The Jewelers Circular Keystone (better known as JCK) wound up the largest jewelry show in North America in June. The event brought thousands of designers, manufacturers, distributers, and retailers from across the globe for their annual trek to Las Vegas. Multiple smaller shows occurred during the eight day span starting with the International Watch and Jewelry Guild. Next were Luxury by JCK, Swiss Watch by JCK, and Couture. Nestled among these was the Antique Jewelry and Watch Show. The week concluded with the industry?s premier trade event, JCK Las Vegas.

It was impossible to see everything over the eight day period, but after miles of walking, several hundred conversations, and setting eyes on lines being shown by thousands of exhibitors, some trends popped out this year.

Cautious Optimism: The economy that brought the industry to a deep freeze last year is finally beginning to thaw. American retailers are buying again. Orders are smaller and at lower price points but their customers are coming back through the doors. Call it boredom or pent up demand, consumers are finding their way back into stores in 2010. But many retailers are still expressing concern. Will customers keep up the traffic as the economy absorbs the European debt crisis, the Gulf oil disaster, and mounds of U.S. debt piling up at an unprecedented pace? Time will soon tell.

Couture Silver: Sounds like an oxy-moron but top designers are taking silver to a new level. This is not your $ 50 dollar silver piece. Manufacturers have developed new processes to prevent tarnishing. Designers are mixing silver with gold accents and diamonds. Price points are high for silver but far undercut the same designs in all gold. Bold designs from Charles Krypell and modern, clean designs from Raymond Hak were a few standouts in this category. Silver is the new gold.

Chocolate, Champagne, and Roses: Brown metal, champagne and brown diamonds, and rose gold are strong in this year?s collections. Goldstein Diamonds has a new collection that uses black rhodium treated gold to create a spectacular chocolate brown gold covered in pave diamonds. The same collection comes in yellow satin gold and rose satin gold. Charles Krypell is making extensive use of brown and champagne pave diamonds in his Sterling Mocha Diamond Collection. Damaso Martinez from Spain, Giorgio Visconti from Italy, and Le Vian all have luscious lines that make beautiful use of chocolate, champagne, and rose colors.

Bold Fashion: Big, bold and colorful describe several of the collections in high-end fashion this year. Color trends have been taken straight from Europe?s fashion runways. Stars of the year are the greens and light blues. Guests of honor include nuances of red and soft and refined pinks, mauves and neutral hues. Several jewelry designers have incorporated these colors into bold designs for their current lines. Of particular note is Zorab Creations for their ornate, colorful designs that incorporate Eastern and Asian influences in grand scale. Another is Rina Limor with vivid color in the form of multi-color pave sapphires on beads, earrings and bracelets and big color in large rings accented yet again by pave color. Several designers are making extensive use of moonstones in the form of rings, necklaces, pendants and bracelets to embrace the neutral and lightly colored palette. Finally, hot again this year is the sliced diamond in smoky, brown, yellow and neutral tones incorporated into big necklaces and other important pieces.

Butterflies Aflutter: The single biggest theme at JCK this year was the butterfly. Some attendees may have confused the exhibition showroom for a conservatory. Butterfly bangles, butterfly pendants, butterfly pins, butterfly necklaces, butterflies were everywhere. Designer Jenny Perl has incorporated butterflies into her Le Jardin Butterfly collection. Goldstein Diamonds has created a stunning baguette and round diamond necklace. Zorab has created several important and colorful butterfly pin and cuff pieces. Butterflies can be found at virtually every price point from many designers this season.

Cuffs, Bracelets, Bangles, and More Cuffs: Next to the butterfly, adornments for the wrist were plentiful. Choices included extravagant diamond and color bracelets, big cuffs and bangles mixing the use of gold and gemstone appliqu

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), today unveiled Polycom

Real Software, creator of object-oriented, cross-platform software development tools for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and the web, today announced it has grown its user base beyond 150,000 developers in more than 130 countries. The company has a close working relationship with its user base and added 114 new features and 568 improvements in 2011, many in direct response to community feedback. Real Studio is responsible for helping developers create hundreds of innovative, new applications in the past year, including web apps incorporating the latest HTML5 features and leading Mac App Store apps, such as MovieDraft, iSmartTrain and HDRtist.

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NexInfo Solutions Inc. a Gold level Oracle Partner today announced that it will be bring to focus the Distributed Order Orchestration and Global Order Promising which are part of the Oracle Fusion Applications. The Oracle Fusion Applications provide rich functional capabilities with over 100 modules in 7 different product families providing functionality for many industries and geographies ? Financial Management, Procurement and Sourcing, Project and Portfolio Management, Human Capital Management, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, and Governance Risk and Compliance.

The scheduled presentations are:

Start Your Journey to Oracle Fusion SCM Applications with Dist. Order Orchestration (DOO) and GOP ? by Arun Cavale on 4/23/2012 ? Monday at 2:30 PM in Jasmine A, Mandalay Bay Las Vegas

How to Get the Best Out of Distributed Order Orchestration ? by Arun Cavale & Mark Kuta Jr. on 4/24/2012 ? Tuesday at 8:00 AM in Breakers L, Mandalay Bay Las Vegas

The Distributed Order Orchestration and Global Order Promising, a part of the Fusion Applications, will allow enterprises to improve their customer service levels and provide them with a unified view of their orders even when customer orders are fulfilled by multiple entities within the enterprise, the extended supply chain or using disparate systems.

NexInfo Solutions Inc., a leader in Supply Chain Design believes that the Distributed Order Orchestration and Global Order Promising modules will help companies achieve significantly higher customer service levels in a very short timeframe. The presenters will present multiple business models that can benefit from the implementation of the Distributed Order Orchestration. Currently NexInfo and Oracle are jointly promoting the software to potential customers. NexInfo has been identified as a ?go to? partner for Distributed Order Orchestration because NexInfo has invested in the development of the knowledge base and capabilities to support sales and delivery cycles.

Attend our presentation and also visit us at booth #1363.

About OAUG Collaborate 12

Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG) is hosting its annual conference ? Collaborate 12 at the Mandalay bay in Las Vegas, NV. The mission of the Oracle Applications Users Group is to represent the interests of the family of Oracle Applications users worldwide in securing the optimum use and ongoing development of the Oracle Applications products.

About NexInfo Solutions

NexInfo Solutions Inc., is an Orange County, CA based consulting company that focuses primarily on process design and software integration in the supply chain domain to help companies achieve ?Best in Class? status by incorporating industry leading practices. NexInfo uses its unique ?NexGen? methodology combined with the ?NexGen? bluebook to ensure successful business process improvements in optimal time. NexInfo has helped many Fortune 1000 companies across industries improve their supply chain delivery response. NexInfo has previously presented success stories at the OAUG Collaborate forum. NexInfo focuses improving customer service levels using better process and system designs.

About the presenters

Arun Cavale is a Supply Chain Expert with over 23 years of industry experience and has been working on providing supply chain design expertise in process design and solution architecture. He is a Principal at NexInfo and heads the supply chain practice. He has designed and deployed complex supply chains across industries.

Mark Kuta Jr. is a thought leader with expertise in identifying and delivering business value to clients in his role at Oracle and focuses on Oracle?s Value Chain Planning suite of products including Demantra, Adv. Supply Chain Planning, Inventory Optimization, Rapid Planning and most recently on Distributed Order Orchestration. Mark is also the author of best selling book ?Think Like a CEO? that swept the 2008 book awards with two gold medals

Contact Information:

James Ryan

Public Relations Coordinator

NexInfo Solutions Inc.

Phone: 714 338 6166

Email: james(dot)ryan(at)nexinfo(dot)com

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Cape Cod C Shells, Inc. has engaged the services of marketing specialist Tracy K. Anderson to update their website to a more user friendly experience. “With more than 15 years copywriting and marketing experience, I love being able to make a difference for my clients. And as a business owner myself, I understand that the effectiveness of your corporate communications can make or break you,” said Tracy.

Some examples of her work are iMedia Technology, Camp Wingate*Kirkland, Ships Inn, Northside Travel, Lamb and Lion Inn, and Brewster Fish House.

Bob Barker, President of Cape Cod C Shells Inc. said, “Tracy brings to the table all the things we are looking for. We want our website to be an interesting and fun place to go. I believe Tracy will provide this.”

Cape Cod C Shells Inc, aka Cape Cod C Shell Community Barter, is a newly established barter community dedicated to keeping the wealth within a community. Barter medallions are becoming more popular daily due to the efforts of the American open Currency Standard (AOCS). Merchants within the C Shell community agree to accept AOCS approved medallions in trade for goods and services. It is expected the C Shell medallion will receive high recognition within the collector arena, as well. The medallion can be seen at LetsTradeCShells.com.

A Cape Cod C Shell is a .999 fine copper round minted with a shell on one side and a silhouette of Cape Cod on the other. More than that, it represents the return to older ways and forms of money. Barter has existed for well over 2000 years. Historically, when a metal has been selected for “currency” it has always been copper, silver or gold. The Eastern seaboard Indian tribes traditional form of currency was the Quahog clam shell. When cut and polished into pieces called Wampum, it was universally recognized in the Indian communities as currency. The combining of these two ancient forms of currency led to the selection of the C Shell theme.

“If sea shells worked for the early settlers of Cape Cod then C or (Currency) Shells made of copper, silver and gold should work for the current inhabitants of the Cape and surrounding area and bring us back to a more basic understanding of what constitutes living,” said Bob Barker, President, Cape Cod C Shells Inc.

The history of Cape Cod C Shells: Cape Cod C Shells was started because of the need to help people prepare for what is the inevitable collapse of the fiat US Dollar. Mr. Barker says, “The question is not if the dollar will collapse, but when.” He further stated, “Being prepared is a great way to help the US survive the economic turmoil to come.”

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For the third year running the cPanel will be holding its annual conference in Houston, Texas from June 11 to 13. This year’s conference promises to be more in depth, with more advanced topics then the previous years. There will be guest speakers, in addition to cPanel developers cPanel techs will be on hand to provide live, in person technical support. Also taking place will be a panel discussion with some of cPanel’s developers and techs. With the upcoming release of cPanel Server Suite for Windows scheduled for spring, the conference will have several sessions geared towards the new product and how it will significantly enhance Windows based hosting operations.

Conference registration is once again very reasonable at $ 60.00 USD per attendee. Attendees will be able to meet vendors and producers of software plugins that work with cPanel as well as service providers that deploy cPanel. As the host of the conference, cPanel will be providing a cocktail reception with a top shelf open bar on the evening of the 11th as well as a sumptuous dinner for all attendees and vendors on the 12th. Lunch and breakfast will also be provided both days.

For more information, please visit the conference site located at http://conference.cpanel.net.

About cPanel:

cPanel was formed in 1997 and has since become a leading Web Hosting Control Panel Software provider supplying hosting automation tools to numerous data centers and customers around the world. cPanel offers web hosting software that automates the intricate workings of web hosting servers. cPanel products are used on tens of thousands of servers worldwide to equip server administrators with the tools they need to provide top notch hosting to their customers.

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Preston Kelly and Regions Hospital collaborated to develop a new website for the prominent St. Paul hospital. The completely redesigned site provides useful and engaging content for hospital patients and their guests, including patient testimonial videos, helpful information about Regions specialty care teams and an online gift shop.

?In addition to providing a valuable resource of information to our patients, we are excited to have a site that will attract multiple types of users to the expertise available on our site,? says Heidi Conrad, chief financial officer of Regions Hospital. ?Family and friends of patients can quickly find maps and other accommodations, caregivers can research the hospital and medical professionals and graduates can make career decisions.?

The Preston Kelly and Regions team conducted more than 20 one-on-one interviews with individual care specialty areas at the hospital, analyzed nearly one hundred local and national hospital and healthcare sites, and met multiple times a week for more than six months.

?This was an exciting project because we wanted to provide a great user experience while delivering potentially complicated health care information ? all in a way that showcased the Regions Hospital brand,? says Peter Tressel, interactive creative director at Preston Kelly. ?The key to getting it right was a deep commitment to collaboration from start to finish.?

The Regions website redesign is the latest project Preston Kelly has completed with the hospital?s parent company, HealthPartners. Other efforts include advertising campaigns for Regions, campaigns for HealthPartners insurance and clinics, and ongoing marketing support for virtuwell.com, a revolutionary online clinic concept developed by HealthPartners.

About Preston Kelly

Preston Kelly is a full-service, independent agency that creates Iconic Ideas for its clients, which spans the financial services, healthcare, insurance, restaurant, consumer packaged goods, outdoor recreation, retail and gaming categories. In addition to being selected as Advertising Age?s Midwest Small Agency of the Year in 2010, Preston Kelly won top honors in the 2011 The Art and Technique of the American Commercial Show, sponsored by the Association of Independent Commercial Producers. The agency also earned recognition for Integrated Campaign of the Year in the 2010 Radio Mercury Awards. In the last six years, the agency has won several Effies?a top marketing award that champions outstanding results. Preston Kelly is a member of Worldwide Partners, the world?s largest network of independent marketing and communications firms. To learn more about Preston Kelly, visit http://www.prestonkelly.com, become a fan on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/prestonkellyagency or join the conversation on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/prestonkelly. You can also read our musings on the latest trends in advertising at http://iconicideas.tumblr.com/.

About Regions Hospital

Regions Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center for adults and for children serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin for more than 130 years. A private, nonprofit, teaching hospital, Regions (http://www.regionshospital.com) provides outstanding care in women?s health, heart, cancer, surgery, orthopedics, neuroscience, burn, emergency care, mental illnesses and more. Regions is part of the HealthPartners (http://www.healthpartners.com) family of health care companies that serves 1.4 million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. Follow Regions Hospital at twitter.com/RegionsHospital and http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#regionshospital.

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Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic), a national nonprofit organization serving 250,000 individuals with learning differences, visual impairment and reading disabilities, will honor six remarkable students on February 27 at its 52nd annual National Achievement Awards celebration in the nation?s capital.

Three of these high achievers are blind or visually impaired; three have learning disabilities like dyslexia; all are recognized for scholastic excellence, exemplary leadership, and service to others; and all have thrived in education with the help of accessible educational content and assistive technology that Learning Ally provides.

The six winners will receive cash awards of $ 6,000 and travel with their families to Washington, DC, where they will accept their awards, meet with public officials and Members of Congress, and speak at a special Roundtable on “The Impact of Access” on Capitol Hill. This year?s NAA winners include:

Technology education leader iD Gaming Academy recently announced a new partnership with GUNNAR Optiks, manufacturer of advanced computer and gaming eyewear. The partnership will provide all students of iD Gaming Academy?s teen gaming camps with access to computer eyewear for use during the pre-college programs. Students will also have an ongoing opportunity to win a personal pair per program session.

According to iD Gaming Academy CEO, Pete Ingram-Cauchi, the partnership is part of iD?s strategy for staying ahead of the curve. ?Technology moves fast. We work hard to keep our curriculum completely up to date ? and that includes using the latest products and software. As our students continue working hard, we want to ensure that their health is protected and that their eyes are not strained. To that effect, we?re proud to partner with GUNNAR Optiks to place its computer eyewear for regular use in the classroom.?

The iD Gaming Academy is an intensive pre-college program where student gamers learn the technologies behind their hobbies. In the two-week overnight summer programs, teens learn everything from the basics of how to create video games to level design with the Unreal

Indusface, an award winning website security company, has released a powerful anti malvertising feature in the latest version of its flagship product IndusGuard. This new feature aims to combat the threat that businesses and publishing networks face due to increased spread of malware using online advertising, a lucrative setting for miscreants to attack websites through malvertising. IndusGuard addresses this whilst providing continuous, automated and comprehensive security testing for vulnerability assessment, application audit, malware monitoring, blacklisting and defacement detection. This complemented with expert revalidation, business logic and zero false positives checks enable Indusface to provide total website security for businesses globally.

More than 10 million users were exposed to drive-by exploits in February 2012. The malware attacks have doubled since last year, and there is a 95% probability that an internet user will hit an infected page within three months of web browsing. Nearly 10 billion ad impressions were compromised by malvertising in 2010 alone which makes malvertising amongst the fastest growing security threats online, as any website with advertising is a target.

Internet ad spend is expected to reach $ 94.97 billion in 2013.The lure for fraction of profits from this pie has malvertisers using advertisements to serve up links to harmful sites on legitimate websites. In order to compromise a website, embedding a malicious code is not a necessity. In some cases, users do not even have to click ads to trigger malware; hidden iframes can be called using JavaScripts which load files containing malicious code to exploit various vulnerabilities. Users are more likely to click on the ad because it is present on a site which they trust.

Trusted brands like Facebook, Spotify and Twitter whose services are mostly free, have to derive their revenue from advertisers. Ad sponsored services are necessary to help businesses generate revenue, but are extremely prone to malvertisers on the prowl as it?s tough to control the content provided by these ads. Various organizations have been exploited time and again, despite stringent online security measures, thus making it imperative to maintain constant vigilance and use anti malvertising technology to counter these attacks.

It is because of the presence of such a hostile threat landscape that Indusface has enhanced its flagship product IndusGuard to help prevent malvertising attacks through all types of ad networks. IndusGuard is a zero touch, non- intrusive, cloud based solution which safeguards websites by daily, automatic and comprehensive scanning for systems and application vulnerabilities, and malware. It provides a broad coverage of security issues, which includes finding known and unknown malware. Indusface?s next generation automated web scanning platform delivers IndusGuard Basic, IndusGuard Advanced and IndusGuard Premium solutions to customers worldwide, whilst addressing the needs of the most basic to large mission critical websites. With IndusGuard, websites can now safely display third party ads without having to worry about whether anti-malvertising controls have been implemented or not.

The new anti malvertising feature will help scan and detect malicious ads, trace their source, provide immediate alerts, and identify zero day malvertising through the wide ranging security intelligence of IndusGuard?s powerful web scanning technology on a daily basis. Ads will get scanned with a high level of automation which will deep dive into the main and sub ad networks. Protecting users from potential malware attacks is important for the company?s image and reputation. Sites overrun with malware get blacklisted by search engines. With websites being connected to many third party networks for ads, link building etc, it is imperative to get the content from them scanned before being placed on the main website. This will go a long way in protecting brand reputation, reduce technical and liability costs which end up affecting businesses and protect users from malvertising attacks.

?Extensive research has shown that malvertising continues to be amongst the top 3 threats online. Organizations need to adopt stringent measures to proactively secure their websites and protect users from malicious ads. IndusGuard?s ground breaking technology and deep understanding of security needs will help secure online advertising and protect websites from third party malware, enabling businesses to manage and mitigate such risky exposures on a daily basis?, Claude Essomba, President & Founder of GetSec Sarl.?

?The incidents of malvertising are on an alarming rise with millions of users being affected and most of them not knowing it till it?s too late. Unsecured third party content can very easily damage brand image and blacklist websites from prominent search engines, leading to huge accountable and non-accountable losses running into billions of dollars. Therefore, tackling malware and malvertising from an early stage is absolutely mandatory. The growing need to fight this has been identified amongst our clients, which is why we have expanded IndusGuard to include the new anti malvertising feature. With this expansion, we have significantly strengthened our vision of ensuring that our product offering covers all aspects of security, giving our customers unique continuous total website security coverage? said Dhanya Thakkar, President, Indusface.

About Indusface

Indusface is a privately-held, award winning, innovative, visionary, fast growing security company, trusted by fortune 500 organizations across the globe. Indusface helps safeguard websites and web applications using its flagship product IndusGuard, giving customers the distinctive edge of having total website security.

The web application level which is extremely susceptible to attacks is frequently exploited by hackers who exploit system, application and business logic vulnerabilities to compromise websites, exposing them to online threats and at times implanting malware. IndusGuard by Indusface helps organizations secure their website and web applications with its zero touch, non intrusive, cloud based architecture and next generation technology giving customers the unique advantage of total website security. IndusGuard does daily, automated, comprehensive, accurate scanning of websites for systems and application vulnerabilities, and malware and helps organizations remediate these defects.

With IndusGuard, Indusface helps organizations to improve and strengthen their web security posture thereby achieving strategic information security objectives. Indusface?s powerful solution for total website security helps organizations to focus more on business continuity, enable brand protection, strengthen customer relationships, increase productivity and profits. IndusGuard empowers security teams to keep web threats at bay, manage risk, and maintain compliance and regulations.

Indusface caters to more than 400 satisfied customers worldwide, which includes Fortune 500 organizations belonging to various industry verticals and enjoys global security partnerships.

Indusface is a Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India, Nasscom Emerge 50 and Red Herring Top 100 Asia award winning organization.

For more information on Indusface, visit http://www.indusface.com

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