Oklahoma Business News, Entertainment and Technology News (U.S.)
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. /eNewsChannels/ — Cory Allen Contemporary Art (CACA) announces that artist and feminist Marilyn Artus is introducing her new portrait of the Virgin Mary in attempt to protest the continued infringement of women’s rights by the Catholic Church and the many prominent conservatives. The portrait of the Virgin Mary will be on tour though many galleries and events; kicking off the tour with the AKA Gallery in Oklahoma City, Okla., April 6, 2012.
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MCALESTER, Okla. /eNewsChannels/ — Victoria Summer is the newest celebrity name signed on to help a local group running a grassroots campaign called Take McAlester Back in southeastern Oklahoma. The campaign is geared toward getting drugs out of the area and implementing programs for children and adults alike that feed creativity.
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TULSA, Okla. /eNewsChannels/ — Dylan Woods owns and operates the new website, SportsGoneCrazy.com. It serves as a professional athletic entertainment source, highlighting crazy sports news and athlete updates, whether they are in trouble again, or injured from a recent game or practice. His website focuses on pro football, pro baseball, pro basketball, and pro golf.
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MCALESTER, Okla. /eNewsChannels/ — The word to describe tje Take McAlester Back events is inspiring. The group kicked of their official campaign Saturday morning on Choctaw Avenue. Take McAlester Back is a grassroots movement to get drugs out and arts in, all throughout Southeastern Oklahoma.
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MCALESTER, Okla. /eNewsChannels/ — A residential drug rehab program, Narconon Arrowhead, has just set up a new Web site designed to allow anyone who goes to the site to download a free addiction recovery book entitled ‘Addiction Recovery For A Lifetime.’ The book is designed to point anyone in the right direction regarding choosing a drug rehab center.
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TULSA, Okla. /eNewsChannels/ — Dylan Woods owns and operates the new website, Real Nerds Reel Movies. It serves as an online community where people seeking movie insights can go to find answers, and to learn about the many different genres of movies and film of the past and present. His website says that every movie lover knows a great movie when they see one.
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STILLWATER, Okla. — HostBridge Technology, leading provider of integration/SOA software for IBM System z mainframes, has released HostBridge version 6.5. ‘The new release builds on the enhancements recently introduced in v6,’ said Russ Teubner, HostBridge CEO. HostBridge v6.5 will be introduced in a live webcast on Tuesday, September 14.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The Economic Development Generating Excellence Policy Board announced that 12 pre-proposal applications from an initial field of 62 have been approved to advance to the next step in the 2010 funding evaluation process. This year represents the third round of funding disbursement from the EDGE fund; in 2009, five awards were granted totaling $7.5 million.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — 4 Styles Enter-Active Systems, a division of JAF Industries, recently released an interactive tool that allows potential consumers to preview books and other products in a manner that appeals to all four learning styles: auditory; kinesthetic; visual and reading/writing.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Delta Dental of Oklahoma was recently honored for its contributions to the state’s nonprofit community. The Beacon Award honors 24 statewide businesses that have played instrumental roles in supporting nonprofit programs that help so many Oklahomans in need; the program recognizes finalists in six categories, with a Beacon Award winner in each category.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Phantom-Financial announces the December unveiling of the sculpture of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in an amorous embrace by artist Daniel Edwards, just minutes from Brad Pitt’s own birthplace in the Oklahoma City Metro area. The sculpture is part of the [...]
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STILLWATER, Okla. — HostBridge Technology, a leading provider of software that integrates mainframe data and applications with the latest web programs and other enterprise information systems, reported that 2008 was its second consecutive year of record annual revenues and income. The company achieved this growth [...]
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Just a few minutes drive from Brad Pitt’s hometown, a new home currently under construction is using the inspiration of Brad Pitt and his love interest Angelina Jolie to help create its “inner curb appeal” in order to be competitive in [...]
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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, [...]
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NORMAN, Okla. — Artist, Xvala, is introducing two new art series at MAINSITE Contemporary Art. The opening is scheduled for Friday, October 10 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 122 East Main Street in Norman. The works will be exhibited through November 29. The [...]
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Atop your roof are up to half-a-dozen vent pipes, each one open to rain, dust, debris, insects, birds, and nocturnal animals, but a new inexpensive product has arrived to provide protection. It’s the E-Cap from JAF Industries. “For less than $10, [...]
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — ONEsite, the leading provider of enterprise-class social sites and communities for media, entertainment, and lifestyle brands, today announced the SocialCore Appliance. Built using ONEsite’s patent-pending community technology, SocialCore enables any company to leverage the same platform used by World Wrestling Entertainment, [...]
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STILLWATER, Okla. — HostBridge(R) Technology, the leading provider of mainframe-based software that allows companies to integrate mainframe CICS(R) applications with any type of distributed application, recorded 118% sales growth in Q1 2008 versus Q1 2007 and net income much higher than Q1 2007. The growth [...]
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — In today’s economy, every dollar counts and how people buy and sell products is quickly changing to meet economic need. Price Universe, LLC offers the first price comparison web site that gives the seller/merchant the ability to list one product for [...]
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STILLWATER, Okla. — HostBridge(R) Technology, the leading provider of mainframe-based software that allows companies to integrate mainframe CICS(R) applications with any type of distributed application, achieved a 28% sales increase in 2007 resulting in the highest annual revenues in company history. The company experienced an increase in revenues through both product sales and services to new customers such as Northrop Grumman Corporation.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — ONEsite, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise community and social networking software, announced today the launch of its new Class A datacenter and a series of wide ranging performance enhancements to the patent-pending technology of the ONEsite Platform.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Bondtrac, Inc. (www.bondtrac.com), a privately-held fixed-income information and analytics provider announced today the launch of Bondtrac Live Order Message, a pre-trade disclosed direct counterparty message system for the fixed income industry. The Live Order Message system maintains full price transparency with orderable offerings directly between counterparties without intermediary mark-up or commissions.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. and LOS ANGELES, Calif. — ONEsite Inc., the leading provider of enterprise community and social networking software, announced today the completion of its acquisition of Social Platform LLC, well recognized as a key player in the custom white label social networking software space.
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NORMAN, Okla. — Last year, images of Britney Spears’ shaved head were splayed all over the media. And, in celebration of Spears, Mainsite Contemporary Art in Norman is exhibiting an appropriated image for public viewing through March 28. Los Angeles artist, known as XVALA, set out to define Spears’ spiritual, emotional and economical value.
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STILLWATER, Okla. — HostBridge Technology today announced support for Rational Developer for System z (RDz), Version 7.1. With this release, IBM customers can now enable business service integration for Customer Information Control System (CICS(R)) applications using an Eclipse plug-in that allows developers to create HostBridge services within the RDz environment and Service Flow Modeler (SFM) to invoke HostBridge as a node within the SFM model.
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STILLWATER, Okla. — HostBridge Technology, the provider of HostBridge software for XML-enabling CICS, today announced that CA has certified the HostBridge integration software as interoperable with CA IDMS. With this integration, CA IDMS and CA ADS online applications can become callable Web services that can be accessed by multiple platforms, application servers, or other host applications.
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STILLWATER, Okla. — HostBridge Technology today announced its acceptance to the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM’s rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement HostBridge integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Shopping online has become an everyday occurrence and merchants and consumers, alike, benefit from competing cyber-shopping sites that strive to provide the best and most reasonable products available. PriceUniverse.com is one such online shopping network that has developed a new niche where consumers choose their price, while merchants realize increased sales.
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STILLWATER, Okla. — HostBridge Technology, the provider of software for XML-enabling CICS, announced the availability of the HostBridge Pega Connector: proven integration software that runs on the mainframe and provides immediate access to CICS transactions as XML documents or Web services without the use of “screen scraping,” changes to existing CICS applications, or middle tier servers.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Bondtrac, Inc. announced today the launch of LiveNetwork, a series of fully disclosed, true counterparty pre-trade information systems for the fixed income industry. Building on the success of Bondtrac’s direct access bond offering information and analytics products, LiveNetwork delivers innovative functionality for real time intra-firm fixed income information and order management.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — American Health Partners (AHP) announced Monday, December 19, that two former Cardinal Health executives have joined the Oklahoma City based health products marketing and distribution management firm.
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