Wednesday, May 19, 2010

• Decision-Makers Request Data Visualization in Business Intelligence Solutions --- WALTHAM, MA
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  WALTHAM, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/19/10 -- In the earliest days of contemporary business intelligence, data visualization was reserved for a small group of elite users at extremely progressive corporations. Almost a decade later, it's hard to find a software solution used for corporate reporting or business analysis that isn't crammed with charts, graphs and maps that illustrate performance for busy executives and managers. The appetite for increasingly sophisticated types of data visualization is generating an unprecedented surge of ... read more
• CORAID Introduces EtherDrive Z-Series NAS Storage Appliance --- REDWOOD CITY, CA
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  REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/19/10 -- CORAID® Inc., a leading developer of scale-out storage solutions with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, today announced the availability of EtherDrive® Z-Series NAS appliances. EtherDrive Z-Series combines the highly-respected ZFS open source file system with CORAID's breakthrough Ethernet SAN technology to deliver unmatched price-performance and enterprise storage management capabilities. Advanced features include 10 Gb Ethernet, in-line deduplication, replication, unlimited snapshots, compression, automatic tiering, continuous data protection, file search, and thin ... read more
• Former Drug Czar and 4-Star Gen. Barry McCaffrey (USA-Ret.) Receives West Point 2010 Distinguished Graduate Award --- WASHINGTON and WEST POINT, N.Y., May 19
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  Four-Star General Barry R. McCaffrey (USA-Ret.), who led the Left Hook in the Gulf War, was SouthCom Commander (directing U.S.-Latin America troops), and later served as the White House National Drug Policy Director, yesterday was given the United States Military Academy 2010 Distinguished Graduate Award by the West Point Association of Graduates. The presentation followed the West Point spring Alumni March and occurred at a "Review on the Plain." According to Colonel Robert L. McClure, President and CEO ... read more
• Quintiles and Kaiser Permanente Announce Alliance to Accelerate Drug Development --- RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.
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  Quintiles, the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide, and Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) today announced an ... read more
• Netformx Teams With salesforce.com to Streamline the Design and Selling Process for Complex, Dynamic Network Services --- SANTA CLARA, CA
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  SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/19/10 -- Netformx, a global leader in telecom design and proposal generation platforms, today announced a new TM Forum Catalyst project in collaboration with salesforce.com. The proof-of-concept initiative aims to define and demonstrate a framework, consistent with TM Forum's Application Framework (TAM), to help communications service providers (CSPs) improve the efficiency and profitability of selling, deploying and fulfilling complex, dynamic network solutions, such as MPLS and unified communications, to enterprise customers. Today's enterprise ... read more
• MovieHatch.com Offers Fame on Massive Times Square Billboard! New Contest Puts Winner's Face in Lights in Heart of Broadway --- AUSTIN, Texas, May 19
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  Those who dream of being famous are now given a unique chance to see their face on a massive billboard in Times Square. Today, MovieHatch.com, the online entertainment venue where great film ideas and talent can be discovered and introduced to prominent players in Hollywood, announces the launch of its Times Square "Your Face in Lights" Contest. Open and free to everyone visiting and registering on the site, the contest rewards one lucky aspiring actor, model, or dreamer the opportunity ... read more
• Bestofmedia Group Forms a Strategic Partnership with Curse, Incorporated --- LOS ANGELES, May 19
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  Bestofmedia Group, a leading online technology publisher, announces a strategic alliance with Curse, Inc., a leading massively multiplayer online (MMO) game portal. The alliance includes content syndication, traffic exchange, joint selling and advertising. The combined partnership creates an impressive reach of 8.5 million unique visitors (comScore Media Metrix US, March 2010), one of the top ranking entities in the Technology News category in comScore. Curse, Inc. provides the ultimate experience for core gamers with a wide array of information and resource ... read more
• Iron Mountain Redefines Hosted eDiscovery with Free Early Stage Filtering, and Powerful Low-Cost Review --- BOSTON
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  Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced the release of Stratify Legal Discovery® OnPoint, a new hosted eDiscovery offering that simplifies eDiscovery while reducing costs by delivering free processing and loading of unlimited data for early ... read more
• Solar Energy Market Will Grow 43% Year-Over-Year in 2010, but Oversupply is Likely, Says Pike Research --- BOULDER, Colo.
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  The solar energy industry experienced the proverbial “perfect storm” of market-changing events in 2009 that redefined the rules of the game and therefore altered the competitive landscape as well. Starting in late 2008, the solar market shifted from supply-constricted to demand-driven within a few quarters due ... read more
• Bridgepoint Education Hosts Investor Day in San Diego, California --- SAN DIEGO, May 19
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  Bridgepoint Education, Inc. (NYSE: BPI), a provider of postsecondary education services, is hosting an Investor Day on May 20, 2010, at its corporate headquarters in San Diego, CA. Presentations by management will begin at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time (8:30 a.m. Pacific Time) and will be audio webcast live on the "Events & Presentations" section of the Bridgepoint Education website at http://ir.bridgepointeducation.com/events.cfm. The webcast will be archived and available following the event. About Bridgepoint Education Bridgepoint Education's postsecondary education services focus on offering ... read more
• Orbitz Worldwide Launches New AdventureFinder Site --- CHICAGO, May 19
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  Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) today announced the launch of AdventureFinder (www.adventurefinder.com), a new travel Web site that provides instant access to the world's leading adventure vacations. The site allows consumers to research, customize, and plan active escapes quickly and easily. Travelers looking to make their next vacation an adventure can choose from nearly 2,500 trips and tours around the world from top tour operators. Adventure vacation opportunities include rafting along Northern California's Klamath River; touring historic towns in Nicaragua; ... read more
• EchoSign Electronic Signature Reaches 1,000 Customers on Salesforce.com's AppExchange 2 --- PALO ALTO, Calif., May 19
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  Today, EchoSign, a leading Web-based provider of electronic signatures and signature automation with more than 1.3 million users worldwide, announced it has reached its 1,000th customer on salesforce.com's AppExchange 2. EchoSign gives salesforce.com customers a powerful tool to drive efficiency and profitability by providing a digital contract signing experience that takes the entire business process of signing, tracking and filing agreements into the cloud. Salesforce.com customers can send agreements for signature directly from the contact or opportunity and view the agreement ... read more
• Breakthrough: The Pontifical Council for Culture and NeoStem Partner to Advance Adult Stem Cell Research --- NEW YORK, May 19
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  NeoStem, Inc., (NYSE Amex: NBS) ("NeoStem" or the "Company"), an international biopharmaceutical company with operations in the US and China, and the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture, today announced a joint initiative that includes their charitable organizations to expand research and raise awareness of adult stem cell therapies. NeoStem's Stem for Life Foundation, formed to create awareness about the promise of adult stem cells to treat disease, and the Pontifical Council's Foundation, called STOQ International (Science Theology and the Ontological ... read more
• Always-B-There.com to Launch LiveTour(TM) Software at National Association of Realtors Mid-Year Conference --- WASHINGTON, May 19
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  Software company Always-B-There.com announced the launch of its LiveTour(TM) product at the National Association of Realtors mid-year legislative conference. This is the first major product release for the company, which was formed in early 2008. After nearly two years of development and planning, the new patent pending software service is a big leap forward in technology driven business sales. LiveTour is the first service of its kind that allows real estate brokers and agents the ability to perform live ... read more
• Telemonitoring in Transition Care May Reduce Hospital Readmissions --- NYACK, N.Y., May 19
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  A clinical study is underway at Nyack Hospital to evaluate the use of cellphone-based technology to monitor medication adherence in discharged heart failure patients. The study is using the eMedonline® telemonitoring system developed by Leap of Faith Technologies to help patients transition from the inpatient to outpatient setting. "Hospital readmission of patients within 30 days of discharge is a major issue," explains Nicholas Tsirkas, Director of Clinical Research at Nyack. "According to Medicare claims, 19.6% of Medicare beneficiaries who had been ... read more
• WorldCompliance Launches Industry-first FCPA Compliance Product --- MIAMI, May 19
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  Within the last two months, The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has sent letters to companies abroad to discover potential violations of the FCPA. The SEC asked several pharmaceutical and energy companies about their controls against bribery. This action follows the announcement by Lanny Breuer, chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, in November 2009, that bribery investigations in the drug industry are going to be a focus of his division. To many organizations, this should not come ... read more
• BRAVADA Muscle Flex Announces its Celebrity Red Carpet Grand Opening for its BRAVADA Women’s Athletica Retail Store in Los Angeles June 10 at 322 Robertson Blvd --- LOS ANGELES
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  BRAVADA Muscle Flex Inc. (www.BravadaLtd.com) (Pink Sheets:MFLI) announced today its Celebrity Red Carpet Grand Opening Party for its BRAVADA Women’s Athletica Retail Outlet in Los Angeles Thursday June 10 at its flagship BRAVADA™ Retail location at 322 Robertson Blvd slated to open June 1st. The star-studded ... read more
• Parallels Desktop Upgrade to Windows 7 Makes It Simple to Successfully Upgrade from Any Edition of Windows XP or Vista --- RENTON, Wash.
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  Parallels, the worldwide leader in automation and virtualization software, announced that Parallels Desktop Upgrade to Windows 7 is available today at Parallels.com and Amazon, and will be available at retail stores starting on May 31. Parallels’ new software empowers PC owners to simply and safely upgrade ... read more
• i3 Acquires ChinaGate, Providing Customers with Greater, More Efficient Access to Chinese Market --- BASKING RIDGE, N.J., & SHANGHAI
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  i3, a global life sciences services company and subsidiary of Ingenix, has acquired ChinaGate, a contract research organization (CRO) that provides product-development regulatory services for pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies looking to enter and access the Chinese market. ... read more
• Webroot Establishes International Headquarters in Ireland --- BOULDER, Colo., May 19
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  Webroot, a leading Internet security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced plans to establish an international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Opening this month, the office will support Webroot's customers and partners across EMEA and the Asia Pacific regions. "Webroot will grow our business aggressively through investments in research and development, acquisitions, and by building a world-class support organization," said Dick Williams, CEO, Webroot. "Establishing an international headquarters in Ireland will give us access to top talent and ... read more