Easy to use authoring tool to collect, store, organize and publish information.  

London. 23 June 2009. - vetafab Software is releasing a new version of it's Windows application lexiCan. According to the developer, the upgrade improves productivity and collaboration. Individuals and teams use lexiCan to manage information and knowledge for projects, in business management, research and idea gathering. The developer is also introducing a new read only client lexiCan Reader, which allows users to publish content such as guides, manuals, references, support data bases, knowledge bases within a network with one click, making publishing as easy as editing. The software remains simple, no special training is required.

Similar to a personal Wikipedia, lexiCan allows users to build articles using texts, pictures, tables, links to websites and files. Using the title as a reference, articles can be accessed in seconds even in voluminous collections, overcoming the daily burden of clicking through folder hierarchies as done in Windows Explorer. Unlike Wikipedia, lexiCan purely works as a desktop application based on Microsoft .NET framework, enabling user convenience, such as setting links per drag and drop or dropping emails from Outlook into a description. lexiCan features full text search that includes embedded files. The developer points at several other intuitive retrieval features, like an automated view on pictures, embedded files and tags. Articles can have multiple tags which lexiCan displays as a list or clout. The article tree can be structured in the application's Outline section.

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Internet specialist ECCE TERRAM exhibits ground breaking innovative software solutions at PMA in Las Vegas – Booth # Q176-4

Oldenburg, Germany. February 13, 2009. - ECCE TERRAM – the innovator and provider of solutions for the digital photo market – will be showcasing its expanded software solution for photo laboratories in the area of ordering programs at the PMA 2009; Along with the 2.0 version of the “iPhone Photo Order Client,” the first Offline Client solution for PC with multi-touch capability is being presented among other things. The company thus again raises the claim of presenting technically sophisticated and innovative solutions.

In many laboratories, online photo orders in which digital images are printed on traditional photographic paper exceeded the volume of analogue photos in 2008. Digital image processing continues to be a vigorously growing industry. Numbers from the 2008 Holiday Season retail trade in many places show that the economic crisis ihas n no way dampened the pleasure provided by digital images. Consumers’ desire for unique moments or very personal photo gifts remains strong. Very few software developers have the experience and knowledge to create a complete solution – from consumer to production, for wholesale laboratories and photo services in the online and in-store market. ECCE TERRAM’s experience uniquely serves these end to end requirements.

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Paraparaumu. 21 May 2008 - Political Stock Markets are a virtual stock market, where participants express their expectations about future events through the buying and selling of virtual shares. Several prediction markets relating to different issues about economic and political developments are offered together. The new service starts under http://esm.forecast4u.co.nz/ with topics like the National Elections in New Zealand or the Estimation of Property Growth for June 2008.

The "Wisdom of Crowds" is considered to outperform expert knowledge in areas like topicality as well as width, depth and references of knowledge. A principle of prediction markets, as of any electronic exchange, is that those who buy cheap and sell at a higher price benefit.

Practical evidence suggests that prediction markets are at least as accurate in forecasting events as other instruments used by polling institutes on similar demographic groups. This concept, part of a field of study called collective intelligence, is the ideal tool for market and event forecasts. The closer a participant's forecast matches the real event, the more the value of the virtual account rises. This stimulates forward strategies and therefore using quality information and experience in these virtual investments is paramount. The Political Stock Markets also rewards closely matching expectations when dealing with rate fluctuation and diligence.

Electronic Stock Markets (ESM)
The prediction market is based on the "Electronic Stock Market Technology" (ESM) developed by ECCE TERRAM. It is based on theses by Friedrich von Hayek, who in 1974 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. From Professor von Hayek's findings it derives that more accurate prediction of future events can be made if people trade shares about them with the opportunity to obtain a profit. Frank Simon, Managing Director of ECCE TERRAM: "ESMs in the form of prediction markets provide surprisingly accurate results for opinion research and serve as a prognostics instrument to generate forecasts". The user's interest in trading shares and the chance for personal gain as well as the opportunity to create accurate forecasts bind the user into the online service and increase traffic to the website. The technology starts from a base different to traditional opinion research. Interviews, polls and e-votes use questions like "how would you vote?" The Electronic Stock Markets ask "what do you expect the outcome to be?"� Traders therefore buy and sell based on their expectation of the outcome. These reflect in the prices at which shares trade. The system can then, based on the share price, calculate forecasts.

ECCE TERRAM has used prediction markets already in the run up to the German federal elections of 1998 with great success, achieving the second best forecast after Allensbach, one of Germany's leading public opinion poll institutes. In recent years ECCE TERRAM has organised more than two dozen prediction markets on a great variety of events. ECCE TERRAM Ltd, located in Paraparaumu, has started since May 2008 to offer Electronic Stock Markets to the New Zealand and Australian Market based on the 12-year-experience with this tool.

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Specialist developer ECCE TERRAM is showing at this year’s PMA how setting up a digital photo processing service in store or online is becoming easier with open software modules. ECCE TERRAM is also celebrating a new mile stone with 132 million photo prints being ordered through its middleware software components. These solutions help to improve photo services' independence and negotiation power and provide access to a range of components to cover varying requirements.

Oldenburg Germany and Las Vegas, NV. January 22nd, 2008 – Online photo services converting digital images into traditional photographic paper prints are reaching the volumes of traditional photo labs in the 1990’s. Digital photo processing is a growth industry, but only a few developers have the experience and depth to create complete 'end user to photo lab' software solutions. The specialist Internet software developer ECCE TERRAM will be presenting the latest 'off the shelf', modular software solutions for online photo services, web portals, photo labs and purchasing associations at the international PMA exhibition in Las Vegas in January 2008, including client software and middleware releases currently in preparation.
 
Photo Lab Software Solutions
Together the Photo Lab Software processing components build flexible, state-of-the-art solutions. These range from order processing using online stores, point-of-sale terminals and offline software clients for Windows, Macintosh and Linux using an open protocol connecting to any photo lab or printer. The PTS middleware processes the orders using a central user database, which allows splitting orders to cover production requirements (e.g. mixed orders for standard prints, posters and gift items). Lab plug-ins built the third layer in ECCE TERRAM’s ‘Photo2Lab’ solution. The lab plug-ins currently support for example DPL, Allcop, ORWO, CeWeColor, DWM and Frontline. Increasingly specialists from the growing sector of photo book, calendar and gift item printing, like Ifuse, Snapmania are being supported by ECCE TERRAM.

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The ECCE TERRAM Internet Services company will go to Las Vegas to present its Photo2lab Software Suite on the main photo trade fair PMA, which will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2008. Integrated into the Photo2lab Software Suite is the HDX4 Photo Manager of HDX4 GmbH. This is a HDX4 Photo SDK for professional picture optimisation.

Dortmund. Jan 21st, 2008. - HDX4 GmbH has specialised in the development of software all about the topics of burning and multimedia. A suitable tool for digital photography is the SDK HDX4 Photo Manager, which other companies can license to upgrade their own software with new functions. SDK includes the two modules HDX4 Natural Enhancement and HDX4 Upscaling, both proprietary developments from the technology laboratories of HDX4 GmbH.

A distinctive feature of the HDX4-modules is that they can help to turn any snapshot into a really professional photograph – it only takes a mouse click. So far, photographers rather used trial and error to adjust brightness, contrast and colours; now the software can detect imperfections of pictures and corrects them without need for further user intervention. Frank Simon of ECCE TERRAM: "Thanks to the HDX4-functions, dark pictures with low contrast and matt colours are definitely a thing of the past. Suddenly, the sky prints perfectly blue and details, which were in the shade become visible again."

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The project, Ethanol & Orphans, is looking for celebrities who think it is a good idea and who will endorse the project.  The project sponsor is the not-for-profit charity, Our Family Orphan Communities, Inc. 

The Ethanol & Orphans project is currently underway in Vietnam where we will be building a cellulose ethanol refinery and using the profits to build:
 - a Self-sustaining, high-tech, green Community for street orphans where they will be raised in families with surrogate parents and grandparents, given care, skills (job, computer, familiy/life) and supplemental education.
 - a Medical clinic supported by the profits from the refinery so those who cannot afford it can still receive treatment.
 - more care for disabled children (who are still today being born with birth defects from Agent Orange which was used in the war in the 60's and 70's) so they can learn to be self-sufficient even with disabilities.

We are looking for people who care about:
 - improving the environment
 - using less petrochemical fuels
 - helping developing / third world countries to improve
 - street children living barely surviving
 - disabled children who need assistance
 - providing medical/dental care for those who cannot afford it
 - protecting food sources (we will use sugarcane for the refiery, NOT grains)
 - providing education for children, the future leaders of their country
 - and more humanitarian projects

The celebrities will be asked to speak about our project when they can, and to allow us to use thier comments/picture/name in our website and promotion materials.

For complete details about the project, see: http://www.orphancommunities.org
For questions, write to us at: info@orphancommunities.org
 
Please forward this to others who you know will be interested in supporting this project.

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The new version of the Printing-1 photo book software provides functional improvements and a new, larger book format for the demanding photographer or designer on Windows or Apple PCs.

London, 19 July 2007 – Photo book are the hottest innovation in the photo printing industry. Ever more often, when the shutter snaps at a wedding or a party no 6”x4”prints are made at all. Instead of prints for a photo album images will be laid out in a proper photo book. To give great moments the appropriate space Printing-1 is adding the new Maxi format (30 x 30 cm) to its photo book offer. That allows spreading for example landscapes over 40“ wide double pages, in poster size style.

“I like your photo books so much, that already when I am taking a picture I am thinking how best to use the shot in a photo book” wrote a Printing-1 User: “Portrait or landscape, with frame or full page or double page spread alone or among many pictures on a large page?” With the extra large MAXI-format Printing-1 is opening more creative freedom for the photobook design. Images can be positioned quickly and precisely using templates. Images can also be repositioned freely for a scrapbook design style. Frames can be defined individually for each image but also be spread frameless over single or double pages.

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RuleML-2007 is a new international meeting place for users, system providers, practitioners, developers, researchers and representatives of rule/event standardization efforts and open source rule communities to discuss the applicability and commercialization of rule technologies for enterprises and public organizations including event-handling rules. Co-located with the 10th International Business Rules Forum (http://www.businessrulesforum.com), the International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) is the first symposium devoted to work on practical distributed rule/event technologies and rule/event-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing.

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What do Ethanol and Orphans have in common? 
ANSWER: Vietnam and Liberia. 

This is where ethanol refineries will be built and the profits used to build medical clinics and self-sustaining communities where orphans and disabled children are raised in families.

Our Family Orphan Communities, Inc., is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization that has a mission statement “to design and create modern, self-sustaining, high-tech, family style communities in which orphans live with surrogate parents and grandparents in a family setting, receive quality education, learn practical family living and job skills, future oriented high-tech skills to prepare them for their future and for leadership roles in their country.” The funding for the initial construction of the Orphan Community and Medical Clinic will come from the earnings of an “economic engine” business – such as an Ethanol Refinery that will in itself provide many jobs and other benefits to the host country.

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Ceres Conference 2007

April 25-26, 2007 | Seaport Hotel | Boston, MA

Early registration ends Friday February 23rd!
The Ceres Conference 2007, Advancing Sustainable Prosperity, comes at a critical juncture. The world is struggling to meet energy and water needs, the planet is warming at an alarming pace, and many still live and work in poverty. While corporations are under increasing pressure to compete globally while maximizing returns, these environmental and social challenges are business issues that need serious attention. They pose both risks that must be managed proactively and opportunities that must be leveraged immediately.

Advancing sustainable prosperity is about understanding that capitalism and sustainability are deeply and increasingly interrelated. By uniting investor and environmental perspectives, business strategies can be aligned with sustainable solutions so that the planet can be protected at the same time that people can prosper.

Ceres, the world's largest network of investors, environmentalists and companies united for sustainable prosperity, challenges conventional short-term thinking, builds long-term value and produces measurable results.

Join us for the Ceres Conference 2007, which will bring together and mobilize CEOs, corporate directors, investors and national environmental leaders to take action on these vast challenges before us.

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This article picks up where the last one left off. It is the next conceptual excerpt from my research paper (still in progress).

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."-- Albert Einstein

It is this understanding that stands at the heart of the concepts being developed in my current work. The abstract concepts that are revealed in the Cultural Fusion series have very practical applications for businesses and communities.

On the B2B front, this period has been marked by increased costs for petroleum-based products, fuels, metals, and various building supplies, such as concrete, steel, copper, and zinc. These conditions are likely to persist, applying pressure on the economies of countries. With inflation on the upswing, continued growth spanning multiple sectors is vital to successfully riding out whatever storms the future may have in store. In the previously cited example of the steel and railroad industry, the impact transformed every sector touched by transportation, and what sector was not?

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Profit and social capital are made for each other. When they are united, it's as if they've fallen in love. Social capital is the value inherent in interpersonal networks. Its amalgamation with profit signals a radical redefinition of the customer as the key to unveiling new facets of business success. And as with a genuine romance, the result is a dynamic shift, a shedding of the old and a reaching out to the new — in this case, to inclusion of intangible economies and experience to address evolving needs.

© Yvette Dubel

Yvette Dubel is the founder of WebAntiphon Corporation and author of many articles that have been published both online and in print. She is known for delivering insights that cut to the chase with incisiveness and authentic creativity that comes from an intuitive understanding of relationships between people, products and concepts. Learn more at http://www.webantiphon.com

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New Gift Ideas from printing 1: Photo on Canvas

Printing on canvas has so far been dominated by small, specialist workshops, elaborating individual prints and who hand stretch them over a frame. An expensive process, but a new offering this Christmas gift season is about to bring change. printing-1, an online specialist that uses large, high-tech installations to improve quality and reduce costs on personalised photo gifts is launching a new photo on canvas print service this week.

London, UK. 21 November 2006. – Taking good photographs is easier and cheaper than ever before. Many digital images lingering on computer hard drives could stand out on an office wall, the reception or in the sitting room at home. Until recently photo canvas printing was done by small workshops at horrendous prices. Printing-1 claims to apply the latest technology and efficient production methods to offer what it calls big canvas prints at small prices.

printing 1, a specialist servicing amateur and professional photographers alike, prints photos onto canvas on frames starting at 30 cm per side and increasing in 10 cm steps to 80 cm per side, where any combination of size can be chosen in these 10 cm steps. The standardised formats, parts and processes allow for higher degree of automation and help to bring the price down. The print penetrates deep into the yarn and therefore does not crack on the edge of the frame. Images are delivered stretched and mounted onto a robust wooden frame which can be hung on the wall immediately and is expected to be extremely long lasting, due to optimised inks and fabrics.

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The photo album is dead, long live the photo book. Free photo book software offered by online photographic services makes it easy and economical to create photo books in different formats, sizes and types of binding. Online services offer a range of options for individual lay-outs with own photographs. Professional print on hi-gloss paper provides coffee table style photo books. The latest offering comes from printing-1 and promises an even greater choice of photo book styles for PC and Macintosh users alike.

London, GB. 31. October 2006. – During the past year personal photo books have become one of the most popular photographic products and are about to replace the traditional photo album. Rarely has a product evolved as quickly as the photo book. The different suppliers compete with ever more flexible software for the top spot with the consumer. With the launch of its new Windows and MacOS photo book software printing-1 is claiming to take the concept a step further. According to printing-1 a durable, quality binding process is becoming more important, as increasingly big photo books are being ordered, containing often hundreds of images. The binding process used by printing-1 takes an extra day to prepare, but allows for large photo books with up to 144 pages and space for hundreds of images.

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Greenstreet break with tradition by introducing a revolution in scrapbook creation – a mess free, time saving fade-proof record of precious memories for print, for the web and which can even be displayed on TV screens!

Cambridge. 30 October 2006. - In the age of the digital camera and camera phones we all snap away happily taking lots of pictures to remember events by. However generally these languish on computer hard drives and the personal memory fades as to who, why, where and what the pictures were about. Which is why in recent years scrapbooking has seen a revival. Greenstreet have combined the digital age with the rapidly growing interest in scrapbooking and taken this to the next step by creating Greenstreet’s Digital Scrapbook – bringing all kinds of new possibilities to the art - providing limitless supplies and making it easier and cheaper to capture moments in time and to share with friends and family.

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HP has been awarded a multiyear contract by the U.S. Army to provide desktop PCs, notebook PCs, printers, scanners and displays as part of a U.S. government requirement to ensure the operational readiness of the U.S. armed services worldwide.

The contract, called the Army Desktop and Mobile Computing - 2 (ADMC-2), permits the Army, U.S. Department of Defense, Foreign Military Sales, all federal agencies and authorized government contractors supporting these agencies to order directly from HP.

"HP is proud to help the U.S. Army meet its desktop, mobile computing and printing and imaging requirements to achieve IT efficiencies," said Ray McDuffie, director, Public Sector Strategic Programs Office, HP.

The overall AMDC-2 contract is an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) award valued at an estimated $5 billion over a period of 10 years. The timeframe includes a 36-month base period, three 24-month option periods and one 12-month option period.

HP technology is offered on eight of the nine awards based on HP's direct bid and seven channel partners' bids. HP appreciates and congratulates the six small and one large channel partner that offered HP technology in their successful bids.

The procurement is managed by the U.S. Army Small Computer Program of Fort Monmouth, N.J., in coordination with the Army Contracting Agency, Information Technology E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center (ITEC4) and under the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS).

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Swiss security software specialist Langmeier launches Backup 3.2. 
Small and practical like a Swiss Army knife, this application will run backups reliably in the background.

Pfäffikon SZ. August 3rd, 2006 – Our daily lives and routines increasingly depend on information stored on computer our hard drives: Contracts and contacts, appointments, e-mails, spread sheets, presentations and digital photos. A total or partial loss of such information is equivalent to a major disaster for business users and increasingly, for home users too. The simple reason why such catastrophes happen is the lack of backups and if backups have been made they can be out of date or faulty. The Swiss data security developer Langmeier said: “The launch of Backup 3.2 puts special emphasis on making routine backups easier and avoiding backup errors”.
 
In cases of theft, fire or flooding insurance money will cover in most cases the purchase of replacement equipment, though usually not the cost associated with recovering the data. It is an often overlooked fact, that the data is much more valuable than the PC or hard drive. A virus or a defect on the hard disk can quickly cause havoc. In that case, recent versions of files may have been affected and earlier backup versions are required. That is why it is so important to run backups on a regular basis with history and version tracking. According to “Langmeier Backup” the software was developed with the objective to overcome barriers to running backups by making the routine simpler and automatic, running in the background and avoiding interruptions in the work routine on the PC or network. The backups can also be stored to any location on the computer, the network which Windows can recognize as a drive or to an ftp server over the internet, where the application can also apply 256Bit encryption. The backup data can be accessed at these locations at any time, using a file path resembling the original, which makes the backup files usable.

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Photo service Software Developer announced to publish ‘Transfer Ordering Network’ Protocol during Photokina 

Setting up a digital photo processing service in store or online is becoming easier with ready made software solutions. Large central labs offer these to tie in their customers, while specialist developers like ECCE TERRAM sell software components that increase the services independence and negotiation power.

Oldenburg. 26 July 2006 – Today the vast majority of photographs taken are digital. Online photo services converting digital images into traditional photographic paper prints in familiar 6×4" (10x15cm), prints are increasingly profitable. Compared to home inkjet prints, pictures on photographic paper tend to look much 'richer', and are vastly more durable with regard to handling by sweaty fingers, humid environments, and fading in daylight. Such services cater for business with new photographic gift items and product ideas. The specialist internet software developer ECCE TERRAM will be presenting the latest off the shelf, modular software solutions for online photo services, web portals, photo labs and purchasing associations at the international Photokina exhibition in Cologne in September 2006, including releases currently being prepared. As a Photokina highlight, the company will also publish its complete ‘Transfer Ordering Network’ protocol for free usage.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – July 20, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2006.

"Google grew at an impressive pace during a seasonally slower quarter," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. "We continue to deliver valuable new products and services to users around the world through our partnerships and investments in our business. Our strong performance results from our clear focus on increasing the quality of user experience, particularly in search and ads."

Google reports operating income, net income, and earnings per share (EPS) on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis. The non-GAAP measures are described below in the section titled "About non-GAAP financial measures" and are reconciled to the corresponding GAAP measure in the accompanying financial tables.

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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

CUPERTINO, California — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 third quarter ended July 1, 2006. The Company posted revenue of $4.37 billion and a net quarterly profit of $472 million, or $.54 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $3.52 billion and a net profit of $320 million, or $.37 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 30.3 percent, up from 29.7 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 39 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple shipped 1,327,000 Macintosh® computers and 8,111,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 12 percent growth in Macs and 32 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

“We’re thrilled with the growth of our Mac business, and especially that over 75 percent of the Macs sold during the quarter used Intel processors. This is the smoothest and most successful transition that any of us have ever experienced, “ said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “In addition, iPod continued to earn a US market share of over 75 percent and we are extremely excited about future iPod products in our pipeline.”

“We’re very pleased to report the second highest quarterly sales and earnings in Apple’s history, resulting in year-over-year revenue growth of 24 percent and earnings growth of 48 percent,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, we expect revenue of about $4.5 to $4.6 billion. We expect GAAP earnings per diluted share of about $.46 to $.48, including an estimated $.03 per share expense impact from non-cash stock-based compensation, translating to non-GAAP EPS of about $.49 to $.51.”

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NEW YORK and CUPERTINO, California—June 29, 2006—MTV Networks and Apple® today announced that new television programming from Spike TV, Nick at Nite, TV Land, Logo, MTV and The N is now available on the iTunes® Music Store (www.itunes.com). Adding to the hit MTV Networks content already on iTunes, this new round of programming available for purchase and download crosses virtually every genre and includes Spike TV’s brand-new action series ”Blade: The Series,” MTV's prank-comedy show “Viva La Bam” and TV Land’s “Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg.” MTV Networks’ programming has been a huge success on iTunes since debuting earlier this year, with COMEDY CENTRAL’s “South Park” alone selling over one million episodes. iTunes now offers over 150 TV shows for $1.99 per episode for viewing on a computer or iPod®.

“At MTV Networks, our brands create some of the most vibrant, entertaining and pop culture-defining programming today,” said Nicholas Lehman, executive vice president, MTV Networks Digital Media. “We’re excited to add more of our diverse programing to iTunes and to connect a broad digital audience with our bold entertainment content.”

“MTV Networks’ programming has been a hit with customers since launching on iTunes earlier this year,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “iTunes is the world’s most popular online video store with over 35 million videos sold, and we continue to expand the catalog of great television content now with over 150 network and cable programs available.”

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Travel Search Engine Continues Unrelenting International Expansion

San Francisco, Calif.— 28 June 2006.  Mobissimo, Inc., the world’s most comprehensive travel search engine, today announced the launch of its UK site www.mobissimo.co.uk, to give British consumers direct access to the latest travel deals from the widest range of online travel agencies, major air carriers, low cost airlines, car rentals and hotels available with a single click.
The British are traditionally savvy travellers who travel often both domestically and abroad. Mobissimo covers well-known domestic travel suppliers such as Active Hotels, British Airways, Easyjet, Ebookers, Hotel Hotel Pronto, Lastminute.com, Monarch, Opodo.co.uk, Ryanair, Skoosh, Sterling, and features the largest selection of low cost airlines available in one convenient location.

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The MAN Roland Users Group (MANRUG) recently held its largest annual conference to date. Members from many newspapers exchanged production advice, learned about the latest technology advancements, and educated each other on ways to make their pressrooms more responsive and productive.

At the Wyndham Northwest Chicago Hotel in Itasca, Illinois, the 2006 MANRUG Conference brought together production executives from leading newspapers all over North America as well as MAN Roland experts from around the world. It also encompassed a mini-expo showcasing technology and consumables.

This year’s user group meeting included a feature tour of The Daily Herald, suburban Chicago’s largest newspaper and recent winner of the prestigious 2006-2008 Ifra International Newspaper Color Quality Club award.

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VSO Software announces the release of Image Resizer, freeware that resizes and converts images between different formats. This handy application is a useful tool for anyone who wants to store digital pictures on a PC and wants to email them, move them easily from one folder to another or to free up space on the hard drive.

Toulouse. April 28th, 2006 -- In one click, Image Resizer by VSO Software resizes pictures or changes their format as desired: the reduced file size enables faster loading, improved pictures management and saves storage space. Image files which are smaller in size are more easily sent by email, something difficult to do with the original file size. It is also the perfect tool for webmasters or people wanting to publish images on the internet.

Image Resizer handles images in all popular formats: bmp, jpeg, gif, png and can converts them at the preferred resolution (from 320x200 to 1600x1200, including even Ipod photo and video, Sony PSPS, HDTV and DVD). The images will adjust automatically to the size of the desktop or to the source used to display them.

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Can online photo sharing be free?

“A former employee has accused Eastman Kodak Co. of illegally tampering with the quality of customers' digital photos and making false advertising claims, according to a statement issued Wednesday (29 March 2006) by the former employee's attorney” reports DylanMcGrath, business editor at AP.

A competing online photo printing service, FotoInsight of Cambridge, UK distances itself from unlimited, free online photo hosting. FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “Providing quality prints for a few cents or pence does not combine with unlimited online storage of multi megabyte image files. FotoInsight only offers uncompressed, printing quality online archiving. We have always stated that this can only be maintained with an honest time limit.” 

According to FotoInsight, providing unlimited online photo sharing at print quality is unsustainable with ever larger digital camera image files. http://fotoinsight.co.uk and http://fotoinsight.com provide an online archive option with print orders only, limited to one month, after which users may pay for an extension. Klaas Brumann comments: “Not everything on the internet can be free. There are plenty of sites specializing in online photo sharing, which is a feasible service as long as there is a tap on the size. Ofoto's (Kodak) business idea to use print quality photo files for unlimited hosting is wrong”.

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MasterCard International said it is joining with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) and with other leading members of the financial and Internet industries from around the world to form the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography (FCACP).

Coordinated by the NCMEC and ICMEC, the FCACP, in conjunction with government leaders and law enforcement agencies worldwide, will embark on a first of its kind, globally focused effort to identify and eliminate commercial sources of child pornography. The Coalition has defined an initial four point strategy to combat child pornography that stresses the sharing of information about illegal activities among Coalition companies and the creation of a centralized system that proactively seeks, reports and tracks the dissemination of child pornography. In addition, the Coalition will seek to mobilize world leaders to become a part of this global effort to eradicate child pornography.

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The First Church of Golf has launched its new website at www.hawaiiplayers.com
The site is dedicated to promoting the spiritual and inner game aspects of the game of golf. The site is seeking links to kindred spirits of the game.

FCOG is also in the process of organizing a Gathering of the Gurus on the Big Island of Hawaii in January 2007.
FCOG is seeking sponsors and inner golf instructors interested in participating in this event.

For more details visit the site at www.hawaiiplayers.com or email: matt.mhughes@gmail.com

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The NYU Conference of Social Entrepreneurs: Where Research and Practice Align will bring together entrepreneurs, scholars, and philanthropists to discuss the theoretical frameworks and practice based knowledge involved with the process of starting new social ventures. By gathering the leading academic researchers and the top social innovators from around the world, this conference will forward our understanding of social entrepreneurship and help set the agenda for future inquiry in the field. Our convening will be a step toward securing creative partnerships and cross-national knowledge sharing that will broaden our understanding of social entrepreneurship.

The conference will be hosted by the NYU Stern School of Business from April 6-8, 2006 at The Kimmel Center at 60 Washington Square South.

Thursday evening will kick off the conference with an award cocktail reception to honor a leading social entrepreneur. Friday’s schedule will feature keynote speakers and panel discussions, and Saturday’s sessions will be targeted to academic researchers. Sessions will integrate researchers and practitioners for multi-faceted discussions on current topics in the field. We expect 300 attendees.

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Company Name: Digitas

Job Status: Full Time

Job Location: Boston, MA

Job Description:

Search Engine Marketing Media Planners possess up-to-date knowledge of the search engine marketing marketplace and maintain relationships with key outside vendors. They are responsible for the day-to-day management and optimization of the results for multiple campaigns. Over time, they establish themselves within the company and with clients as experts in the field of search engine marketing. Team members in this role are expected to negotiate with media vendors and work with the Media Supervisor to develop strategic search analysis and recommendations that meet client objectives.

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Position Reports To: Media Supervisor
Position Supervises (N/A if no direct reports): N/A

QUALIFICATIONS

Job Experience:
2-3 years experience at the media assistant or planner level required with an emphasis on paid search experience preferred

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Company Name: The Ohio News Network

Job Status: Full Time

Job Location: Columbus, OH

Job Description:

Producer (Job #400AR): The Ohio News Network, Ohio's only 24 hour news channel available in 1.5 million homes is searching for the best and brightest news producer. The ideal candidate will need to be able to work well under extreme pressure while being creative. Active, intelligent and conversational writing as well as exceptional tease writing is a must.

Previous news experience and assertive news gathering skills required. Prior producing experience preferred. Excellent communication skills and impeccable organizational skills are a must for this position. Knowledge of Ohio, Ohio politics, Ohio sports and Ohio issues are a plus. Candidate must be flexible and willing to work all hours and on weekends.

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Qualified candidates may apply online at www.dispatchbroadcast.com or may send a cover letter, resume,

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