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By: Marcus Sterling – SeaPRwire – The first official report on the US-Iran war is out. It does not soften the inventory picture. Advanced weapons stocks are short. Replenishment capacity is the bottleneck. Bases across the Gulf took visible damage. That is the core finding released on 14 September. The Department of Defense Inspector General report states the conflict produced a “strategic inventory shortage.” It also exposed industrial-capacity limits in munitions replenishment. Experts had already estimated that restoring advanced missiles and air-defense interceptors to pre-war levels could take roughly three years. The same report discloses physical losses. Iranian attacks damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings and other facilities at US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman and Jordan. Dozens of US military aircraft and drones were damaged or destroyed. Defense Secretary Hegseth had previously said the war had cost a...

By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – Independent hotel owners have long faced a simple problem. Procurement platforms built for large chains demand weeks of setup, training and change management. Most owners skip them. They keep buying the old way and leave negotiated savings on the table. AAHOA, Folio and Avendra International just launched a Marketplace that removes that barrier. Eligible members get free access. Setup takes minutes, not months. That is the practical change. The official launch is clear. The new AAHOA Marketplace is powered by Folio technology and remains free for eligible AAHOA members. It gives hotel operators a centralized catalog, a unified cart, a single place to track and manage orders, and AI-powered auto-coding at the point of purchase. The platform is optimized for mobile use so owners can manage purchasing on the go. New sign-ups can connect up to five of their existing top suppliers, place a first order, and begin onboarding in a few clicks. Kate ...

By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Generic AI on a trading platform is no longer enough. An agent that only sees the same market feed every broker offers still leaves a gap between research and action. ProreX Limited just closed that gap for its MetaTrader 5 clients. The broker exposed its own screener, Smart Score, trade ideas and market data through a dedicated MCP server. The agent can reason with ProreX tools and MT5 live data in one flow. Every trade still waits for the client’s manual confirmation by default. That combination is the actual shift. After MetaTrader 5 Build 6060 added native Model Context Protocol and agentic AI, ProreX went further than the platform default. Clients can run the built-in AI Assistant inside the terminal or MetaEditor. It defaults to the free MQL5.community provider. Users can switch to their own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek or Ollama. They can also connect external MCP-compatible agents such as OpenAI Codex or Claude Co...

By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – Retailers keep adding premium water SKUs and still end up with shelves full of single-use plastic. The sustainability claims stay thin because the format itself never changes. NWB Finland Oy is walking into ECRM with a different bet. AINA Natural Water arrives in 5-liter and 10-liter bag-in-box packs. The water comes from Northern Finland. The plastic footprint drops hard. That combination is the only thing worth testing on the floor. The official pitch is straightforward. NWB Finland Oy will showcase AINA at the 2026 ECRM Vitamin, Weight Management & Sports Nutrition Session from 14 to 17 September in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The product is naturally filtered groundwater from the Pudasjärvi region. It passes through soil, sand and rock, then receives mechanical filtration before packing. Total dissolved solids sit at roughly 32 mg/L. The taste is soft and neutral. The formats are 5-liter and 10-liter bag-in-box. Compared with rows ...

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – ServiceNow is excellent at approvals, catalogs, and CMDB records. That is not identity governance. Routing an access request through a workflow is not the same as evaluating deterministic policy, discovering entitlements with AI and ML, or running full Joiner-Mover-Leaver automation across hundreds of systems. Most ServiceNow customers still live in that gap. They lack the dedicated engine required for zero-trust and least-privilege postures. RoboMQ just launched Hire2Retire IGA on ServiceNow as a companion app. It keeps every existing ServiceNow investment in place and adds the missing control plane. The official architecture is a clean two-plane split. Hire2Retire sits as the control plane. It ingests HR and ATS events from more than twenty systems. It evaluates RBAC and ABAC policy. It provisions and deprovisions access across hundreds of downstream applications through SCIM. ServiceNow stays the engagement plane. It continues to handle a...

By: Alistair Kroon – SeaPRwire – Oil jumped hard on September 10 because two chokepoints tightened at once. Hormuz stayed contested. Bab el-Mandeb came under fresh pressure from Houthi advances on shore and islands. Benchmark crude cleared one hundred dollars. Diesel in the United States broke six dollars a gallon for the first time. The market priced the risk that neither waterway would return to normal soon. That is the immediate fact on the board. Official statements from the same day lay out the sequence. The U.S. Treasury added individuals and entities linked to Iran’s proxy networks in the Middle East to its sanctions list. The list includes members of Lebanese Hezbollah. The move forms part of the broader economic isolation campaign against Iran. U.S. Central Command reported that its maritime blockade of Iran had already forced ninety-six commercial ships to change course. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy stated it destroyed a U.S. unmanned surface ve...

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – Commanders still lose critical minutes waiting for a link that may never come back. Data has to travel home before it becomes intelligence. That single dependency breaks the moment communications degrade or get denied. Axonis just put a self-contained AI environment at the tactical edge to end that wait. Mission Node keeps the data, the models, and the decision right where the mission is happening. No phone-home required. Humans stay in charge. The machine only accelerates the tempo they already set. Axonis introduced Mission Node on September 9, 2026 from Arlington, Massachusetts through ACCESS Newswire. The company describes it as a self-contained, AI-enabled mission intelligence environment built for defense operations at the edge. Official language says it lets organizations connect mission data and AI, generate intelligence, and make governed decisions locally even when links to centralized infrastructure are cut. CEO Todd Barr framed t...

By: Christian Brooks – SeaPRwire – Small gaps kill more MEP jobs than big mistakes ever will. A hanger allowance left off the takeoff. A permit fee that never got a price. Three hours of supervision per floor that stayed invisible until the invoice arrived. These are the quiet leaks. They start before the bid leaves the office and they keep draining the job long after the crew shows up. McCormick Systems just put a checklist in front of the industry that forces contractors to look at those leaks before the number goes out the door. McCormick Systems, based in Chandler, Arizona and part of Foundation Software’s portfolio, released the article on September 9, 2026 through ACCESS Newswire. The piece is titled “Am I Missing Anything? An Estimating Checklist for Electrical, Plumbing & Mechanical Contractors.” It walks through the full process from first plan review to final submission. The article stresses reviewing the complete plan set before any takeoff begins so scope...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Local AI work is outgrowing the machines that claim to do it. Most mini PCs still ship with memory ceilings that force models into the cloud or into painful swaps. BOSGAME just previewed the machine that refuses that limit. The M5 MAX is not another small box with a faster chip. It is a compact workstation built around the idea that 128GB is the starting point, not the ceiling. The facts are straightforward. On September 8 BOSGAME previewed the M5 MAX, its next flagship mini PC, set to arrive between late September and mid-October 2026. It sits above the existing M5 platform and targets AI developers, content creators, software developers and other professionals who need more compute and memory than a conventional mini PC supplies. The processor is the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495: 16 cores, 32 threads, boost clocks to 5.2 GHz, Radeon 8065S graphics, an NPU rated up to 55 TOPS and overall AI performance up to 131 TOPS. The first configuration ...

By: Robert Sterling – SeaPRwire – Most beverage brands chase gyms and influencers. Crude Energy is walking into ECRM with a different target. The company wants the people who actually keep the lights on and the trucks moving. That positioning is either a genuine gap in the market or just another story. The trade show will show which one it is. Official line is straightforward. Crude Energy Beverages will be at the ECRM Vitamin, Weight Management & Sports Nutrition Session from September 14 to 17 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The lineup on the table includes energy drinks, flavored teas and Crude Brew Coffee. President Cory Yeik says the brand was built for workers on long shifts in oil and gas, construction, trucking, farming, welding, mechanics and the skilled trades. CEO Kimberley Johnson adds that the working class is a huge part of the country yet few beverage brands are built specifically around them. The slogan is simple: What Fuels You? Behind the products s...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – The panic is not about a few product photos. It is about the complete operating manual of Apple’s profit machine being left on a public shelf. World Leaks pulled more than 200,000 files and 630 GB out of Tata Electronics, Apple’s India contract manufacturer. What spilled was not marketing slides. It was the full internal map: iPhone 18 Pro motherboard layouts, exact component specifications, the entire bill of materials across hundreds of suppliers, unit prices down to four decimal places, allocation ratios, yield test logs, and even prototype drop-test photographs. Two months before launch, the system that keeps Apple’s hardware margins at 36 to 39 percent while Android averages 12 percent is now readable by anyone with a download link. Tata’s June 22 statement claimed operations were unaffected. Apple said it was concerned and working with Tata to tighten security. Both treated the event as a contained IT incident. The files themselves sa...

By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Putin just ordered a three-day pause on strikes against Kyiv. The clock started at midnight on 5 September. At the same moment a U.S. plane carrying Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner entered Russian airspace. A convoy waited at Vnukovo. This is not coincidence. It is the first visible trade in a week of quiet pressure. Trump said the day before that the pair carried an “end the war” plan. He added that a deal was “very possible.” Zelenskyy confirmed the same itinerary and demanded matching restraint from Russia. The pause is the price of entry. Official statements line up cleanly. Peskov announced the order covering Kyiv only. Trump told reporters the Ukraine crisis “must be resolved” and that Witkoff and Kushner would test whether anything could be arranged in Moscow and then Kyiv. Zelenskyy posted that the visitors would reach the Ukrainian capital on 6 September. He stated Ukraine would not launch airstrikes during the window and expected ...

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – Most sales reps still lose the majority of their week to everything except selling. The number has barely moved for years. Roughly 29 percent of the week goes to actual selling. The other 71 percent disappears into admin, data entry, and preparation. New tools keep arriving. The split stays the same. That is the core frustration SurveySparrow is now trying to attack with SparrowCRM. On September 3, 2026 the company announced SparrowCRM, an AI-native agentic CRM built for revenue teams. SurveySparrow already serves more than 10,000 businesses across 149 countries. It launched ThriveSparrow, an employee experience platform, two years earlier. In 2025 it added SparrowDesk, an AI-first customer support platform. SparrowCRM is the next piece, aimed at sales and revenue. The CRM market itself is large: about 80 billion dollars in 2025 and projected to reach roughly 160 billion dollars by the early 2030s. The company positions SparrowCRM as a system...

By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – The talent pipeline in supply chain planning is still thin. Companies that sell software for forecasting and end-to-end planning keep running into the same wall. Good people who actually understand both the math and the operations side are hard to find and harder to keep. John Galt Solutions just reopened one of its answers to that problem. On September 3, 2026 the Austin-based firm announced the latest round of applications for its higher education scholarship. The program targets students pursuing business forecasting and supply chain management. Applications are open at johngalt.com/scholarships. The hard deadline is November 30, 2026. Winners will be named in January 2027. The company awards a $10,000 scholarship twice each year. Selection rests on leadership experience, volunteer and community work, and strong academic and personal records. Applicants must be enrolled full-time at an accredited school in the United States or Canada and...

By: James Vance  – SeaPRwire – Media companies sit on decades of footage that no longer fits the screens people watch. SD and early HD masters gather dust while streaming platforms and UHD channels demand sharper pictures. Manual restoration or separate upscaling tools add cost, delay, and risk of version drift. That friction is the real problem. Telestream just put an AI fix inside the workflow operators already run. The facts land clean. Telestream announced Vantage Super Resolution powered by the NVIDIA Video Effects SDK. It arrives as a native transcoder option inside Vantage. Operators can upscale legacy SD and HD content straight into modern HD, 4K, or UHD deliverables without leaving the pipeline. The capability joins Telestream’s existing practical AI tools. Preview happens at IBC2026. Full release sits in Q4 2026. Charlie Dunn, Executive Vice President of Products at Telestream, put it plainly. Media firms hold libraries built for older distribution rules. Bring...

By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – Financial institutions keep telling search firms they need leaders who can jump business lines. Most firms still hunt inside the old boxes. Caldwell just closed those boxes into one Global Financial Institutions Group Practice. The move looks clean on paper. The test is whether clients will actually buy the wider net or keep asking for the same narrow lists they always have. The official announcement is straightforward. Caldwell pulled its capabilities in asset and wealth management, insurance, global banking and markets, consumer and commercial banking, fintech, and real assets under a single globally coordinated practice. The group advises on C-suite and other senior roles across functional, investment, product, and distribution seats. Paul Heller and Glenn Buggy, the global managing partners, say clients now operate across connected markets, business models, and capital sources. Searching across traditional sector boundaries lets the fir...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Property owners keep hitting the same wall. They open the bank feed. They see a mortgage payment. They freeze. Principal, interest, escrow all sit in one line. Generic software expects them to split it correctly. Most of them never learned how. The books drift. Reports stop matching reality. The owner either pays someone else to clean it up or lives with numbers they no longer trust. Sofia AI just expanded its platform around that exact friction. It keeps the double-entry rules intact. It just refuses to make the owner perform them. The company announced the expansion on August 31, 2026 from Los Angeles. Sofia AI added mortgage accounting, credit card accounting, automated financial reporting, and reconciliation workflows. The platform already connected bank activity with property context. It now pushes further into the full cycle. It creates the underlying journal entries. It reconciles accounts. It produces property-level financial report...

By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Restaurant operators keep hitting the same wall. Digital ordering works until peak hours hit. POS systems talk to delivery apps but freeze when menus change. Loyalty programs sit in one silo while customer data lives in another. The result is constant firefighting instead of smooth growth. Digital Heroes landing the No. 1 spot in the 2026 industry ranking for restaurant software development companies puts that tension under a brighter light. The ranking measured providers across eight concrete areas. Restaurant industry experience. Point-of-sale integration. Ordering and delivery platform connections. Performance under peak demand. User experience. Multi-location capabilities. Documented client results. Post-launch support. Digital Heroes scored highest by combining pure technology development with direct ordering tools, system integrations, and digital marketing services. A company representative stated the focus remains on practical techno...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Outsourced IT still runs on tickets. A user hits a problem. They file a request. Then they wait while someone works in the dark. Visibility is near zero. Slink decided that model is finished. On 28 August the Birmingham company launched the Slink Platform. It treats technology management as a single operating layer instead of a queue of tickets and emails. Growing businesses finally get one place to see, request, approve and automate the work that keeps their systems running. The platform pulls IT support, employee lifecycle management, devices, security, projects, service performance and automation into one experience. At its center sit Action Requests. These are structured workflows that turn everyday IT tasks into controlled steps that can run with less manual effort. Employee offboarding shows how it works. An authorised user starts the process inside Slink. The platform follows the customer’s own approval path. It then locks accounts, ...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Project tools still live in one corner of the Microsoft stack. Most teams keep bouncing between Planner, Project Online and scattered lists. That split creates friction every day. Innovative-e just confirmed its core platform has a new name. Teams4PM is now Orchera . The developer DigiOps made the change. Nothing else moved. Existing customer environments keep running without a break. The rebrand landed on 27 August from Merritt Island, Florida. Innovative-e describes itself as a Microsoft-focused Cloud AI partner. Its specialty is project and work management modernization. Orchera , pronounced or-CARE-ah, carries a fresh visual identity. The company says the new name better matches the platform’s job: orchestrating work across Microsoft 365. The goal is a common context that links people, work and AI. Platform features stay identical. Configurations stay identical. Service continues without interruption. Mike Taylor, founder and CEO of Inn...

By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Pet owners still wait for limps, vomiting or sudden weight loss before they act. By then the window has often closed. Hoomanely just made that wait look obsolete. The company launched an AI-native platform that treats every meal and drink as a continuous health signal, not a routine chore. Its first product, EverBowl, spent eighteen months quietly collecting more than five million multimodal data points from over eighty dogs. The claim is simple and sharp: learn each animal’s private baseline, then flag the smallest deviation long before a clinic visit. The system starts with biology rather than sensors. Sai Supriya Sharath, co-founder and CEO, put it plainly. Most monitoring begins with whatever gadget is available and then asks what the data might mean. Hoomanely reverses the order. It asks which everyday patterns shift when an animal is unwell, then builds passive ways to watch those patterns without breaking the animal’s routine. EverBow...

By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – The old rule is broken. For a 100-unit run of a simple custom garment, made-in-USA now undercuts overseas on total landed cost. Domestic lands at about $17.55 a unit. Overseas lands at about $19.76. That is a 13 percent edge for Los Angeles cut-and-sew in 2026. Tariffs did the math. Founders who still quote the decade-old playbook are already behind. Plucky Reach released the total-cost-of-ownership numbers on August 26 from the Los Angeles Fashion District. The company has spent more than 20 years in the local garment trade. It has helped build over 1,000 brands and contributed to more than $15 million in client revenue. Its own analysis shows domestic production running roughly 13 percent cheaper once Section 301 duties, freight, and rework risk are counted. Abby Perez, founder and CEO, put it plainly. Founders keep saying overseas has to be cheaper because that is what everyone learned a decade ago. The tariffs changed the equation. When...

By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Warehouse robots arrive ready to move. Connecting them to the systems that already run the building still eats months. Bear Robotics and BOWE IQ just announced a partnership meant to shrink that gap. The claim is a cut in deployment lead time of up to 40 percent at existing sites. The target is brownfield warehouses across the United Kingdom and Europe. Official features and the real bottleneck sit side by side. Bear has deployed more than 16,000 autonomous robots across 20 countries. Its Carti 100 AMR is the hardware side of the deal. BOWE IQ is a UK-based automation integrator. The joint work links the Carti 100 to legacy Warehouse Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning platforms and Manufacturing Execution Systems. The goal is less bespoke coding and shorter integration cycles. The package includes three concrete pieces. Rapid API integration supplies secure real-time links to systems that include SAP, Oracle and Blue Yonder. Ev...

By: Marcus Sterling – SeaPRwire – European museum theft used to be quiet. Now the reports describe guns, axes and explosives. Europol’s latest assessment, covered by the Guardian on August 24, shows a clear shift to violent and destructive methods. Gold and Chinese porcelain have moved up the target list. The old image of the careful art thief no longer matches the cases on the ground. Official findings and the operational change sit side by side. Europol notes that museum theft was long treated as non-violent organized property crime. In recent cases across member states, thieves brandish firearms, assault staff and smash buildings or display cases with sledgehammers, axes or explosives. The pattern suggests new networks may have entered the field. Traditional art-crime groups relied on deception and concealment. They operated around a single leader and possessed specialist skills. Many recent jobs were carried out by temporary crews. Members were recruited locally thro...

By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Trade talks between the United States and Canada collapsed. Fifty-percent tariffs on twenty billion dollars of Canadian goods are now live. American media across the spectrum describe the same casualty. Trust between the two countries is the first thing that broke. The political damage may already outrun the economic numbers. Official assessments and the deeper fracture sit side by side. The Associated Press reported on August 22 that the allies who share an undefended border have entered a deeper trade war. The story called it the rupture of a classic cooperative alliance. Political effects, it said, could exceed the economic ones. Trust is listed as the earliest sacrifice. The Los Angeles Times described one of the world’s closest and most enduring alliances as fundamentally altered. Goldy Hyder, president and chief executive of the Business Council of Canada, noted that Canadian companies still treat the United States as their most impor...

By: Christian Brooks – SeaPRwire – Water does not wait for daylight. A supply line fails at midnight. Flooring starts soaking. Drywall softens. Cabinets take on moisture that later feeds mold. Most service trucks stay parked until the next business day. Peachy Keen A/C & Plumbing just reminded Davie homeowners that its licensed plumbers stay on call through the night, weekends, and holidays. That is the core offer. Speed is the only product that matters when water is running. Official process and the real pressure sit side by side. The company is family-owned and based in Deerfield Beach. It serves South Florida. When a homeowner calls, a customer experience representative returns the call within five minutes. Text updates follow with the technician’s arrival window. On site the plumber finds the problem, explains it in plain language, and gives upfront pricing with no hidden fees before any work starts. The team covers leak detection, pipe repair and replacement, dr...