Use Your Head, Not Your Hands: Keep Both Hands on the Wheel While Using Mobile Devices
Salem, Oregon and Hilo, Hawaii, Come January 1, the state of Oregon and the County of Hawaii (Big Island) will join states and cities across the United States and ban the use of handheld mobile electronic devices while driving a motor vehicle. Plantronics,…
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SANTA CRUZ, CA, Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE: PLT), the world leader in communication headsets for over 48 years, today announced the availability of the award-winning Plantronics Voyager(R) PRO and Discovery 975 Bluetooth(R) headsets at Verizon Wireless Communications stores across the United States.
“Consumers and critics have loved the Voyager PRO and newly released Discovery 975’s outstanding audio performance and superior…
IRVINE, CA United States and SYDNEY, NSW Australia – December 2, 2009 – Today, Incipio and Simms International jointly announce their new partnership to expand both companies product offering in Australia. With this exciting new partnership, Simms will become the sole distributor of Incipio’s award winning product line in Australia, which includes accessories for the Apple iPhone, iPod and Mac.…
MetLife Foundation has a long history of partnering with museums to support educational opportunities for people of all ages, said Dennis White, president and CEO of MetLife Foundation. Museums are a vibrant force in our communities and play an important role in helping people experience and understand our world. MetLife Foundation is pleased to recognize these museums for their innovative…
We know that responsible energy management and improved efficiencies can positively impact both the environment and our bottom line, said Mark Schleyer, senior vice president, corporate real estate, AT&T Operations, Inc. Through the appointment of John Schinter, we are reorganizing the way AT&T optimizes our energy use, while maintaining – and improving – the quality, reliability and competitiveness of our…
Autodesk is not only working to improve its own corporate sustainability practices, it is also using its innovative design software to equip customers with the tools they need to make the smartest sustainable design decisions possible. The company has 6,600 employees in more than 100 offices worldwide, and offers the broadest and deepest product portfolio in the design world, including…
The Security Council today affirmed its commitment to the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons and established a broad framework for reducing global nuclear dangers, in an historic summit-level meeting chaired by United States President Barack Obama.
Today’s meeting – only the fifth in the Council’s history to be held at the level of heads of State…
13 Year Old Girl’s Parents Compensated For Damages From Hospital Computer Glitch
Atlanta, Georgia – Atlanta legal nurse consultant, Liz Buddenhagen, RN, CLNC, assisted attorneys with a medical negligence case involving a little girl who was 8 years old at the time of the incident.
The result of the jury trial was a $1.7 million verdict.
Here’s what…
Lake Success, N.Y., – As a result of the growing demand and popularity of its imageFORMULA P-150 personal document scanner, also known as Scan-tini Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging and advanced office solutions, today announced it has expanded the availability of the P-150 to all of its sales channels to help meet the increasing demand as the…
SAN JOSE, Calif., NEW YORK, and OSLO, Norway – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is extending the offer period for its voluntary public cash offer to acquire all outstanding shares in TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA.OL). The extended offer period expires at 5:30 p.m. CET on Thursday, December 3, 2009.
Soon after expiration of the extended offer period on Thursday, December 3, at…
High-Quality Glossy Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s TRADING CARD GAME SleevesAvailable for the First Time in North America
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (KDE), the makers of the wildly popular Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME (TCG), know Duelists enjoy showing off their card collection just as much as crushing an opponent. With this in mind, KDE is pleased to make…
Deutsche Bank completes its acquisition of Dresdner Bank’s Global Agency Securities Lending business
Frankfurt am Main, Deutsche Bank AG (XETRA: DBKGn.DE / NYSE: DB) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Dresdner Bank’s Global Agency Securities Lending business from Commerzbank AG (XETRA: CBK GY), pursuant to the agreement entered into by the parties in May 2009.
The Dresdner Agency Securities Lending business has been integrated into Deutsche Bank’s Trust & Securities…
PALO ALTO, Calif., HP Enterprise Services today announced that Ahold, an international group of leading supermarket companies based in the United States and Europe, has extended its existing relationship with HP by signing a new seven-year infrastructure and applications services agreement.
The contract extension is designed to reduce the complexity and improve the efficiency of Ahold’s technology environment.
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* Ford Motor Company, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest are completing a three-year research project to gather data in support of future development of a computer-aided model of a pregnant woman for virtual crash test simulations
* The model being developed could help Ford safety researchers better understand how crash forces affect pregnant women
* The “pregnant” crash…
McAfee the Only Security Company to Offer End-to-End Data Protection in Order to Achieve “Freedom Through Security”
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today challenged companies to re-think their approach to removable media devices. By providing a framework for companies to approach removable media strategies, McAfee aims to provide its customers with “freedom through security.” McAfee’s formula includes…
BOSTON, MA—A Pennsylvania woman who fled from the United States under threat of prosecution in August 2000, has pled guilty to attempting to extort a Boston-based financier while she was a fugitive from justice.
United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation – Boston Field Office announced today…
ALEXANDRIA,VA—A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Tuesday charging three men with ties to MS-13 with murdering Claros Luna, 40, of Maryland, during a robbery on Manor Road in Alexandria, Va., on July 29, 2009.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Joseph Persichini Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington…
ST. LOUIS, MO—Eight members of a criminal enterprise operating out of five St. Louis area convenience stores have pled guilty to charges of federal racketeering or related charges, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap and Roland Corvington, Special Agent in Charge, FBI St. Louis announced today.
As far back as 2000, the RICO conspiracy has involved bank fraud,…
ST. LOUIS, MO—Cathy M. Gieseker pleaded guilty to mail fraud and admitted to a wide-ranging fraud scheme involving $27 million dollars in proceeds from the sale of farm commodities, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today. As part of the plea, Gieseker also agreed to forfeit millions of dollars in personal property and real estate.
Gieseker operated…
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RICHARD R. GIROUARD, 55, a Connecticut real estate developer residing in Norwalk, Connecticut and Stuart, Florida, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to one count of an indictment charging GIROUARD with conspiring to commit financial institution bribery.
According…
BALTIMORE, MD—A federal grand jury has indicted Nikolaos Mamalis, age 57, of Edgewood, Maryland; Daniel Chase, age 64, of Brownsville, New Jersey; Evangelos Tsoukatos, age 47, of Glen Burnie, Maryland; and Antwone Bell, age 25, of Rosedale, Maryland, for conspiring to commit a series of armed commercial robberies, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.…
And they have sweetened the DARPA Network Challenge with a $40,000 cash prize.
The competition kicks off at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, when DARPA officials will display 10 8-foot, red weather balloons at undisclosed, publicly accessible sites around the continental United States. The balloons will remain at their locations throughout the day, until sunset.
The first person…
Brief Strategic Family Therapy° Institute at the University of
Miami Miller School of Medicine is pleased to announce the launch of www.BSFT.org,
a new Web site devoted to BSFT™, the cost-effective, evidence-based,
family-focused intervention which improves family relationships, treats
conduct problems and reduces delinquency and drug use. The BSFT™
Institute has trained and consulted…
The TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TJX) today announced the declaration of a
quarterly dividend on its common stock of $.12 per share, payable March
4, 2010, to shareholders of record on February 11, 2010.
The TJX Companies, Inc. is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and
home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide. The Company operates 889…
Is 2009 the 100th anniversary of the Hong Kong cinema? Is the short film Stealing a Roast Duck, which was made in 1909, the first film in Hong Kong? What constitutes a Hong Kong film and how to define first film? Until recently, little effort had been made on the preservation of film. As such, many early films, records and…
Expert research team provides aphid tolerance scores, continues research
DES MOINES, Iowa, Soybean aphids plagued many fields across the United States U.S. this season, leaving growers to find more effective management strategies for next year. According to researchers at Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, growers can choose varieties based on aphid resistance – or antibiosis – scores. This is…
Recognizing Excellence in Marketing and Communication Creative Achievement
Honda’s Power Equipment Division has received a MarCom Platinum Award for its computer-based dealer service training programs. Specifically, Honda Power Equipment and Honda Marine, both business units of Honda’s Power Equipment Division, were recognized by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals for their technical training in the areas of service…
A fast growing services trade between India and the US, which has remained relatively stable despite the global economic crisis, is expected to cross the US$ 150 billion figure by 2015 – even faster than the bilateral merchandise trade, according to recent study by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
The CII Study titled “India and the United States: Trade…
New York, USA, November 28, 2009 ~ Indo-American Singer-Songwriter Flash Fontanelli, with his unique voice and exotic instrumentation, will officially release his debut album , FIRANGI, on November 30th, 2009.
Love him or hate him, Flash Fontanelli, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Chaos, is the most outrageous personality to ever hit the Asian music scene. Hailed by fans as being…
JOURNALIST: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, thanks for joining us on the BBC.
PM: Pleasure.
JOURNALIST: Weve heard many differing assessments of what will come out of the Copenhagen climate change conference, some optimistic, most pessimistic. Were in the final countdown to Copenhagen. I wonder whats your judgement on what will come from it?
PM: Well, were working…
INDIANAPOLIS – Involving family members of pediatric cancer and hematology patients in medical rounds benefits both the family and the medical team, according to a new Indiana University School of Medicine study.
Riley Hospital for Children, where the study was conducted, is now one of only a small number of hospitals nationwide routinely offering the parents of pediatric cancer…
COLUMBIA, Mo. – In nearly a third of U.S. households, women are the sole or main breadwinners for their families, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This number is increasing as many families experience layoffs of highly paid husbands during the economic recession. University of Missouri researcher Rebecca Meisenbach has found that women who take the role of…
The research team, led by University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science researcher Byron Crump and by marine science professor Rainer Amon of Texas A&M University at Galveston, documents these patterns through a 3-year, circumpolar study of planktonic bacterial communities in the six largest rivers of the pan-arctic watershed: the Ob’, Yenisey, Lena, Kolyma, Yukon and Mackenzie Rivers.
“Our results…
Although U.S. immigration law applies to the CNMI beginning tomorrow, the CNMI will undergo a transition period with temporary measures ending Dec. 31, 2014, to allow for an orderly transition and give individuals time to identify an appropriate visa classification under the INA.
On May 8, 2008, the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 ( CNRA ) was signed, extending…
/CNW/ – Canyon Creek Food Company Ltd. (Canyon Creek), a food processing company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the trading symbol CYF, is pleased to announce its first quarter of fiscal 2010 results. Listed below are some of the highlights of the quarter:
– Sales
Sales declined in Q1 vs. previous year by $411,113 or 35%…
BBC Radio 2 marks what would have been Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday with a season of revelatory documentaries, from 26 December 2009-8 January 2010. Including programmes presented by Suzi Quatro, Jerry Hall and Rob Brydon, the season encompasses everything about the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, the music, the films, the brand and his personal life.
Lewis Carnie, Head…
The Most Color and Graphic Options in its Class
IRVINE, Calif. Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (KMC), announced the addition of four new Special Graphics Edition Teryx™ 750 FI 4×4 recreation utility vehicles. The new Special Graphics Edition Teryx offers a high quality finish featuring a clear-coated immersion graphics pattern.
These unique new immersion graphics packages offer a unique diamond…
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