Efficient Channel Coding Demonstrates Multi-Stream Feature Using DVB-S2 Receiver Chip : Saves Cost and Circuit Board Space by Pulling Multiple Data Streams from Single DVB-S2 Input   Efficient Channel Coding (ECC) has introduced a multi-stream extraction feature that enables its ECC3100 Digital Video Broadcast Satellite standard (DVB-S2) receiver chip to extract multiple data streams from a single DVB-S2 input. Embedding multi-stream soft-IP into the receiver FPGA eliminates the need to use multiple DVB-S2 application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), reducing circuit board size and cost. Multi-stream extraction is a valuable feature for manufacturers of professional broadcast receivers, Integrated Receiver Decoders (IRDs) and DVB-S2 to IP gateways used in broadcast and media content distribution applications. 2008-08-20

Tesco Selects RedPrairie's Enterprise Workforce Management Solution for Managing Its Global Store Staff of 350,000 Employees : World leading international retailer Tesco will implement RedPrairie solution to optimize staff productivity across 13 countries   RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimisation company, announced today that Tesco, one of the world's leading international retailers, will implement RedPrairie’s Workforce Management application at its retail stores. The RedPrairie solution will enable Tesco to deliver greater customer service by aligning customer traffic with employee scheduling. 2008-08-20

Car Stereo Manufacturer ECLIPSE "Shows the Way" This Summer with the "ECLIPSE Driving Music 2008" Online Sweepstakes : Consumers Are Encouraged to Visit www.ECLIPSEDrivingMusic.com to Enter to Win One of Three ECLIPSE AVN6620 Navigation Systems   ECLIPSE, manufacturer of popular mobile electronics and subsidiary of leading mobile electronics manufacturer Fujitsu Ten Limited, announces the second “ECLIPSE Driving Music 2008” online sweepstakes, giving consumers another chance to win one of three ECLIPSE navigation systems to “navigate” their way to superior in-car sound quality and performance, just in time for one more summer road trip. 2008-08-20

Sun Microsystems Announces Continued Growth and Adoption of Sun Ray Thin Clients : Bolstered by New Customer Deployments and Support for both Sun VDI Software and Sun Ray Software, Shipments of Sun Ray Thin Clients Nearly Doubled Quarter-over-Quarter   Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the company nearly doubled shipments of its Sun Ray(TM) thin clients during the fourth quarter of Sun's 2008 fiscal year, compared to the third quarter of its 2008 fiscal year. Sun Ray unit shipments are growing faster than the thin client industry at large, underscoring the increased appeal thin client and desktop virtualization solutions are experiencing among businesses and organizations. Contributing to this growth is strong market demand for Sun(TM) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 2.0, which now ships on approximately 25% of Sun Ray units since being introduced in March 2008, in addition to the unparalleled choice Sun Ray thin clients offer customers, enabling them to display Solaris(TM), Windows or Linux desktops on the same device. 2008-08-20

Despite the Weak Economy and Rising Costs, Salary Increases Should Hold Steady in 2009, According to a New Survey of U.S. Employers : Annual BLR® Pay Budget Survey released   The salary data contained in the Business & Legal Reports, Inc. (BLR) annual BLR® Pay Budget Survey Report, show increases are holding steady for 2009 despite a weak economy and rise in costs. BLR is an award-winning publisher dedicated to supporting companies with up-to-date HR, Compensation, Safety, and Environmental analysis, training, and regulatory compliance information. 2008-08-20

Sun Microsystems Fuels Revolution for Open Storage, Solaris ZFS; 20% Growth Posted in Past Quarter : Leading Online Music Discovery Company OurStage Builds Enterprise Platform Capable of Rapid Expansion and Growth with OpenSolaris(TM), Solaris ZFS(TM) and Other Advanced Open Storage Technologies from Sun   Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today released significant adoption numbers for the OpenSolaris Storage community that showed over 20% growth in registered members in just six months. In addition, the community now boasts of well over 40 projects that range from a peer to peer distributed storage system to the latest drivers for storage connectivity. This growing and diverse community support for the Open Storage eco-system is comprised of Enterprise, Web 2.0 and high performance computing developers and researchers as well as storage administrators and architects from around the world. Anyone can join the Open Storage revolution by going to: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/ 2008-08-20

Survey Finds Americans Driving to Work in Droves Despite Gas Prices, With Little Help from Employers : The "Working in America: Drivers Cope with Soaring Gas Prices" survey shows that Americans are finding ways to cut back on spending – but not commuting – in tough economic times   With gas prices soaring, Americans are feeling the pain at the pump. According to a new survey, “Working in America: Drivers Cope with Soaring Gas Prices” sponsored by The Workforce Institute™ at Kronos® Incorporated and conducted online via Harris Interactive®, very few of them are changing the way they commute to work. Seventy-seven percent of survey respondents say they primarily drive to and from work, with only seven percent taking public transportation and only four percent carpooling. A full 68 percent of respondents who work outside the home say the price of gas has not changed how they get to and from work. 2008-08-20

Autodesk Manufacturing Academy Offers Real-World Training : Southern California's Largest Manufacturing Training Event Features Classes Taught by Experienced Engineers   KETIV Technologies: 2008-08-20

Storm Exchange Selected to Provide Weather Risk Analytics on Bloomberg : Data Linking Specific Weather Events to Financial Performance Allows Investors to Quantify Weather's Impact on Company and Market Performance   Storm Exchange, Inc., a market leader in weather risk management services, today announced a partnership with Bloomberg L.P., a leading global provider of financial data, news and analytics. As part of the agreement, Storm Exchange will provide its benchmark weather indices, weather-based risk analytics, and a unique weather risk newswire service covering financial impacts of the weather on business and markets worldwide via the Bloomberg terminal. The new solution is the first of its kind to allow Bloomberg customers to identify and manage the sensitivities of their investments in the energy, agriculture and retail sectors to adverse weather conditions. 2008-08-20

Curl Releases New Web-Based Training Courses : CurlWBT Offers Members of Company's Developer Community Online Materials for Learning the Curl Language and Enterprise RIA Platform   Curl®, Inc. announced the immediate availability of three interactive training courses based on the Curl Web-Based Training (CurlWBT), a standards-based e-learning framework implemented in the Curl language that supports the deployment of Web-based training materials for the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform. These courses are available to members of the Curl Developer Community, helping them further shorten the already minimal learning curve for building enterprise-class RIAs using Curl. 2008-08-20

MIXX 2008 Attracts Influential Lineup of Speakers, to Explore Transformation of the Media Industry : Chrysler CMO Deborah Meyer, CBS CEO Les Moonves, Author Clay Shirky Join Roster of Notable Speakers; Set to Investigate Theme of "Invention & Reinvention" as Key to Harnessing the Digital Revolution   The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the full lineup of participants in this year’s MIXX (Marketing and Interactive Excellence) Conference and Expo, the Official Interactive Event of Advertising Week 2008 and the preeminent annual gathering of the interactive industry. Energizing this year’s event is a new theme, “Invention and Reinvention.” This fresh direction for MIXX 2008 spotlights the constant state of creation and evolution required of business leaders in today’s rapidly changing digital landscape. 2008-08-20

Global Knowledge Offers Updated Cisco Unified Communications Manager Training Course   Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in IT and Business training, today announced the launch of its Cisco Unified Communications Manager Boot Camp v6.1 where students learn to optimize network performance by deploying the right IP telephony network infrastructure. 2008-08-20

DailyMe Launches Meme-It : Users Can Now Categorize Stories Based on Six Distinct Descriptors DailyWe Section Now Shows News by Emotion and Popularity
DailyMe, Inc. (http://dailyme.com) is putting a face to the news. 2008-08-20

Dreams to Open Six New FansEdge® Stores in Chicago Area
FansEdge®, the leading retail brand of Dreams, Inc., (AMEX:DRJ), a vertically integrated leader in the licensed sports products industry, announced that the company will open six of its new concept stores in the Chicago area by October of this year. The FansEdge expansion follows the remarkable achievement of its first location at the Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, Illinois, which successfully combined the power of the Internet with brick and mortar operations. The Fox Valley Mall store opened in May and has already surpassed projections in almost every category. 2008-08-20

vmSight Releases User Activity Control for VDI : Blocks unauthorized user activity on virtual desktops with patented Connector ID technology   vmSight™, the leader in managing virtual desktops for increased performance, reliability and compliance, today announced that its vmSight 3.5 product suite now includes a user activity control feature for virtual desktops that is in addition to its existing monitoring capabilities. This newly added capability allows virtual desktop administrators to block unauthorized user and application activity on virtual desktops for improved performance or security. The feature is available immediately in the vmSight virtual appliance that directly integrates into an organization’s virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform. 2008-08-20

Business Financial Publishing Ranks 185 on Inc. 500 List, Inc. Magazine's List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in U.S. : Internet Content Publisher of Investment News, Investment Research, and Stock Picks for Individual Investors also Ranks 2 in Media Industry and 16 in Washington, DC Metro Region   Business Financial Publishing today announced it ranks 185 on Inc. magazine’s just-released annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. Ian Wyatt, the founder and President of Business Financial Publishing, attributed the company’s rapid growth to a talented staff and a client base that consists of some of the biggest names in the investment content and financial services business. 2008-08-20

Hallmark Business Expressions Launches Green Business Holiday Cards : Green Greeting Cards Help Companies Say "Happy Holidays" with New Environmentally Friendly Business Holiday Cards   Hallmark Business Expressions, the business-to-business subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, Inc., announced the launch of its new collection of environmentally friendly business holiday cards. Now available at Hallmark.BusinessGreetings.com, the collection of green business greeting cards is part of a larger initiative by Hallmark Business Expressions to minimize its impact on the environment while helping businesses build and reinforce relationships with their customers, prospects and employees. 2008-08-20

IntelliChoice.com's Best Deals for August Shows Rebates across All Classes of Vehicles : - A Best Deals winner may be obsolete in 2010 due to the collapsing market -   IntelliChoice.com (www.intellichoice.com), the leading source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, today announced its “Best Deals of the Month” for August for all cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles. The monthly ranking reveals the ongoing impact of new car rebates and possible buying opportunities in vehicle classes that offer the best ones. 2008-08-20

ISI Promotes Adam Sherlock to Managing Director, Europe : Sherlock brings 20 years of International Pharmaceutical experience to position Succeeds Retiring Managing Director Gilbert Kampfner   Image Solutions Inc. (ISI), a leading provider of software and services for the life sciences industry, today named Adam Sherlock to the position of Managing Director, Europe, effective immediately. Sherlock replaces Gilbert Kampfner, who is retiring after almost nine years with the company. 2008-08-20

Enjoy Life® Foods Named to Inc. 500 for Second Consecutive Year : Leader in allergy-friendly, gluten-free foods 'enjoys' three-year sales growth of 805%   For the second consecutive year, Enjoy Life Foods, which makes great-tasting allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods, has been named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held businesses in the U.S.1 The 2008 list is the 27th that Inc. magazine has published that in the past has included such companies as Zappos, Intuit, GoDaddy, Under Armour, and Jamba Juice. 2008-08-20

Nationwide Insurance Unveils New Ad Featuring Sanjaya Malakar : View the Former American Idol Contestant's New Ad at Nationwide.com or Design Your Own Sanjaya Look at Sanjaya-ize.com.   Nationwide Insurance® unveiled today its newest Life Comes at You Fast® ad, featuring former American Idol contestant, Sanjaya Malakar. In the tradition of Kevin Federline, Fabio and MC Hammer, Sanjaya becomes the latest celebrity to poke fun of himself in one of Nationwide’s commercials. The company’s Web site features the new commercial. A new microsite allows fans to upload a personal image and create their own “Sanjaya” look using the Nationwide Sanjaya widget. 2008-08-20

Bruker Daltonics Showcasing Novel Proteomics Solutions Based on Mass Spectrometry at the 7th HUPO World Congress 2008   Bruker Daltonics today is showcasing several new high performance mass spectrometry products and applications for proteomics at the 7th HUPO World Congress 2008: 2008-08-19

Amazon, VMware, Shoretel, Apple and Google Are Top Five Rated Vendors on VendorRate.com at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2008 : Linux Users Uphold Their Maverick Bent by Posting Lower Overall Scores for Vendors than Previous Ratings on VendorRate   VendorRate (www.vendorrate.com) announced today that IT professionals attending the LinuxWorld Expo 2008 Conference in San Francisco this month gave their highest customer satisfaction scores to technology vendors Amazon, VMware, Shoretel, Apple and Google. 2008-08-19

Nationwide Insurance Survey Finds Parents Fed up with "Party Schools" and Politicians Who Support Lowering Drinking Age : Survey Respondents Intolerant of Underage Binge Drinking and Say States' Efforts to Lower Drinking Age Will Make Huge Problem Worse   Americans continue to overwhelmingly reject an ongoing push to lower the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. According to a Nationwide Insurance survey released today, 72 percent of adults think lowering the drinking age will make alcohol more accessible to kids and nearly half believe it would increase binge drinking among teens. More than half even say they are less likely to vote for a state representative who supports lowering the legal limit or send their children to colleges or universities with “party school” reputations. 2008-08-19