Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. announced this morning the successful introduction of its total RFID Solutions at the VICS Conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas. NPDT demonstrated its capabilities as a full RFID solutions provider, including displaying RFID tag programmers, kiosks, mobile computing readers, and tags.

Matthew Jones. Laboratory Manager for the Company’s RFID facility in Bentonville, Arkansas, said it was “important to showcase all of NPDT’s capabilities to potential partners and customers. The conference went a long way to introducing us to the RFID community and put us in the spotlight as the new participant with products and services superior to those presently available.”

Joseph Ray, Wal-Mart Account Manager for NPDT, added, “RFID solutions offered by Newport Digital Technologies puts the Company immediately alongside others currently in the sector. The traffic to our booth, the number of customers and vendors with whom we met, and

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Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. announced this morning that it is a Lab Sponsor to the University of Arkansas RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) Research Center at the Sam M. Walton College of Business.

“We are pleased to officially become a sponsor of the University of Arkansas RFID Research Center,” stated NPDT CEO Gary DeMel. “Our Company has made a commitment to bringing leading edge RFID solutions to market and we are excited to be a part of the leading RFID research center in the world. As we previously announced, Newport Digital has opened up a sales and research and development office in Bentonville, with proximity to Wal-Mart, and we are dedicated to developing strong ties to the University’s research center.”

“In the future RFID will provide numerous societal benefits including ensuring that your medical history pops up at the nursing desk as you are checked

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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (GT) has revealed details about its master labor contract, ratified by members of the United Steel Workers (USW) union on Sep 18. The master contract covered about 10,300 employees at seven tire plants in the U.S. The plants are in Akron, Ohio; Buffalo, New York; Danville, Virginia; Fayetteville, North Carolina.; Gadsden, Alabama; Topeka, Kansas; and Union City, Tennessee.  The master contract is expected provide Goodyear with cost savings of $215 million over its term. Combined with savings realized through pre-bargain agreements to reduce staffing levels at five plants, the company expects to realize $555 million in total savings over the term of the agreements.  The contract also allows Goodyear to invest $600 million over the term of the agreement in its USW facilities to make them more efficient and productive. Additionally, it provides continued job security for six of the ...

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (GT) revealed that it reached a tentative four-year agreement on a United Steel Workers (USW) deal, about three hours before a midnight deadline for expiration last Saturday. The new contract covers about 10,300 employees at seven tire plants in the U.S. The plants are in Akron, Ohio; Buffalo, New York; Danville, Virginia; Fayetteville, North Carolina.; Gadsden, Alabama; Topeka, Kansas; and Union City, Tennessee.

The three-year old contract has been extended twice. Goodyear was in talks with USW in Cincinnati since June 8. The steelworkers were adamant throughout the negotiations about maintaining their job security. However, Goodyear did not disclose any details about the deal, especially on job cuts and plant closures.

Goodyear is focused on streamlining its operations by achieving cost reductions of $2.5 billion by 2009. Of this, the company already achieved $1.8 billion by the first half of the year. Goodyear anticipated that

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You might call them “free-form” merchants. They did a little bit of everything, as opportunities presented themselves. In the 18th century, you could find such merchants in seaports up and down the East Coast, from Boston to Charleston. Such a merchant might arrange voyages to Africa or the Far East - hire a captain, underwrite the insurance and divvy up the profits. He might deal in shares of land companies or bonds. He might lend money, trade grains, sell lottery tickets - whatever. These merchants were not committed to a single business. They would go where the best of it looked to be. They were opportunists in the best sense of the word.

Throughout financial history, you can find their likeness all over the world - even as far back as ancient Rome and Greece…or ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. And in more modern times, you find their likeness

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Ecosphere Technologies, Inc., a diversified water engineering and services company primarily focused on the natural gas industry, recently announced the successful results of the company’s pilot Fayetteville Shale testing. Ecosphere’s mission is to identify, create and produce clean technologies that are economically viable and improve the quality of life and protect the environment.

According to results from an independent lab, the tests confirmed that the EcosFrac technology killed the bacteria and passed the seven-day test for sulfur reducing bacteria at Ecosphere’s stated flow rate. The company’s EcosFrac process is a non-chemical electro-ozonation procedure that kills bacteria in frac water at 10 barrels per minute, and is part of Ecosphere’s Total Frac Water Management service.

Dennis McGuire, Ecosphere Energy Services president, stated, “In addition to treating flow-back and produced waters we are now able to offer the energy companies we serve a non-chemical process to kill bacteria in the water they use

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T-3 Energy Services (NASDAQ:TTES) provides essential safety equipment for oil and gas rigs. Though drilling activity has been affected by the fall in commodity prices, Chris Mayer says the stock has been massively oversold. Today it is trading at $19, down from a high of $84 last year. Given its healthy cash flow and strong international growth outlook, Chris says a move back to $60 is on the cards.

This from The Rude Awakening:

The last time I recommended T-3 Energy Services (NASDAQ:TTES) to the subscribers of my investment letter, Capital & Crisis, the stock tripled over the ensuing months. And even after I issued a “Sell” recommendation on the stock, it continued to move higher. But that was WAY back in July…and nothing is like it used to be.

From a high of $84 a share in July of this year, the stock has come all

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Despite falling energy prices, estimates on oil explorer Penn Virginia continue to trend higher. The company beat Wall Street estimates by 28.21% in the second quarter while reporting record production. The company trades with a forward P/E of 13.16.

Company Description

Penn Virginia Corporation (PVA) is an oil and gas exploration and production company that operates in Appalachia, Mississippi, east Texas, the Mid-Continent and the Gulf Coast regions.

The company has been allocating the majority of its resources to its lower-risk drilling areas in Appalachia, Mississippi, east Texas and the Mid-Continet regions. However, PVA continues to explore in the higher-risk areas such as Gulf Coast region and the shale plays, including the Devonian, Fayetteville and New Albany shales.

PVA also owns approximately 77% of Penn Virginia GP Holdings (PVG), the owner of the general partner and the largest unitholder of Penn Virginia Resource Partners (PVR), a

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Triangle Petroleum is an exploration company focused on emerging Canadian shale gas projects covering 584,000 gross acres in the Maritimes Basin in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The company plans to aggressively exploit their shale gas assets based on their prior experience with other shale gas assets in the Barnett and Fayetteville shale gas areas.

Triangle’s first exploration well, N-14-A, was spud in July 2008 and drilled to a depth of 8,500 feet. The well encountered Horton Bluff Shale at a depth of 3,600 feet and drilled through a total of 4,900 feet of shale and interbedded sands. Core samples were obtained at various depths and sent to labs in Houston and Calgary for analysis. The company owns a minimum 45% working interest in the well and is the operator.

Triangle’s second exploration well, O-61-C, was spud early this week. This well is located 14 miles west of the company’s first well

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