Standard cutlery bins are a breeding ground for foodservice "crimes" such as poor hygiene and product waste but Dixie Foodservice is helping operators "clean house." Dixie Foodservice announces the release of the SmartStock™ cutlery dispenser and refill system, offering the foodservice industry's premier solution for single cutlery dispensing.

The new dispensers, which provide an individual piece of single-use cutlery at the simple push of a lever, enhances hygiene by reducing touch points as compared to standard self serve cutlery bins. The quick-load capability of the dispenser also reduces waste and stocking times, providing immediate operational benefits to foodservice and restaurant operators.

The SmartStock dispenser solution is comprised of a suite of three individual dispensers, one each for single-use forks, knives and spoons. The SmartStock dispenser's tower design, which can be placed on counters or mounted on walls, offers a sleek, innovative alternative to ...

eGain Communications Corporation (OTCBB: EGAN), a leading provider of customer service and contact center software for in-house or on-demand SaaS deployment, today announced that it has entered into an OEM agreement with Cisco Systems, Inc. Under the terms of this agreement, Cisco will include eGain's award-winning products for email management (eGain Mail™), chat (eGain Chat™) and web collaboration (eGain CoBrowse™) as an integral part of the Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise™ and the Cisco Unified Contact Center Express™ software suites for customer interaction management.

Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise and Cisco Unified Contact Center Express suites provide state-of-the-art IP-based customer interaction solutions for the enterprise and the SMB (small and medium-sized business) market segments respectively. These s...

eGain Communications (OTCBB: EGAN), provider of the industry's top-rated* customer service and contact center software for in-house or on-demand SaaS deployment, announced today that CRM magazine has named eGain as the "One to Watch for 2007" in the web-support services category.

The award was based on a combination of measures that included revenue, year-over-year growth, and reputation for customer satisfaction, depth of functionality, and company direction.

"The 'One to Watch' award was given to eGain for its continued innovation in software and services for implementing customer interaction hubs. I look forward to seeing their continued growth," said David Myron, Editorial Director, CRM magazine.

Jointly conceived and developed by eGain and its blue-chip customers, eGain Service™ directly addresses the mindset of today's consumers, who expect...

Alberta Star Development Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: ASX)(OTCBB: ASXSF) is pleased to report that the Company has received assay results from the final eleven holes from the summer/fall drill program and continues to intersect significant poly-metallic mineralization at Mile Lake, NT. The Company has intersected poly-metallic breccia's and veins that are rich in copper, molybdenum, lead, zinc, silver and tungsten from the Mile Lake Breccia, the Thompson Showing and the J1 target area situated on the Company's Contact Lake property on the south side of Echo Bay. Preliminary drilling of the Mile Lake Breccia has yielded significant poly-metallic drill results from drill holes 1 & 2 (NR Nov 16, 2006) and from the balance of 6 dri...

Skygold Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: SKV) ("Skygold") is pleased to announce the identification of four new exploration targets on its 100% owned Quesnel Trough SHG (sediment hosted gold) project in central British Columbia. The new targets are based on the results of Skygold's reconnaissance scale exploration program and each target is geologically similar to the Spanish Mountain discovery. Skygold controls one of the largest land packages in the Quesnel Trough area.

The regional program consisted of geological mapping, prospecting and soil and heavy mineral sampling over a large area of the claim holdings in central British Columbia (approximately 450,000 hectares) stretching intermittently from 100 kilometres southeast of Spanish Mountain to about 400 kilometres northwest of Spanish Mountain. Initial results have identified the four targets, each demonst...

IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Fraud and Abuse Management System, which provides detection capabilities to help health care payers identify questionable claims and develop cases for investigation, is being enhanced to provide even more efficient and cost-effective ways to tackle health care insurance claim fraud, waste and abuse.

The system, which was developed by IBM researchers and consultants in collaboration with leading health care insurance companies, is now being offered with an automated analysis capability, which can be added onto the client's system to reduce the cycle time for claims investigators, and in an "on-demand" model. Clients using the on-demand version have their analyses run on IBM computers and are charged based on the amount of claims processed and number of medical specialties being analyzed.

According to estimates from the federal government and ...

NWP Services Corporation (NWP) announced today that ING Clarion Realty Services (ING) has selected NWP's aBreeze™ solution, which will enable residents of the ING Clarion communities to go online and make secure payments for rent and other charges due. aBreeze also converts rental payments made onsite by residents of the ING Clarion communities into electronic payments using a check conversion device. aBreeze is offered by NWP in cooperation with CheckFree Corporation (NASDAQ: CKFR), a national provider of financial electronic commerce services and products.

aBreeze will enable ING Clarion Realty Services to escalate availability of funds and to receive NSF notifications faster. aBreeze will also help significantly reduce the costs associated with accepting and processing monthly resident payments at community sites. Finally, aBreeze payment options will...

The first reported lawsuit seeking the court's interpretation of the federal Bond Amendment while challenging the government's ability to condemn property for a private-to-private taking in the name of economic development has been filed in federal court today.

Keystone Properties, LLC (Keystone) filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida seeking to stop the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) from using federal funds to condemn its 65-acre St. Johns River parcel being developed into a large-scale coal/bulk cargo terminal.

In November of 2005, Jaxport filed a petition in Circuit Court of Duval County to condemn Keystone's property for port development to be an "economic engine" for Jacksonville. It was later discovered that Jaxport planned to enter into a 20-year multimillion dollar lease of the Keystone parcel to a competitor, Drummond Coal. Drummond Coal planned to use the property for a purpose similar to that of Keystone -- t...

Sabrix™, Inc. announced today that the company will enter into the mid-market with the Sabrix Managed Tax Service™ (MTS), a complete outsourced transaction tax compliance solution for sales, use, and value-added tax (VAT) compliance. Exclusively developed for companies with annual revenues of $50M to $500M, the new service combines an on-demand version of Sabrix's enterprise software and tax research with the services of experienced tax professionals to deliver accurate and auditable, signature-ready returns. The Sabrix Managed Tax Service is designed to help finance departments in mid-market companies eliminate the hassle, reduce the cost, and limit the audit exposure for tax compliance.

With more than 11,500 tax jurisdictions in the United States, mid-sized companies struggle to remain up to date on the latest tax regulations. There were 478 U.S. sales and use tax rate changes just during the first half of 2006. Also, according to a survey of more than 500 companies ...

Gregory Isenor, President and CEO of Merrex Gold Inc., ("Merrex")(TSX VENTURE: MXI) is pleased to make the following announcement.

Drilling Starts on Jubilee Zinc Deposit

Merrex commenced a diamond drilling program on its Jubilee zinc property. The drilling program will consist of 7 - 10 holes totaling approximately 5,000 meters. The program will concentrate in the zinc mineralized area known as the Jubilee Zone and is designed to both expand the known area of mineralization and develop further verification data towards establishing a NI43-101 compliant resource for the Jubilee Deposit.

In addition, a high grade zone of zinc mineralization that lies both adjacent to and within the Jubilee Fault will be drill tested.

The Jubilee Property

The Jubilee Property, located in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is a 228 claim group which includes the Jubile...