Useful Fruit Software today announced Pear Note 1.3.1, the latest version of their note-taking utility for Mac OS X. At its core, Pear Note integrates audio, video, and slides with traditional text notes and stores all of this on a timeline for easy navigation. With Pear Note 1.3.1, all features are now fully functional on [...]

Useful Fruit Software today announced Pear Note 1.3, the latest version of their note-taking utility for Mac OS X. At its core, Pear Note integrates audio, video, and slides with traditional text notes and stores all of this on a timeline for easy navigation. Pear Note 1.3 adds support for easily highlighting the most important [...]

Sona Software LLC today announced the release of Sona Vocabulary Assistant 1.0, a powerful multimedia tool for language learners, for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista. Nine automatically generated activities provide engaging exercises for vocabulary enrichment. Sona Vocabulary Assistant gives users the ability to integrate sounds, images, video, examples in context, notes on usage, web [...]

Roll Out of Seven New HD Markets to Begin Later This Summer; More Than 91 Percent of U.S. TV Homes Will have Access to Local HD Channels from DIRECTV
DIRECTV, Inc., the nation’s No. 1 satellite television service, continues to strengthen its HD presence with the addition of seven new HD local channel markets, providing [...]

More than 1,500 Grocery Stores Added to Electronic Coupon Service
AOL’s Shortcuts.com, http://www.shortcuts.com, a free, paperless electronic coupon service that links coupons directly to participating grocery store savings cards, today announced shoppers can now use this free service at all Safeway Inc. owned stores nationwide. Safeway Inc. has 1,554 stores in 22 states and the [...]

Campaign to Prod President Obama to Act on AIDS Has Included Controversial D.C. Bus Shelter Ad “AIDS is DC’s Katrina,” Thought-Provoking Viral Videos, an Ongoing eLetter-Writing Campaign and an Interactive Website: www.changeAIDSobama.org
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation’s largest AIDS organization, today ramped up its “Change AIDS Obama” campaign with a full-page ad in Roll [...]

Ranking Reveals Economic Satisfaction Levels State by State
Nebraskans Happy Again
The Bay State and the Garden State Show Strong Gains
MainStreet.com (www.mainstreet.com), the personal finance site from the TheStreet.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSCM; http://www.thestreet.com), has updated its “Happiness Index,” the national survey of economic well-being that ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia [...]

Useful Fruit Software today announced Pear Note 1.2, the latest version of their note-taking utility for Mac OS X. At its core, Pear Note integrates audio, video, and slides with traditional text notes and stores all of this on a timeline for easy navigation. Pear Note 1.2 adds support for additional video cameras and higher [...]

Message Systems Pursues Plans to Further Expand into Europe and Asia/Pacific; Announces Sponsorship of Next Generation Telecom (NGT) Summits in 2009
NGT APAC Summit
Message Systems, the leader in digital messaging software solutions, today announced plans to accelerate its global expansion around its suite of message management solutions and services.
With over a dozen international customers, [...]

Aetna (NYSE: AET) and the Aetna Foundation in 2008 awarded community grants and sponsorships in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia totaling $600,000, with a particular focus on promoting wellness and targeting health disparities.
Among the community grants awarded were:
$125,000 to the American Heart Association (D.C. chapter);
$58,500 to the U.S. Marine Corps Marathon;
$50,000 to [...]