Articles from Business Wire (June 1, 2005)

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'Echo Boomers' Providing Major Growth Opportunities for CPG Manufacturers and Retailers According to New IRI Study; IRI Analyzes Echo Boomer Purchase Behavior and Pinpoints Changes in Shopping Patterns.			1049
'Financially Sound': Challenger Introduces Special Low-Rate Financing; Including Fixed Rates as Low as 0% with Payments Deferred until after Harvest.			704
'Focus Award' for Xiotech From Garland Independent School District; Award Recognizes Xiotech's Leadership in Providing Storage Solutions for Educational Organizations.			460
'Kurt Thomas Investment Challenge,' Sponsored by Merrill Lynch, to Celebrate Fifth Successful Year; 'Challenge' Winners Of Stock Market Game Program To Be Announced.			450
``American Dream'' Comes True for Immigrant from India at State Bar ``Swearing In'' Ceremony.			557
``Definitive Collection'' Retrospectives Honor Loretta Lynn with 25 of Her Classic Top 10 Hits, Patty Loveless with Her First Cross-Label Compilation and Allison Moorer with Her First ``Best Of''.			540
``That Old Feeling'' Classic Ballads from ``The Judy Garland Show''; Twenty Live Gems Include Classic Duets with Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett; Savoy Jazz Collection Set for Release June 14.			577
10 PHBCA Companies Named to Barron's 500; Homebuilders Among Top Companies for Investor Performance in a Tough Economy and Stock Market, Barron's Finds.			786
1000th Child Safely Home: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Program Reaches Milestone.			516
3D Systems to Present at the Craig-Hallum Institutional Investor Conference.			228
3M's New High-Capacity Overhead Conductor Is Installed and Activated on Xcel Energy's Black Dog-Blue Lake Transmission Line; First Commercial Application of Breakthrough Bottleneck Solution Will Add Peak Demand Power for Twin Cities.			738
A Collaboration of NE Ohio Organizations Celebrates Women in Technology.			285
A Winning Team Supports Affordable Housing: The PMI Foundation, Oakland Raiders and Habitat for Humanity.			393
A.M. Best Affirms Financial Strength and Assigns Debt Ratings to IDS Life; Assigns Negative Outlook.			435
A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Selective Insurance; Assigns Issuer Credit Ratings.			514
A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Tower Insurance Limited and Tower Limited; Revises Outlook to Stable.			539
A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of UnumProvident, Maintains Negative Outlook.			533
A.M. Best Assigns Indicative Rating to Subordinated Notes Debt to be Issued by Zurich Finance -USA-, Inc.			193
A.M. Best Assigns Rating to Life Insurance Corporation of India.			314
A.M. Best Assigns Ratings to Life Insurance Corporation -International- B.S.C. -C-.			326
Abazias.com's CEO is Featured in an Interview on Your Money TV; Your Money TV Features Wall Street's Movers & Shakers.			329
ABI Research Launches Mobile Devices Research Service.			263
ABM Industries Schedules Second Quarter Earnings Announcement and Investor Webcast.			311
ABM Industries to Sell CommAir Mechanical Services to Carrier Corporation.			782
Acadian Gold Amends Stock Option Plan.			340
AccelChip Facilitates Sensor Array Processing with New SVD Matrix Factorization DSP IP Core.			538
AccelRate Receives Initial Order for 30 Smart Battery Chargers.			600
Access Grid Makes Debut at SIGGRAPH 2005.			426
Accipiter's AdManager Hosted Solution Selected by Professional Media Group to Target Niche Audience; AdManager Allows Pro Media Group to Increase Targeting Capabilities at Ad Group Level and Raise CPMs.			806
ACE/Security Laminates Corporation Announces its Second Quarter Results.			862
Acme Packet Session Border Controllers Interface to Policy Servers from Alcatel, Camiant, and Operax; Expands SLA Assurance Capabilities in Alignment with Next-Generation Network Architectures.			1028
Acopia Networks Extends Adaptive Resource Switching into New Thin Server Platform.			557
Acquisition of Attachmate Complete; Attachmate and WRQ Merge; Unified Company Known as AttachmateWRQ Becomes Largest Independent Provider of Legacy Access and Integration Software.			846
Acterna's DSAM and DTS Receive High Mark's from Broadband Gear Report's Diamond Technology Awards Review; Rankings Classify Each as an Excellent Product with Technical Features and Performance that Provide Clear and Substantial Benefits.			829
Action Products Sees Sales Gain in May and June; Company Will Add Five New Products in June.			353
Acxiom Renews Contract With Luxottica Retail to Provide Analytics, Customer Insight.			286
ADC Reports Second Quarter 2005 Results; Broad-Based Sales Strength and Significant EPS Growth.			4797
Additional RETAILtech 2005 Exhibitor Profiles.			258
Adjoined Consulting Ranked Number Nine on Entrepreneur Magazine's Hot 100 Listing of Fastest-Growing Entrepreneurial Companies in the US.			610
Advance Nanotech Subsidiary Announces New Patent Application for Programing Implantable and Body-Worn Biosensors.			824
Advanced Medical Technology Association, AdvaMed, to Co-Sponsor Medtech Insight's ``Investment In Innovation'' Conference.			306
Advanstar Communications Inc. Announces Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation for Its Second Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes Due 2008.			1054
ADVISORY/Slew of Best Selling Mystery Authors Visit Borders Books & Music in Bailey's Crossroads This June.			431
ADVISORY/SPSS' VP of Text Mining to Speak at 2005 Text Mining Summit.			192
Aeropostale Reports May Sales Results.			420
Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Inc. Announces Completion of Purchase of Affirmative Common Stock from Vesta.			615
African American Medical Network Begins Installations of Educational Programming in Select Regional Markets; Full Roll-out Set for July.			439
Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry-First GC/MS System Allowing Researchers to Electronically Download, Share Application Methods.			521
Agilent Technologies Introduces Tricolor LEDs for Backlighting Feature-Rich Mobile Phones and PDAs; New Side-Firing Surface-Mount Devices Among Industry's Smallest.			544
Airgas Acquires Kanox with 9 Locations in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado.			510
Airgas Completes Acquisition of LaRoche Industries' Ammonia Distribution Business.			524
AirScooter Corp. Begins Trading Under Ticker Symbol 'ASCO'.			516
Akonix Security Center Automatically Protects Against W32.Opanki-G and W32.Pinkton.A Worms Spreading over Public IM Network; Immediate Response from Akonix Security Center Keeps Customers Protected and Updated with Latest Filters for Real-Time Blocking.			449
AKT's 40K PECVD System Wins 2005 Display Equipment Award.			429
Alamosa to Participate in the 2005 Lehman Brothers Worldwide Wireless & Wireline Conference.			309
Alcoa Foundation Partners with Morehouse College; Invests in First-Ever Oprah Winfrey South African Leadership Project.			523
Alexander Lindale Enters Market and Product Awareness Campaign with Rocky Mountain Brands.			401
Alien Technology Announces Election of Stan Meresman to Board of Directors.			466
Allegheny Technologies to Hold Analyst Meeting.			376
Allergan Receives Written Response from FDA on Oral Tazarotene.			499
Alliance Bank Appoints Dave Holmes to Executive Vice President.			243
Alliance Medical Selected by MedAssets for Medical Device Reprocessing.			711
Alloy Announces First Quarter Results; Merchandising Business Improvement Continues Efficiencies Demonstrated in Media & Marketing Services Business.			2187
Altus Pharmaceuticals Appoints Sheldon Berkle President and Chief Executive Officer.			414
Ambient Announces Award of Newest Patent to Its Portfolio; Six New Claims Awarded on Inductive Coupling Technology.			365
Amedia's CTO to Speak at SUPERCOMM 2005 Session; Company to Also Showcase its MDU / FTTN / FTTP Solutions at Booth #71049.			397
Amerada Hess Announces Regular Quarterly Dividend on Common Stock.			48
American Eagle Outfitters Reports Record May Sales of $140.9 Million, an Increase of 25.8%; Same Store Sales Increased 17.1%.			398
American Express Launches Companion Airfare Offer for Travelers Cheque Card Customers.			438
American Healthways to Present at the Southwest Securities Healthcare Conference; Live Internet Broadcast, Replay of Presentation Available on Company's Website.			151
American Income Trust Announces Normal Course Issuer Bid.			172
American Suzuki May 2005 Sales Up 1 Percent.			493
Americana Publishing Inc. Producing Audio Books on CD Format Only; Switching to Sole CD Format Speeds Delivery to Consumer.			351
AMERICOM GOVERNMENT SERVICES Wins Contract To Support U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Communication Goals; AGS selected to link all HUD Field Locations.			378
AmeriStar RSP Announces Normal Course Issuer Bid.			166
AMI-Partners and Marqui to Host Free Web Seminar on New Marketing Communications Technologies and Trends on June 8.			487
Amisys Synertech --ASI-- Names Two New Vice Presidents; Philip Spinelli hired as Vice President, Sales; Sheila Wiese joins as Vice President, Marketing.			415
Analog Devices to Webcast Presentation at the Bear Stearns 16th Annual Technology Conference.			202
Angelica Hires Van Vliet as President.			562
Antibiotics in Livestock Feed.			119
AppIQ Named a Finalist for MVP Awards Participates in SRM Panel at Storage World Conference 2005.			513
Apple Hospitality Two Reviews Strategic Alternatives.			336
Applebee's International Announces Stan Sword as Chief People Officer.			587
Applied Materials Achieves CVD Leadership for 17th Year.			570
Applied Materials Files to Establish Holding Company in China.			382
AppRiver SecureTide Solution Gives Businesses of All Sizes Access to Fortune 500 Email Protection; Enhanced Service Includes User-Customizable Email Content Management Tools.			658
Arbitron Inc. Updates Financial Guidance for 2005.			394
Arbitron Releases Results of Survey of Chinese Language Radio Listening in New York and Los Angeles.			1307
Arbor Networks Names Jack Boyle Chief Executive Officer.			588
ArcSoft Announces the Release of ArcSoft CD&DVD LabelMaker; New Program Simplifies the Process of Creating Customized Disc Labels and Disc Inserts.			365
Arcwave to Introduce Management System for Cable Operators Deploying Multiple Wireless Bridge Devices; ARCNet to Enable Convenient, Centralized Management of Multiple Wireless Plant Extension Hubs Providing Service to Commercial Customers.			761
Ardana to Present at the Windhover Euro-Biotech Forum 2005.			438
Argonaut Group to Present June 9th at Sandler O'Neill & Partners Financial Services Conference in New York.			253
Arista Records Sign American Idol 4' Champion Carrie Underwood; 'Inside Your Heaven' The Debut Single from Underwood Will Hit Stores on June 14.			454
Arkeia Data Protection Solutions Now Certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.			566
ASB Holding Company Announces Cash Dividend.			348
ASG Introduces Value-Priced, Entry-Level Solution for Service-Oriented Architecture 'SOA'.			589
Asian Woman Magazine Ad-Sales Top $35,000 as the First Issue with North American Content Gets Ready to Hit North American Newsstands.			673
Assistant General Counsel of Pfizer Joins Xethanol Board of Directors.			615
Astro-Med Releases New Color Label Software.			398