Tabitha Berg

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Gen-9, Inc. announced today the release of Noah version 1.0 as a free download. Noah is an Internet centric data management application. The first beta version became available on September 27, 2006.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In a bold new book, "If God is So Good, Why are Blacks Doing So Bad?" (LifeBridge Books, ISBN 978-0-9786581-7-5), author James Dixon, II, believes the African-American race is an endangered species and issues an urgent call to business, government, education, entertainment and the church to address the problem.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- On Saturday, July 28th, at 10:30 a.m., Dee Dee Phelps, author of "Vinyl Highway" (ISBN: 978-1934321751), singing as Dick and Dee Dee will read on stage at the 2007 Hollywood Book Festival. The annual program celebrates books that deserve recognition from the film, television and multimedia communities.

DALLAS, Texas -- SigmaFlow, a leading provider of Best Practice Execution Software, today announced that The United States Internal Revenue Service's Wage & Investment Division has selected SigmaFlow's Project Portfolio Management Solution for Lean Six Sigma.

HYDERABAD, India, and LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Game Shastra (aka Gameshastra), India's largest game services provider, has signed a Master Game Development Agreement with Freeze Tag, a California based casual game publisher and developer. Game Shastra will develop and Freeze Tag will publish "Etch A Sketch(R)," a new game inspired by the classic toy from The Ohio Art Company.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- With the opening of the new BETA Studio in the Los Angeles facilities of BETA Records, musicians have a new home for creativity. The studio, located off Sunset Blvd. in the heart of Hollywood, includes a video production room with green screen, interview room, make-up room, DJ and Internet radio production areas, kitchen and guest room.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The year 1982 had a lot of milestones: Sony introduced the first compact disc, a little alien stole our hearts and imaginations with E.T. and, the Valley's own Trends Magazine released its first issue. Trends, the oldest, continuously published society, philanthropy and lifestyle publication, is celebrating its silver anniversary with events all year long.

DANVERS, Mass. -- LineSider Technologies, a leading provider of software and systems for next-generation IP business communications, today announced the appointment of two experienced telecommunications technology executives, Pano Anthos and Dale Booth, to its board of directors.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- New troubles in the sub-prime segment of the U.S. housing market have made some Americans fearful of losing their homes. As a result, American Business Advantage has partnered with the Community Loan Service Center to launch a national foreclosure prevention program.

FLORENCE, Mass. -- Letters for Healing announces the release of their book "Letters to Fathers from Daughters: A Pathway to Healing and Hope" (ISBN: 978-1-932279-74-0). It honors the undeniably crucial bond between daughters and their dads from the daughters' perspective.