Announcing Sun Country Business Concierge

New Program Offering Personalized Travel Management Services

Sun Country Business Concierge today announced a new service for businesses offering personalized travel management services. Based on the concept of “any airline, any hotel, anywhere,” Sun Country Business Concierge Travel Specialists will provide individualized personal service to Business Concierge clients. Whether its travel arrangements, outings, restaurant reservations or just about any other traveler need, Sun Country Business Concierge will handle it all bringing the same level of high quality, award-winning service that it is known for.

“Sun Country is evolving into a Hometown Travel Company offering an expanding rage of travel services,” said Wendy Williams Blackshaw, Vice President of Marketing and Sales. “Extensions of our award-winning Sun Country brand include Sun Country Airlines, Sun Country Vacations, Cruise offerings, Group sales, Charter flights and now Business Concierge,” Blackshaw Continued.

With Sun Country Business Concierge there are no minimum requirements and bookings are handled on a nominal fee-per-trip basis. To kick off the new program, Business Concierge will be offering the first 30-days of booking services free to all new clients.

“Our Travel Specialists have extensive experience in personalized service for corporate travel management and will provide our clients with top-notch concierge service,” Blackshaw went on to say. “Sun Country Business Concierge is the perfect solution for business travelers - we make the arrangements at the best price and provide after-hours on-going support when our client’s travel plans change,” continued Blackshaw.

Consumers can find out more information and enroll with the Sun Country Business Concierge program by visiting www.suncountry.com/businessconcierge or calling 1-877-888-1404 from 5:00am to 1:00am CT, seven days a week.

About Sun Country Business Concierge

Sun Country Business Concierge is a personalized travel service for ALL business travel needs. There is a dedicated team of travel specialists with decades of experience available to offer comprehensive travel services providing value and service unparalleled in the travel industry. The Travel Specialists will make the arrangements on any airline, any hotel, anywhere and so much more, at the best price and provide on-going support when your travel plans change. The Concierge program will offer businesses of all sizes executive service with the personal touch that only the Hometown Travel Company can provide.. For more information visit www.suncountry.com/businessconcierge or call 1.877.888.1404.

Source: Kansascity.com

DreamWorks Executive Joins GridIron Software Board of Directors

John Batter Brings Animation and Digital Content Industry Expertise to Leading Provider of Workflow Solutions for Creative Enterprises

OTTAWA, Oct 12, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- GridIron Software, Inc., a leading provider of workflow and performance tools for creative professionals, today announced the appointment of John Batter to the company's Board of Directors. John Batter currently serves as Co-President of Production for DreamWorks Animation SKG. Mr. Batter joined DreamWorks Animation SKG in January 2006. From January 2000 until January 2006, Batter was with Electronic Arts Inc., serving in a variety of capacities including Group Studio General Manager and General Manager of EA Mobile. From 1995 until 2000, Batter worked in a variety of positions with DreamWorks Studios, including serving as Chief Financial Officer of DreamWorks Interactive (a joint venture between DreamWorks and Microsoft Corporation) and as Chief Financial Officer of the Company's PDI/DreamWorks unit.

"John Batter is a seasoned executive who has long been at the juncture of technology and entertainment with a proven track record of leading some of the most successful and innovative projects in the industry," said Udo Eberlein, CEO of GridIron Software. "His experience at DreamWorks and Electronic Arts provides unique perspective into the creative process and project management challenges in the media and entertainment industry."

"GridIron Software is an impressive company that has been innovative in addressing the workflow management needs of creative enterprises. Their understanding of the media industry needs and workflow of creative professionals has led to the development of GridIron Flow 2.0 Project Operating System, a new category of technology for efficient project and resource management," said John Batter. "I look forward to working with Udo and the team at GridIron to bring this groundbreaking technology to market."

GridIron recently unveiled its strategy for a Project Operating System, a new category of technology designed to help creative enterprises solve a variety of problems inherent to creative workgroups that lead to non-creative work, lost productivity and profits. These problems have afflicted the media creation industry for years and extend to all creative industries including advertising, animation, digital gaming and film production. GridIron's new Flow 2.0 product line, based on a SaaS model, addresses these problems with technology to track productivity by automatically tracking files, users, project relationships and their dependencies.

GridIron Flow 2.0 will be available in Q4 2010.

About GridIron Software

GridIron Software is the leading provider of workflow and performance tools for creative professionals. Founded in 2002, the company's mission is to enable creative industries to work more productively and more profitably in servicing their customers. In late 2010, GridIron will launch its Flow 2.0, an innovative Project Operating System for creative enterprise. Currently, GridIron Software's products include GridIron Flow, a visual workflow manager that keeps creative professionals and workgroups streamlined and informed. GridIron Software's product line also includes GridIron Nucleo and GridIron Nucleo Pro 3; tools that help users manage their After Effects workflow. For more information on the company, please visit www.gridironsoftware.com and subscribe to the GridIron Software newsletter.

Copyright 2010 GridIron Software Inc. All Rights Reserved. GridIron, GridIron Flow, Nucleo, Nucleo Pro, and GridIron Software are trademarks owned by GridIron Software Inc.

source: www.marketwatch.com

Virgin Mobile Phones - Offering Value Added Services

Mobile phones and mobile networks are complementary to each other. A phone without connectivity is of no use and vice versa. Like mobile phones, there are several mobile network operators in the UK who provide mobile connectivity and Virgin is one of them. Its one of the leading virtual mobile network operators in the UK and offers communication services to millions of mobile users in the UK – a trustworthy network operator who offer value proposition to consumers.

Virgin offers mobile phone deals such as pay-as-you-go as well as contract mobile phone deals. The latter one comes under a fixed monthly line rental scheme where consumers need to pay a fixed line rental on monthly basis. Under the contract mobile phone deals, there are many tariff plans that are offered by the network such as 12months contract, 18 months contract, etc., based on the handset you choose or the contract period. You may get free handset, free line rental or free insurance under a particular plan.

Unlike contract mobile phone deals, pay-as-you-go mobile phone deals do not offer anything – just buy a handset and stay connected. Virgin network offers cost-effective deals and users can select a broad range of virgin mobile phones from leading mobile brands such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and more. Choose any of the latest handsets under a particular tariff plan and enjoy impeccable connectivity as well as the phone features.

As far as mobile phones are concerned, there are lots of options open for consumers – from basic phones to technologically advanced 3G and HSDPA (3.5G) enabled phone. Based on the requirement, consumers can select the phone. Though there are many Virgin tariff plans such as VM20, VM25, VM30 and VM40, but all such plans are economical and cost-effective. Choose any of the virgin mobile phones and the plan and enjoy all network services whenever and wherever you go.

Source: EzineArticles.com