GSA Technology Council

Wednesday, August 25

5:30pm Tech After 5 – Charleston
Want to make a trip with us and meet some great folks in Charleston? Join us at SouthEnd Brewery in the heart of downtown this Wednesday for Tech After Five.
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Thursday, August 26

12pm UWIT Social Meeting
The Upstate Women In Technology meet on Thursday at the City Range Restaurant. The group will discuss Women in Leadership: How to Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and the Technology Role in Leadership in a session presented by Nancy Eichstadt of the Carolina Leadership Group.
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Few people know that Verizon Wireless in South Carolina is such a significant telecommunications employer. They have over 4,199 employees throughout South Carolina in 60 locations, with a large customer care center and region headquarters in Greenville county.

Join us in September as the GSA Technology Council hosts Jerry Fountain, The Region President of Verizon Wireless. He will discuss the past, present, and future of Verizon Wireless including the planned roll out of their 4G network.

According to Verizon, Long Term Evolution (LTE) is going to reshape the wireless industry. Not only will 4G/LTE expand the types of applications that can be used on wireless devices, but its implementation will open the networks to new and unique devices. Verizon Wireless expects to commercially launch its 4G/LTE network in up to 30 markets in 2010, covering 100 million people. Current planning calls for full nationwide coverage in 2013.

You won’t want to miss a chance to hear from Verizon Wireless about what 4G/LTE will mean to our future.

Event

GSA Technology Council Learning Lunch
Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Few people know that Verizon Wireless in South Carolina is such a significant telecommunications employer. They have over 4,199 employees throughout South Carolina in 60 locations, with a large customer care center and region headquarters in Greenville county.

Join us in September as the GSA Technology Council hosts Jerry Fountain, The Region President of Verizon Wireless. He will discuss the past, present, and future of Verizon Wireless including the planned rollout of their 4G network.

As the Carolinas/Tennessee Verizon Wireless region president, Jerry Fountain oversees the company’s sales, marketing, network operations, finance, administration, and an extensive retail footprint in South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. A 30-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, Jerry has witnessed first-hand the evolution and explosion of wireless in the US and under his leadership, helped Verizon Wireless become the largest wireless voice and 3G data network in the US.

Jerry set a solid foundation in the 1990s to make South Carolina a significant telecommunications employer and today, he manages over 4,199 employees throughout South Carolina in 60 locations, one of which is a customer care center and region headquarters in Greenville county. Jerry was also instrumental in locating a world-class interactive learning facility in Greenville for enterprise customers to experience Verizon Wireless’ newest data products and services in the company’s first Wireless Data Technology Lab. And, with 4G/LTE making a 2009 debut on Verizon Wireless’ network, Jerry is focused on all the new opportunities that will help Verizon Wireless customers Rule the Air.

Jerry Fountain speaks to the GSA Technology Council in September.

We’ll be taking technology calls live at noon today on the ETVRadio stations in South Carolina. Whether it’s digital photography, the iPhone 4, using wireless technology, or how to find a good home for your old laptop, you can give us a call.

WEDNESDAY, August 18, 2010

A live call-in hour on the Internet and related technologies. Eric Rodgers hosts Phil Yanov, executive director of the GSA Technology Council and blogger at Thinkhammer. Listeners can call in via the tollfree number 888-539-8859 to ask questions about using the Internet, computers, new digital devices, and related topics.

The program is Your Day and it is carried across the ETV Radio Network. That’s 90.1 FM in the Upstate beginning at Noon. (or listen to the live web steam.)

At tonight’s special edition of Tech After Five, the Knoxville Entrepreneurial Growth Group will be among the crowd. They’re visiting Greenville as part of their effort to learn from cities that are known for their vibrant entrepreneurial communities and to understand what helped create their success.

Don’t miss out! Registration closes at 2:30pm today.

This just in! A group is coming together to discuss developing applications for the Apple iPad as well as other Apple mobile devices.

The Greenville iPhone Application Developers Group is about getting traditional web developers, mobile application developers and “wannabes” iPhone developers together in a collaborative environment to:

• share, discuss and learn application development techniques & tricks – new and old,
• encourage and help solve development problems & challenges,
• discuss future developments and opportunities coming to the Apple’s mobile platforms, and
• discuss possible application ideas & concepts, while network with like-minded people.

First on our to-do list is to establish an active mobile app developer’s community right here in the up-state of South Carolina. We’ll target both web-apps and native platform apps development. In addition to technical issues such as programming in Obj-C/Cocoa or CSS/Javascript frameworks and Apple’s device interface SDKs, informative discussions will include marketing issues, SEO challenges and other related entrepreneurial opportunities.

Although open to all mobile platform developers including Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc., our primary focus will be on development for Apple’s iPhone, iPod mobile and iPad, platforms.

Interested? Tired of going-it-alone? Perhaps you need some help getting started. Whatever! Come to our next meeting and see if there’s a fit – maybe we can help you; or better yet, maybe you can help Greenville’s iPhone Application Developers Group.

The group will have it’s first meeting on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 6 PM at Immedion.

Learn More: Greenville iPad Developers Group

Tuesday August 17

8:30am Smart Home: Smart Supply Chain Community (Innoventure Community)
A day long event seeking to connect professionals interested in exploring trends and challenges in the areas of the smart home networking and smart supply chain management.
RSVP: Innoventure Community

6pm GSP Developers Guild
“A Tour of Windows Phone 7 and XNA 4.0″ by Chris Williams. In this talk, he’ll cover what’s new in XNA 4.0, especially as it pertains to Windows Phone 7. He’ll cover phone features, using the emulator and how to take advantage of the various sensors (like the Accelerometer) and features (MultiTouch, Gestures, etc) in your games.
Learn more: GSPDevelopers

7pm Upstate Carolina PC User Group
Remote PC Control… Have you ever been away from home and needed a file from your computer? Or need to run an application? This month Pat will show us how it’s done!
Learn more: UCPCUG

Wednesday August 18

12pm Radio: Your Day
Listen to us on the radio on any of the NPR stations in South Carolina or streaming live at the Your Day website.

5:30pm Tech After 5 – Greenville
It’s Tech After Five in Greenville with come very special guests. This is free to attend, sponsor supported, professional networking for tech professionals and entrepreneurs and the people that can help them.
Learn more: TechAfterFive.com or RSVP online.

Friday August 20

11:15am ISSA – Security Professionals
“The Anatomy of a Web Attack” / Learn about the “State of the Web” including the past years top web categories and attacks as well as how these top attacks work and how new Dynamic Link Analysis tools can help you stop them.
Learn more: Upstate ISSA.

See more on the GSATC Tech Calendar.

Before most of our lunches we show a group of slides saying “Thank You” to all the people who support us. If you’ve never made it to one of the meetings, you may have never seen the slides. We have a remedy for that. They appear below.

The South Carolina Department of Commerce and the SBDC present, the Export Seminar Series – China.

The seminar series will focusing on market opportunities in China and shipping your product and getting paid.

Participants will take part in an interactive market briefing with experienced representatives of the U.S. Commercial Service on current market opportunities in the People’s Republic of China, along with an overview of the benefits and challenges of exporting to China. Following the consular briefing participants will learn ways of identifying international agents, distributors and customers, and hear a current exporter discuss key elements companies must address in order to deliver their products and get paid.

via Greenville Small Business Development Center