ICP Solar Teams with Universal Power to Increase Sales
Tuesday, November 24th, 20090 Comments | Wireless News, Nov 24, 2009
ICP Solar Technologies Inc., a developer and marketer of solar panels, solar chargers, energy meters and other solar powered devices, announced that it has partnered with Universal Power Group in a third-party logistics and supply arrangement designed to leverage ICP Solar’s broad product line and UPG’s sourcing and distribution expertise.
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“Since UPG is also a licensing partner in the Energizer program and a major provider of third-party logistics for battery-based systems, we are collaborating with them to substantially improve ICP Solar’s in-stock performance and also add their complementary products to our offerings,” said Sass Peress, CEO of ICP Solar Technologies. “This relationship will also enable UPG to offer ICP Solar’s innovative line of Energizer-branded solar chargers to their own vast customer base. By drawing on UPG’s inventory and logistics support, ICP Solar can now increase its focus on innovation, marketing and sales. We expect this agreement to significantly improve our revenues and positively impact our bottom line for our next fiscal year.”
“We are delighted to combine our expertise in third-party logistics with ICP Solar, while also expanding the breadth of Energizer-branded products we can offer to our combined target markets”, said UPG’s president and CEO, Ian Edmonds. “This marks another step in UPG’s long-term strategy of penetrating new markets through strategic alliances, while introducing new products to our existing customers. As a result, we can offer our retail and strategic partners a more complete line power accessories, while also adding opportunities for additional services and new distribution outlets
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Silver Bullet Technology Certifies Digital Check's Tellerscan TS240
Tuesday, November 24th, 20090 Comments | Wireless News, Nov 24, 2009
Digital Check, a provider of desktop check scanners and remote deposit capture technology to the financial industry, said that Silver Bullet Technology has now certified and supports Digital Check’s recently launched TellerScan TS240, a check scanner designed for teller and remote deposit applications, with its Ranger API software solution.
In a release, the Company noted that by adding support for the TS240, Silver Bullet’s Ranger API now provides support for its entire TellerScan series of scanners. TS240 enhancements that are supported by Ranger include:
– High speed, non-contact image cameras (300 DPI);
– Expanded, 100 item auto feeder and 100 item output pocket
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– Increased scan speeds (50, 75 and 100 DPM models); and
– An intelligent front-franking stamp option.
“We are excited to announce Ranger support for Digital Check’s TS240,” said Jamille Ellingson, national account executive for Silver Bullet. “The TS240’s high-speed, intelligent design provides a compelling choice for retail bank applications and the RDC customer.”
“Silver Bullet’s support of the TS240 ensures fast, easy deployment for financial institutions looking for advanced scanner capabilities without increased costs,” said John Gainer, executive vice president for Digital Check. “The TS240 maintains the very reliable TS230 mechanical design and adds the enhancements our customers have asked for including larger feeder and fast, high resolution scan heads, but also very important, they asked for scanner diagnostics and ease of use to facilitate RDC and teller deployment and support.”
Silver Bullet works directly with financial institutions, scanner manufacturers and software vendors to make check scanners plug-and- play compatible with existing software solutions.
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NeXplore Search Sheds Beta, Rebrands as NeXplore Search 2
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Market Wire, November, 2009
NeXplore Corporation (PINKSHEETS: NXPC) today
announced that the company’s flagship product NeXplore Search
( www.NeXplore.com ) has emerged from beta and is now branded NeXplore Search
2.
NeXplore Search 2 is an interactive and visually engaging Web 2.0 search
engine optimized for a superior end-user experience, multi-media display
and social sharing integration. First introduced in public beta in January
2008, NeXplore Search 2 currently averages more than 5 million unique
monthly visitors according to Web-analytics company Compete.com.
“We have removed the beta label because we have achieved our goals for
stability, scalability and performance. However, we remain committed to our
longstanding practice of introducing user-driven innovations,” said Edward
Mandel, CEO of NeXplore Corporation. “We are working to enhance several of
NeXplore Search 2’s popular personalization and socialization features, and
we plan to integrate a Web-based operating system and application suite for
managing and consolidating email accounts, contacts, calendars, music,
projects, and more.”
Mandel added, “The past two years have been great in terms of product
development, feature refinements and user adoption. We anticipate the next
two years being equally productive and exciting as we ramp up sales and
strategic business development initiatives.”
Commenting on NeXplore Search 2’s new branding, Scott Grizzle, chief
marketing officer for NeXplore Corporation, said, “Branding NeXplore as
’search squared’ speaks directly to the dramatically different NeXplore
Search 2 user experience as compared to the user experience of the
incumbent search engines. The NeXplore difference is immediate, refreshing,
and we believe, markedly better, particularly when it comes to NeXplore
Search 2’s options for displaying search results and our creative use of
rich media.”
Grizzle continued, “Despite all of the rhetoric coming from traditional
search engines about differentiation and change, what we’re seeing across
the board is the ’same old, same old,’ virtually indistinguishable user
experience. According to a survey recently reported in the Wall Street
Journal, nearly 40 percent of consumers use a single search engine for no
better reason than force of habit
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Rowland, Byrne to Enter Hall of Fame.(David Rowland)(Jack Byrne)(Brief article)
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009Best’s Review, April, 2009 by O’Connor, Robert
David Rowland, who served as chairman of Lloyd’s during the troubled mid-1990s, has been elected to the Insurance Hall of Fame.
Rowland will be joined by Jack Byrne, former chief executive of U.S. auto insurer Geico.
Rowland and Byrne will be inducted into the body on June 8 at the 45th annual seminar of the International Insurance Society in Amman, Jordan
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New guideline: 2 years between Pap smears
Sunday, November 22nd, 20090 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Nov 21, 2009 | by Lauran Neergaard Associated Press
WASHINGTON — First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.
New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.
The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to detect breast cancer should begin, in the 40s or the 50s. The timing of the Pap guidelines is coincidence, said ACOG, which began reviewing its recommendations in late 2007 and published the update Friday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
While the two sets of recommendations are unrelated, they come at a time of intense debate over health-care reform. Mammograms in particular have drawn broad attention in Congress, reflecting a more than decade-long debate in the cancer community about how best to perform mammograms.
Republicans sought to connect the mammogram recommendations to the health-care overhaul, contending that such findings are the way that medical rationing starts.
Under the pending legislation, “nothing would prohibit the federal government from deciding if tests, treatments and procedures are too expensive, and therefore, unnecessary,” Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican Whip, and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a physician, said in a joint statement.
But the Pap guidelines promise to be far less controversial as doctors for years have been told to perform fewer Paps among many women over 30, to cut back on unneeded care for the least at risk — and there’s growing understanding that over-treating younger women is an issue, too.
“The tradition of doing a Pap test every year has not been supported by recent scientific evidence,” said Dr
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Zoo animals to feast on Thanksgiving
Sunday, November 22nd, 20090 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Nov 21, 2009
Hogle Zoo will celebrate Thanksgiving this year with the annual “Feast with the Beasts” Thursday, Nov. 26, 9 a.m. to noon.
Visitors will be able to see many zoo animals, from black bears to tigers, tearing into tasty meals. Baby elephant Zuri will receive heaping helpings of pumpkin squash surprises.
Thanksgiving is a special time to offer the animals some extra treats that also serve as enrichment, which keeps animals mentally stimulated and encourages natural hunting and foraging behaviors
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Synexus Adds Exec
Saturday, November 21st, 20090 Comments | Wireless News, Nov 21, 2009
Grant Barnett has been appointed Business Development Director at Manchester-based Synexus with responsibility for the growth of business from pharmaceutical companies.
Synexus, a multinational company in the recruitment and running of late stage clinical trials, continues to grow its management team as it expands its network of wholly-owned dedicated research centres in Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, South Africa and India.
Grant has worked for Schering-Plough and with several of the major CROs. His most recent role was with Kendle International where he spent two years in Business Development, working with European and Asia Pacific-based Pharmaceutical and Biotech customers.
Michael Fort, Synexus CEO, said, “We are delighted to be able to attract top professionals to Synexus. As part of our continued expansion and the on-going development of our recruitment model, we are keen to offer our pharmaceutical and CRO clients high caliber professionals who can help them meet their timelines and cut their budgets.”
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Create a digital scrapbook.(Digital Photo)(Brief article)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009Macworld, December, 2009 by Kelly, Heather
With the year soon coming to a close, you may be wondering what to do with all of those digital photos sitting on your hard drive. Books and calendars are always popular projects, but for a fun take on the more traditional photo books, try your hand at a digital scrapbook.
Scrapblog (www.scrapblog.com) has all the tools you need to create an appealing digital scrapbook from your photos. With digital scrapbooks, you get to skip the messy glue and painful paper cuts
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2009 Custom Builder Design Challenge Winners Create Fresh Designs for a Multigenerational Household
Friday, November 20th, 2009Business Wire, Nov 19, 2009
Three Entries Honored for Originality, Functionality
OAK BROOK, Ill. — An unusual, angled floor plan; a modern twist on Southwest design; and a
contemporary home that seamlessly blends indoor and outdoor space were
chosen as the winners of the 2009 Custom Builder Design
Challenge. Sponsored by Custom Builder magazine (www.housingzone.com/custombuilder),
the Design Challenge invites builders, designers and architecture
students to create a speculative design for a fictional client.
This years program called for a 3,500-square-foot custom home on a
suburban lot for a multigenerational household consisting of a
baby-boomer couple; their three children, ages 5, 15 and 18; and the
wifes elderly parents, whose mobility is limited. The oldest child
planned to leave for college within the year.
First place went to Adam Schmitz of R.L. Just Associates, Chesterfield,
Mo., for a unique design with angled walls, a courtyard entry and a
great room with a dramatic, two-story window wall. It looks
complicated, yet flows smoothly, commented the judges, Dan Roberts of
Prairie Design & Build in Downers Grove, Ill., and architect Scott
Osterhaus of Osterhaus McCarthy in Chicago
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Under-18s put health in danger eating salty takeaways
Thursday, November 19th, 20090 Comments | Daily Mail (London, England), The, Nov 18, 2009
Byline: Jenny Hope
ONE in six youngsters eats a saltladen ready-meal or takeaway every day, a survey shows.
Under-18s typically have three or more a week, while 16 per cent are putting themselves at a higher risk of stroke by eating the meals daily.
A previous study revealed ready-made sauces were among the convenience foods that contain high concentrations of salt.
Nine out of ten people questioned about their diet knew too much salt was bad for their health, but 40 per cent did not know adults should eat no more than 6g – or a teaspoonful – a day.
The survey of 3,000 people was released by Siemens and The Stroke Association to raise awareness of the hazards of ‘hidden’ salt in processed foods.
Eating high levels of salt and taking too little exercise can lead to high blood pressure, which is a major cause of stroke.
However, 64 per cent of people told researchers they were unconcerned about their salt intake, while 57 per cent said they had no idea how much they were eating.
Under-18s were the most likely to check the salt content of food (21 per cent read product labels, compared to a national average of 10 per cent).
But this group was also more likely to eat salt-rich ready-made foods and takeaways.
Just half of teenagers knew such food was likely to be their main source of salt, compared with three quarters of older people.
Three out of four admitted they add salt to their food during or after cooking.
Checks on ready-made sauces earlier this month found celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s spicy olive, garlic and tomato pasta sauce contained as much salt as ten bags of ready-salted crisps.
Joe Korner, of The Stroke Association, said: ‘Each year an estimated 150,000 people in the UK will suffer a stroke. High blood pressure is the single biggest risk factor for stroke.
‘Eating too much salt on a regular basis as well as not exercising can contribute to this.’ j.hope@dailymail.co.uk