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41. Verizon Encourages Recycling and Offers Partner Businesses a Way to Help Their Customers Do It
NEW YORK - Verizon is presenting an attractive wireless device recycling program to its wholesale customers so their end-users can trade old wireless devices and peripherals for cash, credit on new equipment or services, or a donation to the charity of their choice.
November 3, 2009

42. Verizon Legal Volunteers Launch New Program to Provide Free Legal Services
NEW YORK - Verizon attorneys and legal staff have started a program that will provide free legal services to needy individuals and nonprofit organizations. The program helps address a major issue: Nearly 1 million poor people will be denied representation in courts across the country this year because of insufficient resources.
November 4, 2009

43. Verizon Engages Law Enforcement, Advocacy Groups in Discussions of Online Safety, Digital Citizenship
WASHINGTON - Furthering its commitment to online safety, Verizon is a major sponsor of the 2009 Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) 2009 conference, Building a Culture of Responsibility from Online Safety to Digital Citizenship, which opens here Wednesday (Nov. 4).
November 4, 2009

44. Verizon Ushers in a New Era of Television Entertainment With the Debut of FiOS TV in Allentown, Pa.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Residents of Pennsylvania's Queen City now have a superior choice for television entertainment delivered over a superior all-fiber optic network - FiOS TV from Verizon.
November 4, 2009

45. Verizon Business to Build New IT Platform for Secure Exchange of Transcribed Medical Information
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - A newly formed industry group, the Medical Transcription Service Consortium (MTSC), has chosen Verizon Business to build a new IT platform for the secure exchange of digitized transcriptions of physician-dictated patient notes.
November 4, 2009

46. ICSA Labs and Medical Transcription Industry Association Create Consortium to Promote Secure Exchange of Dictated Medical Information
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - In an initiative to help accelerate the adoption of electronic health care records, ICSA Labs and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) have formed a consortium to devise common standards and practices for the creation and sharing of digitized transcriptions of physician-dictated patient notes.
November 4, 2009

47. Verizon Business Takes Virtual Private LAN Service Global
NEW YORK - Enterprises around the world now can seamlessly and cost-effectively transform their Ethernet local area networks into wide area networks, with Verizon Business' global expansion of its Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS).
November 3, 2009

48. Verizon's FiOS1 Will Be the Source for Complete Election Night Coverage in New York and New Jersey
NEW YORK - Verizon's FiOS1 News teams in New York and New Jersey are getting ready to bring viewers in both states the most informative, compelling and late-breaking results, as they happen, on Election Day. Verizon's FIOS1 New Jersey and FiOS1 Long Island aim to be the source of in-depth political coverage between now and Tuesday (Nov. 3), when voters go to the polls.
October 30, 2009

49. California Nonprofit Agencies Receive $1.5 Million From Verizon for Domestic Violence Prevention Efforts
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - To help address the continuing problem of domestic violence, the Verizon Foundation has awarded $1.5 million in grants this year to California nonprofit agencies for use in education, advocacy, support and prevention initiatives across the state.
October 30, 2009

50. Verizon Business Helps Businesses Take On Today's Biggest Security Threat - Attacks on Web-Based Applications
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - As hacker attacks become more sophisticated, businesses of all sizes are struggling to protect their Web-based applications. With Verizon Business' new Application Vulnerability Scanning (AVS) solutions, however, businesses can better understand, identify and mitigate potential Web-based, application-security threats.
October 30, 2009