ShowStoppers NewsDesk

SHERMAN OAKS, CA. and AUSTIN, TX., September 6, 2007 – ShowStoppers® is now the official producer of press events for members of WITI, Women in Technology International, the global trade association that helps prepare women to fill corporate leadership positions, and start to grow technology businesses.

The marketing partnership “creates new opportunities to introduce the press to the smart, tech-savvy women in business, the companies they run and the companies they create,” said Carolyn Leighton, founder and chair of WITI.

“The members of WITI are role models for the future,” said Steve Leon, partner, ShowStoppers. “They take on risky projects. They inspire. They create success. They design and market business, consumer, lifestyle and digital technologies for work, home and play. This is precisely what we want to help put on the radar for the thousands of reporters, editors, columnists and industry analysts who attend ShowStoppers events throughout the year.”

About WITI

Women in Technology International, WITI, is the leading trade association for professional, tech-savvy women committed to using technology, resources and connections to advance women worldwide. WITI’s mission is to empower women worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations through technology, leadership and economic prosperity.

With a global network of smart, talented women, and a market reach exceeding two million, WITI has powerful programs and partnerships that provide connections, resources, opportunities and a supportive environment of women committed to helping each other. Along with its professional association of networks throughout the U.S. and worldwide, including Hong Kong, Great Britain, Australia, and Mexico, WITI delivers value for individuals that work for a company, the government, or academia, as well as small business owners.

WITI products and services include: Networking, WITI Marketplace, Career Services/Search, National Conferences and Regional Events, Publications and Resources, Small Business Programs, Research, Bulletin Boards and more.

BELLEVUE, WA. and AUSTIN, TX., 12 Sept. 2007 – ShowStoppers® is now the official producer of press events for the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), a trade association with more than 9,000 member companies that together have shipped more than one billion Bluetooth® wireless products, from hands-free headsets for mobile phones to home entertainment and medical devices.

The marketing agreement “creates exciting new opportunities to introduce the press to the companies that drive development of Bluetooth technology in the consumer electronics, telecommunications, computing, automotive, music, apparel, industrial automation and networking industries,” said Kevin Keating, senior marketing manager, Bluetooth SIG.

“The member companies of the Bluetooth SIG are creating our wireless future,” said Steve Leon, partner, ShowStoppers. “These are the companies we want to help put on the radar screens of the thousands of reporters, editors, columnists and industry analysts who attend ShowStoppers events throughout the year.”

About Bluetooth Wireless Technology
Bluetooth wireless technology is the global short-range wireless standard for personal connectivity of a broad range of electronic devices. The technology is now available in its fourth version of the core specification and continues to develop, building on its inherent strengths – small-form factor radio, low power, low cost, built-in security, robustness, ease-of-use, and ad hoc networking abilities. More than five new Bluetooth enabled products are qualified every working day and 13 million Bluetooth units are shipping per week. The installed base of Bluetooth devices is one and a half billion and climbing, making it the only proven choice for developers, product manufacturers, and consumers worldwide.

About the Bluetooth SIG
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), http://www.bluetooth.com, comprised of leaders in the telecommunications, computing, consumer electronics, automotive and network industries, is driving development of Bluetooth wireless technology and bringing it to market. The Bluetooth SIG includes Promoter group companies Ericsson, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba, along with over 9,000 Associate and Adopter member companies. The Bluetooth SIG Inc. headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington, U.S.A.

ShowStoppers for the Digital Holidays 2007

JAKKS Pacific’s EyeClops Bionic eye turns ordinary objects into extraordinary discoveries! The simple-to-use handheld device allows kids and adults to view everyday things at 200 times their regular size. With EyeClops Bionic Eye, table salt looks like blocks of ice, fine hair looks like twisted rope and even your own skin looks alien. The possibilities are endless!

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Why not make your 2007 holiday gift guide a little “greener” this year? The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC), a nonprofit public service organization dedicated to rechargeable battery and cell phone recycling, provides an easy way for consumers to give something back to Mother Nature this holiday season!

Through RBRC’s Call2Recycle™ program, consumers can recycle their used rechargeable batteries and old cell phones (found in many of the hottest holiday gadgets) at convenient drop-off boxes housed at major retailers nationwide.

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Fujitsu showcases the ScanSnap S510 (for PC) and S500M(for Mac) at Showstoppers Digital Holidays: The Fujitsu ScanSnap scanning solution is the perfect gift for those with a "Get Organized in '08" New Year's resolution. Start clearing out messy desk drawers by digitizing and preserving important paperwork using the "one-touch," compact color ScanSnap scanner. ScanSnap provides a fast, easy-to-use method for converting information contained on paper into authentic Acrobat® PDF files or Microsoft® Office applications such as Word, Excel® and PowerPoint®. It even scans business cards into your favorite contact database. No bigger than a loaf of bread, ScanSnap won't take up valuable desk space! Stop by the Fujitsu table and drop off your business card for a chance to win a ScanSnap scanner!

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What your computer’s been missing – its own phone jack. magicJack brings true phone service to the PC, giving consumers the freedom to make free local and long-distance calls while forever eliminating the monthly phone bill. Brought to market by the creators of 10-10 dialing and discount long distance for AOL, magicJack has the backing to make VoIP a reliable and high quality experience – an actual phone company routes the calls which are initiated over the Internet via the $40 USB device. Go anywhere and call anyone – with the magicJack you’ll have the same phone number for life and no monthly phone bills ever again.

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ZyXEL is returning to ShowStoppers this year to feature a wide array of popular consumer and SOHO/SMB products including its Powerline product family featuring the industry’s most expansive line of HomePlug AV products with all-in-one ADSL2+ gateway with built-in powerline and wireless, powerline wireless extender AP and even their popular networked storage appliance with built in-media server.

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FarStone Technology will feature their backup and recovery software utilities, DriveClone and DriveClone Pro, which allow complete recovery by rolling the computer back to a time before the problem occurred.

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Soundolier® is premiering the brightest idea in sound with the world’s first wireless speaker lamp. This ground-breaking new product brings the warmth of light and the rich beauty of surround sound audio to any room…wirelessly.

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Mitek's MTX Audio introduces an upgrade to its iThunder™ portable audio player. The player is now compatible with Apple’s iPhone, reliably and with no awkward adapter needed. The announcement offers iPhone users assurance that they can listen to and share their music on one of the most complete and powerful portable music systems available today.

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The 2 channel Lightning Bug™ from Interactive Toy Concepts is the world's smallest, most stable and lightest indoor helicopter. The future of R/C fits in the palm of your hand. The Lightning Bug™ continues ITC's tradition of ground-breaking products and market penetrating presentation. This Hi-Tech miniature chopper packs a big punch for a little helicopter. Catch the eye of onlookers as this mini-chopper amazes everyone around you with its maneuverability. It flies up, down, left, right, and at a constant forward speed. Take it to the office, or to the cottage on a rainy day as the Lightning Bug™ provides hours of indoor flight action. Put the bite on boredom as the open-structure design on the Lightning Bug™ lets you see the inner-workings of this amazing flying toy. It comes ready to fly and includes everything needed to be flying within minutes: R/C transmitter, flight battery, charging station, and instructions. Two frequencies available.

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The i-Fly VAMP ™ by Interactive Toy Concepts takes the notion of a flying RC Ornithopter to a whole new level. Coming to stores in Fall 2007, the i-Fly VAMP ™ is sure to be a big hit with flying toy enthusiasts of all ages. Packing state-of the-art technology, this toy provides an unparalleled level of control and stability within an in-doors as well as out.

An “Ornithopter” differs from all man-made flying devices in that it flaps its wings to propel itself through the air. This is a form of flight that most resembles the natural abilities of birds. The i-Fly VAMP ™ is styled to resemble a fantasy-inspired bat. At 12” in width and 10” in length it is the world’s smallest radio-controlled ornithopter in the form of a bat. The flapping wings mimic the behavior of a bird or an insect, giving the eerie illusion that the toy is alive when it is in flight. In addition, the ability to control the i-Fly VAMP ™ through the use of a digital proportional radio controller gives the illusion that the VAMP flies along an intelligent path. The glowing eyes of the i-Fly VAMP ™ add to its mystique as a supernatural nocturnal creature.

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Shure Inc. brought its 80-year professional audio legacy to the consumer market five years ago and has continued to define the category for premium audio accessories. At this year’s ShowStoppers Digital Holidays, Shure features its new Sound Isolating Earphones (SE110) and Music Phone Adapter (MPA), the perfect holiday gifts for the gadget-lover on your list. Shure’s SE110 joins the company’s acclaimed line of Sound Isolating Earphones, SE210 ($149.99), SE310 ($249.99), SE420 ($349.99) and SE530 ($449.99), and offers what no other $99 earphone has offered to date: superior audio quality, unparalleled sound isolation, modularity and beautiful design in a portable package. Shure’s MPA, a sleek modular accessory that converts Shure Sound Isolating Earphones into a stereo headset, allows iPhone users to switch easily between listening and communicating. The MPA is the only accessory of its kind that has launched in conjunction with the iPhone.

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Griffin Technology expands its product line with new speaker systems, iPhone accessories, and the latest technology for their flagship iTrip. This will be the first unveiling of most of these items!

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Nero 8 Ultra Edition helps manage your multimedia projects with ease – bringing the digital world to your fingertips. Create your own movie magic in HD with support for Blu-ray BD-AV and HD DVD. Enjoy your content at home, on-the-go and online.

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Heard about the new BlueAnt Z9 headset? Want to experience it for yourself? Visit BlueAnt at Showstoppers to experience this revolutionary headset first hand! Incorporating BlueAnt’s world class Digital Signal Processing solution - Voice Isolation Technology™, the Z9 provides outstanding noise suppression and echo cancellation. The headset’s ‘Voice Isolation Max’ feature further enhances the user experience in extreme noise environments. And don’t let its size fool you - at just 1.5” long and 0.35 oz, it packs a mean punch!

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Make your Web posted photos in this holiday season look their very best with the new version of Noromis PhotoLab. Noromis will be announcing a strategic agreement with a leading player in the Web photo sharing space, so come visit us.

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Axentra teams with LaCie to sneak peak at ShowStoppers the industry-first LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Home Edition, powered by Axentra HipServ. The Home Edition is a groundbreaking personal media server designed to Save, Show, Sync and Share your personal digital media at home and on the road.

For an MSRP of $199 for 500GB of storage, the Home Edition is the first commercial personal media server to allow remote access through the Internet, ability to stream multimedia files through DLNA-compatible UPnP media players ( such as the PlayStation3 or Xbox360) and act as an iTunes music server. It can even serve photos and video to Wi-Fi enabled digital picture frames, such as the Kodak EX series photo frames, locally or across the globe.

Remote accessibility is a key feature in the Ethernet Disk mini -- Home Edition, as any PC or web-enabled phone can have secure access to your media at home. Customizable email invites sent to friends and family can allow them to have direct access to selected files or folders and included software can be used to back up and synchronize a home computer automatically, making up-to-date data accessible anywhere.

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At work, at home or on the road, your life demands a superhuman effort. Combat distracting noise pollution like never before with stylish, high-performance devices for any situation, environment or costu-- err...outfit. From Sennheiser.

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Zero to 100dB in no time at all, and look good while you do it! The Meridian F80 blends styling and design collaboration from Ferrari with sophisticated audio/video technology from Meridian, to deliver ultimate in tabletop performance! It plays CDs, DVDs, AM/FM. Use it anywhere brilliant performance is desired but space is limited! Developed by Meridian in collaboration with Ferrari. The ultimate high-performance tabletop home entertainment system. Available in Ferrari colors to blend with all types of decors, brings large sound from its sleek, compact design.

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Kingston Technology will show reporters attending ShowStoppers a way to personalize a USB drive. It's a Kingston DataTraveler with Style!

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CEIVA Connects to Automatically Shares Smiles and Displays Your Fun Filled Photos.
CEIVA Digital Photo Frames™ are the worlds only fully connected digital frames offering endless options to see, share, and store photos in a fun, easy to use way. At ShowStoppers Digital Holidays, CEIVA showcases the sleek and chic 8-inch Digital Photo Frame™ and 7-inch Digital Photo Frame™ that are sure to fit every décor -- even that of the die-hard decorator on the gift list. The frame's built in memory card reader and optional PicturePlan® service make it possible to continue the holiday spirit throughout the year by displaying endless slideshows of family opening gifts around the tree, kids playing in the snow or preserving the memories of baby’s first holiday to be cherished forever. Only CEIVA creates the connection that brings family and friends together both near and far through photos, making CEIVA Digital Photo Frames a great gift for anyone who wants to feel close to the people they care about all year round.

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Watch anything at anytime from the Internet or your PC on a big screen TV with Quartics’ award-winning PC2TV technology. Next see blink! Introducing the pioneering new media browser that makes it easy to navigate Internet or PC content without surfing multiple sites while offering a uniform viewing experience. Blink promises to change the way you view online content.

Winners to receive trophies at elite press event Jan. 7, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. and AUSTIN, TX., Sept. 24, 2007 – PC World, winner of the 2007 ASBPE (American Society of Business Publication Editors) Award for Best Business-to-Business Web Publication of the Year, today announced it will present the 2008 PC World “20 Most Innovative Products Awards” during ShowStoppers® at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Open only to invited media, columnists, industry analysts, and selected investment firms, ShowStoppers @ CES is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 7, 2008, 6-10 pm at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.

With this agreement, PC World and ShowStoppers bring together for the seventh consecutive year industry-leading technologies and hundreds of journalists and decision-makers for in-depth interviews, demonstrations, and sneak previews.

The 2008 PC World “20 Most Innovative Products Awards” honor trend-setting products that have emerged with the convergence of PC technology and consumer electronics. The winning products combine unique qualities with envelope-pushing design and function. In addition, PC World will showcase highlights of the “20 Most Innovative Products Awards,” as chosen by PC World editors, in an article scheduled to appear in the February 2008 issue.

“This is a special and enduring partnership with PC World that brings added attention to the winners,” said Steven J. Leon, co-founder and partner, ShowStoppers. “It also creates new opportunities to introduce the press to the future of business, consumer, lifestyle and digital technologies for work, home and play – which is precisely what ShowStoppers is known for.”

The editors of PC World will consider hundreds of candidates before selecting the 2008 PC World “20 Most Innovative Products Awards” winners. For more information about the awards, please email innovations@pcworld.com.

About PC World:

PC World Communications Inc. a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology media, events, and research company is the publisher of PC World, PCWorld.com, and home of the PC World Test Center. The winner of the 2007 Maggie Award for Best Computer Magazine, PC World has a readership of 4 million total purchase influencers (IntelliQuest CIMS, Spring 2007: Total unduplicated, combined Average Issue Audience: Business, Home, and Dual Studies). With an average of over 6.6 million unique visitors per month (HBX, May 2007 – July 2007), PCWorld.com is the winner of the 2007 ASBPE Award for Web Publication of the Year and a leading online resource for technology product buyers and users, offering them Solutions for a Connected World™.

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What's in your technology wardrobe? Witness the dawn of the Fashioneering Era at the IceRage table. Catch a sneak peek of IceRage's designer line-up of cutting-edge mobile input devices for the ultimate in style, on the go!

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BACKPACKSHIELD mfg. unveils a level IIIA bullet resistant backpack shield that retro-fits thousands of existing high school/collegiate backpacks. The patented bullet resistant Kevlar™ BackPackShield™ is an aerospace technology-based armor insert that is less than a ½” thick and weighs less than a textbook. Made of over ten layers of bullet resistant Dupont Kevlartm (ten fold the tensile strength of steel) that stops virtually every handgun bullet fired, even hardened (full metal jacketed) high velocity bullets (9 mm and 44 Magnum). BACKPACKSHIELD mfg.’s line of bullet resistant level IIIA Laptop Computer Case Shields that fit inside common laptop computer carrying cases (like Dell, HP, Sony and Toshiba) will also be on display. Briefcase format and custom sizes are also available.

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Bass beats or Classical compositions: It's all music to your ears with new ear-canal headphones from Sennheiser

Distracting ambient noise and poor bass reproduction can blemish any on-the-go listening experience. With seven colorful new headphones from Sennheiser, more and more music enthusiasts can shield their ears from distracting external noise and also enjoy great sound thanks to the position in the ear canal.

The CX 400, CX 500, CX 55 Street, and CX 95 Style earphones join Sennheiser’s Classic, Street and Style lines and also accompany the successful CX 300 ear canal headphone. Their easily exchangeable adapter rings ensure that all the models are a perfect fit for your ear canal, while the newly developed cords are resistant to handling noise. Some include cable winders and cases to keep tangled wires at bay, ensuring a great listening experience no matter where you go.

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FLY Fusion™ Pentop Computer, the ultimate high-speed homework system

Meet the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer, the only pentop platform to offer a complete set of high-speed homework solutions and innovative note-taking applications for students of all ages. This next-generation FLY™ system harnesses the same sophisticated Anoto technology as its predecessor, enhanced by PC connectivity, four times the memory, on-the-go calculating functionality, and a 1,000-word Spanish dictionary. Best of all, students can upload handwritten notes and drafts, converting them instantly into digital text or emails. A broad software portfolio—featuring both curricular and entertainment applications—will be available at retail and through the new FLY World™ Download Store. A sleek new design completes this affordable package, making the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer the most powerful productivity tool for middle and high school students.

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New Hard Disk Manager 2008 Suite from Paragon Software®

Complete Suite of Professional Hard Drive Management Tools for the Consumer

Paragon Software Group, the technological leader in innovative data security and data management technology, announced at ShowStoppers for the Digital Holidays 2007 the release of Hard Disk Manager 2008 Suite – all of the tools that every consumer needs to completely manage their home or office computers. This new version of Hard Disk Manager provides complete backup and restore, defragmenting, disk copy, secure erasure tools and more. Paragon has placed everything that the user may need in one, easy to use package.

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Paragon NTFS for Mac OS breaks the border between Windows and Mac OS, solving an important communication problem in their file systems

Paragon Software Group, the technological leader in innovative data security and data management technology, announced the release of NTFS for Mac OS X. The Apple community can now enjoy all the advantages of Microsoft NTFS file system.

This is Paragon Software’s first product aimed directly to the Apple and Mac community. In the future Paragon Software Group solutions will be for Mac users as well. The purpose of this product is to provide rapid reading and writing data to NTFS volumes under Mac OS.

“We know that many users of Apple computers have to work with high quality graphics and face file system restrictions for large files.” – said Konstantin Komarov, CEO of Paragon. “Besides, working under Windows OS installed on Mac is much easier from this moment.”

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Zipit Wireless Inc. sneak peeks the new Zipit Wireless Messenger 2 (Z2).

A sleek portable, instant messaging device, the Z2 will be the only device of its kind that connects with Wi-Fi networks and free wireless “hotspots,” to provide teens with a sleek, portable IMing experience across all major IM platforms – AOL, Yahoo and MSN. The Z2 also includes a fully capable music player, “MyTunezTM,” that provides instant access to music played from an optional mini-SD card or streamed from the Internet.

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Sling Media, pioneer of place-shifting technology, is excited to showcase both new hardware and software that will launch imminently after Showstoppers.

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Top Kids Entertainment Brand Partners with Technology Leader Imation to Create an Extensive Line of Sophisticated Digital Imaging, Multimedia and Core Electronics

Product Line Inspired by Hit Properties Including SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, and The Naked Brothers Band Debuts in October

NEW YORK and OAKDALE, Minn. (Sept. 18, 2007) – Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products and Imation Corp (NYSE: IMN) today at ShowStoppers for the Digital Holidays announced Nickelodeon’s Npower™ brand, an exciting consumer electronics product line. Reflecting kids’ comfort and exposure to increasingly sophisticated technology at a younger age and the appeal of the Nickelodeon brand for kids and parents alike, Npower products empower “kids” of all ages to express their personality with technology that’s fun, easy-to-use and interactive. The Npower brand delivers the core personalities of Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, and The Naked Brothers Band combined with the latest consumer electronics technologies available from Imation.

The full Npower line will be available in the electronics section of major U.S. retailers next month, just in time for holiday shopping. The Npower brand features more than 20 products including digital cameras and photo frames, multimedia and MP3 players, an LCD TV, a DVD player and an alarm clock that combines ruggedness, affordability and functionality with both the irreverent Nickelodeon personality and the specific attributes of the brand’s most iconic characters and personalities.

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Companies Partner to Provide Customized Viewing Options Through Quartics’ PC2TV™

Quartics, a provider of video processing solutions enabling streaming media over wireless and wired networks, and CinemaNow, the leading Internet provider of downloadable videos, today announced they are bringing on-demand access to online content to consumers’ TVs via Quartics’ PC2TVTM technology.

With Quartics’ PC2TV technology, CinemaNow users will have unprecedented access to more than 10,000 Hollywood movies, independent films, popular TV shows and music videos on their television sets. Quartics’ PC2TV technology enables wireless streaming of high-definition 1280 x 720p content from a PC to a TV without buffering.

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Technology Content Available at the “Blink” of an Eye

Quartics, a provider of video processing solutions enabling streaming media from the PC to the TV over wireless and wired networks, today announced the availability of Blink beta. Blink beta is a free software solution that provides a simple, unified interface for users to view unlimited video sources on their PC or, when used with Quartics PC2TV™ technology, their home televisions.

Blink beta makes it easy to find video content, by providing categorized thumbnail views of Internet content coming directly from the Internet. This eliminates the need to repeatedly search and navigate the web to find video content—Blink beta brings it to users instantly. This is Internet TV at its best, allowing anyone to view any streaming media they want – from YouTube, ABC.com, CNN.com, ESPN.com and MLB.com. Users can define their favorite channels and playlists. The selections are as endless as the Internet.

But Blink beta doesn’t stop there. Blink organizes photos and music from sites like Rhapsody, iTunes, Flikr and PhotoBucket. And, it organizes videos, photos and music stored on the PC as well.

Blink beta really shines when used with Quartics’ PC2TV technology. Users can instantly access all of the Internet and Blink beta’s content using a remote control. One simple click brings all the content to the TV – wirelessly. This makes it easy to watch favorite television shows, even if the computer is in a different room.

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Solution Incorporates Full-Motion Video of Computer’s Display to a Projector or TV

Quartics, a provider of video processing solutions enabling streaming media from the PC to the TV over wireless and wired networks, today announced that Addlogix began shipping Quartics PC2TVTM technology in its InternetVue 2020 wireless PC2TV receiver through its distributors and e-commerce retailers. InternetVue 2020 extends any media playing from a Windows-based personal computer to any display device including projectors and TVs.

"We're pleased to work with Addlogix to bring the next level of Internet and PC-based television viewing to consumers," said Safi Qureshey, chairman and CEO of Quartics. "Our PC2TV technology is the industry's most fully-featured solution for content in any media format to be viewed on any display device."