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In the July 2010 issue of CLO Magazine, the chairman of Brandon Hall Research named OutStart TrainingEdge.com as one of Five Emerging LMSs to Watch.  More than just an LMS, OutStart TrainingEdge.com is a complete, integrated learning system that includes a fully-functional LCMS, a comprehensive LMS and a collaborative social software platform.  Further, TrainingEdge.com is a SaaS solution that can be implemented in days, unlike most industry solutions which can take weeks to deploy.  For more information on OutStart TrainingEdge.com watch the OutStart webinar Creating Continue reading →

Coradiant® TrueSight® provides educational institutions with application delivery assurance

Peacock Equity, a joint investment fund of GE Capital’s Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal, today announced that it has invested $2 million in equity in Vivox, the world’s leading provider of voice chat services for social applications including online games and virtual worlds. Other investors in Vivox include Benchmark Capital, Canaan Partners, GrandBanks Capital and IDG Ventures. Peacock Equity’s investment in Boston-based Vivox comes at a time when communication in online social settings is becoming a significantly more important method of engaging Continue reading →

Personalized Offer Alerts Now Delivered to Consumers’ Mobile Devices When & Where They Want Them

Ember’s Senior Vice President, Skip Ashton, will play an influential role in shaping the nation’s smart grid standards with his recent appointment to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Grid Architecture Committee (SGAC). Ashton will join other industry experts in creating a network reference model for the smart grid, including standards and application profiles. The honor follows Ashton’s other leadership role within the ZigBee Alliance as chairman of the ZigBee Architecture Review Committee, which helps define the network, security and interoperability specifications Continue reading →

OutStart’s Technical Director Mike Gregory joins Alcatel-Lucent’s Dave Batchelder, Sales Training Manager at Alcatel-Lucent University, to discuss “Mobile Technology use with Evaluation” at the eLearning DevCon 2010 conference in Salt Lake City June 14-16.  In this presentation attendees will learn about Alcatel-Lucent University’s challenge around data collection and analysis of attendee feedback data.   The need to quickly capture and provide near real-time information to senior leadership led the team to a Mobile solution using Outstart’s Hot Lava Mobile.   The case study will cover Continue reading →

On June 15, OutStart’s Vice President of Marketing Jeff Whitney will participate in a panel discussion on “The Inside-Out Organization: Connecting to Customers and Markets” at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston.  Whitney will draw upon his extensive experience at organizations implementing social business solutions to provide insights and practical guidance to attendees.  Enterprise 2.0 2010 is happening June 14-17 at the Westin Boston Waterfront.   The panel will look at how to connect the enterprise to the rest of its business ecosystem, turning new Continue reading →

New relationship expands data center infrastructure for Qatar

Cloud Compliance Solution Incorporating End User Application Performance Visibility Showcased at Citrix Synergy Conference by Terremark Worldwide

Ember today announced it will give attendees of ConnectivityWeek 2010 a preview of the new Internet Protocol (IP)-based low-power, wireless networking product it is currently developing. The company will demo a smart energy application with Ember-enabled products incorporating  standards being developed by the IETF such as 6LoWPAN, ROLL and CORE. The demo includes a Windows 7 PC running IPv6, a standard web browser, Ethernet connectivity to an Ember-enabled router and an IP-enabled IEEE 802.15.4 network. The IEEE 802.15.4 network is running completely standards-based versions of Continue reading →