Wednesday, July 7, 2010

• Cathay Bank Selects VSoft SaaS Check Processing Model to Gain Flexibility, Control --- ATLANTA
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  VSoft Corporation, a global information and technology provider of process improvement solutions for financial institutions, announced today that Cathay Bank selected its Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model for its suite of check processing, document and reporting solutions. Cathay ... read more
• Leading Proxy Advisory Firm RiskMetrics Group Recommends SonicWALL Shareholders Vote 'FOR' Proposed Merger With Affiliates of Thoma Bravo and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan --- SAN JOSE, Calif., July 7
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  SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL) today announced that RiskMetrics Group's ISS Proxy Advisory Services ("ISS") recommends that SonicWALL's shareholders vote "FOR" the proposed merger between SonicWALL and affiliates of an investor group led by Thoma Bravo, LLC, which includes the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan through its private investor department, Teachers' Private Capital at the Company's upcoming July 23, 2010 Special Meeting of Shareholders. ISS is a leading independent proxy voting and corporate governance advisory firm. The recommendations of ISS ... read more
• Freight Carrier Implements XATA Speed Management for Enhanced Safety and Speed Visibility --- MINNEAPOLIS, July 7
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  XATA Corporation (Nasdaq: XATA), a leader in fleet optimization software and services, today announced that Van Kam Freightways is now using the XATA Speed Management solution, which hit the market in early June. Van Kam is a Canadian-based freight carrier that provides transportation services to locations in Canada and the continental United States. XATA Speed Management empowers fleet managers to create and enforce a freight environment that promotes safe driving through monitoring driver speeding patterns and analyzing other unsafe driver behaviors. ... read more
• Amdocs Teams Up with OpTier --- LONDON and NEW YORK, July 7
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  OpTier has announced today that Amdocs will resell the OpTier Business Transaction Management (BTM) system, to offer its customers visibility into all end-user transactions. To compete effectively in today's market, service providers are undertaking transformation and consolidation projects across their Business Support Systems (BSS) and Operational Support Systems (OSS) in order to lower costs; reduce time-to-market and improve customer service. By partnering with OpTier, Amdocs will enable service providers to proactively manage the end-user transactions that run through critical business and ... read more
• DigitalGlobe Selects Internap to Deliver Global, High-Performance Access to Geospatial Imagery --- ATLANTA, July 7
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  Internap Network Services Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP), a leading provider of end-to-end internet business products and services, today announced that DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading content provider of high-resolution earth imagery, is using Internap's Managed Hosting and route-optimized Performance IP network to power DigitalGlobe's web services offering. This solution enables rapid web access to DigitalGlobe's collection of earth imagery delivered through three content distribution nodes in Colorado, Hong Kong and London. DigitalGlobe's constellation of industry-leading commercial high-resolution satellites and aerial ... read more
• BillingTree Expands Agentless Online Debt Negotiation and Settlement Solution 'Collect' --- PHOENIX, July 7
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  BillingTree, Inc, one of the nation's leading on-demand payment processors, today announced the expansion of its Collect online debt negotiation solution. For the first time, organizations in additional industries (such as healthcare and utilities sectors) can fully integrate immediate payment processing with the ability to submit a counter-offer on outstanding balances or set up an automated repayment schedule into their overall processing of accounts receivable. The BillingTree Collect solution minimizes the need for an agent or rep to negotiate payments or ... read more
• ForeclosureRadar Releases iPhone App, Makes Professional-Quality Foreclosure Information and Services Available in the Field --- DISCOVERY BAY, Calif., July 7
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  ForeclosureRadar (http://www.foreclosureradar.com), an online service that provides accurate, up-to-date information on the foreclosure market in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, announced today that it has released an iPhone application. The application makes information on properties in all stages of foreclosure - including daily auction schedules - available to users anywhere, at any time. ForeclosureRadar counts thousands of professional investors, Realtors, government agencies and financial institutions among its subscribers. The iPhone application is available free to ForeclosureRadar subscribers at the ... read more
• Raytheon BBN Technologies Awarded Defense Funding to Advance Automatic Translation --- CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 7, 2010
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  Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) BBN Technologies has been awarded an additional $6.14 million in funding by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) under the Multilingual Automatic Document Classification, Analysis and Translation (MADCAT) program. This award follows Raytheon BBN's success in meeting required milestones during the first two years of the MADCAT program. The MADCAT program's goal is to create a prototype system that quickly provides accurate, relevant, distilled, actionable information to military commands and personnel. It does this by ... read more
• ActiveCare, Inc. and The AmeriLife Group Join Forces to Offer Concierge and Emergency Services to Senior Citizens --- SALT LAKE CITY, July 7
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  ActiveCare, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ACAR) and The AmeriLife Group today announced a strategic agreement whereby The AmeriLife Group will distribute ActiveCare's product and concierge-like services to the nearly 1 million customers The AmeriLife Group services through its national sales force of over 1,000 representatives. ActiveCare offers aging individuals and their caregivers many services similar to those provided by in-home care or assisted living, only at the touch of a button and at a fraction of the cost, whenever and ... read more
• Bunt Software and Merchant Link Extend Life of Panasonic POS System with SMPLink --- SILVER SPRING, Md., July 7
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  When Panasonic decided to stop supporting the Panasonic System Manager Pro (SMP), it left approximately 3,500 merchants and Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) needing to scramble for an alternative point-of-sale (POS) credit interface -- potentially leading to a unnecessary and expensive investment in a new POS. For SMP dealers and resellers, this change meant that any investment into the SMP would have been wasted. Merchant Link and Bunt Software have announced the development of a next generation point-of-sale ... read more
• Nimsoft On Demand Displaces SilverBack at American Integration --- CAMPBELL, Calif., July 7
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  Nimsoft, a business unit of CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA), today announced that American Integration, an IT solutions and management provider, is replacing its existing SilverBack monitoring tools with Nimsoft On Demand--a full-featured unified monitoring solution that delivers broad visibility into business services running in hosted, remote and cloud-based infrastructures. Nimsoft On Demand provides real-time monitoring capabilities under a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. This delivery model can be more cost-effective and more rapidly deployed than SilverBack--which often requires on-premise administration and ... read more
• ICLEI USA and HaraTM Launch Key Partnership to Provide Local Governments with the Leading Solution for Environmental and Energy Management --- REDWOOD CITY, Calif.
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  Hara, a leading provider of environmental and energy management software, and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA, today launched an exclusive partnership to provide local governments with an end-to-end software solution for holistically managing, forecasting, and reducing energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste and water ... read more
• V7 Unveils Line of Unmanaged Networking Switches --- SANTA ANA, Calif.
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  V7, the exclusive house brand for Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM) and provider of premier computer accessories worldwide, today unveiled a new line of affordable, high-performance networking switches to be sold through Ingram Micro’s global network of value-added IT resellers and e-tailers. ... read more
• Industrial Nanotech, Inc. Announces Use of Company’s Patented Nansulate® Clear Thermal Insulation and Protective Coating On Metal Handrails To Prevent Contact Burn Injury Caused by Sun Heated Metal Su --- NAPLES, Fla.
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  Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanoscience energy saving solutions, announced today that the Company's patented nanotechnology based Nansulate® thermal insulation and protective coating is being used by a Florida County to coat the metal handrails at municipal facilities to protect its ... read more
• Jedi Mind, Inc. Completes Revolutionary Gaming Application Allowing Users to Play Every PC Game With the Power of Their Mind --- CARDIFF, Calif., July 7
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  Jedi Mind, Inc. (Pink Sheets: JEDM) (www.jedimindinc.com), announces the completion of "Master Mind"- the revolutionary gaming application that allows users to play their favorite PC games with the power of their mind. Existing PC games such as World of Warcraft and Call of Duty can now be played with the power of your mind, rather than using the traditional computer keyboard and mouse. "Master Mind" allows the user to control the characters in these games to move forward, back, punch, ... read more
• Open-Silicon Integrates 50 DesignWare Interface and Analog IP Products with 100 Percent Silicon Success --- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 7
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  Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Open-Silicon, a leading system-on-chip (SoC) design and semiconductor manufacturing company, has licensed and integrated 50 high-speed DesignWare® IP products into customers' chips with 100 percent first-pass silicon success. The IP products include complete solutions consisting of configurable digital controllers, PHYs which support leading process technologies from 180 to 28 nanometers, verification IP, as well as analog front ends and data ... read more
• Live Webcast of Imagine Cup World Festival and Awards Ceremony --- REDMOND, Wash., July 7
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  The World Festival and Awards Ceremony, where the winners of the eighth annual Imagine Cup will be announced, will be webcast live on July 8 from the Opera House and National Theatre (Teatr Narodowy) in Warsaw, Poland. This year's Imagine Cup, sponsored by Microsoft Corp. and known globally as the world's premier student technology competition, began with more than 325,000 high school and university students representing more than 100 countries and regions. At the worldwide finals, more than 400 students ... read more
• SAP and LSI Consulting Help Small and Midsize Healthcare Providers Offer Improved Services at Lower Cost --- NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa., July 7
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  The need for efficient operations in the healthcare provider industry is not isolated to large health systems and hospital chains. Smaller and midsize healthcare provider organizations are also under pressure to continually become more efficient while at the same time offering high-quality care. SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) together with LSI Consulting today announced the availability of a healthcare-based solution that leverages the power of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) application SAP® ERP and SAP® Best Practices packages for small to ... read more
• EXTOL Earns AS2 Interoperability Certification from Drummond Group --- POTTSVILLE, Pa., July 7
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  EXTOL International, the mid-market-focused B2B integration solution provider, announced today that EXTOL Secure 5.4 has been certified AS2 Interoperable (AS21Q10) by Drummond Group. The certification ensures compatibility between companies conducting business-to-business (B2B) commerce across the supply chain. EXTOL Secure is a standards-compliant solution for sending and receiving EDI, XML and other data securely over the Internet. Using encryption, authentication and non-repudiation methods, the solution protects communications with customers, suppliers, remote divisions, and other external partners. "Our mid-market customers demand a solution that ... read more
• Cardium Regains Listing Compliance With NYSE Amex --- SAN DIEGO, July 7
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  Cardium Therapeutics (NYSE Amex: CXM) today reported that the Company has received a letter from the NYSE Amex LLC informing Cardium that it has now resolved matters relating to the Company's exchange listing compliance. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20051018/CARDIUMLOGO) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051018/CARDIUMLOGO) In the communication from NYSE Amex LLC, Cardium was informed that based upon a review of publicly available information, including the Company's Form 8-K filed on June 24, 2010, the Company has resolved the continued listing deficiencies referenced in the NYSE Amex ... read more