News Releases

Google, Overture, and GO TOAST become sponsors of Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization Google, Overture, and GO TOAST have become sponsors of the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization. These sponsorships by leading providers of search engine advertising and tools validate SEMPO’s mission to promote the value of search engine marketing. - 2004-02-24

OcuSource Announces Launch of Information and Auction Websites for Vision Impairment A resource for the vision impairment industry, OcuSource has launched its first two websites. OcuSource.com provides a doctor search tool, information, and a searchable product utility, while OcuTrade.com is an online auction service. - 2004-02-24

New Book - Moves Beyond "The Passion of the Christ" as it Unites the Medical, Scientific and Theological Global Communities Finally, the information humanity has been searching for millenniums is now available in one source. No matter who you are or what your religious affiliation is, this book unveils heaven to its core as it shares updated accurate knowledge for all seekers of spiritual truth. - 2004-02-24

Highly-Acclaimed Public Televison Series “Barbecue America” Moves to Oregon Public Broadcasting for Season Two - “Barbecue America … A Second Helping” Explores Very Best in Outdoor Cooking Across America Public television’s highly-acclaimed Barbecue America, which debuted last year to raves from critics and viewers alike, returns for a second season beginning May 2004, it was announced today by the program’s new presenting station, Oregon Public Broadcasting. - 2004-02-24

Woman Re-Gains Her Sense of Smell After Using Hot Pepper Nasal Spray A California woman who lost her sense of smell more than a decade ago is able to smell once again thanks to an alternative nasal spray made from a combination of hot pepper extracts. Many loyal users claim this all natural nasal spray blocks allergies, relieves chronic sinus problems, and stops headaches almost instantly. - 2004-02-24

First Atlantic Commerce Completes Certification with MasterCard® SecureCode™ to Offer Enhanced MasterCard® Fraud Protection for Internet Merchants, Acquirers and Consumers Simple, Secure and Smart, Payer Authentication solutions provide Acquirers and Merchants with online payment guarantee service and protection against chargebacks, fraud and a reduction in interchange and chargeback related fees - 2004-02-24

Citizens Capital Footwear Unit Launches National Forever Just Say No To $100 Sneaker Commercial Ad Campaign Citizens Capital Corp. (OTCPK:CAAP) (OTC:CAAP.PK) today announced its forever Just Say No to $100 & $200 sneaker campaign with the launch of its national television commercial. To view, simply click on the multimedia file accompanying this communique. The campaign exhorts consumers to forever Just Say No to paying $100 to $200 for a pair of sneakers. Citizens Capital Corp., through its SCOR Brands, Inc. footwear unit, is the designer, exclusive marketer and distributor of the SCOR Brand line of footwear. - 2004-02-24

Outsourcing Material Testing and Analytical Laboratory Services to India As Enterprises increase importing engineering based material goods from countries like India and China, the need for quality material testing becomes an absolute necessity. TCR Engineering Services, an ISO 17025 accredited, independant material testing laboratory presents an overview of the pros and cons of in-house material testing in America versus outsourced contract analytical and material testing services in India. - 2004-02-24

How You'll Look in 20 Years Have You ever wondered how you will look in 10-20-or even 50 year? Plastic surgeons can now use the futuristic technology to predict your aging and to offer preventive treatments to delay the aging. - 2004-02-24

Shingo Prize Winning Recipient Authors New Book Get on the Fast Track to Lean! New textbook (and workshop) now available. - 2004-02-24

Physicians Prescribe Exercise, Personal Trainers Stand Ready Because nearly two thirds of Americans – over 131 million people - are inactive and overweight, many severely obese, physicians are being asked to write prescriptions for exercise. The fitness profession is uniting to help them, reports the National Board of Fitness Examiners (NBFE). - 2004-02-24

Now monitoring a PC is much easy as Best Spyware rolls out a complete range of Internet spy software for you. The Best Spyware range of software products are considered the most complete and user-friendly PC and internet spy software available for every segment of users. Our spy software range can perform a variety of spy activities like recording emails, recording chat conversations, recording internet websites visited, finding any information about anybody, investigating employee previous history and much more. “Our software range is developed for strong PC surveillance with very user friendly interface and vivid functionality” says Ellen Sikora, business development executive, Bestspyware.com. Visit http://www.bestspyware.com for more information. - 2004-02-24

Orlando Spa Receives Coveted Mobil "Four-Star Rating" One of the nation’s top spas, according to a new Mobil Travel guidebook, is Kissimmee’s Canyon Ranch SpaClub at Gaylord Palms Resort. The Orlando-area spa, which is related to the internationally famous Canyon Ranch health resorts in Tuscon and Massachusetts, received four stars, the highest rating in Florida. For the first time ever, Mobil Travel Guide has taken its 45-year-old star rating system into the hotel and resort spa arena. Anonymous inspectors rated spas across North America from the perspective of the "average traveler." - 2004-02-24

A "Predictable" Launch by New CEO: As It Is, Inc. (Ai3), an innovation-focused and patent-driven, intellectual capital development and holding company is taking a unique approach toward attracting financial capital to its proprietary Artificial Inference technology registered as the “AutoGnome”. Ai3’s new CEO has led the effort for the development of an AutoGnomic Financial Predictor capable of continuous online real-time adaption of its knowledge base thus serving both to enable investment decisions and to provide a hedge against competing predictive tools. - 2004-02-24

She's the One is Number One at Soundclick.com Phillip Hardy's gentle Americana ballad, "She's the One" is number one the country charts at the hottest mp3 site on the internet. - 2004-02-24

Health Web-service company Cognitive Care names Michael Addicott Managing Director Cognitive Care, a developer of technologies for screening and monitoring cognitive conditions such as memory loss and Alzheimer's Disease, today announced that it has named Michael Addicott of Addicott Ventures as Managing Director. - 2004-02-24

BABYLON’s Translation Products are Now Available in Canada With over 22 million users around the world, Babylon targets Canada as the next promising market. - 2004-02-24

302 California Businesses for Sale, Franchises, & Business Opportunities Were Sold Between February 16, 2004 and February 22, 2004. Sales of California businesses during this time period by County include: Alameda County: 8, Fresno County: 7, Glenn County: 1, Kern County: 9, Los Angeles County: 121, Marin County: 4, Mendocino County: 1, Merced County: 1, Orange County: 10, Placer County: 5, Riverside County: 12, Sacramento County: 14, San Bernardino County: 12, San Diego County: 32, San Francisco County: 9, San Luis Obispo County: 9, San Mateo County: 2, Santa Barbara County: 7, Santa Clara County: 15, Santa Cruz County: 6, Sonoma County: 3, Stanislaus County: 6, Ventura County: 8. - 2004-02-24