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BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – October 21, 2010) –  Virgin HealthMiles, a leading provider of employee health and productivity programs that reward individuals for getting healthy, today announced it will host a free webinar sharing how to keep employees engaged in workplace wellness programs and proven strategies employers can implement to drive higher participation in their employee health promotion efforts.

The webinar, “Promoting Participation: What Keeps Employees Engaged?” will be held Wednesday, October 27, 2010, from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET.

Participation in traditional employee health programs averages less than 15 percent, while Virgin HealthMiles’ participation averages 40 percent. During this webinar, Virgin HealthMiles’ Senior Vice President of Marketing and Member Engagement, Tom Abshire, and Senior Director of Client Services, Ed Dougherty, will share survey results from employees and best practices from clients regarding effective strategies they’ve implemented to successfully impact employee participation in their corporate health programs, including:

• Financial incentives
• Goal setting and tracking
• Challenges and competitions
• Social engagement

Participants will discover how the combination of incentives, leading technology, and a positive employee experience provide the motivation and tools employees need to stick with workplace health programs and their new, healthy behaviors for the long term.

To register for the live webinar, please visit:
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=254014&s=1&k=ADB371478B811161097B6D540121D36B&partnerref=VHMPress

A free recording of the webinar will be available on the Virgin HealthMiles website at: www.virginhealthmiles.com. 

About Virgin HealthMiles
Virgin HealthMiles provides employee health programs that pay people to get active. The company’s Pay-for-Prevention™ approach, based on physical activity and healthy lifestyle change, attracts an average of 40 percent of employees who participate, which helps organizations reduce medical costs and improve employee productivity and satisfaction. The program is offered by employers, government entities, and insurers. Over 120 industry leaders representing more than 500,000 employees across the U.S., including American Diabetes Association, Intuit, OhioHealth, Ochsner Health System, MWV, Protective Life, SunGard, SunTrust, and Timberland have selected Virgin HealthMiles’ award-winning program for their employees. The company is a member of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. For more information, visit www.virginhealthmiles.com

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COLUMBUS, OH–(Marketwire – October 19, 2010) –  Twenty First Century Communications (TFCC) is pleased to announce that its TFCC Alert emergency notification system has been selected by Public Safety Communications as a winner of the 2010 Hot Product review.

66 products were submitted for consideration in the Hot Products review. An anonymous team examined the products during the APCO Conference in Houston. Based on the reviewers’ experience and comments, TFCC Alert was selected for the award.

“Public Safety Communications is one of the leading publications in the industry, therefore it’s a real honor to be recognized for our work,” said Bently Collier, TFCC vice president of sales and marketing. “We’re fortunate to work with great public safety, 9-1-1 dispatch centers and first responder customers.”

TFCC announced the release of its newest notification system, TFCC Alert, in early June. An easier to use system includes weather alerts, new user interface, advanced security controls, social media integration, and an enhanced public sign-up page, which are just a few of the new features of TFCC Alert. 

Full details of the Hot Products review will be featured in the November issue of Public Safety Communications magazine. To learn more about TFCC Alert visit us online. 

Public Safety Communications is a monthly publication published by Elsevier Public Safety on behalf of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International. For more information about APCO, please visit www.APCOintl.org. For more information about Public Safety Communications, please visit www.apcointl.org/digitaledition.

About Twenty First Century Communications
By using technology to connect people to information, TFCC provides time-sensitive communication solutions that help clients quickly receive and send high volumes of information to the right people at the right time, using most any communication device.

For more than 20 years their suite of web-based, high-speed, high-volume notification solutions have been the industry standard. Backed by the largest and most reliable telecommunications network in North America, TFCC’s reliable inbound and outbound communication solutions are in place at hundreds of government, corporate, utility, education and healthcare organizations all across the country. For more information visit: www.tfcci.com.

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BLUE BELL, PA–(Marketwire – October 18, 2010) –  PDS, a leading developer of human resource, benefits, recruiting and payroll systems, today announced that its Vista HRMS^® solution has been selected by Tender Touch Rehab Services, Inc. Based in Lakewood, N.J., Tender Touch will utilize Vista HRMS to manage HR, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, Self-service and Workflow for all of its employees located at various facilities throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

“Our existing solution could handle some of our HR requirements, but was very limited in the areas of employee benefits, payroll, recruitment and reporting,” explained Ellie Hertz, HR representative at Tender Touch. “We needed an all-in-one solution that is accessible by all of our authorized staff members. With Vista HRMS’ ease of use, quick search capabilities and streamlined reporting, it is the kind of solution we have been dreaming about. Vista HRMS is the total package and it will enable us to focus our energies on more strategic initiatives to better serve our employees.”

“The data available to us was limited and the processes required to obtain the information we needed were cumbersome, causing more errors,” explained Amitai Levin, director of HR for Tender Touch. “In addition to the increase in accuracy we expect from Vista, we also believe that it will automate many of our processes, like approvals, notifications and benefits enrollment, allowing us to be more productive and provide our customers — the employees of Tender Touch — the best service possible.”

Tender Touch will be going live on Vista HRMS in late 2010. 

About PDS
In the HRMS software development business for more than 35 years, PDS is a provider of a feature-rich, completely integrated human resource, benefits administration, recruiting and payroll software application that enables organizations to focus on more strategic issues and less on administrative HR, benefits and payroll activities. In addition to core HRMS functionality, Vista HRMS^® offers self-service, English-language query tool and workflow automation. PDS also provides a full range of professional services to a wide variety of industries in the U.S. and in Canada. Founded in 1974, PDS is a privately-held company headquartered in Blue Bell, Pa. For more information on PDS or PDS’ Vista HRMS solution and services visit www.pdssoftware.com.

PDS and the PDS logo are registered trademarks and Vista is a trademark of Personnel Data Systems Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

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ORLANDO, FL–(Marketwire – October 18, 2010) –  GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo — Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com), the leading provider of a deployable cloud storage platform, today announced Gluster (www.gluster.com), the leading provider of open source storage solutions, as a Mezeo Ready Solution Partner. As a Mezeo Ready solution, the Gluster Storage Platform enables organizations using a Mezeo-enabled private, hybrid or public storage cloud to realize the cost, scalability and performance benefits of the Gluster Storage Platform. The Gluster Storage Platform is an open source, scale-out storage solution that runs on commodity hardware and simplifies the task of managing unstructured data at cloud-scale. Storage resources are aggregated into a single pool under a global namespace providing virtual storage that scales elastically. 

“We welcome Gluster as a Mezeo Ready Partner, and believe that our customers will be excited about being able to deploy petabyte-scale storage in a Mezeo cloud in just a matter of minutes,” said Mezeo President and CEO Steve Lesem. “Gluster’s modular design makes it highly scalable and flexible, which is ideal for anyone needing to move large amounts of unstructured data into the cloud.”

“We share Mezeo’s interest in making it easy to deploy high-performance storage clouds that deliver on the promise of reduced costs and simplified manageability,” said Ben Golub, CEO at Gluster. “We deliver the ability to store large amounts of data as well as the ability to respond to dynamically changing demands and workloads. This is especially important for our customers in industries such as Web applications, digital media and healthcare.”

Launched in June, the Mezeo Ready Program provides an ecosystem for service providers, developers, cloud gateway providers and technology partners all focused on delivering Mezeo-enabled cloud storage solutions.

With Mezeo, enterprises can implement a secure, private cloud, and IT Service Providers can rapidly monetize a branded cloud storage service offering. Mezeo features end-to-end encryption, advanced file sharing and collaboration, content tagging and access anywhere with white label Web 2.0, native Windows® desktop, iPhone and BlackBerry® clients. Mezeo is easy to deploy, multi-tenant, and highly scalable and secure, with REST Web Services APIs for platform extensibility.

Mezeo will be showcasing the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform in booth 1029 at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2010, continuing through October 21^st in Orlando, Fla.

Follow Mezeo on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mezeo.

About Gartner Symposium/ITxpo
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry’s largest and most strategic conference, providing business leaders with a look at the future of IT. For more than 10,000 IT professionals from the world’s leading enterprises, Gartner’s annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of their annual planning efforts. Attendees rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight into how their organizations can use technology to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency. 

About Gluster
Gluster delivers an open storage software platform focused on simplifying the task of storing and managing the explosive growth of unstructured data. Our scale-out storage platform runs on commodity hardware scaling out in building block fashion from a few terabytes to multiple petabytes to meet the most demanding capacity and performance needs at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. Gluster Storage Platform uses a unified global namespace to virtualize disk and memory resources into a single shared pool that is centrally managed. Our scalable NAS solutions address the needs of traditional data centers, shared storage for virtual server environments, and both public and private storage clouds. Gluster Storage Platform is used in a wide range of industries including digital media delivery, healthcare, internet, energy, and biotech. Gluster is privately-held and headquartered in Milpitas, California. For more information, visit www.gluster.com.

About Mezeo Software
Mezeo is the industry’s leading provider of a deployable platform for cloud storage. Service-enabled, the Mezeo platform is easy to deploy, multi-tenant, highly scalable and secure, with the Mezeo Cloud Storage API and Interoperability API for platform extensibility. With Mezeo, IT Service Providers can rapidly monetize Storage as a Service with a branded offering, and large enterprises can implement a secure, private cloud with clients for the desktop, Web, BlackBerry® and iPhone. Mezeo was named in CRN’s list of the Top 25 Coolest Emerging Vendors of 2010. For more information, visit www.mezeo.com. 

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES–(Marketwire – October 17, 2010) – Today at Gitex 2010, Imprivata^®, Inc., the company that simplifies and secures user access, and Secureway, the leader in IT Security Market Value Added Distribution in the Middle East and Africa, announced that they are partnering to address the growing workflow and security challenges faced by companies, hospitals and government organizations in the region. Their combined technology leadership, broad reach and superior services are helping customers to strengthen user authentication, streamline application access and simplify compliance reporting. 

“Our decision to partner with Imprivata is a testament to the quality of the OneSign platform,” commented Fari Boustantchi, CEO at Secureway. “Secureway has a reputation for adding value in the Middle East and Africa by carefully selecting only market leading technologies for the comprehensive IT security solutions that we deliver. Imprivata OneSign’s clear leadership in the authentication and access management space makes it a perfect complement for our portfolio.”

In its recently published “MarketScope for Enterprise Single Sign-on,”¹ Gartner rated Imprivata as Strong Positive, the highest possible Marketscope rating. Imprivata has fortified its enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) market leadership position by delivering innovative capabilities, adding customers at an impressive rate, and engaging in key partnerships over the past year. Gartner advises current customers of vendors rated as Strong Positive to continue with planned investments, and potential customers to consider a vendor in this category as a strong choice for strategic investments. A copy of the report can be found here.

“The need to secure data, comply with government regulations and improve user productivity has presented a tremendous opportunity for Imprivata in North America and Europe,” said Omar Hussain, president and CEO at Imprivata. “We have become the trusted advisor to more than 1,000 customers and now the time is right for Imprivata to bring OneSign to the Middle East. With Secureway’s understanding of the local markets, solid IT security background and breadth of reach we are looking forward to extending our success by solving these same issues for customers in this region.”

See Imprivata OneSign in the Secureway stand at Gitex 2010, September 17-21

Secureway stand Z-M1 in Za’beel Hall

Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre

Centrally managed from a single administrative console, Imprivata OneSign secures access across Windows, host-based, Citrix and virtual desktop environments. OneSign empowers organizations to balance the need for stronger security with improved user workflow and productivity. The solution also reduces the time and complexity of complying with regulated access control requirements and password management costs that consume IT help desk resources. Key Imprivata OneSign features include One-Touch “Follow Me” Desktops, Automatic Desktop Locking, Enhanced Transaction-level Authentication, Walk-Away Security for Unattended Desktops, Shared Workstations and Fast User Switching, built-in support for a broad range of authentication and multiple card types, Self-Service Password Reset and seamless integration with context management solutions.

About Imprivata
Imprivata is the leading independent vendor focused on simplifying and securing user access. By strengthening user authentication, streamlining application access and simplifying compliance reporting across multiple computing environments, customers realize substantial IT helpdesk and administration cost savings, while achieving the security standards they demand.

Imprivata has received numerous product awards and top review ratings from leading industry publications and analysts, including a Strong Positive rating in Gartner’s 2010 ESSO Marketscope. Headquartered in Lexington, Mass., Imprivata partners with over 200 resellers, and serves the access security needs of more than 1,000 customers around the world. For more information, please visit www.imprivata.com.

About Secureway
Secureway Network Distributors are the Middle East’s Specialist Value Added Distributors in the IT Security & Mobility Industry. Secureway Network Distributors offers Middle East Value Added Resellers an excellent opportunity to capitalize on their growing customer bases by providing End to End IT security solutions, while assisting them in the full lifecycle of the project. With focus on pure Value-Added Distribution, Secureway Network Distributors has the global backup and local experience to deliver an unparalleled level of service, support, logistics and competitive pricing to the Middle East IT marketplace.

Secureway brings market leaders to the Middle East region. Our vendors are all leaders in their domain, usually with no solid presence in the region. We keep a constant eye on technology leaders in specialist security markets and add them to our portfolio, this also encompasses adding new IT security start-up vendors, and these new vendors with their unique technology are the stars of tomorrow. We do keep our vendor portfolio limited to enable focused manageability.

Imprivata is a registered trademark of Imprivata, Inc. in the USA and other countries. All Imprivata products are trademarks of Imprivata, Inc. in the USA and other countries.

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¹ Gartner, Inc., “MarketScope for Enterprise Single Sign-On” by G. Kreizman. September 2010

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FALLS CHURCH, VA–(Marketwire – October 14, 2010) – Accredited Standards Committee X12 announces the release of a collection of XML schemas supporting the content mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The schemas are generated from the same database used to publish the HIPAA mandated ASC X12 Technical Reports.

Over the past several years organizations have created proprietary XML schemas based on the generic ASC X12 standards and associated implementation guides. Some of those schemas are sold as part of vendor applications, some are freely distributed, and many are internal to an organization. None represent official derivatives of the associated ASC X12 work products. All implementers will benefit by replacing these separate, uncoordinated initiatives with standardized XML schemas from the recognized authority. This schema production approach ensures that every structure and all data elements can be represented in an XML document and validated with the schemas.

“ASC X12 TR3 Schemas are the only schemas authorized as derivative products of ASC X12 Technical Reports. They ease content integration into and out of back-end systems while promoting standardized XML for this set of HIPAA mandated transactions,” said Cathy Sheppard, Chair, ASC X12.

ASC X12 TR3 Schemas are licensed for internal use or for redistribution in vendor products. Applicable errata will be incorporated into each ASC X12 TR3 Schema, and a new version made available to purchasers at no additional cost, once the errata is mandated under HIPAA. Each schema package also includes the ASC X12 Technical Report Type 2, Constructing XML Schema Definition Element Names from ASC X12 Metadata.

For more information and to purchase ASC X12 TR3 Schemas, visit ASC X12’s On-Line Store – 005010 HIPAA Implementation Guides.

About ASC X12
ASC X12, chartered by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1979, develops EDI standards and documents for national and global markets. With more than 315 X12 EDI standards and increasing X12 XML schemas, ASC X12 enhances business processes, reduces costs and expands organizational reach. Members include standards experts from health care, insurance, transportation, finance, government, supply chain and other industries.

SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire – October 7, 2010) – Medistem Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MEDS) announced today it has entered into a commercialization agreement with the Indianapolis-based company, General Biotechnology LLC (http://www.gnrlbiotech.com), for sale of its universal donor Endometrial Regenerative Cells (ERC) as a research reagent to qualified academic and corporate institutions. Under the agreement General Biotechnology will harvest menstrual blood from qualified donors, isolate research-grade ERC stem cells, expand and qualify said stem cells and provide a distribution mechanism through its sales network.

“Medistem is a unique company in the area of cellular therapeutics in that its universal donor stem cells have already been used to treat humans,” said Dr. Erik Woods, President and CEO of General Biotechnology LLC. “By making these cells commercially available, scientists around the world will have the ability to compare these cells to existing adult stem cells such as placental, cord blood, and adipose mesenchymal stem cells.”

To date Medistem has reported the use of ERC in treatment of patients with Multiple Sclerosis http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/pdf/1479-5876-7-15.pdf, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19917503, and Heart Failure http://www.intarchmed.com/content/pdf/1755-7682-3-5.pdf.

“Since we originally reported the discovery of Endometrial Regenerative Cells in 2007, at least 4 independent groups have used and published on cells with identical or near-identical properties to treat animals with diabetes, Parkinson’s, stroke, and heart failure,” said Dr. Vladimir Bogin, Chairman and President of Medistem. “Given our intellectual property position on these cells, we are confident that by increasing their use in the scientific community we will accelerate our own development efforts, as well as advance the field forward.”

Dr. Michael Murphy, a Harvard-trained vascular surgeon who performs clinical trials using adult stem cells at Indiana University, stated, “The ERC stem cell population represents a treatment for vascular diseases that is novel, highly potent, and easy to integrate into the current standard of care. I am eager to initiate clinical investigations with these cells in treatment of critical limb ischemia.”

Dr. Murphy is the Principle Investigator for an IND filed with the FDA for treatment of critical limb ischemia with Medistem’s ERC stem cells.

About Medistem Inc.

Medistem Inc. is a biotechnology company developing technologies related to adult stem cell extraction, manipulation, and use for treating inflammatory and degenerative diseases. The company’s lead product, the endometrial regenerative cell (ERC), is a “universal donor” stem cell being developed for critical limb ischemia. A publication describing the support for use of ERC for this condition may be found at http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/pdf/1479-5876-6-45.pdf

Cautionary Statement

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of our securities. This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Future events and actual results could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying the forward-looking information. Factors which may cause actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements are discussed in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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EVERETT, WA–(Marketwire – October 7, 2010) –  Fluke Corporation, the global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, will send a lucky professional and companion to Arlington, Texas for football’s “Big Game,” simply for learning about the innovative new tools Fluke has recently introduced.

The winner of the Fluke football BIG GAME SWEEPS will receive two tickets to attend the biggest bowl game in football come February 6, 2011. The sweepstakes package includes airfare, three nights of lodging, and a complimentary rental car. The winner will be selected by random drawing and announced the first week of January 2011.

The Fluke football BIG GAME SWEEPS marks the start of an exciting season for Fluke customers. Fluke has just announced a new family of innovative, high-performance clamp meters. Other recent introductions include the groundbreaking Fluke 233 Remote Display Multimeter, the first of its kind in the industry; the Fluke 28 II Industrial Multimeter for ultra rugged conditions; and the Fluke Ti32 Thermal Imager with a powerful 320 x 240 sensor. 

To enter the Fluke football BIG GAME SWEEPS, customers simply choose a featured product online at www.fluke.com/footballsweeps, read a short description and then complete a registration form for a chance to win. Contestants are limited to one entry per person. No purchase is required.

Participation in the Fluke football BIG GAME SWEEPS is limited to licensed contractors or individuals in a professional trade who are residents of the U.S. and age 21 or older.

Sweepstakes ends December 31, 2010. See official rules at www.Fluke.com/footballsweeps.

For More Information

Fluke test instruments are distributed in more than 100 countries. For information on Fluke tools and applications, or to find the location of your nearest distributor, contact Fluke Corporation, P.O. Box 9090, Everett, WA USA 98206, call (800) 44-FLUKE (800-443-5853), fax (425) 446-5116, e-mail [email protected] or visit the Fluke Web site at http://www.fluke.com.

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About Fluke

Founded in 1948, Fluke Corporation is the world leader in compact, professional electronic test tools. Fluke tools deliver the testing and troubleshooting capabilities that are critical to keep commerce and industry running smoothly. Fluke customers are technicians, engineers, electricians, metrologists and building diagnostic professionals who install, troubleshoot and manage industrial, electrical and electronic equipment and calibration processes for quality control and building restoration. In the past five years, Fluke tools won more than 50 industry awards, including Test and Measurement World Best in Test, Control Engineering Engineer’s Choice, and Plant Engineering Product of the Year. Fluke is a registered trademark of Fluke Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

EVERETT, WA–(Marketwire – October 7, 2010) – Fluke Corporation, the global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, has introduced new iFlex^™ flexible current probes, designed to make current measurement easier, more convenient and more precise for electricians and industrial technicians.

The new Fluke iFlex flexible current probes expand the measurement range of select Fluke meters to 2500 A ac and give technicians the ultimate in measurement flexibility. The large coil allows users to reach around large or awkward-shaped conductors up to 6 inches in diameter, while the small 0.3-inch profile allows the coil to reach between tightly-packed cables and improves access in crowded spaces. A 6-foot cord makes it easier to see readings at a distance from the conductor.

The iFlex probes connect directly to the meter, displaying current measurements without error-prone scaling factors. In addition to ac current measurement, they also work with frequency, inrush, and min/max/avg functions. The iFlex current probes are available in 10-inch and 18-inch sizes.

The iFlex current probe i2500-18 is included with the new Fluke 381 and Fluke 376 Clamp Meters. Both iFlex models — the i2500-18 and the i2500-10 — are compatible with Fluke 374 and Fluke 375 Clamp Meters. US list price for each iFlex probe model is $98.95.

The iFlex current probes are members of a new family of Fluke clamp meters designed to meet users’ requirements for flexibility, safety and performance in the most challenging industrial conditions. This new Fluke family of clamp meters includes:

Fluke 381 Remote Display True-rms AC/DC Clamp Meter with iFlex — The Fluke 381 is a full-featured clamp meter with an important extra: Users can remove the detachable wireless display for even more flexibility, convenience and safety. Now one technician can do jobs that used to require two. US list price is $498.95.

Fluke 376 True-rms AC/DC Clamp Meter with iFlex — With the new Fluke 376 Clamp Meter, users will be ready for any measurement challenge. Designed for the toughest industrial environments, it measures current up to 2500 A ac and 1000 A dc and can troubleshoot even the noisiest motors and drives. US list price is $374.95.

Fluke 374 and 375 True-rms AC/DC Clamp Meters — The new Fluke 374 and 375 clamp meters offer improved performance, perfect for many current measurement situations. With true-rms ac voltage and current measurements, the Fluke 374 and 375 can read up to 600 V and 600 A in both ac and dc modes and handle min/max, average and inrush recording. Both are compatible with the new iFlex flexible current probe (sold separately). US list price for the Fluke 375 is $299.95, for the Fluke 374, $259.95.

Fluke 373 True-rms AC Clamp Meter — The new Fluke 373 clamp meter offers improved performance and maximum value for users requiring ac only current measurement. US list price is $179.95.

The Fluke 381, 376, 375, 374 and iFlex current probes are rated for safe use in hazard category IV (CAT IV) 600V environments (CAT IV 600V, CAT III 1000 V) as defined by safety regulators in the US, Canada and Europe. The Fluke 373 is rated CAT IV 300V, CAT III 600V. Category IV environments include overhead power lines, underground power lines and service entrance power, as well as all outdoor environments.

For More Information

Fluke test instruments are distributed in more than 100 countries. For more information on the entire new Fluke clamp line, go to www.fluke.com/ReadyForAnything. For more information on Fluke tools and applications, or to find the location of your nearest distributor, contact Fluke Corporation, P.O. Box 9090, Everett, WA USA 98206, call (800) 44-FLUKE (800-443-5853), fax (425) 446-5116, e-mail [email protected] or visit the Fluke Web site at http://www.fluke.com.

Follow Fluke on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Linkedin.

About Fluke

Founded in 1948, Fluke Corporation is the world leader in compact, professional electronic test tools. Fluke tools deliver the testing and troubleshooting capabilities that are critical to keep commerce and industry running smoothly. Fluke customers are technicians, engineers, electricians, metrologists and building diagnostic professionals who install, troubleshoot and manage industrial, electrical and electronic equipment and calibration processes for quality control and building restoration. In the past five years, Fluke tools won more than 50 industry awards, including Test and Measurement World Best in Test, Control Engineering Engineer’s Choice and Plant Engineering Product of the Year. Fluke is a registered trademark of Fluke Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Oct. 6, 2010) – Vigil Health Solutions Inc. (“Vigil”) (TSX VENTURE:VGL) is pleased to announce its selection as one of the fastest-growing companies in B.C. by Business In Vancouver newspaper. Vigil, and other award recipients, were honoured at the Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies reception held last night in Vancouver. Vigil was ranked 40th among 100 of the fastest growing companies in B.C. based on revenue growth for the five-year period between fiscal 2005 and 2009.

About Vigil Health Solutions Inc.

Vigil offers a proprietary technology platform combining software and hardware to provide comprehensive solutions to the expanding seniors’ housing market. Vigil has established a growing presence in North America and an international reputation for being on the leading edge of systems design and integration. The Vigil Integrated Care Management System™ (Vigil® System) includes the award-winning Vigil Dementia System, a nurse call system, bed monitoring, resident check in, and the latest development the Vigil Wireless call system. The first to supply dementia specific care technology, Vigil facilitates the highest standard of care for cognitive residents while helping dementia residents enjoy a higher quality of life and greater dignity.

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – October 1, 2010) –  Hearst Corporation announced today that Gregory H. Dorn, MD, MPH, has been named president of First DataBank, a subsidiary of Hearst Business Media. Dorn succeeds Donald M. Nielsen, MD, who has been appointed chairman of the First DataBank Advisory Board and senior health advisor. The appointments were announced today by Frank A. Bennack, Jr., vice chairman and CEO of Hearst Corporation, and Richard P. Malloch, president of Hearst Business Media, and are effective immediately.

Most recently, Dorn was executive vice president of Zynx Health, another Hearst health-care property. In this management position, Dorn focused on point-of-care clinical decision support solutions. Zynx Health has grown under Hearst’s ownership to serve more than 1,700 hospitals in the U.S.

“Over the past six years, Greg has contributed to Zynx’s extraordinary success and expansion, which has resulted in revenue growth each year of about 70 percent,” Malloch said. “In the coming years, with the growing adoption of electronic health records and e-prescribing, we see First DataBank as well poised for significant growth, and Greg is the right leader to see that through.”

Dorn has numerous peer-reviewed publications and is co-author of a pending patent and a lecturer on quality improvement for the UCLA Center for Health Services Management. He has a bachelor’s degree from the Columbia University School of Engineering and received his medical doctorate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Dorn served as house officer at UCLA Medical Center after which he went on to obtain his master’s in health services from the UCLA Center for Health Services Management. Dorn will be based out of First DataBank’s offices in San Francisco.

In his new role as chairman of the First DataBank Advisory Board, Nielsen will focus on strengthening First DataBank’s long-standing commitment to patient safety and health-care data quality issues. Nielsen also will be working on initiatives related to drug reimbursement.

“Don has done an outstanding job driving First DataBank’s leadership position in patient safety and health care quality during the past four years,” Malloch said. “I’m thrilled to have Don now leading two very important areas at First DataBank. There is no one as well qualified as Don to advocate for quality in data and patient care and his extensive knowledge and understanding of drug reimbursement practices will be of great value to Hearst as a whole as we build out those areas of business.”

About First DataBank
First DataBank, a subsidiary of Hearst Corporation, drives patient safety and health care quality by providing drug databases that are used within information systems that touch every aspect of health care. For 30 years, First DataBank has partnered with system developers to integrate and optimize its drug information to improve user workflow and enhance clinical decision-making by those entrusted with treating patients at the point-of-need. Together with its development partners, First DataBank helps reduce the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events, which promises to lower health-care costs and improve patient care. For more information about First DataBank, call 800-633-3453 or visit www.firstdatabank.com.

About Hearst Corporation
Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com) is one of the nation’s largest diversified media companies. Its major interests include ownership of 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union; nearly 200 magazines around the world, including Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations, which reach a combined 18% of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including Lifetime, A&E, History and ESPN; as well as business publishing, including a minority joint venture interest in Fitch Ratings; Internet and marketing services businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

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CAMPBELL, CA–(Marketwire – September 29, 2010) –  Saama Technologies, Inc., a pure-play business intelligence (BI) solution provider, and MeLLmo, Inc., provider of innovative mobile BI apps including Roambi, today announced a system integrator partnership that will allow mobile workers from the world’s leading organizations to more easily — and usefully — access data residing in business intelligence solutions from their iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices, providing for more agile decision making. Saama will demonstrate its new end-to-end mobile BI solution, Saama mBI™, at the ASUG BusinessObjects User Conference, on Oct 4-7 in Orlando, Florida, where it is an event sponsor.

According to Murali Pabbisetty, head of Saama’s mobile business intelligence practice group, mobile workers have the same information needs as office staff, but retrieving this critical information, in a format that is usable, has been a significant challenge for enterprise organizations, one that is made more complicated by the proliferation of devices of varying shapes, sizes and technical characteristics.

“Our offering, which includes proprietary automation software and an innovative data visualization methodology, partnered with the Roambi solution — which is well known to be the leading system for extending critical business reports and data out to mobile devices via dashboards — helps enterprises overcome these challenges and realize a level of proactive decision making previously unavailable,” said Pabbisetty. “Together, we can provide a combination of mobile business intelligence experience, skills and software that is unique in the industry and a tremendous asset to our customers.”

“Saama has implemented business intelligence solutions for many of the world’s largest organizations and will be an excellent system integrator partner, given the firm’s dedicated Mobile BI Practice,” said Santiago Becerra, MeLLmo co-founder and CEO. “There’s more to a mobile BI implementation than shrinking reports to fit a mobile device. Enterprises need to understand how the data is going to be used and how that is impacted by a device’s size, shape, orientation, speed, resolution and network. They also need to understand that they have new options, like Roambi, for visualizing their critical data in ways never before available. Having worked through the process many times before, MeLLmo and Saama have a unique appreciation for these issues, and we’ve mastered the art of helping organizations achieve maximum value from their mobile business intelligence implementations.”

Saama will demonstrate its new end-to-end BI solution, Saama mBI, from its booth — #208 — at the ASUG BusinessObjects User Conference October 4-7, 2010 in Orlando, Fl.

Saama is also leading three of the educational sessions within the co-located ASUG Fall Focus: Roadmap to ROI conference, along with customers Cisco Systems and Affiliated Computer Services (a Xerox Company). The three sessions, all held on Tuesday, October 5^th, are detailed below:

• Change Management for an Enterprise powered by SAP BusinessObjects
  • Time: 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
  • Speakers: Timothy Beaver, Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a Xerox Company, and Murali Pabbisetty, Saama Technologies
• Connecting Heterogeneous BI Silos: A Cisco Story
  • Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
  • Speakers: Tim Chandler and Milind Joshi, Cisco Systems, and Balaji Rajagopalan, Saama Technologies
• Ensuring a Timely and Efficient Implementation of SAP ESS/MSS
  • Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Speaker: Bhushan Dadia, Saama Technologies 

About MeLLmo
Founded in 2008, MeLLmo is reinventing the mobile business application to improve the productivity and decision-making of on-the-go employees. The company’s flagship product, Roambi, is an iPhone/iPad application that makes business data and reports easy to access, navigate and interact with right from a handheld device. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, MeLLmo has a worldwide customer base of Fortune 500 companies and SMBs across a diverse range of industries including: telecommunications, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, consumer technology, packaged goods, and others. For more information about MeLLmo visit http://www.mellmo.com.

About Saama Technologies
 Saama Technologies, Inc. is a pure-play business intelligence solution provider which continues to revolutionize the way organizations make decisions through business intelligence. Since 1997, the company has combined its extreme BI technology expertise, unique intellectual property portfolio and strong relationships with the industry’s leading technology providers to deliver pure business intelligence to the world’s largest information-focused organizations. Saama’s customers are Fortune 500 organizations within a wide range of industries, including life sciences, technology, financial services, and the public sector. Saama recently acquired data-integration software and NIEM-conformance pioneer Sypherlink, which operates as an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary. For more information, visit www.saama.com.

Saama Technologies and Pure Business Intelligence are trademarks of Saama Technologies, Inc. The names of other actual companies, organizations and/or products/services mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

DURHAM, NC–(Marketwire – September 29, 2010) – Mi-Co announced today the release of a new white paper providing a snapshot of what different enterprise users look for in mobile data collection devices and software systems. The white paper serves as a follow-up analysis of a survey recently conducted by Mi-Co, on the same topic. The paper also provides a brief overview of the state of Enterprise Mobility today including findings that would be of interest to software companies, enterprises with mobility interests, governmental organizations and more.

Read what’s popular in electronic data collection for organizations based on Mi-Co’s survey results of 8,500 professionals. Understand the nuances and characteristics end-users favor in data input platforms. For example, the survey showed that touch-filled forms are highly preferred (61.5%) versus electronic forms populated through a keyboard (51.9%) or stylus (48.1%), yet the use of a Tablet PC on a Windows OS trumps all other types of mobile devices such as the iPad and Blackberry on preference ratings. 

Elodia Cole, Mi-Co customer at Medical University of South Carolina says, “The ability to quickly assess data quality and monitor study processes is a prime motivation for our interest in moving towards enterprise mobility for conductance of clinical trials data collection. Our ultimate goal is to minimize data queries, an often time consuming and under budgeted aspect of clinical trial activities. We are currently assessing various technologies that better integrate the data collection and data management processes so that study monitors can review data as it is being collected and intervene as necessary.“

Learn more about how applying electronic mobility to your data collection processes can streamline and positively impact workflows in your enterprise. Visit us at: www.mi-corporation.com or to request a copy of the white paper or email us at [email protected]. 

About Mi-Co
Mi-Co, a leading provider of mobile data collection solutions, provides software to automate paper forms-based business processes. Mi-Co’s enterprise Mi-Forms Software System provides flexible electronic forms design for data capture using digital ink and has proven capabilities for the communication of forms-based data. Mi-Forms support Tablet PCs, Digital Pens, iPads, Pocket PCs, signature capture devices and industry standard software technologies. Mi-Co reaches historically paperwork intensive markets such as healthcare and government and supports an extensive network of channel partners. For more information on Mi-Co, visit www.mi-corporation.com

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ORLANDO, FL–(Marketwire – September 27, 2010) –  WellTek, Inc. (OTCBB: WTKN), a global health, fitness and wellness company, announced today that its subsidiary WellCity, the premier online destination for those into health and wellness, garnered early attention from celebrity Justin Osmond as the perfect platform to share his grandmother’s mission with the world. The Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund is the first of many charity organizations to be introduced in WellCity.

Within the next three months, WellCity will launch its online audiology ward — the WellCity Osmond Hearing Center — in its virtual Medical Center, where consumers will be able to purchase and experience industry-leading products and services for hearing loss. The Company has agreed to donate a portion of the proceeds from the WellCity Osmond Hearing Center to the Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund. In addition to this ward, the WellCity Charity web page will have a ‘Donate Now’ feature where residents of WellCity can donate directly to the Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund. The Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund’s mission is to raise deaf awareness through research and education and bring the gift of hearing to underprivileged children all across the world. “It was my grandmother’s dream that the Osmond Foundation would dedicate all of its time and resources to help the deaf,” said Justin Osmond, Founder of the Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund. Continuing, he said, “I am dedicated to fulfilling her dream and especially thrilled to partner with WellCity as we carry out this mission together.”

David George, Founder and CEO of WellCity, stated, “WellCity will be a platform to reach countless people in many significant ways. The WellCity Osmond Hearing Center is one of them. Justin is a real genuine guy whose own legacy will impact many generations to come. We are blessed to have this opportunity to work with Justin and support the Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund. WellCity can’t change the world tomorrow, but we are making a difference today.”

About the Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund
The mother of the famous singing Osmonds, known affectionately world-wide as “Mother Osmond,” made a life-long commitment to supporting new research and innovation toward improving the quality of life for the hearing impaired. The journey began with the discovery that her two oldest sons Virl and Tom were severely hearing impaired. Merrill Osmond’s 2nd son, Justin, was born with the same severe and profound hearing sensorial-neural hearing loss from which his uncles suffered. The support and love of the original four singing Osmond Brothers was manifest when they began their career in order to raise money for the best hearing devices available for their brothers. Justin was very close to his grandmother Olive and loved hearing her stories about helping deaf children. Sensing her determination to aid the hearing impaired, Justin dedicated himself to continue her passion in building her dream to greater heights, thus the establishment of the ‘Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund.’ Justin continues to carry on Olive’s legacy in helping provide the Gift of Better Hearing to children worldwide.

About WellCity Incorporated
WellCity is a social utility where health- and wellness-minded ‘residents’ can closely commune with one another; receive support, information and encouragement from their ‘neighbors’ and from a league of leading professional experts; shop for health- and wellness-oriented products and services; compete in WellCity’s proprietary 90-Day Wellness Challenge; and even enjoy income opportunities by leveraging their personal network. For more information on the Company, please visit www.WellCity.com.

About WellTek Incorporated
WellTek is a global health, fitness and wellness company that provides proven solutions to help address some of the world’s most pressing and costly health and wellness challenges. The Company owns and operates WellCity, Inc., a premier wellness-related social utility that helps ‘residents’ live happier, healthier, longer lives. The Company’s subsidiary, MedX Limited, manufactures, markets and distributes the most advanced medical exercise equipment to the medical and fitness markets. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Pure HealthyBack, Inc., WellTek is redefining healthcare delivery by providing health plans, self-insured employer groups, and consumers with a viable non-surgical, lower cost treatment for patients who are seeking lasting relief from chronic neck and back pain. For more information on the Company, please visit www.WellTekinc.com or contact [email protected].

Certain statements contained in this press release, which are not based on historical facts, are forward-looking statements as the term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are subject to substantial uncertainties and risks in part detailed in the respective Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings, that may cause actual results to materially differ from projections. Although the Company believes that its expectations are reasonable assumptions within the bounds of its knowledge of its businesses, expectations, representations and operations, there can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from their expectations. Important factors currently known to management that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include the Company’s ability to execute properly its business model, to raise additional capital to implement its continuing business model, the ability to attract and retain personnel — including highly qualified executives, management and operational personnel, ability to negotiate favorable future debt facilities and capital raises, and the inherent risk associated with a diversified business to achieve and maintain positive cash flow and net profitability. In light of these risks and uncertainties, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking information contained in this press release will, in fact, occur.