Up and coming Las Vegas automotive inventory marketing firm eBizAutos (www.ebizautos.com) reached a major milestone last week with the launch of its 250,000th vehicle auction to eBay Motors. With 12,000 vehicle auctions monthly, eBizAutos now conservatively represents 20% of all dealer vehicle auctions launched on eBay Motors at any time, ranking it the largest independent automotive marketing solution provider to eBay Motors.

According to Nielsen// Netratings, eBay Motors is ranked the worlds #1 automotive website garnering 12 million unique visitors every month. 36% of all online automotive minutes are being spent on eBay Motors. (Source: ITFacts.com)

Objective Paradigm, Inc. announced today that Ryan Pollock and Kevin Krumm are nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award® for the Lake Michigan area.

For over 20 years, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year award has recognized outstanding entrepreneurs in a variety of fields. Award recipients are acknowledged for 2348 their vital contributions in building and sustaining businesses, their remarkable success in areas such as innovation and financial performance, and their personal commitment to the communities they serve.

OpenBlue's patent-pending Hybrid Retail system for jewelers uses the combined inventory of an independent retailer's suppliers to feed retailers store sites. The system logs consumer activity against every item in the system including finished jewelry, loose diamonds, watches and giftware.

Reports are sent to retailers and their suppliers on weekly basis showing the top items on each store along with a statistical analysis. Each item is scored for the individual store and on a national basis and the systems can generate over 25 different metrics including GEOIP data. In addition, the system has a growing list of over 400 categories and these categories that are also ranked on an ongoing basis to assist the industry members in spotting consumer trends. Hybrid Retail also allows retailers to add their inventory to their sites and those items are also tracked and ranked.

- Workplace Options, the leading provider of work/life programs to corporate America, through partnerships with employee assistance (EAP) companies, today announced a new service allowing caregivers for the elderly and parents of latch-key children to arrange for regularly scheduled calls by counselors who ensure that their loved ones are safe and well.

An astonishing sixty-four percent of school-age children are latchkey children -- defined as children who come home from school to an empty house. And with state budget woes resulting in more after school programs being cut, the number of latchkey children will continue to trend upward. An equally alarming trend is the number of elderly "shut-ins", defined as older adults who are living alone. And similarly to latchkey children, the number of shut-ins is expected to rise with the 70+ demographic group being the fastest growing segment of the population.

CB Richard Ellis is pleased to announce the launch of the public tender sale of Villa delle Rose. Owners representing more than 80 per cent share value have signed the Collective Sale Agreement (CSA).

Villa delle Rose sits on 27,604.5 square meters (approximately 297,132 square feet) of prime land. This sprawling development site is located just off Holland Road and overlooks the vast greenery of the Botanic Gardens. In addition, it is within close proximity to Singapore's premier Orchard Road shopping belt and the popular Tanglin Village enclave.

SeaNet Technologies (www.seanet-tech.com), a proven worldwide provider of robust application and transactional performance measurement and reporting solutions, today unveiled a powerful version of its SeaView/RTM latency measurement solution featuring the industry's first interactive web-based Virtual Transaction Display (VTD™). SeaNet's VTD™ provides a graphical dashboard that quickly details the framework of each individual transaction session and highlights any inherent latency down to the microsecond of delay. For the first time, users are empowered to instantly navigate to a particular application and immediately see the real-time impact of latency on the customer in a business context.

The Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce recently became the only Chamber in Texas to earn a 5-Star Accreditation - the highest possible - from the United States Chamber of Commerce. While a total of 17 chambers were awarded some level of accreditation this year, the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber was one of only six receiving the distinguished 5-Star rating, placing it among the top 1% of chambers nationally. The award recognizes effective organizational procedures and measures the positive impact of a chamber on the local business community and region.

Activists of yesteryear assembled on college campuses, petitions and pickets in-hand; attending secret meetings in abandoned buildings with acts of civil disobedience playing out in the streets as Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger crooned in the background. But for Nick Sprayregen, a landowner leadi 1c1d ng the battle against Columbia University's 17-acre expansion into Manhattanville using eminent domain, leading a crusade is more virtual than physical with Facebook taking over door-to-door activism and a blog (www.mylandismine.com) as his soapbox for the outspoken.

HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading developer of cross-platform networking, PDF, and image server solutions for Mac, Windows, and web clients, released its UB+ server solutions suite with support for all major server platforms, including Solaris, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, AIX, and HP-UX. "We have been listening closely to the needs of our customers and had an eye on new developments," said Helmut Tschemernjak, President of HELIOS Software GmbH. "The HELIOS UB+ suite, as the next step in the HELIOS success story, comes with a rich set of new features matching the needs of modern demanding workflows."

Noble & Associates Consulting, Inc, a provider of business and functional support for Oracle E-Business software implementations and upgrades worldwide, announces its focus on curing Post Implementation Distress (P.I.D.).

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or other large scale software is extremely costly in terms of time and money. But after the implementation, things do not always go smoothly. Most people have heard the horror stories about the chaos and distress that follows ERP system implementations. Do you have trepidations of your own? The diagnosis for these ailments is Post Implementation Distress (P.I.D.). It causes system benefits and return on investment to be elusive. Many companies are unable to demonstrate the efficiencies that the software promised to bring. The problem is not the software. The problem is not the employees. The problem is the lack of an ongoing solution to meet the needs of your business.

A federal district court judge ruled yesterday that a retailer may be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind. The ruling was issued in a case brought by the National Federation of the Blind against Target Corp. (Northern District of California Case No. C 06-01802 MHP) The suit charges that Target’s website (www.target.com) is inaccessible to the blind, and therefore violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. (ADA), the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, and the California Disabled Persons Act. Target asked the court to dismiss the action by arguing that no law requires Target to make its website accessible. The Court denied Target’s motion to dismiss and held that the federal and state civil rights laws do apply to a website such as target.com.

Dr. Joe Pulichino has joined the Human Capital Institute (HCI) as vice president of Education and Corporate Membership, according to Michael Foster, HCI's chairman and chief executive officer.

Dr. Pulichino is a veteran of the professional and organization development industry. Over the past 30 years, he has held executive-level positions in education and development at several organizations, including Global Knowledge Network, EduPoint, Sybase, and Wang Labs. Most recently, he served as vice president of Marketing at WBT Systems, director of Research at the eLearning Guild, and principal consultant at the Athena Learning Group.

Alen Corp., a leading manufacturer of eco-friendly indoor air quality products, is holding an online contest offering visitors to their website the chance to win a new Paralda HEPA air purifier just for voting for their favorite color Paralda online at http://www.alencorp.com/paralda_survey.asp from April 6 through April 22. Voters will be automatically entered into the prize drawing to be held on Earth Day on April 22. The winner will receive one free bamboo green Paralda valued at $499 shipped no later than April 28 to any address in the U.S. at no charge. No purchase is necessary to enter the contest. Voters can choose from the following colors: Espresso, Ripe Mango, Bamboo Green, Cherry Blossom, Bronze, Aquamarine, Twilight, or Glacier Blue.

Today, Backbase, The Ajax CompanyTM, introduces Enterprise Ajax 4.2 for Java, a new Java version of it's standards-based RIA framework. This new release offers a complete Ajax solution for Java developers, with support for 1963 all popular Java frameworks, including Struts, Spring MVC and Java Server Faces (JSF). By extending existing Java frameworks with a strong and standards-based RIA alternative, Backbase enables the Java community to compete successfully with proprietary RIA technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flex.

SnapSports® Game Courts & Athletic Surfaces, a family owned and operated company for over 35 years, was asked to participate with the New Jersey Nets in providing a new Fun & Fitness Center at the East Orange, New Jersey's Fellowship Civic Center. The city's mayor, Robert Bowser and the city's recreation director, Larry Schumacher, reached out to the NBA, Toyota, and the city as a whole, to help execute a "fast break" for recreation and health within the community to help the city's younger residents.

The Courtyard San Jose Airport is now offering a new exciting San Jose vacation deal where guests can save money at the pump and enjoy Courtyard accommodations at the same time.

The new Courtyard San Jose Airport Gas and Go San Jose vacation deal includes guests’ choice of a king room or double room with two double beds, a $25 gas gift card per each night stayed, complimentary high speed internet access and complimentary parking. Go on a fun road trip and let the Courtyard San Jose Airport deal with the high gas prices.

Marubeni Citizen-Cincom, Inc. is proud to introduce the new low cost Citizen CINCOM 4-axes A-16 Swiss-type lathe. The new A-16 concept was actually based on Citizens successful B series machine and was developed to upgrade current automatic CAM type users to CNC Swiss-type users. The cost effective A-16 offers many standard NC functions too numerous to mention and is by far the best value Swiss-type lathe in its class on the market.

The main spindle motor housing is built-in, NO BELT. This technology offers higher spindle rotation accuracy resulting in better machining of parts. The maximum speed of the main spindle is 10,000 RPMs and the standard independent sub-spindle has a maximum 6,000 RPMs.

The www.ClickableCityDirectory.com website seamlessly integrates more than 15 million disparate listings with an intuitive point and click interface. This makes searching through vast amounts of structured data quick, easy and highly intuitive.

Rich media flash and attractive video ads are displayed in a well thought out and uncluttered full width screen display. This site design gives the Clickable City Directory a very unique look, one not normally associated with classifieds or Yellow Pages websites. The overall design allows advertisers to sponsor the top center portion of any content page either locally, in any number of cities or nationwide.

HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading provider of enterprise and prepress server solutions, today announced that all six HELIOS UB server solutions are immediately available for Apple’s new quad-core 64-bit Intel Xeon Mac Pro and Xserve.

“HELIOS is able to utilize the power of all four CPUs of the new Mac Intel computers to provide extremely fast job performance while offering an excellent price/performance value,” said Helmut Tschemernjak, President of HELIOS Software GmbH. “HELIOS Unbreakable Server Solutions represent over 15 years of server development and, in combination with Apple’s new Mac Pro & Xserve, provide a perfect server combination to our customers.”

A cutting edge new approach to holiday shopping is the goal. Trendyhats.com's new "Last Minute Shopping Lets Make A Deal" program will attempt to accomplish this goal. Along with opening a brand new warehouse, and launching a new website in the last month, Trendyhats.com has launched their new Holiday Program.

The program allows last minute holiday shoppers to negotiate a deal on products that will reach their intended destination in time for the holidays. Shoppers can make offers on any of the companies Rock Band Hats, Concert Tour T-Shirts, Rock T-Shirts, 80s T-Shirts, Junk Food T-Shirts or any other product type that the company sells. Shoppers will simply click on the Live Chat button on the companies website and negotiate a deal on specific products. Customer Service representatives will inform shoppers of the delivery time frames on each product so that shoppers can feel secure that their gifts will make it in time for the holiday.