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Kodiak Venture Partners Leads Investment in Wireless Location-Based Services Provider

Ethernet-inventor Bob Metcalfe named company chairman; Ember’s rapid expansion prompts move to new headquarters

Ironside Ventures Leads Series B Financing Round With New Strategic Investor Cisco Systems And Continued Participation From Original Investors, GrandBanks Capital and Kodiak Venture Partners

NTS designation makes Ember the standard for compliance with new ‘ZigBee’ wireless networking standard

Special coverage Clouds over Google's IPO Problems add up as market debut draws near.

CXO Systems, which offers visibility software for senior managers, said it has raised $7 million in a Series B round of financing that closed last week. New investor Ironside Ventures led the up round, while new investor Cisco Systems Inc. participated, as well as previous investors GrandBanks Capital and Kodiak Venture Partners. The money from the round will be used for sales and marketing and to further develop the company’s existing product. Malcolm Frank, co-founder and chief executive of CXO Systems, said that the financing Continue reading →

A week after it announced a $7 million Series B round, CXO Systems, which offers visibility software for senior managers, said it has named co-founder Alok Batra chief technology officer. Prior to the appointment, Batra, 36 years old, served as vice president of engineering for CXO Systems. Previously, he co-founded Cofix in 1999, where he served as CTO and president. In his career, he also worked for Fujitsu Ltd. developing the Fujitsu NetSmart Network Management Product, for Digital Tools as chief architect, and for Godrej Continue reading →

Wireless Guest Internet Access, Telephone, Other Services Provide Hotels Competitive and Cost Advantages Colubris Passes 30% Worldwide WiFi Market Share For Hospitality Industry

When Robert Poor looks at the world, he sees 50 billion embedded microcontrollers, the workhorse chips inside cars, traffic lights and air conditioners, doing their jobs in splendid isolation. Then he imagines what will happen when they all can talk to one another. Ember, the company that Poor cofounded in 2001, gives mundane devices the power to communicate wirelessly. For $10 a light switch, and without having to tear up any drywall, you can shut off all the lights in the house by tapping one Continue reading →

Campaign Aims to Boost Viewer Participation and Loyalty Using Mobile Phone Interactivity New York City – July 19, 2004 – Enpocket, the leading mobile marketing solutions provider, is enabling viewers of The History Channel to interact in real-time with two new shows, Decisive Battles and Command Decisions, using their mobile phones. The shows première on Friday, July 23rd at 9:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, respectively. Following the success of Enpocket’s work on the BARBARIANS program, The History Channel is promoting the two new series Continue reading →