Tech News from the GSA Technology Council

Blackberry Tour is Announced

2009-07-02T21:32:08Z

The 3G BlackBerry Tour from Research In Motion (RIM) will be available Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on July 12. Verizon Wireless has announced that customers can pre-order the BlackBerry Tour for $199.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement online at www.verizonwireless.com/tour. The BlackBerry Tour joins the BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Curve 8330 [...]

FREE tax workshop for prospective and new small business owners

2009-07-01T11:31:21Z

The Clemson Small Business Development Center is presenting a FREE tax workshop for prospective and new small business owners. The workshop will be held from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 in Room #2 of the Greenville Technical College Admissions Office (McAlister Square), at 225 South Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville. To [...]

Baldwin Named Yahoo! Senior VP of Global Integrated Marketing and Brand Management

2009-07-01T11:10:18Z

Yahoo! Inc. has announced that Penny Baldwin has been appointed to senior vice president, global integrated marketing and brand management. She assumes this newly created position immediately and reports to Yahoo!’s chief marketing officer, Elisa Steele. Baldwin will lead the company’s global brand efforts, and is responsible for developing and executing Yahoo!’s brand marketing approach including [...]

Northstar Creative Launches Website for Carolina Safety Consultants

2009-06-30T10:49:08Z

Northstar Creative, based in downtown Greenville, announces the launch of a website for Carolina Safety Consultants at www.csc-llc.net. Carolina Safety Consultants helps its clients provide a safer workplace and an even more competitive position in their industry. Northstar Creative developed an informative site that will help CSC in their presentations to potential clients. “We enjoyed working [...]

Customer Effective Named 2009 Microsoft Dynamics Financial Services Partner of the Year

2009-06-29T15:53:00Z

Customer Effective Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and value-added reseller of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, has been named 2009 Microsoft Dynamics Financial Services Partner of the Year, chosen from a field of nearly 2,000 entrants worldwide. The award recognizes partners who have exhibited excellence in providing innovative and unique solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics to [...]

Local design firms offer website volunteer-a-thon

2009-06-27T11:00:24Z

Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a web site from scratch? Patterned after a community building effort for a home or a playground, PumpUpTheSite is a day-long community effort to build a better web site for a non-profit organization that can’t afford a much-needed refresh. This time, on July 11, the Greenville [...]

How to Boom in times of Gloom

2009-06-26T12:24:24Z

I asked PepWorks Chief Encouragement Officer, and upcoming presenter, Greg Blake, what the audience should expect to hear on July 8th. This is what he told me: The Opening Line of the Tale of Two Cities says… It was the best of times. It was the worst of times These are truly the times that try [...]

July Lunch - How to Boom through the Gloom

2009-06-26T12:12:32Z

For our July Learning Lunch we have nationally recognized speaker and Greenville Peplosopher, Greg Blake.

Greg Blake

2009-06-26T12:07:19Z

Greg Blake, (BA, MS) is the 6’7” Chief “Encouragement” Officer for PepWorks International based in Greenville, SC. He is one of the leading corporate “edutainers” in America today. Before founding PepWorks, Greg was the Leadership Development and Diversity Specialist for the Greenville Hospital system, BMW, and Denny’s. He now is pursuing his life-long passion to “Positively [...]

AFL Network Services Selected by

2009-06-24T21:30:57Z

AFL Network Services, a leader of integrated network solutions for the hospitality and telecommunications industry, announces it was selected to install state-of-the-art network infrastructure as part of Peabody Hotel Group’s $450 million expansion of the Peabody Orlando. AFL will provide engineering support, materials, and installation for the voice, data and video networks. Given the high rate [...]

Greenville Area Development Corporation Names 2009-10 Board Officers

2009-06-23T18:28:36Z

The Greenville Area Development Corporation, the county-chartered organization tasked with promoting and enhancing the economic growth of Greenville County, announced the naming of four Upstate leaders to officer positions on the organization’s Board of Directors for 2009-10. GADC President & CEO Jerry Howard announced the election of Mike Buiter as chairman, Jo Watson Hackl as vice [...]

Inaugural ConvergeSC Web Design Conference this week

2009-06-22T16:08:46Z

The first-ever ConvergeSC conference will take place on Saturday, June 27, at Amoco Hall on the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia, S.C.

Sales Workshop is Wednesday

2009-06-22T11:35:18Z

“No Pressure Business Development for Technology Professionals” will be held Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at the Embassy Suites Hotel.

Derco Signs Agreement with Michelin Aircraft Tire Company

2009-06-22T11:30:16Z

Derco Aerospace, a Sikorsky Aerospace Services company, and Michelin Aircraft Tire Company signed a new agreement today that will support Derco in distributing Michelin’s military aircraft tire products in multiple countries around the globe. Aircraft platforms supported under the agreement include, but are not limited to, the C-130, L-100, F-16, KC-135, P-3, UH-60 and Mirage. [...]

Needles named Director of Field Marketing at Silverpop

2009-06-22T11:25:46Z

Silverpop has named Adam Needles director of field marketing for Engage B2B (formerly Vtrenz). He will serve both as an advocate for B2B marketers — listening to their needs, participating in dialogue at key marketing conferences and events on behalf of Silverpop, sharing insights on Silverpop’s Demand Generation blog — and also as an evangelist [...]

USDA Rural Development Telecommunications Program Accepts CommScope’s Flat Drop Fiber Cable Designs

2009-06-22T11:14:41Z

The US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Telecommunications Program has accepted CommScope’s Flat Drop fiber cable designs, enabling service providers seeking funding from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to propose the use of the Flat Drop products in business plans and applications they submit for RUS grants and loans. CommScope’s Flat Drop designs include an all-dielectric [...]

Berliner Seilfabrik Announces Location in Greenville

2009-06-22T11:13:36Z

The Greenville Area Development Corporation and Berliner Seilfabrik have announced the location in Greenville, South Carolina of the organization’s new U.S. sales and distribution operations, executives of the German-owned company has announced. The company manufactures “living playgrounds”, intricately designed modular playscapes in a variety of unique designs and shapes, and all made from sturdy, galvanized steel [...]

ScanSource named Voice Distributor of the Year

2009-06-22T11:12:24Z

ScanSource Communications, a leading value-added distributor of communications solutions, and Catalyst Telecom, a value-added distributor of voice, video and data convergence solutions, have been recognized by Polycom, Inc., the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communications solutions, for their industry-leading performance. ScanSource Communications has been named Video Distributor of the Year and both ScanSource [...]

GSATC-TV - Intro to Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services

2009-06-19T14:57:40Z

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 [...]

FastTrac NewVenture Greenville in July

2009-06-18T17:26:13Z

FastTrac NewVenture will meet for 10 sessions in Greenville starting on July 6, 2009. Class will be held at the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, 24 Cleveland Street and run from 6:00PM to 9:00PM. The normal cost for the NewVenture course is $895 however through state and corporate funding the cost is reduced to [...]

NextStart Entrepeneurs to be at Tech After Five

2009-06-17T14:22:57Z

Last week, Clemson University and others announced the first class of their NextStart Entrepreneurial Intensive and we are going to have the companies with us at Tech After Five tonight. NextStart is a highly competitive, summer immersion entrepreneur development program to attract promising entrepreneurs to the upstate Carolina region. This public - private partnership involves mentors, [...]

SC Governor’s School for Science and Mathmatics named to top 20 public elite high schools

2009-06-16T10:54:55Z

For the fourth year in a row, the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM) has been named one of the Top 20 “public elite” high schools in the nation by Newsweek magazine. The Hartsville-based school is the only Palmetto State school selected. Published June 8 as a web exclusive, Newsweek’s list ranks America’s 1,500 best [...]

Zune System Maintenance Today

2009-06-16T10:37:00Z

The Zune service will be down for scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, June 16, starting at 12:01a.m. PDT (2009-06-16 0701 UTC) for up to 24 hours. During the downtime, Zune Social, the forums on Zune.net, and all of Zune Marketplace will be offline.

Upstate ISSA Group Meets Friday

2009-06-15T13:08:10Z

The Upstate Chapter of the ISSA, a group of career minded security professionals, meets for lunch on Friday. Their presentation is entitled “Securing Internet Availability from MPLS to BGP & VPN’s” and is described below: Over the years, many different communication technology’s have evolved for office to office connectivity ranging drastically from costs, performance and [...]

A look at what people are hoping to find at Tech After Five this month

2009-06-15T11:50:20Z

What are people looking for at Tech After Five this month? This is what they’ve asked us to print on their badges: Looking for: good ideas education To meet new people Networking a brain break Employees to hire new connections and engaging conversation New Contacts Bad Data Opportunities Stimulating business conversation Opportunity to network with other tech entrepreneurs and professionals Looking for Project Management Opportunities - What are [...]

Tech Events This Week

2009-06-15T11:38:55Z

We’ve got the following events on our calendar this week. Tuesday Jun 16 6pm GSP Developers Guild An Introduction to Winforms User Controls by Seth Spearman. What are Winforms User Controls? How do you make them? test them? Debug them? Domain Driven Development by Rick Casebere. Rick is going to cover the basics of Domain Driven Development. After [...]

Tim Morse Named CFO of Yahoo!

2009-06-15T11:15:32Z

Yahoo! Inc. has announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Tim Morse as chief financial officer. Reporting directly to Carol Bartz, the chief executive officer of Yahoo!, Morse will be responsible for the company’s finance, investor relations, and mergers and acquisitions groups. He will commence employment on June 17, 2009 and will assume the [...]

Winforms User Controls, Domain Driven Development topics for .Net Developers in June

2009-06-15T10:49:37Z

The GSP Developers Guild meets Tuesday for a double header presentation. The presenters will cover the following topics: 1. An Introduction to Winforms User Controls by Seth Spearman What are Winforms User Controls? How do you make them? test them? Debug them? Seth Spearman founded SpearSoft LLC and has been a self-employed contract developer for 10+ years. Most [...]

Carolina Data Destroyers announces data purging services

2009-06-15T00:09:21Z

New business provides convenience, control and compliance in eData destruction The upstate’s growing need for dealing with data that has outlived its usefulness has been answered. Carolina Data Destroyers, LLC has received its Business Filings from the South Carolina’s Secretary of State’s Office and is starting business today. This new business provides on-site data purging from hard [...]

Network Controls and Electric Names New Sales Manager

2009-06-12T21:05:41Z

Network Controls and Electric, Inc. has named Antonio Troiano as the company’s sales manager to direct new business development for the communications network and electrical infrastructure company. “Troiano brings a depth of industry experience to our company and is hitting the ground running. He is a valuable addition to the team,” said Brad Cunningham, President [...]

What people said about our June learning lunch…

2009-06-12T20:52:24Z

We love fan mail… Thank you so much for the lunch yesterday. Awesome deal bringing in Kevin from AWS. You know I enjoyed hearing what he had to say and meeting him. Keep up the awesome job down there in SC. - Troy Tolle, VP & CTO, DigitalChalk It was extremely informative and very professionally [...]

AFL Telecommunications Presents United Way of the Piedmont With $60K

2009-06-12T16:18:00Z

On June 11, AFL Telecommunications presented a $60,000 check for its annual United Way campaign to Kathy Dunleavy, President and CEO of United Way of the Piedmont. This year’s contribution is an increase of 45% over the 2008 campaign. “With the downturn in the economy, we didn’t set high expectations and were hoping to maintain last [...]

Photos: Who you missed at Lunch in June

2009-06-12T15:06:01Z

Photographer Patrick Greer helped us capture the crowd at our June Lunch. Take a look at the photos and see who you missed. Thanks to Patrick for making us all look good. Photos by Patrick Greer If you find yourself reviewing the set on Flickr, be sure to check out Fishbowl Phil.

Tech After Five - June 17

2009-06-12T12:00:10Z

The best and brightest in technology meet the third Wednesday of every month.

Video: Information technology grows in an exponential manner

2009-06-12T11:53:43Z

Ray Kurzweil’s latest graphs show that technology’s breakneck advances will only accelerate — recession or not. Inventor, entrepreneur, visionary, Ray Kurzweil’s accomplishments read as a startling series of firsts — a litany of technological breakthroughs we’ve come to take for granted. Kurzweil invented the first optical character recognition (OCR) software for transforming the written word into [...]

About Today’s Lunch

2009-06-10T14:07:22Z

We have a big crowd showing up today, and the online registration is closed, but you can still show up and pay at the door. I’d advise showing up just a little bit early and using that time to meet someone new. We’ll be at the Embassy Suites, and the lunch line opens at [...]

Clemson receives $3 million for Center of Economic Excellence in tissue-based research

2009-06-09T21:31:08Z

Clemson University Monday received approval from the South Carolina Endowed Chairs Review Board to establish a Center of Economic Excellence in Tissue System Characterization with $3 million in state funds that require an additional $3 million in non-state matching funds. There will be one endowed chair associated with the center. To be housed in Clemson’s Institute [...]

Keith Woods Completes Certified Government Chief Information Office Program

2009-06-09T21:29:11Z

Keith Wood, employed with Laurens Commission of Public Works, has successfully graduated from the 2009 Certified Government Chief Information Officers Program offered by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Government. Mr. Wood is part of the inaugural South Carolina-based cohort offered in conjunction with the Municipal Association of South Carolina. The CGCIO program is the first [...]

Join us for coffee with Amazon.com’s Kevin Kelly

2009-06-09T14:35:33Z

Kevin Kelly is coming in early today and we ended up with a hole in the schedule that I thought you might want to fill with something fun. We’re going to go hang out for coffee at Spill The Beans on Main Street in Greenville. There is no program, it’s completely informal. Come [...]

Apple’s latest, iPhone 3gs, goes on sale June 19

2009-06-09T11:17:37Z

Apple® has introduced the new iPhone™ 3G S, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including improved speed and performance—up to twice as fast as iPhone 3G—with longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control. iPhone 3G S includes the [...]