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CareTech Solutions 'Service Desk' Equals Help Desk 'Plus'
By PR Newswire
CareTech Solutions, an information technology (IT)
services provider for hospitals and health
systems, announced that it would begin offering
its Service Desk solution, an advanced option to
the traditional help desk, as a stand-alone
service to support the unique and specialized IT
support needs of hospitals across the nation.
CareTech has been providing increasingly
sophisticated Service Desk solutions to its
current healthcare clients for nearly ten years.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| Majesco Entertainment Announces 'Bananagrams' Game for Facebook
By PR Newswire
Majesco Entertainment Company , an innovative
provider of video games for the mass market, today
announced that the popular anagram game,
Bananagrams, will be available August 18 as a free
Facebook Application. Developed by Large Animal
Games, Bananagrams ignores all the rules of
traditional board games in favor of an
every-player-for-themselves approach that delivers
lightning-fast puzzle play guaranteed to get the
mind moving and drive players "bananas."
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| Latin American Users Recognize Mobility as Productivity, Personal Balance Tool: IDC
By PR Newswire
With a 52% service revenue share in the
telecommunications market, far exceeding that of
fixed telephony (35%), mobile telephony services,
including voice and data, are the industry's top
performer in Latin America, and show the regional
users' need to be continually connected.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| Sheplers Selects MI9's Business Intelligence System
By PR Newswire
Sheplers has selected Retail IQ BIS, the
industry-leading Business Intelligence/data
warehouse system from MI9. In a study of
top-ranked solutions, MI9 scored highest in all
categories.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| RiT Technologies Ltd.: Second Quarter 2008 Results Conference Call
By PR Newswire
We would like to invite you to participate in a
conference call and a simultaneous webcast to
discuss RiT Technologies' second quarter 2008
financial results. The call is scheduled for
Thursday, July 31st, at the times indicated below.
We will issue a press release with operating
results on that same Tuesday morning before the
market opens.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| Zilog, Inc. Announces Review of Strategic Alternatives
By PR Newswire
Zilog, Inc. , a leading provider of 8-, 16- and
32-bit embedded Flash microcontrollers, universal
remote controls and ARM (R) core-based solutions,
today announced that it is evaluating a broad
range of strategic alternatives to enhance
stockholder value. Zilog has retained Oppenheimer
& Co. Inc. as its financial advisor to assist
the Board of Directors with this process. Zilog
does not expect to publicly disclose any further
developments with respect to the evaluation of
strategic alternatives unless and until its Board
of Directors has approved a transaction or other
strategic alternative. There can be no assurances
that any particular course of action will be
pursued or as to the timing or terms of any such
strategic alternative.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| AT&T Lifts Off at Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning With Top Flight Coverage and Cell Phones for Soldiers Cell Phone Drive
By PR Newswire
AT&T Inc. has announced the deployment of a
portable cell site on wheels or COW to enhance
wireless coverage for customers attending the
Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning at
Solberg Airport in Readington, N.J. from July 25 -
July 27. AT&T is supplementing existing
coverage to accommodate the anticipated increase
in wireless traffic during the festival.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| Open Source Software Business Thrives in Tough Times
By PR Newswire
In the first annual survey of its membership and
other open source software and services companies,
the Open Solutions Alliance found much optimism
despite a murky economy with 83 percent of
participants saying they would see a
year-over-year increase in revenue in 2008 of open
source related software and services.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| Video: DIY Network's Groundbreaking Interactive Home Building Series, Blog Cabin, Returns for a Second Season on August 14 at 9 p.m. ET
By PR Newswire
From the floor plan and roof style, all the way
down to the bathroom tile, millions logged on to
DIYNetwork.com to participate in "citizen design"
to help create a waterfront vacation home. Built
by a roster of DIY Network's expert hosts, the
process will be documented in the second season of
DIY's hugely successful Blog Cabin, the first-ever
interactive home building series, premiering
August 14 at 9 p.m. ET and airing every Thursday
at 9 p.m. ET and 9:30 p.m. ET.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| Crocodiles not Waterlilies Entertainment's CrocPond Transmedia Brand Joins Kristi Yamaguchi's Annual Friends and Family Ice Show
By PR Newswire
Crocodiles not Waterlilies Entertainment, LLC, a
San Francisco based entertainment company with
meaningful content, announced that its CrocPond
(TM) brand is locally supporting the Kristi
Yamaguchi's Friends and Family ice show slated for
October 12 in Phoenix, AZ at the US Airways
Center. The show will include very special guest
performances by The Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato,
and Jordan Pruitt and will be nationally televised
on NBC-TV at a date to be announced.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:30 AM
| Real Estate Franchisor Chooses Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Integrate Specialized Applications and Track Three-Way Sales Cycle
By PR Newswire
Microsoft Corp. today announced that HomeVestors
of America Inc., recognized nationally for its
slogan "We Buy Ugly Houses," has chosen Microsoft
Dynamics CRM 4.0 to provide a common platform for
all its corporate and franchisee applications.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:00 AM
| Sensata Technologies B.V. Announces Debt Refinancing
By PR Newswire
Sensata Technologies B.V. (the "Company")
announced today that it has issued an aggregate
principal amount of 141 million euro of senior
subordinated notes (the "Notes") with a coupon of
11.25% and a maturity date of January 15, 2014, in
a transaction exempt from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:00 AM
| AddictingGames to Honor Best in Online Games With New Multiplatform Awards Event, Coming Summer 2009
By PR Newswire
AddictingGames, the largest source of the best
free games on the web, will honor the games
industry's best of the best with the first-ever
multiplatform awards show exclusively for online
games. The Most AddictingGames Awards (working
title) will bow summer 2009 in a multiplatform
event featuring online and on-air components
presented across the Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and
Family Group portfolio of cable networks and web
sites. The announcement was made today by Dave
Williams, Senior Vice President and General
Manager, Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group,
as part of a keynote presentation at the Casual
Connect Conference in Seattle.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:00 AM
| Wine 2.0(TM) Announces Wine 2.0 New York Presented By Webster Hall Digital, September 18th, 2008
By PR Newswire
Wine 2.0 announces Wine 2.0 New York Presented by
Webster Hall Digital, will be held on September
18th at Webster Hall, and hosted by Wine Library
TV (http://www.winelibrarytv.com/) star Gary
Vaynerchuk who will be live podcasting his show
from the event. Wine 2.0 New York, is being held
during the leading web conference Web 2.0 Expo.
Wine 2.0 will again host over 1,000 wine and
technology lovers for an exciting evening of
world-class wines and networking around
cutting-edge Wine 2.0 startup companies.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:00 AM
| Compuware Covisint Exec Predicts 'Future of Identities' at FORTUNE Brainstorm: Tech Conference
By PR Newswire
Compuware Corporation , today announced that the
Chief Security Officer from its Covisint Corp.
subsidiary articulated his vision for a
single-password society at FORTUNE Brainstorm:
Tech conference. Miller discussed his "identity
custodian" approach to simplifying the management
of the large and growing number of username and
password combinations that burden virtually all
aspects of online life and productivity.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:00 AM
| Advantage Futures Is Now Live With Patsystems
By PR Newswire
Advantage Futures, the premier futures brokerage
firm, is pleased to announce it now offers
Patsystems technology.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:00 AM
| Award-Winning Comics Mastermind Ed Brubaker and Crackle.com Team Up for Live Action Series
By PR Newswire
Comics mastermind and Eisner Award-winning writer
Ed Brubaker (Criminal, The Death of Captain
America) and White Rock Lake Productions have
teamed up to produce Angel of Death, a new
live-action series for Crackle.com, Sony Pictures
Entertainment's online video network, that will
premiere in 2009.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:00 AM
| TeliPhone Corp. Achieves EBITDA Positive Quarter, Increases Revenues by 81% over Same Period Last Year
By PR Newswire
TeliPhone Corp. (NASD : TLPH). TeliPhone Corp.
reports its second quarter results, with sales
increasing by 81% to $291,895 for the second
quarter of 2008 compared with $161,281 for the
same period last year. The increase in sales
contributed to a gross profit of $113,674, an
increase of 206% over last year. Earnings before
Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization
were $14,378 compared with ($63,121) for the same
period last year.
Jul. 24, 2008 10:00 AM
| Motorola Second-Quarter 2008 Earnings Results to be Issued on 31 July
By PR Newswire
Motorola, Inc. second-quarter results are
scheduled to be issued at approximately 6:00 a.m.
Central Time (USA) on Thursday, 31 July. Motorola
will host its quarterly conference call with
financial analysts following the earnings release
at 7:00 a.m. Central Time (USA) on 31 July. The
conference call will be webcast live with audio
and slides at http://www.motorola.com/investor.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| EMC'S Mozy Online Backup Service Doubles Its Business Customer Base
By PR Newswire
Mozy, Inc., an EMC Company and the leader in
online backup for businesses and consumers, today
announced that it has doubled the size of its
enterprise and small to medium-size business
customer base during the first half of 2008. Mozy
has more than 750,000 users and 20,000 business
customers backing up 7.6 billion files to its
10-petabyte storage system. In addition, Mozy has
announced that Thrive Networks, Inc., a subsidiary
of Staples, has signed a contract with Mozy to
provide online backup to its customers. This
service will also be offered to Staples' customers
as Staples Network Services by Thrive.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Facebook(R) extiende la potencia de Platform por toda la red y en todo el mundo
By PR Newswire
Facebook presentó hoy los últimos
avances de Facebook Platform durante su
conferencia anual de desarrolladores f8,
convocando a sus más de 400,000
desarrolladores a conectar sus sitios web con
Facebook a través de Facebook Connect, a
ampliar sus aplicaciones a docenas de idiomas en
todo el mundo, y a hacer uso de nuevos recursos
para desarrolladores que los ayudarán a
triunfar.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| | Facebook(R) extiende la potencia de Platform por toda la red y en todo el mundo
By PR Newswire
Facebook presentó hoy los últimos
avances de Facebook Platform durante su
conferencia anual de desarrolladores f8,
convocando a sus más de 400,000
desarrolladores a conectar sus sitios web con
Facebook a través de Facebook Connect, a
ampliar sus aplicaciones a docenas de idiomas en
todo el mundo, y a hacer uso de nuevos recursos
para desarrolladores que los ayudarán a
triunfar.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| SingleHop Offers Free Hardware Upgrade to All Existing Customers, and Upgraded Server Packages for All New Customers
By PR Newswire
Chicago-based managed and dedicated hosting
provider, SingleHop, announced today that it will
be upgrading all server configurations for new
clients to a minimum of 2GB of RAM. The company
will also be giving existing clients a free
upgrade to 2GB of RAM. The resulting hardware
upgrades will allow SingleHop's customer's servers
to run at levels exceeding industry standards.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Power Analog Microelectronics Delivers a Versatile High Power LED Driver for Up to 30 Watts with Integrated MOSFET
By PR Newswire
Power Analog Microelectronics (PAM), a developer
of innovative Class-D digital audio amplifiers and
high- power LED display driver semiconductors,
today announced its first high- voltage 30 watt
LED Driver with integrated MOSFET based on the
Bipolar-CMOS- DMOS (BCD) Technology developed at
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
(TSMC).
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| FEI Announces 2008 Hall of Fame Inductees
By PR Newswire
Financial Executives International (FEI), the
preeminent association for financial executives,
today announced that Susan Schmidt Bies, Ph.D.,
former member of the Board of Governors for the
Federal Reserve and John F. Ruffle, former
Chairman of the Board of FEI, have been selected
as the 2008 class of inductees of the FEI Hall of
Fame. The FEI Hall of Fame, co-sponsored by the
Microsoft Corporation, recognizes individuals who
epitomize the performance, leadership and
integrity of the most exemplary financial
executives throughout their careers.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Microsoft HealthVault and RelayHealth to Connect Doctors and Patients
By PR Newswire
Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic
collaboration with RelayHealth, McKesson Corp.'s
connectivity business, to accelerate and improve
the relationship between doctors and patients.
Together, Microsoft HealthVault and RelayHealth
will enable affordable patient connectivity with
doctors' offices and hospitals so patients can
have security-enhanced, easy online access to
medical care, information and records.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Optenet lança operações na América Latina
By PR Newswire
A Optenet, empresa de segurança de TI
líder global e provedora de
soluções de segurança de
conteúdo integradas e inteligentes,
anunciou hoje o lançamento das suas
operações latino-americanas e a
abertura da sua matriz regional em Miami. Liderada
por Maurico Alanis, diretor comercial para a
América Latina, a Optenet venderá as
suas premiadas soluções de
segurança de conteúdo para
provedoras de serviços e empresas em toda
a América Latina.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Facebook(R) extiende la potencia de Platform por toda la red y en todo el mundo
By PR Newswire
Facebook presentó hoy los últimos
avances de Facebook Platform durante su
conferencia anual de desarrolladores f8,
convocando a sus más de 400,000
desarrolladores a conectar sus sitios web con
Facebook a través de Facebook Connect, a
ampliar sus aplicaciones a docenas de idiomas en
todo el mundo, y a hacer uso de nuevos recursos
para desarrolladores que los ayudarán a
triunfar.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| NVIDIA Dramatically Accelerates the Search For a Cure
By PR Newswire
Stanford University's distributed computing
program Folding@home has become a major force in
researching cures to life-threatening diseases
such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson's
disease by combining the computing horsepower of
millions of processors to simulate protein
folding. The Folding@home project is the latest
example in the expanding list of non-gaming
applications for graphics processing units (GPU).
By running the Folding@home client on an NVIDIA(R)
GeForce(R) GPU, protein-folding simulations can be
done 140 times faster than on some of today's
traditional CPUs.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| | Private Media Group Launches 50 Niche Sites
By PR Newswire
Private Media Group, Inc. a worldwide leader in
premium-quality adult entertainment content today
announced the launch in Q3 of over 50 Internet
niche sites aimed at diversifying its offering and
increasing the proliferation of Private's content
on the web alongside its flagship site,
http://www.private/ .com.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Vonage Holdings Corp. Signs Commitment Letter to Refinance Debt
By PR Newswire
Vonage Holdings Corp. , a leading provider of
broadband telephone service, announced today it
has entered into a commitment letter with Silver
Point Finance, LLC ("Silver Point") establishing
the terms and conditions for up to $215 million in
private debt financing of which Silver Point has
committed to provide $125 million.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Turkey Deploys Final Phase of Lockheed Martin's Vessel Traffic Management Information System
By PR Newswire
One of the world's most challenging navigable
waterways became safer and more secure recently
when the Turkish government deployed the final
phase of the Lockheed Martin Vessel Traffic
Management Information System (VTMIS) for the
Turkish Straits.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Hologic Completes Cash Tender Offer for Third Wave Technologies, Inc.
By PR Newswire
Hologic, Inc. today announced the successful
completion of the tender offer by its direct
wholly-owned subsidiary, Thunder Tech Corp., for
all outstanding shares of Third Wave Technologies,
Inc. at a price of $11.25 per share in cash.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Video: Olympic Games Gold Medalist Nikki Stone Joins Chronic Pain Experts in Educational Webcasts
By PR Newswire
The American Society of Pain Educators (ASPE)
announces the launch of an educational Webcast
series on chronic pain with leading health
specialists and Olympic Games gold medalist and
chronic pain sufferer, Nikki Stone. The first in
the three-part series, "Keep Moving! Persistent
Chronic Pain Doesn't Have to Hold You Back" is
available today at http://www.painawareness.org/.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Medipacs Appoints Chairman of the Board
By PR Newswire
Medipacs, Inc., a Tucson based start-up medical
device company announced the appointment of James
E. Utts, current Operating Principle for
RoundTable Healthcare Partners, to the position of
Chairman of the Board. Mr. Utts has more than 31
years of domestic and international healthcare
industry operating experience, most recently as
Corporate Vice President of Baxter International
and President of Baxter Europe. In this role, he
was responsible for Baxter's Bioscience,
Medication Delivery, Renal and Transfusion
Therapies business in Europe, the Middle East,
Africa and Russia and was a member of the Baxter
International Operating Committee. "Jim's
experience in infusion therapy technologies and
markets as well as building sales and marketing
organizations brings a strong customer and
industry perspective to the Medipacs board of
directors," said Mark McWilliams, chief executive
officer for Medipacs. "We are very pleased to have
Jim take the helm as Chairman of the board."
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| Tracker I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Software Certified for E-Verify
By PR Newswire
Tracker I-9 paperless Form I-9 management software
has been certified to communicate with the Federal
Government's E-Verify employment eligibility
verification program using the secure web services
access method. The qualification test validates to
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that
Tracker I-9 software is capable of sending
compliant encrypted messages to the E-Verify
server to perform the initial verification,
referral process, and case resolution. Only
software that passes the qualification test is
allowed to verify employment eligibility of
newly-hired employees through the online E-Verify
system operated by DHS in partnership with the
Social Security Administration (SSA).
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| EXFO Launches Comprehensive 10 Gbit/s Multiservice Fibre Channel and Ethernet Testing Solution for R&D, Manufacturing and Software Verification
By PR Newswire
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. announced
today the launch of the IQS-8525 and IQS-8535
Packet Blazer modules, providing R&D, software
verification and manufacturing groups with the
versatility, flexibility and affordability
required for Ethernet validation and Fibre Channel
testing of network equipment.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
| J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Flat-Rate Service Plans With Unlimited Minutes Generate Dramatically Higher Satisfaction Levels Among Prepaid Wireless Customers
By PR Newswire
Overall satisfaction among prepaid wireless
customers who subscribe to flat-rate plans with
unlimited minutes is considerably higher than that
of customers who subscribe to per-minute price
plans, primarily due to cost advantages associated
with flat-rate plans, according to the J.D. Power
and Associates 2008 U.S. Wireless Prepaid Customer
Satisfaction Study(SM) released today.
Jul. 24, 2008 9:30 AM
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