Newstream Digest: Experience the Apple Harvest, Reba McEntire Launches Sportswear Collection, IBM Unveils First Biometric ThinkPad & Other Free Multimedia Content for Journalists

Business Wire, Oct 4, 2004

NEW YORK -- Newstream Digest

Experience the Harvest

Fall is here, which means it's the perfect time to celebrate the harvest -- especially since October is National Apple Month. After visiting an apple orchard with your family, you can head home to bake the American classic...a good old-fashioned apple pie. A video report from General Mills (NYSE:GIS).

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HSBC and Household International Unite Under Single Brand in North America

Household International and HSBC have united under a single brand -- HSBC -- in the U.S. and Canada. This marks the completion of their integration. HSBC North America Holdings ranks among the top 10 financial services companies in the U.S., with assets approaching $300 billion. The company believes that the single brand allows it to unify its vision and goals, and deepen its relationship and services with its 60 million North American customers.

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Reba McEntire Launches Lifestyle Collection

Reba McEntire, multi-award winning singer, TV actress and Broadway star, and Dillard's (NYSE:DDS), Little Rock based retailer, are partnering to launch Reba's new women's sportswear collection -- 'Reba'. The collection will launch in Spring 2005 at 147 Dillard's stores nationwide as well as on www.dillards.com. 'Reba' represents the first time that Reba McEntire has created a clothing line.

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IBM Unveils First Biometric ThinkPad, Offering Security At Your Fingertips

IBM is taking computing security and data protection to the next level today with the introduction of the first ThinkPad with an integrated fingerprint reader. ThinkPad, already the industry's most secure notebook PC(a), now features a model that delivers simplified access to password-protected personal and financial information, web sites, documents and e-mail while offering an unmatched level of data protection through its new biometric capability and embedded security subsystem.

(a) Select ThinkPad models offer the Embedded Security Subsystem.

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No Evidence of Cardiovascular Safety Signal for Pfizer's Celebrex in Long-Term Clinical Trials of More Than 6,000 Patients

Pfizer Inc said on October 1 that three large long-term Celebrex (celecoxib capsules) studies involving more than 6,000 patients have not shown any significant safety issues and are expected to continue to completion. Video available.

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New Tony Hawk Video Game, Tony Hawk's Underground 2

Leeza Gibbons and son Nathan Meadows demo the new Tony Hawk video game, Tony Hawk's Underground 2, at the Tony Hawk Foundation event to support building of skate parks in low income neighborhoods.

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Las Vegas Kids Lists Las Vegas Haunted Hotels for Halloween Travelers

LasVegasKids.com announced on October the 4th that it has posted a "Haunted Hotels" never been published list on its web site, www.LasVegasKids.com. The exclusive list, which was created especially for those planning a Halloween trip to Las Vegas by a Las Vegas insider, provides information about allegedly haunted and cursed "strip" hotels in and around Las Vegas.

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100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong...: Unique Four-CD/One-DVD Box Set Features 38 Never Before Released Recordings Plus 12 Rarities

100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong... (Island Def Jam/UMe), to be released November 16, 2004, is a "thinking outside the box" box set from one of the most popular and successful bands in rock. Another landmark in Bon Jovi's history of pioneering events, the mammoth four-CD, 50-song collection (plus a DVD) is not a greatest hits collection but instead is comprised largely of previously unreleased recordings from the band's vast archive -- in other words, the band's "greatest hits you never heard."

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Midway Set to Revolutionize Fighting Genre as Mortal Kombat(R): DeceptionTM Ships to Stores Nationwide

Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced on October the 4th that Mortal Kombat(R): Deception(TM), the latest entry in the company's best-selling Mortal Kombat franchise, has shipped for the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft.