Bangkok--19 Aug--Seagate Technology Entrants from New Zealand and China have taken out first place in the photography and video categories of the Seagate Precious Memories regional competition, with entries from Australia, China, Malaysia, and Singapore taking the runner up prizes. The full list of regional winners are: PHOTO CATEGORY WINNERS 1st — Gemma Collier — “Summer Harvest” — New Zealand 2nd — Xing Xiaoyan — “Coming Home” - China 3rd — Mohammed Azmel Harun Rasheed — “Different background, same smiles” - Malaysia VIDEO CATEGORY WINNERS 1st — Huo Guang — “Travelogue of Trip to Bai Yangdian Lake” - China 2nd — John Westwood — “HMAS Yarra” - Australia 3rd - Luke Tan — “Shoes” - Singapore The winners were selected by an esteemed panel of Asian judges including photographers, videographers and Seagate International representatives. The winners — and the entries — can be viewed online at www.seagatememories.com/THAILAND. The Seagate Precious Memories competition invited entrants in ten Asia Pacific countries to capture precious moments from their lives, highlighting the importance of storage back-up for protecting your memories. The regional phase of the competition included 60 winning entries drawn from ten individual country Precious Memories competitions conducted in July. Regional judges included celebrities, videographers, photographers and representatives of Seagate International. Journalists, bloggers and photographers should get their cameras and video cameras ready to capture their favourite memories to enter in the 2009 Precious Memories competition. From protecting treasured family photos and personal video collections to developing next-generation consumer electronics devices and large enterprise networks, Seagate delivers advanced digital storage solutions to meet the needs of today’s consumers and tomorrow’s applications. About Seagate Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate’s business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world’s growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Savvio and PowerTrim are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. For more details please contact: Miss Kwanjit Sudsawad Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Seagate Technology (Thailand) Limited Tel. 0-2715-2919 Email: kwanjit.sudsawad@seagate Miss Wacharee Pichaisriswad Sir (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Tel: 0-2720-3397, 087-801-4069 Email: [email protected]