Category: News

Two hires and a promotion

EmailLabs, email marketing solutions provider announced a pair of appointments and a promotion kicker. Stefan Pollard was named director of consulting services and Akila Krishnamurthi manager of customer support. Lena Waters has been promoted to director of marketing. Pollard joins the firm from email trust authority Habeas, an email trust authority. Prior to Habeas, Pollard […]

HP moving into IT

HP stockholders got over humpday last week upon hearing the news that their firm had signed a definitive agreement to purchase Mercury Interactive Corp., an IT management software and services company. The cash tender offer was US $52 per share, for an enterprise value of approximately US $4.5 billion. Experts see the acquisition as instantly […]

Kintera: a good big brother

Kintera Inc. once again proved to be a responsible older sibling to those very providers of such. Today, Kintera representatives announced the launch of a new national website for all extant client Big Brothers Big Sisters of America outlets and several pilot sites for local Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies. (It’s certainly nice. And colorful. […]

CRM port to IBM DB2 completed

Representatives of Centric have announced that its port of Centric CRM to IBM DB2 data server software has been completed. Centric promises that their CRM now provides fully optimized support for the entire portfolio of DB2 data server software, including DB2 Express-C and DB2 for z/OS. Centric CRM is therefore toutable as the first open […]

“Cellular-like” VoIP out of Israel

After a reported two years in production, Israel-based research and development firm Trans Con Mobile Ltd., has announced the development, construction and successful testing of a patent-pending “cellular-like” VoIP mobile system. Incorporating both network and handset, the technology is WiFi-based and operates in similar fashion to extant cellular-based GSM and CDMA systems. Trans Con Mobile […]

Wheeeee! Cheap WiFi!

Speaking of WiFi, that firm has just introduced a new deal, great for those who wish to access bizarre teevee programming from exotic locales. An annual subscription to Wi-Fi TV at www.wifitv.com has been set at US $24.95. For your 25 dollars, the consumer gets 300 live TV channels and web feeds Aruba, Oman and […]

TMC gives some TLC to Ubiquity

Representatives of Ubiquity Software have announced their firm’s teaming with TMC to develop and deliver content as part of the 3rd Annual VoIP Developer Conference. The 3rd Annual VoIP Developer Conference invites SIP industry leaders to what is reportedly the world’s only IP Communications development conference. Ubiquity SIP experts will hold four sessions covering new, […]

CRM conference call coming

CRM Holdings, Ltd., a provider of fee-based management and other services for workers’ compensation self-insured groups in New York and California, today announced that it will conduct a conference call at 10:00 a.m. US EST on August 7, 2006 to discuss the company’s financial results in fiscal year 2006 second quarter, which ended June 30. […]

Spinning it like a bowler

Interesting how spin works in the modern media. Identification and credential verification services provider ChoicePoint Inc. released some financial results for their second quarter and the news is good and bad. No, this is no dichotomy: It all depends on the source. From an outside news source looking in, the numbers say that Alpharetta, Ga.-based […]

ABAS teams with Beutter

The ABAS Projektierung GmbH, sales partner of the ERP and eBusiness provider ABAS Software AG has a new customer, Beutter Präzisions-Komponeneten GmbH & Co. KG. The Beutter Präzisions-Komponenten GmbH &Co. KG was founded in 1909 and has gone on a long international run as a specialist in supplying fine mechanical components. With about 110 highly […]