Seattle, WA (PRWEB) November 30, 2011

Green Builder Media, North America?s leading media company focused on sustainable living, recently announced its plans to construct the VISION House, a green home exhibit in INNOVENTIONS located in the heart of Epcot







Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) January 09, 2012

Burns & McBride Home Comfort (http://www.burnsandmcbride.com) announced today it is launching the unique ?Smart-Safe? Home system for homeowners in Delaware and Pennsylvania combining Energy Management with Advanced Home Security. Burns & McBride Home Comfort has developed this unique system to:







(PRWEB) December 14, 2011

SMOKEFREE, on Tuesday, Announced an exciting 10% Christmas discount on all its products, making SMOKEFREE Electronic Cigarette kits, an ideal gift for a passionate smoker This Christmas.

Christmas gifts for loved ones, especially if he or she is a smoker can be nothing better than electronic cigarettes. What better present could be gifted than a SMOKEFREE electronic cigarette at a tempting discount of 10% this Christmas season? This E Cig will be the ideal Christmas gift for a passionate smoker which he will remember as the best present he had ever been presented with. These highly desirable quality items come packaged in a beautifully presented box. Along with a saving on Christmas bonanza of 10% discount, SMOKEFREE provides a healthier alternative to your loved ones too.

Christmas gifts for near and dear ones should always be stylish as well as functional, which is where e cigs fit the bill most perfectly. When a person receives his SMOKEFREE Christmas gift, he will find everything he needs to begin his ?vaping? journey in style. Starter Kits come with a range of flavors and nicotine strengths.

SMOKEFREE has high achievement on customer satisfaction owing to its quality products, impeccable customer services, and social media interaction. When asked to opine, Shilpa Arora, Head Customer Care at SMOKEFREE said- ” Customer is the king for us. Whatever queries or problems he has, we try and solve it through mails, chats, or phone calls. We emphasize primarily on customer satisfaction.”

Shagun Gupta, head social media at SMOKEFREE says- ”Our social media marketing of SMOKEFREE cigarettes through Facebook is helping us grow our customer relationships. We are making people aware of a healthier vaping alternative along with announcing our various offers and discounts on all products.”

What is an E Cigarette?

An Electronic Cigarette or electric cigarette or e-cigarette is a relatively simple piece of technology that creates vapor by slightly heating the e-liquid until it vaporizes. This vapor acts much like tobacco smoke, allowing long time smokers an alternative that can be inhaled and exhaled like traditional smoking. But the fact is that the smoke is actually tobacco and tar free vapor.

How do the SMOKEFREE cigarettes work?

The process works the same way a traditional cigarette works, but some significant differences. With a non-smoking cigarette, the battery is used to vaporize the ingredients on the cartridge of the cigarette. This evaporation process simulates real smoke like vapor, but no flames or ugly byproducts of tobacco.

Multitudes of Benefits In An E Cig Christmas Gift

According to the latest announcement by FDA-”E Cig (electronic cigarette) is not the same as tobacco products and should be regulated as a product lesser in health risks than tobacco cigarettes.? They also have a number of ongoing benefits that other Christmas gifts for men just don?t have.

Well, there are a lot of benefits to be considered while buying a SMOKEFREE cigarette.

E Cigarettes are not subject to the current smoking ban in public places so one can happily smoke where other cigarettes fear to tread, whether that?s down the local, in a restaurant, in the theater on a plane, train, or even in a Christmas party in the office-electronic cigarettes are perfectly legal to smoke anywhere as there?s no second hand smoke released in the environment. It is just a non smelling fast dissipating water vapor and this makes them the ultimate range of Christmas gifts for loved ones who really love smoking. They don?t have the 4000 dangerous chemicals found in tobacco cigarettes nor do they pose any danger to anyone.

Add to this newly found freedom the fact that maintaining a smoking habit with an e-cigarette can save up to 70% on the cost of traditional cigarettes. And the 10% Christmas discount will only add to it further.

To know more about an electronic cigarette, visit http://www.smokefree.in

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Oakland, CA (PRWEB) December 28, 2011

East Bay document shredding company, Shred Works, Inc. is a ?Bay Area Green Business Certified? company ensuring that they give careful consideration to their practices and procedures and the impact it will have on the environment.

They recycle everything they shred enabling them to reach their goal of 100% landfill aversion, a significant accomplishment. In that last year they shredded and recycled 3,856 tons of paper saving 65,552 trees.

The professionals at Shred Works ask the community to consider that the process of turning trees into paper requires a great deal of energy and water. The process also releases pollutants into the air. Recycling one ton of paper saves approximately 7,000 gallons of water and over 4,000 kilowatt hours of electricity.

In addition to the 65,552 trees saved by the recycling efforts of Shred Works, they also saved 26,992,000 gallons of water, 15,809,600 kilowatts of electricity, 11,568 cubic yards of landfill, and 7,712 gallons of oil. They also prevented 231,360 pounds of pollutants from being released into the environment.

The professionals at Shred Works, Inc. ask the community to help save the environment by recycling, using ?green certified? businesses, and using a certified shredding service.

Recycling only begins with paper, plastics, glass and aluminum. Yard sales to recycle items that the family no longer uses is a great way to earn a little extra money. Donating old clothes to a charity is another helpful way to recycle.

Using only businesses certified by the Bay Area Green Business Program ensures that the work being done meets the highest standards of environmental performance. Shred Works is one of only two shredding companies in Northern California with the title of a ?Green Certified Business.?

Dumping shredded paper into the trash rather than the recycling bin is not only unfavorably impacting the environment, but also exposing the organization?s confidential information to those who might use it for personal gain. A NAID AAA shredding company, like Shred Works, will recycle all paper securely, and keep all discarded information safe.

East Bay secure document shredding company, Shred Works? headquarters and plant facility are located at 455 High Street in Oakland. For more information, call 1-800-535-9379. Open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Their corporate offices are located at 1601 Bayshore Hwy Ste #211 in Burlingame. For more information, call 650-697-5070 or visit their website: http://www.shredworks.com.

About Shred Works

Shred Works was born from Recycling Works in 1993 when they purchased a large plant-based shredder, and installed a state-of-the-art video monitoring security system. Shred Works serves a wide range of clients including healthcare facilities, banks and credit unions, mortgage and title companies, lawyers, accountants, small businesses, and other organizations that need help shredding their confidential information. They are the first company in the area to ?double shred,? and are the first and only shredding company to offer a Three Point Guarantee.

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Nicosia, Cyprus (PRWEB) November 26, 2011

AU10TIX Limited, a technology subsidiary of ICTS International B.V., announced the release of FDI 6.0 ? a new generation, front-end customer enrollment gateway that integrates the capture, authentication and integration of the widest range of identifying enrollment-documents and interfaces with biometric inputs. FDI 6.0. incorporates patented machine-learning technology that sets new standards in handling non-standard and off-standard documents and in fraud detection performance. Now enterprises and public service providers have a complete customer enrollment platform that combines fraud prevention with an enrollment-documents gateway for ECM/eDRM systems.

The Hidden Loopholes In Customer Enrollment

Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Anti-Terrorist Financing (ATF), and fraud prevention regulations mandate the positive identification, clearing and recording of customers prior to carrying out of a series of everyday actions such as opening an account, withdrawing funds, enrolling to a new program, etc. It is estimated that in this country banks, financial services, Telcos, and other enterprises and service providers handle thousands such applications and action cases every single workday. Amazingly, much of these actions are still done manually? Unskilled customer service representatives are required to identify hundreds of types of IDs, Passports, Driving Licences, and other primary and secondary identifying tokens. They need to authenticate identifying documents that contain dozens of possible security features unseen to the naked eye, and not included in electronic chips or magnetic stripes. And they need to record often difficult to comprehend data into the enterprise systems. It is estimated that up to 25% of customer records are riddled with typos, missing-data, duplicates, etc. In addition, tons of often illegible and almost impossible to track document photocopies are archived and shipped around. This already creates a huge cost-factor and operating efficiency problem that only aggravates the damages of fraud and customer handling inefficiencies, and creates imminent regulatory compliance issues.

Many enterprises already deploy elaborate fraud-preventions systems that analyze transaction traffic at the back-end to detect irregularities or detect suspicious persons. These systems are as effective as the data they have, and often come into play only after the actual interaction with the customer. This leaved the front-end as a potentially weak link.

Many enterprises already deploy elaborate ECM systems that transform paper-based customer management to an electronic-record base one. Since much of the identifying document traffic is still manually processed, their records are too often ?missing? or remain partial or inaccurate. This means that identifying document records are also a weak link in many ECM systems.

AU10TIX?s FDI 6.0 new offers a breakthrough in effective handling of identifying documents at the front-end both as fraud prevention layer and gateway to ECM systems.

Fdi 6.0 – Patented Machine-Learning Technology

Automated identity document authentication solutions are typically based on template recognition and dataset matching. Their effectiveness is dependent on their ability to read IDs, Driving Licenses, Passports, Visas, etc. that are often worn-out or that deviate from the official templates due to the use of different printer qualities, paper differences, etc. Older technologies are likely to have difficulties in reading or authenticating such documents, delivering false ruling or simply errors messages.

AU10TIX?s FDI 6.0 features new, patented algorithms that deliver far better document identification and forensics capabilities that translate to an ability to handle documents that other systems simply cannot. But even more than that, by incorporating smart machine-learning technology, FDI 6.0 is an auto-learning system that actually improves reading and ruling accuracy with every use!

AU10TIX?s FDI 6.0 has already been tested against a wide variety of ?problematic? documents and against other solutions, delivering superior performance in detecting even elaborate fraud attempts and handling non-standard and off-standard ocuments.

FDI 6.0 – Multi-Document Handling Capability

Typical document authentication systems handle primary identifying documents (IDs, Driving licences, Passports, etc.). The more sophisticated ones handle also secondary identifying documents (Visas, work permits, etc.). These documents are captured with specialized ?Passport scanners?. But in reality, customers are often requested to submit also supplementary identifying documents such as utility bills, council tax receipts, etc. These are much larger documents that can be scanned only with A4 or larger scanners, and these often use another application for processing.

With the introduction of FDI 6.0, AU10TIX, created a truly full-process, multi-document handling and integration platform. The new technology can process documents that have been scanned with anything from passport scanners to swipe scanners, from A4 scanners to scanner-copiers, and will in the near future even handle document scans ?from files? that originate in databases or web interfaces.

The ability to process the widest range of identifying enrollment documents, cross-match them and integrate them into a single customer record portfolio, is a real game changing breakthrough.

With FDI 6.0, enterprises and organizations have an end-to-end solution for fraud prevention and an ECM/eDRM gateway in one integrated, smart system.

Cost-Saving Meets Operating Efficiency And Regulatory Compliance

AU10TIX?s FDI 6.0 redefines ROI with a compelling business-case. With a new level of fraud prevention capacity, FDI 6.0 stops fraud at the front-end and thereby cuts fraud damages and enables long-term regulatory compliance.

At the same time, the system?s multi-document processing capability saves tremendous costs in material, work, logistics and archiving, and makes ECM truly encompassing. By eliminating data gaps, errors and duplicates, it boosts operating efficiency in real-time.

About AU10TIX

AU10TIX Limited is a leading provider of document authentication and personal-ID verification solutions for more than 20 years. The company develops, customizes and implements solutions for business-critical environments such as airports, financial institutions, points of sales and service, law enforcement agencies, etc. The company?s applications operate in more than 90 countries worldwide, with ca. 75,000 front-end installations. In recent years, AU10TIX had diversified its long-year specialization in security and aviation to banking and financial services applications. AU10TIX is partnered with Experian, Star Alliance, General Electric, and other global leaders is various industries.

For more details: http://www.au10tix.com

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 15, 2011

W2 Mate software launched new IRS filing solution that covers all the 1099-B printing and electronic reporting needs of brokers, barter exchanges, businesses, CPAs, and tax professionals. The 1099-B software provides all the capabilities users need to create, process, prepare, import, print, and E-File IRS 1099-B Forms -Proceeds from Broker and Barter Exchange Transactions.

The new 1099-B software saves users time and money by printing 1099-B recipient copies on regular white paper. The state of the art program makes electronic filing of 1099 broker and barter exchange forms as simple as uploading a file to a website. Thanks to its powerful import wizard, this 1099-B program can remap 1099 data stored inside different accounting packages into 1099-B forms. W2 Mate can import data from Sage Peachtree, Intuit QuickBooks, Sage DacEasy, Microsoft Dynamics, excel sheets and many other sources.

W2 Mate (W2Mate.com) presents a great alternative to US tax professionals, brokers, and barter exchanges looking for a more convenient, simple and affordable way to prepare IRS 1099-B tax forms. W2 Mate 2011 enhances user experience with attractive new features that make 1099 and W-2 processing easy and stress-free.

Major changes and updates to form 1099B were introduced by the IRS for 2011. New boxes have been added for reporting the date of acquisition, cost or other basis, amount of loss disallowed due to a wash sale, and whether the gain or loss is short-term or long-term. Other boxes on the form have been moved or renumbered. All these changes are supported by W2 Mate software.

W2 Mate is currently the only W2 and 1099 software that can import 1099 data from Intuit QuickBooks accounting software and map it into 1099-B forms. The W2 1099 software can connect directly to QuickBooks, which makes the import process easy and straightforward.

W2 Mate engineers have developed a unique and exclusive mechanism for importing 1099 data from Microsoft Dynamics and then map it into different types of 1099 forms. For example MS Dynamics users can use W2 Mate to import data stored as 1099-MISC and map it into 1099-B form with one click. Once the forms are imported inside W2 Mate, they can be reported to the IRS on paper or electrically.

W2 Mate is trusted by thousands of businesses and professionals nationwide. A free demo of W2 Mate can be downloaded by visiting http://www.realtaxtools.com/.

Below is a high-level functional breakdown of the W2 Mate software features:


Data import from Sage Peachtree, MS Dynamics, Great Plains, Intuit QuickBooks, Sage DacEasy, Excel and CSV.

Prints 1099 recipient and filer copies on regular white paper.

Unlimited use of W2, 1099-MISC, 1099-INT, 1099-DIV, 1099-R, W-3, 1096, 1099-S, 1098-T, 1098, 1099-A, 1099-B, 1099-C, 1099-PATR and 1099-OID tax forms.

Unlimited 1099 electronic filing using IRS FIRE System (No per form fees and No data transmission charges).

SSA-approved to print W2 and W3 forms on regular paper including government copies.

Creates employee W2′s as PDF and recipient (vendor) 1099′s as PDF.

Unlimited W2 electronic filing submissions using the EFW2 format.

Employee and recipient information rolls-over from year to year (you don’t have to key in the same information every year).

Prompt, courteous and reliable U.S.-based support through phone, chat or e-mail.

About Real Business Solutions:

Established in 2003, Real Business Solutions is an industry leader in providing small business payroll software, 1099 preparation software and W2 tax software solutions for 2012, 2011, 2010 and before. Real Business Solutions products are used by thousands of businesses, tax professionals, non-profit organization, and government agencies all across America. The Company’s mission has been to provide powerful and great value software solutions coupled with high quality customer service. Through this website small businesses and accounting professionals can find and download software to manage payroll, report payroll taxes, print W2 Forms, Print 1099 Forms, E-File 1099, electronically file W2 forms, print checks and prepare payroll forms like 941, 940, 944, W-2, W-3, California DE-6 , California DE-7 , Texas C-3 , Texas C-4, New York NYS-45, Illinois 941 and Illinois UI-3/40.

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St. Petersburg, Fl (PRWEB) November 15, 2011

At a time when more and more businesses are looking for a way to save money on their yearly expenses, B2BeTrader has just launched with a clever solution. It?s a free directory where businesses can list their used restaurant equipment, medical equipment, farm equipment, heavy equipment, or anything else they?re looking to sell.

For those who are struggling through the rough economy, B2BeTrader is a godsend. When a piece of equipment stops working, it can force businesses to shut down altogether. With a single place to find what they need, businesses can get back to work without paying the high cost of buying new.

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Dublin, CA (PRWEB) August 17, 2011

Tucknott Electric, a San Francisco Bay Area electrical contractor, was given the National Safety Excellence Award. The company has been providing quality electrical service to residential and commercial owners since 1972 and this recognition is a testament to the company?s ongoing performance of providing jobsite safety and an excellent safety performance overall.

?As an Accredited Quality Contractor, our company is committed to providing our clients with the highest quality construction services. We care deeply about our employees and the communities in which we build. We are proud to be part of the construction industry and are dedicated to the principle of free enterprise. We commit ourselves to serve our communities and to provide our employees with the skills they need to work safely and productively in order to meet the needs of our clients,? said Robert Tucknott, owner of Tucknott Electric.

The ABC National Safety Excellence and National Safety Merit Awards are given to companies who exhibit an exceptional regard to safety performance and programs while promoting a continuous commitment for jobsite safety. Aside from this recognition, Tucknott Electric is also an Accredited Quality Contractor, which is recognition for a company?s service quality, safety, employee benefits, training, and community relations. It is an overwhelming experience for Tucknoll Electric to be given these awards.

For more information, call 925-271-5643 or visit http://www.tucknott-bayarea.com.

About Tucknott Electric

Tucknott Electric Company is an established resource for all residential customers, industrial and commercial businesses looking for an electrical wiring contractor in the San Francisco Bay Area and the rest of Northern California. Over the years, Tucknott Electric has built a reputation for delivering results in terms of time, money and energy saved.

Since 1972, Tucknott Electric Company has provided electrical services, including electrical wiring, to residential, commercial and industrial clients throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. The commitment to quality work and service is evident in their numerous awards and satisfied clients.

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) August 24, 2011

River Oaks Energy’s Bob Garrett announces a new tracking service geared toward the correct timing of an energy contract procurement.

Japan’s triple catastrophe has impacted the third largest economy in the world. When they sneezed, America caught a cold. Supply shortages for car parts and electronic part of all kinds are all going to rise in price for an undetermined time frame. Their needs for energy and commodities will move up and down depending on their extraordinary needs as they rebuild.

This can have an affect on energy and commodity prices, as their energy sector has been hit hard. This means more diligent energy savings measures, here domestically when shopping for a forward electricity contract.

The Mid-East situation is right in the very heart of the oil rich world sectors. With war, rumors of war, uprisings, political discontent and American entering the mix, energy markets world wide are being affected. This means more diligent energy savings measures, here domestically when shopping for a forward electricity contract.

The U.S. domestic economy along with rising oil and natural gas prices means rising electric rates. This means more diligent energy savings measures, here domestically when shopping for a forward electricity contract.

The warmer weather along with the 2011 hurricane season, all can bode challenges for energy and electricity rates, especially in Texas.

This means more diligent energy savings measures, here domestically when shopping for a forward electricity contract.

If a business has an electricity contract expiring any time in the next year or eighteen months, it would be sound advice to seek the counsel of a trusted energy advisor, someone who can be counted on for accurate advice on how to best counter the potential coming rise in energy prices after having bottomed out last November, only to rise slowly ever since.

This year, 2011, is not a year to wait until the last minute to be negotiating an energy contract.

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Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 28, 2007

WhiteFence, the leading online comparison marketplace for consumers looking to evaluate and order essential home services, today announced the “Win Free Electricity for Life” contest through its ElectricityTexas.com Web site. Whether moving to a new address or just looking to switch providers, the contest provides Texans in the deregulated electricity market the chance to never have to pay another electricity bill again!

Once their order is accepted, customers will be sent an e-mail with a link to a contest entry page. When the contest form is complete, they will be entered for a chance to “Win Free Electricity for Life.”

When:

Entrant Period: The contest runs from June 1, 2007 through September 30, 2007.

Details:

Customers are provided with entry details once they place an accepted order with ElectricityTexas. For a chance to win, entrants must create the most inspired and interesting 100 to 300 word story about how they conserve energy in Texas.

Essays will be evaluated by qualified judges and the best essay wins “Free Electricity for Life.” This Grand Prize has an approximate retail value of $ 54,000.00 and will be awarded in the form of an annuity in the amount of $ 1,800 per year for the life of the winner up to a maximum of 30 years. A lump sum cash payout is also available.

Contest is open only to residents in Texas’ deregulated electricity market. Electricity orders must be accepted by the service provider to qualify for contest entry. Limit one entry per person and household. See Official Rules for more information.

Where:

Order residential electricity service from ElectricityTexas.com.

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