With a flick of a finger over the smooth crystal screen, iPhone users can now learn the exact day and hour when they can no longer afford the marvelous mobile device. Designed by Dana Guthrie of Golden, Colorado, the application ties into a customer’s stock portfolio and then integrates variables such as mortgage payment, number [...]
In the ten years since the term was coined, the development of open source software has moved from the garages of Silicon Valley to the mainstream. Many serious and valuable projects – from the Apache Server to MySQL databases – have been built using an open source model, which essentially promotes free and open [...]
Boulder-based Collective Intellect announced today that it was chosen by MTV Networks to supply digital communications analytics across the network’s stable of properties, including MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon. Collective Intellect is a market intelligence firm that specializes in capturing data from social networks, blogs, and digital bulletin boards. The company, which has developed [...]
The IT Week Ahead, March 30-April 6
IT
Wed, Apr 1: Boulder Ruby Group Coffee and Code , 8:30am, The Cup, Boulder
Mon, Apr 6: CFUnited Express, 8:00 am, Denver Athletic Club
Miscellaneous
Tue, Mar 31: Boulder Open Coffee, 8:00am, The Cup, Boulder
Thu, Apr 2: BMA Monthly Meetup, 5:00, Red Room Restaurant and Lounge, Denver
Mon, Apr 6: Night with a [...]
ISYS Search Software announced the release of ISYS File Readers. ISYS File Readers is an embeddable set of filters that is able to extract text and metadata from over 200 supported file types in more than 60 languages making the data accessible for search and indexing. This filtering is an essential step for applications where [...]
On Monday night the Da Vinci Institute’s Startup Junkie Underground hosted Perry Evans, founder of such successful companies as MapQuest, Jabber, and Local Matters. Over the last fifteen years Evans has raised over $80 million in investor capital and “created value” to the tune of $1.5 billion. These figures are all the more impressive considering [...]
The second Denver edition of the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup took place in the historic Tivoli Brewery, a location that offered much easier parking but ironically (given its former function) no beer for participants. The second Denver meeting saw attendance over 300 with 25% new attendees as well as more business attire than [...]
Intermap Technologies announced today that it has completed the data collection for its NEXTMap USA 3D mapping program. The project represents the first entirely company funded effort to map the contiguous United States and Hawaii (over 3.1 million square miles) and will enable the company to offer a variety of high-resolution geospatial products, including [...]
The IT Week Ahead: March 23-March 30
IT
Mon, Mar 23: Denver Visual Studio UG, 5:30, Microsoft, Denver
Mon, Mar 23: BDNT (Denver), 6:30, Tivoli, Denver
Tues, Mar 24: Boulder .NET UG, 6:00, ECCR-200, UC Boulder Campus
Tues, Mar 24: TiE Rockies, “The Future of TV,” 6:45, Level 3, Broomfield
Tues, Mar 24: Front Range Blogger Meetup, 7:00, Gordon Biersch, Broomfield
Wed, [...]
GreenWorld Apps has launched a beta version of their ShopGreen product, a service aimed at shoppers concerned with how their personal consumption impacts the environment. ShopGreen is designed to be included on merchants’ websites and allows consumers to add 1% to the price of a purchase, an amount put towards buying carbon offsets. [...]
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