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Pitney Bowes Showcases Mailstream Solutions at AIIM/On Demand in Boston April 17 - 19, 2007

ON DEMAND Conference & Expo 2007
Pitney Bowes Booth #901

April 11, 2007 - STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pitney Bowes Inc., (NYSE: PBI), the mailstream technology firm, will showcase a comprehensive portfolio of its mail and document management solutions for organizations of all sizes at the AIIM/ON DEMAND Conference and Exposition, to be held April 17-19 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. On display at the Pitney Bowes booth #901 will be solutions that help transactional mailers and direct marketers increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their customer communications.

Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software will showcase software solutions to enable Communications Intelligence, including its Customer Communication Management (CCM) portfolio for accelerating intelligence across the enterprise. Attendees will learn how Group 1 Software's CCM editions enable the creation of real-time communication for in-person interactions, as well as the generation of high-volume, high-quality business documents across the document workflow.

Pitney Bowes' Emtex Software will demonstrate a strong convergence model that includes not only print-on-demand applications, but also a broad range of transactional, transpromo and digital production printing. Emtex is a robust and flexible output management technology that offers format versatility to handle the convergence of different workflows. The VIPT and VDET solutions can input AFPDS, Metacode, DJDE, PostScript, PDF and PCL data streams. Based on customer requirements, print data will be generated for virtually any device compatible with IPDS, Metacode, PostScript, PCL or IJPDS. Digital documents can also be generated in AFPDS, PDF, XML or TIFF. As a result, customers are not limited by their data streams, but gain the freedom to send any print job to the device or delivery channel best suited for it. Emtex also has solutions for automated reprint, common accounting, integrated viewing, dynamic document manipulation and concurrent multiple input and output capabilities for any document environment.

Pitney Bowes Global Mailstream Solutions will be exhibiting products including its DI 950 Integrated Document Printing Solution, which provides outstanding levels of security and process integrity within the reach of mid-size mailers. With integrated printing, the DI 950 can help optimize the mailstream by creating, formatting, printing, inserting and metering in one solution.

Pitney Bowes will be featuring its recently introduced AddressRight® Pro DA75S Printer, which offers black-and-white and color printing capabilities to mailers of all sizes. The printer allows users to print addresses, graphics and barcodes and personalized messages almost anywhere on the envelope utilizing a wide variety of mailing materials including envelopes, postcards, booklets, folded newsletters, flats and catalogs. Used in tandem with Pitney Bowes' SmartMailerT or AddressRight® Pro, businesses can target customers with powerful, easy-to-use software that cleanses and updates existing lists while helping make full use of critical customer data.

Experts from the Pitney Bowes Postage Discount Program will educate attendees about solutions for reducing costs and maximizing opportunities in the new postal rate environment.

Art Fiordaliso, President Pitney Bowes AAS/pmh, a Pitney Bowes Marketing Services company, will be participating as a speaker in a session on "Web to Print Solutions: Enabling New Business Models," on Tuesday April 17, 2007 at 12:00 noon.

John Schloff, Vice President, Marketing and Global Strategy for Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies will be a panelist on "New Opportunities with Transpromotional Documents" on Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 11:10 am.

About Pitney Bowes:

Pitney Bowes provides the world's most comprehensive suite of mailstream software, hardware, services and solutions to help companies manage their flow of mail, documents and packages to improve communication. Pitney Bowes, with $5.7 billion in annual revenue, takes an all-inclusive view of its customers' operations, helping organizations of all sizes enjoy the competitive advantage that comes from an optimized mailstream. The company's 86 years of technological leadership have produced many major mailstream innovations, and it is consistently on the Intellectual Property Owners Association's list of top U.S. patent holders. With approximately 35,000 employees worldwide, Pitney Bowes serves more than 2 million businesses through direct and dealer operations. More information about the company can be found at www.pb.com.

Contacts
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Carol Wallace, 203-351-6974
carol.wallace@pb.com

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Electronic House

by Larry Dobrow, Tuesday, April 10, 2007
EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH-END home audio and video kicks more than a thimbleful of tush. Our wall-sized televisions, for instance, grandly affirm the righteous indignation of a fat-suited Tyra Banks, while our supersonic stereos deliver the mellifluous trills of Coldplay in all their girly glory. So why don't most home-theater magazines occasionally acknowledge that this stuff is, you know, fun?

Electronic House may be the worst offender that I've encountered. Never mind the March/April issue's typos (a story on page 15 is listed on the contents page as running on page 115; the seller of a featured item is billed as "Staple's") or the press releases masquerading as stories (from a piece on Windows Vista: "[It] includes a special HotStart mode that instantly starts movie, TV or music playback without requiring the full operating system to boot up. This allows you to enjoy the feature-rich benefits of a computer in the entertainment room without paying the penalty of waiting for the computer to fire up"). No, the real issue here is that the magazine fails to convey a modicum of excitement about the subject at hand. It's the Bataan Death March of enthusiast publications.

The piece on a pimped-up Lexus sound system joylessly notes its features, while the six featured home-theater spreads do little beyond provide laundry lists of components. The mag, in fact, accomplishes the near-impossible by somehow draining all vitality and cool factor from a piece on an indoor pool converted into a home theater (some big ol' pix next time around, maybe?). Even the editor's note, that reliable bastion of we-are-fabulous boosterism, doesn't get any more involved or engaged than "I can't wait to receive much more HD content." Separately, rumor has it that the editor of Astronomy Today can't wait to buy more telescopes.

I also don't have the slightest idea who Electronic House is written for. Anybody with more than a cursory interest in home theater will dismiss the mag's shallow, detail-light content without a second look, and anybody who doesn't care about home theater won't pick up a title like this in the first place. Who's left? "Home theater for retards" isn't an especially compelling editorial hook.

That's neither politically correct nor particularly articulate, I realize, but I don't know how better to characterize the March/April issue's hodgepodge of dim and dimmer items. The cover feature on "The New HD" rehashes information long ago covered in Home Theater and Sound & Vision, supplementing it with a next-generation-audio sidebar so in-depth that it only fills 65% of a page (the rest is left blank). The how-to on selecting a home-theater designer stresses that readers should "expect top-notch professionalism from each and every one" -- like Home Smart Home's marketing director Chris Stanfa, who inexplicably finds his way into a photo accompanying the story.

Not that anybody expects eloquence from an electronics mag, but the stories are alternately filled with big-picture pronouncements that have been beaten to death elsewhere ("like it or not, TVs are becoming PCs, and PCs are becoming TVs") and ones that practically beg to be taken out of context ("racks come in all shapes, sizes and prices"). Don't look for help from the mag's two columnists; one wastes his 500-word allotment on a dry discussion of "Batman Begins," "The Constant Gardener" and other mega-timely content he enjoyed during the past year.

I think I've made my point, if a bit more humorlessly than usual. Do not read, peruse, advertise in, make eye contact with, or otherwise engage Electronic House. OK?


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Larry Dobrow (larry@mediapost.com) is a Contributing Writer. 

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The Only Microcontroller Course Showing Exactly How to Use the 12F675 for Practical Projects

A new tutorial course for the 12F675 takes the student through a series of projects that demonstrate the various internal peripherals of the 12F675. It's a good 'hands-on' way of learning how to use the device and since the internal peripherals are common to mid range PIC microcontrollers the student will also have a good understanding of these internal modules as well.

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (PRWEB) April 3, 2007 -- Written by a professional engineer the course provides both circuits and firmware including full source code written in the C language.

Compiler
It uses a compiler that is free for the small amounts of code generated - even so the code demonstrates useful concepts and gives the student complete, working and fully debugged projects.

Project Based Learning
Projects are built up using solderless breadboard so they are easy to construct and and this approach lets the student experiment by changing the circuit.
To start off the first project just flashes a single LED and this allows the student to focus on programming the device - after this more ambitious projects are shown. But importantly the first project is kept simple to ensure the student is confident in programming the 12F675.

Solderless breadboard diagram
To ensure that the circuit is constructed correctly each project is shown as a graphical diagram showing exactly where each component is placed on the solderless breadboard.

Program description
For each project module a project description describes the exact operation of the code so the student will know exactly what the project is supposed to do.

Projects
There are seven projects which exercise different peripherals in the 12F675:

* The internal oscillator
* Input port pins.
* Output port pins.
* Software USART (sending and receiving RS232 data).
* Using an LM35 temperature sensor (Read using the internal ADC).
* A simple temperature data logger (storing data in internal EEPROM).
* Controlling a servo motor control signal using Timer0.
* A more complex servo controller using Timer0, Timer1 and a soft USART.

Note: The last 12F675 project illustrates using interrupts for servo control while at the same time sending and receiving serial data (USART created in software) i.e. a simple multitasking project.

At the end of the tutorials the student will have a good understanding of how the 12F675 works from programming it to creating working projects around it. In addition since the internal peripherals are common to the mid range PIC microcontrollers the student will have gained useful knowledge that can be applied to microcontrollers such as the 16F88, 16F628, 16F877A etc.

To start the 12F675 course visit:
http://www.best-microcontroller-projects.com/12F675.htm

About Best Microcontroller Projects
Best-microcontroller-projects is an informative site about microcontrollers and offers free projects with schematics and source code as well as tools, resources and other tutorials.

Contact:
John Main
23 West Drive
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Total Phase Announces a New High-Speed USB Protocol Analyzer

Total Phase is pleased to announce the addition of the Beagle USB 480 Protocol Analyzer to its line of USB analyzers. This new high-speed USB 2.0 monitor features packet-level timing of 16.67 nanosecond resolution with real-time data display and filtering.

Sunnyvale, CA (PRWeb) April 3, 2007 -- Total Phase is pleased to announce the addition of the Beagle USB 480 Protocol Analyzer to its line of USB analyzers. This new high-speed USB 2.0 monitor features packet-level timing of 16.67 nanosecond resolution with real-time data display and filtering.

With the ubiquitous presence of USB 2.0 in devices from consumer electronics to industrial controls, the powerful and affordable Beagle USB 480 Protocol Analyzer will satisfy the feature and budget requirements demanded by USB system developers.

Improving Developer Productivity

It is not uncommon for the development of a USB device to be constrained by the availability of a USB analyzer. By offering a price that is significantly less than the competition, it is possible for companies to realistically consider putting a USB analyzer on the desk of every USB hardware or software developer, removing a significant productivity bottleneck.

"With USB becoming an integrated part of modern microcontrollers, many developers will be faced with implementing USB for the first time," says Kumaran Santhanam, Senior Architect at Total Phase. "Our complete line of USB analyzers can be indispensable tools for these engineers. With powerful features at an affordable price, they provide an easy way to reduce development time and increase ROI."

Special Introductory Pricing

The Beagle USB 480 Protocol Analyzer will become available this summer for purchase at the special introductory price of USD$1,200. The analyzer comes complete with analysis software and royalty-free API. Discounts are offered for volume purchases.

The Beagle USB 480 analyzer will use the existing Beagle Data Center capture software for monitoring USB data. Later this year, Total Phase will be releasing version 2.0 of the Beagle Data Center software, a major update with class-level decoding, expanded timing tools, faster filtering, and more. The software will be available at no additional charge to existing Beagle analyzer users.

About Total Phase

Total Phase manufactures powerful and affordable I2C, SPI, MDIO, and USB development tools for the embedded systems engineer. Our entire line of developer tools combine best-of-breed features, Windows and Linux support, royalty-free API, and free software updates, making them perfect additions to any engineer's toolbox.

Please visit us at www.totalphase.com

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