Tech News from the GSA Technology Council

2nd grade class thanks the GSATC for technology contribution

2009-11-19T16:59:59Z

The GSATC recently funded a small technology project proposed in the classroom of a local Title 1 school. We got a nice thank you letter from the teacher in August and today we received a link to some photos that were taken with the equipment we provided. I thought we’d share them with [...]

Google to Offer Live Webcast of Google Chrome OS Update

2009-11-19T16:45:06Z

At 1PM ET, Google will offer an update on Google Chrome OS and provide a look at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology, and launch plans for next year. Speakers will include Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS. [...]

Personalized invitations give guests directions

2009-11-17T19:51:06Z

Personalized invitations with maps for each recipient include door to door driving directions for each card. Individual invitations with maps are now being offered by Astonishingcards. This program draws a map from the front door of each and every recipient to the front door of the event. In addition, Astonishingcards provides turn by turn driving directions [...]

Podcast: Revolutionary Wealth – A presentation by Terry Weaver

2009-11-17T19:50:24Z

How will tomorrow’s wealth be created? Who will get it and how? Alvin and Heidi Toffler believe there will be an upheaval in our social, political and cultural institutions & values. In their new book, Revolutionary Wealth, they write about everything from education and childrearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and lies [...]

Fowler joins Acumen as Project Manager

2009-11-17T16:01:21Z

Acumen I.T., a Greenville-based technology company, has announced the addition of Jennie Fowler to its team. Fowler will serve as the director of project management for the company’s growing Project Management division. In this new position, Fowler is charged with building the company’s project management-for-hire team, enabling customers to have on-site strategic project management oversight [...]

Acumen I.T. Makes Top 25 Fastest Growing Company List

2009-11-17T15:46:14Z

Acumen I.T., a Greenville-based technology company, has been named one of South Carolina’s Top 25 Fastest Growing Companies by the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Capital Corporation, an investment banking firm located in Greenville. The company comes in at number 19. This is the second consecutive year Acumen has received this [...]

Northstar Creative Launches Website for OnSite Health

2009-11-17T15:40:41Z

Northstar Creative, based in downtown Greenville, announces the launch of a website for OnSite Health (www.onsitehealthonline.com), located in Spartanburg, SC. OnSite Health’s team of healthcare professionals helps businesses improve the health of their employees to increase productivity and lower insurance rates. OnSite Health hired Northstar Creative to develop a website that reflects their professionalism and [...]

ISSA Chapter Meeting: Securing your Network with PCI Compliance Guidelines

2009-11-10T15:38:44Z

Join us and Qualys (www.qualys.com) for this month’s presentation on PCI Compliance and keeping your network secure. While organizations that process and store credit card information must adhere to the PCI Compliance Regulations, every organization that is looking to secure their organization or is currently maintaining a secure environment can learn various aspects of network [...]

GSATC Update for 2009 w46

2009-11-13T20:11:12Z

In this episode of our podcast we share upcoming events in the week ahead, answer and share a review of the Motorola Android smart phone and present some interviews conducted during the October Tech After 5 event featuring John Yeary, Mike Gottenauer, Don Crews and Kirbe Crowe. Thanks for listening and don’t forget to subscribe [...]

Logitech to Acquire LifeSize Communications

2009-11-12T15:52:11Z

Logitech International (SIX:LOGN) (Nasdaq:LOGI), a leader in PC video communication, today announced that it has agreed to acquire privately held LifeSize Communications of Austin, Texas for $405 million in cash. LifeSize is a global leader in high definition (HD) video communication solutions, with more than 9,000 video conferencing customers across 80 countries in large enterprises, [...]

Tech After Five is November 18

2009-11-12T15:45:31Z

The most intriguing professional networking event in Greenville is absolutely free when you register online.

HP to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion

2009-11-12T15:44:19Z

HP and 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) (“3Com”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase 3Com, a leading provider of networking switching, routing and security solutions, at a price of $7.90 per share in cash or an enterprise value of approximately $2.7 billion. The terms of the transaction [...]

GSATC Meets Today – Registration open until 9 am

2009-11-11T10:51:33Z

We’ve got a great panel lined up for today’s meeting to discuss job opportunities in the Upstate. We’ve got Jenny Munro from the Greenville News, Myles Golden of Golden Career Strategies, and Nancy Evans, from Bon Secours St. Francis to give us their take on the job marketplace. We’re going to ask what [...]

United Way Seeks Volunteer IT Director for VITA project

2009-11-10T16:13:33Z

Looking for some experience for your resume? The United Way is looking for a volunteer IT director to help with their Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. The details are below: The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program provides free tax assistance to individuals and families earning up to $49,000 a year. Last year, [...]

Blackbaud Named to Software Magazine’s 27th Annual Software 500

2009-11-10T15:29:15Z

Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB), the leading global provider of software and services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, today announced its inclusion on the Software Magazine’s Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and service providers, now in its 27th year. Blackbaud was ranked 133, with 2008 software and services revenue of $293.8 million and corporate [...]

The Sharp Frontier Series Wins Product of the Year Honors from The Cannata Report

2009-11-10T15:20:52Z

Sharp is pleased to announce that the Frontier Series has won Product of the Year honors from the editors of The Cannata Report. Since its introduction, the Frontier Series has revolutionized the industry, enabling any organization to help shrink the footprint of their printer, copier, fax and scanner fleets. For the first time ever, The [...]

Former Air Force Commander Joins Spacex

2009-11-10T15:15:21Z

pace Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces that Colonel Scott Henderson has joined the company. He will serve as the director of Mission Assurance and Integration and will also handle Florida external relations, assisting with state and local governmental, customer and media relations. Henderson will primarily support former astronaut Ken Bowersox, vice president of SpaceX’s Astronaut Safety [...]

Computers, Electronics and Fluorescent Bulb Recycling Day is Saturday, Nov. 14

2009-11-10T14:14:03Z

The Electronics and Fluorescent Tube/Bulb Recycling Event is sponsored by the City of Greenville Solid Waste Division at 360 S. Hudson Street. The event is set for Nov. 14, free to City residents. Items accepted: computer monitors, keyboards, mice, CPUs, etc. (all things that plug into a computer), fluorescent bulbs, tubes, ballasts, etc. Items may [...]

Google to Acquire Mobile Ad Startup AdMob

2009-11-10T10:56:26Z

Google Inc. has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750 million in stock. This acquisition will enhance Google’s existing expertise and technology in mobile advertising, while also giving advertisers and publishers more choice in this growing new area. “Mobile advertising has enormous potential as [...]

UWIT to discuss the advantages of Woman Owned Businesses at Thursday Lunch

2009-11-09T19:47:52Z

At Thursday’s Upstate Women In Technology Meeting: Janet W. Christy will be speaking and answering questions on the advantages of being “woman owned”. Janet is the author of Capitalizing On Being Woman Owned, a marketing guide for Woman Owned Businesses. She is also the founder and President of Leverage & Development, LLC, a consulting [...]

Meet the Magic Mouse at the Greenville Mac Users Group Meeting

2009-11-09T15:15:41Z

Greenville Mac Users Group: Fortune Magazine named Steve Jobs the CEO of the Decade this week. “Steve Jobs revived Apple and remade entire industries, defying the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression — and his own serious health problems.” “After creating more than $150 billion in shareholder wealth, transforming movies, telecom, music, and computing (and [...]

Pecha Kucha Night Returns to Greenville

2009-11-09T15:07:51Z

Pecha Kucha, is show and tell for creative adults with Powerpoint, and beer. If you’ve spent any time in Corporate America, then you’ve been in meetings where you wished that a Powerpoint Presentation lasted only six minutes and forty seconds. A movement to see just how economical you can be in your story telling returns [...]

Podcast – Amazon and Cloud Computing

2009-11-05T16:11:42Z

What is a book company doing in the Cloud Computing business? What is Cloud Computing anyway? Amazon has been in the hosting and data center management business for many years and it’s experience with running its retail business maps directly into how to run Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). At the June Learning Lunch, Kevin [...]

Learning Lunch: Where are the Jobs?

2009-11-05T12:29:59Z

a panel of experts on jobs and opportunities in the upstate.

University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business Launches Global Classroom of the Future Using Cisco TelePresence

2009-11-03T19:09:30Z

The University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, ranked consistently as one of the top schools in the country for international business, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Cisco to utilize the company’s revolutionary Cisco TelePresence technology to deliver a range of global Executive Education and Graduate-level business and management [...]

Focus on Science, Technical & Medical Markets to Fuel Future Growth

2009-11-03T19:02:24Z

Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software, announced today that it has voluntarily filed a Form 15 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to terminate the company’s SEC reporting obligations. With the filing of the report, the company’s obligation to file periodic and current reports with the [...]

Nuvox to be acquired by Arkansas based Windstream

2009-11-03T13:50:25Z

Windstream Corporation announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NuVox, Inc., a privately held competitive local exchange carrier based in Greenville, S.C., in a transaction valued at approximately $643 million. Windstream expects to issue approximately 18.7 million fixed shares of stock valued at $183 million, based on Windstream’s closing stock price [...]

Network Controls And Electic Installs Data Cabling For Disney Distribution Center In Jonesville

2009-11-02T21:54:32Z

Network Controls and Electric – a leading supplier of cabling and electrical infrastructure — recently installed data cabling for the Disney Distribution Center in Jonesville, SC. The project was completed as part of a reconfiguration of the space to accommodate screenprinting and embroidery operations for the company. The Disney Distribution Center is located on Furman [...]

Network Controls And Electric To Upgrade Anderson County’s Palmetto Elementary Electrical Infrastructure

2009-11-02T21:51:11Z

Network Controls and Electric – a leading supplier of cabling and electrical infrastructure — was recently awarded the contract to provide electrical products and service for the renovation at Anderson County’s Palmetto Elementary School. Network Controls and Electric employees will start work on the project in 4th Quarter of 2009. The entire project is [...]

AFL Telecommunications Celebrates Silver Anniversary

2009-11-02T21:00:04Z

AFL Telecommunications, a division of Fujikura Ltd. of Japan, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month. Organized in 1984, AFL started as a joint venture between Alcoa, then known as the Aluminum Company of America, and Fujikura Ltd., a leader in the telecommunications and automotive industries, and built its manufacturing operations in Duncan, South Carolina. [...]

Catalyst Telecom Partners with RedSky Technologies

2009-11-02T20:49:10Z

Catalyst Telecom, a sales unit of ScanSource, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCSC), and value-added distributor of voice, video and data convergence solutions, has added RedSky Technologies, a leading provider of automated E911 software solutions for the enterprise, to its line card. Through this relationship, Catalyst Telecom’s reseller partners will have access to RedSky’s innovative E911 solutions, enabling them to [...]

W. James McNerney, Jr., Elected to IBM Board of Directors

2009-11-02T20:41:33Z

The IBM (NYSE: IBM) board of directors today elected W. James McNerney, Jr., to the board. Mr. McNerney, 60, is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of The Boeing Company. Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, said: “We are very pleased that Jim McNerney will be joining the IBM [...]

Force Protection to Announce Third Quarter Fiscal 2009 Results

2009-11-02T18:23:32Z

Force Protection, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRPT) today announced that it will release financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2009 on Monday, November 9, 2009 after the market close. A conference call to discuss those results will be held at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time that same day and will include comments from Michael Moody, [...]

Going for Green: GE Supporting the Long Term Energy Goals of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

2009-11-02T17:29:41Z

GE Energy has been awarded the contract to supply its ecomagination-approved Jenbacher cogeneration technology to power two innovative, natural gas and biomass-fueled energy centers being built in the Olympic Park and Stratford City development. The centers will provide reliable and efficient power, heating and cooling systems for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, [...]

Helping Job Seekers Sell Themselves Through Networking

2009-11-02T14:34:07Z

Clemson University’s NetworkBash is designed to give job seekers a competitive advantage in the current job market. This is an event to teach students how to market themselves face-to-face and using social media. Even though this is an event for Clemson students, the skills are essential for any job seeker. NetworkBash is being held at Clemson [...]

GE Technology Selected for IGCC Project in Southern California

2009-11-02T13:29:20Z

GE Energy has signed a technology licensing agreement with Hydrogen Energy for a proposed 250-megawatt power plant that would use integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) technology, a product of ecomagination. The plant, to be located near Bakersfield, in Kern County, Calif., would be designed to capture up to 90 percent of its carbon dioxide for enhanced [...]

New DB9 Adapter Easily Connects to RS-485 Products

2009-11-01T15:19:11Z

Sealevel’s compact, rugged DB9F-to-5 screw terminal block adapter offers customers a simple solution for connecting their field wiring to DB9 connectors on USB Serial adapters, Ethernet Serial Servers, and other Sealevel RS-485 products with a DB9M connector. Featuring a standard-size DB9 connector, the adapter works with 2- and 4-wire RS-485 networks and can be easily [...]

Hello Humans: Droid By Motorola Arrives Next Week

2009-10-28T14:58:04Z

High-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets and the best 3G mobile network in the country: DROID by Motorola arrives on Nov. 6. Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation’s largest wireless 3G broadband network, and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a pioneer in the mobile [...]

Ask & Receive Accepted into South Carolina Press Association

2009-10-27T21:18:57Z

Ask & Receive, Inc., a full service marketing and IT support company, announces it has been accepted as an Associate Member into the South Carolina Press Association (SCPA). The SCPA offers special programs, as well as educational and networking opportunities, for media professionals across the state and has been serving South Carolina newspapers since [...]

October Lunch Photos

2009-10-27T18:58:59Z

Our October presentation was delivered by Target Marketing magazine’s 2008 Direct Marketer of the Year, Pamela Ansley Evans of IBM. Enjoy photos from this event. View photos as a slideshow Photos by Patrick Greer. See the entire collection on Flickr.