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Storage Software Developer, Incipient, Inc., Appoints 20-year Industry Veteran to Lead Incipient’s Global Sales Efforts

Incipient, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent switch-resident storage software, announced that seasoned sales executive Mike Morando has joined the Company as Senior Vice President of Sales. Mike, in his new position, will drive global sales programs with strategic Incipient business partners in addition to creating new opportunities for the company. Morando brings to Incipient more than 20 years of OEM sales and business development leadership experience in the networking and storage industries. Prior to joining Incipient, Morando was responsible for Strategic Software Alliances at Continue reading →

Enpocket appoints ex-Flytxt executive David Barker as VP Sales

Enpocket, the global mobile media company, has appointed David Barker VP Sales, Europe. Barker now heads up the European sales team and is responsible for managing revenue streams from Enpocket’s mobile community and mobile marketing products and services. Barker joins from Flytxt, a mobile marketing company; where as Commercial Director he was a key member of the senior management team. Barker will help drive Enpocket’s success in providing integrated entertainment and marketing services to brands such as Vodafone, Fox and Match.com. “It’s exciting to join Continue reading →

Enpocket and Sprint take Match.com mobile with Valentine’s Day sweepstakes promotion

Enpocket, the global mobile media company, has announced the launch of Match.com’s mobile Internet offering on Sprint PCS VisionSM Phones. The launch of Match.com Mobile, which is delivered and hosted by Enpocket’s Dating Engine (Eden), is being kicked off with the offer of a free one-month trial to the service and a Valentine’s Day sweepstakes promotion. Match.com Mobile allows user to create profiles, upload photos, search profiles using multiple search parameters including geography, and ultimately chat with like-minded individuals. The new service is currently being Continue reading →

Ember and Atmel Bring Ultra-low Power 2.4 GHz ZigBee Networking and Microcontroller Platform to Market

Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Ember® Corporation, a leader in low-power wireless semiconductor solutions announced their partnership on the ultra-low power ZigBee™ semiconductor platform. Atmel’s AVR® 8-bit Flash microcontrollers combined with Ember’s wireless semiconductor systems let OEMs take advantage of the emerging ZigBee application market with a complete, integrated microprocessor, radio and software solution. ZigBee is a wireless, standards-based radio technology that addresses the unique needs of remote monitoring and control and sensor Continue reading →

New ZigBee-Based Wireless Energy Meters

Aim to Save Public Utilities Millions of Dollars NURI Telecom launches into U.S. market with automatic meter readers built with Ember's ZigBee-based technology

Juniper hiring hints at buyout plans

Despite public statements to the contrary, Juniper appears to be moving fast on the acquisition front, particularly in wireless LANs. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company quietly appointed a vice president of business development late last year to, among other things, orchestrate the company’s acquisition of a wireless LAN player. Nicholas Pianim has a background in venture capital and once led a now-defunct Internet data center company. Pianim did not respond to an interview request left on his voicemail at Juniper, and a company spokeswoman said he Continue reading →

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http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3087291 Colubris Networks—which makes the access point equipment used by Connexion—said today that it’s hardware is also powering the Wi-Fi found in more than 100 marinas on the east coast of the U.S. being served by Beacon Wi-Fi. The company is using them to get the Colubris Multiservice WLAN technology, which allows for multiple virtual network services on the same infrastructure. Beacon uses it to separate traffic for Web surfing boaters from its wireless remote monitoring services to check on boats. They plan to add Continue reading →

Colubris and Beacon Wi-Fi connect 100 marinas to the Net

http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?Art_ID=67885 Colubris Networks, a Waltham-based provider of multi-service WLAN systems, and Beacon Wi-Fi in Wilton, Conn., completed deployment of the Colubris Multiservice WLAN System at more than 100 marinas in 2004. Remote monitoring and voice services will be deployed over the existing Colubris Multiservice WLAN System in 2005. No financial details of the arrangement between Beacon and Colubris have been released. According to Chris Reitz, co-founder of Beacon Wi-Fi, his company uses the Colubris Multiservice WLAN System for its ability to carry multiple applications over Continue reading →