Pizza Hut Mobile Announcement to Give Customers Even More Ways to Order Their Favorites.

DALLAS, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pizza Hut, America's largest pizza chain and leader in digital innovation, will unveil its latest mobile ordering options designed to whet the consumer appetite. Pizza Hut Chief Information and Digital Officer Baron Concors will host the webcast and field questions following the announcement.

WHAT:	Pizza Hut Mobile Announcement
WHEN:	Thursday, May 19 @ 1 p.m. CT
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About Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut, America's Favorite Pizza, delivers more pizza, pasta and wings than any other restaurant. The only pizza company to be named a top ten franchise in 2009 by Entrepreneur Magazine, Pizza Hut began 50 years ago in Wichita, Kansas, and today operates nearly 10,000 restaurants in more than 90 countries. Pizza Hut, Inc. is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM). To check out what's new at Pizza Hut visit PizzaHut.com, or keep up with the brand via its social media channels at social.PizzaHut.com.

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TextOre license puts ORNL's Piranha in its tank.

TextOre's licensing of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Piranha is enabling the Virginia-based company to introduce a powerful search and mining tool capable of processing large amounts of text data from the Internet.

Piranha, an award-winning knowledge discovery engine that won an R&D 100 Award in 2007, is an intelligent agent-based technology that will allow TextOre to analyze text data with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The software sorts huge numbers of text documents into groups that are easily processed.

CEO Robert Stewart envisions the acquisition of Piranha helping TextOre to add jobs in software development, sales and marketing for the new suite of products to be developed. With these new products, the company expects to compete on a global scale.

"All of the tools being developed between TextOre and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are multilingual and capable of searching, clustering and mining data in any language from large repositories of data around the world," Stewart said.

The technology, developed by a team led by Tom Potok of ORNL's Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, has already been vetted in the scientific community and been used in real-world applications by governmental agencies.

"The system can find similar documents to a document of interest, remove duplicated documents such as identical news stories from different sources, and automatically classify documents by topic," Potok said.

Because of the scalability of the agent architecture and better algorithms, Piranha runs 100 times faster than other search engines and can work with continuously changing data sets. Piranha has been used by the U.S. military and Department of Homeland Security to analyze large sets of streaming data.

TextOre and ORNL are also working to commercialize key ORNL technologies in the forensic computing areas, according to Stewart.

"The relationship with Oak Ridge National Laboratory will allow TextOre to rapidly accelerate our product development and bring these highly advanced technologies to the global market faster," Stewart said.

TextOre plans to expand its offices in Fairfax, Va., to support the anticipated growth from the licensing of Piranha.

Piranha also received an award from the Southeast Federal Laboratory Consortium. The R&D 100 Awards are presented annually by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's top 100 technological innovations. Piranha was developed by Potok, Jim Treadwell, Mark Elmore, Brian Klump, Robert Patton and Joel Reed.

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This article was prepared by NewsRx Health editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, NewsRx Health via NewsRx.com.

EmployeeScreenIQ Partners with BankersOnline.com to Introduce Banker Background Check.

Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) April 12, 2011

Global employment screening provider EmployeeScreenIQ has entered a partnership with BankersOnline.com to provide customized background check services to North America financial institutions.

Jointly developed by the two companies, "Banker Background Check" draws upon EmployeeScreenIQ's in-depth industry experience. Three levels of screening ensure that an institution fully complies with Federal banking hiring regulations: the robust screening process includes social security number traces, countrywide criminal searches, Federal District criminal record searches, Homeland Security checks, and financial sanctions checks. Higher levels of screening also include pre-employment credit reports, Federal bankruptcy searches and education and employment verifications.

"Our partnership with BankersOnline.com is designed to help financial firms deter theft and embezzlement, as well as help prevent litigation over hiring practices," said Nick Fishman, chief marketing officer for EmployeeScreenIQ. "An effective background screening process can reduce turnover by verifying an individual's skills, certification and education prior to a hiring decision. We're proud to offer our services and expertise to BankersOnline.com and the financial space."

"When you consider the costs of retraining or replacing an unqualified employee, it's easy to see the critical need for background screening services," said Mary Beth Guard, executive editor of BankersOnline.com. "Additionally, Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act prohibits financial institutions from hiring an employee or consultant who has been convicted of a criminal offense involving dishonesty or money laundering without written FDIC consent. Steep financial penalties await those institutions who hire individuals in violationait's clear that employment screening is no longer a luxury, but a necessity in the banking industry."

About EmployeeScreenIQ

Founded in 1999, EmployeeScreenIQ is a Cleveland, Ohio-based employment screening company offering a variety of employment screening services to mid- and large-cap organizations throughout the world, including those in North and South America, Europe and East Asia. is accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS), a distinction earned by only one percent of all employment screening companies. For more information, visit http://www.EmployeeScreen.com.

About BankersOnline.com

BankersOnline.com is the banking industry's compliance, lending, security, operations, marketing, technology and ebanking information channel. With thousands of articles, Q&As, useful tools, and the internet's most active banking forums, BankersOnline.com is the premier website serving the banking community. Founded in 2000, BankersOnline.com is a joint effort by Glia Group, Inc. and the Bankers Information Network.

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SGI Names Vincent Scarpulla to Run Americas Commercial Sales.

Industry Veteran Charged with Accelerating Sales in Commercial Markets in the U.S., Canada and Latin America

FREMONT, Calif. -- SGI (NASDAQ:SGI), a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced the addition of Vincent J. Scarpulla as vice president of Americas commercial sales. With a background spanning more than 30 years of sales, service and management roles across hardware, software and services product portfolios, Scarpulla will drive SGI's U.S. commercial sales strategy, and will have primary responsibility for all sales and relationship activities for vertical markets, including: Internet, financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, and manufacturing. In addition, Scarpulla will lead the company's overall sales efforts in Canada and Latin America.

"Scarpulla's proven sales leadership experience in the technology industry makes him the ideal person to expand SGI's customer base in some of the industry's fastest growing markets," said Tony Carrozza, senior vice president of worldwide sales at SGI. "His significant experience in field operations, sales and management will be a valuable asset to SGI as we continue to grow our customer base and vertical reach."

Scarpulla comes to SGI from Verari Systems, where he served as vice president of worldwide field operations. He was responsible for overall company sales and customer service. Prior to Verari Systems, Scarpulla worked as vice president of North American enterprise sales for Legato Systems, Inc. and EMC Corporation.

"I am thrilled to join the SGI team to drive U.S. commercial sales and relationship activities," said Scarpulla. "SGI is a leader in accelerating high performance results for our customers, and I am ready to lead and greatly expand the number of companies to which SGI is delivering measurable and competitive value."

Scarpulla has held additional executive sales positions, including vice president of North American sales at Entrust Corporation, and vice president and general manager of North American operations at Amdahl Corporation. Scarpulla holds a B.S. degree in Finance from the University of South Carolina and will report to Carrozza.

About SGI

SGI is a global leader in large-scale clustered computing, high performance storage, HPC and data center enablement and services. SGI is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding business and technology challenges. Visit www.sgi.com for more information.

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LIVE footage of funerals could soon be screened over the internet for absent relatives by a crematorium in Portchester, Hants.

DeakinPrime to deliver CFP certification.

Apr 18, 2008 (Financial Planning - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Financial Planning Association has awarded the contract for provision of its CFP Certification Program to DeakinPrime. DeakinPrime is the commercial arm of the Victorian-based Deakin University, and delivered programs to over 63,000 students in 2007. Students undertaking the CFP program through DeakinPrime will be able to access material via the internet as well as in hard copy, and will have the option of getting their test results via SMS. DeakinPrime hopes to be in a position to offer CFP students the ability to submit work online by the end of 2008.

Publication Date: April 2008

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Rights Issues Vex New-Era Talent Deals; Studios, Guilds Wrangle for Their Shares.(Special Report: iPod: TV's Odyssey)

Byline: James Hibberd

Any time a new market opens up, there's going to be conflict between the talent and the suits.

As soon as Internet and mobile television ventures began to look as if they might generate revenue, all sides scrambled to expand their share of the riches.

The wrangling over new-media contracts is intensifying, with agencies, studios, guilds and networks trying to secure their share and set precedents for future negotiations.

Even a simple talent deal for a television show has become complicated: Should an actor be required to perform in Web episodes?

If so, are those webisodes a separate program (and therefore paid) or are they merely promotional (and therefore covered as part of an existing contract)? And if a full-length episode is sold to iTunes, are such royalties paid on a home-video pay rate or a pay-per-view rate?

"Anytime something can be monetized, anybody who has any stake in it is going to want to have a say,'' said Bonnie Hammer, president of NBC Universal-owned USA and Sci Fi networks, which are currently facing a work stoppage among webisode showrunners on series such as "Battlestar Galactica'' who are seeking higher pay. "Rights issues and creative credit issues abound for everyone right now.''

Some of the drama has been fueled by agencies and guilds still smarting over a home video agreement that mandates 80 percent of all home video revenue goes to studios and 20 percent to talent royalties.

That figure was originally calculated in the early 1980s, when the home video market was smaller and costs of production higher. In the new, digital world of television, conditions have changed: There's no manufacturing cost to stream a show on the Web. There's no packaging, no warehouses, no transportation costs and-potentially-no middlemen.

With new markets opening up, agents and guilds want to ensure they don't get stuck with the short end of the deal this time.

Amid all the posturing, there's very little income currently being generated in new media television, and widely conflicting opinions exist as to which new revenue model is going to succeed.

"Agents want to be very careful they don't give away the store,'' said Karen Stuart, executive director of the Association of Talent Agents, in a June TelevisionWeek story.

"You have all these major players cutting deals, yet we don't know what these [business] models look like yet.''

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Bonnie Hammer * Higher pay: Webisode showrunners on "Battlestar Galactica" and other shows are demanding more money, threatening a work stoppage.