MegaPath Inc., a leading provider of managed data, voice, and security services, awarded a $2,000 prize to Kyle Bloom of Kansas City for his MegaPath Tech Talk Online Video Competition entry "I'm IT." In this 60-second video for the online contest, Bloom raps his way into the hearts of tech geeks with lyrics like "The name's Malware, my tech skills are malicious." More than $28,000 in prize money is still available as the online contest continues, with winners to be announced the week of Aug. 28, 2011. A tech dictionary called the IT Jargon Dictionary ...

Get Creamed Body Inc (http://www.getcreamedbody.com) is pleased to announce that their innovative body and hair balm "This is the Balm" has been chosen as a nominee for Chatelaine magazine's 2011 Beauty 100 Star Product Awards! These awards highlight the annual roundup of the best beauty products on the market. "This is the Balm" is an innovative moisturizing balm which is fantastic for use on both skin and hair. Its super nourishing shea and cocoa butters work to soothe even the driest of skin, and also leave feet summer sandal-ready. On hair, this ...

By catering to smartphone users, realtors are now able to tap into additional online revenue and ensure greater customer satisfaction and retention. These customized websites are detected by smartphone users and provides them the ability to view realtors' listings and contact information on a mobile-friendly platform. Tim Sams, Director of Business Development, said: "More home buyers are browsing the internet on the go with mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android phones and tablets. Many of the current websites do not load as they should for smartphone users. ...

Houston law firm, Vivian H. Phan Law Firm has recently launched their new website, http://www.vphanlaw.com . In practice for the past 4 years, the law firm was founded by Vivian Phan in 2007. Vivian H. Phan law firm is qualified to handle personal injury, criminal, drug, family, probate and business cases coming under their expertise areas. The new website, designed by sb also offers Free Case Evaluation feature, which can be availed by filling out the Contacts form at http://www.vphanlaw.com. Apart from this, the newly designed website for the Vivian H. Phan law firm ...

Table Tennis Nation, a leader of social ping-pong, is hosting a free End of Summer Tournament at SPiN New York (48 E 23rd St) August 10th, 2011 at 7 PM. The summer is still going strong, and a little ping pong is the perfect way to get together with friends mid-week when driving up to the Hamptons for the night may not be the most practical idea, plus free ping pong costs less than a Jitney ticket. The End of Summer Brawl will feature Table Tennis Nation's unique 3-on-3 Brawl format, which aims to fuse ping-pong and socializing while maintaining a competitive spirit. ...

Web development & Internet marketing company, Internet Services Group of Florida, LLC, has promoted Jake Taylor who will now head the Internet Marketing team as Internet Marketing Director. This is a big step up from his previous position as Web Marketing Specialist. "Jake has been a great help to us at Internet Services Group," says Charly Caldwell, Founder and CEO of Internet Services Group. "I'm really proud of him, especially for his quick absorption and implementation of the 'ISG Way' in regard to our approach to helping our customers reach their ...

Glenn's Market of Watertown, Wisconsin, a producer of quality bratwurst, is the latest addition to the Wisconsinmade.com artisan group. Gift giving experts carefully select only the finest Wisconsin gifts to be included in the online store which gives customers the opportunity to ship locally made items nationwide. "Bratwurst fans will enjoy award-winning traditional Sheboygan-style bratwurst as well as eclectic bratwurst creations from Glenn's Market," says Linda Remeschatis, owner of Wisconsinmade.com, "Some notable brat flavors include cranberry, pizza, ...

The sixth Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute is scheduled to take place August 7-12 at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory on West Lake Okoboji. Thirty-two students from five of Iowa's colleges and universities will be participating in this opportunity. The students in attendance will be taught an advanced study of entrepreneurship that will include seminars with successful entrepreneurs and business and community leaders, networking, mentoring to enhance their understanding of entrepreneurship opportunities in Iowa, and an entrepreneurial simulation. The Okoboji Entrepreneurial ...

Los Angeles based wholesale clothing distributor ApparelCandy.com has just recently moved to its new location, a bigger office and twice the size of its previous warehouse in Mateo St. The expansion is based on bigger sales and inventory demand from its customers old and new over the previous years. The company widens its selection of wholesale sunglasses anywhere from polarized, vintage, fashion, branded look-alike, aviator, wayfarer and sunglass accessories for all ages, men, women and children. The polarized sunglasses is among the summer's favorite and fast becoming ...

If you are a person who drives a car that doesn't belong to you, i.e. a rental car or a borrowed car, then the auto insurance taken in the name of the non-owners will ensure that the person remain much protected and secured in case of an accident. Insure4USA.com, a leading online insurance service recently released an article entitled "Advantages of Purchasing Non Owner Car Insurance", which deals with the issue of non-owner car insurance. According to David, manager of Insure4USA.com, there are two important things that have to be considered when you drive a ...

Mr Ellison has worked for such companies as; The Empire Group, which owns several Internet office supply companies. Ellison's particular focus, over the last 8 years, has been the K-12 school market. This is an area where Office Supply Hut is experiencing tremendous growth. Mr. Ellison's duties will include managing Office Supply Hut's outside sales force; and in developing new key vendor relationships. He will also initiate and expand the product lines, on the web site. Ellison will focus on opportunities, in the school bids market, with products such as; school furniture, ...

Financial Focus, LLC of Livingston, New Jersey, announced that Antoinette Bergwall has joined the firm as a financial advisor. Prior to joining Financial Focus, Bergwall spent 15 years with Bank of America, where, as a senior vice president, she led a team of 43 financial advisors who served high-net-worth clients. Bergwall, an alumna of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey, has been a financial services professional for over 25 years. "My goal is to create an environment of trust with all of my clients," said Bergwall. "Each client ...

ConceptDraw Office v2 is already well known to Mac users as the premier cross-platform solution for business diagramming, mind mapping, and project management. Now that Apple has elevated Mac computing with Mac OS X Lion, CS Odessa is proud to announce that ConceptDraw users can soar to new heights of productivity with full Lion compatibility. The entire suite of ConceptDraw Office products, including ConceptDraw PRO v9, ConceptDraw MINDMAP v7, and ConceptDraw PROJECT v6, are now updated to run on Lion, providing the full range of functionality and integration users ...

Connecticut's first 22-foot hydrogen-powered bus launched today amid fanfare befitting its importance. Developed by the Greater New Haven Transit District, this HyRide vehicle is the first of its kind to serve the senior population. The GNHTD already provides transportation to seniors and people with disabilities, and now HyRide will enhance this service with minimal environmental impact while taking these passengers throughout Hamden to shopping centers for food, clothing, and bank errands; to pharmacies, and more. This project has been made possible through federal ...

MADISON – Hunters have been credited with being strong conservation advocates for numerous game species in multiple countries. Would initiating a wolf hunt invoke the same advocacy for the carnivores? It's a pressing question as gray wolves were removed from the federal endangered species list in some western states this past May and are poised for delisting in 2012 in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and other areas of the Midwest. But newly released public opinion surveys conducted in Wisconsin and the northern Rockies suggest that wolves are in a class by themselves ...

WASHINGTON – Social media present risks and benefits to children but parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' activities online are wasting their time, according to a presentation at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. "While nobody can deny that Facebook has altered the landscape of social interaction, particularly among young people, we are just now starting to see solid psychological research demonstrating both the positives and the negatives," said Larry D. Rosen, PhD, professor of psychology at California State University, ...

WASHINGTON – People who are cyberstalked or harassed online experience higher levels of stress and trauma than people who are stalked or harassed in person, according to a presentation at the American Psychological Association's 119th Annual Convention. "Increasingly, stalkers use modern technology to monitor and torment their victims, and one in four victims report some form of cyberstalking, such as threatening emails or instant messaging," said Elizabeth Carll, PhD, in a talk entitled, "Electronic Harassment and Cyberstalking: Intervention, Prevention and Public Policy." Emotional ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The path of success for Nobel Prize laureates in the sciences isn't a straight shot from obscurity to never-ending scientific superstardom, a new study reveals. Instead, many laureates see their Nobel-winning idea grow in acceptance from their first related scientific article to their most successful publication. But their later work related to the Nobel idea gains less acceptance, and many times is no more accepted by the scientific community than their very first efforts. "In many cases, we found that Nobel laureates' final publication on their ...

SEATTLE, WA—The most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation, is associated with a greater risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. This discovery by scientists at Group Health Research Institute and their collaborators was published online in advance of print on August 1 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. "Both atrial fibrillation and dementia increase with age," said Sascha Dublin, MD, PhD, a Group Health Research Institute assistant investigator who led the research. "Before our prospective cohort study, ...

WASHINGTON — High schools in Virginia where students reported a high rate of bullying had significantly lower scores on standardized tests that students must pass to graduate, according to research presented at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. "Our study suggests that a bullying climate may play an important role in student test performance," said Dewey Cornell, PhD, a clinical psychologist and professor of education at the University of Virginia. "This research underscores the importance of treating bullying as a schoolwide problem ...

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have shown that new, or "de novo," protein-altering mutations—genetic errors that are present in patients but not in their parents—play a role in more than 50 percent of "sporadic" —i.e., not hereditary—cases of schizophrenia. The findings will be published online on August 7, 2011, in Nature Genetics. A group led by Maria Karayiorgou, MD, and Joseph A. Gogos, MD, PhD, examined the genomes of patients with schizophrenia and their families, as well as healthy control groups. All were from the genetically isolated, European-descent ...

AMHERST, Mass. – The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens that allows electron transport across long distances could revolutionize nanotechnology and bioelectronics, says a team of physicists and microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Their findings reported in the Aug. 7 advance online issue of Nature Nanotechnology may one day lead to cheaper, nontoxic nanomaterials for biosensors and solid state electronics that interface with biological systems. Lead microbiologist ...

eNlight - Taking the Cloud Computing Industry by Storm ESDS is pleased to announce the launch of its eNlight Cloud Computing Platform - the World's first intelligent cloud that truly does justice to the concept of Cloud Computing. eNlight Cloud is an addition to the company's existing portfolio of other software products and managed hosting services and was designed with small to medium sized companies in mind. In the existing Cloud Hosting market most companies offer the option to pay for fixed use. Companies try to market it as flexible hosting by claiming you can ...

HIA-LI, the recognized voice for business on Long Island, is pleased to announce the finalists for the prestigious HIA-LI 17th Annual Business Achievement Awards competition. Winners will be announced during a gala luncheon event held at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, NY, 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Tuesday, September 13, 2011. More information about the awards event is available at: http://bit.ly/hia-li-baa-event-2011. "HIA-LI is pleased to recognize these finalists who are among the best run and highest performing companies on Long Island for our HIA-LI Business ...

Long before they knew they were doing it – as long ago as the Wright Brother's first airplane engine – metallurgists were incorporating nanoparticles in aluminum to make a strong, hard, heat-resistant alloy. The process is called solid-state precipitation, in which, after the melt has been quickly cooled, atoms of alloying metals migrate through a solid matrix and gather themselves in dispersed particles measured in billionths of a meter, only a few-score atoms wide. Key to the strength of these precipitation-hardened alloys is the size, shape, and uniformity of the ...