LoadPod, the nation's leader in iPod loading services, announced today that it is now offering customers the option to have the album cover artwork for each of their CDs loaded into their iPod for an additional 39 cents per CD, to coincide with Apple's recent launch of new iPods with color screens.

"LoadPod invented the iPod loading industry, and as the industry leader, we're proud to be the first and only iPod loading service to offer this option to our customers with color-screen iPods," said Bill Palmer, LoadPod's President and Founder. "LoadPod has always strived to offer its customers the latest in iPod-related technology, and with the arrival of color screens across Apple's iPod lineup, album artwork is the next logical service for our customers."

HTI, the leading integrated systems provider in the Pacific Northwest and PlayNetwork, Inc., a leading global supplier of media services, today jointly announced the formation of a strategic alliance that will position both companies for increased growth in the Greater Seattle market and throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and other nearby states.

HTI is currently expanding its core business of designing and installing integrated systems for the residential marketplace into commercial locations, including restaurants, entertainment venues, retail stores, and hotels. PlayNetwork is a provider of custom music programming, video programming, and digital products providing content and consulting for major U.S. firms, including Starbucks, Hollister and Abercrombie & Fitch.

Equity-Linked Certificates of Deposit are a safer, low-cost alternative for those who must have an Equity-Indexed Annuity type of investment. These little-known investments allow you to participate in the growth of the market index while your principal is guaranteed by the Government. Read on to find out more.

Equity-Indexed Annuities are probably the most heavily promoted investment for seniors in todays marketplace. The sales pitch is appealing and the payoff to the agent is very big-up to 13%. The enormous commissions have led to sales abuses which leave seniors holding the bag.

PaperHost.com, Inc., a premier provider of offsite document storage and document scanning services has expanded their staff by seven in just 30 days, to keep pace with growing demand. Added to their staff are an application development programmer, a production scanning manager, a channel sales developer, and four scanning operators.

This is just the beginning of the explosive growth we are experiencing. Companies are beginning to see the real value in outsourcing their web-based document management and document imaging services to focus on their core business competencies," states Jim Coyle, President and CEO of PaperHost.

A group of business leaders and consultants have collaborated to create an educational resource with free reports and courses on innovation, marketing, strategy, and other business growth topics. This new service is called "The Growth Equation" and can be accessed at www.TheGrowthEquation.com or by calling 866-269-2675 for a recorded message (use ID# 1206).

The information available at this website is targeted to executives at small to midsized companies who have responsibility for the growth of their company, including:

Business Owners and CEOs

Sales and Marketing Executives

Engineers and R&D Managers

Entrepreneurs and Inventors

Six reports on various business growth topics and an emailed course on innovation and marketing are currently available. The contributors to "The Growth Equation" plan to make additional reports and courses available over time.

Rapp Collins Worldwide has brought National Change of Address (NCOA) processing in-house in a move that will provide quicker turnaround and a less expensive alternative to processing which was historically outsourced.

“Our in-house NCOA processing is a USPS certified program that offers eighteen months of NCOA data” said Bob Schmidt, Director of Rapp Collins’ data processing group. “In many cases we can process a file in half the time for about half the cost of the outsourced alternative”.

NCOA processing is required for all first class mailings and recommended for any direct mail campaign as it can improve the delivery rate by up to 3%;

The online ministry World's Last Chance just released a new video at YouTube and Google identifying the first 'beast' of Revelation 13 to be the papacy. This ministry believes this audacious message is crucial for the avoidance of receiving the mark of the beast.

World's Last Chance states that in the Bible God has given nine defining characteristics to be able to correctly ascertain who the 'beast' is and thus avoid receiving its 'mark'.

"To learn who the 'beast' is according to God's infallible word anyone may test an entity, such as Nero, Hitler, or Islam to see whether they fulfil God's nine requirements. Only one entity discretely fulfils all nine of these points, and surprisingly for most people, it is the papacy," said Dahlia Doss of World's Last Chance.

ARX's VP of Business Development, John Marchioni, is providing a presentation at the NIST Key Management Workshop June 8th-9th in Gaithersburg, Maryland that will detail the enterprise-wide benefits enabled by a centralized key management approach to digital signatures.

This NIST event is designed to improve the overall key management strategies used by the public and private sectors in order to enhance usability of cryptographic technology, provide scalability across all cryptographic technologies, and support a global cryptographic key management infrastructure. As such, Mr. Marchioni's presentation will highlight the benefits that make centralized key management approaches like ARX's CoSign® digital signature solution superior to traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). The benefits he will detail include control advanta 00004000 ges, administrative simplicity, scalability, and audit trail capabilities.

Phrantceena T. Halres, owner of Total Protection Services Carolina 1963 s, LLC, a full-service, privately held nuclear security services corporation, has established the Nuclear Protection Academy, Inc. (NuclearPro), a first of its kind security officer training program. The pioneering academy has been designed to provide enhanced training for security officers who are tasked with protecting our nation's nuclear power plants. The first classes are set to begin this fall in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Roger Hurni, co-founder and executive creative director of Phoenix advertising agency, Off Madison Ave, a full-service collaborative marketing communications firm, received the 2007 J. Terry Groener Ad Person of the Year award at the 22nd annual Phoenix Addy Awards on Saturday evening at the Heard Museum. Presented by Ad 2 Phoenix, the award recognizes leaders who have made make great contributions to the advertising, marketing and communications industry and who actively participate in community service.

The office document solutions provider Kyocera Mita, and the market leader in print solutions for distributed networks, ThinPrint, has announced the beginning of a partnership. The integration of ThinPrint technology in Kyocera Mita hardware - beginning with the network card IB23 - will allow Kyocera Mita customers to benefit from ThinPrint's print management solution .print, directly and quickly without other hardware solutions. The network card IB23 can be integrated into Kyocera devices currently on the market. Companies that can fit their network printers in other locations with the card and use ThinPrint's print engine on their server, can compress print data to up to 10 percent of its original size. This not only significantly reduces the system load, but also speeds up the printing process, because the data can be transferred 9 times faster. ThinPrint technology for connection orientated bandwidth control also prevents bottlenecks in the line during print data transmission, thus securing the network connection of employees in other locations.

When it comes to great food and incredible ambiance, North County San Diego's latest entre to the niche restaurant scene is the delectable Jamroc 101, a Jamaican blend of authentic tastes with the look and feel of a down home Caribbean cookery.

Nestled on legendary Highway 101 in Encinitas, Jamroc's island feel makes this restaurant as much a destination as a great place to eat. The soothing reggae music and real Jamaican décor leaves you believing you've just stepped off a sidewalk in Montego Bay. Jamroc is a visual delight, but owners David and Tina DaCosta promise what you'll remember most, "is the wicked good food".

More than a year and a half after it was first announced, FICO® 08 -- an updated version of the FICO® credit score system -- is finally making its debut in '09.

Fair Isaac Corp., creator of the FICO credit score (Fico score), announced the first usage of the controversial FICO 08 when TransUnion utilized the new credit scoring program on January 29th. Equifax is expected to adopt the new system later this year. Experian Group, Ltd. has yet to institute the new system and is not expected to do so anytime soon, pending an unsettled lawsuit with Fair Isaac.

Genius Marketing maintains profit margins through automated cost-per-sale based bidding, reactivity to click fraud and cost controlled experimentation on new search terms. The system automatically calculates and updates bids on tens of thousands of search terms based on real world business goals.

As a result, search terms that are managed by Genius Marketing are up to date with current market conditions and in sync with the users' financial goals of cost per sale and budget.

Increasing and maintaining the conversion-to-sale rate of website visitors is crucial to growth and sustainability in an on-line business. Genius Marketing includes a new innovative testing system called "Marketing Lab" that takes reliable design testing methods to the next level with up to date browser and web technology.

Xsigo Systems, Inc., the technology leader in data center I/O virtualization, today announced that the Xsigo VP780 I/O Director is a finalist for the 2007 "Storage Products of the Year" award in TechTarget's Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com.

Xsigo was one of the six finalists in the "storage network equipment" category which received a record number - more than 200 nominations - of new-storage related products for 2007. The entries were judged by the Storage Magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants. Each product was gauged on six key criteria: ease of integration, functionality, innovation, manageability, performance and value. The finalists will be featured online at www.SearchStorage.com the week of January 21, 2008 and the winners will be announced on February 5, 2008.

If every car in this country was a hybrid vehicle by the year 2025, we would still import just as much foreign oil, due the increase in the number of vehicles on the road.

We have no blueprint in place to become independent of foreign sources of energy.

Our dependence on foreign oil negatively impacts our national security, economic security, foreign policy, the war on terrorism and our future position in the world.

Billions of dollars are being spent on disparate alternative energy programs. We call for the United States government to act on the precedent of the 'Manhattan Project' and bring together the best minds from the private and public sectors and the resources currently being spent on various alternative energy plans and focus on three simple tasks:

Hale Dwoskin, founder of The Sedona Method and a featured teacher in the #1 blockbuster bestselling book and movie, "The Secret," has just announced the "Five Steps to Greatly Increase Your Time Management Skills."

"When's the last time there was an entirely free weekend around the house? How about the luxury of a two-week vacation? Can't remember? It's likely because - be honest - there's not much time left after working the equivalent to several full-time jobs at just one paying job, raising children, tending to a spouse, caring for aging parents, managing the household and juggling any other number of daily tasks," said Dwoskin. "If just thinking about a to-do list for tomorrow (Don't have one? Keep reading to find out why everyone should) is enough to send you crawling under the bed sheets to hide, then it's time to devote some serious attention to learning time management skills. Don't worry, it's simple. Take a look at the steps below to get all the information needed to make the most of any day - and still have some time to relax."

The launch of African News Dimension's (AND) Andnetwork on Sept. 1, 2005, will soon launch a ground-breaking, fresh approach to news on the African continent, becoming the first-ever comprehensive multi-media distributor of African news and information about Africans, by Africans and for Africans.

www.andnetwork.com was born out of a need to give an authentic voice to African issues on the world news stage. For too long, the continent has seen its people, its achievements and its struggles misrepresented on the world news stage, which, dominated by Europe and America, has failed to understand the complexities of a continent that is rich in diverse cultures.

Foremount Enterprise Co., Ltd., a trusted name in medical supply manufacturing, celebrates fifteen years of explosive growth by opening a brand new ultra modern manufacturing facility in Taiwan. Just a decade ago, Foremount was a small-scale industry. Today, it is one of the most sought brands across Taiwan and abroad and provides a wide range of medical supplies as well as Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) services.

With more than fifteen years' experience in developing, manufacturing and exporting medical supplies, Foremount Enterprise Co., Ltd has become Taiwan's leading name in the field. Recently, the company reached an important milestone -- a new building located in Taichung (middle of Taiwan). This building is more than triple the size of Foremount's two original factories. It will able to house all departments together, making management easier and ensuring better cooperation between departments. "It is a new era in medical supplies!" said Tyson Hsu President of Foremount.

Tamba announced today their pledge to donate five percent of all sales generated at the AccessoriesTheShow being held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City between January 9 - 11, 2005.

This catastrophic disaster presents a significant challenge for citizens worldwide and Tambas pledge is to help deliver immediate relief to those afflicted. The jewelry industry is a global village with a lot of contributions from the South Asian region including India, Thailand and Indonesia," said Designer Wanda Kuprienko. We are deeply moved by the incomprehensible human suffering in the region."