DirectPointe Provides Expert Remote Computer Support to Home Users
DirectPointe, an award-winning managed service provider (MSP), has added a new home computer care service with its DirectPointe Home offering. Until now, computer service meant disassembly and transporting your computer into retail location where a “geek” would add your machine to a 10-day-wait queue. But DirectPoint Home changes the game with its remote expert support where users can get help 24×7x365, all without the hassle of disconnecting cords and cables.
DirectPointe Home provides three levels of service: PC Care, On-Demand and Total PC. PC Care is a preventative service that solves 80% of the most common computer problems by doing routine maintenance. On Demand provides fast support so that you can get your problem fixed now! Total PC is an unlimited package that provides everything a home computer user needs to have peace of mind when it comes to their computer, including virus protection, online security, data back-up and unlimited support.
Seth Bailey, VP of the Consumer Division at DirectPointe, talks to Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices about the offering and the benefits for retiring baby boomers or parents hoping to find relief from their mal-ware downloading youngsters.
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DAZ 3D’s Digital Figures and Social Marketplace
DAZ Productions is a market leader in 3D graphics software and content creation. DAZ may be most well known for its “Victoria” line of articulated 3D figures and their popular and active Artzone.com community, a social marketplace for sharing art and exchanging ideas.
The DAZ Studio software –available as a free download, allows anyone to create their own 3D digital figures and content. The figures can be loaded into 3D posing and rendering applications to be posed or animated and then rendered. In addition, a wide variety of clothing, hair and other accessories are available for purchase which can be applied to the figures to achieve different looks.A variety of other support content is available from DAZ as well including such categories as vehicles, buildings, trees and plants, furniture, weapons, etc.
Christopher Creek, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, describes the business model to Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices, and then persuades Baldwin to pose inside a laser scanner that creates a 3D wire-frame model of his own body in 17 seconds.
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Cymphonix Prioritizes Bandwidth for Web Content and Application Traffic
When small and medium-sized businesses or K-12s want to manage how their Internet bandwidth is being used, they turn to Cymphonix. On average, 50% of any Internet connection is used for browsing–some critical and necessary, and some not. The other 50% of any Internet connection is used for Internet applications. Voice over IP (VoIP) and database backups are essential. However, other applications may be non-critical, like peer-to-peer, streaming media and music downloads. Cymphonix’s Network Composer is an inline network appliance that provides a secure web gateway to manage both browsing and IP application activity.
Brent Nixon, President of Cymphonix, shares an overview of the company and discusses some of the key issues IT managers are worried about, including the emergence of web apps that anticipate near unlimited bandwidth. Rather than pay for more bandwidth, Cymphonix lets IT managers see the top bandwidth users, top sites visited, and real-time data activity and manage and filter traffic through static and dynamic port filtering.
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I Am Tiger Woods — with Electric~Spin
If you’ve got the winter golf blues, Electric~Spin has the cure. Electric~Spin’s Golf Launchpad Tour is a unique golf simulation device that allows users to play golf in the convenience of their home, with their own clubs. The golf Launchpad Tour can be used with a PC, Mac and Sony PlayStation 2 & 3 systems.
Golf Launchpad Tour measures user’s swings (clubhead speed, path and angle) and translates it into information that EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour software translates on-screen with breathtaking realism and accuracy. Not only is the Tiger Woods PGA Tour experience enhanced with the Golf Launchpad Tour, but so is the swing analyzer, with its increased accuracy and 3D shot visualization!
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Cemaphore Keeps Email Running and Accessible
When it comes to email continuity and message availability in times of a network outage or as part of a disaster recovery plan, the small and medium business needs what large organizations spec–but they need it at an affordable price point. Cemaphore Systems has created an email continuity and content management solution for SMBs base on Microsoft Exchange that keeps email flowing and stored messages available in a crisis.
Tyrone Pike, President and CEO of Cemaphore, talks with Brad Baldwin about defining the right mix of enterprise-class features for small and medium businesses. Pike also talks about challenges and best practices for email continuity and the hole he sees in the market to provide the same service to companies with just a few mailboxes.
SMBs can leverage Cemaphore MailShadow for as few as 25 up to as many as 50,000 mailboxes. Mail can fail over to Cemaphore within minutes of an outage to keep email up and running. Cemaphore also supports mobile devices that we’ve all come to rely on when traveling. When organizations migrate or upgrade to a new version of Exchange, MailShadow helps out. Cemaphore has built a deep expertise in Microsoft Exchange transaction technology, including being Microsoft’s first Reference Licensee of the Outlook-Exchange Transport Protocol specification (formerly MAPI).
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Video Created with CodecSys Minimizes Bandwidth Needs
With Internet bandwidth demand doubling each year through 2010, broadcast media, IPTV, and new user-generated “YouTube-style” video are culprits exacerbating the problem. This is where Broadcast International and their new CodecSys offering can help reduce bandwidth for video application by 50-75%, including High Definition (HD).
For the lay person, digital video is created with a video codec that encodes and compresses a stream of information. There are numerous codecs, each offering its own benefit and/or tradeoffs for visual or audio quality and file size.
Unlike traditional systems that force a single codec, CodecSys runs each frame of video past a collection of the codecs and determines which codec is best for that particular frame or series of frames. Exploiting attributes of multiple codecs, CodecSys can reduce bandwidth needs by 50-75%. Since it’s a software solution, new codecs can easily be incorporated into the system. Cable providers, media companies, and new web or IPTV-based stations can benefit from the CodecSys offering.
Broadcast International CEO Rod Tiede talks with Brad Baldwin about CodecSys and their recent demo with IBM at the 2007 IBC Expo in Amsterdam on the new BladeCenter® QS20 “Cell Blade”.
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Demo: AtTask Project and Portfolio Management
AtTask’s VP of Sales, Abraham Knell, shows off the @task Project and Portfolio Management solution. The application has a simple UI that is easy to learn and use. Tabs and drop-down menus in headers give the web-based offering a rich, desktop client-like experience without the hassle of software installs or updates. AtTask offers APIs to integrate into other Enterprise and workflow systems. And with Apple as a client, it should come as no surprise that there is an iPhone application.
Employees can collaborate and update projects through Microsoft Outlook. Dashboards with traditional Gantt charts and graphical cost, risk, and benefit views make it easy for management to determine status.
VideoAtTask is Used by Apple, Disney, CBS, and More…
AtTask provides on-demand project and portfolio management software. Scott Johnson, CEO and Founder, and his team have self-funded and enhanced the @task offering over the past six years with dashboard UI, Web 2.0 collaboration, workflow, templates, APIs, and global language support. In that time, AtTask landed an impressive customer list, Apple, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, and more. To accelerate their business, AtTask recently completed a $7M funding round from OpenView Venture Partners.
Johnson introduces AtTask, the company, and provides details of the new Enterprise version of @task. AtTask also launched Project Daily, a blog with the best thoughts coming out of the project management industry.
COMPLETExRM: Enterprise 2.0 Foundation for CxRM
CRM is migrating from desktop applications to Software as a Service (Saas). COMPLETExRM is a new company based in Salt Lake City that offers a highly customizable CxRM foundation based on a SaaS platform. This allowed COMPLETExRM to create PlanPlus Online, a custom planning and enterprise-grade CRM solution offered by partner FranklinCovey.In addition to its OEM parnters, COMPLETExRM is offering Enterprise 2.0 integrated sales, marketing, and project management solutions to small and medium business.
To support their growth, COMPLETExRM landed funding and a board seat from Donald L. Lucas, a respected VC and board member at Oracle and other tech companies.
Avinti iSolation Server Prevents Malware
Malware delivered through links in email is working. Unfortunately, those organizations that don’t have a strategy to prevent this attack stand to suffer significant financial loss, and perhaps worse, their reputation.
Avinti provides a solution that processes email through a gateway on the edge of the network. Unlike other solutions that rely on knowing about a specific message or a hash of an attachment, the Avinti solution determines if a message is a threat by taking action and following the link, inside it’s own iSolation Server. Problems are detected and prevented in real-time.
William Kilmer, CEO of Avinti, introduces the Avinti solution to Brad Baldwin. Kilmer also talks about a version of the solution, NEWT (Neutralize Email Web Threats), offered as a free download from the Avinti web site.
Software Virtualization Solution to the Rescue
Sometimes the best way to test a new software deployment to hundreds or thousands of end users is through Altiris® Software Virtualization Solution™ (or SVS). Such was the case with one customer who wanted to migrate from Novell Groupwise to Microsoft Outlook.
Jordan Pusey, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec’s Altiris Division, talks with Brad Baldwin about how customers are using Software Virtualization Solution to eliminate application conflicts, instantly repair damaged applications, significantly reduce testing time for application rollouts, and offer on-demand application delivery.
Brad Abrams Talks About Microsoft Silverlight
Brad Abrams of Microsoft fame talks about WPF and Silverlight and what’s in it for independent software vendors (ISVs). He talks about .Net and dynamic languages running cross-platform (including Windows, Mac and Linux) and even talks briefly about Surface development.
Transferring Hospital Patients with Central Logic
If you need to be transfered from one hospital to another, did you know that it could take hours or days that result in extra healthcare costs and lots of lost physician productivity? That’s why CEO Darin Vercillo, a practicing physician himself, started Central Logic with a hospital administrator and technologist.
Central Logic has created a complete software solution that streamlines patient transfers between hospitals. The net result is improved efficiency for physicians, better care for patients, and a way for the hospital to make it capture more revenue because it’s easier to do business with them. With the Central Logic system, patient transfers can begin much sooner.
Personal Teaching in K-12 with Timp Tech
Teaching in kindergarten through 12th grades continues to incorporate more technology. One Utah-based company, Timpanogos Technologies, has extended the life of existing district-wide systems while providing teachers and students with software that can create personalized study for individual students. Not only does this help the student learn, but it frees up teacher time through automated grading, self-paced learning, and even providing ongoing assignments and due dates.
Keith Blake talks about the future of K-12 education and the impact of technology-based teaching and learning tools combined with open-source content to aid in the development of lesson plans.
Drop Ship Product Sourcing with Doba
Doba offers a web-based product sourcing platform connecting eCommerce retailers with wholesale suppliers who drop ship products. Retailers can see inventory and integrate a complete photo and product description database into their own web sites or even eBay.
Jeremy Hanks, cofounder and CEO of Doba, sits down with Brad Baldwin and introduces the Doba service. Hanks describes a subscription vs. margin percentage business mode and talks the benefit of drop shippingl. Hanks is the co-author of eBay Inventory the Smart Way and Drop Shipping For Dummies. Doba was recognized with the AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Companies in the Enabler category.
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