Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) unveiled its second generation Exoskeleton (XOS 2) at its research facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, during a demonstration with Paramount Home Entertainment. The new robotic suit is lighter, faster and stronger than its predecessor, yet it uses 50 percent less power. Its enhanced design also means that it is more resistant to the environment.
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Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, reported that The New England Journal of Medicine today published results from Cohort B of The PARTNER Trial, which studied the Edwards SAPIEN transcatheter heart valve for the treatment of severe aortic stenosis. The results of the trial successfully met the primary endpoints of all-cause mortality and mortality plus repeat hospitalization.
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The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today accelerates its commitment to sustainability by unveiling a long-term environmental sustainability vision. As part of P&G’s strategy to grow responsibly, the Company will work towards a long-term environmental sustainability vision.
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Today LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: LF), education innovation leader and creator of award-winning learning products, announces its Tag. Give. Read. program to help more U.S. children learn and love to read. LeapFrog laid the program groundwork with a 2009 donation of $1.5 million in Tag Reading Systems and books to the classrooms of more than 10,000 U.S. Kindergarten students. By the end of the school year, 99% of teachers said they would recommend Tag Readers to other teachers and to parents, because their students’ attitudes about reading and reading skills both had improved.
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Today, MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) became the first mobile operator to launch commercial 4G LTE services in the United States, offering talk, text and 4G Web access starting as low as $55 per month including taxes and regulatory fees. MetroPCS is also offering the world’s first commercially available 4G LTE enabled handset, the Samsung Craft™. Service will initially be available in Las Vegas, Nev., with service expanding into the remaining MetroPCS cities throughout the year.
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The senior management team of Camelot Information Systems Inc. (“Camelot” or the “Company”) (NYSE: CIS), a leading domestic provider of enterprise application services and financial industry information technology services in China, celebrated its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) by ringing the NYSE’s ceremonial opening bell on Friday, July 23, 2010. The Company’s American Depositary Shares began trading on the NYSE on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.
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The adoption of apps for iPhone® continues to enhance the retail shopping experience for both consumers and business people alike. OfficeMax® Incorporated (NYSE: OMX), a leader in office products and services, today announced it is introducing a new free OfficeMax App for iPhone on the App Store. The OfficeMax App, available for iPhone and iPod touch, is designed to help customers shop smarter and access information and rewards on the go.
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PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC), today announced enhancements to Virtual Wallet®, the online and mobile money management tool, for budgeting and smart spending as many consumers struggle with their personal finances.
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), with help from The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Iridium Communications Inc. [Nasdaq: IRDM], has successfully implemented a new space-based system to monitor Earth’s space environment. Known as the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment (AMPERE), the system provides real-time magnetic field measurements using commercial satellites as part of a new observation network to forecast weather in space. This is the first step in developing a system that enables 24-hour tracking of Earth's response to supersonic blasts of plasma ejected from the sun at collection rates fast enough to one day enable forecasters to predict space weather effects.
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Honeywell (NYSE: HON) broke ground today on a public school, Ecole Nationale Jacob Martin Henriquez in Jacmel, Haiti. In attendance were Tom Buckmaster, President of Honeywell Hometown Solutions, Richard Walden, President and CEO of Operation USA, Jacmel Mayor Edwin Zenny and Parliament Senator Joseph Lambert. Construction of the school, which will serve approximately 600 local students in grades K through seven, is scheduled to be completed by January 2011.
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Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB) announced today that its new blend of packaged salads, Fresh Express® artisanal salads, are available across the country. Artisanal salads bring the taste of the four seasons with ingredients cultivated by artisanal growers and picked throughout the year for optimal freshness and taste.
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Procter & Gamble’s (NYSE: PG) PUR Water Filtration is introducing a new line-up of one-click faucet mount filtration systems that makes getting clean drinking water instantly from the tap easier and more convenient than ever before. The first and only faucet mount design that installs with one easy click, the new PUR faucet water filter offers up to 100 gallons of great-tasting drinking water with just one click. The new design is simple to install so that no tools are required and it can be easily disconnected when needed.
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