Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA) will report its first quarter fiscal year 2009 financial results on Thursday, October 30, 2008. The company will host a conference call to review the results beginning at 1:30 p.m. PT / 4:30 p.m. ET. The general public can access the financial results and listen to the call via Sun’s Investor Relations website at

Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), through its direct wholly-owned subsidiary Puma Cat Acquisition Corp., commenced a cash tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of common stock of Napster, Inc. (NASDAQ:NAPS), in accordance with the previously-announced agreement and plan of merger, dated Sept. 14, 2008, among Best Buy, Puma Cat and Napster.

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IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN), the world ‘ s largest independent channel for document management systems and services, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved October 31, 2008 as the date for a special meeting of shareholders to vote on the proposed acquisition of IKON by Keystone Acquisition, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., and…

SolArc is pleased to announce being named one of Houston ‘ s fastest-growing companies in the annual Fast 100 list, published today by the Houston Business Journal . Fast 100 recognizes the fastest-growing private companies with headquarters in the Houston area based on two-year revenue growth. SolArc is ranked No. 33 on the list.

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Video game publisher, Codemasters, Inc., has named Liquid Advertising their agency of record for online, broadcast and print media buying assignments in North America. The agreement begins with the fall and winter releases of ‘ Damnation ‘ and ‘ Bella Sara. ‘ Billings were not disclosed.

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LINEEYE Co., Ltd. introduces the new portable protocol analyzer LE-8200 with color display, run by battery power. The LE-8200 supports RS-232C/422/485, BSC, and HDLC, and has Monitor function, Simulation function and BERT function. With expansion kits, the LE-8200 can also measure SPI, I2C, IrDA CAN/LIN and FlexRay, and set any speed up to 4Mbps. The…

NEC Electronics America, Inc. today announced the appointment of Bob Pinteric as the company ‘ s new general manager of the Multipurpose Microcontroller (MCU) Strategic Business Unit, and will report to Jim Trent, vice president of the Multipurpose Microcontroller and Automotive Group. Mr. Pinteric will be responsible for managing the company ‘ s MCU business and for overseeing activities…

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), a global, open industry standards body providing management of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), PIN Entry Device (PED) Security Requirements and the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), today announced that more than 550 attendees from over 325 organizations met at the Council ‘ s second annual Community…