Tallahassee, FL - Ash Williams, Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA) announced the launch of the Florida Growth Fund today. The Florida Growth Fund initiative is one result of the Florida Technology and Growth Act signed by Governor Crist in May 2008. The act allows the SBA to invest up to 1.5% of Florida Retirement System Pension Fund (FRS) assets in technology and growth enterprises that have significant presence in Florida. Technology and growth investments include, but are not limited to, space technology, aerospace and aviation engineering, computer technology, renewable energy, and medical and life sciences.

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Tampa, FL - Business Software Alliance runs national “whistleblower” radio ad campaign in Tampa, Florida. Software audit defense firm, Scott & Scott, offers 4 tips to avoid common mistakes in software licensing audits. Scott & Scott, LLP, Dallas based law and technology services firm, report that the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has targeted Tampa in its national “Know it, Report it, Reward it” whistleblower campaign, based on statistics from TNS Media’s AdScope. The BSA, a global software industry group funded by big name companies, including Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, and Autodesk, placed 72 ads in a 7 week period on Tampa radio stations offering informants, usually disgruntled employees, up to $1 Million in cash for anonymous software piracy tips.

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Satellite Beach, FL - Satcom Direct, a leading innovator of satellite voice, fax, and Internet data service solutions, can now deliver complete Internet global communications solutions due to the successful launch of the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite at 22:43 UTC (23.43 London time) on August 18, 2008, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (04:43 local time, August 19).

The Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite completes Inmarsat’s next-generation global satellite network, providing broadband Internet services to users around the world. Inmarsat aero solutions are the standard for all business and military aviation, and its network is utilized worldwide for providing seamless voice, Internet, and ICAO flight deck safety services.

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Miramar, FL - Wireless Maritime Services (WMS), the world leader in providing cellular service to the cruise line industry, announced today that they have signed a new five year contract to continue providing cellular at sea wireless service to guests and crew members on all ships from Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. and Celebrity Cruises. New ships entering the fleets are also included under this agreement.

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St. Petersburg, FL — Florida Genetics, LLC, is pleased to announce the issuance of US Patent No. 7,129,343, a new genetic engineering technique for controlling gene expression in plants, animals and many microbes. This patent describes the newly invented Bidirectional Dual Promoter Complex (BDPC), which facilitates genetic engineering by simultaneously coordinating the expression of multiple genes in a single, easily manipulated, genetic unit. The BDPC provides dramatic improvement over mono-directional promoter systems that have been used in all previous eukaryotic genetic engineering systems and is the most efficient method known for up- or down-regulating expression of virtually any targeted gene or genes. Genes of interest can be readily arranged in the BDPC, which is then inserted into a target organism’s chromosomes using standard biotechnological methods. In this way new traits, such as disease resistance or protein production, can be readily created.

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