Leg Up Farm A Contestant in Global Pepsi Contest; Project Would Help Brand New Facility for Children with Special Needs

York, PA (PRWEB) October 4, 2010

A new Pennsylvania-based center for children with special needs is a contender to win $ 250,000 in a global contest sponsored by Pepsi. Leg Up Farm (LUF) successfully submitted an entry for the Doing Good: 101 texting competition that would make possible some exciting new additions to its brand new facility that caters to families not just patients. The entry had to make it past a team of Pepsi judges in order to qualify and now the winners will be chosen by popular vote. To vote for Leg Up Farm, you can text 103318 to Pepsi (73774) or vote online. You can vote daily through October. For more information, visit http://www.refresheverything.com/legupfarm.

Pepsis contest is broken into six categories in which the projects will benefit the planet, neighborhoods, arts and culture, food and shelter, health, and education. LUFs entry falls in the health category and would allow the novel new therapeutic center to incorporate sensory gardens into its environmentally friendly design. Leg Up Farm is a hands-on program that provides not just speech, physical and occupational therapy for its patients all together in one central location, which is in itself rare but art therapy, dance therapy, an indoor horse arena/barn and an interactive town center that makes the center a fun destination for families not just a one-stop shop for therapy appointments.

Known as Rainbow Gardens, Leg Up Farms sensory gardens would enhance the environment in which therapy services are delivered to children and their families, make the spaces accessible to persons with disabilities and allow people to enjoy and benefit from nature a core theme of Leg Up Farms approach to therapy for children with special needs.

The Rainbow Gardens will provide walking paths, a meditation garden, and other visual and sensory stimulation for children. The gardens will be designed and installed with minimal impact to the environment and are designed to provide fresh-air opportunities to the children, increased respect for and education about the environment (including the role of wildlife, insects, vegetation, fresh air and sunshine in sustaining us), an understanding about food production, an assistance dog respite area and space for recreation and exercise.

Leg Up Farm opened in April 2010. Founded by Louie Castriota, the father of four, the farm was inspired by his daughter Brooke, 14, who was born with mitochondrial disease.

Leg Up Farm believes that every child is special and that everyone involved in a childs life must work together . . . from family and friends, to doctors and therapists, to teachers, volunteers, and community members. The "Rainbow Gardens" will improve a child's life all while caring for our environment and inspiring a sense of community in the process.

Leg Up Farm will hold an open house on Saturday, Oct. 16, noon-4 p.m. at its new facility in Mount Wolf, Pa., just north of York. Festivities will include the first-ever viewing of the centers new indoor horse arena/barn, an opportunity to meet LUF staff and tour the center, and the unveiling of the centers official live mascot.

For more information on Leg Up Farm, visit http://www.legupfarm.org. To speak with Castriota, call 717-870-3293.

Interesting sidenotes: Louies daughter Olivia is a York College exchange student currently at St. Johns University in York, England. She casts her votes from overseas. Out of 160 grants awarded since February 2010, only one from Pennsylvania has secured funding.

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Thomas Guerriero, CEO of WMX Group, Inc., (WEX on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange) Says The World Mercantile Exchange Will Meet The Global Demand For Coffee

Cambridge, Massachusetts (PRWEB) September 30, 2011

Thomas Guerriero, the CEO of WMX Group, Inc. (WEX on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange), parent company of The World Mercantile Exchange, sees a growing demand for coffee around the world. Due to this increased demand, prices are at all time highs. The London based International Coffee Organization is quoted by saying "Consumption of coffee is rising, particularly in grower nations and in emerging markets. The demand for coffee beans cannot be met". Thomas Guerriero believes this viewpoint can be challenged by introducing new small to mid sized producers of coffee around the world. Up until now there has been really no way for these farmers to enter into the global trade of coffee.

The World Mercantile Exchange will be the platform for these smaller growers and emerging markets to enter into this market and fulfill this global demand. In the past, coffee prices has increased due to how long it takes for the larger growers to expand their production, climate changes, and an increased demand due to the steady increase in our global population. With three to four years to grow a new coffee tree and the extraordinary demand around the world, if something is not done one can expect coffee prices to soar around the world indefinitely. With new problems there needs to be new answers and The World Mercantile Exchange many feel is the answer.

About the CEO of WMX Group, Inc, Thomas Guerriero

As the Founder and CEO of WMX Group (WEX on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange), Thomas Anthony Guerriero located his offices in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, across the street from where he attended graduate school at Harvard University. The ethnic and intellectual diversity in Harvard Square is unmatched anywhere in the world. The excitement and support we have felt from the community has been remarkable. Guerriero brings with him over 13 years of experience in the financial sector, where he led three organizations to increased profitability during his tenure as CEO, leading all three companies to be acquired at a premium. Thomas Anthony Guerriero was instrumental in the growth of the retail division of First Union, contributing to the successful merger between First Union (FTU: NYSE) and Wachovia (WB: NYSE), which was the largest banking merger in US banking history. In early 2011 he became an owner of a professional basketball team, with the Springfield Armor in the NBA D League (The NJ Nets affiliate).

WMX Group, Inc. Portfolio of Companies

The World Mercantile Exchange - has created the safest and most secure proprietary trading platform for the buying and selling of real agricultural products across the globe, allowing members to achieve revenue growth through globalization without massive upfront investment.

WEX Sports, LLC At WEX Sports, we have an ownership interest in several professional teams but we are not stopping there. With each day we move one step closer to our dream - becoming the majority owner of our teams from around the world. Whether NBA, NFL, MLB, FIFA, NRL, or any professional sports team we are constantly looking for unique opportunities to get involved at the ownership level.

The Harvard Think Tank, Inc. WMX recently acquired The Harvard Think Tank, a firm located in Harvard Square, to provide funding to the most elite start up companies in the US. The goal with The Harvard Think Tank is to give people a platform where they can pitch their game-changing idea to those involved with the Think Tank, and if the team likes the pitch, they can provide financing, advice, and assistance in building the venture, like an incubator for new ventures. As a result, The Harvard Think Tank has become the Company's venture capital arm.

For additional Information:

Email info(at)wmxgroup(dot)com or visit http://www.wmxgroup.com

About WMX Group, Inc.

WMX Group, Inc. is a conglomerate holding company which has a vested interest, overseas and manages several subsidiary companies from around the world. The company faces a very stimulating global environment and tremendous growth opportunities. WMX has in the past taken positions in both publicly quoted stocks, but more recently has turned to buying majority interest or whole companies. They now own an interest whether wholly or part, in a diverse range of companies giving them a broad diversification across a plethora of industries. WMX Group, Inc. is an ISO Certified Company who is a member of: The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, The International Association of Agricultural Economists, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, Food Distribution Research Society, and The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce.

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World Video Conferencing Market to Reach US$14 Billion by 2017, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) November 09, 2011

Follow us on LinkedIn - Although there has been a lot of clamor over the potential of enterprise videoconferencing in the past few years, only recently did the technology wield an impact on the corporate world with businesses integrating the technology into the very fabric of business communications and processes. With the introduction of Apples FaceTime, YouTube, and Skype video call, video conferencing has taken on a sophisticated note and the trend is only accelerating with vendors actively collaborating on the technological and research front. Factors driving adoption and usage of the technology are productivity, quality, and level of engagement per interaction over video, all of which have increased in the past few years epitomized by high-end telepresence systems.

Long-term trends poised to influence the video conferencing market include increasing use of telepresence, and the anticipated increased interoperability between different network and video products. Clients are becoming more aware of the impact that telepresence can have on performance and enterprise communication infrastructure, and are looking for a greater return on their video investments. With the advancement of enterprise communications, end users have increased the expectations from telepresence solutions to not only provide seamless operations with their existing enterprise communications and video systems, but also interlace with other visual solutions much beyond the corporate boundaries.

Following the decline in sales during 2008 & 2009, primarily due to the economic recession, the global video conferencing market staged an encouraging comeback in the year 2010. Huge pent-up demand for cost and productivity optimizing solutions and resurgence in enterprise spending primarily helped market recover from the recessionary blues. Resurgence in business activity, renewed focus on cost savings exerted by post recession cost wary companies, growing mobility of businesses, increasing number of mobile workforce and greenfield deployments among small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), are all factors, which will drive growth in the market over the next few years. The managed video conferencing services offering from vendors is also likely to enhance penetration levels as underserved SMB sector moves towards adopting this particular technology. Additionally, the market will also be boosted by fast-paced technology developments and innovations that are helping achieve improved video and audio quality. For instance, high definition video conferencing addresses, which are capable of addressing issues such as poor quality of sound and image resolution will encourage utilization and adoption rate of video conferencing among end-users. The market will also be driven by emergence of new application areas for video conferencing such as recruitments, and use in home office segment.

As stated by the new market research report on Video Conferencing, the US continues to remain the largest regional market worldwide. Asia-Pacific remains the fastest growing regional market, surging at a CAGR of 8.9% over the analysis period. Demand for video conferencing in Asia-Pacific market will be especially driven by robust growth in regional enterprise sector, and subsequent development in IP infrastructure, especially in emerging markets such as China and India. Video Conferencing Services represents the most prominent segment, growing at a CAGR of about 7.3% over the analysis period.

Key players profiled in the report include Alcatel-Lucent SA, AT&T Inc., Avaya, Inc., BT Conferencing, Cisco Systems, Inc, TANDBERG, VCON, Global Crossing Limited, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Logitech International S.A., Polycom, Inc., RADVISION Ltd, Sony Electronics, Inc., Sprint, Verizon Business, VTEL Products Corporation Inc., West Corporation, InterCall, Inc., and ZTE Corporation.

The research report titled Video Conferencing: A Global Strategic Business Report announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, drivers, issues company profiles, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities. The report provides market estimates and projections in (US$ ) for US, Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific, and Latin America, among others. Market segments analyzed in the report include Video Conferencing Systems (IP Systems, and ISDN Systems), and Video Conferencing Services (IP Services, ISDN Services, and Other Services).

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Village Tronic Looking To Expand Global Network Of Distributors And Resellers For Its Multiple Display Technology

Milan, Italy (PRWEB) February 19, 2009

Village Tronic, one of the leading pioneers of multi-display solutions, is looking for new distributors and resellers for its growing range of multi-monitor products.

According to Ascanio Orlandini, Village Tronic's CTO, the recent launch of the company's innovative ViBook has created a huge demand with enquiries coming in from around the world. "ViBook has had some tremendous write ups," he explained. "Reviewers immediately saw how ViBook can improve productivity by enabling users to easily add additional monitors to their desktop or notebook via USB. Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research neatly summed up the benefits of ViBook by saying the more you can see, the more you can do."

Interested distributors and resellers can email Village Tronic on sales(at)villagetronic.com

Technical details for ViBook

Up to six displays can be driven by one Windows based computer and up to four for a Mac OS one. This gives a huge amount of screen area that can significantly increase productivity as many different programs can be open and visible at the same time without having to open and close pane. Each display is driven by an ultra compact ViBook that plugs into the DVI socket of the display and the other end of the cable goes to the USB port of the desktop or notebook. Village Tronic's special multi-display software enables users to surround themselves with an extended desktop of independent applications each running on their own dedicated screen or one huge desktop spanning across several screens.

Designed and manufactured in Italy, ViBook is extremely small at only 4.3cm by 7cm by 2.4cm (1.7 in by 2.8 in by 0.9in) and has a three year warrantee. It is supplied as a complete USB Graphics System that includes a DVI to VGA cable for high quality analog output to displays, a VESA mounting cradle and Village Tronic's sophisticated multi-screen software for an enhanced user experience - VT MultiDisplay software for Windows and VT Voil

Global Market for Mobile Video Services to Reach US$30 Billion by 2017, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) November 09, 2011

Follow us on LinkedIn - Entertainment services over mobile devices potentially generate several billions of dollars for service providers, worldwide. Despite the fact that ringback tones and ringtones continue to be substantial revenue generators for mobile service providers, other services such as gaming, full-track music, video and TV services are emerging as lucrative market segments. Buoyed by the huge demand for data communications from mobile users in both business and consumer markets, content providers, right from independent content developers to large-scale movie studios are beginning to develop applications, music, games movies and videos especially for mobile devices. Not surprisingly the use of mobile devices is extending beyond the traditional communication functions to embrace novel concepts such as mobile videos, and games. Mobile video segment especially is gaining tremendous popularity over the last few years. Despite being a small market, mobile video services continues to grow, with video-on-demand, video telephony and video messaging capturing a significant share of the markets revenue. With Internet providing a large number of video services, and service providers increasingly willing to offer these services on mobile devices, video is rapidly making inroads into the mobile arena across the geographies.

The impact of the 2007-2009 recession, in retrospect, reveals a market that has withstood the recessionary pressures largely as a result of the continued growth in sales of mobile video capable smartphones and increase in the number of phones supporting 3G and other faster networks based on High Speed Packet Access (HSPA). Consumer interest on downloading and streaming mobile video and mobile TV content remained largely unchanged during the recession period, proving that quality entertainment was left uncompromised even amidst tight economic conditions.

Consumer spending on choicest of mobile videos largely remained intact despite the witnessed reduction in household wealth, low consumer confidence, reduced discretionary spending, and lower new application development efforts. In other words, served right on to consumer handsets, mobile video services allow users to cut down traveling expenses and provide an alternative to other expensive entertainment options, such as, public movie screenings and live sports action and therefore are best for entertainment in a weak economy. Continued interest shown by wireless carriers on data centric services, particularly for utilizing their networks optimally and improving their ARPU by offering value added content to cost conscious customers, also boosted prospects for mobile video services market during the period, as the same resulted in increased promotional activity and more attractive pricing options for mobile TV and video services. With mobile users graduating towards a richer, and more sophisticated mobile experience, the market for video delivery has and will continue to remain opportunity-rich, and dynamic.

Growth in the market, although stabilizing, will nevertheless be driven by introduction of novel video services, particularly the highly popular content on YouTube and growing adoption of live TV services such as live news, weather forecasts and music programs. Improvements in quality of content, content protection and delivery frameworks are expected to boost market prospects for mobile video services over the next few years. Increased use of mobile videos by companies as a platform to advertise their products and services augur well for the market. Widespread availability of sophisticated mobile devices supporting mobile video downloads and streaming and ongoing deployment of advanced mobile networks will also boost the adoption and consumer spending on various mobile video services.

Introduction of economical and flexible data plans by service providers will attract many new users to the market, thereby increasing revenue making opportunities. Widespread deployment and availability of 3G mobile network infrastructures across the world will continue to drive adoption of video services over mobile. With mobile network operators making active efforts to move towards 4G technology, which promise faster connectivity, higher bandwidth and superior capabilities and enable the service providers to offer a range of video services to mobile users, the popularity of mobile video services is expected to increase further.

As stated by the new market research report on Mobile Video Services, Asia-Pacific represents the largest regional market worldwide. Asia-Pacific is also the largest regional market for mobile video services in terms of subscription. Rapid proliferation of 3G enabled handsets, introduction of 3G services in major nations such as China, and India and growing popularity of mobile video services such as mobile video sharing, mobile video communication and mobile TV are primary factors driving accelerated adoption of mobile video services in these markets. Streaming Services represent the largest service segment in the US mobile video services market. Growth in the market is particularly driven by increased advertising of subscription-based streaming video services in the nation. Multicast Video Services market represent the fastest growing service segment in the US mobile video services market with revenue waxing at a CAGR of about 38.7% over the analysis period.

Major players in the marketplace include AT&T, Dialogic Corporation, Dilithium, Google Inc., MobiTV Inc., Nokia Corporation, PacketVideo Corporation, Phunware Inc., Qualcomm Incorporated, QuickPlay Media, RealNetworks Inc., ROK Broadcasting Corporation Limited, Sprint, Verizon Wireless Inc., Vuclip, and Yamgo.

The research report titled Mobile Video Services: A Global Strategic Business Report announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides a comprehensive review of current market trends, key growth drivers, recent industry activity, and profiles major companies worldwide. The report provides market estimates and projections for mobile video services across all major geographic markets, including the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World. The study analyzes the US market in terms of revenues for segments - Downloadable Video Services, and Multicast Video Services.

For more details about this comprehensive market research report, please visit http://www.strategyr.com/Mobile_Video_Services_Market_Report.asp

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Clinovo Introduces New SAS

Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) February 18, 2011

Clinovo reaffirms its expertise with clinical trial SAS development by once again presenting four new best practices at the leading 2011 industry SAS conferences. Clinovo will share its SAS expertise during the SAS

PowerDNN Launches A Global Cloud Platform for DotNetNuke

Omaha, NE (PRWEB) November 11, 2011

PowerDNN, the worlds largest DotNetNuke hosting provider, and a platinum sponsor of the DotNetNuke World conference, has announced the immediate release of the PowerGrid Global Cloud solution for DotNetNuke.

The PowerGrid Global Cloud leverages a variety of enterprise technologies used by companies such as Facebook and Google, to provide a seamless, global web presence.

On the PowerGrid Global Cloud, websites are deployed across multiple data centers in the United States, Europe, and Australia. Customers are automatically routed to their nearest data center. For example: Australian customers go to Australian data centers, European customers go to European data centers, and American customers go to American data centers. Customers in other parts of the world are automatically routed to the closest data center. This delivers the fastest experience to end users, and also provides unique redundancy capabilities.

With a traditional cloud, such as those offered by Microsoft, Amazon, and RackSpace, performance demanding customers are provisioned across multiple servers within a single data center. All requests are routed to a primary data center where load balancing happens within the chosen data center. Customers near the data center have a good experience, while customers that are located far from the data center receive a second-class experience. Additionally, in a traditional cloud model, a data center failure is a catastrophic event. However, when a website is deployed on the PowerGrid Global Cloud, if a failure occurs, all users are automatically rerouted to the next fastest, available data center. This requires no intervention from system administrators and takes place in less than two minutes.

As Tony Valenti, CEO of PowerDNN states, "There are many companies who offer multi-server cloud solutions, but many of these solutions all reside within the same data center. International customers typically receive a second-class experience. While few companies can even fail over from one data center to another, we have raised the bar to create seamless redundancy between global datacenters. We actively serve websites from multiple data centers and customers always visit the data center nearest to themselves. Regardless of geographic location, all customers receive a first-class experience.

In his session at DotNetNuke World, founder and CEO Tony Valenti will discuss the various technologies that enable global cloud solutions. Building on these themes, he will then discuss the automated data synchronization and distribution required for enterprise cloud environments.

About PowerDNN

PowerDNN, a DotNetNuke Gold Certified Partner, serves over 150,000 DotNetNuke websites and is the worlds largest DotNetNuke hosting provider. PowerDNN specializes in enterprise business solutions for large organizations with complex hosting requirements. Websites that are hosted with PowerDNN include many of the largest DotNetNuke deployments in the world including: the public-facing websites of Pier1Imports.com, LittleCaesars.com, and InfoGroup.com, as well as SECSports.com and NCAAFootball.com . Our 24/7 engineering team provides assistance and support for our customers worldwide. PowerDNN is privately held and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with offices in Reno, NV, as well as Manchester, England.

About DotNetNuke Corp.

DotNetNuke software is used by developers, designers and business people to quickly build and easily maintain websites of all kinds. We are the number one Web content management solution in the Microsoft ecosystem -- more than 700,000 websites have been deployed worldwide using our products. Our online store speeds up this process by offering over 10,000 apps and add-ons that quickly and easily extend our product. Thousands of organizations like True Value, Bose, Cornell University, Glacier Water, Pier One Imports, El Camino Hospital and the City of Denver have leveraged DotNetNuke to deploy highly engaging business critical websites. There have been over 7 million downloads of our open source project, which fuels an active global community one million strong. The rapid growth of our commercial products resulted in DotNetNuke Corp. being named as one of the fastest growing private companies in America on the 2011 Inc. 500 list. Founded in 2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures, August Capital and Pelion Venture Partners, DotNetNuke Corp. is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in Vancouver and Amsterdam.

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