SoftwareShield Named Finalist for Prestigious SIIA Codie Award.Nominated for Best Digital Rights Management Solution VANCOUVER, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography -- SoftwareShield Technologies, Inc., a world-class Digital Rights Management and licensing and protection system, announced today that it is a finalist for the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property ) prestigious Codie Awards, in the Best Digital Rights Management Solution category. The SoftwareShield[TM] System SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). provides a comprehensive Software Developer's Toolkit A set of software routines and utilities used to help programmers write an application. For graphical interfaces, it provides the tools and libraries for creating menus, dialog boxes, fonts and icons. for creating licensing systems and protection software that developers can use to distribute and sell their Windows[R] applications online. "We're thrilled with the nomination received from the Codie Awards committee," says Zack Wickes, President of SoftwareShield Technologies. "It validates for us the hard work we put in to making SoftwareShield a premiere software licensing system for software developers." Established in 1986, the Codie Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information and education technology industries. Through a unique combination of journalist and peer review, the Codie Awards recognize 72 categories of outstanding products and services. This year's 367 finalists represent an impressive array of technology and business excellence, passion and success. They were chosen from more than 1,200 nominations submitted by more than 600 companies -- breaking the record set in the 2006 awards. Over 219 individuals in the trade press, consulting, educators, IT specialists and other neutral specialists have reviewed all of the products entered. "The 2007 Codie Finalists represent real winners, even at this stage of the contest," said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. "Competition is fiercer than ever and that makes selection as a Codie Finalist a real achievement. All the companies on this year's list should feel justifiably jus·ti·fi·a·ble adj. Having sufficient grounds for justification; possible to justify: justifiable resentment. jus proud of their recognition." About SoftwareShield Technologies, Inc. The SoftwareShield System SDK addresses a growing need from software publishers worldwide for digital rights management software that electronically generates and enforces their software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. and guards against unauthorized use. By implementing a wide variety of built-in product activation Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary computer software programs. Specifically, product activation refers to a method where a software application hashes hardware serial numbers and an ID number specific to the product's license (a algorithms and copy protection from a single binary file A computer file format in which each character position can hold any one of 256 different binary codes. Binary files are contrasted to "ASCII files," which contain a smaller set of codes for only alphabetic letters, numeric digits, special symbols and a few control codes. , SoftwareShield's SDK can completely automate product activation and runs securely behind a payment processing merchant or gateway. The SoftwareShield System SDK is available for purchase and a free Trial Edition download at www.softwareshield.com. SoftwareShield Technologies, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Yummy Interactive, Inc. About SIIA The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit www.siia.net. |
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