QlikTech, the world's fastest-growing Business Intelligence (BI) software company, today announced that its customer, The Spring Air Company (Spring Air), is a winner of the 2009 Progressive Manufacturing 100 (PM100) Awards, presented by Managing Automation Media, a Thomas Publishing Company, LLC publication.

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Spring Air, one of the nation's largest mattress manufacturers, was named to the PM100 for its QlikView Business Intelligence initiative. In less than a month of using QlikView analysis to guide management decisions, Spring Air had realized a complete return on its investment. The company acquired over $10 million in new business and reduced its estimated annual costs for business intelligence and management reporting by more than $1 million in its first two months of leveraging the power of QlikView across the enterprise. Spring Air tapped QlikView analysis to provide senior management with real time data to improve business decisions across its nine manufacturing facilities and departments -- ranging from Finance to Sales & Marketing and Product Quality.

DigitalSoundboard.net, a leading online music download store selling live performance recordings via downloads, today announced that the company has released recordings from select late night sessions during Jazzfest 2006. The new releases feature the following Artists; Bonerama with Leo Nocentelli, The New Orleans Allstars, two Trio sessions – one from the Maple Leaf and another recorded at Le Bon Temp Roule, the third annual Jamakazi, MG5 (formerly Frequinox), Porter-Batiste-Stoltz with Skerik, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Papa Mali, The Stanton Moore Trio, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Runnin’ Pardners, and more.

You've already bragged to friends and family that your dog or cat is the cutest in the world - now prove it! Send in your best shots of your favorite four-paws to Nature's Why I Love Cats and Dogs Photo Contest, then tune-in with your pets to Nature: Why We Love Cats and Dogs, Sunday February 15 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Funny, touching, and insightful, the film features leading animal experts and frank interviews with pet owners about the intimate relationships we have with our four-legged friends.

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Boston Private Jewelers has created a new on-line store that offers unique vintage jewelry, fine timepieces and certified diamonds at significantly discounted prices.

Boston Private Jewelers offers busy professionals local private appointments,free gift packaging, and a liberal return policy. These are just a few of the personal touches offered by Boston Private Jewelers. The custom designed website has a user freindly design, and has a dynamic inventory management system which ensures the availability of all of the unique estate jewelry & Watches which are offered on the site. Online transactions are guaranteed secure with 128 bit encryption,SSL technology and are managed by Paypal, the industry leader in online Payments. Boston Private Jewelers also accepts personal checks & money orders for Customers who are apprehensive about making payments online.

At the center of The Healer's Way (Conari Press, September 2007) is the "hoop"--a seven-step process of healing. First we need to make sure our core needs are met; without those we not only can't heal ourselves or others--we probably can't live. Then we need to get lost (step 2), get hurt (step 3), get stuck and hit the bottom of the circle (step 4). Only then can we get called (step 5), get up (step 6), and get going (step 7). Once we get going, we move through the cycle again and again, as life presents us with new opportunities for healing ourselves and others.

The International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO) Established Legacy at its annual board meeting last week by creating The Suzi Pomerantz Award for Stewardship

Executive coach and author of Seal the Deal, Pomerantz was "surprised, humbled, and utterly blown away" by the recognition of such respected leaders in the field.

The wording of the actual award is as follows:

"This award is given in recognition of the contributions to organizational stewardship exemplified by Suzi Pomerantz as Vice-President of ICCO since its founding. Suzi has demonstrated exceptional care, compassion and nurturing of ICCO to ensure that each year it not only endures, but also becomes more vital and relevant to the field of organizational coaching. She has modeled the qualities and characteristics of selflessness and stewardship which ICCO hopes to inspire in its membership and the organizations it serves. She has provided outstanding support, counsel, and dedication to ICCO's President and the Board.

This annual award is given to honor Suzi Pomerantz and will be bestowed as a statement of appreciation regarding an ICCO member who demonstrates exceptional organizational stewardship. The award recipient is to be nominated by a three person Awards Committee and bestowed annually by the ICCO Board of Directors."

Learn more at Stewardship Award

TheBBX.com has announced a new Investor Relations Program called "Pioneers of the BBX". With NASDAQ's phase-out of the old OTC-BB market system and the launch of their new, electronic BBX Exchange which will replace it, OTC-BB companies must decide whether to apply for the new exchange or simply go to the pink sheets. Shell companies will not be allowed on the new BBX. Since a fair number of OTCBB companies already meet, or are close to meeting, the tighter BBX standards; current estimates are that the new exchange will retain perhaps 1,000 of the current group.

Listing-starved real estate agents are receiving a helping hand generating listings thanks to an innovative marketing kit developed by Words that Sell The Real Estate Letters That Sell Series contains a collection of real estate proposal and prospecting letter templates that make salespeoples lives much easier than before.

As the real estate industry struggles with undersupply and an abundance of new agencies, many agencies are finding it increasingly tough to obtain that critical competitive edge.

The financial aid experts at Student Financial Services/Perpetual Press have relaunched FinancialAidFinder.com, a free website offering easy to understand, expert advice about college financial aid. FinancialAidFinder guides prospective college students, parents and current college students through the complicated financial aid research and application process and explains the First Rule of Financial Aid.

When students and parents first begin to explore their financial aid options they may become overwhelmed with the amount of information available. Some students and parents ultimately choose not to apply for financial assistance for fear that they will not qualify or for sheer lack of understanding. Many others just don't want to incur massive debts that can take many years to pay off after college. According to a recent study by The Project on Student Debt, the average debt for all four-year college graduates in the class of 2005 (a weighted average combining both public and private non-profit institutions) ranges from a high of $22,793 in New Hampshire to a low of $11,709 in Utah.

TruEffect, Inc. (http://www.TruEffect.com) today announced it has earned certified status in Microsoft Corp.'s Partner Program recognizing TruEffect's expertise in the technology marketplace. As a Certified Partner, TruEffect (http://www.TruEffect.com) has demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customer needs. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, TruEffect (http://www.TruEffect.com) is supported by a rich set of benefits including access and training that give them a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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."

The Center for Elders Independence (CEI), a Medicare PACE program based in Oakland, CA, has selected Plexis Claims Manager to provide its new claims administration system. This marks the fifth PACE organization to select Plexis for its processing solution.

CEI has used a legacy program for both clinical and authorization administration as well as claims processing and will now be using Plexis Claims Manager for claims administration. CEI currently requires outsourced claims processing and has engaged TPALink (sister company of Illinois-based Health eConnex) as an ASP hosting and claims processing provider.

Almeda University graduates are making a difference in today's world. Recent studies have indicated that graduates from Almeda University are informed, capable, skilled individuals who are using their educations to take on the full potential of their industries.

The degrees earned by Almeda University graduates -- according to studies -- consistently assisted in the achievement of heightened accomplishment and earning power, as well as credibility in their chosen career tracks. The education these grads received is invaluable to their current and future successes.

Jitterbit, Inc., the pioneer of open source integration software, today announced the launch of the Jitterbit Trading Post, the world's first integration-specific marketplace. The Jitterbit Trading Post is the central hub for complete integration solutions built with the Jitterbit open source integration suite, as well as a depository for production-ready integration templates called Jitterpaks and Plugins that extend the functionality of Jitterbit. The Jitterbit Trading Post is available today at http://tradingpost.jitterbit.com.

Mediatrix Telecom, the leader in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) access devices and gateways, has completed joint interoperability tests verifying the compatibility of Mediatrix' Digital VoIP gateway and access device solutions with Nortel's communication server solutions. This product compatibility enables mutual Mediatrix and Nortel Networks customers to operate seamlessly together in any telecommunications network environment.

The interoperability events tested the Mediatrix 3500 and 3600 Series of Digital VoIP Gateways, in the SIP Protocol, with Nortel's Release SN09 for the Communication Server 2000 (CS 2000), a superclass softswitch providing call control and voice services for Service Providers.

With completion of this certification, Mediatrix can now offer a complete range of compatible analog and digital gateway products for deployment with the CS 2000 platform.

i/o Data Centers, an industry-leading colocation provider, is pleased to announce that it has been selected to design, build and operate a financial grade data center for Colorado-based FirstBank, the state's largest locally-owned bank. FirstBank will occupy a custom suite in i/o Data Centers' Scottsdale ONE data center facility as part of a multi-year agreement.

The i/o site will protect the bank as part of its disaster recovery plan and is scalable and flexible to support the ever-growing needs of their business. FirstBank currently has over 120 locations and serves more than 600,000 customers.

"With online banking becoming so prevalent in today's society, FirstBank, as well as its customers, can have peace of mind knowing that their core IT is housed in a secure and reliable data center," said Anthony Wanger, Senior Managing Director of i/o Data Centers. "We are committed to FirstBank and are pleased to have the opportunity to accommodate and assist them with their rapid growth and success by providing them with best-in-class data center space."

Vinfolio, a fine wine and collector services company and CellarTracker, the largest wine cellar inventory management tool, an 1f40 nounced plans to integrate CellarTracker with Vinfolio's recently announced Vinfolio Marketplace, a fine wine online marketplace for buying and selling the aggregated contents of privately owned cellars. The addition of CellarTracker as a source for wine in the Marketplace to VinCellar, Vinfolio's online cellar management application, brings together over 135,000 users with more than 12 million bottles at an estimated value over $2 billion. This groundbreaking partnership of the two leaders in online cellar management allows CellarTracker's 80,000+ users to sell wine through what promises to be the single largest aggregated supply of fine wine in the world.

HattieRose.com is already known for its innovative and adorable designer baby bibs. Now they are expanding their product line by introducing a brand new idea for dinner wear: the Toddler Dinnertime Apron, a toddler-sized designer apron that functions as a bib.

HattieRose.com introduces new designer Toddler Dinnertime Aprons

Designer and mom Jill Sandager decided that she needed to address the changing needs of her own growing daughter. As her child moved into the toddler stage, she outgrew her baby bibs. "Any mom knows that a two-year-old just hasn't quite mastered the fork and the spoon yet," says Jill with a laugh. "Much of dinner still seems to ends up on her shirt and in her lap." As she searched for something to protect her daughter's clothes during dinnertime, Jill found that most available products were impractical and lacked creativity. So the toddler dinnertime apron was conceived.

Back in January of 2007, MobiMogul was hard at work trying to come up with a solution to advertiser's biggest problem, how to most effectively enter the mobile phone market. Through months of research MobiMogul sorted through what consumers deemed as intrusive platforms to ultimately come up with what they perceive to be their answer to the problem.

Set to launch in the first quarter of 2008, MobiMogul will introduce the first advertisement ringback called AdTones™. These short 10 to 20 second audible tones of consumer products and service offerings (advertisements) offer consumers an opportunity to earn a percentage of the ad revenue dollars each time the advertisement is heard.

The Law Offices of Morley J. Nair announces the launch of their new website http://www.h1bplanet.com. This website is wholly dedicated to matters relating to H-1B classification, which is the most commonly used non-immigrant work visa, granted to foreign nationals to work in the United States in professional occupations for a temporary period of time.

In addition to comprehensive information about H1B visas, the website has a discussion board, a blog, and an exhaustive Frequently Asked Questions section. It also offers a free 10-minute consultation for potential clients.