LOS ANGELES—Award-winning 740 Sound Design provided sound effects for four spots featured during Sunday’s Super Bowl. The company lent its talents to ads promoting Intel, Vizio, Audi and Dove. Here is a list of credits for each spot:

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FAIRFIELD, NEW JERSEY - FEBRUARY 2010: Creative Realities, Inc. (CRI) is a marketing firm staffed by experts in business and theater who work together to create remarkable customer experiences for their clients from the retail, hospitality, entertainment, healthcare, education, and general corporate sectors. While CRI’s work may be fairly described as technology-driven art, a well-defined business result always moors what at first may appear to be pure spectacle: brand awareness, brand allegiance, word-of-mouth advertising, and the like. CRI frequently works with audio, and its engineers rely on SymNet open architecture DSP systems to turn flights of fancy into perfectly-executed realities.

CRI’s clients include Bank of America, Foot Locker, Harvard University, Hyatt, Meadowlands Xanadu, RadioShack, Samsung, Stanford University, T-Mobile, and Time Warner. “We like to think of ourselves as brand theater activists,” said Andrew P. Groelinger, CRI chief operating officer. “We want to blow guests and patrons away with a more…

GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA - FEBRUARY 2010: Danley Sound Labs, home to legendary innovator Tom Danley and manufacturer of the world’s most faithful loudspeaker and subwoofers, welcomes respected acoustician and pro audio renaissance man Doug Jones, to the part-time role of technical consultant. Many may remember Jones from his monthly column that appeared in Live Sound International magazine. Jones also served as the Chairman of more…

WEBSTER, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 2010: Even amid trying economic times in an industry that has, by all accounts, taken it on the chin, Ashly Audio continues to grow and support its popular and expanding product line of cost-effective, network-ready DSPs and amplifiers with the addition of Todd K. Smith to the position of western regional sales manager. Based in Colorado and reporting to John Sexton, national sales manager, Smith will oversee and expand markets west of the Mississippi for Ashly Audio.

Smith comes to Ashly with over fifteen years experience of boosting sales in the pro audio industry. He has won multiple sales awards including “Sales Manager of the Year,” “Top Sales Producer of the Year,” and a character recognition award for his initiative and enthusiasm. Collectively, he has increased profits by tens of millions of dollars over the course of his career by both cutting costs more…

Wildomar, Calif. – Ultrasone Inc., distributor for German headphone manufacturer Ultrasone AG, announced today that it has increased the manufacturer’s warranty on all headphones to five years from one year. The new 5 year warranty applies to all headphones purchased after January 1, 2010.

“The move to extend our warranty demonstrates the confidence we have in the build of our products,” stated Paul Taylor, President of Ultrasone Inc. “We firmly believe our headphones are the best sounding and most soundly designed in the world, this warranty furthers our commitment to continuing our legacy as THE headphone company.”

For additional information on Ultrasone’s five year warranty or any of their headphones, please contact PR Representative Brian Metcalf at (305) 576-1171 x11 or by e-mail at brianmetcalf@maxborgesagency.com. To learn more about Ultrasone, go to www.ultrasone.com

About Ultrasone

Based near Munich, Germany, Ultrasone AG has been manufacturing headphones for the more…

Santa Monica, CA, Feb. 8, 2010 — Elias Arts, a company devoted to music composition, strategy and production, has created and produced original music for five TV spots featured during yesterday’s Super Bowl. The Super Bowl TV spots for which Elias Arts provided music were:

CLIENT NAME: Vizio Inc.

BRAND: Via

SPOT NAME: Forge

AIR DATE: 2/7/10

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Paul Venables

ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTORS: Paul Johnson & Keith Scott

ART DIRECTOR: Byron Del Rosario

COPYWRITER: Matt Keats

EXECUTIVE AGENCY PRODUCER: Craig Allen

AGENCY PRODUCER: Nicolette Guidotti

PRODUCTION COMPANY: Independent Media

EDITING COMPANY: Arcade

EDITOR: Paul Martinez

SOUND DESIGN: 740 Sound Design

SOUND DESIGNER: Eddie Kim

DIRECTOR: Wally Pfister

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Wally Pfister

MUSIC: Elias Arts

COMPSER: Matt Fletcher

ELIAS ARTS CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Dave Gold

ELIAS ARTS PRODUCER: Kala Sherman

MIX: Play

V/FX: Mass Market

V/FX PRODUCER: Paul Roy

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STOW, OH — Audio-Technica, a world leader in transducer technology, announces that over 3,000 of its microphones will be used at the XXI Winter Olympic Games, taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, this February. The use of Audio-Technica microphones for the broadcast of the 2010 Winter Games marks the continuation of A-T’s Olympic involvement, which has been consistent since the Summer Games in Atlanta in 1996. more…

MELVILLE, NY, February 3, 2010 — On January 16, 2010, at the Winter NAMM Show, Marshall Amplification announced that it has begun working on a project with the legendary guitarist Slash to produce a new amplifier that recreates the sound of the revered Marshall amplifier he used on the 1987 album Appetite for Destruction by Guns N’ Roses. The new amplifier will be known as the AFD100. Fans of both Marshall and Slash will be able to follow the progress of the amp’s creation by visiting www.afd100.com, where they will receive regular updates throughout its development stages and can also leave comments. The final model is planned to be released later this year. Marshall Amplification has had a long association with Slash — the JCM 2555SL Slash Signature Series amplifier was released in 1996. more…

Group 55 Technology Consulting Reps ASK Video in North America

ASK Video Interactive Media, a leading creator of software tutorials on DVD, has added Neil Ziesing and Andrew Harris of Group 55 Technology Consulting as sales representatives for the North American market.

A Founding Partner of Group 55 Technology Consulting, LLC., Zeising got his start in the industry as a sales rep for Opcode Systems as a Regional Sales Manager and International Sales Manager, after which he went on to become the Business Development Manager for Rocket Network and as VP of Business Development and Sales for Sputnik7 / Palm Entertainment. Upon leaving Sputnik7 / Palm Entertainment, Neil worked with Peter Hoddie (Lead engineer for Apple’s Quicktime development team) at Generic Media, a pioneer in delivering digital video content to handhelds. more…

––Bond Communications Upgrades With Martin Audio In 7-Star Hotel––

The magnificent seven-star Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, with its grand marble entrance and gold leaf atrium overlooking the Persian Gulf, is one of the world’s most impressive looking buildings. more…