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Dunlop Brand Available for Tire Rack One Lap of America

Dunlop Brand Available for Tire Rack One Lap of America

AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 21 -- Dunlop Tires announced today that entrants for the 2005 Tire Rack Cannonball One Lap of America will have the opportunity to run on Dunlop performance tires for the first time in the 22nd running of the famous driving challenge. Dunlop engineer Chris Raglin said the new SP Sport Maxx ultra-perfo ... Continue reading

Epson Announces New Display Controller for OLED-Based Car Audio Displays

Epson Announces New Display Controller for OLED-Based Car Audio Displays

Tokyo (JCNN) - Seiko Epson has announced the development of a display controller geared toward the growing market for car electronics and amusement systems with organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays. The new product - the S1D13702 - offers improved functionality over its predecessor the S1D13701, which has been ... Continue reading

Reed Sorenson Pilots to a Fifth-Place Starting Spot at Daytona

Reed Sorenson Pilots to a Fifth-Place Starting Spot at Daytona

Contact: Jennifer Powell, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, phone: (704) 662-9642, jpowell@ganassi.com For Immediate Release Reed Sorenson Pilots the Discount Tire Dodge to a Fifth-Place Starting Spot at Daytona DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (February 18, 2004) --- Reed Sorenson maneuvered his Discount Tire Dodge around th ... Continue reading

Dealernews Names 'Top 100' Powersports Retailers in North America; Dealerships Honored for Design, Merchandising and Customer Service

Dealernews Names 'Top 100' Powersports Retailers in North America; Dealerships Honored for Design, Merchandising and Customer Service

INDIANAPOLIS--Feb. 18, 2005--Dealernews, the premier business-to-business magazine for powersports retailers, announces the winners of the 2005 Top 100 Awards, the industry's largest, longest running and most prestigious store design and marketing awards program. The Top 100 competition, now starting its 15th year, rec ... Continue reading

Vehicle Tracking Company Appoints Donna Driscoll Vice President/General Manager of New Business Lines

Vehicle Tracking Company Appoints Donna Driscoll Vice President/General Manager of New Business Lines

Charter is to Leverage LoJack's Core Competencies in Tracking/Recovering Stolen Mobile Assets for Expansion into New Channels WESTWOOD, Mass., Feb. 18 -- LoJack Corporation , the premier worldwide marketer of wireless security and location products for recovering stolen mobile assets, today announced the appointment of ... Continue reading

KUDOS:Local Ownership Group Purchases General Dynamics' Calspan Corporation; Saves Jobs and Preserves an Important Piece of Buffalo's Technology History

KUDOS:Local Ownership Group Purchases General Dynamics' Calspan Corporation; Saves Jobs and Preserves an Important Piece of Buffalo's Technology History

BUFFALO, N.Y.--Feb. 18, 2005--One of Western New York's most-storied companies - Calspan Corporation - has returned to local ownership as the result of a buyout by a local management/investment group. Louis Knotts and Thomas Pleban, two long-time Buffalo-based Calspan company executives, and John R. Yurtchuk, President ... Continue reading

Remy and Johnson Electric - Sign Strategic Agreement

Remy and Johnson Electric - Sign Strategic Agreement

ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 17 -- Remy International, Inc., ("Remy") and Johnson Electric Holdings Limited ("Johnson Electric") based in Hong Kong, announce the signing of a strategic cooperative agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Johnson Electric will supply Remy with components, motor assemblies and support servic ... Continue reading

TRW Automotive Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2004 Financial Results

TRW Automotive Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2004 Financial Results

LIVONIA, Mich., Feb. 17 -- TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. , today reported fourth quarter 2004 sales of $3.2 billion, an increase of 7% over the prior year quarter, and net losses of $62 million, or $(0.63) per share, compared to net losses of $1 million or $(0.01) per share during the same period a year ago. (Logo: htt ... Continue reading

NEC Electronics Announces New 32-Bit V850ES/Dx2 Microcontrollers for Automotive Dashboard Applications

NEC Electronics Announces New 32-Bit V850ES/Dx2 Microcontrollers for Automotive Dashboard Applications

DUESSELDORF, Germany, KAWASAKI, Japan and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 17 -- NEC Electronics today announced the availability of the V850ES/Dx2(TM) 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) for the automotive market. The V850ES/DG2(TM) and V850ES/DJ2(TM) MCUs are ideal for driver information systems such as instrument clusters that ... Continue reading

Potential Benefits to Spur Uptake of Wireless Sensor Networks Despite Initial Technical Roadblocks

Potential Benefits to Spur Uptake of Wireless Sensor Networks Despite Initial Technical Roadblocks

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Feb. 16, 2005--Due to their easy deployment at extremely low costs, wireless sensor networks, compared to wired networks, are gradually gaining a foothold across several industry verticals such as building and industrial automation. However, companies need to ensure that applications that work effect ... Continue reading

Advance Auto Parts Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2004 Results

Advance Auto Parts Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2004 Results

Same Store Sales Grew 9.7% for the Fourth Quarter ROANOKE, Va., Feb. 16 -- Advance Auto Parts, Inc. , a leading retailer of automotive parts, today announced record revenue and earnings for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 1, 2005. Fiscal 2004 included 52 weeks of operations compared to 53 weeks in fisc ... Continue reading

Get Off Clean Highway Paint Remover

Get Off Clean Highway Paint Remover

I am having trouble pasting the picture can I send as an attachement? Product Release For Immediate Release Get Off Clean Highway Paint Remover (HPR) Professional Detailers Program attracts new customers February 2005, Ft. Wayne, IN -- Get Off Clean announced today that the companies new highway paint remover product ( ... Continue reading

Two More Telematics Patents Bring USA Technologies' Arsenal of Patents to Sixty

Two More Telematics Patents Bring USA Technologies' Arsenal of Patents to Sixty

Patents Improve Automobile Safety and Security, and Convert Vehicles into Mobile Offices MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 16 -- USA Technologies, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: USTT) , announced today it has been awarded two more patents granted from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for patent applications relating to wireless telematics ... Continue reading

Polyurethane Spare Tire Runs the Distance

Polyurethane Spare Tire Runs the Distance

Zero-Pressure Spare Tire Runs Great in Initial Testing BOULDER CITY, Nev., Feb. 16 -- Amerityre Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: AMTY) . Amerityre Corporation announced today that initial testing of its polyurethane elastomer compound in an endurance test for its zero-pressure spare tire showed great results. The test tire ... Continue reading

Valeo Announces a Joint Venture in Iran for Its Engine Cooling Business

Valeo Announces a Joint Venture in Iran for Its Engine Cooling Business

PARIS, February 16 -- Valeo today announced the signature of an agreement for the creation of a joint venture for its engine cooling business with Armco, the leading player in Iran and a current licensee of Valeo. The joint venture, which will be 51% owned by Valeo and 49% by Armco, will supply heat exchangers for the ... Continue reading

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