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- Firms studying feasibility of floating dorms & storage structures
- StorageMart bids in Canada
- Solid-state still an emerging technology: users, analysts
- Extra Space Storage Inc. Announces Date of Earnings Release and …
- BRIEFCASE: Boulder, Broomfield county businesses in the news
- Annual Report/Notice of AGM/Proxy Form

Firms studying feasibility of floating dorms & storage structures
Channel News Asia, Singapore 
One option is what’s called very large floating structures that can literally support cities on water. One company is even exploring the idea of floating dormitories for foreign workers. The concept of using floating structures is not new. In Singapore, there is already the Marina Bay Floating Platform. Professor Wang Chien Ming, director of engineering science programme at the National University of Singapore, said: “People have been talking about ultra large floating platforms being situated near the equatorial belt where there’s no typhoons, no hurricanes. “The floating structures could be placed in a very calm sea environment and then you can tap on the energy from the sun.

StorageMart bids in Canada
Columbia Daily Tribune, MO 
Burnam said if the offer is successful, it will cost TKG-StorageMart about $300 million for the company’s remaining shares as well as its debt. But he said it’s worth it because it would provide TKG-StorageMart with the platform to expand its business operations in Canada and the United States. "We would become one of the largest privately owned storage companies in North America," Burnam said. "We know this business backwards and forwards, and we may not know a lot of things, but when it comes to self-storage, we’re the best," he said, adding, "It’s a long way from being done. We’re hopeful, but it’s a very stormy economic climate out there. "
Reach Jordan Raubolt at (573) 815-1709 or. com’>jraubolt@columbiatribune.

Solid-state still an emerging technology: users, analysts
Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand 
The use of the more rugged solid-state drives in laptops for library personnel could result in long-term savings, he says. "They could cost more initially, but then they could save money on maintenance and repairs". New York-based financial services firm Oppenheimer & Co doesn’t need the new technology at this point, says Michael McCardle the company’s storage technology manager. "A lot of bleeding-edge technologies are real nice," he says. "But when you boil it all down, how much of it do you really need?"Today, Oppenheimer has hard drive storage technologies that provide adequate speed at costs that can be rationalised for the company’s 4,000 or so users, McCardle says. "It goes back to the needs of the business," he says. "If the need doesn’t exist, then the interest is minimal".

Extra Space Storage Inc. Announces Date of Earnings Release and …
MarketWatch 
The Company’s properties
comprise approximately 461,000 units and 49 million square feet
rented by more than 300,000 individual tenants. For Information:
James Overturf
Extra Space Storage Inc. (801) 365-4501

Mark Collinson
CCG Investor Relations
(310) 477-9800

SOURCE: Extra Space Storage Inc. Copyright 2008 Market Wire, All rights reserved.
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BRIEFCASE: Boulder, Broomfield county businesses in the news
Daily Camera, CO 
Elevations Credit Union awarded Community Cycles, nonprofit bicycle advocacy organization, a $2,500 grant to help fund its Work Release Earn-A-Bike program. Boulder’s Best Organics, an eco-gifts provider, named Doug Radi, vice president of marketing with Charter Baking Company and former marketing director for White Wave, and Sharon King, director of Boulder’s Small Business Development Center, to its board of directors. BouldersBestOrganics. BouldersBestOrganics.

Annual Report/Notice of AGM/Proxy Form
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
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