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 | Dell PowerEdge Server Performance Accelerates with Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors
Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) servers have taken performance to new levels with the launch of Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors. The PowerEdge SC1435, 2970, M605 and 6950 platforms now offer AMD's new quad-core processors, supporting Dell's strategy to drive more complete and cost-effective enterprise technologies across various customer environments. 2008-04-14 |
Newly Branded Bearence, an Insurance and Financial Services Firm, and McCarthy Capital Partner to Expand into New Markets
McCarthy Capital Corporation, recently partnered with management to complete an investment in Bearence Management Group, a Des Moines-based insurance and financial services firm. Bearence, which previously operated under the TrueNorth Companies brand, has rebranded itself and has established a new strategic objective. The management team of Bearence is actively looking for acquisition opportunities in other locations and communities. 2008-04-14
 | New Edge First to Offer MPLS Classes of Service Over DSL Networks: New Service Helps Businesses Avoid Data Bottlenecks, Hold Down
Network Costs
New Edge Networks, the business communications unit of EarthLink Inc., (NASDAQ: ELNK), today became the first telecommunications company to offer a new network service that allows businesses to tag and prioritize data traffic over DSL access using up to five MPLS classes of service. 2008-04-14 |
 | BitGravity Arms Media Companies with the Industry's First Integrated Security Suite Designed to Eliminate Content Piracy: BG Secure Provides Dynamic Stream Protection without Hampering
User Experience or Requiring Client Download
BitGravity, Inc., the pioneer in Content Delivery Networks (CDN) for interactive broadcasting, today announced BG Secure, a suite of products that offers Internet media properties the ability to protect their copyrighted content from the growing number of pirating technologies without disruption to the customer experience. 2008-04-14 |
WhereIsHD.com Provides Free High Definition Programming Locator
Consumers looking for the best, or most, high definition television programming in their area now have an easy web-based tool: WhereIsHD.com. The new website, which is free to consumers, lets users enter their ZIP Code to discover what HD services are offered by broadcasters, cable operators, DBS, telcoTV and alternative providers in their area. 2008-04-14
CodeGear(TM) Accelerates Web Development With New Version of Its Visual Development Environment for PHP: Delphi(R) for PHP 2.0 Speeds Development of Data-Driven Web 2.0
Applications
CodeGear, a leader in developer tools, today announced Delphi for PHP 2.0. Delphi for PHP is the only PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for rapidly building interactive web applications using visual drag-and-drop design capabilities and a powerful PHP component framework. 2008-04-14
 | Surrge Rocks the Music Industry: New Referral Model and Social Distribution Network Reshape Digital
Music Scene
Surrge, the hottest new brand in the business of online music, launches during South by Southwest this week. Ushering the music industry into the Web 2.0 world, Surrge is a social distribution network and music community that lets fans play a part in any given musical artist's success. The Surrge experience is one where artists are promoted by their biggest fans; performance fees for music streams are finally paid; and access to target audiences pays off for fans and artists alike. By marrying social networking with music culture, the company is driving a new paradigm for music in the 21st Century. 2008-04-14 |
 | IntelliChoice.com's Best New Car Deals for April Reflect Higher Fuel Costs, Weaker Economy
IntelliChoice.com (www.intellichoice.com), the leading source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, today announced its "Best Deals of the Month" for cars, trucks, and SUVs for April. Fueled by big rebates, the April list contains a number of new winners and reinforces the need for consumers to study carefully before buying. 2008-04-14 |
 | Demand for Sybase IQ Analytics Server Soars Worldwide: Hundreds of New Customers Help Leader in Column-Oriented Database
Market Reach Billion Dollar Mark
Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure, mobile software and mobile services, today announced several hundred new customers worldwide signed up for Sybase(R) IQ analytics server, the market leader in column-oriented database, in the last year. On the heels of Sybase's record-breaking revenue year where it reached the billion dollar mark, Sybase IQ is gathering momentum across the globe by adding to its more than 1,200 existing customer base--and showing tremendous growth in emerging markets. 2008-04-14 |
 | MATHCOUNTS(R) Launches Mathcounts.org with Live National Competition and ``Rational Expressions'' Blog: First Ever Webcast of the National Competition
Live From Denver on May 9
In continued celebration of its 25th Anniversary, the MATHCOUNTS Foundation today announced the launch of its new web site - www.mathcounts.org featuring a sleek new design and a variety of added features. Executive Director Lou DiGoia will be keeping in regular contact with site visitors through his new "Rational Expressions" blog, and a streaming live webcast is planned for the final countdown round of the national competition on May 9, 2008. 2008-04-14 |
 | HealthLink Europe is Helping TransMedics(R) Expand Its Presence Throughout Europe
HealthLink Europe, an ISO 13485 Medical Device Support Services and Distribution Company that has been providing European customer service and logistics support to the North American device industry since 1994, announced today that it is working with TransMedics(R) to help the company expand its presence throughout Europe. TransMedics has developed the world's first commercial, portable, warm blood perfusion system for use in organ transplantation called the Organ Care System (OCS(TM)) --designed to maintain organs in a warm, functioning state outside of the body to optimize function and enable continuous clinical evaluation. As a result, hearts beat, lungs breathe, kidneys produce urine, and livers produce bile. 2008-04-14 |
Axion Spatial Imaging (ASII) Announces Shareholder Update
Axion Spatial Imaging (Pink Sheets: ASII) today announced recent developments and would like to update shareholders. The Company has issued an increase in the authorized shares from 100,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 in order to accommodate plans of completing pending acquisitions. The Company has not filed a 504 financing and there are no immediate plans of filing such dilutionary financing. The Company would also like it noted that unlike reports by the Nevada Secretary Of State website, there is no forward split or reverse spilt accruing. 2008-04-14
 | Hotel Internet Marketing Company VIZERGY(TM) Adds Dynamic Members to Team
VIZERGY, formerly SECURE-RES, a Jacksonville, FL based Internet marketing company for hotels and resorts, recently hired four outstanding sales professionals. With the rapid growth rate VIZERGY is experiencing, it became imperative to expand its talent base. 2008-04-14 |
 | SpiralFrog(TM) Signs Licensing Agreement with RoyaltyShare
SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal ad-supported music experience, today announced a licensing agreement with RoyaltyShare, a premier provider of technology solutions to the entertainment industry. As a result of the agreement, RoyaltyShare's leading independent record label customers will now be able to leverage its Content Management Service to deliver content directly to SpiralFrog, making thousands of additional songs available for download on the SpiralFrog site. 2008-04-14 |
 | SpiralFrog(TM) Signs Licensing Agreement with MPress Records
SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal ad-supported music experience, today announced it has signed a licensing agreement with MPress Records. 2008-04-14 |
 | SeaMobile Europe Announces Latest Enhancement to Media ClipWay Software Allowing Professional and Amateur Journalists to Send High Quality Live Video Reports for a Fraction of the Cost: Remote Solution Uses BGAN Modems and Specialized Software
SeaMobile Europe, a division of SeaMobile Enterprises and leading provider of satellite-based broadband communications and networking services, announced today a significant product update to its popular Media ClipWay software that allows journalists to cost-effectively file video reports from field locations throughout the world using satellite services and BGAN modem devices. With this enhancement, users now need only a camera and computer connected with Media ClipWay software and two modems to uplink video at 512 kbps guaranteed transmission speeds. 2008-04-14 |
 | Sun Media Advisory Board Unveils Findings Around Top Challenges Facing Digital Media Industry: Advisory Board Established to Identify and Solve Digital
Distribution Pain-Points
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA) announced the formation of the Sun Media Advisory Board (Sun MAB) today at the 2008 NAB Show. Sun MAB is an executive advisory board guided by Sun and leading media industry executives that is focused on identifying and solving key challenges found in today's digital media distribution industry. 2008-04-14 |
 | Sun Java Real-Time System Selected for Space Surveillance Radar: Java Technology Enables Real-Time Behavior and Throughput in
Aeronautics
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA), today announced that ITT Corporation has selected the Sun Java(TM) Real-Time System 2.0 (Java RTS) and the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) as the software development platform for its Eglin Control and Signal Processing Upgrade (CSPU) program. More information on Sun Java RTS is available at: http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/realtime/ 2008-04-14 |
Leading Magazine Subscription Provider ValueMags to Offer Customer Reviews
ValueMags, a leading discount magazine subscription web site, has announced that it will now offer customer reviews of the magazines sold at its site. 2008-04-14
 | Image Source's Collection of Stock Photography Now Available to Online Publishers Through PICAPP.COM: With PicApp, Bloggers Can Now Get Royalty-Free Images for
Unlimited Use at their Sites
Bloggers looking for a photo to brighten up the content at their sites can now get high-end creative images from Image Source, the world's leading independent producer of royalty-free stock photography, through the PicApp platform. Image Source is making its large database of professional quality images available to bloggers and other online publishers. The PicApp license allows its members to freely and legally use Image Source photos as often as they like to enhance the look and feel of their site, help tell a story or accompany a news item. 2008-04-14 |
SkinCareRx.com Makes its Dermatologist, Spa-Grade and Clinically Proven Skin Care Products Accessible Through its Online Multi-Site Shop: SkinCareRx.com Provides 24/7 Service and Dermatologist Trained
Estheticians to Counsel on Every Skin Care Condition and Skin Care
Need
SkinCareRx.com, the personal skin care expert, makes dermatologist, spa-grade, and clinically proven skin care products accessible through its unique online multi-site shop. Tens of thousands of SkinCareRx.com shoppers have given the products; employees and company service the highest customer ratings in its class. 2008-04-14
Brand Advertisers and Media Buyers Converging to Discuss the Next Breakthrough Interactive Advertising Channel: In-Call Media(TM) -- New York City to play host to In-Call Media Summit on May 6th,
hosted by VoodooVox
VoodooVox, in conjunction with Jones Media and Softbank Partners, today announced the first ever In-Call Media Summit in New York City, May 6, 2008. Featuring candid insights from a variety of industry thought leaders, the invitation-only event will offer a unique opportunity to learn about the new marketplace of advertising-supported In-Call Media. The summit will address advertising opportunities in this new channel through case studies, leading providers, and how-to sessions. Confirmed participants include Techcrunch, Virgin Mobile, JonesMedia, Jingle Networks, and more. 2008-04-14
 |  Sa Dingding, The Breakthrough Chinese Artist, Wins Major BBC World Music Award and is Nominated for Audience Award
Singer/songwriter Sa Dingding is helping to keep the spotlight on her native China in this Olympic year by winning the prestigious BBC Radio 3 World Music Award for Asia Pacific. This award helps establish Sa Dingding as the new face - and voice - of China around the world. 2008-04-14 |
 | New BlogHer Study Shows U.S. Women Increasingly Shifting to Blogs as a Mainstream Media and Communication Channel
BlogHer, Inc. (www.blogher.com), one of the top women's online networks and the Web's number-one guide to blogs by women, today announced the release of the BlogHer/Compass Partners 2008 Social Media Benchmark Study, which reveals compelling new insights into the power of the blogosphere and the significant role it plays in the lives of U.S. women. The survey, conducted with Compass Partners LLC, illustrates several surprising new trends in social media, specifically that 36.2 million women write and read blogs every week and approximately half consider blogs a "highly reliable" or "very reliable" source of information and advice about everything from products to presidential candidates. Fully 24 percent of women surveyed say they now watch less television because they are blogging instead. 2008-04-14 |
 | Major Supply Chain Issues in China to Impact Retailers in 2008: G Studios Forms Product Development Partners to Help Supply US
Retailers
Product Development Partners ("PDP"), a new joint venture formed by G Studios and leading China-based consumer products manufacturers, announced today it has mobilized private and quasi-government resources to address the supply chain needs of US retailers who depend heavily on China-made consumer goods. 2008-04-14 |
 | Boston-Based Chair of Seyfarth Shaw's Wage and Hour Practice Group Comments on Passage of S. 1059: "The cost of doing business in Massachusetts may have just gone up
exponentially."
Seyfarth Shaw LLP, one of America's leading full-service law firms, today released the following statement from Richard L. Alfred, Chair of the Firm's Wage and Hour Litigation Practice Group: 2008-04-14 |
 | Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS) Exposes Ideas for Preventing HIV and other STDs with an Underwear Design Contest: Brickfish User-Generated Content Campaign Lets Consumers Spread
the Word, not Disease
Brickfish(TM), a social media advertising platform and Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. (ISIS), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting sexual health, are inviting people to design intimate apparel to help get the word out about preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, and developing lifelong healthy relationships. The "In Brief: What if Ur Undies Had the Last Word" campaign, located at www.undiescontest.com, invites entrants to develop their own art and slogans for boxer shorts, women's underwear, or t-shirts containing a message about sexual communication, including preventing HIV and other STDs. The grand prize winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship or cash equivalent, and twelve pairs of underwear. 2008-04-14 |
First Quarter Venture Capital Results Slip from Prior Highs, According to Healthcare Corporate Finance News
During the quarter ended March 31, 2008, health care companies raised more than $1.9 billion in 103 deals with disclosed prices. The Q1:08 dollar total represents about a 31% decrease from the total committed in Q1:07--however, in that quarter, more venture capital was invested in health care companies than any other quarter of the past five years. The number of deals announced declined by 23% in Q1:08, compared with the year-ago quarter. 2008-04-14
 | Whats Next: Luxury Travel, Lifestyle & Real Estate Trends -- Life in the Slow Lane: Nostalgic and Expensive
While most of today's 24/7 world seems to be speeding up, a growing number of the affluent among us are taking a road less traveled and slowing down. 2008-04-14 |
 | Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream Cones Named Winner of the Second AirBake(R) Extreme Cookie Challenge: Heather Cohen and Daughter Alexa of Owings Mills, Md. Win Grand
Prize of $10,000 U.S. Savings Bond and AirBake Extreme Cookie
Challenge Bragging Rights for Life!
The cookie-consuming public came out in droves today to be the official judges of the Second AirBake(R) Extreme Cookie Challenge, hosted by Noah Gray-Cabey of "Heroes" at FAO Schwarz Toy Store in New York City. Hundreds of people sampled each of the one-of-a-kind cookies created by five mother/daughter finalist teams from around the country and cast their votes to declare Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream Cones the winner and most extreme. Heather and her 6-year-old daughter Alexa from Owings Mills, Md. took home the Grand Prize of a $10,000 Savings Bond and bragging rights for life as the National Cookie Champions. 2008-04-14 |
 | Open Kernel Labs New Secure HyperCell(TM) Technology Advances Development of Enterprise-Safe Mobile Devices: Open Kernel Labs Secure HyperCell Technology in OKL4 2.0 Open
Source Microkernel Helps Minimize Threats to Mobile Devices from Buggy
Drivers and Malicious Applications
Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), a global provider of systems software and virtualization technology for embedded systems, today announced the new version of its open source microkernel software, OKL4 2.0 tackles the security and reliability challenges embedded developers face in creating enterprise-safe connected devices for end users, carriers and enterprises. The OK Labs microkernel-based OKL4 2.0 virtualization and system-software platform is the first to offer Secure HyperCell(TM) technology, which provides a secure environment for operating systems, applications and drivers on mobile devices. OKL4 enables developers to address the threat of malware, hackers and poorly behaved code that increasingly jeopardize end users, carriers and enterprises of all sizes. 2008-04-14 |
 | AOL Acquires Sphere
AOL today announced that it has acquired Sphere Source, Inc., a leading provider of contextual-search tools which offers related content to publishers. Sphere will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL as part of the company's Programming division, which is led by Executive Vice President Bill Wilson. 2008-04-14 |
 | Small Business Customer Feedback Drives Dell Vostro Laptop Redesign:
-- Major step in expanding entire laptop portfolio by 50 percent
in 2008
-- Thinner, lighter form factors
-- More security features than comparable, competitive
products(1)
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) today announced its redesigned Vostro(TM) laptop line for small businesses, including the new 13.3-inch Vostro 1310 starting at $749 and 15.4-inch Vostro 1510 starting at $599. Products are available today in Europe, Middle East and Africa, followed by North and South America May 1, and Asia Pacific and Japan May 5. The company will also offer a redesigned 17-inch Vostro 1710 laptop in mid May. For more information, visit dell.com/newvostro and Dell's new small-business blog direct2dell.com/smallbusiness to join the conversation. 2008-04-14 |
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