Tag: Technology & Telecom

VIC Client Receives Research Award

OmniPak LLC, a Fayetteville client of Virtual Incubation Corp., has received a $100,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Science Foundation.

VeriSource, Advanced Control Solutions Merger Called Off

VeriSource Inc. of Rogers and Advanced Control Solutions Inc. of Bentonville ?revenue sharing arrangement? has apparently fallen through.

The Region’s Largest Telecommunications Firms

Southwestern Bell Communications Services Inc. and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. tops the lists of the regions’s largest local and national telecommunications firms.

Technology Advances in Arkansas (Editorial)

Arkansas may be on its way to picking itself up by its economic bootstraps and building the technological utopia scientists and politicians dreamed of.

Fayetteville Tech Company Fabricates Nanocrystals

Nanomaterials & Nanofabrication Laboratories of Fayetteville is a textbook example of a successful world-class, high-tech company remaining in Northwest Arkansas.

Fayetteville and Hot Springs Lead Employment Surge as Pine Bluff Falters (Analysis)

Three state MSAs experience dismal labor market while two flourish.

Six Local Tech Firms Research Health Apps

Virtual Incubation Corp., a ?business incubator for technology startups,? has several client companies that may eventually have applications ready for the health care industry.

BSA Business Grows Big

The Business Journal told readers about Bentonville Software Associates LLC back in January. At that time, the fledgling company had about 10 customers and the list has since grown to about 25.

Companies Seek Technical Training to Fill Skilled Jobs

UAFS and NTI teach technical skills valuable to local companies and award technical diplomas, certificates and associate degrees with which students can earn salaries rivaling those of four-year degrees.

Visionaries Land U.S. Navy Order

Vision Technologies Inc. of Rogers has landed a multimillion dollar contract to make surveillance cameras for the U.S. Navy.

Companies Seek Cure

Vegrandis LLC and SFC Fluidics LLC of Fayetteville have joined to develop a laboratory-on-a-chip device that can be used in a doctor?s office to diagnose and monitor a variety of diseases.

IfWorld Seminar Draws IT Crowd

Kirby Jones, territory sales manager with WatchGuard Technologies Inc. of Seattle, led a presentation about network security at the offices of IfWorld Inc. in Fayetteville on Sept. 14.

Quantum Communications Wires National Networks

Jason Johnson has done everything from retrofit security systems at the Stephens Inc. building in Little Rock to installing the mythical red hotline phones often seen in Hollywood war rooms.

5-Star Productions Gains Success with Market Change

Mike Hart’s company, 5-Star Productions Inc., is having its best year ever. sales reached $100,000 in July alone.

DB Squared Lands Clients

Software company DB Squared LLC in Fayetteville recently snagged two new clients: the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville and Stephens Inc. in Little Rock.

VIC Client Lands SBIR Grant

Yet another Virtual Incubation Corp. client has received a Small Business Innovation Research award ? this time it’s a Phase II from the National Institutes of Health and worth $740,000.

Conference To Teach Techies Business Sense

The 4th annual Technology Conference, which focuses on the movement of technology from concepts to commercialization, will be held Oct. 6 in Fayetteville.

UA Researchers Garner DNA Grants

Three University of Arkansas engineering professors landed two grants worth a combined $510,000 this summer to further their research with DNA.

Weak PM Has Perils (Ron Goforth Commentary)

When a software (or any other) project is poorly specified, when unmanaged specification change is allowed, or when delay is casually permitted, negative consequences become almost inevitable.

Fax Machines Remain Office Mainstay

While many businesses, including newspapers, prefer e-mail, other businesses ? particularly those that deal with secure or legal documents ? continue to rely on the solid, reliable facsimile machine.

Entergy Arkansas unveils ‘Next Generation’ plan; will seek to extend nuclear licenses

Fort Smith business leader John Taylor has died

Car-Mart completes $161.3 million securities transaction

Officials ask public to be on the lookout for bird flu in flocks