ShoreTel® (NASDAQ; SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated Unified Communications (UC), is showcasing its industry-leading integration with IBM Lotus Foundations Reach at IBM Lotusphere opening in Orlando today.

ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated Unified Communications (UC), today announced ShoreTel 10, the latest version of its award-winning UC software. With support for T.38 fax integration, enhanced multisite capabilities, and extended integration to Microsoft Exchange 2007 with enhanced SIP capabilities which allow for native integration, ShoreTel 10 is ideal for large enterprises looking to increase user productivity and integrate communications into existing investments.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• ShoreTel® (NASDAQ; SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple Unified Communications (UC) software applications, announced that a growing number of enterprises has leveraged its ShoreTel 360 Legacy Migration program and are choosing ShoreTel to tightly integrate feature-rich UC capabilities in multivendor PBX environments.

• ShoreTel cross-platform solutions have been proven in production deployments with ShoreTel front-ending legacy Nortel, Avaya, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Mitel and NEC platforms.

• Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced that its software solutions have been used as important enablers in the development of the award winning Ford Motor Company vehicles.

• Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced that the Simulation Process Management offering in its Teamcenter® software portfolio outperformed all of its competitors in every major category of an independent evaluation conducted by the Design/Simulation Council of industry analyst firm Collaborative Product Development Associates (CPDA).

• Acronis is offering its Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Deduplication solution for free* as part of a campaign to help businesses reduce their overall storage costs. Users are entitled to a free deduplication licence with every advanced edition of its Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 software purchased.

• Acronis, a leading provider of onsite and offsite backup, disaster recovery and security solutions, today announced a broad set of products and services to safeguard critical data and systems from both internal and external threats. The new product family delivers the three elements of home computer protection – local backup/disaster recovery, online backup, and Internet security.

Astaro Corporation (http://www.astaro.com), a leading network security vendor, today announced that its new licensing model for the Astaro Security Gateway opens new ways to deploy Unified Threat Management solutions. With this new model customers can choose from a variety of dedicated applications to be added to their preferred platform.

Workload management of data migration, availability, backup and recovery systems for complex IT environments have been simplified with the release, by Australian sole distributor Business Continuity Asia Pacific (BCAP), of new products to the Double-Take® Workload Optimisation Suite.

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world’s number one independent leader in data integration software, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Siperian, a leader in the Master Data Management (MDM) infrastructure technology category.

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and the year ended December 31, 2009.

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香港城市大學英文系將於二○一○年開辦藝術碩士課程（簡稱MFA），成為全球首個以英語教授書寫亞洲題材的專門學科。

In 1936, The University of Iowa established the Writers' Workshop, offering aspiring poets and writers the world's first creative writing degree, the Masters of Fine Arts, or MFA. The program has flourished ever since, becoming a significant force in American letters.

Now, 74 years after the concept was born, a Master's education in creative writing and critical thinking is finally becoming established in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong, January 26, 2010 – City University of Hong Kong has re-engineered its new four-year English for Professional Communication (BAEPC) degree to specifically prepare students for international careers.

Nurturing greater self-confidence, creative thinking and problem solving as well as fluent communication are its unique focus grooming “global professionals”.

• Hong Kong, 13 January 2010 – Qantas today announced special fares from HK$4,790 for return flights between Hong Kong and Australia.

• In a world first for low cost airlines, Jetstar and AirAsia announced today they would form a new alliance that would reduce costs, pool expertise and ultimately result in cheaper fares for both carriers.

• Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world’s leading independent provider of enterprise data integration software, today announced that Informatica Cloud Data Loader Service for Salesforce CRM, a component of the Informatica Cloud, was honored with salesforce.com’s AppExchange Best of ‘09 Awards for data integration.

• HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile phone technology and design, today unveiled the HTC HD2 – exclusively on Telstra’s Next G™ network – Australia’s largest and fastest 3G network. With its industry leading, high-resolution 10.9cm (4.3 inches) capacitive touch display, the ultra thin HTC HD2 delivers sharper, brighter and richer visible content to users.

• Acronis a provider of affordable, scalable storage management and disaster recovery software, is broadening its strategy to protect customers with one of the most comprehensive information protection and security packages available.
• In 2010, Acronis will launch a series of new products and services designed to meet the growing market demand to completely protect critical data and systems from internal and external threats.

• Acronis, a provider of affordable, scalable storage management and disaster recovery software, today announced that Bill Taylor-Mountford has been appointed the President of Acronis APAC.
• He will relocate to Singapore from Jan 2010 and oversee the operations in the APAC region, including Asia and Australia & New Zealand.

Cisco® has appointed Todd Lynton as its Managing Director for Cisco Consumer Products in the Australian and New Zealand markets. In his role, Todd leads the strategy, execution and expansion of Cisco Consumer Products throughout the region. He oversees the sales and marketing functions as well as operations for the business units as we further expand the consumer reach of our products with the recent launch of the Flip Video digital camcorders to complement our already successful Linksys by Cisco home networking product category.

• The Internet infrastructure is changing, opening more opportunities for cybercrime

• The growing popularity of cloud computing and virtualisation among companies is likely to catch the attention of criminals scheming for the next hot cyber-swindle.

• According to the Trend Micro 2010 Future Threat Report, cloud computing and virtualisation – while offering significant benefits and cost-savings – move servers outside the traditional security perimeter and expand the playing field for cybercriminals.

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• 10th November 2009 – The GSMA today announced that the rate of growth of HSPA Mobile Broadband connections has increased by nearly two thirds in the last year, according to figures released by Wireless Intelligence. There are now more than 9 million new HSPA connections being added globally every month, compared to 5.5 million a year ago. Europe and Asia Pacific each account for an estimated 3 million of these new connections, with North America contributing 1.3 million.

• 杭州、杜拜， 2009年12月17日：杜拜控股旗下成員與豪華酒店集團卓美亞（Jumeirah Group）近日受到高德置地集團邀請，於長三角旅遊業中心---杭州，管理全新豪華酒店。卓美亞集團執行主席Gerald Lawless先生和高德置地集團總裁蘇萌先生出席了今天於杭州舉行的簽約儀式。

• Hangzhou and Dubai, December 17, 2009 - Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury hospitality company and a member of Dubai Holding, has been appointed to manage a luxury hotel in the Yangtze River Delta tourism hub of Hangzhou, China. The agreement between GT Land Holdings Limited and Jumeirah Group was signed at a ceremony held today in Hangzhou and attended by Mr. Gerald Lawless, Executive Chairman of Jumeirah Group, and Mr. Su Meng, President of GT Land Holdings Limited.

• HONG KONG, 15 September 2009 – S1 Enterprise, a division of S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), and a leading global provider of multi-channel financial services software, today announced at SIBOS 2009 that it has implemented a converged Trade Finance and Corporate Banking solution to one of its largest customers in Asia in an effort to provide the bank’s corporate customers with greater visibility and control of their end-to-end, trade finance to treasury processes.

• 19th November 2009, Hong Kong: The GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide communications industry, today announced the winners of the Asia Mobile Awards 2009, as well as the winners of the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix – Asia Tournament, which was contested this week at the Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong, China. The awards, hosted by TV presenter Janis Chan, were announced last night at the Mobile Asia Congress Networking Party and Awards Celebration at Hong Kong’s famed Happy Valley Racecourse.

• 18th November 2009, Hong Kong: Today at the Mobile Asia Congress, the GSMA unveiled Mobile’s Green Manifesto, developed in collaboration with The Climate Group. Rob Conway, CEO and Member of the Board, GSMA, was joined at the launch by China Mobile’s Chairman Wang Jianzhou, Kevin Tao, CEO Huawei Device, and Changhua Wu, Greater China Director The Climate Group, who outlined their existing environmental undertakings and goals for the future.

• 2009年9月11日，香港－SuccessFactors（NASDAQ：SFSF）今天宣佈推出SuccessCloud™，乃該公司為以雲端運算 (Cloud Computing) 為基礎的業務執行軟件而推出的首項技術夥伴計劃。SuccessCloud能讓第三方應用程式及來自其他業務系統的數據與SuccessFactors 業務執行軟件組合連接和整合。此舉有助企業獲得重要的指標，以便洞悉其在策略執行及整體業務表現方面的成效。

• SAN MATEO, Calif. – Sept. 10, 2009 – Today SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFSF) announced SuccessCloud™, the first-of-its-kind Technology Partner Program for its Cloud-based Business Execution Software. SuccessCloud allows third-party applications and data from other business systems to connect and integrate with the SuccessFactors Business Execution Software Suite. This enables businesses to gain meaningful insights into how well the organization is executing against its strategy, and overall business performance.

• 2009年9月11日，香港－SuccessFactors（NASDAQ：SFSF）今天公佈該公司嶄新的「業務執行軟件」（Business Execution Software）策略。Business Execution (BizX) Software是一種全新的應用軟件，專為解決現時商界面對的難題：如何改善業務執行而建構。

• SAN MATEO, Calif. – Sept. 10, 2009 – Today SuccessFactors (NASDAQ: SFSF) announced its Business Execution Software strategy. Business Execution (BizX) Software is a new breed of applications that is purpose-built to solve the biggest problem in business today: how to improve execution.

• 2009年9月11日，香港－SuccessFactors（NASDAQ：SFSF）今天公佈該公司在「業務執行軟件」（Business Execution Software）產品方面的發展路向和推出全新策略部署（Strategy Deployment）解決方案。

• SAN MATEO, Calif. – Sept. 10, 2009 – Today, SuccessFactors (NASDAQ: SFSF) announced its Business Execution Software product road map and new Strategy Deployment solution.

• 香港，2009年10月7日 － Skype與European Directories公司的合作，消費者透過企業付費型點選通話，免費撥打多達70萬家歐洲企業的電話。
• 盧森堡和倫敦--(美國商業資訊)--Skype公司今天宣佈與European Directories公司聯盟，推出了企業付費型點選通話（click-to-call）新計劃，共同將企業線上搜尋轉變爲生意來源。

• 24 September 2009, Hong Kong : Always fancied being a TV newscaster but never quite got round to making that audition tape?
• Now, thanks to Skype and ESPN STAR Sports, making that dream a reality has just become easier!