Falls Church to use Nestor’s CrossingGuard
PROVIDENCE — Nestor Traffic Systems, Inc., an affiliate of Nestor, Inc. last week announced that the City of Falls Church, Virginia has awarded a contract to the Company for its CrossingGuard® video-based automated red light enforcement system. CrossingGuard will be installed at three intersections, selected by the City based upon traffic volume and the observed frequency of red light violations. CrossingGuard is the industry’s first automated enforcement solution to use video to monitor and detect violations, to record violation images, to transmit digital images electronically in real-time, and to issue citations. It is also the first solution to offer a collision avoidance feature that can delay cross traffic from entering an intersection while a violator runs the red light, in order to help prevent intersection collisions.
Excelergy partners with Siebel Systems
CAMBRIDGE – Excelergy Corp., a leading provider of Web-based customer information and transaction management technology to the deregulated retail energy market, and Siebel Systems, Inc., a leading supplier of Web-based customer relationship management systems, announced an alliance last week to provide a comprehensive and integrated Web-based customer relationship management, enrollment, and billing solution for the deregulated retail energy market. Excelergy’s technology allows an energy company to efficiently manage its customer information, billing and transaction needs. Siebel’s technology provides companies with integrated sales, marketing, service and eCommerce applications to manage customer relationships.
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HarvardNet offers DSL service in Rhode Island
BOSTON – HarvardNet, a leading provider of digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access in New England, announced last week the availability of its BusinessSpeed DSL service in Rhode Island. Offering service for the first time in Rhode Island, HarvardNet said it can deliver BusinessSpeed DSL services to about 85 percent of the businesses in the following towns: Ashton, Cranston, East Greenwich, Narragansett, Newport, North Providence, Pawtucket, Providence (two locations), Riverside, Warren, Warwick, West Warwick and Woonsocket.
Scientist wears computer while shopping
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The guy wired-up with a headset and keypad in the dairy-food aisle is not just an information-age geek with a 21st century calculator. He’s Andrew Fagg, a University of Massachusetts scientist who could be shaping the future. Fagg is working on making smarter wearable computers — and, yes, also picking out his own groceries from a computerized list. “One person I passed … after I got 20 or 30 feet down the row, he said, ‘What some people won’t do to watch television!'” Fagg said. He is doing research in one of the newest fields in computing: devices that allow a personal computer to be as wearable as a tool belt. The user can wear the monitor as a headset and keypad as a wrist watch. Ultimately, Fagg said, the aim is to free the wearer of some routine tasks, allowing more time for the creative or interesting ones. Fagg already wears his computer buddy most days at work. He takes notes, retrieves addresses and performs other everyday tasks. When better cellular data networks are set up in western Massachusetts, his device could tap into the Internet or dial into other computers via cellular networks.
This web site is a dinosaur
WALTHAM, Mass. — If you have extra-tall ceilings and $6 million to spend on a one-of-a-kind antique, Millionaire.com has a deal for you. A complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton is set to go on the electronic auction block Monday morning. The 25-foot-tall, 40 foot-long dinosaur skeleton is ready to be shipped from a Kansas warehouse to a new home, says its owner, Alan Detrich. Discovered on a South Dakota cattle ranch in 1992, the 65 million-year-old skeleton is one of a handful of well-preserved T. Rex specimens, said Laurie Cutts, a product manager for Lycos Auction, the Massachusetts Internet company overseeing the sale. It’s not the first time Detrich has tried to unload the T. Rex over the Internet. He tried to sell it on eBay in July, but the auction was canceled after several illegitimate bids by teen-age pranksters. The highest bid during that sale — $8 million — was a fake. Hence the involvement of Millionaire.com, a Web site linked to Lycos which will pre-qualify bidders by verifying their financial status. Bidding will start at $5.8 million during the three-week-long auction. Shipping of the massive dinosaur is included, Cutts said.
Company plans state’s first Internet bank
BROOKLINE, Mass. — A banking company wants to cash in on the popularity of online commerce by launching the state’s first Internet-only bank. Brookline Bancorp Inc.’s proposal is being considered by the state Board of Bank Incorporation, which has to consider the bank’s security and how to apply the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which guarantees mortgages for affordable housing. Traditional banks can safeguard funds with security vaults and surveillance cameras. But regulators must determine if electronic encryption and firewalls are enough to deter cyberbandits. The bank’s parent corporation, Brookline Bancorp, has proposed making Greater Boston its assessment area because its customer target area includes the 60 cities and towns within Interstate 495. But the bank has indicated on its application that it hopes to draw customers from around New England, Callahan said. Brookline Bancorp filed plans in August to use $25 million from its 1998 stock offering to create Lighthouse Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary based in Waltham.
