Research and Markets Offers an Analysis of the Portable Media Player Market.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-25 July 2007-Research and Markets Offers an Analysis of the Portable Media Player Market(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of "PMP Growth Forecast 2007-2012: Portable Video Creates Need for Dedicated Devices" to their offering. In a release, Research...

Positioning social marketing as a planning process for health education.
Abstract: While social marketing is flourishing, there appears to be confusion regarding what it is, what it can reasonably do, and how it should be applied to health education. Some confusion relates to a perception that social marketing is limited to narrow strategies, interventions, or theories. The purpose of...

More cosmetics marketers set their sights overseas.
* In an attempt to compensate for weak sales in their domestic regions, leading cosmetics and toiletry companies are turning their attention toward developing markets in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America in search of growth, according to the 2003 edition of "Cosmetics & Toiletries USA" from Kline and...

Revlon. (Personnel Roundup).
* Revlon: Stephanie Klein Peponis has been appointed to the newly created position of executive vice president, chief planning and business development officer. Ms. Peponis will be responsible for supporting the ongoing development and refinement of the company's business strategy, facilitating planning processes, overseeing market research and analysis and...

WestCoast to grow Red Lion via conversions.
Spokane, Wash. -- WestCoast Hospitality Corp. is waking the sleeping lion with hopes that it roars again. WestCoast plans to bring back the once-strong recognition of the Red Lion brand, which will have more hotels than at any other time in its history with the conversion of...

The 'buzz' about internet products: online video ads take center stage, but multichannel campaigns are still the real showstopper.
The new buzz phrase in Internet marketing is clearly "online video," and this includes the wonderfully entertaining and profitable byproducts of this popular technology: online video downloads, online video sharing and, most importantly at least to the readers of Response, online video advertisements. Google made a pointed...

Differing verdicts delivered in early Vioxx cases.
The pharmaceutical industry may be breathing a collective sigh of relief over the latest court verdict involving Merck & Co.'s Vioxx, but it may not be time to pop the cork on the champagne. Experts say the two very different jury decisions handed down so far could...

Differing verdicts delivered in early Vioxx cases: the verdicts send the message that companies can be held liable even when risks are properly disclosed.
The pharmaceutical industry may be breathing a collective sigh of relief over the latest court verdict involving Merck & Co.'s Vioxx, but it may not be time to pop the cork on the champagne. Experts say the two very different jury decisions handed down so far could...

Research and Markets Adds Report: Canadian Orthopedic Devices, Investment Opportunities, Market Analysis and Forecasts.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-27 June 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: Canadian Orthopedic Devices, Investment Opportunities, Market Analysis and Forecasts(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Canada Orthopedic Devices Investment Opportunities, Analysis and Forecasts to 2012" report to its offerings. ...

Expert System Identification of Houses in Satellite Imagery.
Development of an expert system that counts houses in high-resolution satellite imagery is described. Current and frequent housing enumeration is valuable for market research and other demographic analysis. Automated feature extraction techniques, previously tested on aerial photographs, may not be employed on commercial satellite imagery with unprecedented spatial resolutions....