Payless ShoeSource Announces Plans to Release Third Quarter Results.

Payless ShoeSource, Inc. today announced that it plans to release third quarter 2004 results on Friday, November 12, 2004, before the market opens at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. A teleconference call by management will occur at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The dial-in number for the teleconference call in the United States is (888) 273-9887. If you are dialing in internationally, the number is (612) 234-9960.

The company also intends to webcast the conference call on the Internet at StreetEvents(SM). To access the webcast, visit our website at http://www.paylessinfo.com/ and select the WEBCAST link under Investor Relations. Or visit http://www.ccbn.com/ and select the Company Boardroom link in the middle portion of the page.

In addition, a digitized replay of the teleconference call is scheduled to begin November 12, 2004 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time and end November 19, 2004 at 12:59 a.m. Eastern Time. The number to access the digitized replay in the United States is (800) 475-6701 access code #753300. If dialing internationally, it is (320) 365-3844 access code #753300.

Payless ShoeSource, Inc. is the largest specialty family footwear retailer in the Western Hemisphere. As of the end of October 2004, the Company operated a total of 5,022 stores offering quality family footwear and accessories at affordable prices. In addition, customers can buy shoes over the Internet Payless.com(R), at http://www.payless.com/ .

CONTACT: Timothy J. Reid, Director, Investor Relations - Payless ShoeSource, Inc., +1-785-295-6695

Web site: http://www.payless.com/ http://www.paylessinfo.com/

Sprint Calls on Deploy Solutions to Improve Staffing Performance; Premier Provider of Applicant Tracking, Electronic Recruiting and Talent Optimization Solutions Continues Steady Growth.

WESTWOOD, Mass., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Deploy Solutions(TM), the premier provider of applicant tracking and talent optimization solutions for large companies, announced today that it has been selected by Sprint Corporation, a global integrated communications provider with more than 70,000 employees, to improve the company's staffing performance.

Deploy's talent optimization solution is expected to have a dramatic impact on Sprint's key staffing performance metrics such as quality-of-hire, cost-per-hire and time-to-start. Furthermore, the company will utilize Deploy to enhance the user experience for internal and external candidates, recruiters, hiring managers and HR executives.

According to company officials, Deploy will consolidate de-centralized candidate communities and individual candidate profiles to improve staffing performance and measurability. Deploy will also provide current employees with portal functionality for managing their Sprint careers, resulting in increased productivity, employee satisfaction and retention.

The addition of Sprint to Deploy's customer roster continues a trend of consistent growth for Deploy.

"Every HR solution vendor in our space wanted to win Sprint's business," said Sham Sao, global vice president of marketing and business development for Deploy Solutions. "It's a pivotal deal in the market this year, not only because Sprint is a world-class organization, but also because of their innovative and visionary requirements. Our success in this deal demonstrates the leadership of our solution. Sprint is characteristic of an extremely positive fiscal year for Deploy, and we are even more optimistic about 2004."

"We are very pleased to have been selected by Sprint to deliver solutions that will help the company maximize its staffing performance," said Nicole Stata, Deploy's founder, president and CEO. "We're confident that our enterprise talent optimization solutions will allow Sprint to achieve significant cost savings and increased productivity while also resulting in better quality hires."

The implementation project is expected to begin during the fourth quarter of 2003.

About Sprint

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 70,000 employees worldwide and nearly $27 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local voice and data services in 18 states and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.sprint.com/.

About Deploy

Deploy Solutions delivers talent optimization software that helps large companies maximize staffing performance. Unlike other products, Deploy equips customers with applicant tracking, electronic recruiting and talent management technology to support exemplary user experiences for recruiters, HR executives, hiring managers and candidates. The company draws upon flexible technology, deep domain experience and a comprehensive approach to HR metrics & analytics to drive measurable results for customers like Exult (also a distribution partner), Southwest Airlines, NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs, Advocate Healthcare, Bank of America, Prudential, BP, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, FedEx, FleetBoston Financial, Synopsys, Fresenius Medical Care N.A., Square D and Zimmer. Our solutions are facilitating unprecedented returns for visionary, multi-national corporations including slashing cost-per-hire by up to 70%, boosting retention by up to 10% and decreasing time-to-hire by up to 50%. Recently recognized as the #2 best place to work in Massachusetts, our commitment to best practices is evident in the way we leverage our own solutions to recruit, hire and retain top-notch talent. For more information, call 877-GO-DEPLOY (877-463-3756) or visit http://www.deploy.com/.

Deploy and Deploy Solutions and all other Deploy product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Deploy Solutions, Inc.

Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: John Ponte of Deploy Solutions, +1-781-251-5016, jponte@deploy.com

Web site: http://www.deploy.com/

Research and Markets: Social Media Strategies for Professionals and their Firms: The Guide to Establishing Credibility and Accelerating.

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Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/02634e/social_media_strat) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Social Media Strategies for Professionals and their Firms: The Guide to Establishing Credibility and Accelerating" to their offering.

Expert advice on growing your professional service firm or individual practice through social media

Showing professionals and their marketers how to accomplish familiar marketing tactics in newer, ways, Social Media for Professionals and Their Firms takes you step by step in putting social media to work for your professional practice. Whether you want to build your own on-line reputation, or are ready to explore new media for corporate marketing and communications, this book is the definitive guide for your strategic approach.

Key features:

- Explores why the fastest and most leveragable way to expand relationships today is through the Internet

- Provides step-by-step approaches to successful professional blogging

- Discusses high-level strategies for effectively using Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and bookmarking sites

- Includes pitfalls and success stories featuring notable social media trailblazers

Timely and practical, this book shows you why new media is rapidly becoming the core way for professionals to reach their audiences. Whether your firm provides legal, accounting, financial planning, architecture, consultancy, or other services, Social Media Strategies for Professionals and Their Firms will show you ways to better reach and communicate with your customers.

Key Topics Covered:

What Firms Need to Know about Social Media

- CHAPTER 1 Defining and Understanding Social Media

- CHAPTER 2 Social Media Policies and Guidelines: Rules of Engagement

- CHAPTER 3 Comparing Today's Most Popular Social Media

The Why behind Using Social Media

- CHAPTER 4 Finding Business Purpose in Social Media

- CHAPTER 5 Strategy Begins with Who

- CHAPTER 6 Integrated Marketing Tactics

- CHAPTER 7 Case Studies and Examples

How to Set up and Use the Tools

- CHAPTER 8 LinkedIn

- CHAPTER 9 Twitter

- CHAPTER 10 Facebook

- CHAPTER 11 Self-Publishing with Blogs

Tips to Being Effective Online

- CHAPTER 12 Writing for the Web

- CHAPTER 13 Social Media Etiquette

- CHAPTER 14 Best Practices

Author:

Michelle Golden is the recognized leader and influencer in social media use and strategy in the CPA space. Accounting Today named her one of the ten most powerful women in accounting, specifically citing Golden as "a thought leader on social media." Golden has been the catalyst behind blogging in the accounting profession. Of the first twenty CPA blogs, she built and/or trained the CPAs for twelve. Of the current 113 CPA blogs, she has built or directly influenced at least one third of them.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/02634e/social_media_strat

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Internet viewed differently by men and women.

Sri Lanka, March 17 -- Do men and women look at the Internet with different eyes? Is the Internet inherently biased? Web's promise of broad-based access looked far-flung judging by inequalities that had sprung up?

Most social networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Jezebel seemed popular with women while Wikipedia the free encyclopedia showed an 85 percent male participation. That disparity - a statistical impossibility - could not be fathomed.

Role

* Facebook, Twitter, My Space popular with females

* Wikipedia popular with males

* Facebook tone more civil

* Internet search engines depositories of knowledge

* Wikipedia helps construct, share knowledge

Wikipedia's over 3.5 million articles in English were fed by more men 85 to 15 percent even though there was unrestricted access to edit articles - easy instructions for editing were provided. The Wikipedia Foundation seemed determined to increase female participation to 25 percent by 2015.

What accounted for this imbalance? The domination by male-editors inputting Wikipedia site came to be extensively scrutinized. Why such preponderance occurred looked a little baffling.

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RWE Dea Evacuates International Employees from N. Africa.

Summary: Owing to the current situation in Libya, all international staff members of RWE Dea AG have been flown out of Egypt.

Owing to the current situation in Libya, all international staff members of RWE Dea AG have been flown out of Egypt. This also applies to the members of the core team that had recently remained in Tripoli. In doing so, the Company responded to the current situation prevailing in the country in the interests of the safety of its workforce.

The largest group, consisting of some 40 employees and their families, had returned to their respective home countries as early as Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 19 and 20. The last international members of the core team remaining in Libya were next on February 22. The way the situation unfolded also called for them to leave the country, "We consider this measure the logical consequence of our duty of care to our employees and their families," said Thomas Rappuhn, CEO of RWE Dea AG. "Human safety enjoys top priority in our Company. For this reason, we are glad that our employees and their family members have returned to their home countries safe and sound." All business trips to this North African country have been postponed until further notice.

RWE Dea's head office in Libya is located in Tripoli, where the Company most recently employed more than 100 workers, chiefly Libyans. Rappuhn, "Our thoughts are with our Libyan staff members. We will continue to monitor the situation carefully. Moreover, we will maintain contact with local colleagues to the extent possible, given the interruptions in Internet and telephony services."

RWE Dea is preparing field development and production in two concessions. No operational activities are taking place in Libya at this time. The Company has no production under way yet in Libya.

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Pehla pulls the Dreambox plug.

Asian satellite broadcaster Pehla has pulled the plug on illegal broadcasts of its channels in Bahrain.

New encryption technology introduced on Saturday means Dreambox customers will no longer be able to see a number of channels, including live coverage of the Cricket World Cup.

Some of its other channels are still being broadcast through illegal pirate operators, but general manager of Pehla's Bahrain distributor Satlink, Om Ramchandani, said most were now encoded.

'While the Cricone channel broadcasting the cup matches is now only available on the new technology, most of the other channels have also moved to the new platform,' he said.

The move follows a similar decision by UAE broadcaster Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) to introduce new technology that makes it impossible for pirate operators to crack encrypted signals.

'All our subscribers in Bahrain have been given new set-top boxes that use the Viaccess technology,' said Ramchandani.

'The channels that are still available on the old technology will also be moved to the new platform within a few weeks.

'The network earlier used the Irdeto technology, which had been cracked by Dreambox operators.

'This will not happen with the (new) Viaccess technology.'

Pehla offers premium Indian and Pakistani entertainment to thousands of subscribers in Bahrain and other GCC countries, with packages starting from BD7.3 a month.

Ramchandani promised viewers would soon be offered more channels and better technology.

'We will offer an even more comprehensive bouquet of channels in the very near future,' he said.

Pirate satellite customers have been unable to watch OSN since December 19 and a pirate satellite provider admitted yesterday that their operation was under threat.

'Services have been very erratic over the last few weeks and most services are gone for good now,' he said.

'We have lost a lot of customers and have had hardly any new ones registering.

'We may still be able to crack this new technology, but it is not going to happen immediately.'

The Dreambox system relies on users linking their digital receiver to the Internet, which it uses to download codes to unscramble satellite signals.

If the system is prevented from accessing websites that provide the necessary codes, officials say the receiver will not be able to unscramble or display the channel.

This is not the first time a crackdown has been launched on illegal satellite broadcasters in Bahrain.

In October 2009 the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, in collaboration with the then Culture and Information Ministry, instructed the country's 17 Internet Service Providers to block Internet Protocol addresses of illegal operators.

However, pirate broadcasters were able to bypass the measures within two months.- TradeArabia News Service

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Web of objections to greet FCC chairman.(NATION)

Byline: David Eldridge, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

When a sharply divided Federal Communications Commission approved sweeping Internet regulations in December, Republican lawmakers vowed that the incoming Congress would undo the action.

That effort begins in earnest Wednesday with the appearance of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski before a key House panel to defend the net neutrality rules.

Rep. Greg Walden, who heads the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that oversees the agency, is expected to interrogate Mr. Genachowski and the other four FCC commissioners at the hearing Wednesday morning. The Oregon Republican said he is worried about what is in the rules and about the regulatory philosophy behind them.

More troubling than the substance of the network neutrality rules are the legal theories underpinning them. If left unchallenged, this power grab will allow the commission to regulate any interstate wired or wireless communication on barely more than a whim, he said in December.

The regulations, approved on a 3-2 vote split along party lines, are part of Mr. Genachowski's effort to deliver on an Obama campaign promise to establish enforceable rules of the road for the Web, with regulations that prohibit phone and cable companies from favoring or discriminating against Internet content and services, including those from their commercial rivals.

The panel's three Democratic appointees supported the measure, while the two GOP nominees were opposed.

The rules, drafted by Mr. Genachowski over the past year with input from some industry players, require broadband providers to give subscribers access to all legal online content - including competing online calling services, Internet video and other Web applications.

But the rules also give broadband providers flexibility to manage data on their systems to deal with problems such as network congestion.

The rules drew fire from both sides of the issue. Net neutrality supporters called the package too weak, and critics predicted they would be overturned by Congress or the courts.

Rep. Tom Graves, Georgia Republican, introduced legislation Tuesday that would prohibit the FCC from using taxpayer funds to implement its net neutrality proposal.