Latest news releases - Top Stories. 2008-07-25T08:55:51Z http://eon.businesswire.com/images_v4/prw_logo.gif PRWeb xml@emediawire.com http://eon.businesswire.com/atom10/prwebmain.xml 2008-07-25T03:15:01Z Hilton Hotels Corporation today proudly announced the opening of its first Doubletree by Hilton hotel in Asia. The Doubletree by Hilton Beijing is an upscale, 547-room hotel located between the city’s Central Office District and prestigious Financial District along the Southwest 2nd Ring Road in the new Lar Valley International mixed-use business complex. The hotel is centrally situated within 10 km/6 mi of the historic Dong Cheng District and Tian'anmen Square, the red-walled Forbidden City and Imperial Palace, Beijing Zoo, Panjia Yuan Antique Market and the Temple of Heaven. (Business Wire EON Jul 25, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/hilton/doubletree/prweb1145374.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/hilton/doubletree/prweb1145374.htm 2008-07-25T03:15:16Z Urban crime… urban taxes… now it’s urban wrinkles? “Well, if you live in the city (and it doesn’t have to be a really big city), you now have one more thing to worry about,” says Kerry Pack, spokesperson for the skin care experts at StriVectin, “wrinkles and accelerated aging of the skin.” It turns out that nasty little free radicals… generated from auto emissions, smoke, industrial pollutants, and all the other dirt, soot and crud that are part and parcel of everyday city life… may have more to do with premature wrinkles than sun damage. (Business Wire EON Jul 25, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/phase/urban/prweb1145384.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/phase/urban/prweb1145384.htm 2008-07-25T06:00:01Z Helen Brown, Campus Relations Manager for Vector Marketing Corporation’s northeast region was presented with the Outstanding Member award from the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers (EACE). Brown received the award from Tom Tarantelli, current EACE President, at the association’s annual conference in Providence, RI. The Outstanding Member Award is awarded to members with 4-9 years of membership who have made outstanding contributions through their involvement. (Business Wire EON Jul 25, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/vector/marketing/prweb1145564.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/vector/marketing/prweb1145564.htm 2008-07-25T06:00:04Z A sea of color will wash over select recreational hotspots across the United States Saturday, July 26, as Dell choreographs mass arrays of the quintessential summer accessory – a super-sized, eye-popping beach towel. The event launches Dell’s six-festival Summer Rocks Tour and Sweepstakes.a (Business Wire EON Jul 25, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/festival/summer/prweb1145574.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/festival/summer/prweb1145574.htm 2008-07-24T04:00:02Z Three athletes from the California Rowing Club (CRC) are preparing to leave the Golden State for Beijing, China on Saturday, July 26, where they will continue to train for the 2008 Olympic Games. Elliot Hovey, Wes Piermarini, and Scott Gault will travel to the Olympics with their coach, Tim McLaren. Olympic rowing competition will commence on Saturday, August 9 at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/olympic/rowing/prweb1141784.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/olympic/rowing/prweb1141784.htm 2008-07-24T05:00:01Z Want to see all sides of issues and topics you’re concerned about? At Opposing Views, more than 100 well-known organizations and leading experts face off on the many sides of pressing issues in health, politics, finance, religion and other societal topics – debating real issues, head to head. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/consumers/issue/prweb1141874.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/consumers/issue/prweb1141874.htm 2008-07-24T06:00:01Z Cactus Technologies, Ltd. today announced they have launched the new 303 Series of Industrial 2.5” Solid State Drives which significantly increase sustained read and write performance without compromising the Industrial Feature set that customers have come to expect from the current 203 Series of products. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/cactus/series/prweb1141984.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/cactus/series/prweb1141984.htm 2008-07-24T07:30:02Z AdMob, the world’s largest mobile advertising marketplace, announced today that it has launched a global iPhone ad marketplace with new interactive advertising formats that take advantage of the device’s capabilities and mobile context. The new ads include Brand and Performance formats that will function in both the browser environment as well as native applications built for the iPhone. AdMob also announced that it will give $1 million in advertising to developers to promote their iPhone applications, sites and services. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/iphone/admob/prweb1142324.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/iphone/admob/prweb1142324.htm 2008-07-24T08:00:03Z With the second half of a volatile year in the stock market now underway, small cap stocks news and research website SmallCapInvestor.com yesterday published the first part of a special five part series of interviews with small cap stocks investment experts. The interviewed investment experts paint a largely optimistic near-term picture for small cap stocks. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/smallcapinvestor/stock/prweb1142474.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/smallcapinvestor/stock/prweb1142474.htm 2008-07-24T10:35:01Z Piedmont city officials will honor California Rowing Club (CRC) athlete Scott Gault at a public reception this Friday, July 25 at 8:00 p.m. in City Council Chambers in City Hall, 120 Vista Avenue. Scott Gault is a member of the US Olympic Rowing Team and will represent the United States at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, and is the city’s first Olympian in 28 years. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/rowing/olympic/prweb1143124.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/rowing/olympic/prweb1143124.htm 2008-07-24T10:45:02Z CardPartner.com, the company that helps small and mid-size nonprofits and membership groups launch their own affinity credit card programs, today announced two new credit card programs: The Oregon-California Trails Visa card and the Reach Out and Read® Visa card. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/cardpartner/credit/prweb1143174.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/cardpartner/credit/prweb1143174.htm 2008-07-24T11:00:02Z Certiport today announced Anthony Lewis, 17, and Justin Wainscott, 18—both from Reno, Nevada—are the 2008 U.S. Champions for Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, respectively. These Country Champions and more than 56,000 students from 47 countries participated in multiple rounds of local, national, and regional competitions in the Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office from October 2007 to May 2008. Both were awarded an all-expense-paid trip to vie for the title “World Champ” of Microsoft Word and Excel during Certiport PATHWAYS™ HAWAII international conference July 31 – August 2. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/microsoft/certiport/prweb1143234.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/microsoft/certiport/prweb1143234.htm 2008-07-24T11:30:02Z The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the public comment release of “Ad Campaign Measurement Process Guidelines,” a document that addresses the process of a publisher’s or advertising agency’s use of a third-party ad server and its application service provider. The guidelines supplement current measurement guidelines and provide definitions and guidance on the auditing of processes used in the placement, trafficking and reporting of interactive advertising. The document is the result of a consensus of participating auditing organizations and the IAB. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/interactive/measurement/prweb1143334.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/interactive/measurement/prweb1143334.htm 2008-07-24T12:20:01Z Constantly on the move and quickly making smart choices for a forward-thinking and focused future, Frederick Wildman and Sons, LTD. is most privileged to announce many new faces, internal changes and promotions in the company’s national business. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/wildman/national/prweb1143624.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/wildman/national/prweb1143624.htm 2008-07-24T12:20:05Z Vibrant Media, the world leader in contextual advertising, has announced the expansion of its London office to accommodate its growing business in Europe, Russia and Asia. Top-tier talent join the company as its business continues to accelerate and contextual advertising based on keywords increasingly becomes a significant piece of the marketing mix. Vibrant, which was founded in 2000, currently reaches 125 million users* each month and has doubled its revenue every year for the last five. New hires include: (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/vibrant/sales/prweb1143634.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/vibrant/sales/prweb1143634.htm 2008-07-24T12:35:01Z According to recent reports in The Independent and the Drudge Report, a new worldwide pandemic is on its way, an event which could rival the Black Plague and “kill 50 million people and wreak massive disruption around the globe.” Former Surgeons General Dr. C. Everett Koop and Dr. David Satcher describe the threat as imminent. "The pattern makes you believe the likelihood of a pandemic - (probably) avian flu - is very real,'' Satcher said. "You have to believe it's around the corner somewhere.'' (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/pandemic/electronic/prweb1143724.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/pandemic/electronic/prweb1143724.htm 2008-07-24T13:30:02Z TomoTherapy Incorporated (NASDAQ: TOMO) announced today that it will introduce TQA™ at the 50th Annual American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Meeting in Houston, July 27-31, 2008. TQA, or Tomo Quality Assurance™, is the first integrated, machine-specific quality assurance (QA) solution to be offered by a radiation therapy vendor. The TQA application streamlines the collection—and simplifies the review—of data used to monitor radiation therapy equipment and procedures. All TQA data can be easily exported for third-party validation. (Business Wire EON Jul 24, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/tomotherapy/system/prweb1143964.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/tomotherapy/system/prweb1143964.htm 2008-07-23T10:15:02Z Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) announced today that they will be giving Double Cashback Bonus® or Double Miles to all Discover Cardmembers who make purchases at U.S. military bases from July 4th through Labor Day. Double rewards will be given automatically on up to $1,000 in Discover® Card purchases at these bases. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/discover/double/prweb1067484.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/discover/double/prweb1067484.htm 2008-07-23T05:00:04Z Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate–an international real estate brand inspired by America’s largest home enthusiast magazine brand–officially launches today with the unveiling of its online consumer destination at www.bhgrealestate.com and a press conference being held by company president and CEO, Sherry A. Chris. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/better/real_estate/prweb1137464.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/better/real_estate/prweb1137464.htm 2008-07-23T05:00:23Z AOL’s Platform-A announced that it will offer Goowy’s widget creation and management services as part of its widget distribution offering for advertisers. Goowy enables the creation, syndication and measurement of widget-based campaigns as a free, value-added service across Platform-A’s properties and networks. Platform-A, www.platform-a.com, is AOL’s digital advertising business. Goowy forms part of AOL's People Networks business and was acquired by AOL in February 2008. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/platform/widget/prweb1137474.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/platform/widget/prweb1137474.htm 2008-07-23T05:00:28Z Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) and Joyent Inc. today announced a collaboration that will accelerate the development and deployment of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. Providing up to 12 months free web hosting on Joyent's Cloud, a flexible first-class infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris™ on Sun’s ultra-scalable servers, as well as training on web-scale application development, the program lets developers deploy their social applications on an entirely open infrastructure at no initial cost. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/joyent/social/prweb1137484.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/joyent/social/prweb1137484.htm 2008-07-23T05:10:02Z Exinda Networks, a leading provider of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions, and Level Platforms, a leading provider of remote monitoring and management software, today announced their partnership and technology integration. Solution providers using Level Platforms’ remote monitoring and management software, Managed Workplace®, will now be able to remotely monitor Exinda’s WAN optimization appliances. This will allow solution providers to proactively manage their customers’ application performance. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/level/platforms/prweb1137494.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/level/platforms/prweb1137494.htm 2008-07-23T05:55:01Z Beaker, an online community for the life sciences industry, announces today its overwhelming acceptance into the life sciences community with several new business partnerships. Beaker launched in May and already companies from an assortment of functionalities in the life sciences industry have partnered with Beaker to help recruit the best talent for their open positions. Other new partnerships include professional associations that will use Beaker to help grow the industry in specific locations nationwide. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/beaker/life_sciences/prweb1137594.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/beaker/life_sciences/prweb1137594.htm 2008-07-23T06:00:02Z Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA) today announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO is the world's largest open source, identity management project, providing highly scalable, high-performance single sign-on, access management, federation, and secure web services capabilities. For more information and to download OpenSSO, visit: http://wiki.opensso.org. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/opensso/express/prweb1137604.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/opensso/express/prweb1137604.htm 2008-07-23T06:00:05Z Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA), today announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, a fully supported and integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris(TM) and Linux operating systems. The Web Stack software includes the open source, standards-based software most commonly used for Web-tier application development and services. Download the Web Stack at http://www.sun.com/webstack (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/stack/sun_microsystems/prweb1137614.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/stack/sun_microsystems/prweb1137614.htm 2008-07-23T06:25:01Z Bruker AXS today announced that its SMART X2S automated chemical X-ray crystallography system has been awarded a R&D 100 award, recognizing it as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced in the past year. The R&D 100 Award winners are selected by an independent panel of judges and the editors of R&D Magazine. “The winning of an R&D 100 Award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year,” explained Martha Walz, R&D Magazine Editor-in-Chief. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/smart/bruker/prweb1137694.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/smart/bruker/prweb1137694.htm 2008-07-23T06:55:01Z Today, CEO/Founder Suzanne Burge-Taylor announced the launch of Femaleadvertising.com. The company executes customized marketing and advertising campaigns for the female market. Femaleadvertising.com uses new technologies in business development, lifestyle marketing and social-networking to reach the attention of the ‘New Super Woman’ by creating consumer experiences and impressions beyond a traditional advertising network. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/femaleadvertising/marketing/prweb1137824.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/femaleadvertising/marketing/prweb1137824.htm 2008-07-23T07:00:02Z Software as a Service (SaaS) communications technology provider Protus® has been involved with the Canadian Cancer Society and its Relay for Life program for several years, raising funds for the organization’s vital research. This year Protus also leveraged the company’s fast-growing subscriber base for its flagship MyFax Internet fax service. And it has paid big dividends. The company today announced it is donating a total of $15,000 to the Society, Protus’ largest total contribution to date. (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/protus/cancer/prweb1137834.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/protus/cancer/prweb1137834.htm 2008-07-23T07:10:01Z Who is Right on Iraq and Afghanistan – McCain or Obama? Vote Now on pollClash.com and Make Your Voice Heard New Website Lets Voters Compare and Vote on 2008 Campaign Videos and Soundbites pollClash.com Adds a Dimension to Video Content Sites: Users Can Not Only Watch Videos But Compare Them Side by Side and Cast Votes on Statements, Soundbites and Controversies (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/pollclash/video/prweb1137864.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/pollclash/video/prweb1137864.htm 2008-07-23T07:25:01Z If you are not equipped with the right tools, it can be a tough time to be an individual investor. Since the beginning of 2008, the S&P 500 stock index has fallen by over 13 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average by almost 13 percent. Further, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released on July 7, 2008 showed that 75 percent of Americans feel the economy is in a recession. The bear market, combined with these strong recession fears, has caused many investors to abandon the markets to protect their portfolios.1 (Business Wire EON Jul 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/options/market/prweb1137934.htm http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/options/market/prweb1137934.htm