Yearly Archives: 2007

TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. -- Possibly the youngest fashion designer in the country, 7 year old Haley Schmidt has designed and created her own line of T-shirts titled, HaleyBopTees. This inspiring young artist has a flare for fashion and a passion for art, so much so that not only are her T-shirts are sold online at haleyboptees.com, they are also sold at Out Of The Bleu children's clothing boutique.

BILOXI, Miss. -- The National Urban & Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC) hosted a groundbreaking public forum in Biloxi, Mississippi on June 6, 2007 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center. 'We gathered more than 40 experts and ordinary citizens from around the country to share ideas, best practices and first-person accounts about flooding in New Jersey, Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf region, ice storms in the Midwest, and other storm events.'

BOONTON, N.J. -- The Carrier Ethernet market is expected to grow from $1.4 billion in 2007 to nearly $6 billion in 2012, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. With metro-area Ethernet services now available from virtually all major data service providers and wide-area Ethernet about to get a shot in the arm from the dominant carriers, the market is poised to take off.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Rich Natole, a voice talent for CheapBooks.com, made an appearance on America's Got Talent on the Tuesday, June 12, 2007 episode. Natole, a master impressionist, showed off his skills while doing a John Travolta impression. Natole began lending his voice to CheapBooks in 2005 with the start of a national radio campaign. He is also the trademark voice shouting "cheapbooks.com" in the television and radio commercials.

AUSTIN, Texas -- One of the first things you notice about Jonathan and Yvette Boatwright is how genuinely cool they are. Owners of the fast-emerging luxury residential marketing organization Realty Austin, the Boatwrights are quintessential Austin A-listers, affable, intelligent, entrepreneurial and passionate about the business they run.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Alfa Tec Inc., a 14-year-old Seattle-based marine sales and service distributor, has announced it will open a second location in Tampa, Florida, by June 2007. "This will allow us to offer expanded operations to cover the East Coast and Gulf Coast regions," says Kevin Oakley, President. Alfa Tec was founded in 1993 as Alfa Laval Inc.'s exclusive distributor to the marine industry on the West Coast and in Alaska.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Builders in the state of New York can now rely on a unique quality assurance program for concrete masonry building products. Nicholas F. Carparelli, Executive Director of the New York State Concrete Masonry Association (NYSCMA) said, "We're raising the bar for building construction products and posing a major hurdle for other products that don't meet the same high standards.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A student at the University of Connecticut has launched a new website that is on track to make him one million dollars. The Million Dollar Wiki, is a website similar to Wikipedia but with one important catch: every page costs one hundred dollars. The pages are public for everyone to see, but only the owner of a page can add content to it.

CORNELIUS, N.C. -- Communication is the foundation for an incredible life at work, with friends, and especially at home. That's why so many baby boomers are turning to HearPod 32X to power up their hearing. Baby boomers have a reputation for expecting the best and many will not settle for less. However, cost can sometimes interfere when purchasing a quality hearing aid.

TAKOMA PARK, Md. -- Think Energy, a renewable energy consulting firm, congratulates the State of Wisconsin on the release of a request for proposals for a long-term renewable energy purchase. Through a joint effort with the Responsible Purchasing Network at the Center for a New American Dream, Think Energy helped the State of Wisconsin draft a request for proposals.

BRADFORD, U.K. -- Visionsoft, a U.K.-based software company, offers customers a professional, affordable and effective option for auditing PCs through its industry standard audit tool - Visual Audit X3 software. According to global software studies, twenty-seven percent of all software used in U.K. businesses is pirated or illegal and in the U.S. - 21 percent.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- LuraTech, Inc., a leading provider of open, ISO- compliant JPEG2000 and PDF/A technology, today announced that they have enabled LexisNexis to create and publish the new LexisNexis(R) U.S. Serial Set Maps Digital Collection, using the LuraWave(R) JP2 Image Content Server, Enterprise Edition.

BOSTON, Mass. -- Buildium, LLC announced today the introduction of two new check printing options designed to help streamline accounts payable for landlords and property managers; customers can now independently print MICR-encoded checks on blank check stock or they can outsource check printing and mailing using Buildium's online EZ Mailer(TM) service.

FAIRVIEW, Tenn. -- Our dire need for a new source of inexpensive, pollution-free energy to free us from our dependency on foreign oil may have been met by a scientist in Tennessee. A new extremely inexpensive, pollution-free source of electricity has been discovered and is now being considered by major international corporations. This new technology produces electricity without chemical reactions, combustion or pollution.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Protectomatic Music and Entertainment (PME) proudly announces the release of Jeremiah's new album, "Love Notes," on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007. The first single off of Jeremiah's recording, entitled, "Did I tell you," is also being released. In conjunction with the new single and album, PME and Jeremiah will be launching a new website at www.jsongz.com with the recording.

CINNAMINSON, N.J. -- For Jerome Williams the directive was clear: with the "the changing face of America," and knowledge of the economic potential of America's largest new "minority" - the Latino population - there was no other choice but to put his skill and know-how to work, and to recruit others knowledgeable about the hair care industry, to create the nation's first hair care franchise serving both African Americans and Latinos.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Network executives from ABC, NBC and CBS seem to have lost their sense of humor when it came to broadcasting what's affectionately been dubbed the "alli... Poopy-In-Your-Pants" ad from rival diet pill distributor Generix Labs, makers of Leptopril(TM).

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- In conjunction with the Carl Van Vechten Trust, Mondial is set to republish the late author's long-unprinted novel, "Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel" (ISBN: 978-1-59569-068-5). In what must be considered a milestone, the book will be published after being out of print for over eighty years; thereby poising to become a lost find for readers and literary scholars alike.

HSINCHU, Taiwan -- The ZyAura ZG106 is a new and low-cost carbon dioxide monitor implementing IR-SoC technology. Its many features include a data logger that can record up to 24 hours of data, a CO2 level alarm, and an extreme level indicator.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- Brooks Internet Software has released ExcelliPrint(R) Standard and Premium version 3.2. With updates and enhancements, ExcelliPrint continues to be an essential tool for IPDS printing in mixed IBM and Windows(R) print environments. ExcelliPrint supports any Windows printer, or any PCL printer (for much faster printing), and saves to PDF as well.

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. -- The California Student Aid Commission offers a platter of state-sponsored loan assumption programs to pay education loans for those seeking professional training and employment in specific areas of need in California. By providing education loan relief, the state through the California Student Aid Commission encourages individuals to seek careers as teachers, nursing faculty, and nurses in state facilities.

KIRKLAND, Wash. -- When people start shopping for long term care insurance, they invariably ask, how much does it cost? "It's an excellent question," says Cameron Truesdell, CEO of LTC Financial Partners LLC, the nation's most experienced long term care insurance brokerage, "but it's off-target and could lead you astray."

BOONTON, N.J. -- The market for residential video telephony services is expected to break the billion dollar barrier for the first time this year, as an increasing number of households as well as individual cell phone users around the world start making video phone calls. According to the study, nearly $1.1 billion will be spent on residential video telephony services worldwide in 2007, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation.

RESTON, Va. -- nPulse Networks LLC, a leading integrator of hardware acceleration and open-source tools for network security and monitoring applications, is contributing a new Linux distribution to the public domain. The announcement was made at the recent ISS World Conference.

KENILWORTH, N.J. -- 3C Company, Inc., a leading provider of Business Performance Optimization (BPO) solutions to the Life Sciences Industry, announces today the release of a new module to its highly successful Clintelligence(R) Business Intelligence Solution.