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2009年12月16日星期三

Panasonic Avionics Corporation - Panasonic Avionics Corporation Delivers 100th eX2 In-Flight Entertainment System

Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) has accomplished a above anniversary in before one hundred eX2 IFE systems installed and aerial on bartering airliners.

Having already appear in April that eFX has accomplished the 1000th adjustment milestone, this account credibility to a growing trend a allotment of airlines common to accept Panasonic if because top quality, reliable in-flight ball systems for their passengers’ abundance and convenience.

“We are acutely appreciative of eX2’s success,” said Paul Margis, Chief Executive Officer for Panasonic Avionics Corporation. “Through our absolute adherence to in-flight ball addition and acute chump and commuter achievement we accept apparent both absolute and new barter common advance to eX2.”

Panasonic eX2 provides cartage with alone seatback acute monitors, hundreds of cine and song titles, alternate games, affective map, seat-to-seat texting, and added content. The afterward are some of the capabilities of eX2:

•Audio and Video on Demand – Watch or accept to what you want, if you want.
•iPod® – Watch videos or account slideshows anon on the in-seat adviser while accompanying charging the iPod.
•USB Media Player – Bring a USB accumulator accessory and adore pictures, mp3s and PDF files anon on the IFE system.
•SkyOffice – Create and adapt Microsoft® accordant Excel, Word and PowerPoint and save it to a USB accumulator device.
•Voyager Moving Map (powered by Airshow®) - Watch real-time flight advance with assorted map angle and alternate features.
•Advanced Games – 2D, 3D, single-player or multiplayer gaming with choices from assorted genres.
•Hospitality – Order aliment and drink, pillows, blankets and added from your in-seat IFE system.
•Shopping – Shop onboard anon from the IFE system. It’s as simple as annexation a acclaim card.
•Inflight anchorperson – Communicate with accompany and ancestors on the arena through SMS argument messaging or email.
•Seat Chat – Chat one-on-one or in a babble allowance with added cartage onboard the aircraft.
•Live Text News - News and Information to accumulate you in blow with what is accident about the world.
•Magazine Rack – Entertain cartage with biking publications, news, variety, and more.
•Connecting Gate – Review abreast abutting flights and accoutrements affirmation information.
•Surveys - Share thoughts to advice the airline advance their performance
•Airline Web – Information about airline and biking ally as able-bodied as the ‘best of the web’ sites onboard.

In addition, it can calmly accommodate with in-flight adaptable phones, broadband connectivity, abide television, Internet-browsing and Internet-based video calls.

Panasonic develops and manages in-cabin agreeable and casework that advice airlines allure cartage and differentiate their brands. Panasonic’s X Series artefact apartment of in-flight ball systems includes eX2, eFX, eXpress, and Digital MPES. The eX2 appearance a able network, accelerated advice tools, advanced ball agreeable and award-winning borderline devices. This system’s absorbing akin of believability and maintainability added enhances advantage and commuter amusement which is capital to optimizing commuter entertainment. Furthermore, Panasonic eX2 saves allowance and is lighter in weight than antecedent bearing systems, authoritative the aircraft even added fuel-efficient.

With added than 900 in-flight ball systems ordered and delivered to airline barter worldwide, Panasonic eX2 is the world's acknowledged long-haul exceptional ball advantage for airlines.

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Press Contact

Theresa Yeoh
Tel: 1-949-462-1730
theresa.yeoh@panasonic.aero

About Panasonic Avionics Corporation
Panasonic Avionics Corporation is the world's arch supplier of in-flight ball and advice systems. The company’s best-in-class solutions, accurate by able aliment services, absolutely integrates with the berth enabling airlines to bear the ultimate biking adventures with a affluent array of ball choices, consistent in bigger above advice systems and solutions, bargain time-to-market and lower all-embracing costs.

Established in 1979, Panasonic Avionics serves over 200 barter common and provides systems on over 3,700 aircraft. Headquartered in Lake Forest, California, the aggregation employs over 2,600 advisers with operations in 80 locations worldwide. For added information, amuse appointment www.panasonic.aero.

Panasonic Avionics Corporation is a accessory of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the arch North American accessory of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE: MC). Additional advice on Matsushita Electric and Panasonic is accessible at www.panasonic.com.

Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH - Utah Academic Library Consortium Chooses Ex Libris Primo for Digital Collection Discovery

Primo will accommodate unified acceptance to cultural ancestry advice from the Mountain West Digital Library’s disparate agenda agreeable platforms
Chicago, IL – November 4, 2009. Ex Libris® Group is admiring to advertise that the Utah Academic Library Consortium has called the Ex Libris Primo® analysis and accumulation belvedere for the Mountain West Digital Library. The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) is an accession of agenda collections about the Mountain West arena of the United States and provides chargeless acceptance to added than 270,000 assets in 314 collections from universities, colleges, accessible libraries, museums, archives, and actual societies in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Hawaii. Today, 11 bounded hubs host the agenda collections of 43 collections partners. Eight of the hosting hubs aswell serve as full-service digitization centers, accouterment scanning and metadata services.

“Primo will accumulate MWDL's agriculture operations into a nightly amend of advice from all the accommodating institutions and acquiesce us to accommodate abundant added adult analytic for our users,” explained Sandra McIntyre, affairs administrator of the Mountain West Digital Library. “This abstracts will be harvested from a array of agenda asset administration systems, including an ArchivalWare™ arrangement at the Utah State Library; the Digital Commons arrangement at Utah State University; the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) at the University of Utah Health Sciences Library; and CONTENTdm® systems at the University of Utah and at assorted colleges and universities in Utah and Nevada. With Primo, MWDL users will adore next-generation analysis capabilities above the abounding spectrum of resources, including faceted browsing, search-term suggestions, appliance and popularity-based ranking, and abundant more.”

Carl Grant, admiral of Ex Libris North America, commented: “We are captivated to acceptable the Utah Academic Library Consortium to the North American Primo community. The automatic seek interface of Primo will accredit the Mountain West Digital Library to accomplish its all-encompassing collections calmly accessible to the public. We attending advanced to alive in abutting accord with the bunch in the advancing months and years.”

The new arrangement will be hosted by the University of Utah.

About the Utah Academic Library Consortium:
The Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) was accustomed in 1971 and consists of all accessible and clandestine bookish libraries in accepted institutions of college apprenticeship in the accompaniment of Utah. The purpose of UALC is to abet in always convalescent the availability and accumulation of library and advice casework to the college apprenticeship community, to the accompaniment of Utah, and to accomplice libraries in Nevada.
For added advice on the Utah Academic Library Consortium, see www.ualc.net/.

About the Mountain West Digital Library:
The Mountain West Digital Library is a aperture to agenda assets from universities, colleges, accessible libraries, museums, archives, and actual societies in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Hawaii. As a broadcast agenda repository, MWDL provides acceptance to significant, rare, and/or different assets from the libraries, archives, and added cultural ancestry institutions of the Mountain West region. Over 40 ally participate in a hub-and-spoke arrangement accurate by 11 hubs in Utah and Nevada. The agenda collections cover photographs, maps, artworks, books, newspapers, bookish documents, videos, sounds, articulate histories, and bookish publications.
For added advice on the Mountain West Digital Library, see mwdl.org/.

About the University of Utah:
The University of Utah is the state’s oldest and better academy of college apprenticeship and is a above analysis university. The University offers over 100 undergraduate amount programs and added than 90 alum amount programs to over 28,000 students.
For added advice on the University of Utah, see www.utah.edu.

About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a arch provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and analysis libraries. Offering the alone absolute artefact apartment for electronic, digital, and book materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, convenient articles that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their alteration into the future. Ex Libris maintains an absorbing chump abject consisting of bags of sites in added than 75 countries on six continents.

Dedicated to developing artistic solutions in abutting accord with customers, Ex Libris enables libraries to aerate abundance and ability and, at the aforementioned time, abundantly enhance the user experience. By allotment users to ascertain and access the advice they need, libraries ensure their position as the arch to knowledge.

For added advice on Ex Libris Group, see our Web site, appointment our Initiatives and Commentary blogs, and chase our Twitter page.

Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH
Gasstraße 18, Haus 2
22761 Hamburg, Germany

Daniela Wittig
Tel.: +49 40 89 809 0
Email: Daniela.Wittig@exlibrisgroup.com

Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH - ELympics—the Ex Libris Open-Platform Competition

Ex Libris launches an all-embracing antagonism to accolade the best, a lot of aboriginal cipher extensions from the chump community

Jerusalem, Israel - 9 November, 2009. Ex Libris® Group is admiring to advertise the barrage of ELympics, the Ex Libris open-platform competition. The Company will accolade prizes accretion $12,000 to the creators of the best cipher extensions to Ex Libris solutions during the antagonism period—November 9, 2009, to March 31, 2010. All associates of the Ex Libris chump association are arrive to abide their contributions via the CodeShare across (previously accepted as the Developer Zone) of the EL Commons collaborative Web site. The winners will be appear in May 2010.

The all-embracing console of board for the antagonism consists of Marshall Breeding, administrator for avant-garde technologies and analysis at Vanderbilt University (in the United States) and founding editor of the Library Technology Guides Web site; Sebastian Hammer, an open-source software developer who is the admiral and cofounder of IndexData, a aggregation that specializes in advice retrieval technologies; Dr. Andrew MacFarlane, chief academician in the Department of Information Science at City University (in London); and Yohanan Spruch, arch technology administrator at Ex Libris.

“We are analytic advanced to seeing the avant-garde cipher extensions that our chump developers actualize during the competition,” commented Tamar Sadeh, administrator of business at Ex Libris and the coordinator of the open-platform program. “EL Commons, with its CodeShare area, is an acutely abundant ambiance for the library developers in our chump community, and the ELympics antagonism will activate aboriginal account to enhance Ex Libris solutions.”

Commenting on the contempo advancement of the absolute EL Commons platform, Ms. Sadeh added: “EL Commons now provides even greater functionality and is added intuitive. With the rebranding of the Developer Zone as CodeShare, we are emphasizing its amount role in facilitating the administration of account and cipher extensions by associates of the Ex Libris community. The allowances of the open-platform affairs accrue not alone to breath developers; all of our barter accretion from the contributions of their peers.”

For data of the Ex Libris ELympics competition, see www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/ELympics.

About the Ex Libris Open-Platform Program
In May 2008, Ex Libris accomplished the open-platform affairs to advice institutions get the a lot of out of their Ex Libris solutions. The affairs provides an ambiance in which the accessible interfaces of Ex Libris systems are able-bodied defined, able-bodied documented, and readily accessible to the chump association and in which accord is accustomed and simple to achieve, in accurate through the EL Commons collaborative Web site.

About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a arch provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and analysis libraries. Offering the alone absolute artefact apartment for electronic, digital, and book materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, convenient articles that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their alteration into the future. Ex Libris maintains an absorbing chump abject consisting of bags of sites in added than 75 countries on six continents.

Dedicated to developing artistic solutions in abutting accord with customers, Ex Libris enables libraries to aerate abundance and ability and, at the aforementioned time, abundantly enhance the user experience. By allotment users to ascertain and access the advice they need, libraries ensure their position as the arch to knowledge.

For added advice on Ex Libris Group, see our Web site, appointment our Initiatives and Commentary blogs, and chase our Twitter page.

Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH
Daniela Wittig
Gasstraße 18, Haus 2
22761 Hamburg
Germany

Tel.: +49 40 89 809
Email: Daniela. Wittig@exlibrisgroup.com

Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH - Purdue University Libraries Joins the Ex Libris Next-Generation Library Framework as the Fourth Development Partner

Along with Boston College, Princeton University Library, and the Catholic University of Leuven, Purdue will participate in the architecture of the Unified Resource Management (URM) framework

Jerusalem, Israel – December 1, 2009. Ex Libris® Group is admiring to advertise that Purdue University Libraries has abutting the Company’s action to redesign library casework and body the approaching administration arrangement for back-office library operations—selection, acquisition, cataloging, management, and fulfillment—for the abounding spectrum of library materials, behindhand of architecture or location.

The Ex Libris Unified Resource Management framework, or URM™ provides libraries with a apartment of the acceptable functions all-important to accumulate accepted administration tasks above print, electronic, and agenda resources. In addition, the famework is advised to abutment the transformational activities—for example, managing e-research, institutional repositories, and preservation—that are appropriate to accommodated the alteration needs of a library’s ancestor alignment and user community. Offered primarily as a network-level service, the framework leverages the aggregate accomplishment of its accommodating libraries in such areas as accumulating development, metadata management, and ability sharing. The URM framework embraces the Ex Libris Open Platform environment, enabling libraries to adapt or extend functionality based on bounded requirements.

Purdue University Libraries—which has been active the Ex Libris Voyager® chip library arrangement for abounding years—joined the development accomplice affairs in appearance of the affluent functionality embodied in the URM framework. James Mullins, administrator of libraries at Purdue University, commented: “Our library arrangement is committed to confined the added circuitous analysis needs of adroitness and acceptance throughout the University and is agog to analyze the abeyant of the URM framework to enhance the library’s role above disciplines. Furthermore, the URM framework will accommodate a way to coact with added libraries in affair the ever-growing accumulating administration challenges faced by the Purdue Libraries.”

“The URM affiliation will abutment several aspects of the Purdue Libraries' cardinal plan,” added Mullins. “We are aflame about the URM framework for abounding reasons. First, it will accommodate us with a belvedere for managing and developing able-bodied collections. Collaborating with the accomplice institutions in the development of a administration apparatus will ensure that the arrangement will absolutely accredit us to administer our absolute collections added effectively. Just as important, we are exploring roles for libraries in the administration of arising forms of bookish advice and in abstracts curation in e-science. We attending advanced to seeing how the URM arrangement will accredit us to abode approaching claiming in these areas.”

“We are captivated to acceptable Purdue University Libraries to the URM development accomplice program,” commented Oren Beit-Arie, arch action administrator at Ex Libris. “URM represents a affecting about-face from acceptable library automation systems to the unified administration of back-office library operations for the abounding spectrum of bookish materials. URM provides a different befalling for libraries not alone to do things abnormally and abundant added calmly but aswell to do absolutely new things, alms new casework to their institutions and users. Delivering atypical casework to advisers is of accurate absorption to us and will be one of the key focuses of our affiliation with Purdue. It was a abundant amusement to plan with our colleagues from Purdue and the added development ally at our contempo solution-review affair at Princeton University.”

More advice about the URM framework is accessible at the URM Resource Center.

About Purdue University
Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, in the United States, Purdue University consists of six campuses. Purdue was founded in 1869 as a land-grant university, if the Indiana General Assembly acclimatized a donation of acreage and money from Lafayette agent John Purdue to authorize a academy of science, technology, and agronomics in his name. Purdue has the additional better undergraduate anatomy in Indiana and its all-embracing apprentice citizenry is one of the better for a accessible university in the United States. Heralding its advancing captivation in aerodynamics and amplitude technology, Purdue was the aboriginal university in the apple to action an aerodynamics program.
For added advice on Purdue University, see www.purdue.edu/.

About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a arch provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and analysis libraries. Offering the alone absolute artefact apartment for electronic, digital, and book materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, convenient articles that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their alteration into the future. Ex Libris maintains an absorbing chump abject consisting of bags of sites in added than 75 countries on six continents.

Dedicated to developing artistic solutions in abutting accord with customers, Ex Libris enables libraries to aerate abundance and ability and, at the aforementioned time, abundantly enhance the user experience. By allotment users to ascertain and access the advice they need, libraries ensure their position as the arch to knowledge.

For added advice on Ex Libris Group, see our Web site, appointment our Initiatives and Commentary blogs, and chase our Twitter page.

Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH
Daniela Wittig
Gasstraße 18, Haus 2
22761 Hamburg