Thursday, May 20, 2010

• Most Reliable Wireless Network Just Got Better in Stark County, Ohio --- CANTON, Ohio, May 20
  Posted at 7:00 AM
  Verizon Wireless today announced it has completed the integration of its network with that of Alltel in Stark County to provide customers with clearer reception, fewer dropped calls and more coverage, including stronger in-building coverage. Verizon Wireless' voice and high-speed 3G data network combined with that of Alltel creates the largest wireless network footprint in the United States. The integration in this area enables more customers to use their wireless phones concurrently to make calls; send and receive email and ... read more
• CAPS: To Boycott Arizona, Mayor Villaraigosa Orders All Los Angeles Residents to Cut Electricity Consumption By 25 Percent... (Just Kidding) --- SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 20
  Posted at 7:00 AM
  In response to Arizona's efforts to enforce immigration laws, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a boycott of the state, and the City Council agreed by a vote of 13-1. It turns out that Los Angeles receives about a quarter of its electricity from Arizona along with a substantial portion of its water. Now, an Arizona official has offered to return the favor of a boycott. Gary Pierce, a statewide elected member of the state's Corporation Commission wrote to Villaraigosa: I ... read more
• Cord Blood America Files First Quarter 2010 Financial Results --- LAS VEGAS, May 20
  Posted at 7:00 AM
  Cord Blood America, Inc. (http://www.cordblood-america.com) (OTC Bulletin Board: CBAI), the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells, a biological insurance policy, to families nationwide and internationally, announced today that it has filed its Form 10-Q for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing is available at www.sec.gov. "The first quarter represents an investment in growth," said Matthew Schissler, Cord Blood America ... read more
• Wind Mobile and Teleperformance Welcomes Visit by Mayor Paul Ayotte and MP Dean Del Mastro to Its Peterborough Facility --- PETERBOROUGH, ON
  Posted at 7:00 AM
  

  PETERBOROUGH, ON -- (Marketwire) -- 05/20/10 -- Teleperformance, the world's leading provider of outsourced CRM and contact centre services, welcomed Mayor Paul Ayotte, MP Dean Del Mastro and other community leaders to the company's new Peterborough Facility on Tuesday. Located at 364 Water Street, the Facility will be dedicated to WIND Mobile, Canada's newest national wireless company. WIND Mobile provides voice, text and data services to Canadians on a next-generation, all IP wireless network and is committed to offering ... read more
• Mentor Graphics Announces New FPGA Synthesis Innovation in Precision Synthesis 2010a Release --- WILSONVILLE, OR
  Posted at 7:00 AM
  

  WILSONVILLE, OR -- (Marketwire) -- 05/20/10 -- Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced its Precision® Synthesis 2010a product that provides a variety of enhancements, including new capabilities for mil-aero and safety-critical applications, integration with other Mentor tools, major Quality-of-Results (QoR) improvements, synthesis for lower power, and encryption based on the IEEE P1735 standard. The Precision Synthesis 2010a product has introduced several feature and flow innovations targeting mil-aero and safety-critical applications. Because design assurance processes such as DO-254 often require ... read more
• Webalo Sees SAP'S Acquisition of Sybase as a Bet on the Past --- LOS ANGELES, CA
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  LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/20/10 -- SAP's acquisition of Sybase gives the mammoth ERP firm a suite of mobile application development tools, acknowledging the growing importance of mobile access in enterprise environments. Yet its immediate focus will be proprietary, extending SAP applications to mobile devices. In a world now dominated by smartphone-centric computing, however, the time, cost, and complexity of this type of traditional application development is counterproductive, and these proprietary solutions are limiting in the ... read more
• (NUBL) NuMobile Anticipates Improved Return on Investment Potential --- CARY, NC
  Posted at 7:00 AM
  

  CARY, NC -- (Marketwire) -- 05/20/10 -- NuMobile, Inc. (OTCBB: NUBL) has a Webcast review of the Company's first quarter 2010 performance scheduled for release today. The Webcast presentation by the Company's incoming CEO David Lee is intended to review the Company's first quarter 2010 results in conjunction the management's positive perspective on the Company's near term and long term return on investment potential. The Webcast will also provide a preview of preparations for the Company's 2010 acquisition ... read more
• Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire CoreOptics --- SAN JOSE, CA
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  SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/20/10 -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced its intent to acquire privately held CoreOptics Inc., a designer of digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for high-speed optical networking applications. Based in San Jose, with the majority of its employee base in Nuremberg and Gerlingen, Germany, CoreOptics will enable Cisco to equip service provider customers with highly advanced 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) transmission technology to scale their networks to meet the demands of ... read more
• Chevron Energy Solutions and Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany Announce First Navy Landfill Gas Project --- ALBANY, Ga., May 20
  Posted at 7:00 AM
  Chevron Energy Solutions, a unit of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), and the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) Albany today announced the start of construction for the Department of Navy's first landfill gas cogeneration project. The project will produce 1.9 megawatts of renewable electric power and steam by burning landfill gas collected from a nearby landfill. Chevron Energy Solutions will also complete industrial lighting retrofits in 82 buildings and expand the existing energy management control system. When combined with the cogeneration project, ... read more
• Verizon Wireless and UNCF Announce New York Metro Region Winners of Black History Month Essay Contest --- ORANGEBURG, N.Y., May 20
  Posted at 6:59 AM
  Verizon Wireless, provider of the nation's largest and most reliable 3G network, and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), today announced the New York Metro region winners of The Verizon Wireless/UNCF Black History Month Essay Contest. The contest, which required high school seniors to submit an essay of no more than 500 words on the topic of how wireless technology has changed the world in which we live, provides the winners with college scholarship money, as well as Verizon Wireless ... read more
• SurgiQuest, Inc. Receives FDA Clearance to Market the World's First Elastomeric Single Incision Laparoscopy Kit --- ORANGE, Conn., May 20
  Posted at 6:58 AM
  SurgiQuest, Inc., announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to market the Company's new line of advanced 5mm AnchorPort® Trocars indicated for use as a Single Incision Laparoscopy Kit (SILK). SurgiQuest pioneered the world's first and only trocar with an integrated elastomeric, stretchable cannula system that goes in elongated and self adjusts to accommodate the patient' abdominal wall thickness. Because the elastomeric cannulas have a softer outer skin it is gentler ... read more
• May - Semiconductors Market Research Updates By MarketPublishers.com --- LONDON
  Posted at 6:53 AM
  

  Market Publishers Ltd announces that new market research reports on Semiconductors are available in its catalogue. Global Smart Homes Market. The report provides market tables for covering the sub-segments and micro-markets, and more than 15 company profiles ... read more
• AT&T Rolls Out new Upgrades to U-verse(R) DVR and YP.COM TV App --- DALLAS, May 20
  Posted at 6:46 AM
  AT&T is making the U-verse TV experience better again. AT&T* today announced it will roll out several AT&T U-verse( )TV DVR enhancements and add new functionality to the U-verse YP.COM TV app for all U-verse TV customers at no extra cost over the coming weeks. "These new features are the latest examples of how AT&T U-verse gives you a better TV and entertainment experience, with easy to use apps and an even better DVR," said Jeff Weber, vice president of video ... read more
• EMRISE Corporation Receives $1 Million in New Orders for Custom Military Power Supplies --- EATONTOWN, N.J.
  Posted at 6:45 AM
  EMRISE CORPORATION (NYSE Arca:ERI) , a multi-national manufacturer of defense, aerospace and industrial electronic devices and communications equipment, today announced that it has received approximately $1 million in new orders for custom-built military power supplies to be used in three separate, fixed- and rotary-wing military aircraft programs. ... read more
• eSignSystems to Demonstrate Electronic Signing of Life Insurance Applications at the 2010 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in Las Vegas --- LEE, MA
  Posted at 6:45 AM
  

  LEE, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/20/10 -- eSignSystems, a division of Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX) (www.wave.com) today announced that it will conduct demonstrations of its SmartSAFE electronic signature and vaulting solution at the 2010 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, focusing on the future of insurance and technology. eSignSystems' SmartSAFE offers myriad benefits to insurance companies that can speed up the processing of new applications, and eliminate or reduce costs associated with handling and faxing paper documents. eSignatures ... read more
• Free iPod Giveaway Contest Announced with Stories from the Golden Age Audiobooks --- LOS ANGELES, May 20
  Posted at 6:35 AM
  Book publishing company Galaxy Press is announcing a contest to win a free 80GB iPod filled with audiobooks from the Golden Age Stories pulp fiction books written by L. Ron Hubbard as part of the re-launch of the Stories from the Golden Age website (www.goldenagestories.com). "The entry rules are simple," stated John Goodwin, President of Galaxy Press. "Go to www.goldenagestories.com and on the bottom of the home page click on QUIZ CORNER and answer the question to enter your name to ... read more
• M-TEC Discounts HIPAA Compliance Webinar Series in Celebration of Medical Transcriptionist Week --- FAIRLAWN, Ohio, May 20
  Posted at 6:35 AM
  FAIRLAWN, Ohio, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --The Medical Transcription Education Center (M-TEC), a highly-respected and ACCP-approved medical transcription training program, today announced a discounted registration for their nationally-recognized webinar series on HIPAA Compliance as part of the school's National Medical Transcriptionist (MT) Week celebration. The web-based series is conducted over a six-week period beginning June 9(th) and is led by industry expert Brenda J. Hurley, CMT, AHDI-F. The $15 discount is available now through May 28, 2010, using coupon code MTWEEK15. ... read more
• RedBrick Health Releases Preliminary Findings from National Independent Survey on Employee Health Engagement --- MINNEAPOLIS
  Posted at 6:35 AM
  

  RedBrick Health today released preliminary findings from a national independent survey of benefits decision makers at large to mid-size U.S. companies.1 The independent industry survey commissioned by RedBrick Health included telephone interviews with ... read more
• Microsoft Joins Forces with it's learning, inc. to Provide Cloud-Based Applications for Education --- BURLINGTON, Mass., May 20
  Posted at 6:34 AM
  Providing better technology for education, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and it's learning, inc. (www.itslearning.net) have entered into a global alliance to integrate their Cloud-based learning solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, it's learning will use Microsoft's Live@edu service to provide Outlook Live based collaboration and the Microsoft Office Web Apps suite to K-12 and higher education clients with the it's learning platform at no charge. The global alliance indicates the importance that Microsoft and it's learning place on the ... read more
• ConvergEx Announces Strategic Alliance with the Marwood Group --- NEW YORK, May 20
  Posted at 6:34 AM
  ConvergEx Group, a leading provider of investment technologies and execution solutions to institutional clients worldwide, today announced that it has entered in to a strategic alliance with the Marwood Group, a healthcare advisory and financial services firm based in New York. Through the agreement, clients will be able to use ConvergEx's industry-leading execution technologies to generate credits for Marwood's sought after healthcare research. "ConvergEx has committed itself to building imaginative and innovative investment technologies that their clients have come ... read more