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LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire -06/20/12)- On July 25 and 26, 2012, Canadian media are invited to NASA's Johnson Space Center where Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield is preparing for his upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

These media days are a unique opportunity for members of the media to acquire footage of Hadfield in training and to conduct one-on-one interviews prior to his mission, which is set to launch in December 2012.

Places are limited and subject to NASA's accreditation approval. Interested media must contact the CSA Media Relations Office in order to begin the NASA accreditation process. The required information must be sent to CSA by end of day, June 26, 2012. (Note:Each member of the media crews will have to fill out a form for accreditation and provide a PDF of their passport).

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July 25 - Day 1

Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL)

Mission Control

July 26 - Day 2

Training/simulation sessions

ISS real size mock-ups

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Media Advisory/REMINDER: Media Days at NASA's Johnson Space Centre With Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield

The consumer watchdog says it will review News Ltd's $1.97 billion bid to take full control of James Packer's Consolidated Media, which would allow its owner Rupert Murdoch to dominate Australia's pay TV industry.

News Ltd, the Australian arm of global media giant News Corp, has offered to take full control of Mr Packer's Cons Media, which is News' 50:50 joint owner of Fox Sports.

It would also increase News' stake in Foxtel from 25 to 50 per cent, making it a joint owner with Telstra.

But the takeover offer is subject to many conditions, most importantly Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) approval.

An ACCC spokesman on Wednesday said the watchdog would review Mr Murdoch's bid and the decision would be made public.

'We will commence the review of the proposed acquisition and details of the review will be posted on the ACCC's public register,' he told AAP.

Meanwhile, Telstra said it would be happy to work with News Ltd as a joint owner of Foxtel and believed the move would be good for shareholders and customers.

'We've worked successfully with News as partners in Foxtel and we look forward to this partnership continuing to deliver value for Foxtel shareholders and a great pay TV experience for customers,' a Telstra spokeswoman told AAP.

Mr Packer, whose Consolidated Press Holdings (CPH) owns a controlling stake in Consolidated Media, has said he would support the News Ltd proposal.

'CPH welcomes News' proposal and looks forward to (Consolidated Media) and News working together to address the detailed terms and conditions,' Mr Packer said in a statement.

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Electronics, the daily source of essential business and technical information for the design engineering and electronics industry's decision makers, today announced that Design News (DesignNews.com) is one of the '10 Great Media Web Sites' by BtoB's Media Business in the "Tech" category.

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UBM Electronics re-launched the new Design News website in June 2011 in conjunction with UBM DeusM, the integrated marketing services arm of UBM.

For 65+ years, Design News has served as the premier technical resource for design engineers throughout the manufacturing sector. Design News is a community site for systems level design engineers, electromechanical engineers, and engineers of all disciplines. Its editorial focuses on how engineers apply technology in end applications through case studies, how-to content, end-user examples, and community generated content.

Rich Nass, Brand Director, Design News, said, "Design News has a rich history with the design engineering community. We've created a community site to serve the 21st century design engineer and help them to do their jobs better. This honor is a testament to the hard work of the site's redesign; Karen Field and Alexander Wolfe drove the content vision, and Chris Williams spearheaded the new technology platform. We've also been honored alongside many well-known brands in the media marketplace such as the Financial Times, Forbes, and The American Lawyer. Congratulations to the entire Design News team."

The website brings the audience into the conversation through moderated discussions, blogs, and social media, giving users equal share of voice with content experts. With a streamlined design, contextual navigation, and sponsored educational materials, Design News guides design engineers to the information they need, creating an opportunity for the community to collaborate, share ideas, and experiences. In addition, DesignNews.com delivers a full suite of multimedia content, including video and audio, and enables a deeper level of engagement by design engineers.

"The way our audiences are consuming media is changing, and we are evolving our offering to serve these changing demands. We worked with UBM Electronics to create an 'always on' globally accessible online design community that facilitates industry dialogue and drives technology sales. In addition to streamlined design, contextual navigation, and sponsored educational materials the site delivers a full suite of multimedia content including video and audio and enables a deeper level of engagement," added, Stephen Saunders, Managing Director, DeusM.

Design News' content is a unique combination of high-quality editorial, case studies, how-to articles, and user-generated content. The six main sections of the website cover the following topics of interest to design engineers:

Over the past year Design News has launched new features to entertain and educate its audience:

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NEW YORK (CBS 2) If you think staying off popular social networking sites, like Pinterest and MySpace, will protect your privacy, think again. A new study found your personal information is often on these sites even though youre not.

Millions of people cant imagine living without social networking, but others dont want any part of it.

I didnt want to know the people in high school when I was in high school, so I dont want them finding me now, Gregg Giglione recently told CBS 2s Chris Wragge.

A bunch of reasons, Mike Karlesky said when asked why he doesnt have a Facebook account. One, I know that I would end up getting sucked into it.

Neither Giglione nor Karlesky have accounts on the social networking giant, but their personal information, including where they live, their employment history and even what they do in their spare time is easy to find on the site, and available for all to see.

On Facebook? Huh, Im actually shocked, Giglione said.

Doesnt sit well with me, Karlesky added.

And theyre not alone. German researchers found all kinds of personal information and private details about people who werent members of Facebook all over the site.

A male or female, straight or gay and so that information is so sensitive and even if you didnt directly post that information, we can infer that about you, said NYU-Poly cyber security expert Max Pala.

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TORONTO, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --eDev Technologies (www.edevtech.com)today announced the initial availability of its breakthrough requirements authoring technology inteGREAT Smart Docs, a Microsoft Office Word 2010 or 2007 plugin for requirements authoring and collaboration.

"One key challenge faced by organizations today is that business and IT use different tools; businesspeople tend to use tools like Microsoft Word, while IT staff use other technical tools for requirements engineering. This leads to broken communication, rekeying data, redundancy, lack of traceability and fragmentation of information," says Asif Sharif, Chief Technologist, eDev Technologies.

inteGREAT Smart Docs allows business users, managers and analysts to author requirements with the familiar, yet structured, Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007 interface. Information from Smart Docs is automatically saved in the requirements repository, Team Foundation Server, as: goals, risks, market potential, requirements, user stories, actors, events, processes and data; along with their properties, attachments and traceability. "This provides TFS users with a very familiar user interface, will enhance its speed of adoption, while broadening its use throughout the enterprise," says Brian Harry, Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation, Microsoft Corporation.

Smart Docs allows users to reuse requirements, either via the auto prompting intellisense feature or by dragging and dropping search results. Users can create WYSIWYG documents like a Requirements Catalogue, BRD, Use Case, User Story, SRS and other Smart Docs right from within Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007, leveraging current templates as the foundation. Once information is created in Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007, flow charts and test cases can be automatically generated. Legacy documents can also become Smart Docs, thereby bringing this content into TFS as a live link.

Documents generated by inteGREAT can be configured as Smart Docs, including the templates currently used by clients today. Smart Docs can be used offline or connected real-time to TFS. "This technology efficiently solves the real time collaboration problem faced by project stakeholders using different interfaces today, since virtually everyone uses Microsoft Word," says Bob Savelson, SVP Sales & Marketing, eDev Technologies. General availability is expected in the fall of 2012.

About eDev Technologies, Inc. (www.edevtech.com)

eDev Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is an established global technology company, recognized worldwide for its unique brand inteGREAT. inteGREAT is a Requirements Lifecycle Management platform that is being used in both the Public and Private Sectors, in organizations of all sizes, worldwide. inteGREAT's success has earned eDev Tier One partnerships including Premier Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. inteGREAT has also been cited by Forrester Research, Gartner, Seilevel and BaseX Research, as they too have recognized the depth of eDev's services and the measureable value inteGREAT brings to its clients.

For more information, call: Bob Savelson at eDev 416-469-3131 x 226 bob.savelson@edevtech.com

This press release was issued through eReleases Press Release Distribution. For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com.

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