The 80-page consumer technology magazine's features will include:

* Technology for the home and office, entertainment, car and your life.

"We are always exploring new opportunities to expand the USA TODAY brand
and a technology guide was an obvious first choice for us given our editorial
staff's expertise on the topic. It is published via
satellite at 36 locations in the USA and at four sites abroad. "Since our international reputation is at stake every time someone
requests time from us, we wanted to build an extra level of redundancy into
the system.

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MCLEAN, Va.com. They also rely on a wide range of
Symmetricom precise timing solutions, including their hydrogen maser clock for
maintaining standard time as well as four Symmetricom time servers for
distributing time across its internal network.

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After receiving multiple requests to provide time over the
Internet, the organization converted two of the Symmetricom NTP (Network Time
Protocol) time servers, giving the general public access to obtain the time.com

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USA TODAY to Publish Consumer Technology Guide Magazine

, Symmetricom
(Nasdaq: SYMM), a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and
services, today announced National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the United
Kingdom's national standards organization that maintains the nation's
standards for time , deployed Symmetricom's Domain Time II software to monitor
the time servers for complete redundancy , reliability and critical accuracy in
reporting time to the general public.npl.

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* Setting up a home theatre: What to look for when you buy one. This magazine will guide our readers through
all of their technology buying decisions this holiday season," said USA TODAY
President and Publisher Craig Moon.
USA TODAY is the nation's top-selling newspaper., Inc.
As a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services,
Symmetricom provides "Perfect Timing" to customers around the world, including
communication service providers, network equipment manufacturers, U.
Department of Defense (DOD), aerospace contractors, enterprises, governments
and research facilities.

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* Digital imaging: How to take better photos, make better videos, and buy
the right stuff. USA TODAY also
publishes USA TODAY Sports Weekly, a magazine for pro baseball and football
enthusiasts; and USATODAY.

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information, visit http://www .

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A minimum of 300,000
copies will be printed. In 2002, Symmetricom acquired TrueTime and Datum,
enhancing its position in the world time and frequency markets. Symmetricom is
based in San Jose , Calif.symmetricom.

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It will be available at newsstands nationwide
including book, grocery, drug and convenience stores. The UK's national standards organizations trusts the precision of a
Symmetricom hydrogen maser clock, NTP Time Servers and Domain Time II Time
Synchronization software to provide official, critically accurate time.
Having successfully utilized Symmetricom's hydrogen maser clock, as well as
two TymServe 2100s and two NTS-200s network time servers, NPL's selection of
Domain Time II time synchronization software to monitor the time servers came
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NPL successfully maintains time with a Symmetricom maser clock and
distributes time to the general public via radio signals and dial-up
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, For the first time, USA TODAY will
publish a glossy consumer technology magazine.

The cover price will be $4.

* An exclusive USA TODAY TECH map that answers the question: Are people in
your county ahead of the tech curve?

* An exclusive USA TODAY poll of Americans: What's your fear factor with
technology?

* Top editors' picks on key products such as digital cameras, laptops and
HDTVs from CNET.

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The magazine, titled USA TODAY
NOW Personal Technology, will be a how-to guide to educate readers on the
latest consumer electronics products and trends, and to make the overall
consumer tech-buying experience more user-friendly. "With the high stakes of accuracy, it is critical
they maintain precise, accurate and reliable time, with Symmetricom's timing
solutions as the most reliable in the world.co., with offices worldwide.

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NPL sought a redundancy solution that would inform them immediately if any
problems occurred in the system as well as giving them total control as not to
have to rely on any outside sources such as GPS (global positioning system).
Deployed in more than 90 countries, products include atomic clocks, cesium and
rubidium standards, VME, crystal oscillators , PCI cards and Global Positioning
System (GPS) solutions for instrumentation applications, as well as network
time servers for Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronization and time
synchronization solutions.

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Since 1985, the company's timing, frequency and
synchronization solutions have helped define the world's standards, delivering
precision, reliability and efficiency to wireless and wireline networks,
instrumentation and testing applications and network time management.

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Domain Time II time synchronization software monitors the time
servers.
"National Physical Laboratory's measurement research and innovation are
respected around the world and play a key role in supporting the
competitiveness of UK companies," commented Paul Skoog, product marketing
manager for Symmetricom.npl.

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average daily circulation of 2."
For a complete case study on how National Physical Laboratory turned to
Symmetricom when they needed to deploy a new methodology for providing time
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* No fear shopping: How to shop without being intimidated by the geek
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The magazine will go on sale the week of October 17th to ring in the
holiday buying season.
"Our internal clocks and the Symmetricom time servers are as reliable as
any time devices in the world, but given the fact that businesses rely on us
for providing time, we needed an absolute guarantee of 100 percent accuracy
and 24x7 access," commented Peter Whibberley, senior research scientist for
NPL. For
more than a century we have developed and maintained the nation 's primary
measurement standards -- the heart of an infrastructure designed to ensure
accuracy , consistency and innovation in physical measurement.com.

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Contact:

Raychel Marcotte
BroadPR
617-645-6022
raychel@broadpr.

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USA TODAY is published by Gannett Co. For more information,
visit http://www.

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com, an award-winning news and information Web site
that is updated 24 hours per day.

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3 million, USA TODAY is available worldwide.

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* How to's, Q+A's with experts, and stories on using and buying
technology.

About National Physical Laboratory
NPL is the United Kingdom's national standards laboratory, an
internationally respected and independent centre of excellence in research,
development and knowledge transfer in measurement and materials science.S.