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Yabsta, the Absolute Local Search Engine, Partners with WhidbeyLocal.com











WhidbeyLocal.com creator JoAnna Weeks takes in the views off Coupeville Wharf in her hometown where she works to serve the local business community of Whidbey Island. / Photo by Patricia Duff.


Whidbey Island, WA (PRWEB) July 04, 2014

The big search engines may not know it yet, but they’ve got company.

When one thinks about Internet search-engines, the Goliaths come to mind: Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask. In fact, there are plenty of other big engines that will guide someone down specific avenues of search, specific to what someone might be looking for ─ blogs, cars, jobs, shopping, travel, food, real estate, etc. But a cursory search for the local businesses in any local town will not give the exclusively local results being looked for with Google or the other monster engines.

Enter Yabsta, the little engine that could… search absolutely local.

The first thing someone notices when they go to the http://www.Yabsta.com homepage is the catchy tagline, “Market yourself to a truly local audience.” Yabsta partner and Whidbeylocal.com creator JoAnna Weeks discovered Yabsta four years ago, when she was trying to get something going online for her local business area on Central Whidbey Island. http://www.Whidbeylocal.com is a prototype of Gary Taylor’s http://www.Bermudayp.com site, which is also powered by Yabsta, an engine that is available anywhere in the world. Taylor is the president and founder of Yabsta. The local search-engine idea came out of his familiarity with the world of print phone directories as he is also the General Manager of the Bermuda Yellow Pages. Taylor saw a need for the “absolute local online search” and built the software that became Yabsta.

Weeks, a longtime friend and colleague of Taylor, approached him with a new idea in 2010.

“I told him I would help him build it if he would let me take it to Whidbey,” Weeks said.

He did and Weeks started selling ads as they built the website, and they’ve been adding enhancements to it ever since.

“We have cities coming online as fast as we can load them,” Weeks said. Recent Northwest cities to join Whidbey Island in launching the Yabsta model include Bellingham, Yakima, Spokane, Tri-Cities and Seattle’s Eastside.

Weeks had been a national sales manager and media buyer for the phone directory industry for more than 40 years. She was there during that century of non-smart phones and phone books, when “online” meant laundry drying in the sun. After she got on board with Taylor, she enlisted the help of longtime franchisee entrepreneur Paul Hendrickson, who welcomed the opportunity to join forces with Weeks in developing her vision for using the Yabsta business model in markets throughout Washington, Idaho and Oregon. Weeks formed the Visible Connections, LLC in 2010 as CEO and she and Hendrickson set out to bring the Whidbeylocal.com idea to other cities in the Northwest.

Ultimately, Taylor said he wanted to develop Yabsta in order to give online and mobile search users, advertisers and publishers what they need and want. Weeks expanded on that theme.

“We want to work with publishers first, but any franchisee that wants a Yabsta local search engine can give me a call. We are very affordable and anyone from the chambers, publishers, newspapers or someone digitally inclined can have this for their own back yard,” Weeks said.

The company celebrated its “coming out” in March of this year in Fort Worth, Texas, where the Association of Directory Publishers was holding its annual publishers’ event. The goal for the Yabsta partners is to get the word out to all the publishers in the U.S. and Canada that they can have their own local.com pages without breaking the bank.

“By refining business data, maps, classifieds, menus, reviews, e-sites, etc. into dynamic, well-organized listings, Yabsta delivers targeted, data-rich search results for users dissatisfied with the increasingly irrelevant results often provided by major search engines,” Taylor said.

Social features including local content, user reviews and free classifieds deliver a more useful and accurate user experience. Yabsta organizes information into a local target with the help of search engine optimization. Weeks said she always tells business owners that keywords are the secret recipe to optimizing results on Yabsta.

“The business opportunities are many,” Taylor said. “E-commerce will grow if we can make it very easy and inexpensive. Yabsta provides solutions.”

Weeks agreed.

“No need for Google. They want to give local advertisers a cost effective way to create content for their own search engine. It doesn’t have to filter through the chaff of the wider Internet. We want to keep it local so that the revenue stays local; bring back advertising to the local level online and on mobile devices.”

“The thing I’m proud of most,” Weeks said, “is that one of the first prototypes was born here on Whidbey, which to me is kind of neat.”

Patricia Duff is a freelance journalist at Patricia Duff Writing Services on Whidbey Island. Reach her at patriciajeanduff(at)gmail(dot)com.























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Scientel® Gensonix® NoSQL DB For Big Data Featured As June 2014 Cover Story by CIOReview/India Magazine












Bingham Farms, MI (PRWEB) June 25, 2014

Every day that goes by, all analytical organizations are concluding that Big Data is increasing by leaps and bounds and predicting that systems of today will not be able to keep up with upcoming demands. Systems are needed that are highly efficient as well as ones that can grow to large configurations, to be able to store and manage Big Data of any size. In this regard, Scientel clearly stands out as a leader, as one of the few companies in the world with the advanced technical capabilities required to take advantage of the Big Data market over the next decade–which has added $ 156 Billion to the US economy last year alone.

“CIOReview/India” magazine focuses on leaders in various businesses and technologies, and chose Scientel to feature on the cover of its June, 2014 issue because Scientel stands out in various ways, particularly with regard to Big Data capabilities. Scientel stands out as one of the first companies to market NoSQL-based systems technology—and cost effective handling of Big Data depends on NoSQL. Scientel noticed vulnerabilities and limitations of the SQL database, and these conclusions became fairly well established worldwide in the last decade. Scientel pushed its technology to demonstrate the fact that ultimately in the Big Data arena, SQL technologies are not going to suffice, and we will be needing new technologies like NoSQL.

Scientel storage mechanisms are uniquely efficient, in both software and hardware. Therefore, Scientel systems can store more data more cost-effectively than all other SQL and NoSQL competitors. Also, Scientel can scale to very large systems so that customers will not experience “designed-in obsolescence”, and they can keep expanding their hardware without having to replace it. Further, Scientel incorporates Massively Parallel Processing in its technology where many servers act effectively in parallel, providing very fast and very highly efficient solutions.

Scientel, under the leadership of Norman T. Kutemperor, began its journey in database management way before the Internet era, when the team started developing DBMS to address the small-to-medium business enterprise environments in 1978. Although Oracle and IBM released SQL-based Relational DBs in the early 1980s, as far back as 1985, Scientel was already developing NoSQL-type tools for Unstructured DB Analytics, and in 1988, released an initial Non-SQL version of a DB. “By then IBM and Oracle had already established SQL standards. Around 1989, our research uncovered Big Data in the soon to arrive Internet era; and identified major vulnerabilities with SQL DBs; thus we were able to accurately predict the limitations of SQL for Big Data,” says Kutemperor. Though Big Data was a term still in its infancy, Scientel proceeded with unfailing commitment to Non-SQL DBMS research and released the Gensonix NoSQL DB in 1993. The product included distinct procedural NoSQL capabilities for structured as well as unstructured data which were way ahead of its time.

Scientel has built its services based upon four core products that are backed up to two platforms. The product range includes the ECMS system, which is a first of its kind data management tool to decipher both structured and unstructured content. The DBIS Intranet, built by the Scientel team, provides an interactive, web-like Supply chain Management System designed to run on the client’s intranet. Thirdly, the DBIS e-Commerce product provides enterprises with an easier way to transact businesses over the Internet with a secured server for protection of critical data. Perhaps one of the major differentiating factors of Scientel would be its ability to scale massively. The Scientel base level Large Data Warehouse Appliance (LDWA) machine designated LDWA2200 system has been integrated with over 172 CPU cores, which easily matches the size of an IBM series Z mainframe.

The Gensonix suite is the flagship platform of the organization that provides a Highly Scalable Server Environment capable of handling Big Data requirements of any size. “Although it has similar capabilities found in standard, SQL–based database management systems, its power, flexibility and scalability can do so much more,” points out Kutemperor. For large scale enterprises, taking the Gensonix capabilities to the next level is Scientel’s LDWA series that has been optimized to run the Gensonix Enterprise NoSQL DBMS to provide management and maintenance of super databases which can range into trillions of transaction records and billions of customers. Thus, the combination of the 4 product lines, coupled with the company’s three decade old expertise in Big Data, makes Scientel’s offerings a force to reckon with in the data sciences and analytics market today.

Bottom-line, Scientel provides complete, single-source, Big Data system solutions, including hardware, DBMS software, and applications based on a highly-advanced, user-friendly, NoSQL DB language structure and flexible data models that can scale cost-effectively to very large configurations for all Big Data requirements.

About Scientel Information Technology, Inc.

Scientel Information Technology, Inc. is a U.S.-based, international, systems technology company, operational since 1977. Scientel also designs/produces highly optimized high end servers, which can be bundled with its “GENSONIX® ENTERPRISE” DBMS software, as a single-source supplier of complete systems for Big Data environments. Scientel also customizes hardware and software for specific applications resulting in higher performance.

Scientel’s specialty is advanced NoSQL DBMS design and applications/systems integration for advanced business processes. This includes applications for Big Data, commercial intranets, Supply Chain management, IT consulting, support, etc., along with “beyond mainframe-level” Large Data Warehouse Appliance hardware/systems.

GENSONIX® allows very user-friendly data manipulation capabilities found in standard, SQL-based, database management systems, but it goes beyond. It is truly an “ALL-in-One SQL” — an “All Data Management System” in the form of an ultra-flexible, NoSQL DBMS of perfectly general capabilities and application potentials. It can also function in concert with mainline SQL systems to efficiently handle both structured and unstructured data as a large data warehouse repository. However, it can handle heavy database loads by itself with the aid of the GENSONIX® NSQL©™ query/procedural language. GENSONIX® supports both telnet as well as http interfaces. GENSONIX® is capable of handling trillions of rows/transactions for billions of customers, which is a huge advantage in “truly Big Data” structured applications.

Business customers can take advantage of Scientel’s capabilities in advanced Business Intelligence and Data Analytics to grow their business by handling Big Data more cost-effectively and with greater insights to remain competitive. Scientific, government, and similar organizations can use these capabilities to efficiently process Big Data, instead of being swamped by it. And, Scientel’s Enterprise Content Management & Search solutions can vastly simplify storage, access, and management of any kind of digitized data for any size organization.
























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NC Advocates for Justice Leader Appointed to State’s Impaired Driving Task Force










Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) January 18, 2014

The 30-person task force will review existing North Carolina data, laws, regulations, and programs and develop a statewide impaired driving plan to provide a comprehensive strategy for preventing and reducing impaired driving behavior. North Carolina is required to submit a statewide impaired driving plan to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The Governor has appointed individuals from a variety of transportation and law enforcement backgrounds and disciplines. Bill Powers has been named Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year” 2013 for Charlotte DUI/DWI Defense. He is also a General Member of the National College of DUI Defense, Inc and a board certified Criminal Law Specialist. He serves as Vice President of Communications on NCAJ’s Executive Committee.

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Dentist, Tariq Drabu Urges His Students and Colleagues to Attend The Dentistry Show











Tariq Drabu Dentist


(PRWEB) January 04, 2014

Tariq Drabu, dentist and owner of the renowned Langley Dental Practice in Middleton, Manchester, recently encouraged his students, and colleagues within the dental profession, to attend the forthcoming Dentistry Show. The show will be in the NEC, Birmingham on from the 28th of February to the 1st of March 2014.

Tariq Drabu is a dentist and highly respected teacher and mentor to postgraduate students. He has been running his family practice in Langley for nearly thirty years, and for over a decade has been teaching and mentoring students of dental medicine.

Tariq Drabu is not only a family dentist and teacher. He is also the Clinical Lead Dentist for Oral Surgery Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services at NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale. In addition he is a specialist staff member at The UCLan Dental Clinic in Preston. With such a wealth of experience, and many years’ service to the British dental profession, he is a highly respected, leading name in dentistry.

Speaking in reference to an article recently published in the Denistry website, Tariq Drabu, dentist and teacher, felt compelled to encourage as many people as possible to attend The Dentistry Show next year. The article sharing news about the show can be read here.

The show promises to give dental professionals two days of highly informative lectures from leading experts within the dental profession. There will also be live demonstrations of the latest technology and equipment, a huge trade exhibition with over 350 exhibitors and the chance to meet and network with the country’s leading dentists.

Tariq Drabu believes a dentist should continue with their personal development by attending events of this type. He said, “This is an excellent show. For anyone working within the dental profession or who is studying to be a dentist, it will provide invaluable opportunities for networking as well as the chance to see the latest developments in dental medicine. I want to encourage as many of my students and colleagues to attend.”

He went on to say, “The event is free of charge, so this is a particularly good opportunity for young students who are on a tight budget. I’ll be doing what I can to encourage my students to travel to Birmingham to attend. I am sure they will benefit from the hands-on workshops and the lectures which will be delivered by leading dentists and practice managers.”

Tariq Drabu, the leading dentist and teacher, sees the value in attending these specialist events where professionals can come together to learn from each other, share ideas, and try new techniques and technology. He closed by saying, “This year’s show includes some excellent speakers like Newton Fahl, Chris Orr, Christina Chatfield and James Russell, to name just a few. They will be talking about new dental techniques, and discussing the latest materials, and the products available to dentists. I am very much looking forward to attending the show myself.”

About Dr Tariq Drabu

Dr Tariq Drabu is a highly experienced and well known Manchester dentist and GDC registrant. He is accredited as a Specialist in Oral Surgery by the General Dental Council. Dr Tariq Drabu practices at his Langley Dental Practice in Manchester. Dr Drabu is a leading name in dentistry, with 25 years’ experience in both general practice and hospital dentistry. Dr Tariq Drabu is also the Clinical Lead Dentist for Oral Surgery Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services at NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale. He is a specialist staff member at The UCLan Dental Clinic in Preston.













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