Technology News

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Mt. Dora Florida Woman Owned Technology Solutions Provider is Recognized by the Orlando Business Journal

Across Borders Management Consulting Group Receives Recognition for Revenue Growth - October 28, 2016 - Across Borders Management Consulting Group

Plugging Into Australia's Entrepreneurship Eco-System, MIT Launches the Next Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Brisbane, March 26-31, 2017

Today, MIT is taking the next bold step forward in the innovation-driven entrepreneurship education journey by announcing the launch of the next international MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.  MIT will select the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, corporate entrepreneurs and startup teams for the next international MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp hosted at QUT’s Gardens Point Campus, Sunday to Friday, March 26-31, 2017 - October 28, 2016 - MIT Bootcamps

PAYBACK Expands Collaboration with artegic

PAYBACK (an American Express company), Germany's leading loyalty programme as well as largest multi-channel marketing platform and artegic, consulting and technology provider for digital CRM, expands their collaboration. In addition to operating the e-dialogue platform for newsletters and... - October 28, 2016 - ELAINE technologies GmbH

KantanLQR Now Supports QTLaunchPad’s Multidimensional Quality Metrics Framework

KantanLQR now supports the MQM framework developed under the QTLaunchPad European Commission research initiative. - October 28, 2016 - KantanMT.com

Aisthon Joins Safe Skies

Aisthon has joined the National Safe Skies Alliance to help improve airport security. The proven AgilFence system provided by Aisthon will help airports reliably secure their perimeters. - October 27, 2016 - Aisthon

Headphone Charts is Making Your Black Friday Headphone Shopping Effortless via Live Deal Updates and a Newly Published Headphone Buying Guide

Headphone Charts, the “Billboard Chart of Headphones,” will be providing the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday headphone deals. In addition they just released their complete headphone buying guide broken into chapters. - October 27, 2016 - Placement Labs

Kaprica Security’s Tachyon Software Acquired by Samsung Electronics

202 Partners, a boutique enterprise software sales consultancy for startups and mature IT companies, today announced that Samsung Electronics has acquired the Tachyon enterprise mobile device configuration software developed by its client Kaprica Security. Tachyon will be integrated into Samsung’s successful defense-grade KNOX™ mobile security platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. - October 27, 2016 - 202 Partners LLC

Greg Ross-Munro Named to Business Observer’s 40 Under 40

Greg Ross-Munro, CEO of Sourcetoad, has been recognized in the Business Observer’s 2016 40 Under 40 selections. Each year, the Business Observer selects 40 individuals under 40-years-old from the Gulf Coast business community. Carefully selected from nominations and original reporting, these... - October 27, 2016 - Sourcetoad

Megan Scheiderer, Partner, Husch Blackwell, LLP to Speak at TKG’s Event

The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Megan Scheiderer, Partner, Husch Blackwell, LLP will speak at the Knowledge Group’s webcast entitled: “Technology Assisted Review (TAR): Managing... - October 27, 2016 - The Knowledge Group

Maguss: the First Mobile Multiplayer Spell Casting Game, Featuring an Optional Magic Wand Device, is Live on Indiegogo and Already Reached the Funding Goal

Maguss is a free-to-play AR fantasy mobile MMORPG in which the world is a stage and the player is the lead actor. An already funded Indiegogo project is firmly on its way to unlock the first stretch goal of advanced group play. Gamers worldwide will be able to join their friends and together raid... - October 26, 2016 - Maguss

Global Renewables Investments Signs Contracts in Iran for Wind & Solar Projects

Global Renewables Investments B.V. attend ceremony for Dutch Trade Mission to Iran 23-28 October 2016. - October 26, 2016 - Global Renewables Investments B.V.

DEKOR Introduces Smart Automation with New WiFi Remote App & Controller

Control your DEKOR lighting from your Apple iPhone or iPad using the new DEKOR WiFi Remote App and WiFi Controller. - October 26, 2016 - DEKOR

Avionté Takes 30th Spot on the 2016 Twin Cities Fast 50 List

The staffing software provider Avionté is named one of the year’s 50 top Twin Cities companies for revenue growth. - October 26, 2016 - Avionte Staffing Software

SMARTOffice PFS Private File Share Data Appliance from Redvue Systems Begins Customer Beta

After completion of the 6-month internal test cycle, Redvue Systems’ third addition to the SMARTOffice product family, PFS (Private File Share) data appliance, designed for small businesses with limited IT knowledge and ability, now begins Customer Beta. - October 26, 2016 - Redvue Systems

Timely Recognised in Top Ten Promising Early Stage Companies at the 2016 TIN100 Awards

Timely has been recognised as one of the "Top Ten Promising Early Stage Companies" at the 2016 TIN100 awards. The TIN100 awards, held at Mantells on the Water in Auckland last Wednesday evening, celebrates successful New Zealand technology companies. The "Top Ten Promising Early... - October 26, 2016 - Timely

Clarizen Named to the Constellation ShortList(TM) for Social Task Management

Clarizen was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Social Task Management. - October 25, 2016 - Clarizen

Create Real Estate Videos and Flyers with the Ultimate Marketing App

"We have discovered one of the best iOS apps ever created and it is brought to us by the developer team Glasswork Media, LLC. Houstour is the name of this revolutionary app that magically edits video clips taken straight from your phone. Designed for devices that have iOS 10.0 or later, it can vastly improve real estate agents who market their property listings." -Hightechholic.com - October 25, 2016 - Glasswork Media, LLC

Nuvocomp Becomes Nimble Storage Authorized Solutions Provider

Nuvocomp to Expand the Reach of the Nimble Predictive Flash Platform. - October 25, 2016 - Nuvocomp

Audio4fun Welcomes Any Online Devils to This Halloween Fang-Tastic Feast

This year, to help any Internet users spread the Halloween spirit, Audio4fun is hosting a software feast where any and all ghosts, goblins, and pranksters can join in and help to create some stirring holiday memories for the cyber world. - October 25, 2016 - AVSoft Corp.

Molecular Glasses, Inc. Files Patents on Isomeric and Asymmetric Molecular Glass Mixtures for OLED and Other Organic Electronics and Photonics Applications

The filing converts prior provisional applications into a full PCT patent filing. The new patent filing covers a new method of preparing ISOmeric™ molecular glass mixture compositions. These novel molecular glass mixtures are also asymmetric. The components of isomeric molecular glass mixtures have similar vapor pressure and can be coated by the traditional thermal evaporation process without material fractionation. - October 25, 2016 - Molecular Glasses

SageNext Acquires Phoenix Datacenter to Strengthen the Cloud Hosting Capabilities

SageNext has always worked hard to find a unique solution for cloud accounting to small and medium businesses so that they get a cost effective service by maintaining world class standards. - October 25, 2016 - SageNext Infotech LLC

Compare the Cloud Launches the Disruptive Pitch TV Show

Its first-ever monthly live tech pitch show launches 26th Oct 2016 at 4:30pm GMT at https://www.disruptivetech.tv/live. Free, live show, pitches UK emerging technology companies against judges to compete in the final. - October 25, 2016 - Disruptive Tech TV

New Children's Book Sparks Curiosity and Encourages Interest in STEAM Subjects

"Ms. Pearl Makes a Discovery" is a new children’s book designed to encourage curiosity and get children excited about learning! Readers will witness the adventures of Ms. Pearl and her animal friends, who all have a special interest in either science, technology, engineering, arts or math. Together, they explore the fascinating world of STEAM while inspiring the reader to recreate some of the amazing experiments performed in the book. - October 24, 2016 - Christina Washington

Cyber Defense Magazine Announces Top 20 Cyber Security Leaders of 2016

During Cyber Security Awareness Month #cyberaware Awards for The Top 20 Innovative Cyber Security Leaders Unveiled by CDM(R) Today. - October 24, 2016 - Cyber Defense Magazine

Storage Made Easy Will Exhibit at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona Presenting the Latest Cutting-Edge Features of Its Enterprise File Fabric

Storage Made Easy will present and demo its File Fabric solution for Enterprise during the OpenStack Summit, a bi-annual gathering of OpenStack community members, technology leaders, developers and ecosystem supporters from more than 50 countries. - October 24, 2016 - Storage Made Easy

Vertex Computer Systems Named as a Sitecore Certified Implementation Partner

Vertex Computer Systems (www.vertexcs.com) a leading provider of IT Services to Fortune 500 customers in the USA and Europe, today announced that it was named a Sitecore Certified Implementation Partner. Sitecore, the global leader in customer experience management software, recently rolled out a... - October 23, 2016 - Vertex Computer Systems

CueBlocks Presents Black & White Theme for Magento 1 Stores

CueBlocks, a Magento Associate Partner, presents the sleek, functional, UX-oriented, and responsive Black & White Theme for Magento 1 web Stores. It allows you to transform your store's interface with a crisp new theme. - October 23, 2016 - CueBlocks Technologies Pvt Ltd

NOVEXX Solutions, Omni-ID & Silent Partner Technologies Take Top Prizes in 2016 AIM Case Study Competition; Winners Represent Leaders in AIDC, IoT and RFID

AIM, the trusted worldwide industry association for the automatic identification industry, providing unbiased information, educational resources and standards to providers and users of these technologies for nearly half a century, announced today the winners of its 2016 Case Study Competition. The... - October 22, 2016 - AIM, Inc.

Eurotech Collaborates with Red Hat on the First Code Contribution of Eclipse Kapua

Eurotech (ETH:IM), a leading provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platforms and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, today announced the availability of the first code contribution for Eclipse Kapua, in collaboration with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions. This open... - October 21, 2016 - Eurotech

Digital Fitness Making an Impact at the 2016 DADI Awards and 2016 Effective Mobile Marketing Awards

CustomFit, an App Developed by DMI and Connected Fitness Labs is a Finalist in the 2016 DADI Awards - October 21, 2016 - Digital Management, LLC

Tec-Ease Releases New Training / Reference Materials

Tec-Ease has just launched Print Reading for Today, a computer-based course and a Quick Reference Guide for Comparing ASME Y14.5M-1994 and ASME Y14.5-2009. - October 20, 2016 - Tec-Ease

DINI Group Announces the DNPCIE_80G_A10_LL, an Intel/Altera Arria-10 FPGA Board for Low Latency Network Applications and Data Cent Algorithmic Acceleration

DINI Group announces the immediate availability of the DNPCIE_80G_A10_LL an Intel/Altera Arria-10 FPGA board with a capacity of 10 million ASIC gates. This product is optimized for custom network applications such as inline packet processing using TOE (TCP/IP Offload) and line speed algorithmic... - October 20, 2016 - Dini Group

Patricia D. LaRue Recognized as a Professional of the Year by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication

Patricia D. LaRue of Huntsville, Alabama has been recognized as a Professional of the Year for 2016 by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide Edition for her outstanding contributions and achievements for over 15 years in the field of defense. About Patricia D. LaRue Mrs. LaRue is currently... - October 20, 2016 - Strathmore Worldwide

City Brand Media Announces Agreement to Develop HongKong.com

HongKong.com will be the flagship site of City Brand Media’s International portfolio, which now numbers 200 sites. - October 20, 2016 - City Brand Media, LLC

Safestore Delivers Consistent Training Across 100 + Stores in the UK with UpsideLMS

UK’s largest and Europe’s second largest provider of self storage solutions, Safestore, trusts UpsideLMS to deliver consistent training to its new recruits and existing employees. - October 20, 2016 - UpsideLMS HR Tech Pvt. Ltd.

Precision Technologies Surges on Printed Circuit Boards

Precision Technologies is a company that’s really making waves in the PCB Assembly Service industry, with one stop PCB Assembly available for those who need a quick and reliable turnaround. The company, which has been delivering fast PCB Assembly since 1998, make it their mission to deal with... - October 19, 2016 - Precision Technologies

Zapproved Named Sponsor at Knowledge Group’s Event “Technology Assisted Review (TAR): Managing Risks and Ensuring Best Practices,” on 11/15/2016

Zapproved teams up with The Knowledge Group for its upcoming webcast entitled Technology Assisted Review (TAR): Managing Risks and Ensuring Best Practices.” This two-hour event will be held on November 15, 2016 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET. For further details about this event, please... - October 19, 2016 - The Knowledge Group

Systems Limited Proudly Sponsors P@SHA ICT Awards 2016; Wins HR Excellence, Project Management awards

Systems Limited is proud to support the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES (P@SHA) ICT Awards 2016 as a Bronze Sponsor. - October 19, 2016 - Systems Limited

Experienced Software Exec Joins Lasso CRM as Chief Operating Officer

Jerry Bauer to play strategic role in fulfilling Lasso’s vision and growth. - October 18, 2016 - Lasso Data Systems

David Mathers, Vice President, AlixPartners, LLP to Speak at TKG’s event

The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that David Mathers, Vice President, AlixPartners, LLP will speak at the Knowledge Group’s webcast entitled: “Technology Assisted Review (TAR):... - October 18, 2016 - The Knowledge Group

Remodista Opens Women2Watch in Retail Disruption Nominations for 2017

Remodista is a community based business model that has launched a Women2Wach list in retail disruption. These nominees include business leaders and CEO's/Founders who are making waves in the retail industry. Owner of Remodista, Kelly Stickel has been making predictions about the industry for years. She is a well-renowned global e-commerce expert. 30 out of 80 nominees have been promoted or changed companies in the last three quarters from the 2016 list. - October 17, 2016 - Remodista

Clarizen "Leads the Pack” in Enterprise Collaborative Work Management Evaluation by Independent Research Firm

Evaluation Based on Strategy, Current Offering and Market Presence - October 17, 2016 - Clarizen

Visionet Systems Announces Partnership with Victorian Finance

Provides seamless electronic document processing technology and services to regional mortgage banker. - October 16, 2016 - Visionet Systems

ITFirms.co Releases Its Top Rankings for October 2016

The latest rankings for leading development firms worldwide have been revised recently on the official website of ITFirms.co. - October 16, 2016 - IT Firms

Experts Discuss Leveraging Big Data & Predictive Analytics for Intelligence Purposes

DSI’s Big Data for Intelligence Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum that will provide members of the Intelligence Community, US military commands, government agencies, academia, and technology providers the opportunity to explore more effective and efficient ways of leveraging the power of big data for intelligence processing and exploitation purposes. - October 15, 2016 - Defense Strategies Institute

Volansys to Launch Thread & ZigBee Ready Modular Gateway Reference Design at IoT Tech Expo in Santa Clara

Volansys Technologies with a strong reputation for its innovative approaches in the emerging space for IoT solutions and applications, announced today that they will be launching one of their reference design – Modular Gateway at IoT Tech Expo, North America 2016. This tech event is going to showcase new innovations, developments and approaches in IoT space from around the world is supposed to be held in Santa Clara, CA, on 20th and 21st October, 2016. - October 15, 2016 - Volansys Technologies

Cooperation Agreement Between MyDefence Communication and OpenWorks Engineering

Counter UAV companies MyDefence Communication and OpenWorks Engineering agree on cooperation to supply customers with an end to end Counter UAV solution. MyDefence has developed state of the art Drone detection system products and OpenWorks has developed a safe "Hard kill" solution to counter malicious drones. The two companies now work together to integrate their solutions. - October 14, 2016 - MyDefence Communication