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Miomni Ltd "No Longer the Best Kept Secret in Digital Media" has worked closely with Paddy Power's Sports Betting Digital Team to apply a similar user experience that they developed for their highly successful iPhone and iPad applications to the Smart TV environment. This entailed writing a Functional and Design Specification, agreeing design wireframes and artwork, project management, application build and managing the QA process with Yahoo in the US.

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The Paddy Power Smart TV Application enables consumers using a TV Remote Control to browse available bets today and in the future for a comprehensive range of Betting Types (Horse Racing, Soccer, Rugby, Cricket, Basketball, American Football, Cricket, Tennis, Golf, Snooker, Darts as well as Social and Political events to name but a few). Betting odds are updated in real time in this fast moving environment. Bets can also be placed into a Betting Slip prior to Registration and Card Account Setup.

Registered users can deposit potentially unlimited funds into their accounts and place single and multiple bets. They also have access to their account details where they can view their Betting History (pending, won and lost bets) and their Transaction History (deposits, Free Bet balance, withdrawals, bet placement amounts and bet winning amounts). The user's overall funds balance is displayed throughout a signed in users session. In addition user's have generic access to Help and Customer Care as well as standard information (Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, Responsible Gaming, Gaming Rules and About Paddy Power).

As well as Ante-Post betting (i.e. before the event starts) the application will provide in a second iteration incorporating 'In Running' / Live betting enabling users to modify bets and place new bets whilst an event is in progress.

The application is currently available via the Yahoo Smart TV Widget on Samsung, LG, Sony and (US) Smart TVs in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Miomni is working on a Samsung specific application which is due to launch in January 2012 also in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Miomni has worked closely with Paddy Power's Digital Team to apply a similar user experience that they developed for their highly successful iPhone and iPad applications to the Smart TV environment. This entailed writing a Functional and Design Specification, agreeing design wireframes and artwork, project management, application build and managing the QA process with Yahoo in the US.

In addition to building the user application Miomni has built a sophisticated server side middleware 'engine' that processes all incoming bet types, merges them with other data and rich media, like Racing Silks images, and then outputs standard files that the user application uses to build its views. The Miomni Platform handles User registration, sign in and out as well as account information which is then passed securely via this middleware service taking the entire load away from the Paddy Power infrastructure. This service can be used to provide data to any number of device types in the future for example Smart Phones and Tablets.

This middleware service is hosted on the Miomni Global Delivery Platform which can support a potentially unlimited number of users with its proven security model protecting Paddy Powers underlying systems.

Stephen Lovell, Online Product & Business Development Manager, Paddy Power said: "We have created a close working relationship with Miomni that has enabled Paddy Power to produce arguably the best and most comprehensive Smart TV sports betting application currently on offer. They have delivered on all aspects of the project requirement to budget and to the agreed timescales. This relationship coupled with the technical foundation we now have in place will enable us to create and launch innovative digital services in 2012 and beyond."

With Offices in London and the US Miomni provide a Multi Platform digital Media Solution delivering user Interface, high quality video content, Interactive applications and e-commerce, to multiple platforms with full advertising capabilities. Miomni uses a proprietary content & asset management system. Incorporating a single integrated database for "over the top" global digital video delivery.

Miomni also has the advantage of in-house creative services for advanced multi-platform User Interface (UI) design and navigation solutions, covering all viewing experiences

"lean back" (10ft - TV with remote)

"lean forward" (2ft - PC with mouse and keyboard)

"hand held" (1ft - touch screen mobile or tablet)

Miomni Ltd

Head Office: Angel House, Angel Mews London N1 9HH - Tel: +44 (0) 207 837 1116

US Office: Miomni Corporation, 3940-7 Broad Street #305, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 - Tel: +1 805-540-4578

Email: info(at)miomni(dot)com -

Web: http://www.miomni.com

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Miomni Gaming Ltd
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EastEnders' Polly Perkins is proud to be representing older women on TV.

The former Eldorado star has joined Albert Square as Dot Branning's sister Rose Cotton and told Inside Soap magazine why she thinks it's important to have more mature actresses in the show.

Polly said: "It's about time there were more older women on television. These people do have a life and it's not represented terribly often.

"I think it's really brilliant that EastEnders is bucking the trend with Rose, Dot and Cora. There's no way any of them think they'll end up with a Zimmer frame. They all think they're going to live forever!"

The 68-year-old actress revealed she gets letters from fans telling her glamorous gran Rose reminds them of their own grandmothers.

She said: "Can you imagine all these grandmas walking around looking like Rose? Mind you, I do know a few of them myself. Rose is totally deluded, in fact , she thinks she's still 37!"

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Heard the one about the FBI shutting down the Internet next month?

Like many memes before it, this dire warning is floating around blogs and sites. It even names a date: March 8 as the day the FBI might "shut down the Internet." But relax, that’s not really the case.

While yes, an untold number of people may lose their Internet connection in less than three weeks, if they do they only have nefarious web criminals to blame and certainly not the FBI.

If people end up in the dark on March 8 it’s because they’re still infected with the malware the FBI started warning people about last November when it shut down a long-standing Estonian Web traffic hijacking operation that controlled people’s computers using a family of DNSChanger viruses. The malware works by replacing the DNS (Domain Name System) servers defined on a victim's computer with fraudulent servers operated by the criminals. As a result, visitors are unknowingly redirected to websites that distributed fraudulent software or displayed ads that put money into the bad guys’ pockets.

Site predicts a March 8 shutdown.

Here's the worst part: The malware also prevents security updates and disables installed security software.

To help protect victims, the FBI replaced the rogue servers with legitimate ones -- a measure the agency said would be in effect for 120 days. Had it not taken that step and simply shut down the bad servers back in November, infected computers would have been immediately blocked from Internet access.

So the current problem isn’t that the FBI will be shutting down the Internet when the 120 days runs out on March 8, it’s that many people and organizations haven’t removed the malware from their computers. In fact, as many as half of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies are delinquent in updating, according to some reports.

So how do you know if your computer or router is infected with DNSChanger?

The FBI says the best way to know is to have them checked out by a computer professional, which admittedly isn’t very helpful.

However, it does offer a resource paper [PDF] with guidance to make that determination yourself, although even if you find out your system is infected the FBI says you still need a pro to scrub your machine.

As another alternative, you can use the free Avira DNS Repair Tool to figure out if a computer is using one of the temporary DNS servers. Unfortunately, the tool only works on Windows and doesn't actually remove the Trojan.

Indeed, removing the malware is a challenge, and many people will be cut off from Internet access on March 8, reports the security news site KrebsonSecurity. It also notes that the industry and law enforcement group DNSChanger Working Group (DCWG) has a site that can help people check whether their systems are infected.

To get help, network administrators can send a request to one of the members of the DCWG and home users can use the step-by-step instructions at the DCWG Web site to see if they’re infected with the DNSChanger malware.

If you determine your system is infected you can start from scratch and reinstall your operating system, or take the FBI’s advice and get help from a professional if you want to remain online after March 8.

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All this year, and culminating in December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, the nations of the world will be negotiating a treaty to govern international telecommunications services between countries. It is widely believed that some countries, including Russia and China, will take the opportunity to push for U.N. control of Internet governance. Such a turn of events would certainly be troubling.

That’s because the institutions that govern the Internet, and which keep it free and open, are for the most part decentralized, bottom-up, multistakeholder affairs. They are also largely based in the U.S. These include organizations like the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), headquartered in California, as well as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society, which are volunteer groups manned largely by Americans.

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This arrangement grew out of the fact that the Internet was developed in the U.S., with control of its governance eventually handed over to nonprofits by the government during the Clinton Administration.

As the Internet has grown and spread across the globe, however, emerging powers such as Brazil, Russia, India and China have begun to frequently and forcefully question why the U.S. should have outsize influence over how the Internet is run. They suggest, instead, that Internet governance should be handled by the U.N. Last year, for example, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with the head of the International Telecommunication Union — the U.N. body now hosting treaty negotiations — and made no bones about how Russia saw things.

“One [important issue] is establishing international control over the Internet using the monitoring and supervisory capabilities of the International Telecommunication Union,” Putin said. “If we are going to talk about the democratization of international relations, I think a critical sphere is information exchange and global control over such exchange. This is certainly a priority on the international agenda.”

Along with China, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, Russia later introduced a U.N. General Assembly resolution proposing a “code of conduct” for global information security.

The proposal sought to establish that “policy authority for Internet-related public issues is the sovereign right of States” and not the ICANN, the IETF or the other multistakeholder groups that now run the Internet. At the same time, Brazil, India and South Africa called for creation of “new global body” to control the Internet.

It’s amazing to think about it, but no state governs the Internet today. Decisions about its architecture are made by consensus among engineers and other volunteers. And that, in fact, is what has kept it open and free.

“Upending the fundamentals of the multistakeholder model is likely to balkanize the Internet at best, and suffocate it at worst,” FCC commissioner Robert McDowell said recently in a speech. “A top-down, centralized, international regulatory overlay is antithetical to the architecture of the Net, which is a global network of networks without borders. No government, let alone an intergovernmental body, can make decisions in lightning-fast Internet time.”

While there are some signs that the proregulatory countries may be backing off, the Internet community should remain vigilant. We may be headed for a showdown this December in Dubai that could make recent antipiracy legislation, pending cybersecurity bills in Congress and the E.U.’s new data rules look like a picnic.

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