Paul Michael Productions (PME), Inc. which was founded in 2006 has announced the signing of standup comedian/actor Bobby Slayton to its stable of stars. PME's Paul Kozak Michael Bloom will be filming and directing Slayton's first ever tv special early next year. Slayton had been approached many times over the years by networks and independent producers but wasn't close to the comfort level he was seeking.
In a recent telephone interview he said, "After talking with PME and hearing their approach to me, I was convinced that they 'got me' and Paul and Michael have every confidence from me moving forward."... (Continue reading)
WebmasterRadio.FM, the premier free, business, 24/7 internet radio network focused on the Internet marketplace and the official radio network of the Search Engine Strategies conferences, announces live coverage of the Chicago Search Engine Strategies conference through this week's event. In addition to podcasts and broadcasts throughout the week, WebmasterRadio.FM listeners can tune in live to hear Jason McCabe Calacanis' keynote address on Tuesday, December 5th at 9:00 a.m. CDT at www.WebmasterRadio.FM.... (Continue reading)
Jivox, the first self-service online video advertising platform for local businesses, today announced that it has closed a $10.7 million Series A round of financing led by Opus Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. New investor Helion Venture Partners, an India-focused venture fund, also participated in the round, along with Jivox's existing investors. The funds will be used to continue development of the Jivox online video advertising platform, as well as to expand the company's sales and marketing efforts.... (Continue reading)
Offshore Data Systems, today announced the launch of its enhanced offshore research and reference Web platform, www.offshore-library.com. Offshore Library is a simple-to-use and comprehensive Web platform that allows the user to easily source, review and compare information on a wide range of offshore investments, banks, advisors, service providers and business opportunities.
"We are thrilled about the launch of the enhanced edition of Offshore Library and extremely proud of how much time and effort we hope to save our members when they're searching for an offshore product or service," said Scott Asahina, CEO for Offshore Data Systems Ltd. "Sourcing reliable and up-to-date information from the diverse and fragmented offshore industry used to be a challenge even for the most experienced offshore clients. Our objective via the Offshore Library platform, is to pull together all of the main sources of offshore investment, banking and business services information from all offshore financial centers and jurisdictions, and then to present this vast amount of information and data to the end user in a simple to navigate and intuitive research and reference Web platform which also includes advanced search capabilities."... (Continue reading)
Cherry Electrical Products has introduced two new data entry products for the commercial market. The J82-16001 K-1 Business Keyboard offers comfortable key action in a compact, durable package. The M-5400 Optical Wheel Mouse features an optical sensor for precise movement and an easy scrolling Power Wheel.
The J82-16001 K-1 Business Keyboard features an enhanced, 104-position U.S. key layout in a compact form factor, combining space efficiency with uncompromised alphanumeric data entry. It is offered in black and light grey and comes standard with either a USB or PS/2 interface. Tested to 10 million operations, the keyswitches provide comfortable, tactile key actuations and proven Cherry quality and performance.... (Continue reading)
Tron Jordheim, National Speakers Association member, will be featured at the Inside Self Storage Summer Conference in Reno, Nevada July 25th. Tron Jordheim is a regular speaker and session leader at self storage conferences and events throughout the United States. Troy Bix, publisher of the conference organizer Inside Self Storage Magazine, wrote in a recent letter, "Tron Jordheim has been a speaker at our Inside Self Storage conferences since 2001. He has developed into one of our key presenters. His seminar sessions are well attended and always get great reviews."... (Continue reading)
SpiderSplat, a leading provider of Search Engine Marketing, Pay-per-Click marketing and Keyword syndicated press releases, has expanded its offering to now include Social Media Optimization services. This new service called the SMO Consultant, offers clients the ability to have the opportunity to dramatically increase traffic and turn visitors into paying customers when used with SpiderSplat's SEM services.
The inclusion of SMO capabilities means that clients can now take advantage of the power that social media outlets have to increase traffic and links to their websites. This higher volume of knowledgeable visitors visiting our clients plays well with their current SEO and/or PPC strategy. Additional benefits include a reduction in the number of visits to a web site before a purchase is made. Visitors drawn to a client's website become paying customers in a shorter time frame.... (Continue reading)
The StartABank division of the NuBank Group kicked off its fifth annual Bank Formation Workshop series in San Francisco on March 28, 2008, and will provide courses in major cities across the US on how to start a community bank. As in years past the workshop series focuses on the basics of forming a new bank, however, has expanded to incorporate new areas of focus such as green and mobile banking.
At the heart of the program is crucial information on how to start a bank, including an overview of charter selection, regulatory governance and capital acquisition. Topics address the changing economic landscape, and what financial institutions can do to open and operate successfully given the current mortgage environment, sub-prime crisis, credit crunch, and weakening dollar. Specifically, the series will offer information on products and solutions that can increase core deposits and generate additional revenue streams so that banks can realize profits from more than just lending activities.... (Continue reading)
Digilabs Inc, today announced the release of MyPhoto Calendars 2.0, a new, easy-to-use program that enables users to create and print fully customized Photo Calendars in different languages and that truly works worldwide.
Using Digilabs downloadable calendar software every user can create and print from his desktop fully customized photo calendar in different languages and with 36 optional holiday overlays (including: USA, Canada, UK, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Australia, Austria, France, Denmark, Chili, China, Czech, Finland, India, Israel, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, New-Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South-Africa, Switzerland, Sweden, Switzerland, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and more) ... (Continue reading)
Bill Boyar, Chairman of Boyar & Miller, has been elected Chairman of Houstons End Hunger Network (EHN), a nonprofit organization that operates food rescue and hunger-relief programs. Boyar has been tapped to head the board to help the organization in its ongoing development and expansion of key programs designed to leverage available food resources in the Houston-area. A member of EHNs board since 2002, Boyars ongoing commitment and participation to the organization is part of a firm-wide commitment to contribute to the efforts of non-profit organizations who serve the region.... (Continue reading)
A new recently launched website www.Relationship-eBooks.com is filled with expert relationship advice with fun, loving, creative, and romantic ways to improve any relationship and combat any relationship problem. The website provides relationship advice in instant downloads authored by relationship therapists and experts. With topics such as improving communication, enriching relationships, experiencing greater love, saving marriages, building blissful relationships, and increasing romance and fun there is something for everyone.
There are everyday stressors and strains on relationships that threaten to hinder relationships. According to Michael Webb, world-known relationship expert, relationships can be blissful. The strains, stressors, repeated mistakes and imperfect pasts do not have to ruin relationships. Instead you can build a blissful relationship and avoid making mistakes that keep couples from being happy.... (Continue reading)
In 2004, it cost $500,000 to create a sophisticated company Web site; in 2007, it cost $13,000. With recent developments in Web technologies, it is easier than ever for any business to create a Web presence that rivals that of major corporations. The new book Get Content. Get Customers., by marketing experts Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett, teaches companies of all sizes how to build lifelong brand loyalty with customized content that directly reaches current and prospective customers.
Responding to the changing landscape of media, Pulizzi and Barrett show how even the smallest businesses can craft customized marketing strategies that allow them to connect directly with their target audience -- no matter how what its size.... (Continue reading)
EMS- Intelligent Chaos is honored to be selected as Oracle's 2008 recipient of "The SOA Integration Solution" award presented at the Oracle North America Excellence Award ceremony at Oracle OpenWorld last night. The Oracle Excellence Awards recognizes organizations for innovative deployments of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
The award acknowledges an Oracle partner that has shown exemplary demonstration of their Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) expertise through a customized and unique solution enabling measured customer return on investment and clear user satisfaction. Excellence Awards were given to 18 clients and leading partners in several categories for SOA solutions and best practices delivered in fiscal 2008.... (Continue reading)
Difusi Corporation, a leader in Macintosh and iPod accessories, today announced that its high-quality iPod nanoValet leather cases would one of 50 emerging brands or in-demand products included in this year's Celebrity Gift Bag that is to be given to presenters and nominees at the 33rd Annual American Music Awards.
Approximately 110 music-industry celebrities will receive "gifts" at the 33rd annual AMAs, to be held November 22 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Major media outlets - including Entertainment Tonight, E!, Access Hollywood, CNN, and a host of ABC affiliates - are expected to chronicle the star-studded event and to spotlight the products that are featured in the showcase room.... (Continue reading)
Invention Support has signed a strategic alliance with Paul Kuhn, the inventor of the new device known as the "Freezer Alarm", to offer support for this great new invention and to proudly introduce it into the general kitchen accessories market.
The basic idea behind the Freezer Alarm is to give a warning if the freezer has started to malfunction. Oftentimes, people keep a secondary freezer in their basement or garage to store large quantities of meat. These freezers can malfunction such that the owner may not know that the freezer has stopped working. Hundreds of dollars worth of meat will often be lost due to a simple circumstance that could have been avoided. With the Freezer Alarm, this situation would never have to happen again.... (Continue reading)
Galaxyretail.com is an online marketplace where the companies or individuals who are interested in doing business with India, can get themselves registered to cater to the Indian buyers and get the trading leads, contacts in the Indian business economy.
The site is designed with the concept of creating a business place where all small and big organisations can participate in promoting their business to India, keeping their Individuality as well, here the organisations can express them and decide how they like to promote their business on the web to the Indian economy. The company also offers procurement handling, business consultancy along with the dynamic individual website for their clients, on which they can put their bids, offers, services, projects, online stores, careers, the company Galaxyretail.com have tried to put maximum of the needs, which a company is looking for to do business in India, the website is equally designed for the individuals as well, who wants to sell their new or used items, or for the individuals who are looking for the Indian products and their ethnic culture.... (Continue reading)
Satori World Medical, a new global healthcare company in the emerging multi-billion dollar medical tourism industry, announced that it has executed an agreement with McGregor & Associates, Inc., an employee benefits consulting firm specializing in servicing public sector employers, to offer Satori's innovative payer-supported, employer-sponsored and consumer-choice global healthcare network to thousands of McGregor & Associates' contracted employers and employees, as well as its own staff.
"The costs of healthcare in the U.S. are higher than in any other country in the world, placing an enormous burden on today's U.S. companies that fund their employees' healthcare, in addition to the employees themselves who have become responsible for more and more of their own medical expenses," stated President of McGregor & Associates, George McGregor, MBA, CPA. McGregor is also General Manager of the Southern California Schools Voluntary Employees' Benefits Association (VEBA), administrator of the California Public Employers Employees Health Care Coalition, and administrator of the SDCS-SDEA, a Joint Retiree Medical Benefits Trust.
He continued, "As an organization committed to its customers and their employees, ensuring that the quality they get through international hospitals is equal to or better than the care they could receive in the U.S. was the number one decision criteria upon selecting Satori World Medical. Satori World Medical has the most sophisticated quality assurance process of all of the competitors that I reviewed that operate in this space."
Through its global network of board certfied doctors and Joint Commission International (JCI)- accredited, state-of-the-art hospitals, Satori World Medical provides a comprehensive, high quality and integrated medical benefit program that reduces the costs of selected surgical procedures over 50 percent. The savings generated are shared with all stakeholders, while a portion of the savings, for the first time is deposited for an employee in a tax-advantaged Health Reimbursement Account (HRA). With Satori World Medical's innovative Health & Shared Wealth Program™, everyone benefits.... (Continue reading)
The event was very well attended. There was standing room only. The candidates marched in to the sound of Ray Charles singing America. They were received with a standing ovation. The crowded room sent a clear message that a community in past history has only been known for its corrupt politicians, and now finally they have some leaders they can trust. The concerned citizens of Compton strong attendance validated that they are very happy with the new direction the city has taken and are committed to electing them back into office.... (Continue reading)
Chicago bachelor Scott Tucker is making a unique internet search to find a new travelling companion to join him at the exclusive luxury “Hotel Arts” in Barcelona, Spain. A Ritz-Carlton Group hotel, and within just 100 yards of some of the most superb beaches in Spain, the Hotel Arts is considered to be the finest hotel in Barcelona.
Tucker originally arranged the whole trip and reserved one of the best rooms in the hotel – costing over $450.00 per night and complete with panoramic views of the Mediterranean - as a surprise six-day birthday treat for the girl he was dating. But she dumped him when he discovered she was cheating on him, and now Tucker has found himself faced with the prospect of either taking the trip alone or finding someone to accompany him. And he hasn’t got long to do it: the trip is booked to start on 30th July.... (Continue reading)
BigHand has today announced that the highly ranked, global law firm Howrey LLP, is switching out its G2 and DictaNet dictation systems in London and Munich respectively, in favour of the 'Best of Breed' award-winning BigHand3 digital dictation workflow system. BigHand software will enable Howrey to centralise its dictation infrastructure, and deploy to European and US offices as and when required.
Daryl Hogg, European IT Manager at Howrey, describes his reasons for upgrading:
''The G2 system could not offer a long term, reliable dictation solution. We were experiencing lost dictations and transcriptions on a daily basis, amounting to considerable pressure on our IT support resource, as well as the expense for lawyers to re-dictate lost recordings. With issues of centralisation & deployment in mind our DictaNet system will also be phased out over the coming months.... (Continue reading)