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LenSec Announces Its Video Surveillance Solutions Now Available as Combined Solution with Intransa VideoAppliance

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:13:32 EDT

LenSec, a premier provider of enterprise-wide IP-based video surveillance solutions, today announced their video surveillance and management solutions are now certified and available as a combined solution on Intransa’s VideoAppliance. LenSec’s advanced video surveillance and management solutions allow authorized user access to any camera, at any facility, from any computer using only a standard Internet browser. The LenSec solution is capable of controlling thousands of surveillance servers and cameras from one intuitive map-based interface.

NComputing Drives Desktop Virtualization Into the Mainstream With Launch of $20 Numo System-On-Chip Bringing Windows and Linux Applications to Any Device

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:00:05 EDT

NComputing Inc., the global leader in low-cost virtual desktops for Windows, Linux, VMware and Citrix, with over 20 million daily users, today announced the launch and immediate availability of its Numo family of chips. Numo is an ambidextrous chip that will power consumer applications, such as accessing Google from a smart TV, as well as enterprise applications, such as using Microsoft Windows-based virtual desktops in bank branch offices. NComputing's Numo provides maximum flexibility and choice as modern computing models continue their inevitable transformation and integration between traditional desktops and new models of cloud computing.

Neutral Tandem Deploys Cisco ASR 9000 for Ethernet eXchange Service

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:17:04 EDT

has selected the Cisco® ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers to support its new Ethernet eXchange service.

StarCite Partners With EveryScape To Provide Rich Visual Experience For StarCite Online Marketplace Properties

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:22:33 EDT

StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of Web-based solutions to strategically manage corporate meetings and events, today announced a new exclusive partnership with EveryScape, creator of “The Real World Online,” allowing participating hotel properties to add WebScapes – fully navigable and interactive 3D replicas of their destinations – to their listings in StarCite’s Global Online Marketplace.

Charter Communications Advances Interactive TV with Concurrent and FourthWall Media

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:07:03 EDT

etouches(R) and Onstream Media Announce Integrated Online and Live Event Management System

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:30:09 EDT

Pocket Communications Launches Application Store Powered by Qualcomm's Managed Service

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:30:17 EDT

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Microsoft Silverlight

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:02:00 EDT

I had a great time today in my Mix2010 session on SEO for Silverlight. You can find all the slides (more than I was able to cover in the talk) here. and the the full play-by-play of the demo (include a link to the completed solution). I started off talking why SEO matters. You can view the site live by using Bing for “my foodie Explorer Cooking Class with Joe..” or the other guys search engine equally well. ;-)

Augme Expands Mobile Health Division Capitalizing on Major Growth Trend in Pharmaceutical Mobile Marketing

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:54:39 EDT

Augme Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:MDVX), a leading technology and services leader in interactive media marketing platforms, announced today that the company is expanding Augme Mobile Health as part of its business development strategy to capitalize on major growth trends in pharmaceutical mobile marketing and advertising. Augme Mobile Health, based on Augme’s patented AD LIFE™ platform, is the first and only comprehensive, patented, Web-based platform that gives pharmaceutical marketers and their agencies the ability to create, manage and track two-way HIPAA-compliant communications between traditional media and mobile phones.

Onstream Media Signs Agreement with HomeDecShow to Create MarketPlace365 Virtual Trade Show for the Home Decoration Industry

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:30:15 EDT

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Updating Data in the Client

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:38:00 EDT

To continue our series, let’s look at updating the data. I have created a Plates.xaml page with very similar structure to the above. For details on how I created this page, check out my PDC 09 demo walk through. Now let’s look at updating the Plate data.. First we will create some default “form” UI by dragging an entity from the datasources window in much the same way we did above. But before we create the UI, notice the order of the fields – it matches the order they will be generated in the UI. They are in alphabetic order, but that is not always what you want. For example, I think Name should be first.

NLR and Internet2 Applaud FCC's One Gigabit Per Second Broadband Goal for Community Anchor Institutions

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:21:14 EDT

Expansion of Existing Research and Education Networks Are Key to Accelerating FCC National Broadband Plan Vision

Open Source Alternatives to LiveCycle Data Services

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:15:00 EDT

Development of enterprise Flex/Java rich Internet applications benefits from using automated data integration solutions and productivity tools. Currently Adobe offers LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (LCDS) and open source BlazeDS 3. While LCDS is certainly a great piece of software for those who are looking to support thousands concurrent users via the most efficient communication protocols, its high licensing cost makes LCDS not affordable for the vast majority of the enterprise applications let alone small businesses and startups.

Shorthand Mobile Announces New Category Of Apps - TextApps

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:37 EDT

World's First Text-Powered Apps Premiere, Delivering the Best of the Web to Millions of Consumers Without Data Plans

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Exposing Data from Entity Framework

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:46:00 EDT

To continue our series I wanted to look next at how to expose your data from the server side of your application. The interesting data in your business applications come from a wide variety of data sources. From a SQL Database, from Oracle DB, from Sql Azure, from Sharepoint, from a mainframe and you have likely already chosen a datamodel such as NHibernate, Linq2Sql, Entity Framework, Stored Proc, a service. The goal of RIA Service in this release is to make it easy to work with data from any (or many) of the sources in a seamless way from a Silverlight application. This walk through will use Entity Framework accessing the Sql Express database, but the basic concept applies to any data source. Add DishView.mdf to BusinessApplication1.Web\App_Data – Of course in a real world example, you’d just have a connection string to an existing database. Then create an Entity Framework model on top of it.

Silverlight 4 + RIA: Starting a New Project with the Business App Template

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:45:00 EDT

To kick off our series, I wanted to focus on our goal of helping you focus on your business, not plumbing code. The first place you will see this in the pre-build components in the Business Application Template. It describes a prescriptive application structure, looks great and is easily customizable. After you have successfully installed Silverlight 4 for developers (which includes RIA Services) you will have a couple of new projects in the Silverlight section. We are going to focus on the Business Application Template. Notice this creates a single solution with two projects. BusinessApplication1 is the client part of the application and BusinessApplication2 is the server part. These are related projects that know about each other.

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:24:00 EDT

With Silverlight 4 and RIA Services all but done, I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight some of the key features of the platform and tools that make Silverlight a fantastic platform for building business applications. I’ll avoid gratuitous video and dancing hippos and focus on just the bread and butter of business applications: Querying, Updating, Validating and securing your important business-data. I’ll also use this to refresh a few of the posts from my Silverlight 3 era series.

xG Technology Forms Advisory Board

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:01:30 EDT

xG® Technology, Inc., the developer of smart radio technology that improves utilization of the nation’s airwaves, announced today that is forming an Advisory Board of distinguished experts to help guide the company as it deploys its current and future all-IP technologies.

Worden Brothers Announces Plans for Mobile Version of FreeStockCharts.com

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:30:04 EDT

Worden Brothers announced today it will use Microsoft Silverlight to create an application that will deliver real-time, streaming, stock charts to mobile devices. In November 2008, Worden decided to use Silverlight to create FreeStockCharts.com, a Web-based application that delivers real-time stock data to any browser at no charge. Barely over a year old, FreeStockCharts.com has grown to display more than a million live stock charts per day.

Innovative Food Holdings Announces Launch of Premium Gourmet E-Commerce Web Offering

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:39:48 EDT

Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: IVFH), a marketer and purveyor of over 3,000 high quality gourmet food products throughout the United States to professional chefs and to the gourmet consumer market, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, For The Gourmet Inc., has launched its flagship online retail e-commerce site: www.forthegourmet.com

KEMP Technologies Adds to Family of Affordable, Feature-Rich Load Balancers

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:30:12 EDT

Priced at under $2,000, new server load balancer delivers high availability and increased throughput for optimized user and application traffic

Society For Information Display and IMS Conferences Debut First-Ever Market Focus Conference Series During Display Week 2010

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:01:23 EDT

Exciting Addition to Display Week Line-up will Explore Some of the Hottest Segments in the Display Space -- TV, Lighting and Touch Technology

Roundbox Completes Acquisition of Jacked Technology

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:00:08 EDT

Roundbox, Inc., the global leader in mobile broadcast software, today announced the acquisition of Jacked, Inc.'s technology and intellectual property. Jacked, Inc., an innovator in real-time, broadcast-synchronized data services, developed pioneering platform and companion applications, which seamlessly deliver rich, real-time Web content contextually synchronized to and complementing live broadcast television. Jacked's patent-pending technology will be integrated into the Roundbox Mobile Broadcast Suite to enable its broadcast and device customers to deliver enhanced TV viewing experiences.

Magic Software Signs Two New German iBOLT Partners

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:55:31 EDT

iBOLT business integration suite to be used to integrate enterprise applications for both Accantum and AZTEKA's customers

CORRECTING and REPLACING Super Micro, OTOY, and AMD Combine Technologies to Bring Fusion Render Cloud Servers to Market in Q2 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:13:27 EST

Fourth bullet under FRC Technical Specifications: in release dated March 10, 2010, should read: Token based metering system (sted Token basted metering system).

HTML5 Web Sockets: A Quantum Leap in Scalability for the Web

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:15:00 EST

Lately there has been a lot of buzz around HTML5 Web Sockets, which defines a full-duplex communication channel that operates through a single socket over the Web. HTML5 Web Sockets is not just another incremental enhancement to conventional HTTP communications; it represents a colossal advance, especially for real-time, event-driven web applications. HTML5 Web Sockets provides such a dramatic improvement from the old, convoluted "hacks" that are used to simulate a full-duplex connection in a browser that it prompted Google’s Ian Hickson – the HTML5 specification lead – to say: “Reducing kilobytes of data to 2 bytes…and reducing latency from 150ms to 50ms is far more than marginal. In fact, these two factors alone are enough to make Web Sockets seriously interesting to Google.” Let’s look at how HTML5 Web Sockets can offer such an incredibly dramatic reduction of unnecessary network traffic and latency by comparing it to conventional solutions.

AT&T Wins Frost & Sullivan 2009 Video Company of the Year Award

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:39 EST

AT&T U-verse TV Recognized for Impressive Growth Rate, Innovation and Customer Value

Launch of New App Tweetsii™ Delivers on Promise of Real Time Web

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:03:39 EST

GyPSii, the leading real time location-enabled social media platform, today launched a new app named Tweetsii™. The app epitomizes the real time web and connects people with places and networks, by bridging the Twitter experience with mobile social media, the social graph, location, and contextual mobile-based search: all in the palm of your hand, accessible anytime and anywhere. Initial availability will be in the Apple Appstore for iPhone, followed by Android and Blackberry platforms.

Texas Instruments' technologies and GetFugu mobile applications will change how consumers interact with mobile devices

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:00:51 EST

Companies contribute $100,000 to University of Texas at Dallas MobileLab research group, sparking futuristic mobile interactions

Contextual Advertising Leader Vibrant Achieves Record Revenues and Record Profits in 2009, Despite Downturn

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:33:09 EST

Contextual advertising leader Vibrant delivered a strong 2009, despite the economic downturn. The New York-based advertising company showed record revenues and record profits and achieved double digit EBITDA margins in 2009, with category growth in Consumer Packaged Goods topping 68% Y-Y. Fourth quarter growth hit a whopping 34%.

Southwark Council To Put Interactive Mapping At The Heart of Online Community Services With Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:35:00 EST

Stratus Connect™ Helping To Transform Online User Experience

Windsor, Berks UK, 11 March 2010 - Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) - a global provider of location intelligence, data management and customer communication management software, data and services - today announces that Southwark Council in London is using PBBI's web mapping technology Stratus Connect™ to significantly enhance the mapping services provided to citizens via the Council's website, delivering the type of seamless and intuitive user experience that online citizens have come to expect from the Web 2.0 world.

Known as Southwark Interactive Mapping, the citizen services provided via Stratus Connect can be launched through www.southwark.gov.uk/YourServices/maps

Southwark Council is overhauling its online mapping features in two key areas. The first is to provide a dedicated one-stop-shop interactive mapping service that enables citizens to activate overlays on top of a detailed map of the borough - for example, clicking on 'Controlled parking zones' instantly highlights the relevant areas on the map. Other overlay options include 'Schools', 'Recycling Sites', 'Planning Applications' and 'Conservation Areas'. Citizens are also able to: search for locations; browse mapping, aerial photography and historical mapping; and quickly display nearby services.

To directly view the full functionality of Southwark Interactive Mapping, go to http://maps.southwark.gov.uk/connect/southwark.jsp?tooltip=yes

The second key area for Southwark is its plans to make location and mapping functionality widely available throughout the website - for instance, the council plans to enable citizens to launch spatial searches and address look-ups from multiple service pages throughout the council website. The RIA (Rich Internet Application) controls that Stratus Connect supports via Stratus RIA Controls™ will enable individual web page managers to incorporate mapping and spatial search functionality wherever it's needed.

Stratus Connect replaces the PlanAccess solution that the Council was previously using for public access to geographic-based information, in recognition that user expectations of interactive mapping have changed enormously over the past few years. Stratus Connect enables the type of uncluttered interface and simple zoom and pan functionality that users are accustomed to from web tools such as Bing Maps and Google Maps - but importantly, Stratus Connect delivers a number of advantages over mapping services available online.

"We wanted to put mapping at the heart of the Southwark Council website, as it's a key indicator that we understand how citizens today want to interact with online environments," said Stuart Carter, Corporate GIS Manager at Southwark Council. "Stratus Connect enables us to simplify and streamline the way we present location-based information to users, removing extraneous on-screen map tools and instead providing an intuitive interface that enables people to find what they want without having to go through unnecessary steps. However, while it's clear that online tools such as Bing Maps and Google Maps have done a lot to popularise easy-access mapping, there's a number of reasons why we resisted deploying them onto the council website.

"Services such as Google Maps are fantastic for private business websites, but not so good for local government organisations that have a responsibility to build and maintain a spatial data infrastructure (SDI). For instance, you can't use Ordnance Survey (OS) MasterMap with the Google Maps API as this would breach Crown copyright, thus denying Southwark's citizens access to the level of detail provided by OS MasterMap. Moreover, if we deployed an external mapping API such as Google Maps, we'd have little control over developments within it - for example, the style of the mapping or administrative functions could change without us being consulted."

Southwark chose to work with PBBI on this project because of a longstanding relationship with the company based on its heritage as a location intelligence expert and innovator.

"PBBI is a company who we trust to provide both excellent solutions and support," added Stuart Carter. "Southwark Council's relationship with PBBI means that I can be involved in the ongoing evolution of products and provide honest and frank feedback that I know will be acted upon."

Southwark Council is overhauling its online mapping presence in tandem with a re-launch of the council website during 2010. It is hoped that the new user-friendly, location-based information on its pages will encourage citizens to interact even further with the online services that Southwark provides.

Based on the expected success of the Stratus Connect deployment, the Council is anticipating a considerable improvement in visitor numbers compared to the old PlanAccess based service.

About Stratus Connect™
Stratus Connect is designed for spatial data owners and web developers within organisations who need to share corporate data with citizens, councillors and wider stakeholders through a web-based mapping application to provide live information about the location of services in any given vicinity. Stratus Connect can be used internally or externally to promote efficiencies and cost savings with the benefit of an enhanced citizen experience and self-service capabilities.

Stratus Connect has been developed in direct response for the need to deliver next generation interactive maps on-line. Web technology has evolved to enable online mapping and provide more feature rich and compelling applications. As location intelligence moves from the single-user to the enterprise, Stratus Connect provides Web 2.0 mapping capabilities and RIA controls for enterprise mash-ups.

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For further information, please contact:
Sue Glanville/Joe Banks
Say Communications
+44 (0)20 8971 6400
sglanville@saycomms.co.uk
jbanks@saycomms.co.uk

About Pitney Bowes Business Insight
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) is a division of Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI). PBBI provides a unique combination of location intelligence, data management, and customer communication management solutions that enable organisations to make more informed decisions about customers, competition and market expansion. With the industry's most comprehensive set of solutions for maximising the value of customer data, PBBI provides the tools required to more effectively locate, connect and communicate with customers and citizens in today's global markets. Leading organisations rely on PBBI solutions to increase the accuracy and effectiveness of customer information delivery and drive profitable growth.
For more information visit: www.pbinsight.com

Super Micro, OTOY, and AMD Combine Technologies to Bring Fusion Render Cloud Servers to Market in Q2 2010

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:38:28 EST

AMD (NYSE:AMD), OTOY and Super Micro (NASDAQ:SMCI) announced today that they plan to bring Fusion Render Cloud Servers to market in the second quarter of 2010.

OnLive to Launch Consumer Game Service on June 17, 2010

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:30:03 EST

OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games, today announced that the PC and Mac® versions of its game service will begin rolling out to consumers on June 17, 2010 during the E3 2010 show. The OnLive® Game Service is a revolutionary, on-demand video game platform capable of delivering the latest and most advanced games instantly via a broadband connection on virtually any PC or Mac, via a small browser plug-in, or on an HDTV, via OnLive's MicroConsole TV Adapter. The OnLive Game Service enables an entirely new way to discover, explore, purchase and experience video game content. Additionally, the game service offers instant access to purchase or rent new release games on an a la carte basis from many of the world's leading publishers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft® 2K Games, THQ and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

Bigpoint and NBC Universal Choose Unity for the Widely Anticipated Battlestar Galactica Online Game

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:08 EST

Unity Technologies, provider of the revolutionary Unity development platform for 3D interactive content on the Web, PC, Mac, Wii and iPhone, announced today that Bigpoint, the global market leader in browser massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), has chosen Unity for the development of Battlestar Galactica Online. A trailer of the recently announced title will be showcased at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) taking place this week in San Francisco.

VerticalResponse for Google Apps Now Available Through the Google Apps Marketplace

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:35:20 EST

Integrated Solution Enables Google Apps Users To Easily Send Professional Email Newsletters To Their Customers and Contacts

Funcom Expands Relationship with Level 3

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:18:19 EST

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced at Game Developers Conference the expansion of its relationship with Funcom, a leading independent developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. Level 3 will provide content delivery network (CDN) services for Funcom game titles.

Dito Directory Now Available Through the Google Apps Marketplace

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:18:03 EST

Dito today announced it has added Dito Directory to the Google Apps Marketplace, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps products and services. Dito Directory is a feature-rich web application that allows IT administrators to manage their domain's shared contacts from anywhere in the world with just a browser and an internet connection. With Dito Directory, administrators can bulk upload, edit, and delete contacts, while users can view shared contacts and copy them to their personal contacts.

You've Got Mail: Appirio Announces New Professional Services Connect Offering Through the Google Apps Marketplace

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:05:03 EST

Appirio today announced Professional Services Connect (PS Connect), a new cloud-based offering that enables service professionals using Appirio's PS Enterprise product to run their business directly from their email inbox. PS Connect automatically surfaces contextually relevant information about people, projects, customers and transactions from PS Enterprise into related Gmail messages, so individuals can make more informed, real-time decisions and take action on those decisions without leaving their email inbox. PS Connect is an extension of Appirio's existing PS Enterprise solution, which was launched less than six months ago and already supports almost 9,000 users.

eFax Integrated App Now Available Through the Google Apps Marketplace

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:01:12 EST

Domain administrators of Gmail hosted services can now assign and manage eFax accounts directly from the Google Apps Marketplace

Dimdim Now Available Through the Google Apps Marketplace

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:01:03 EST

Dimdim today announced it has added its application to the Google Apps Marketplace, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps products and services. Dimdim is a feature-rich web application that allows users to hold interactive, collaborative meetings anywhere in the world with just a browser and an Internet connection. With Dimdim, businesses can conduct live meetings, demos and webinars with up to 1,000 guests from their web browser, while on the road, in their office or at home.

SAMSUNG Announces Eight Plasma Ultra Slim TVs in 2010 Lineup

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:16:08 EST

Samsung Electronics America Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, today announced the U.S. availability and pricing of its 2010 portfolio of Ultra-Slim Plasma HDTVs, with three series ranging from 50 inches to 63 inches. Six of the eight models of this year’s Ultra-Slim Plasma HDTV line (8000 and 7000 Series) are 3D-enabled, giving consumers the ability to experience a new dimension over the traditional HDTV viewing experience. While the TV is optimized for viewing 3D content, the built-in 3D processor lets you render 2D content into 3D in real time.

Cisco CRS-3: Foundation for the Next Generation Internet

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:30:38 EST

The public Internet has dramatically evolved since its inception. Likewise, so has the upward limit of expectations for IP Next Generation Network (IP NGN) infrastructure to power it.

When the Internet was founded in the 1960’s, its designers were focused on building a robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer network for the military, scientists and research institutes. Even in their sci-fi dreams, they likely didn’t think of TelePresence or iPhones or seemingly infinite amounts of video running over the network…but that’s just what happened. Now, even the notion of looking at the Internet as a key for basic communications, such as email, is antiquated in favor of rich media applications for our Connected Lives (...and to think that the email and basic web-centric view was just over 10 years ago). I can still quite easily recall being excited over a 56.6 modem and thinking it was blazing fast, and I’m not that old! (No comments from the gallery on my age, please!)

While the use of the network has changed dramatically, so too must the technology and architecture used to support it.

One thing that hasn’t changed throughout these changes though is Cisco’s perspective that Service Providers are instrumental in making these new experiences happen. At Cisco, we want to develop new technology that enables these providers to deliver the services that power economies, promote creativity, and fundamentally change how we are able to work, live, learn and play…and to that end, I’m pleased to announce that once again, we are doing just that.

Imaginable: Planning for New Experiences
Today, the service provider’s ability to deliver more of the branded, rich, integrated experiences - rather than just basic access - will be essential in their transformation from service providers to experience providers.

The key to this transformation involves building the capabilities to deliver applications and services on a robust infrastructure designed in anticipation of the future - knowing that it’s somewhat unpredictable.

The limitation, however, with the networks today is that they are designed to scale only in the predictable core to subscriber direction, and not in the data center to data center direction.

Therefore, merely increasing network platform component-level capacity would be short-sighted because the shift in traffic patterns also dictates the requirement for an architectural solution.

Introducing the Cisco CRS-3: Unmatched Scalability & Supporting Multi-Directional Patterns
Cisco’s answer to this challenge comes in the form of the CRS-3, our new flagship platform and quite simply, the industry’s most powerful, most capable, and more efficient core router ever created.

Software AG and Logica Create Opportunity in New Global Gas Market for one of the World’s Largest Utilities

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:11:07 EST

Software AG and its partner Logica, a leading IT and business services company, today announced successful deployment of webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) for global energy provider GDF SUEZ. Using webMethods, Logica created a composite application that provides greater visibility into end-to-end energy transaction processes. The application helps GDF SUEZ’s staff save time in managing its global business.

Cricket Introduces Samsung Stunt™

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:03:10 EST

Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of unlimited wireless services and subsidiary of Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP), and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile)¹, the No.1 mobile phone provider in the U.S.², today announced the availability of the new Samsung Stunt™ (SCH-R100).

Actuate Brings BIRT to the iPhone

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:01:00 EST

Actuate Corporation, the people behind BIRT, on Tuesday announced the availability of the BIRT Mobile Viewer. The free download is a native iPhone application, available on the iPhone App Store. BIRT, an eclipse-based development environment for presenting compelling data visualizations on the web, can be accessed via BIRT onDemand on a fee-free trial basis. Together the BIRT Mobile Viewer and BIRT OnDemand or a BIRT iServer, which generates and deploys BIRT content to various devices securely in a scheduled manner, enable iPhones, iPod touch and in the future, iPad users to view and work with BIRT content anywhere. A growing mobile workforce has generated demand for access to enterprise information on handheld devices including the popular iPhone, wherever decisions are made: in the local retail store or bank branch, on the assembly line or on the road. With BIRT Mobile Viewer, users get an extended rich interactive application experience for their work-related data that stretch beyond the confines of an office or Internet connection, making critical information immediately available.

brite-View(TM) Introduces the 'LinkE' Kit, Featuring the World's Smallest Powerline Ethernet Adapters to Stream HD Videos With CinemaTube

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:00:45 EST

AT&T Expands 3G Mobile Broadband Network in Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:00:26 EST

New Hampshire Wireless Network Upgrade Extends Access to Advanced Products, Services and Applications

Jacada Receives 2009 Product of the Year Award for Jacada Advisor Presented by Customer Interaction Solutions® Magazine

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:01:08 EST

Jacada Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCDA), a leading provider of customer experience management and process optimization solutions for customer service operations, announced today that Jacada^® Advisor, has been acknowledged with a 2009 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC^®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine.

Telx Selected as Connectivity Partner by SoftLayer

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:00:00 EST

Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, on Monday announced that it has been selected as a connectivity partner by SoftLayer, a global provider of on-demand data center, hosting, and cloud services. SoftLayer has established a Point-of-Presence (POP) within Telx's secure, connection-rich colocation facilities in Atlanta and New York City, enabling secure, reliable delivery of services across several key U.S. cities at an accelerated market entry schedule. In any given market, there are probably 10 or more providers that we could have gone to, especially in a place like New York or Atlanta," said George Karidis, chief strategy officer at SoftLayer. "We looked for the best provider that had the right cost structure, the right flexibility and the right amount of connectivity. Telx was that provider. Today, our customers can directly tap into our infrastructure on a guaranteed, high-speed connection without going over the public Internet. The Telx solution provides high redundancy, security, and limitless scalability." As a connectivity partner, Telx delivers a secure, connection-rich environment from which SoftLayer can offer low-latency access to its applications and network infrastructure. A customer in Atlanta, for example, can connect to a SoftLayer data center in Dallas, Seattle, or Washington DC, through either a VPN or Metro-LAN connection. The Telx interconnection replaces the need for a public Internet connection, ensuring that the network is more secure, latency is reduced, quality of service is enhanced and the number of hops is minimized. This empowers SoftLayer's customers to optimize application performance, while keeping SoftLayer's market entry speed high and operational costs low.

Selevision Chooses Irdeto to Bring Interactive TV to the Middle East

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:00:37 EST

Irdeto, a leading expert in content and business model protection solutions and services, today announced that middleware and interactive TV technology provider Selevision has selected Irdeto’s middleware solution and conditional access system (CAS) for its new High Definition Personal Video Recorders (HD PVRs). The HD PVRs, currently in field testing in Saudi Arabia, will enable content providers to run highly tailored advertisements – a market first in the Middle East. In addition, Selevision's HD PVRs will be protected by Irdeto's CAS and secure chip set – another first for the region – to allow the company to comprehensively secure premium content, while delivering a personalized experience for consumers, through uniquely selected programs and commercials.