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St. Vincent Turns Attention to WLR With $50 Million Campus
Sunday March 21st 2010 11:00:00 PM

St. Vincent Health System of Little Rock recently unveiled plans for a $50 million health care campus in west Little Rock adjacent to an open-air shopping center, The Promenade at Chenal.

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Opera Plans Opera Mini for iPhone, Following Android and Windows Mobile
Saturday March 20th 2010 08:42:05 AM

Opera Software plans on releasing Opera Mini for the iPhone as an App Store application, according to the company's co-founder, who publicly states that he anticipates no problems with Apple allowing the move. Opera has been disseminating Opera Mini to as many smartphone platforms as possible, including Google Android and Windows Mobile, as it attempts to preserve and maybe grow its market share in the mobile-browser arena. While the version of Opera Mini for the iPhone will include the same features as Opera Mini for other smartphones, it is also designed to sidestep the iPhone's lack of multitasking. Opera has not publicly announced a release date for Opera Mini for the iPhone.
- Opera Software expects that Apple will allow Opera Mini onto the iPhone, co-founder Jon von Tetzschner told eWEEK in a March 19 interview, and plans to release the browser through the App Store at an unannounced point in the near future. quot;Our expectation is that Apple will allow it...


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A look at the health care overhaul bill
Saturday March 20th 2010 08:01:38 AM

Congressional Democrats have released a final version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill in advance of a House vote planned for Sunday. Some features of the legislation, which makes changes to the bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve:

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Radio Disney and Nintendo Team Up to Offer Oceans of Fun at Georgia Aquarium
Saturday March 20th 2010 05:00:00 AM

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nintendo:     WHAT: Radio Disney and Nintendo are giving Atlanta-area residents a chance to go to the beach without leaving town! To help launch the newest game for the Wii™ console, Endless Ocean™: Blue World, Radio Disney has teamed up with Nintendo to create a special ocean-themed event at the Georgia Aquarium on March 20 from 2-4 p.m.   Aquarium visitors who pay the entrance fee will have the chance to see a demonstration of Endless Ocean: Blue W

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FanSnap(R) Ticket Search Engine Helps Fans Find the Best Values in Lady Gaga Tickets
Saturday March 20th 2010 02:36:00 AM

<p>PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - March 20, 2010) - FanSnapĀ®, the leading live event ticket search engine, today announced that its search results, comprising dozens of ticket sites, have located hundreds and for some tour stops, thousands of available Lady Gaga tickets.

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Accurate Engineering Integrated Construction Services Inc. Receives 2009 Best of Business Award
Friday March 19th 2010 07:10:00 PM

Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Accurate+Engineering+Integrated+Construction+Services+Inc.+Receives+2009+Best+of+Business+Award/5455753.html for the full story.

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Provident Announces Filing of Annual Disclosure Documents
Friday March 19th 2010 06:09:00 PM

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 19, 2010) - Provident Energy Trust (Provident) (TSX:PVE.UN) (NYSE:PVX) today announced the filing of its Annual Information Form (the "AIF") for the year ended December 31, 2009 with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") in Canada, and the filing of its Annual Report on Form 40-F for the year ended December 31, 2009 (which includes the AIF) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval ("EDGAR") system in the United States. Provident's annual financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2009, management's discussion and analysis and reserves reports were previously filed on SEDAR on March 11, 2010 and EDGAR on March 12, 2010.

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The Interface Financial Group (IFG) Encourages Small Businesses to Employ Invoice Factoring for Health Care Reform Costs
Friday March 19th 2010 05:20:00 PM

BETHESDA, MD--(Marketwire - March 19, 2010) - Ā Ā The Interface Financial Group (IFG), North America's largest alternative funding source for small businesses, announced that the company's alternative financing solutions includingĀ invoice factoring can assist small businesses who are facing the impending costs surrounding the health care reform bill.

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Spark Networks(R) Special Committee Retains Piper Jaffray & Co. as Its Independent Financial Advisor
Friday March 19th 2010 04:12:00 PM

BEVERLY HILLS, CA--(Marketwire - March 19, 2010) - The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Spark Networks, Inc. (NYSE Amex: LOV), a leading provider of online personals services, announced today it completed its selection process of a financial advisor and has retained Piper Jaffray & Co. as its independent financial advisor. The Special Committee was formed by the Company's Board of Directors to consider a proposal by Great Hill Partners III, LP ("Great Hill") to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company not owned by Great Hill, and to consider other potential transactions and strategic alternatives available to the Company.

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Medtronic Receives FDA Panel?s Unanimous Recommendation for Approval of Revo MRI? SureScan? Pacing System
Friday March 19th 2010 03:36:00 PM

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee has voted unanimously in favor of approval with conditions of the Revo MRI™ SureScan™ pacing system designed as MR Conditional, or safe for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems under specified conditions. MRI procedures are not recommended in the United States for patients who cu

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TouchofFabulous.com - New Online Luxury Retailer Launches
Friday March 19th 2010 03:09:00 PM

NEW YORK, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- TouchofFabulous.com is an online luxury retailer which is focused at bringing high-end designer labels and emerging luxury brands to the site for one stop shopping. The site launched with international designers including Sobral (jewelry), Jamin Peuch (handbags), L

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Afghan detainee releases aimed at earning goodwill
Friday March 19th 2010 03:04:00 PM

The community-release program is part of a U.S.-led effort to redress a major Afghan grievance over suspected insurgents being held for months with little or no opportunity to make their case.

After the Koranic verses had been chanted, after the mullahs and military commanders had talked of the need to put past mistakes behind, each detainee bent over a document written in his native Pashto, carefully affixing his thumbprint.


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YouTube creators cashed in big on sale to Google: documents
Friday March 19th 2010 02:44:00 PM

This picture taken on January 2010 in Paris shows the internet homepage of the YouTube website. YouTube's creators walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars after the startup was bought by Google in 2006, according to documents released in a copyright brawl between Viacom and Google.  Photo:Loic Venance/AFP AFP - NEW YORK (AFP) - YouTube's creators walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars after the startup was bought by Google in 2006, according to documents released in a copyright brawl between Viacom and Google.


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VIQ Solutions Secures Bridge Loan
Friday March 19th 2010 02:30:00 PM

MARKHAM, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 19, 2010) - VIQ Solutions Inc. ("VIQ Solutions" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:VQS) announced that it has secured an $875,000 secured bridge loan. The bridge loan bears interest at a rate of 12%, payable semi-annually, for a term of one year and is subordinate to the Corporation's existing $500,000 secured loan. The proceeds will be used for general working capital purposes.

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Court orders Fed to release bailout documents
Friday March 19th 2010 02:25:55 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a significant victory for news media, a federal appeals court said the Federal Reserve must disclose records on emergency lending programs to banks bailed out by the government in the financial crisis.


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Microsoft Delivers OData SDKs
Friday March 19th 2010 02:06:19 PM

Microsoft releases a set of new software development kits for the Open Data Protocol to make it easier for OData developers to access data from the cloud to create more compelling cross-platform Web applications.
- Microsoft has released a set of new software development kits for the Open Data Protocol to quot;make it easier for developers to access data from the cloud to create more compelling cross-platform Web applications, quot; the company announced March 16. At its Mix conference for Web designers a...


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DemandTec Announces Date of Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results Release and Conference Call (GlobeNewswire)
Friday March 19th 2010 02:03:47 PM

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- DemandTec, Inc. , a leading provider of on-demand optimization solutions for retailers and consumer products manufacturers, today announced that it plans to report its financial results for its fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2010, which ended February 28, 2010, after the U.S. financial markets close on Wednesday, March 31, 2010.

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Airvana Reports Preliminary First Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Friday March 19th 2010 02:03:47 PM

CHELMSFORD, Mass.----Airvana, Inc. , a leading provider of mobile broadband network infrastructure products, today announced preliminary financial results for the first quarter ending April 4, 2010.

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Microsoft's Windows XP Mode Needs No Virtualization Hardware
Friday March 19th 2010 02:00:51 PM

Microsoft's Windows XP Mode, designed to provide SMBs that upgraded to Windows 7 with last ditch compatibility for proprietary applications that need Windows XP, no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to run. Originally announced as part of its partnership agreement with Citrix, the change could make the application more appealing to businesses keeping a tight rein on their IT budgets. Recent virtualization announcements by Microsoft, Citrix and VMware highlight how competitive the virtualization arena has become in a relatively short time-frame.
- Windows XP Mode no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to run, Microsoft emphasized in a March 18 posting on its official Windows blog, the same day it announced the change as part of its new partnership with Citrix. quot;This change makes it extremely easy for businesses to use...


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Windows XP Mode Needs No Virtualization Hardware
Friday March 19th 2010 02:00:51 PM

Microsoft's Windows XP Mode, designed to provide SMBs that upgraded to Windows 7 with last-ditch compatibility for proprietary applications that need Windows XP, no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to run. Originally announced as part of Microsoft's partnership agreement with Citrix Systems, the change could make the application more appealing to businesses keeping a tight rein on their IT budgets. Recent virtualization announcements by Microsoft, Citrix and VMware highlight how competitive the virtualization arena has become in a relatively short time frame.
- Windows XP Mode no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to run, Microsoft emphasized in a March 18 post on its official Windows blog, the same day it announced a new partnership with Citrix Systems. quot;This change makes it extremely easy for businesses to use Windows XP Mode to...


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Advantex Announces Grant of Options
Friday March 19th 2010 01:49:00 PM

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 19, 2010) - Advantex Marketing International Inc.(TSX VENTURE:ADX), a leading specialist in loyalty marketing programs and merchant funding, announced today that the board of directors approved the issuance of a total of 200,000 stock options to its director, Carole Kerbel under the terms of its stock option plan on February 5, 2010. The options were granted at an exercise price of $0.10 and expire five years from the date of grant.

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Airvana Reports Preliminary First Quarter 2010 Financial Results
Friday March 19th 2010 01:40:00 PM

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Airvana, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRV), a leading provider of mobile broadband network infrastructure products, today announced preliminary financial results for the first quarter ending April 4, 2010. Airvana expects that GAAP Revenue for the first quarter will be in a range of $2.5 million to $3.0 million, compared with $9 million for the first quarter of 2009. In addition, the Company expects first quarter 2010 Deferred Revenue to increase by $57 million to $60 milli

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Boeing accelerates production of 747, 777 models (AP)
Friday March 19th 2010 01:33:16 PM

In this  Feb. 3, 2010 photo, a Boeing Co. 777 jetliner is seen on the production line in Everett, Wash. Boeing announced Friday, March 19, 2010 that it will speed up production plans for its 777 and 747 models in anticipation of greater demand from commercial airlines in a couple of years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Boeing Co. will speed up production plans for its 777 and 747 models in anticipation of greater demand from commercial airlines.


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Statement from the UFCW Minority Coalition on Walmart?s Pattern of Race-Based Incidents
Friday March 19th 2010 01:20:00 PM

LANDOVER, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Minority Coalition of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) is calling for an internal company-wide review of all Walmart operations after a racially-motivated incident traumatized customers at a New Jersey Supercenter. On March 14, 2010, customers at the Walmart in Washington Township, New Jersey were shocked to hear, over the store announcement system, “Attention Walmart Customers: All black people leave the store now.” Offended customers

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Methode Electronics' Board Approves Dividend
Friday March 19th 2010 01:05:00 PM

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - March 19, 2010) - Ā Methode Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: MEI), a global developer of custom engineered and application specific products and solutions, announced today that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.07 per share to be paid on April 30, 2010, to common stockholders of record at the close of business on April 16, 2010.

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APUS Introduces 10 Undergraduate Certificates in Information Technology
Friday March 19th 2010 01:04:00 PM

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Public University System (APUS) has introduced 10 undergraduate certificate programs in information technology, designed to improve the knowledge and skills of professionals engaged in computer networking, system security, project management, and Web and applications development. Each of the new IT certificate programs is offered completely online and includes six courses for a total of 18 semester hours, which can be applied to an Associate or Bach

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Tutor Perini Corporation Announces Extension of its $100 Million Share Repurchase Program
Friday March 19th 2010 01:01:00 PM

SYLMAR, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tutor Perini Corporation (NYSE: TPC), a leading building, civil construction and construction management company, today announced that its Board of Directors has extended a program to repurchase up to $100 million of the Company’s common stock through March 31, 2011. As of March 19, 2010 the Company has repurchased 2,003,398 shares under this program for an aggregate purchase price of $31.8 million. Under the terms of the repurchase program, the Company may

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Bio-Solutions Corp. Receives First LOI in Burkina Faso for GreenEx(TM), Malaria Combating Organic Insecticide
Friday March 19th 2010 01:00:00 PM

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA--(Marketwire - March 19, 2010) - Bio-Solutions Corp. (OTCBB:BISU), is proud to announce that CEO and President. Dr. Gilles Chaumillon has completed his visit to Burkina Faso, with the accompaniment of Mr. Hama Arba Diallo, member of Bio-Solutions Corp. advisory committee and deputy of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso since 2007, and is currently the Fifth Vice-President of the National Assembly.Ā 

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Media Advisory: Blast Applications (BLAP) CEO Interviews With "Weekend Sunrise" Seven Network Australia
Friday March 19th 2010 01:00:00 PM

PLAINVIEW, NY--(Marketwire - March 19, 2010) - Ā Blast Applications, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: BLAP) today announced that Dino Luzzi, CEO of Blast Applications, Inc., will appear live on "Weekend Sunrise" Seven Network Australia. Featuring an exclusive in-depth interview on Blast Application's recently acquired and launched CanDoBetter.comĀ 

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Lyric Culture Launches Jewelry Collection at Retail
Friday March 19th 2010 12:30:00 PM

Products Now Available at Nordstrom, Von Maur, Kitson, Fred Segal and More

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DEMO: Here are the presenting companies
Friday March 19th 2010 11:44:32 AM

DEMO, the technology launchpad conference co-produced by VentureBeat, kicks off next week in Palm Springs. Companies will be launching new products in five key areas: Mobile, social media, consumer, cloud, and enterprise.

My boss, VentureBeat Editor Matt Marshall, is about to head down to Palm Springs. For the past two conferences, Matt shared the stage with longtime DEMO executive producer Chris Shipley, but this is his first time leading the conference solo — keeping things running on-stage, and more importantly, selecting the presenters.

We’ll be covering every one of the launches here at VentureBeat starting Sunday night. For now, here’s the list of companies. Most of them are giving the full DEMO presentation, but we’re also bringing back the AlphaPitch program we inaugurated last fall, where early-stage companies give 90-second presentations on their products.

DEMO Spring 2010 Demonstrators
ABJK NewCo; Austin, Texas
AirSet; Berkeley, California
AppVoyage; San Jose, California
AppWhirl; Mountain View, California
Bloson; Cambridge, Massachusetts
BlueSkies Hospitality Management Systems; Pendleton, Indiana
BrandFolium; Sunnyvale, California
CalendarFly; Pelham, New York
Closely; Denver, Colorado
Cloudscale; San Mateo, California
Democrasoft; Santa Rosa, California
DigitalScirocco; Seattle, Washington
Everloop; Danville, California
eXaudios Technologies; Ramat-Gan, Israel
FathomDB; San Francisco, California
Fliptop; San Francisco, California
General Inspection; Davisburg, Michigan
Genieo Innovation; Herzlia Pituach, Israel
GlideTV; Pleasanton, California
GreenNurture; Tempe, Arizona
Gwabbit; Carmel Valley, California
Hillcrest Labs; Rockville, Maryland
InfoDome; Oakland, California
Infusionsoft; Gilbert, Arizona
Invested.in; Thousand Oaks, California
InVisage Technologies; Menlo Park, California
MightyMeeting; Setauket, New York
MiniMash; Oakland, California
my6sense; Herzeliya Pituach, Israel
NetToons; El Cerrito, California
Network Hippo; Ottawa, Ontario
Nyoombl; Palo Alto, California
Phone Halo; Santa Barbara, California
Pi Mobility; Sausalito, California
Rebtel; Stockholm, Sweden
Sharetivity; Palo Alto, California
SocialWish; Brooklyn, New York
Solvate; New York, New York
Supercool School; San Francisco, California
Sutus; Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Tastr; San Diego, California
Teneros; Mountain View, California
Value-Centered Solutions; San Pablo, California
VenueGen; Morrisville, North Carolina
ViaCLIX; Los Gatos, California
VIC Wave Communication; Victoria, British Columbia
VISIARC; Stockholm, Sweden
Vivox; Natick, Massachusetts
Voxofon; Houston, Texas
Widgetbox; San Francisco, California
Zerista; Denver, Colorado

DEMO Spring 2010 AlphaPitch Companies
Flinc; Dieburg, Germany
Immitter; Los Angeles, California
KarmaKorn; Lindenhurst, Illinois
MEDL Technology; Mongkok, Hong Kong
Neverend media; Chapel Hill, North Carolina
R3 d.o.o.; Maribor, Slovenia
PERMISSIONtosend; Denbigh, Wales, UK
SocialOrbits; Chicago, Illinois
Systems Thinking Institute; Cedar Creek, Texas
TicketPlayground.com; Plantation, Florida
ThickButtons; Palo Alto, California
Yumit; Madrid, Spain
UppyMedia.com; Alameda, California
ZURB; Campbell, California

Tags: DemoBeat, DEMOSpring10

DEMO, the technology launchpad conference co-produced by VentureBeat, kicks off next week in Palm Springs. Companies will be launching new products in five key areas: Mobile, social media, consumer, cloud, and enterprise.

My boss, VentureBeat Editor Matt Marshall, is about to head down to Palm Springs. For the past two conferences, Matt shared the stage with longtime DEMO executive producer Chris Shipley, but this is his first time leading the conference solo — keeping things running on-stage, and more importantly, selecting the presenters.

We’ll be covering every one of the launches here at VentureBeat starting Sunday night. For now, here’s the list of companies. Most of them are giving the full DEMO presentation, but we’re also bringing back the AlphaPitch program we inaugurated last fall, where early-stage companies give 90-second presentations on their products.

DEMO Spring 2010 Demonstrators
ABJK NewCo; Austin, Texas
AirSet; Berkeley, California
AppVoyage; San Jose, California
AppWhirl; Mountain View, California
Bloson; Cambridge, Massachusetts
BlueSkies Hospitality Management Systems; Pendleton, Indiana
BrandFolium; Sunnyvale, California
CalendarFly; Pelham, New York
Closely; Denver, Colorado
Cloudscale; San Mateo, California
Democrasoft; Santa Rosa, California
DigitalScirocco; Seattle, Washington
Everloop; Danville, California
eXaudios Technologies; Ramat-Gan, Israel
FathomDB; San Francisco, California
Fliptop; San Francisco, California
General Inspection; Davisburg, Michigan
Genieo Innovation; Herzlia Pituach, Israel
GlideTV; Pleasanton, California
GreenNurture; Tempe, Arizona
Gwabbit; Carmel Valley, California
Hillcrest Labs; Rockville, Maryland
InfoDome; Oakland, California
Infusionsoft; Gilbert, Arizona
Invested.in; Thousand Oaks, California
InVisage Technologies; Menlo Park, California
MightyMeeting; Setauket, New York
MiniMash; Oakland, California
my6sense; Herzeliya Pituach, Israel
NetToons; El Cerrito, California
Network Hippo; Ottawa, Ontario
Nyoombl; Palo Alto, California
Phone Halo; Santa Barbara, California
Pi Mobility; Sausalito, California
Rebtel; Stockholm, Sweden
Sharetivity; Palo Alto, California
SocialWish; Brooklyn, New York
Solvate; New York, New York
Supercool School; San Francisco, California
Sutus; Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Tastr; San Diego, California
Teneros; Mountain View, California
Value-Centered Solutions; San Pablo, California
VenueGen; Morrisville, North Carolina
ViaCLIX; Los Gatos, California
VIC Wave Communication; Victoria, British Columbia
VISIARC; Stockholm, Sweden
Vivox; Natick, Massachusetts
Voxofon; Houston, Texas
Widgetbox; San Francisco, California
Zerista; Denver, Colorado

DEMO Spring 2010 AlphaPitch Companies
Flinc; Dieburg, Germany
Immitter; Los Angeles, California
KarmaKorn; Lindenhurst, Illinois
MEDL Technology; Mongkok, Hong Kong
Neverend media; Chapel Hill, North Carolina
R3 d.o.o.; Maribor, Slovenia
PERMISSIONtosend; Denbigh, Wales, UK
SocialOrbits; Chicago, Illinois
Systems Thinking Institute; Cedar Creek, Texas
TicketPlayground.com; Plantation, Florida
ThickButtons; Palo Alto, California
Yumit; Madrid, Spain
UppyMedia.com; Alameda, California
ZURB; Campbell, California

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12-core Mac Pros, 27" Cinema Display may be coming soon
Friday March 19th 2010 11:17:12 AM

Apple has been very busy on the mobile front, with the iPad launching in two weeks and iPhone OS and hardware upgrades expected this summer. However, Apple hasn't forgotten about its Mac business—sources for AppleInsider report that long overdue updates to Apple's Cinema Display and Mac Pro will be also appear by June.

Expected to join the 24" LED Cinema Display that Apple launched in October of 2008 is a 27" LED Cinema display based on the same panel currently used in the 27" iMac. Issues with the panels caused problems for Apple that resulted in shipping delays for the 27" iMac, though those problems have been rectified. The 27" LED Cinema Display has the same resolution as the current 30" Cinema Display, though it is 16:9 instead of 16:10. Its introduction should finally lay to rest the 30" model, which hasn't been updated in three years.

Apple is also said to be wrapping up an update to its Mac Pro workstation towers, which have only gotten a slight speed bump since they were introduced well over a year ago. Apple has been waiting for Intel to release new 32nm Xeon parts, codenamed "Westmere-EP," which were officially launched this week. These 5600-series Xeons have six cores compared to the quad-core parts used in current Mac Pros. The process shrink from 45nm offers a 60 percent performance boost while maintaining the same power requirements of previous Xeons.

A Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, codenamed Gulftown, may be used in the lower-end single processor Mac Pro model. However, there are slight architecture differences between the Core i7 and Xeon variants. Apple may simply offer a single Xeon option as it does now.

Apple is also dealing with the issue that MacBook Pros have also not been updated in some time, despite the fact that mobile Core i3, i5, and i7 parts have been available since January. The delay may be due at least in part by licensing issues. These issues have prevented NVIDIA from building integrated controllers, like the 9400M used in all of Apple's current portables, for Intel's newer processors. However, NVIDIA's Optimus platform may provide the solution to work around the problem and maintain the MacBook Pro's seven-hour battery life.

Additional delays may also be caused by constrained supply of Intel's mobile processors. Intel is reportedly giving priority to "major clients," according to sources for DigiTimes, so our hope is that Intel counts Apple on that category.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised a number of exciting product introductions this year at the most recent quarterly earnings call. The coming months might give us a virtual cornucopia of new Macs to choose from.

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Meridian Systems Announces Road to Recovery Webinar Series
Friday March 19th 2010 11:17:00 AM

FOLSOM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Meridian Systems, the Plan-Build-Operate technology solutions leader for project-based organizations, announced today a series of Webinars that will focus on the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and strategies to gear-up for growth in 2010 and beyond. To register for the complimentary Webinars, go to http://video.webcasts.com/events/pmny001/viewer/index.jsp?eventid=33859. Hosted by the editors at Engineering News-Record and sponsored by

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Relais & Chateaux Introduces iPhone Application
Friday March 19th 2010 11:00:00 AM

NEW YORK, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Booking a stay in a Relais & Chateaux is now an interactive pleasure!  The Association has introduced an application for the iPhone with innovative services that make it easy to book any Relais & Chateaux around the world. Available as a free-of-charge

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AdvanSource Biomaterials to Attend MEDTEC Europe 2010 Exhibition
Friday March 19th 2010 10:52:00 AM

WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AdvanSource Biomaterials Corporation (NYSE Amex: ASB), a leading developer of advanced polymer materials for a broad range of medical devices, today announced it will be exhibiting at the MEDTEC Europe 2010 Exhibition and Conference being held at the Landesmesse Stuttgart Messepiazza in Stuttgart, Germany, from March 23-25, 2010. The Company will continue promoting its expanding line of innovative biomaterials focused on the product development needs of the me

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Comcast debuts open source software for IPv6 transition
Friday March 19th 2010 10:50:00 AM

Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have released open source software that will help grease the transition from IPv4 addresses to the much-needed IPv6 addresses.

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Verint Enhances Impact 360 Workforce Management Software
Friday March 19th 2010 10:47:18 AM

Verint Systems Inc. has announced enhancements to its next-generation Impact 360 Workforce Management (WFM) software from Verint Witness Actionable Solutions. The solution now enables the contact center to create more flexible scheduling options, monitor back-office work activities more efficiently, manage backlog and model forecasts to meet service levels and processing deadlines.

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States with Advanced Healthcare Technology Awarded by Dept. of Health and Human Services
Friday March 19th 2010 10:33:53 AM

To help states facilitate health information exchange and advance health information technology, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced awards. These Awards are funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and are part of the $2 billion effort to achieve widespread meaningful use of health IT and provide use of an electronic health record by every citizen by the year 2014. Every state and eligible territory has now been awarded funds under this program.

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Mobile analytics firm Motally hires Nielsen exec as CEO
Friday March 19th 2010 10:33:32 AM

John Forese — pronounced for EE see — has taken over as CEO of mobile analytics firm Motally, whose monthly reports VentureBeat usually writes about. Forese was senior vice president of product management for Nielsen, a position he landed after serving as an SVP at mobile analytics firm Telephia, which Nielsen acquired in 2007.

Motally also recently added former Googler Doug Garland, a vice president of product development for the search company, to Motally’s board of directors.

Forese says his prime task is to grow the company’s footprint of clients, and its footprint of the sites, services and apps measured by Motally.Ā Mobile websites aren’t as hot as apps among startup entrepreneurs, but they’re still a growth market. Motally recentlyĀ launched an API for uploading and downloading large sets of mobile website log files for analysis. That will make them irreplaceable to some of their largest clients.

I talked to Forese by phone earlier this week. At the time, I was agitated because Motally competitor Flurry had published a report on app stats, and then issued a major correction twelve hours later after everyone in Techmeme-land had read the wrong results. How do I know to trust you guys, I asked?

“You’ve got to be very transparent on methodology and you need to be consistent over time,” Forese said. “It’s early days. Even the Internet [i.e. website stats] is still trying to figure out the metrics that matter.”

Motally’s hook is that they handle both mobile websites and mobile app stats, while Flurry (and Pinch Media, with which Flurry recently merged) are focused on apps. “When you think about the mobile Web,” Forese told me, “that’s not just the Web of smartphones. It’s a way to get a very large base of people who for one reason or another have feature phones. You still want to get to them with mobile media.”

The San Francisco-based company was founded in early 2009, and received an undisclosed amount of first round funding from Blue Run Ventures and super-angel Ron Conway.

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John Forese — pronounced for EE see — has taken over as CEO of mobile analytics firm Motally, whose monthly reports VentureBeat usually writes about. Forese was senior vice president of product management for Nielsen, a position he landed after serving as an SVP at mobile analytics firm Telephia, which Nielsen acquired in 2007.

Motally also recently added former Googler Doug Garland, a vice president of product development for the search company, to Motally’s board of directors.

Forese says his prime task is to grow the company’s footprint of clients, and its footprint of the sites, services and apps measured by Motally.Ā Mobile websites aren’t as hot as apps among startup entrepreneurs, but they’re still a growth market. Motally recentlyĀ launched an API for uploading and downloading large sets of mobile website log files for analysis. That will make them irreplaceable to some of their largest clients.

I talked to Forese by phone earlier this week. At the time, I was agitated because Motally competitor Flurry had published a report on app stats, and then issued a major correction twelve hours later after everyone in Techmeme-land had read the wrong results. How do I know to trust you guys, I asked?

“You’ve got to be very transparent on methodology and you need to be consistent over time,” Forese said. “It’s early days. Even the Internet [i.e. website stats] is still trying to figure out the metrics that matter.”

Motally’s hook is that they handle both mobile websites and mobile app stats, while Flurry (and Pinch Media, with which Flurry recently merged) are focused on apps. “When you think about the mobile Web,” Forese told me, “that’s not just the Web of smartphones. It’s a way to get a very large base of people who for one reason or another have feature phones. You still want to get to them with mobile media.”

The San Francisco-based company was founded in early 2009, and received an undisclosed amount of first round funding from Blue Run Ventures and super-angel Ron Conway.

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25th Annual Top 50 Inbound Teleservices Agencies Ranking Announced by Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine
Friday March 19th 2010 10:30:41 AM

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), a global integrated media company, today announced the inbound winners of Customer Interaction Solutions magazine's Silver Anniversary Top 50 Teleservices Agencies Ranking. Customer Interaction Solutions has been the preeminent publication in call center, CRM and teleservices industries since 1982.

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Unicoi Systems Announces Fusion SIP Version 5.1
Friday March 19th 2010 10:10:01 AM

Unicoi Systems, a premier provider of VoIP and multimedia software and reference designs to embedded device developers and OEMs worldwide, has released Fusion SIP version 5.1 in support of secure VoIP telephony and intercommunications equipment developers.

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Integral Systems Service Solutions Enters into Agreement with SUIRG
Friday March 19th 2010 10:09:36 AM

Integral Systems has announced that its Integral Systems Service Solutions (IS3) business unit has entered into an arrangement with the Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) to offer discount rates on annual subscriptions for SATCOM NetOps Services to SUIRG membership.

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6WIND Offers Support for Intel Platforms to Accelerate Packet Processing Functions
Friday March 19th 2010 10:02:45 AM

6WIND, a provider of high-performance packet processing software for embedded systems, announced support for the new multi-core, embedded Intel Xeon processors, EC5549 and E5645, in order to increase the packet processing performance by 10 times through the company's 6WINDGate software.

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Qualcomm Extends Support to FCC's National Broadband Plan
Friday March 19th 2010 10:00:46 AM

Qualcomm, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, issued a statement supporting the National Broadband Plan released by Chairman Julius Genachowski and the Federal Communications Commission, or "FCC."

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Higher Education Customers Deploying Sorenson Media's Total Online Video Solutions
Friday March 19th 2010 09:59:58 AM

Sorenson Media has announced that it total online video solutions are being used by new higher education customers.

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HHS Awards $372 Million in Prevention and Wellness Grants to 44 Communities Around the Nation
Friday March 19th 2010 09:55:00 AM

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced awards of more than $372 million to 44 communities, to support public health efforts to reduce obesity and smoking, increase physical activity and improve nutrition. The awards are part of the HHS Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) initiative, a comprehensive prevention and wellness initiative funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. "This is an unprecedented lev

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DocAve Migrator for SharePoint Now Provides Beta Support for SharePoint 2010
Friday March 19th 2010 09:42:48 AM

AvePoint, a provider of infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, has announced that DocAve Migrator for SharePoint now provides beta support for SharePoint 2010.

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A10 Networks Makes Firmware Upgrade to its EX Series Product Family
Friday March 19th 2010 09:38:55 AM

A10 Networks, specializing in Application Delivery solutions, announced a firmware upgrade for its EX Series product family with version 3.0. The EX Series is an appliance which combines bandwidth management and quality of service or QoS, link load balancing and network monitoring with granular application and user visibility.

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Questions answered by your location history: Who were you with?
Friday March 19th 2010 09:38:31 AM

The increasingly popular location-based mobile game Foursquare recently announced a new addition to its service. A history function now shows who you were with in addition to where you were at a particular time. You will have a record of all the friends you were with at the Grizzly Bear concert two months ago–and the friends you didn’t invite can see that, too. The function could prove to be more than just a tool for jealous spouses, though.

At first glance the feature doesn’t seem to be much of an addition, since you obviously know who you went out with last Wednesday. The bigger trend is adding context to your past location and Foursquare (with similar other services) is seeking to find new ways to do that.

“We want to let you see how your social graph changes over time. You can look at who you were hanging out with five years ago. You’ll see the people you were spending the most time with and what you used to do with them. You can do all types of contextualizing with this kind of information, and getting the history out there is the first step,” Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley said in a phone interview.

The contextualizing Crowley is discussing can involve prioritizing your contacts. Of all the people who share similar interests with you, who is good for going out for drinks or a game of racquetball? Maybe this information can help Foursquare provide users with fine-tuned recommendations about places to go and people to see. Also, Foursquare plans to enable gazing into the distant past, back to 2003 (a lifetime in Internet years). Before Foursquare, Crowley was trying to break into the location-based service scene with Dodgeball, acquired by Google and then discontinued. However, Dodgeball users can build a full history all the way back to 2003 if they imported their data to the system before it shut down.

Gowalla, another location-based mobile service built on the idea of check-ins (when you go to a venue like a bar, you check yourself in with your mobile phone; the people with most check-ins at a venue get special titles or points), is thinking hard about bringing context to location. At Gowalla’s website, users have been able to read through their history since the service launched in beta a year ago, but the company is revamping the functionality along with the rest of its site. “Gowalla likes to think of the check-in as a ‘bucket’,” says CEO Josh Williams. “You can add various of things to that ‘bucket’ to provide context.”

“This might be the type of place you were at, the date, was it a special event, and so on. Two things we’ve added recently to the bucket are conversations and photos. Now, when you check in, a friend can comment on that check in and start a dialog. This makes it super-easy to say, ‘Stay there, I’ll be over in 20 minutes’, or, ‘Try the BBQ, it’s the best in Austin.’ Photos are great, too, and certainly add depth to the concept of checking in,” Williams wrote in an e-mail, adding that more features are coming to the check-in function soon.

Williams thinks contextualizing location in different ways will make a big difference to users and developers. “In the end, it [adding data to location]Ā will make it fun for users to review the highlight reel of their lives and potentially fun for developers to mash up this information in aggregate, in the form of ‘visualizers,’ or who knows what. Lots of fun to be had here.”

Visualization is on Crowley’s mind, too. Foursquare’s website already provides lots of statistics about users, such as average check-ins when out, percentage of check-ins at new places, distribution of check-ins by day of week, and so on. Foursquare refers to the excellent and meticulously (or downright obsessively) compiled Feltron Annual Reports of Nicholas Felton, and Crowley says this type of information lends itself perfectly to some cool visualizations.

“What’s interesting about the Feltron Reports is that the data Felton has compiled lets you see how he has grown personally, and this is something we would like to enable in some form for other people,” Crowley said.

Crowley also said these features will be a part of Foursquare’s API, or application programming interface. Developers can take that functionality and use it in ways that Foursquare hasn’t invented yet; in other words, they’ll throw it out there and see what third-party developers can turn it into.

Getting a cool graph with bells and whistles about your social life can be interesting to you, but not to you only. The functionality opens the door to an obvious privacy concern: Not everyone wants to let people know who they were with even when they’re willing to share their location. The connections could spark conflicts (jealousy or maybe suspicions of leaking sensitive information come to mind) and raise questions about why these people are, or seem to be, connected. In any case this may be the type of information some people would not be comfortable seeing out in public.

Foursquare says it is wary of the privacy issues and backlash new features might incite (think Google Buzz) and this is why the functionality is restricted, at least for now, to users’ approved Foursquare friends only. Users can also delete history they don’t want to make public, and Dennis Crowley says that tools to hide or even delete friends from users’ history are easy to provide.

So, while the idea of building a personal highlight reel will appeal to many, Foursquare, Gowalla, Burbn (a newcomer that wants to bring rich media to people’s whereabouts) and all the other services based on people’s willingness to share their location will have to tread carefully.

[This story is part of a weekly series on location-based services, written by VentureBeat's JP Manninen. If you have an idea for a story you would like to see in this series, drop a line at jp@venturebeat.com]

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foursquare historyThe increasingly popular location-based mobile game Foursquare recently announced a new addition to its service. A history function now shows who you were with in addition to where you were at a particular time. You will have a record of all the friends you were with at the Grizzly Bear concert two months ago–and the friends you didn’t invite can see that, too. The function could prove to be more than just a tool for jealous spouses, though.

At first glance the feature doesn’t seem to be much of an addition, since you obviously know who you went out with last Wednesday. The bigger trend is adding context to your past location and Foursquare (with similar other services) is seeking to find new ways to do that.

“We want to let you see how your social graph changes over time. You can look at who you were hanging out with five years ago. You’ll see the people you were spending the most time with and what you used to do with them. You can do all types of contextualizing with this kind of information, and getting the history out there is the first step,” Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley said in a phone interview.

The contextualizing Crowley is discussing can involve prioritizing your contacts. Of all the people who share similar interests with you, who is good for going out for drinks or a game of racquetball? Maybe this information can help Foursquare provide users with fine-tuned recommendations about places to go and people to see. Also, Foursquare plans to enable gazing into the distant past, back to 2003 (a lifetime in Internet years). Before Foursquare, Crowley was trying to break into the location-based service scene with Dodgeball, acquired by Google and then discontinued. However, Dodgeball users can build a full history all the way back to 2003 if they imported their data to the system before it shut down.

Gowalla, another location-based mobile service built on the idea of check-ins (when you go to a venue like a bar, you check yourself in with your mobile phone; the people with most check-ins at a venue get special titles or points), is thinking hard about bringing context to location. At Gowalla’s website, users have been able to read through their history since the service launched in beta a year ago, but the company is revamping the functionality along with the rest of its site. “Gowalla likes to think of the check-in as a ‘bucket’,” says CEO Josh Williams. “You can add various of things to that ‘bucket’ to provide context.”

“This might be the type of place you were at, the date, was it a special event, and so on. Two things we’ve added recently to the bucket are conversations and photos. Now, when you check in, a friend can comment on that check in and start a dialog. This makes it super-easy to say, ‘Stay there, I’ll be over in 20 minutes’, or, ‘Try the BBQ, it’s the best in Austin.’ Photos are great, too, and certainly add depth to the concept of checking in,” Williams wrote in an e-mail, adding that more features are coming to the check-in function soon.

Williams thinks contextualizing location in different ways will make a big difference to users and developers. “In the end, it [adding data to location]Ā will make it fun for users to review the highlight reel of their lives and potentially fun for developers to mash up this information in aggregate, in the form of ‘visualizers,’ or who knows what. Lots of fun to be had here.”

Visualization is on Crowley’s mind, too. Foursquare’s website already provides lots of statistics about users, such as average check-ins when out, percentage of check-ins at new places, distribution of check-ins by day of week, and so on. Foursquare refers to the excellent and meticulously (or downright obsessively) compiled Feltron Annual Reports of Nicholas Felton, and Crowley says this type of information lends itself perfectly to some cool visualizations.

“What’s interesting about the Feltron Reports is that the data Felton has compiled lets you see how he has grown personally, and this is something we would like to enable in some form for other people,” Crowley said.

Crowley also said these features will be a part of Foursquare’s API, or application programming interface. Developers can take that functionality and use it in ways that Foursquare hasn’t invented yet; in other words, they’ll throw it out there and see what third-party developers can turn it into.

Getting a cool graph with bells and whistles about your social life can be interesting to you, but not to you only. The functionality opens the door to an obvious privacy concern: Not everyone wants to let people know who they were with even when they’re willing to share their location. The connections could spark conflicts (jealousy or maybe suspicions of leaking sensitive information come to mind) and raise questions about why these people are, or seem to be, connected. In any case this may be the type of information some people would not be comfortable seeing out in public.

Foursquare says it is wary of the privacy issues and backlash new features might incite (think Google Buzz) and this is why the functionality is restricted, at least for now, to users’ approved Foursquare friends only. Users can also delete history they don’t want to make public, and Dennis Crowley says that tools to hide or even delete friends from users’ history are easy to provide.

So, while the idea of building a personal highlight reel will appeal to many, Foursquare, Gowalla, Burbn (a newcomer that wants to bring rich media to people’s whereabouts) and all the other services based on people’s willingness to share their location will have to tread carefully.

[This story is part of a weekly series on location-based services, written by VentureBeat's JP Manninen. If you have an idea for a story you would like to see in this series, drop a line at jp@venturebeat.com]

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Indiana Awarded $10.3 Million Federal Grant for Better Healthcare
Friday March 19th 2010 09:36:41 AM

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program unveiled the award of a four-year, $10.3 million grant to the state to further enhance the quality and reach of the state's existing health information technology delivery system to improve health outcomes.

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Automaker Picks Glowpoint VNOC Managed Services for Cisco Deployment
Friday March 19th 2010 09:34:36 AM

Glowpoint has announced that its VNOC managed services have been selected to support a Cisco TelePresence deployment for one of an automobile manufacturer.

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Digital Sun Launches S.Sense Wireless Sensor Upgrade for Smart Irrigation
Friday March 19th 2010 09:32:23 AM

Digital Sun, a leading developer of smart irrigation products, has released a revolutionary product for residential and commercial markets, S.Sense Wireless Soil-Moisture Sensor Upgrade. This remarkable new product provides wireless, sensor-based control; utilizing breakthrough technology to provide a professional-quality smart irrigation solution.

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NetApp Augments FCoE and DCB Product Portfolio
Friday March 19th 2010 09:30:36 AM

NetApp, a provider of storage and data management solutions, has announced the expansion of its fibre channel over Ethernet and data center bridging product offerings with support from its solution partners Brocade, Emulex and VMware.

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MetraTech's Billing & Customer Care Solution Powers MeetingZone's Collaboration Portal
Friday March 19th 2010 09:22:40 AM

MeetingZone, a independent provider of conferencing and collaboration services that provides high performance, low-cost personalized audio and web conferencing services to its customers, has announced to introduce a new collaboration portal powered by MetraTech Corp., a provider of innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care products.

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Direct Debit Limited Launches Bacs Contingency Service: ETS
Friday March 19th 2010 09:21:20 AM

New Malden ? Global payments specialist Direct Debit Limited today announced the launch of its Emergency Transmission Service . The latest addition to Direct Debit Limited's portfolio of payments software and services is a Bacs ...

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Fanfare Joins NTAF to Develop Automation Solutions for Reducing Cost, Time & Quality
Friday March 19th 2010 09:20:04 AM

Fanfare, which delivers innovative testing solutions to service providers, network equipment manufacturers, or "NEMs," and enterprises, announced that it will help play an integral role in the newly formed Network Test Automation Forum, or "NTAF."

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Esker Announces New Service for Convenient Delivery of Collection Documents
Friday March 19th 2010 09:16:51 AM

Esker, a provider of document process automation solutions that help the organizations in reducing the use of paper, eliminate manual processes and simplifying IT landscapes, has announced to introduce a new service for companies that will automate and outsource fax and postal mail delivery of reminder letters, referral to collection agency letters, duplicate invoices, collection history and other collection documents generated by SAP solutions or third-party applications.

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Mirial Launches ClearSea, Turn-Key Desktop Videoconferencing Solution
Friday March 19th 2010 09:12:02 AM

MILAN, March 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Mirial released ClearSea, a new comprehensive desktop videoconferencing solution engineered to meet the enterprise, healthcare and educational markets needs in the desktop videoconferencing space. Based on a client/server architecture, and built on over

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Hollenbach Construction Launches New Website Through Media Fusion Technologies
Friday March 19th 2010 09:05:00 AM

BOYERTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hollenbach Construction, Inc., an experienced general contractor and construction manager in Pennsylvania launches new website through Media Fusion Technologies

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