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ATLANTA, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), the state's leading association dedicated to the promotion and economic advancement of Georgia's technology industry, announced Numerex Corp (NASDAQ: NMRX), a leading single source provider of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, as one of its Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies in Georgia. TAG will recognize this prestigious group at the 2012 Georgia Technology Summit (GTS) on...

ATLANTA, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Assent, a healthcare media and marketing company that helps patients make more educated and informed decisions at the point of care, today announced that it has once again been named one of the "Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies in Georgia" by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). TAG'S Top 40 Awards recognize Georgia-based companies for their degree of innovation, the scope and financial impact of their innovations, and...

Squeezing what hasn't been squeezed before Most people attempt to reduce the little uncertainties of life by carrying umbrellas on cloudy days, purchasing automobile insurance or hiring inspectors to evaluate homes they might consider purchasing. For scientists, reducing uncertainty is a no less important goal, though in the weird realm of quantum physics, the term has a more specific meaning. For scientists working in quantum physics, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that...

ThinFilm Electronics, PARC, Western Michigan University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology Receive Honors in Innovation, R&D, and Technology Leadership in Education PHOENIX and SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- FlexTech Alliance today announced the recipients of the 2012 FLEXI Awards. FLEXI nominations are open to all organizations involved with the flexible, printed electronics and displays industry. The awards celebrate and recognize people,...

[ Watch the Video ] Study at CMU, MIT, Georgia Tech finds 9 ways to improve tweets Twitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn't mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology found that users say only a little more than a third of the tweets they receive are worthwhile. Other tweets are either so-so or, in one out of four cases, not worth reading at...

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a new laboratory test that can rapidly identify the bacterium responsible for staph infections. This new test takes advantage of unique isotopic labeling combined with specific bacteriophage amplification to rapidly identify Staphylococcus aureus. Quickly and accurately detecting infections caused by S. aureus is critical because the pathogenic bacterium causes a...

HOUSTON and WARMINSTER, Pa., Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sam Houston State University has received a $25 million pledge from Pennsylvania-based Therm-Omega-Tech, Inc. to support the university's engineering technology components within the current industrial technology program and to establish a new engineering technology program. The founder of Therm-Omega-Tech, Inc., is alumnus Frederick Pirkle, who graduated from SHSU with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial arts in 1970...

The coming years will bring increased personalization, innovation and flexibility in the media landscape, according to the Georgia Institute of Technology. These findings were announced in today's release of the FutureMediaSM Outlook 2012, a multimedia report that offers Georgia Tech's annual viewpoint on the future of media and its impact on people, business and society over the next five to seven years. "Georgia Tech's work in Future Media is part of our new Institute for People and...

ATLANTA, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The coming years will bring increased personalization, innovation and flexibility in the media landscape, according to the Georgia Institute of Technology. These findings were announced in today's release of the FutureMedia(SM) Outlook 2012, a multimedia report that offers Georgia Tech's annual viewpoint on the future of media and its impact on people, business and society over the next five to seven years. "Georgia Tech's work in...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A testament to the explosive growth of its cloud-based lecture capture solution, Tegrity has more than doubled the number of new customers to date in 2011 over the year prior. Further, revenues from existing customers have grown by 82% as instructors and students at these institutions have increasingly embraced Tegrity as an essential learning tool. When considering the return on investment (ROI) for lecture capture...