Press Releases
August 8,
2000 |
Council for
Entrepreneurial Development |
CED Selects Demo Companies to Present at Research Triangle InfoTech 2000 Conference
Research Triangle InfoTech 2000 is the Southeast's premier Information Technology industry conference highlighting the best of North Carolina's multi-billion dollar IT industry, one of the leading regions in the United States.
With panel discussions and a keynote address, InfoTech 2000 is the place to get ahead of the knowledge curve, link into the network, showcase industry trends and gain exposure to innovative products spinning out of Research Triangle technology companies. Below is a brief description of some of the InfoTech 2000 Demo Companies who will present their technological breakthroughs at the conference:
- Alerts.com - Outsourcing service that offers change detection and notification for Internet news and information.
- B2B Promotional.com - Business to business vertical procurement portal for the imprinted promotional items industry.
- B-Linked, Inc. - Leading Application Service Provider for newspaper publishers and advertisers.
- Bloodhound Software, Inc. - Overpayment Protection Service protects healthcare payors by identifying fraudulent, abusive, and duplicate claims in real time, before claims are paid.
- Blue292 - Business to business exchange for environmental, health and safety products, services, staffing, training, and compliance tracking.
- BlueBolt Networks - Creating an Internet-based virtual work environment for the commercial interiors industry.
- Calendar Central - Web-based calendar delivering a strategic-level view of relevant, time-sensitive information from an enterprise or across multiple companies.
- Extensibility, Inc. - Provider of enabling technologies for XML-based application infrastructures.
- iTech - Markets a broadband merged media solutions that combines broadcast television with the Internet.
- ITParade.com - Enables users and suppliers of Information Technology equipment to have a complete Internet B2B E-Commerce marketplace to buy, sell, and trade excess IT equipment worldwide.
- KOZ.com - Provides software tools, expertise, support programs and overall infrastructure for building online communities.
- Learning Machines, Inc. - Software-based, Internet-provisioned reading program especially designed for students with learning difficulties.
- LIPSinc - Provides complete solutions for the creation of enhanced rich media content for Web-based communication.
- NextAudio - Provides personalized and portable audio content delivered over the Internet.
- Pinpoint.com - Develops topic-specific search technology for wired and wireless environments.
- PlanetPortal - Developed WebRemote Control that helps Web surfing by offering programmed channels or one-touch buttons that launch users to a particular site.
- Porivo Technologies, Inc. - Internet infrastructure software company developing Internet-powered distributed computing applications that leverage the unused computing capacity of idle PCs.
- SourceAlliance.com - Electrical industry leader in business-to-business e-commerce, offering solutions for the industrial, commercial/construction, utility and data communication industries.
- Summus Ltd. - Leading developer in low complexity wavelet technology for image and video compression.
- TogetherSoft Corporation - Comprehensive development platform for building e-solutions.
- VirtualMedicalGroup.com - Develops technologies that enable physicians and patients to consult in a secure structured online environment for the diagnosis and treatment of minor acuity health conditions.
- WaveSale, Inc. - Wireless Internet company that provides consumers with shopping related wireless web applications.
- WindWire - Delivers targeted ads to leading wireless devices while protecting consumer privacy and supporting the delivery and redemption of coupons.
- Zingbill - Virtual market place for household bills.
- Zoom Culture - Media company for the college student and young adult community through the acquisition, production, distribution and marketing of original video content and related services.
About CED
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development was founded in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the greater Research Triangle region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high growth entrepreneurs. CED sponsors annual conferences, seminars, workshops and monthly programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is a non-profit organization and is the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 3,000 members representing 1,000 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms.