Greenville, South Carolina – June 25, 2003 – AssetPoint, an Integrys company and a provider of asset and facility maintenance management software and services, today announced an alliance with Houston-based, professional services company, Global PTM. Through an arrangement between the two companies, Global PTM will represent AssetPoint’s CMMS/EAM solution, TabWare, with a focused effort on the southwest region of the United States.
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Greenville, South Carolina – June 25, 2003 – AssetPoint, an Integrys company and a provider of asset and facility maintenance management software and services, today announced an alliance with Houston-based, professional services company, Global PTM. Through an arrangement between the two companies, Global PTM will represent AssetPoint’s CMMS/EAM solution, TabWare, with a focused effort on the southwest region of the United States.
“We are very pleased to have Global PTM as an alliance partner,” says Vince Carrozzi, executive vice president, AssetPoint. “Global PTM is known for delivering world-class professional services and offers an impressive array of business process solutions centered on effectively leveraging technology and people. Their proven IT services approach through integration, innovation and imagination complement our AssetPoint product and services suite. We look forward to teaming with Global PTM to provide clients a seamless solution for their asset management challenges.”
“This relationship is a natural fit between AssetPoint and Global PTM,” adds Mike Graves, vice president, Global PTM. “I have great confidence in AssetPoint’s products and its future in the EAM marketplace. Our staff is one of the strongest in the industry having experience gained directly from business process design, maintenance software project management, consulting, training, and web development. We’re highly focused on best practices and with our AssetPoint alliance, we will maintain a keen pursuit of delivering the business operation solutions clients need to stay ahead in today’s competitive business arena.”
About Global PTM
Since its formation in 2000, Global PTM has delivered innovative, high-quality solutions that foster increased productivity by leveraging the latest in proven technologies and best practices. Global PTM enables their clients, in both the public and private sectors, to utilize information technology by helping them achieve their business objectives more efficiently and effectively. The company customizes solutions from a broad range of integrated service offerings, providing e-business solutions; management and IT consulting; custom application development and integration; and data management. Through numerous agreements with hardware and software technology partners, Global PTM is able to identify and customize solutions to meet each client’s needs. Client support offices are located throughout the United States with Corporate Headquarters located in Bellaire (Houston), Texas. To learn more, please visit www.globalptm.com.
About AssetPoint
AssetPoint is a subsidiary of Integrys Holdings, a privately held technology company with subsidiaries providing asset management solutions, manufacturing productivity solutions and information technology consulting. Since 1978, AssetPoint has been the pioneer in delivering integrated enterprise asset management (EAM) software and services that improve profitability and productivity for the process, manufacturing and facilities industries. Our primary improvement tool, TabWare, is a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)/Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) application routinely accessed by more than 10,000 users to manage billions of dollars in critical plant and facility assets worldwide. The scaleable software solution is delivered as an onsite option or as a fully secure, web-based solution. For more information on AssetPoint and TabWare, visit www.AssetPoint.com.
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GREENVILLE, S.C., June, 25 – Scott Pfeiffer has joined the Greenville Spartanburg Anderson Technology Council board of directors as member and general counsel. (Full Story)
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AFL Telecommunications is offering a Fundamentals of Fiber Optics Course. This course provides an introduction to the world of fiber optics, with a primary focus on the passive portions of the network (fiber, cable, connectors, splicing and testing). Attendees learn the basics of fiber, indoor and outdoor cabling, cable installation, fiber termination, splicing, testing, standards, and network design. The class will be held in Greenville on July 29-30. For more information, visit their website. A Fiber Optics Field Testing and Troubleshooting class will be offered on July 31.
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WebNetGo.com, a website development and Internet services company serving small business customers across the Southeast, today announced that it has appointed Dan Gerst as Director of Business Development. (More)
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GREENVILLE, SC, June 14, 2003 — WebNetGo.com, a website development and Internet services company serving small business customers across the Southeast, today announced that it has appointed Dan Gerst as Director of Business Development. Gerst brings more than 24 years of strategic computing and voice/data communications experience to the WebNetGo team. Prior to
joining WebNetGo.com, Gerst worked with Teleco in Marketing, for BellSouth in Business Development and for NCR in Marketing and Sales. During his time at BellSouth, he was responsible for establishing the company’s Strategic Alliances with Sun Microsystems, EDS, EMC and Storage Networks. Gerst’s
career also includes work with AT&T.
“Dan’s results absolutely speak for themselves. Throughout his career in computing and data communications; Gerst has consistently compiled outstanding results. He has the experience we need to take WebNetGo.com to the next level. We are indeed pleased to be able to attract a professional of Dan’s caliber to WebNetGo.com, and I am confident he will make a very
positive contribution to WebNetGo’s marketing, business development and sales efforts,” commented Will Warren, CEO for WebNetGo.com.
“WebNetGo.com is a leader in website development and internet services for small businesses in the Southeast. The company’s vision, direction and customer solutions are excellent. I am very excited to be joining such a talented team,” added Gerst. Gerst graduated from Ball State University with two Bachelor degrees and completed two years of MBA graduate studies at the University of Dayton.
About WebNetGo.com: Headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina,
WebNetGo.com is a privately held company serving small business customers in the southeast. The company offers a comprehensive selection of website and other data, Internet and voice communications services, including a recently released website development bundle to help small businesses establish an Internet presence. For more information on WebNetGo.com and its services,
visit: http://www.WebNetGo.com.
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Soon you will be able to surf the internet, send and write emails, and answer IM chat requests from your PC or PDA. CSR is bringing Bluetooth connectivity to BMW. (Read)
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RICHARDSON, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 17, 2003–CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) today announced that carmaker BMW will be using CSR’s BlueCore technology to bring Bluetooth to the road.
BlueCore will be used to Bluetooth-enable the latest vehicles with a view to providing a safe and convenient in-car wireless communication system, which can be tightly integrated with the car’s multimedia interface and control panel.
The Bluetooth system includes a Telematics Control Unit (TCU), which uses an embedded GSM module and an embedded Bluetooth module with a powerful CPU. It connects to a Multi-Media-Interface (MMI) on the car dashboard, through an optical MOST Bus system. The system is also equipped with an in-car rechargeable cordless Bluetooth handset, which allows the passengers to place and accept calls directly through the TCU Bluetooth link. The user is thus able to place calls over the Bluetooth handset and to transfer that call to the Bluetooth enabled hands-free phone system in the car. One of the eagerly awaited benefits of Bluetooth, possible with this system, is the ability to also connect a Bluetooth-enabled portable PC or PDA to exchange emails and surf the Internet via a cellular system while connected through the TCU.
There are several reasons why CSR is the most popular Bluetooth integrated circuit used by automotive and telematics design engineers. This powerful and truly first System-On-A-Chip (SoC) single-chip integrated circuit solution is highly programmable, has versatile high-speed interfaces, and allows automakers to include multiple Bluetooth Profiles. This allows very easy integration into MOST and CAN automotive bus systems, as well as provides a very good user experience through audio and data services. CSR’s mature, single-chip automotive Bluetooth device is also produced under stringent ISO 9001 requirements and is available in a 0.8mm pitch package for low cost printed circuit board construction. By adding Bluetooth to these vehicles, the user can make a phone call, surf the Internet, or access email on a Bluetooth enabled PC or PDA while riding in the cabin. These features are expected to grow in popularity as Bluetooth becomes a dominant technology in the new generation of automobiles. CSR is the only automotive grade Bluetooth solution available which can run the complete Bluetooth protocol stack and application software on-chip, without the need for an optional external microprocessor.
Unique to vehicles that embed the CSR chip is a technology implementation developed at CSR’s laboratories called CQDDR, which stands for Channel Quality Driven Data Rate. CQDDR is now a de-facto technical standard being deployed in new generation cars, which helps aid in the very tough environmental conditions inside a vehicle on a wireless Bluetooth link to ensure very robust data throughput. CSR has optimized CQDDR to operate quickly and efficiently and totally out-of-sight to the user.
Ken Noblitt, Technical Marketing Managerat CSR added, “To match BMW’s stringent quality, reliability and interoperability requirements, the Bluetooth equipment had to be guaranteed to withstand in-cabin automotive requirements.” Noblitt continued, “At this time, only CSR’s BlueCore offers such a guarantee to operate or exceed the necessary range of -40degC to +105degC for in-cabin electronics systems. Automakers and Automotive Tier One suppliers can not afford to rely on anything less.”
Wireless automotive applications are expected to generate US$1.5 billion in additional sales for car OEMs by the end of 2003 and will be worth US$6 billion in less than three years, according to Allied Business Intelligence (ABI). Bluetooth is likely to represent the majority share of this huge market. In fact, ABI predicted that 20% of all new cars will come with embedded Bluetooth technology by 2007.
Already illegal in 35 countries, the worldwide legislative trend towards banning the use of handheld mobile phones while driving will be a factor fuelling the addition of Bluetooth to cars and Bluetooth in-car kits are likely to play a key role as hands-free operation of mobiles becomes commonplace. Industry experts estimate that up to 70 percent of all mobile phone calls are made from cars. Bluetooth hands-free systems provide a safe, convenient alternative.
CSR recognizes this need and provides everything necessary to assist automotive designers in developing a fully featured Bluetooth hands-free system, including the recently announced AutoSira, an example design which includes circuit descriptions, a complete BOM and all software (including the embedded Bluetooth stack). The hands-free profile runs in external Flash memory but the circuit design may be easily converted to a ROM-based single chip solution.
In the future, CSR will make available implementations of new automotive profiles for vehicle diagnostics, streaming video and mp3 file streaming for multimedia and info-entertainment. CSR will also work towards further extending the guaranteed temperature range of BlueCore2-External and future products.
About CSR
CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) is the world-leading provider of single-chip radio devices for Bluetooth wireless communication. CSR offers developed hardware/software packages for each of the fastest growing Bluetooth applications markets which are all based around BlueCore, a fully integrated 2.4 GHz radio, baseband and microcontroller. BlueCore features in 60 percent of all qualified Bluetooth v 1.1 enabled end product designs with international names such as Microsoft Corp, Panasonic, Audi, NEC, Toshiba, Samsung and Sony already using BlueCore in their range of Bluetooth products.
CSR is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Richardson, Texas; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore and Aalborg, Denmark.
More information can be found at www.csr.com and the partner web site www.btdesigner.com
More information about Bluetooth can be found on the SIG web site at www.bluetooth.com
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Spell Check. Grammar Check. Bull Check? Deloitte Consulting says straight talk is hard to come by. It is time to eliminate obfuscation and start writing in clear readable prose. To that end they have introduced free “bull fighter” software that will read your Microsoft Word and Powerpoint documents and suggest some changes in your “deliberately repurposable ruminations.” (Read more)
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