Tribeka Ltd was one of four main companies providing innovation and growth input.

The report can be viewed at: www.bis.gov.uk/policies/bre

Tribeka highlighted in key article about the future of entertainment in retail

Digtal2Disc magazine focuses on how In Store Manufacture can help the packaged media industry maintain market share and invaluable retail presence.

The full article can be viewed at: issuu.com/digital2disc/docs/issue_11

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Castle Hill store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Erina store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its McGraths Hill store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Gordon store

Domayne launches SoftWide® to power its Belrose store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Moore Park store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Penrith store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Blacktown store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Warrawong store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Caringbah store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Balgowlah store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Liverpool store

Domayne launches SoftWide® to power its Auburn store

Harvey Norman launches SoftWide® to power its Wiley Park store

Tribeka first to bring Solveig Mutlimedia products to physical retail market globally

Tribeka is pleased to announce that Solveig Multimedia will soon offer its titles through SoftWide®. Solveig Multimedia is a emerging provider of video editing software including Video Splitter, WMP Trimmer Plugin and Hypercam titles. Solveig Multimedia titles are easy to use and they are a great tool for anybody interested in video editing, to create high quality professional video content.

Mark Furtado, Tribeka’s Head of Content, said “I am delighted to have secured this partnership with Solveig Multimedia. We have some great new releases for our SoftWide® platform which will create a wide variety of titles for the customers to choose from through our retailer partnerships”.

Dmitry Vergeles, CEO of Solvieg Multimedia said "We are excited to make a first step to the offline software market with a partner as solid as Tribeka. We do our best for our video editing products to be as closer as possible to our customers."

SolveigMM Video Splitter
Video Splitter enables the user to remove unwanted parts from videos, to split a video into several segments and to join several videos of various formats into one in just a few clicks. It should be noted that the original video quality is preserved and the video editing process is really fast and lossless. The tool has proved to be very handy for removing ads and explicit scenes, for making presentations, as well as for creating a YouTube video. Video Splitter 2.3 is tested, verified and has the official "Windows 7 compatible" label from Microsoft.

SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin
SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin is an effective time-saving utility enabling a user to losslessly cut or edit AVI, WMV, ASF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WAV, MP3 and WMA files loaded into Windows Media Player. Those concerned about the initial quality will appreciate that this utility does not require converting unlike most other multimedia editors. Besides, WMP Trimmer Plugin provides preserving synchronization functionality of video and audio after editing.

HyperCam 3
HyperCam 3 is a utility for capturing screen actions and saving them as .AVI, .WMV or .ASF files. Though HyperCam may be used just for grabbing a movie, it has been chiefly acknowledged as an excellent tool for creating video presentations and tutorials, screencast commercials and promo tapes.

About Solveig Multimedia
Solveig Multimedia (SolveigMM) is a research and development company founded in 2003. SolveigMM is constantly challenging the market with complex video editing programs made for both consumers and professionals. Walt Disney, Canon, British Airways, Greenpeace and others selected SolveigMM products as their video editing tools.

For more information contact
Olga Krovyakova
PR Manager, Solveig Multimedia
olga.krovyakova@solveigmm.com
+7 3822 701424 ext 2049

Microsoft opens Century City, Los Angeles store

Microsoft opens Houston store

Microsoft opens Atlanta store

LA Times: Sony to open Century City concept store

Sony is set to unveil a new concept store Friday at Westfield Century City mall.

The shop will include a broader range of Sony consumer devices and will allow customers to test and play around with Sony gadgets still in the prototype stage…

You can find the article online at LA Times

The Telegraph: Budget 2011: Private sector to help stoke Government’s red tape bonfire

GSK, Balfour Beatty, Kingfisher, and Tribeka have agreed to help ministers identify area where European laws can be made “more growth-friendly” …

You can find the article online at The Telegraph

Microsoft’s giant software vending machine

A customer walks into one of the new Microsoft retail stores. Inside he sees the equivalent of a giant vending machine, where he can choose from hundreds of software titles. He selects one and zing! – there it is, all boxed up with CDs or DVDs and documentation in Microsoft packaging.

How do they do that?

Read full Rimage blog

Tribeka adds Patronus protection to enhance in store Movie on Demand Sales for DVDs

Tribeka has reached an agreement with Fortium to add Patronus DVD anti rip copy-protection support to its SoftWide® in store movie on demand manufacturing solutions. Patronus works on both single and dual layer recordable DVDs for the production of full length movie content which will help stores reduce piracy levels.

Effective immediately, the Fortium copy-protection will be included in Tribeka’s SoftWide® platform to give content owners the choice to increase physical protection levels either to complement the CSS legal standard or to replace it as a copy protection mechanism on recordable media. This offering is available to all Tribeka customers.

Patronus anti rip copy protection is widely used to protect pre release and commercial release content and was used on many of this year’s Academy Award and BAFTA nominated films. By using a proprietary encapsulation technique deep within the disc structure it successfully protects against some of the most aggressive ripping programs while conforming to the DVD standard and ensuring full playability.

“The inclusion of the Patronus copy-protection offers a great low cost benefit to our customers as they look to grow DVD sales through in store MOD distribution”, stated Daniel Doll-Steinberg, Tribeka’s CEO.

“Our agreement with Tribeka makes the addition of Patronus in the MOD workflow a seamless process ideally suited to dual layer DVD production, while providing a reliable method of deterring unauthorized copying.” added Mathew Gilliat-Smith, CEO of Fortium. He went on to say “Patronus is already being successfully used by a range of content owners.”

Daily Mail: Bollywood boom makes Eros a star

Daily Mail article: Indian film distributor Eros International reported a hefty 33.8 per cent jump in first-half profit, as the popularity of Bollywood films continued to increase.

You can find the article online at Daily Mail

PC Retail: Tribeka launches USB

PC Retail article by Matt Grainger: SoftWide creator pioneers USB software retail solution

You can find the article online at PC Retail Magazine

Tribeka is first to launch In Store Manufacture of USB

Tribeka has launched USB media as a brand new category to in store manufacture.

Over the last 3 years sales of netbook computers, USB enabled TV’s and USB enabled DVD players have continued to grow with increasing speed, taking a larger and larger share of the personal computer market. Without CD or DVD drives, retailers need USB to deliver software to their netbook customers. Until now, there have been very few software titles available on USB leaving netbook users with a very limited choice and retailers unable to satisfy their customers’ needs.

SoftWide is immediately making available over 50 software titles on USB. The range is expected to increase rapidly and to also include feature length movies and console game add-ons.

Faz Suleman, Tribeka’s SVP Worldwide Retail & Content, said “SoftWide is a revolutionary way to provide software and entertainment products for retailers and as the markets have evolved we strive to be at the forefront. Moving into USB will see our retail partners use SoftWide to meet existing demands and also create a brand new market. With retail customers now looking for multiple media formats – CD, DVD, BluRay, USB and Flash media – SoftWide’s ability to deliver all formats, without adding stock, will ensure that our retail partners will always be in stock, each time and every time.”

SoftWide® On-demand Production System to Provide UltraKey® 5.0 in Retail Stores

August 2, 2010 (North York, Ontario, Canada) – Bytes of Learning has closed an agreement with Tribeka Limited of the UK, that licenses Tribeka to distribute the keyboarding instruction software UltraKey on the SoftWide on-demand production system now appearing in retail stores around the world.

For over 25 years, UltraKey has been a leading keyboarding instruction system used by thousands of schools and districts across North America and other parts of the world. UltraKey is a popular choice among children and adults for home and professional use and sells in substantial volumes on the Internet. Like many excellent products, UltraKey has not been available in retail stores because bricks-and-mortar distribution is unable to accommodate anything but products that sell in higher volumes. That is, before now.

The SoftWide on-demand production system enables retail stores to produce commercial copies of any software title right on the premises. Time between purchase and completed production is from three to four minutes. The SoftWide system has just debuted in all the North American Microsoft stores that opened earlier in 2010. The SoftWide system has also launched in Australia, the UK, Europe and other parts of the world.

“I was stunned when I recently visited the Microsoft store and experienced the SoftWide system,” says Art Willer, President of Bytes of Learning.

“When, I inquired about a software title that was not on the shelf, the sales person replied, ‘Funny you should ask.’ Six minutes after I paid for the software, the sales person produced a fully professional, complete package of the title with user guide as if she had pulled it off a shelf in the back room. The back room contained a SoftWide system instead. I had a sense of being on the Starship Enterprise and saying, ‘Computer, make me a copy of this software.’”

UltraKey is already available in editions localized for the North America, Australia-New Zealand, and UK English markets, so Bytes of Learning and Tribeka are both excited to make UltraKey available through the revolutionary new SoftWide system.

UltraKey has just been recognized by TopTenReviews.com as one of the top three typing tutors available today so its availability on the SoftWide system will make many customers very happy.

Bytes of Learning Incorporated was founded in 1984 to develop and publish original technologies for education in schools, homes, offices and training environments. The company has published many award-winning products but is best known for UltraKey.

SoftWide is researched and developed by Tribeka Limited of the UK. SoftWide is the world's leading solution for the digital rights management and electronic distribution of otherwise traditionally delivered media based software products for retailing through the Internet channel, the high street channel and distribution centre.

Learn more at: www.tribeka.com

Faz Suleman becomes Tribeka's SVP Worldwide Retail & Content

Tribeka is pleased to announce the appointment of Faz Suleman as Senior Vice President Worldwide Retail & Content. In his new role, Faz will bring together Tribeka’s Digital Rights & Retail teams to ensure the SoftWide® platform’s success with current and future retail partners through content delivery and in-store operations.

Over the last 18 months Faz has built up the DRM and Retail teams to ensure strong relationships with Tribeka’s partners.

Faz Suleman commented: “I am delighted to be offered this opportunity to assist Tribeka become ready for the huge growth we expect over the next 18 months. The SoftWide® platform is an amazing technology and with my retail experience I will help to ensure Tribeka realises its full potential worldwide starting with our existing tier one retailers like Carrefour, Microsoft, Tesco and Game. “

Daniel Doll-Steinberg, Tribeka’s CEO, said: “With our exceptional current partners, the pipeline of deals for the next few months and with conventional delivery proving more and more out of place in today’s retail environment, 2010 and 2011 look set to be huge years for us. Faz is proving an instrumental member of Tribeka’s management team as we grow to meet this increasing demand and we are delighted to give him this role.”

Tribeka - One of the First to Offer Kaspersky 2011 to Customers

On 1st July Tribeka offered the new Kaspersky 2011 products for sale to its UK customers.

Due to the mechanisms incorporated by the SoftWide system, Tribeka was able to ensure that their retail partners in the UK were able to offer the products to the customers on day 1 of the product release. This allows retailers such as Tesco the opportunity to offer an unbridled service to their customers, re-enforcing their dominate position in the retail market.

Mark Furtado, Head of DRM at Tribeka, said “The launch of Kaspersky 2011 products, seamlessly to our retail partners around the world, on the Release Day once again emphasizes the way SoftWide can increase its retail partners’ access to products. Our retail partners in the UK, such as Tesco, will be one of the first retailers selling these new Kaspersky products. With unlimited stock the products are always available and retailers are able to serve all their customer demands no matter what volume is required.”

PC Retail: The giant awakes

Having signed a significant deal with SoftWide last month, Tesco has been transformed from a bit-player in the software market to a serious contender, with a thousand lines under its belt. The deal looks set provide a powerful boost to its entertainment division, as well as the technology and electricals side of the business – both of which have seen significant rises in recent months anyway. Andrew Wooden finds out more from Rob Salter, category director for entertainment at Tesco…

"SoftWide gives you the opportunity to open up a range where you’re only creating physical products at the point where you’ve got an actual order. There’s no real limitation on that." Rob Salter, Tesco

You can find the full interview on page 21 of July's PC Retail Magazine.
The digital edition is available to download as PDF or to read online.

PC Retail: Tesco steps up its game in the changing technology market

PC Retail article by Andrew Wooden: Consumer electronics are 'increasingly big business' for UK's biggest retailer

Electronics and PC sales are rising up the agenda of the country’s biggest retailer Tesco, as it looks to be at the forefront of the 3D and tablet boom in the UK.

While the supermarket has been involved in tech hardware for some time now, it sees this new wave of products as increasingly relevant to the mass market, an area in which it dominates.

“It’s quite clear from the development on our electricals business and what we’ve done there, that we have been serious about this for quite some time,” said Rob Salter, Tesco’s category director for entertainment.

You can find the full article online at PC Retail Magazine

ESET Signs Up to Tribeka’s Retail Revolution

Bournemouth, UK (17th June 2010) - ESET UK announced today an agreement with Tribeka that will see ESET’s award-winning software sold by Tesco and other major retailers as part of Tribeka’s revolutionary distribution system, SoftWide. A unique on-site publishing model, SoftWide dramatically reduces warehouse storage and transportation requirements, in addition to cutting down on wastage; making it not only a cost effective distribution method, but environmentally friendly too. Customers will be able to buy ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus from participating SoftWide outlets either online or instantly manufactured to order in store. Once the purchase is complete, the product is then manufactured on-site within minutes. By partnering with Tribeka, ESET can guarantee that its boxed products are always available in store, whilst ensuring no loss of quality in the end product.

"One of the biggest challenges in retail is predicting what the public want to buy from one day to the next and ensuring that it is in stock," says Amanda Davies, Retail Channel Manager of ESET UK. "Tribeka’s on-site publishing model eliminates this issue, whilst enabling considerable cost savings on storage and stock management. This, combined with providing an entry point into major high street retail outlets, makes Tribeka’s innovative distribution model a very attractive proposition to ESET."

ESET Smart Security is a tightly integrated anti-malware product designed to protect computers from a range of threats. Built on the award-winning ESET NOD32 Antivirus and its powerful ThreatSense engine, ESET Smart Security provides antispyware, antispam and customised firewall features to protect home and business users from Internet threats. ESET NOD32 Antivirus proactively detects and eliminates more viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, phishing, rootkits and other Internet threats than any program available.

"The principal of SoftWide’s model is to enable retailers to offer a wide choice of key software titles, with constant availability. With a record-setting 62 VB100 awards from Virus Bulletin, the widely-respected independent comparative testing group, we welcome ESET’s internet security products into our rapidly growing software range," says Mark Furtado, Head of Digital Rights at Tribeka.

PC Retail: Tribeka’s software revolution expands to new frontiers

PC Retail article by Andrew Wooden: Online and in-store software publishing system continues push to transform distribution

Having signed up key deals with Tesco, Carrefour and Symantec, Tribeka is preparing to further expand its in-store software publishing operation, which it says is set to change traditional distribution models.

You can find the article online at PC Retail Magazine

PC Retail: Tesco launches SoftWide

PC Retail article by Matt Grainger: Tesco has begun using the SoftWide system to handle online software orders via its Tesco Entertainment website.

You can find the article online at PC Retail Magazine

Tesco launches SoftWide for Tesco Entertainment

Tribeka is pleased to report that Tesco has today started using SoftWide to fulfil PC software orders for its online customers. Tesco is the third largest global retailer with over 2,400 stores in the UK and over 4,800 stores worldwide.

Tesco is backing its launch of SoftWide with a marketing campaign to include amazing introductory offers and clubcard points, followed by customer mail outs. Please use the following link to visit Tesco’s entertainment site for introductory offers: www.tescoentertainment.com

Norton Security to be Delivered on Demand via Tribeka

Symantec announce: Award-winning software to be printed on demand in leading retail stores worldwide

READING UK. – May 20, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), makers of Norton security software, today announced a partnership with Tribeka Ltd, a leader in delivering in-store manufacturing services for software and entertainment products in retail stores worldwide. As a result of the agreement, Norton software will be available in several additional key retail chains around the world through Tribeka’s on demand, in-store manufacturing platform, SoftWide. The SoftWide platform is already used by Big W in Australia, Carrefour in Europe, PC Spezialist in Germany, and GAME in the UK, with Tesco in the UK about to launch the solution.

Norton’s top security products, Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security and Norton 360, are now available through all the Tribeka kiosks worldwide. Customers in-store can browse the Tribeka software catalogue, choose a Norton title and have the DVD including full packaging and a quick-start card with license key produced within minutes. The on demand retail model has the benefits of guaranteed product availability and a more environmental delivery, as no product shipping is required.

“With cybercrime on the rise, five new threats are coming online every minute this year. During 2009, Symantec blocked an average of 100 potential attacks per second. By partnering with Tribeka, we’re making security more accessible and helping more consumers to stay safe,” said Aled Miles, vice president of worldwide sales, Symantec. “Tribeka offers us an innovative way to extend Norton’s reach into retail venues such as grocery and computer gaming stores where we would not otherwise have a presence.”

Tribeka CEO Daniel Doll-Steinberg said, “The addition of Norton’s World’s best selling security titles further establishes SoftWide as a complete retail delivery solution and allows us to provide our retail partners with the key titles they expect to offer. We are currently seeing more and more retailers start to include SoftWide in their software and entertainment delivery strategies and Symantec’s support and products will allow us to accelerate this growth.” Norton’s Internet Security solutions now include reputation-based technology which tackles undiscovered malware and today’s toughest threats head-on. Using this technology, Norton 360 has achieved the top score in third-party testing conducted by UK-based Dennis Labs[1], which were designed to replicate real-world, Web-based attacks such as those that target social networking sites. Of the 10 products tested, Norton was the only one to protect against all of the threats, achieving a 100 percent overall protection score. The latest version of Norton 360 also includes 2GB of secure online backup and improvements to the features valued most by consumers, such as PC Tuneup, which improves performance and saves time.

Pricing & Availability
Norton Antivirus 2010, Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton 360 v.4 will be available through the Tribeka partnership stores worldwide from today. The products are available at Symantec’s normal regional MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price). Retail stores which have adopted Tribeka technology include selected outlets in Big W stores, Australia; Bitcom stores, Luxembourg; Carrefour stores, Belgium; PC Spezialist stores, Germany; GAME and Tesco stores, United Kingdom.

For more details see the Symantec press release.

Carrefour and Symantec offer bundle deal through SoftWide

See the: Carrefour - Kuringen Symantec bundle advertisement

EBP France enters partnership with Tribeka

Tribeka is pleased to announce that EBP France will soon offer its titles through SoftWide®. EBP is a leading provider of management software including business plan, accounting, management and payroll titles. EBP titles are easy to use and they are always updated with the latest legal developments, to creates high quality professional software titles.

Mark Furtado, Tribeka’s Head of Content, said “I am delighted to have secured this partnership with EBP France. We have some great new releases for our SoftWide® platform which will create a wide variety of titles for the customers to choose from through our Carrefour partnership”.

Summitsoft Corporation’s Productivity Software Range Added to Innovative SoftWide platform

Summitsoft Corporation, a leading publisher of productivity software for professional and home users, has now entered an agreement to add its range through the SoftWide platform. This agreement allows Summitsoft to make available for sale its productivity range, for both PC and Mac, through Tribeka’s retail partners and the SoftWide platform.

Mark Furtado, Tribeka’s head of Digital Rights Management says about this partnership “I am very excited about Summitsoft’s range which is very impressive. Summitsoft is an outstanding addition to the SoftWide portfolio”.

About Summitsoft:
Summitsoft Corporation is a top ten publisher of productivity software products, creating innovative business solutions for professionals and home users. Summitsoft offers software through major retailers in North America, Australia, Japan and Europe, as well as on the Internet. For additional information please visit our website at www.SummitsoftCorp.com.

Tribeka signs landmark deal with Editions Profil

Tribeka Ltd, has signed a landmark deal with leading republisher, Editions Profil.

Edition Profil is to bring its leading range of titles to market through the SoftWide® system in Europe.

Faz Suleman, Director of Retail and Content for Tribeka, says: “We are delighted that the SoftWide® platform is now able to deliver Editions Profil key software titles to our retail partners. Editions Profil offer a key product range and this partnership brings highly recognised brands and products to our SoftWide partners in Europe”

About Editions Profil:
Established in 1989 by a group of IT engineers, Editions Profil is a self owned company specialised in software development, publishing and distribution. Editions Profil is born from the will to improve the use of computing as a learning tool for the educational environment. Since 1992, Editions Profil has widened its target to a larger audience by promoting multimedia as a learning material on the consumer market. Editions Profil extended its portfolio with a line of tools and utilities softwares; this shift came as a natural evolution according to the background of its creators.

Tribeka partners with Mindscape

Tribeka has now partnered with Mindscape a leader in educational software and popular games based on well-known TV shows. Mindscape’s innovative software will now be offered through SoftWide to customers both in France and Belgium.

Mark Furtado, Head of DRM, says “Mindscape plays an influential role in the educational software market in both France and Belgium, with their key brands. Their titles will be a major boost to Tribeka’s educational offering in Europe. Educational software is a key offer for our retailers and their customers and this is the beginning of a great partnership for both companies.

This fantastic range of products includes titles from an interactive planetarium, through learning a new language, to even receiving personalized advice from one of the most famous chefs in France. This may be the next big thing on the software market. Our easy to use SoftWide system allows the full range of Mindscape products to be made available at every store greatly benefiting or customers.”

CakeWalk and Tribeka enter new Partnership

Cakewalk Inc, the music software giant, and Tribeka Ltd, the company behind in store manufacture worldwide, have entered an agreement to make Cakewalk titles available through SoftWide.

Cakewalk, a world leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, is partnering Tribeka to bring their music creation titles to a worldwide market through SoftWide. This agreement brings Cakewalk’s ever developing catalogue of music products to SoftWide’s rapidly expanding retail channel. Cakewalk are making available their top 7 selling titles which are set to hit stores in April 2010.

Mark Furtado, Head of Digital Rights Management for Tribeka says “This is a great partnership for us. Cakewalk are leaders in the market for music creation products. I am ecstatic that we are now able to offer their products as this opens up a whole new customer base for our retail partners and adds another category to the already diverse catalogue we offer.”

MCV: Tribeka to expand into games

MCV article by James Batchelor: Tribeka reopening discussions with publishers to sell gaming content via in-store disc replication service.

You can find the article on page 6 of this weeks edition of MCV or online summary at MCV Magazine

PC Retail: Is this the end of boxed software as we know it?

PC Retail article by Matt Grainger: In-store software publishing service SoftWide deployed by US Microsoft stores and Tesco in UK. Parent firm Tribeka poised for store roll-outs across Europe.

You can find the article in the February edition of PC Retail or online at PC Retail Magazine

Tesco SoftWide^® launch hits the headlines

The press is quick to cover the launch of SoftWide^® by Tesco. Please see links below:

• Tesco to launch in-store software publishing
• Retailing Technology SoftWide for Tesco

Tesco to launch SoftWide^®

Tribeka are delighted to announce that Tesco, the largest British retailer and the third largest global retailer, will be launching SoftWide^® in the UK in February. The companies will initially launch a massive range of PC software and expect to add further digital media categories to expand the offer.

Daniel Doll-Steinberg says “Tesco is a fantastic partner for us with a first-rate digital media approach; we are very excited about the opportunities to become part of this strategy.”

Rob Salter, Category Director Entertainment says “We are delighted to be working with Tribeka who are providing us with a hugely efficient and innovative way of expanding our product offering to customers”