Local Barrie, Ontario, Canada Business Earns Top Spot on America's Top 100 Gift Basket Business List

Identity Diet Provides Identity Theft Protection For Celebrities

IdentityMate, a privately held identity protection company, launches the Identity Diet service for high target identities. Identity Diet provides a customized identity protection plan based on each individual's unique risks. "Identity theft and related privacy and fraud issues are caused by identity obesity and identity mismanagement," says Henry Bagdasarian. Consumers continue to accumulate and share personal information at an alarming rate thus becoming identity obese while they lack the basic understanding of their privacy rights and identity fraud risks. High target identities, including celebrities, are at a much higher risk of identity theft and need to continuously evaluate their risks and available options to protect their identities. Each person's identity theft risks may be different and considering the ever increasing number of identity theft services and products in the market, which may sometimes seem confusing and overlapping, "a customized Identity Diet Plan is necessary to identify the protection gaps and mitigate the unique risks with the most appropriate and cost effective solutions" says Bagdasarian. ... (Continue reading)

Guiding Asian Americans around the World

The Journey, a newly launched magazine covering travel worldwide, will be the first such publication to cater to the burgeoning Asian American population.

“Very rapidly, Asian Americans are coming into their own. They’re beginning to explore more lifestyle options, which includes travel as well,” says Teena Counihan, Editor-in-Chief of The Journey. “This is an extensive market, and The Journey’s staff of writers will design articles specifically with that demographic in mind.”

A quarterly magazine, The Journey will reveal great travel experiences for the entire spectrum of the Asian American community -- from students to professionals, executives, entrepreneur and political leaders. The Journey is designed to be visually breathtaking as well, with a trendy template and only the finest photographs.... (Continue reading)

Finnair Selects Phitek Headphones to Enhance Premium Travel

Phitek Systems, global leader in advanced noise cancellation technologies announced today that Finnair will adopt the Company’s premium noise-cancelling headphone to provide its passengers with the ultimate listening experience.

Mark Donaldson, CEO of Phitek Systems stated that the Company is extremely delighted that Finnair selected its headphones over competitive offerings, citing performance and value as key factors.

“We are very encouraged by the progress we are making in forging strong long-term relationships with our airline partners. This deal reaffirms our leading position in the premium headphone and noise cancellation category and we hope to build on this in future months.”... (Continue reading)

New Accredited Investor Email, Telemarketing, and Direct Mail Lists Now Available by State on Accreditedinvestorlists.com

Accreditedinvestorlists.com is pleased to bring you more state counts of accredited investors. The accredited investors featured on this blog have been segmented by state and are available in the form of email, telemarketing, and direct mail. The most recent posts feature accredited investors from the following states: Montana, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

New from Accredited Investor Lists:

Montana Accredited Investor List

Postal List: 5,294

Email List: 397

These accredited investors reside in the city of Billings. The state of Montana itself has a total population of 945,000 individuals with 359,000 households. The median household income is $36,000.

http://www.accreditedinvestorlists.com/montanainvestor/montana-accredited-investor-list/... (Continue reading)

Advanced Online Advertising Analytics Webinar To Feature Internet Retailer American Greetings

ClearSaleing Inc., a search engine marketing technology company, has announced they will be hosting an advanced online advertising analytics webinar featuring Internet retailer American Greetings Interactive on Thursday, May 22.

The webinar, American Greetings: Excellence in Online Advertising, will be conducted by American Greetings Director of Acquisition Marketing Chris Caputo. The webinar is a case study of how AG Interactive implemented an advanced advertising analytics and optimization platform to improve their online advertising initiatives. The webinar will cover an array of topics discussing advanced features that have improved AG Interactive's online advertising performance, including:... (Continue reading)

Quadriplegic Entrepreneur Providing Hope and Freedom to Others

With an estimated one million individuals confined to wheelchairs in the United States, many people face lifestyle restrictions which often prevent participation in fundamental recreational activities. A company based in Southern California, however, is offering innovative options for those suffering from paralysis, neurological damage and other motor skill disorders.

Access to Recreation (www.accesstr.com), a distributor of adaptive equipment and special needs products, offers a full line of hi-tech recreation items and has been providing solutions to this niche market for nearly twenty years.... (Continue reading)

Universal Packaging, Inc. Becomes Supplier for Wine America - The National Association of American Wineries

Universal Packaging, a full-service resource for packaging, shipping, and display products, has announced they are now a new Supplier Member for Wine America, the National Association of American Wineries.

Universal Packaging, Inc. has long been known for their high-quality expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging materials used widely in the shipping industry. Now, Wine America and their members will be using wine shippers provided by Universal Foam, a subdivision of Universal Packaging, to transport wine. The wine shipping containers will be offered to Wine America members at a 10% discount.... (Continue reading)

Lee Whistler Earns prestigious Designation to Help Homeowners in Danger of Foreclosure

Lee Whistler of Fresno, CA, Guarantee Real Estate, has earned the prestigious Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE) designation, having completed extensive training in foreclosure avoidance and short sales. This is invaluable expertise to offer at a time when the area is ravaged by "distressed" homes in the foreclosure process.

Short sales allow the cash-strapped seller to repay the mortgage at the price that the home sells for, even though it is lower than what is owed on the property. With plummeting property values, this can save many people from foreclosure and even bankruptcy. More and more lenders are willing to consider short sales because they are much less costly than foreclosures.... (Continue reading)

New Softrax Revenue Manager Release Adds Business Intelligence, Enables Better Top-Line Decisions

Canton, Mass. - March 30, 2008 - Softrax Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise revenue management and billing solutions, today announced the release of Softrax Revenue Manager™ 2.1. Softrax Revenue Manager works in concert with existing ERP systems and provides a new way of managing large-scale, complex revenue recognition processes. It is the only enterprise application that manages recognized and deferred revenue on a detailed accounting element level. This provides the foundation for a comprehensive data warehouse allowing for a new level of business intelligence and strategic insight into revenue not available in other systems.... (Continue reading)

Eldercare Blog Focuses on Community Through Social Networks

Of the 30 million Americans currently providing care to an elderly parent or relative, most are Baby Boomers. Although their circumstances differ, they usually have something in common: a lack of support and no time to look for it.

Stephen Joyce knows the feeling. The author of the Amazon bestseller, Teaching an Anthill to Fetch: Developing Collaborative Intelligence @ Work, Joyce and his wife, Sandra, spent 10 years caring for his parents in Ireland, before returning to North America. He has taken the learning gained from that experience and fused it with his expertise in building communities based on collaboration to launch a new online community for caregivers at EldercareABC Blog.... (Continue reading)

Helium Systems Adds Terabyte, Increases Market Data Capabilities of TradePVR

Helium Systems LLC, a leader in network-based trade-communications monitoring, announced significant market data optimizations to its TradePVR product. TradePVR records, indexes, and analyzes all order-routing and market data in real-time without adding any load to trading systems. Recording units will now ship with a minimum of 1 Terabyte of RAID storage. Additionally, market-data feeds, which can take upwards of 1.5GB for a daily FIX-protocol session, are now compressed on-the-fly by an average of 40 percent. The solution scales linearly by adding additional recording units as needed, and customers now get much better density and performance for the same price. The user interface has also been enhanced to show market-data specific statistics and summaries.... (Continue reading)

IT Governance Helps dsicmm Group Win ISO27001 Certification

The UK's largest independent direct communications group has achieved ISO27001 certification with the help of IT Governance Limited. dsicmm Group, which serves over 90 FTSE 100 companies, called in the consultancy to help it prepare for its Stage 2 ISO27001 audit after certain non-conformances were highlighted during its Stage 1 assessment. With the help of IT Governance, dsicmm was able to quickly address these issues and in November received its ISO27001 certification, after just two months of preparation.... (Continue reading)

AspenPrep Launches Key Features to Enhance its Online SAT preparation Service

AspenPrep today launched key customization features to enhance its already popular online SAT preparation service. The course is offered for $50. AspenPrep, a leader in online SAT preparation services, uses unique assessment tools to guide students, parents and teachers to achieving outstanding SAT scores.

To help students further organize their studies, a customized weekly syllabus feature has been added to the course. This individualized weekly syllabus acts as a detailed tutorial roadmap to focus on critical subject and strategy areas. The course syllabus progressively updates as strengths and weaknesses are reassessed when students work through the program. The benefit is that a students assessment is continuous, keeping up with his or her progress to consistently reevaluate focus areas for continued study.... (Continue reading)

Popular Ashburn Childcare Center Opens 2nd Campus in Westfields/Chantilly

BeanTree Learning, which opened its first Campus in Ashburn to great acclaim in January 2005--and which is now bursting at the seams--has opened its 2nd Campus in the Westfields/Chantilly area, just off Route 28.

BeanTree's impressive new building is located at 5003 Weststone Plaza in Chantilly, Virginia near the intersection of Route 28 and Westfields Boulevard and is close to the Hyatt Place, Texas Roadhouse, Applebee's, and Eggspectations.

The new state-of-the-art BeanTree Learning Campus opened its doors on October 1st, 2007, and is currently enrolling. The waiting list at the Ashburn Campus is lengthy, and demand for enrollment at the new location is expected to be just as great.... (Continue reading)

School Furniture Stock is Still Available from Worthington Direct

Worthington Direct (http://www.worthingtondirect.com), a supplier of school, church and early childhood furniture and equipment for over 11 years have been shipping school desks, stack chairs, marker boards, cafeteria tables and more to schools in record time. June through August are the busiest months for the school furniture industry and now that most schools are back in session, Worthington Direct still has plenty of stock available to ship in 1 to 5 business days. http://www.worthingtondirect.com/school_furniture/ships_in_24_hours_school_furniture/ships_in_24_hours_school_furniture.htm... (Continue reading)

Duvet Cover Bedding the Leading Trend in Luxury Bedroom Decor from Elegant Linens of Park City

A down duvet is the bed covering of choice for today’s consumers due to its superior warmth, lightness and versatility of appearance. Like your favorite clothes, duvets and duvet covers provide a means of dressing a bed and a room in a way that will reflect one’s individual style whatever the season. Luxury duvet covers from Elegant Linens of Park City are custom-designed to create a distinctive look for the most comfortable room in your home.

Duvets and their covers are very flexible elements in bedroom décor, with the duvet cover serving as the vehicle for personal expression of style in a bedroom. Originally employed only to protect the duvet, the decorative duvet cover now serves as the beautiful focal point in a well appointed bedroom. From traditional to contemporary prints and solids in softest Egyptian cotton, sateen and jacquard, and cool, comfortable linen, duvet cover bedding from Elegant Linens is tailor-made to create a great designer look for every bedroom in your home. And if you like to change the appearance of your room, having a second or third duvet cover in varying styles and fabrics will give you the option of a fresh look whenever you choose.

The duvet originated in rural Europe and was intended to be used as a functional bed covering, as opposed to a decorative coverlet. Traditionally constructed as a flat, unstructured bag filled with goose down or feathers, it was utilized summer and winter by repositioning the fill material according to the air temperature. Modern duvets feature baffle-box construction for superior fill control and loft and are available in varying weights to fit the season and the personal preference of the owner. It requires little or no laundering because it will normally be encased by the removable, washable duvet cover.... (Continue reading)

Caregiver Cruises Offer Self-Directed Learning Opportunities and Respite for Weary Caregivers

CSM Cruises is pleased to announce that they have donated Caregiver Cruises to several non-profits, including The Alzheimer's Association. Last year the cruise that was raffled by The Eastern NC Chapter raised over $8000. In 2009, Patrick Toal, Dr. Teena Cahill and the staff at CaregiverCruises.com will be coordinating the very first Memory Walk at Sea to be held on February 11, 2009. Proceeds will benefit the Alzheimer's Association proving once and for all that caregivers really do "walk on water."... (Continue reading)

Therapure Biopharma Inc. and LFB Biotechnologies Announce Development Services Contract for New Therapeutic Protein

Thomas Wellner, President and CEO of Therapure BioPharma Inc. and Christian Béchon, President and CEO of LFB S.A. announce that a development services contract has been concluded between Therapure Biopharma Inc. and LFB Biotechnologies, a subsidiary of LFB SA, for the development of a manufacturing method for an innovative plasma therapeutic protein.

Therapure will apply its experience and knowledge in therapeutic protein development to develop a manufacturing process to enable the large scale production of this important biologic for clinical trials. The project, which is being jointly managed by research and development teams from the two companies, is expected to yield a novel treatment for a serious illness which currently has limited treatment options.... (Continue reading)

Psychic Readings At Moonwhisper Get A Facelift and Reformat

Moonwhisper.com has been a portal to the psychic world on the web since 1999 and has recently updated it's website to include social networking for those who seek psychic readings as well as gotten a brand new look. The most recent update to Moonwhisper includes on site psychic chat, psychic message boards, member homepages and the ability for new users to submit articles and participate in rating psychic services on the website. Each member now has the ability to create a member profile and can contact each other via a personal messaging system. Plans are also in the works for a psychic cell phone service that will provide daily psychic text messages and psychic podcasts that are free to members. This new format is created in the hopes of creating a sense of community among psychic seekers as well as become a virtual showcase for it's psychic service partners.... (Continue reading)

Local Barrie, Ontario, Canada Business Earns Top Spot on America's Top 100 Gift Basket Business List

In addition to a Silver Placement in this category, www.occasionallygifted.com also earned high ranking honours as a Top 50 Fastest Growing Gift Basket Businesses in America finalist.

This company was chosen for the Top 100 lists from hundreds of participants in the GBR State of the Industry Survey open to 20,000 national gift basket/gift packaging companies in America.

Debra Paulk, publisher of GBR – a national and international trade publication for the gift basket industry since 1990, applauded the efforts of all the survey participants who continually strive to pursue their business goals.... (Continue reading)