ABBYY Software House specialises in the development of software for optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography. Products from ABBYY include the FineReader line of OCR, ICR and OMR software, and FineReader development tools.

With new networks such as HSPA launching and operators trying to extract every last bit of value out of their existing networks, optimising their RF assets is a central priority for operators. UK-based Actix helps wireless carriers enhance revenue growth and improve operating margins by delivering intelligent, automated network optimisation and performance engineering systems. Actix solutions feature embedded wireless expertise, automating key processes and enabling very significant efficiencies in the deployment and operation of carriers’ networks. Over 5,000 engineers from more than 200 operators globally – including Verizon, Vodafone, O2, Cingular and T-Mobile – depend upon Actix software every day to improve their wireless operations.

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost.

Aricent is a full-service, full-spectrum communications software company. Aricent offers software services and products that enable the world's leading communications equipment manufacturers, device manufacturers and service providers to improve time-to-revenue and maximize efficiency. Aricent has more than 350 clients worldwide, including Airtel, Alcatel, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Inmarsat, Juniper, Lucent, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone.

Ascent Media Group EMEA, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Discovery Holding Company, which through it's Creative Services, Media Management Services and Networks Services groups, provides creative and technical media services to the media and entertainment industries across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Aspective is an eBusiness solution provider, specialising in ‘front office’ solutions for sales, marketing and customer service – including eCRM, eCommerce, Customer Analytics and mBusiness applications. Aspective enables its clients to realise the value of their business by maximising the value of their customer relationships.

Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the power of books: making, reading, sharing, and selling them. Blurb’s creative publishing service is simple and smart enough to make anyone an author – every blogger, artist, marketer, photographer, traveler, entrepreneur, poet, everyone. Additionally, Blurb’s bookstore and online marketing tools let Blurb authors sell and promote their books, and keep 100% of the author’s markup. Blurb’s community features – designed to encourage collaboration and communication – are defining social print media. Founded by Eileen Gittins in 2004 and funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners, Blurb is bringing book publishing to the masses. Blurb BookSmart™ software is free for Mac or PC; users pay only when they publish their books. The software is available for download at (http://www.blurb.com/)

Brightcove is an Internet TV service that empowers video producers and programmers to build broadband businesses while giving viewers more choices and control over their use of video and television. Founded by Internet pioneer Jeremy Allaire in 2004 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brightcove is the market-leading Internet video partner for international news and entertainment businesses.

Celtro provides innovative cellular backhaul switching solutions for mobile operators worldwide that improve service delivery and increase network efficiency. The resulting benefits to the operators are increased revenues and improved customer satisfaction, as well as reduced capital and operational expenses. Celtro has commercially deployed its DynaMate cellular backhaul switching products with 15 leading mobile operators servicing more than 200 million subscribers in Europe, Africa and Latin America.

Cirrus Logic is a premier supplier of high-performance analogue circuits and advanced mixed-signal chip solutions.

Continuous Computing provides integrated systems and services that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy Next-Generation Networks (NGN). More than 150 customers worldwide benefit from the company's unique blend of customized professional services, Trillium® protocol software, AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI systems, and BladeCenter hardware. Continuous Computing helps customers reduce platform lifecycle costs, optimize data delivery, and accelerate deployments of NGN, 3G Wireless and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure.

Covergence is the leader in scaling, securing and controlling VoIP and other real-time services. The award-winning Covergence Session Manager combines traditional session-border-control functionality with comprehensive security features and management tools. Covergence Session Manager is purpose-built to securely and reliably connect users to VoIP and multi-media services while giving organizations the complete control and visibility they require.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500.

Devicescape is major provider of software access solutions for WI-FI roaming services.

edge IPK delivers innovative business process solutions based on Open Presentation Platform (OPP). The company’s mission is to become the leading international provider of OPP, bringing business and IT together. Through its flagship product, edgeConnect, edge IPK aims to significantly reduce the development time and cost of building front-end applications. edge IPK accelerates business evolution, by enabling organisations to rapidly develop and manage business applications to support multiple users interfaces and presentations through a single process. The company helps its clients to develop software applications using a ‘write once, publish many times’ model. The company has extensive experience in financial services, with a blue chip customer base, which includes ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Towergate Partnership and Zurich Financial Services.

Eisai is the Company behind the well-known drug brands Aricept® (donepezil hydrochloride) used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease, Pariet® (rabeprazole sodium) a PPI used in the treatment of gastro-intestinal disorders and Zonegran (zonisamide) for the treatment of epilepsy. Eisai plans to bring a number of new products to market in the coming years including potential new treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and migraine prophylaxis. The company also has several novel cancer treatments in clinical development.

Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in Toronto, Canada, Ethoca is the leader in collaborative fraud management. Ethoca enables businesses operating in any customer-not-present environment (i.e., business by internet, phone, fax or mail) to make more informed decisions about their customer transactions by sharing transaction experience data in a way that is secure, automated, effective and ethical. Businesses submit transaction data to Ethoca and can use summary history and analysis based on the collaborative data of Ethoca’s clients to gauge the fraud-risk associated with any given transaction.

Force10 Networks is a pioneer in building and securing reliable, high performance networks. With its no compromise approach to networking and advances in high density Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching, routing and security, Force10 delivers the innovative technologies that allow customers to transform their networks into strategic assets at the lowest total cost of ownership.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT Infrastructure Provider with a strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and Dynamic Data Center products, services and solutions. With a platform and services portfolio of exceptional depth, our offering extends from notebooks through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions and services offerings. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a presence in all key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with Infrastructure Services extending coverage approximately 170 countries worldwide.

Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign (a GMO Internet Group company) offers publicly trusted SSL (standard and new Extended Validation), S/MIME and code signing certificates. These core solutions allow its thousands of enterprise customers to conduct secure online transactions and data submission, and provide tamper-proof distributable code as well as being able to bind identities to client certificates for email security and remote two factor authentication, such as SSL VPNs. It has sales and support expertise available through its US, UK, Japanese and Belgian offices, available in a number of European and Asian languages.

Greenplum develops the world's fastest, most scalable database software for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Greenplum Database, the company's breakthrough database software product, enables companies to analyze terabytes of information faster and more cost effectively than traditional data warehouse solutions, allowing organizations to fully leverage their data to gain critical insights into the past, present and future and achieve and extend their competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Imprivata develops an enterprise single sign-on solution that dramatically simplifies password administration and enhances IT security. The company is privately held with venture funding from Polaris Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and General Catalyst Partners. Imprivata's OneSign product is packaged as an affordable, easy-to-implement appliance.

Ingres Corporation is the leading Business Open Source software company, created in November 2005 as part of a partnership between CA, Inc. and Garnett & Helfrich Capital. Based on more than 25 years of technology investment, Ingres Corporation offers a product family of enterprise-class, highly scalable databases and tools that are currently being used by more than 10,000 major global customers and partners. Ingres's database technology is also embedded in a large number of major third-party software offerings including CA's primary product offerings Unicenter and eTrust. Ingres Corporation supports customer implementations in more than 58 countries around the world.

Inovis is a leading provider of on-demand Business Community Management solutions that empower companies to transact, collaborate and optimise communications with their entire trading community. By standardising and automating mission-critical business interactions, companies can dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of supply chain communication. This foundation of high-quality, reliable and secure connectivity provides real-time visibility across the order-to-payment lifecycle.

Intelligent Energy is a company that develops and produces hydrogen fuel cells for use in a range of power systems applications in sectors such as automotive, aerospace & defence, distributed generation and portable power. Intelligent Energy began commercial operations in 2001 and has a history of pioneering fuel cell research and development. Today, the company’s research, development and production facilities are based at Intelligent Energy’s headquarters in Loughborough in the UK, as well as in California and New Mexico in the United States. The company has offices in London and Johannesburg, in addition to a commercial presence in Tokyo.

Inuk Networks is a triple-play service provider which has capitalised on the rapid growth of broadband by developing a platform for the distribution of broadcast quality TV and carrier-class telephony over closed IP-based networks. Freewire is the company's branded triple-play offering to consumers, with an initial focus on the student market. Inuk's Freewire platform can be customised and delivered as a wholesale solution offering broadband providers and network operators flexibility in their TV, voice and converged entertainment services.

iPass delivers enterprises simple, secure and manageable connectivity services for mobile workers as they move between office, home, and remote locations. The award-winning iPassConnect™ user interface, centralized management, leading security features and powerful policy enforcement have made iPass services the choice of hundreds of Global 2000 corporations including General Motors, HSBC and GlaxoSmithKline.

Jasper Wireless, a licensed global machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile operator, is the only company built from the ground up to wirelessly connect and manage machines around the world as part of the $32B M2M market. With this dedicated focus, Jasper Wireless is redefining machine-to-machine communications by converging the best in wireless technologies and on-demand Internet applications. The company’s unique service model features the Jasper Wireless M2M Global SIM, M2M vertical application solutions, and the Jasper Wireless M2M Control Center for real-time visibility and control to help M2M application providers maximize their revenues. Founded in 2004, Jasper Wireless is a privately held company based in Sunnyvale, CA, USA with regional offices in the United Kingdom.

Kineto Wireless is the key innovator and leading supplier of UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) Technology, the 3GPP standard for Mobile/Wi-Fi convergence. With a UMA-enabled network, mobile operators can provide a seamless, high-performance mobile voice, data, and IMS experience on both cellular and Wi-Fi networks.

Located in the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, Europe, Singapore and Hong Kong, LaCie is the leading manufacturer of computer peripherals for PC, Apple and Linux users. LaCie creates external storage solutions and color monitors that help professionals and everyday people easily manage their digital lives. LaCie has differentiated its products through original designs and leading-edge technology. Established in France in 1989, LaCie is listed on Euronext under FR0000054314 (LAC).

LeftHand Networks pioneered IP-based storage area networks (SAN) in 2001. SANs built using LeftHand’s SAN/iQ® software are uniquely able to distribute and protect data across a cluster of industry-standard storage servers. The company’s patented architecture increases data availability, allows users to start small and grow the SAN seamlessly, and simplifies management. The LeftHand SAN is ideal for storage and server consolidation, multi-site SANs, and disaster recovery. LeftHand SANs are available in the U.S., Canada and throughout Europe.

Linksys, a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc., is the recognised leader in Voice, Wireless and Ethernet networking hardware for consumer, SOHO and small business users. Linksys is dedicated to making networking easy and affordable for its customers, offering innovative, award-winning products that seamlessly integrate with a variety of devices and applications.

Media Initiatives Group (MIG) is a market-leading media sales organisation, operating a number of successful on and offline companies throughout the world. With over 12 years experience in the UK and US advertising markets, MIG has expanded its reach into virtually all realms of media sales. Rather than rely on existing media formats, MIG continually strives to pioneer original, inventive solutions for its clients that produce the very best campaign results. Formed in 1994, the Group is wholly owned by the Directors and today employs over 100 people worldwide. MIG currently has offices in London, New York and Los Angeles, with plans to expand the Group into the other world markets in 2008.

Medio Systems is a leading provider of solutions for mobile search and advertising. The company combines the latest in patent-pending search, personalisation, recommendation and advertising technologies to give mobile operators control over their search and advertising ecosystems. Medio's solutions are designed to deliver highly relevant and personalised information and content to the individual mobile phone subscriber.

Mirasys was founded in 1997 and is devoted to the development of the Mirasys Digital Video Management System providing IP-based digital video management. Mirasys has launched industry firsts such as simultaneous recording from analog and IP cameras, instant alarm verification, remote video monitoring, virtual guarding, and centralized video surveillance services.

Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) is a consultancy that can help companies design user friendly products and services. NN/g's world renowned gurus are experts in "user experience" and specialise in helping companies to develop web sites, devices and products that are designed to satisfy all aspects of the end-user's experience.

Openet is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions. The Transactional Intelligence of the company’s solutions extracts increased value from diverse service provider networks, enabling rapid introduction of new services and reliable, cost-effective management of existing services.

Pace plc (LSE:PIC) is a leading technology developer for the global payTV industry, working across satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. Pace has one of the world's most experienced specialist engineering teams, developing intelligent and innovative products and services for both payTV operators and retail markets across the world.

Pearson Phoenix, formerly know as Phoenix First Limited, specialises in the supply of management information systems (MIS) and finance systems to schools and local education authorities throughout the UK. Since its foundation in 1990, the company has quickly established itself as a leading provider of MIS software. Currently almost 5000 schools across 27 Education Authorities are using Phoenix systems as well as a growing number of international schools.

Picis is a global software company, founded in 1994, which created the first software applications designed specifically to meet the challenges of critical care and surgical environments within hospitals. Picis opened its first development centre in Barcelona in 1995, with its first customers based at hospitals in France, Spain and Austria. Picis has a growing presence across Europe, with its corporate headquarters based in Wakefield, Massachusetts in the USA.

PlateSpin provides a unified suite of solutions to help enterprises adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center. PlateSpin’s patent-pending conversion and optimisation technology liberates software from hardware platforms, allowing servers to be streamed over the enterprise network from any source to any destination. This freedom of movement ensures the best fit between server resource supply and application workload demands. Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower costs and solve today’s most pressing data center initiatives such as server consolidation, disaster recovery and hardware migration. PlateSpin was recently awarded the 2006 International Business Award for Best Company and the 2006 Virtualization Technology of the Year Award (UK). The company ranked second on the 2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada and fifth on the eighth annual PROFIT HOT 50 for emerging growth companies.

Postilion is a leading provider of customer-interaction software solutions for financial and payments services. More than 4,000 customers in 49 countries, including regional and national banks, community banks, credit unions, retailers, telcos, and processors rely on their banking and payments software.

PowerOasis is a UK-based provider of off-grid power solutions for mobile networks, with a unique combination of expertise in renewable energy and mobile telecommunications. PowerOasis helps mobile operators with power challenges including energy audits, power management strategies, business modeling and end-to-end project management. Through trials in the UK and Africa, PowerOasis has developed tools and skills for delivering successful renewable power solutions that combine power sources and energy storage, for each site. In 2008 the Carbon Trust awarded PowerOasis a grant to further its leading edge work in telecoms renewables.

Quova gives online businesses the ability to determine the geographic location of their Web site visitors. The company offers the most comprehensive, deeply researched and reliable location data available today — without compromising individual privacy. More than 300 companies of all sizes use Quova’s data and services to detect and prevent fraud, ensure regulatory compliance, manage digital content rights distribution, and localise ads and web content. The company’s customer base includes Microsoft, Major League Baseball, American Express, the BBC, Ladbrokes and Cisco Systems, and investors include Mobius Venture Partners and IDG. Quova was founded in 2000 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Rapid Mobile Media is a software company licensing platforms that enable automatic optimisation, delivery and installation of applications and content on any mobile phone, without the need for user intervention or device-side agents.

RealNetworks is the leading creator of digital media services and software including Rhapsody, RealPlayer 10, and casual PC and mobile games. Broadcasters, network operators, media companies and enterprises use RealNetworks' products and services to create and deliver digital media to PCs, mobile phones and consumer electronics devices.

Red Hat is a leading open source and Linux provider. Red Hat is bringing Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's Open Source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management.

An Ericsson company since January 2007 (NASDAQ: ERIC), Redback Networks Inc. manages 63 million broadband subscribers for 75 percent of the top 20 telephone carriers worldwide. Redback’s multi-service routing platform delivers next generation broadband services such as VoIP,