Need for Stronger Solutions Underscored by eBay Counterfeit Ruling in France; US Decision Imminent

Gloucestershire, UK, July 3, 2008 – In light of the recent legal ruling in France resulting in a £31 ($63) million fine against eBay for selling counterfeit luxury goods, the global issue of product authenticity among online auction sites has been brought sharply into focus. Cybercrime and \"e–fencing\" are serious issues, costing consumers an estimated £2 ($4) billion annually. A judge in the US is due to rule at anytime on a similar case brought by Tiffany.

This threat was identified eight years ago by the founders of CheckMEND.com, an online property authentication service, who have compiled what is now the world’s largest database of counterfeit and stolen goods with more than 100 million records.
Read more: CheckMEND service addresses online auction sites\' problems
Auckland and London, July 3, 2008 - Seeker Wireless, one of the leading location based service technology companies announced today that its SeekerZone™ solution has been deployed to power the new Local Zone product launched this week by Vodafone New Zealand.

Created expressly to support fixed mobile substitution strategies, SeekerZone™ allows operators such as Vodafone to motivate subscribers to continue using their mobile phones instead of a fixed line by setting innovative tariffs for subscribers around their “local zone”.
Read more: Seeker Wireless powers innovative Local Zone product from Vodafone New Zealand
Logicalis Launches UK’s First Mainframe ‘Try Before You Buy’ Test Environment To Demonstrate Efficiency And Cost Savings

Slough, 3 July 2008: In a bid to dispel the myths surrounding mainframe deployments, Logicalis will today launch the UK’s first IBM System z Workload Consolidation Test Environment. Hosted at Logicalis’ state-of-the-art Innovation Centre, the Test Environment will allow enterprises to design and build a bespoke mainframe platform, in order that organisations can evaluate the economic and environmental potential of implementing a mainframe strategy.

“Though the mainframe remains a popular architecture for large enterprises and financial organisations, widespread adoption is still hindered from hype generated in the 90s by the distributed server industry,” explains Martin Boakes, IBM System z specialist at Logicalis.
Read more: Logicalis To Demystify The Mainframe
Purple Labs acquires mobile browser business from Openwave

Chambéry, France – July 3, 2008 – Purple Labs, a French developer of Linux-based mobile software, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the mobile client software business of California-based Openwave Systems, in an asset sale valued at more than $32 million. The browser and messaging products acquired in the deal are among the best-selling mobile applications in the world, having already shipped in more than 1.5 billion mobile phones.

Following the acquisition, Purple Labs now supplies mobile browser software to all of the top 5 phone manufacturers, which together produce over 80% of the world’s mobile phones.
Read more: Linux Vendor Completes $32 Million Acquisition of US Mobile Technology Leader
July 2nd

Northern Freegold Drilling of Vein Extension Intersects 19.7 Feet of 4.08 g/t Gold and 25.46 g/t Silver at Burro Creek Gold/Silver Property, Arizona

Northern Freegold Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:NFR) is pleased to announce results from the final ten diamond drill holes at the Burro Creek Gold/Silver Property located in northwestern Arizona, U.S.A. The main focus of the drill program was to confirm and update historical results on an open pit type epithermal gold/silver mineralized zone on the property and to drill test areas on the property with potential to discover additional mineralization within the extensive epithermal vein system. The drill program was completed April 11, 2008 with 33 holes, totaling 8,414 feet (2,565 m) drilled along the vein system.
Read more: Northern Freegold Resources Ltd ( NFR )