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Technology

New Inspiring Now App Sends Positive Text Messages and Raises Money for Charity

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Successful entrepreneur Joseph Allen Jr. is releasing the Inspiring Now app, which allows users to receive positive text messages each morning for a nominal monthly fee. The app will officially launch July 15, but pre-release subscribers who download it before midnight on June 30 will receive at a substantial discount for life. Part of the app’s subscription fees are being donated to the Cure Aids Now (CAN) Foundation.

Grand Forks, ND (USA), Friday – June 29, 2012 — Consumers can now get encouraging quotes delivered directly to their cell phone, thanks to the new Inspiring Now app for Android smart phones.

The app is scheduled to officially launch July 15, but as part of a special pre-release campaign, anyone who downloads Inspiring Now by midnight on June 30 will receive it for just $1.99 a month for the duration of their subscription. The monthly subscription fee is expected to increase to $2.99 in the near future.

Inspiring Now is an innovative application that deploys a positive text message to subscribers each morning. The app allows users to receive messages directly on their cell phone—without having to go to a website or to the app itself to see the messages. The monthly subscription fee for Inspiring Now will be automatically included on users’ cell phone bill.

The new app is designed to give users a motivating push to help them become happier in their everyday lives, according to developer Joseph Allen Jr., CEO of Inspiring Now LLC. “Throughout life people come across many struggles and become disheartened,” Allen said. “This app will help them break down the barrier of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy in which life will never become any better.”

Inspiring Now is distinctive for a number of reasons. It is believed to be the only app in existence to allow users to receive a daily inspirational quote via text on their cell phones. In addition, 10 percent of the monthly proceeds from subscriptions will be contributed to the Cure Aids Now (CAN) Foundation. The foundation—led by Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame creator Brandon Bronzino—is working on the first-ever, FDA-approved cure for AIDS/HIV, along with the only AIDS/HIV eradication plan to eliminate this epidemic permanently from the world. More details about the CAN Foundation are available at CureAIDSnow.com (soon to be CureHIVnow.com).

Besides delivering positive quotes, the Inspiring Now app also includes content geared toward motivation. Users of the app can watch enlightening media on the company’s inspiringnowMobile YouTube channel. They can also share inspiring photos with quotes to friends and family through the Facebook feature contained within the app. “More customizable and personalized features for creating and sharing inspiration with our subscribers and their friends and family will be made available very soon,” Allen said.

Allen was motivated to create the Inspiring Now app for very personal reasons. A user-interface designer for a medical health care management application, he has always dreamed of developing mobile applications that truly add value to individuals’ lives. Inspiring Now is a manifestation of his efforts to convey messages of optimism and encouragement on a personal basis. Allen said: “Our company would like the public to have a sense of peace with our messages and become better people not only in their lives, but in the lives of others around them. We would like this positivity to spread throughout the world creating a better environment for all those who are seeking balance in chaos.”

The Inspiring Now app is a timely piece of software that is leveraging the popularity of technology, including texting, YouTube and Facebook. For more information, please contact Kimberly Keller at (701) 484-1679 or visit http://download.inspiringnow.com.

About Joseph Allen Jr.:
Joseph Allen Jr. is an avid entrepreneur, who launched his first company at a very young age. In 2010, he graduate from the University of North Dakota with a bachelor’s degree in economics and obtained a position as a user-interface designer for a medical healthcare management application (Health E First). The application is currently undergoing BETA testing to be prepared for implementation in the country’s largest health care insurance providers. In 2011, Allen’s ambition motivated him to raise more than $100,000 in private equity investment capital for a global workforce management and development software company (E-tivity USA LLC) for its initial public offering. Today, he operates Inspiring Now LLC and serves on the board of the Cure Aid Now Foundation located in San Francisco. Allen resides in Grand Forks, N.D.

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Joseph Allen Jr.
InspiringNow.com
Grand Forks, ND – USA
(701) 484-1261
joe@inspiringnow.com
http://download.inspiringnow.com

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World’s First Tamper-Evident Cloud – Estonian Telco Levira Teams Up with Joyent and Guardtime

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Joyent and Guardtime’s cloud computing technology enables Levira, the Estonian government’s majority owned service provider, to offer secure cloud-computing services to Governments and enterprises in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Palo Alto, CA (USA), Friday – June 29, 2012 — Joyent and Guardtime’s cloud computing technology ( http://www.guardtime.com ) enables Levira, the Estonian government’s majority owned service provider, to offer secure cloud-computing services to Governments and enterprises in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe. Levira also aims to start providing secure cloud services for multinational corporations that need to comply with the data residency requirements also outside of their home soil.

“Joyent’s double hulled virtualization and Guardtime’s keyless signature technology makes a formidable combination for enterprises and governments who wish to move to a cloud computing environment but hesitate due to security and trust-related concerns,” said Mart Einpalu, CEO of Levira. “Our mission is to become a leading cloud computing service provider in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe and our unique ability to give our clients tools to prove with mathematical certainty that their data has been safe and in compliance with the regulations is a paramount requirement to achieve that.”

Joyent’s Smart Data Center technology today powers numerous carriers and large scale service providers around the world including Uniserve Communications, LinkedIN and others. Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent said, “Estonia is at the forefront of technology innovation and it is no surprise that companies like Skype and Guardtime are developing cutting edge technologies there. We are thrilled to have a strategic partnership with Guardtime to offer the world’s first tamper-evident cloud.”

“Previously the clients of cloud computing services had no choice but to blindly trust their service provider,” added Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime. ( http://www.guardtime.com ) “With the integration of Guardtime’s keyless signature technology into Joyent’s Smart Data Center, clients can have an independently verifiable audit trail for everything that happens in their service provider’s environment. Our strategic partnership with Joyent represents a major breakthrough in enterprise risk management and audit preparedness in distributed IT infrastructure and will ease the transition to cloud computing, especially important for governments and enterprise clients with heightened security and compliance requirements.”

About Levira:
Levira is the provider of infrastructure services to IT, media and telecom segments. Headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Levira is the largest provider of TV playout services in the Northern Europe and the main TV- and radio broadcast transmission provider in Estonia. Levira operates one of the largest datacentres in Estonia and provides public and private cloud services using Joyent’s Smart Data Center technology. Levira provides IT, media and telecom infrastructure and business process outsourcing services to many multinational and regional players like Turner, Fox, TeliaSonera, Sony, MTG and others in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in 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 in which 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.

About Joyent:
Joyent is the cloud infrastructure performance company, offering enterprises and developers the best public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure for today’s modern data-intensive, real-time (DIRTy) applications. JoyentCloud.com delivers public cloud services to some of the most innovative companies in the world, including LinkedIn, Voxer, and Gilt Groupe. Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript project owned and stewarded by Joyent, provides developers and enterprises such as Microsoft with the most powerful runtime for developing data-intensive, real-time apps. SmartDataCenter orchestrates Joyent’s technologies into a cohesive, reliable and distributed system that can stand up to the compute demands of the modern world. For more information, visit http://www.joyent.com.

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Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Palo Alto, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

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Chris Smith, The Diabetic Chef Joins “Living Well” Diabetes Eduaction Cruise Hosted by Diabetes Daily Post (DDP)

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Novi-based Diabetes Daily Post announces on June 29, 2012 that it has join hands with Chris Smith to educate diabetes patients on nutrition, diet, and diabetes cooking on Royal Caribbean Cruise which sails on January 7, 2013 for a 6 day Caribbean cruise. Other participants are Jorge Prada, MD, an Educator and Diabetes Researcher, Susan Sloane Pharmacist and Certified Diabetes Educator, a member of American Diabetes Association board of director and Charles Liu, Clinical Pharmacist with special interest in Type 2 Diabetes. With Chris Smith’s participatiion, DDP’s education program lands itself as one the most comprehensive and dynamic diabetes education program offered in the North America. The participants will receive a broad and comprehensive education including a diabetes-exercise session and onboard two-mile fun walk for diabetes to raise funds for the American Diabetes Association and go home with usable recipes and cooking methods to control their diabetes better.

 

“Diabetes is a cause for many other metabolic diseases such as heart and vascular diseases and stroke. Complications include loss of eye sight, kidney failure and amputation. Recent study showed a 62% reduction in diabetes-related health care costs if a comprehensive interdisciplinary diabetes education is implemented. Diet control is one of the most important facets in controlling diabetes and this is often neglected or ignored. We are very fortunate to have Chirs onboard to drive home on this point. Chris is known as one of the most caring and talented chef. He educates and motivates: he is completely at home with the subject of type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. His passion comes from being a diabetic patient himself.” says Charles Liu R.Ph, MBA, DDP’s Cruise Education Coordinator and spokesman.

The Diabetes Daily Post a/k/a/ www.diabetesdailypost.com based in Novi, Michigan was created in 2011 to educate, enrich, and expand the knowledge of Diabetes. Its goal is to keep you informed about the latest news and drug innovations, provide health tools for diabetes management, motivate with triumph personal stories and talk about key opinion leaders who have worked on the elusive cure for Diabetes. The Diabetes Daily Post offers its “Living Well” Diabetes Education program both on cruises and in major cities.

Chef Chris is a Certified Executive Chef with over 20 years experience in the culinary field. With his focus on healthy cuisine, Chef Chris is an authority on diabetic nutrition and food preparation. He has been featured in TIME Magazine, USA Today, CNN, Web MD, Southern Living magazine. National television appearances include “DLIFE” and “Taking Control of Your Diabetes”. Chris is Novo Nordisk“Diabetes Academy” National tour speaking to both public and corporate audiences on the importance of cooking healthy and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Chef Chris’s cookbook: The Diabetic Chef’s Year Round Cookbook along with Cooking with The Diabetic Chef, are published by The American Diabetes Association. Both cookbooks provide simple tips, cooking techniques and a wide range of easy to prepare recipes the whole family will enjoy!

If you’d like more information about this topic, please consult
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http://diabetesdailypost.com/type-2-diabetes-travel-tips-how-to-book-a-cabin/

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