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Venetian Resort Hotel Casino Selects Xybernaut Wearable Computers for Guest Services and Employee Security.


FAIRFAX, Va. & LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  -- Xybernaut Atigo(R) Mobile/Wearable Computers Deliver Flexible Platform for Variety of Critical Daily Business Operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets  

Xybernaut(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:XYBR XYBR Xybernaut Corp (stock symbol) ) today announced that The Venetian(R) Resort Hotel Casino has purchased and deployed Xybernaut solutions services and mobile/wearable computing technologies for a variety of guest services and employee security applications.

The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, which is an anchor property on the renowned Las Vegas Strip The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) is a 4 mi (6.7 km) section of Las Vegas Boulevard South, most of which has been designated an All-American Road. , is recognized as one of the premier destinations in Las Vegas for luxury lodging, world-class dining, fine art, entertainment, gaming and leisure. The Venetian boasts more than 4,000 guest suites and perhaps the most accommodating high-end shopping experience in Las Vegas with nearly 100 upscale retail affiliates housed in The Venetian's Grand Canal Shoppes The Grand Canal Shoppes is a 500,000 sq ft shopping mall adjacent to The Venetian Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.

The mall was opened along with the Venetian in 1999.
 -- an indoor walk-through shopping rotunda rotunda

In Classical and Neoclassical architecture, a building or room that is circular in plan and covered with a dome. The Pantheon is a Classical Roman rotunda. The Villa Rotonda at Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, is an Italian Renaissance example.
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Venetian guest service and security agents are using Xybernaut Atigo(R) computers as part of a wireless/mobile information technology system that compliments existing computing systems for information sharing See data conferencing. , asset (baggage) tracking, knowledge management and enterprise security.

Xybernaut Atigo technologies support a wide variety of critical daily operations and were deployed to enhance guest experience and satisfaction through more active management of critical business information. In addition to the guest services operations, Xybernaut technologies are also used in one of the resort's most important functions -- site and staff security.

The relationship between Xybernaut and The Venetian began in early 2003 when a pilot program was initiated to test various technologies for future use in the resort's information technology architecture. With mobile and wireless computing as a focal point focal point
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 for the systems evolution, Venetian IT executives were looking for Looking for

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 flexibility, durability and ease-of-use.

Over a 16-month period, The Venetian purchased, deployed and evaluated Xybernaut products and solution services to assess functionality, ergonomics and the best manner in which to integrate Xybernaut technologies into their daily operations.

"Our initial pilot study indicated that many of our fundamental business operations could be enhanced greatly with a truly mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings  platform," stated Jack Braman, vice president, Information Technology for The Venetian. "Two areas quickly emerged as the best candidates for Xybernaut technologies and solutions -- guest services and security. In refining our analysis further, our IT executives and technical teams agreed that, under guest services category, baggage routing and tracking would be the first area of focus; and, under the category of security, employee/staff check-in would be another good match for the technologies. We also continue to evaluate the technology for additional uses such as high-end 'player' assistance in the casino, queue busting/mobile check-in at our front desk and registration areas, as well as a management and tracking tool for our maintenance staff," added Drew Courtney, special projects coordinator, Information Technology, The Venetian.

Automating baggage handling processes and employee security at The Venetian are good examples of how Xybernaut technologies can make a significant difference in staff awareness and overall enterprise productivity. Providing access to critical data, when and where Venetian team members most need it, without the tethers of a fixed workstation, enhances both customer service and hotel efficiency.

"In essence, the fundamental goal of our efforts with The Venetian is to help them understand and adapt quickly to the needs of its guests. Something like ensuring that luggage arrives in a guest suite in a timely manner might seem trivial, however, when you realize that The Venetian handles an average of more than 3,000 pieces of luggage per day -- more than most airports in the U.S. -- challenges quickly emerge," stated Steven A. Newman, Xybernaut president and COO. "Our task is now to understand additional areas in which our technologies and solution services can work seamlessly with existing and planned elements of The Venetian's IT architecture."

The Xybernaut-Venetian solutions work by equipping guest service and security representatives with mobile/ wearable computers (Atigo M and Atigo T) configured with wireless network connectivity. The devices are equipped with full-color touch screen enabled flat panel displays (FPD (1) (Flat Panel Display) See LCD, plasma display, EL display, FED and flat panel display.

(2) (Field Programmable Device) An umbrella term for all chips that can be programmed by the customer including SPLDs, CPLDs and FPGAs. See PLD.
), with USB USB
 in full Universal Serial Bus

Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer.
, PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. , and CompactFlash ports as well as support Bluetooth(R) capabilities. These devices are directly integrated with Venetian enterprise applications and software.

About Las Vegas Sands Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) is a casino resort company based in Las Vegas, Nevada and majority owned by one of the world's richest men, Sheldon Adelson.

Las Vegas Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson, the world's sixth richest man, has said that his company will soon be
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Las Vegas Sands, Inc. is a hotel and gaming company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Company holdings include The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, located on the Las Vegas Strip, and Venetian Macao Limited, a developer of multiple casino hotel resort properties in The People's Republic of China's Special Administrative Region A special administrative region may be:
People's Republic of China
  • Special administrative regions, present-day administrative divisions (as of 2006) set up by the People's Republic of China to administer Hong Kong (since 1997) and Macau (since 1999)
 of Macao. For more information Visit The Venetian on the Internet at http://www.venetian.com.

About Xybernaut Corporation

Xybernaut Corporation is the leading provider of wearable/mobile computing hardware, software and services, bringing communications and full-function computing power in a hands-free design to people when and where they need it. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, Xybernaut has offices and subsidiaries in Europe (Germany) and Asia (Japan, Korea and China). Visit Xybernaut on the Internet at www.xybernaut.com.

Xybernaut, the Xybernaut logo and Mobile Assistant(R) V (MA(R) V) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Xybernaut Corporation in the USA and other countries. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995 (the "Act"). In particular, when used in the preceding discussion, the words "plan," "confident that," "believe," "scheduled," "expect," or "intend to," and similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Act and are subject to the safe harbor Safe Harbor

1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated.

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 created by the Act. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any of the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market conditions, the availability of components and successful production of the Company's products, general acceptance of the Company's products and technologies, competitive factors, timing, and other risks described in the Company's SEC reports and filings.

Third party statements contained herein and information contained on any third party website are not endorsed by or adopted by Xybernaut, nor has their accuracy been verified by Xybernaut.
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