The Upstate Carolina PC Users Group will meet this Tuesday for a presentation of Microsoft Office 2003 by a Microsoft representative. The group meets at 7:30 PM at the Dovetree clubhouse. The public is invited, no RSVP required.
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Archive for November, 2003
The GSP Developers Guild will meet Tuesday, Nov 18th
at TEC Knowledge at 600 Laurens Road at 6:30 PM. At the meeting, Glen Gordon from Microsoft will present the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office. Glen will discuss how to leverage Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework to develop business solutions built on MS Word 2003 and MS Excel 2003. RSVP to jwalling@wallingis.com
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On Monday, November 17th, the South Carolina Upstate Java Users Group will meet at the Greenville Downtown Library for a presentation on Model Driven development presented by Compuware. The meetings are free and open to the public. Contact Sid Emory, sid.emory@scujug.org
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Greenville, SC, – Five Upstate businesses, individuals and organizations were honored as winners for demonstrating advancements in innovation at the 2003 InnoVision Technology Awards. Awards went to eBridge Technologies, Inc., Advanced Data Mining, Furman University, The Fletcher Group, Inc. and Tom Hartness was awarded the Dr. Charles Townes Individual Achievement Award for his accomplishments in the field of technology and contributions to the community. (Full Story)
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iPass Access Point Finder.
About iPass
iPass Inc. (Nasdaq: IPAS) is a software-enabled virtual network operator (VNO) that provides enterprise connectivity services permitting secure access to information and applications on corporate networks from over 150 countries around the world. iPass has built a global Internet network that comprises over 20,000 access points, including an iPass Global Broadband Roaming (GBR) footprint of over 2,500 Wi-Fi hotspots and 1,000 Ethernet enabled venues at business-oriented locations such as airports, hotels and conference centers worldwide. The award-winning iPassConnect™ service interface simplifies the user connection experience and is easily deployed across multiple computing devices and operating systems. iPass service offerings also give enhanced control over security policy and connectivity management to information technology departments at iPass customers like General Motors, Dow Corning and Mellon Financial. Founded in 1996, iPass is headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
About McDonald’s Corporation
McDonald’s is the world’s leading food service retailer with more than 30,000 local McDonald’s restaurants serving 47 million customers each day in more than 100 countries. More than 80 percent of McDonald’s restaurants around the world are owned and operated by independent, local businessmen and women. More information about McDonald’s is available at www.mcdonalds.com; for information about McDonald’s wireless initiative, visit www.mcdwireless.com.
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QS/1 Data Systems has announced its first hosted i.e. Application Service Provider (ASP) solution for independent pharmacies, RxCare Plus OnDemand. RxCare Plus OnDemand solution is based on QS/1’s RxCare Plus software, which is in use in thousands of pharmacies nationwide. RxCare Plus OnDemand offers independent retail pharmacies a chance to enter the pharmacy market without having to invest in server infrastructure. (Full Story)
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Spartanburg, SC – QS/1 Data Systems the leading provider of software for pharmacies, announced its first hosted i.e. Application Service Provider (ASP) solution for independent pharmacies, RxCare Plus OnDemand. This RxCare Plus OnDemand solution is based on QS/1’s RxCare Plus software, which is in use in thousands of pharmacies nationwide. QS/1’s approach is about providing independent pharmacies and schools of pharmacy with additional pharmacy management implementation choices.
RxCare Plus OnDemand offers independent retail pharmacies a chance to enter the pharmacy market with very little investment. RxCare Plus OnDemand hosted solution eliminates server maintenance, resulting in increased productivity and more time for pharmacists to provide quality service to their customers.
QS/1 hosts RxCare Plus OnDemand in multiple data centers to provide redundant networks, power, equipment and data back-up. By allowing QS/1 to store data in redundant data centers, pharmacists can eliminate their worry over losing valuable customer data due to power outages, network or equipment failures.
“We increased our product offerings to include hosted solutions to give customers greater flexibility, convenience and cost effectiveness. We will continue to provide clients with solutions aimed at strengthening their businesses,” says Ed Willett, QS/1 Marketing Accounts Manager.
QS/1 provides the server software installation and configuration support. They also monitor and manage the servers to ensure that customers always have the most up-to-date software. In addition, QS/1 provides all RxCare Plus OnDemand customers with automatic price updates, clinical updates, virus updates, claims transmission and software maintenance. No customer IT resources are required to use this solution since QS/1 handles all the systems and software maintenance, monitoring and management.
The first customer to use QS/1’s RxCare Plus OnDemand solution is Arkansas State University-Searcy. According to Janet Liles, Arkansas State University-Searcy Pharmacy Lab Instructor, “QS/1 has always been ahead of other companies in offering the most advanced Pharmacy Management Software solutions, and this RxCare Plus OnDemand solution provides us with a strategic advantage in attracting future Pharmacists. The real benefit is that this RxCare Plus OnDemand solution eliminates the ongoing system maintenance and software upgrades required to keep these systems running at peak performance.”
QS/1, a leading provider for pharmacy software, serves more than 9,000 customers in independent pharmacies, drug/food chain pharmacies, institutional pharmacies, hospital outpatient pharmacies and HME businesses. QS/1 is a division of the J M Smith Corporation, the fourth largest privately held company in South Carolina. For additional information, visit the QS/1 website at www.qs1.com.
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IBM announced today that it has sold its 20 millionth ThinkPad notebook PC, another milestone in ThinkPad’s long reign as a technology leader in mobile computing, making ThinkPad the best-selling notebook brand ever.
Since its introduction in 1992, an era that began with the famous “clamshell” notebook design, ThinkPad has delivered many “firsts,” including the first notebook with each of the following: color LCD panel, 14-inch LCD, full-sized keyboard, and removable hard drive.
The 20 millionth IBM ThinkPad notebook, is an Intel Centrino mobile technology-based system featuring 512 MB RAM of memory, a 1.7 GHz processor (1), a 60 GB hard drive (2) and an extended battery life of up to eight and a half hours (3) by combining the system battery with an optional second battery. The ThinkPad T41 is one of the industry’s thinnest and lightest 14-inch notebooks, at a little less than one-inch thick and with a travel weight (4) at four and a half pounds.
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