The ECCE TERRAM Internet Services company will go to Las Vegas to present its Photo2lab Software Suite on the main photo trade fair PMA, which will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2008. Integrated into the Photo2lab Software Suite is the HDX4 Photo Manager of HDX4 GmbH. This is a HDX4 Photo SDK for professional picture optimisation.

Dortmund. Jan 21st, 2008. - HDX4 GmbH has specialised in the development of software all about the topics of burning and multimedia. A suitable tool for digital photography is the SDK HDX4 Photo Manager, which other companies can license to upgrade their own software with new functions. SDK includes the two modules HDX4 Natural Enhancement and HDX4 Upscaling, both proprietary developments from the technology laboratories of HDX4 GmbH.

A distinctive feature of the HDX4-modules is that they can help to turn any snapshot into a really professional photograph – it only takes a mouse click. So far, photographers rather used trial and error to adjust brightness, contrast and colours; now the software can detect imperfections of pictures and corrects them without need for further user intervention. Frank Simon of ECCE TERRAM: "Thanks to the HDX4-functions, dark pictures with low contrast and matt colours are definitely a thing of the past. Suddenly, the sky prints perfectly blue and details, which were in the shade become visible again."

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The project, Ethanol & Orphans, is looking for celebrities who think it is a good idea and who will endorse the project.  The project sponsor is the not-for-profit charity, Our Family Orphan Communities, Inc. 

The Ethanol & Orphans project is currently underway in Vietnam where we will be building a cellulose ethanol refinery and using the profits to build:
 - a Self-sustaining, high-tech, green Community for street orphans where they will be raised in families with surrogate parents and grandparents, given care, skills (job, computer, familiy/life) and supplemental education.
 - a Medical clinic supported by the profits from the refinery so those who cannot afford it can still receive treatment.
 - more care for disabled children (who are still today being born with birth defects from Agent Orange which was used in the war in the 60's and 70's) so they can learn to be self-sufficient even with disabilities.

We are looking for people who care about:
 - improving the environment
 - using less petrochemical fuels
 - helping developing / third world countries to improve
 - street children living barely surviving
 - disabled children who need assistance
 - providing medical/dental care for those who cannot afford it
 - protecting food sources (we will use sugarcane for the refiery, NOT grains)
 - providing education for children, the future leaders of their country
 - and more humanitarian projects

The celebrities will be asked to speak about our project when they can, and to allow us to use thier comments/picture/name in our website and promotion materials.

For complete details about the project, see: http://www.orphancommunities.org
For questions, write to us at: info@orphancommunities.org
 
Please forward this to others who you know will be interested in supporting this project.

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The photo album is dead, long live the photo book. Free photo book software offered by online photographic services makes it easy and economical to create photo books in different formats, sizes and types of binding. Online services offer a range of options for individual lay-outs with own photographs. Professional print on hi-gloss paper provides coffee table style photo books. The latest offering comes from printing-1 and promises an even greater choice of photo book styles for PC and Macintosh users alike.

London, GB. 31. October 2006. – During the past year personal photo books have become one of the most popular photographic products and are about to replace the traditional photo album. Rarely has a product evolved as quickly as the photo book. The different suppliers compete with ever more flexible software for the top spot with the consumer. With the launch of its new Windows and MacOS photo book software printing-1 is claiming to take the concept a step further. According to printing-1 a durable, quality binding process is becoming more important, as increasingly big photo books are being ordered, containing often hundreds of images. The binding process used by printing-1 takes an extra day to prepare, but allows for large photo books with up to 144 pages and space for hundreds of images.

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Greenstreet break with tradition by introducing a revolution in scrapbook creation – a mess free, time saving fade-proof record of precious memories for print, for the web and which can even be displayed on TV screens!

Cambridge. 30 October 2006. - In the age of the digital camera and camera phones we all snap away happily taking lots of pictures to remember events by. However generally these languish on computer hard drives and the personal memory fades as to who, why, where and what the pictures were about. Which is why in recent years scrapbooking has seen a revival. Greenstreet have combined the digital age with the rapidly growing interest in scrapbooking and taken this to the next step by creating Greenstreet’s Digital Scrapbook – bringing all kinds of new possibilities to the art - providing limitless supplies and making it easier and cheaper to capture moments in time and to share with friends and family.

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Personalized Real-time Travel Search Opens on World’s Most Popular Personal Homepage

SAN FRANCISCO-- 14 September 2006. Mobissimo, Inc., the world’s most comprehensive travel search engine, and Netvibes, the wildly popular personal start page service, announced today that the Mobissimo Travel Search Module is now available to all Netvibes users. Mobissimo is the first travel search engine accessible on Netvibes.

The Mobissimo Netvibes Module allows travellers to search hundreds of different global travel suppliers directly on their Netvibes personal start page, providing instant access to the world’s largest source of air, hotel, car and travel deals. Mobissimo will soon give Netvibes users the ability to create personal real-time fare indices of historical and future prices for travel to their favourite destinations. Users will be able to create a standard FareIndex such as London to New York, and Manchester to Nice, or select up to 20 different city combinations to create their own customized FareIndex. Each time users visit Netvibes their personal FareIndex will be automatically updated with real-time dynamic pricing information.

Netvibes is a free service that offers Internet users a better way to organize news, information and Web-based services. Netvibes users build their own personalized start page by assembling their favorite sites, data feeds, blogs and email accounts onto a single web page, creating a dashboard for the consumer’s digital life. In less than a year Netvibes has become one of the most popular Web 2.0 consumer services, attracting over five million active users across 100 countries.

“Netvibes and Mobissimo audiences are very complementary. Our global users are looking for an easy way to find information quickly,” commented Beatrice Tarka, Mobissimo’s CEO. “With Mobissimo, Netvibes travellers from around the world can search all their favourite travel sites, compare fares and book travel using one search engine.“

“We help users cut through the Internet’s bureaucracy by connecting them to exactly what they need,” said Tariq Krim, founder of Netvibes.

From today, the Mobissimo Netvibes Module is accessible directly from the Netvibes ecosystem for all people looking for travel information.  A link to Netvibes is also available on all Mobissimo’s global Web sites, and users can add the Mobissimo module to their Netvibes page in a matter of seconds.

About Mobissimo
In Italian, Mobissimo means the "ultimate in mobility." For consumers, Mobissimo is the ultimate travel search tool because it improves the way people discover travel information, saving time and money. Mobissimo simultaneously searches 169 different travel sites in 30 countries and five continents, including major global airlines like American Airlines and Singapore Airlines, low-cost carriers like Jet Blue and EasyJet, major travel sites like Orbitz, eBookers, and Opodo, and hotel/car rental sites, to find the best fares and rates online. Travelers from 188 different countries take advantage of Mobissimo’s powerful Travel 2.0 search tools including OneBox natural language search, PowerSearch for multiple city searches, MobiCombo for dynamic ticket combinations, and ActivitySearch for theme-based travel planning. Launched in 2004, Mobissimo continues to be the leading travel search innovator. Mobissimo specializes in international travel search and is the only travel search engine with operations on three continents. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and is privately held. For more information and to experience Mobissimo, please visit http://www.mobissimo.co.uk.

About Netvibes <http://www.netvibes.com>
Founded in 2005 by Tariq Krim with offices in London and Paris, Netvibes is the leading independent provider of personalized start pages. Netvibes allows users to manage their digital life by conveniently assembling their favourite sites, RSS feeds, blogs, email accounts, etc... onto a single page.

Netvibes recently launched ecosystem, an open directory of thousands of services and content available via Netvibes. Netvibes is already used in more than 100 countries around the world. For more information, please visit http://blog.netvibes.com/ or email contact@netvibes.com.

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Swiss security software specialist Langmeier launches Backup 3.2. 
Small and practical like a Swiss Army knife, this application will run backups reliably in the background.

Pfäffikon SZ. August 3rd, 2006 – Our daily lives and routines increasingly depend on information stored on computer our hard drives: Contracts and contacts, appointments, e-mails, spread sheets, presentations and digital photos. A total or partial loss of such information is equivalent to a major disaster for business users and increasingly, for home users too. The simple reason why such catastrophes happen is the lack of backups and if backups have been made they can be out of date or faulty. The Swiss data security developer Langmeier said: “The launch of Backup 3.2 puts special emphasis on making routine backups easier and avoiding backup errors”.
 
In cases of theft, fire or flooding insurance money will cover in most cases the purchase of replacement equipment, though usually not the cost associated with recovering the data. It is an often overlooked fact, that the data is much more valuable than the PC or hard drive. A virus or a defect on the hard disk can quickly cause havoc. In that case, recent versions of files may have been affected and earlier backup versions are required. That is why it is so important to run backups on a regular basis with history and version tracking. According to “Langmeier Backup” the software was developed with the objective to overcome barriers to running backups by making the routine simpler and automatic, running in the background and avoiding interruptions in the work routine on the PC or network. The backups can also be stored to any location on the computer, the network which Windows can recognize as a drive or to an ftp server over the internet, where the application can also apply 256Bit encryption. The backup data can be accessed at these locations at any time, using a file path resembling the original, which makes the backup files usable.

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Photo service Software Developer announced to publish ‘Transfer Ordering Network’ Protocol during Photokina 

Setting up a digital photo processing service in store or online is becoming easier with ready made software solutions. Large central labs offer these to tie in their customers, while specialist developers like ECCE TERRAM sell software components that increase the services independence and negotiation power.

Oldenburg. 26 July 2006 – Today the vast majority of photographs taken are digital. Online photo services converting digital images into traditional photographic paper prints in familiar 6×4" (10x15cm), prints are increasingly profitable. Compared to home inkjet prints, pictures on photographic paper tend to look much 'richer', and are vastly more durable with regard to handling by sweaty fingers, humid environments, and fading in daylight. Such services cater for business with new photographic gift items and product ideas. The specialist internet software developer ECCE TERRAM will be presenting the latest off the shelf, modular software solutions for online photo services, web portals, photo labs and purchasing associations at the international Photokina exhibition in Cologne in September 2006, including releases currently being prepared. As a Photokina highlight, the company will also publish its complete ‘Transfer Ordering Network’ protocol for free usage.

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VSO Software announces the release of Image Resizer, freeware that resizes and converts images between different formats. This handy application is a useful tool for anyone who wants to store digital pictures on a PC and wants to email them, move them easily from one folder to another or to free up space on the hard drive.

Toulouse. April 28th, 2006 -- In one click, Image Resizer by VSO Software resizes pictures or changes their format as desired: the reduced file size enables faster loading, improved pictures management and saves storage space. Image files which are smaller in size are more easily sent by email, something difficult to do with the original file size. It is also the perfect tool for webmasters or people wanting to publish images on the internet.

Image Resizer handles images in all popular formats: bmp, jpeg, gif, png and can converts them at the preferred resolution (from 320x200 to 1600x1200, including even Ipod photo and video, Sony PSPS, HDTV and DVD). The images will adjust automatically to the size of the desktop or to the source used to display them.

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Greenstreet sign major licensing deal with Hoyle® – the official name in gaming!

greenstreet have just entered into an agreement with Hoyle® for exclusive European distribution rights to publish their entire range including popular Card, Casino and Board games as well as their famous Poker Series PC CD-ROM titles. This represents a major move for the Cambridgeshire based company as it adds another leading brand to their strong games portfolio, which already includes top selling World class brands including eGames, National Geographic, Professor Teaches, Muppet Babies and Disney’s Toontown.

Hoyle is a well established, recognised and trusted brand with over 200 years experience in the Card and Gaming industry. It has been the #1 Family Entertainment Brand for the PC for over 5 years (source: NPD 2000-2005) and fits perfectly into Greenstreet’s broad range of quality titles.
Greenstreet are due to launch an exciting new series of Hoyle titles in April 2006 including Casino 3D, Poker Series, Card Games and Blackjack Series.

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