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EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC - News) today announced at the NAB Conference that EMC Isilon continues to be the preferred scale-out NAS solution of choice for media organizations' broadcast and production storage needs. Organizations across the globe continue to turn to Isilon for scalable, flexible, and powerful storage solutions to address their growing data needs, from initial media creation to management and production to content delivery and archiving.

Isilon has helped some of the world's biggest media companies take control of their storage. By consolidating silos, streamlining processes and simplifying the ability to quickly adapt to dynamic workflows, media and entertainment companies have benefited from increased data performance and capacity. Streamlined management and planning have also allowed companies to cut costs and future-proof their investment in Isilon and in their own long-term growth.

Livestream, the leading provider of live event streaming, needed a storage solution to scale with its rapidly growing user demand, and to accelerate the performance of its data-intensive broadcasting operations. Through EMC Isilon, Livestream has seamlessly scaled storage nodes to meet increasing capacity needs while reducing IT management time and operating costs. For more, please see the full release, announced this week at NAB.

Neoscape, an industry-leading 3D visualization services provider, uses Isilon's scale-out NAS storage systems to manage its growing volumes of rich media, empowering artists and designers to share and collaborate. Neoscape has increased the speed to access files fourfold, providing customers with faster response time. The founder, Nils Norgren explained the process: "EMC Isilon has given us a powerful and integrated system and has enabled us to increase throughput by 400%, with a greatly simplified architecture."

The Associated Press, the global news wire, deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS in January 2012, to support the Big Data demands of its high-definition video production and archive workflows. The AP was able to simplify IT management, accelerate content access and seamlessly scale to meet capacity and performance needs all while lowering storage and IT costs. "With EMC Isilon, we don't have to compromise capacity for performance we can grow both simultaneously. EMC Isilon has given us a competitive advantage over other content providers, something that is more important than ever in today's media climate," said Don Merrick, the AP's storage and backup services manager.

Corus Entertainment, Canada's premier integrated media and entertainment company, uses EMC Isilon for a complete storage management solution, allowing the company to focus on creating content, not managing or storing it. "Corus owns 37 radio stations, and brings specialty and pay television programming to audiences across Canada. Our storage architecture needs to be fast and flexible," said Kevin Harkins, engineering supervisor, Corus Entertainment. "The EMC Isilon system gives us a single solution that takes care of storage management so that we can focus our efforts on developing great content."

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., global publisher, was feeling the pressure facing the publishing industry to increase rich-media content creation and struggled to find the right storage solution to manage this newly created content. The company deployed Isilon's scale-out NAS storage systems across eight global locations to replace its cumbersome and disjointed IT infrastructure, streamline data access and reduce management costs. "Since working with EMC Isilon, we no longer have to worry about storing or managing our digital files. As a company that's been around for over 200 years, we are used to thinking long-term. We trust Isilon will go the distance with us," said James Sample, Director, WAN Performance & Reliability at Wiley & Sons.

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April 18, 2012 3:09 pm

The Printing Presses and Publications Bill 2012 would moderate theHome Ministers power to grant or refuse publishing permits tonewspapers, magazines and other publications.

"This is an important step forward for media freedom in Malaysia,"Prime Minister Najib Razak said. "I pledged to overhaul thedecades-old media licensing regulations and today I have delivered onthat promise." Under the new bill, publications would still need a permit fromthe home minister, who can decline if it represents a risk of socialunrest or to national security. But media outlets would no longerhave to apply for a new one every year.

The bill also allows for a court to revise the ministerslicensing decisions.

On Tuesday, the parliament passed a bill that effectively repealedthe countrys draconian Internal Security Act, which allowed for theindefinite detention of anyone considered a threat to nationalsecurity.

The repealing bill still has to pass the Senate, which isdominated by ruling party members, and be signed into effect by theking, but Tuesdays decision was seen as a significant step inNajibs campaign to reform the legislation on civil liberties.//DPA

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Alma Media Corporation Press release 17 April 2012, at 9.30 (EEST)

ALMA MEDIA TO JOIN THE CITY OF HELSINKI`S CLIMATE COVENANT

Today, Alma Media, together with the other companies in the Climate Partners network, signed a climate covenant with Jussi Pajunen, the Mayor of Helsinki. In the covenant, the companies identify the measures they will take to control climate change in their own operations.

The aim of the Climate Partners is to bring a group of pioneers together around the same table and find new practices for fighting climate change through cooperation. Another aim is to strengthen the companies` competitiveness and find new business opportunities.

Alma Media`s climate goals

"In 2011, we conducted a significant study on the environmental impacts of media, the results of which have already helped us not only reduce our own environmental impact, but also engage media users and advertisers in a discussion on how to reduce theirs. The Climate Partners network is also important because it shows how increased environmental awareness translates into concrete measures in the world of business" says Rauno Heinonen, Vice President, Corporate Communications.

Alma Media has agreed to build economically and socially sustainable media and to consider responsibility when developing its business operations. The company reports its own environmental impacts openly and encourages all media users and advertisers to reduce their own climate impacts derived from media use.

Alma Media aims to reduce emissions directly as follows:

A network of pioneers

The Climate Partners network, a joint initiative of the Confederation of Finnish Industries and the City of Helsinki, includes Alma Media, Forum Virium, Elisa, Helsingin seudun Kauppakamari, Kesko, Kiinteist-Tapiola, Lassila & Tikanoja, Lemminkinen, Logica, Martela, NCC, Nordea, Paulig, Siemens, Skanska, Sponda, Stockmann, VR Group, VVO and YIT. The president of the Climate Partners is Pekka Sauri, the Deputy Mayor of Helsinki, and the network is coordinated jointly by the City of Helsinki Environment Centre and Economic Development.

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I refer to the bill amending the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 tabled by the government in the Dewan Rakyat today. The amendments are minimal, superficial and will maintain the government's oppressive control of the mass media.

Under the new section 3(3), the power of the minister to grant and revoke or suspend newspaper licences is left untouched. Proper and functioning democracies do not impose licence requirements for the mass media. If the Prime Minister and the BN government are genuine about lifting restrictions on the press, why impose the licence requirement?

The only possible object of a media licence requirement is to enable the government to control the media. The licence requirement in section 3(3) is in clear breach of the lettter and spirit of Article 10(1)(a) of the Federal Constitution which guarantees freedom of speech and expression.

Minister can revoke anytime

To make things worse, section 3(3) allows the minister to revoke or suspend a newspaper licence at any time. This is the equivalent of a permanent threat hanging over the heads of newspaper owners and editors to toe the government line. There is thus no significant difference between the provisions of the old PPPA 1984 and the amended version.

Allowing judicial review is of little comfort to newspaper owners as it imposes upon them the onerous burden of taking the matter to court. This impedes the establishment and functioning of free media organizations. Further, the judiciary has consistently failed in defending or affirming fundamental rights such as press freedom.

Section 8A

We are also shocked and disappointed that the Prime Minister and the government have chosen not to remove the draconian section 8A of the PPPA which punishes the publication of false news. Section 8A is like a sword hanging over the head of printers, publishers, editors and writers, and has a chilling effect on press freedom.

The PPPA Amendment Bill 2012 is intended to maintain the government's harsh grip on newspapers, whilst pretending that Prime Minister Najib Razak is making good his promises of reform. We call upon the PM and his government to withdraw this amending bill, and instead repeal the PPPA 1984 in its entirety.

N SURENDRAN IS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT

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The explosion of social media has left many people struggling to keep pace with a torrent of online feeds and updates, from the latest celebrity tweets and friends' Facebook posts to co-workers' blurbs and professional bulletins on LinkedIn.

But if it seems like there's another trendy social network launched every year to keep up with ( hello Google (GOOG)+), don't despair. Several online tools can help you stay on top of feeds from multiple accounts, post your own messages simultaneously on different sites

And here's a little secret the pros know: With these services, you can compose those pithy witticisms when inspiration strikes in the middle of the night -- and schedule them to post automatically at a later time, when more of your friends and colleagues are likely to be online.

"I think we're all trying to cope with the best way to manage the fire hose, without getting drowned," said social media consultant J.D. Lasica, referring to the deluge of digital updates that threatens to consume our waking hours.

Three of the most popular tools for managing social media are free. While similar in concept, each may appeal to different users.

HootSuite in particular has many functions geared toward marketing professionals, although a spokesman said it has a broad base of casual users, too. Seesmic, meanwhile, plans to discontinue some services in coming months as it focuses on fewer products, according to CEO Loic Le Meur.

For now, all three are available both as Web-based services and as apps for iPhones and Android devices. There are also desktop versions that can be downloaded onto a PC or Mac, but the Web versions can be accessed from any computer without downloading extra software.

Essentially, each service provides a dashboard that pulls the feeds from all your social media accounts together into columns that you can view on one screen or, on a smartphone, a series of screens that you can access with a touch or swipe of your finger.

That makes it relatively easy to track all those accounts without opening a different app for each one. You can also set up columns for specific purposes. For example, you can put all the tweets from your close friends in one, or create a search that lets you monitor updates on a particular topic in another.

In addition, these services let you write an update, attach a link or photo, and post it simultaneously to the accounts you choose. By clicking on the appropriate icons, you can share the item with all your followers, or target only certain accounts. And all three services let you schedule your posts, so you can compose them when it's convenient and distribute them at other times of the day.

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