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ActiveSymbols Partners with ''IndyCar Series Magazine'' and ''Racer'' Magazine to Deliver Full Weekend Coverage of Indy 500 to Mobile Consumers Via Its MobilePromote Application.


INDIANAPOLIS -- Mobile Consumers with Camera Phones to Benefit from Race-Day Alerts, Breaking News, Promotions, Mobile Picture Blogging and Rich Mobile Content During the Race

ActiveSymbols Inc., a Logicalis Company, and IndyCar Series The IndyCar Series is the premier series of the Indy Racing League. Due to the legal settlement with CART, the IRL was unable to utilize the name until the beginning of the 2003 season.  (www.indycarmag.com) and Racer Magazines (www.racer.com), produced by Haymarket Worldwide, America's premier motorsports publisher, today announced a partnership that will enable mobile consumers with popular camera phones to utilize their phones to receive exclusive Real-Time breaking news, alerts and offers from IndyCar Series Magazine and Racer Magazine leading up to the Indy 500 race and during the race itself. The partnership will offer consumers who sign up for the MobilePromote alerts the opportunity to receive:

--Promotions

--Subscription Discount on IndyCar Series Magazine

--Subscription Discount on Racer Magazine

--Downloads

--Wallpaper of Indy cars

--Wallpaper of Indy drivers

--Ringtone of an Indy Car

--Photo Games and Contest

--You're in an IRL 1. (jargon, chat) IRL - In real life. Generally synonymous with f2f.
2. (language, robotics) IRL - Industrial Robot Language.
 car

--Directions on how to send a person's picture to the ActiveSymbols MorphMe application and put your face in Danica Patrick's Helmet.

--Mobile Photo Blog Contest

--Directions on how to send your Indy 500 pictures to the IndyCar Series Picture Blog. The best photos will win INDY related merchandise.

--Breaking News Alerts

--Real-Time Race Day Alerts

--Did You Knows (DYK's) During the Race

--After the Race Follow-up

"Our partnership with IndyCar Series and Racer magazines gives ActiveSymbols outstanding media partners. These publications have individuals which read their publications on a monthly basis via subscription, who can now receive content throughout the Indy 500 weekend and during race day through our Race-Day Alerts," said ActiveSymbols President, Jeff Reed Jeff Reed can refer to:
  • Jeff Reed, a baseball catcher.
  • Jeff Reed, an American football place kicker.
  • Jeff Reed, an American artist.
. "Our mobile consumer platform is designed to link mobile consumers who care about events like the Indy 500 with media outlets and brand marketers to provide new touchpoints to consumers who are interested in the specific events like racing. We also see a green field of opportunity for mobile carriers and content providers."

"IndyCar Series Magazine, Racer Magazine and Haymarket Worldwide saw the potential right away with this partnership," said Ian Havard, Publisher Haymarket Worldwide. "ActiveSymbols has the ability to communicate Real-Time with our target audience in new ways. The fact that we can push up-to-the-minute race day alerts and promotions to Indy 500 fans is huge for us. We've never been able to do that before and we're excited to hear how well it works from race fans."

To receive Race Day Alerts send the word IndyCar to 425-318-2744 and to view the MobilePromote Rich Content for the 90th Indy 500 race, visit http://ezcard.activesymbols.com/w/7 from any Internet supported phone. More details about the MobilePromote 1.0 technology are available online at http://www.activesymbols.com.

About IndyCar Series Magazine, Racer Magazine and Haymarket Worldwide, Inc.

IndyCar Series and Racer are published by Haymarket Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary company of Haymarket Media, Inc. The Haymarket Publishing Group is the largest private magazine publisher in the United Kingdom, with branches worldwide (including New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 and California in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ) and an array of magazine and custom publications appealing to a highly focused readership. Noteworthy on the list of market-leading Haymarket motorsport titles are F1 Racing, the weeklies Autosport and Motorsport News. For more information on Haymarket, visit www.haymarketworldwide.com.

About ActiveSymbols

ActiveSymbols, a Logicalis Company, is bringing mobile consumers together with brand marketers via a unique and patent-pending brand image database technology. ActiveSymbols(TM) Enterprise Server (patent-pending) is an enterprise-class scalable platform enabling image and object recognition (computer vision), text recognition (OCR OCR
 in full optical character recognition

Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry.
), biometrics (facial recognition), and linear (1D) and 2D barcode decoding from everyday consumer devices such as camera phones and PDAs. We like to call it "visual searching in the palm of your hand." For more information on Seattle-based ActiveSymbols, please visit www.activesymbols.com.

About Logicalis

Logicalis is a global provider of high-performance technology solutions. Logicalis and its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies

A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company.

Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way.

Notes:
An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary.
 employ 1,000 people worldwide, including highly-trained service specialists who specify, design, deploy and manage IT infrastructure to meet the needs of over 5,000 corporate and public sector customers. Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Cisco and EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. .

Logicalis is a part of Logicalis Group, a division of Datatec Limited (JSE JSE

See: Johannesburg Stock Exchange
:DTC DTC

See: Depository Transfer Check


DTC

See: Depository Trust Company


DTC

See Depository Trust Company (DTC).
), a $3 billion business listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)

Established in 1886, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is the only stock exchange in South Africa. Gold and mining stocks form the majority of shares listed.
. With its international headquarters in the UK, Logicalis Group has annualized annualized

Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared.
 global revenues of approximately $750 million from operations in the U.S., UK, Germany and South America. In North America, Logicalis' annualized revenues amount to some $475 million with over 450 employees in the U.S. For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.

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