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General Motors honored its top-performing suppliers at an Award Ceremony Wednesday, September 24 at Cobo Center. Vari-Form, the technology leader in hydroforming for the automotive industry, was one of the recipients of a Supplier Quality Excellence Award.

“We are honored to be recognized again by General Motors for our quality products and technologies,” said Stephen Dow, president of Vari-Form. “This recognition for quality excellence reflects Vari-Form’s long-term commitment to customer satisfaction and support.”

The GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award is focused on improving collaboration with suppliers. Winning suppliers met more than 12 quality criteria during a 12-month period that ended on June 30. This is the third year GM is honoring suppliers who are making noteworthy contributions to GM’s goal of providing the best overall customer experience in the automotive industry. Vari-Form was an earlier recipient of this prestigious Award; recognized by GM in 2012 for meeting or exceeding GM’s stringent quality performance criteria.

“We know that maintaining a focus on the details to achieve perfection each day is not an easy task, so much so that only a fraction of our suppliers have earned this special recognition. You (Vari-Form) are a critical part of the team who helps ensure the customer is delighted with their product purchase and we want to recognize and thank you for that,” said Sheri Hickok, Executive Director, Global Supplier Quality & Development, GM.

Current Vari-Form projects with General Motors include hyroformed aluminum frame rail components for the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, produced by the Vari-Form Strathroy manufacturing facility, and delivered to the GM Bowling Green Assembly Plant, Home of the Corvette. These innovative rails are optimized for light weight and superior strength, and helped GM engineers achieve significant reduction of gross vehicle weight over prior models.

At Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, NuData Security will be showcasing how it uses psychological principles to strengthen its online fraud detection solution, NuDetect. Through the tracking and monitoring of subconscious behaviors, NuDetect is able to establish an unparalleled biometric identifier without the need to interrupt a user’s experience. Behavioral analysis serves as a means of understanding how legitimate users truly act, thereby predicting and preventing fraud from occurring.

• According to a recent Ponemon report, the cost of a single data breach rose to $3.5M in 2013 growing 15 percent last year, with the most costly data breaches caused by malicious and criminal attacks. The 2014 Identity Fraud Study released by Javelin Strategy & Research identified a reported increase of more than 500,000 fraud victims to 13.1 million people in 2013, the second highest number since the study began over a decade ago. Also from Javelin, in 2013, one in three people who received a notification letter from a data breach later became an identity fraud victim.
• When individuals repeat behaviors, they become committed to subconscious memory; it is a core element of human learning and development. These cover all aspects of repeated human life, from learning to walk, to riding a bike, and even entering a username and password.
• Similarly, when individuals create passwords, they are committed to memory via repetition, allowing for quick recall. This also means that individuals tend to reuse the same passwords across several websites, adversely impacting their security online.
• By understanding the psychological principles of human behavior, including memorization through repetition of patterns, NuDetect incorporates repetitive factors into its fraud prediction model, recognizing and alerting customers to impersonation attempts (known as account takeover), passively and with a high degree of accuracy.
• In a completely passive manner, behavioral analysis is able to identify suspicious activity, potentially coming from a fraudster who has procured legitimate account credentials, and stop any deceitful transactions from taking place.
• By mapping the subconscious, NuDetect is able to build a profile of a user’s behavior, and compare activity patterns against those of a potential impersonator. At a single user level, this includes how a user types, scrolls, how they hold their phone, etc. Looking at these factors are what have made NuDetect a leading detector of user impersonation, just one segment of NuData Security’s overall fraud prediction platform.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Clustering Software Market by Solutions, by Component, by Platforms, by Deployment Types – Global Forecast to 2019” report to their offering.

For the purposes of this report the clustering software market is categorized by software products and services that help to coordinate with multiple distributed systems as well as manage and control different software applications. This enables the entire IT infrastructure to be viewed as a single computing resource. The availability of the entire computing resource as cluster allows failover, high availability, and uninterrupted functional benefits. The market is segmented by solutions, components, operating systems, end users, deployment types, verticals and regions.

The clustering software market is rapidly growing with a major contribution from deployments in SMBs. These solutions provide level playing fields across various verticals in academia & research, aerospace & defence, BFSI, gaming, government, life sciences, Telecom & IT, and other verticals will witness significant growth in this period.

The clustering market is split into three segments on the basis of company size, namely small and medium businesses (SMBs), enterprises and large enterprises. Enterprises will comprise the highest market share. However, the revenue from SMBs is expected to witness the highest growth rate as a result of the decreasing cost of cloud based deployments and advancements in technology to cater to the needs of smaller organizations.

The Y-o-Y growth rates of hosted deployments are expected to be the highest throughout the forecast period. The major reason being the cost of implementing an on-premise deployment is still quite high. Thus most organizations prefer to have a cloud deployment to cut down on complexities and at the same time utilize the benefits of hosted deployments to the fullest.

It is expected that the aerospace and defense vertical will account for the largest market share throughout the forecast period. However, there are few revenue pockets, namely academia & research, aerospace & defence, BFSI, gaming, government, life sciences, Telecom & IT, and other verticals will witness significant growth in this period.

There are various assumptions that we have taken into consideration for market sizing and forecasting exercise. Few of global assumptions include political, economic, social, technological and economic factors. For instance, exchange rates, one of the economic factors, are expected to have a moderate rating of impact on this market.

VIZIO, America’s #1 Smart TV¹ and sound bar² company in the U.S., announced today an alliance with the American Film Institute, beginning with a sponsorship of AFI FEST 2014 presented by Audi.   The collaboration has been designed to enrich and nurture the art of film and the viewing of content in homes across America.  With the vision “Nothing is More Captivating” than the entertainment experience, VIZIO aims to connect movie lovers to its Ultra HD TVs and audio products, which deliver a home theater experience highlighted by best-in-class picture and audio.

VIZIO will host the opening night of AFI FEST, which will feature the world premiere presentation of A Most Violent Year, directed and written by J.C. Chandor. A crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, A Most Violent Year centers on the lives of an immigrant and his family during one of the most statistically violent years in the city’s history. The film follows the characters as they try to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

“We’re honored to support the world premiere of A Most Violent Year and collaborate with AFI FEST to bring technology and filmmakers together,” said Matt McRae, VIZIO Chief Technology Officer.  “With the continued advancements, we’re investing to set the new picture and audio quality standard for consumers.  It’s now more important than ever to work with cinematographers and directors to support their technology needs as they bring their vision to life for both the home as well as the theater.”

VIZIO’s leadership in the consumer electronics industry offers filmmakers a unique sounding board to discuss the advancement of the home entertainment experience. The VIZIO Ultra HD Lounge will host a series of events, giving filmmakers the chance to interact with VIZIO’s latest line of Ultra HD Smart TVs and better understand technology’s role in home entertainment.

To further complement its sponsorship of AFI FEST, VIZIO will be providing a 70″ VIZIO P-Series Ultra HD Full-Array LED Smart TV and a 54″ 5.1 Home Theater Sound Bar System to the winner of the VIZIO Visionary Special Jury Award.  This prize will be given to one filmmaker for extraordinary visual story telling and will be chosen by an esteemed panel of international film writers and critics.  The award will be announced on the last day of the festival at the Awards Brunch on November 13.

Outside of industry events and awards, VIZIO made sure there is something for everyone, including a fan promotion on VIZIO Fandemonium – a social site where fans of all passion points can earn points and redeem for rewards – centered around AFI FEST. Additionally, all on-site pass holders will appreciate the VIZIO Chill and Charge Lounge located in the Roosevelt Hotel. The hospitality area allows film enthusiasts to relax while they charge their phones, grab a drink at the bar or just hang out. Throughout the Chill and Charge lounge, VIZIO P-Series Ultra HD TVs will feature exclusive, beautifully simple VIZIO produced 4K content for patrons to enjoy while they relax.

To round out the festival sponsorship from an advertising and digital perspective, VIZIO will have a presence across multiple channels.  In addition to digital advertisements and promotion across online properties, VIZIO will also build awareness through VIZIO specific AFI FEST radio spots.  Running on Clear Channel stations, the spots will feature the voice of well-known entertainment hostMario Lopez.  Additionally, VIZIO will feature billboards across Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.  A homepage takeover on VIZIO.com with content specific to AFI FEST, as well as a dedicated micro-site will also help raise consumer awareness. Fans can join the conversation by including #AFIFEST on social media.

The American Film Institute’s annual celebration of artistic excellence, AFI FEST brings Hollywood icons, emerging artists and audiences together to experience global cinema in the movie capital of the world. The film festival is the only one of its stature that is free to the public, and is the only festival in North America with a market partner, the American Film Market. The 28th edition of AFI FEST will take place November 6 through 13 in Hollywood, California.

AFI FEST mixes nightly red carpet galas of Hollywood films with award-winning and highly anticipated new auteur works from filmmakers around the world. The festival has paid tribute to numerous influential filmmakers and artists over the years, including Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch and Agnès Varda as Guest Artistic Directors. And this year’s AFI FEST will feature a special tribute to film legend Sophia Loren who will be honored at the festival in the Dolby Theatreâ on Wednesday, November 12.

SecureTech 2014, Booth #503 — API Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:ATNY), a leading provider of high performance RF/microwave, power and security solutions for high-reliability applications, today announced that its Emcon^® Emanation Control business group has added a new multifunction device (MFD) to its line-up of TEMPEST high performance printers. This new device, the Emcon TEMPEST Level 1 Lexmark Colour CX510 Multifunction Printer & Scanner, allows government users the secure TEMPEST environment they require with professional colour matching and high resolution graphics.

The Emcon TEMPEST Level 1 Lexmark Colour CX510 will be showcased during SecureTech, Canada’s leading public safety, emergency management, and security product showcase, which runs November 4-5 at the Ottawa Convention Center.

This multifunction product (MFP) features PANTONE® colour matching and print, copy, and scan speeds up to 32 pages per minute (ppm).  It has an easy-to-use smart touch screen to maximize productivity, while additional enterprise-level security requirements enable the ability to authenticate, authorize, and audit employee usage, as well as protect sensitive data using standard network security protocols.

All Emcon TEMPEST Level I products meet the requirements of NSTISSAM TEMPEST/1-92, Level I; CID09/15A, Level I; and SDIP-27, Level A.