Friday, February 18, 2011

FXCM Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2010 Earnings Conference Call

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FXCM Inc., (NYSE:FXCM) an online provider of forex trading and related services worldwide, announced that it will report its fourth quarter and full-year 2010 financial results before the open of the U.S. financial markets on Wednesday, March 2, 2011.

The Company will host a conference call to discuss the results at 8:30 a.m. (EST). This conference call will be available to domestic participants by dialing 888-680-0879 and 617-213-4856 for international participants. The conference ID number is 41994767. A live, audio webcast, a copy of FXCM's earnings release, and a presentation and replay of this conference call will also be available at http://ir.fxcm.com/.

About FXCM Inc.

FXCM Inc. is a global online provider of foreign exchange (forex) trading and related services to retail and institutional customers worldwide.

At the heart of FXCM's client offering is No Dealing Desk forex trading. Clients benefit from FXCM's large network of forex liquidity providers enabling FXCM to offer competitive spreads on major currency pairs. Clients have the advantage of mobile trading, one-click order execution, and trading from real-time charts. FXCM's UK subsidiary, Forex Capital Markets Limited, also offers CFD products with no re-quote trading and allows clients to trade forex, oil, gold, silver, and stock indices on one platform. In addition, FXCM offers educational courses on forex trading and provides free news and market research through DailyFX.com.

Trading foreign exchange and CFDs on margin carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all. Read full disclaimer.

All references to "FXCM" refer to FXCM Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.
Contacts

FXCM
Media:
Jaclyn Sales, 646-432-2463
Vice President, Corporate Communications
jsales@fxcm.com
or
Investors:
Thomas Porac, 646-432-2986
Vice President, Investor Relations
investorrelations@fxcm.com

Sunday, February 13, 2011

UNM Seeks To Enhance Status

"I think that's a good way to look at it," fourth-year CSU coach Tim Miles said. "It's an important game for us. I know we haven't beaten New Mexico since (Lobo coach) Steve Alford and his staff have been there (in seven games). It's important that we change that.



"And this game's really important in terms of which teams are going to get at-large consideration in the NCAA Tournament. That's not lost on us." The MWC, the fourth-rated conference in college basketball according to computer rankings, is sure to get at least two teams in the tournament. After that, it's up in the air.

The resurgent Rams are already being called an NCAA Tournament "lock" by some league analysts who believe up to five MWC teams will make it. But it doesn't take a locksmith to figure out there's still a combination of things that need to occur first.

Same goes for New Mexico, but the Lobos could get a major boost tonight, perhaps even jumping in front of Colorado State.

Despite the Rams' higher Ratings Percentage Index than the Lobos (CSU's is 42; UNM's is 68), a loss to New Mexico would make it hard for the tournament committee to pencil in CSU ahead of UNM.

A Lobo win, and the teams would be tied in the league race. And the Lobos would have a better overall record with a sweep of the Rams in the regular season, having won 68-61 last month in the Pit.

"It's a big game both ways," Alford said. "They win, they gain a split (with UNM) and they get their 17th win overall and are probably on their way to assuring themselves a winning record in the league.

"We get a win, and we get a sweep. Come three weeks from now, we potentially could be tied, so that becomes big." While sixth-ranked San Diego State (24-1, 9-1) and seventh-ranked Brigham Young (23-2, 9-1) continue to distance themselves from the rest of the league, that No. 3 spot could be huge. UNLV (18-6, 6-4), which plays host to SDSU tonight, is in that mix.

After tonight, the Rams and Lobos have similar schedules. Both play the two powerhouses on the road, and both get UNLV at home.

"I think only three are getting in (from the MWC), and I think whoever gets third alone gets in," Miles said. "I'm not buying all the hype about four or five teams, not unless another wins the MWC tournament." Alford delivers more of the company line, but added that falling into a fourth seed or lower would hurt his team's chances, "because it would likely mean you're playing a road game against UNLV in the first round of the (MWC) tournament" in March.

For now, the Lobos have to worry about beating the Rams on the road.

And this is not the typical CSU gang. The school that hasn't had a winning league mark since the inaugural year of the MWC (1999-2000), went winless in conference in 2008 and was 4-28 in MWC play over 2008 and 2009, is on the heels of a brilliant turnaround.

Credit Miles, a coach who got through that 0-16 MWC campaign of 2008 much like former NFL football coach John McKay did when his Tampa Bay Bucs lost 26 straight in 1976 and 1977 -- with patience, grit, and wit.

"They hired me to make history in men's basketball. We knocked that out in season one," said Miles, whose humor is one of the reasons The mtn. show "Season Pass" focuses on CSU basketball, behind the scenes.

Today, the cameras are sure to see the serious side of CSU as it tries to slow the Lobos, who have won four straight.

Besides the coaches, the player matchups are also interesting, maybe the key one being between inside bashers Drew Gordon of UNM and Andy Ogide of CSU.

"I'm looking forward to it; he's a great player and a great athlete," said Gordon, who had 16 points and 18 rebounds in a 68-57 home win against Wyoming on Wednesday. "I'm assuming we have high respect for each other. I know I do with him." Lobo freshman guard Tony Snell, who hit five 3s against Wyoming, is hoping to continue his hot streak and Alford is hoping to continue to boost his team's NCAA chances.

"I told the team, San Diego State and BYU are the only other teams to win four games in a row in this league, so we've done some good things," Alford said. "Especially after losing three in a row, to be able to do what we've done has been impressive. "We're playing a team that's been playing very, very well, and they've had seven days to get ready for us. It's a pretty pivotal game in February." Today Men: UNM at Colorado State, 7 p.m. TV: The mtn. (Comcast 276, DirecTV 616, no Dish) Radio: KKOB-AM (770) Today Women: Colorado State at UNM, 2 p.m. Radio: KNMLAM (610) To see more of the Albuquerque Journal, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.abqjournal.com. Copyright (c) 2011, Albuquerque Journal, N.M.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Call for Participation: 35th Internationalization and Unicode Conference

This is the premier conference on technologies and practices for the creation
and management of global and multilingual software solutions. This annual event
is praised for its excellent technical content, industry-tested recommendations
and updates on the latest standards.



The Program Committee is soliciting proposals for presentations that describe
cases studies, best practices, effective software design, innovative technology,
or important standards. Tutorial presentations are also welcome. Suitable topics
include, but are not limited to:



Application Areas



    --  Designing software platforms, operating systems, software as a service,
        (SAAS), or programming environments
    --  Social networks
    --  Search engines, SEO, discovery and navigation best practices
    --  Websites and web services
    --  Libraries and education
    --  Mobile applications, including iPhone, Android, iPad, Kindle, Windows
        Mobile, etc.
    --  Publishing and broadcasting for a global audience
    --  Internationalized Domain Names and other identifiers
    --  Security concerns and practices
    --  Semantic Web
    --  Voice to text, text to voice
    --  Machine translation
    --  Unicode, encodings, scripts, character properties, and algorithms


General Techniques



    --  Advances in technologies, algorithms or methodologies
    --  Using internationalization libraries and programming environments
    --  Handling bidirectional or other complex scripts
    --  Dealing with data formats: XML, JSON, HTML5, DITA, and upcoming
        standards
    --  Project management and methodologies for global development teams e.g.
        Agile
    --  Best practices in localization process and technology
    --  Best practices in world-ready development, test, and deployment
    --  Improving globalization capabilities within organizations
    --  Approaches for migrating legacy applications to global markets
    --  Font development and Typography


Culture and Technology



    --  Endangered Languages
    --  Unencoded Languages
    --  Case studies and research on cross-culture communication
    --  Digital Divide


Regional Considerations



    --  Languages of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
    --  Locales and the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)
    --  Emoji support


Details of the call for participation are available at:
http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc35call. Interested individuals or
organizations are invited to submit a brief (up to 600 word) abstract of their
proposed conference presentation by Friday, March 25 using this web form:
http://www.unicodeconference.org/abstracts.



The Program Committee will notify authors by Wednesday, April 20. Final
presentation materials will be required from selected presenters by Wednesday,
August 3. The conference agenda will be available by Wednesday, May 4 at:
http://www.unicodeconference.org/.



Sponsorships and exhibit space are available; for more information on sponsoring
contact Ken Berk at ken.berk@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404. For exhibiting questions
email event_marketing@omg.org. For all other questions email
info@unicodeconference.org.



About the Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend
and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization standards.



The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of corporations and
organizations in the computer and information processing industry. Members are:
Adobe Systems, Apple, Google, Government of Bangladesh, Government of India,
IBM, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, The Society for Natural Language
Technology Research, The University of California (Berkeley), The University of
California (Santa Cruz), Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison,
and Individual members.



For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium
http://www.unicode.org/contacts.html.



About the Event Producer

OMG® is the Event Producer for the Internationalization & Unicode Conferences.
OMG is an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains
computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Our
specifications include MDA®, UML®, CORBA®, MOF(TM), XMI® and CWM(TM). OMG's
specifications are all available for download by everyone without charge.



For more information about OMG, visit us online at http://www.omg.org.



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