Moving and Storage Business News

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- Seattle Times Interface column: online stashing, sharing of videos.(St…
- Softek Reports Continued Revenue Growth and Positive EBITDA in Fiscal…
- … Awarded Major School District Contract as Other Companies…
- Q3 2006 Halliburton Company Earnings Conference Call – Final.
- ADVA Optical Networking Chosen by Home Telephone Company for Network…
- Corporate governance
- Exclusive: BladeFrame EX slices, dices, dazzles – Egenera’s…

Seattle Times Interface column: online stashing, sharing of videos.(St…
Free with registration – Seattle Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 23, 2006
23–What: StashSpace. com, based in Winthrop, Okanogan County Who: Lars Krumme, executive vice president and co-founder What it does: Offers online editing, storage and management for videos an.

Softek Reports Continued Revenue Growth and Positive EBITDA in Fiscal…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 23, 2006
Softek posted second quarter total revenue growth over the prior-year same period. Second quarter and fiscal year to date operating profit from Softek’s line of open systems Nonstop Data Mobility[TM] solutions increased 127 percent and 396 percent, respectively, on a year-over-year basis. The company also achieved its sixth straight quarter of positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). Maintenance renewals rates from Softek’s traditional line of mobility.

… Awarded Major School District Contract as Other Companies…
Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 23, 2006
M2 PRESSWIRE-23 October 2006-Stockguru. com: National Scientific is Awarded Major School District Contract as Other Companies Enter into Agreements, Address Stock and Trading Issues, Fill Executive Positions, and Renew Stockholder Rights Plans(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23102006 Dallas, Texas – StockGuru Pre-Market Updates for Monday include Cyberlux Corporation (OTCBB: CYBL), Universal Express Inc. (OTCBB: USXP), National Scientific Corporation (OTCBB:NSCT), Zeros & Ones, Inc. (OTC:ZROS), The Board of Directors of Franchise Capital Corporation (OTC:FCCN) and Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (OTC: LGND). StockGuru Pre-Market Updates feature companies with significant moves in either volume or price in the past two trading sessions. In our update we analyze recent news about the companies featured and detail the movement in the stock.

Q3 2006 Halliburton Company Earnings Conference Call – Final.
Free with registration – Fair Disclosure Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 23, 2006
I would now like to introduce your host for today’s conference, Ms. Evelyn Angelle, Vice President of Investor Relations You may begin. EVELYN ANGELLE, VP INVESTOR RELATIONS, HALLIBURTON COMPANY: Thanks, Matt. Good morning and welcome to Halliburton’s third quarter 2006 earnings release conference call. Today’s call is being webcast and a replay will be available on our Web site for seven days. A podcast download will also be available on our Web site. Joining me today are Dave Lesar our CEO, Chris Gaut, our CFO, Andy Lane, our COO and Bill Utt, the President and CEO of KBR… We are also redeploying frac fleets to the mid-con area to address additional demand from our existing customers. We’re also considering sending another fleet to Canada where our business is focused not in the shallow gas markets, but in the deeper areas such as the foothills. We believe we will be at least able to continue posting our historical high margins because we have enough demand for our services to keep our fleets fully utilized even if it means moving equipment to other areas. And most of our customer contracts contain cost escalation clauses that allow us to pass cost increases along to our customers. For those customers that do not have escalation clauses, that work is priced on a call-out basis and inflationary costs are already priced in. We spent a lot of time discussing our near-term outlook for North America with our customers. Other than the shallow and coalbed methane wells in Western Canada, we’ve seen and heard only limited instances of customers actually shutting in production temporarily until the natural gas price comes back up.

ADVA Optical Networking Chosen by Home Telephone Company for Network…
primezone.com – Oct 23, 2006
In July 2006, ADVA acquired Movaz Networks and its RAYexpress(r) product line, which has been renamed the FSP 3000RE. HomeTel is an independent telecommunications company providing full-service, quality telecommunications throughout Berkeley and Dorchester Counties in South Carolina. The company, traditionally a rural Independent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC), operates in a part of the country experiencing tremendous population growth. “We’ve strived to take a very rural area and provide the same, highly-advanced services our customers would find if they lived in any major metropolitan area,” said Will Helmly, HomeTel’s president and COO. “Our rings run through varying geography and terrain such as marshes and a national forest, making fiber replacement or addition a very serious problem. By using the FSP 3000RE, we could effectively deploy new services while minimizing future construction costs… In 2004, HomeTel purchased the Daniel Island Media Company, which had an ongoing Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network, and has committed to deploy FTTH into many of the new subdivisions. Right now, Video on Demand (VOD) is driving the telco’s need for expanded capacity. Its next big growth push will be to Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), moving away from more traditional Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)-based circuits to IP-based circuits. “This application is a clear indication of the value flexible optical networks bring to today’s carrier,” stated Brian P. McCann, ADVA Optical Networking’s chief strategy and marketing officer. “In a region of the country where population is exploding, HomeTel’s network must be ready for expansion and for delivery of today’s advanced services. With DWDM overlay on exhausted SONET fiber rings, our technology assists HomeTel meet both its corporate and financial goals.

Corporate governance
Globe and Mail – Oct 23, 2006
Share ownership by directors has also soared with the spread of ownership requirements for board members, while disclosure of key information — such as attendance records for directors — has exploded. — Janet McFarland
BOARD GAMES roundtable participants
Jim Fisher, Vice-Dean, Rotman School of Management. Current boards include: Canadian Tire Corporation, Atlas Cold Storage and the ICD Corporate Governance College. William Dimma, Director, Brookfield Asset Management. Chairman and director of Home Capital Group Inc. ; director of Decision Dynamics Technology Inc. , Home Trust Company and Magellan Aerospace Corporation… (itself not a particularly impressive statistic) is a sorry fact and boards are the poorer for it. What to do about it? Keep raising it as an issue, as this forum is doing. And, as more women continue moving into executive ranks, the proportion of women on boards will or certainly should increase.

Exclusive: BladeFrame EX slices, dices, dazzles – Egenera’s…
Free with registration – InfoWorld – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 23, 2006
Scalent’s Virtual Operating Environment is similar to the BladeFrame EX in function, but it’s a software-only solution. Egenera’s history dates back to 2000, with the first-generation hardware released in 2001. In the meantime, the company has found significant traction in the banking, health care, and government markets, as well as.