Oregon News

CommunityCam (TM), a publicly accessible crowdsourced camera mapping tool created by VideoSurveillance.com, is gaining fast momentum in the Portland, OR metropolitan area. The goal of CommunityCam is to provide local citizens and law enforcement with the tools necessary in the unfortunate event of a street crime. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130522/CG18414) Should a person become a victim of a crime, he or she can use CommunityCam to check for nearby surveillance cameras that may have recorded the incident, and then report the location of that ... read more

Consumer Cellular (www.consumercellular.com), the number one rated cellphone service for the third consecutive year and exclusive wireless provider for AARP members, has been awarded a prestigious Partners in Transformation award from Sears Holdings Corporation. Consumer Cellular received the award in the electronics ... read more

Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), a leader in electronic design automation, today announced it has teamed with OpSIS and Lumerical Solutions to develop a complete EDA-style, full flow process design kit (PDK) for the OpSIS IME (Institute of Microelectronics) silicon ... read more

Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced that Canby Telcom has chosen Elemental systems to help with creation of a channel on the Roku® streaming platform for over-the-top (OTT) delivery of local broadcast channels to subscribers. The Canby ... read more

Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today reported that L-3 Link Simulation & Training’s (L-3 Link) operation in the United Kingdom has cut the number of electrical engineering change orders (ECOs) at production by 90 percent using Capital® software. The improvement ... read more

Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), a leader in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising, television and movie industries, today announced that Cathy Hetzel, Corporate President & President, AMI Division, will present at the 8(th) Annual Needham Internet & Digital Media Conference at the Westin New York Grand Central Hotel in New York City on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time. About Rentrak CorporationRentrak (RENT) is the entertainment and marketing industries' premier provider of worldwide consumer viewership information, precisely ... read more

Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, today announced that the Tektronix Foundation has made a sizeable donation totaling $75,000 to fund three advanced laboratory and engineering programs at Oregon State University. This most recent gift continues the decades-long partnership between Tektronix and OSU. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130103/SF36616LOGO-b) Over the years, Tektronix has partnered in many ways with Oregon State to drive educational excellence," said Dr. Kevin Ilcisin, Chief Technology Officer, Tektronix. "In return, Tektronix has ... read more

Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) and Tezzaron Semiconductor Corp. today announced they are collaborating to integrate the Mentor® Calibre® 3DSTACK product into Tezzaron’s 3D-IC offerings. The new integration will focus on fast, automated verification of die-to-die interactions in 2.5D and ... read more

VendScreen, Inc., inventor of the VendScreen Revolution™ smart device for vending machines, has added new vision to its Board of Directors. Jim Brinton, former chairman of the National Automatic Merchandiser Association (NAMA), past president and chairman of Unified Strategies ... read more

Audio Precision, the recognized standard in audio test, today announced the availability of new Rub & Buzz and Air Leak detection acoustic tests for electro-acoustic devices using the APx series of audio analyzers. The new Rub & Buzz and Air Leak detection tests are in addition to existing acoustic tests such as energy-time curve (for gating reflections in non-anechoic environments), frequency response, distortion of individual harmonics, impulse response, and impedance, and are compatible with all APx models. APx Acoustics Tests enable ... read more

For today's entrepreneurs, starting a business is not all about the money. According to the 2013 State Of The Business Owner (SOBO) Report, announced today by business coaching leader EMyth, the top three reasons today's entrepreneurs start their business are: freedom to pursue new opportunities; following their personal passion; and, to gain independence from other's control. Money, in fact, ranks fourth. EMyth commissioned the State Of The Business Owner project, now in its second year, and surveyed ... read more

GlobeSherpa, a leading provider of secure mobile ticketing and payments software, and TriMet, Oregon's largest provider of bus, light rail and commuter rail transit services today launched a public beta test of TriMet Tickets, TriMet's mobile ticketing application. During the test, select riders will be able to buy and use tickets for buses, MAX trains, WES Commuter Rail and the Portland Streetcar anytime, anywhere using only their smartphones. This new technology will help save the agency millions by reducing the ... read more

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that CNH, a world leader in agricultural and construction equipment, has transitioned to the latest VeSys® software platform and also added a number of compatible tools from the Mentor® Capital® ... read more

Regularly taking prescription painkillers, also known as opioids, is associated with a higher risk of erectile dysfunction, according to a study published online today in the journal Spine. The researchers included more than 11,000 men with back pain in the study and examined their health records to find out if the men taking prescription painkillers were more likely to also receive prescriptions for testosterone replacement or ED medications. More than 19 percent of men who took high-dose opioids for at ... read more

For years Vortx has been innovating smarter ways to sell online. Their most recent product EnnyWare is more than just an online store. This first-of-its-kind solution is an affordable, simple, multi-channel selling solution that is ahead of the trend in e-commerce solution development. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130515/DE14089LOGO ) Traditionally, e-commerce solutions burden the merchant with drawing traffic to one website; EnnyWare gives merchants the power to take their products to the shopper. An intuitive digital product library automatically broadcasts to all of ... read more

TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ:TQNT), a leading RF solutions supplier and technology innovator, today announced a program authorizing the repurchase of up to $75 million of the Company's common stock. Under this program, stock repurchases may be made from time to time in ... read more

Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), a mobile financial and security pioneer with more than 80 granted and pending patents, today unveiled its Connected Smart Card™ (CSC™) solution – a combination of hardware products, software solutions and hosted services – that enables financial, government, healthcare and ... read more

Harry & David will kick off the semi-annual “Support Our Troops with Moose Munch® Bars” program on Thursday, May 23, 2013, which allows families, friends and supporters of soldiers in the U.S. armed forces to purchase the popular Harry & David® Moose Munch® treat and send ... read more

Marco Mahler, a kinetic sculptor specializing in mobiles, and Henry Segerman, a research fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, are releasing a collection of fully 3D-printed mobiles on May 14(th) 2013. An extensive online search did not turn up any fully 3-D printed mobiles made by anyone else yet, making these 3-D printed mobiles apparently the first ones in the world. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130514/SF13781) The mobiles come out of the 3D-printer completely assembled as ... read more

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced they will release financial results for the company's first fiscal quarter, ended April 30, 2013 on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at approximately 1:15 pm Pacific. ... read more