MindYolk’s incredible Brazilian dry dock project
By GREGORY ZELLER // A third-party networking connection has taken MindYolk Animation Studios to Brazil – and brought an ambitious ship-repair consortium’s $530 million dream dock to life. At least,…
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When it comes to bad passwords, trustno1
By GREGORY ZELLER // Better rethink that password, personal or commercial computer user: Chances are, you’re not fooling anyone. California-based digital password expert SplashData has released its annual list of…
It’s all about class as Buncee tops 100K users
By GREGORY ZELLER // Award-winning multimedia presentation platform Buncee has rocketed past a major milestone. This month, the Calverton-based “digital canvas” – which helps users create and share messages and…
Zuckerberg, Powell-Jobs fund ESL startup
Ellevation, a software company that supports educators and English Language Learners – including those in the Central Islip school district – has landed $6.4 million from funds established by Steve…
Canon inks deal for BlackBerry charger tech
Canon has reached a deal to license BlackBerry’s patented power-charging technology, which works with mobile devices and a range of consumer electronics. IGT, a Nevada-based gaming- and lottery-system IT specialist…
Siemens acquiring CD-adapco for $970M
By GREGORY ZELLER // Siemen’s AG has agreed to buy Melville software firm CD-adapco for $970 million. And, no, the deal is not related to the death of the LI…
A cure for the complexities of healthcare administration
By GREGORY ZELLER // Now entering its sixth year, FJD & Associates has made a name leveraging founder Fred Dunwoody’s long experience in the sales divisions of major-league imaging firms…
Loyalty for those in loyalty programs
By GREGORY ZELLER // A decade later, an original Long Island dotcom is still flying high. Expert Travel Services LLC, dba ExpertFlyer, went wheels-up in 2005, based on the combined…
Northwell launches network management platform
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health is off to a fast start. Just days after it officially rebranded itself, the former North Shore-LIJ Health System announced that it’s forming a…
Charmtech sets its sights on the mainstream
By GREGORY ZELLER // Interactive software designed to make digital content accessible to the vision- and learning-impaired may soon change the way everyone surfs the web. It’s the natural evolution…
Never an identity crisis at Tools4Ever
By GREGORY ZELLER // Couple old-fashioned customer service with ever-evolving product ideas and always think like a startup. That’s how Dean Wiech describes the recipe for Tools4ever, a global provider…
Drinking deep from the Internet of Things
By MITCH MAIMAN // The hottest buzz phrase these days is Internet of Things, or IoT. Broadly speaking, IoT is shorthand for smart, networked devices utilizing applications to communicate all…
Luis Gonzalez is InterConnecting the Americas
By GREGORY ZELLER // For Luis Gonzalez and his sales and marketing boosting InterConnecta, the future was on Long Island. And, it turns out, also in Peru. There were specific…
A world of opportunity at annual CEWIT conference
The information-technology world is coming to Melville. Billing itself as “New York’s premier IT conference and international forum on emerging technologies for a smarter world,” the Center of Excellence in…
Teq beefs up its teacher dev platform
A major upgrade to Teq’s online professional-development platform will put teachers face-to-face with tech experts via video conferencing, according to the Huntington Station education-technology producer. The firm’s new “Instructional Support…