The entire report can be viewed here: http://www.mobileiron.com/en/analyst-report/gartner-2013-report-magic-quadrant-mobile-device-management-software.

According to the report, “Interest and adoption in mobile device management continues to grow at a fast rate, with companies looking for enterprise security and mobile optimization and enablement. Strong offerings go beyond policy to support enterprise mobile management.”

“Customer success through focus and innovation is the heartbeat of MobileIron,” said Bob Tinker, CEO, MobileIron. “We believe our position in the Leaders Quadrant recognizes our ability to establish a strong vision for enterprise mobility and earn the trust of our customers on their journeys to becoming Mobile First organizations. To do this, we have built a Mobile IT platform that scales globally, innovates rapidly, and deploys easily both in the cloud and on-premise.”

Mobile First Customer Journey

Mobile First organizations embrace mobility as their primary IT platform in order to transform their businesses and increase their competitiveness. The Mobile First Customer Journey has three steps. The first step is migrating to the new generation of mobile smartphones and tablets and adopting ownership models like BYOD without sacrificing enterprise security or employee privacy. The second step is moving beyond email to mobile apps and content. The third step is driving true business transformation through the creation of new user experiences and business models that are only possible through mobile. MobileIron’s mission is to power this revolutionary Mobile First transformation.

Mobile First Platform Innovation

Mobile user requirements and technologies evolve rapidly. The extensibility of the MobileIron platform( http://www.mobileiron.com/en/solutions/platform-mobile-it ) led to the development and delivery of several unique solutions over the last year:

– MobileIron was named Best Enterprise Mobile Service( http://www.mobileiron.com/en/company/press-room/press-releases/mobileiron-wins-gsma-award-best-enterprise-mobile-service-mobile ) at the 2013 GSMA Mobile World Congress for its ability to separate business apps, content, and policies into an enterprise persona that can be managed separately from personal data.

– MobileIron AppConnect( http://www.mobileiron.com/products/appconnect ) was the first app containerization solution to provide dynamic policies and tunneling through both an SDK and app wrapper.

– MobileIron App Delivery Network( http://www.mobileiron.com/en/solutions/app-delivery ) was the first app provisioning solution to allow the delivery of in-house enterprise apps to thousands of users without increased internal network load or download latency.

– MobileIron Docs@Work( http://www.mobileiron.com/en/solutions/enterprise-solutions/mobile-content-management/product-overview ) was the first mobile DLP solution to stop the loss of email attachments in the native mobile email user experience.

– MobileIron VSP V5( http://www.mobileiron.com/solutions/platform-mobile-it ) was the first on-premise mobile management appliance to be scale-tested( http://www.mobileiron.com/en/whitepaper/real-world-scale-mobile-it-nine-core-performance-requirements ) for 100,000 fully-configured mobile devices on a single server.

– MobileIron Connected Cloud( http://www.mobileiron.com/products/deployment-options/trust ) was the first mobile management cloud service to both complete a SOC 2 Type I assessment and provide full operational service transparency.

– MobileIron was granted the patents for mobile application management (U.S. Patent Number 8,359,016( http://www.google.com/patents/US8359016 )) and mobile activity intelligence (U.S. Patent Number 8,340,633( http://www.google.com/patents/US8340633 )).

Mobile First Business Scale

Mobile First is a global phenomenon and requires software vendors to be able to scale their businesses rapidly while providing the highest levels of customer service.

– The largest companies in the world are going mobile, with 8 of the top 10 automotive manufacturers, 7 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, 5 of the top 10 banks, 5 of the top 10 law firms, and 4 of the top 10 retailers in the world choosing MobileIron as their Mobile IT platform.

– The overall MobileIron customer base( http://www.mobileiron.com/en/customers/mobileiron-customers ) is now almost 5,000 enterprises.

– The MobileIron global partner network( http://www.mobileiron.com/en/partners/partner-overview ) now includes over 10,000 sales and support staff trained on the MobileIron platform. This ecosystem allows the MobileIron business to scale rapidly while providing customers the local support they require.

– As a result of this global reach, almost 50% of the MobileIron customer base is now outside North America.

– MobileIron customer support satisfaction( http://www.mobileiron.com/en/company/contact-us/customer-support ) exceeds 95% as a result of extensive investments in support personnel, MobileIron University( http://www.mobileiron.com/en/resources/mobileiron-university ), and best practice development.

*Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management Software” by Phillip Redman, John Girard, Terrence Cosgrove, Monica Basso, May 23, 2013. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About MobileIron

The leader in security and management for mobile apps, documents, and devices, MobileIron’s mission is to enable global companies to become Mobile First organizations, embracing mobility as their primary IT platform in order to transform their businesses and increase their competitiveness. Recognized by IDC as the fastest growing mobile enterprise management vendor in the world, MobileIron provides the scalable architecture, rapid innovation, and best practices for global companies to transform into Mobile First organizations. Leading global companies use MobileIron as the foundation for their Mobile First initiatives, including 8 of the top 10 automotive manufacturers, 7 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, 5 of the top 10 banks, 5 of the top 10 law firms, and 4 of the top 10 retailers. For more information, please visit www.mobileiron.com.

“Peanut Butter, Jelly & Kung Fu Sandwich” represents the first three chapters of a longer saga and is the result of a Kansas City-based collaboration between illustrator/Kid Rocket Inc. founder Jason Bays and the digital design and app publishing/development team at Propaganda3.

As an immersive children’s application for the iPad, Kung Fu Robot combines an original storyline, art, animation and a full soundtrack composed by local Kansas Citian Noel Selders (Substream Music and Sound Design, Quixotic). This interactive experience includes a soundboard that allows users to mix “nunchuck attacks” and “kung fu splats” against a breakdown of beats. Kids can also play the role of the story’s hero with the “Whack-A-Ninja” mini-game, bashing android ninjas with a broom as they pop out of kitchen drawers and cabinets.

“Regardless of the audience, our craft must be both our first and final focal point,” says Propaganda3 founder/CEO Cello Vergara. “Yet designing digital experiences for kids is really demanding. They have very refined tastes when it comes to what’s cool and high expectations for what is entertaining.”

Kung Fu Robot came from creator Jason Bays‘ desire to further fuel a passion for reading among his own children.

“While the concept has been in my head for a number of years, the story itself has always been evolving,” Bays says. “It’s the most important piece to get right. Ultimately, reading should be fun. When presented with the idea, the team at Propaganda3 instantly understood that need. That made it easy to trust them with an idea that’s deeply personal to me.”

For more information about Kung Fu Robot and to download the app, visit KungFuRobot.com.

About Propaganda3
For nearly 12 years, Propaganda3 has been an interactive production studio for the leaders of the advertising, marketing and design industries. With a focus on the craft behind digital and a strong pedigree in gaming and experiential design, “P3″ has also embraced a new future with a turn towards mobile app development for both the iOS and Android platforms. The P3 team is a meld of skilled developers, designers and producers whose fusion offers both clients and partners premium properties that tell dynamic and effective stories. For more information, visit Propaganda3.com.

Chapters will be released on a weekly basis with expandable sections and video interviews. Contributors to the book include: Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson; Fiona Stang, Chip’s first yoga instructor; Baron Baptiste, founder of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga; and Tom Stemberg, founder and former CEO of Staples.

whil is a content portal, online community, and lifestyle brand for professionals seeking new ways to embrace the chaos of everyday life and set achievable goals for themselves. Through a 60-second meditation technique, whil encourages you to power down, power up and power forward. Chip’s book allows people to learn about his past and join him and his wife, Shannon Wilson, as they embark on this new adventure of whil.

“Whil is a brand about nothing. But in that nothingness exists infinite possibility,” says Chip. “I hope that, through reading this book, you’ll see how committing to powering down, ‘getting present’ and powering back up again will help turn dreams into reality.”

About whil

It all starts with the dot. Founded by lululemon founders Chip and Shannon Wilson, whil is an online resource to bring personal goals and intentions to fulfillment through a meditative approach to life. Chip and Shannon have created the whil brand around a powerful tool for living in the most data-intensive era in the history of humankind: a meditation technique that not only conveniently fits into our busy, hyper-connected lives but enables us to live those lives with more control, more productivity, more creativity, more serenity and more joy than most of us had thought possible. The intersection of will and where can be found at whil.com.

About Chip Wilson

Chip Wilson is a businessman and entrepreneur who has founded several retail apparel companies, most notably yoga-inspired athletic apparel company lululemon. Chip founded his first retail apparel company, Westbeach Snowboard Ltd., in 1979. The pioneer venture sold apparel targeted at the emerging surf, skate, and snowboard markets. He went on to sell Westbeach in 1997 and founded lululemon in 1998. In 2004, Chip was named Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year for Innovation and Marketing by Ernst & Young.

Here is a link to the spring/summer issue: http://www.mofo.com/files/Uploads/Images/130521-MoFoTech-Spring-Summer-2013.pdf.

The current issue’s cover story offers an in-depth look at how President Obama’s second term is likely to play out for the technology industry – from the appointment of the country’s first chief technology officer to the president’s call to reverse government spending cuts on research and development, as well as legislative and regulatory efforts to prevent a destabilizing cyberattack on the nation.

Since its launch in 2009, MoFo Tech is one of the only magazines to focus on the intersection of law and technology. Written by prominent business and tech journalists, MoFo Tech has won the Custom Publishing Council’s Pearl Award four years running and was named “Best New Magazine” in its class. Its readership has grown each year and now surpasses 20,000, which primarily includes C-level executives and general counsel at many of the country’s top tech and life sciences companies. MoFo Tech is also distributed at major airport executive lounges.

Last year, MoFo added an online companion with the launch of the MoFo Tech Blog (www.mofotechblog.com), offering each issue digitally, with updates on stories and additional content. MoFo Tech can also be followed on Twitter, @MoFoTech, and on the firm’s mobile app, MoFo2Go, available on iPhone and iPad through Apple’s App Store.

The magazine also arrives on the heels of a new survey jointly conducted by Morrison & Foerster and leading technology market intelligence firm 451 Research, which explored M&A trends in the tech sector. The M&A Leaders Survey is designed to take the pulse of tech industry insiders on the dealmaking market, and represents the views of nearly 200 investment bankers, venture capitalists, financial advisers and senior executives. Read the full report here: http://www.mofo.com/files/Uploads/Images/130510-451-Survey-Results.pdf.

“Our technology practice has long been one of the cornerstones of the firm, and it’s from this strong foundation that MoFo Tech was created,” said Tessa Schwartz co-chair of the firm’s Technology Transactions Group and one of the partners in charge of the magazine. “We’ve been extremely pleased at the penetration of MoFo Tech among so many key decision makers in the industry – especially as we continue to make our content available on digital platforms.”

“There is really no other publication like it,” said Morrison & Foerster intellectual property litigator Michael Jacobs, a partner who also directs the magazine’s content. “Each issue gets richer in terms of news, analysis, trend-watching and thought leadership.”

Among some of the other topics covered in the new issue of MoFo Tech:

• The recent rise of 3-D printing has opened up the ability to digitally build intricate objects such as heavy machinery, aircraft components and replacement parts for consumer products, launching a new chapter in the file-sharing debate, and a potentially new theater in patent and copyright infringement.

• Morrison & Foerster’s proprietary BioMeter deal index reports that the average development costs for new therapeutics and other biotech products rose to $1.3 billion in 2011, up from $54 million in 1979 and $231 million in 1991. Also trending up, according to BioMeter: The percentage of biotech deals for already-approved assets – until 2012, when the trend reversed itself, perhaps signaling a fresh phase in the biotech deal market.

• LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is spreading from building specifications to plans for entire corporate parks, marking a new holistic approach to fighting greenhouse gases that encompasses elements such as landscaping and commuter transportation.

• Two American exchange students who met in China went on to form a successful capital management firm that pioneered biopharma royalty bonds, by which young companies with a new product receive royalty payments from established firms that agree to manufacture and market the products. When the term of the bond is up, ownership and royalties revert to the original company. This company, Capital Royalty, has since branched out into other innovative ways of investing venture capital in healthcare startups.

ABOUT MOFO
We are Morrison & Foerster — a global firm of exceptional credentials. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, investment banks, Fortune 100, technology and life science companies. We’ve been included on The American Lawyer‘s A-List for nine straight years, Chambers Global named MoFo its 2013 USA Law Firm of the Year, and BTI named MoFo among its 2013 Brand Elite. Our lawyers are committed to achieving innovative and business-minded results for our clients, while preserving the differences that make us stronger.

Vital Products is implementing its solid business plan and continues to record impressive sales! Our 10q for the period ended April 30, 2013 is being prepared currently and with increased sales and continued growth and gross profits, Vital is on the way to make 2013 its year to shine!

“Since we broke the $1,000,000 sales mark, we have continued to grow and now as we approach the year end I’m confident we can double that number and more!” commented James McKinney, CEO of Vital Products. McKinney continued, “‘This is just the beginning of great things for Vital Products. Our team is responding and sales are growing! We plan to double sales next year again and look forward to keeping you up to date.”

About Vital Products, Inc.

Vital Products, Inc. is a business to business supplier of remanufactured and compatible LaserJet and inkjet cartridges.

User Traffic Data:

The allegations stipulate that user traffic, as measured by Alexa, does not match with the data provided by the Company. Alexa tracks internet traffic through browser based tool-bar plug-ins, but many Chinese internet users do not have Alexa plug-ins on their computers. Therefore, Alexa’s user traffic data cited in the allegations under-estimate Vipshop.com’s actual user traffic, which has grown rapidly.

Revenue Growth:

The allegations question the Company’s rapid growth without the number of website visitors increasing. This conclusion is very misleading in that it failed to take into account the Company’s actual user traffic growth as well as other factors in the Company’s operation that drive business growth, including growth in total active customers and increase in the average order size, which was in turn due to the Company’s continued efforts to optimize brand and product selection, increase the number of sales events and increase the number of SKUs available on the Company’s website, all in an effort to enhance customer experience.

Fulfillment Expenses:

The allegations challenge the Company’s decreased fulfillment expenses as a percentage of total revenues despite its opening of new regional logistics centers. All these logistics centers are leased and the related expenses have been recognized in fulfillment expenses. In addition, the Company continued to shift more fulfillment needs to quality regional and local couriers, which generally have lower average delivery charges than national delivery companies. The above factors coupled with the Company’s improved operational efficiency have led to the decrease in the fulfillment expenses as a percentage of total revenues.

Certain Other Claims:

The allegations stipulate that the Company did not fully disclose related party transactions. The Company has made explicit and transparent disclosures in the relevant filings with the SEC, including disclosure of related party transactions on pages 82, 83, F-34 and F-35 of the Company’s annual report on Form 20-F for year 2012. The allegations also speculate that the Company’s appearance at recent investor conferences is related to a potential follow-on offering in the near future. The Company clarifies that it is attending investor conferences and meeting with investors in the ordinary course of its business consistent with past practice.

Vipshop is dedicated to continuing open and transparent communications with investors, analysts and the public. The Company welcomes opportunities for direct dialog with all parties that are genuinely interested in gaining a better understanding of the Company’s business model, operations, as well as the China‘s online discount retail market. Vipshop always aspires to act in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders, and reserves legal rights against any deliberately false accusations or attacks.

About Vipshop Holdings Limited

Vipshop Holdings Limited (“Vipshop” or the “Company”) is China‘s leading online discount retailer for brands. Vipshop offers high quality and popular branded products to consumers throughout China at a significant discount to retail prices. Since it was founded in August 2008, the Company has rapidly built a sizeable and growing base of customers and brand partners. For more information, please visit ir.vipshop.com.

$850 million of 1.75% senior notes due June 1, 2018

$1,050 million of 3.25% senior notes due August 1, 2023

$950 million of 4.75% senior notes due June 1, 2043

Northrop Grumman expects to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund the redemption of its then outstanding 3.70% senior notes due 2014 (the “2014 Notes”) and its then outstanding 1.850% senior notes due 2015 (the “2015 Notes”) and for general corporate purposes, including debt repayment, share repurchases, pension plan funding, acquisitions and working capital. As of the date of this press release, $350 million aggregate principal amount of the 2014 Notes and $500 million aggregate principal amount of the 2015 Notes were outstanding.

The offering is expected to close on May 31, 2013, subject to customary closing conditions. When available, copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus related to the offering may be obtained by calling Citigroup Global Markets Inc. toll free at (800) 831-9146, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC collect at (212) 834-4533, RBS Securities Inc. toll free at (866) 884-2071 and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC toll free at (800) 326-5897. A copy of these documents may also be obtained by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

The securities are being offered pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of the shelf registration statement.

Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide. Please visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.

“The World Semiconductor Council is a unique organization that is unrivaled in its mission and scope by groups in other industries,” said Ajit Manocha, SIA chairman and CEO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES. “The consensus reached in the 2013 WSC Joint Statement represents a significant step toward enacting sound policies that will open markets, increase consumers’ ability to benefit from semiconductor technology advances, maintain market-based competition, and protect the environment. I’m particularly encouraged by the WSC’s commitment to build and expand its relationships with multilateral trade policy institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Customs Organization (WCO), which will help put us on the path toward achieving the plan set forth in the 2013 Joint Statement.”

A top priority expressed in the 2013 Joint Statement is the expansion of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), a key trade pact that provides for duty-free treatment of certain information technology products, including semiconductors. WSC delegation chairs sent a letter to ITA members urging a rapid conclusion of a commercially significant agreement. The list of covered products has not been updated since the ITA’s inception in 1996, and in the interim semiconductor designers and manufacturers have increasingly integrated additional electronic components into new types of next generation chips to increase functionality. The WSC cited two such semiconductor products that should be covered by an expanded ITA: multi-component integrated circuits (MCO) and multi-chip packages (MCP). Inclusion of MCOs in an expanded ITA would result in estimated global tariff savings of between $94 million and $188 million annually.

“The WSC’s recommendations include elimination of tariffs, harmonization of regulations, and simplification of customs procedures,” said Keith Jackson, president and CEO of ON Semiconductor and member of the SIA Board of Directors. “These recommendations enable the world’s consumers to enjoy the latest semiconductor technology at the lowest cost.”

Industry leaders also made significant progress on the following issues:

Ensuring government compliance with the WSC Encryption Principles and working to promote these principles to other governments throughout the world.

• Reconfirming that the competitiveness of companies and their products, not the interventions of governments and authorities, should be the principal determinant of industrial success.
• Affirming the critical importance of trade facilitation in achieving free and open markets, reducing barriers to trade, and improving business conditions that provide significant benefits to governments, industry, and consumers alike; the WSC announced its support for the WTO Trade Facilitation efforts and encouraged negotiators to conclude an agreement this year that embodies the WSC Trade Facilitation Principles.
• Emphasizing the industry’s commitment to anti-counterfeiting efforts.
• Strengthening intellectual property (IP) rights and protections via work and analysis of issues related to utility model patents, patent quality, non-practicing entities and trade secrets.
• Maintaining progress toward reducing the industry’s PFC emissions.
• Promoting innovation policy principles to guide governments on how to help industry generate greater innovation without distorting trade or impeding market access.
• Addressing helium supply concerns.
• Approving a WSC conflict-free supply chain policy.

Industry representatives from the six regions will deliver these recommendations to an annual meeting of their governments, called the Governments and Authorities Meeting on Semiconductors (GAMS), which will take place in Jeju, Korea this September. The GAMS meeting represents an opportunity for industry to convey the importance of implementing the recommendations and explore areas of mutual interest with governments and authorities worldwide.

“The semiconductor industry is critical to the global economy, enabling the technologies the world depends on and boosting job creation, manufacturing and innovation,” said Brian Toohey, president and CEO, Semiconductor Industry Association. “Now more than ever, our industry faces global challenges that require international cooperation to solve. The agreement reached by the World Semiconductor Council is a shining example of the industry’s commitment to meet this challenge head on by working together to strengthen the global industry for years to come.”

The complete 2013 WSC Joint Statement is available here.

For more information on the Semiconductor Industry Association, visit www.semiconductors.org.

For more information on the World Semiconductor Council, visit www.semiconductorcouncil.org.

About the SIA

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is the voice of the U.S. semiconductor industry, one of America’s top export industries and a key driver of America’s economic strength, national security and global competitiveness. Semiconductors – microchips that control all modern electronics – enable the systems and products that we use to work, communicate, travel, entertain, harness energy, treat illness, and make new scientific discoveries. The semiconductor industry directly employs nearly a quarter of a million people in the U.S. In 2012, U.S. semiconductor sales totaled more than $146 billion, and semiconductors make the global trillion dollar electronics industry possible. Founded in 1977 by five microelectronics pioneers, SIA unites companies that account for 80 percent of America’s semiconductor production. Through this coalition, SIA seeks to strengthen U.S. leadership of semiconductor design and manufacturing by working with Congress, the Administration and other key industry stakeholders to encourage policies and regulations that fuel innovation, propel business and drive international competition. Learn more at www.semiconductors.org.

“Acceller is excited to join the Convergent Connections team,” said Brian Thomas, Chief Revenue Officer at Acceller. “Acceller’s technology and existing relationships in the industry add great value to the utilities that partner with Convergent Connections, and more importantly provide a positive customer experience for the residential customers interacting with the utilities we work with.”

Convergent Connections allows utilities to gain quick, turnkey access to valuable Home Premise Services that will improve shareholder value while also enhancing customer satisfaction. Home Premise Services is comprised of a comprehensive portfolio of products, including customer care center sales and support, TV, phone, Internet, home security, surge protection products, air filter subscription services, warranty protection for home wiring and operational sourcing for meter reading, field services and AMI deployments.

Through their relationships with major utility partners, and the top players in the digital home services industry, including Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Dish Network, Acceller has developed flexible solutions for utilities looking to expand their product offerings using Acceller’s technology platform. Teaming with Convergent Connections allows for a portfolio approach that enables utilities to adapt the portfolio to their unique business and customer needs.

“Acceller was selected as a partner under the Convergent Connections umbrella because of their technology, flexibility, speed to market, and experience across many channels, which enables us to provide much more value for our utility, municipal, and cooperative clients,” said Convergent Connections Vice President Rudy Masi. “Our unique partnership affords our clients cost efficiencies with improved revenue and energy efficiency opportunities.”

About Acceller
Acceller is a technology and marketing partner focused on enabling consumers to live the connected life. We join forces with the nation’s leading digital service providers to enrich their marketing and distribution channels. Using our technology and marketing insight, channel partners are able to enhance their value to consumers and drive incremental revenue. Our agile business model and deep relationships within the digital service industry, enables the education and empowerment of consumers through our comparison shopping and content site, Digital Landing. For more information, please visit: www.acceller.com, follow us on Twitter @AccellerHQ and Facebook.

Inheriting MediaTek’s technology breakthrough of quad-core SoC platform and high-end multimedia capabilities, the MT8125 incorporates premium multimedia features, supporting up to Full HD 1080p video playback and recording, 13MP camera with integrated ISP and Full HD (1920 x 1200) displays. The new tablet SoC also delivers ground breaking visual quality powered by the leading picture quality technology — MiraVision™, derived from MediaTek’s extensive experience in the Digital TV market.

The MT8125 includes full support for MediaTek’s leading 4-in-1 connectivity combo that converges Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and FM, bringing highly integrated, best-in-class wireless technologies and expanded functionality to high-performance multimedia tablets. The MT8125 also provides support for Wi-Fi certified Miracast™ which makes multimedia content sharing between devices easier.

“During the last two years, application processors used in tablets have taken a fast evolution from single-core 1GHz to quad cores, clocking over 1.5GHz. Competition will force chipset vendors to maintain pace — by implementing more advanced features while reducing the system cost by increasing the level of integration*,” said Gartner Research Director Roger Sheng.

“MediaTek’s team has worked closely with Lenovo to integrate their solutions into our design process, helping us accelerate the development and introduction of new, innovative tablets. In turn, this allows us to fulfill our commitment to delivering the outstanding user experience our customers demand. The tablet market is moving fast, and Lenovo aims to be at the forefront of tablet innovation. MediaTek helps us do that,” commented Wayne Chen, vice president and head of mobile business unit for Lenovo.

“We’re confident that our comprehensive reference designs will be the industry benchmark, particularly benefiting the mid-to-high-end tablet market. It is an innovative, cost-effective and definitely faster time-to-market solution,” said Joe Chen, GM of Home Entertainment Business Unit, MediaTek. “By taking advantage of our strengths in the multimedia field, mobile communications and multi-screen technologies, we offer a complete multi-core processor family for smartphones and tablets, enabling a significant difference in performance and power efficiency – all while ensuring seamless streaming performance across the array of devices when users are consuming entertainment and information.”

The MediaTek quad core tablet SoC is now being widely adopted by MediaTek’s global customers including Lenovo IdeaTab S6000 series.

*Source: Gartner report “Competitive Landscape: Application Processor Providers for Tablets, Worldwide” Roger Sheng, Amy Teng, Mark Hung 19 April 2013

About MediaTek Inc.

MediaTek Inc. is a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions. The company is a market leader and pioneer in cutting-edge SOC system solutions for wireless communications, high-definition TV, optical storage, and DVD and Blu-ray products. Founded in 1997 and listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange under the code “2454″, MediaTek is headquartered in Taiwan and has sales or research subsidiaries in Mainland China, Singapore, India, U.S., Japan, South Korea, Denmark, England, Sweden and Dubai. For more information, please visit MediaTek’s website at www.mediatek.com.

Participants in the test included Extreme Networks, Arista, Brocade and Avaya. Extreme Networks’ Open Fabric switches performed with the best overall latency of core modular and edge Top of Rack (ToR) swtiches and demonstrated resiliency with fast recovery times in three simulated failure scenarios – server link, T-o-R uplink and core. This is key to network operators seeking technology for cloud, disaster recovery and Internet exchange point designs that underpin data centers and converged storage systems with five nines reliability and impressive fault tolerance.

“Extreme Networks, having tested its data center solutions over the past two years, remains stubbornly consistent in delivering superior test results, be it capacity, latency, and now active active fabric configuration,” said Nick Lippis, Lippis Reports. “The 2013 results set a high standard for performance and reliability.”

“The Lippis Report tests demonstrate that Extreme’s Open Fabric 10/40GbE switches offer one of the industry’s fastest, most scalable and resilient data center Ethernet fabric solutions, providing investment protection and optimized TCO for their next generation data centers,” said David Ginsburg, CMO for Extreme Networks.

Extreme Networks Active-Active results are based on standards-based Multi System Link Aggregation (M-LAG) technology, delivering both performance and interoperability with existing network deployments to preserve customers’ prior investments in infrastructure and tools for fault management and network troubleshooting.

Test Highlights:

• Extreme Networks Open Fabric switches performed with the best overall latency and demonstrated resiliency with fast recovery times in three simulated failure scenarios – server link, ToR uplink and core.
• Extreme Networks Open Fabric demonstrated superior end-to-end latency of only 2.23 microseconds for server-to-server communications across two ToR switches and a core switch.
• Extreme Networks was the only vendor that demonstrated a simulated core switch failure, by shutting off power, allowing traffic to fail over entirely to the adjacent core switch nearly instantaneously with minimal packet loss.

Details of the tests: Vendors used differing technologies to provide active-active connections to the next hop in the network with both devices forwarding and receiving traffic simultaneously. The full report can be found here: http://www.extremenetworks.com/libraries/products/EXTREME_Lippis_AA_Report_Spring_2013.pdf

About Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks is a technology leader in high performance Ethernet switching for cloud, data center and mobile networks. Based in Santa Clara, CA, Extreme Networks has more than 6,000 customers in more than 50 countries. For more information, visit the company’s website at http://www.extremenetworks.com

Much like the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement, consumers are a key driver of M2M technology initiatives and services in global markets. When it comes to embracing BYOD, China emerged as the leader among the countries surveyed, with 56 percent of ITDMs there stating their company embraces BYOD and provides productivity apps for one or more mobile platforms. The survey results found that most ITDMs in all six countries view M2M as the natural evolution of the “consumerization of IT,” with India and China at 92 percent and 90 percent respectively. The majority of Brazilian, German, UK and US ITDMs agreed, with a combined average of 81 percent.

“The number of ‘things’ connected to the internet is expected to reach 50 billion by 2020¹ and consumers are playing a central role in this transformation,” said Sanjay Poonen, president of Technology Solutions and Mobile Division, SAP. “Today, M2M technology is primarily being used to collect vast amounts of machine data. The ‘Internet of Things’ goes one step further by integrating data from machines, ERP, CRM systems, social media and more, in real time, allowing humans to intelligently interact with devices, devices with devices and devices back to humans – the ultimate social media collaboration of man and machine. This vision requires a technology infrastructure that can handle big data, analytics and mobility in the cloud securely – something SAP is uniquely able to deliver.”

Looking beyond the benefits of an individual consumer or company, pluralities from all six countries surveyed said that smart cities would be the coolest possible outcome of M2M: China (35 percent), Brazil (35 percent), Germany (30 percent), India (27 percent), US (25 percent) and UK (21 percent).

“Our vision of the ‘Networked Society, where anything that benefits from being connected will be connected, is supported by our global platforms in machine-to-machine communications,” said Douglas Gilstrap, senior vice president and head of Strategy, Ericsson. “This will lead to new, innovative business models from connected vending machines and automobiles to connected homes and cities. High volumes of data can be transformed into in-depth knowledge for real-time decision-making. Companies like SAP and Ericsson are actively uniting work and living environments that were previously separate, bringing deeper engagement to the interactions between cities, municipalities, businesses, institutions, associations and citizens. Ultimately this will boost life satisfaction and economic growth.”

Global Alignment on the Power of M2M
Survey respondents in all six countries expressed a strong belief in M2M representing a natural step in the evolution of technology and widely agree with the need for, and benefits of, the broader adoption of M2M. In fact, an average of 70 percent of the ITDMs in all six countries surveyed agree that companies that fail to implement M2M technologies will fall behind their competitors. This is likely due to most ITDMs from the countries surveyed perceiving tangible benefits of M2M, including:

• Giving companies greater insight into their business: China (96 percent), India (88 percent), Brazil (86 percent), Germany (79 percent), US (74 percent) and UK (61 percent)
• Enabling businesses to respond to real world events: China (92 percent), India (86 percent), Brazil (82 percent), Germany (82 percent), US (78 percent) and UK (73 percent)

Those surveyed also view the following as presenting the biggest opportunities for M2M in the workplace:

• Increased efficiency was the No. 1 response in Brazil (54 percent), UK (53 percent) and US (49 percent)
• Increased productivity for employees was the top selection in China (69 percent), significantly higher than any other countries surveyed
• Increased employee collaboration was the No. 1 opportunity in Germany (63 percent)
• Increased mobility among the workforce was the biggest opportunity in India (65 percent)

Obstacles to M2M
Before any of the opportunities and benefits can be fully realized, an overwhelming majority of those surveyed in all six countries cited at least one obstacle to M2M adoption. ITDMs from all countries except China were most likely to see a lack of expertise needed to manage the adoption and security of M2M as presenting the biggest impediment to adoption: India (66 percent), Brazil (62 percent), US (57 percent), Germany (56 percent) and UK (50 percent). In China, while a substantial majority of ITDMs still cited a lack of expertise as the biggest obstacle (63 percent), a slightly higher proportion said “how to manage and analyze all the real time data resulting from M2M” (65 percent).

“The benefits of M2M are undeniable but there are barriers toward the adoption of M2M solutions, such as the lack of complete multi-industry offerings, management, security and big data issues, and deficiency of suitable global connectivity solutions that are needed by multinational enterprises,” said Poonen. “SAP is one of the only companies at the nexus of mobile, big data and cloud with the ability to turn the huge amounts of data into instant wisdom and deliver best in class ‘Internet of Things’ solutions for consumers and enterprises.”

ITDMs from all six countries were also emphatic that the availability of broadband infrastructure, such as LTE/4G, will be instrumental in allowing M2M technologies to flourish in the future: US (91 percent), China (91 percent), India (91 percent), Germany (88 percent), UK (87 percent) and Brazil (85 percent). ITDMs themselves, however, will most likely not serve as a barrier to the success of M2M as majorities in nearly all countries surveyed acknowledge that M2M will have an impact on the workforce (average of 62 percent for the combined six countries) and yet a majority are not concerned about a disruption due to M2M (average of 55 percent).

For a closer look, see: “Infographic: How The Internet Of Things Is Raising Your IQ.” For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom.

¹Berg Insight, “The Global Wireless M2M Market” report, Tobias Ryberg, April 2012

About the Survey
The survey was conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of SAP among 751 IT decision makers (ITDMs) in Brazil (n=126), China (n=125), Germany (n=125), India (n=125), the United Kingdom (n=125) and the United States (n=125) between January 15 and February 1, 2013. For the purposes of this study, an “IT decision maker” (ITDM) is defined as an adult (age 18+) who is currently employed, either full- or part-time, has at least some influence in the selection of voice, data, and mobile telecommunications services and works at a company of the following size for each country: Brazil (75 million reais), China (10 billion CNY), Germany (100 million EUR), India (500 crores), UK (100 million GBP), US ($500 million). Total sample data in each country are weighted by number of employees to be representative of companies with the aforementioned minimum revenue in each country.

About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 238,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

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