A life-saving eco-home and garden sponsored by Christian Aid is set to be a dramatic centre piece to the October Grand Designs Live NEC show (6-8 October 2006).

Fujitsu GDC targets high-end dashboard apps

Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc. (FMA) has unveiled the latest member of its family of graphics display controllers (GDCs) for vehicle navigation systems. The MB86297 is designed for high-end vehicle multimedia and virtual dashboard applications.

The MB86297 GDC is built with a high-performance graphics core that delivers more than five times the performance provided by its predecessor, the MB86296 GDC. The new GDC is specifically designed for the latest generation of automotive information/entertainment systems, including head-end units and fully configurable instrument clusters that require high quality and versatile human-machine interfaces.

Realistic 3D effects
MB86297 supports all 2D functions, 3D functions, and fogging and lighting to provide dramatic and realistic 3D effects.

Insystcom, Inc. Shareholder Update

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Insystcom, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ISYJ) provides interactive entertainment and communication solutions to the luxury resort, hotel and timeshare markets. ResortLynx™ delivers Video on Demand at MPEG2 and MPEG4 encoded rates, high speed Internet access (HSIA) to the room/suite TV screen, WiFi to the guest Notebook and Mobile TV to cell phones, PDAs and Pocket PCs. The use of ADSL as transport for ResortLynx™ allows high video data rates combined with ease of installation since existing telephone cabling is used. The use of ResortLynx™ in thousands of suites & rooms prove the success of this unique technology combination.

"Our company has released a number of business announcements in 2006 and is updating our shareholders to them.

Celebrities visit San Diego to push for paper ballots

SAN DIEGO ---- About 100 people gathered Wednesday night at the county Office of Education to listen to celebrities, including actor Ed Asner, nationally known sportscaster Jim Lampley, and voter activists, including "Black Box Voting" founder Bev Harris, lambaste electronic voting and lobby for people to demand paper ballots on Nov. 7.Asner, Lampley, Harris and six other voter activists from across the United States held what was billed as an "emergency town hall election forum" at county offices weeks before an election in which San Diego County voters will use "touch-screen" voting machines en masse for the first time since 2004.

Asner, who became famous as the curmudgeonly newsroom editor Lou Grant on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show," urged people to call San Diego elections officers to give them paper ballots.

Growth comes, at a price, to Chaska

Pioneer Trail in Chaska was once a rambling gravel road. Now it's a fast-moving two-lane blacktop expected to eventually become a four-lane feeder highway running east and west across Carver County. Just off the road is the sparkling Pioneer Ridge Freshman Center, built just four years ago to take some strain off the school district's two middle schools that had been filled to capacity. Now the Chaska School District wants to build a second high school, this one in Chanhassen, and transform the new Freshman Center into a third middle school. The ninth-graders would move to the existing Chaska High and the new high school. This changing scene along Pioneer Trail is typical of what is playing out all over Chaska and Chanhassen -- two farm towns thrust into suburban status, now experiencing an enormous boom in population growth.

e-Builder A/E/C User Conference November 1-3 in Coconut Grove, FL

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- (MARKET WIRE) e-Builder, a leader in web-based document management and collaborative project management systems, will host its User Conference targeted at building, design and construction professionals interested in improving communication and collaboration via web-based solutions.

The conference is scheduled for November 1-3, 2006 at the Coconut Grove Mayfair Hotel & Spa Coconut Grove, Florida.

Industry professionals will gather to exchange ideas and learn the latest trends in web-based document management and project management systems. Special guest speaker is Norbert Young, President of McGraw-Hill.

This seminar is built for Construction and Design Professional IT Professionals in the Building, Design and Construction industry. A/E/C professionals looking to learn from industry leaders Executives, project managers, administrators will also benefit.

State lawmakers to revisit modular house tax cut

State lawmakers begin a special session today to consider reducing the sales tax on modular houses, but House Democrats doubt buyers will see any savings.