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Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com Apple may have successfully chosen the two most polar opposite celebrities to sell their iPhones in one ad campaign. Typically foul-mouthed Pulp Fiction star Samuel Jackson appears in the first commercial, using Siri to help him plan for “Date Night.” (And no, Jackson does not ask Siri if she knows what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in France.) On the other end of the celebrity spectrum is quirky, funky Zooey Deschanel, star of popular...

In its latest case study, NetHosting looks into one of the biggest names in online streaming sites, Vimeo. Orem, UT (PRWEB) April 17, 2012 NetHosting, a top provider of Cloud Hosting, Virtual Hosting, and App Hosting, has just published a case study on the video-streaming site Vimeo. Vimeo is the brainchild of internet entertainment moguls Jakob Lodwick of College Humor and Zach Klein of Busted Tees. Inspired by the photoblogging craze, they decided to apply the same principle of...

LOS ANGELES, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Afrojack, one of the most sought-after DJs and producers in the world, will embark on his most extensive tour to date this summer with more than 30 headlining dates and festival stops across North America. Afrojack, who brought you the club hit and platinum single "Take Over Control", will visit major cities, including Chicago, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Boston, Miami and Toronto. Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, April 20th...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's best-selling, multi-artist album series, NOW That's What I Call Music!, will release NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 42 and NOW That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits on May 1. Both titles will be available on CD and for download purchase from all major digital service providers. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120417/LA89197) NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 42 features 16 current major chart hits...

PLYMOUTH, Mich., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, April 21, more than 2,700 local Comcast employees, their families and friends are expected to volunteer and assist nonprofit organizations around the state as part of Comcast's "Comcast Cares Day." Over the previous ten Comcast Cares Days, Comcast volunteers have dedicated more than 2.1 million hours of service. The company has also contributed more than $10.5 million in grants to organizations nationwide. Comcast Cares...

LAKEVILLE-MIDDLEBORO, Mass. and LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. and the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development celebrated the groundbreaking for Ocean Spray's juice bottling plant in the Upper Macungie Township of Pennsylvania. Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary C. Alan Walker joined Ocean Spray President and CEO Randy Papadellis to officially commemorate the beginning of...

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is making eye health an important component to its health programming to address the higher risk among African Americans for many eye- and overall-health issues that can impact vision. One of the goals of this focus is to drive awareness about the importance of getting a regular eye exam and protecting eyes from the sun. A recent study[i] showed that less than half of African Americans had an eye...

One out of every two women of reproductive age is overweight or obese. Researchers from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, from the University of Ottawa (faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences) and from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute set out to discover if overweight or obese women are in fact more likely to give birth to above average weight babies, as reported in the Journal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. "Obesity can become part of...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today it has acquired an exclusive license for several novel biomarkers from Stanford University for use in developing a molecular diagnostic test that could satisfy a longstanding unmet medical need: differentiating aggressive from nonaggressive prostate cancer. Recent data point to certain genetic biomarkers that may identify which patients have fast-growing malignancies and should be treated...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Knoodle, the enterprise social learning company, is pleased to announce The Health and Obesity: Prevention and Education (HOPE) Curriculum Project as a winner of the 2012 Learning! 100 Awards for its e-learning curriculum offered through Knoodle. The HOPE Curriculum is a web-based, multidisciplinary curriculum that educates pediatric clinicians on health consequences of childhood obesity, screening techniques to identify those at...