Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, celebrates the opening of Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin today. The newly opened hotel is also offering guests a luxury cruise experience along the Li River - the only luxury hotel in the city to provide this exclusive waterborne journey. From now until 31 October 2010, guests can book the Suite Cruise package and enjoy two nights in an Executive suite, a 90-minute morning or afternoon guided tour, a gourmet four-course meal cooked on-board by the hotel's executive chef, daily breakfast for two and full Horizon Club access and privileges.

Sailing from Long Chuan Ping Jetty to Die Cai Mountain, guests can enjoy a classical Chinese guzheng (a Chinese plucked zither) performance as the boat journeys across a 10-kilometre natural river gallery, passing 10 of Guilin's most famous mountains such as Elephant Trunk Hill, Fubo Hill, Seven Star Hill and Laoren Hill. The waterborne trip is the perfect cruise from which to enjoy China's famed "finest mountains and rivers under heaven." The sheer rock formations of the Li River, the series of mountains shrouded in mist and old villages that the cruise passes have inspired many poets and painters through the centuries.

A stay in an Executive Suite overlooking the Li River and karst mountains completes the journey.

Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin is located on the banks of the Li River and features many of the city's firsts and superlatives. These include the city's largest guestrooms, the largest state-of-the-art meeting and conference facilities, the only hotel to have a wedding pagoda and the first hotel to feature indoor and outdoor swimming pools.

Situated near Yushan Bridge, the seven-storey Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin, is a 35-minute drive from Guilin Liangjiang International Airport and a 10-minute drive from the city centre. Leading tourist attractions are all easily accessible, including Die Cai Mountain and the city's largest walking street.

The 449-room Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin features the largest rooms in the city starting at 42 square metres. There are 17 suites, ranging from an 84-square-metre Executive Suite to the 210-square-metre Presidential Suite. The hotel also incorporates Shangri-La's Horizon Club guestrooms and lounge, a haven where today's traveller can experience an even higher standard of accommodation and personalised service complemented with a host of exclusive privileges and amenities.

For meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions, the 1,800-square-metre Grand Ballroom, the largest ballroom in Guilin, is the perfect venue for hosting high-profile events of up to 2,000 people. With six additional private function rooms and a dedicated VIP room, Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin is able to cater to a diverse range of event needs, from small private gatherings to conferences or large social events. In addition, Guilin's first and only wedding pagoda makes the hotel a much sought after location for weddings.

Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin also features a comprehensive range of recreational facilities including indoor and outdoor pools in addition to tennis courts and a health club.

The hotel's dining includes Shang Palace Chinese restaurant, which offers Cantonese, Hunanese and Huaiyang cuisines as well as local Guilin specialties against a backdrop of the Li River. Li Cafe features live food action stations showcasing both Western and Asian cuisine and U Bar offering an assortment of grills and beers. For business or pleasure, the Lobby Lounge is a warm and intimate location that offers desserts and pastries, a Chinese influenced snack menu and high tea sets from afternoon to evening. Surrounded by lush gardens, the Pool Bar serves fresh and simple snacks and meals as well as a diverse range of cocktails and juices.

The Suite Cruise package is offered at RMB8,888 for two and, also includes round-trip airport and jetty transfers by hotel limousine. The rate quoted excludes tax and service charge and is subject to availability. For reservations and enquiries, please contact Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin on (86 773) 269 8888 or e-mail reservations.slgl@shangri-la.com. Two weeks' advance reservation is required. From today until 30 April 2010, guests can also take advantage of a special opening offer of RMB688 per night for single occupancy and RMB788 per night for double occupancy for Deluxe category rooms, including buffet breakfast, subject to 15 per cent service charge and prevailing government tax.

About Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts

Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, currently owns and/or manages 66 hotels under the deluxe Shangri-La and mid-market Traders brands, with a rooms inventory of over 30,000. The group has over 40 projects under development in Austria, Canada, mainland China, France, India, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Qatar, Seychelles, United Kingdom and the United States. For more information and reservations, please contact a travel professional or access the website at http://www.shangri-la.com .

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(The newly opened Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin offers guests a luxury cruise experience along the Li River - the only luxury hotel in the city to provide this exclusive waterborne journey.)

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     Sari Yong
     Media Relations Manager, Hong Kong/South East Asia
     Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
     Tel:     +852-2599-3336
     Fax:     +852-2599-3308
     Email:   sari.yong@shangri-la.com
     Website: http://www.shangri-la.com

For digitised pictures of the group's hotels, please go to http://www.shangri-la.com/imagelibrary .

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Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced the expansion of its Alteon® Application Switch product line with two new OnDemand switches®, the Alteon 4408 and Alteon 4416. The Alteon 4-series is available less than one-year after Radware acquired Nortel's layer 4-7 application switching business, and rounds-out the product suite together with the recently introduced Alteon 5412, which now offers complete application delivery throughput coverage up to 20 Gbps.

According to market analysis from IDC(1), a leading provider of global IT research and advice, Layer 4–7 switches that can provide good visibility into application use on the network and enable a 'pay-as-you-grow' IT philosophy will be integral in creating the next-generation datacenter. This is fueled by a need to evolve datacenter network architecture that can fluidly adapt to real-time business demands; allowing organizations to fully leverage the benefits of hosted datacenters, cloud services, and a global workforce.

With a focus on business-IT alignment in the datacenter, Radware's Alteon 4-series provides the required application insight to efficiently scale both service and throughput levels based on business demand. The Alteon 4-series, built on Radware's on demand infrastructure approach, enables Alteon customers to start with a certain bandwidth and application services to meet current operational needs, and then increase capacity and capabilities on a 'pay-as-you-grow' model – without replacing or rebooting supporting hardware – whilst maintaining high performance levels in layers 4-7. Leveraging simple, easy-to-deploy software license upgrades, coupled with Radware's five-year platform longevity guarantee, Alteon customers gain a 'future-proofed' datacenter solution that successfully meets application needs across Layers 4-7, ensures transaction completion with maximum performance, and minimizes capacity planning risks.

"The network is on a course to deliver a broad base of services to the datacenter and application networking is at the heart of driving the datacenter to be more responsive, in real-time, to business needs," said Lucinda Borovick, Research Vice President for IDC's Datacenter Networks service. "Radware's expanded Alteon suite will be a strategic resource for Alteon customers' datacenters, as these products enable the network to provide business value to the organization by standing between mission-critical applications and the global network of end-users."

"We had very high expectations from Radware concerning the launch of their new Alteon platforms, and Radware delivered with the launch of the Alteon 5412 last quarter," stated CY Hwang, Managing Director Openbase Korea. "The Alteon 5-series has already been deployed and tested by several of our customers, who have told us they are very happy especially with the technical innovation, support stability and high performance levels. Based on this feedback, we believe that the new Alteon 4-series will also attain great heights."

"There is a clear pent up demand amongst many of our long time customers that use Alteon technology; they need greater capacities, advanced features and first rate  support," said Bart Graf, Principal of Integration Partners Corporation, a leading US secure networking solutions provider.  "Radware has addressed these needs by re-energizing the Alteon product line – further enhancing the platforms with leading Radware technologies. With the launch of the Alteon 5412 and now the 4 Series platforms, Radware is helping us provide our customers with the products, support and innovation they need to build their businesses."

Radware acquired the Alteon line on March 31, 2009, and made a commitment to advance the product portfolio to protect customers' application switching investments. Today's Alteon 4-series launch comes on the heels of the Alteon 5412 high-end solution introduction; representing a critical proof point in Radware's year of investment in research, development and engineering support and plans to continue to invest and further evolve the Alteon product line.

"Enterprises will increase their investments in datacenter technologies as a way to improve business agility – especially as cloud services, IT-communications convergence and the software-services industries have a transformative effect on the network, while data center consolidation, virtualization and similar initiatives support the need for cost cutting and productivity enhancement," said Ilan Kinreich, Chief Operating Officer, Radware. "The Alteon 4-series is a core component of both the current and next-generation datacenter; strategically aligning business-IT investments through real-time awareness, increased speed, performance, and compliance of mission-critical applications."

Alteon 4408 and 4416 Specifications

Similar to other Alteon application switch models, the 4-series combines the unique Alteon Virtual Matrix Architecture (VMA) technology with Radware's industry-recognized hardware platforms, resulting in performance leadership for optimal Quality of Experience. The switches are designed and built as specialized high-performance Layer 4-7 application delivery switches with backward compatibility.  Extending throughput capacity by up to 4 Gbps, the Alteon 4408 and 4416 deliver breakthrough performance including 215K Layer 4 and 135K Layer 7 Transactions per Second and the fastest response time.

They enable the broadest range of performance traffic management and control services with six-Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and two small form-factor pluggable (SFP) ports on the Alteon 4408, and twelve GE, four SFP ports and dual, out-of-band management ports on the Alteon 4416.  Both switches also offer a serial management port and a USB port for simplified software upgrades and recovery as well as redundant power supply configurations.

Trade-in Program

The Company is offering attractive trade-in credits and a seamless upgrade path to current Alteon customers interested in the Alteon 4-series application switch. For more information on Radware's trade-in program, please contact your nearest Radware office.

"Alteon is Back": The Battle Continues

Radware continues its "Alteon is Back" campaign (http://www.alteonisback.com/) with not only the second installment of its super hero saga combating his evil network archenemies (Episode 2: Alteon - Power Play), additional wallpapers, screen savers and other extras such as ringtones but also a contest, which runs from March 15th thru March 19th, 2010. Participants will be required to find a hidden reference each day with one prize awarded per day. Information pertaining to contest rules, eligibility, daily clues and prizes can be found on www.alteonisback.com/community and or on Radware's Twitter page (www.twitter.com/radware).

About Radware

Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for nearly 10,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute®, Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of application delivery and network security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart". For more information, please visit www.radware.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the Application Switching or Network Security industry, changes in demand for Application Switching or Network Security products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware's Form 20-F.

(1) IDC, "Worldwide Datacenter Layer 4-7 Switch 2010-2014 Forecast", Doc #221590, January, 2010.

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Majesco Entertainment Company (Nasdaq: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced that The Daring Game for Girls for Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ has shipped to retailers nationwide. Based on the popular The Daring Book for Girls series that has sold almost two million copies to date, the game lets girls plan for a dream adventure after playing games, making friends, collecting gear and learning fascinating facts about important women throughout history. At only $19.99, the game is a valuable gift for girls and captures the fabulous spirit of being a daring girl.  

In The Daring Game for Girls, daring girls explore a schoolyard, neighborhood and campground. They set out on spy missions and explore caves, grow plants in a garden, and make friendship bracelets, scooters and more in their very own workshop. Daring girls will acquire Essential Gear and Badges, and when they're ready, girls will set off on the ultimate adventure of a lifetime, whether it's rafting the Amazon River, climbing Mt. McKinley or embarking on an African safari.

Developed by WXP, The Daring Game for Girls for Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ is rated E for Everyone and is available now. For additional information, please visit the official site at www.daringgameforgirls.com.

About Majesco Entertainment Company

Majesco Entertainment Company is a provider of video games for the mass market.  Building on more than 20 years of operating history, the company is focused on developing and publishing a wide range of casual and family oriented video games on Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and other leading systems.  Product highlights include Cooking Mama™, TETRIS® Party Deluxe, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum.  The company's shares are traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol: COOL.  Majesco is headquartered in Edison, NJ and has an international office in Bristol, UK. More information about Majesco can be found online at www.majescoentertainment.com.  @Majesco is on twitter or at www.twitter.com/majesco.

About WXP Games

WXP Games, LLC is an independent studio making great games since 1995. WXP has a strong portfolio of financially successful games, including the platinum-selling The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, their own original IP and multi-console franchise hit Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball, and the award-winning Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action. Its multi-console proprietary "Experience Engine" technology is in its 11th year of refinement. WXP's core team is based in Seattle's urban Pioneer Square district.

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"'You must have the luck of the Irish. They accepted your offer.' That is what my realtor told me when I was bidding on my first house in March, 1988...the owners had accepted it on St. Patrick's Day. We put 20 percent down on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, with no help from our parents...By the time we sold it in 1989, the economy had slipped into a growth recession – the economy was no longer growing rapidly enough to accommodate all the workers who were entering the labor force, and unemployment was rising. I was happy just to break even after realtor fees when the house finally sold," says Diane Swonk, chief economist of Mesirow Financial, in her annual housing market edition of Themes on the Economy, located at http://www.mesirowfinancial.com/economics/swonk/themes/themes_0310.pdf .

"I bring that example up now, as it comes closer to describing today's housing environment than much of what we have seen over the last fifteen-to-twenty years, when non-bank lenders grew bigger than banks in the mortgage market, and subprime blossomed. Even first-time buyers have an upper hand over trade-up buyers, given the challenges faced in selling existing properties," notes Swonk.

In her special housing market edition, Swonk takes a closer look at the outlook for housing, and the fallout for overall economic growth. This report is being released a month earlier than usual because of the unexpected drop in sales in January, and the concerns that those losses raise regarding the sustainability of the recovery.

"[T]he level of activity that we see in the market is expected to remain near historic lows and more consistent with a recession (depression?) than recovery. Indeed, nobody in the housing industry is forecasting anything close to what would be considered a 'normal' level of activity until 2012," concludes Swonk.

The March issue of Themes on the Economy as well as archived issues can be found at mesirowfinancial.com.

Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1937, it is an independent, employee-owned firm with more than $30 billion in assets under management and 1,200 employees in locations across the country and in London. With expertise in Investment Management, Investment Services, Insurance Services, Investment Banking, Consulting and Real Estate, Mesirow Financial strives to meet the financial needs of institutions, public sector entities, corporations and individuals. For more information about Mesirow Financial, visit its Web site at mesirowfinancial.com.

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Joe Rogan takes on religion, Darwinism and more in his stand-up special "Talking Monkeys in Space" which was filmed at the Southern Theater in Columbus, OH.  The "Joe Rogan: Talking Monkeys in Space" CD will be released by COMEDY CENTRAL Records and the separate "Joe Rogan: Talking Monkeys in Space" extended and uncensored DVD will be released by COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment.  Each will be available in stores nationwide on Tuesday, March 30.  "Joe Rogan: Talking Monkeys in Space" will be also available, extended and uncensored, on download-to-own platforms including iTunes and Amazon Video On Demand, as well as in standard and high definition versions on Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune and PlayStation Store.

The COMEDY CENTRAL premiere of "Joe Rogan: Talking Monkeys in Space," a one-hour stand-up special, airs on Saturday, March 27 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.

"Talking Monkeys in Space" features Rogan's classic trademark of sharply insightful comedy delivered in straightforward and hard-edge style, tackling countless cultural taboos such as gay marriage, marijuana use and the anti-evolution debate.

"Joe Rogan: Talking Monkeys in Space" CD contains 14 bonus tracks of Q & A with Rogan.

"Joe Rogan: Talking Monkeys in Space" DVD is extended and uncensored with over 25 minutes of never-before-seen footage from the special.  The DVD also contains over 15 minutes of behind-the-scenes bonus material.  "Joe Rogan: Talking Monkeys in Space" will be also available, extended and uncensored, on download-to-own platforms including iTunes and Amazon Video On Demand, as well as in standard and high definition versions on Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune and PlayStation Store.

With a successful history as a television host and over 20 years of performing stand-up comedy, Rogan has proven to be a major player in the entertainment industry.  The Guardian newspaper called Rogan, "One of the most complex and exciting stand-ups working in America today."  Rogan's first hour special, "Joe Rogan Live," which premiered on Showtime in 2007, is available on DVD.  He released two critically-acclaimed CDs, "Shiny Happy Jihad" (2007-Comedy Central Records) and "I'm Gonna Be Dead Some Day" (2000-Warner Bros. Records).

Since 2002, Rogan provides color commentary for the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) on Pay-Per-View and Spike TV.  He was the host of the hugely successful reality show, "Fear Factor," for six seasons on NBC and played Joe Garrelli, the resident electrician on the hit NBC comedy series "NewsRadio."  Rogan's personal blog featuring daily posts is available at www.JoeRogan.net.

COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 98 million homes nationwide.  COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of VIACOM Inc.'s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks.  COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com.  For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY CENTRAL's press Web site at www.comedycentral.com/press.

MTV Networks, a division of Viacom ( VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that engage and connect diverse audiences across television, online, mobile, games, virtual worlds and consumer products.  The company's portfolio spans more than 150 television channels and 400 digital media properties worldwide, and includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., TeenNick, AddictingGames, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, SPIKE, TV Land, Atom, GameTrailers and Xfire.

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