Get Sports Game Tickets via Cell Phone

Veritec, Inc., Launches Tickets via Cell Phone

Saint Paul Saints Baseball Club, St. Paul, Minn., is the first organization to use Veritec's new cell phone-based technology

August 16, 2007 - MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Van Tran, CEO of Minneapolis-based Veritec, Inc., (OTCBB:VRTC), today announced Veritec's launch of a revolutionary new products named PhoneCodes© that allow consumers to buy and receive tickets, as well as gift(s), or customer-loyalty rewards via an electronic media using Veritec's 2-D barcode technology. The Saint Paul (MN) Saints baseball club and their ticket processing company, Glitner Corporation (NY), in conjunction with Veritec, Inc., has become the first organization to employ the new technology. Veritec's new TicketCode© (a 2-dimensional bar code) allows cell phone owners to purchase an event ticket and have the ticket (TicketCode©) sent to their cell phone. The day of the event the gate attendant will scan the TicketCode© from the cell phone, validate its authenticity and admit the patron once validated. Said Ms. Tran, "We are honored that the Saint Paul Saints Baseball Club had the enthusiasm and foresight to become the first organization to adopt our new technology, which will not only save an organization the paper and printing costs of a physical ticket, but the TicketCode© is also environmentally friendly. In addition, consumers will never have to fear losing their ticket, since the ticket is stored in their cell phone," Ms. Tran continued. "There are very few things we don't allow into Midway Stadium," said Saints President Mike Veeck. "The wave and neckties come to mind. No tickets? This is a very cool technology and will revolutionize how we do business." Veeck continued.

To name only a few of it's many other uses, the Veritec's 2-D Barcode, PhoneCodes©, not only work for the distribution of tickets (TicketCode©) but can be used to send gift certificates, GiftCode©, for birthday, anniversary, graduation, or whatever else, as well as coupons, CouponCode©, for customer loyalty rewards such as two-meals-for-the-price-of-one at restaurants, discounts on purchases exceeding a certain dollar value at retail stores, and as a receipt when purchasing products over the Internet, a ReceiptCode© can be sent to the customer's cell phone as proof of purchase.

Ms. Tran concluded, "We believe Veritec's new PhoneCodes© plus an individual's imagination can now take marketing campaigns to a whole new level."

About Veritec, Inc.

Founded in 1982, Veritec offers a patented line of microprocessor-based encoding and decoding system products that utilize Matrix SymbologyT or 2-Dimensional Barcode technology owned by Veritec's wholly-owned subsidiary, VCode Holdings, Inc.

Veritec's encoding and decoding systems allow users to create and apply unique identifiers to the products in the form of a coded symbol which enable automated manufacturing control, as well as identification, tracking and collection of data through camera, readers and scanners also marketed by Veritec. The collected data is then stored in the 2-D barcode available for contemporaneous verification or their user-definable purposes.

Recently, Veritec is making its presence known in banking markets by introducing its new "V$C" Visa Debit Card as well as a Bio-ID card using the VSCode®, with robustness, security features, and data storage capacity up to 4,000 bytes, stores the owner's fingerprint minutiae along with other critical personal information that positively identify the card holder. The VSCode® with capacity to store fingerprint information is a great tool to enhance card security such as driver license, passport, tribal ID, student ID, visitor ID, guess worker ID, and more. Please visit Veritec's website at www.veritecinc.com to learn more about Veritec technology.

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Awards For Retirement Magazine

Retirement Lifestyles Magazine Captures National Awards

Ten-year-old Retirement Lifestyles magazine - like many of its readers - is not slacking in its "old age," being named one of America's top 50+ magazines for the third year in a row. Also, the magazine received more total awards in the magazine category - three - than any other. The magazine competed against national magazines such as AARP: The Magazine.

Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) August 15, 2007 -- Ten-year-old Retirement Lifestyles magazine - like many of its readers - is not slacking in its "old age," being named one of America's top 50+ magazines for the third year in a row. Also, the magazine received more total awards in the magazine category - three - than any other.

"All I can say is 'wow' and thanks to a small but extremely talented staff," said Publisher Dan Owens. "The lifestyles of our empty nester, boomer and retirement readers is our narrow publishing niche and it is great for an independent group to favorably compare us to national magazines like AARP: The Magazine."

This is the 16th year that the "Mature Market Media Awards" have been awarded by the Mature Market Resource Center of Chicago, Ill.

The "Magazine of Southern Retirement," Retirement Lifestyles was named the third best 50+ periodical behind AARP: The Magazine and Arthritis Today, which is published by the Arthritis Foundation. Retirement Lifestyles highlights interesting retirement destinations and lifestyles for those wanting to make the most out of Act II or the second half of life.

For the third year in a row, Retirement Lifestyles has been named among the top American 50+ magazines. "We have written some unusual stories about how 50+ folks are creating retirement dreams and adventures. It's nice to know that our efforts are appreciated and we are considered to be very effectively fulfilling our mission," said Owens.

"It is a challenge to stay creative and poignant with a small staff up against the huge resources of publications like AARP," said Editor Carol Timblin. "The awards tell us that we're interesting, creative and highly readable…we love this feedback," she said.

Senior Living Associates, the parent company of Retirement Lifestyles, has been in the 50+ publishing, marketing, trade association and consulting business for 13 years. Originally founded to publish a series of Carolina regional magazines entitled "Senior Living," the company has moved closer to the younger, active boomer audience in recent years. In addition to Retirement Lifestyles, the firm operates the www.retiresouth.com website, the National Active Retirement Association (NARA) and provides consulting and real estate services.

A total of 1,000 entries were received in 33 categories. A distinguished, independent panel from across the United States served as judges. The program is designed to annually recognize the best media and other materials produced for a 50+ audience.

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Press Contact: DAN OWENS
Company Name: Retirement Lifestyles magazine
Phone: (704) 641-1469
Website: www.retiresouth.com

InsideTelephony Magazine

InsideTelephony - Global Telecom Portal and Magazine Launched with a Claim to provide Quality News & Updates regarding Telecom Industry

Advertising, Media Consulting, Marketing Research Press release from: InsideTelephony.com
(openPR) - InsideTelephony - Global telecom portal and magazine launched with a firm commitment to telecom professionals and executives of telecom companies to provide quality News & Updates regarding Telecom Industry.

When Garaham Bell discovered he could send voice signals thorugh a wire, he didn't know his invention will lead to the development of an industry worth billions of dollars. 21st century with all its other dimensions of change also diversified the technologies & mediums for voice communications. Lot has happened till this moment. The convergance of Information Technology (IT) with Telephony and then a resultant in the form of a new telecom era are un-ignorable happennings for anyone who is either a user of telecommunication services or an entrepreneur. We at InsideTelephony.com present a website that will act as a full of information portal for those who want to know the insights of telecom industry - that includes telephony, Voice over IP (VoIP), wireless, telecom hardware & software.

InsideTelephony.com team includes a bunch of telephony related - or lets be more broad - telecom related professionals, analysts and entrepeneurs. From AT&T, Vonage, BT to Avaya & Etisalat, InsideTelephony.com has contacts in every region of the world. These sources act as primary sources of information, analysis and feedback while publishing our content on the website.

This website covers following key ares of telecom indsutry:

Telephony that includes both wireline & wireless.
Voice over IP (VoIP) related technologies, software & hardware
Wireless Technologies ranging from WiFi to WiMax
Media - including copper, fiber, coaxial and others
Equipment - form all vendor companies
Software - Billing & other telecom OSS / BSS related software
Customer guide - to let the customer understand things better before buying
Business guide - for telecom entrepreneurs.

InsideTelephony.com is an information oriented website. Any queries related to company can be forwarded to info@insidetelephony.com.

InsideTelephony.com team includes a bunch of telephony related - or lets be more broad - telecom related professionals, analysts and entrepeneurs. From AT&T, Vonage, BT to Avaya & Etisalat, InsideTelephony.com has contacts in every region of the world. These sources act as primary sources of information, analysis and feedback while publishing our content on the website.

www.InsideTelephony.com
info@insidetelephony.com

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Rolling Stone Magazine

Rolling Stone

by Larry Dobrow, Thursday, August 2, 2007
NOWADAYS, I TEND TO celebrate my birthday by dimming the lights, honing the tweezers, and fighting a valiant battle against ear hair. This year, however, my super-duper special day happened to coincide with NYC visits from two of the great bands of my happy adolescence, The Police and Squeeze. And so it was that I found myself at ye ole arenadome last night, woozy on eight-dollar Michelobs and flush with "remember when Sting was cool?" nostalgia.

This is not a conversation that evolves well. After a few warm recollections of MTV and dirt bikes, my friends and I somehow wound up attempting to out-filth one another with witticisms like "when Sting was cool, my [extremely explicit anatomical reference redacted] hadn't yet [archaic verb participle redacted] and [borderline-insensitive ethnic stereotype redacted] wasn't even [obscene gerund redacted]." Happily for the people around us, the lights dimmed shortly thereafter. It was a grand evening. Andy Summers kicks much tushie.

I enjoyed the nostalgia kick so much that I'm trying to sustain it as long as I can, whether by listening to arena-rock mainstay "Give the People What They Want" during lunch or by donning a skinny tie for tomorrow's Squeeze outing. My subway reading, of course, will be Rolling Stone, the magazine that launched my love of the medium more than 20 years ago.

Thing is, Rolling Stone isn't a nostalgia read, even in a year where the mag is celebrating its 40th birthday with a trifecta of phone-book-thick retrospective issues. A lot has happened since I last took a critical look at it, the least of which being that I've learned how to write a semi-intelligible column. The mag itself has almost reinvented itself, bulking up its pop-culture muscle without corrupting its mind (the national-affairs coverage) or soul (Mick, Keef et al).

The Aug. 9 issue showcases much of what Rolling Stone is doing right nowadays. The cover feature on the genesis of Guns N' Roses kicks off with an amazing anecdote about the, uh, ambient noise in the band's "Rocket Queen" and ascends from there, refusing to yield to cheap rock-and-roll-was-real-back-then-man sentiment. The profile of Stevie Williams, dubbed a "skateboarding gangsta hero," is the rare youth-culture piece that speaks to all audiences. Rob Sheffield's "Pop Life" column runs circles around anything that Entertainment Weekly trots out on its final page, while the mag's takedown of carbon-neutral wankfest Live Earth doesn't pull any punches.

Rolling Stone has also rediscovered its investigative mojo. This issue's National Affairs columnist, Jeff Goodell, ain't no William Greider (not as severe) or Hunter S. Thompson (not as unreadably incoherent). His piece on "The Ethanol Scam," however, slices through the do-gooder haze and exposes a supposed panacea as potentially worse than the disease. More, please. A few pages later, Vanessa Grigoriadis -- one of the three or four best magazine feature writers out there -- takes an in-depth, occasionally wince-inducing look at "To Catch a Predator" stings and their unintended aftereffects. After reading this piece, you won't ever feel the same way about gotcha! journalism. That's high praise.

You may have noticed that I haven't yapped much about music so far, and that's intentional. As it did a few years back, Rolling Stone's music coverage lags behind everything else between its covers. There's nothing wrong per se with the check-ins with Ryan Adams, Dave Matthews or the Smashing Pumpkins, but they lack the depth and imagination of the stories noted above, not to mention comparable ones in titles like Harp. And yet RS still flags these artists on the cover, at the expense of a mention of the "Predator" piece. I wish the mag wouldn't be so stubborn about trumpeting its music-first lineage; by doing so, it obscures some of its best writing and reporting. I'd like to see RS acknowledge the obvious: that music may no longer be its core mission.

Also interesting, at least to me: the online media kit, which teems with pictures of moderately hip mainstreamers like Avril Lavigne, Beyonce, John Mayer and Eminem. The mag itself, however, devotes more space and energy to comparative fogeys like The Police and Kid Rock, not to mention looking-back pieces like the one on G n' R. It's just an interesting choice, is all.

So yeah, I'm probably going to fire up a subscription for the first time in 10 years or so. Rolling Stone reads and looks (thanks for taking it easy on the multiple entry points) sharper than it has in quite some time, and deserves a fresh look from anybody who hasn't picked up a copy in a while. It's an entirely different publication than the one I grew up worshipping, and in many ways a better one.

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Turn Blog Posts Into Printed Book Products

 

Print Your Blog: SharedBook Introduces Enhanced Blog2Print Widget

An updated version of the Blog2Print widget is now available as a result of feedback from the user community.

New York (PRWEB) August 2, 2007 -- SharedBook Inc., the Reverse Publishing Platform provider, introduced an enhanced version of its Blog2Print blog printing widget http://www.blog2print.com today with a new embedded photo feature and improved performance overall. The updates are based on feedback received from the user community since Blog2Print was introduced in beta form June 28.

Blog2Print offers a one-click way to turn blog posts into printed book products. The widget also provides bloggers with an opportunity to monetize the content on their site(s) by receiving a 20 percent share of the retail price of all blog books made by others of their content.

Blog2Print was built in a few weeks using SharedBook's application programming interface (API) http://www.sharedbook.com/dev, which is available for anyone to use, and one of Google's APIs for the Blogger platform.

With today's release, Blog2Print now automatically flows photographs and other images into blog book format along with the appropriate text, similar to the way content appears online. Additional enhancements include the ability to format more complex blogs. All updates will seamlessly apply to the Blog2Print widgets that have been placed on blogs to date.

"Since we first introduced Blog2Print in beta form, bloggers from around the world have been telling us what works, what doesn't and which features they would like to see," said Caroline Vanderlip, Chief Executive Officer, SharedBook Inc. "The feedback we've received from the user community has been invaluable to date, and we hope to learn more as the public beta program continues."

Anyone can go to Blog2Print.com to see how their favorite Blogger content flows into blog book format. A Photo or Two http://aphotoortwo.blogspot.com, a photography site, and 46er Family http://46erfamily.blogspot.com, featuring a family's summertime tales from the Adirondacks, are two content-rich sites that illustrate how the widget appears online.

As with other SharedBook products, once the blog content flows into the blog book structure, individuals can preview and purchase the book, or personalize it further by adding or deleting content. Users can also invite others into their personal book making space to contribute additional information.

Pricing begins at $19.95 for soft cover blog books and $24.95 for hard cover. This includes a full-color 20-page book and a readable flipbook version of the book that can be virally distributed, plus free shipping of the printed version. For more information, please go to http://www.blog2print.com.

About SharedBook
SharedBook Inc. is a technology company that specializes in integrating and publishing data from various sources into a structured book product that can sit as a flipbook on the Internet or be professionally printed. The company's collaborative on-demand Reverse Publishing Platform allows users to extract data and content from multiple sources, manipulate it and then distribute their unique creation in digital or hard copy format. SharedBook partners include AYSO® Soccer, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Canyons Resort, CarePages, Inc. (a division of Revolution Health Group), Cruise West Cruise Lines, 4-H, Legacy.com, Little League International®, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Sportography, Inc., Steamboat Ski Resort, 30 Minute Photos Etc., USA Football, XOS Technologies, Inc. and Yosemite. For more information, please go to www.sharedbook.com or http://blog.sharedbook.com.

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Press Contact: Ann Manby
Company Name: SharedBook Inc.
Phone: 646-442-8858
Website: http://www.blog2print.com