Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, will deliver a keynote speech during the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas, show organizers announced today. Genachowski's remarks will be made on Tuesday, April 13 at 9:00 a.m. "We are ... read more

International Rectifier, IR® (NYSE: IRF), a world leader in power management technology, today introduced the AUIRS2301S 600V IC for automotive motor drives, micro inverter drives and general purpose three-phase inverter applications. The AUIRS2301S is a rugged, general purpose driver ... read more

A wide range of AESA (active electronically scanned array) technology military applications are coming into service for next-generation defense platforms, which will generate both engineering demand and new revenue streams for the global defense industry. The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service will be ... read more

Rodman & Renshaw (NASDAQ: RODM) and BioSante (NASDAQ: BPAX) today announced that Rodman will host Stephen M. Simes, CEO of BioSante Pharmaceuticals, for a fireside chat in Rodman's media center, on March 24, 2010. The event will be moderated by Elemer Piros, Ph.D., senior biotechnology analyst ... read more

Sentrx, the leading provider of drug safety services to the life sciences industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of Lauren Stewart as Vice President, Quality Standards and Corporate Compliance. "Lauren is a is proven leader in biopharmaceutical services ... read more

Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOMX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the in-licensing, development and commercialization of proprietary branded pharmaceutical products and late-stage product candidates for the treatment of diseases and disorders in the central nervous system therapeutic area, today announced financial results for ... read more

PolyMedix, Inc. (OTC BB: PYMX), an emerging biotechnology company focused on developing new therapeutic drugs to treat acute cardiovascular disorders and infectious diseases, has initiated a Phase 1B clinical study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of PMX-60056 in reversing the anticoagulant activity of low molecule ... read more

DPT Laboratories, Ltd., a pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization, announced a restructuring of its facilities to create three new Centers of Excellence, each focusing on a different area of expertise. DPT has ... read more

BioImagene, Inc., the leading provider of end-to-end digital pathology solutions, announced the integration of Virtuoso™, BioImagene’s digital pathology workflow software, with several market-leading anatomic pathology (AP) laboratory information systems (LIS). LIS products from Elekta Impac, Cerner ... read more

MSGI Security Solutions Inc. (OTCBB: MSGI) today reported that they have retired $2.6 million in debt directly related to equipment financing, which originated in December 2007. The three note holders represented $1,900,000 in principal and approximately $700,000 in accrued interest. ... read more

Versar, Inc. (NYSE Amex: VSR) announced today that it has acquired ADVENT Environmental, Inc. (“Advent”). Advent, headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, is a Department of Defense, full service environmental contractor with significant capabilities in Military Munitions Response Plans (MMRP) and Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) clean-up. ... read more

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTGC), the leading specialty finance company providing venture debt and equity to venture capital and private equity-backed technology and life science companies at all stages of development, today announced that it has committed over $52.0 million in structured debt financing to ... read more

A Pennsylvania National Guard soldier was killed Wednesday in an off-duty accident near his home in Bernville, Berks County. Sgt. 1(st) Class Mark A. Eberly, 39, was running along Route 183 when he was struck from behind by a car. He was pronounced dead at the scene. "Mark was a dedicated soldier and loving father," said Maj. Gen. Jessica Wright, commander, Pennsylvania National Guard. "His tragic death will leave a void in the Pennsylvania National Guard. Our deepest sympathies go out to ... read more

GE Intelligent Platforms today extended its family of rugged GPGPU (general purpose computing on a graphics processing unit) solutions with the announcement of the 6U OpenVPX NPN240 multi-processor. The NPN240 features two NVIDIA® CUDA-capable GT240 96-core GPUs, enabling it to deliver up to 750 GFLOPS peak ... read more

The NASA engineer who worked behind the scenes to ensure a successful test of an astronaut escape system has been named the 2010 Engineer of the Year by the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA). (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Michael G. Gilbert led the technical planning and execution of the NASA Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) flight demonstration which occurred July 8, 2009. Gilbert served as the Chief Engineer for MLAS and is a principal engineer in the NASA Engineering ... read more

Sentrx, the leading provider of drug safety services to the life sciences industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of Lauren Stewart as Vice President, Quality Standards and Corporate Compliance. "Lauren is a is proven leader in biopharmaceutical services ... read more

UMassOnline Chief Executive Officer Dr. Ken Udas today announced that after a three-month-long national search, Patrick Jay Masson has been selected to be the organization’s new Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Masson, who has more than 17 years experience in instructional and information technologies supporting education, research, ... read more

NaviNet, America’s largest real-time healthcare communications network, welcomes two senior executives to its team of industry leaders. Kimberly Labow joins as senior vice president and chief marketing officer, and James M. Bogdan joins as senior vice president of sales, bringing a combined 40 years of ... read more

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, will deliver a keynote speech during the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas, show organizers announced today. Genachowski's remarks will be made on Tuesday, April 13 at 9:00 a.m. "We are ... read more

A wide range of AESA (active electronically scanned array) technology military applications are coming into service for next-generation defense platforms, which will generate both engineering demand and new revenue streams for the global defense industry. The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service will be ... read more

Wilson Electronics (www.WilsonElectronics.com), manufacturer of North America’s top-selling line of cell phone signal boosters, will be exhibiting in booth #2900 of Hall C-2 on March 23 – 25 at the International CTIA Wireless 2010 show in the Las Vegas Convention Center. ... read more

Rodman & Renshaw (NASDAQ: RODM) and BioSante (NASDAQ: BPAX) today announced that Rodman will host Stephen M. Simes, CEO of BioSante Pharmaceuticals, for a fireside chat in Rodman's media center, on March 24, 2010. The event will be moderated by Elemer Piros, Ph.D., senior biotechnology analyst ... read more

Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOMX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the in-licensing, development and commercialization of proprietary branded pharmaceutical products and late-stage product candidates for the treatment of diseases and disorders in the central nervous system therapeutic area, today announced financial results for ... read more

FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, today announced that Chris Poelker, FalconStor vice president of enterprise solutions, will present “Optimizing Data Protection for the New Data Center,” at the FOSE 2010 conference, focusing ... read more