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betterplace.org and Wall AG cooperate: 3000 free posters in Germany August 31st, 2009

Wall AG becomes a partner of betterplace.org

Wall AG, a well-known company for outdoor advertising and street furniture, joins betterplace.org as a partner and sponsors the distribution of 3000 posters throughout Germany. The posters will help betterplace.org to raise new donations and partners. Wall AG itself is collecting money for the projects "Denk mal an Berlin" and "rechenfix und wortgewandt".

Visit Wall AG and their projects at betterplace.org


Interview with Jeff Boles: How file virtualization can benefit your storage infrastructure August 27th, 2009

In an interview with SearchStorage, Jeff Boles,  senior analyst at Hopkinton,  discusses file virtualization technologies and how file virtualization affects replication or migration of files. He also mentions smAppers technologies as enabling product for virtualization.

The Interview


Vioso as "Maker of Future" in n-tv August 26th, 2009

 

n-tv presents Benjamin Fritsch and his company Vioso with their unique smartprojecting technology in their documentation series "Zukunftsmacher". The example of the event location in the little "western city" Elspe with its curved projection wall shows perfectly how Vioso can solve projection problems that make other companies capitulate.

 

Watch the video and read the article (in German)


datango introduces new brand and a relaunched website August 24th, 2009

In its 10(th) anniversary year, datango announces a new brand and a relaunched website. The new datango website is just as intuitive and capable as the datango solution itself. Well-structured menus provide rapid and clear access to information for partners and customers. Relevance to the audience and target groups is a priority throughout - better service and support is ensured by the new partner and customer login area, for example. Information such as online presentations and white papers etc. provide visitors to the website with a technical overview.

Read all at Business Wire


Two thirds of all travel companies are not using any social media August 13th, 2009

A new survey shows that two thirds of all travel companies are not using any social media. Missing customer dialogues are negative for the service quality of travel companies and decreases the search engine optimization of the corporate websites.

Read the full press release - German

 


hiogi offers new crowdsourcing solutions for customer service July 23rd, 2009

"Customers help customers!" is the motto for the new SaaS solution hiogi offers small and medium sized companies. Customers often know best about the products and have gained on hand experiences that they willingly share with other customers. With hiogi's new service community companies can easily enable their employees and customers to enter a dialogue through the web and mobile applications. At the same time companies gain valuable insights into the needs and wishes of their customers. 

Get started! (Link to the community - German)

Information on the service community (English)

 


Verwandt.de (dynastree) launches Turkish version July 16th, 2009

The family network dynastree.com recently launched a new version, including a Turkish language version, and also a new feature - the extended search. It is now possible to use far more parameters to search for possible relatives and ancestors. The new parameters not only include more fields for names (birth name, second surname), but also fields for place of birth, death, and residence. Moreover, both year of birth and year of death can now be used as search  parameters, either as exact matches, or allowing deviations from the year specified. Premium users can now use the new function to its full extent, and everyone can test it to see whether or not their search parameters did return any results.

This upgrade allows users to find matches even if only a limited amount of data is known, it greatly improves the possibility to make full use of dynastree's database of more than 90 million profiles from Europe, Russia, and the Americas.


Excellent review of Vioso's smartprojecting at PC Praxis July 16th, 2009

In its latest edition the German professional magazine PC Praxis has published an excellent review of Vioso's main product Smartprojecting. 

Please read more on the pdf enclosed.

 


Vioso.pdf (Filesize:1.3 M)


BrightView Systems and the Neuchatel Institute of Microengineering announce partnership July 8th, 2009

 The Thin-Film Photovoltaics Laboratory at IMT, a world leading lab in silicon-based thin-film solar cells research, part of the renowned Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and BrightView Systems, an innovative developer of production process optimization tools for the solar industry are joining forces to introduce novel solutions for the optimization of next generation thin-film solar cells production.
BrightView's advanced solutions will be utilized to provide real-time feedback to encompass a complete framework for process optimization that is scalable from pilot line to mass production of large area panels.

> Please read the press release


Interview with Sven Schmidt and Daniel Grözinger (verwandt.de) June 26th, 2009

foerderland.de publishes a follow-up interview with the founders of verwandt.de, Sven Schmidt and Daniel Grözinger. They explain the status quo of their family tree business (verwandt.de) and their latest projects.

Read the full interview (in German)