Friday, May 6, 2005Celetronix Rolls Out New Power SuppliesSimi Valley-based Celetronix announced yeterday that it is shipping a new line of AC/DC power supplies targeted at the OEM market. The company's new EOS VLT200 Series supplies provide very high density, high efficiency power to OEM customers in data networking, telecommunications, computing, multimedia, consumer electronics and other high tech industries.
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Kintera Expands Executive TeamSan Diego-based Kintera, a provider of online software for managing nonprofit and government operations, said this week that it has added three new executives to its team. Kintera has added Andrew Pan as VP Information Technology, Steve Johnson as VP Channel Sales, and Andrew Scofield as VP Client Services. Pan was most recently at Intuit; Johnson was most recently at Scopus Technologies (Siebel) and Apropos Technology; and Scofield joins from Gateway. Kintera's online services manage all aspect (More info...)
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ZyXEL Signs Tech Data DistributionAnaheim-based ZyXEL Communications this week signed a distribution agreement with distributor Tech Data, in a move to expand its SMB market footprint. ZyXEL said that the move will help it improve service to small and medium size business (SMB) customers. Tech Data is a large distributor of a wide range of IT products and logistics management.
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BitMICRO, CaminoSoft Certify Solid State DiskWestlake Village-based CaminoSoft and Fremont-based BiTMICRO Networks said that the two companies have certified CaminoSoft's Information Lifecycle Management software for Microsoft Windows and Novell Netware with BiTMICRO solid-state disk subsystems. BiTMICRO's solid state disk subsystems provide very high speed access to data using memory instead of disk media. CaminoSoft's software relocates files according to usage into ATA/RAID disk arrays and tape and optical libraries. The combination all (More info...)
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Occam Adds Emergency Services FeaturesSanta Barbara-based Occam Networks said this week that it is now supporting emergency services calling and local station-to-station calling on its broaband loop carrier systems in the event of network or equipment failures. The new feature supports routing 911 calls to local emergency lines, and completion of local calls, even with the failure of a primary central office switch. Occam's IP- and Ethernet-based products provide lower cost Voice over IP support for telecommunications carriers.
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Interview with Ed Ojdana and Matt Coffin, Experian InteractiveExperian acquired Santa Monica-based LowerMyBills.com Wednesday in a deal worth $330M. LowerMyBills.com provides price comparison and tools for consumers, and generates mortgage and other loan application leads for lenders. I spoke with Ed Ojdana, group president of Experian Interactive, and Matt Coffin, founder and CEO of LowerMyBills.com (and longtime socalTECH reader) about the acquisition and what it means for the two companies. BK: Ed, why did Experian decide to acquire LowerMyBills? EO: (More info...)
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