June 29, 2011 – San Francisco, CA – Perfect Third, Inc., a forerunner in the quantified self data revolution, today announced the launch of WakeMate® V2, the next generation of the WakeMate smartphone accessory now available at the WakeMate online store.



WakeMate V2 offers updated features to the WakeMate smartphone accessory and includes improvements to the mobile app, key enhancements to the WakeMate website and new Web-based user analytics. All of the WakeMate V2 upgrades will be available for both new and current WakeMate users.

June 27, 2011 – Washington, D.C. – Leaders in biotech and the pharmaceutical industry who are gathering at the BIO International Convention will be introduced to ColumbiaSoft’s Quality Superhero – more a concept than a caped comic-book character, conceived to illustrate ways firms in the highly-regulated industry can improve quality programs with effective document control. ColumbiaSoft, a leading document control software company headquartered in Portland, Oregon, will present its expertise among a pavilion of Oregon-based firms and government leaders in booth 2259.

“Quality is a key component to the successful and timely advancement of innovative biotechnology breakthroughs,” commented ColumbiaSoft executive vice president David Pogue. “Regulatory compliance, speed-to-market, precise information management – these are factors that depend on a sound foundation of document control. At BIO International, we want every Quality Manager to know they can be their company’s own Quality Superhero.”

June 21, 2011 – Bellevue, WA – Akvelon launches Performance Management Toolkit(PMT), a revolutionary new way to test real life end-to-end user experience on mobile devices.



PMT answers the most significant challenges wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, and mobile application developers stumble upon during network signal and device performance testing − time to market and cost. Akvelon PMT enables crowdsourcing of the testing process by utilizing a highly scalable and customizable solution that includes server-side test scheduling and a test agent compatible with all Android devices. The client-server architecture allows PMT users to add new test points at no additional cost, either in the laboratory or in the field.

June 21, 2011 – Austin, TX – Real Software, creator of object-oriented, cross-platform software development tools for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and the web, today announced the latest version of its flagship product, Real Studio. The new Real Studio 2011 Release 2 – updating both the Web and Desktop Editions – contains 42 new features and 184 improvements, giving developers the ability to create more scalable and responsive cross-platform applications with ease, while improving development and application performance. Here is a quick video demonstrating some of the key new features.

With new HTML5 features like WebSockets, GeoLocation and WebMoviePlayer as well as JSON support, Real Studio 2011 Release 2 gives developers the essential tools to communicate with online services like Google, Flickr and Twitter. “We are continuing to improve our web framework with HTML5 GeoLocation and video features, giving Real Studio developers more capabilities for richer, and increasingly dynamic, solutions,” said Geoff Perlman, Founder and CEO of Real Software. “These, combined with WebSockets and JSON support, give Real Studio users the tools they need for faster, more powerful software development.”

June 18, 2011 – Wilmington, DE – SharePoint Hoster announces the immediate availability of new dedicated hosting plans including the SharePoint Online 2010 Foundation Virtual Appliance and the SharePoint Online 2010 Enterprise Edition Virtual Appliance. These great new plans give you the ability to develop SharePoint Sandbox solutions and start at only $249/month.

Our SharePoint 2010 virtual appliance features an affordable way to get the features commonly associated with a dedicated server environment. It is a great affordable way to get a developer’s sandbox solution where you have the freedom and customization necessary to develop your own robust SharePoint site and web parts. Best of all, we offer a 30 day no-risk free trial with all of our hosting plans.

June 16, 2011 – Shrewsbury, NJ – Programmer’s Paradise/TechXtend, a leading value-added reseller of infrastructure solutions and development tools, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as a part of CRN’s 2011 VAR500 list, which ranks the top technology integrators in North America. Programmer’s Paradise/TechXtend placed 267th in the 17th annual ranking – one hundred places up from its 2010 ranking.

The VAR500 is a list of the largest value-added resellers, solution providers and integrators in North America by revenue size. Revenue size is determined by the amount of annual products and services sold over the course of 2010.

June 16, 2011 – Columbia, SC – Unitrends, an innovator in all-in-one backup and disaster recovery solutions, today launched its “Quotes for Cash Competitive Annihilation Program”—a campaign in which Unitrends will offer $100 in exchange for comparing Unitrends to any valid competitor quote. The promotion states, “You show us yours, we show you ours.”



Unitrends’ campaign is ideal for businesses considering a new backup vendor or renewing an existing contract.

June 14, 2011 – Hoboken, NJ and New York, NY – Losing data can mean losing a business—or at least a damaging delay in getting up and running again. That is why eMazzanti Technologies, IT support and disaster recovery specialist is introducing its new file-level backup service for small businesses called: eCare Advanced Backup Client (ABC).

“Many businesses do not require a full-system wide backup,” said Carl Mazzanti, chief operating officer, eMazzanti Technologies. “Rather, just the backup of basic document files. However, they still want the reliability that off-site data protection delivers. eCare ABC is the solution for them.”