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Software Service Helps Establish and Package Your Personal Brand, Aggregate Professional Content from Your Existing Social Feeds, Enhance Your Professional Network; $500K Angel Funding Preparing for Series A Austin, TX (PRWEB) February 20, 2013 Today, Icon formally launched its patent-pending software service, a digital business card for the modern professional. Icons are optimized to be shared with anyone, anywhere via smartphone, email or online – and Icons live in the cloud, so your...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In April of 2011, hackers broke into Sony’s PlayStation Network, bringing the service to its knees and exposing the personal information of millions of customers. More than a year and a half later, the Information Commissioners Office, (ICO) a British watchdog group, has fined Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited £250,000, more than $395,000 USD, in response to this breach. According to the ICO, these data leaks were a...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In another eye-brow raising move, Google has admitted that it did not delete data it collected while unleashing its Street View service on the public. Google has been under scrutiny, particular in Europe and Australia, for how it went about collecting data from Wi-Fi networks as it cruised along streets, snapping photos of the streets and surroundings. The company agreed to delete the data after international pressure surrounded the...

CHICAGO, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Illinois College of Optometry is proud to announce the founding of the Alfred and Sarah Rosenbloom Center on Vision and Aging, a new facility devoted to the vision care needs of the aging population. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120628/DC32178 ) The Center, located within the Illinois Eye Institute on the ICO campus, will ultimately have four essential functions: to promote optometry students' and...

Google will likely 'escape punishment' for gathering private emails, passwords, medical data, web browsing details and other private information from millions of Britons as it mapped out areas of the country in its fleet of Street View vehicles, experts say. The Internet search giant released sworn declarations from nine engineers involved in the controversial Street View project, who said they were unaware that Street View had been designed to collect such private data. The documents...

Google is under fire yet again for its controversial StreetView Mapping service, after Britain alleged it deliberately collected personal data while capturing images in the country, reports The Telegraph. The Internet search giant agreed to delete all the information it had inadvertently collected in November 2010, asserting to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that the collection of the data was a simple mistake. The ICO dropped an investigation into the matter after Google...

AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Net sales increased 37.5% to $2.2 billion for fiscal 2011, compared with $1.6 billion in fiscal 2010, and $578.1 million for the quarter, compared with $476.2 million in last year's fourth quarter, an increase of 21.4%Fiscal 2011 net income of $41.0 million compared with net income of $43.9 million in fiscal 2010, and $5.9 million for the quarter compared with net income of $7.9 million in last year's fourth quarterCompany reports a 20.3% increase...

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) today announced the North American release of The ICO(TM) & Shadow of the Colossus(TM) Collection, available exclusively for PlayStation®3 (PS3(TM)) computer entertainment system. Developed by Fumito Ueda, The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection remasters the critically acclaimed PlayStation®2 titles for the current console generation, adding in features such as full 1080p...

VANCOUVER, Sept. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - iCo Therapeutics Inc. (TSXV: ICO) today announced that the company has entered into a research collaboration agreement with JDRF, the worldwide leader for research to cure, treat, and prevent type 1 diabetes (T1D), to support the previously announced Phase 2 investigator sponsored clinical trial investigating iCo-007 in Diabetic Macular Edema (DME). DME is a major complication of diabetes and a leading cause of blindness in adults. In DME,...

HOUSTON, May 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Trico Marine Services, Inc. (Pink Sheets: TRMAQ) (the "Company" or "Trico Marine"), today announced that it has successfully completed the out-of-court restructuring of its Trico Supply Group, which includes Trico Supply AS ("Trico Supply"), Trico Shipping AS ("Trico Shipping"), DeepOcean AS ("DeepOcean"), CTC Marine Projects Ltd. ("CTC") and other subsidiaries. In the out-of-court restructuring, $399,500,000 or 99.88%, of Trico Shipping's 11 7/8%...