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Friday, February 27, 2009

BusinessWeek Ranks Babson College #23 in Best Undergraduate Business School Ranking

WELLESLEY, Mass., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Babson has been ranked #23 on the BusinessWeek 2009 ranking of "The Best Undergraduate Business Schools." Babson has moved up 5 spots from #28 in 2008 and 10 total spots in just two years.

BusinessWeek ranked 101 colleges that met stringent quality criteria. To identify the best business programs, BusinessWeek used five measures, including a survey of more than 85,000 graduating seniors at top schools and a poll of undergraduate recruiters. BusinessWeek also calculated letter grades on teaching quality, facilities and services and job placement based on the student survey.

This year's ranking continues to provide an indication of the strength of Babson's faculty and overall academic program; the continued momentum of our students' appreciation for our facilities, services and programs; and strong reputation in the recruiter and employer marketplace:

* recruiter survey - up 22 spots from 2008

* student survey - remained steady at #21 in the ranking, up 35 spots in two years' time and included an A+ on teaching quality and an A+ on facilities and services (up from a C in 2007)

* academic quality - up 8 spots from 2008, thanks to an average SAT of 1254 and 86.1 % of students with internships

BusinessWeek's complete ranking of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools is available in their March 9, 2009 issue. The complete list of the top undergraduate business schools, as well as school profiles, Q&As and interactive tools can be found at BusinessWeek.com at http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate.

"While these rankings do not change how we prepare and teach our students, they do remain an external measure that prospective students and their parents use to evaluate colleges. The ranking data provide an opportunity to assess how the marketplace evaluates what we do while offering some insights into areas where we can seek improvement. We will continue our efforts of steady improvement and look forward to even higher rankings in the years to come," said President Leonard Schlesinger.

"What is personally so exciting to us about this ranking is that it provides strong validation of our excellence across the campus -- in academics, in student life and in our facilities and services. Thank you for all you have done to help achieve this recognition, while at the same time making Babson a truly unique and special place," said Dennis Hanno, Dean of the Undergraduate School.

Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit www.babson.edu.

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U.S. News Media Group Expands Premium Content on Amazon Kindle

- New digital-only magazine to be delivered through extended wireless service -

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News Media Group, one of the nation's leading sources of news analysis and service journalism, today announced that its newly released digital-only product U.S. News Weekly is now also available on Amazon Kindle.

Through this new distribution channel, content from U.S. News Weekly, a digital-only magazine that includes hard news reporting, insightful analysis, unique features and cutting-edge commentary, will be electronically delivered to Kindle users the same day it is published by U.S. News. Similar to the Kindle version of U.S.News & World Report magazine, Kindle users can subscribe and purchase individual issues of U.S. News Weekly.

Every week, the digital magazine will cover national and world news through the following sections: This Week in Washington, The Presidency column, Washington Whispers, Commentary and Opinion editorials, and rotating features including profiles of leading newsmakers, Pro/Con exchanges on hot-button issues, and Q&As with Washington's power brokers.

"While the media industry continues to debate fee-for-payment options, we're moving forward to make our already successful paid and free products widely accessible to readers," said Brian Kelly, editor of U.S.News & World Report. "By providing U.S. News Weekly content on Amazon Kindle, it's easy for readers to receive the news analysis and in-depth reports they want. It's a timely, effective delivery platform that fits our fresh reporting and analysis."

U.S. News Weekly and U.S.News & World Report are currently offered through Amazon Kindle at www.amazon.com/kindlestore.

About the U.S. News Media Group

The U.S. News Media Group is a multi-platform digital publisher of news and analysis, which includes the monthly U.S. News & World Report magazine, the digital-only U.S. News Weekly magazine, www.usnews.com, and www.rankingsandreviews.com. Focusing on Health, Money & Business, Education, and Public Service/Opinion, the U.S. News Media Group has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. The U.S. News Media Group's signature franchises include its News You Can Use(R) brand of journalism and its "America's Best" series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, health plans, and more.

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Villanova School of Business Ranked #11 in the Nation by BusinessWeek

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Villanova School of Business (VSB) placed #11 in BusinessWeek's fourth annual ranking of undergraduate business schools nationwide, published today. This represents a two-point jump for Villanova, which placed #13 last year. The ranking is based on faculty and educational quality, professional development, business relevance, and student satisfaction.

"We are honored to see Villanova's commitment to excellence and the quality of our business students, faculty, and staff recognized through this national ranking," said VSB Dean James M. Danko. "The BusinessWeek results confirm our strong, consistent position among the top business schools in the United States."

Villanova School of Business is known for its strong liberal arts foundation, its state-of-the-art Applied Finance Lab and learning facilities, and its Augustinian focus on service and volunteerism. Over the past several years, VSB has received recognition on the national stage for its rankings performances as well as its innovative achievements. A radically-redesigned undergraduate curriculum was introduced to incoming freshmen in 2008, and the VSB faculty has restructured itself and redefined its evaluation system. Financial giving to the school has increased five fold, and student applications and student quality have reached unprecedented levels.

"Especially in light of the economic challenges we now face, young business leaders need to approach the practice of global business with increasing agility and openness to change. It's our job to teach them how to solve problems creatively and holistically--and to remain deeply committed to their ethical responsibilities throughout their careers," said Danko. "We've been entrusted by our students--and their parents--to provide this return on their educational investment. Today's BusinessWeek ranking provides positive affirmation that we're doing this successfully."

Established in 1922, the Villanova School of Business serves over 2,500 students across its undergraduate and graduate programs. BusinessWeek ranks the VSB part-time MBA program #11 in the nation and the VSB executive MBA #18 in the nation. VSB is home to faculty research centers including the Center for Global Leadership, the Institute for Research in Advanced Financial Technology, the Center for Marketing and Public Policy Research, the Center for the Study of Church Management, and the Daniel M. DiLella Center for Real Estate.

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Playboy Special Report: The Persecution of Barry Bonds

NEW YORK, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- For more than five years the national media coverage of the BALCO investigation has been fed by a national obsession to shame, humiliate and prosecute athletes for alleged lies about sports doping. In "The Persecution of Barry Bonds" San Francisco based author and journalist Jonathan Littman takes a different view of the greatest steroid sports scandal in history, one that asks what it was all about, and whether the point of the whole multi-million dollar investigation has been to divert attention from the real villains, Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Major League baseball and the owners who profited for more than a decade by a culture of rampant steroid abuse. The full report is available online now at http://www.playboy.com/steroids and will be printed in the April issue of Playboy, on newsstands Friday, March 20.

Littman broke the inside story of BALCO in May 2004 for Playboy in "Gunning for the Big Guy." He has reported on this story for nearly six years, filing more than fifty stories on the topic. Littman has met and interviewed the key players in this drama dozens of times over the past half decade. The only journalist to have interviewed three of the four original BALCO investigators, Littman has attended nearly every trial and hearing in the sprawling, massively covered scandal, from the BALCO trials to the hearings in the perjury case against Barry Bonds, to the Clemens Congressional hearing. Previously unknown facts uncovered in Littman's report include:

    1.  NOVITZKY'S GAME: How Agent Jeff Novitzky got the green light for an
        unprecedented multi-million dollar IRS witch hunt. Before the 2003
        raid on BALCO, before a single headline was ever written, Littman knew
        that Agent Novitzky, a then unheralded IRS agent, was obsessed with
        bringing down Barry Bonds.

    2.  PROTECTING BUD: How Novitzky and the BALCO federal prosecutors
        seemingly protected Bud Selig and Major League baseball, by not
        calling the Commissioner or baseball's owners to testify to their
        knowledge of rampant steroid use in baseball.

    3.  HIDING THE CLEAR: Previous press reports repeated the government
        account that The Clear, the centerpiece drug in BALCO was an illegal
        steroid. Secret grand jury testimony of Jeff Novitzky himself reveals
        that the government knew early on that it was not an illegal drug.

    4.  PERJURY TRAP: The BALCO investigation, far from an attempt to clean up
        sports, was designed to entrap one man, Barry Bonds.  How the
        government misled Bonds on the day of his Grand Jury testimony and
        appears to have to set up baseball's all-time home-run king on a
        perjury charge.

    5.  TRUTH TELLER UNMASKED: At the very time Agent Novitzky was given
        unprecedented powers and funds to trip up athletes in lies, the
        Treasury opened an investigation that questioned his credibility. The
        origins of a five-year-old secret investigation that has already
        caused the lawyer for one BALCO defendant to ask a judge to set aside
        a conviction and may imperil the Bonds case.

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AnalogicTech's AAT1282 Flash Driver IC Named Finalist for EDN Innovation Award

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (AnalogicTech(TM)) (Nasdaq: AATI), a developer of power management integrated circuits, announced today that the AAT1282 Flash Driver IC has been selected by EDN Magazine as one of three finalists in the Power IC: Drivers category for the publication's prestigious EDN Innovation award. Introduced by AnalogicTech in April, 2008, the AAT1282 is the industry's first 2A flash LED driver to use a super capacitor to deliver the high light intensity needed for mobile phones featuring cameras with resolutions greater than 5 Megapixels.

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Over the past 18 years, EDN's Innovation Awards have honored the people, products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry. Awards are given in 28 categories. Three finalists in each category are selected by EDN's editors as products that demonstrate a level of innovation resulting in a significant advance in technology or product development. During the month of February, EDN's worldwide audience of electronic engineers and engineering managers will vote on the ultimate winners in each category. Winners will be announced at a dinner and awards ceremony on March 30, 2009 in San Jose, CA.

Smaller Footprint

A new generation of high intensity White LEDs (WLEDs) offers an attractive space-saving and lower cost alternative to conventional xenon flash, the bulky de facto standard for flash in high performance digital still cameras and smart phones. But their adoption has been hindered by rigorous requirements for high current, forward voltage and peak current to deliver such a high intensity level of light. The AAT1282 stores the output of a boost converter in a high-capacity super capacitor and uses fixed input current limiting. This allows designers to use compact WLEDs to deliver the high intensity light needed for professional-quality flash and video applications in high megapixel cameras without draining or damaging the Lithium-ion battery.

"Given the number of innovative products announced each year and the level of competition, we are delighted that EDN has named the AAT1282 as one of the three finalists in this product category," said Ed Lam, vice president of marketing and engineering at AnalogicTech. "Our development team worked very hard on this project so we are proud that the editors at EDN acknowledge that effort and recognize the benefits this product will bring by improving photo quality and simplifying portable product designs."

About EDN

Published 26 times a year, EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The publication provides in-depth design features and technical information on the microprocessors and other digital ICs, analog ICs, ASICs, computers and software, computer peripherals, components, power sources, interconnects and packaging. EDN also explores important application areas such as computers, communications, embedded design, industrial and consumer electronics. The magazine is published by Reed Business Information, the largest business-to-business publisher in the U.S. and a member of Reed Elsevier Group Plc (NYSE: RUK and ENL), a world-leading publisher and information provider.

About AnalogicTech

Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (AnalogicTech) is a supplier of Total Power Management(TM) semiconductor solutions for a variety of consumer, communications, and computing systems. The company focuses its design and marketing efforts on the application-specific power management needs of such devices as mobile handsets, smartphones, digital cameras, netbooks / notebooks, personal navigation systems, and wireless LANs. AnalogicTech also develops and licenses device, process, package, and application-related technologies. AnalogicTech is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and Macau, S.A.R., with offices in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the U.K., as well as a worldwide network of sales reps and distributors. The company is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol AATI. For more information, please visit http://www.analogictech.com. (AnalogicTech - G)

AnalogicTech and the AnalogicTech logo are trademarks of Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated. All other brand and product names appearing in this document are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.

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Arab Media Group Selects never.no Interactivity Suite to Support ATN's Participation-TV Venture

OSLO, Norway, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

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never.no, creators of the software that powers the world's most popular interactive video systems, today announced that Arab Media Group (AMG) has selected never.no's Interactivity Suite to support a participation-TV venture by AMG's Arab Television Network (ATN), including channels such as MTV Arabia. Located in Dubai, AMG is the largest media conglomerate in the Middle East, comprising television, radio, print, online, and advertising companies.

"The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the fastest-growing and most competitive media market in the world, and AMG is the largest and most dynamic media organization in the UAE," said Lars Lauritzsen, CEO of never.no. "The selection of our Interactivity Suite to be the enabling technology behind this high-profile project represents further recognition by the global media industry of the suite's exciting potential. We are committed to helping AMG redefine the playing field for participation TV in combination with mobile marketing concepts."

never.no's Interactivity Suite comprises four software applications that enable audience members both to influence a television broadcast in real time and to interact with one another. Using it, media owners and advertisers can track consumers from medium to medium, communicate with them individually, and tailor content and advertising to suit them. Broadcasters also can use the Interactivity Suite to integrate user-submitted content into their programming.

The suite consists of Auto-Dialogue System, which provides design, configuration, deployment and operation of one-to-one dialog services in electronic media and is targeted at mobile phones; Interactivity Desk, an editorial system for managing and moderating viewer input and executing simple broadcast control functions including preparation and scheduling of content; Dynamic Content Scheduler, which provides frame-accurate scheduling and configuration of broadcast time besides automating interactions with graphics systems, video servers, automation systems, and station clocks; and Intelligence, a data mining and statistical reporting tool.

The Interactivity Suite interfaces in all directions through industry-standard protocols and supports any format logic from simple SMS votes to highly complex and individualized applications with timelines spanning several years. Currently, it provides the basis for more than 2,000 diverse mobile consumer services, and produces daily live television broadcasts on some 30 channels around the world.

"We wanted the best, most reliable, and most functional solution for enabling participation TV, which is why we opted for never.no, the leading player in the global interactive market," said Khadeeja Al-Marzooqi, general manager of AMG's Arabian Digital Network. "We are expecting a great response from our audience and ultimately a higher market share as a result both of the creative and the technology aspects of our participation-TV project."

More information on this and any other never.no products is available at http://www.never.no or by phone at +47-22-01-66-20.

About Arab Media Group

Founded in March 2005, Arab Media Group (AMG) is the largest media organization in the UAE. Its business interests include nine radio stations, three newspapers, television, online, distribution, printing, events management and outdoor advertising. Its most recent ventures are the launch of MTV Arabia through its ATN subsidiary, and the launch of Virgin Radio.

About never.no

never.no connects broadcasters, brands, outdoor media owners and digital screen networks with online and mobile consumers. never.no's interactive video platform enables audience participation by modifying the video stream based on live, user-submitted opinions and content. Able to function with traditional TV, webTV, IPTV and mobile TV platforms, the never.no product suite powers interactive TV formats and entire channels and allows viewers to participate through mobile phones and the Internet. With datacenters in Oslo, Los Angeles, and Dubai, never.no serves customers including broadcast, telco, and media companies worldwide. More information about never.no products is available at http://www.never.no.

All trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

    Agency Contact:

    Marguerite Clark
    Wall Street Communications
    Telephone: +33-1-45-25-36-91
    E-mail: marguerite@wallstcom.com

    never.no:

    Lars Lauritzsen
    CEO
    Telephone: +47-22-01-66-20
    E-mail: lars@never.no

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