Cross joins Interface Software
Oak Brook-based Interface Software said Darryl Cross joined the company
as its director of business development.
Cross is responsible for consulting with professional service
organizations to help them more effectively use client relationship
management technology.
Interface also said that for the fourth consecutive year, it was named
to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Chicagoland, a
ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the area by
the Deloitte & Touche professional services firm.
Miles debuts wireless inventory system
Lake Zurich-based Miles Technologies released its INVision Locator, a
wireless inventory or asset tracking solution meant as an alternative to
an inventory management or warehouse management system.
INVision Locator is aimed at companies that want to track the placement
of asset or finished goods, including police stations, schools,
construction companies, and businesses, the company said.
NewerTech, OWC team up on iPod transmitter
Woodstock-based Newer Technology and Other World Computing released a
second model of the NewerTech RoadTrip! FM transmitter.
The new RoadTrip! model allows users of Apple Computer's iPod and other
digital music players to listen to their favorite audio files through a
car stereo system using the 87.7 FM radio frequency.
Pettichord joins ThoughtWorks
Bret Pettichord recently joined Chicago-based ThoughtWorks, an IT
professional services firm, as a director of ThoughtWorks' testing
practice.
Pettichord is a founder of the Context-Driven School of software
testing. He has published over two dozen papers on software testing and
test automation.
Trading Technologies settles patent dispute
Chicago-based Trading Technologies International Inc. settled a dispute
with Goldenberg Hehmeyer & Co. over patents related to software for
electronic trading, a day after Trading Technologies sued the
Chicago-based market maker.
Trading Technologies had also sued eSpeed Inc., the electronic
bond-trading unit of Cantor Fitzgerald LP, over the same patents. ESpeed
denied it infringed the patents.
Northwestern professor wins award
Chad A. Mirkin, a Northwestern University professor and founder of
Nanospehere, the Northbrook nanotech life sciences company, was awarded
the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award.
Mirkin will use the $2.5 million prize for further research on
biological behavior at the cellular level using nanotech tools.
FindLaw buys HubbardOne
HubbardOne, a Chicago-based designer of Web sites and provider of other
technology for major law firms, was acquired for an undisclosed amount
by FindLaw, a provider of marketing and business applications for law
firms based in St. Paul, Minn.
John Fish, who founded HubbardOne, will join FindLaw as vice president
and general manager of HubbardOne. HubbardOne includes 60 of the
nation's 200 largest law firms as clients, and employs 70 in Chicago.
Parlano gains investors
Chicago-based Parlano Inc., one of the few surviving companies of the
failed Internet incubator Divine Interventures Inc., received a $4.5
million equity investment led by Longworth Venture Partners of Boston.
Parlano is the developer of MindAlign, a group messaging tool used by
corporations. The money will be used to expand sales, marketing and
product development operations.
