MediaVest Group is the Human Experience Company. Our dream is to grow our clients' business by transforming human behavior through uplifting, meaningful human experience. These brand 'experiences' are brought to life by distinct, strategic point-of views Truth and Design and Space for Ideas-- created and owned by SMG's two global agency brands: MediaVest and Starcom, respectively. Ranked one of the largest brand communications groups in the world, Starcom MediaVest Group (www.smvgroup.com) encompasses an integrated network of human experience strategists, investment specialists, content creators and digital experts. With nearly 6,000 employees in 110 offices worldwide, SMG partners with the world's leading companies including The Coca-Cola Company, Kraft Foods, Mars, Inc., P&G, Samsung, Walmart, among others. In 2010, SMG was the #1 ranked Global Media Agency (AdAge) and "Media Agency of the Decade" by Adweek. SMG is part of Publicis Groupe [Euronext Paris: FR0000130577], the world's third largest communications group. Publicis Groupe is also ranked as the worlds second largest media counsel and buying group and is the first global network in digital and healthcare communications. Publicis Groupe launched VivaKi (www.vivaki.com) to leverage the combined scale of the autonomous operations of Digitas, Denuo, Razorfish, Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia to develop new services, tools, and next generation digital platforms. Web site: http://www.publicisgroupe.com

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GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman, May 22, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- O2Micro(R) International Limited (Nasdaq:OIIM - News) was issued 20 claims under United States patent number 8,143,863 for its Battery Current control.

This invention reduces the number of expensive power MOSFETs from 4 to 2 in battery systems. Furthermore, it enables the power MOSFETs to become part of a controlled feedback system with faster charging and better load fault monitoring and control.

"O2Micro's invention will lower the cost, and improve performance and safety of battery management systems," stated Bill Densham, strategic marketing director, O2Micro.

About O2Micro

Founded in April 1995, O2Micro develops and markets innovative power management and e-commerce components for the Computer, Consumer, Industrial, and Communications markets. Products include Intelligent Lighting, Battery Management, and Power Management.

O2Micro International maintains an extensive portfolio of intellectual property with 19,795 patent claims granted, and over 21,000 more pending. The company maintains offices worldwide. Additional company and product information can be found on the company website at http://www.o2micro.com.

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Statements made in this release that are not historical, including statements regarding O2Micro's or management's intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations, representations, projections, plans or predictions of the future, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in these statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as reduced demand for products of electronic equipment manufacturers which include O2Micro's products due to adverse economic conditions in general or specifically affecting O2Micro's markets, technical difficulties and delays in the developments process, and errors in the products. You are also referred to the Form F-1 in connection with the company's initial public offering in August 2000, Form F-3 in connection with the company's public offering in November 2001, and the annual reports on Form 20-F, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. The company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire -05/22/12)- iSIGN Media Solutions Inc. ("iSIGN" or "Company") (ISD.V), a leading provider of interactive mobile advertising solutions that serves advertisers, manufacturers, retailers and advertising agencies throughout North America and DAT Media ("DAT"), a privately owned and operated full service supplier of digital media products and services located in Varsity Lakes, Queensland, Australia, are pleased to announce that they have signed a non-binding Letter of Intent ("LOI").

Under the terms of the LOI, DAT has agreed to an upfront payment of $250,000 US, in exchange for 230 licenses for iSIGN's Smart Antenna ("SA") and related Interactive Marketing Solutions ("IMS") 3.1 software, for a period of three years. In addition, DAT will receive exclusive rights to the territories of Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia. iSIGN will receive $1,095 in licensing fees per unit per year.

To satisfy DAT's desire for an ownership position in the Company, iSIGN will grant to DAT, 250,000 options, with pricing still to be determined, subject to the approval of the Company's Board of Directors and the TSX - Venture Exchange.

"We initially met with the DAT Media people at the DSE trade show this past March," said Alex Romanov, iSIGN's Chief Executive Officer. "DAT has a very good reputation in Australia and a strong client base. We feel that our software will be an excellent fit with their products and cliental."

"We were very impressed by what we saw at the DSE show in March and were very encouraged by our testing of their IMS software and Smart Antenna earlier this month," stated Mr. Andrew Becker, Managing Director of DAT Media. "We believe that this technology has great potential and have had positive feedback from the clients that we discussed the IMS system with."

"iSIGN's technology is innovative and provides for the measurement of the delivered messaging to consumers," added Mr. Becker. "We are excited about launching this technology in our part of the world. We strongly feel that iSIGN's technology will be both well received and successful. Our expectations are high and we are confident that our expectations will be achieved."

"We are pleased that DAT expressed a desire for an ownership position in the Company as it indicates their strong belief in iSIGN's products and future success," added Mr. Romanov. "This is the second of four licensing agreements that we are currently negotiating."

About iSIGN Media

iSIGN Media is a North American leader in multiplatform advertising solutions that utilize Bluetooth, Mobile, WiFi and Location-Aware technologies to deliver rich media, permission-based messages to engage consumers more deeply and cost-effectively. The resulting business intelligence and real time metrics, gathered through iSIGN's patent-pending advertising platform, deliver insights into emerging consumer behaviors that help advertisers measure their efforts and make better business decisions to increase ROI and customer loyalty. Headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with R&D and customer support operations in Vancouver, BC and Tampa, FL, the Company has also grown to become the largest owner/operator of in-store digital media in Canada with 5,600 digital signs in 1,400 locations. Partners include: AOpen America Inc. and IBM, with solution distribution by BlueStar Inc. iSIGN is publicly traded in Toronto (TSX.V). Additional information can be found at http://www.isignmedia.com.

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