Interactive Intelligence reports higher profit, revenue
The Indianapolis-based company reported second quarter profit of $2.5 million on increased sales of
its business communications software.
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Wolf Technical Services wins Army Corps contract
The company has been hired to refine technology that detects whether a vehicle might be carrying suspicious cargo, including
explosives.
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis releases iPhone app for virtual front seat
The app will feature news, past laureate recordings, videos and access to the 2010 schedule, IVCI officials said.
IT firm plans $24 million data center
The city’s Metropolitan Development Commission will consider providing Lightbound LLC with property tax abatements to offset
investment cost.
ALTOM: How long will our ‘Net neutrality last?
Cable giant Comcast has fanned a typical smoldering Internet grumble-fest into a major screaming match, complete with a lawsuit
and cries for federal intervention. The outcome may affect how much it costs you and me to do business across the ’Net.
Interactive Intelligence partners on social media application
The Indianapolis software company has partnered with Cambridge, Mass.-based Buzzient Inc. to allow clients to monitor chatter
about them on Facebook and other sites.
Is alternative energy sustainable in Indiana?
An economic development observer questions what will happen after the feds turn off the tap.
Plan to run fiber optic lines along greenways has legal hurdles
The city of Indianapolis wants to generate revenue by using greenways as fiber optic corridors. But previous legal battles
over leasing rights-of-way to utilities could hang up the plan.
Prepaid mobile phone users to face new state fee
The Indiana Department of Revenue says Indiana retailers selling prepaid mobile phones or prepaid wireless phone cards will
have to charge their customers an extra fee.
Web firm promises 107 new jobs after ’08 pledge fell short
Fusion Alliance made a similar agreement to receive state and local incentives in 2008, but the jobs failed to materialize.
Study: College students adopt texting, shun e-mail
A new Ball State University study says text messaging has far eclipsed e-mail and instant messaging as
college students'
favored way of staying in touch.
ALTOM: Beware of inciting online vendetta from clients
It started as a dispute over towing a car, and it’s now a cause célèbre, thanks to Facebook.
Slow economy bruises profits of Indiana’s largest public companies
One-time events influenced bottom lines of some of the few companies that made more money in 2009.
Indy firm launches bedsore weapon
The latest idea from Dr. James Spahn, an Indianapolis health care entrepreneur, should help hospitals and nursing homes do
a better job of preventing severe bedsores, or pressure ulcers. That’s good, because Medicare and private health insurers
increasingly won’t pay to treat them.
Indiana bringing information revolution to public schools
The state is building a massive data system with a tough-love intent of rewarding good educators and schools and hammering
poor performers.
Ballard bets big on $16 million software project
Concluding a year-long evaluation and public bidding process, mayor chooses Oracle’s PeopleSoft to replace local government’s
1970s-era financial IT system and New York-based Zanett Inc. to lead the implementation.
IT consulting firm plans to create 230 jobs
Miller Consulting Group will move its headquarters from Indianapolis to Noblesville and add the jobs by the end of 2013,
the company said Wednesday morning.
eTapestry co-founder headed for Baltimore
Longtime local IT entrepreneur Jay Love accepts job as CEO of software-maker Social Solutions, a loss for the Indianapolis
high-tech and not-for-profit communities.
SEO firm Slingshot hitting target from the start
With $1.3 million in annual sales, Indianapolis-based Slingshot generates enough cash to fund its own growth—and turns away about half of its prospective clients, all of whom want to get their websites to pop up high on the first page of Google search results.
ALTOM: Securing your Wi-Fi is worth your trouble
If you’ve got a wireless (Wi-Fi) router, you could be in some serious hot water if it’s not properly secured.