Bridgevine Named To "HOTTEST COMPANIES IN THE SOUTHEAST"

LOS ANGELES, Calif., - July 13, 2010 - In order to recognize the fastest growing technology companies in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, Lead411 is proud to announce the release of its "Hottest Companies in the Southeast" award.

Background
Each day, the Lead411 research team scours through 600+ press releases and business articles including venture capital fundings, company launches, new office openings, customer press releases, etc. This information has given insight to which are the fastest growing companies in the U.S. Their "Hottest Companies" awards have been created to recognize these fast growing companies in different geographic regions. This particular list originally started with over 2400 companies and it has been narrowed down to the top 91.

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"We have been tracking fast companies for our customers for the past 10 years," said Tom Blue, CEO of Lead411, "and we felt it was important to recognize these growing brands publicly."

Jailed hacker offered jobs

Since being sentenced to four years in jail for constructing one of the more damaging viruses seen recently, a Chinese hacker has seen a deluge of job offers.

Li Jun, 25, created the Fujacks worm, which infected computers worldwide and stole passwords and usernames. Earlier this week the hacker was convicted in a Chinese court along with three accomplices and given a four-year jail sentence. Now Li's lawyer has said that up to ten companies are competing to hire the cyber criminal upon his release from incarceration.

One of the companies that wants to employ Li is Jushu Technology, based in the city of Hangzhou. It wants to give him a job paying one million yuan ($133,155) per year. Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant with the software company Sophos, said that offering the hacker a job was "perverse" and rewarded his "criminal act, infamy and bad behavior".

Intel announces more wireless internet technology

A new range of technology directed at pocket-sized wireless internet devices was unveiled by Intel recently.

Dubbed Moorestown, the new technology combines CPU, graphics, video and memory controller all contained in a single chip. It is due to be ready for use in 2009 or 2010. Also, soon Intel's Montevina notebooks, which feature WiMAX are to become available, as well as the revolutionary new product called Menlow, a platform for mobile technology.

Intel's Anand Chandrasekher said: "As we put all this together we'll be taking the size of the components down by half again. "We'll take the power down by half again, and we will take, most importantly, idle power down by a factor of 10X. The kinds of improvements we're making in Moorestown are effectively what enable this." Menlow and then later Moorestown is to "unleash the internet", Mr Chandrasekhe added. The Intel technology was being shown at the Developer Forum taking place in San Francisco.