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Monday, December 21, 2009

Technology Associates Inks Deal With The Insurance Center Of New Bern

Eric Hobbs, admiral of Technology Associates (www.technologyassociates.net), a full-service technology solutions and abutment close specializing in arrangement design, implementation, administration and abutment to baby to medium-sized businesses in North Carolina, has appear that the close has been apprenticed by the Insurance Center of New Bern, an absolute allowance agency that provides customized allowance to fit its barter needs. Under this agreement, the Insurance Center of New Bern has abutting the Technology Associates NetAssure Basic Service, which allows Technology Associates to proactively adviser and administer the agency’s arrangement to anticipate problems afore they abnormally appulse the business.

Related Links:
www.technologyassociates.net
www.lmwsinsurance.com
www.mmimarketing.com

News Facts:
•Technology Associates has been apprenticed by the Insurance Center of New Bern.
•The Insurance Center of New Bern is an absolute allowance agency that provides customized allowance to fit its barter needs.
•Under this agreement, the Insurance Center of New Bern has abutting the Technology Associates NetAssure Basic Service, which allows Technology Associates to proactively adviser and administer the agency’s arrangement to anticipate problems afore they abnormally appulse the business.

Quotes:
“We are admiring to plan with the Insurance Center of New Bern,” said Hobbs. “We are aflame to accommodate the agency with the technology it needs to accomplish calmly and to advice it proactively boldness any arrangement problems afore they occur.”

About The Insurance Center of New Bern:
The Insurance Center of New Bern is a acceptable absolute allowance agency that is locally endemic and operated by staffed professionals with years of experience. The agency provides barter with account that is customized to accommodated their alone needs. The centermost promises barter connected acquaintance with their agent, a bounded account adumbrative to baby-sit accounts and a appointed claims adumbrative to handle claims activity. The agency specializes in several areas including hospitality, commercial, construction, personal, activity and bloom insurance. For added advice on the Insurance Center of New Bern, appointment www.lmwsinsurance.com.

About Technology Associates:
Founded in 1997, Technology Associates is a full-service technology solutions and abutment close that specializes in accouterment arrangement design, implementation, administration and abutment to small- to medium-sized businesses in North Carolina. Technology Associates ally with their audience to administer their technology solutions as a admired business asset and emphasizes proactive solutions to anticipate problems afore they occur. The close utilizes scalable technologies which acquiesce business owners to accept a technology basement that can abound with their business needs. The accumulated years of acquaintance for the Technology Associates engineering agents is 63 years, while the boilerplate years of acquaintance is 16. Technology Associates prides itself on alms a low engineer-to-customer arrangement to ensure appropriate admiration and alone absorption for their customers. Technology Associates is a Microsoft® Certified Partner, acceptation they acquire a top amount of adequacy and ability with Microsoft® technologies, as able-bodied as a Microsoft® Small Business Specialist. For added advice amuse alarm (919) 459-0100 or appointment their Web website at www.technologyassociates.net.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh NC

Alternative Technology Adds LeftHand Networks iSCSI SAN Solutions to its GSA Schedule

Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. aggregation and arch specialty benefactor of thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, accumulator and aegis solutions, today appear the accession of LeftHand Networks, a arch provider of awful accessible iSCSI SANs that optimize basic environments, to its government accustomed accretion list.

“Federal, accompaniment and bounded agencies are gluttonous means to optimize absolute IT investments and to ensure government chain and abstracts protection,” said John Stubbs, carnality admiral of business development, Alternative Technology. “Virtualization provides lower amount solutions that according or beat the capabilities and functionality of acceptable server and accumulator products. The accession of LeftHand Networks® iSCSI SANs to our GSA agenda will acquiesce us and our approach ally to abode this growing government bazaar need.”

“With LeftHand Networks’ awful accessible SAN solutions, Government organizations are bigger able to aerate the ability and amount accumulation of virtualized environments. Adding our iSCSI SAN solutions to Alternative Technology’s GSA agenda enables us to added easilyserve the government sector,” said David Bangs, carnality admiral of sales for LeftHand Networks. “Alternative Technology brings cogent approach and government bazaar ability and a able acceptability for accouterment arch solutions to the server virtualization market.”

Server virtualization projects are active organizations to amend their accumulator arrangement solutions, and iSCSI SANs are arising as the adopted accumulator arrangement in virtualized environments, before both NAS and Fibre Channel protocols, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. iSCSI brings a amount of advantages and allowances to virtualized environments due in ample allotment to its accent on simplicity, amount ascendancy and manageability.

Complementing Alternative Technology’s all-encompassing educational and able casework approach abutment functions, LeftHand Networks has specialized teams of sales and engineering professionals who accept formed with intelligence, aggressive and noncombatant agencies for abundant of their careers.

LeftHand Networks’ able growth, avant-garde technology and success in the bazaar accept acquired cogent chump and industry-wide recognition. LeftHand Networks has added than 3,000 barter and 500 approach partners. It has aswell accustomed cogent industry analyst and approach recognition, including:
• Positioning aural the “Visionary” division in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Mid-Range Enterprise Disk Arrays
• Hottest Companies in the Mid-Market by CRN

About LeftHand Networks
Founded in 1999, LeftHand Networks pioneered IP-based accumulator across networks (SANs). SANs complete application LeftHand’s SAN/iQ® software are abnormally able to deliver and assure abstracts above a array of industry-standard accumulator servers. The company’s patented architectonics increases abstracts availability, allows users to alpha baby and abound the SAN seamlessly, and simplifies management. The LeftHand SAN is ideal for accumulator and server consolidation, multisite SANs, and adversity recovery. LeftHand SANs are accessible in the U.S., Canada and throughout Europe. For added information, acquaintance LeftHand at info@lefthandnetworks.com.

About Alternative Technology
Alternative Technology is a arch specialty benefactor for value-added resellers who charge articles and casework targeted at thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, security, and wireless markets. Driving the boundless acceptance of leading-edge technologies by bridging the gaps amid articles and casework to break analytical business problems, Alternative Technology identifies business issues that are key to its markets and offers multivendor solutions that drive appeal aback through its reseller partners. Alternative Technology, headquartered in Englewood, Colo., has offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Carlsbad, Calif., and Mississauga, Canada. Alternative Technology is a wholly endemic accessory of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, which is a business articulation of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW). For added information, go to: www.AltTech.com, e-mail: sales@AltTech.com or alarm toll-free: 800.544.7674 (USA), or 866.240.9991 (Canada).

All brands and names mentioned herein are trademarks of their corresponding holders.

Media Contacts

For Alternative Technology
Mark Rieger
ProAmericas Marketing & Public Relations
markr@proamericas.com
303 520 4524

For LeftHand Networks
Linda Dellett
Ignite Consulting
PR@lefthandnetworks.com
303-439-9398

or

Kathleen Bermea-Sullivan
303-439-9365

Alternative Technology to Distribute and Offer Support for Oracle® VM

Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. aggregation and arch specialty benefactor of thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, accumulator and aegis solutions, today appear that they will deliver Oracle® VM software and advertise Oracle VM server virtualization abutment for both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Alternative Technology will advantage its North American channel, apprenticeship and abstruse assets to aggrandize the ability of Oracle's world-class server virtualization software and abutment offering.

Oracle VM software is accessible to download for chargeless and consists of accessible antecedent server software and an chip Web browser-based administration console. Oracle VM provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for creating and managing basic server pools, active on x86 and x86-64-based systems above an enterprise. Users can actualize and administer basic machines that abide on the aforementioned concrete server but behave like absolute concrete servers. Each basic apparatus created with Oracle VM has its own basic CPUs, arrangement interfaces, accumulator and operating system. With Oracle VM, users accept an easy-to-use browser-based apparatus for creating, cloning, sharing, configuring, booting and brief basic machines.

Backed by Alternative Technology and Oracle’s world-class abutment organization, band-aid providers now accept a individual point of abutment for their customers’ absolute virtualization environments including the Linux operating system, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Application software. Customers who ambition to arrange Oracle articles in a faster, lower amount server basic ambiance can now use Oracle VM and subscribe to Oracle VM support.

"Organizations that run Oracle, as able-bodied as non-Oracle applications, are analytic to accomplish the cost-saving allowances of virtualization,” said Tom Zorn, controlling carnality president, Alternative Technology. “With Oracle VM and abutment now accessible from Alternative Technology, solutions providers can advice them accomplish those benefits.”

"Oracle is admiring that Alternative Technology is distributing Oracle VM software and authoritative enterprise-class server virtualization abutment accessible to their North American approach accomplice community," said Monica Kumar, chief director, OpenSource technology business at Oracle. "Our approach ally and end users can now account from server alliance that enables certain top ability and low amount of operations."

Channel ally can apprentice added about the advantages of Oracle VM, as able-bodied as access pricing, white papers, software downloads and abstruse abetment by traveling to www.alttech.com or calling 800.544.7674 (USA), or 866.240.9991 (Canada).

About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a all-around business arrangement of added than 20,000 companies who bear avant-garde software solutions based on Oracle software. Through acceptance to Oracle’s arch products, education, abstruse services, business and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork affairs provides ally with the assets they charge to be acknowledged in today’s all-around economy. Oracle ally are able to action their barter leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle’s position as the world's better action software company. Partners who are able to authenticate above artefact knowledge, abstruse ability and a charge to accomplishing business with Oracle authorize for the Certified Partner levels. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com

About Oracle Support
Oracle's across and abyss of abstruse expertise, beat abutment technologies, and all-around ability includes 7,000 abutment agents in 17 all-around abutment centers, accouterment advice to our barter in 27 languages, in any time zone. Oracle was awarded the J.D. Power and Associates Global Technology Service and Support Certification for "an outstanding chump account experience" has aswell won several Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) Awards for above chump account from the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA).

About Alternative Technology
Alternative Technology is a arch specialty benefactor for value-added resellers who charge articles and casework targeted at thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, security, and wireless markets. Driving the boundless acceptance of leading-edge technologies by bridging the gaps amid articles and casework to break analytical business problems, Alternative Technology identifies business issues that are key to its markets and offers multivendor solutions that drive appeal aback through its reseller partners. Alternative Technology, headquartered in Englewood, Colo., has offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Carlsbad, Calif., and Mississauga, Canada. Alternative Technology is a wholly endemic accessory of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, which is a business articulation of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW). For added information, go to: www.AltTech.com, e-mail: sales@AltTech.com or alarm toll-free: 800.544.7674 (USA), or 866.240.9991 (Canada).

Trademarks Oracle is a registered brand of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their corresponding owners.

Media Contacts

For Alternative Technology
Mark Rieger
ProAmericas Marketing & Public Relations
markr@proamericas.com
303-520-4524

Technology Associates Inks Deal With Horticultural Asset Management, Inc.

Eric Hobbs, admiral of Technology Associates (www.technologyassociates.net), a full-service technology solutions and abutment close specializing in arrangement design, implementation, administration and abutment to baby to medium-sized businesses in North Carolina, has appear that the close has been apprenticed by Horticultural Asset Management, Inc. (HMI), a Cary-based timberline appraisal and analysis provider. Under this agreement, HMI has abutting the Technology Associates NetAssure Basic Service, which allows Technology Associates to proactively adviser and administer the firm’s arrangement to anticipate problems afore they abnormally appulse the business.

Related Links:
www.technologyassociates.net
www.moneygrowsontrees.com
www.mmimarketing.com

News Facts:
•Technology Associates has been apprenticed by Horticultural Asset Management, Inc. (HMI).
•HMI is a Cary-based timberline appraisal and analysis provider.
•Under this agreement, HMI has abutting the Technology Associates NetAssure Basic Service, which allows Technology Associates to proactively adviser and administer the firm’s arrangement to anticipate problems afore they abnormally appulse the business.

Quotes:
“We are admiring to plan with Horticultural Asset Management, Inc.,” said Hobbs. “With our service, we can adviser and administer HMI’s arrangement and boldness problems afore they appulse their business.”

About Horticultural Asset Management, Inc. (HMI):
Horticultural Asset Management, Inc. (HMI) is the alone antecedent for connected backup amount valuations and cold inspections of the action of copse and shrubs (trees) on residential and bartering properties. Working with arch agronomical and arboricultural experts, HMI has developed proprietary abstracts accumulating software which enables its civic arrangement of arborists to calmly and accurately account the copse on a property. When this abstracts is uploaded to HMI’s patent-pending appraisal system, the aggregation is able to accommodate acreage owners, buyers, insurers, accountants and others with abundant letters that cover analytical advice about the specific type, amount and action of these important assets. HMI is enabling acreage owners to bigger administer their admired copse by acknowledging bigger allowance articles and accouterment important advice about any copse which may crave alleviative casework to assure adjoin a accident of the timberline or accident to a adjacent anatomy or added asset. For added information, amuse appointment the Web website at www.moneygrowsontrees.com or alarm (866) 937-6468.

About Technology Associates:
Founded in 1997, Technology Associates is a full-service technology solutions and abutment close that specializes in accouterment arrangement design, implementation, administration and abutment to small- to medium-sized businesses in North Carolina. Technology Associates ally with their audience to administer their technology solutions as a admired business asset and emphasizes proactive solutions to anticipate problems afore they occur. The close utilizes scalable technologies which acquiesce business owners to accept a technology basement that can abound with their business needs. The accumulated years of acquaintance for the Technology Associates engineering agents is 63 years, while the boilerplate years of acquaintance is 16. Technology Associates prides itself on alms a low engineer-to-customer arrangement to ensure appropriate admiration and alone absorption for their customers. Technology Associates is a Microsoft® Certified Partner, acceptation they acquire a top amount of adequacy and ability with Microsoft® technologies, as able-bodied as a Microsoft® Small Business Specialist. For added advice amuse alarm (919) 459-0100 or appointment their Web website at www.technologyassociates.net.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh NC

Alternative Technology Teams With Akamai to Distribute Application Performance Solutions

Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. aggregation and arch specialty benefactor of thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, accumulator and aegis solutions, has teamed with Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a baton in powering affluent media, activating affairs and action applications online, to resell Akamai’s portfolio of appliance achievement solutions aural North America.

Akamai provides the alone band-aid advised to accredit the Internet to accomplish as a business-ready appliance accumulation belvedere by acclamation the bottlenecks in the “cloud” with a unique, globally broadcast belvedere that requires no added accouterments or client-side technology. The company’s managed casework are broke by companies analytic to optimize the achievement and believability of Web-based and IP-enabled applications for added acceptance and abundance by employees, suppliers and ally amid anywhere in the world.

Akamai Application Performance Solutions include:
• Web Application Accelerator account for the accumulation of consistent, bigger appliance achievement for any Web-based application.
• IP Application accelerator account for the celerity of any IP-enabled appliance such as virtualized client/server, basic clandestine arrangement (VPN) and appointment applications.

“Akamai pioneered the agreeable accumulation bazaar one decade ago, and provides market-leading managed casework that accept been adopted by the world’s a lot of apparent brands above assorted industries,” said Tom Zorn, controlling carnality president, Alternative Technology. “Akamai’s different managed casework business archetypal and able casework alignment will be able-bodied accustomed by our North American approach ally as they attending to advice their barter access business abundance after basic investment.”

“We attending advanced to alive with Alternative Technology to drive new opportunities for Akamai Application Performance Solutions,” said Robert Hughes, controlling carnality president, Global Sales, Services and Marketing, Akamai Technologies. “Alternative Technology brings abundant approach ability into the North American bazaar and is backed by a able acceptability for acknowledging action IT needs.”

About Alternative Technology
Alternative Technology is a arch specialty benefactor for value-added resellers who charge articles and casework targeted at thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, security, and wireless markets. Driving the boundless acceptance of leading-edge technologies by bridging the gaps amid articles and casework to break analytical business problems, Alternative Technology identifies business issues that are key to its markets and offers multivendor solutions that drive appeal aback through its reseller partners. Alternative Technology, headquartered in Englewood, Colo., has offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Carlsbad, Calif., and Mississauga, Canada. Alternative Technology is a wholly endemic accessory of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, which is a business articulation of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW). For added information, go to: www.AltTech.com, e-mail: sales@AltTech.com or alarm toll-free: 800.544.7674 (USA), or 866.240.9991 (Canada).

Akamai, Web Application Accelerator and IP Application Accelerator are either registered trademarks or account marks of Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Media Contact
For Alternative Technology
Mark Rieger
ProAmericas Marketing & Public Relations
markr@proamericas.com
303-520-4524

Alternative Technology Named SonicWALL Authorized Training Partner

Alternative Technology, Inc., an Arrow Electronics, Inc. aggregation and arch specialty benefactor of thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, accumulator and aegis solutions, today appear it has been called an Authorized Training Partner by SonicWALL.

Under the agreement, Alternative Technology has added several SonicWALL classes to its award-winning portfolio of vendor-authorized training programs. Taught by one of Alternative Technology’s SonicWALL-certified instructors, these classes are now accessible for accessible acceptance at one of Alternative Technology’s anchored training locations or can be hosted by a VAR at the area of their choice.

“Our educational programs were accustomed to access the advantage of our North American approach partners, accouterment them the befalling to resell vendor-authorized training to their customers,” said Lee Fawcett, carnality admiral of able services, Alternative Technology. “By abacus SonicWALL classes to our portfolio, we action our VAR ally added accoutrement to advice aerate their investment in SonicWALL articles and aegis applications.”

“We’re actual aflame Alternative Technology is alms SonicWALL certified training to their customers,” said Gary Downing, chief director, training, SonicWALL. “Alternative Technology resellers and end users can now accomplish Certified SonicWALL System Administrator accreditation, added appropriate their added value.”

Alternative Technology’s Education Services Group aswell provides vendor-authorized training and acceptance for VMware, Citrix, Fortinet, Packeteer, ArcSight and Blue Coat VARs who charge training and/or ambition to abduction acquirement by packaging training for their customers. Channel ally can apprentice added about Alternative Technology’s vendor-authorized training programs, pricing, locations and accepted chic schedules by traveling to www.alttech.com/education, or by calling 800.544.7674 (USA), or 866.240.9991 (Canada).

About SonicWALL
SonicWALL is committed to convalescent the achievement and abundance of businesses of all sizes by engineering the amount and aggravation out of active a defended network. Over one actor SonicWALL accessories accept been alien through its all-around arrangement of 10,000 approach ally to accumulate tens of millions of common business computer users safe and in ascendancy of their data. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions cover arrangement security, defended limited access, agreeable security, advancement and recovery, and action and administration technology. For added information, appointment the aggregation Web website at http://www.sonicwall.com/

About Alternative Technology
Alternative Technology is a arch specialty benefactor for value-added resellers who charge articles and casework targeted at thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, security, and wireless markets. Driving the boundless acceptance of leading-edge technologies by bridging the gaps amid articles and casework to break analytical business problems, Alternative Technology identifies business issues that are key to its markets and offers multivendor solutions that drive appeal aback through its reseller partners. Alternative Technology, headquartered in Englewood, Colo., has offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Carlsbad, Calif., and Mississauga, Canada. Alternative Technology is a wholly endemic accessory of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, which is a business articulation of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW). For added information, go to: www.AltTech.com, e-mail: sales@AltTech.com or alarm toll-free: 800.544.7674 (USA), or 866.240.9991 (Canada).

Trademarks SonicWALL is a registered brand of SonicWALL, Inc. Other artefact and aggregation names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their corresponding companies..

Media Contact
For Alternative Technology
Mark Rieger
ProAmericas Marketing & Public Relations
markr@proamericas.com
303-520-4524

For SonicWALL
Colleen Nichols
cnichols@sonicwall.com
408-962-6131

or

Ben White
ben.white@bitepr.com
415-365-0392

Arrow ECS’ Alternative Technology Group Presented with 2008 NA Distributor of the Year Award from CA

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business articulation of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], today appear that it accustomed a 2008 North American “Value Added Distributor of the Year” accolade from CA, Inc. Arrow ECS’ Alternative Technology accumulation was accustomed for the accolade based on its above efforts in appeal conception and abutment of CA products, accomplishing the No. 1 position a allotment of CA’s North American distributors.

“Arrow ECS is captivated to already afresh accept this celebrated accolade from CA,” said Andy Bryant, admiral of Arrow ECS. Arrow ECS aswell was accustomed with the accolade in 2007 and 2005. “Our Alternative Technology accumulation provides outstanding approach and bazaar development abetment to CA and its resellers. I congratulate them on this honor.”

“We accept formed carefully with CA to authorize and assassinate on accepted goals and to advantage our accumulated assets to bear aberrant solutions through our North American approach ally to CA customers,” said Bill Botti, admiral and arch operating administrator of Alternative Technology. “Arrow ECS has formed with CA back 1998 and we attending advanced to acknowledging them in the years ahead.”

“Alternative Technology’s approach ally play a axial role in our business action and in our amount hypothesis to our barter in North America,” said Bill Lipsin, accumulated chief carnality admiral for common channels at CA. “Our Distributor of the Year accolade gives us the befalling to admit the harder plan and adroitness that Alternative Technology has put into the marketing, accomplishing and abutment of our industry-leading IT administration solutions.”

Information about Alternative Technology’s solutions and abutment for CA barter is accessible at www.alttech.com or by calling 800-544-7674 (USA), or 866-240-9991 (Canada).

ABOUT ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY
Alternative Technology is a arch specialty benefactor for value-added resellers who charge articles and casework targeted at thin-client/server-based computing, bend infrastructure, virtualization, security, and wireless markets. Driving the boundless acceptance of leading-edge technologies by bridging the gaps amid articles and casework to break analytical business problems, Alternative Technology identifies business issues that are key to its markets and offers multivendor solutions that drive appeal aback through its reseller partners. Alternative Technology, headquartered in Englewood, Colo., has offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Carlsbad, Calif., and Mississauga, Canada. Alternative Technology is a wholly endemic accessory of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, which is a business articulation of Arrow Electronics, Inc. [NYSE: ARW]. For added information, go to: www.AltTech.com, e-mail: sales@AltTech.com or alarm toll-free: 800-544-7674 (USA), or 866-240-9991 (Canada).

ABOUT ARROW ENTERPRISE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS
Arrow ECS, a business articulation of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], provides action and midrange accretion products, casework and solutions to value-added resellers, arrangement integrators, and absolute software vendors. Based in Englewood, Colo., Arrow ECS connects its barter to the world’s foremost technology suppliers, including HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, and added arch accumulator networking, software, and aegis suppliers. Arrow ECS appear $4.8 billion in all-around action accretion band-aid sales in 2007. Visit www.arrowecs.com for added information.

ARROW ECS
7459 South Lima Street
Englewood, Colorado 80112
www.arrowecs.com

Media Contacts
Dawn Small
For Arrow ECS
303-824-4188
dsmall@arrow.com

Mark Rieger
For Alternative Technology
303-520-4524
markr@proamericas.com

For CA
Michael Kornspan
michael.kornspan@ca.com
631-342-2463

Simple Technology Adds CenterTools DriveLock™-A Leader in Device Control

Simple Technology Inc. of Concord, Ontario, a amount added benefactor and voted top ten in Canada with over 20 years of acquaintance in computer peripherals and high-technology IT aegis products, appear today that it has active an acceding with CenterTools to deliver DriveLock™. CenterTools, a baton in accessory ascendancy provides able aegis from adaptable accessory threats. DriveLock™ fits calmly into your IT basement to advice you assure your arrangement and your data. The DriveLock™ modular software apartment allows for auditing and axial reporting, abounding ascendancy of adaptable devices, and Full Drive Encryption, attention your arcane abstracts and giving you the ascendancy and advice you charge to accomplish action acquiescence and accommodated authoritative requirements.

"With aegis breaches continuously on the rise, DriveLock is a accustomed addendum and adulatory to Simple Technology's aegis line. This is a abundant band-aid for anyone analytic to accumulate their advice defended and their bookish acreage protected" said Brian Muir, VP Business Development for Simple Technology.

"CenterTools is aflame to strengthen its role in Canada through this affiliation with a accomplice that has a able clue almanac of bringing aegis solutions to this assorted marketplace" added Mike Prieskorn, President of CenterTools.

Simple Technology Inc is a value-added computer artefact benefactor focused on OEM articles and specializing in aegis solutions. In business back 1986, Simple Technology Inc. is the adopted benefactor of best for abounding of Canada's top computer resellers; due to its adeptness to acknowledge bound and change to accommodated the activating needs of its customers. Simple Technology holds offices in Concord, and Montreal. For added advice on Simple Technology Inc., amuse acquaintance 1-800-565-7157 or appointment simpletechnology.com.

CenterTools DriveLock helps IT professionals do their jobs securely. The aggregation creates software technology to abridge IT administration and security, including borderline management, abstracts encryption, and auditing for acquiescence purposes. The company's DriveLock™ aegis artefact can advice reduces accumulated accountability to annexation of arcane data. CenterTools is headquartered in Germany and maintains a North American appointment in Portland, Oregon. For added information, alarm (503) 214-2887 or appointment drivelock.com.

DriveLock™ is a brand of CenterTools GmbH and its subsidiaries.

Outlast® Temperature Regulating Fabric Used In Winning Design of 2009 Project OR

Outlast Technologies, the baton in temperature acclimation technology, announces that Outlast® bolt was acclimated in the acceptable architecture of the 2009 Project OR.

Project OR is a 48-hour apprentice architecture antagonism area participants actualize an aboriginal apparel that has an avant-garde use of achievement and applied appliance for the alfresco market. This year’s apparel claiming was to actualize a women’s failing cloistral wind shirt. For the aboriginal time, all of the Project OR contestants were women.

Outlast Technologies supplied temperature acclimation Outlast® fabrics for the participants to absorb into their designs. Once the wind shirt designs were complete, contestants had to actualize a proto-type to be advised by Outdoor Retailer-selected designers and industry trend-setters. The winner, Lindsey Schuyler from Florida State University, congenital Outlast® bolt in her one-of-a-kind wind shirt advised to be shaped like a blouse to add a added feminine ability aural the alfresco accoutrement market. Schuyler will accept an all-expenses-paid cruise to Outdoor Retailer Winter Market ’10 and a contour in Textile Insight.

Fabrics with Outlast® technology are a lot of able if positioned next-to-skin to advice antithesis the claimed microclimate. Unlike acknowledging fabrics that wick abroad moisture, Outlast® technology is proactive, continuously alive to blemish balance heat, abundance it, again absolution it as the anatomy cools. Products with Outlast® technology accumulate you not too hot, not too cold®, but just right.

The 2009 Outdoor Retailer Summer Market was captivated July 21 – 24, 2009 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

For added advice about Project OR, appointment their homepage at http://www.outdoorretailer.com/summer_market/events_seminars/projector

ABOUT OUTLAST TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Outlast Technologies, Inc., a abreast captivated U.S. corporation, is the common baton in developing phase-change abstracts and applications. As an avant-garde technology company, Outlast has launched temperature-regulating technology in apparel, footwear, bedding, packaging and labels, and accessories. Originally developed for NASA, Outlast® fibers, fabrics and coatings accommodate patented microencapsulated phase-change abstracts alleged ThermoculesTM, which absorb, store, and absolution heat, accouterment added abundance for consumers. For added information, amuse appointment www.outlast.com.

CONTACTS: Annie Coghill 303.832.2700, ext.202 / annie@ameliecompany.com
Heather Listoe-Manuel 303.381.2106 / hlistoe@outlast.com

Outlast Technologies Adds Isok & Ferguson as New Licensee

Outlast Technologies, the baton in phase-change technology, announces new Outlast licensee Isok & Ferguson will admission a new achievement golf shirt with the added temperature acclimation allowances of Outlast® technology at the accessible West Palm Beach Golf Expo.

Isok & Ferguson is a developer, supplier and benefactor of top above accouterment and accompanying accessories. Outlast has partnered with Isok & Ferguson to action a golf shirt for men that balances temperature on and off the golf course.

“Outlast® technology is able-bodied ill-fitted for golf abrasion as it works to antithesis anatomy temperature and abate damp both on and off the advance and in a array of acclimate conditions. Thus authoritative it a multi-functional accustomed garment,” said Greg Roda, President and CEO of Outlast Technologies. “We are analytic advanced to a abiding affiliation with Isok & Ferguson and the befalling to aggrandize Outlast® technology in this bazaar segment.”

HOW OUTLAST® TECHNOLOGY WORKS
The animal anatomy by itself sweats to air-conditioned the skin, abbreviation the adeptness of accepted golf clothing, to accumulate the anatomy dry and comfortable. Outlast® technology, conversely, will accumulate individuals adequate both on and off the golf advance by arresting anatomy calefaction if too abundant is created, thereby abbreviating the aggregate of moisture. This connected aeon allows the wearer to be not be too hot or too cold®, but just right.

OUTLAST DIFFERENCE – Wicking v. Temperature regulation
It’s the aberration amid accepting proactive to a botheration or reactive.
Outlast® technology is proactive because it consistently adapts to alteration derma temperature to blemish the balance calefaction and abate damp afore it begins. This connected acclimation to derma temperature allows the wearer of a golf shirt with Outlast® technology to be added adequate for a best aeon of time. Standard wicking technologies alone activate to accommodate a account if it begins to acknowledge afterwards the wearer has become afflictive with sweat. This acknowledgment pulls abroad damp for evaporation, while Outlast® technology proactively delays the access of diaphoresis afore the wearer becomes uncomfortable.

“We are aflame to aggrandize our bazaar into accidental abrasion and top achievement apparel. By abacus the temperature-regulating allowances of Outlast® technology to our offering, we will be able to action the aforementioned top above articles that we consistently accept to a new articulation of customers,” says Moses Isokariari, President of Isok & Ferguson.

The new Isok & Ferguson golf shirt will admission at the West Palm Beach Golf Expo, berth #228, area buyers will be able to see and feel samples of the shirts as able-bodied as abode orders. The West Palm Beach Golf Expo will be captivated August 18 – 20, 2009 at the South Florida Fair. The bazaar will be accessible from 9 am – 5 message on Tuesday, August 18 and Wednesday, August 19. On Thursday, August 20, the bazaar will be accessible from 9 am – 4 pm.

ABOUT ISOK & FERGUSON
Isok & Ferguson Companies, Inc. (IF) opened its doors in the bounce of 2006 and is rapidly evolving into the accouterment aggregation of best for men and women with acclaimed taste. Originally founded as a sole cartel in 2006, (IF) has acquired into a developer, supplier and benefactor of top above accouterment and accompanying accessories. IF’s cold is to be at the beginning of its customer’s apparel and to become a name in accomplished accouterment that humans trust

ABOUT OUTLAST TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Outlast Technologies, Inc., a abreast captivated U.S. corporation, is the common baton in developing phase-change abstracts and applications. As an avant-garde technology company, Outlast has launched temperature-regulating technology in apparel, footwear, bedding, packaging and labels, and accessories. Originally developed for NASA, Outlast® fibers, fabrics and coatings accommodate patented microencapsulated phase-change abstracts alleged ThermoculesTM, which absorb, abundance and absolution heat, accouterment added abundance for consumers. For added information, amuse appointment www.outlast.com

Contacts: Annie Coghill - Amélie Company 303.832.2700, ext 202
Heather Manuel - Outlast Technologies, Inc. 303.381.2106

Align Technology, Inc. Hit By Shareholder Lawsuit

An broker in Align Technology shares has filed a proposed balance chic action accusation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on account of a chic consisting of all bodies or entities who purchased the accepted banal of Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALGN) amid January 30, 2007 and October 24, 2007 over declared violations of Federal Securities Laws by Align Technology and other.

Those who purchased Align Technology, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:ALGN) shares amid January 30, 2007 and October 24, 2007, accept assertive options and there are abbreviate and austere deadlines running. Deadline: October 09, 2009. Those investors and accepted continued appellation broker in Align Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALGN) should acquaintance the Shareholders Foundation, Inc. at Email: mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or alarm us at: +1 (858) 779 - 1554. According to the complaint the plaintiff alleges that Align Technology and its arch controlling administrator abandoned the federal balance laws by alive or foolishly behindhand amid January 30, 2007 and October 24, 2007 that the defendant’s accessible statements apropos Align Technology’s business, operations and affairs were materially apocryphal and misleading. Then on October 24, 2007, Align Technology captivated a appointment alarm with analysts to altercate its third division 2007 banking after-effects appear that aforementioned day. During the appointment call, Align Technology appear that assertive of its controlling admiral accustomed that, a allotment of added things, in an accomplishment to bright above-mentioned balance “we did not focus abundant accomplishment on bushing the activity for new case starts,” and that the Company had to refocus its acreage and approach business teams to accomplish new case growth.

In acknowledgment to this account shares of Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALGN) beneath the next day added than 33%, or $9.63 per share, to abutting on October 25, 2007, at $19.07 per share, on almighty abundant aggregate of added than 12 actor shares traded. According to antecedent investigations by law firms it has appear aswell to ablaze that in the months above-mentioned to Align’s October 24, 2007 announcement, assertive aggregation assembly awash hundreds of bags of shares of their alone captivated Align accepted banal and accomplished gross gain in balance of $20 million.

Align Technology, Inc., amid in Santa Clara, California, designs, manufactures, and markets the Invisalign system, a adjustment for alleviative malocclusion, or the misalignment of teeth. Invisalign corrects malocclusion application a alternation of clear, about invisible, disposable accessories that acclaim move teeth to a adapted final position. Align Technology appear in 2007 Total Revenue of $284.33million and in 2008 Total Revenue of $303.98million with a Net Income of $79.99million. Shares of Align Technology (NASDAQ:ALGN) traded afresh at $10.40 per share, down anatomy a 52weekHigh of $13.74 per allotment and $28.46 per allotment in 2007.

Nixle to be Featured on the Global News Group Program Special Edition TV

The Nixle Company will be featured on a appropriate address talking about their new technology that launched beforehand this bounce and was a featured technology at the anniversary National Sheriff’s Association Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

The Nixle belvedere offers law administration and government agencies a way to acquaint anon with citizens to acquaint them of events, emergencies or added areas of actual concern. It works on a targeted base and alcove citizens that accept autonomous it to accept information.

Nixle Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Craig Mitnick told Global News Group Executive Director Alan Levy: “Nixle launched its account in March and is currently acclimated in 49 states and above cities including Chicago, Baltimore, Dallas, Fort Worth, Scottsdale, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Philadelphia.” E went to indicated, “In accession to law administration agencies and municipalities, Nixle's technology is aswell currently accepting explored in all-embracing markets for accessible assurance and in alertness for Swine Flu” The World Health Organization appear it allegation that it now considers the H1N1 virus an all-embracing communicable as did The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.

The Centers for Disease Control currently use a array of online technology channels to acquaint advice on H1N1. In turn, canton bloom agencies and medical clinics accept attempted to use absolute amusing networking applications to advertise Swine Flu information. According to Mitnick, abounding of these agencies accept been transitioning over to Nixle's defended belvedere accustomed contempo hackers, imposters and arrangement failures.

"With the abeyant for a above H1N1 beginning above the country, it's capital that the accessible accept real-time advice from an accurate source. Unlike amusing networking services, Nixle alone delivers aboveboard and absolute letters from accustomed users over a trusted network." States Mitnick.

The technology is founded on a defended and character certified service. Through its affiliation with Nlets (the International Justice and Public Safety Network) all Nixle servers are amid in the a lot of defended facility, ensuring the account is chargeless of aegis accompanying issues or arrangement failures. Additionally, Nixle has a cardinal accord with VeriSign, Inc. accouterment a reliable and committed argument messaging platform.

About The Nixle Company
Nixle provides communities throughout the country with account and advice that is both almost and alone relevant. Our technology is analytical in creating new advice paths that accept never existed before. We’ve set out to accredit awful granular, location-specific advice to be anon accessible to users, depending on their concrete area at any accustomed time. Nixle makes this advice instantly accessible over web, mobile, and acute buzz devices.

About the Global News Group
The Global News Group and Special Edition TV is a aggregation of EMMY, Telly and Peabody accolade acceptable journalists, producers and directors. Special Edition TV covers the latest in business and technology from innovators and industry leaders. The affairs is advised to accommodate a belvedere for companies and organizations to allocution about and present their solutions, technologies and services. Select companies are provided with all-embracing acknowledgment via customized account letters extensive industry leaders and humans through assorted account and media outlets.

Global Technology Systems to Appear on the Special Edition TV Fall Line-Up

Global Technology Solutions, Inc (GTS) will be featured on a appropriate address acclamation the apropos and issues surrounding the accessible assurance and security. Beginning with their flagship wireless communications aegis technology, GTS has acclaimed itself as absolute band-aid provider on a all-around scale.

Communications amid aboriginal responders, disparate agencies and their adaptable command centers is critical. Rich Schubiger, CEO of Global Technology Solutions states; There are carriageable independent communications modules that can be deployed on-site, alms aboriginal responders from assorted agencies hundreds of defended communications accessories including voice, SMS and GPS capabilities aural one hour. He goes on to add; “ While some options are acid bend and new to the market, there are two amount functions that these accoutrement address: cadre assurance and operation efficiency.”

These systems accommodate a adaptable command centermost actual and defended communications. Companies accept the adeptness to absolutely accommodate mapping, GPS, Secure Communication and abide IP video feeds to accredit your command centermost to best admeasure resources. The top ability chip technology accoutrement accredit seek and accomplishment efforts at their optimum.

In accession to accouterment these advice technologies, GTS is introducing a new apparatus for law administration and accessible assurance agencies in the action to axis adolescent bribery in pornography. This all-around technology, accurate in use throughout Europe is accepting alien in the US to law administration agencies, chargeless of charge. The NetClean Technologies software "NetClean Analyze" is aimed at attention accouchement on the Internet.This important technology will be broadcast in North and South America by Global Technology Solutions (GTS).

"NetClean’s software will advice law administration agencies to action adolescent chicanery and abuse," said Richard Schubiger, CEO of Global Technology Solutions. "These articles accept auspiciously abiding out this abhorrent abomination in Europe, and we’re appreciative to accomplish it accessible in this allotment of the world."

Alan Levy, Executive Producer with the Global News Group states; “ The addition of this important apparatus accouterment Law Enforcement and Public Safety agencies an beat technology in befitting our nations accouchement safe added exemplifies the advance and abeyant that GTS brings forward. As a parent, angry adolescent chicanery is basic to the abundance and assurance of accouchement everywhere. This technology brings an abhorrent to the fight.”

About Global Technology Solutions
Global Technology Solutions (GTS) delivers an avant-garde mix of security, wireless and communications solutions, and is apprenticed by one of the a lot of accomplished and assorted administration teams in the industry. GTSTM provides defended communications platforms, wireless arrangement basement and beat wireless applications including architecture and engineering, and extends the analogue of systems integrator by accouterment absolute turnkey technology solutions.

About the Global News Group
The Global News Group and Special Edition TV is a aggregation of EMMY, Telly and Peabody accolade acceptable journalists, producers and directors. Special Edition TV covers the latest in business and technology from innovators and industry leaders. The affairs is advised to accommodate a belvedere for companies and organizations to allocution about and present their solutions, technologies and services. Select companies are provided with all-embracing acknowledgment via customized account letters extensive industry leaders and humans through assorted account and media outlets.

Align Technology, Inc. Faces Long-Term Shareholder Investigation

Align Technology, Inc. faces a balance chic action accusation over declared violations of Federal Securities Laws on account of purchasers of accepted banal of Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALGN) amid January 30, 2007 and October 24, 2007. An analysis on account of accepted continued appellation investors in Align Technology, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:ALGN) apropos accessible actor claims was announced.

Those who are accepted continued appellation investors in Align Technology, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:ALGN) shares and / or invested in ALGN banal amid January 30, 2007 and October 24, 2007, you accept assertive options and you should acquaintance the Shareholders Foundation, Inc at email: mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or alarm us at: +1 (858) 779 - 1554. An broker in Align Technology shares has filed a proposed balance chic action accusation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on account of a chic consisting of all bodies or entities who purchased the accepted banal of Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALGN) amid January 30, 2007 and October 24, 2007 over declared violations of Federal Securities Laws by Align Technology and other. According to the complaint the plaintiff alleges that Align Technology and its arch controlling administrator abandoned the federal balance laws by alive or foolishly behindhand amid January 30, 2007 and October 24, 2007 that the defendant’s accessible statements apropos Align Technology’s business, operations and affairs were materially apocryphal and misleading. Then on October 24, 2007, Align Technology captivated a appointment alarm with analysts to altercate its third division 2007 banking after-effects appear that aforementioned day. During the appointment call, Align Technology appear that assertive of its controlling admiral accustomed that, a allotment of added things, in an accomplishment to bright above-mentioned balance “we did not focus abundant accomplishment on bushing the activity for new case starts,” and that the Company had to refocus its acreage and approach business teams to accomplish new case growth.
In acknowledgment to this account shares of Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALGN) beneath the next day added than 33%, or $9.63 per share, to abutting on October 25, 2007, at $19.07 per share, on almighty abundant aggregate of added than 12 actor shares traded. According to antecedent investigations by law firms it has appear aswell to ablaze that in the months above-mentioned to Align’s October 24, 2007 announcement, assertive aggregation assembly awash hundreds of bags of shares of their alone captivated Align accepted banal and accomplished gross gain in balance of $20 million.

Align Technology, Inc., amid in Santa Clara, California, designs, manufactures, and markets the Invisalign system, a adjustment for alleviative malocclusion, or the misalignment of teeth. Invisalign corrects malocclusion application a alternation of clear, about invisible, disposable accessories that acclaim move teeth to a adapted final position. Align Technology appear in 2007 Total Revenue of $284.33million and in 2008 Total Revenue of $303.98million with a Net Income of $79.99million. Shares of Align Technology (NASDAQ:ALGN) traded afresh at $10.40 per share, down anatomy a 52weekHigh of $13.74 per allotment and $28.46 per allotment in 2007.

Appia Named to CRN Fast Growth 100

The accelerated advance of Appia Communications continues to accumulate civic media attention.

Appia, a provider of managed IT and telecom casework to baby and midsize companies and organizations, has been called to the Fast Growth 100, an anniversary advertisement of the fastest-growing band-aid providers in the technology industry.

Everything Channel, a analysis of United Business Media, appear the accolade endure week. The Fast Growth 100 is featured in the a lot of contempo affair of Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine and on http://www.channelweb.com .

"The companies that are included in this account are industry leaders,” said Robert C. DeMarzo, chief carnality admiral and beat administrator for Everything Channel. “We congratulate Appia Communications on their well-earned success."

Earlier this summer, Appia was called to Inc. magazine’s account of the fastest-growing clandestine companies in America for the third beeline year. Appia aswell appear amplification affairs in Houston and Philadelphia, abacus to its accustomed operations in Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York and St. Louis.

To apprentice added about Appia, including its managed IT and telecom services, chump case studies, affiliation opportunities and more, amuse appointment http://www.appiaservices.com or alarm 877-277-4297.

About Everything Channel
Everything Channel is the one-stop boutique for managing and accelerating technology sales. From branding and recruiting to business and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the incomparable across and abyss of all-around brands and bazaar intelligence accumulated with unparalleled admirers adherence and believability confined all technology sales channels through an all-encompassing database. Everything Channel provides avant-garde acreage sales and business solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the assets they charge to accomplish assessable and cogent results.

For added information, amuse appointment www.everythingchannel.com or www.channelweb.com .

About United Business Media Limited (UBM)
UBM focuses on two arch activities: common advice distribution, targeting and monitoring; and the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM’s businesses acquaint markets and serve able bartering communities with chip events, online, book and business advice products. Its 6,500 staffers in added than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, allowance them to do business and their markets to plan bigger and efficiently.

For added information, amuse appointment www.unitedbusinessmedia.com .

About Appia Communications
Appia Communications is a arch provider of managed IT and telecommunications services, enabling baby and midsize companies and organizations to account from Internet Protocol (IP) technology for far beneath than the amount of an centralized implementation. Appia’s managed solutions advice barter abate costs, enhance agent productivity, advance chump care, and attempt added bigger adjoin abundant beyond enterprises.

Headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan, Appia has operations in Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Appia has been accustomed as one of America’s fastest-growing clandestine companies (Inc., 2007, 2008 and 2009), one of the fastest-growing band-aid providers in the technology industry (CRN, 2009), and one of the top 5 managed account providers in the apple (MSPmentor, 2008-09).

For added information, amuse appointment http://www.appiaservices.com or alarm 877-277-4297. Appia is a Cisco Powered Network and holds beat Cisco unified communications certifications.

Media Contact
Matt Cowall
Communications Manager
877-277-4297
matt@appiaservices.com

International Game Technology Long Term Shareholder Investigation

International Game Technology faces a balance chic action accusation on account of purchasers of International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) accepted banal during the aeon amid November 1, 2007 and October 30, 2008 over declared violations of Federal Securities Laws. An analysis on account of accepted continued appellation investors in International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) apropos accessible actor claims was announced.

Those who are accepted continued appellation investors in International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) and / or purchased IGT accepted banal during the aeon amid November 1, 2007 and October 30, 2008, accept assertive options and should acquaintance the Shareholders Foundation, Inc. at email: mail@shareholdersfoundation.com or alarm us at: +1 (858) 779 - 1554. An broker of International Game Technology (Public, NYSE:IGT) has filed a proposed balance chic action accusation in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada on account of purchasers of International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) accepted banal during the aeon amid November 1, 2007 and October 30, 2008 adjoin IGT and others alleging violations of Federal Securities laws. According to the complaint the plaintiff alleges that International Game Technology and assertive of its admiral and admiral abandoned the Securities Exchange Act of 1934by arising amid November 1, 2007 and October 30, 2008 materially apocryphal and ambiguous statements apropos IGT’s business prospects. As declared in the complaint, the aggrandizement in the amount of IGT banal came out in acknowledgment to a alternation of disclosures by IGT. International Game Technology (IGT), amid in Reno, NV, is a all-around gaming aggregation specializing in the design, manufacture, and business of cyberbanking gaming accessories and arrangement systems, as able-bodied as licensing and services. IGT maintains an arrangement of entertainment-inspired gaming artefact lines. In accession to its United States assembly accessories in Nevada, it articles gaming articles in the United Kingdom and through a third-party architect in Japan. International Game Technology appear in 2007 Total Revenue of $2.6214billion with a Net Income of $508.20million and in 2008 $2.5286billion with a Net Income of $341.50million. Shares of IGT traded afresh at $19.72 per share, down from a 52weekHigh of $24.55 per allotment and $48.28 per allotment in 2008.

Align Technology, Inc. Faces Former Employee ERISA Investigation

An analysis on account of above and accepted advisers of Align Technology, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:ALGN) apropos abeyant Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) Breach of Fiduciary Duty was announced.

Those who are above or accepted advisers or are a affiliate of any of Align Technology, Inc’s investment affairs or accumulation administration retirement affairs and purchased or captivated Align Technology, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:ALGN) shares or accept advice apropos to this investigation, should acquaintance the Shareholders Foundation, Inc. at Email: mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or alarm us at: +1 (858) 779 - 1554. Align Technology, Inc has been accused of balance artifice and according to a an analysis by a law close beneath ERISA advisers (former and current) of Align Technology, Inc may be acceptable to book a ERISA complaint for putting banal options at accident if they can prove their employer abandoned its fiduciary assignment to them. The Fiduciary assignment refers to a company’s albatross to the humans who advance in it and if an employer puts the company’s absorption advanced of the investors’, it has broken its fiduciary duty, so the investigation. Align Technology, Inc. faces a balance chic action accusation over declared violations of Federal Securities Laws on account of purchasers of accepted banal of Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALGN) amid January 30, 2007 and October 24, 2007. An broker in Align Technology shares has filed a proposed balance chic action accusation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California over declared violations of Federal Securities Laws by Align Technology and other. According to the complaint the plaintiff alleges that Align Technology and its arch controlling administrator abandoned the federal balance laws by alive or foolishly behindhand amid January 30, 2007 and October 24, 2007 that the defendant’s accessible statements apropos Align Technology’s business, operations and affairs were materially apocryphal and misleading. Then on October 24, 2007, Align Technology captivated a appointment alarm with analysts to altercate its third division 2007 banking after-effects appear that aforementioned day. During the appointment call, Align Technology appear that assertive of its controlling admiral accustomed that, a allotment of added things, in an accomplishment to bright above-mentioned balance “we did not focus abundant accomplishment on bushing the activity for new case starts,” and that the Company had to refocus its acreage and approach business teams to accomplish new case growth.

In acknowledgment to this account shares of Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALGN) beneath the next day added than 33%, or $9.63 per share, to abutting on October 25, 2007, at $19.07 per share, on almighty abundant aggregate of added than 12 actor shares traded. According to antecedent investigations by law firms it has appear aswell to ablaze that in the months above-mentioned to Align’s October 24, 2007 announcement, assertive aggregation assembly awash hundreds of bags of shares of their alone captivated Align accepted banal and accomplished gross gain in balance of $20 million.

Align Technology, Inc., amid in Santa Clara, California, designs, manufactures, and markets the Invisalign system, a adjustment for alleviative malocclusion, or the misalignment of teeth. Invisalign corrects malocclusion application a alternation of clear, about invisible, disposable accessories that acclaim move teeth to a adapted final position. Align Technology appear in 2007 Total Revenue of $284.33million and in 2008 Total Revenue of $303.98million with a Net Income of $79.99million. Shares of Align Technology (NASDAQ:ALGN) traded afresh at $10.40 per share, down anatomy a 52weekHigh of $13.74 per allotment and $28.46 per allotment in 2007.

Fuentek To Present Best Practices For Marketing University And Federal Lab Technologies

Fuentek, LLC (www.fuentek.com), a consulting close that provides bookish acreage and technology administration services, has appear that admiral Laura A. Schoppe and chief adviser Jack Spain will present a hands-on ambit acquirements accident for tech alteration organizations blue-blooded “Best Practices for Marketing University and Federal Lab Technology” on Tuesday, Sept. 29 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Schoppe and Spain will action perspectives on technology alteration business challenges and abundant strategies and takeaways, which can be acclimated to actualize a connected bulletin with actual results. This 90-minute audioconference will advice attendees accommodate analytical business tasks into every banal and badly access the amount of technologies they auspiciously authorization and ultimately accompany to the public.

Schoppe and Spain will altercate capacity such as:
•Technology screening methodology: application a proactive clarification action to analyze IP with the accomplished business potential
•Best practices and guidelines for assuming accomplishments analysis and creating and active your business plan
•Process advance for business technologies: acquiescent vs. breath vs. acknowledging marketing
•Case abstraction examples of acknowledged amusing media campaigns, blogging strategies, able Web website layouts and seek engine enhancement strategies
•Effective advice techniques with centralized and alien stakeholders

To annals for the conference, alarm (239) 263-0605 or appointment www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/audio/muflt/.

Related Links:
www.fuentek.com
www.mmimarketing.com

Quotes:
"Jack and I are aflame to allotment our account on technology marketing,” said Schoppe. "Too abounding tech alteration organizations focus on apparent aegis and discount about business their innovations. This audioconference will authenticate the amount of a academic business plan to move technologies into the marketplace.”

About Laura A. Schoppe:
Laura A. Schoppe is admiral of Fuentek, LLC, a consulting close she accustomed in 2001 that provides bookish acreage and technology administration casework with a specialization in technology commercialization. In her role as president, Laura is amenable for managing relationships as able-bodied as establishing cardinal applicant affairs and administering training workshops for clients. She has an all-encompassing accomplishments in all aspects of bookish acreage management, decidedly arch authorization agreement activities from alteration innovations to new products. She has led above technology alteration projects at arch universities and government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies accept approved her admonition on cardinal planning accompanying to their bookish assets. Prior to establishing Fuentek, Laura spearheaded acknowledged analysis for several aegis contractors. Laura has been called to allege at several civic and all-embracing conferences and has appear abounding affidavit and book chapters. In 2008 Laura was accustomed as one of the Triangle’s top 25 businesswomen with Triangle Business Journal’s celebrated Women in Business Award for her admirable administration abilities in the addition category.

About Jack Spain:
Jack Spain is a chief adviser with Fuentek, a consulting close that provides bookish acreage and technology administration services. Spain serves as Fuentek’s applicant advance for the NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA Kennedy Space Center, and the University of Illinois. He aswell provides cardinal administration for applicant bookish acreage business initiatives. Prior to abutting Fuentek as a technology alteration adviser in 2006, he captivated several key advice technology and controlling positions, including CEO and controlling carnality admiral of analysis for Experture, arch technologist for Progress Energy, carnality admiral of able casework for SciQuest, and a alternation of IT administration positions with GE Transportation. In accession to his accepted role with Fuentek, Spain is the admiral of Spain Technovative Solutions, a able casework close accouterment appointment to ambitious technology firms and advice technology executives. He is aswell the columnist of The IT Leadership Pyramid, a book that describes capital administration imperatives for leaders of advice technology organizations in the 21st century.

About Fuentek, LLC:
Fuentek, LLC is a consulting close that provides bookish acreage and technology administration services. With a specialization in technology commercialization, Fuentek works with a advanced array of audience to analyze able technologies and abetment them in converting their account and inventions into bankable products. Drawing aloft its different aggregate of technical, business and commercialization expertise, the close is the better NASA architect in North Carolina and has helped organizations about the apple acquisition the technology they need. Led by Laura A. Schoppe, a 2008 almsman of the celebrated Triangle Business Journal Women In Business award, Fuentek aswell offers training workshops, guidebooks and Web sites to advice audience advance capability in managing their bookish property. DiversityBusiness.com has accustomed Fuentek as a top women-owned, diversity-owned and baby business in North Carolina for the accomplished four after years. The close has accustomed abundant awards for its plan and a lot of afresh accustomed an ambitious Pinnacle Business Award from the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. For added information, amuse alarm (919) 249-0327 or appointment Fuentek’s Web website at www.fuentek.com.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

Global Climate Summit 2 Showcases OET’s Green Solutions for Toxic Water, Foul Odors & Indoor Compost

Organic Environmental Technology’s (www.organicet.com) carbon affable blooming solutions accurate to apple-pie baneful waters, abrogate automated odors and alter adverse decay from landfills with its borough admixture abatement affairs were showcased at the Governors’ Global Climate Summit 2 hosted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Summit’s Green Solutions Showcase http://greensolutions.greenstreetscene.com/channel/green-solutions/showcase-governors-global-climate-summit2/welcome provided the acclaimed civic and all-around attendees an befalling to apprentice about California’s arch carbon affable blooming solutions they could crop aback and apparatus in their own States, Provinces and Regions. Organic Environmental Technology (OET) showcased its carbon affable probiotic solutions accurate to apple-pie up bacilli such as E.coli from lakes and bank waterways, abrogate odors from adulteration amoebic amount and about-face domiciliary decay - that would contrarily putrefy in landfills - into affluent admixture for home and association gardens.

“Probiotic agency for life; as against to antibiotic.” explained Gil Schrock, Founder of Organic Environmental Technology. “Most humans apperceive that yogurt has abide probiotic cultures in it that our bodies need. In adverse antibiotics annihilate the infections but aswell bankrupt our abdominal amplitude of the advantageous bacteria. Yogurt has been begin to furnish the advantageous bacteria. On an ecology scale, the overuse of chemicals has depleted the citizenry of amiable probiotic bacilli capital to activity abrogation the pathogenic bacilli abundantly absolved and appropriately able to affect advanced areas.”

Schrock continues, “Yogurt contains a brace of probiotic cultures; our probiotic technology harnesses about sixteen assorted probiotic cultures. These cultures plan alternating with added accustomed apparatus in a accommodating cocky attention manner. These are not developed in a lab, but are rather, by itself occurring breed aggregate from the earth, broadcast and re-introduced as basal adorning architecture blocks of activity to the environment. In added words, to accompany the ambiance aback into a advantageous counterbalanced state.

“These diminutive but able bacilli eat the toxins and afford amiable nutrients, enzymes, amino acids and anti-oxidants. Odors as we apperceive them are absolutely acerbic amoebic particles. The anti-oxidants emitted from our probiotic cancels the odor on contact. The better landfill in America uses our odor ascendancy instead of actinic perfumes.

“Odorless calm composting is fabricated accessible year annular as this probiotic band-aid can plan with or after air. Municipalities can save millions of dollars over time breach aliment decay from landfills by implementing a abatement affairs with our Magic Composter (http://www.effens.com/magic-composter.php) that creates admirable accustomed fertilizer.

“Our probiotic band-aid brought the counts of E. coli, Enterococcus and Total Coliforms aural safe banned in a accessible basin on our a lot of contempo project. This technology works either in beginning water, abhorrent baptize or alkali water.

“We are captivated to accept been a allotment of this actual acme and are encouraged by the administration role our Governor is taking.”
Organic Environmental Technology’s probiotic solutions are fabricated in America and bogus in their Lake View Terrace facilities.

About Organic Environmental Technology:
Organic Environmental Technology is a abreast endemic California Corporation and is a registered California Small Business amid in Lake View Terrace California.

Contact:
Paul Scholz
Public Relations
Organic Environmental Technology
888-524-5000
paul@organicet.com http://www.organicet.com .

Lenovo Hosts Technology Associates Briefing

Eric Hobbs, admiral of Technology Associates (www.technologyassociates.net), a full-service technology solutions and abutment firm, has appear that Lenovo Think Products Group will authority a appointment for Technology Associates on their latest server and workstation technology. The appointment will crop abode on the Morrisville Campus on Monday, Oct. 26 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Space is limited, with alone 13 spots accessible for the event. To annals for the briefing, acquaintance Heather Ficquette at (919) 459-0101 or e-mail hficquette@technologyassociates.net.

QUOTES:
“We are aflame to accept Lenovo host this event,” said Hobbs. “The appointment will be a abundant way for individuals and businesses to apprentice added about the new server and workstation capabilities we are offering.”

DETAILS:
- The accident will crop abode on Monday, Oct. 26 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

- Space is bound for the event. Lunch will be served.

- The chump appointment centermost is amid just off the capital antechamber of architecture one on the Lenovo campus – arctic of N.C. 54 and south of Interstate 540.

ABOUT TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATES:
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