What: Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008

DENVER Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE:Q) and the Communications Workers of America reached a new tentative agreement for a 4-year contract covering about 20,000 Qwest workers.

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete.

FORT WORTH, Texas Teletouch Communications, Inc. (Pink Sheets: TLLE) Hawk Electronics division, a leading U.S. cellular services provider and consumer electronics retailer today announced a cellular industry first, the affinity marketing and charitable donation program: "What If 10%"(TM). The first use of this new program is to support the Fort Worth Air Power Foundation and its sponsoring entity, the Fort Worth Air Power Council, the nation's oldest civilian military support organization. "What If 10%" will be launched October 11, 2008 at Sky Ball VI, the annual fundraising event hosted by the Fort Worth Airpower Foundation, its mission to raise money to support and help solve financial difficulties facing the families of deployed and injured troops.

MINNEAPOLIS Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), today announced its plans for the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting Oct. 12-17 in Washington, D.C.

HAYWARD, Calif. IMPAX Laboratories, Inc. today announced the completion of the audits of the Company's 2004 through 2007 financial results and that it has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act. Section 12(g) provides the registration statements thereunder shall become effective within 60 days after filing. The Company will issue a further announcement when the registration statement becomes effective and trading in the Company's stock resumes.

GLEN BURNIE, Md. Cyto Pulse Sciences, a leading producer of electric field based, intradermal DNA Vaccine delivery systems, today announced approval by Swedish regulatory authorities to begin a Phase I/II study of DNA vaccination in patients with recurring prostate cancer. The trial will investigate the safety of a xenogenic DNA vaccine delivered by the Derma Vax(TM) intradermal electroporation system. The vaccine, which encodes Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) from a Rhesus Macaque, was developed jointly by Cyto Pulse and the Karolinska Institute and has been licensed to Cyto Pulse.

NEW YORK Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) announced today that it has asked the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey for a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the New Jersey Attorney General to prevent any attempt to restrain Arbitron's publication of its Portable People Meter(TM) listening estimates.

NEW YORK Lev Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB: LEVP.OB) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Cinryze(TM) (C1 inhibitor (human)) for routine prophylaxis against angioedema attacks in adolescent and adult patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE), also known as C1 inhibitor deficiency. Cinryze is expected to be commercially available for prophylaxis against HAE later this year.

LOS ANGELES Now that Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG have broken off their troubled relationship, known as Sony BMG, the Japanese company hopes to harmonize its consumer electronics and its music, a duo that was badly out of sync.

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario & DALLAS Advanced Software Design Corporation (ASD), a leader in innovative fraud prevention solutions for banks and credit unions, announced it has agreed to license its interoperability and validation of check security features patents portfolio on a limited basis to PaymentsNation, a premier payments solutions provider. The limited license facilitates PaymentsNation and other fraud solution providers' participation in multi-vendor interoperability product demonstrations.

MCLEAN, Va. ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) today announced it has been selected by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to perform telemetry, tracking and command services for near-Earth missions under the Space Communications Network Services (SCNS) contract. The contract has a base period of performance of five years and three months, with two one-year option periods, and a maximum potential value with all options exercised of $1.26 billion.

WALTHAM, Mass. Phase Forward Incorporated (NASDAQ: PFWD), a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, announced today that it will release financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 and hold a conference call with investors on Monday, October 27, 2008. The Company plans to hold the investor conference call, hosted by Bob Weiler, president and chief executive officer, and Rodger Weismann, senior vice president and chief financial officer, to discuss its third quarter 2008 financial results and its outlook for the fourth quarter and full year 2008. The call will be held on Monday, October 27, 2008, at 5:00 p.m. (EDT).

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. TSR, Inc., (Nasdaq:TSRI) a provider of computer programming consulting services, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended August 31, 2008.

IRVINE, Calif. ChinaTel Group, Inc. ("ChinaTel") (OTCBB:CHTL) today announced the implementation of its wireless broadband applications center in Taipei, Taiwan to provide advanced applications for Next Generation wireless communications services worldwide. ChinaTel also has subsidiary centers underway in China, Singapore and Japan.

BALTIMORE SumoBrain (http://www.sumobrain.com), launched summer of 2008, offers an alternative to patent search pay services. As a complement to the hugely popular FreePatentsOnline (http://www.freepatentsonline.com), SumoBrain provides higher account limits and bulk PDF capabilities. Its architecture is designed for future deployment of high-end features targeting intellectual property professionals, attorneys, and corporate users.

EVANSTON, Ill. Northfield Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLD) announced today financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2008.

SEATTLE When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon.

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina is the second-most improved state in access to campaign finance records, according to an annual survey released last week by the Campaign Disclosure Project, a consortium of groups backed by the Pew Charitable Trusts.