(Durham, N.C.) Durham’s vibrant entrepreneurial community is being called upon to supply up to 40 teams of innovative participants for the first annual C.F.D {Creative Food Drive} to benefit the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina at Durham on Saturday, October 15. The teams being formed between now and the end of September will compete by designing and constructing any type of standalone “sculptures” they can conceptualize made out of non-perishable food items. The competition and food collection will take place at the Durham Farmers Market at 501 Foster Street, next to the historic Durham Bulls Stadium. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Zengobi today announced the availability of Curio 7, a major upgrade of their note taking, mind mapping, brainstorming, and task management application for Mac OS X. Curio 7 features include project sections and Organizer folders; left map, right map, and org chart mind map arrangements; project, idea space, and figure galleries with dozens of bundled styles, templates, & stencils; advanced tags with image and hotkey support; time support for start & due dates; hour & minute durations; automatic work week and work time rollups; collapsible index cards; customizable shadows with pinched and bulged shadow effects; independent text shadows; advanced 4-point axial and radial figure and idea space gradients; new Evernote features; network support for template, stencil, style, and Scrapbook repositories and dozens of other enhancements and performance improvements. Curio is available in two editions: Standard (US$119) and Professional (US$169, US$89 academia). (more…)

(Garner, N.C.)  WingSwept was once again named on Triangle Business Journal’s Top Internet Marketing & Design Firms. For the past three years WingSwept has progressively moved up the list from fourteenth to seventh, and is now ranked as fifth in the area. The rankings are based on the amount of personnel dedicated to Internet marketing and design, which has been on the rise along with the entire WingSwept staff. (more…)