NEW YORK – FiOS TV subscribers in the Northeast woke up Tuesday morning (Jan. 10) to a new way of interacting and enjoying their TV experience. 

The new benefits are the result of Verizon’s continued transformation of FiOS TV viewing by bringing the next generation of its FiOS TV Interactive Media Guide to subscribers in the company’s New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island service areas.  More than 4.2 million households in these states can now take advantage of award-winning FiOS TV and the advanced IMG. 

Introduced in 2007, the FiOS TV IMG was the first broadband platform to pull together content from broadcast TV, the Internet and users’ own personal media into one media-management system.  It has since evolved into an in-depth, interactive TV experience, with applications for advanced/intuitive search, social networking, Internet video, personal media streaming, high-definition music, remote DVR controls, account management and billing functions, multi-screen/mobile viewing and much more.

The company used customer feedback taken in through its product development labs, field trials and online consumer forums to create many of the more than 25 new upgrades to FiOS TV’s advanced IMG that are now available to subscribers in the tri-state area.  The enhancements include greater personalization and customization, easier navigation, deeper search, bigger storage options and optimization for new 3D technology.  To learn more about the customer participation in the development of the IMG’s new capabilities, view this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iehPRr0-LFA. 

“Customers are at the center of everything we do, and that includes how we develop our products and services,” said Susan Retta, vice president of marketing for Verizon’s Northeast area.  “FiOS TV isn’t about passive video watching – it has evolved into an entertainment and information destination.  Our new generation of FiOS TV is all about simplicity of design, increased user interactivity and ease of use.  It’s yet another way we want our customers to get the most out of their FiOS services.” 

FiOS TV customers can find out more about the upgrades on the FiOS TV Central website.  A short video highlighting some of the changes can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/user/verizon?feature=mhum#p/u/6/iqQSE3TpbS8. 

Highlights include:

• Improved search capabilities, which provide a smarter search function that predicts what the customer is looking for and automatically provides potential matches.  FiOS TV customers also can filter and sort by channel, and more easily locate favorite programs.
• DVR enhancements, which give FiOS TV customers more control with the following:

o    DVR chaptering, giving viewers DVD-like capabilities to jump ahead or resume viewing at a particular moment of recorded programming by using on-screen thumbnails in 10-minute increments, providing more visual navigation.

o     Multi-hub DVR, which turns any DVR or HD set-top box in the home into a “hub,” allowing customers to record and manage DVR settings from any room in the home, provided one of the DVRs is a multi-room DVR.

o     eSATA external storage device compatibility, available with most FiOS TV DVRs, allowing for increased overall storage capacity.  The eSATA hard drives can be purchased at most consumer electronics stores and will automatically record customer selections once plugged into the DVR.

o     New “play all” and “delete all” options, allowing customers to play episodes back-to-back and automatically delete all episodes of a show with the push of a button.

• Personalization features, which let FiOS TV customers enjoy entertainment on their own terms, including:

o    New parental control options that make monitoring children’s viewing even easier, with the ability to block out portions of programming by rating during key hours of the day, like homework time, and schedule certain times for Parental Controls to be automatically turned on and off for greater flexibility.

o    Guide customization, enabling a variety of settings, with a mini guide on the bottom of the screen, a half guide on the right side of the screen, and a full guide with a look at more hours of scheduled programming.

• 3D content software, which automatically detects when a customer tunes to a 3D program or channel and instantly changes the necessary settings for watching those programs on a 3D television set. 

Verizon’s FiOS TV Interactive Media Guide can be accessed with the FiOS TV remote control or by using Verizon’s FiOS Mobile application, which turns an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or Android device into a remote control for a FiOS HD set-top box, making parental controls, customized interactive applications and program recording options easy to access. 

The next-generation FiOS TV is built upon a long series of innovations, including Flex View and FiOS TV Online, which extend FiOS TV beyond the home to the Internet and a range of mobile devices; free interactive applications including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yelp, HSN Shop By Remote, TMZ and others; Media Manager, which allows customers to access on their TVs personal photos, music and videos from their computers; and In-Home Agent, which frees customers to use simple online tools to diagnose and resolve a range of service issues. 

Existing FiOS TV subscribers can find out more information by tuning to FiOS Channel 131, or visiting http://www.verizon.com/fiostvcentral. 

For the latest news, updates and information about FiOS TV, visit www.verizon.com/newscenter  and http://www.verizon.com/athomeblog.

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers.  Verizon Wireless operates America’s most reliable wireless network, with more than 107 million total connections nationwide.  Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries, including all of the Fortune 500.  A Dow 30 company with $106.6 billion in 2010 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 195,000.  For more information, visit www.verizon.com. 

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Farmington, CT (PRWEB) December 21, 2011 Al Davidson, the Founder and President of Strategic Sales & Marketing, Inc. (SSM) announced today that his lead generation and appointment setting company has achieved a unique milestone in the lead generation industry: the company recently generated the 7 millionth sales lead for its clients.

2011 marks the company’s 23rd year in business. Ever since Al Davidson founded Strategic Sales & Marketing in 1989, it has become one of the most widely respected lead generation companies and an influential thought leader in lead generation and appointment setting.

“I founded this company in the basement of my home in 1989, and I never would have guessed that we would grow to such a level of prominence in lead generation,” said Al Davidson, founder and president of Strategic Sales & Marketing. “With every client, we strive to be a ‘leading light’ for their lead management and appointment setting efforts. Whether it’s an appointment setter making cold calls or a sales coach delivering specialized B2B sales consulting, every step of our process is a team effort focused on creating better sales leads and generating bigger sales.”

Strategic Sales & Marketing has built its reputation on a unique approach to B2B lead management and appointment setting: instead of simply providing outsourced lead generation services, Al Davidson and his team of lead generation consultants, sales agents and appointment setters provide comprehensive B2B marketing consulting, appointment setting programs, sales strategy, sales coaching, marketing communications development and social media lead generation.

“Our company roots are in B2B sales and we try to be a company that is run ‘by sales people, for sales people,” said Al Davidson.

About Strategic Sales & Marketing, Inc.
Founded by Al Davidson in 1989, Strategic Sales & Marketing is a “leading light” among lead generation companies, helping to deliver B2B lead generation and appointment setting solutions for global clients ranging from local small businesses to the Fortune 100. The company’s sales agents and lead generation consultants have delivered over 50 million sales presentations, generated over 7 million new sales leads, and created billions of dollars in new revenue for our clients. Contact Strategic Sales & Marketing via the company website at http://www.manageyourleads.com/

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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) December 20, 2011 On December 15, 2011, LockBoxSwap, LLC introduced the first e-commerce platform for real estate professionals to buy or sell used lock boxes in a secure, centralized secondary marketplace — LockBoxSwap.

Borne out of the yearlong collaborative efforts of a San Diego Realtor and a successful Internet entrepreneur, LockBoxSwap is the 21st century response to the high cost and transfer-of-ownership difficulties associated with buying a brand new Realtor lockbox. Until now, Realtors looking to buy or sell Supra or SentriLock lockboxes on the secondary market shopped locally for other Realtors, or ventured into the uncertain online world of eBay or Craigslist. With LockBoxSwap, any individual Realtor or Real Estate Association, can easily purchase or sell their used lock boxes at one trusted location, from their home, office, or on the go in a matter of minutes.

“Any Realtor will attest to how expensive and time-consuming the process of buying a new lockbox can be. LockBoxSwap’s easy-to-use platform, free-shipping policy, and transfer-of-ownership guarantee allows any real estate professional to safely buy a lockbox or sell a lockbox without ever leaving their desk.” said San Diego Realtor, and LockBoxSwap CEO, Mike Wolf.

With so much positive feedback surrounding the website launch, Realtors and Associations have seemed to embrace the idea that they can cut costs on an expensive lockbox, and use the extra money to better serve their clients needs. “In a real estate market where using a SentriLock or Supra lockbox is the status quo, LockBoxSwap can save Realtors’ some extra cash in this tough market to use towards presenting and selling their next listing.”

Until January 31st, just enter JAN20SWAP at checkout to receive 20% off any lockbox purchased.

Research has shown a direct correlation between “smart” lockboxes and higher closing prices; for increased security, and software tools to better serve clients, the electronic lockbox can’t be beat. With LockBoxSwap, now every Realtor has an electronic lockbox within their reach.

With free-shipping, exceptional customer service, and a Realtor-managed team who understands your business, LockBoxSwap aims to be the one-stop shop for all Realtors’ Supra and SentriLock lockbox needs. No more hassle. No more haggling. No more leaving your office. Just a guaranteed electronic lockbox delivered straight to your door. — “Lock Up Your Listing For Less with LockBoxSwap”

To lock up your listing for less, go to http://www.LockBoxSwap.com. For large volume orders call Beau Katz, National Sales Manager, at (888) 835-2540.

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Astoria, NY (PRWEB) December 23, 2011 4OVER4.COM has launched a Christmas and New Year puzzles printing service to provide customers with unique corporate and personal puzzle gifts for friends, family, loved ones, staff and customers. 4OVER4.COM is an online printing service that provides digital and offset printing in the areas of post card printing, Custom Labels printing, vinyl decal printing, poster printing, business card printing, Large Format Printing, vinyl banner printing, brochures printing, and many more Custom Printing applications.

4OVER4.COM puzzles are a great promotional gift and marketing tool and can be used during the Christmas and New Year Season for Corporate PR or personal gift items for friends, family and loved ones.

4OVER4.COM puzzles are printed on durable boards and arrive pre-assembled in a clear plastic bag with cardstock backing, accompanied by a separate print of the puzzle image.

4OVER4.COM guarantees low 25 minimums on puzzle printing.

4OVER4.COM provides Puzzle Printing in thick jigsaw stock and 5 sizes including: 4×6 20-piece puzzles, 6×8 48-piece puzzles, 8×12 50-piece puzzles, 11×14 80-piece puzzles, and 12×18 300-piece puzzles. Quantities of 25 to 250 prints per order can be obtained from 4OVER4.COM.

“4OVER4 is glad to offer custom puzzles printing this Christmas and New Year season. The custom puzzles make great gift items for friends, family and Corporate PR,” says 4OVER4.COM Principal Taso Panagiotopoulos.

For more information about 4OVER4.COM Puzzles printing, or for any updates or inquiries, please visit http://www.4over4.com/printing/Printing-Puzzles, email support(at)4over4(dot)com or call the 4OVER4.COM customer care line on 1-718-932-2700.

About 4OVER4.COM
Online printing company 4OVER4.COM, an NYC printing firm, is a green printing company that serves tens of thousands of clients nationally and whose printing New York facility began operations in 1999.4OVER4.COM provides unmatched technical and customer support and instant online pricing and ordering for full color printing services since 1999, 4OVER4.COM has offered free expert file review and free online proofs without any obligation to purchase. As a green printing company, we are strongly oriented towards sustainable environmental renewal, and we are happy to lead the way with environmentally and socially responsible printing practices and projects among national as well as New York Printers.

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) December 16, 2011 Linkbuilding.org, the best of link building companies that provides link building seo services, announced today an increase in the search for keyword, “linkbuilding.” The internet marketing company keeps track of searchable keywords related to the site, and this term has had a 40% increase in searches on the Internet in the last month. This has, in turn, showed an increase in clients who are looking for linkbuilding packages. Utilizing successful SEO services, including article distribution, natural link building, directory submissions, contextual link building, article submission and syndication, RSS feeds syndication, press release distribution, social bookmarking, link baiting and many more, to ensure that clients achieve the search engine ranking position they deserve.

“We are optimistic that more and more prospective clients will find us online,” said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director for the Link Building Company.

Link Building Company is owned and operated by the Internet Marketing Company. The Internet has become an extremely competitive market these days, and search engines place a great deal of importance on the quantity and quality of links pointing to a website. As one might already know, inbound links are the most important factor as to how search engines determine where a website will rank in search results. Google and other engines rely heavily on inbound links to a website to determine authority, relevance and overall popularity of a website across the Web. In a nutshell, the more quality links there is, the higher a website will rank. At the end of the day, it is all about rankings!

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Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) December 19, 2011 Henry Schafer Partners (http://www.henryschafer.com) announced today that Christine Tsang has been hired as an account executive and social media specialist for the marketing and public relations firm. She will work in media relations, advocacy and social media for the firm’s business and nonprofit clients.

Christine received a B.A. degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota. She previously was an intern at Henry Schafer Partners before graduating from the University in 2010. She also worked as public relations intern at LifeScience Alley in the areas of communications and special events. Christine was most recently employed by Martin Williams, an advertising and public relations firm.

Henry Schafer president, Joanne Henry, said, “Christine’s social media and other communications skills will be a valuable addition to our client work. She also brings expertise in special events and community projects that are important to our broad community engagement work.”

Henry Schafer Partners provides full service communications and marketing consulting services to business and nonprofit organizations. Some of the firm’s clients include Career Quest Learning Centers, Wellington Management, Inc. Hunger-Free Minnesota, City Running Tours and Erik’s Ranch & Retreats. The company has a focus area on increasing awareness, advocacy and advancing partnerships. The firm also manages a business/nonprofit breakfast program, the Common Good Breakfast series.

About Henry Schafer Partners
Henry Schafer Partners is a market strategy and public relations firm with broad and extensive industry experience. They provide branding, communications and marketing support to their clients. They have developed clients’ strategic messages and marketing directions, handled media relations and created online presence for clients using social media.

More information is at http://www.henryschafer.com or http://www.prforgood.org.

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Ottawa, ON (PRWEB) December 21, 2011 Buy Real Marketing’s premier YouTube service, Buy Real YouTube Views announces its latest update to date. A pioneer service online to leverage advertising space to drive traffic to YouTube videos, Buy Real YouTube Views, started in midyear 2010 and has built a strong reputation for itself among its competitors as the no. 1 provider that can garner quality views to its clients especially in driving quality YouTube views.

Buy Real YouTube Views utilizes only real people without the use of any kind of bots. Many of its clients profit from this type of YouTube marketing technique as the most optimal process of presenting products to its audiences. Buy Real YouTube Views guarantees its clients that it provides top quality YouTube views or their clients get a money back guarantee. No questions asked, if a client is unsatisfied with the quality of service, management will return the money back all within the promised time.

JP Bisson, Managing Director of Buy Real Marketing said “We saw the opportunity to help businesses grow and become successful through YouTube views. Which is why, we want to introduce our best offer to them. For only $15, our clients can achieve an immediate campaign of 5,000 views. Also, if our clients are unsatisfied with our services, we offer a 100% Money Back guarantee. Our company highly values our clients and their feedback.”

Buy YouTube Views also offers other packages to suit any budget: $29 for 10,000 views, $70 for 25,000 views, $135 for 50,000 views and $260 for 100,000 views. With the help of this service,
YouTube advertising is easy and hassle free. It can provide the opportunity to boost sales, widen the awareness of the video and its method is 100% safe and risk-free. Given the expertise of the company, videos applied for this service have never been banned or flagged. Unused advertising space is no longer considered useless, but an efficient tool to drawing more attention to the YouTube videos.

Buy Real YouTube views also offers other services such as YouTube ratings, subscribers, favorites, comments and friends. It has sister companies that offer similar services such as Buy Real Fans and Likes, Twitter Followers and the like. For more information about Buy Real YouTube Views and its other services, visit their website at http://www.buyrealyoutubeviews.com.

About Buy Real Marketing
Buy Real Marketing is wholly owned by Clicking Labs, Inc. Clicking Labs is a well established internet marketing company founded in 2010 by Jean-Patrick Bisson, Diana Quartin and Jonathan Kennedy. The company specializes in driving search marketing and social media traffic, social web app development and conversion optimization. Each product or service specifically helps small/medium website owners increase online visibility and improve online sales.

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Maitland, FL (PRWEB) December 17, 2011 According to author Mary Ann Crum, every day is loaded with opportunities to learn more about the amazing character and ways of God. She says that He calls to His children in even humdrum places and moments, whispering, “Here I am. Talk to Me. Listen to Me. Learn from Me,” and sometimes, “Laugh with Me.” Within the pages of her new Xulon Press book, Live. Learn. Laugh! Stories and Studies That Reveal God’s Amazing Heart ($16.99, paperback, 978-1-61904-308-4; $26.99, hardcover, 978-1-61904-309-1), she shares with readers a sampling of humorous newspaper columns she penned during her career as a newspaper reporter and columnist, stories she hopes will entertain, encourage, inspire, and challenge readers. Each section of columns is followed by practical questions for group discussion and individual study of God’s Word.

“[My book] is refreshing Bible study with a twist,” the author says. “Jump on in. Live, Learn. And by all means, laugh.”

Mary Ann Crum earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Louisville and is the author of one previous book, A Giggle Goes a Long Way. She is a wife, mom, and grandmother, and has been a newspaper reporter and columnist, university public relations writer, tennis coach, church youth director, children’s home houseparent, and women’s ministry director. She lives in Greenwood, South Carolina.

Xulon Press, a division of Salem Communications, is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 8,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order Live. Learn. Laugh! through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. The book is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) December 21, 2011 Americans that are appalled by the state of public discourse among Republican and Democratic leaders have a new home to share their frustrations with today’s launch of MadHumans.com (http://www.madhumans.com/). The web site currently highlights a dozen national political characters with more to be added as the election season heats up in 2012. A page dedicated to each character includes a steady stream of satirical social media commentary and news feeds and allows users to post their own comments.

The launch of MadHumans.com is a precursor to the introduction of the mobile game, Mad Humans Election 2012, which will be available for download in January, 2012. The game will let players take out their frustration on mad political characters from Donald Trump to Nancy Pelosi in an entertaining and good-natured way. A launcher will be used to throw fruit and vegetables at attacking waves of minions loyal to each political character. When they are defeated, players will face the leaders themselves in a final battle.

“Our country is being overrun by kooky people from Kim Kardashian to Charlie Sheen,” says Alan McGlade, Executive Producer of Mad Humans and Managing Director of Digital Entertainment Ventures. “America’s political leaders are the worst offenders of all and they are driving us crazy. We have to fight back.”

Mad Humans is being developed by the early stage investment firm, Digital Entertainment Ventures, in collaboration with game developer, Galaxy Pest Control, and with production and marketing support from Forty Nine Group (http://www.fortyninegroup.com/). Telvetto is providing the data feed for the character pages through its real-time aggregation and curation platform (http://telvetto.com/). BrandedNewYork.com handled the site design.

About Mad Humans
Mad Humans is a suite of mobile games that tap the American Zeitgeist. It pits players against comically hostile celebrity humans and their minions from the worlds of politics, entertainment, and sports in easy to use, non-lethal battle games. New characters will be added over time as the American celebrity machine cranks out Mad Humans in the news. In anticipation of the 2012 election season, Mad Humans ELECTION 2012 is being introduced first.

About Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV)
DEV identities, finances and actively manages companies building the next generation of digital service and applications that are transforming media and entertainment. The DEV portfolio spans music, video, games and publishing utilizing the latest technology platforms from internet-enabled TV’s to mobile computing on handsets, laptops and tablets. DEV offers an unprecedented opportunity to invest in a diverse combination of strategically selected early stage, high growth companies that are altering the media landscape.

About Galaxy Pest Control
Galaxy Pest Control is a new development studio formed by the management team of Lucky Chicken Games and Abandon Interactive Entertainment. Abandon partnered with NBC Sports for three titles and developed two original PC MMO titles. Freaky Creatures was released in March 2009 to critical acclaim, and Freaky Pets launched in September 2010 through the Hallmark Gold Crown Stores. The studio’s focus is on creating fun, socially aware games for mobile, PC and console platforms (http://www.gpcgames.com/).

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Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) December 22, 2011 Marketing and web development firm AIMG │ Accurate Imaging, Inc., recently launched its newly designed corporate website at http://www.aimg.com.

“Just as I tell my clients,” said Joe DeMicco, AIMG’s CEO & Founder, “it is necessary to re-design the corporate website periodically to reflect changes in the marketplace, people’s tastes and attitudes, technological advancements, as well as the growth and development of the company. The new AIMG website is pleasant to the eye, easy to scan quickly, and continues to be updated with our new service offerings such as our Medical Marketing Division set to formerly launch in early 2012 not to mention our new ‘Opportunity Analysis’ strategic marketing service.”

Among the changes reflected in the new design is a focus on the company’s divisions, namely Enterprise Solutions, Small Business Solutions, Industrial Sector, and Non-Profits, Organizations and Associations (acronym NOA). Content for the new Medical Marketing Division is currently under development and should be posted before the end of February 2012.

“We offer a wide variety of marketing, web development, advertising, and business development services,” said DeMicco. “It was important to us during the re-design process to consider the different visitor types to our site and help them to understand how to quickly get to the services that are relevant to their needs. We also took into consideration that people charged with doing preliminary research for a company may not have a lot of time so we wanted to make sure we accommodated them as efficiently as possible. Our preliminary analysis of our site statistics and the calls we are getting indicate we are definitely on the right track.”

The new AIMG website is available at http://www.aimg.com or call (704) 321-1234.

About AIMG | Accurate Imaging
AIMG | Accurate Imaging is a full service marketing, web development and search engine optimization (seo) agency, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, that serves clients in the United States, Canada and Europe. It offers website design, search engine optimization, custom application development, consulting for business development and marketing services. AIMG’s divisions include Enterprise Business Solutions, Small Business Marketing, Strategic Local Marketing, Industrial Sector Marketing, Medical Marketing, and its NOA Marketing Division specializing in the needs of non-profits, organizations and associations. Visit http://www.aimg.com or call (704) 321-1234.

About Joe DeMicco
Joe DeMicco has been an online and marketing consultant for almost 20 years. He started his flagship company AIMG | Accurate Imaging in 1994. He has worked as a consultant and produced solutions for companies like BMW, Discovery Communications, Publicis, Thomas Register (ThomasNet), Net2Phone, Robotic Industries Association, Automated Imaging Association, Hose-McCann Communications, E-Z-EM (now Bracco Imaging), and Excite Media Group. In 2007 he established Industrial Web Solutions, which specializes in online and offline solutions for industrial manufacturers. His blog DeMicco.com offers business development tips.

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