Tech & IT
AppTech completes Jesus App
AppTech has completed company’s first app designed for the Christian community throughout the world. The Jesus app has been submitted to the iPhone App Store in English and is being translated into Spanish and Portuguese.
Approval to commence sales is expected from the App Store in the near future. AppTech will donate twenty percent (20%) of [...]
Onechip Photonics opens regional office in Shenzhen
Onechip Photonics has opened a new regional office in Shenzhen to support the critical operations of local customers.
Featuring an on-site lab, the new facility will enable the company to offer testing, debugging, and demonstrations for addressing the immediate technical needs of regional customers.
Onechip also announced the establishment of its relationships with ACE Broadband Technology Chengdu [...]
Former Hitachi executive to lead RPX’s Asia operations
Former Hitachi executive, Hisao Yamasaki, has joined RPX, a San Francisco-based provider of patent risk solutions. Yamasaki, 46, will serve as president of RPX Asia, responsible for client relations and new client development in the region.
Yamasaki will be based in the company’s new offices in Tokyo. He joins RPX at a time when the company [...]
Starwood Hotels & Resorts launches app for BlackBerry phones
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has launched the SPG App for BlackBerry smartphones. The app is based on its Starwood Preferred Guest program.
The SPG App enables BlackBerry smartphone users to browse and make reservations at 1,000 Starwood properties across the globe. Members can also use the new application to manage current reservations, view their Starpoints [...]
First Data launches payment security solution
First Data, a player in electronic commerce and payment processing, has launched its First Data TransArmor solution. The payment security service will be available to merchants of all sizes through the company’s network of resale partners.
The TransArmor solution basically changes the way merchants secure and manage cardholder data. The service protects consumer payment card data [...]
IBM acquires Sterling Commerce
IBM has announced the closing of its acquisition of Sterling Commerce. The company is expected to expand IBM’s ability to help clients improve their interactions with customers, partners and suppliers through business networks using either on-premise or cloud delivery models.
Sterling Commerce provides software for cross-channel commerce and integration of customer, partner and supplier networks across [...]
EA and Klei Entertainment launch Shank
Electronic Arts and development studio Klei Entertainment announced that the downloadable 2D action game Shank will be available for download on PlayStationNetwork beginning today and on Xbox LIVE Arcade on 25 August.
Shank tells a story of revenge, penned by game writer Marianne Krawczyk. The game has violent elements and tells a classic story of gangland [...]
Chrysalis launches outbound notification service
Chrysalis Software, a provider of contact centre professional services and products, has introduced a cloud or premise-based multimedia information delivery service that manages outbound notifications for contact centres.
The Chrysalis Notification Service delivers information via a variety of media such as phone, text message, e-mail, or Twitter. Messages can be sent on a one-by-one basis, or [...]
Cellcom selects Trivnet’s transaction management platform
Trivnet, a provider of transaction management platform for delivering secured Mobile Financial Services (MFS), has deployed its TRIV Platform at Cellcom Israel, a cellular services provider in the country, to enable Cellcom Israel’s Mobile Wallet Service.
As part of the service, Trivnet’s platform will power money remittance services from customers of all cellular operators in Israel [...]
Washington Gas selects Alcatel-Lucent solution
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected to build Washington Gas’ new communications network linking the untility’s operations throughout Washington, D.C., and the surrounding region.
Alca-Lu informed that its Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) solution will support Washington Gas in making better use of its existing infrastructure and enabling efficient delivery of natural gas to the company’s residential, commercial [...]
