Nighthawk Systems Announces Sales to WisperTEL
San Antonio-based Nighthawk Systems Inc., a provider of intelligent
wireless power control products, said it shipped a total of 21 units to
WisperTEL for rebooting of wireless Internet hardware.
Based in Evergreen, Colo., WisperTEL is a Wireless Internet Service
Provider currently providing high-speed Internet transport and other
IP-based services to customers in 5 Colorado counties.
Aggregate teams with Superwire
Richardson-based Superwire Inc. announced a partnership with Aggregate
Networks, a Chicago-based broadband finance and development firm.
The Aggregate Networks team will assist in planning and procuring
financing for debt and equity to complete the infrastructure required to
deliver voice, data and video to Leisure World Seal Beach (LWSB) and
other communities in Southern California and Texas. LWSB is a retirement
community of 8,500 residents. Services are expected to commence in
summer 2005 with video services commencing no later than early 2007.
This project has been valued by The Seaboard Group at between $21
million and $25 million.
REAL buys database technology from SQLabs
Austin-based REAL Software Inc. acquired SQLite-based database
technology developed by SQLabs of San Diego, Calif.
This technology includes SQLitePlugInPro for REALbasic and SQLiteServer.
SQLitePlugInPro is a database plugin that enables development of
single-user database applications. SQLiteServer is a SQLite-based
database server.
The single-user database engine will be included in an upcoming release
of REALbasic. Plans for the database server will be announced later this
year.
Fewer IT jobs were lost last year
A study released recently by the American Electronics Association (AeA)
showed that in 2004 the U.S. high-tech industry lost 25,000 jobs,
dropping to 5.6 million. This decline in 2004 represents a considerable
slowdown in technology jobs lost, compared to the 333,000 jobs lost in
2003 and the 612,000 jobs lost in 2002.
Cyberstates 2005 found that all but four states lost high-tech jobs in
2003, the most recent year for which state data are available.
California and Texas lost the greatest number of tech jobs, shedding
some 67,800 and 32,900 jobs, respectively.
New York and Illinois were also among the five states that lost the most
high-tech jobs. Despite these losses, California and Texas remained the
leading cyberstates by employment, followed by New York and Florida.
California (916,000), Texas (446,000), New York (305,000), Florida
(259,000), and Virginia (244,000) led the nation in high-tech employment
in 2003.
Kupp new Microtune CFO
Plano-based Microtune Inc. named Jeffrey A. Kupp chief financial officer
and vice president.
Kupp, who most recently was CFO at Inet Technologies Inc., fills the
position left vacant by Rob-Roy Graham, who transitioned to the position
of chief development officer in November 2004, and has since announced
his retirement from Microtune.
He will report to Microtune CEO and President James A. Fontaine.
Prior to joining Inet Technologies, Kupp was vice president of finance
and CFO at Richardson-based IEX Corp.
Microtune makes radio frequency-based products used in broadband
communications, automotive electronics and wireless connectivity
products.
Always On Wireless product targets rural computer users
Always On Wireless Inc.'s portable wireless device is now available for
rural computer users without broadband access.
The Houston-based firm's portable WiFlyer product works with any dial-up
service, whether at the user's home or on the road. Once a phone line is
plugged into the small device, the user has wireless Internet access via
a laptop anywhere within about 200 feet. The technology, which does not
require additional software, also allows multiple users to share a
single dial-up connection.
Always On Wireless also just released a compatible version of its
WiFlyer product for NetZero, Juno and BlueLight Internet services of
United Online Inc., a provider of consumer Internet subscription
services.
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