OC E-Commerce Trade Group Debuts; IndX, FileNet Team Up
Powerwave Technologies, the Irvine wireless phone-equipment maker featured in this newspaper a few weeks ago, is getting serious about the European market it mentioned in that report.
The company demonstrated its intentions to woo more European wireless telecom carriers at the recent GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. Powerwave used the event, named for the GSM wireless protocol standard used by most service providers in the region, to show off its amplifiers designed for third-generation voice and data systems being deployed now.
In addition to the usual sales and marketing contingent, Powerwave took a team of engineers to answer questions.
For more: www.powerwave.com.
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In case there weren’t enough signs that Orange County’s tech industry is booming, there’s yet another trade group focused on the sector.
The Electronic Commerce Organization will host its inaugural meeting at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, at the Sutton Place Hotel, 4500 MacArthur Blvd. in Newport Beach.
Autobytel.com executive VP and COO Ann Marie Delligatta will speak at the breakfast meeting, designed to be the first in a series of events to explore e-commerce issues and support merchants going online.
Deborah Bayles Kalman, chief executive of Irvine e-commerce consulting and integration firm NETouch.com and president of the new organization, said existing technology-centered groups touch on e-commerce, but none focus on it.
Kalman also teaches the e-commerce curriculum at UCI.
Membership is limited to individuals working for companies engaged in e-commerce.
ECO sponsors include Rainbow Technologies, Eldorado Bank, Oracle Corp. and UCI.
Registration is $25 for members and $35 for non-members. For more: www.ebizorg.com or (949) 789-9170, Ext. 203.
Call it a search engine for dummies.
Irvine software maker Cyrsh Technologies Corp. hopes to make it a little easier to find companies’ web sites through its iCyrsh service, a browser add-on that provides a Yahoo-like Internet directory with a built-in spell checker and translator.
Now users who accidentally type in “iMack” to find a popular Apple Computer line or “MacDonald’s” for the fast-food chain that spells its name with an “Mc” will be able to find the sites without the ignominy of wading through a sea of unrelated sites.
The product is free to individual users, but the company hopes to make money by charging companies for priority listings and licensing the technology to web sites and databases to speed up internal searches.
Since introducing the product at last year’s Comdex computer trade show, Cyrsh says it has signed about 1,000 registered users.
For more: www.cyrsh.com.
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Two Orange County software companies are teaming up to make digging through mounds of data a little easier.
Aliso Viejo-based IndX Software Corp. and Costa Mesa-based FileNet Corp. are combining their strengths in a new application that adds some structure to the jumbled mess of information in modern enterprise resource planning applications.
Under the agreement, users of FileNet’s Panagon application will be able to view the data it produces in a structured format through IndX’s web browser-based XHQ system.
Together, officials with both companies say, users will be able to see data from disparate sources in a single interface, allowing easier access and, ultimately, better decision-making.
For more: www.filenet.com or www.indxhq.com.
Bits:
Hammer plc, a European distributor of data-storage products, will ship networking host bus adapters made by Costa Mesa-based QLogic Corp. under an agreement announced this month … Technology services provider AlphaServe.com has completed its previously announced sale of its Alpha Microsystems brand name to R. E. Mahmarian Enterprises. AlphaServe officials say the move to spin off the proprietary hardware operation will allow the company to focus on its Internet and professional-services businesses … Magic Software Enterprises, Irvine, is hopping on the Linux bandwagon with a version of its e-commerce development software made for the insurgent operating system. The product is being offered for an introductory $299 … Online stock brokerage E*Trade has retained Internet recruitment firm LeadersOnline, Irvine, for a hiring spree … Viking Components has released the industry’s first gigabyte,that’s right, gigabyte,memory modules for the high-end server market … Simple Technology, Santa Ana, is shipping 64-megabyte SmartMedia memory modules NowDocs.com, an Aliso Viejo startup featured here a few months ago, officially launched its same-day document delivery service SAN Solutions, a technology distributor focused on markets in Spain and Portugal, and Australia’s e-Data Group will ship tape array controllers manufactured by Laguna Hills-based Ultera Systems Computer giant Compaq Corp. is using zippy, high-capacity Caviar hard drives made by Irvine-based Western Digital Corp. in its new line of commercial and desktop computers.
Ken Spencer Brown can be reached at Kbrown@ocbj.com or (949) 833-8373, Ext. 239.
