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Ease of use, affordability and extensive features earned an Ektron Inc., an Amherst software company, recognition as the Software Association of New Hampshire’s 2005 "Most Valuable Player." Ektron CEO and founder Bill Rogers was given the award at the Oct.…

A regional summit exploring how health information technology can improve health care in New England will be held Oct. 17 at the Wayfarer Inn Convention Center in Bedford. Presented by The New England Council, along with the eHealth Initiative, the…

Salem-based Standex International Corp. will announce its first-quarter 2006 financial results on Oct. 27 before the market opens and will broadcast its conference call that day live over the Internet at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. On the call, Roger Fix,…

The Timberland Company will be reporting its third-quarter results prior to the market’s opening on Thursday, Oct. 27, the company has announced. In July the Stratham-based company announced a 20 percent decline in second-quarter profits. Company expectations were for a…

Fraser Papers, owner of the pulp and paper mills in Berlin, N.H., said on Wednesday it would temporarily idle two lumber mills in New Brunswick, Canada, starting Oct. 21, because of slow markets. Fraser, which is primarily a paper and…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged three former executives of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm with civil fraud for their firm’s fiscal 2000 audit of American Tissue. Two of the executives -- former audit manager John D. Parson…

The ability of law enforcement officials to identify the sometime blurred images on surveillance cameras is about to be enhanced thanks to the work of a Jackson, N.H. company. Animetrics Inc., a developer of 3D imaging facial recognition software, has…

Hampton-based Fisher Scientific has launched a global initiative aimed at developing drugs based on studying RNA, with its first meeting taking place in Boston on Oct. 17-18. The firm’s Colorado subsidiary, Dharmacon Inc. -- a business unit of Fisher Biosciences,…

After spending 45 years as a trial lawyer and nearly a quarter-century as a New Hampshire District Court judge, Jack Middleton, senior member of the Litigation Department at McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton in Manchester will be honored with a…

The chief executive officer of Presstek, a printing equipment manufacturer headquartered in Hudson, is now an author. Edward J Marino’s first work? The 300-page "The Loyalty Payoff: Building Loyalty to Boost the Bottom Line," which is being published by National…