Costa Cruises Signs ITV Agreement with Allin Interactive for Costa Deliziosa

Costa Cruises Signs ITV Agreement with Allin Interactive for Costa Deliziosa

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allin Corporation (Pink Sheets: ALLN) announced that it has secured an agreement with Costa Cruises to install Allin's DigiMix(TM) digital interactive television solution on the Costa Deliziosa, currently under construction at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard in Italy. Scheduled to begin service in February 2010, Costa's Deliziosa will carry 2,826 passengers and a crew of around 1,000.

"It's a pleasure to continue working with Costa to install Allin ITV on the Costa Deliziosa," stated John Troutwine, Director of Business Development at Allin Interactive.

Allin ITV will support, enhance and add to Costa Deliziosa's onboard amenities by providing on-demand, in-cabin entertainment for guests as well as providing "real time" onboard information and ship-to-cabin communication with 24/7 availability. The Allin system will also help Costa to promote port activities and excursions, onboard shopping, specialty dining as well as onboard services such as room service.

Together with her sister ship Costa Luminosa, christened on June 5 this year, the Costa Deliziosa will be the most exclusive and innovative member of the Costa Cruises fleet. This is readily apparent in her cutting-edge design and use of premium materials such as various types of marble and granite, stucco applied by spatula using the technique known as "spatolato veneziano" and other decorative interior finishes including "parchment scroll" lame, refined Zebrano wood and Wenge timber, Murano glass, and stylish polished and glazed steel. Fine works of art will be featured in the stunning atrium, notably "Sphere" by Arnaldo Pomodoro and a piece by Mario Donizetti.

Whether it's fun or relaxation, there will be an incredibly large number of entertaining things to do on board, all involving the use of leading-edge technology: 4D cinema; roller skating track; the latest generation super-realistic Golf simulator (with a real putting green); Grand Prix driving simulator with the same software and technology used by the F1 champion drivers themselves in training; the exclusive 3500 m2 "Samsara Spa" wellness centre with the Technogym Kinesis circuit; "PlayStation World", an area on board dedicated exclusively to PlayStation3, plus the "PlayStation on demand" cabin service.

The pure pleasure provided on the Costa Deliziosa also comes in the form of a huge range of culinary delights. Not only will the elegant restaurant and the informal buffet serve guests in maritime style, the Deliziosa will also offer the Club Restaurant - called Club Deliziosa - with menus created by Ettore Bocchia, Executive Chef at the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio and a Michelin-Star restaurateur. The dishes at the Club Restaurant will be based on the very best traditional Italian cuisine and quality ingredients, and will be accompanied by a prestigious wine list, devised by international sommeliers, which includes Amarone Stella Aneri Costa Deliziosa Special Reserve 2004, a limited edition produced and matured in 15 barrels set aside for the ships in the Costa fleet. Meanwhile, the Samsara Restaurant, for Guests staying in Samsara cabins and suites, will offer a menu featuring light sophisticated dishes. Guests with a sweet tooth will love the "chocolate bar", while those who prefer a more classical "old style" ambience will be very much at home in the "cigar bar".

The Costa Deliziosa will depart from Savona on her grand inaugural cruise February 5, 2010. The maiden voyage has a superb itinerary that will really be two cruises in one. The first part, lasting 22 days, will be from Savona to Dubai via the Red Sea, Yemen and Oman; the second, 19-day cruise will be a round trip from Dubai, to India and the Maldives. Exclusive destinations will also be featured on the ship's other scheduled cruises: starting in March and throughout the rest of winter 2010, the Costa Deliziosa will be offering 7-day holidays in the Arabian Gulf to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain, the latter offered by Costa as a cruise destination for the first time. Then, for the summer season the Costa Deliziosa will operate out of Copenhagen on 7-day cruises to the Norwegian fjords and Baltic cities.

About Allin Corporation

Allin Corporation is a leading provider of solutions-oriented application development, technology consulting and technology platform integration services. Allin specializes in interactive media and Microsoft-based technologies. Allin leverages its experience in these areas to work with clients through a disciplined project delivery framework to ensure that solutions are delivered on time and on budget. Allin delivers these services through the trade names Allin Interactive, Allin Consulting and the CodeLab Technology Group. The Company maintains offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; and Wakefield, Massachusetts. For additional information about Allin, visit the Company's Internet sites on the World Wide Web at Allin.com and CodeLabTech.com.

About Costa Cruises

Costa Cruises is Italy's largest tourism group and Europe's number one cruise company. For more than 60 years its ships have plied the seas of the world, offering the best in Italian style, hospitality and cuisine and providing dream holidays with the utmost in terms of fun and relaxation. In 2008 about 1.2 million guests chose to go cruising with Costa, a record for the European cruise industry. The Costa fleet has a total of 14 ships, all flying the Italian flag, each with her own distinctive characteristics and unique style. Together each year they offer the chance to visit some 250 separate destinations in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean, South America, the United Arab Emirates, the Far East and the Indian Ocean. Three more new ships are due to enter service by 2012. Costa Cruises has been certified by RINA (Italian Shipping Register) with the BEST4, an integrated system of voluntary certification of corporate compliance with the highest standards governing social accountability (SA 8000, issued in 2001), environment (UNI EN ISO 14001, 2004), safety (OHSAS 18001, 2007) and quality (UNI EN ISO 9001, 2008). All the ships in the Costa fleet have been assigned RINA's Green Star notation certifying that they are operated in compliance with the highest environmental protection standards. Costa Cruises is an official partner of WWF Italy for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea. In Mediobanca's 2008 survey of over 3700 Italian enterprises that recorded revenue of at least 50 million euros the previous fiscal year, Costa Crociere S.p.A. ranks 72nd in terms of sales and in 12th place as regards profitability. Costa Crociere S.p.A. is a member of Carnival Corporation & plc, the world's largest cruise operator.

Source: Allin Corporation

CONTACT: Dean C. Praskach Chief Financial Officer of Allin Corporation,
+1-412-928-8800, Telefax: +1-412-928-0225, Dean.Praskach@allin.com

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