Integrated Media adds Cygnus image processor
Livonia-based Integrated Media Systems, Inc. said it has added the IMX
image processor by Cygnus Imaging to its product line of enhancement
lenses for home theater projectors.
The lenses are user-installable over the projection lens of the
projector and convert the pixel structure of the image to a smooth,
sharp image using optical interpolation techniques.
IMX processors are designed to fit over the lens of hundreds of
different projector models.
Bertolini to join Harvard committee
Philip Bertolini, director of the Oakland County Department of
Information Technology, has been selected to serve on the steering
committee of the eGovernment Compass project of the John F. Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University.
The eGovernment Compass is a new effort by Harvard to help identify and
disseminate leading-edge practices related to the applications of
information technology in governments around the world, said Jerry
Mechling, director of the eGovernment Executive Education Project.
Kinderstreet now called Vale Solutions
Ann Arbor-based Kinderstreet Corp. has changed its name to Vale
Solutions Inc.
The name Vale Solutions is the umbrella identity for the company. Vale
will continue to use the name Kinderstreet as the brand for its
Web-based products for the child- and youth-development markets. Other
future product lines will carry their own brand names.
The company also said Logan Alliance for Youth in Utah has selected it
to manage the data and reporting needs of the alliance's communitywide
collaboration of before- and after-school providers.
Vale will provide shared, Web-based software for managing the program
administration, data collection, communication and reporting. The
software will enable an unlimited number of alliance partner locations
to access and share information from a single database.
It will also provide the alliance with online registration and
communication tools for including the parents in the information
exchange.
Vale is a Web-based software provider for after-school, early childhood
and camp programs.
Microsoft donates software to area nonprofits
Microsoft Corp. has awarded software donations worth almost $103,000 to
13 nonprofits in the Detroit area.
The program provided more than $947,000 in software donations to
nonprofits across Michigan in the fourth quarter of the 2004 fiscal year
and more than $3.6 million for the state in its fiscal year as a whole.
Nonprofits interested in receiving donations of Microsoft software
products can visit www.techsoup.org/stock to learn more about the
service and to apply for donations.
Accela signs pact with Sterling Heights
The city of Sterling Heights signed an $80,000 contract with Accela Inc.
of Dublin, Calif., for wireless software in the city's building
department.
The department is responsible for the enforcement of all codes, laws and
ordinances for the city related to building, wiring, plumbing, heating
and cooling.
Accela Wireless software will be used to create direct, real-time access
to data in the department's database using a mobile device in the field.
With the software, inspection teams can shift daily tasks from the
office to the field with mobile technology such as laptops and personal
digital assistants.
Netspace launches local online marketplace
Farmington Hills-based Internet consulting firm Netspace has launched
Community-eShopper.com, metro Detroit's first online community
marketplace.
The site offers consumers a place to find products and services from
local and national merchants and save money through electronic coupons
and giveaways. Visitors can search by the merchant's name, business
category or geography.
To register at no cost and receive weekly e-mail newsletters, visit
www.community-eshopper.com. Merchants wishing to join
Community-eShopper.com should visit www.community-eshopper.com.
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