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August 3, 2010 

Orem, UT – Metaspace studios today announced the launch of Fleets , a space warfare-themed social strategy game that allows users to Team up with friends and battle for control of the Andromeda galaxy! Establish bases, build massive armadas, and crush your opponents!  Fleets launches on Facebook today at http://apps.facebook.com/playfleets/ 

Fleets introduces a new genre of social games to the Facebook platform. Fleets is a free-to-play, massively- multiplayer, space warfare strategy game where players control vast armadas of warships vying for control of the galaxy. Take systems and plunder their resources to fuel your war machine. Establish outposts and lay down defenses. Build massive battlecruisers and dreadnoughts to overwhelm your opponents with sheer firepower, or amass squadrons of interceptors and frigates to achieve victory through superior numbers. The choice is yours! Play with your friends even if you are online at different times. 

“Fleets has been in development for quite sometime and we are happy to announce the official launch on Facebook and at http://www.PlayFleets.com .” stated Michael Sewel, Metaspace Studios founder. “Initial feedback is overwhelmingly positive and we look forward to expanding Fleets and launching future Strategy games for our large audience of users.” 

About Metaspace Studios 

Metaspace Studios creates online games that are fun and easy to play whether you are a serious or casual gamer. The company was founded by veteran entrepreneurs and gamers. Fleets is the first space warfare strategy game launched by Metaspace Studios with future games in development. Metaspace Studios is privately held and has raised an initial round of angel funding. For more information on Metaspace Studios visit http://metaspacestudios.com/ or http://playfleets.com/ . Please contact press at metaspacestudios.com .

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Basically, it is a CEO popularity list in Utah.  At first I was not to keen on the idea, but I attended the luncheon and enjoyed meeting manyof the nominees.

I seem to get so tied up in my businesses that I rarely take time to socialize within the Utah tech community.  The V100 gives me that opportunity. 

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What is PAVE? 

An address list must be sorted by a variety of criteria, depending on the type of mail being sent (e.g., letters or flats), the mail class (First-Class, Standard, Periodicals) and on the location of each address. As one example, the Postal Service uses what is called a Sectional Center Facility (SCF) that serves as a sorting center for groups of ZIP codes. Manual sorting of mail can be complicated, because mail going to ZIP codes serviced by different SCFs must be sorted into separate, unique mail trays. ZIP codes numerically “next to one another” may actually be sent to different USPS sorting centers and should be sorted into separate trays. For instance, you might have a mailpiece with the ZIP code 94299 and one with the ZIP code 94301. If you sorted your address list into ZIP code order, you would put these mailpieces next to each other in the same sorting container. However, these ZIP codes are serviced by different SCFs. The mailpiece going to the 94299 address is sent to the 942 SCF, located in Sacramento, CA. The mailpiece going to the 94301 address is sorted at the 943 SCF, located in San Francisco, CA – seventy miles away. Thus, presort regulations require that those mailpieces be sorted into different containers before being submitted to the USPS.

Because of the complex and labor-intensive nature of manual presorting, many companies offer software that presorts your address list for you, making the mailing more cost-effective. Different software performs different presorts, so it is important that you research to ensure that the software you are purchasing sorts for the type of mailings that you do.

Before you begin a presort mailing, make sure:

• The software sorts for the type of mailing you want to do – First-Class or Standard Mail, postcards, flats, letters, Carrier Route, etc. Each presort class is unique in sort order, price and documentation.
• The software prints the USPS-required forms. There are many different versions of the presort form – which form you need to submit depends on the presort being performed. In general, the software should print the 3600x and 3602x forms. These forms give the USPS a breakdown of the cost for the mailing, as well as mailer information (permit number, mailing address, phone number, etc.). In addition, Form 3553 is required to verify the CASS certification of any automation mailing.
• The software prints the Tray and/or Sack labels (also called Container labels). These tags use a standard Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode and determine the destination of each mail tray or sack. Your post office can provide you with the trays and sacks you will need.

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Side Note:  Exact Wave is really growing very rapidly and we couldn’t be more excited.  The release of Qualifiedaddress.com has made Exact Wave the first address data management and enhancement solutions company with a complete SaaS offering.

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This is a really cool service that can save you tons of money on your mailings.

You can find out more about these services at QualifiedAddress.com.

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The software, known as Address Entry Pro, can be implemented using either XML or JavaScript. Given an address, city, and state, it will return a ZIP Code, +4 Code, and county. The software will also standardize the address to the standards published by the USPS in Publication 28.

Address Entry Pro allows businesses to validate addresses by accessing the address verification technology that powers Qualified Address Certified Scrubbing. Certified Scrubbing was evaluated by the U.S. Postal Service and awarded CASS Certification in August 2007.

Point-of-entry validation is a useful solution for businesses looking to improve the quality of their address data, speed up data entry, and append county information to an address automatically. It is especially popular with businesses that are validating and correcting shipping addresses or calculating sales tax rates in their website shopping carts.

New customers have two weeks free access to the address verification software and can validate up to 500 addresses. Following this free period, subscription rates are as low as $19.95 per month.

Businesses are invited to take advantage of this offering by visiting

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Qualified Address Certified Scrubbing is the industry’s first CASS Certified software-as-a-service (SaaS) mailing product.  The SaaS model provides users with benefits such as faster list processing speeds and lower software and hardware maintenance costs while maintaining the necessary functionality of the software. In the coming months, Qualified Address plans to release additional products and services using the same model to compliment its address matching software.

The CASS Certification program was developed by the USPS to verify the accuracy and quality of third-party address matching software. Annual recertification is required in order to comply with new USPS requirements. Starting in August 2007, the Post Office now requires that CASS software include LACSLink and DPV processing. LACSLink processing allows Qualified Address to provide corrected information for addresses that have been renamed or renumbered. DPV identifies whether or not the USPS recognizes an address as a valid delivery address and flags invalid addresses. Together, these services will help mailers significantly reduce mail that is “Undeliverable as Addressed.”   

“Many mailers have been reluctantly awaiting the new CASS requirements because of worries that the addition of DPV and LACSLink will results in slower processing speeds and higher costs,” said Exact Wave President and CEO James Endicott. “The new software from Qualified Address tackles both of these issues and still allows mailers to remain eligible for automation and presort postage discounts.”  Certified Scrubbing will verify, correct, and add five-digit ZIP Codes to batches of addresses. It also standardizes the street addresses, cities, and states to the USPS guidelines, adds ZIP+4 codes and carrier routes to addresses, and provides customers with the PS 3553 CASS Summary Report. Depending on the list size, customers can have their list updated and returned within a few minutes. Qualified Address Certified Scrubbing is available immediately at http://www.qualifiedaddress.com/. About Qualified Address: Qualified Address, an Exact Wave company, specializes in address verification software and mailing list services. The software and services developed by Qualified Address enable customers to effectively manage communication with their contacts without costly investments in IT infrastructure. Services are flexible and developed so that they can be completely integrated into existing systems. Qualified Address prides itself in being an industry leader for software as a service (SaaS) mailing list solutions. More information on Qualified Address is available at http://www.qualifiedaddress.com/. About Exact Wave: 

Exact Wave provides innovative online addressing software and postal data to customers throughout the world. More than 80% of Fortune 500 companies are current clients of Exact Wave or have purchased Exact Wave products since the company’s inception in August 2002. Exact Wave (formerly Veevix) was ranked as one of the “Top 25 Under 5” by the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum in 2004, 2005, and 2006. More information on Exact Wave is available at http://www.exactwave.com/. Media Contact: Jon Miles  Business Development Manager  (888) 628-2601 ext 708   

 

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Orem, Utah (July 16, 2007)

Exact Wave, a leading provider of on-demand data management solutions, today announced the results of a recent customer satisfaction survey. The survey, conducted with customers who have purchased from Qualified Address in the last six months, shows that customers are overwhelmingly satisfied with the services they received. All customers were invited to participate in taking the online survey between July 11th and July 13th.

Of those customers who responded, an overwhelming majority indicate they are “very satisfied” with their purchase from Qualified Address. Customers also indicate that they are very likely to recommend Qualified Address’s products and services to others.

 

Ease of use, cost effectiveness, and speed are the most common reasons customers give for why they liked the services. With Qualified Address Scrubbing, the company’s flagship product, customers can have lists of thousands of addresses in a mailing list standardized and validated in less than five minutes. Customers also praise the accuracy of the address matching software and the excellent customer support.

James Endicott, President and CEO of Exact Wave, is pleased with the findings. “The entire team has worked diligently to develop a high-quality solution that is fast, accurate, and easy to use. I’m happy to see that these efforts were recognized by our customers. I was also glad to see that the few concerns raised by our customers had already been addressed and corrected.”

Qualified Address was launched by Exact Wave as the core of its Direct Marketing and Data Services division. In March 2006, it released its first product, Qualified Address Scrubbing, an online software service that standardizes and validated address data. The company will release additional data tools and software, including a much anticipated Address Verification API, in coming months. For more information, please visit http://www.qualifiedaddress.com.

About Qualified Address

Qualified Address, an Exact Wave company, is a leading provider of online address data management and enhancement solutions. The mailing list software and services developed by Qualified Address enable customers to effectively manage communication with their contacts without costly investments in IT infrastructure. Qualified Addresses services are flexible and developed so that they can be completely integrated into existing systems. Qualified Address prides itself in being an industry leader for software as a service (SaaS) mailing list solutions. More information on Qualified Address is available at www.qualifiedaddress.com and www.exactwave.com.

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Orem, Utah (March 7, 2007) – Exact Wave, a leading provider of On-Demand data management solutions, today introduced Qualified Address, an innovative line of services aimed at providing businesses with online access to robust mailing list software.  In conjunction with the release of its new services, Exact Wave has also launched a new website: www.qualifiedaddress.com.
 

Qualified Address Scrubbing, the core service available from Qualified Address, enables users to standardize their address databases without any additional investment in software or hardware.  Using proprietary technology, the software compares addresses in the user’s list with official mailing data.  If inconsistencies are found between the user submitted data and official data, Qualified Address Scrubbing will update the user’s list with corrected information.  The end result is a list of addresses that are standardized to the USPS requirements.
 

“Exact Wave is pleased to offer the first On-Demand, web based mailing list management solution.”  Explains Exact Wave President, James Endicott. “Qualified Address will save companies time and money while providing a solution that can correct, validate, and enhance their data – at an affordable price.”
 

Customers who participated in pre-launch testing with Qualified Address were most impressed with the speed in which Qualified Address was able to process and return their lists.  Depending on the size of lists being processed, most are returned with the updated information in just a few minutes.  Qualified Address has set a new standard in speed for the mailing industry as most competitive list processing companies require hours, days, or even weeks to process and return a list.
 

Qualified Address Scrubbing will be available online at www.qualifiedaddress.com starting March 7, 2007.  Additional mailing list software services will be released over the next few months.
 

About Qualified Address
 
Qualified Address, an Exact Wave company, is a leading provider of online address data management and enhancement solutions.  The mailing list software and services developed by Qualified Address enable customers to effectively manage communication with their contacts without costly investments in IT infrastructure.  Qualified Addresses services are flexible and developed so that they can be completely integrated into existing systems.  Qualified Address prides itself in being an industry leader for software as a service (SaaS) mailing list solutions. More information on Qualified Address is available at www.qualifiedaddress.com and www.exactwave.com.