Ballmer’s busy day in Nashville
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 7:50 am
If you’re not in on the Tech Council’s Jan. 20 membership breakfast featuring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, not to fear. The Nashville Health Care Council is taking advantage of the high-profile visit by scheduling some face time with Ballmer for its own members in the form of a panel discussion on health care IT. Though it will likely be a lunch event, the time and location are still being finalized.
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Equinox lands mobile provider contract
Posted on November 18, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Cellular One has signed a deal to use two services marketed by Madison-based telecommunications software firm Equinox Information Systems. Cellular One runs a switched GSM network across four states.
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Pharos in RFID acquisition
Posted on November 16, 2009 at 3:07 pmPrivate-equity firm Pharos Capital, which has offices here and in Dallas, has acquired a Kansas-based company specializing in radio frequence identification systems for the logistics market.
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Microsoft CEO to visit Nashville
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be visiting Nashville in January to speak at the Nashville Technology Council’s annual membership breakfast. Tech Council President J. Tod Fetherling said Ballmer will talk about development, what’s going on at Microsoft and why Nashville’s tech community is important. The event is slated for Jan. 20.
HealthTeacher went down to Georgia
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 7:40 am
From BusinessWire:
Community Health Works announced that teachers in Houston and Bibb County will be the first of seven central Georgia school districts to have access to HealthTeacher’s comprehensive K-12 online health education curriculum with the goal of improving the health literacy of children and teens in Central Georgia. The partnership will eventually encompass approximately 4,200 teachers in 105 participating schools across 7 districts.
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Vegas saw it first
Posted on October 22, 2009 at 9:08 amElectronic payment solutions provider Comdata launched a point-of-sale product suite at the National Association of Convenience Stores event in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Comdata Smart Solutions is being pitched for convenience stores, truck stops and unattended fuel locations.
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PureSafety and the Next Generation
Posted on at 7:47 amFrom BusinessWire:
PureSafety, a leading provider of training, safety, occupational health and medical management software and information solutions, today announced the release of the industry’s first Learning and Safety Management System (LSMS).
The Enterprise LSMS incorporates the best features of PureSafety’s legacy LMS, but is designed to integrate critical and closely related areas including training, safety and compliance. Designed using the latest web-based technology, a highly intuitive user interface and an innovative platform will allow PureSafety to quickly and cost-effectively add more tools and features to meet client needs.
“Our constant communication with customers made it clear that today’s workplace safety and training management operational challenges demanded more than a standard LMS provides,” said PureSafety EVP and General Manager, Workforce Safety and Training Solutions, Mike Kroll. “So we didn’t just update our LMS — we created a new type of product designed to meet those challenges and needs.”
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Evie goes to The Biggest Little City in the World
Posted on October 16, 2009 at 12:55 pmEviesays, the online event listing service run by former Scene editor Bruce Dobie, has signed a deal to run the back end of a TV station’s event calendar in Reno., Nev.
The calendar, which will be privately branded to have the look and feel of the Fox 11- Reno website, will enable visitors to find, browse, and interact with the hundreds of thousands of event listings nationwide residing at the eviesays.com website.
The eviesays platform will allow users to export their favorite listings to their personal calendar software, e-mail listings to friends, and get directions from Google Maps to events. Visitors to the site will also be able to submit their own listings via an on-line submissions form to the website.
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Agency to help small biz cover their assets
Posted on October 13, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Nashville agency Zander Insurance has developed a data breach protection product aimed at small and mid-sized businesses.
“Most business owners think that their client and employee information has to be maliciously stolen to have a breach when the simple theft of a computer or paper files can devastate a company’s financial stability and consumer confidence,” says Zander.
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Unemployment insurance systems get federal cash
Posted on September 29, 2009 at 8:10 amTennessee’s unemployment insurance plan infrastructure will get an upgrade courtesy of almost $7 million in Labor Department cash. Only Georgia, Ohio and Oregon received more money – which says we either lobbied well or our systems really need the help.
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Tech Council awards finalists named
Posted on September 23, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Seventeen organizations ranging from Emma and EDS to Fisk and Nissan have been named finalists for Technology Organization of the Year, the marquee category in the Nashville Technology Council’s Feel The Beat Awards. The Tech Council will hand out prizes in nine other categories at an Oct. 27 banquet.
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Dell to buy IT services firm
Posted on September 21, 2009 at 8:15 am
The computer maker has signed a deal to acquire Perot Systems for almost $4 billion, a move that will boost its IT services revenue by $2.5 billion annually. Shares of Dell (Ticker: DELL) are off about 4 percent in pre-market trading.
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Trevecca launches IT degree
Posted on September 16, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Trevecca Nazarene University this week launched a 17-month bachelor’s program in computer information technology. The course work will be split evenly between the classroom and online and students will meet once a week.
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Two local health care players on IT best-of list
Posted on September 15, 2009 at 10:59 am
Healthways has been ranked 35th on the annual InformationWeek 500 list of top information technology organizations. The only other locally headquartered ranked in the top list’s top half is HCA. First Horizon, the Memphis-based parent of First Tennessee Bank, also ranks in the top 50.
SEE ALSO: Healthways’ release on the topic
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Nissan finds another way to go green
Posted on August 20, 2009 at 6:44 amAlso known as: Quit plowing money into blades. The auto maker has over the past year or so cut its energy use by a third, mainly by slashing the number of servers it uses by a factor of more than five.
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