CLEVELAND–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation (NYSE:ETN) today said it will host an analyst conference on Friday, February 26, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time and concluding by 1:30 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the company’s business prospects with securities analysts and institutional investors.

The conference will be available through a live webcast that can be accessed by clicking on the microphone icon on the right side of Eaton’s home page at the www.eaton.com Web site. A replay will be available following the conference.

Eaton Corporation is a diversified power management company with 2009 sales of $11.9 billion. Eaton is a global technology leader in electrical components and systems for power quality, distribution and control; hydraulics components, systems and services for industrial and mobile equipment; aerospace fuel, hydraulics and pneumatic systems for commercial and military use; and truck and automotive drivetrain and powertrain systems for performance, fuel economy and safety. Eaton has approximately 70,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit www.eaton.com.

Eaton Corporation Kelly Jasko, 216-523-5304 kellymjasko@eaton.com

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SUNNYVALE, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 02/12/10 — Infinera Corp. (NASDAQ: INFN) today announced that it will participate in the following investment community events:

Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2010 Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Presentation: 4:00pm PST/ 7:00pm EST Webcast: www.infinera.com, click on investors

Jefferies 4th Annual Global Technology Conference Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Presentation: 5:00am PST/ 8:00am EST Webcast: www.infinera.com, click on investors

About Infinera Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications carriers worldwide. Infinera’s systems are unique in their use of a breakthrough semiconductor technology: the photonic integrated circuit (PIC). Infinera’s systems and PIC technology are designed to provide customers with simpler and more flexible engineering and operations, faster time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated services without reengineering their optical infrastructure. For more information, please visit http://www.infinera.com/.

For media and analysts:Media:Jeff FerryTel. (408) 572-5213jferry@infinera.comInvestors:Bob BlairTel. (408) 716-4879bblair@infinera.com

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Business intelligence company PASSUR Aerospace Inc (OTCBB:PSSR) reported today that Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport has contracted the company for the collaborative version of PASSUR AirportMonitor.

AirportMonitor is an Internet-based airspace education tool for airport communities. It provides users with an interactive display of air traffic and flight information in and around the terminal airspace, designed for airport websites.

The new version of AirportMonitor features instant airport messaging, allowing the airport to communicate about airspace conditions that may affect residents’ noise quality instantly, along with "My Home Locator", which provides users with the ability to pinpoint their homes on the AirportMonitor background map by entering their addresses.

Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.

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Network and Internet security solutions provider SonicWALL Inc (Nasdaq:SNWL) reported on Thursday that its fourth quarter GAAP net income increased to USD5m, or USD0.09 per diluted share, from USD3.5m, or USD0.06 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Revenue for the quarter totalled USD54.1m, down slightly from USD54.3m in the corresponding quarter a year ago.

During the fourth quarter SonicWALL shipped 52,000 revenue units.

CEO Matt Medeiros said that in 2009 SonicWALL gained market share, improved its operating margin and generated strong cash flow.

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Digital video TV and data broadcast receiver products dveloper Hauppauge Digital Inc (Nasdaq:HAUP) reported on Friday financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended 31 December 2009.

The company said its net sales for Q1 2010 were USD17.9m, an increase of approximately 3.41% from the USD17.3m reported for the previous year’s first fiscal quarter.

The company incurred a net loss of USD334,551 for Q1 of fiscal 2010 compared to a net loss of USD1,772,313 for Q1 of fiscal 2009. Net loss per share for the quarter was USD0.03 on a basic and diluted basis, compared to a net loss per share of USD0.18 on a basic and diluted basis for Q1 of fiscal 2009.

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Feb. 12–Peter Yesawich reserved a plane ticket to Hilton Head Island and picked his seat from his mobile phone.

Just for kicks, he later went back and changed his seat — also on his phone.

He did so to demonstrate to area business leaders how factors such as mobility and personalization are changing the travel industry.

Yesawich is chairman and CEO of Ypartnership, a global travel, leisure and entertainment marketing firm based in Orlando, Fla.

He spoke Thursday about the future of tourism during an event organized by the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce at the Crowne Plaza Resort.

Although the recession has changed our travel habits, plenty of profit awaits companies able to recognize and adapt to the latest lifestyle, demographic and technological trends, he said.

"The business is there," he said. "You have to be creative in how you get it."

Highlights from Yesawich’s presentation:

–As travelers increasingly go online to look for and make reservations, they’re becoming "brand agnostic," and companies are having to succumb to "pricing transparency."

Catering to that clientele, search engines such as kayak.com survey multiple sites to find deals on hotels, cars, flights and the like.

–While many travelers use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, they don’t often use them to plan trips — at least not yet.

"I want to disabuse you of the notion everybody’s doing it."

As that changes, businesses should be sensitive to what consumers are saying about them online because those opinions influence others.

Sites such as twitrratr.com, twendz.com and chatmine.com can help you stay on top of what the world is saying about you.

–Only a fifth of mobile phone handsets today are capable of accessing the Internet, but that fraction is poised to increase dramatically.

That presents opportunities for consumers to scan bar codes on ads or products to get more information or compare prices. RedLaser, an application for that purpose, is available for Apple’s iPhone, for example.

The impending increase in the use of so-called "smartphones" also presents opportunities for businesses to do "intercept marketing" by sending coupons to entice nearby travelers or offering "flash sales" for a limited time to loyal customers.

–The rise of e-mail has added an hour to the average workday, increasing travelers’ desire to get away for "speed vacations" that allow them to "hurry up and relax."

"Time is the commodity of greatest value."

–To combat the recession, many tourism-related businesses began to offer deals in the fall of 2008, but not all did so effectively.

People don’t need to be coaxed into traveling, but are cutting back on how long they stay, meaning tourism businesses such as hotels should focus their energies on giving consumers a reason to stick around.

"Spend your money and your creativity on trying to add that night back."

–Hilton Head Island’s tourists tend to be affluent, but they’re also value-oriented.

"These are folks that make a lot of money, but they want the free breakfast."

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Feb. 12–GRAND PRAIRIE — The NBA and WNBA greats filling a cafeteria stage at Farrell Elementary on Wednesday weren’t there to talk about basketball stats or championship games.

Instead, their focus was reading. Former first lady Laura Bush even joined them at the Arlington district campus in Grand Prairie to reinforce the message.

"It’s the most important skill you learn in school," Bush, a former librarian, told the students. "If you can read, you can do well in every single subject."

The celebrity visitors were part of the NBA Cares All-Star Community Caravan, a series of service events in conjunction with the All-Star Game. The NBA plans to have 25 such events and programs in North Texas this year.

Arlington district officials and representatives from the Mavericks and the National Basketball Association have worked together for months to create a Reading and Learning Center in Farrell’s library.

The project, sponsored by the NBA, Hewlett-Packard and the Got Milk? ad campaign, included new books, carpet and furniture. The Mavericks theme showed up in everything from the blue and black beanbag chairs to the life-size Jason Terry and Dirk Nowitzki decals on the wall.

The school also received 12 new HP computers with large touch screens, three laptops and three printers.

‘Read All About It’

"It’s cool and awesome and beautiful," said Jada Castillo, a second-grader.

Jada and 29 other first- through third-graders were treated to a book reading by Bush, Terry and retired NBA player Dikembe Mutombo in the library after the "reading rally" in the cafeteria. They took turns reading from Read All About It!, which Bush wrote with daughter Jenna.

Terry called the new library "phenomenal" and said he enjoyed spending time with the students. "You see the smiles on their faces and the excitement. To know that they have somewhere they can come and enjoy these books, that means a lot," he said.

In other classrooms throughout the school, players like Ashley Robinson of the WNBA, who grew up in Grand Prairie, and Felipe Lopez, formerly of the NBA, also read to students.

Farrell was one of three Arlington elementary schools chosen at random for the NBA to be considered for the library renovation. It is the district’s first Title I school to receive a state rating of exemplary. Title I schools receive extra federal money to address the needs of their high percentage of low-income students. Sixty-two percent of Farrell’s students qualify for free and reduced-rate lunches.

Other events

Principal Jeanne Pakele-Curtis said the community support from the NBA and other sponsors makes the students feel their hard work is appreciated.

"It’s a blessing. It’s an honor," she said.

NBA Cares’ other community service events this week include fitness clinics at local Boys & Girls Clubs and YMCAs and a vaccine clinic at a Fort Worth campus, both today.

On Friday, numerous NBA players and family members will fan out throughout Dallas and at Arlington’s Summit International Preparatory school for the NBA Cares All-Star Day of Service. On Friday evening, about 700 Arlington seventh-graders will get a free trip to the NBA’s T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam.

TRACI SHURLEY, 817-390-7641

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Feb. 12–It’s no beauty, but this robot — so far just a metal frame stuffed full of wires and parts — rolls on wicked wheels and is designed to take on some tough competition.

A project of Greg D’Alessandro and Aaron Smith, the two pre-engineering seniors at the Academy for Arts, Science & Technology put their creation through its paces for a seminar at the inaugural Grand Strand Tech Expo held Thursday at the Crown Reef Resort Conference Center in Myrtle Beach.

Sponsored by the Grand Strand Technology Council, the expo featured 45 exhibitors using 50 spaces, with some having to be turned away, said John Sanders, chairman of the council. Seminars were held throughout the day in two conference rooms, and the event was free to the public.

"We decided it was time we bust out and let the world know there’s technology around the Grand Strand," Sanders said.

Economic development is moving along in the area, Sanders said, citing the area’s aviation park project, but that will take several years to fully develop. Technology can help fill an economic void here because "so much of the [tech] business is done by computer and Internet" and doesn’t need a huge manufacturing hub.

"This is laying the groundwork," Sanders said. "In the next few years, we can stand out."

The idea for the expo came from technology council meetings several months ago, Sanders said. He said the council is a two-year-old, nonprofit and all-volunteer group that includes 35 member organizations, small and large companies as well as schools and government.

The academy students’ demonstration was part of the Horry County Schools presentation, which highlighted projects in progress at both AAST and the Academy for Technology & Academics. Coastal Carolina University and Horry-Georgetown Technical College also exhibited at the expo, alongside a variety of businesses, government and technology professionals.

Dorothy Bambach, with the S.C. School for the Deaf and Blind outreach center in Conway, was staffing a booth for the S.C. Equipment Distribution Program, showing people how technology is aiding the disabled. Her display included a variety of telephones, as well as a bed shaker, a device that goes underneath a pillow and is attached to an alarm clock. The device vibrates at the appropriate time to awaken the hearing impaired.

"This is all free to residents of South Carolina with a signoff from a licensed professional and who have a land line," Bambach said, pointing out a phone that provides captions. "We’re here to tell the community about this wonderful program."

Mainline Information Systems, headquartered in Tallahassee, Fla., sells IBM technology and services, and brought its presentation to the expo.

"We thought it was important to acquaint folks in the area with the services we provide," said Steve Edgar, a company representative. "There’s great traffic. I think by the end of the day, we’ll be very pleased."

Sanders, who lived in Washington, D.C., for 40 years and moved here four years ago, said this type of event sends the message that there’s more to the Grand Strand area than just tourism and said he knew this region could attract entrepreneurial businesses.

"They’re going to locate where the CEO wants to live, and this is a nice place to live," Sanders said.

"There’s more to offer with schools like Coastal Carolina and with HGTC … and you start off with a base of employees that are really necessary for a tech business, [as well as] retirees who have moved here and worked in bigger companies and want to get back into things.

"[Also], you’ve got to have schools that [CEOs] want to send their kids to. These two technology academies are first class, and the other schools have very strong computer training. … [The schools are] really up to it."

D’Alessandro and Smith are going to put that to the test. They have entered the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition, and they’ll be pitted against 18,000 teams worldwide, D’Alessandro said.

ATA also has entered a team, and these are the only teams from Horry County, said Bucky Sellers, pre-engineering instructor at AAST.

It’s an expensive process — $6,000 alone just to enter — so each team is aided by sponsorships. They receive a kit of basic parts but fabricate most from scratch, he said. Students have just six weeks to complete the project, which will be shipped for competition Feb. 23.

Sellers said this year’s challenge is a soccer contest, with six robots on the field, and they will have to control the ball without picking it up, kick and score. The robot can kick about 25 feet into the air, he said, and bonus points can be had if it can grab a 7-foot bar and pull itself up.

Right now, the robot is without its kicking device, and there will be a nice covering made to enclose the exposed parts.

"It will look a lot prettier," Sellers promised.

Contact VICKI GROOMS at 443-2401.

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