SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 11, 2012) - AdTruth, the digital media division of global device recognition technology leader 41st Parameter, today announced the release of DeviceInsight 4.0, the latest version of the company's audience recognition technology. DeviceInsight 4.0 introduces enhanced performance through Device Specific Optimization (DSO), a new capability which improves both the accuracy and longevity of audience recognition across any Internet connected device: from personal computers, tablets, smart phones and beyond.

"AdTruth DeviceInsight 4.0 is a critical step forward for the digital media industry when it comes to device recognition," said James Lamberti, vice president and general manager of AdTruth. "So many of our global clients are seeing a highly fragmented mix of traffic across a variety of device types. This makes it critical that we understand the nuances of each and can provide an appropriately tuned device identification approach for every circumstance. Based on feedback from brand, agency, and network customers, DeviceInsight 4.0 delivers increased longevity, improved accuracy and enhanced privacy-compliance."

Device Specific Optimization recognizes the user's device type and selects the most effective "recipe" to best identify a device in real time. In addition to device type, DeviceInsight 4.0 also allows marketers to adjust their optimization based on specific use cases. For example, a retargeter aiming to reach a customer over a long period of time can optimize for longevity over accuracy, whereas a marketer tracking app downloads requires a higher level of recognition accuracy within a shorter time window.

"AdTruth's device recognition technology is increasingly important to our plans to solve the mobile tracking problem seamlessly across all devices," shared Carl Uminski, chief operating officer for Somo, the largest independent global mobile marketing agency. "With the plethora of devices out there, it is critical to be able to recognize them and provide the most accurate and privacy-friendly tracking possible with no operational impact on us, our clients, or consumers."

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About AdTruth, a division of 41st Parameter In a world where people are increasingly reliant on a variety of Internet-connected devices for everything from banking to shopping to entertainment and media, creating relevant customer experiences is a constant and complex business challenge. 41st Parameter, the global leader in device recognition and intelligence, combines its patented technologies and years of expertise to identify devices without cookies, without compromising privacy and without impacting performance. AdTruth, the company's digital media division, gives marketers a new and better way to recognize and reach their most valuable audiences across all types of devices. These privacy compliant solutions help keep the Internet more secure and relevant for everyone. To learn more about digital media solutions from AdTruth visit http://www.AdTruth.com.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp showed off hybrid tablets and ultrabook laptops with voice and gesture recognition technology along with an upcoming low-power chip in a bid to convince Wall Street a slump in the personal computer industry is only temporary.

At the annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company demonstrated a range of mobile devices, many of them crosses between tablets and laptops. Executives showed sleek "ultrabook" laptops with improved gesture- and voice-recognition features, similar to those already found on some smartphones.

Intel's upcoming processor, code-named Haswell and due to appear in a crop of laptops during next year's holiday season, will improve on computing and graphics features and is targeted to reduce electricity consumption from 17 watts to 10 watts, according to the company.

The chip will allow devices to stay on longer without needing to recharge and underscores the Intel's recognition that mobility will only become a bigger factor in personal computing.

"It was designed with mobility in mind ... from sleek tablets to ultrabooks to high-performing desktops," said David Perlmutter, general manager of Intel's Architecture Group.

In an interview with Reuters, Perlmutter steered away from strict categories of laptops and tablets and said manufacturers over the next few year will offer a wider range of mobile products for consumers, mixing and matching new features, performance and size.

Recent launches of smaller tablet sizes by Google and Amazon are examples of the already growing range of devices consumers have to choose between, a trend that will gain more steam, he said.

"There will be a variety of needs fulfilled by a variety of solutions. Some people want something very benign, very simple," Perlmutter said. "Others need performance."

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Amidst the problems of an uncertain economy with rising unemployment, sovereign debt crisis, cost inflation, and shrinking budgets of consumers; all companies are facing difficulties in attracting customers and lure them to their stores. Companies do not have any option but to increase their promotional spending or offer discounts to instigate sales, hurting margins in the process. Hence, they are in a deadlock.

However, there are companies who benefit from such circumstances and always manage to rise above the others. As discussed in my recent article, the discount retailers tend to benefit from such consumer sentiments and if you own any of those jewels, they will make your portfolio shine. One of them is Dollar General (NYSE: DG), which has again posted a quarter that beat market expectations and delighted investors. If you would have owned the stock at the beginning of the year, you would have earned an amazing 25% on your investment in this choppy market.

The Retailer Did It Again

After four consecutive quarters of remarkable revenue increases, the retailer did it again with a increase of 10.4%, clocking $3.95 billion. Adjusted earnings jumped 33% to 69 cents a share as compared to prior years quarter. The results were driven by increased customer traffic in its stores and higher purchases in each visit of the customers. All thanks to the retailers strategy of offering everyday low prices which includes most items for $10. This enables the customers to shop more while spending each penny judiciously.

A point which works in favor of the discount retailer and also makes it different from its peers is the fact that it along with offering low prices its stores are smaller, making it easier for customers to navigate. Also, since the stores do not require much space such as stores of Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) do, it can be opened closer to the customers making it more accessible to them.

This also enables Dollar General to have lower costs attached to the smaller format stores as against retailers such as Wal-Mart which are suffering under the pressure of huge costs related to its conventional large stores. Even Wal-Mart is now intending to switch to smaller stores which can be opened in customers neighborhood so that shoppers can easily drop in for their daily requirements.

Dollar General witnessed an amazing quarter in terms of its segmental performance. All four segments witnessed stellar growth over last year with the highest growth of 12% coming in for its largest Consumables segment. The segment makes 75% of the retailers revenue and was largely driven by its expansion efforts in the snacks and perishable foods category.

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Consumers who purchased the 16 GB version of Google's Nexus 7 tablet are complaining of severe performance issues.

Not to get personal, but I thought it was just me. When I first received the Google Nexus 7 tablet, it was simply badass, even more so compared to my Kindle Fire (which was tossed over to my wife). But since then, the tablet's performance has glaringly slowed to a crawl, turning into a disappointing, worthless piece of junk. That may be harsh, but the before and after is like night and day, and as a consumer who shelled out $250 for the 16 GB version, I expect a quality product.

It seems that my Nexus 7 tablet no longer has spunk.

Mind you I'm horribly obsessive about performance. Just like on the PC, I make sure nothing is running in the background that will steal a single frame from my games. Android is no different, and while I like the way Ice Cream Sandwich will allow applications to run simultaneously in the background, I make sure they're all nuked so I can get every drop of juice from Nvidia's quad core Tegra 3.

But now it seems that I'm not the only one who's noticed the performance degradation. The Register has an interesting article that describes the same problem, only the information is based on various forums where annoyed customers have flocked to provide their complaints. Apparently the problem exists only on the 16 GB model, and when the storage capacity falls below 2 GB.

Technically device owners only have 13 GB of internal storage to use the rest is eaten up by Android. Unlike many Android smartphones, that 13 GB is reserved for apps, their data, multimedia and so on. Unfortunately, 13 GB isn't really enough for the Android gamer, especially when playing Gameloft titles. As an example, N.O.V.A. 3 eats up 1.99 GB, whereas Modern Combat 3 eats up 1.47 GB. Order and Chaos, Gameloft's World of Warcraft mobile knock-off, consumes 0.92 GB. With just those three Gameloft games alone, I've lost 4.38 GB.

"So here I am, stuck with a device that is labeled for 16 GB storage, that in reality only has just over 13 GB of storage ... but due to performance issues, REALLY only has 9-10 GB of storage available for content and software," writes one angry Nexus 7 owner.

"Ever since I got my Nexus 7 I noticed it was a little on the slow side, when playing 3D games I experienced a lot of freezing and issues when it was loading in new textures but more recently I've noticed these issues get worse," writes another owner. "Downloading an app is tremendously slow with it taking several minutes to download just a few meg while my phone completes the same task in seconds."

"I've seen reports of this linked with poor IO transfer benchmarks," another owner writes who saw a performance increase after disabling Currents and freeing up 2 GB of cache. "Current best guess seems to be that the device is having trouble writing and reading cache during background tasks and is slowing down everything else. Thing is it ran like a particularly greased up Usain Bolt for the first few months. I was sure it was some sort of app I'd installed messing things up but I can't isolate it at all, and it manifests as high IO usage. It really is incredibly annoying, with Chrome habitually showing the "Not Responding" dialogue, and Google Now becoming Google Eventually."

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LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 10, 2012) - MMRGlobal, Inc. ( OTCBB : MMRF ) ("MMR") today announced stronger than expected sales of its MMRPro document management and imaging system for healthcare professionals (www.mmrprovideos.com). The increase is based on agreements for third quarter sales and fourth quarter deliveries projecting installations and licensing agreements for more than 100 MMRPro systems in the last four months of this year. The demand was triggered by the release of the final rules for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) over the past few weeks. Despite significant pushback from hospitals and doctors, the rules require that patients have online access to their Personal Health Information within 36 hours after a hospital discharge and four days from seeing a physician, which is exactly what MMRPro with MMRPatientView was designed to facilitate (www.mmrpatientvideos.com). This means that starting in 2014, medical information must be available to patients online in as little as 36 hours. The government is sending a message to medical professionals that patient engagement is a top priority and to get it done.

The MMRPro system, which integrates with MMR's patient portal MMRPatientView, is one of the few solutions already responding to physicians' needs today by providing the necessary tools for patient engagement, facilitating the four day requirement for doctors and 36 hour time frame for hospitals. This has created higher than anticipated interest and demand for the Company's MMRPro systems from urgent care facilities and ambulatory surgical centers in addition to senior living centers. MMRPro represents the most cost-effective and easy way for healthcare professionals to move away from paper and begin the path to more streamlined and efficient operations in advance of delivering PHRs through patient portals and paving the way for the implementation of fully-functional EMRs.

"Healthcare professionals are realizing now is the time to buy, and we are in the right place at the right time when you consider that as late as 2011, only 10% of hospitals had a patient portal of any kind," said Robert H. Lorsch, MMRGlobal CEO. "We believe we are seeing greater interest in deployment of our professional products and services as a result of the final Stage 2 Meaningful Use rules issued last month. Moreover, physicians understand that because of healthcare reform they are about to be paid for services previously provided for free in emergency rooms and urgent care centers."

It is estimated that as many as 32 million Americans use emergency rooms and urgent care facilities in place of the family doctor. This means that smaller and medium size providers will need to begin eliminating paper by converting to digitized medical records as an entry-level strategy to deployment of EMRs. The increased patient loads are expected to also create consolidation in providers and many new urgent care facilities.

"MMRPro is the only low cost system of its kind that digitizes a medical office while offering a Personal Health Record complete with all the documents and images in a patient chart for an entire family's health history, meeting the new requirements in near real time. Additionally, the Company's MyMedicalRecords PHR connects seamlessly to the back end of any EMR system, including large scale hospital installations when integrated with our Interbit Connected Hospital module and MMRPatientView," Lorsch added.

Media interested in setting up a demonstration account can sign up at http://www.MyMedicalRecords.com and follow instructions to open a trial account using Registration Code: PRESSCREDENTIAL.

About MMRGlobal, Inc.

MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc., provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records ("PHRs") and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user's account. The Company's professional offering, MMRPro, is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients in real time through an integrated patient portal. MMR is an Independent Software Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for healthcare professionals. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId/Specifid vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. visit http://www.mmrglobal.com. View demos and video tutorials of the Company's products and services at http://www.mmrtheater.com.

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Samantha Fritz takes readers through the gyms, fitness events, studios and boot camps of New Orleans to discover the best ways to exhaust yourself, lose weight or just plain feel better. Don't be afraid to try something new! This week she demoed a personal training session and talked professional bodybuilding with Ivan Blazquez at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center, Uptown, nojcc.org.

When I walk up to Ivan Blazquez to meet for our personal training demo and a chat about exercise and nutrition, he is eating what looks to me like rhubarb pie. It is pink and gooey, in a plastic container.

"This is not one of my best," says the 33-year-old Health Fitness Specialist and personal trainer at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center (AKA the JCC), referring to his homemade lunch. He eats a vegetable or fruit at every meal and recommends to all his clients to increase their vegetable consumption, even if it's just throwing a carrot on your plate next to the etouffee. He tells me that the brightly colored lunch I interrupt for our interview is actually a mash-up of beets, cucumber, mushrooms and sesame seeds.

I first met Blazquez at Harrah's New Orleans Casino for an event called the American Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation 2012 Pro-Louisiana Bodybuilding, Figure, Men's Physique and Bikini Championships. Very tanned, very muscular men and women posed and performed choreographed routines to show off their incredible physiques. I attended with my friend Nicole, who credits her enviably flat stomach to weekly training sessions with Blazquez.

Blazquez was at the UNO gym in 2005 when he saw another member's picture from a natural (meaning no performance-enhancing drugs) bodybuilding show. He was intrigued and says the guy told him, "You can do it."

Thirty minutes later Blazquez signed up online for his first National Gym Association show.

With a Master degree in Exercise Physiology and years of experience in training and bodybuilding, Blazquez comes with a lot of expertise. This is good, since personal training packages can be pricey; the JCC charges $65 per session or $420 for 10. But that doesn't stop Blazquez's roster of writers, doctors, attorneys, students and more from seeing him at least once a week.

After witnessing Blazquez win the Men's Lightweight Division in the ABFF Pro-Louisiana, he nearly sold me on a personal training package with his sheer enthusiasm, but I settled on a 10-minute "demo" session instead.

During this 10-minute session, I worked out harder than I ever would have in my own 60-minute workout. We "warmed up" with a machine called Jacob's Ladder that looks like a vertical treadmill with a wooden ladder strapped to it. Blazquez asked me to crawl up it for 30 seconds. After he saw I could do that, he told me to go for a minute.

I kept going for a total of three minutes, which Blazquez said put me in the top percentile of his clients. He added that he recently trained a 20-something male who couldn't even finish two minutes. Does this guy know how to hook someone or what? I wanted more challenges! There is a good reason the Jacob's Ladder machine is safely tucked away in the personal training room, out of reach of people like me.

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The Personal Touch In Iraq

For its part, al Qaeda boasted of carrying out 131 attacks during Ramadan (July 21 through August 18). Islamic radicals consider it particularly pious to kill enemies of Islam during the holy month of Ramada. In this case the terrorists were careful to point out that most of the 131 attacks were directed at the security forces and members of pro-government militias. Iraq is now a democracy and al Qaeda considers democracy anti-Islamic.

The recent sharp decline is the result of several other factors. First, the Sunni terrorist groups could not sustain the level of violence they began in January (when 225 victims died). Second, pressure from the government (in reaction to public anger) produced more tips from citizens, more neighborhood self-defense groups and more effective performance by the police. Third, some Sunni Islamic terrorists (mainly foreigners) have gone to fight in Syria, where the Sunni majority is rebelling against the Shia minority dictatorship. The feeling is that, at the very least, Sunni terror groups will have sanctuary in Syria once the Shia government is overthrown. That would enable to the Sunni terrorists to use Syria as a base for continued attacks on the majority Shia government of Iraq.

Finally, the Sunni terrorists have cut back on their bombing attacks and switched to more assassination operations against police and military commanders. This is an effort to get the security forces to back off on their efforts to wipe out Sunni terror groups. This sort of thing requires less manpower and can often be contracted out to professional assassins (of which there were always a lot of in Iraq). The Sunni terrorists are aware that their attacks on Shia civilians are unpopular with many Sunnis, because in the past this kind of violence led to a major campaign by Shia terrorist groups (who have been quiet lately) against Sunni civilians.

The assassination campaign is one of the main reasons the police leadership is so poor and corrupt. When you are spending most of your time just trying to stay alive, job performance suffers. And it's not just Islamic terrorists coming after you, there are also gangsters looking for some cooperation, or trying to get you to switch loyalty from another gangster. This is why curbing corruption is so important, as it is the source of most problems in the country.

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Survey shows Maori unhappy with economy, iwi - point to policy priorities

Horizon Research has released its Maori Viewpoint 2012 report, tracking the views of Maori nationwide on issues ranging from their personal household financial position to their iwis' performance.

Maori are sending clear signals to their iwi and other policy makers on what they think are the most important issues for Maori over the next three years.

The report is based on a Horizon Research Maori Panel survey of 433 adult Maori in August 2012. Some results are also compared with those of a May, 2011, Horizon Research Maori Panel survey of 534 respondents.

Results are weighted by age, gender, personal income, region and employment status to ensure a representative sample of the Maori population aged 18+at the 2006 census. At a 95% confidence level the maximum margin of error is +/- 4.7% (4.2% in the 2011 survey).

Key findings of the 2012 survey include:

Wrong track: An increasing number of Maori feel the country is headed in the wrong direction (71.8% compared with 63.1% in May 2011). This view is held reasonably consistently across all age groups, but rises to nearly 80% among 18-24 and 25-34 year-olds.

Economic management poorly rated: Maori are increasingly dissatisfied with the Governments handling of the economy and more are reporting their household financial positions are worse than a year ago, and more expect them to worsen in the next year. Overall 34.5% of Maori expect their household financial position to worsen.

Iwi involvement and contact: Five per cent more are involved in iwi affairs than in 2011, though a third are still not active in iwi affairs. 51% have little or no contact with their iwi and 24.6% only rate contact with them by their iwi as adequate or better.

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Antioch Chamber Ensemble is an internationally known, award-winning choir with a pair of albums to its name. But the lauded New York metropolitan area-based group began in a humble way: four students singing as they carpooled.

Led by Artistic Director Joshua Copeland, the ensemble performs both sacred and secular music, including popular songs you may recognize. (Make sure to check out its performance of "True Colors" on YouTube.) Antioch will perform Sept. 22 at Franklin & Marshall College.

Antioch was formed in 1997 by Copeland (a baritone), Executive Director Stephen Sands (tenor), his wife, Kristin Sands (soprano), and Luthien Brackett (alto). The four attended Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., and sang in the choir at St. Bernard's Church in Bernardsville. During the 30-mile commute, they discovered their voices "had a uniquely beautiful quality" when they sang quartets, Brackett said by phone.

After hitting a wall with four-voice repertoire, the group expanded into the professional realm, Brackett said. Copeland said in a separate phone interview that he wanted to bring the "clean, no vibrato" sound of Europe to America, with a mix of genders.

Thus was born Antioch Chamber Ensemble, which today is made up of four sopranos, two altos, two tenors and two basses. Performing with a small ensemble, as opposed to a large choir, Brackett said, "is kind of like the difference between driving a minivan and driving a sports car."

"You can make more dramatic dynamic contrasts and you can be more expressive," she said. "You can be more flexible. You can sing in a much more free and spontaneous way."

While similar groups might have disbanded after 15 years, Antioch has endured with its four co-founders intact.

"We were fortunate that from the very start [we] were very compatible as colleagues, but had very different personalities and points of view. So we're good at different things," said Brackett, a freelance singer and private voice teacher. "It's kind of like having a table with four legs instead of two. It's sturdier."

"It sounds a little hokey to say," she continued, "but we genuinely loved to work together so much. And we love this type of music so much. We didn't regard it as a stepping stone to anything else."

While a chamber choir may call to mind the sounds of solemn sacred music, Brackett said Antioch has tried to perform a variety of pieces, rather than specialize in a particular genre, "because we knew that styles and taste change."

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You may be sitting at your desk right now, appearing normal to all your coworkers. But at home, your life is like a country song -- breakups, babies, debts, disease, your truck broke down and your dog is sick. Assuming your job isn't at the Grand Ole Opry, how much do you spill?

Sharing personal details at work can be a difficult terrain to navigate. Tell all early and you can inoculate yourself against criticism later if your personal life affects your work. But overshare and you can marginalize yourself at the one place where things are calm and quiet.

"Having to disclose personal information in the workplace can be one of the most anxiety-provoking decisions an employee has to make. Particularly in this economy, where many employees are worried that any sign of weakness may adversely affect their continued employment or personnel review," says Wendy Patrick, a management and ethics lecturer at San Diego State University.

Of course, some personal details like pregnancy or that whole body cast from your weekend skiing injury may be difficult to hide. But for everything else, here is a quick primer for what, how and when to share at the office.

What do you have to tell?Distinguish what you need to tell versus what you don't. As a general rule, you should share information that could affect your work and keep private the personal news that won't have an impact on your performance.

Legally, you're usually on solid ground if you keep your mouth shut, says Nigel Telman, an employee attorney at law firm Proskauer Rose in Chicago. You aren't even required to mention pregnancy, though of course you would have to if you wanted to take maternity leave.

"The one exception is if you have an illness that could potentially put your co-workers at risk of contracting the illness. For example, tuberculosis. Then you must advise your employer of the situation," says Telman.

What do you want to tell?If you have a soft fuzzy workplace and consider your boss your friend, you may feel like telling more. Interestingly, workers' views on sharing may be affected by their age, says Amy Lynch, a Minneapolis consultant, who offers corporate seminars on managing multiple generations in the workforce.

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