Our predictions about spammers switching their strategies to carry out different attacks have proved to be accurate. These predictions were made originally at the time of Google’s Anti-CAPTCHA operations to gain access to Google’s Email, Web and Web 2.0 services. Spammers are now using such operations for a variety of social-engineering attacks, an increasingly common trend with various Google’s Web 2.0 services. CAPTCHA breaking has allowed spammers to take advantage of the good reputation of Google’s services.

Signing up for an account with Google’s free mailing service, GMail, provides users with access to the other services offered by Google. This availability allows spammers and malware authors to advertise their products and services using GMail, Blogger, Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Pages and YouTube services. From a spammer’s perspective, reaching their prospective customers with increased success over the email, Web and Web 2.0 space is always a mind set. Spammers and malware authors, with a unified strategy, execute their tactics and constantly keep switching among them, emphasizing on improving their underground economy.

Recently, spammers have used a combination of different Google Web 2.0 services to carry out a range of attacks. Spammers are creating bogus accounts on YouTube and Blogspot to promote their services, abusing both the services. The bogus accounts on YouTube advertise multiple videos of same theme with ‘inappropriate’ content, clearly abusing the terms and conditions of YouTube services. The profiles of these bogus accounts on Youtube advertise the bogus Blogspot accounts, which act as doorway pages to spam domains. These bogus Blogger accounts make up a set of interlinked spam blogs or splogs, forming a splogospere aiming to promote the actual spam domain, clearly abusing the terms and conditions of Blogger services.

Security issues are bound to arise when users are given privileges such as content creation, direct HTML editing, or uploading files and content distribution. These capabilities are being abused by spammers and malware authors to carry out various attacks, which pose a direct threat to Web 2.0 functionality. While continuous efforts are made by various Web 2.0 service providers to combat the abuse of their services, the spammers, phishers and malware authors carry out various attacks over them, proving their adaptability, which can be clearly seen as an iterative cycle in the email, Web and Web 2.0 security arena.

L&T Infotech offers added value to Astea’s service management and mobility software implementations by providing global IT application expertise that will not only streamline and accelerate large-scale implementations, but will also extend Astea’s ongoing customer support capabilities. L&T Infotech and Astea will plan each implementation so that it is expertly executed to drive financial and operational benefits for their clients. In addition to providing implementation and consulting services, as the relationship progresses, L&T Infotech may also become a value-added reseller to further expand both Astea’s and L&T Infotech’s global footprint.

“We are very pleased to be working with a leader in the service management space. Astea has extensive experience in delivering proven and innovative software solutions to the global market and has become the ‘go to’ company for organizations where service is strategic and mission-critical to their business,” stated Mr. Sudip Banerjee, Chief Executive Officer, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd, “We are already actively working together on a large enterprise global deployment of their solution. There is a high level of synergy and complementary capabilities between Astea and L&T Infotech, and we see a lot of opportunity for continued success and expansion for both the organizations.”

L&T Infotech’s advanced deployment strategy reduces overall costs by simplifying the planning process, reducing costs and speeding overall implementation times. The combined solution improves efficiency and consistency of service, while leveraging L&T Infotech’s strength in integrating Astea’s solutions with non-field service applications, such as ERP solutions, custom applications, legacy and other existing systems.

Astea is unique in its offerings because it can provide the total end-to-end service management and mobility solutions that can support a company’s entire service business, or it can provide a more modular approach and complement existing applications. Astea offers service management, mobile workforce management, parts and inventory management, reverse logistics management and customer management solutions —- all on a single central repository. These solutions enable companies to improve their global service operations by significantly increasing productivity and profitability as well as delivering a consistent level of service around the world, ultimately driving customer satisfaction and retention.

“By combining our service management software with talented global IT experts at L&T Infotech, we are strengthening our commitment to provide the absolute best customer service to our clients as well as expanding our market presence and accelerating growth,” said Mr. John Tobin, President, Astea, “With this partnership, we are enabling our clients to provide the highest levels of customer satisfaction to their customers, with faster response times and proactive communication, creating a seamless, consistent and highly personalized experience at every touch point.”

About L&T Infotech
L&T Infotech is a global IT services and solutions provider, providing the winning edge to their clients by leveraging their Business-to-IT Connect and deeply committed people. L&T Infotech’s Global clients have found in L&T Infotech, a right-size partner who combines scale, stability and customer-centricity.

L&T Infotech is ranked by NASSCOM among the top 10 software & services exporters from India in 2008. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the USD 7 billion Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T), India’s largest technology-driven engineering organization which was ranked as India’s Best Managed Company-2008 in a survey conducted by Business Today-Ernst & Young. L&T has also been rated as No. 1 in Quality in a 2008 survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal Asia. L&T Infotech is differentiated by its unique Business-to-IT Connect, which is a result of its rich corporate heritage. A full-services IT firm with a blue-chip client roster, it offers comprehensive, end-to-end software solutions and services in the following industry verticals:

1) Banking & Financial Services
2) Insurance
3) Energy & Petrochemicals
4) Manufacturing (Consumer Packaged Goods, High-tech, Industrial Products, Automotive, Chemicals & Process, Media & Entertainment and Retail)
5) Product Engineering Services (Telecom)

L&T Infotech delivers business solutions to its customers, leveraging its substantial domain experience and depth in technologies like SAP, Oracle (including PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Siebel), Microsoft, EAI, and DW/BI. In addition to application development and maintenance services (ADM), L&T Infotech has strong capabilities in infrastructure management (IMS), independent verification and validation testing (IV&V) services, end-to-end engineering services and embedded system solutions.

L&T Infotech’s vision is to provide world-class service to clients in its areas of focus, offering solutions that are based on business and technology insights.

About Astea International
Astea International (NASDAQ: ATEA) is a global provider of service management software that addresses the unique needs of companies which manage capital equipment, mission-critical assets and human capital. With the acquisition of FieldCentrix, Astea complements its existing portfolio with the industry’s leading mobile field service execution solutions. Astea is helping companies drive even higher levels of customer satisfaction with faster response times and proactive communication, creating a seamless, consistent and highly personalized experience at every customer relationship touch point. Since 1979 Astea has licensed applications to companies around the world, in a wide range of sectors including information technology, telecommunications, instruments and controls, business systems, HVAC, gaming/leisure, imaging, industrial equipment, and medical devices.

The solution, developed by Sony PSE, the professional solutions division of Sony, has been designed using Sony’s own software and equipment and is a sustainable and evolutionary system. The terminal is linked directly to the network and, thanks to the Sony Ziris software, the user can control the terminal, perform simultaneous media transfers and carry out maintenance, all from a single site in Nantes, France.

For Arnaud Buannic, Sales Manager at Sony PSE France, “This project that La Poste is conducting is the most ambitious project ever attempted in Europe. The figure currently stands at 800 terminals spread over 500 post offices, and the goal for the end of 2008 is to install almost 5,000 terminals in 2,500 outlets.”

The system needs to meet all the functional expectations of La Poste, but the guiding principle in this project has nevertheless been simplicity:

* No software needs to be installed in any of the post offices for the solution to work;
* Regardless of the number of terminals, the architecture of each post office will remain exactly as it is (no external drive; only one connection to the network is required);
* A single management and transmission point is sufficient to control the entire fleet of terminals;
* Connector technology and cable requirements are minimal, which in turn minimises the risk of system breakdown;
* Energy savings with this solution are anticipated to be close to two million euro over five years, when compared with other systems on the market.

In a recent interview conducted by Sony France, Pascal Gilardi, La Poste’s Market Director for Network Products and General Manager of LP Media said: “This new medium has received very positive reactions from both our staff and the customers. It has already started to have an impact upon the customers, reducing anti-social behaviour on the premises, and it gives an innovative and modern image to our points of sales. All this should allow us to boost our sales.

“The main benefit of the Sony solution is the quality of these displays, and especially the image quality they offer. They are also easy to implement with their built-in player. So it is really a plug-and-play solution.”

Billerica, MA; Cambridge, UK – Polatis Inc, a supplier of high performance optical switch technologies, today announced that it has partnered with Crestron, the market leader in management control systems, to ensure compatibility with their next generation Trinity Optical Routing Switch as Polatis enters the Pro AV market.

The membership with Crestron will allow Polatis to offer their Trinity optical switching technology alongside Crestron’s industry standard automation system. The partnership comes at a time of convergence in the video market, with Pro AV applications turning more to fiber transport for higher bandwidth in video, audio and data.

“We are pleased to partner with Crestron to offer our leading edge optical switching technology along side Crestron’s industry standard automation system said Aaron Bent, Vice President Marketing at Polatis. As bandwidths keep increasing, optical switches will become an integral and future-proof part of the Professional A/V’s development, and users can implement this exciting technology within their current automation and control systems,” said Aaron Bent, Vice President Marketing at Polatis.

“The market’s increasing demand for the bandwidth and performance in presentation devices is creating the need for a fiber optic infrastructure,” said Chris Wildfoerster, Director of Business Development, Crestron. “The Trinity switch provides a unique and future-proof capability to route signals on fiber. Providing interoperability with the Crestron control and automation system ensures our dealers and system integrators seamless integration into a fiber infrastructure with the family of Crestron-approved products.”

The Trinity series is designed to carry all types of video transport. It supports virtually all protocols and data rates – HDMI, DVI, SD/HD, SMPTE-276M, 259M, and 292M, NTSC, RF and other audio and data protocols. The flexible and multi-purpose switch creates exciting new signal routing solutions for medical centers, stadiums, large venues and government. Like all Polatis products, traffic can be bi-directional, and carry single or multiple wavelengths.

To see a live product demonstration of Trinity, visit the Polatis booth C829 at INFOCOMM, Las Vegas, 2008, Monday June 17 through Thursday June 20.

About Polatis
Since inception in 2000, Polatis has set the benchmark in ultra-low loss optical switching. The Polatis patented DirectLight® optical beam-steering technology is at the core of its family of highly reliable and compact photonic switching solutions. Polatis delivers a broad range of optical switching products with class-leading performance to customers in the communications, video, defense and instrumentation sectors. The company has headquarters located near Boston, Massachusetts and in Cambridge, UK. Polatis Inc. is supported through investments by 3i Group, Alta Berkeley, DFJ Esprit, EonTech Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Prism Venture Partners, JK&B Capital, Boston Millennia Partners, Harris and Harris Group, MTDC, and Gainesborough Investments.

To learn more please visit our website at: www.polatis.com

About Crestron
For 40 years Crestron has been the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced control and automation systems, innovating technology and reinventing the way people live and work. Offering integrated solutions to control audio, video, computer, IP and environmental systems, Crestron streamlines technology, improving the quality of life for people in corporate boardrooms, conference rooms, classrooms, auditoriums, and in their homes.

Crestron’s leadership stems from its dedicated people who are committed to providing the best products, programs and services in the industry.

In addition to its World Headquarters in Rockleigh, New Jersey, Crestron has sales and support offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.

BT today announced that introductory prices for BT Total Broadband, the most comprehensive broadband packages available, are to be reduced.

BT Total Broadband options 1,2 and 3 have been reduced to £4.95, £10.99 and £15.99 per month respectively for the first three months; a reduction of £3 per month for each package. This reduction is available until further notice if customers order online at the BT Broadband homepage but only until 30 June if they order by phone.

This reduction means that BT Total Broadband customers now get even more for their money through free internet voice calls, free video calls, free storage of valuable files, free wireless access and a suite of security software, all brought together through the classy BT Home Hub.

And, if customers add BT Vision to their order at the same time as they order BT Total Broadband online, they get a free BT Home Hub even if they order Option 1, where the Hub is normally not included. Everyone who orders BT Vision gets a free V-box, the digital TV recorder that gives access to 70 Freeview TV and radio channels; pause, rewind and recording up to 80 hours of TV, as well as on-demand programming.

Endace is participating in this week’s Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (“SIFMA”) Technology Exhibition and Conference in New York City.

COLLABORATION WITH VOLTAIRE TO BRING PASSIVE MONITORING TO INFINIBAND

Combination of passive monitoring solution and high performance switching improves operators’ ability to analyse and tune InfiniBand deployments

Endace is working with Voltaire Ltd. to deliver passive monitoring capabilities for InfiniBand™-based interconnect solutions in high performance computing (HPC) environments and data centres. Endace is the recognised leader in passive monitoring solutions with the Ninja InfiniBand portfolio providing an exclusive combination of manageable network taps, high speed capture platforms and analytical software. Voltaire develops InfiniBand-based server and storage switching and software solutions that improve application performance and efficiency in data centres.

“Endace is first to market in delivering our passive monitoring solution for InfiniBand infrastructures,” said Steve Gleave, VP of Marketing at Endace. “While InfiniBand is well accepted in high-performance computing environments across multiple industries, there was a strong unmet need for performance monitoring tools – particularly in financial services, where lost milliseconds can mean lost millions. Our relationship with Voltaire will help bring Endace’s performance monitoring solutions to these customers worldwide.”

InfiniBand is an industry standard technology for the interconnection of HPC systems and enterprise applications. The combination of high bandwidths at 10 or 20 gigabits/second, low latency and scalability makes it the interconnect of choice to power many of the world’s largest and fastest computer systems and enterprise data centres. Voltaire builds on this technology to deliver director-class (i.e. large scale) switches, routers, adapters and software. Together Endace and Voltaire can now deliver solutions that passively capture traffic on single data rate (10 gigabits/second) and double data rate (20 gigabits/second) links, measure packet delay and jitter and deliver total visibility across the complete network infrastructure, with zero impact on network performance.

“Financial services companies are turning increasingly to Voltaire to help them cut latency from their market data infrastructure and to build out unified fabrics in their data centres,” commented Amir Prescher, VP Business Development at Voltaire. “The ability to analyse and tune these InfiniBand-based fabrics is of significant value in providing low latency architectures and rapid troubleshooting. The combination of Voltaire’s Grid Director™ switches and software and Endace’s LAN/InfiniBand monitoring portfolio provides an optimum solution in the most demanding of environments.”

IEEE1588 SUPPORT ADDED FOR PRECISION CLOCK SYNCHRONISATION

Provides additional option for accurate synchronisation of multiple monitoring and measurement probes, regardless of location

Endace today announced the availability of IEEE1588 support for their network monitoring product portfolio. IEEE1588 (known also as Precision Time Protocol, PTP) is an industry-standard protocol that enables precise synchronisation of clocks in measurement and control systems across local area networks. Endace is incorporating this standard to provide additional, highly accurate time-stamping and synchronisation capabilities for their latency measurement and network monitoring solutions.

“Using GPS and CDMA-based clock feeds, Endace has built an envied reputation for accurate time-stamping capabilities in environments where the needs for precise measurement and network tuning are paramount” said Stuart Wilson, CTO at Endace. “Customers have also been asking for IEEE1588 as a means to synchronise multiple appliances and provide traffic time-stamping with sub-microsecond granularity in locations where wiring for GPS receivers might not be practical and CDMA signals are not always available. Our DAG card IEEE1588 solution meets this requirement by distributing highly accurate atomic clock feeds across local area networks, alleviating the need for independent timing sources at each location.”

The IEEE1588 protocol was designed to support system-wide synchronisation accuracy in the sub-microsecond range with minimal network and local clock computing resources. Endace DAG® (data acquisition and generation) cards can now generate and terminate IEEE1588 timing information for accurate synchronisation of distributed monitoring platforms. This timing information can be passed between cards using standard category 5 cabling.

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CONTACTS:

Endace Limited
Steve Gleave, VP Marketing +1 408 556 9922
Joni Moore, PR Counsel (US) +1 508 308 7900
David Evans, PR Counsel (Europe) +44 (0)1291 626200

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Steve Liebmann or Simon Bloomfield (UK) +44 (0)20-7367-8888 / +44 (0)7802-888159

Panmure Gordon +44 (0) 20-7459-3600
Edward Farmer

About Voltaire

Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT) designs and develops server and storage switching and software solutions that enable high-performance grid computing within the data centre. Voltaire refers to its server and storage switching and software solutions as the Voltaire Grid Backbone™. Voltaire’s products leverage InfiniBand technology and include director-class switches, multi-service switches, fixed-port configuration switches, Ethernet and Fibre Channel routers and standards-based driver and management software. Voltaire’s solutions have been sold to a wide range of end customers including governmental, research and educational organisations, as well as enterprises in the manufacturing, oil and gas, entertainment, life sciences and financial services industries. Founded in 1997, Voltaire Ltd. is headquartered in Herzeliya, Israel, and has its U.S. headquarters in Billerica, Massachusetts. More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com.

About Endace

For organisations that rely on their IP networks to do business, Endace provides traffic monitoring, latency measurement, network security and application acceleration solutions that capture, inspect and report on every single data packet. We enable our customers to be confident in their service performance, information security, and regulatory compliance. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Endace also has offices in the UK, USA and Singapore. Quoted on AIM, the stock code is LSE: EDA. For further information: http://www.endace.com

Endace, the Endace logo, DAG and NinjaProbe are trademarks or registered trademarks in New Zealand or other countries of Endace Technology Limited. All other trademarks may be the property of their respective holders.

Macdonald Hotels and Resorts and The Glenlivet have capitalised on their brands’ Scottish connections to offer purchasers of bottles of The Glenlivet 12 year old whisky £100 off a minimum two night stay at any of 27 selected Macdonald Hotels across the UK.

The association between the two brands celebrates Macdonald Hotels and Resorts being nominated AA Hotel Group of the Year Winner 2007-8 and capitalises on The Glenlivet’s position as one of the finest Scottish single malt whiskies in the world.

“We are delighted to be working with a brand like The Glenlivet which has similar brand values to our own,” says Ruaridh Macdonald, Sales & Marketing Director for Macdonald Hotels and Resorts. “Attention to detail, a consistently high standard offering and the provision of impeccable product delivery drives everything we do across all of our properties. Working closely with a quality brand with unrivalled Scottish heritage like The Glenlivet helps to endorse our commitment of award-winning service to all our guests.”

The on-pack activity - created by London-based brand agency Ignis who boast both Macdonald and Glenlivet as long-term clients - will be run on circa 33,000 70cl The Glenlivet bottles through selected outlets from early June through to the end of September, with promotional redemptions honoured until the end of November 2008. Additional advertorials featuring The Glenlivet will also run in key customer magazines in the lead up to Father’s Day. Offering a chance to win weekend breaks at the 5 star Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel the promotions further emphasise the association between the brands.

Patrick Venning, Head of Marketing for Whiskies at Pernod Ricard UK commented: “This partnership reinforces The Glenlivet’s status as a premium brand. Both parties are targeting a professional, 40 year old AB target audience, and pride themselves on quality. It’s also great timing for us – Father’s Day has always been a key time of year for The Glenlivet because it makes such a good gift – now we’re offering the chance to reward Fathers even more with this great offer.”

Mumbai — Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), the market share and technology leader in Web security, today announced the managed release of new software that provides real-time security protection from today’s dynamic Web 2.0 threats – allowing businesses to use the Web and new Web 2.0 technologies to advance their business with the assurance that their employees and their essential information are safe from the growing number of threats found on the Web.

The new Websense® Web Security Gateway solves growing challenges brought on by the explosion of Web 2.0 technologies including user-generated content, mashups, interactive networking sites and Web applications. Providing inline inspection of Web traffic, SSL traffic, Web 2.0 applications, and more than 100 network protocols, Websense Web Security Gateway classifies new and dynamic content in real-time, determining immediately whether the Web site and its content are safe. The software categorizes actual content on Web sites – not just the sites themselves – providing an unparalleled granular approach that allows users to access Web sites but block portions of sites deemed inappropriate or a security risk. This breakthrough solution is achieved by implementing the Websense ThreatSeeker™ Network identification and classification technologies at the customers’ gateway, protecting them from never before seen threats and Web content.

“The fundamental shift of Web content creation from trusted sources to anonymous and user-driven collaborations such as wikis, blogs and social networking sites has changed the threat landscape,” said Lawrence Orans, research director for Gartner. “Attackers are targeting ‘trusted’ Web sites with good reputations to circumvent traditional security measures and maximize attack effectiveness. To enable legitimate business use of these sites while still protecting against inbound and outbound malware, organizations are increasingly demanding Secure Web Gateway solutions that go beyond traditional URL filtering to provide real-time inspection of malicious Web content and granular Web application control.”

More and more, organizations and their employees are adopting Web 2.0 technologies for legitimate business reasons. But introducing these new technologies without dynamic Web security protection can lead to compromise and data loss. For example, iGoogle Web portals, which are a personalized mashup of different applications and news feeds, may contain valuable business tools, but on the same page a compromised application could expose businesses to risk. Websense Web Security Gateway solves this problem by allowing users to access and view their iGoogle page while protecting users from specific applications, if a risk or inappropriate for business use, within the page in real-time.

“We believe this solution is the answer to the growing problem of Web 2.0 threats and the massive amount of Web content created every day,” said John McCormack, senior vice president of technology, Websense. “Only the Websense Web Security Gateway is able to provide real-time protection from malicious content, allowing our customers to use Web 2.0 tools to drive business growth without having to worry about security or productivity drains.”

The Industry Innovator in Advanced Web Threat Protection
The pioneer in developing security protection for the Web, Websense has steadily released new technology enhancements to combat the changing Web 2.0 threat environment and protect customers’ essential information. In March 2008, the company announced its next-generation research and classification system—the ThreatSeeker™ Network— the technological foundation for the new Websense Web Security Gateway. In August 2007, Websense deployed new systems across the Internet called “HoneyJax” that emulate user behavior within Web 2.0 applications to uncover threats before they spread.

Increasingly cybercriminals are launching attacks that take advantage of the flaws in traditional security that rely on signatures and Web reputation. In April 2008, Websense discovered hundreds of thousands of well-trafficked, well-known Web sites with “good” reputations that attackers compromised simultaneously. Unlike traditional security, the Websense Web Security Gateway can analyze Web traffic and the Web site content in real-time and immediately protect customers from malicious Web content.

Websense Web Security Gateway is built on more than 10 years of Web security research and powered by the Websense ThreatSeeker™ Network, which discovers and analyzes billions of disparate pieces of Internet content every day to rapidly identify newly-infected sites, malware and attack methods.

The managed release of the Websense Web Security Gateway is planned for June 2008. For more information visit: www.websense.com/version7

About Websense, Inc.
Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), a global leader in integrated Web, messaging and data protection technologies, provides Essential Information Protection™ for more than 42 million employees at more than 50,000 organizations worldwide. Distributed through its global network of channel partners, Websense software and hosted security solutions help organizations block malicious code, prevent the loss of confidential information and enforce Internet use and security policies.

Warrington, 10 June 2008 - AOL Broadband, one of the largest Internet Service Providers in the UK, has selected Martin Dawes Systems’ diseMP solution to provide “end-to-end” customer care to its subscribers. This implementation represents a significant part of AOL Broadband’s large-scale transition programme to completely separate its entire IT infrastructure and associated managed services away from Time Warner/AOL LLC UK – in order to become a stand-alone trading entity following its acquisition by The Carphone Warehouse group in late 2006.

As a result of the major contractual agreement, AOL Broadband will adopt Martin Dawes Systems’ convergent billing and customer management solution, diseMP, and subscribe to the company’s award-winning managed service for a significant proportion of its day-to-day operations.

“AOL Broadband is committed to ensuring our customers continue to experience the highest quality of service throughout this transition,” said Mark Hollister, CEO of AOL Broadband. “We carefully evaluated a number of leading solution providers against rigorous criteria before making our selection. We chose Martin Dawes Systems because of its international track record of providing both a reliable, robust solution and an excellent managed service. Together, both elements will significantly contribute to our goals of providing industry-leading levels of customer care. We look forward to exploiting the flexibility of both the diseMP product and the managed service offered by Martin Dawes Systems as we continue to build our business.”

diseMP will be implemented in all AOL Broadband call-centres, servicing both broadband and fixed-line subscribers. Designed to enable an enhanced customer experience, diseMP will provide AOL Broadband with a flexible and intuitive tool to manage clients’ converged billing requirements and enquiries at its call centres.

AOL Broadband will also be implementing the latest version of Martin Dawes Systems’ SelfCare, extending to its customers an innovative e-billing solution. Customers will benefit from bill management features including usage information, payment facilities and online help delivered through AOL Broadband’s website.

Gary Steen, Martin Dawes Systems’ Technology Director, commented; “We are extremely pleased to be working with AOL Broadband, one of the largest broadband providers in the UK. The company is exploiting our established convergent capabilities in new and exciting ways. By employing a managed service, AOL Broadband is also secure in the knowledge that its customers will receive a quality service based on the highest industry standards, enabling it to concentrate on business development. We look forward to supporting AOL Broadband as it continues to expand its service offering in the future.”

London, UK - Mediasurface, Europe’s leading content management solution provider has today announced that Morello, its Web Content Management solution (WCMs) has been selected by online trading solution specialist, CMC Markets to re-develop its corporate Intranet. A global leader in online trading, CMC Markets has experienced significant expansion in recent years. Supporting its strategy for growth CMC Markets plans to re-launch its global internal corporate communications intranet with Morello Web Content Management solution (WCMs). The contract includes software license, support, consultancy and training.

CMC Markets provides tailored online trading solutions for retail investors, banks, brokers and financial intermediaries worldwide. Its global offices now house over 1000 CMC Markets staff following a 47% growth in staff numbers in 07/08, delivering a localised service to clients in 85+ countries. The key driver for looking for a CMS tool to replace the portal level of SharePoint was having the ability to share content items across multiple sites, without duplication, as well as meeting the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act. The new Morello powered intranet will integrate with CMC Market’s existing SharePoint 2003 team sites platform and services via the Morello SharePoint Connector. CMC Markets selected Morello Web Content Management solution (WCMs) following an extensive formal tendering and procurement process involving a number of CMS vendors. CMC Markets decided to look at a WCMs for their new Intranet following a comprehensive appraisal of the amount of effort, cost and technical development associated with upgrading their SharePoint 2003 platform to the latest MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Services).

Claire Smoothy, Senior Intranet Manager at CMC Markets said:

“Significant success over the past 12 months has driven company revenue growth by 64%. Every 1.7 seconds someone around the world executes a trade using CMC Market’s technology and to maintain our high levels of service we are re-branding and re-launching our intranet so all employees have immediate access to corporate, departmental and local office information. The company is expected to continue growing at an exponential rate, so providing easy to use knowledge sharing facilities to reduce effort duplication is high on my team’s priority list. Following a formal competitive tendering process and an onsite proof-of-concept, we chose Morello WCMs as it offered the best editorial tool for our employees, as well as proven integration with our own ASP.NET, SQL 2005 and SharePoint application infrastructure. In addition, the latest Morello v5.7 release with its advanced HTML Parser and support for XHTML Strict will enable CMC Markets to achieve the highest levels of Intranet accessibility, benefiting all of our employees.”

Andy Peart, Chief Marketing Officer, Mediasurface plc

“CMC Markets share Mediasurface’s determination to grow through product innovation. CMC Markets ambitions to achieve personalised content delivery for employees demonstrates the commitment they have to customer service and internal communication excellence. Morello’s unique SharePoint Connector will enable CMC Markets to increase the flow of information currently held within individual employee home pages and surface this for global publishing, searching and re-use.”

Through the new global corporate intranet CMC Markets aim to deliver personalised content to each employee that is localised to the country in which they work and also to their department. Later phases of the project plan to introduce individualised personalisation based on their individual staff profile using the technological openness of Morello to integrate with identity management software solutions such as Microsoft Active Directory and Oracle HR. Mediasurface will provide support services from the UK and from Australia, to support CMC Markets new globally distributed platform for their Intranet.

The deal includes unlimited Morello Smart and Web Clients, Page Studio, ASP.NET site pack component library, Google Search Appliance plug-in and Morello SharePoint Connector and is scheduled to go-live in September 2008.

About CMC Markets Plc
A market maker in online retail financial services, CMC Markets is both a global leader in the provision of Contracts for Difference (CFD’s) and one of the largest Financial Spread Betting service providers in the UK.

With a global footprint spanning 4 continents, CMC Markets International network of 23 strategically chosen offices support clients from over 85 countries worldwide.

The trading service allows clients to access twenty-three International financial markets offering over 3,000 individual trading instruments distributed over 30 markets covering Equity, Indices, Commodities and Foreign Exchange all via the award winning MarketMaker® trading platform.

Furthermore, CMC Markets is engaged in a series of partner relationships, offering its services through local banks, brokers and intermediaries in a growing number of overseas markets.

CMC Markets handled over 20 million trades during financial year 2007-2008 with the trades executed having a total value of $1.4 trillion across the full CFD product range (including Foreign Exchange and Financial Spread Betting).

Founded in 1989 by Peter Cruddas CMC Markets is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in London and the respective financial regulatory bodies in each of the countries where it operates. In 2008, Goldman Sachs became a strategic investor in CMC Markets Plc by acquiring a 10% share of capital.

About Mediasurface
Mediasurface is a global provider of web content management solutions allowing businesses to easily manage their internet, intranet and extranet websites. Mediasurface solutions power sophisticated, content-driven websites ranging from Global 1000 companies to thousands of sites for medium and smaller businesses. Familiar, easy-to-use interfaces deliver unrivaled content management and enterprise search capabilities.

Morello is an enterprise solution that has changed the face of content management and is used to power sophisticated intranets, extranets, websites and other digital channels for Global 1000 companies.

Immediacy is an intuitive website and intranet management solution for the connected enterprise that makes it easy for anyone to create and maintain high quality websites.

Pepperio is a one-stop-shop package for SMEs exclusively offered by Mediasurface’s network of accredited Pepperio partners, allowing smaller businesses to easily run professionally designed websites for a low fixed monthly fee.

Mediasurface operates through wholly owned subsidiaries and partners across Europe, USA and Asia Pacific. www.mediasurface.com

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that may involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary significantly based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, risks in product and technology development, market acceptance of new products and continuing product conditions, both here and abroad, release and sales of new products by strategic resellers and customers, and other risk factors detailed in the Company’s most recent annual report and other filings with AIM.