Thursday, February 9, 2012

• Paralan Offers EKF Elektronik GmbH Product Line --- SAN DIEGO, CA
  Posted at 8:50 AM
  Paralan now provides US customers with a wide range of modular computers and computer boards for industrial, networking and telecom applications. Feb 9, 2012 - San Diego, CA Paralan - http://www.paralan.com today announced that they are now offering Compact PCI, CompactPCI Serial Boards and PMC boards from the German manufacturer EKF. EKF provides complete solutions for industrial applications by using the latest in technology, with a focus on high reliability and long-term availability of all products. Paralan and EKF ... read more
• ARI and Exuma Sign Reseller Agreement for ARI's Lead Management Solution FootSteps(TM) --- MILWAUKEE, Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:54 AM
  ARI Network Services, Inc. (OTCBB:ARIS), provider of the award-winning lead management tool FootSteps(TM), today announced that Exuma Technologies, makers of DockMaster and RVMaster, of North Palm Beach, Fla., and ARI have signed a multi-year reseller agreement. Under the terms of this agreement, ARI and Exuma will integrate their products, and Exuma will resell FootSteps Essentials and Professional to its current and future customers in the Marine and RV Industries. "Our goal is to provide the best solution for Marine ... read more
• J.F. Lehman & Company Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire National Response Corporation from SEACOR Holdings, Inc. --- NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:54 AM
  J.F. Lehman & Company, a leading middle-market private equity firm focused on the maritime, defense and aerospace sectors, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire National Response Corporation and its affiliated businesses NRC Environmental Services and SEACOR Response (collectively "NRC") from SEACOR Holdings Inc. (NYSE:CKH). NRC is recognized as a leading provider of United States Oil Pollution Act of 1990 regulatory compliance and emergency response services, one of the leading environmental contracting firms on the U.S. West ... read more
• Northern Virginia Magazine Awards 90 Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group Physicians with "Top Doctors" Honor --- ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:52 AM
  Kaiser Permanente celebrates Northern Virginia Magazine's recognition of 90 Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group physicians as "Top Doctors" in their February 2012 issue. The annual "Top Doctors" list is compiled based on peer and panel recommendations. This year, Northern Virginia Magazine asked nine local hospitals to put together a panel of doctors to discriminatively look at doctors with privileges at their hospital. According to Northern Virginia Magazine, panels nominate doctors based on internal evaluations, patient reviews, and overall quality of ... read more
• Software Developers Get SaaS-y with Expanded Software-as-a-Service Platform --- SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.
  Posted at 9:52 AM
  

  Virtuon announced today it has expanded its virtual application service to support MAC, iPad and Android devices. The software distribution platform allows software publishers to put their applications immediately in the cloud as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering with no development or rewrite effort. ... read more
• EnterpriseDB Announces General Availability of Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.1 --- BEDFORD, MA
  Posted at 9:50 AM
  

  BEDFORD, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/12 -- EnterpriseDB, the leading worldwide provider of PostgreSQL and Oracle compatibility products and services, today announced general availability of Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.1. The release features significant performance enhancements, including the option to free even more processing power for some applications with the industry's only synchronous replication control on a per-transaction basis. This latest version also speeds read performance and write scalability, enables unlogged tables for greater performance and flexibility and ... read more
• Kids Get Their Own Social Network with Kidsocial(TM) --- SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:45 AM
  (Toy Fair) -- Kidsocial is the new social entertainment network just for kids that's jam-packed with stuff to do in an environment parents can feel good about. Kids can connect with their real world friends to play games, chat, listen to the latest music, share photos, and much more. Anyone under 13 is always connected to and monitored by a parent, so when you want to connect to a real world friend with a special Friendship Code, the parents will ... read more
• Ligand to Present at the BIO CEO and Investor Conference on February 13 --- SAN DIEGO
  Posted at 9:45 AM
  

  Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) announced today that John Higgins, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ligand will present at the BIO CEO and Investor Conference on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time (8:30 a.m. Eastern Time). The conference takes place at Waldorf-Astoria ... read more
• CDW Announces Fourth Quarter/Full Year 2011 Webcast Conference Call --- VERNON HILLS, Ill.
  Posted at 9:45 AM
  

  CDW Corporation, a leading provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare, announced that it will host a webcast conference call to discuss its fourth quarter/full year 2011 results on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 11:00 am ET/10:00 am CT. ... read more
• Voices Heard Media Gears Up for Award Season with Interactive Ballot --- KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:41 AM
  Voices Heard Media, a leader in embeddable user engagement applications, is preparing for award season with a new Academy Award Ballot. The Ballot features a custom skin, multiple categories and the ability for users to vote and comment on each nomination, along with a video and photo hosting feature where users can see nominations before they vote. Voices Heard Media helps businesses and brands drive a social return on investment (SROI) by increasing time users spend on a website, driving ... read more
• Project Launch the <<Message2012. Welcome to Eternity!>> - Leave Your Mark in History, Take a Step Into Eternity! --- BELIZE CITY, Belize, Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:37 AM
  In December 2011 the <<Message2012. Welcome to Eternity!>> international project launch took place. The mission of the project is sending of different messages in the form of radio signal to the outer space for interconnection with extraterrestrial civilizations. In the judgment of Doctor of physico-mathematical sciences, principal scientist of the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics by the Russian Academy of Science, the author and research manager of the number of radio messages Alexander L. Zaytsev: "The only ... read more
• SMTP, Inc. to Present at the RedChip Small-Cap Equities Virtual Conference --- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
  Posted at 9:34 AM
  

  SMTP, Inc. (OTCBB: SMTP), a cloud-based email marketing and delivery provider, today announced that CEO Semyon Dukach will present at the RedChip Small-Cap Equities Virtual Conference. In November of last year, SMTP reported that its net revenue increased 70%, ... read more
• Third Peer-Reviewed Study Proves Botanical Formula Fights Prostate Cancer Without Toxicity --- SANTA ROSA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:33 AM
  Scientists at Indiana University, Methodist Research Institute study a botanical formula that kills aggressive prostate cancer tumors. Their findings, based on experiments in mice using a human prostate cancer tumor model, appear online in The International Journal of Oncology. This is the third published study from a major university to show significant results of this specific multi-nutrient prostate formula against the invasive behavior of aggressive prostate cancer cells, tumor growth and metastasis. The formula combines botanical extracts, phytonutrients, botanically enhanced ... read more
• TE Circuit Protection's New RTP Devices Offer Reflowable Thermal Protection in Low-Temperature AC and DC Designs --- MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:31 AM
  TE Circuit Protection, a business unit of TE Connectivity, today announces AC-rated and DC-rated Reflowable Thermal Protection (RTP) devices featuring a temperature open (Topen) value of 140 degrees C. Innovative RTP devices can be quickly and easily installed using industry-standard pick-and-place and Pb-free reflow equipment, enabling manufacturers to realize significant savings by moving from hand assembly to surface-mount device (SMD) processes. The new RTP140R060S (AC) and RTP140R060SD (DC) devices offer designers a convenient, reliable alternative to typical thermal cut-off devices ... read more
• Cyan Executive to Present on "The Rise of Packet-Optical Transport" Webinar With Lightwave Online --- PETALUMA, CA
  Posted at 9:28 AM
  

  PETALUMA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/12 -- Cyan today announced that Steve West, co-founder and chief technology officer at Cyan, will participate on the Lightwave Online webinar titled, "The Rise of Packet-Optical Transport," on Thursday, February 16, 2012. Steve's presentation will explore the fundamental considerations and requirements of packet-optical transport solutions. The webinar, also featuring Lloyd Noronha, product marketing manager at Juniper Networks, Jim Theodoras, director of technical marketing at ADVA Optical Networking, and Bruno Giguere of EXFO's ... read more
• KILL Johns Hopkins HealthCare Cuts Medical Claims Backlog by Using TriZetto’s Business Management Services
  Posted at 9:25 AM
  The TriZetto Group requests that their press release NewsItemId: 20120207005241 issued February 7, 2012 entitled “Johns Hopkins HealthCare Cuts Medical Claims Backlog by Using TriZetto’s Business Management Services” be killed. The release was issued prematurely by The TriZetto Group. ... read more
• Spectra Systems Corporation Products on Their Way to Mars --- PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:24 AM
  Spectra Systems Corporation, a technology company that provides banknote security features to many of the world's central banks, has one of its products on the way to Mars as part of the NASA Curiosity rover mission. Spectra Systems' materials are playing a key role in calibrating one of the high performance camera systems on the Curiosity rover called MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager). The mission that launched on Nov. 26, 2011 is part of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory program ... read more
• Alejandro Villageliu Joins Heartbeat Ideas as Group Account Director --- NEW YORK
  Posted at 9:19 AM
  

  Alejandro Villageliu, a leading pharmaceutical marketing executive with over 12 years of experience in consulting, HCP marketing and sales strategy for pharmaceutical companies, has joined Heartbeat Ideas as Group Account Director. Villageliu, who prior to joining Heartbeat worked as ... read more
• Wireless Test Equipment Markets --- NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2012
  Posted at 9:14 AM
  Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Wireless Test Equipment Markets http://www.reportlinker.com/p0703254/Wireless-Test-Equipment-Markets.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Wireless_Technology The Latin American wireless test equipment markets covered in this study is segmented into base station testers, drive test, mobile device testers, wireless backhaul testers and wireless core network testers. There will be a moderate growth in the Latin American wireless test equipment markets, picking up a low double-digit growth over the next few years. A main factor driving demand for wireless test equipment market ... read more
• 1010data Positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in Leading Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant for Database Warehouse Data Management Systems --- NEW YORK, NY
  Posted at 9:11 AM
  NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/12 -- 1010data, Inc., provider of the next generation data warehouse, today announced that it is gratified to be positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Challengers" quadrant of the 2012 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems.* 1010data's cloud-based data warehouse and business intelligence platform provides organizations with a faster, easier and scalable approach to world-class Big Data analytics. It reduces IT overhead, makes analysts more productive, and provides significant ROI ... read more