Lexar Media today announced the Crucial Reliance Program for server and workstation memory needs. The new Crucial Reliance Program is the first of several forthcoming server-related memory announcements, and signifies a renewed focus in the server memory arena. Qualified Crucial business and government customers can receive enhanced sales and support benefits. Examples of participant benefits include access to server-specific tech support professionals, bulk shipping options, as well as the option of on-site memory spares. For complete details about the Crucial Reliance Program and how to participate, visit www.crucial.com/server, www.crucial.com/uk/server and www.crucial.com/eu/server.

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Virage Logic Corporation (NASDAQ: VIRL), the semiconductor industry’s trusted IP partner and pioneer in Silicon Aware IP™, today announced that CSR of Cambridge, United Kingdom, a top global supplier of single chip wireless communications products, has licensed Virage Logic’s semiconductor intellectual property (IP) to enable its next-generation technology. CSR will use Virage Logic’s Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) Memory, Self-Test and Repair (STAR) Memory and STAR Yield Accelerator products for design of its BlueCore™ and UniFi product lines.

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Lenovo and LANDesk today announced Lenovo will offer LANDesk technology as the core of the new Lenovo ThinkManagement Console. The new console provides centralized inventory and reporting of Lenovo client hardware assets and Lenovo’s industry-leading ThinkVantage Technologies, as well as management of Intel vPro enabled devices. Integration tools are also provided to facilitate third party software offerings. The console will seamlessly integrate into LANDesk’s management solutions, and will be marketed by Lenovo sales representatives and business partners.

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Bentley Motors is further expanding its dealer network in the growing Russian market and today opens a new showroom in St. Petersburg. The official press conference, marking the opening of the new dealership to customers, was hosted by Michael Mayer, Regional Director Europe.
The St. Petersburg launch marks the third showroom of the legendary British automobile manufacturer in Russia. It joins the two existing showrooms in Moscow, at Tretyakovsky proezd near the Red Square and in Barvikha Luxury Village. The new Bentley showcase is located in an emerging business area, at the crossing of Gelsingforsskaya Street and Vyborgskaya embankment. This particular area of St. Petersburg is one of the fastest growing for luxury goods and looks set to repeat the success of the Moscow Barvikha Luxury Village.

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Ixia (Nasdaq:XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP performance test systems, today announced the availability of the industry’s highest density and most affordable layer 2-7, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) IP testing solution for high-density next-generation data center infrastructure.

Leveraging Ixia’s converged testing applications, IxLoad and IxNetwork, Ixia’s new 10 GbE IxYukon load module offers the highest scalability, flexibility and affordability for testing.

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VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) and Lenovo (SEHK:992) (ADR:LNVGY) today announced an agreement to increase the adoption of VMware virtualization in China. Starting today, Lenovo will sell, distribute and support the VMware Infrastructure 3 platform on Lenovo server systems. This partnership enables businesses and organizations in China to leverage both the performance and scalability of Lenovo servers with VMware virtualization to reduce operating expenses, improve business continuity, strengthen security and reduce their power consumption and carbon footprint.

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According to several opinions regarding acceleration of shutting down small thermal power generating units, China will shut down gradually coal-fired (fuel-powered) generating units in the areas covered by big power grid during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period (2006-2010), which meet any of the following conditions: the conventional thermal power units with a capacity of 50MW per generator, the conventional thermal power units with a capacity of below 100MW per generator that has been in service for 20 years, various generating units whose designed life expire and all kinds of generating units with a capacity of below 200MW per generator.

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The Citizen Service Platform (CSP) now is available to customers along with free templates to help customers implement technological solutions to some of the most common issues governments face. The CSP application framework, announced by Microsoft Corp. in January 2008, is designed to help governments of all sizes more responsively deliver services to citizens via the Internet, which facilitates easier interaction with citizens, streamlines processes and, as a result, saves time and taxpayer dollars.

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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) and the Java Card Forum (JCF) today announced the availability of version 3.0 of the award winning Java Card platform specification, to help kickoff the SIMPosium 2008 Conference in Berlin. This release is the most significant architectural expansion in the dynamic, 10 year history of Java Card technology and a revolutionary step forward for smart card chip manufacturers, smart card vendors, and Java Card platform implementation providers. A detailed list of new features and functions for the Java Card Platform 3.0 specification can be found at http://www.java.sun.com/javacard.

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Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, in collaboration with HP (NYSE: HPQ) and AMD (NYSE: AMD), today announced continued delivery of industry-leading virtualization capabilities offered through Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Customers are now able to achieve significant performance gains by coupling new high-performance device drivers with the features provided by Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, available with HP ProLiant DL585 G5 servers.

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