SAN JOSE, Calif. and YOKOHAMA, Japan, Nov. 30, 2010 — Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, announced today that Toshiba Corporation, a leading provider of flash memory products, has deployed the FineSim™ platform for sign-off simulation. Toshiba uses FineSim Pro with the native multi-CPU technology for its NAND flash memory development.

“Toshiba’s flash products, featuring leading-edge technology and functionality, are highly differentiated and used in wide variety of applications,” said Masaki Momodomi, Memory Technology Executive of Toshiba Corporation's Semiconductor Company. “This makes it imperative that we are first to market with highly reliable products. Magma’s unified circuit simulation platform increases our overall design productivity by allowing us to make intelligent tradeoffs between performance and accuracy within a single tool.”

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 London, 29th November 2010 - The Wikileaks saga of the last few days, which climaxed with the release of  the first batch of more than 250,000 secret and confidential diplomatic cables sent by US embassies around the world published last night, are a classic example of what can happen when the evolving insider security threat is ignored says Imperva. 

According to Amichai Shulman, CTO with the data security specialist, the saga - which took a curious twist on Sunday when Wikileaks' servers came under a distributed denial of service attack (http://bit.ly/gNhimg) - shows that organisations of all sizes seem to be preoccupied with defending against external attacks on their digital data assets, and are ignoring the internal security threat issue.

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 Aster Data Massively Parallel Analytic Database integrated with Tableau’s Data Visualization and Business Intelligence Applications

 San Carlos, CA and Seattle, WA – November 30, 2010 – Aster Data, a market leader in big data management and advanced analytics, and Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence, today announced an integrated solution for big data management and advanced reporting and data visualization. The Aster Data and Tableau Software solution provides organizations powerful reporting and analytic visualizations on large data volumes and diverse data types. Large-scale data management and analytic processing, including highly advanced MapReduce-based analytics, will be delivered via Aster Data nCluster™ - the industry's first massively parallel processing (MPP) database with an integrated analytics engine - while big data visualization and rich analytics dashboards will be delivered via Tableau Software.

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November 30th 2010 - 118 24 7, the UK business telephone numbers and directory enquiriesservice from marketing solutions company, Yell, has been named ‘Best UK Service’ for a fifth year at a major international awards ceremony for the information services industry.

The 118 Awards, run by independent industry monitor, 118tracker.com, celebrate the achievements made by organisations and more importantly the people involved in delivering information and directory services around the world.

The fifth win means that 118 24 7now has a 100% success rate for every year the category has been included in the awards, demonstrating a significant track record and reflecting Yell’s focus on delivering a high quality service from UK call centres for callers wanting easy access to business information.

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Abingdon, United Kingdom, 30th November 2010 – Toumaz, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless telemetry technologies for medical monitoring and internet-connected consumer devices, today announces that its TZ1090 (‘XENIF’) System-on-Chip is now in production in the latest connected audio product from PURE, the world’s leading supplier of DAB and connected radios.

PURE’s ONE Flow delivers internet-connected digital radio with music purchase services in a new small form factor radio and at a market-changing price point. It is enabled by Toumaz’s TZ1090 XENIF device, an advanced 32-bit processor-based SoC that provides comprehensive Wi-Fi, DAB and FM integration in a single chip solution. PURE’s ONE Flow will be available for consumer purchase in time for Christmas in the UK with other territories following.

Read more: Toumaz ‘XENIF’ all-in-one Wi-Fi, baseband and application processor now in production with PURE...