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MEMBER NEWS

Cornerstone OnDemand Raises $32 Million
Cornerstone OnDemand, where Adam Miller is CEO, has completed $32 million in new financing - led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Bay Partners - to be used to increase sales coverage, expand international operations, build global alliances, and accelerate on-going product development and marketing. Meanwhile, Bank of the West, with $58.4 billion in assets, has selected Cornerstone's Talent Management Suite to deploy learning management to its 10,000+ employees.

TechItHot Wins Product Award
TechItHot, co-founded by Hervé Lacorne, won a product of the year award at the recent Goodies d’Or 2007 in Paris. The company designs, produces and sells self-heating containers for soups and beverages that are relatively inexpensive, simple to use and environmentally friendly.

Transcepta Community Gains Momentum
Transcepta LLC, where Mitch Baxter and Ray Parsons are Co-Founders, has announced that membership for its Electronic Invoicing Community has reached more than 12,500 companies and continues to grow.

Roland Unveils Complete Engraving Solution
The Roland Advanced Solutions Division of Roland DGA, where Bob Curtis is CEO, has introduced EGX-350 desktop engraver, powered by Roland EngraveStudio software and a 20,000 rpm DC brushless motor. EGX-350 creates indoor and outdoor signs, templates for applying custom rhinestone designs to apparel, and personalizes gifts and awards.

Primarion Grabs Top Honors in Digital Power Survey
Primarion, where Ron Van Dell is CEO, placed first in two categories of Darnell Group’s 2007 survey of users of digital ICs, power supplies and systems: Best Overall Quality and Completeness of Digital Power Products and Service Offerings, and Best Overall Value of Products and Services. Also, Primarion is offering a reference design for its PMBusTM compliant PX7522-based solution with dual rails, high efficiency, small footprint and a full digital feature set, demonstrating 95% efficiency at 5V and 94% at 3.3V for dual-output point-of-load applications.

Primal Recognized with Excellence Award
Primal Solutions Inc., where Joe Simrell is CEO and Bob Richardson is COO, received a 2007 Internet Telephony Excellence Award for its IP Correlytics platform with Commercial VoIP SolutionPAK module -- "a major advance for commercial VoIP/IP Telephony service delivery, as was evidenced by the testaments of their customers," said a spokesman from Internet Telephony magazine.

NDC Debuts New Products
NDC Infrared Engineering, where Bromley Beadle is President, has announced SPOT-ON, its new x-ray coating weight gauging solution, with preliminary results of 4 times greater coat weight accuracy and 3 times better measurement resolution. Also, NDC is introducing Model 318 X-Ray Backscatter Sensor, offering unsurpassed measurement range, single-sided operation, and low installation costs, with performance rivaling that of nuclear-based beta and gamma gauges, without the ongoing issues associated with isotopic gauges.

Microsemi Launches New Line
Microsemi Corporation, where Jim Peterson is CEO, has introduced a new line of standard IGBT 3-phase bridge power modules in the compact SP3 package, designed for motor control applications. While the new standard modules are designed for industrial applications, they are easily upgraded to withstand more severe environmental conditions, like those in aerospace applications.

DynTek Chosen by New York School District
DynTek, Inc., where Casper Zublin is CEO, was selected by Cohoes City School District, in upstate New York, to deploy a virtual server infrastructure, as well as a wireless local area network to aid the district’s video surveillance security project.

ATEN Gains New Award, New R&D Center
ATEN Technology, where Sampson Yang is CEO of U.S. Operations, earned a 2007 XChange XCellence award at CMP Technology's 2007 XChange ’07 in the category of Best XChange Appointment Presentation. ATEN was also a runner up in the Innovative Technology Category. Meanwhile, ATEN opened a new research and development center at its Taiwan headquarters to expand its global R&D team.

MIMI'S MINUTE

The Most Adaptive Business Leaders of Them All
If you want to see "adaptability" in action, watch Ken Burns' latest documentary for PBS: The War. The entire wartime production of consumer automobiles dropped to 139. Instead, tanks, jeeps, subs, ships and planes came off the assembly lines - by the tens of thousands. At Ford, they went from making cars with 1500 parts to planes with over a million and a half - and they were taking them off the line every 63 minutes! Furthermore, most of the labor was unskilled. After all, Rosie hadn't spent her formative years learning how to rivet.

What can today's business leaders learn from this? A compelling VISION - beating the enemy, safeguarding the world, making it a better place - energizes even the most entry level worker - perhaps especially that worker, who isn't yet jaded by being employed just to make a buck. Making a Difference - in wartime, or peacetime, takes commitment and modeling from the top.

According to Nielsen Media Research, The War attracted 15.5 million viewers to PBS on Sunday night (the first of the seven-part series). Chances are some of those viewers are your employees. Unquestionably, WWII changed our parents’ lives forever - but few of them have talked about it at all, and certainly none this eloquently, nor thoroughly. This series can provide you with a rare opportunity to talk about the lessons learned - and not just the military ones - from The War with your team. And maybe just some of that Great Generation can-do spirit will rub off on them.

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

Web 2.0 Investments Increase in SoCal
Southern California saw a surge in Web 2.0 venture capital deals in the first half of the year, with $59M invested in eight Web 2.0 deals, as investors put more than $464.2M globally in the sector, according to Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young. The SoCal investments are already approaching last year's total of $64M in 13 deals. In the U.S., most of the deals so far have been around "Enterprise 2.0" companies using Web mashups and online collaboration to improve business. The Bay Area led the nation in deal count, with $91M in 25 deals, and New England had $102M in 12 deals. (socaltech.com TechNews, 9/17/07)

Video Cameras Target YouTubers
Many video cameras are being marketed to consumers as "YouTube-Friendly" devices, ready to work with the video-sharing Web site right out of the box -- highlighting the popularity of user-generated videos and the rising number of U.S. amateur videographers overall. An ABI Research study found that 16.2% of U.S. Internet households have a digital camcorder. Also, 41% of adult consumers would like to use a PC for creating or editing video or audio, according to Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates. (eMarketer Daily, 9/19/07)

Population Feels Strong Need for Internet Access
When asked how long they would feel OK without online access, in a survey of 1,011 people 18+ years old, 15% of respondents said just a day or less; 21% said a couple of days; 19% said a few days; a fifth more said they could go for a week. Response did not vary significantly among age groups, and 48% agreed that, "If I cannot access the Internet when I want to, I feel like something important is missing." The survey was conducted recently by JWT, the largest ad agency in the U.S. (KenRadio.com, 9/26/07)

Gaming Market to Set New High Score
The worldwide video game market is expected to grow to $47 billion in 2009, up from $33 billion in 2006, according to DFC Intelligence. The newest generation of video game consoles is driving this growth. Based on sales so far, DFC said it had raised its forecast for the Nintendo Wii and the Sony PlayStation 3 and lowered its forecast for Microsoft's Xbox 360. DFC also estimated PC game revenue would grow to more than $13 billion by 2012. Online game subscriptions, advertising and digital distribution were named as the main revenue drivers. (eMarketer Daily, 9/20/07)

Fair Use Economy = One-Sixth of U.S. GDP
Fair Use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws are responsible for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the U.S., according to a study commissioned by the Computer and Communications Industry Association. Companies benefiting from limitations on copyright-holders’ exclusive rights, such as “fair use" – generate substantial revenue, employ millions of workers, and, in 2006, represented one-sixth of total U.S. GDP. The timing of the exhaustive report proves particularly important as the debates over copyright law in the digital age move increasingly to center stage on Capitol Hill. With more than $4.5 trillion in revenue generated by fair use dependent industries in 2006, a 31% increase since 2002, fair use industries are directly responsible for more than 18% of U.S. economic growth and nearly 11 million American jobs. In fact, nearly one out of every eight American jobs is in an industry that benefits from current limitations on copyright. (CCIA release, 9/12/07)

Scientists Warn of "Vocal Terror"
Computers could mimic human speech so perfectly that vocal terrorism could be a new threat in 10-15 years' time, scientists suggest. In the future, it may be possible to mimic someone's voice exactly after recording just one sentence. Such technologies would pose a danger if it were not possible to verify who was speaking, researchers believe. (KenRadio's Daily Tech News Clicks, 9/14/07)

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