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LAS VEGAS, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The Psychic Friends Network (PFNI), a marketing and entertainment company providing live on-demand psychic advice announced today that it has entered into a development agreement with New Media Plus (NMP) to equip PFNI with the latest cutting-edge website development and social media platforms.

Working with NMP, PFNI will become the first and only psychic service offering customers a full range of telephonic, online and mobile services. These services will include a complete telephone platform (including dial in, and click to call), a fully billable chat platform (including audio, video and text chat), an interactive SMS text-messaging program, and state of the art mobile applications.

In another first for a psychic service, PFN will also begin providing each of its psychics with their own PFN-branded website and Facebook pages, providing instant and direct access to PFN psychics.

PFNI Chief Executive Officer, Marc Lasky said "The relationship between NMP and PFNI is a winning combination, and we are excited about partnering with a company that brings such exceptional web expertise to the table. For the first time ever in the psychic services field, customers will be able to utilize any of the very latest internet technologies in order to get their psychic guidance anytime, anywhere."

NMP Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brett H. Pojunis said, "We are very excited to work with such an iconic brand as PFNI. We spent a lot of time working with PFNI to fully understand their business model and are developing their platform to achieve maximum success through social media. The custom platform combined with the strong brand recognition of PFNI will lead to the immediate success and market acceptance of the re-launch of their brand!"

About New Media Plus, Inc.

NewMediaPlus provides cost-effective, real-time solutions for social media, Web development, graphic design and online advertising. NewMediaPlus delivers the highest level of customer service through 1-on-1 interaction over the phone, online or in person to help businesses develop and maintain their Internet presence. New Media Plus has been working with public companies since 1999. To learn more about our services, visit http://www.NewMediaPlus.Com, and to view our social media marketing blog, visit http://www.NewMediaPlus.Net.

About Psychic Friends Network, Inc.

Psychic Friends Network, Inc. ("PFN") is a marketing and entertainment company that provides on-demand psychic advice as well as tarot readings and weekly and daily horoscopes. PFN connects professional live psychics with customers via telephone (mobile and landline) and through their newly developed state-of-the-art online platform enabling interaction with video chat, voice or text chat.

PFN pioneered the psychic industry throughout the 1990's with memorable television/radio marketing and infomercials generating over $1 Billion in revenues. Since then the psychic market has grown immensely to an estimated $2 Billion a year. The same management team who built the iconic "Psychic Friends" brand is working together again; this time with the clear advantage of the internet, social media, and easier methods for billing and better communication technology.

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BELTSVILLE, Md., May 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Vocus (NASDAQ:VOCS - News), a leading provider of cloud marketing software, today announced a free trial offer for one of its new products, Vocus Social Marketing. Vocus Social Marketing is the social media marketing module of the premium Vocus Marketing Suite. As a stand-alone product, Vocus Social Marketing will be free for trial for 30 days with the option of a monthly subscription of $49 thereafter.

Vocus Social Marketing is unique recommendation engine that collects and analyzes thousands of data points from news, blogs and social media content in order to make specific, and relevant, recommendations. These recommendations provide direction to busy business owners or marketers such as who to follow or engage, and what content to post and where.

"Vocus Social Marketing solves two critical challenges: first how to get started amid an overwhelming amount of tools and content sources; and second, to ensure their efforts are integrated into a strategic and measurable marketing program," says Vocus Senior Vice President of Products You Mon Tsang. "Vocus Social Marketing provides businesses with the medium for building meaningful relationships online in just a few minutes a day."

The 30-day free trial of Vocus Social Marketing offers users the chance to register and get started in under a minute. Users will gain immediate access to the recommendation engine and begin monitoring and engaging future customers online. The free trial will not include integrated HARO queries, PRWeb releases or North Social Facebook apps that are available in the Vocus Marketing Suite.

"Several studies show that 70% of SMB marketing budgets will be focused on digital strategies in the next three years," added Tsang. "We're moving to meet the demands of the market by designing a product that's the easiest and most effective to use."

For more information or to register for a free trial please visit: http://www.vocus.com/content/trials/social-media/index.asp

About Vocus Vocus is a leading provider of cloud marketing software that helps businesses reach and influence buyers across social networks, online and through media. Vocus provides an integrated suite that combines social marketing, search marketing, email marketing and publicity into a comprehensive solution to help businesses attract, engage and retain customers. Vocus software is used by more than 120,000 organizations worldwide and is available in seven languages. Vocus is based in Beltsville, MD with offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For further information, please visit http://www.vocus.com or call (800) 345-5572.

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ROCHESTER, Minn., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --EXHIBITOR Media Group, the leader in trade show and corporate event marketing education, today announced the results of EXHIBITOR Magazine's 2012 Social-Media Marketing Survey, sponsored by Lynch Exhibits Inc. Following a 2010 benchmark survey, new data shows that the percentage of marketers using social media in their exhibition programs increased by nearly 90 percent.

Eight out of ten marketers say their companies are currently using social media for a variety of purposes, including exhibit marketing (58 percent), event marketing (36 percent), and other general marketing purposes (67 percent).

Those tapping into the marketing potential of social-media applications claim increased brand awareness, enriched relationships with clients and prospects, increased booth traffic and event attendance, additional press coverage, and increased sales as direct results of their campaigns. Yet fewer marketers are proactively setting measurable objectives to track the success or failure of their online efforts.

"It's clear that the use of social media as a marketing tool has exploded over the past two years," commented Travis Stanton, editor of EXHIBITOR magazine. "And while there are still challenges, including lack of time and resources, most respondents agree that social media is a powerful tool for face-to-face marketers."

Comprehensive results of the 2012 Social-Media Marketing Survey will be published in the June issue of EXHIBITOR magazine.

About EXHIBITOR Media Group The leader in trade show and corporate event marketing education, EXHIBITOR Media Group publishes EXHIBITOR magazine, a monthly publication featuring best practices in trade show marketing. EXHIBITOR's Learning Events include: EXHIBITOR2011, the industry's top-rated conference and exhibition for trade show and corporate event marketing; EXHIBITORFastTrak, accelerated learning conferences; and EXHIBITOR eTrak, professional online learning. EXHIBITOR Media Group is also the founder and sponsor of CTSM (Certified Trade Show Marketer), the world's only university-affiliated certification program for trade show and event marketers. EXHIBITOR'S web site, http://www.ExhibitorOnline.com, is the trade show/event community's most comprehensive online resource. Follow on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

EXHIBITOR is a registered trademark, and EXHIBITORFastTrak and EXHIBITOR eTrak are trademarks of Exhibitor Publications, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated.

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Rogue copies of Green Simurgh, an Internet proxy software application used in Iran and Syria, have been found to contain malware that records users' activities and keystrokes.

Green Simurgh is an anti-censorship application that routes a computer's outbound connections to a server located in the U.S. This allows the software's users to bypass network filters and access Internet resources that would normally be banned by their ISP.

Green Simurgh doesn't require any installation and can run directly from USB memory sticks, which makes it suitable for users who access the Internet from cafes and public computers.

The software has been used in Iran since 2009 and, according to the Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto laboratory that researches digital media, global security and human rights, Syrian users have also began to rely on it.

"It has recently come to our attention that this software is being recommended and circulated among Syrian Internet users for bypassing censorship in their country," said Citizen Lab technical advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire in a blog post on Friday. "This information led to the discovery and analysis of a back-doored version of this software."

The malicious version is being distributed from file sharing websites like 4shared.com as a package called Simurgh-setup.zip. The archive contains an executable file that masquerades as a Green Simurgh installer.

When run on a Windows machine, the rogue installer drops a legitimate copy of the Green Simurgh software in the Program Files directory, but also installs a computer Trojan horse that runs in the background.

"[The Trojan horse] keeps a log of your username, machine name, every window clicked and keystroke entered," said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at antivirus vendor Sophos, in a blog post on Tuesday. "It attempts to submit these logs to some servers located in the United States, but registered to an entity that appears to be based in Saudi Arabia."

Considering that thousands of users depend on the legitimate Simurgh software, it's likely that a lot more people have been impacted by this malware than by Flame -- a recently discovered cyberespionage threat that has received a lot of attention in the media -- Wisniewski said.

"Unlike Flame, which is a highly targeted malware that has only been found on a handful of computers globally, this malware is targeting users for whom having their communications compromised could result in imprisonment or worse," he said.

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Los Angeles, CA., May 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SDI Media recently opened its expanded state of the art facility in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This announcement is the second of a number of facility builds and expansions that SDI has planned for 2012, including Manila, Philippines and Munich, Germany later this year, as well as the recently announced new studios in Milan, Italy.

As the first global localization provider to enter Malaysia in 2008, SDI established a strong presence in the region. After 4 years, SDI had outgrown its previous location and has relocated to custom-built studios occupying 3100sq ft (300sqm) in the PJ Trade Centre building in Damansara Perdana. The new facility includes 4 newly built studios with individual control rooms as well as a fully enabled subtitling operation (including client support, translation, and QC). SDI Malaysia offers new services and added support for SDI clients, including: recording; editing, and project management services for dubbing - enabling SDI to offer complete dubbing and subtitling solutions entirely in-house. This facility also offers SDI's full suite of dubbing and subtitling software and systems, allowing it to be the one stop solution for end-to-end localization services in Malaysia.

As the world's leading provider of localization services with owned-and-operated facilities in 33 countries globally, SDI continues providing clients ever-greater access to their integrated and standardized dubbing and subtitling services. The Malaysia expansion increases SDI's service offerings to Malaysia's growing localization industry as well as providing additional support to clients in the surrounding regions.

"SDI has had great success in Malaysia by focusing on our customers and the quality of our offerings. We recognized the need to provide additional resources for our clients in this market, and in Asia. We believe that our expanded offerings in this new facility is one step in us meeting this goal," said Walter Schonfeld CEO and President of SDI. "As we continue evaluating the scope of our global footprint it is important that we not only enter new territories, but also broaden our offerings in existing markets. Our Malaysia expansion demonstrates SDI's ability and commitment to recognize our Client's needs and to provide the highest quality solution for all their localization requirements.

SDI Malaysia is one of 5 current SDI facilities to service Asia, including additional offices in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand, with The Philippines office due to open in the third quarter of 2012.

For further information about this new facility, please contact Suzanna Borhan at +60377241888.

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About SDI Media Group:

Headquartered in Los Angeles, SDI Media is the world's leading provider of dubbing, subtitling, and other media localization services. It has operations in 33 countries spanning Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Worldwide, SDI provides localization services in over 60 languages and dialects, and owns and operates 100 recording rooms and 50 mixing rooms. SDI provides language dubbing and subtitling services for feature films, live action, animated television series, interactive games, new media and corporate needs. SDI's strength is in its ability to offer end-to-end service offerings to its clients, including scripting, casting, directing, recording/mixing, and other post production services.

For additional information please visit http://www.sdimedia.com/ or contact Aviv Gattenuo at +1.310.388.8942.

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