State: Illinois

CHICAGO, Ill. -- iExplore announced today the list of Top Ten World Travel Destinations as determined by the vacation purchases of its adventure and experiential travelers. Egypt held on to its top position for the third straight year, and the rest of the top 10 was largely unchanged from 2006.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- SwappWatch.com has partnered with Mary Carey Productions to unveil an exclusive line of SwappWatch(TM). The contract creates the launch of the Mary Carey line of SwappWatch(TM) watches which will be available to the public in January 2008.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- OpenNETCF Consulting announces the launch of a new product - Padarn - an ASP.NET web server for Windows CE. Designed primarily for embedded applications requiring remote network access for configuration of data access, Padarn is a lightweight ASP.NET web server designed to run under Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0.

ST. CHARLES, Ill. -- Chicago-based property tax consulting firm Advantax(R) announced today the opening of their new northeast regional office in Macungie, Pennsylvania. The office will be headed by John Palvelko, Jr., Advantax's newly appointed Manager of Client Services.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Chef Michael Baruch, author of "The New Polish Cuisine," creates another winner that touches the heartstrings of the city's ethnically varied soulful cooking style. "Street Food Chicago" (ISBN: 0-9715313-1-5) sizzles with 25 mouthwatering chapters, 375 original recipes, 300 vivid photos and kitchen-friendly instructions.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Solar Communications, a full-service print and production provider, has completed its capabilities expansion begun in 2006, with more than $10 million in capital investments over the past few months. These latest acquisitions further support the company's refined focus as a complete marketing services partner.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Alterian (LSE: ALN), the leading global enterprise marketing platform provider, announced today a strategic partnership with global email deliverability specialist Return Path. Through the partnership, Alterian will integrate Return Path's Sender Score email deliverability and monitoring technology with its own email marketing application Dynamic Messenger, giving users a comprehensive solution for ensuring deliverability success worldwide.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Alterian (LSE: ALN), the leading global enterprise marketing platform provider, has been selected by Protocol Integrated Direct Marketing to provide analytics software. The Alterian Marketing Services Platform will power Protocol's B-to-B and B-to-C clients' ability to gain instant insight into their marketing data and use this to drive a coordinated marketing strategy across multiple online and offline channels.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Alterian (LSE: ALN), the leading global enterprise marketing platform provider, announced this week a new self-evaluation tool to help marketers improve the processes used to manage all parts of their marketing operation. The Alterian Operational Marketing Benchmark provides marketers with a tailor-made report and recommendations on their marketing management processes.

CHICAGO, Ill. and LONDON, England -- Alterian, the leading global enterprise marketing platform provider, announced today it has been positioned in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Marketing Management, (EMM) 2Q07 report. This announcement occurs on the heels of Alterian's inclusion in the Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Campaign Management, 1Q07 and Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management, 1Q07.

CHICAGO, Ill. - NXTcomm -- Atreus Systems(TM), the leading supplier of provisioning software for IMS-based services, today announced that Atreus has integrated the BEA AquaLogic(R) BPM suite into its xAuthority IP Service Provisioning platform. This integration is designed to help service providers to readily blend complex IMS services and to create new user-centric portal applications so that they can dramatically reduce the time to market launch.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Free Auto Blogger, a new software application from Advanced Interactive Marketing, allows bloggers to quickly and easily build power blogs on any subject. If you've always wanted your own personal reporter to filter and post relevant news stories on your blog, Advanced Interactive Marketing's Free Auto Blogger is your software dream come true.

CHICAGO, Ill. - Chicago Digital Signage Expo -- LocaModa Inc., pioneers of interactive out-of-home media, today announced their web-enabled mobile game platform for the hospitality industry. LocaModa's interactive platform reduces perceived wait time for customers by engaging them in games using their cell phones as controllers. The games are designed to be played on large digital displays in cafes, mall food courts, fast food restaurants and theme parks.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- While mold damage continues to be a growing problem, the Know Mold Corporation, an Illinois-based corporation, is taking a proactive role by offering a new product - KnowMold(TM) - to prevent mold before it becomes a pest. According to a study conducted by the University of Arizona, mold is present in every home; Illinois has the highest count of mold spores in the nation.

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. -- Alma Lasers a global leader in laser, light-based, and radio frequency (RF) technologies used in aesthetic medicine announced today that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the Accent(TM) Dual Mode RF System in the United States.

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. -- Alma Lasers announced earlier today that it has resolved an ongoing patent litigation with Palomar Medical Technologies that involves certain U.S. hair removal patents. Palomar has an exclusive license for these patents, owned by the General Hospital Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.

NORTHBROOK, Ill. -- ReachMD, an innovative healthcare communications company, announced today that the ReachMD channel for medical professionals is now available on XM, the nation's leading satellite radio service with more than 7.6 million subscribers; it is the healthcare industry's first satellite radio channel to provide the latest information and news to medical professionals 24/7.

ADDISON, Ill. -- Former Olympic trainer and fitness innovator John Abdo to be inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in Chicago on March 18. Abdo will join an impressive list of inductees including Jack LaLanne and Joe Weider.

ST. CHARLES, Ill. -- Chicago-based property tax consulting firm Advantax(R) announced today the opening of their new South Central region office in Houston. David LeVan, President of Advantax, said that "The new office will provide a location to better serve Advantax clients based in Houston, the south central region and around the country."

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. -- ProSoft Technology Group (Downers Grove, IL) and CyberWorld Solutions (Naperville, IL) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which the companies will be combined as ProSoft Cyberworld Group.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- ZedZone.com is out of its beta phase and now offers online users the ability to easily create or participate in community or group websites. To join, users fill out a brief form. They can then create a "CommZone," a group website that is loaded with world-class functionality.

WHEATON, Ill. -- The residential and commercial storage and organization industry has a new advocate. The Association of Closet and Storage Professionals is the new voice of this booming segment of the cabinet trades. Supported nationally, the ACSP is dedicated to creating industry standards, certification, and building consumer awareness of the professional standards of the field.