(Fayetteville, N.C.) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (EMHE), the popular Emmy Award-winning ABC Television reality show, is bringing their famous bus to Fayetteville to surprise one very lucky local family. Along with host Ty Pennington and the rest of the Extreme team, local volunteers and builder Blue Ridge Log Cabins will race against time to construct an entire house for a deserving family. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Primary Integration Solutions (PI Solutions), the nation’s largest mission critical commissioning firm, based in Charlotte, NC, has made several changes to its executive management team: Terry Gillick has been named President of the company, Shawn Till will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer, and Mike Davis has been named the company’s Chief Operating Officer. PI Solutions is a subsidiary of Primary Integration (PI), a mission critical global technology and energy services organization. (more…)

(Morrisville, N.C.) The Triangle’s leader in effective and innovative corporate branding and customer communication, The Marketing Machine, continues to build its staff and infrastructure with a major investment in a leading enterprise-level project management software system, and the hiring of veteran communications professional Misty Campbell. The new software, Clients and Profits, is designed specifically for advertising agencies to effectively manage staff time, job flow, and many other elements of design, printing, and campaign projects in a more unified fashion to benefit clients. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) William E. (Bill) Pearson, III, Microsoft SQL Server MVP (Most Valuable Professional), thought leader, speaker and Mariner consultant, will once again lead an informational and training session for SQL Server Saturday attendees. Following up his recent event, SQL Saturday #70 (Columbia, SC), Pearson provides insight to attendees of SQL Saturday #77 in Pensacola on June 4, 2011. SQL Saturday events are produced by the national Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), local PASS chapters and SQL Server User Groups and regional and national  corporate sponsors. Since the first SQL Saturday held in Tampa in February 2008, the events have rapidly grown in popularity, with the attendance at recent events reaching all-time highs of 250 to 300.  Each event provides free training to those using, or interested in using, Microsoft SQL Server, as well as an opportunity to meet well-known database and business intelligence specialists and consultants, and to network with fellow practitioners. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Catalent scientist and manager of Viral Clearance and Safety, Hazel Aranha, Ph.D., will have a prominent role in leading this year’s Viral Safety for Biologicals workshop held at the Angelo Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic on May 10-11, 2011. Sponsored by Informa Life Sciences, the annual workshop will provide attendees the ability to meet evolving regulatory requirements by learning the latest detection methods and how to react effectively when faced with the risk of viral contamination. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) SourceAbility President, Tanya Calkins, has announced the additional of Carol Brandril as Office Manager and Johnine Fregia as Recruiter. SourceAbility (www.sourceabilityinc.com) works with businesses to identify and place employees several areas that are vital to business operations. (more…)

(Garner, N.C.) WingSwept held its third annual Technology Spring Clean event on April 16, which was a huge success.  Approximately 150 people and businesses came by to drop off over 20,000 pounds of technology. Event volunteers saw computers, printers, radios, DVD players, fax machines, wire, and much more dropped off to be recycled.  Some attendees participated for the first time while others have come out every year, but all were happy to get rid of their electronics properly. (more…)

(Overland Park, Kan.) The Sprint Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sprint (NYSE: S), has made a $100,000 donation to the American Red Cross in support of the recent tragic storms experienced by much of the southern United States. The donation will support the American Red Cross’ disaster-relief efforts to help those affected by tornadoes, floods and other forms of severe weather in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Mariner is joining forces with Microsoft and several other Microsoft Gold Partners to provide the Southeast’s business leaders with the opportunity to learn about hosting applications to the cloud, launching mobile applications, improving collaboration, and implementing enterprise reporting solutions. In a five week span, five events will take place in the Carolinas as Microsoft’s partner team presents the Microsoft Experience Tour: The Latest in Cloud, Mobile, Collaboration & Reporting. The tour is in response to customers’ requests to know how to fully leverage their investments in Microsoft technology and understand the latest options for moving programs and applications to the cloud. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Internet security firm, Calyptix Security is assisting its authorized partners and other interested IT professionals in expanding security services for small and medium businesses (SMBs) through a series of April educational webinars focused on risk management. Calyptix Security will focus on how IT professionals can mitigate customer security incidents and related costs more effectively by implementing fundamental risk management practices. (more…)

(Morrisville, N.C.) GrapeCity PowerTools today announced the availability of a new release of ActiveAnalysis 2 with a number of significant enhancements that include PDF exporting, a Schema Editor for visual schema creation, more aggregate functions, and more customization features. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) First Flight Venture Center (FFVC) recently appointed Dr. Andrew Schwab as President of First Flight Venture Center.  Schwab has served in an interim capacity since the passing of former Executive Director John Draper, in early summer. (more…)