Many companies have found they can cut IT costs and save money on many products ranging from servers to IP phones by searching the secondary market, including eBay and refurbished item dealers like Dotcom Computers. Fred Tardie, CEO of dcomcomputers.com, says "companies can buy refurbished Inter-tel phones from my website at almost ¼ the cost of buying the phones new directly from Inter-tel." The website is currently offering an additional 10% off discount if you call before placing an order. Dotcom Computers also offers savings on other brands ranging from Cisco, to ...

) Value Energy Solutions, one of the largest lighting installation and lighting retrofit companies in the nation, recently was awarded an energy efficient lighting retrofit project for the Missouri Department of Transportation. MoDOT is responsible for providing Missouri with safe and modern roadways, bridges and transportation. In addition to maintaining the seventh largest state highway system in the country, MoDot is actively promoting safety, conservation, recycling and other community programs. It made sense for them to look for ways to lower energy costs and reduce ...

Brookfield Homes' eco-savvy new home community Rockrose at The Foothills has been named the 2011 recipient of the Environmental Spirit Award by the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber celebrated its 43rd Annual Business Awards Dinner Friday at the Park Hyatt Resort Aviara in Carlsbad. Opened one year ago, Rockrose features single-family detached residences that exceed the State of California's Title 24 standards for energy efficiency by at least 35 percent. In naming Rockrose its 2011 Environmental Spirit Award winner, the Carlsbad Chamber commended Brookfield ...

Last year, at the University of Richmond (UR), the college football season opened in a brand new stadium. After playing at City Stadium, across town, for over 80 years, the Spiders have new home on campus in the E. Claiborne Robins Stadium. Costing $25 million to build ($20 million of which was raised by the athletic department), the 8,700-seat stadium was built to comply with the Silver Rating standards of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) in mind. Robins Stadium has no irrigation system, using 30 percent less water ...

An exceptionally clean Richlube Motor Oil double-sided porcelain sign ("100% Pure Pennsylvania") soared to $7,425 at the Spring Petroliana & Advertising Auction held Mar. 4 by Matthews Auctions, LLC. The sale was conducted the day before the popular Chicagoland Petroliana & Advertising Show, held each spring and fall in Peotone. The Richlube sign, consigned by a collector in upstate New York, featured a small race car graphic and was graded 9 out of 10 on the front for overall condition, and 8.9 on the reverse side. The sign boasted super gloss and color, the only flaws ...

Pure Life Environmental (PLE) Solutions' CEO Darren Hunter announced today that the company has obtained the exclusive sales rights of 'Clean-All' degreasing and cleaning agent in Canada from National Colloid Research and Development. After meeting with National Colloid in Santa Ana, California in September last year, PLE Solutions signed a contract with National Colloid yesterday which granted the environmental company the exclusive rights to sell its multipurpose cleaning product Canada-wide. "We are extremely excited," said Hunter. "This is a business opportunity ...

RentSentinel 4.0 debuted on February 10th, 2011 with an updated look and feel, revamped ILS interface and new lead tracking options. This release is bringing more than just updates to the flagship service RentSentinel Marketer (previously known as Property Marketer). A new set of products to fully evaluate the listing to lease process of a multi-family's portfolio have been integrated into 4.0: RentSentinel Prospector, RentSentinel Phone, RentSentinel Leasing, and RentSentinel Tablet. RentSentinel Prospector: A complete prospect relationship management system that tracks ...

Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals, a market leader in providing assistance to general acute care hospitals with issues unique to their rural communities has endorsed Encompass Healthcare, a nationally recognized anesthesia management company, as the preferred vendor of anesthesia management services. Encompass Healthcare has been identified by TORCH for ongoing success due to their direct contact with hospitals, physicians, and rural health clinics, the ability to provide cost effective solutions and offer the highest quality anesthesia practices. TORCH ...

Carmazzi, creator of the new 1bag laptop bag system is inviting accessory makers, designers, hardware technology producers, and artists to create tech and designer accessories for Carmazzi's patent pending new laptop bag system. Carmazzi believes Integration is essential to attract 21st century consumers and their diverse needs and has spent over $12,000 in creating a prototype laptop bag that provides a platform for their, and 3rd party accessories. The retail price of the 1bag will be nowhere near this says Arthur Carmazzi, the 1bag's original architect; "It will be ...

Rhythm Superfoods, a producer of great-tasting raw, vegan and nutritious food products, has just elevated its standing in the snack food industry by obtaining official USDA Organic Certification. This recognition allows the company to place United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Quality Assurance International (QAI) logos on the packaging of its products, letting consumers and retailers know that the company is further dedicated to healthy living. After 9 months of preparation and a year of producing delectable top-of-the-line organic snack foods, including ...

Fit&Fab Living.com, a leading health and beauty Web site for women, will launch its all-new email newsletter on March 14, 2011. The newsletter, Diet Insider, will include the latest diet and weight loss tips, ranging from healthy meal planners, super food information and ways to start burning fat today! Users who sign up for this free newsletter will receive it in their inboxes twice a week, along with bonus special offers from our partners. See a special preview issue of Diet Insider here: http://pics.fitandfabliving.com/8_Guilt-Free_Chocolate_Recipes.htm This will ...

For over 25 years, Don Barnhart has been practicing hypnosis and performing stand up comedy and it was only a few years ago that Don completed his hypnosis certification training and added this to his already successful stand up comedy show. Combining improv, stand up and hypnosis is a unique take on the usual stage hypnosis show. Don invites volunteers to share the stage and spotlight with him by tapping into their creative potential and talents and not subjecting them to the usual ridicule and embarrassment seen in other hypnotic shows. It's like having a stage full ...

Brent Grisdale, President of Rigstar Communications Inc., announced today that the company has launched its 'Work Camp PBX Solution' to the Canadian oil and gas market. Robert Hart, Rigstar Communications' VP of Business Development said that Rigstar's new Hosted PBX solution was designed to eliminate the cost of purchasing and maintaining a premises based, fully featured phone system in a work camp location and provides local number portability in every rate exchange center in Alberta. WORK CAMP PBX FEATURES AND BENEFITS • IVR for Main Reception Main reception ...

Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, can reveal that the Black Swan phenomenon is influencing fashion, with women expressing both their lighter and darker sides through elegant ballet-inspired clothes. Searches for leotards have shot up by 288% this year, worn with sports tights by Adidas (up 75%) or luxury tights by La Perla (up 850%). Although ballet flats are becoming something of a staple, searches have still risen by 21% and sporty models by Nike (+580%), Puma (276%) and Killah (240%) have seen dramatic increases in searches. Wrapover tops and ...

Moe's Southwest Grill, the fast growing restaurant franchise best known for its flavorful southwest fare and distinct brand culture, has opened its first overseas location in Turkey. Master licensee and president and CEO of DOTS Foods, David Ergisi opened the first Turkey location in Istanbul's popular Sapphire Towers, the tallest building in the center of the country's tourism capital. The new location is jumpstarting the global expansion of Moe's Southwest Grill that currently has more than 420 locations throughout the United States and Canada. "Moe's appeals ...

Toy and game development firm McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds recently announced that it has launched the new site "ENGLISH is a funny language" at YBSforTeachers (dot) wordpress (dot) com. The new site, designed for teachers of English, language arts, and English as a Second Language (ESL) is designed a portal for valuable information on everything from the use of games in the classroom, to scholarships and grants for educators, to innovative instruction concepts and best practices. "For years, we've consistently received a tremendous response from teachers regarding ...

MDC Marketing, an internet marketing firm, has launched an interactive weblog in February 2011. The main content includes suggestions and advice about online marketing courses, making money online with affiliate programs, online marketing ideas, recent tested strategies, useful marketing tools and software programs. Recent developments in the top search engines' will also be spotlighted. Available at http://thebestonlinemarketingcourse.com/, MDC Marketing's blog will feature a variety of voices, ideas, and insights about online marketing. The blog focuses specifically ...

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true military VMEbus technologies and an independent manufacturer of open architecture boards and subsystem products for defense and aerospace applications, now offers a 3U VPX product family based on the low-power Intel Core i7 processor that enables extremely high computing within very compact environments. The new Core i7 can process data using two cores and four threads via Intel's hyperthreading technology. Based on the latest in OpenVPX serial fabric architecture technology, Aitech's newest 3U product family is ideal for ...

Ever since The New York Times placed Santiago atop its "41 Places to Go in 2011" list, there has been a non-stop buzz in the Chilean capital that has tourists flocking here by the thousands. Tuning into tourists' need for an all-inclusive, English language guide of Santiago for both visitors and expats, Liz Caskey of Liz Caskey Culinary & Wine Experiences penned Eat Wine Santiago to give travelers the confidence to explore the city with ease. "Food is such an integral part of life that I believe it should never, ever, cause frustration," Caskey said. Caskey has ...

RedEye today announces the second of its series of concise webinars focusing on behavioural email, 'Creating a behavioural email strategy to improve online conversion.' It takes place on Thursday 17th March 2011 at 3.00-3.30pm. The first technique for making behavioural email work is to develop an effective strategy - spend time getting this right and conversion rates will soar. The easiest way to improve ROI is to convert more prospects already using a website. A clever, joined up behavioural email programme targets hot prospects, achieving results as high as 90% open ...

Vapo-Seal Cookware Company is proud to introduce its improved website at http://www.discoverwaterlesscooking.com/. You don't need to pay a fortune for good T304 7PLY waterless cookware. Order the highest quality waterless cookware online at affordable pricing. Learn and understand the value of waterless cooking and the problems associated with other types of cookware. Our company has been serving customers since 1960. We are proud to have helped make a healthier lifestyle for thousands of families and are here to help thousands more. In the 1960's and 1970's we went ...

Images Jewelers , a family owned company founded in 1976, enhances its focus to their clients with a newly redesigned website. The updated website, which is more consumer oriented than their previous website, features improved navigation as well as full live support and improved custom jewelry gallery. The new consumer centered approach comes as part of a company initiative for improved customer service that began in February of this year. "We decided to revamp our entire website so that our customers have the best shopping experience possible. We want our online ...

PAVONE AG has announced the newest release of its CRM application - PAVONE Sales 10. This new release includes a number of powerful features, taking advantages of the latest technology development of IBM Lotus Notes 8.5. The highlight in PAVONE Sales 10 is its widget enablement. It delivers higher productivity at users' workplaces. PAVONE Sales widgets can be easily personalized that runs both within an application, and independently in a separate window. Widgets save time by giving users direct access to personalized business or tasks in views, forms and functions without ...

Karen Albright, president of BodyLase Skin Spa (http://www.getbodylase.com), has announced that the spa will host an "Evening of Beauty" on Tuesday, March 15, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will take place at the spa's Cary location at 501 Keisler Drive. The presentation on the Thermage treatment will be given by specialist Dayna Ross, NP. Thermage NXT is an FDA-approved noninvasive system for the treatment of wrinkles and rhytids, including sensitive areas like upper and lower eyelids. This system is the first and only to receive FDA clearance for treatment of eyelids, ...

World's first online video and music recorder for Mac to be Introduced at Macworld Applian Technologies and Jaksta Technologies are showcasing Jaksta for Mac at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco from January 27th to the 29th. As a follow-on to Jaksta for Windows, Mac users now have the same freedom to download and convert online streaming audio and video for personal use. It's the first program designed specifically for Macintosh capable of this feat. Jaksta supports all popular stream formats and protocols, enabling it to capture video from thousands of websites ...