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IntelliTek launches business social networking product
03/19/2010
A Fort Wayne software company that just started renting space at the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center said it won’t be charging user fees for its software and it is adding a business social networking product to its family of business management tools.
IntelliTek Systems started developing its Web-based software for marketing, accounting, sales, e-business and customer relations in the summer of 2007. It customizes the software to meet the needs of each company using it.
With the testing and release of SocialBiz by IntelliTek, “the technology has now been perfected and we’re ready for commercialization,” said owner Matthew May. “We’re … now exiting stealth mode.”
Customers won’t pay for the software; they’ll pay to have it set up. “They get a software package tailored to their needs and now they’ll no longer have to pay per user,” he said. “We’ve trademarked, ‘The end of user fees.’”
SocialBiz can be used for networking by a company’s employees and customers and for customer service. It integrates with Facebook and Twitter, and includes a search feature capable of tracking references to key words made on the popular social media. “I can use that for marketing purposes, branding purposes, and to correct any misnomers that might be out there about my business,” May said.
IntelliTek relocated earlier this month to the Innovation Center at the corner of Stellhorn and Hobson roads and May said he expects its work force of five to grow to 20 within 18 months.
ITT satellite payloads see successful launch
Two weather sensors built and designed by ITT Corp.’s Geospatial Systems team in Fort Wayne were launched successfully into space earlier this month from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
“We are extremely proud of the work of our people and the amazing quality of these instruments,” said Rob Mitrevski, vice president for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs at ITT Geospatial Systems, in a prepared statement.
“We recognize the trust the nation has put in us and appreciate the fact that our imagers and sounders continue to be an integral part of our nation’s weather forecast ability, especially for severe weather.”
The sensors are on the GOES-P, the last of the current generation of weather and environmental satellites made for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in cooperation with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
After reaching a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the United States, GOES-P will go through extensive post-launch testing for six months, then it will be parked on orbit, where it can be activated when NOAA needs to replace a GOES satellite.
GOES satellites are known for the weather pictures they produce, which are used in U.S. newscasts, and for their early warnings of severe weather, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, hail storms and flash floods.
In addition to nearly continuous images, the satellites provide moisture and temperature data for accurate weather forecasting and data from the satellites are used in climate prediction models, ocean temperature charting, and ice, snow and glacier mapping.
ITT has been building and designing meteorological instruments for satellites for close to 50 years and is working with NOAA and NASA to build GOES-R, the next-generation environmental satellite.
FCC to make broadband more available, affordable
The Federal Communications Commission unveiled a plan it had prepared for Congress to dramatically upgrade broadband while making it available almost everywhere in the country.
“The National Broadband Plan is a 21st century roadmap to spur economic growth and investment, create jobs, educate our children, protect our citizens, and engage in our democracy,” said Julius Genachowski, FCC chairman, in a prepared statement.
“It’s an action plan, and action is necessary to meet the challenges of global competitiveness, and harness the power of broadband to help address so many vital national issues.” In preparing the plan, the commission found almost 100 million Americans don’t have broadband connections, including 14 million in locations where it is not available.
The plan outlines a goal of bringing affordable, ultra-high-speed broadband of at least 1 gigabit per second to anchor institutions such as schools in every U.S. community, and connecting 100 million households to affordable, 100-megabits-per-second service.
Competition will be promoted among U.S. broadband providers. Affordable broadband will be brought to rural communities through use the Universal Service Fund, which brought them phone service.
By increasing price competition and making broadband more widely available, the FCC predicts it will be able to increase broadband penetration to 90 percent of U.S. households from 65 percent and create the world’s biggest market of high-speed broadband users.
The plan also calls for the creation of a nationwide, wireless public safety network that would be interoperational for all types of first responders.
And the plan calls for making 500 megahertz of spectrum newly available for licensed and unlicensed use to “ensure that the United States is leading the world in mobile innovation.”
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