Salesdart to merge with Salesforce.com

Red Bank-based Salesdart Inc., a provider of sales-force products, plans to fully integrate its business-to-business sales leads and intelligence data into Salesforce.com.

Salesdart is currently supporting their clients' lead generation programs using outbound call center representatives to populate the lead data for sales professionals in Salesforce.com.

When the integration is completed, Salesdart will be able to automatically populate executive contacts with biographical data into the Salesforce.com user's database. PNY releases new graphics cards

PNY releases new graphics cards

Parsippany-based PNY Technologies Inc. announced two new Verto GeForce graphics cards that capitalize on the high-bandwidth, PCI Express bus architecture.

Based on NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series graphics processing units, the Verto GeForce 6600 GT PCI Express and Verto GeForce 6600 PCI Express are aimed at bringing the features of the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 family to the mainstream market.

The new PCI Express interconnect standard doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X. delivering over 4Gbps of peak bandwidth providing screaming frame rates.

Sarnoff develops antipiracy software

West Windsor-based Sarnoff Corp. has teamed up with one of the world's largest post-production firms, Post Logic Studios, to roll out its iTrace software.

The iTrace system puts "digital watermarks" on movies. Viewers cannot see these watermarks with the naked eye, but special machines can spot and decipher the images, which serve to identify each legitimate copy of a film and distinguish it from all others.

RCN reorganization plan approved

Princeton-based RCN Corp., a provider of cable, phone and Internet service in the Lehigh Valley, planned to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of December with a new chief executive and board of directors.

The company's reorganization plan was approved by federal bankruptcy court in New York.

The company was to unveil new strategies after it emerges from bankruptcy, including simplifying bundled packages for consumers as well as offering new products and growth initiatives.

RCN filed for Chapter 11 protection in March and later reported its stock was being dumped from the Nasdaq stock market. RCN expects to issue new common stock after it emerges from bankruptcy.

Bank to help technology center

Bank of America in Bethlehem provided an undisclosed contribution to the Fowler Technology Center, an operation run by the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley.

The Fowler center, in CACLV's Forte Building, provides instruction in computers and technology for children in fourth through seventh grade.

Mindbridge among fastest-growing companies

Norristown-based Mindbridge Software Inc., which makes intranet and extranet software, was named as one of the fastest-growing companies in the greater Philadelphia tri-state area by The Philadelphia 100.

The survey was conducted jointly by the Philadelphia Business Journal and the Wharton Small Business Development Center.

Mindbridge's Software is used for shared resource scheduling, service request automation, alternative workspace management, and enterprise calendaring.

Meliovation releases Vacation Designer

Yardley, Pa.-based Meliovation released Vacation Designer 2005 for Windows.

The product offers Web site-linked destination maps, a travel research Web browser, a notebook for collecting and tracking trip details, and a day-by-day itinerary creator and printing wizard, all integrated into one package.

Vacation Designer 2005 is sold exclusively by Meliovation and offered on CD-ROM in three versions: Travel North America, Travel Europe, and Travel the World.

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