Thursday, July 22, 2010

• Santeon Group, Inc. Delivers New Process Improvement Solutions to State of Maryland --- RESTON, VA
  Posted at 9:05 AM
  RESTON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/22/10 -- Santeon Group, Inc. (OTCBB: UBCI) today announced an additional $100,000 contract with the State of Maryland for the latest management process optimization. This represents a continuation of Santeon's much larger multi-year contract with Maryland for continuous process improvement support through its Business Process Management Suite XIP. The two new services streamline State operations involved in Healthcare and reduce costs while improving productivity and fraudulent claims: 1. Tracking services provided to patients, verifying specific ... read more
• ADDING and REPLACING KeyOn and Alvarion® Launch 4G Wireless Network in Southern Nevada --- PAHRUMP, Nev. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.
  Posted at 9:04 AM
  Reissuing release to add ticker symbol for searching purposes. The release reads: KEYON AND ALVARION® LAUNCH 4G WIRELESS NETWORK IN SOUTHERN NEVADA Companies extend advanced ... read more
• SRI International and Stanford University School of Medicine's MISTRAL Collaborative and the Institute for Pediatric Innovation Awarded FDA Grant to Accelerate Commercialization of Pediatric Medical D --- MENLO PARK, Calif., July 22
  Posted at 9:00 AM
  SRI International and the Stanford University School of Medicine announced today their MISTRAL Collaborative (the Multidisciplinary Initiative for Surgical Technology Research Advanced Laboratory), in conjunction with the Institute for Pediatric Innovation, was recently awarded a $1M grant by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support its work to commercialize innovative medical devices for pediatric care. A key objective for the FDA-funded project will be to identify opportunities for new medical devices specific to the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) ... read more
• Pfizer to Offer Free Public Access to Mental Health Assessment Tools to Improve Diagnosis and Patient Care --- NEW YORK, July 22
  Posted at 9:00 AM
  As part of its commitment to improving the quality of patient care, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) today announced that it will make available assessment scales used by physicians and others in the healthcare community to support the evaluation and diagnosis of patients suffering from certain mental disorders. For the first time, these users can directly access and download the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and the General Anxiety Disorder questionnaire (GAD-7) without copyright restriction and at no charge, providing unprecedented access ... read more
• Cable Operators Move Forward on 3D Despite Reservations --- NEW YORK, July 22
  Posted at 9:00 AM
  Competitive pressure from telco TV and satellite video rivals is pushing U.S. cable operators to move forward with deployment of some 3DTV services, despite concerns about the actual size of the market opportunity and questions about which technologies will emerge as the ultimate winners in the 3D sector, according to the latest report from Heavy Reading Cable Industry Insider (www.heavyreading.com/cable), a subscription research service from TechWeb's Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com). Cable Operators Weigh Tech Options for Delivering 3DTV identifies and analyzes the ... read more
• Centegra Health System and Dell Services Recognized with Outsourcing Center’s Outsourcing Excellence Award for Best Transition --- PLANO, Texas
  Posted at 9:00 AM
  

  Centegra Health System (Centegra) and Dell Services have been awarded the Outsourcing Center’s 2010 Outsourcing Excellence Award for "Best Transition” in recognition of the strong working relationship Centegra and Dell Services (formerly Perot Systems) have shared since 2008. The Outsourcing Center awards honor the most outstanding ... read more
• eMagin Corporation Second Quarter 2010 Earnings Release and Conference Call to be Held August 12, 2010 --- BELLEVUE, Wash.
  Posted at 9:00 AM
  eMagin Corporation (NYSE Amex: EMAN) will release second quarter 2010 earnings and host a conference call that will be simultaneously Webcast on August 12, 2010. The Company’s management will discuss the financial results of the second quarter 2010 ended June 30, 2010. ... read more
• The San Francisco Marathon Teams Up with Skyhook --- BOSTON
  Posted at 9:00 AM
  

  Skyhook Wireless®, the worldwide leader in location positioning, context and intelligence, and The San Francisco Marathon™ today announced a collaboration to deploy a real-time map of geotagged mobile activity around the Marathon on Sunday, July 25. The map is live ... read more
• California Small Business Confidence Slightly Higher Than National Average --- MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA
  Posted at 9:00 AM
  

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/22/10 -- MerchantCircle, the social network for local business owners, today issued the California-specific results of its quarterly "Merchant Confidence Index," the most expansive national survey of its kind with nearly 10,000 local merchants sharing their confidence levels in the current economy. 1,096 California merchants responded to the Q2 survey, and indicated that their confidence levels are slightly higher than the national average, that social networking is now their number one marketing ... read more
• Vishay's New SMD Wraparound Thin-Film Chip Resistors Feature 215 Deg. C Maximum Operating Temperature, 25 ppm/Deg. C TCR, and Tolerances Down to 0.05 % --- MALVERN, PA
  Posted at 9:00 AM
  

  MALVERN, PA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/22/10 -- Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) is adding to its passive component portfolio for extreme high-temperature environments with a new series of SMD wraparound thin-film chip resistors optimized for use in multichip modules for down-hole drilling and aerospace applications. The new Vishay Sfernice PHT high-precision wraparound chip resistors feature an operating temperature range from - 55 to + 215 deg. C, with a maximum storage temperature up to + 230 deg. C, an ... read more
• ConvergEx's Eze OMS(TM) and Crossing Networks Receive Best-in-Class Waters Rankings Awards --- NEW YORK, July 22
  Posted at 8:59 AM
  ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that it has won two best-in-class awards in the 2010 Waters Rankings, the annual readers' choice awards of Waters magazine. The eighth annual Rankings recognize technological excellence provided by vendors to users at banks, brokerages and investment management firms worldwide. Waters polled over 1,200 of its subscribers to determine the winners. ConvergEx was named Best Buy-Side OMS Provider for its pioneering order management system, the Eze OMS(TM). ConvergEx was also named Best ... read more
• AIA Urges Senate to Ratify U.S.-UK Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty --- ARLINGTON, Va., July 22
  Posted at 8:58 AM
  AIA welcomes President Obama's remarks urging ratification of the U.S.-UK Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty in a press conference with the British Prime Minister David Cameron this week. As the president stated, this treaty "will be good for our workers and our troops in both our countries." The U.S.-UK and U.S.-Australia Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties were negotiated and signed in 2007. As made clear by U.K. Defence Secretary Liam Fox, our closest allies are running out of patience on this ... read more
• ThoughtWorks Named One of the Year's 101 Best Companies to Work for in Chicago --- CHICAGO, July 22
  Posted at 8:55 AM
  ThoughtWorks, Inc., a global IT consultancy focused on enterprise Agile software development, announced it was named one of "Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For," by the National Association of Business Resources (NABR). ThoughtWorks has more than 250 employees working from its Chicago headquarters, with over 1,000 additional employees located at offices around the globe. "At ThoughtWorks we strive to provide an environment and culture that leads to both technical innovation and personal growth," said Craig Gorsline, managing ... read more
• OGGIFINOGI Names Michael Rosen as President --- BELLEVUE, Wash. and NEW YORK, July 22
  Posted at 8:53 AM
  OGGIFINOGI, the fastest growing new provider of advanced rich media marketing solutions, today announced the hiring of Michael Rosen as President in the wake of the company's growth and expansion. Rosen will oversee the company's operations including sales and marketing, reporting to CEO Michael Hyman. Most recently, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at Babelgum, where he was responsible for launching the global web and mobile TV platform to the worldwide advertising community. Prior ... read more
• PT Schedules Second Quarter 2010 Earnings Release and Conference Call --- ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 22
  Posted at 8:47 AM
  PT (Nasdaq: PTIX), the recently rebranded Performance Technologies, a leading global provider of advanced network communications solutions, will announce its financial results for the second quarter 2010 after the market closes on Thursday, July 29, 2010. A conference call will be held on Friday, July 30, at 10:00 a.m., New York time, to discuss the results. All institutional investors can participate in the conference by dialing (866) 250-5144 or (416) 849-6163. The call will be available simultaneously for all other investors ... read more
• Federal-State Cooperation Can Remove Delays, Obstacles to Achieving Smart Grid Benefits, Regulators Are Told --- SACRAMENTO, Calif.
  Posted at 8:47 AM
  

  In their first face-to-face meeting, the leaders of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) and utility regulators explored options for increasing state-level participation in developing the standards needed to modernize nation's electric power system with two-way communication and control capabilities. Such capabilities will be needed ... read more
• X-BODY Biosciences and SRU Biosystems Announce Success in Development and Validation of a Novel High-Throughput Label-Free Screening System for Antibody Discovery --- WALTHAM, Mass. and WOBURN, Mass.
  Posted at 8:44 AM
  

  X-BODY Biosciences and SRU Biosystems today announced a major collaborative advance in the application of the SRU BIND® label-free protein detection platform for high-throughput label-free screening of high affinity antibodies. The two companies have developed and validated a novel BIND® Biosensor design for use with the ... read more
• West Interactive Acquires TuVox --- OMAHA, Neb.
  Posted at 8:40 AM
  

  West Interactive, a leading provider of hosted and managed automated customer contact solutions, today announced it has acquired TuVox, a premier provider of on-demand speech and IVR applications. TuVox has pioneered a unique agile development methodology for speech applications ... read more
• Chaos Group to Show New Developments at SIGGRAPH 2010 --- SOFIA, Bulgaria
  Posted at 8:37 AM
  

  Sofia, July 12, 2010 - Chaos Group will be in full force at SIGGRAPH 2010 in L.A., July 27-29. The company is going to the exhibition with a bigger team and partners to show the fresh new additions for 2010. It would be located at booth ... read more
• CE Industry to Surpass $174 Billion in 2010, Reach Record High by 2011 --- ARLINGTON, Va.
  Posted at 8:36 AM
  

  The consumer electronics industry will exceed initial revenue projections for 2010, with growth of three percent over 2009 and overall shipment revenues of $174.9 billion in the United States, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® announced today. The semi-annual U.S. Consumer Electronics Sales and Forecast (July 2010) ... read more