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Kenneth DeCubellis Named CEO of AltraBiofuels : Altra's Cellulosic and Related Assets Sold to Edeniq Company Starts Production on State-of-the-Art Cloverdale, Indiana Plant
AltraBiofuels, a California-based producer of ethanol, announced today that the company has named Kenneth DeCubellis as its new President and CEO, replacing Altra’s founder Larry Gross, who has been chosen to lead Edeniq, a newly created R&D cellulosic venture, of which AltraBiofuels has retained more than 30% of Edeniq’s outstanding equity and will be Edeniq’s largest shareholder. 2008-05-19
 | TracFone Applauds First Criminal Conviction of International Prepaid Mobile Phone Trafficker : U.S. Court Hands Down Historic Decision, Sets Legal Precedent for TracFone and Entire Wireless Industry
TracFone Wireless Inc., the largest U.S. provider of prepaid mobile phone services, says today’s guilty plea by an international trafficker of prepaid mobile phones is an important milestone in the industry’s battle against the bulk prepaid phone purchasing scheme throughout the U.S., an activity that includes altering the phones’ proprietary software, repackaging the devices and then reselling them domestically and abroad to unsuspecting customers. 2008-05-19 |
 | Faster Care Response in Hospitals, PageRouter : Onsite paging for better and more reliable healthcare
In order to speed care and improve pager reliability, St. Ann's Community, a long-term care facility in Rochester, New York, was ready to move beyond an older onsite paging system and the use of a commercial paging company. 2008-05-19 |
 | Metafuse, Inc. Selected as Red Herring North America Top 100 Finalist 2008 : Award Recognizes the 100 "Most Promising" Companies Driving the Future of Technology
Red Herring announced that Metafuse, Inc., developers of Project Insight (www.projectinsight.net), was a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in North America. 2008-05-19 |
QAD Launches QAD Enterprise Applications 2008 : Software Suite Delivers "Total Enterprise Capability" to Global Manufacturers
QAD Inc. (NASDAQ: QADI), a leading provider of enterprise software and services for global manufacturers, today announced general availability of QAD Enterprise Applications 2008 (QAD 2008), the newest version of its long-standing flagship product, QAD Enterprise Applications. 2008-05-19
 | Big Fish Games Promotes Laurent de Segur to CTO : de Segur to Bring New Platforms and Technologies to Casual Games Leader
Big Fish Games™ announced today the promotion of Laurent de Segur from vice president of technology to Chief Technology Officer effective May 1, 2008. 2008-05-19 |
 |  CORRECTING and REPLACING Altera Announces Industry's First 40-nm FPGAs and HardCopy ASICs : Stratix IV FPGAs and HardCopy IV ASICs Both Offer Transceiver Options
In the Altera boilerplate, last sentence should read RapidIO is a registered trademark of the RapidIO Trade Association (sted RapidIO is a registered trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation). 2008-05-19 |
 | Mu Dynamics (Formerly Mu Security) Receives $10 Million Series C Financing Round to Expand Go-to-Market Efforts and Capitalize on Business Momentum : Global Demand for Mu's Proactive Elimination of Service, Application, and Network Downtime Pushes Worldwide Deployments to More Than 100
Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in helping network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance, today announced a $10 million third round of financing led by Focus Ventures and previous investors Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures. The funds will accelerate the company’s rapid market expansion, particularly among Tier 1 Network operators and their vendors. Mu now has more than 100 active deployments worldwide. (Editors note: See today’s announcement from Mu Dynamics: Mu Broadens Ability to Eliminate Service, Application, and Network Downtime with Addition of Denial of Service Module.) 2008-05-19 |
 | Mu Helps Eliminate Service, Application and Network Downtime with Addition of Denial of Service Capability : New DoS Module Offers Strategic Enhancement to Mu's Existing Proactive Service Assurance Solution
Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in helping network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance, today announced a breakthrough Denial of Service (DoS) Module for the Mu-4000 appliance. This new Mu solution ensures service providers can proactively identify and eliminate service, application and network downtime caused by DoS and Distributed DoS attacks. Studies from Network Strategy Partners (NSP) and others put the cost of downtime for a large service provider network in excess of $100,000 per hour. (See The Business Case and Return on Investment for Deploying the Mu-4000 Security Analysis Platform.) 2008-05-19 |
 | Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale Starts Early: May 21 -- 40% Off or More for Women and Kids
Seattle-based Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN), a leading fashion specialty retailer, announced its Half-Yearly Sale for Women and Kids will start Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Nordstrom hopes the earlier start date will let shoppers take advantage of sale prices during Memorial Day weekend. Traditionally, the Half-Yearly Sale for Women and Kids starts in early June. 2008-05-19 |
iQor CEO Vikas Kapoor Presents at Milken Institute Conference : Predicts Headwinds for Indian Services Sector
Vikas Kapoor (http://iqor.com/CEO_bio.html), president and chief executive officer of iQor, Inc. (www.iqor.com) - a premier provider of call center services - was invited by the Milken Global Institute to address more than 3,000 leaders from 60 countries working in business, government and philanthropic organizations at the Los Angeles conference. 2008-05-19
 Pheedo Drives Big RSS Advertising Gain for Gawker Media : Leading Publisher's RSS Advertising Revenue Grows 300 Percent in Q1 2008
Pheedo, the leading provider of RSS advertising, today announced that Gawker Media, publisher of several of the web’s most popular media properties including Gizmodo and Lifehacker, experienced more than 300 percent growth in RSS advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2008. 2008-05-19
 | Baskin-Robbins Launches a New Twist – Soft Serve : America's Favorite Neighborhood Ice Cream Shop Celebrates the Arrival of Soft Serve and Future Arrivals for Moms-to-be with Tori Spelling
Baskin-Robbins, America’s favorite neighborhood ice cream shop, is launching a delicious new line of smooth and creamy Soft Serve products. The world’s largest chain of ice cream specialty shops is the only national ice cream chain to offer both Soft Serve and hand scooped ice cream. The new Soft Serve treats will be available beginning in May at more than 1,000 stores in California; New York; Chicago; El Paso, Texas; and Nashville, Tenn. To help welcome the company’s new addition and to pay tribute to all moms-to-be, Baskin-Robbins is turning “hump day,” as it is traditionally known into “Bump Day” for one day on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 with the help of special host and expectant mom, Tori Spelling. During Bump Day, moms-to-be will receive a free 3 oz. cone of Soft Serve*. Leading up to Baskin-Robbins introduction of Soft Serve, the company also conducted a Soft Serve survey, to determine Americans’ Soft Serve eating habits. 2008-05-19 |
 | Bull and Oblicore Partner to Address Service Level Management Market : Bull Integrates Oblicore Guarantee into Its Service Level Management/Service Level Agreement Solutions for Telcos
Oblicore, the leading provider of ITIL based Service Level Management software, announced the signing of its partnership agreement with Bull to provide joint Bull services and Oblicore solutions to the Telecommunications market. 2008-05-19 |
 | IBRIX Receives Network Products Guide 2008 Product Innovation Award : IBRIX Fusion Selected a Winner in Storage Category
IBRIX® Inc., the leader in scalable file serving solutions, announced today that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named IBRIX Fusion Digital Bulk Storage Solution™ a winner of the 2008 Product Innovation Award for Storage. This annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology. 2008-05-19 |
 | "Discover Logistics" Online Business Logistics Simulation Game Generates More Than 2,500 Registrants Worldwide in First Few Weeks : Global Interest in the Simulation "DHL Fast Forward" Shows Popularity of the Logistics Industry Participation in the Business Simulation Still Possible Until July 8, 2008
DHL, the world’s leading express delivery and logistics company, recently launched its international initiative “Discover Logistics“ with the endorsement of the German Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The program’s goal is to inspire as many potential employees to discover and become excited about the fast-paced logistics industry. 2008-05-19 |
New Drug Addiction and Alcohol Drug Treatment Center Opens in Palm Springs : Recover from Addiction and Discover Yourself amid the Natural Beauty of Palm Springs
Palm Springs Recovery, a luxurious yet affordable addiction and alcohol drug treatment center, announced its grand opening May 19. Palm Springs Recovery is dedicated to the practice of teaching a healthy, sober lifestyle in which clients are able to carry back into the real world. With treatments starting around $6,000, Palm Springs Recovery offers a variety of choices, services and accommodations which include semi-private and private rooms. 2008-05-19
 | Thomson Reuters Debuts Calais Tagaroo : Easy-to-Use PlugIn Empowers WordPress Bloggers to Reach More Readers
To meet the needs of WordPress bloggers everywhere, Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI)(TSX:TRI)(LSE:TRIL)(NASDAQ:TRIN), the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, has debuted the new Calais Tagaroo plugin for the open source WordPress publishing platform from WordPress.org. 2008-05-19 |
 | Thomson Reuters and Phase2 Technology Team to Deliver Calais Modules for the Drupal Publishing Platform : New Modules Make It Easy for Drupal Users to Metatag Their Content, Increasing Search Relevance and Accessibility on the Web
Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI)(TSX:TRI)(LSE:TRIL)(NASDAQ:TRIN) and Phase2 Technology have debuted three Calais modules for integration with Drupal, the open source content management platform that supports a variety of Web sites ranging from blogs and online publishers to large interactive communities (http://drupal.org/). 2008-05-19 |
 | Online Marketplace Aiding Impoverished Women Goes Live : Wyndstorm Corporation (OTCBB:WYND) Develops Humanitarian E-Commerce Site
Impoverished women in the Middle East, Asia, and South America have a new chance at life thanks to the brainchild of a U.S. Marine Captain reservist and a social media technology and online marketing company. Tampa, Florida-based entrepreneur/ U.S. Marine Captain reservist Jodie Sweezey, in concert with Marianne Gruzlewski of Third World Crafts, came up with the idea for OneStarryNite.com after her two tours of duty in Iraq. The idea was to create a distribution channel for handmade goods that would allow destitute women to earn a living so they could eat and provide shelter for themselves and their families. Bringing it to life was the challenge, but Sweezey found the answers she needed thanks to social media technology and online marketing company Wyndstorm Corporation (OTCBB:WYND). Sweezey contracted the company to develop OneStarryNite.com, a humanitarian e-commerce effort, to create income streams for women in the Middle East, Asia, and South America. 2008-05-19 |
 | eCarServices.com Helps Consumers Avoid Getting Ripped Off on Auto Repairs
eCarServices.com launched its beta site today as the first internet company to help car owners save time and money on their car repairs by offering an extensive database of auto repair parts and labor estimates. 2008-05-19 |
 | WPP Names Torrence Boone to Lead Project Da Vinci, the Global Agency Start-Up with Dell as First Client : Former President of Digitas Boston To Assume CEO Position in June
WPP (NASDAQ:WPPGY), one of the world's leading communications services groups, today announced that Torrence Boone has been named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Project Da Vinci, the new global agency being built to meet the worldwide marketing needs of its first client, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). Boone previously served as president of Digitas Boston. 2008-05-19 |
 | GMS Dental Centers of Excellence & StemSave Offer Houstonians the Promise of Stem Cells : Stem Cells from baby teeth and wisdom teeth are a non-controversial source of powerful stem cells
Today a leading Houston dental practice management company announced that it will begin offering patients the opportunity to secure and store stem cells contained in teeth through its affiliated GMS Dental Centers of Excellence. After studying National Institutes of Health research that discovered potent stem cells in teeth and after reviewing hundreds of follow-up studies at universities around the world, all five GMS Dental Centers of Excellence in the Greater Houston area are now offering stem cell storage to patients. Partnering with StemSave™, Inc., a provider of convenient and affordable stem cell cryopreservation, GMS affiliated dental centers will enable their patients in the Houston area to benefit from emerging advances in personalized and regenerative medical treatments. Medical research shows potential for a patient’s own stem cells to be made into treatments for a wide range of diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis and multiple sclerosis. 2008-05-19 |
 | Interim clinical results from 'OPEN I' study of the Stentys bifurcated stent reported at 'EuroPCR 2008' international cardiovascular meeting : No device-related events at 30-day follow-up on first-13 patients
Medical device pioneer Stentys announced today that clinical results from the ‘OPEN I’ clinical study using its bifurcated stent were presented at last week’s ‘EuroPCR 2008’ international medical meeting on cardiovascular intervention. 2008-05-19 |
 | PNY Salutes Jay L. Clendenin: 2008 'Eyes of History™' Political Photo of the Year Winner -- Company Cosponsors Annual Gala Honoring Outstanding Photojournalists
As part of its ongoing commitment to recognize and support the photojournalist community, PNY Technologies®, Inc. cosponsored the White House News Photographers Association’s (WHNPA) annual gala awards dinner on May 10, 2008. The black-tie event recognizes the finest photojournalists for the best images of the President, political leaders and major news stories. 2008-05-19 |
 | Light Blue Optics Demonstrates Miniature Projection Systems and New Use-Cases at SID 08 : **Systems offer variable resolution and enhanced brightness option, enabling multiple use-cases from a single device** **Evaluation units available from June 2008**
Light Blue Optics (LBO) today announced it will demonstrate its latest miniature projection systems at the Society for Information Display, 18–23 May (SID 2008). These highly efficient, low-cost miniature projection systems are based on LBO’s proprietary holographic laser projection technology and have applications across multiple high-volume markets, including consumer electronics and automotive. The Company will make evaluation units available to key customers and strategic development partners from June 2008 as part of its fast-paced product development programme. 2008-05-19 |
 | HealthGrades Makes Its Ratings Information Available on Google Health : Users Searching for Doctors or Hospitals Can Take Advantage of Quality and Cost Information
HealthGrades (Nasdaq: HGRD), the leading independent healthcare ratings company, announced today that it will make its quality and cost information on doctors and hospitals accessible on Google Health. A new product from Google that was publicly launched today, Google Health allows users to store, organize and manage their medical records online. Google Health is available at www.google.com/health. 2008-05-19 |
 | Nezu Deploys Portware's Enterprise Trading Solution : Leading Asia Focused Hedge Fund Goes Live with Portware's Award-Winning, Global Multi-Asset Trading System
Portware, a leading provider of global, multi-asset trading solutions, today announced that leading Hong Kong- based hedge fund manager with over US$1 billion in assets under management, Nezu Asia Limited, has selected and deployed Portware’s Enterprise trading system firm-wide. 2008-05-19 |
 | Young Survival Coalition Northern NJ Chapter Finds a Passionate Partner in OKI Data Americas to Support the Chapter's Seventh Annual In Living Pink Event : Leading Printer Manufacturer to Provide the "Twin Sister" 1955 Pink Cadillac as Part of Its Color Me OKI Program Along with a Tribute Artist
The employees of OKI Data Americas, a leading printer manufacturer, are proud to support the Young Survival Coalition (YSC) Northern New Jersey Chapter’s Seventh Annual In Living Pink Event on May 20, 2008 at the Brownstone in Paterson, N.J. On behalf of the Color Me OKI program, the “Twin Sister” 1955 Pink Cadillac will be on display as a Tribute Artist performs at the event from 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., while commemorative photos are provided to attendees in keepsake frames. The restored Cadillac symbolizes the process women must go through when rebuilding their mind, body and souls after battling breast cancer. 2008-05-19 |
 | BuzzDash Launches Publisher Partner Program : Initial Participants Include Time, Popular Mechanics, Entertainment Weekly and Variety
Live social polling forum BuzzDash has launched a publisher partner program offering publishers an exciting new way to drive incremental traffic and brand exposure while providing BuzzDash users with trusted back story content on select polls. 2008-05-19 |
 | Fathead® Produces The Hockey Holy Grail : NHL® Fans Can Now Own the Most Coveted of Trophies, The Stanley CupTM
Fathead®, the number one brand in sports and entertainment wall graphics and the best-known for its official life-size images of NHL® athletes and logos, is proud to announce the production of the first-ever championship trophy wall graphic, The Stanley CupTM. The Stanley CupTM is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America and for years NHL® fans have always desired to have The Cup hoisted by their team to proclaim them as the year’s ultimate champions. Now, they’ll be able to raise the Stanley CupTM in the comfort of their living room – and give it a place of honor on the wall. 2008-05-19 |
NetCraft Australia Showcase Tarka, WiMAX World EMEA 2008
Systems integration solutions provider NetCraft Australia Pty Ltd are showcasing Tarka at WiMAX World EMEA 2008. Tarka is NetCraft Australia's innovative Business and Operations Support Systems software solution for service providers. The system makes life easier for both customers and staff and is designed to meet the unique hardware, customer management and billing needs of service providers. Tarka is rich in features, extremely user friendly and highly customisable. 2008-05-19
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