(Raleigh, N.C.) On Tuesday, Gov. Bev Perdue suited up in beekeeper attire and approached a job perhaps no other North Carolina governor has tackled – pulling honeycombs from beehives with thousands of honeybees buzzing nearby. “That’s a lot of honey!” Gov. Perdue exclaimed, as she removed a narrow honeycomb literally dripping gold. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) Railinc Corp. announced today that E. Allen West, president and CEO, has been named to the Teradata Travel and Transportation Board of Advisors. Railinc  is the North American freight rail industry’s leading resource for rail data, IT and information services. Teradata is the world’s largest company solely focused on creating enterprise agility through database software, enterprise data warehousing, data warehouse appliances and analytics. Transportation, distribution, logistics and travel are among the company’s core client groups. (more…)

(Garner, N.C.) The Garner Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a special half-day conference on Aug. 10 focusing on major developments impacting the town’s economic climate and quality of life. The event, entitled “Plug in the Future,” will allow participants to learn about and discuss important issues such as options for the donated ConAgra property and the latest efforts to revive Garner’s historic downtown district.   (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Hatteras Networks announced that Technology Marketing Corp. (TMC) named the HN6100 as a 2010 TMC Labs Innovation Award winner presented by its publication, Internet Telephony. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, announced that the company’s TRYTON Side Branch Stent™ System has been used in three cases in Israel for the first time. (more…)

(Winston-Salem, N.C.) Hanesbrands Inc. (NYSE: HBI) said today that China’s decision to allow fluctuation of the Renminbi/yuan currency value will not have a material effect on company performance and will not alter the company’s global supply chain advantages, including its East Asia manufacturing hub. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) rPath, an innovator in automating system deployment and maintenance, today announced that company Founder and CTO, Erik Troan, will be speaking at DevOps Day USA 2010 to be held at the LinkedIn Corp. offices in Mountain View, California on Friday, June 25, 2010. (more…)

(Wake Forest, N.C.) PowerSecure International, Inc. (Nasdaq: POWR)  announced that the Company and its CEO, Sidney Hinton, were honored at Ernst & Young’s 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards for the Carolinas as finalists in the Clean Tech category. The other two finalists in the Clean Tech category included Carlos Gutierrez, CEO of United Resource Recovery Corporation, and Chuck Swoboda, CEO of Cree, Inc., who was the category winner. (more…)

(Garner, N.C.) IT industry magazine, ChannelPro, recently featured an article on WingSwept detailing their efforts to further increase the company’s success through cost-control programs and incentives for the staff.  Ideas that are implemented come from both sources outside the company and from within. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Sensus is now shipping its iPERL™ product, an industry-leading intelligent residential water management system. The iPERL system enables utilities to capture additional revenue and support conservation efforts by delivering unprecedented efficiency through low flow accuracy, high flow durability and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) connectivity. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Freudenberg IT announced it is now an SAP-certified provider of cloud services. The internationally active IT service provider is one of the first SAP partners to receive SAP certification of its cloud services. As such, Freudenberg IT can operate its customers’ SAP applications in the dynamic environment of cloud computing. Freudenberg IT has designed its cloud services specifically for the requirements of SAP software. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that members of the Red Hat and Cisco executive teams will host a press conference that will be broadcast live via webcast from the Red Hat Summit in Boston on June 23, 2010 at 12:30pm EDT. (more…)