WATERTOWN, Mass. — Phoenix Construction Group, Inc. (PCGI), one of Greater Boston’s premier residential and commercial design/build firms, has won two 2008 Contractor of the Year (COTY) Awards. In a ceremony held on November 5, the Watertown-based company received the COTY Gold Award for Best Commercial Project and the Silver Award for Best Residential Specialty [...]

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The LifeSpan rowing machine, made by PCE Health and Fitness received the Seal of Excellence award in a review of best fitness equipment for 2008-09. In its annual review of fitness equipment, ShapeYou .com awarded the top rated LifeSpan Rowing Machine a Seal of Excellence in the best fitness equipment [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — EASEUS Software, the innovative and dedicated hard disk management solution provider, today announced a free partition resizer - EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition v2.1. For home users, this free partition resizer replaces the commercial Partition Magic. It creates, deletes, formats and moves a logical disk to reallocate free space or to [...]

SHAWNEE, Okla. — Child Shield, U.S.A.(TM), a national organization dedicated to the safety of America’s children has recently named a new registered Independent Agent for the Oklahoma City Area. Chad Mathews is a life long resident of Shawnee, Oklahoma and he shares with Child Shield, U.S.A. its goal of helping to prevent and recover lost, [...]

TORONTO, Canada — A revolution has been brewing, 12 months in the making, at the offices of Voices.com as they release their all-new, redesigned site and broaden their influence not just in the realm of voice over, but to the advertising industry and beyond. Businesses looking to hire voice talent can post jobs, receive responses [...]

AMES, Iowa — Biotronics, Inc., a food animal ultrasound research and development company recently received a $150,000 Demonstration Grant from the Iowa Department of Economic Development. According to Doyle Wilson, President of the Company, these dollars supplement a $350,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant they have received to develop and test their first commercial prototype [...]

ATLANTA, Ga. — M2SYS Technology, an award-winning fingerprint biometrics research and development firm, announced today that InvoTech Systems Inc., the leading provider of “back-of the-house” inventory tracking systems for the hospitality industry, has chosen M2SYS Technology to provide its customers with M2SYS’ Bio-SnapON(TM) enterprise-ready fingerprint recognition software and with M2SYS’ M2-EasyScan(TM) optical fingerprint reader. Previously, [...]

KIRKLAND, Wash. — AIDS-plagued Kenya isn’t on the big-bailout list, but an efficient, grass-roots movement is afoot that could produce more results than mountains of poorly-managed money. The movement is powered by human spirit and enough cash to ignite self-sufficiency and unstoppable progress. Called the Rabuor Village Project (RVP), it’s funded in part by LTC [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — XP Vehicles, Inc.(TM) has assembled a team of over 100 companies across the country with the vision to do for electric vehicles what NASA did to put Apollo 11 on the moon. The team, which is called: “The Giant Leap Mission Team,” after Neil Armstrong’s iconic words; includes National Laboratories, State [...]

SAN MARINO, Calif. — Epeius Biotechnologies announced today the results of Phase I/II and II studies of Rexin-G in chemotherapy-resistant metastatic soft tissue sarcoma and osteosarcoma, as presented by Dr. Sant P. Chawla, principal investigator, at the CTOS 14th annual meetings held in London UK on November 13-15, 2008. Patients received repeated infusions of Rexin-G [...]

HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa. — Multi-Flow Industries, a manufacturer of fountain-dispensed beverages, announced that it has recently received the Gold Certificate of Recognition for passing its 2008 Silliker Audit with a score of 97.7%. The audit covered food safety as well as GMP requirements. Silliker is recognized as one of the world’s leading food safety auditing [...]

HOUSTON, Texas — Toombas Jeans & Denim Wear announces this week their new line of no-gap-in-the-waist jeans and other denim clothing, sizes 0-24. Inspired by millions of curvaceous women who have gone unnoticed in the fashion world, the founders of Toombas Jeans & Denim set out to change women’s negative self images by simply stating, [...]

BOSTON, Mass. — This holiday shopping season is going to be a challenging one for the almost 1 in 10 Americans employed in the retail sector. With specialty retailers facing the weakest holiday growth since 2002 and deep discounting by mass merchants and online retailers, the retail staff is more vital than ever to the [...]

HOUSTON, Texas — Finding the right person to spend the rest of your life with is hard enough; asking her to marry you should be the easy part. But with a stalled economy making headlines every day, is it possible to find the perfect diamond ring if you’re on a budget? With online jeweler Whiteflash, [...]

AUSTIN, Texas — SaleAMP, a cutting-edge marketing and software company, today announced a unique pay-for-performance real estate marketing service for condo developers, large home builders and real estate related banks, nationwide. The service, based on proprietary internet marketing tools and techniques has produced tens of thousands of buyer prospects and sales in a matter of [...]

SUNRISE, Fla. — Interim HealthCare, the nation’s largest provider of home care and health care staffing services, announced the recipients of the “National Quality Awards” for 2008 at their annual National Clinical Symposium meeting in Savannah, Georgia. The awards recognize Interim home care offices for patient satisfaction, and Medicare-certified offices for performance on CMS public [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Minnesota Medical Development, Inc. (MMDI) today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for the company’s BetaWire(TM) guidewire technology. The BetaWire(TM) is a super-torque interventional guidewire manufactured from a Beta Titanium alloy. Guidewires are thin, flexible wires that are used to facilitate the placement [...]

AUSTIN, Texas — Cognitive Technologies, an IT consulting company specializing in project and program management for the Federal Government and Fortune 1000 companies, is pleased to announce that they have been engaged by APS Healthcare to sustain and improve their Project Management Office (PMO). Cognitive Technologies initially will be assisting with the management of the [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — SecuGen is pleased to announce that the SDA04(TM) fingerprint sensor module has been approved by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) for government-wide acquisition through GSA’s Approved Products List (APL) for FIPS 201 implementations. The SDA04 joins SecuGen’s Hamster IV USB fingerprint reader and MINEX-certified fingerprint algorithms in being listing on [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Loan Audits (nationalloanaudits.com) announced today that since only a fraction of distressed homeowners needing a loan modification are getting the help they need, borrowers should obtain a Forensic Loan Document Audit to determine if their lender complied with all federal and state regulations when preparing their loan documents. The Truth in [...]

MIAMI, Fla. — The Expand-A-Lung(TM) Breathing Resistance Exerciser from Expand-A-Lung, Inc. was selected the #1 choice of the L.A. Times for breathing fitness training. Jorge Brouwer, inventor of the most compact (4-inches) breathing exerciser, manufactures and markets the easy to use “Expand-A-Lung.” When asked about how his product’s success, Mr. Brouwer said, “We’re finally creating [...]

HOUSTON, Texas — With over 1.5 million design combinations, the highest quality 100% Belgian chocolate and flat-rate 12-cent pricing, forget what you know about the old foiled chocolate coins from your childhood. The Chocolate Coin Store (chocolatecoinstore.com) is out to change the opinion of those waxy, gritty Kennedy or Lady Liberty chocolate coins of the [...]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Arbella Enterprises, Inc. has announced the availability of their new laptop table called the “Laptop Cool Table.” It is a unique product that combines a cooling pad with a laptop table (mycooltable.com). It quickly turns a laptop into a portable desktop by raising the computer to a comfortable level. The [...]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — MoJo Sports LLC, a leading California-based realistic sports manufacturing company established in 2003, today announced that it has received a U.S. Patent for the World’s First Pitching Cage, dubbed the Mojo Pitching Cage. The Mojo Pitching Cage allows a pitcher to practice pitching in a realistic environment without the need of [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — EASEUS Software, the innovative, dedicated data recovery software provider, today announced that the company is addressing the needs of PC users who encounter accidental file deletion with its EASEUS Deleted File Recovery software; and, it’s totally free. With the ability to quickly and easily recover deleted files, this intuitive freeware will [...]