GE Lighting Systems Unveils LED Street Lights

Making the Sunshine State a Little Brighter:

GE Lighting Systems Unveils LED StreetDreamsT at 2008 Annual Conference of Mayors

76th Annual Conference of Mayors

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C.-- June 30, 2008 --GE Lighting Systems, Inc., part of GE Consumer & Industrial, recently showcased its new LED StreetDreamsT post-top fixtures at the 76th Annual Conference of Mayors in Miami, Florida. From June 20-24, more than 250 mayors from cities all over the United States descended upon Miami, and GE offered them a sneak peek at one of its latest energy-efficient lighting solutions.

GE provided six of its LED StreetDreamsT luminaires for the event. The new lighting system was installed in the median along Pan American Drive leading up to Miami City Hall.

Municipal leaders are known to be major influencers in the specification and purchase of energy-efficient metropolitan lighting solutions. As downtown revitalization planning has become increasingly sensitive to environmental impacts, LED StreetDreamsT is expected to resonate well with mayors and other municipal authorities because of its energy-efficient LED technology and chic post-top design.

LED StreetDreamsT post-top fixtures will be introduced to the broader market in 2009.

StreetDreamsT is a trademark of the General Electric Company.

About GE Consumer & Industrial

GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliance, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and "ecomagination," a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE) brings imagination to work, selling products under the Monogram®, ProfileT GE®, Hotpoint®, SmartWaterT Reveal® and Energy Smart® consumer brands, and Entellisys® industrial brand. For more information, consumers may visit www.ge.com.

Contacts

General Electric
David Schuellerman, 216-266-9702
david.schuellerman@ge.com

Democratic Convention to Be Powered by Sun; Republican Convention to Be Powered by Wind

Democratic and Republican National Conventions to Be Powered by Wind, Sun

MINNEAPOLIS-- June 09, 2008 --The 2008 Democratic and Republican national conventions will be powered with clean, renewable wind and solar energy, Xcel Energy announced today. This is also the first time the same electric utility will serve both conventions in separate cities in the same year.

Xcel Energy, the nation's No. 1 wind power provider according to an American Wind Energy Association ranking, will provide enough wind power through its Windsource program to offset the estimated 3,000 megawatt-hours that the conventions will use. With approximately 70,000 residential and commercial customers in Colorado, Minnesota and New Mexico, Windsource is the nation's largest voluntary wind energy program, according to a National Renewable Energy Laboratory ranking.

"We are pleased to provide clean, renewable power to the conventions because we want to display for the nation's elected leaders and delegates what a 21st Century utility can look like," said Dick Kelly, chairman, president and CEO of Xcel Energy. "In addition to renewable energy, we offer customers incentives for energy conservation and we're reducing emissions from our facilities. We're moving forward to make a real difference."

The Windsource power for the national conventions primarily will come from Xcel Energy's Ponnequin Wind Facility near the Colorado-Wyoming border and from a wind farm on southwestern Minnesota's Buffalo Ridge. Additional power will come from a 10-kilowatt solar installation at The Pepsi Center in Denver, and from a 10-kilowatt solar installation at the High Bridge Generating Station in St. Paul, Minn. The Denver solar installation is part of Xcel Energy's Solar*Rewards program, which provides incentives for customers to install solar panels on their home or business.

"Energy policy is an issue that both political parties should discuss at their conventions and beyond," Kelly said. "We are ahead of the curve in our policies and actions because we are dedicated to reducing our impact on the environment and providing the leadership to make a difference in the communities we serve."

Renewable portfolio standards in Minnesota and Colorado are some of the nation's most aggressive, and Xcel Energy is on track to meet both. By 2020, Minnesota requires 30 percent of the company's electricity supply to come from renewable sources, up from 14 percent currently, and Colorado's standard is 20 percent by 2020, up from 10 percent. Last fall, Xcel Energy filed aggressive resource plans in Minnesota and Colorado, proposing to increase its use of clean generating resources and decrease its reliance on fossil fuels.

Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL) is a major U.S. electricity and natural gas company with regulated operations in eight Western and Midwestern states. Xcel Energy provides a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.3 million electricity customers and 1.8 million natural gas customers through its regulated operating companies. Company headquarters are located in Minneapolis.

Contacts

Xcel Energy
Media Relations, 612-215-5300

Small Business Hosted VOIP Telephone System Launched by Voice Technologies

Fully Managed Small Business Hosted VOIP Telephone System Launched by Kinetech Voice Technologies

Kinetech Voice Technologies has launched its "Managed Business Communications Service", or MBCS, for the Small and Medium Size Business Market. MBCS is a fully managed, carrier grade, full featured business class telephone service. The entire system is managed and monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Small business can now hand off complete responsibility for their communications system to one service provider, who is ultimately responsible for managing the complete customer Quality of Experience- telephone service, network, broadband connection, maintenance, and equipment.

Yorktown Heights, New York  -  April 10, 2008 -- Kinetech Voice Technologies has launched its "Managed Business Communications Service", or MBCS, for the Small and Medium Size Business Market.

MBCS is a fully managed, carrier grade, full featured business class telephone service. With MBCS, the telephony and communications applications are running on both the provider's central "core" network equipment as well as on special purpose built equipment at the customer premise. Unlike pure Hosted VOIP solutions, the entire system- from the service provider's core equipment to the telephone handset, is managed and monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Complete equipment and service management, maintenance, guaranteed Quality of Service, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery, is fully supported.

"The benefits to the small business are significant- they hand off complete responsibility for their communications system to one service provider, who is ultimately responsible for managing the complete customer Quality of Experience- telephone service, network, broadband connection, maintenance,and equipment", said Tom Cerabona, President/ CEO. "One stop shopping and accountability is provided for all of a small business's communications needs".

MBCS provides feature rich telephone services including PBX and Key System Configurations, Auto Attendant, Voicemail, Conferencing, Multi-Site Support, Mobile Worker Support, Flat rate all inclusive pricing, and Office Productivity Tool Integrations(Outlook, CRM).

To read the White Paper "Managed Business Communications Services"- The real "Killer APP" for the Small Business, and to learn more about MBCS, visit the Kinetech website at: www.kinetechvoice.com/tech_resources.htm    

About Kinetech
KINETECH Voice Technologies provides consulting, selection, and implementation of Voice Over IP technologies and telephone systems to Small to Mid Size Businesses to satisfy their current and future business communications needs. Kinetech's services include current system analysis, architecture, design, equipment and service provider selection, installation, test, and ongoing support. Contact Tom Cerabona, President/ CEO, at tomc @ kinetechvoice.com, and visit their website at www.kinetechvoice.com to learn more.

Press Contact: Thomas Cerabona
Company Name: Kinetech Voice Technologies, Inc.
Phone: 914-844-2724
Website: www.kinetechvoice.com

Training Website Gives Designers Access PSoC and Programmable Solutions

New Cypress Online Training Website Gives Designers Easy Access to Resources for PSoC® and Other Programmable Solutions

Short- and Long-Form Courses, Live and On-Demand Formats Allow Customers to Match Training with the Time They Have to Spend

SAN JOSE, Calif.-- June 03, 2008 --Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) has launched a new online education resource for designers using the company's PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip devices and other programmable solutions. The new training website includes a series of short, on-demand training modules that engineers can view at their convenience; archived and live in-depth webinars that offer a "deep dive" into selected technologies and applications; and registration for local, hands-on workshops. The resources can be accessed at www.cypress.com/go/training.

"As we continue to rapidly grow our customer base, there is great demand for more knowledge about our programmable solutions, especially from new users," said Geoff Charubin, vice president of Global Marketing and Applications for Cypress. "This new sites allows us to deliver high-quality technical training to thousands of designers around the world at the time and place that suits their busy schedules."

On-Demand Training Modules

The short, self-paced training modules are offered for designers with varying degrees of experience. Basic introduction courses, software design introduction and advanced mixed-signal design techniques are all presented. The workshops are available in English, Chinese and Japanese, and can be viewed online or downloaded to be watched offline at a later time.

Free Webinars

Cypress frequently presents in-depth, online webinars where viewers can see a deep dive into a particular design topic. Attendees can sign up to view these free seminars live to get real-time answers to questions at the new site. Cypress also archives the webinars to allow viewing at a later date, either online or offline.

Hands-on, in-person workshops

Cypress hosts local workshops around the globe presented by technical staff. These hands-on, full-day and half-day seminars offer designers the opportunity to jump-start their PSoC design skills by interacting directly with Cypress experts. There are four different workshops offered, including "Introduction to PSoC Design," "Intermediate PSoC Design," "CapSenseT Touch Sensing" and "EZ-ColorT HB LED Controllers."

PSoC -- Because Change Happens

PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. They include up to 32 Kbytes of Flash memory, 2 Kbytes of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.

The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to future-proof their products by enabling firmware-based changes during design, validation, production, and in the field. The unique PSoC flexibility shortens design cycle time and allows for late-breaking feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to morph internal resources on-the-fly, utilizing fewer components to perform a given task.

Easy to use development tools enable designers to select configurable library elements for analog functions such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, USB, SPI and UARTs. The PSoC family's analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input leakage and voltage offset.

A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality. Customers can save as much as $10 in system costs. Learn more about PSoC products at www.cypress.com/psoc and receive free online training at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® Programmable System-on-ChipT, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSBT radio system-on-chip, to West BridgeT and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks and WirelessUSB is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contacts

Cypress Public Relations
Samer Bahou, 408-544-1081
samer.bahou@cypress.com