Monthly Archives: September 2011

Technology

First Pure Google Apps Cloud Solution for Ambulance Unit Released

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Netkiller worked with the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps (FHVAC) to design and develop a cloud solution for storing and dispatching ambulance response in a timely and efficient manner.

San Jose, CA, Friday – September 30, 2011 — What has Netkiller been up to these past few weeks? Developing the first ever pure Google Apps cloud solution for an Ambulance Unit. Netkiller worked with the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps (FHVAC) to design and develop a cloud solution for storing and dispatching ambulance response in a timely and efficient manner. NICER was presented last week at Pulse Check, an annual volunteer ambulance conference.

NICER is built entirely on the Google Cloud platform, providing for secure connections and 99.9% up time guaranteed. Because NICER is built purely on this platform, it runs within your Google Apps for Education accounts without 3rd party applications. Google Apps for Education is a free suite of hosted email and collaboration applications for non-profit organizations.

So what exactly is NICER and how does it work? NICER is a case management system designed specifically for ambulance units. NICER uses 4 categories of information to effectively and efficiently store data: Hotline Call, Dispatch Information, Notification, and Crew. Throughout the emergency response all of these activities are logged and instantly entered into and accessible from the program database.

For example, If an emergency call is received, the dispatcher enters the data into the NICER Hotline Call section. Next, the dispatcher notifies an available ambulance/crew and enters the assignment into the Dispatch Information and Crew sections. Finally, as the ambulance notifies the dispatcher of response status, the dispatcher enters these updates into the Notification section.

Alan Wolfe, the President of Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps, remarked, “Netkiller was able to design exactly what we needed to track our ambulance response. NICER is an easy, convenient and efficient tool that we can afford.”

Key Features of NICER:
– Simple, fast, and effective cloud solution
– Store information regarding emergency calls, dispatch, and updates
– Accessible from any computer with Internet by multiple users
– Search database at any time
– Customizable and expandable based on the needs

How to Get Started:
Our staff will help you to set up Google Apps for Education and NICER for your organization. Contact us nicer@netkiller.com for more information.

About Netkiller:
NETKILLER ( http://www.netkiller.com ) is an Information Technology integration firm based in San Jose, Seoul and Tokyo. The name is originated from the ‘NETKILLER (Network Trouble Killers)’ community since 1997 (25,000+ members), incorporated in 2004. NETKILLER has about 10 years history of innovation in IT and Cloud Computing.

Core competencies in several key industry sectors: Google Enterprise Solutions; Google Apps, Google Earth&Maps, Google Postini, Google Search Appliance Sales Cloud Solution; Salesforce.com CRM Service Cloud Solution; IT Asset Management and IT Service Management Service NETKILLER is a Google Enterprise Business Partner, Salesforce.com Partner (Consulting / ISV / Force.com) and Google Apps Authorized Reseller. NETKILLER currently has over 20,000 company accounts including banks, research institutions, government agencies, universities and multinational corporations worldwide.

For more details visit: http://www.netkiller.com

Press & Media Contact:
Harry Jung
Netkiller
2033 Gateway Place, Suite 500
San Jose, CA 95110 – USA
+1-408-573-6891
admin@netkiller.com

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Damart’s New Look Thermal Clothing Is The Perfect Tonic This Coming Winter

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The UK may be in the grips of a beautiful ‘Indian summer’ but the colder months our country is so accustom to are drawing dangerously close and soon those hot days will be long gone.

Thermal clothing is the perfect solution for the colder months and Damart’s range of thermal clothing is one of the most extensive and rich collections available today. Synonymous with thermal wear Damart has decades of experience and has developed market leading materials such as Thermolactyl. Injecting classic thermal clothing with modern and stylish designs Damart have managed to produce a truly remarkable range.

The designs available at Damart are not only fashionable but modern and value for money too. The ladies’ Long Pants for instance are simply gorgeous and ooze the fine details that go perfectly with smart or casual tops alike. Trendy and smart they have proven popular with the younger age groups as well as the older and are great value at £15.00.

Another winter essential and one that would go perfectly with the Ladies Long Pants is the French Neck Vest. Also made from Damart’s innovative Thermolactyl material, this particular vest is grade 2 in warmth, meaning comfort and control when out and about in the colder months. Part of the New Look thermal range and priced at £8.00 this is a vest that moves away from convention and boring traditional undergarments. Instead this thermal clothing is fashionable, popular, comfortable and is guaranteed to be a fan favourite.

In addition to these great items the Thermal Camisole is another classic from Damart’s New Look thermal range and is cut beautifully to compliment body shape helping to make you feel comfortable and warm. Coming in a pack of two and priced at £20.00 anyone would be sure to love these vests.

Damart’s clothing collection is known for its quality, style and innovation throughout. Continuing to be at the forefront of development, Damart’s researches continue to produce ‘Clever Clothing’ that makes Damart so much more than just a manufacture of clothing. When you also factor in the stylish designs and chic cuts you are left with a formula that will not disappoint. To see these wonderful clothes and more go to damart.co.uk for a further look.

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GuardTime Wins $50,000 Innotribe Start-Up Challenge for Most Promising Fintech Startup

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GuardTime is honored to announce it was selected a winner in the Innotribe$100K Start-Up Challenge, honoring the company as one of the most promising financial technology start-ups in 2011.

Toronto, ON (CANADA), Thursday – September 29, 2011 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), creator of the Keyless Signature technologyprovidingindisputable proof of time, origin, and integrity for electronic data, is honored to announce it was selected a winner in the Innotribe$100K Start-Up Challenge, honoring the company as one of the most promising financial technology start-ups in 2011. Selected from over 100 applicants, this year’s judges awarded the prize to two winners, each receiving $50,000. The other winning company announced is Truaxis (formerly BillShrink), for its Statement Rewards application that creates transaction-based services for financial institutions, merchants and consumers.

The 2011 Innotribe $100K Start-up Challenge was designed to introduce the most promising FinTech and Financial Services start-ups to SWIFT’s community of more than 9,700 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 209 countries. The award was presented in front of an audience of roughly 8000 financial industry professionals during the Innotribe@Sibos conference in Toronto on 22 September.

“We’re thrilled to be recognized by the financial services industry forinnovation that creates indisputable and mathematically-sound audit trails for all electronic data, making it ideal for applications such as Internet banking, mobile payments, digital log forensics and eDiscovery,” said Mike Gault, CEO, GuardTime. “This award further validates why our customers partnered with us, and the benefits they’ve realized from using GuardTime.”

KostaPeric, Head of Innovation at SWIFT, said: “The Start-Up Challenge is a vital component of Innotribe’s work to nurture new solutions to common financial industry challenges, and Innotribe@Sibos is the ideal environment in which to foster collaborative engagement with the most exciting new propositions coming out of the start-up community. This year’s winners, including GuardTime, represent innovation at its best.”

GuardTime customer/partners include:
* ARKIBIZ, a leader in cloud-based e-documents and records management solutions;
* Authentify, a leader in telephone-based, multi-factor authentication services;
* Brother Industries of Japan;
* Cernam, a cloud-based eDiscovery service provider;
* Ftopia, an online collaboration and storage service;
* Rakuten Bank, Japan’s largest online bank;
* SEB Estonia Bank, one of the most wired banks in the world;
* Joyent, a web-hosting provider and cloud application developer, whose customers include Twitter and LinkedIn.

More information can be found at: http://innotribestartup.myreviewroom.com/pages/details

About GuardTime:
GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: trust. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of data integrity, signing authority, and time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. GuardTime’s mission is to change the world to one where Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the cloud.Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

All company names are trademarks of their respective owners.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz
MediaPR.net Inc
Toronto, ON
Canada
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

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eGestalt Named a 2011 CRN Emerging Technology Vendor

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Channel stands to reap big rewards by using SecureGRC to attract federal meaningful use dollars.

Santa Clara, CA, Wednesday – September 28, 2011 — eGestalt Technologies ( http://www.eGestalt.com ), a leading provider of cloud-based, SaaS-delivered, security and information technology governance, risk management and compliance solutions for SMBs to enterprises,today announced it has been selected by Everything Channel as a 2011 CRN Emerging Technology Vendor. The annual list features the most innovative vendors who not only deliver technology that is easy to use, but can generate the high margins solution providers require.

Channel partners need no more incentive than the $40,000 in ‘meaningful use’ government funds being granted to individual doctor’s offices that install electronic medical records (EMR) that are fully in compliance with HIPAA/HITECH privacy and security rules.

“Large hospitals are eligible for up to $2 million in federal grants,” said eGestalt President Anupam Sahai. “Not only must every physician practice abide by HIPAA rules, but all their business associatestoo must fall in compliance. There are a few million BAs who need to be serviced. So from one hub comes many spokes of potential business for partners jumping on board with SecureGRC.”

Built from the ground up for channel partners, SecureGRC is a cloud-based, SaaS-delivered, $750 per year security and risk assessment, auditing and remediation application. The tool offers peace of mind to channel partners servicing SMBs to large enterprises, including medical providers and their business associates, retailers and merchants that must meet PCI and HIPAA/HITECH requirements.

With version 11 recently released, SecureGRC consolidates all security and compliance-related evidence into a single and centralized repository.It comes stacked with pre-packaged content such as policies that are continuously updated, a trove of best practices, and plenty of assessment questions that make it an easy step-by-step process to run the assessment and prove compliance.

Thanks to the fine print in HIPAA/HITECH legislation, MSPs have a tremendous gold mine of an opportunity to reap big rewards, revenues, and bundling opportunities. The cost of doing a security assessment and PCI compliance can run $100,000 and above.

“Using SecureGRC’saward-winning,patent pending technology, delivered through channel partners, our customers are able to become compliant at 1/10 the cost with very little maintenance.This promises to be a huge boon for the channel,” addedSahai. “And you don’t need to be conversant with the fine print of these PCI and HIPAA/HITECH regulations.”

SecureGRC also offers an automated PCI-DSS compliance management solution that helps meet PCI-DSS requirements in terms ofbuilding and maintaining a secure network; protecting card holder data; maintaining a vulnerability management program; implementing strong access control measures; regularly monitoring and testing networks, and maintaining robust IT security policies. For more information visit: http://www.egestalt.com/automated-pci-compliance-management.html

Channel partners authorized by eGestalt can become Managed Compliance Providers (MCPs), a channel program based around a proprietary “cookbook” that explains in step-by-step fashion on how to get started with delivering managed compliance services through creation of collateral, training, implementation, delivery and on-going playbooks as the business is up and running.

The Federal government has set aside $20 billion for upgrading the healthcare IT infrastructure by the year 2014 – spelling a huge upside for the channel. Service providers can pursue federal ‘meaningful use’ dollars to the tune of $40,000 per qualified physician practice. SecureGRC generates the necessary reports for proving compliance.

“By law, all business associates and sub-contractors affiliated with the given medical practice must follow HIPAA/HITECH compliance rules or face stiff penalties. It could not be more convincing a sale. Like spokes from a wheel, from one customer hub derives multiple new clients to service,” said Jim Hare, eGestaltVice President of Sales.

eGestalt is looking for qualified channel partners who want to help their clients solve and automate the complexities and high costs associated with maintaining and enforcing security and compliance around PCI, SOX, HIPAA/HITECH, ISO, GLBA and other mandatory government and industry regulations that affect most business operations.

For further details please call (408) 689-2586 or email sales@egestalt.com. For further details about the product, please visit http://www.egestalt.com/msp-mssp-partners.html.

The vendors that make up the CRN Emerging Technology Vendor list were founded in 2005 or later, have revenue under $1 billion and have an active U.S. channel strategy. Final selection to the Emerging Technology Vendor list was made by the CRN editorial team after a review of submitted information. To view a sample of the list and read the editorial accompaniment visit http://www.ubmchannel.com.

About UBM Channel (http://www.ubmchannel.com):
UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at www.ubmchannel.com.

UBM plc (http://www.ubm.com):
UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world’s buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries is organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.ubm.com

About eGestalt Technologies Inc:
eGestalt (www.egestalt.com) is a world-class, innovation driven, leading provider of cloud-computing based enterprise solutions for information security and IT-GRC management. eGestalt is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, and has offices in the US, Asia-Pacific and Middle East. eGestalt was nominated Breakthrough Technology Vendor at XChange Americas, Aug. 2010, and selected by SiliconIndia among the “Top 10 Security Companies to Watch.” Its SecureGRC application was voted runner-up in the Managed Services Category at XChange Tech Innovators, Nov. 2010. And in Feb. 2011 eGestalt VP of Worldwide Sales Jim Hare was been named a Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN.

Press Contact:
Victor Cruz
Principal, MediaPR.net
For eGestalt Technologies
vcruz@mediapr.net

Scott Regan
Everything Channel
scott.regan@ec.ubm.com
508.416.1186

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net, Inc
For eGestalt Technologies
Santa Clara, CA
(978) 594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.egestalt.com

Entertainment

Uncommon Sense Story Motivates Readers to Change Their Lives

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Turner offers a look at what we need to do to truly change our lives and how to accomplish our goals. He now shares these lessons and strategies he learned creating a multi-million dollar professional development company that teaches other businesses how to achieve corporate growth.

Valley View, OH, Wednesday – September 28, 2011 — “If you’re not growing, you’re going.”

This is the mantra of Darryl Turner, author of Uncommon $ense, a story about the human struggle with change. Turner said his main character, “Charlie,” is on the brink of failure, but instead becomes successful when he accepts the mentoring of a younger co-worker. The author, an international motivational speaker, sales trainer, and CEO of The Darryl Turner Corporation, said the book was “inspired by the thousands of Charlies my team and I have had the privilege to help over the last two decades.”

“My book is on how we struggle to deal with and process change. It’s a confidential personal struggle,” Turner said. “The topic for the book comes from personal experience,” he said.

“I wrote about what I know and what I help people overcome everyday.”

Turner offers a look at what we need to do to truly change our lives and how to accomplish our goals. He now shares these lessons and strategies he learned creating a multi-million dollar professional development company that teaches other businesses how to achieve corporate growth.

“The goal is to inspire people emotionally to take steps they would not normally take,” Turner said. “Adapting to a model not of your own is tough.” Uncommon $ense is about what people go through, Turner explained. “It’s a 100 percent real life accurate story. People can relate to the characters.” And when they have finished Uncommon $ense, the author said, readers will have a “significant call to action.”

“Don’t settle for common sense and average results,” Turner said, “set your sights much higher. Set them toward acquiring Uncommon $ense.”

Turner said he gained inspiration to write the book from his Christian faith and pastor Glen Berteau, who penned the forward for Uncommon $ense. The author and his wife of 29 years, Darlene, have four children ages 26, 20, 18 and 5. He has published numerous business related articles.

To order Turner’s new book, visit http://www.halopublishing.com. For information about the author, visit http://www.DarrylTurnerSeminars.com or http://www.DarrylTurnerCorp.com. His podcasts are available on iTunes.

Press & Media Contact:
Lisa M. Umina, Publisher
Halo Publishing International
5549 Canal Road
Valley View, OH 44125
877-705-9647
lisa@halopublishing.com

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SmartTOP Convertible Top Controller by Mods4cars for VW Golf VI Cabriolet

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Effective immediately the after market convertible top controller offered by Mods4cars is available for the recently introduced Volkswagen Golf VI Cabriolet. It allows opening and closing of the convertible top with one-touch convenience – also while driving at slow speeds. Additionally the top can be operated remotely via the original factory key fob.

Las Vegas, NV, Wednesday – September 28, 2011 — The SmartTOP convertible top kit offered by after market automotive specialist Mods4cars for the new Volkswagen Golf VI Cabriolet is available for purchase effective immediately. Now owners of this modern day Volkswagen get to enjoy the benefits of added comfort and convenience features. The kit enables use of the top at speed of up to 60 km/h (~35mph) and adds one-touch operation, so there is no more need to hold down the switch. The positive effect: The top is used more often, the driver gets to enjoy more top-down time.

“We are excited to have our module ready and selling so quickly after Volkswagen just introduced the new Golf VI Cabriolet to the market.” says PR manager Sven Tornow. He also points out the great convenience of being able to open and close the top from the original factory key fob without the need to reprogram the existing key fobs.

The SmartTOP convertible top add-on module for the Golf VI Cabriolet offers additional individually programmable features such as inverting the top switch direction. Now it is possible for each driver to choose which direction is more intuitive for them. Push to open and pull to close and vice versa.

Additionally the windows can be operated by remote, separately from the top. A chirp feature can be activated to give a quick “chirp” of the horn when locking or unlocking the car and each owner can decide if an ongoing operation should continue if the ignition is turned off or the engine is started while the top is in motion. If needed, the entire module can be temporarily switched off while retaining all individual user preferences and thanks to the plug-and-play wiring it is possible to revert back to factory condition within minutes without leaving traces.

The custom designed plug-and-play wiring adapter allows for straight forward installation of the SmartTOP module by simply plugging it in between two connectors. A standard USB connector on the module gives end users the ability to configure the product with a couple of mouse clicks as well as installing firmware updates (available free of charge for the life of the product).

SmartTOP convertible top kits are available for: Alfa, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Ferrari, Ford, Infiniti, Mazda, Mercedes, Mini, Nissan, Opel, Peugeot, Porsche, Renault, Volvo and Volkswagen.

The kit for Volkswagen Golf VI Cabriolet is available now for 249.00 Euros + tax.

A demonstration of the product can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bxUm8RZ73k

Further details and purchasing information can be found here: http://www.mods4cars.com

About Mods4cars:
Mods4cars was founded in 2002 with the idea to add a highly demanded feature to the otherwise almost perfect Porsche Boxster: Comfort One-Touch roof operation while driving at slow speeds. The resulting product offered not only that, but also allowed quick and easy installation by just swapping out a relay box, thus leaving no traces and no permanent changes on the vehicle. The first SmartTOP roof controller was born.

The success of their first products in Germany and Europe prompted them in late 2004 to move operations to the USA, to be able to serve the American market as well as all other English speaking countries such as Australia, UK and South Africa from one central location. Their business has grown to a full-fledged international corporation with an office in Las Vegas and a full line of innovative products as well as distributors and installation partners all over the globe.

Being highly specialized in the development and distribution of aftermarket roof- and comfort controllers since 2002 allows them to offer an unsurpassed level of competence and product quality. Their main goal is optimization of each individual product to a maximum in compatibility, usability and intuitive operation. They put greatest effort into development and quality checks of all their products to achieve this goal and meet all expectations of their customers.

The extraordinary success of their products is also based on the great communication with their customers, which usually already starts for each new product during the development and prototyping phase.

Press & Media Contact:
Anja Lehmann
Mods4cars
1350 E. Flamingo Rd #3100
Las Vegas, NV 89119 – USA
+1-310-9109055
lehmann@mods4cars.com
http://www.mods4cars.com

Biotech, Business, Chemicals, Electronics, Healthcare, Industrial, Science, Technology

Advanced Liquid Logic Licenses Patents, Creates Collaboration With CEA-Leti

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, SEPTEMBER, 27 2011 – Advanced Liquid Logic announced today that it has signed a license and collaboration agreement with the French research institute CEA-Leti. The agreement provides Advanced Liquid Logic with worldwide exclusive access to CEA’s portfolio of patents related to digital microfluidics.

Advanced Liquid Logic co-founder and Dr. Michael Pollack said, “This agreement puts our company in a clearly dominant position with respect to the intellectual property surrounding digital microfluidics.” Co-founder Dr. Vamsee Pamula added, “the accompanying collaboration with a very active and highly competent group of researchers will provide us with key technical resources to help address both today’s and tomorrow’s technology challenges.” Advanced Liquid Logic has set up a subsidiary company in Grenoble, France to help manage the collaboration and to provide an initial position to address market opportunities in Europe. CEA-Leti employee Dr. Cyril Delattre will join the company and manage Advanced Liquid Logic’s French subsidiary.
“The combination of Advanced Liquid Logic’s intellectual property position and their readiness for market made them the ideal partner,” said Dr. Laurent Malier, CEO Leti. “We expect that our complementary skills, expertise and intellectual property will be very useful going forward. This partnership with Advanced Liquid Logic offers an industrial solution that will help us develop applications bases on microfluidics for many sectors”.

Advanced Liquid Logic previously acquired intellectual property from Nanolytics and Core Microsolutions. The company now owns or controls over 45 issued patents related to their proprietary, electrowetting-based digital microfluidic technology.

About Advanced Liquid Logic
Advanced Liquid Logic, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is commercializing its proprietary “Digital Microfluidics” technology in a spectrum of life sciences and clinical diagnostics applications. Digital microfluidics enables precise and flexible manipulation of microdroplets using electrical fields and therefore avoids the need for pumps, valves or microchannels required by competing technologies. For more information please visit http://www.liquid-logic.com/

Richard West
+1 919 287-9010
rwest@liquid-logic.com

About CEA-Leti
CEA is a French research and technology organization, with activities in four main areas: energy, information technologies, healthcare technologies and defence and security. Within CEA, the Laboratory for Electronics & Information Technology (CEA-Leti) works with companies in order to increase their competitiveness through technological innovation and transfers. CEA-Leti is focused on micro and nanotechnologies and their applications, from wireless devices and systems, to biology and healthcare or photonics. Nanoelectronics and microsystems (MEMS) are at the core of its activities. As a major player in MINATEC campus, CEA-Leti operates 8,000-m² state-of-the-art clean rooms, on 24/7 mode, on 200mm and 300mm wafer standards. With 1,400 employees, CEA-Leti trains more than 190 Ph.D. students and hosts 200 assignees from partner companies. Strongly committed to the creation of value for the industry, CEA-Leti puts a strong emphasis on intellectual property and owns more than 1,700 patent families.
Visit www.leti.fr.

CEA-Leti
Thierry Bosc
+33 4 38 78 31 95
thierry.bosc@cea.fr

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Automotive, Consumer Services, Internet & Online, Transportation & Logistics, Travel

Savings on Orlando Car Hire from Award-Winning Comparator Carrentals.co.uk

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27 September 2011 – Carrentals.co.uk, the website that helps tourists to compare and source money-saving car hire deals, is this week home to new prices on rental cars in Florida. With the autumn holiday season in full swing the award-winning website has published new deals to help people rent a car for less in Florida.

Carrentals.co.uk has helped people save money on car hire around the world for over 5 years and sources its prices from more than 50 of famous name suppliers. Travellers can compare and then book car hire Orlando deals from companies including Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Ebookers, Hertz, Holiday Autos, Opodo, Sixt and Thrifty to get the best possible deal for them.

Florida is renowned for offering tourists famous attractions, theme parks and more great days out. Having picked up a hire car from Orlando’s airport for as little as£14 per day*, the tourist can head off to their hotel or for a fun day out.

Gareth Robinson, Managing Director of Carrentals.co.uk, says, “Autumn sees many thousands of people making for the beaches of Florida to enjoy some warmer weather, and we can help them do so on a budget. The new car rental USA deals we have offer some great Orlando deals right now.”

Carrentals.co.uk compares car hire deals from more than 50 rental providers, including Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Holiday Autos and Sixt, in over 15,000 locations worldwide. To compare the latest car hire deals visit www.carrentals.co.uk.
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*Price correct at time of writing for 1 week car hire from October 20th for rentals collected at Orlando International Airport.

About Carrentals.co.uk
Carrentals.co.uk was launched in February 2003 and grew to become one of the UK’s leading online car hire companies by 2006.

In 2007 the company re-launched its site to create the first major online price comparator in the travel industry. Using the latest technology the Carrentals.co.uk site now searches more than 50 different car hire websites, providing an impartial comparison of the best prices available in over 10,000 locations.

Websites searched include Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Ebookers, Hertz, Holiday Autos, Opodo, Sixt and Thrifty, with the Carrentals.co.uk site quickly comparing prices and allowing customers to refine their search by car type.

The Carrentals.co.uk site also features over 5,000 pages of travel information in a mini-guide format.

In 2008 Carrentals.co.uk was voted Best Car Hire Website in the Travolution Awards, and in 2010 it was Highly Commended in the Best Meta-search/Price Comparison category. To book or for further information visit www.carrentals.co.uk.

Media Contact
Helen Young
T: 0844 448 1489
press@asapventures.co.uk
ASAP Ventures Ltd
0844 448 1489
www.carrentals.co.uk

 

Food & Beverage, Non-Profit, Society

On Friday September 30th MyDish.co.uk Will Be Turning To Its Baking Recipes In Support Of The Macmillan Cancer Support Event The ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’

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Macmillan Cancer Support is a charity close to MyDish.co.uk’s heart and as such is urging all to offer their support this coming Friday for the Macmillan ‘Coffee Morning’ event

Established in 1990, the Macmillan Cancer Support’s ‘Coffee Morning’ event quickly grew in popularity and soon became known as the ‘world’s largest coffee morning’. Last year alone saw 43,000 people get involved in this great cause helping to raise over eight million pounds.

Cancer is still a huge health risk for the UK population with statistics showing 1 in 3 people suffering from the illness at some point in their lives. These individuals require financial, emotional and medical support which Macmillan attempts to address and provide.

It is for this reason and many others that the founder of MyDish.co.uk, Carol Savage, is a big supporter of the charity and will be baking her favourite recipes for the Coffee Morning this coming Friday. Donning the chef’s hat and sourcing her favourite baking recipes, Carol will be baking her best cupcake recipes and selling them to support the Macmillan trust.

Asked about the Coffee Morning event Carol Savage said ‘Cancer is something that affects us all in some form or another.  My Mother-in law Maureen died of Leukeimia and she inspired me with her recipes to start MyDish.co.uk. Cancer is a very real illness that is just too common and we should do what we can to help and offer support .A few cupcakes here and there is not much to ask’

Making even the smallest donation can still make a big difference.  £25 alone can pay for the cost of a Macmillan nurse for an hour, helping to provide essential medical, practical and emotional support for cancer sufferers.

£51 can purchase a liquidiser for someone who can unfortunately no longer eat solid food as a result of their cancer treatment. These services and many like them are just some of the essentials cancer sufferers need and the Macmillan trust helps provide them.

If you need some recipe ideas this coming Friday then visit MyDish.co.uk.  Home to thousands of good recipes, MyDish.co.uk has hundreds of baking recipes and cupcake recipes ensuring that everyone can find the perfect baking recipe for the Coffee Morning .

You can add your own suggestions if you feel the MyDish.co.uk com munity would benefit. In addition to this you can also see loads of great recipes on MyDish that have been donated to Macmillan by big name celebrities. Check out Eva Longoria’s lovely Churros and Gwyneth Paltrow’s gorgeous Pancakes. Alternatively Judi Denchs’ delicious Rum and Chocolate Fudge may be more to your taste.

So this Friday spare a little extra change, get your baking gloves on, drink some coffee and join Carol Savage and www.mydish.co.uk in supporting this extremely worthwhile charity, as together we can make a difference.

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Consumer Services, Education, Internet & Online, Kids & Teens, Retail, Shopping

Parents Whose Kids Skip School Should Forfeit Benefits Says DiscountVouchers.co.uk Research

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26 September 2011 – A high percentage of British consumers have told online money saving website DiscountVouchers.co.uk that they feel parents of children who skive off from school should lose their benefits. The website, which helps shoppers save money at more than 800 stores, polled site users on the subject of school truancy.

Of the deals website’s respondents, 78% said they feel that parents should be made to pay by losing full benefits if their children regularly skive off school.

Claire Hayes, Chief Operations Officer at DiscountVouchers.co.uk, says: “The UK’s education sector has always been a source of pride and provides the workforce of the future. Parents who are allowing their children to miss school are undermining that and so it is understandable that people feel they should be punished for doing so.”

DiscountVouchers.co.uk features more than 500 new voucher codes every day from over 3000 retailers including Marks & Spencer, House of Fraser, Lastminute.com and Sainsbury’s.
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About DiscountVouchers.co.uk
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