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The U.S. Chess Federation (USCF) and America's Foundation for Chess (AF4C) today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement. Through this partnership, AF4C's unique First Move™ chess curriculum becomes a USCF-sanctioned in-school program for teaching elementary level children the game of chess. Together, the two organizations will work to expand the interest of chess and help make the intellectually challenging game an integral part of class curriculum. Co-marketing activities will help drive the awareness level and advantages of membership in the USCF as well.

"AF4C has delivered an effective in-class chess curriculum with a proven track record in schools across the country and we're pleased to establish a partnership with a top quality organization," said Joel Channing, a USCF board member, and Vice President of Finance. "Through our joint marketing efforts with the AF4C, we plan to increase the awareness of the USCF and benefits of membership, while demon...

Xandros, the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows desktop and server products, today announced the appointment of Jeff Kuligowski as Senior Vice President of Sales.

With solid experience in sales and sales management at Sterling Software, Oracle, and most recently as Senior VP of Worldwide Sales for Kintera, Inc., a leading provider of online fund raising solutions to nonprofit organizations, Jeff brings to Xandros a wealth of experience in SMB, channel, enterprise, and application service provider sales activities.

"Jeff has the proven track record and enthusiasm required to translate Xandros' technology leadership into global market leadership," said Andreas Typaldos, Xandros CEO. "Xandros has an across the board portfolio of Linux desktop, server, and management solutions that provide a solid platform upon which we can expand our sales...

Sage Software today announced availability of the new Sage CRM SalesLogix v7 product suite at the annual Gartner Customer Relationship Management Summit in Chicago, Illinois. Sage CRM SalesLogix v7 expands on the product's integrated sales, marketing, customer service and support automation capabilities with feature additions driven by the needs of small and mid-sized businesses, as well as users in divisions of large enterprise. New v7 features include interactive sales dashboards, an integrated service and support client, enhanced marketing capabilities, full-featured mobile support and productivity enhancements for users, administrators and developers.

"Sage Software continues to develop new features across the entire Sage CRM SalesLogix product suite to help organizations heighten their awareness and use of actionable customer data," explained Elvin Monteleone, senior vice president and general manager for Sage CRM Solutions. "Our customers can use Sage CRM SalesLogix from the ...

Many Americans dream of starting their own business, but not everyone knows how to get started. "Time to Startup," from BizFilings, provides the tips, guidance, and useful links to budding entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Time to Startup (www.timetostartup.com) is a blog for emerging entrepreneurs and small business owners who have a keen interest in running a successful business, but little time to scout best practices and emerging trends on their own. The site, provided as a courtesy by BizFilings, provides daily postings on emerging startup and small business practices, tips, research and trends.

"We help thousands of individuals start their own companies each year," said Troy Janisch, marketing director for BizFilings and one of Time to Startup's contributing writers. "The 'Time to Startup' blog gives us an opportunity to share information that can make those companies, and any other, more successful by learning about new t...

Sage Software today announced details of its keynote speakers for Sage Summit, the company's annual customer conference, scheduled to take place November 5-8, 2006 in Nashville. This 3-day event helps small and mid-sized business users of Sage Software products and services to network, gain insight to better utilize their software and learn about industry and business trends affecting their organizations.

Sage Summit will open with a keynote from Debbi Fields, one of the few innovators and entrepreneurs to see their name become a product brand and symbol of quality that is known and revered worldwide. With more than 25 years of entrepreneurial, operational and managerial experience, she brings tales of both success and failure to her audiences. She shares her common-sense insights and strategies that can make any business more successful and customer-focused. Debbi Fields is the former Chairman of Mrs. Fields Cookies, a $450 million company she founded in 1977.

Sage Summit will...

Sage Software today announced over 40 ACT! Add-on solutions compatible with the new ACT! by Sage 2007 (9.0) contact and customer management product family. Add-on products give ACT! users the freedom to choose from a diverse choice of value-added communications, sales, marketing, mapping, help desk, synchronization, administrative and productivity applications.

"Our add-on partners are a community of expert developers who expand upon the core functionality of ACT!," explained Joe Bergera, ACT! senior vice president and general manager for Sage Software. "These partners build a wide variety of performance-enhancing business applications that address specific needs for individuals, small businesses and corporate workgroups, effectively helping millions of ACT! users further leverage the power of ACT! to improve their productivity and business processes."

Sage Software today also simultaneously announced four new products -- ACT! by Sage 2007 (9.0), ACT! by Sage Premium for Workgr...

Sage Software today unveiled the new ACT! by Sage 2007 product family comprised of ACT! by Sage 2007 (9.0), ACT! by Sage Premium for Workgroups 2007 (9.0), ACT! by Sage Premium for Web 2007 (9.0) and ACT! for Palm OS® 2.0. Sage Software, for the first time, is announcing a simultaneous upgrade of the entire ACT! product family, enabling users of the number-one selling contact and customer manager to utilize the latest ACT! features from their desktop, laptop, Web browser or Palm OS device. With the most flexible deployment options, ACT! supports on-line and off-line access to centralized customer data for corporate sales teams, small businesses and individuals.

New and improved ACT! 2007 features include direct integration with Microsoft® Outlook®, enhanced user productivity, simplified administration and field-level data security.

"Long recognized for enabling millions of end-users to achieve their dreams and aspirations, Sage is excited to see businesses of all...

Sage Software announced today that Architectural Systems, Inc. of New York, a leading international distributor of interior finishes, has used Sage CRM SalesLogix since 2003 to help it achieve approximately 75% sales growth. Architectural Systems has 22 employees using the CRM system to manage nearly 500 U.S. and international design projects at a time. The company works with its Sage CRM Solutions business partner, Castle CRM, also located in New York, to customize and expand its system as business challenges require.

"We have grown from a half-million dollar basement-office company seventeen years ago into a nearly $20 million business today," said Ronald Jackson, Architectural Systems CEO. "We expect to double our business in the next 36 months, which we believe is very achievable with the aid of Sage CRM SalesLogix and Castle CRM. Sage CRM SalesLogix is a well structured system that enables us to manage the many precise details of our business. We couldn't be where we are today...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center (www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/about/index.html), RTI International, Applied EM, Inc., International Communications Group, Unitech, Sierra Nevada Corporation (Sierra Nevada), and Techsphere Systems International, Inc. (Techsphere), a wholly owned subsidiary of Cyber Defense Systems, Inc., (OTCBB: CYDF), announced today that the test flights of the new generation "paint-on" antenna technology on board the SA-60 Spherical Airship were successful June 21, 2006 in the Nevada desert.

This was a worldwide exclusive to test the lightweight "paint-on antenna" technology on Sierra Nevada and Techsphere airship technology for communications and other applications. As part of an effort to develop new high-altitude communicatio...

Wavesat today announced they are working with Texas Instruments to develop a 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI module and reference design. The product will be commercially available by Q4 of 2006 from Wavesat.

The 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI design is a development platform supporting OEMs efforts to design WiMAX-compliant wireless systems for the 5.8 GHz unlicensed band using Wavesat's Evolutive WiMAX™ DM256 chip and TI's family of WiMAX-optimized radio frequency (RF) solutions. Based on the WiMAX Forum profile, the 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI design greatly simplifies the overall WiMAX CPE design, enabling customers to bring WiMAX solutions to market faster and more cost-efficiently, while allowing for flexibility to address further changes driven by the WiMAX emerging market dynamics, application diversity and customer profiles.

Key features of the 5.8 GHz Mini-PCI Design

Provides a plug-and-play, complete solution for the lower layer air interface and time critical low-level MAC functionality. "We a...