News Releases

Number Portability Creates High Tech Paperweights Cellphone Carriers Say ‘Bring Your Number…Leave Your Cellphone!’ - 2004-01-21

Oztek Helps Grow a Beanstalk - Software Provider Offers New Dimension to the Beanstalk Group’s -PMM Division webstores Oztek, the industry’s leading provider of self-administrative Internet solutions, today announced the successful completion of an ongoing e-commerce project with the world’s leading licensing and promotional merchandise management company, The Beanstalk Group. The two companies have become technology partners in the integration of The Beanstalk Groups Promotional Merchandise Management (PMM) division’s digital catalog solution and its’ ERP system. - 2004-01-21

Now Bush has his own deck of cards - "The House of Cards: Deck of Bush", 54 Reasons why NOT to re-elect the President at: www.deckofbush.com "The House of Cards: Deck of Bush", a playing card deck revealing 54 reasons why not to re-elect the president, can be viewed online at: www.deckofbush.com. - 2004-01-21

Internet Wire Distribution Headlines Expansion of HRmarketer.com Features for 2004 Fisher Vista, a leading marketing services firm serving the human capital industry, announced today an array of expanded features for customers of HR Marketer™ (www.HRmarketer.com), the leading web-based marketing and public relations service for companies selling to human resource executives. - 2004-01-21

Show Attendees to Learn the Latest Lifestyle Trends in Home Design Home improvement lovers will have the opportunity to attend informative seminars on such topics as log homes, home organization, home improvement loans, and trends in kitchen design and remodeling during the Central Virginia Home and Better Living Show from January 23-25, 2004. They will also be able to visit exhibits of custom cabinetry for the kitchen and bath, mahogany furniture and antiques, children’s playsets, patio rooms, and hundreds of other products for better living. - 2004-01-21

More Consumers Rolling Up Sleeves and Paying Off Debts, Says Finance Expert Gene Jolley Forget bankruptcy, debt consolidation and all those spam messages promising consumers they don’t actually have to pay back their creditors. It seems Americans are beginning to embrace the time-tested concept of simply paying off their own debts one at a time. - 2004-01-21

Citizen Puts Life on Hold to Defeat President Bush in 2004. Michael John Dobbins, once a regular citizen with a stable job and ordinary life, has given up everything in the hope of defeating President Bush this November. Dobbins, 26, worked as a teacher at an outdoor education center in Massachusetts before quitting his job in June to work full time defeating the President. He now has a book “Stop Bush in 2004” and a website www.StopBushin2004.com to help citizens take action against Bush and elect a new President. - 2004-01-21

FacilityPro Relaunched as Prosero, Secures Additional Funding FacilityPro, a leader in procurement outsourcing services, today announced a new company name and the completion of a $4 million round of funding. Existing investor Austin Ventures and a new investor, River Cities Capital Funds, split the round evenly. FacilityPro announced its new name, Prosero Incorporated, highlighting the company’s successful expansion of procurement outsourcing capabilities into a variety of new markets, including manufacturing, construction, utilities, services and real estate. - 2004-01-21

Freelance Writers Thrive In Mixed Economy, Help Reduce Jobless Stats While full-time job growth stalls, the ranks of the self-employed are growing briskly. According to the author of a how-to guide to commercial writing, freelance writers are finding lucrative ($60-80/hour) opportunities with downsized corporations large and small, reluctant as yet to rehire staff. It all adds up to a flexible, profitable home-based career direction. - 2004-01-21

Love Yourself this Valentines Day in a Naturally Better Way with New All-Natural Body Products News of the amount of chemicals found in body products is making many people step back and take a look at not only what they put IN their bodies, but what they put ON their bodies. One former Sailor turned homeschooling mom decided to create her own body product line, free of harsh chemicals. - 2004-01-21

RuleSphere Releases Regulatory Compliance Software Achieving regulatory compliance for any one industry regulation is tough. For instance, industry regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, DoD 5015.2, Patriot Act, The Basel II Accord, or other similar regulations are both costly and fraught with risk if mismanaged, poorly communicated across the enterprise, or without good internal coordination and collaboration. But, the level of difficulty is markedly increased when a company needs to achieve and sustain compliance over numerous national and international regulations that may exist in perpetuity and affect large numbers of employees around the world. RuleSphere International addresses the complexity of global regulatory requirements through the introduction of the Agile Enterprise Management (AEM) Regulatory Compliance Suite, the first application software component in a series that enable companies to plan and implement effective measures to ensure that regulatory compliance efforts are properly planned, sustained, and enabled through powerful performance management software. RuleSphere assists companies in deploying effective Business Rule / Process Management practices using frameworks such as Six Sigma, COSO, CobiT, ITIL, PB-BOK and others to deliver the first end-to-end performance management solution. - 2004-01-21

Atlanta Firm DES Signs With REDFERN For Online Presence Redfern Services, a Georgia based web development and marketing firm, won the bid to develop Online Web Presence for DES. - 2004-01-21

ORCHID RESTAURANT AND KARAOKE CLUB OPENS TO ENTHUSIASTIC CHEERS FROM THOSE IN SEARCH OF FOOD AND FUN Innovative Pacific Rim Cuisine and a Rockin’ Karaoke Club Make Orchid an Instant Hit Los Angeles' hippest restaurant & lounge opens its doors featuring innovative contemporary pacific rim cuisine served in a magnificent dining room and lounge reminiscent of the great rooms of the finest Las Vegas eateries. Featuring LA's largest martini menu with over 100 selections, and a separate floor with 18 luxuriously appointed private Karaoke rooms, you're sure to find what your looking for in dining, drinking, and entertainment. - 2004-01-21

Barbedwire Technologies Security Products Now Available from EMJ Barbedwire Technologies, of Tracy, CA, a leading developer of security appliances and EMJ of Guelph, Ontario a leading Canadian distributor of technology products have signed an agreement to make Barbedwire appliancs available to resellers through EMJ in Canada. EMJ was recently named as one of the top 50 best run companies in Canada and will provide an excellent outlet for Barbedwire to rapidly expand into Canada. This announcement comes on the heels of Barbedwire's naming of John Herrington as the Country Manager for Canada and furthers Barbedwire's committment to the region. - 2004-01-21

"Eternal Treblinka" Continues to Attract International Attention The highly acclaimed American book--"ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" by Dr. Charles Patterson--is fast becoming a big hit in Europe and beyond. Two years after its publication by Lantern Books in New York City the controversial animal rights book has been translated into Italian, Polish, Czech, and German. - 2004-01-21

Vernier Deploys Centralized WLAN Security for Hitachi Consulting’s Enterprise Wireless Network Vernier’s Network Control Servers and WLAN Security solutions prepare Hitachi Consulting for the future of wireless networking, which will become increasingly popular, sophisticated and powerful. - 2004-01-21

Create An Additional 4 Hours A Week / 208 Hours a Year ... Simple Time Management Process Helps Employees Meet New Years' Resolutions for Getting Organized and Creating Balance Between Work and Home - 2004-01-21

Head Injury Facility Offers Author Great Material For 2nd Novel Author of 'A Disturbing Presence' Joy Lee Rutter is nearly finished writing her next book, 'A Flamboyant Disarray of Dreams'. Her job as a rehab specialist for neurologically impaired clients puts research at her fingertips. - 2004-01-21

Mercator Advisory Group Releases New Report: Off-Premise ATMs: Fighting for Merchant Floor Space in the Age of Cash Back ATM, Debit, Off-premise, off premise, ATM deployment, Merchant POS, Merchant floor space, merchant ATMs, EFT - 2004-01-21

VoEx, INC. TO PROVIDE HIGH-QUALITY VOIP CALLING SERVICES TO INDEPENDENT CAMPAIGN MARKETING INC. VoEx becomes Independent Campaign Marketing's provider of choice for high-capacity VoIP telephony solutions. - 2004-01-21

Veteran Sacramento Businessman – JACK SEIBERT OF SEIBERT INSURANCE – Completes Merger with ATHENS BENEFITS--MERGER CREATES A $155 MILLION DOLLAR PREMIUM VOLUME COMPANY Athens Benefits, the eighth largest Benefits Consulting Firm in the San Francisco Bay Area representing more than 400 public and private sector employer groups, merged with Jack Seibert of Seibert Insurance a well-respected health benefits professional in the Sacramento area. - 2004-01-21

Staffing Industry Veteran, Michael Moretti, Joins HR.com Research Team Former Competitive Intelligence Manager at Recruitsoft Inc. brings 10 years experience in the staffing industry on board - 2004-01-21