News Releases

New Site Offers Overview of the Speed Dating Phenomenon SpeedMatchmaking.com organizes speed dating information from all over the world, offering a one-of-a-kind look at industry trends. - 2004-07-02

Right Management Consultants Announces Completion of Successful Assimilation of Empower and Manchester Right Management Consultants has successfully concluded the assimilation of Empower and Manchester Associates, creating one of the largest organizational consultancies in the world, a $130 million organization with more than 700 consultants in 22 countries, Right Chief Executive Officer Richard Pinola announced today. - 2004-07-02

Freedom University's Gala Kickoff Has Guests Kicking Up Their Heels Freedom University, Charlotte's new educational and recreational venue showcases its instructors and course offerings in a grand manner! - 2004-07-02

CERT Advisory IE bug shows monoculture requires new Internet business risk strategies The recent recommendation by CERT that users stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is a recognition that the monoculture problem goes beyond patching," said John S. Quarterman, CEO of InternetPerils, Inc. - 2004-07-02

Vexcom, Inc. Delivers Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Service Designed Specifically for Real Estate Agents with Realty-SEO. Vexcom, Inc. continues to deliver innovative, e-business solutions to its clients with the addition of Realty-SEO.com a Real Estate Marketing Search Engine Optimization Service. http://www.Realty-SEO.com - 2004-07-02

Grand Opening of our Association with Sandals/Beaches Ultra All-Inclusive Resorts As of July 1, 2004 J. A. Travel Company, Inc. has joined Sandals/Beaches Ultra All-Inclusive Resorts. - 2004-07-02

Vacation Home "Swapping" is Latest Travel Trend Secondary homes become fastest growing segment of home exchange industry - 2004-07-02

Young Entrepreneur, John Roney and Mentor, Jeff Mills, a Former Youth Pastor, Hit the Ground Running in Their Travel Business Opportunity by Bringing in $9,400 Profit Their First Week and a Half in Business with Coastal Vacation Club John Roney, along with his business partner and mentor, Jeff Mills, started their new home based online business with a bang! In their first week and a half, the two successfully profited $9,400 by sharing the Coastal Vacations Opportunity with travel enthusiasts. Together, Jeff and John are currently building a successful team teaching people how to duplicate their fabulous efforts. - 2004-07-02

International Barrier Achieves Rapid Sales Growth of Fire Resistant Wood Panels to Commercial Modular Building Manufacturers International Barrier Technology Inc. ("Barrier") (IBTGF: OTCBB; IBH: TSXV), a manufacturer of proprietary fire resistant building materials, reports that sales of its fire-resistant wood panels under its supply agreement with Mule-Hide Products Co., Inc. ("Mule-Hide") are growing rapidly and have surpassed the initial sales target of two million square feet on an annualized monthly basis. Mule-Hide has established an initial end user base of six regional and national commercial modular building manufacturers, comprising nine plants, using its Class A and Class C rated Mule-Hide® FR Deck Panel, the private-label brand it uses to market Barrier’s fire-rated sheathing. This success validates the competitive positioning and value proposition of the new Mule-Hide fire resistant oriented strand board (OSB) panels, which meet increasingly stringent requirements for wind and fire resistance in roof deck assemblies in commercial modular structures. - 2004-07-02

Announcing a new Book Brought to You by the Beautiful, Dynamic and Highly Successful Author Selena Valentine How To Date An Exotic Dancer: For Men Who Prefer Extraordinary Women - 2004-07-02

If You Desire an Attractive, Lean, Fat Free Physique, I Have Some Discomforting News for You... It's amazing yet true - even though the fitness industry is booming, it's a documented fact that more than half of American adults are unable to lose excess fat, in spite of their exercise and diet efforts. In fact, federal officials recently declared obesity a national epidemic, with more than 60 percent of American adults overweight and 30 percent considered obese, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. (A similar percentage can be applied to most developed, modern, western societies.) But how can this be - when we are literally bombarded with health and fitness marketing, and diet and healthy eating plans every single day? - 2004-07-02

Howlett Research Corp. Publishes Research Report on Raser Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: RSTG) Raser is a research and development company focused on developing advanced motor technology for broad applications, including the growing electric hybrid vehicle market. It has developed several innovations in electric motors and controllers that increase torque and power, allowing reduced manufacturing costs and providing enhanced performance. Applications span virtually the entire universe of electric motors, including industry, the military, as well as the automotive sector. - 2004-07-02

Treatments Recommended for Host of Skin Conditions Human Demodex is a parasite that lives in the human hair follicle. It may be causing many or all of your skin problems - 2004-07-02

Global Learning Systems and KeyStone Learning Systems Name Robert Kingyens Chief Operations Officer Global Learning Systems, Inc. and its sister company KeyStone Learning Systems Corporation announced the appointment of Robert "Rob" Kingyens to the position of Chief Operations Officer. Rob Kingyens, recognized as a "Top 100 Producer" by Producer Magazine will focus on production, product development and IT while he works with the GLS/KLS management team to grow the business through sales, business development activities, marketing, advertising and product positioning. - 2004-07-02

PRODIFF Signs License Agreement, to Include DivX® Compression Codec in the Forthcoming Version of the RM-X® Player Software. - 2004-07-02

'From Here to Maternity' Announces New Maternity Information Site From Here to Maternity have launched a dedicated information website www.maternityindex.org , to help women in the UK find fabulous maternity wear in their local area. - 2004-07-02

Can This Cruise, Make You Extra Money, Increase Your Sales, Save Your Marriage & Give You a Great Tan? 2nd Annual Super Affiliates Cruise 23-27th September 2004 - A panel of Super Affiliates who are earning more than $8k. per month through affiliate marketing will be coaching on board. Target audience: entrepreneurs, work at home parents, persons interested in starting online marketing. - 2004-07-02

Dynetech® named eBay Star Developer Orlando-based Dynetech® is awarded eBay "Service to the Community" Star Developer at the annual eBay Developer conference - 2004-07-02

SuperSurge.com's alexa traffic ranking is climbing very rapid. Out of no-where SuperSurge.com is emerging to be a search engine preferred by surfers. In just a couple of months they have grown to over 1 million page views per month with a total network of over 30 million monthly unique visitors and delivering over a half billion ads per month. Based on alexa.com a company that tracks traffic stats for all web sites on the internet, SuperSurge.com is definitely growing at a very rapid pace. SuperSurge is now distributing it's search results to search engines across the US, Canada, New Zealand and China with new engines signing up as distribution partners weekly. - 2004-07-02

SpamElimination.com, Releases Next Generation Spam Profiling System. SpamElimination.com introduces e-mail profiling system that virtually eliminates all spam, viruses and malware. - 2004-07-02

Entrepreneur mom mixes business with fashion Mother of one, expecting her second child is a proprietor of new home based business offering women a choice in maternity wear. T-shirts designed to show your personal-tee! - 2004-07-02

VideoRay Hosts Grant Writing Seminar to Help Agencies Apply for Homeland Security Funds $9Billion in Total Funding Appropriated Since 2002 Available to Agencies Savvy to the Process EDITORS, PLEASE PLACE ON CALENDAR OF EVENTS: NOVEMBER 8-9, 2004 - 2004-07-02

Western Washington Couple Rule the Online “Puppet Universe” Internet Start-ups may be considered a bust by many these days… but not where puppets are concerned. When husband and wife team, Jeff and Joanna Baird, started their home-based company, Puppetuniverse.com, they never dreamed that they would corner the online puppet market in a mere 18 months. With first year sales of $250k, over 6000 new customers, and projected sales of $1 million for 2004, it looks like that’s exactly what they have done. - 2004-07-02

Perendev is Tooling Up for Magnetic Motor Mass Production in Europe All-magnet motor poised to be first to reach market. German manufacturer licensed to manufacture 20 kw unit for Europe and Russia. - 2004-07-02

Australian Nonprofit Presents Free Internet Privacy (X.509 Digital Certificates) At this year's USENIX'04 conference, AU-based nonprofit CAcert.org (Inc) is making waves. It plans to offer the same type of digital certificates (X.509) sold by Commercial Certificate Authorities (who sometimes charge as much as $10,000 per cert) but without the hefty pricetag: They're doing it for free. http://www.cacert.org - 2004-07-02

Reserve a Lake Tahoe Vacation Rental Home and Get Free Gas and Call Mom Too! LakeTahoeLodging.com – A provider of South Lake Tahoe accommodations announces new travel incentives program. - 2004-07-02

Client By Design, LLC Releases Guide To Stop Identity Theft. It's frightening, but many people are victims of identity theft and don't even know it. This downloadable guide created by Author/Speaker Richard Bailey exposes identity theft, how it's done and what to do about it. - 2004-07-02

SwiftCD Brings "Build to Order" Technology to FileFront On-demand industry leader SwiftCD (www.SwiftCD.com) announces that the popular game download site FileFront (www.FileFront.com) will use SwiftCD's patent-pending "build to order" technology to give its users more freedom than ever when choosing shareware, freeware or game demos from its extensive download areas. Thanks to the unique SwiftCD service, FileFront users can now choose one or more software demos from the thousands available at FileFront, then have the files burned to a custom CD and mailed to them. The new service allows FileFront users to build custom CDs online from a selection of over 360,000 Software Demos. - 2004-07-02

Employers Cautioned about New COBRA Regulations The U.S. Department of Labor recently issued new regulations for employers administering employee health insurance benefits under the federal COBRA legislation. Following these new regulations can help employers avoid civil penalties and potentially expensive medical liability, say attorneys with G.Neil Corp. - 2004-07-02

Powerful Healer, Donald Rubbo, Brings Innovative Qigong Therapy Techniques to help Cancer Patients in their Recovery Process. Discover the Secrets of Healing from Life-Altering Illnesses Donald Rubbo, Master Healer, is dedicated to “Healing the World, One Person at a Time.” He is a world-renowned martial arts and internal arts teacher, with a large following of devoted students and clients - 2004-07-02

AirVision Receives Honorable Mention SADI 2004 Design Award AIRVISION, a full-service agency specializing in developing brand positioning and executing strategic growth for clients receives Honorable Mention SADI 2004 Design Award. - 2004-07-02

MPS Leads in ISPS Code Training and Course Approvals by National Administrations MPS offers a series of worldwide training courses for company security officers (CSOs) and ship security officers (SSOs), along with their unique combined CSO/SSO course and an internationally approved Port Facility Officers (PFSO) course that has received approval from the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), Transport Security Directorate (Transec) and Bureau Veritas. The MCA is a leading force among a growing number of national administrations that are requiring CSOs and SSOs associated with their flagged vessels to attend approved training courses. - 2004-07-02

New Marketing Firm Makes a Promise You Can't Refuse When Green Bay entrepreneur Peter Geisheker launched The Geisheker Group, Inc., a marketing firm that specializes in helping small businesses acquire new customers, he wanted to make working with his company completely risk-free. To accomplish this, The Geisheker Group has created a guarantee rarely seen in the world of consulting. - 2004-07-02

Tunisia’s Caravan Distribution Challenges US Grocers to "Awake Your Customers’ Taste Buds!" Tastes of the Mediterranean region's healthy diet represented in traditional cultural cuisine of CDS. - 2004-07-02

Local avante-garde media agency awarded contract with transportation and homeland security industry affiliate. Palm Beach Media Associates, Inc. (PBMAI) recently announced it has signed an annual advertising contract with Power2Ship, Inc. (OTC BB:PWRI), an Application Service Provider for the freight transportation industry. Both companies are headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The agreement, under which PBMAI will be responsible for Power2Ship’s media buying and placement, print collateral, design work, and public relations, was effective June 1, 2004. - 2004-07-02

As Kenneth Lay Trial Looms Closer, Author Seeks "The Right 25,000 People" to Prevent the Next Enron While the world prepares for former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay's trial, a business owner asks 25,000 people to step forward and make a commitment--to show at least 100 other people that ethical businesses are MORE profitable. - 2004-07-02

Defense Systems Inc. contracts two RFID industry heavy weights. DSI expanding RFID operations and West Coast market exposure. - 2004-07-02

“Flower Power" Hearses Storm Gotham Boomer Coalition & Former NFL Pros Encourage Boomers Not to Take America's #1 Killer “Lying Down” Flower power hearse procession descend on NYC streets for boomercoalition.org, a movement to raise awareness of CVD, cardiovascular disease. - 2004-07-02

Free Breakfast Briefing: “Using Search Engines to get More Traffic for Less Money”. Find out how to capture more traffic and more opportunity with your website. e-Practical Solutions, an Indianapolis based technology company, is hosting a Free Breakfast Briefing on Search Engine Optimization at Le Peep Restaurant located on 86th Street across from Keystone at the Crossing on Thursday, July 8, 2004 beginning at 8:15 a.m. - 2004-07-02

ASCAP features Austin singer songwriter Sarah Sharp in prestigious Audio Portrait series. ASCAP, adds Austin singer songwriter Sarah Sharp to the list of talented songwriters featured in their Audio Portrait series. - 2004-07-02

Contraloría General de la República de Colombia Chooses IntraLearn LMS Campus Virtual to offer online courses to federal employees of Contraloría General IntraLearn Latin America Ltda. (ILLA), the Latin American subsidiary of IntraLearn Software Corporation, the leading supplier of configurable e-Learning software applications to the mid-market, announced today that IntraLearn has been selected by the Contraloría General de la República de Colombia to supply the Learning Management System (LMS) to manage online courses as part of the overall Campus Virtual initiative. The IntraLearn LMS is part of the much larger project awarded to IntraLearn partner InfoGroup of Bogotá, Colombia and the product is being installed and supported by IntraLearn’s Venezuelan Authorized IntraLearn Reseller, NetPeople. - 2004-07-02

Washington Mutual Sponsors Organization Committed to Legal Diversity The National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) is pleased to announce that Washington Mutual has become a financial sponsor. - 2004-07-02

Connecticut Artist Warms Up In Texas How does a relatively unknown Connecticut artist exhibit his work in a Texas gallery that shows some of the best known contemporary and 20th century photographers? By attending one of the largest biennial photography events in the world, FotoFest (http://www.fotofest.org). Rick Turek, (http://www.rickturek.com) who resides in Wallingford, CT, was one of six photographers selected to exhibit at the Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery (http://photographsdonotbend) in Dallas, Texas this summer. The exhibit is titled “Global Warming, Hot Selections from the 2004 FotoFest International Meeting Place”. Artists from Denmark, Czech Republic, England and the United States are included in the exhibition which runs from June 25 to August 28 this summer in Dallas. - 2004-07-02

Gene SNP Program Uses Individual's DNA to Create Customized Nutritional Supplements Nutri-Physical ™ Gene SNP DNA Screening Analysis program. The innovative project allows consumers, through DNA analysis, to discover opportunities for health optimization based on diet and lifestyle choices through a customized nutritional supplement program. - 2004-07-02

Patent Awarded for Bayonet Quick-Change Plug Assist to Brown Machine Brown Machine awarded patent for a quick-change tooling concept that allows rapid installation and removal of plug assists without the need for hand tools. - 2004-07-02

BrownStone Digital, Inc. Presents The Circuit...The Hottest TV Show that’s Not on TV BrownStone Digital, Inc. presents The Circuit. The first Internet based entertainment TV Show that comes to you in your email. - 2004-07-02

Different Drum Designs Kicks Off Version 2 with Summer Sale Online retailer revamps website and offers 5% off to all who purchase on the site. - 2004-07-02

Teen Author Donates Books to 100 Libraries to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Dramatic 1999 Women’s World Cup Soccer Victory To help celebrate the five year anniversary of the historic Women’s World Cup victory on July 10th, teen author, Leah Lauber, is donating 100 copies of her book, Soccer Dreams, to libraries nationwide. Lauber will also be donating an additional 150 copies to local literacy groups to be determined, to bring the total retail value of her donation to nearly $5,000.00. Soccer Dreams describes Leah's true adventure following the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, as a fan and 12-year-old Junior Reporter for the St. Petersburg Times during the history-making 1999 Women’s World Cup. - 2004-07-02

From Tour de France and Bastille Day to Outdoor Dining... St. Honoré Boulangerie Celebrates Summer with French Flair! St. Honoré Boulangerie Celebrates Bastille Day, Tour de France and adds Dinner Menu. - 2004-07-02

Reviews mixed on legislation to protect consumers from spyware Spyware legislation is expected to pass the House of Representatives this year. MedZilla asks privacy experts about whether the SPY Act, designed to “notify” you before spyware is loaded onto your computer might protect your computer and privacy or is doomed to fail. - 2004-07-02

RCA XPress Fishbone Diagram Builder Release RCA XPress autorouting fishbone diagram builder software was released today. RCA-XPress facilitates an easy to use graphically friendly fishbone diagram drawing tool that does all the work for you. - 2004-07-02

Air Force Research Laboratory funds Howard U. HPC/Grid Center’s proposal Howard University Center applies supercomputers to Air Force Radar research. - 2004-07-02

BioVisability Hosts Biotech Event in Ireland with Delegation from San Jose, CA: Dublin’s Sister City Hopes to Attract Irish Companies Expanding to U.S. A special event will be held in Dublin, Ireland on July 8th for Irish biotechnology companies, entrepreneurs and academia. A distinguished delegation from the city of San Jose, California will discuss partnership opportunities and offer the biotech community and representatives from both the Enterprise Ireland and the Industrial Development Authority the opportunity to learn about the new, state-of-the-art Bioscience Incubator and Innovation Center recently opened in San Jose, California. - 2004-07-02

Justdropped.com Announces Acquisition of DNware.com Justdropped.com the expired domain name industry giant, announed their recent acquisition of DNware.com. DNware.com provides expired domain name tools and applications for thousands of domain name speculators. - 2004-07-02

WGCI -FM and WGRB-AM Broadcasters to Remain as One Collective Bargaining Unit Union Vote to be Held In July. American Federation of Radio & Television Artists Applauds Decision of National Labor Relations Board The professional broadcasters at WGCI-FM and WGRB-AM Chicago must be included in one collective bargaining unit according to a decision released yesterday by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB.) The election for union representation by the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA) is expected to be held this month. - 2004-07-02

Investment Banking Boutique, The Reid Group LLC, engaged by Ampere Media LLC Early pioneer of Internet-based direct marketing lead generation, Ampere Media LLC, engages The Reid Group to evaluate strategic options. - 2004-07-02