Phoenix based Digital Bridge, Inc. (OTCBB:DGBI) announced that SearchHound.com will begin marketing, promoting, and selling the Digital Bridge Site Monitor. This agreement is expected to bring Digital Bridge an upsurge in business by leveraging SearchHound.com's relationship with its 600,000 webmaster members.

Teachers who want to energize their math, science and language arts curricula with hi-tech lesson plans incorporating new media technologies are attending the National Teacher Training Institute (NTTI). Through turnkey training, web workshops and on-line resources, NTTI teaches educators creative ways to use video and the Internet in classroom activities. One hundred and twenty-five teachers from around the state of Arizona have been selected to participate in the sessions.

In a move that continues its national expansion, Aperian, Inc. (Nasdaq: APRN) opened a data center in Phoenix. This will be its fifth in the nation.

The I-builder gold rush is ending. In the past, demand for traditional I-builder services was so strong that many firms had to turn away business. The largest firms had a waiting list of clients, and promising "dot-coms" had to sell hard to get the prestigious I-builders to take on their projects. Today, as venture capital attention has shifted away from dot-coms toward wireless and infrastructure companies, many I-builders have had to shift their efforts away from startups.

Phoenix based Hypercom Corporation was selected to provide 10,000 Hypercom® ePic ICE 5000 and ICE 5500 Internet enabled card payment terminals to the Bank Central Asia (BCA). These will be installed at retailers, hotels, and airlines throughout Indonesia. BCA is one of the largest banks in Indonesia.

Phoenix based Simula Inc., one of the nation's leaders in safety technology and Second Chance Body Armor Inc., developers of soft, conceable, protective personal body armor, have introduced the ULTIMA® brand, 9th Generation Body armor.