BEDFORD, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- TimeTrade Systems, the leader in self-service appointment scheduling, today announced strong sales and increased adoption of the company's Web-based solution that helps enterprises increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and drive more sales. TimeTrade won 30 new customers in the fourth quarter, 2007, across healthcare, retail, financial services, government and educational markets.

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JVC Everio GZ-MG275

JVC is something of a pioneer when it comes to hard disk-based camcorders, with nearly a two-year head start on the majority of its competitors. While other manufacturers were sitting idly on the fence, the Nippon veteran aggressively pushed forward with its HDD format; and has subsequently had extra time to iron out all the kinks. Sitting snugly in the middle of its Everio range, the GZ-MG275 offers a good set of features for a standard-def camera, including a 40 gigabyte hard drive, 2.18 megapixel sensor and SDHC/SD recording capabilities. However, with an RRP of $1200, some may find it a little overpriced. (Indeed, for a few hundred dollars more you could pick up a high-definition model with all the bells-and-whistles; including a beefier hard drive.)

Design-wise, the GZ-MG275 is almost identical to its cheaper HDD brethren; the GZ-MG145 and GZ-MG135.

Golf Galaxy to further regional expansion with Towson store

New women's pro soccer league lines up investors [Sacramento] There's some new star power at Nike [Portland] California company closes design center in Portland [Portland] Callaway Golf signs license to make St. Andrews Links products [Los Angeles] Siwak, Bader sell health-care business [St. Louis] .

Scorched-Earth Strategy Returns to Darfur

The recent violence in Chad, where rebel groups with bases in Sudan tried to topple the government in early February, has worsened matters. Rebels in Darfur, who diplomats and analysts say have received arms and cash from the family of Chad's president, Idriss Déby, rushed into Chad to help defend him, creating a vacuum in the territory they had occupied. Sudan's government seized the opportunity to retake the ground and now appears to be pushing farther into areas long held by the rebels, according to peacekeepers stationed here.

Few people in the region were unhappy to see the Justice and Equality Movement evicted. Banditry was rife in the territory it controlled, and for months aid groups had dodged carjackings and other attacks. African Union peacekeepers had been barred from the area, according to Brig.

Aishwarya Rai's marriage mantra

Though she will act next in Sriram Raghavan's film with John Abraham, family is her top priority now. "I can't say I worked less because I got married. I completed Jodhaa Akbar, Sarkar Raj and The Pink Pather last year. That can't be said less," she says. .