Coca-Cola continues its long-standing support of the Essence Music Festival Presented by Coca-Cola, the summer’s largest African-American music and empowerment event in the country. This year, Coca-Cola will bring Mike Bivins, Janelle Monae, Premier, DJ Biz Markie and DJ Nice to the Festival to refresh more than 200,000 attendees throughout the weekend.
This year’s theme, [...]

Peopleclick Helps Clients “Reach More Peeps”
Peopleclick, Inc., the leading global provider of talent acquisition and workforce compliance and diversity solutions, announced today at the Society of Human Resource Management Annual Conference and Exposition in New Orleans, LA, the unveiling of Peopleclick Reach. A comprehensive social networking integration package that helps HR professionals leverage Web [...]

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 [...]

Company’s Room Scheduling Software to Be Demonstrated at the 2009 Association of
Legal Administrators Conference
NetSimplicity, leading provider of flexible, easy-to-use room and resource scheduling software, today announced more than 50 new law firms are using its Meeting Room Manager scheduling software to book meeting rooms, reserve AV equipment, catering and additional services. Cozen O’Connor, Stinson [...]

NEW DELHI, India — March 12, 2009 — Seagate (NASDAQ:STX), teaming with microprocessor manufacturing leader Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans this week, today unveiled the world’s first public demonstration of next-generation high-speed data transfer – Serial ATA 6Gigabit/second – for bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC applications including [...]

The Broadband Forum’s first meeting for 2009 opened in New Orleans last week, as the organisation launches its 15th landmark year. Energy was high as a number of new specifications such as broadband energy management work, fibre-related developments, IPv6 migration plans and the beginnings of fixed mobile convergence efforts got underway.
The meeting also incorporated [...]

Chinyelu Onwurah addresses members on the eve of major Ofcom announcement
Super-fast Broadband networks – with speeds above 25 Mbps to the home – can be provided in a way that embraces competition, and the Broadband Forum has the opportunity to play a vital role in defining the specifications needed by the industry.
That was the message [...]

Aftermarket.com, a division of Thought Convergence, Inc., announced today that it has been selected as the premier auction house for Domainer Mardi Gras. The live event is set to take place February 21, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The domain submission period for the simultaneous online and in-person auction is currently underway at www.Aftermarket.com and [...]

Partnership furthers Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ Commitment to the People and Communities that Grow Its Coffee
Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) and (RED)™ today announced a multi-year partnership that will give coffee lovers a chance to do good every day. Through the partnership, launched as part of the Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ commitment to communities, a portion [...]

- Open Source notables from Microsoft and the Open Web Foundation highlight ApacheCon US 2008 conference in New Orleans –
ApacheCon, the official user conference of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), has announced the keynote speakers that will open this year’s conference, to be held in New Orleans from November 3-7, 2008.
A number of [...]