Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONS) announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2010. Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2010 was $83.0 million, compared to $42.7 million in the third quarter of 2010 and $68.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2009. The Company’s net income on a GAAP basis for the fourth quarter of 2010 was $11.4 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $22.3 million, or $0.08 per share, for the third quarter of 2010, and net income of $10.3 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2009.
Sonus Networks, Inc. provides voice, video, and data infrastructure solutions for wireline and wireless telephone service providers.
Access to affordable healthcare in the United States is an entitlement, a perquisite or a fantasy, depending on a seemingly arbitrary matrix of factors. Government insurance programs are available for the elderly, the permanently disabled, people with failing kidneys, the impoverished and children from low-income families. But how poor one has to be to qualify varies from state to state and from year to year. Employees at most large companies and many small ones can take advantage of group insurance plans negotiated by their employers. But millions of people who work in low-paying service, retail or contracting jobs have to seek individual insurance policies, which may be unaffordable or unavailable because of their medical histories. Others obtain insurance with deductibles so high or coverage limits so low that one bad accident or illness could bankrupt them.
How much health insurance will set you back depends on your age, the status of your health (how strong or sick you are), where in the country you live, your income, and your job status.
NATIONAL HEALTH PARTNERS, INC. (NHPR.OB), a national healthcare membership organization, creates, markets, and sells membership programs to underserved markets in the healthcare industry in the United States. Its programs provide an alternative to individuals who seek to reduce their healthcare costs not covered by insurance, or who are unable to obtain healthcare insurance due to their medical history, age, or occupation.
The company, through its CARExpress membership programs, offers CARExpress health discount programs and CARExpress Plus membership programs. National Health Partners CARExpress health discount programs cover various aspects of healthcare, including physicians, hospitals, ancillary services, dentists, prescription drugs, vision care, hearing aids, chiropractic services, alternative care, 24-hour nurseline, medical supplies, and equipment, as well as long-term care facilities, which include skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, respite care, and home health care. These programs include comprehensive care, supplemental care, preferred, dental and vision care, prescription and vision care, and tiered pharmacy discount programs.
National Health Partners CARExpress Plus membership programs offer CARExpress Plus Platinum, CARExpress Plus Gold, and CARExpress Plus Silver programs that provide members point of service discount on their healthcare expenses at the time of service. It markets its membership programs directly to individual consumers through direct sales force, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet, as well as through Web site at carexpresshealth.com; and indirectly through brokers and agents, small businesses and trade associations, unions and associations, and marketing companies.
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death due to smoking.
Hardening of the arteries is a process that develops over years, when cholesterol and other fats deposit in the arteries, leaving them narrow, blocked or rigid. When the arteries narrow (atherosclerosis), blood clots are likely to form.
Smoking accelerates the hardening and narrowing process in your arteries: it starts earlier and blood clots are two to four times more likely.
Smokefree Innotec, Inc. (SFIO.PK) declared through its President and CEO Thomas Schroepfer, that �With some minor fine tuning, our shopping cart is now fully operational giving our customers the opportunity to purchase the first of our products being offered: Smokers Option, in both Menthol and Cinnamon. The web site itself is undergoing extensive redesign, to include complete product description located in easy to access click through portals. Beginning with Smokers Option presently available, additional products expected to be offered soon include �smokeless REAL e-cigarettes� (pronounced �Re-Al�) with an inventory of redesigned starter kits scheduled for delivery before the end of March. Marking a price reduction from $79 to under $18, the starter kits have been redesigned with our new technology to include the electronic device (�Zig�) and an initial supply of 10 filters, a compact charging unit and power supply, all designed to fit inside a package the size of a cigarette box.�
Smokefree Innotec, Inc. is in the business of designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing hi-tech, nicotine and non-nicotine cigarette-like delivery devices which are completely smoke and vapor-free and tobacco-free. Smokefree Innotec�s products are designed to protect the non-smoker from second hand smoke and all its effects while providing the smoker a way to enjoy a smoke-free cigarette anywhere, including places where smoking tobacco or similar substances is prohibited. Further, our products will allow the smoker to enjoy smoking either nicotine or flavored non-nicotine cigarettes while not having to worry about the offensive dangers and ill effects of regular cigarette smoking. However Smokefree Innotec products are not intended for any prevention or therapeutic treatment of any disease.
About Smokefree Innotec, Inc: www.smokefree-innotec.com
Cambium Learning Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:ABCD) announced offering of $175 million aggregate principal amount of 9.75% senior secured notes due 2017 (the “Notes”). The Company also entered into its previously announced new $40 million asset-based revolving credit facility. The Company used a portion of the net proceeds from the offering to repay in full outstanding indebtedness under its existing secured credit facility and senior unsecured notes and pay related fees and expenses and intends to use the remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes.
Cambium Learning Group, Inc. provides research-based education solutions for students in the United States. Its Voyager segment provides various reading programs.
Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq:HILL) announced that David Zimmer, vice president of worldwide channel sales and marketing, has been named a Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN. Channel Chiefs are leaders in creating effective channel programs for solution providers. They consistently defend, promote and execute effective channel partner programs and strategies.
Dot Hill Systems Corp. provides entry-level and midrange storage systems and enterprise server software for organizations requiring networked storage and data management solutions in open systems architecture.
