SAINT PAUL, Minn. -- NOW Micro, Inc., a manufacturer of custom configured computer systems based in St. Paul, was recently awarded a contract with the State of Minnesota for the purpose of providing Information Technology Solutions (ITS) Products and Services.

COLUMBIA, Md. -- Vericom Technologies(R), Inc., a nationwide provider of Mobile Resource Management (MRM) solutions to service organizations, announced today that Guardian Companies, Inc., a contracting company specializing in utility, site development and heavy highway construction, has selected Vericom as its official MRM solutions provider.

AUSTIN, Texas -- deverus, the background check technology provider that creates customized solutions for background check companies, announces that is has received re-certification under the HR-XML Consortium's "HRCertify" program. deverus first received certification in 2005 as one of the charter members of the program. Companies are awarded certification by offering solutions that conform to the open data exchange standards developed by the Consortium.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Big Sky Technology today announced the ultimate Ajax/Web event - The 2007 Rich Web Experience - to be held in San Jose, September 6-8, 2007. Big Sky Technology, the company behind the wildly successful "No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Series" (NFJS), is host of this year's Rich Web Experience which promises to be the most innovative Ajax/Web event ever held.

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.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- America's IT Managers and Law Enforcement are angry. They are frustrated with the amount of stolen computers, data loss and associated identity theft that has been permeating the media as of late. One of the key issues is the availability of a reliable site with resources and tools to provide the education and information needed to help fight computer theft.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- InflightPower.com announced today the introduction of a new product for those travelers interested in recharging the new Apple(R) iPhone(R) while on the fly. The InFlight Power(TM) iPhone recharging cable has just been released for market sales.

BOSTON, Mass. -- At the NXTComm show in Chicago, CorEdge Networks demonstrated its CEN-ATCA-1US server platform that for the first time offers the possibility of employing COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) AdvancedTCA (ATCA) and AdvancedMC (AMC) blades in traditional enterprise data center environments. Many enterprise data centers are dominated by 30" deep 1U servers.

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.

FREMONT, Calif. -- TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded networking and security software, announced that it has been selected to integrate its Managed Access Point Solution software (MAPS) on to the new PowerPC 405EX processor from Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC).