ROAM: A Wireless Conference
The Stanard.com, a popular e-business site, is expanding its options for users for the upcoming year. From April 9-11, the Standard is hosting a conference devoted entirely to the wireless world. ROAM will deliver industry experts to cut through the hype and forecast the real, multifaceted future of wireless. The site is also expanding its job search database. Users can visit Job Shop and utilize the best information, tools and
services to reinvent workers. Users can also get the latest news on a Web-enabled phone. Now the latest Internet Economy news and information from The Standard can be delivered to a Web-enabled phone or pager.
Equifax Inks First Deal with Internet Casino
A trend-setting privacy system which was first featured in IGN's "Tools" column, Equifax's E-check system is being integrated into the operations of gametimecasino.com. E-check is a convenient service that enables bettors to write electronic checks, and thus get instant access to their money. It comes at a particularly volatile period in which the use of credit cards to gambling online is becoming less of an option seemingly every day. So far, Gametimecasino.com is Equifax's only Internet gaming client.
Acxiom Corporation Teams Up with PricewaterhouseCoopers
Customer data integration (CDI) company Acxiom Corporation and consulting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers have announced a strategic alliance to help financial institutions comply with new mandatory privacy regulations stemming from the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The companies also said they would aim to improve customer relationships and consumer trust in the financial industry. Under the terms of the partnership, PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Risk Management Services (GRMS) division will
assess a financial institution's consumer privacy compliance needs, and the two companies will design and implement a solution using Acxiom's AbiliTec CDI software.
BOPS, Inc. Unveils New Processor
A new processor that promises to speed delivery of Web content to handheld devices, including mobile phones and PDAs, and Internet telephone equipment was unveiled Monday by BOPS, Inc. The new processor design, dubbed the "SOC [system on chip] in a Box," represents a serious effort by BOPS, a
four-year-old startup, to enter the billion-dollar market for digital signal processors (DSPs) used in mobile phones and electronic hardware. That market is currently dominated by chipmakers such as Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Lucent Technologies and Motorola.
Hands-free Navigation System on the Horizon
A new voice-activated mobile phone application that promises to help drivers find their destination without taking their hands off the wheel will be demonstrated by Televigation later this month at the Upside Showcase trade show in Palm Springs, California, the company announced. Televigation said its TeleNavigation.voice system is designed to send spoken driving instructions to a user based on geographical position. Since the application is voice-activated, it lets users with hands-free devices keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road while accessing driving directions. In addition, if a driver misses a turn, the system automatically recalculates new driving instructions to the final destination.
British Businesses Miss Out on More than £100 Million in Grants
Businesses throughout the UK are passing up more than £100 in grants due of lack of awareness and red tape. The cash is part of a potential annual multi-million pound grants' pot, designed to help Britain's companies flourish, however, many business which could benefit from the money simply don't know how to claim it. Now a new website, www.j4b.co.uk, is set to revolutionize the process and close the "grants gap."
Acceleron Introduces New TEM Package
Acceleron Inc. (formerly known as Momentum Business Systems), a leader in Travel Expense Management (TEM) solutions, introduced the latest version of its widely implemented TEM application Boomerang V4. Boomerang V4 is geared to all companies - large and small - that use Lotus Notes and Domino. For large organizations with offices in multiple countries, Boomerang has the flexibility to accommodate numerous different tax and legal requirements, and allows companies to centralize the final processing and back-end management of expense reports.
NextNet Makes Waves at Conference
NextNet Wireless announced at the start of the Wireless Communications Association conference that it has begun alpha testing the first completely nonline-of-sight (NLOS), low-cost, broadband fixed wireless (BFW) system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technology. Indeed, BFW systems providers are still openly debating the actual definition of broadband, whether or not standards should be set and the relative merits of single- or multi-carrier OFDM modulation schemes.