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SANTA ANA, Calif., March 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hirsch Identive, a leading provider of integrated high security access solutions and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:INVE - News) (Frankfurt:INV.F - News), today announced the launch of its new DIGI*Net series access controllers and Velocity(TM) 3.5 software platforms.

The new Velocity and DIGI*Net platforms create a state of the art security access ecosystem based on the proven reliability with which Hirsch Identive has become synonymous. The new access control solution expands its native identity management capability to bridge physical and IT infrastructures seamlessly. This enables organizations to improve security, reduce data redundancy and comply with current and evolving information and physical security standards.

Hirsch Identive products are known for their durability, and this new evolution of technology builds on this rugged tradition by ensuring compatibility with traditional and legacy systems while still providing powerful growth capability to adapt for future requirements.

"Thousands of organizations have selected Hirsch Identive to secure their facilities, their people, and assets globally," says John Piccininni, Hirsch Identive's Vice President of Business Development. "These customers told us what was important to them in our next generation products -- high security, interoperability, backwards compatibility and the ability to grow as new business challenges evolve, especially in mobility and interoperability with new technology. Our new DIGI*Net hardware and Velocity 3.5 software are designed to address these and future customer needs."

The DIGI*Net control platform features a new compact design and component modularity, simplifying installation and reducing the system's physical footprint. Intelligent single-door and multi-door controllers may be combined to meet the requirements from single branch offices to large international campuses.

"The powerful DIGI*Net platform is designed with a flexible software architecture that is capable of meeting modern business requirements and allowing for significant growth over the coming years as our customers do more with their access control systems, especially with IT and mobile integration. We have invested more than five years to develop a solution that encompasses the same high levels of reliability and security that Hirsch Identive customers have enjoyed for decades," says Mark Allen, Executive Vice President of Technology for Hirsch Identive.

"Our new design incorporates transparent public / private key certificate communication between all devices within the access control network. This brings unmatched communication security to the access ecosystem, eliminating the threat of eavesdropping or counterfeit security transactions," added Allen.

The Velocity 3.5 management solution features an easy to use interface and is compatible with all previous versions of the Hirsch Identive access control system.

DIGI*Net and Velocity 3.5 are currently in beta installations with commercial availability through Hirsch Identive's global network of channel partners later this year.

Live demonstrations will be held at Hirsch Identive's booth #26087 at the International Security Conference and Exhibition - ISC West 2012, taking place March 28 - 30 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Ambient social networking is taking the world by storm as startups such as Highlight are beginning to resonate with people. In case ambient social networking is new to you, it is a location phenomenon that runs silently in the background on mobile devices and notifies users if friends or acquaintances enter their vicinity.

It seems like a subtle thing, but the impact of this new technology is quite profound, said Paul Davison, CEO and founder of Highlight.

As he explained to us, users have been sharing actively by posting a pictures and statuses for a long time. This new concept, which is also known as social discovery, allows users to share passively, which has not been possible before.

All of a sudden, for the first time in history, we can take a little profile of ourselves and just sort of emit it from our phone, wherever we go, said Davison. Its gonna have a profound impact on how we learn about each other and socialize in the real world.

With ambient social networking the hot new trend, and Highlight emerging as the leader in the space, speculations are starting to spread as to whether it could be the next Twitter or Foursquare. Davison told us that, since it adds a new connectivity to the world and helps to create friendships and partnerships, Highlight could very easily be the next big social service.

If you build this product the right way, you can build something that almost anyone in the world will find tremendously useful, he said. It has the potential to be a very big thing.

Could Highlight be the next Twitter or Foursquare? Let us know.

Ambient social networking really took off at SXSW this year, and Highlight specifically, seemed to steal the show. Davison told us that, although it was challenging to build the product, it was rewarding to see how people are finding so many different ways to use it.

For instance, one man was able to hitch a ride to Austin for SXSW after connecting with someone on Highlight. Other people have found that Highlight has helped them connect with old friends and even close business deals.

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"Social networking sites are one of the available means for people to connect to each other. With sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Multiply, people are connected. This trend started with the rise of forums, chat services and file and media sharing sites, and combining these elements to create an integrated experience."

THE Internet, for some people, is the way to live. With a diverse source of information and access to the latest breaking events in the world, knowledge can be attained with a simple click. The Internet, undoubtedly, has profound potential. The global linkage allows us to connect with other individuals and share our thoughts and ideas.

Have something to report? Tell us in text, photos or videos.

Social networking sites are one of the available means for people to connect to each other. With sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Multiply, people are connected. This trend started with the rise of forums, chat services and file and media sharing sites, and combining these elements to create an integrated experience.

To understand more about this behavior, we can also look into the traits of the Filipinos. Our history books state that Filipinos are born as curious people. Filipinos like knowing and finding new things and talk about it, and social network offer this.

When Friendster became a hit on 2007, almost every high school and college student had at least one account registered. Filipinos, then, moved from simple chat room offered by MIrc and the like to Friendster.

The same thing happened when finally Friendster went down the ladder and got replaced by Facebook and Twitter. Now, majority of people rely their source of information on these social networks, including the students.

Media dependency theory by Martin DeFleur can be used to support more for us to dig deeper in this situation. This theory suggests that since the audiences learning from the real life is limited, so they can use media to get more information to fulfill their needs.

An extensive use of media generates dependent relation in audience and also media can be able to create dependence relationship with target audiences to achieve their goals by using their media power, in this case online social networking sites.

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Dries Buytaert is programming wunderkind. He learned to program when he was six years old -- even before he could read.

Today he is internationally famous as the creator of Drupal, one of the world's most successful open source projects.

And it all happened by accident.

Drupal is a free, open source content management system that powers a million websites including some of the biggest or most important like the White House, NASA and Twitter. Nearly 790,000 people in 228 countries contribute to it.

"This was never intentional. I'm an accidental leader. I love what I'm doing but never envisioned this to happen," he told Business Insider.

Although he's been working on Drupal for over 12 years, for most of that time, he never made a dime on it. This changed about four years ago when he founded Acquia in Boston.

Acquia is already wildly successful. It provides technical support for Drupal, has a Software-as-a-Service program similar to WordPress.com and does web hosting via a service called Drupal Gardens. The company has nearly 2,000 customers, with Drupal Gardens hosting over 100,000 websites including huge sites like Arabic news network Al Jazeera.

Acquia has raised $38.5 million in venture funding, backed by North Bridge, Sigma Partners, Tenaya Capital and Tim O'Reilly's O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

"We've grown from two people in 2008 to over 200 people today. We're looking to add another 100 to 120 people," he says. That makes Acquia one of the fastest-growing startups in Boston and named to Forbes most-promising list.

Because Drupal and Acquia isn't enough, Buytaert also has a second startup, Mollom, a comment spam blocking service for use with Drupal sites.

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The judges for this years Pulitzer Prizes in journalism are getting set to vote which means its time for the latest installment of The Associated Press year-long bash of the NYPD.

And sure enough, the wire service yesterday popped up with a 1,500-word hit-job that said, well . . . not much at all.

The AP story points to a 2008 internal memo that it says shows that undercover New York cops attended meetings of liberal political organizations and monitored even lawful activities.

Ooh sinister: Cops spying on liberals.

(Translation: Hey, Pulitzer judges: Pick us!)

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Ray Kelly

The truth isnt even close.

For one thing, calling them liberal political organizations makes it sound like the NYPD was snooping on everyday people in mainstream groups that happen to be on the left. Think: the local Democratic club.

In fact, the groups under surveillance included extremist outfits that have either supported, or sometimes worked with, global terror groups, such as the International Solidarity Movement and the International Action Center.

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