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C1 Achieves Preferred Status Across All Six Designations in Cisco 360 Partner Program

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Underscores C1 as a trusted partner for organizations looking to transform IT 

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., May 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — C1, a leading IT solutions provider in the United States, today announced it has achieved Preferred Partner status across all six designations within the Cisco 360 Partner Program. C1 is currently one of the first national partners to earn this status across the full Cisco portfolio for its advanced technical capabilities, deep customer engagement and lifecycle practices to deliver specialized solutions for its customers. Currently, there are six Preferred Partner designations: Cisco Preferred Networking Partner, Cisco Preferred Cloud and AI Infrastructure Partner, Cisco Preferred Security Partner, Cisco Preferred Splunk Partner, Cisco Preferred Collaboration Partner and Cisco Preferred Services Partner.

The Cisco 360 Partner Program aims to better equip Cisco partners to deliver customer outcomes in the areas of AI-ready data centers, future-proofed workplaces, and digital resilience. C1’s achievements reflect its ability to help customers modernize faster, operate more efficiently, and generate measurable business value over time by delivering Cisco solutions at scale.

The Cisco Preferred Partner designation across these portfolios validates C1’s capabilities to support customers across complex, multi-domain environments while creating repeatable, lifecycle-driven revenue opportunities – from initial design and deployment through optimization, expansion, and managed services. Cisco Preferred Partners, like C1, not only demonstrate proven sales and technical experience, consistent and reliable service, and a strong commitment to customers; they offer more advanced technical skills and robust lifecycle and adoption practices that enable them to tailor solutions to customers’ needs.

“C1’s business is built on owning outcomes for our customers, not just implementations and ongoing long-term support,” said Jeffrey Russell, CEO at C1. “Earning Preferred status across all Cisco 360 Partner Program portfolio designations reflects how we help customers move faster and more realibably from initial investment to impact—while delivering consistent execution at scale.”

From a revenue and growth perspective, achieving the Cisco Preferred Partner designations reinforces how C1 goes to market. As enterprises face increasing pressure to modernize securely and efficiently while driving business results, C1’s Cisco 360 Partner Program Preferred portfolio designations underscore its role as a trusted partner for organizations seeking scale, reliability, and sustained value from their technology investments.

“The Cisco 360 Partner Program aligns directly with how customers buy today – across lifecycle, not products,” said Leigh Juul, Chief Revenue Officer, C1. “Preferred status across six portfolios allows us to deliver real value to customers while driving larger, more strategic engagements, expanding recurring services, and creating durable revenue streams.”

“Partners like C1 play a critical role in helping customers realize value and returns from their technology investments,” said Rhonda Henley, Vice President, Americas Partners Organization, Cisco. “Achieving Preferred status across all six designations demonstrates C1’s capability to deliver consistent outcomes and support customer growth across the Americas.”

“The new Cisco 360 Partner Program is designed to help partners shift from selling products to delivering outcomes, and that requires a very different kind of partner motion. C1’s ability to achieve Preferred Status across multiple portfolios shows it is leaning into that change, not resisting it,” said Zeus Kerravala, founder of ZK Research. “Customers now expect multi-domain capabilities across the technology lifecycle. It’s encouraging to see Cisco and partners like C1 align so tightly around modernization, security and AI readiness as that is what will ultimately move the market forward.”

C1 works with organizations to design, deploy, integrate, and operate Cisco technologies across customer experience, networking, data center, collaboration, and security. Its teams help customers accelerate time to value, reduce operational friction, and align technology investments to business growth initiatives, including AI readiness, hybrid work, infrastructure resilience, and cybersecurity. For customers, this recognition reinforces C1’s capability to:

Deliver Cisco solutions consistently across regions and portfoliosAccelerate time to value through integrated, lifecycle-based deliveryAlign infrastructure, security, and customer experience initiatives to business growthReduce complexity by working with a single, accountable partnerOptimize and expand environments over the full technology lifecycle

For more information about C1’s Cisco capabilities, visit https://www.onec1.com/partners/cisco

About C1
C1 makes modernization real—delivering secure, practical solutions for AI-powered communications, infrastructure, and security that drive measurable outcomes from day one. Focused on real-world results, C1 combines industry-leading partner technologies with deep expertise across advisory, professional, and managed services. From healthcare and education to government and financial services, C1 designs and delivers solutions that are faster, simpler, and more resilient—turning transformation into tangible value. For more information, visit www.onec1.com

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LF AI & Data Foundation Welcomes AIRSEAI to Unite Open Source Embodied AI Ecosystem

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Collaborative framework contributed by Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society addresses robotics fragmentation and ensures cross-platform hardware interoperability

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LF AI & Data Foundation welcomes AIRSEAI, an open source embodied AI project designed to let robotic intelligence evolve through real deployment.The project establishes a modular framework to solve fragmentation across proprietary robotics platforms, ensuring hardware and AI model interoperability.The contribution provides a neutral home to accelerate the creation of practical, physical AI systems that interact seamlessly with the world.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LF AI & Data Foundation, a Linux Foundation umbrella organization supporting open source innovation in artificial intelligence and data under the Linux Foundation, today announced that AIRSEAI, an open source embodied AI project initiated by Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS), has joined the Foundation. Together with LF AI & Data, AIRSEAI will provide a neutral home for global collaboration to accelerate the development of deployable embodied AI, or the integration of AI into physical systems, enabling them to interact with the world.

The embodied AI ecosystem is fragmented across proprietary robotic platforms, hardware-specific software stacks, isolated datasets and models that are difficult to evaluate or reuse. AIRSEAI, under the LF AI & Data Foundation, addresses this challenge with a unified framework that enables researchers, developers and manufacturers to test and deploy intelligence across diverse hardware architectures without vendor lock-in.

“Embodied AI presents new and complex challenges for how AI interacts with the physical world,” said Mark Collier, general manager of AI & Infrastructure at the Linux Foundation and executive director of LF AI & Data. “By hosting AIRSEAI, the LF AI & Data Foundation is helping to break down proprietary silos that have long hindered robotics innovation, and providing an open, collaborative ecosystem that ensures the future of embodied AI is interoperable, scalable and driven by the global community.”

AIRSEAI’s three-stage roadmap advances embodied AI through modular single-robot intelligence, data-driven dual-arm manipulation and collective adaptive intelligence. AIRSEAI 2.0 accelerates this vision with production-ready features like vision-based tactile sensing and an elastic model zoo. Ultimately, future AIRSEAI 3.0 release updates will enable heterogeneous robots to seamlessly coordinate across distributed environments, creating a shared foundation for next-generation embodied AI.

“We are very happy to join the Linux Foundation family,” said Shaoshan Liu, initiator of the AIRSEAI project and Director of Embodied AI at the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS). “We believe AIRSEAI provides essential open infrastructure for enabling robotic evolution. By connecting data, models, software and diverse robotic platforms, AIRSEAI allows robots to continuously learn, adapt and improve through real-world deployment, while enabling the broader community to build and share embodied intelligence on a common foundation.”

Organizations interested in contributing to AIRSEAI or learning more about the project are encouraged to visit the project website and GitHub.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenChain, OpenSearch, OpenSSF, OpenStack, PyTorch, Ray, RISC-V, SPDX and Zephyr, provide the foundation for global infrastructure. The Linux Foundation is focused on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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ProphetX and Swivel Gaming Partner to Expand Access to CFTC-Regulated Prediction Markets Through Swivel’s B2B Technology Platform

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Integration will give participating operators a streamlined way to connect their users to ProphetX’s regulated exchange through Swivel’s platform for emerging verticals

NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ProphetX, America’s first federally regulated sports-native prediction market, and Swivel Gaming, a global B2B technology provider, today announced a strategic partnership that will make ProphetX connectivity available through Swivel’s unified platform.

Through a single technical integration with Swivel, participating operators can connect to ProphetX under direct agreements and give eligible users access to ProphetX’s exchange from within their existing digital experiences. Swivel simplifies the technology connection, while each participating operator maintains a direct relationship with ProphetX.

Unlike a traditional sportsbook model, where the house sets the line and takes the other side of every transaction, ProphetX operates as a true exchange — a two-sided marketplace where buyers and sellers set prices and every trade is executed as a CFTC-regulated derivatives contract. For the operators running on Swivel’s platform, that means a new, complementary product line sitting alongside their existing offerings, with pricing and liquidity set by the market rather than the house. ProphetX remains responsible for the regulated exchange and clearing functions, including customer eligibility, clearing, custody, market operations and surveillance, while Swivel focuses on technology connectivity and its platform relationships.

“Swivel gives us an efficient way to extend ProphetX connectivity across a broad network of platforms while preserving a direct relationship between each participating platform and our exchange. Swivel simplifies the technology integration, and ProphetX continues to operate the regulated market infrastructure. It is a scalable model that lets partners focus on their own customer experience.”

– Jake Benzaquen, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, ProphetX

“Our turnkey platform is built to make new emerging verticals easier for partners to deploy and manage through one unified back-office. Integrating ProphetX gives participating operators a streamlined connection to a regulated prediction market exchange, while ProphetX operates the exchange, clearing and customer eligibility functions behind the trading experience.”

– Michael Pedersen, Chief Executive Officer, Swivel Gaming

A Scalable B2B Distribution Model for Prediction Markets

ProphetX’s B2B model is designed to let operators maintain their brand, customer experience and product roadmap while connecting eligible users to ProphetX’s exchange. Swivel’s integration creates a single technology distribution channel for participating operators, reducing implementation work and simplifying connectivity.

Participating operators will contract directly with ProphetX and complete ProphetX onboarding before exchange access goes live. Eligible users will access the market under ProphetX’s normal KYC and jurisdictional requirements, with orders executed and cleared on ProphetX. The integration is expected to roll out across Swivel’s platform network in the coming months, with additional details on available markets and onboarding to be announced closer to launch.

About ProphetX

Founded in 2018, ProphetX is America’s first sports-native prediction market. The company is a regulated U.S. exchange for event-driven contracts, built on a sports-focused foundation and designed to expand across a broad range of event markets. Its mission is to create the world’s most trusted and innovative marketplace where anyone can participate in event outcomes.

About Swivel Gaming

Swivel Gaming is a global B2B technology provider specializing in emerging digital verticals. Its unified platform combines account management, back-office reporting, payments, KYC and fraud-mitigation tools, giving partners the infrastructure to launch and scale digital products across North America and internationally.

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Ninkear to Unveil AI-Ready Mini PCs and Performance Laptops at IFA 2026

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BERLIN, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ninkear, a practical AI PC brand for mobile professionals, will participate in IFA Berlin 2026 to present its latest compact computing solutions and actively seek new partners and distributors worldwide.

Since 2020, Ninkear has focused on reliable performance and energy efficiency under its “Nothing Extra” philosophy—the right performance for real work, no more, no less. The company offers free shipping from its European warehouse, 30-day returns, and a 2-year warranty; products are available in 25+ markets and trusted by over 200 enterprise customers.

At IFA, Ninkear will highlight these key models:

Mini PCs

Ninkear L20 AI Mini PC – Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 Processor 226V with 97 TOPS AI Performance. Ultra-compact design delivering practical local AI for office and multi-display use.Ninkear MBOX 18 Mini PC – Palm-sized all-metal body with Intel® Core™ 3 processor 304, dual M.2 SSD slots, USB4 ports, and quiet cooling for reliable everyday performance.

Laptops

Ninkear S13 2-in-1 Laptop – 13-inch 2.5K anti-glare screen, Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 Processor 115U + 16GB memory, slim metal body, Unlock AI Productivity.Ninkear U9 Pro Laptop – Powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 Processor 185H, built for professionals. Supports 35 TOPS AI Performance for private local AI processing.

We are actively seeking distributors and partners in various countries and regions.

Visit our booth to experience the products, discuss cooperation opportunities, and explore potential partnerships. We look forward to meeting you!

IFA Berlin 2026

Dates: September 4–8, 2026

Booth: H5.2-450

Address: Messedamm 22, 14055 Berlin, Germany

For more information, visit https://ninkear.com/

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