Digital Harbor Online - March 1, 2010

Digital Harbor Online - March 1, 2010
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FINANCIALS
- Millennial Media Acquires San Francisco-based TapMetrics

NEWS
- Nuvo Changes Its Name to NV3 Technologies
- Merritt Properties Launches Property Search App for iPhone
- TeleCommunication Systems Awarded $1.2 Million Defense Contract
- AVIcode Recognized Gartner in Magic Quadrant Study
- Systems Alliance Releases New Version for SiteExecutive
- Sourcefire IPS Gets NSS Labs’ “Recommend” Rating
- View Systems Launches Uninhabited Area Wireless Monitor
- Ruby Tuesday Selects MICROS App for Coupon Management

eHARBOR
- Buy Local! Chesapeake Telephone Systems
- Light Industries' SharePoint Super Heroes

EVENTS
- Discover Total Enterprise Integration!
- GBTC Meet the Members: CIOs and IT Buying in 2010
- FIRST Robotics Competition Chesapeake Regional
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- Millennial Media Acquires San Francisco-based TapMetrics

Baltimore -- Millennial Media, a mobile advertising network, announced last week that it will acquire TapMetrics, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics firm, focused on application usage and behavior. TapMetrics software provides detailed analytics to enable developers better manage their application sales and revenue. "We are acquiring TapMetrics, because the company shares our approach to serve the needs of developers, regardless of mobile platform, said Michael Avon, Executive VP and CFO, Millennial Media. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
http://www.millennialmedia.com


- Nuvo Changes Its Name to NV3 Technologies

Baltimore -- Nuvo announced today that it has changed its name to NV3 Technologies. “The new name reflects the fact that we are the only company that brings three key functions – cell phone charging kiosks, LCD screens for digital information displays (DID), and digital signage software – all under one roof,” explains NV3 Managing Partner Ryan Doak. NV3’s charging kiosks are capable of charging 95% of all mobile phones in 15 minutes or less. Beyond phone charging, NV3 kiosks can be used to carry dynamic multimedia messages and digital signage.
http://www.nv3tech.com


- Merritt Properties Launches Property Search App for iPhone

Baltimore -- Merritt Properties, a Mid-Atlantic commercial real estate developers, has launched a new commercial real estate application for the iPhone. It is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store. The app provides for customized commercial property search, property profiles, map & driving directions, forwarding to other devices. Merritt said it also plans to have the application available for both the Blackberry and Google Android operating systems.
http://www.merrittproperties.com


- TeleCommunication Systems Awarded $1.2 Million Defense Contract

Annapolis -- TeleCommunication Systems said last week that it has received a one-year, $1.2 million contract from the Defense Information Technology Contracting Office (DITCO) to provide the U.S. Army Central Command (CENTCOM) with space segment for its satellite operations. The services include highly secure voice, video and data connectivity solutions between fixed sites and remote operations.
http://www1.telecomsys.com


- AVIcode Recognized Gartner in Magic Quadrant Study

Baltimore -- AVIcode, a leading provider of application monitoring solutions, reported last week that it has been included in Gartner’s first “Application Performance Monitoring”1 Magic Quadrant market study. AVIcode offers a broad range of solutions covering all five of the Gartner-defined “dimensions” of application performance monitoring. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner.
http://www.avicode.com
http://www.gartner.com


- Systems Alliance Releases New Version for SiteExecutive

Sparks -- Systems Alliance has released Enhancement Pack 7 for its SiteExecutive Web content management system. The new release adds support for Adobe ColdFusion 9 and Android-based smart phones. Other enhancements in the release include support for Firefox 3.6, new configuration options and performance and usability improvements.
http://www.systemsalliance.com


- Sourcefire IPS Gets NSS Labs’ “Recommend” Rating

Columbia -- Sourcefire reported last week that its Sourcefire 3D4500 Sensor, part of the Sourcefire 3D System intrusion prevention family, achieved a “Recommend” rating in the latest Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Comparative Test Report from NSS Labs. Sourcefire is one of only three vendors recommended by NSS Labs, based on its testing of 15 products. NSS Labs found that when tuned the Sourcefire 3D System blocked more attacks than any other IPS tested. NSS Labs also determined that the 3D4500 Sensor performed closest to its advertised performance.
http://sourcefire.com
http://www.nsslabs.com


- View Systems Launches Uninhabited Area Wireless Monitor

Baltimore -- View Systems, a security and tele-data solutions provider, has launched the Mini Sim Cam. The device uses wireless communication to monitor uninhabited areas like foreclosed houses, storage spaces and vacation homes. It senses motion and sends text messages to a user's cell phone. The Mini Sim Cam runs on batteries and one configuration of the system can even send a photo of the intruder to the user's cell phone.
http://www.viewsystems.com


- Ruby Tuesday Selects MICROS App for Coupon Management

Columbia -- MICROS Systems reported last week that Ruby Tuesday, has expanded its enterprise solution with MICROS iCare for Coupon Management. Ruby Tuesday, a long-time MICROS customer, had outgrown its homegrown coupon management solution and needed a new solution to keep pace with its marketing requirement for rapid deployment of new coupon offers chain wide. The MICROS iCare solution offered the ability to deploy bulk coupon offers as well as create individual offers from a member database. Nearly 900 Ruby Tuesday restaurants operate worldwide.
http://www.rubytuesday.com
http://www.micros.com



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- Discover Total Enterprise Integration!

Are your most critical processes currently achieved with multiple business management systems? If your answer is YES, then you need to attend one or both of the events in our upcoming series, Discover Total Enterprise Integration! Join us to learn how you can unify EVERY element of your business and achieve complete enterprise management with the strength of a single tool! Shafer Solutions, a business management software consulting firm, is pleased to invite you to attend an online webinars and hands-on ERP workshops to see Sage MAS 90/200 Extended Enterprise Suite in action.

Location and Dates:
March 10, 2010, 2:00 - 3:30 pm - Online
March 24, 2010, 9:30 - 11:30am - Baltimore
Info: http://www.shaferinc.com/masees
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- GBTC Meet the Members: CIOs and IT Buying in 2010

Join us and hear directly from three prominent CIOs in the region. This is a rare opportunity to discover what our speakers’ technology needs are, where they are finding technology, and what they will be looking for next. This is a discussion you don’t want to miss.

Date: March 2, 2010, 7:30 - 9:30 am
Where: Holiday Inn BWI Airport, 890 Elkridge Landing Rd, Linthicum Heights
Cost: Free for GBTC members and $35 for non-members
Info: https://ww2.eventrebels.com/er/Registration/RegistrationForm.jsp?ActivityID=4741&ItemID=17332
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- FIRST Robotics Competition Chesapeake Regional

FIRST is the international non-profit organization to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs. The Chesapeake Regional will draw more than 50 high school teams to compete in a high-tech "sport for the mind." You'll see teams of robots cooperating in ever-changing alliances competing in two-minute matches throughout the two days. It's intense. It's loud. It's fun. You'll see more than 1,000 great kids working together, stretching their limits, and building the foundation of tomorrow's engineers, scientists and business leaders. You'll see exhibits from our sponsors, universities offering scholarships, and demonstrations of our other programs.

Date: March 12, 2010, 9:00 am to March 13, 2010, 5:00 pm
Where: Baltimore Convention Center
Cost: Free

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