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ViXS XCode 5100 family, the first commercially shipping, quad stream HD transcoder and XConnex 1030 enable converged DOCSIS Media Gateway applications

TORONTO , March 9, 2012 /CNW/ -ViXS Systems Inc. announces today two System on Chip (SoC) solutions enabling DOCSIS media gateways - the XCode 5191, a quad HD to HD transcoder, in production today, and the XConnex 1030 MoCA2.0 solution, general sampling in Q2 2012. Both devices are cost optimized to be used in DOCSIS media gateway platforms.

As cable operators near completion of the roll-out of DOCSIS3.0 infrastructure, DOCSIS media gateways allow operators to take advantage of the high downstream bandwidth to deliver IP Video over DOCSIS to subscriber homes. With the rapid adoption of tablets, smart phones and other mobile platforms, consumers are demanding content on any device with a capable display, over any home network or outside the home. The demand for anytime, anywhere entertainment is leading to an explosive growth in the number of client devices in the subscriber home, and dramatically altering the consumer viewing experience. The XCode and XConnex families provide the transcoding and MoCA technologies to address these trends in DOCSIS media gateways.

The XCode 5100 family presents a powerful solution for quad transcoding functionality within DOCSIS media gateways. It is bolstered by the deployed and robust ViXS Xtensiv software including Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), and transcryption capabilities, and by the unique applications hosting capabilities found in the XCode 5191. Integrated with and running on the XCode SOC is the Apple content streaming protocol software called HTTP-Live server or HLS to support Apple iPad devices. ViXS transcoding at low bit rates ensures excellent video quality on iPAD / tablets, PCs and smart phones even in a bandwidth constrained home network. XCode5191 also integrates dual Gigabit Ethernet interface providing seamless connection to DOCSIS3.0 modem SoCs. All of this enables an optimal system architecture for delivery of IP video and seamless integration of video, voice, data, and Conditional Access (CA) and Digital Rights Management (DRM) in a DOCSIS media gateway.

"The XCode 5100 family, deployed with pioneering patented and proprietary technology, has truly set a new standard with its ability to process multiple high definition streams, and to do multiple concurrent operations on each of those streams", said David Jones , VP Marketing & Business Development at ViXS. "XCode 5100 family combined with XConnex MoCA products provide the ideal platform for manufacturers designing converged DOCSIS modem / gateway applications."

ViXS XConnex 1030 MoCA 2.0 SOC delivers 400+ Mbps data throughput over 16 nodes enabling distribution of multiple HD streams within the home. XConnex 1030 also supports 500 Mbps of throughput for two node Turbo mode with full backward interoperability to MoCA 1.1 devices and the ViXS XConnex 1020 and 1025 devices. XConnex 1030 supports MoCA 2.0 power modes and advanced security features. XConnex 1030 paired with ViXS' XConnex 1000 MoCA 2.0 RF Transceiver with integrated LNA, Power Amplifier (PA) and Transmit/Receive (T/R) switch provides a robust high performance end-to-end MoCA 2.0 solution.

Some of the features for XCode 5191 include:

About ViXS Systems Inc.

ViXS is a multimedia solutions innovator providing technologies for processing, managing, securing and distributing high quality video and audio allowing seamless control, conversion, and connectivity between many classes and sizes of digital entertainment devices.

ViXS supplies advanced System-on-Chip semiconductors, software solutions and hardware reference designs for the world's top manufacturers of Digital TVs, DVDs, Set-top boxes, Personal Video Recorders, PCs, Network-Attached Storage devices, Residential/Home Gateways, Blu-ray players/recorders, as well as Broadcast and Professional Equipment OEMs.

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Experience the connected digital home delivered by ViXS' smart processing solutions

TORONTO , March 9, 2012 /CNW/ - ViXS Systems Inc. will demonstrate to cable operators the latest in the connected home digital media processing and networking technologies at the CableLabs Winter Conference in Philadelphia March 11 - 13.

"With the rapid growth in tablets, smartphones, and mobile devices, consumers are demanding anytime, anywhere entertainment on any smart device inside the home or outside the home. ViXS' smart processors put the company firmly at the center of this new TV viewing experience," said Sally Daub , President and CEO of ViXS Systems. "ViXS looks forward to demonstrating how its leading-edge technology enables a large portfolio of new advanced networked media devices, including: media gateways, advanced set top boxes, and streaming media and connectivity solutions."

Transcoding, media processing and home networking are critical to maintaining a managed networked digital media revolution. At the CableLabs Winter Conference, open only to CableLabs member companies and demonstrating vendors, ViXS will showcase its latest solutions to leading cable MSOs. The following demonstrations will be shown in ViXS' private demo room:

About ViXS Systems Inc.

ViXS is a multimedia solutions innovator providing technologies for processing, managing, securing and distributing high quality video and audio allowing seamless control, conversion, and connectivity between many classes and sizes of digital entertainment devices.

ViXS supplies advanced System-on-Chip semiconductors, software solutions and hardware reference designs for the world's top manufacturers of Digital TVs, DVDs, Set-top boxes, Personal Video Recorders, PCs, Network-Attached Storage devices, Residential/Home Gateways, Blu-ray players/recorders, as well as Broadcast and Professional Equipment OEMs.

ViXS is headquartered in Toronto , Canada with global operations and offices in Europe , Asia and North America. ViXS has filed more than 373 patents worldwide with over 114 patents being issued to date. Listed for four years running as one of Deloitte's fastest growing North American companies, ViXS is setting new standards in the way digital entertainment is viewed and transmitted across an endless array of multimedia products.

For more information on ViXS, please visit our website:www.vixs.com.

VIXS, the ViXS logo, XCode, XConnex and Xtensiv are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ViXS. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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ORLANDO, Fla., March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Mindpix Corp.'s (Pinksheets: MPIX.PK - News) subsidiary, eMax Media Inc., has signed a music marketing licensing agreement with Starfest Direct, a division of PBS Holding Inc. Roxanna Weber, CEO of Mindpix stated, "This is the first of several media licensing agreements that are being signed by eMax Media Group and enables them to monetize their media holdings with royalty income. This contract should generate a minimum of three Million dollars in sales to the partnership over the next year. The extensive music and media libraries owned by eMax Media Group are growing each day."

Starfest Direct and eMax Media Group will jointly market downloadable music through the Starfest Direct Network. Starfest Direct is a direct sales company. The media marketing and distribution licensing agreement allows the Starfest Direct network to merchandise 500 songs from the eMax Media's music catalog. eMax Media plans to add more music titles to the agreement throughout each year. This marketing agreement allows both Starfest and eMax Media Group to promote the songs throughout their networks and to add more entertainment content to their delivery systems. Ed Vakser, CEO stated, "Our team is extremely excited to include this new content into our catalog. In the world where Content is king, this is great content and a great business opportunity for our new venture. We are very excited to launch the content as part of our ever expanding catalog. Our joint venture will create one of the largest "on Demand" content systems for the direct sales industry. The vast content and our sales software will be the catalyst of a new global direct sales model."

One of the major enhancements to the Starfest Direct system is the ability to sell digital products. The new download system includes technologies that will control all access to the downloadable product through the use of encrypted keys; allowing the enforcement of download rights, including limiting the number of downloads within a certain period of time. The digital content will be stored directly in the database for even more protection. This prevents someone from "giving away" a download link which would allow someone to download Starfest's new digital product without paying for it.

About PBS Holding Inc.

PBS Holding Inc. is a Publicly Trading Company trading on OTC Markets under the symbol PBHG, http://www.pbsholdinginc.com. The company is focused on growth by mergers and acquisitions of technology, media, multimedia, television, Film productions and content development. As a wholly own subsidiary, Starfest Direct Inc is utilized for its high end Direct Sales Technology EnterpriseSystem. Starfest Direct is a virtual product and services catalog system designed to facilitate sales, membership accounting and maintenance http://www.starfestdirect.com

About Starfest Direct:

Starfest Direct is a direct sales company featuring an aggressive compensation component for professional distributors in network marketing. Using proprietary software andtechnology, the Starfest Direct plan features a unique custom binary and unilevel combination plan with additional lifestyle, team, and executive bonuses.

About Artfest International, Inc.

Artfest International, Inc. brings together artists, investors, decorators, designers, private collectors and art galleries. Artfest International's corporate site is http://www.artfestinternational.com. Artfest's subsidiaries are Art Channel, Inc. (www.artchannel.tv), and PBS Holding Inc., ( PBHG) Starfest Direct, Inc. (www.Starfestdirect.com), offering the most exciting product and rewards program in the history of direct sales marketing. And Tradestar Resources Corporation, (TSRR) a sports and entertainment production company.

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Jamie Becklandis a digital and social media strategist at Janrain,where he helps Fortune 1000 companies integrate social media technologies into their websites to improve user acquisition and engagement. He has built online communities since 2004. He tweets as@Beckland.

Never completely off the radar, privacy concerns recently stepped back into the spotlight.

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In the past months alone, privacy issues have emerged from all corners. The California Attorney General is twisting arms for better app disclosures, and startup Path apologized for scraping address books. And during February's OpenDialogue, CEO of Thornley Fallis Joseph Thornley claimed that Facebook violates our privacy day by day, because its impossible to give informed consent. But the privacy conversation has shifted in an important way. In the past, identity providers like Facebook and Google were blasted for their obtuse and complicated privacy policies. Questions still remain on that front, but by and large, identity providers have given users more control, and the uprisings have quelled for the moment. Consider the difference in the response to Facebooks 2007 Beacon program vs. the new Facebook Open Graph protocol. The former was lambasted as a gross violation of user trust, was built without disclosure in mind, and was killed. Eventually Mark Zuckerberg admitted that it was a mistake. By contrast, the frictionless sharing capabilities of the new Open Graph protocols have not seen any serious backlash (despite protests from Marshall Kirkpatrick, who maintains that it doesn't make sense to roadblock a link). The good news is that authorizing third parties to use an existing social identity is a one-way flow of information: from the identity provider to the application that the user has authorized. User profile data from a brand website or app is not shared with Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn or any other identity provider. Your browsing paths are not suddenly available to social networks, and your behavior after authentication is only available to the website you are actually on. But increasingly, the privacy conversation has widened to ask what apps are doing with the permissions they request, and how the information is actually being used. In order to understand what is actually happening with user data, we need to answer three separate questions.

Different identity providers offer differing amounts of information about a user, and require different access credentials. For example, Google delivers a verified and authenticated email address with a basic permission, while Twitter does not deliver any email address at all. My company has indexed the critical data elements and permissions available on more than 20 platforms. On top of what is available, app developers must determine which permissions and data elements they will request from the identity provider. This is implemented on an app-by-app basis; therefore, users can expect no shortcuts when reviewing the now commonplace permission screens that appear when we authenticate through social channels.

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Users can grant apps permission to access field-level information, but if those fields are blank, the identity provider will return a blank value. For example, if the birthday field is not filled out on LinkedIn, users can still use LinkedIn to authenticate, but the application will not be able to automatically send those users free coffee on their birthdays, for example. This is a crude line of defense, but its important to remember. Even when a list of permissions looks long and possibly intimidating, since people use specific identities for different purposes, some of the data may not be available. And with more identity providers offering distinct views into a users identity, its less likely that a complete picture of a user is available from any app in particular.

Its impossible to know exactly what information gets dropped into an applications database, but the reality is that social profile data is incredibly complicated to store and manage. Even when applications receive a data payload from the identity provider, there's no guarantee that the data is being collected somewhere.

However, any profile data that is presented back to the user within the app experience is clearly being stored. If a user sees a list of her friends who also use the app, its clear that the social graph has been shared to the application. For app developers, then, the decision about what permissions to ask for becomes easy: Only ask for what you will use in the experience you are designing. If there is not an immediate use case, dont ask for permission at that time. Its possible to go back to users and ask for additional permissions and data when they want to interact with a specific experience. Align what the user is giving up (his data) with what you are giving him (a valuable way to use his data). Each user will weigh privacy concerns differently, both for himself and for the brand that is requesting the information. The brand relationship, though, ends up being the most important consideration.

In a complicated environment, with so many privacy factors to consider, users often fast-forward their decisions about whether to share social profile data based on soft factors like brand trust. If a user trusts Coke (or the Washington Post, or Zynga), he will likely assume that the brand will use personal data responsibly and for the users benefit. What brands do you trust with your data?

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07-03-2012 10:43 Teflon Media Group, Chicago's #1 entertainment company for the underground, pulls it off again. We invaded the Rap Factory [2315 W. Fullerton] for "Ballin' Outta Control II hosted by Looch Da Spokesman. Artists included Soundmaster T, D da Don, Tragic, BBI/BMC, Albo, Named Bran, Big Mel, Fatz Mack, Sonny Blac & EMG, Yac of Nu-Money Family Ent., Yung Barz & Monsta Muzik, and Ready Redd

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