Where can the world's best ice cream be found?
Well, according to Tauck World Discovery, the answer is COWS in Charlottetown.
The Connecticut company, which offers journey packages to 63 different countries, compiles a list of the top 10 places for ice cream based on the recommendations of its 250 travel directors.
"COWS is a small P.E.I. company, so we are excited to be chosen as the best place to enjoy ice cream in the world," said Joy Gallant, manager of operations at COWS.
"Since 1983, COWS has been listening carefully on producing high-quality, super-premium ice cream. In addition, we have an remarkable team that works in our stores to form a memorable experience for our customers."
COWS not only received the top ranking, but it was the only company from Canada and one of only four ice cream producers in North America to be honoured by Tauck.
The other winners on the record were from the United States (3), Italy (2), New Zealand, Argentina, France and Costa Rica. The Island-owned company has seven stores on P.E.I. and locations in Halifax, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Banff and Whistler. All of the ice cream is made on P.E.I.
COWS serves up over 32 flavours, including Gooey Mooey, Wowie Cowie and Moo Crunch. In 2006, COWS was named as the maker of the best ice cream in Canada by Reader's Digest magazine. Digg Our News Here ->                
American Healthcare Holdings (AHH), parent company of Visionary Medical Systems, Inc, Soft-Aid Medical Management Systems, USMD, Antek Healthware, and Alteer was recently acknowledged as one of the top 100 Healthcare Information Technology Companies by HCI magazine.
yearly, HCI publishes a list of the top 100 HCIT companies based on total annual returns. This year, American Healthcare Holdings is satisfied to publicize that it has entered the top 100. This important accomplishment signifies AHH's position as a leader in the Health Information Technology market segment. As a multi-faceted company providing EHR, LIS and Practice Management solutions to the healthcare market AHH is one of the few companies in the industry that can act as a single source retailer for all of a facility's HCIT needs.
"Being recognized as one of the top 100 HCIT companies reinforces AHH's market position as one of the premier healthcare technology providers in the market today", states Jim Clark COO of American Healthcare Holdings. Clark adds, "We anticipate our strong increase to continue, based on praising products that lead their categories and a strong customer referral base".
More than 60,000 physicians currently utilize software products from AHH. American Healthcare Holdings delivers healthcare software solutions connecting patients, providers, payers, hospitals, and labs. Solutions are created via its integrated line of Visionary Dream EHR, document management, LabDAQ LIS, Provider & HME/DME Office Management and RCM products and services. Digg Our News Here ->
Search engine optimizing specialists are asked this quite frequently - is there any differences between Search engine optimization or SEO services and search engine positioning. A search engine positioning indicates key phrases or terms your prospective consumers use to seek your company or website or products/services through search engines. The keywords that bring potential viewers to your sites after they type in the search box are actually termed as search engine positioning as per SEO specialists. So you understand that if an Internet user types in 'online marketing' at the search box, that two word key phrase or search query is a search engine positioning for your site.
While sailing business through Internet, you have to be visible, relevant and be clicked always - and these keywords play crucial roles in causing your business to adhere to these three factors. When crawling to the top of the chart of search engine result page is the first and foundation of success for an online business today, therefore, they must know what their users are typing. These keywords are the resources to know which users are interested in your products or site and which sites pose competition for you. So, determining search queries and search engine positioning enables you strike a balance amongst keywords to target, popularity of keywords and sites sharing same search engine positioning as yours. Now this is when you need SEO services.
Search engine optimization or SEO services are provided to utilize the keywords that you have targeted and that can bring customers to your sites. Therefore, implementation of keywords to optimize your site is understood by search engine optimization services using search engine positioning services or defining right keywords that are potent to bring good response. Therefore, search engine positioning techniques precede search engine optimization techniques.
Through Search Engine Optimization services, a company deliver two types of services, that are 'On Page Factors' by including keyword research, defining HTML and meta tags, navigational feature of a site, RSS feeds and 'Off Page Factors' that includes analysis on competitors' sites, submission of sites at directories, link building and popularity, submission at search engines etc. Digg Our News Here ->
 Extract from letter to all staff by Dave Kennedy, Interim Chief Executive, Bradford Council
"I am absolutely delighted to announce that the Council has been awarded 19th place in the Sunday Times Top 20 Best Big Companies to Work For 2006 List.
This is a tremendous achievement as we are the only Local Authority to appear in the list. A total of 59 organisations entered the competition, and other winners include KPMG, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Cadbury. Our success is the result of the hard work, dedication and commitment of all our employees.
It has long been a personal ambition of mine to make the Council a 'great place to work' so I am thrilled that together we have achieved this magnificent accolade.
The Sunday Times assessment included an anonymous random survey of 1,000 employees, which contributes to 70% of the overall score so it is these staff who said the Council is a Great Place to Work.
This award is a tribute to all our staff, those on the front line, our supervisors and managers, because it is all of us who contribute to making the Council a Great Place to Work.
However, whilst this is a fantastic achievement and one of which we can all be proud I would like to reassure you that it is not going to make me complacent! There is still a lot to do to further embed our Vision and Values and to put our customers at the heart of our business, though I am confident that together we can do this and make the Council an even better place to work as well as improving the services we deliver to our customers." Digg Our News Here ->
Connecticut's technology companies will have a prize all their own come November, when the Connecticut Technology Council launches the Tech Top 40, a ranking of the 40 fastest-growing technology companies in the state.
The contest will be based on percentage of profits growth over four years, as long as a company took in at least $50,000 in profits in year one and at least $3 million by the fourth.
Accounting firm Deloitte used to publish a Fast 50 ranking of Connecticut companies but in the last year combined Connecticut with New York and New Jersey to structure a tri-state ranking.
Mike Scricca, a spokesman for the Connecticut Technology Council, said the Tech Top 40 was formed to showcase Connecticut companies. The new competition is sponsored by a New Haven accounting firm, UHY LLP. Digg Our News Here ->
SEO Services, an Internet search engine firm, has moved to Redlands from Orange County.
The business relocated to Redlands from Laguna Beach at the beginning of May.
President Kevin Kantola said the Inland Empire "has barely any search engine optimization businesses. It was a good idea to get into the (market)."
Kantola founded SEO Services four years ago. He has been in the business for 10 years and has a few part-time employees.
"If you do Google searches (for search engine firms), almost nothing comes up for San Bernardino, Riverside," he said.
SEO Services does keyword research and analysis, Web site usability analysis, page optimization, link-building and results tracking.
Kantola said the company's aim is to get clients Web sites that are "obscured in Google ... to the top, and increase traffic from local people."
The company said it gets "organic results in the search engines, which is the left side of results pages where 90 percent of visitors search, not the paid or sponsored area of the search engine results pages."
The company said nationwide customers will get faster phone and e-mail responses because of the move.
For the past four years, SEO Services has "gained top search engine rankings for 99 percent of customers' Web sites," the company said in a news release.
SEO Services is at 610 The Terrace, Suite 2, near Colton Avenue and Orange Street, Redlands. Digg Our News Here ->
Red Hat and SAS are two of the 30 most powerful technology companies in the world, according to a report released Tuesday by the Aberdeen Group.
Several other companies with large operations in the Raleigh-Durham area also made the list of the "Top 100 Most powerful Technology Companies," which was compiled based on more than 2.5 million interviews in 550,000 locations over the past five years, according to Boston-based Aberdeen. Survey respondents were asked to identify the top three technology companies that had the most power on their business performance over the course of the past year.
Red Hat (NYSE RHT) is No. 21 in the rankings. The Raleigh-based company is the world's largest provider of software and services for the Linux computer operating system. Its version of Linux for servers is among the most popular server operating systems in the world.
Cary-based SAS, the world's largest confidentially detained software company, holds the No. 30 ranking, highest among providers of business aptitude software, which helps companies analyze and make better use of large amounts of data.
Among the other companies with a Triangle presence that made the list are:
# No. 4 IBM, which employs 11,000 people in Research Triangle Park.
# No. 5 Cisco, which has 4,500 employees in RTP and is planning to invest $23 million in its campus there.
# No. 15 AT&T, which has about 1,400 Triangle employees and is planning to invest $80 million into its North Carolina wireless network.
# No. 19 Nortel, which employs about 2,300 in RTP
# No. 26 Sony-Ericsson, which has 750 employees in RTP
# No. 36 EDS, which has about 450 Triangle employees and has agreed to be bought for $13.9 billion by Hewlett-Packard, which is No. 6 on the Aberdeen list
# No. 57 NetApp, which recently changed its name from Network Appliance and is adding 646 new jobs to an RTP operation that already employs 600
# No. 77 ABB, which has about 360 Triangle employees. Digg Our News Here ->
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