Tuesday, June 8, 2010

• David Beckham Signs with Yahoo! as Global Football Ambassador --- SUNNYVALE, Calif.
  Posted at 7:28 AM
  

  This summer, Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) more than 600 million global users will have even more reason to visit (sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/) as global football star David Beckham will be featured exclusively as part of the company’s unrivalled sports coverage. This partnership brings ... read more
• SonicWALL Bolsters Security Portfolio With Delivery of Email Protection and Anti-Spam --- SAN JOSE, Calif., June 8
  Posted at 7:25 AM
  SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today announced the SonicWALL Email Security Appliance (ESA) 3300 and the SonicWALL ESA 4300, bringing market-leading high performance, highly scalable and cost effective email security to organizations of all sizes. With the introduction of these two new products and the recently announced SonicWALL Email Security Virtual Appliance, SonicWALL's Email Security portfolio offers SMBs, enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) more choices when it comes to ... read more
• ISMI Announces Keynote Speakers for 2010 Symposium --- AUSTIN, Texas
  Posted at 7:25 AM
  International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI), the subsidiary of SEMATECH dedicated to helping improve the productivity and cost performance of semiconductor manufacturing operations, today announced the keynote speakers for its 7th Annual ISMI Symposium on Manufacturing Effectiveness, taking place October 31 to November 4, 2010 ... read more
• PD In Focus Named a Best Education Technology Product in SIIA CODiE Awards --- WASHINGTON
  Posted at 7:25 AM
  

  agencyQ, a Washington, D.C.-based digital marketing agency, announced that PD In Focus™, an interactive, web-based professional learning application, which it developed for ASCD, was recently honored with a Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award in the Best Professional ... read more
• Direct Capital Slashes Finance Transaction Time with e-Signatures --- PORTSMOUTH, N.H.
  Posted at 7:22 AM
  

  Direct Capital, a leading nationwide provider of commercial lending services, has launched a new electronic documentation system that enables its customers to securely execute lease, loan, and working capital transactions electronically. The system, the first of its kind in the ... read more
• Endoscopy Center of North Baltimore Selects ProVation Medical Software for Procedure Documentation and Coding, Patient Charting --- MINNEAPOLIS
  Posted at 7:21 AM
  

  Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that the Endoscopy Center of North Baltimore has selected its ProVation® MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding, and its ProVation® EHR electronic health record and patient charting ... read more
• Taylor Swift, Reba, Jewel and Justin Moore to Release Multimedia V-Albums & V-Wraps on June 8th --- LUBBOCK, Texas & PENNINGTON, N.J.
  Posted at 7:20 AM
  

  ScatterTunes™, the company that is revolutionizing the concept of the “album” through its innovative and immersive V-Album technology, is offering up exciting multimedia releases on June 8th from superstars Taylor Swift, Reba and Jewel, as well as up-and-coming singer-songwriter Justin ... read more
• Music Execs Weigh-in on Industry --- LOS ANGELES, June 8
  Posted at 7:18 AM
  "Tik Tok" might be the sound that doomsayers use as a metaphor for the borrowed time that the music industry is living on, but it also represents a new model for the beleaguered business. Case in point: Ke$ha, the 23-year old pop star whose clock-referencing single racked up the largest Soundscan performance ever for a female artist, selling 610,000 digital downloads in one week last August, on its way to quadruple platinum status. To date, her album "Animal" has sold ... read more
• New Spanish Language Website Offers One-Stop Shop for Nation's Fastest Growing Market: Latinos --- BALTIMORE, June 8
  Posted at 7:18 AM
  Free advice is one thing, but there's no disputing the heavyweight value of a website that offers "a ton of advice" in Spanish. That's the idea behind this first-of-its-kind Spanish language site called 1001 Consejos. Translated into English, the name means "a ton of advice," exactly what this one-stop online shop offers to Latinos "consejos." Imagine what would happen if Facebook met Fandango, YouTube merged with Real Simple and Craigslist converged with both Ticketmaster and Amazon. Add news, weather, sports, ... read more
• /C O R R E C T I O N -- ZS Associates/ --- EVANSTON, Ill., June 8
  Posted at 7:16 AM
  Chris Wright, managing principal and leader of the U.S. pharmaceutical practice at global management consulting firm ZS Associates, was named one of the top 25 consultants of 2010 by Consulting Magazine. Wright was recognized for helping the pharmaceutical industry eliminate more than $500 million of annual selling costs by changing the way prescription drugs are "promoted" to physicians in the United States. "It's an honor to be named one of the top consultants of the year," said Wright, who has more ... read more
• JustSystems Delivers Enhancements to Channel Partner Program --- NEW YORK & VANCOUVER
  Posted at 7:15 AM
  

  JustSystems, the largest independent software vendor in Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management technologies, today announced that the company has made key enhancements to the JustSystems Partner Program. The company is now offering designated channel managers, ... read more
• Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nurses Society Introduces Essential Practice Documents at Joint Conference in June --- PHOENIX, June 8
  Posted at 7:15 AM
  Wound, ostomy and continence care professionals are eagerly anticipating the presentation of three essential practice documents at the 2010 Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society Joint Conference. The conference, held in conjunction with the World Council of Enterostomal Therapists (WCET), convenes June 12-16, 2010 in Phoenix, AZ. The documents, Guideline for Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers, Management of the Patient with a Fecal Ostomy: Best Practice Guideline for Clinicians, and WOC Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, ... read more
• Impax Laboratories and Endo Pharmaceuticals Settle Pending Litigation for Opana® ER and Announce Development and Co-Promotion Agreement --- HAYWARD, Calif.
  Posted at 7:15 AM
  

  Impax Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPXL) today announced that it has reached agreement with Endo Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ENDP) and Penwest Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq PPCO) to settle pending U.S. litigation with regard to the production and sale of generic formulations of OPANA® ER (oxymorphone hydrochloride) Extended Release ... read more
• Lumigent Shows How “Proving Nothing” Can Cut Compliance Costs --- ACTON, Mass.
  Posted at 7:15 AM
  

  For audit and compliance reporting purposes, few things are more valuable to the finance department than utilizing a camera in the vault to provide key business controls and policies. Continuous, source-level monitoring can provide persuasive evidence that something did not happen — that no change was ... read more
• Launch of Revolutionary Go Free® Pants for Women --- WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
  Posted at 7:15 AM
  

  With the launch of Go Free® pants and jeans exclusively for women and the debut of the online retail store www.gofreepants.com today, you’ll wonder why women’s pants and jeans weren’t always made this way. ... read more
• Sikorsky Aerospace Services and ZFL Announce Memorandum of Understanding for Aftermarket Services in Germany --- STRATFORD, Conn., June 8
  Posted at 7:15 AM
  Sikorsky Aerospace Services and ZF Luftfahrttechnik GmbH (ZF Aviation Technology, ZFL) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly explore opportunities for delivering improved aftermarket support to the German armed forces and introducing the Cyclone(TM) multi-mission helicopter into Germany. Sikorsky Aerospace Services is the aftermarket division of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080904/NETH086LOGO ) Under the Memorandum of Understanding, Helicopter Support, Inc. (HSI), a business unit of Sikorsky Aerospace Services, and ZFL ... read more
• cerbomed Reports Positive Intermediate Results from Epilepsy Pilot Study --- ERLANGEN, Germany
  Posted at 7:13 AM
  

  An evaluation has revealed positive intermediate results for the first three months of data from the clinical trials for the treatment of therapy resistant epilepsies with the world’s first device using transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (t-VNS®), from cerbomed gmbh. t-VNS® proves its good ... read more
• CLSI Publishes Method for Antifungal Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Testing of Nondermatophyte Filamentous Fungi Guideline and Supplement --- WAYNE, PA
  Posted at 7:13 AM
  

  WAYNE, PA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/08/10 -- Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recently published "Method for Antifungal Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Testing of Nondermatophyte Filamentous Fungi; Approved Guideline" (M51-A) to respond to the need for alternative, simple, rapid, and cost-effective approaches for determining the antifungal susceptibility of nondermatophyte filamentous fungi. Michael A. Pfaller, MD, University of Iowa College of Medicine, and member of the subcommittee that developed the guideline, says, "M51-A provides guidance for laboratories that are interested in ... read more
• New York Students Connect With International Space Station Astronaut for Out of This World Conversation --- WASHINGTON, June 8
  Posted at 7:12 AM
  Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, orbiting 220 miles above Earth, will discuss living and working in space with students gathered at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, N.Y., on Thursday, June 10. The call between the students and International Space Station crew member will take place at about 11 a.m. EDT. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The students participating are from Northside School, New Visions School, Wantagh Horizons Program, Westbury High School and Drexel Avenue School, all in New York. Reporters interested in attending ... read more
• Global Knowledge Offers Training to Support Green IT Initiatives --- CARY, N.C.
  Posted at 7:12 AM
  

  Global Knowledge today announced the availability of Green IT Exam Prep Boot Camp, a green IT training course in which students will learn what green IT initiatives can mean to IT departments and how quickly the benefits can be recognized. The Boot Camp also prepares ... read more