Ryerson has invested approximately $1 million in equipping the theatres with state-of-the art presentation technology which surpasses that offered by most universities in North America. The lecture theatres feature full high definition projectors, Blu-Ray DVD players, interactive tablet technology, removable tablet arms for writing, superb acoustics and custom-designed lighting and mobile lecterns. Two separate A/V systems operate within each theatre so that there are separate projection, sound and lighting systems for Ryerson's educational uses.

Approximately 8,000 students take classes this fall in the AMC theatres every week, attending the 40 courses offered there. Classes run Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in theatres that each seat between 125 and 285 people. A broad range of students and faculty from a variety of arts, science and engineering programs have the opportunity to experience various applications of the cutting edge technology. Used in the mornings when movie theatres are normally empty, the Ryerson AMC Lecture Theatres enable Ryerson to use valuable resources on its doorstep, a highly sustainable alternative to building new facilities.

"The Ryerson AMC lecture theatres provide an excellent environment to teach in," said Dr. Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and 2008 Early Researcher Award recipient. "Students are comfortable in their seats, so they are less restless and they concentrate more. Attendance has even increased since moving to the new space. In my Manufacturing Fundamentals class we work a lot with metrology. The large screen and high definition projector really help engage the students-even the students at the back can see all the gradations on the ruler, which enables them all to participate in the class."

Students also like the convenience of lecture theatres that are fully accessible and linked directly to the subway.

"It's nice to have more space on campus", said Muhammad Ali Jabbar, President, Ryerson Students' Union. "Given the under-funding of universities this is an innovative initiative that strives to meet the growing needs of our urban campus."

AMC Theatres and Ryerson University both have long histories of innovation and creative problem-solving. Ryerson, known for creating real-world answers to real-world problems, has come up with a number of creative solutions to meet the challenges of continuing student demand. In 2006 the University opened the Ted Rogers School of Management at 575 Bay Street in a unique joint venture with Cadillac Fairview. The Ryerson Athletics Centre (RAC) is located underground beneath the University quadrangle, one of the first green roofs in Toronto.

AMC is known for many of the innovations that moviegoers enjoy today, including the world's first shopping centre "twin" theatre in 1963, the multiplex and North American megaplex concepts. The company has also designed the cupholder armrest, the first-ever ATM-style ticketing system and the unique LoveSeat(R)-style theatre seating.

Ryerson University is Canada's leader in career-focused education, offering close to 90 PhD, master's, and undergraduate programs in the Faculty of Arts; the Faculty of Communication & Design; the Faculty of Community Services; the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science; and the Ted Rogers School of Management. Ryerson University has graduate and undergraduate enrolment of 25,000 students. With more than 64,000 registrations annually, The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education is Canada's leading provider of university-based adult education.

For detailed information on the presentation technology see Lecture Theatre Technology Backgrounder.

SOURCE: Ryerson University

Media Contact: Heather Kearney, Public Affairs, Ryerson University, (416) 979-5000
x4282, hkearney@ryerson.ca

"TuVox's Guaranteed Success Program provides companies with risk mitigation at obviously more attractive price points," said Daniel Hong, Lead Analyst of Customer Interaction Technologies at Datamonitor. "This comes at a time in the market where companies need to 'do more with less' and leverage speech strategically to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction. We expect that GSP will have continued uptake in the market as conditions become more challenging and companies become more creative with purchasing and execution."

The TuVox GSP is constructed using mutually-defined target automation metrics and includes speech application monitoring and tuning services to ensure success. To meet its guarantee within the GSP, TuVox speech applications leverage the TuVox On Demand lifecycle management system, the TuVox Always Be Callable (ABC) iterative development process and the deep expertise of the TuVox Design Center.

"Contact centers have tried many promising initiatives in the past and have become wary of 'deploy and depart' engagements with vendors," said Steve Pollock, executive vice president and co-founder of TuVox. "We base our relationships on helping customers achieve business results both in the short term and over the long run. Our history of success in delivering measurable results for our customers allows us to offer this unprecedented guarantee."

The TuVox Guaranteed Success Program is part of the TuVox Success Program(TM) series, and is available immediately for hosted and on-premise speech applications.

About TuVox

Since 2000, TuVox has become synonymous with superior caller experience. TuVox customers achieve improved customer retention and increased revenue through innovative combinations of technology and live agent service. Companies benefit from reduced costs by optimizing the mix of live and automated service.

TuVox caller experience solutions shorten and improve calls by anticipating caller intent, personalizing call flows, and overcoming the limits of touch-tone systems by using natural-language, conversational speech applications. TuVox leverages customer investments in next-generation technology with a choice of hosted or premise deployment.

TuVox customers regularly receive awards for innovation and excellence, and include companies such as 1-800-Flowers.com, American Airlines Federal Credit Union, AMC Theatres, Canon, Progress Energy, Telecom New Zealand, Time Customer Service, Virgin America and Wachovia.

Visit TuVox on the web at http://www.tuvox.com.

SOURCE: TuVox

TuVox 
Nick Ezzo, +1 408-625-1700 
nezzo@tuvox.com

Also being integrated into Birthday Cards(TM) will be the new Socialwise(TM) payment system, BillMyParents(TM). This feature will make it easy and convenient for teens and young adults to make contributions to a group gift alert sent by Birthday Cards(TM). The number of alerts is expected to grow substantially, creating multiple opportunities for both companies to generate revenues from the sale of group gift cards. Users will have access to wide range of popular brand gift card brands including Amazon.com, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Eddie Bauer, Circuit City, Pacific Sunwear, Overstock.com, Papa John's Pizza, AMC Theatres, Hard Rock Cafe, Borders, Travelocity and others.

"We are excited to be working with one of the leading social network application developers in the social networking space," noted Jim Collas, CEO of Socialwise(TM). "Through our cooperative effort, we expect to bring more value and innovation in eCommerce to social networks."

"RockYou strives to provide our users with engaging experiences across all the social networks, along with the convenient functionality of features like BillMyParents(TM)," said Ro Choy, Vice President of Business Development at RockYou. "Socialwise(TM) will enable RockYou to easily integrate gifting and monetization capabilities to our applications and services. We are excited to collaborate with ideaEDGE on a successful roll out of their new services."

About RockYou

RockYou is the leading innovator, creator and distributor of applications on the social web. RockYou Ads provides customized application branding and advertising campaigns that can be easily distributed across any social network, including Bebo, hi5, Facebook, Friendster and MySpace. RockYou Ads hosts the largest social advertising network enabling brands to engage directly with active users on the social networks. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, RockYou is funded by DCM, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International and Sequoia Capital. For more information about RockYou, please visit http://rockyou.com/corp/about.php To learn more about RockYou Ads, please visit http://rockyouads.com Access RockYou SuperBlog at http://blog.rockyouads.com

About Socialwise, Inc.

Socialwise, Inc. combines the explosive growth of targeted online commerce, application development, and group interaction by developing platforms that integrate traditional eCommerce products and services into the latest social network applications such as Gimme!(TM) and BillMyParents(TM). Socialwise(TM) also enables application developers access to its platforms and tools needed to build and integrate eCommerce transactions into their applications. The Company is headquartered at 6440 Lusk Blvd., Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92121 and can be contacted at 858-677-0080 or www.ideaedge.com.

Certain statements contained in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of federal securities laws, including, without limitation, anything relating or referring to future financial results and planned business activities. Such statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, those in Company reports filed with the SEC. The Company can give no assurance that such expectations will prove correct. Future events and actual results could differ materially from those statements.

SOURCE: ideaEDGE, Inc.

ideaEDGE, Inc. 
Investor Relations Contact: 
Soames Haworth 858-764-4346 
shaworth@ideaedge.com 
or 
Media Relations Contact: 
Jan Strode 619-890-4040 
jstrode@ideaedge.com

Under the agreement, MovieTickets.com will offer online ticketing for all of Southern Theatre's 18 locations and 268 screens. Southern Theatres operates The Grand Theatres and Amstar Cinemas, state-of-the-art multiplex stadium-seating movie theaters with locations across 15 DMAs including Houston, Orlando, Charlotte, N.C., and Greenville, S.C.

"Southern Theatres, a well known and highly respected circuit, recognized the value, uniqueness, and superiority of our solution," said Joel Cohen, executive vice president and general manager, MovieTickets.com. "Over the years we've achieved substantial growth in our exhibitor program and will continue to focus on adding more high quality theater chains in the vital areas of the country."

"We are excited to be a part of the MovieTickets.com network and especially pleased to be creating a private label phone service to help improve service to our patrons," said George Solomon, CEO of Southern Theatres. "There are great opportunities with our MovieTickets.com partnership that will increase the convenience of ticket purchasing for our theatres."

MovieTickets.com exhibitors include: Academy 8 Theaters (P & G Theaters), Access Digital Theatres, Alco Theaters, All Star Entertainment, AMC Theatres, Amherst Cinema Art Center, Arena Grand Theatre (Columbus Hospitality), Ashbrie Cinemas, Atlantic Theaters (Movies at Midway), Atlas Cinemas, B&B Theaters, Bank Street Theatre, Back Seat Conceptions (941 Theater), Bowtie Cinemas, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bryn Mawr Movie Theatre Co., Camera Cinemas, Celebrity Theatres, Channelside Cinemas, Cinema Centers, Cinema Four-Quad (Quad Cinema), Cinemagic Movies, Cinemagic Theatres (MN), Cinemall, Cineplex Odeon, Classic Cinemas, Clearview Cinemas, Cleveland Cinemas, Cornelius Cinemas, Dickinson Theatres, Dipson Theatres, Discovery Theater, Drexel Theatres, Eastern Shores (O'Neil Theaters NE), Emagine Entertainment (Cinema Hollywood), Entertainment Retail (Hollywood Hits), Elvis Cinemas, Eveningstar Cinema, Famous Players, Film Forum, Fine Arts Theatre - Beverly Hills, Fox Bay Cinema Grill, Foxmoor Movies, Frank Theaters, Funasia Theaters, Galaxy Cinemas (Canada), Galaxy Cinemas (GA), Galaxy Cinemas (NC), Greater Huntington Theatres, Greenville Cinemas (Camelot Cinemas), Hallett Cinemas, Harkins Theatres, Harrisonville Cinema, HLB Entertainment (Palace 9, Majestic 10), Hollywood Cinema 9, Hollywood Premier Cinemas, Howell Theater, IFC Center, Island Cinemas, Jane Pickens Theater and Event Center, Jarvis Conservatory, Kew Gardens (and Cobble Hill), K&G Theaters (Bloomfield 8), Krikorian Premiere Theatres, Landmark Theatres (and Ritz Theatres), M Park 4, Maiden Alley Cinema, Main Street Cinemas, Mall of America 14, Malco Theatres, Mann Theatres, Marcus Theatres, Marquee Cinemas, Metropolitan Theatres, Mission Grove Theaters, Missouri Cinema 6, MJR Theatres, MnM Theatres, Moore Family Theaters, Movie Tavern, MovieMax Theatres, NAOS Entertainment, Narberth Theatre, National Amusements, Nelsonville Movies 10, North American Cinema, Oasis Cinema, Omniplex Theatre Group, O'Neil Theatres (Louisiana), Pacific Theatres, Paris Theater, Penn Cinema, Phoenix Theatres (MI), Phoenix Theatres (TN), Pickwick Theatres, Premiere Cinemas, Quarry Cinemas, Rail Road Square Cinema, Rave Motion Pictures, Regency 8 Cinema, Rio Entertainment, Riviera Cinemas, Roxy Theatres, Safari Cinema, Sayville Theatre, Scotiabank Theatres, Sea Turtle Cinemas, ShowBiz Cinemas, Showplace Cinemas, Showtime Cinema, Silver Screen Cinemas, Silver Screen Partners, Southern Theatres, Spotlight Theatres, Starplex Cinemas, Startime Entertainment, Studio Movie Grill, Sunrise Cinemas, Syracuse Stadium 6, Tango Theaters, Tower Theaters, Trans-Lux Cinemas, United Entertainment Corp., UltraStar Cinemas, Village Theaters, Warren Theatres, Watson Theatre, Wellfleet Cinemas, and Westates Theatres.

About Southern Theatres

Southern Theatres, L.L.C., owned and operated by George Solomon, was formed in May of 2002. Solomon and his family have been in the theater business more than 50 years and launched Southern Theatres to develop and operate state-of-the art multiplex stadium seating movie theaters. In April 2005, Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) announced that it would make a $30 million equity investment in Southern Theatres. VSS is a private equity mezzanine capital fund management company dedicated to investing in media, communications and information industries in North America and Europe. Southern Theatres is responsible for the daily operations of The Grand Theatres and Amstar Cinemas in 18 locations with 268 screens in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. Southern Theatres is headquartered in New Orleans. For more information, please visit www.thegrandtheatre.com.

About MovieTickets.com

MovieTickets.com (www.movietickets.com), the world's most powerful Internet movie ticketing service, offers moviegoers a convenient way to buy movie tickets in advance. MovieTickets.com enables consumers to buy tickets online for movie screens across the United States, as well as in Canada at MovieTickets.ca; in the U.K. at MovieTickets.co.uk; in Ireland at MovieTickets.ie; from any Internet-enabled wireless device at mobile.movietickets.com; and from any phone at 877-789-MOVIE. Formed in 2000, MovieTickets.com is a joint venture between AMC Entertainment, Hollywood Media Corp. (Nasdaq: HOLL), National Amusements, Famous Players, Marcus Theatres (NYSE: MCS), Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and America Online, and leverages the collective theater chain expertise to deliver consumers a premium movie ticketing experience. Its elite collection of partner theaters consistently represents over 60 percent of the top 50 and over 60 percent of the top 100 grossing theaters in North America on any given weekend. The MovieTickets.com theater chain group, which includes 135 theater chains, is about five times the number of chains of its nearest competitor.

SOURCE MovieTickets.com

http://www.movietickets.com