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IT cos bet on do-it-yourself apps for employees
Times of India
... technology managers concerned about network security. Even so, rank-and-file employees will build at least a quarter of new business applications by 2014, up from less than 5 per cent in 2007, Stamford, Connecticut-based Gartner Inc predicts.
Do-It-Yourself Mobile Applications Gain

Gartner Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011
Business Wire (press release)
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, today reported results for fourth quarter and full year 2011, and provided its preliminary

Norwich, Plainfield school districts subpoenaed by state
Norwich Bulletin
By ADAM BENSON Several Eastern Connecticut school district on Monday were subopoeaned by the state Attorney General's office for what one officials calls a "massive and unprecedented" amount of paperwork ahead of a court case regarding funding for more ...

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CT REIA Announces February 2012 Real Estate Investing Seminar With Business ...
RealEstateRama (press release)
by CT REIA West Hartford, CT – February 6, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — The Connecticut Real Estate Investors Association, or CT REIA, in association with Zack Childress is announcing the CT REIA Monthly Meeting for real estate investors on

UTC Board of Directors Announces Quarterly Dividend
MarketWatch (press release)
HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- United Technologies Corp.'s /quotes/zigman/244482/quotes/nls/utx UTX -0.59% Board of Directors today declared a dividend of 48 cents per common share payable March 10 to shareowners of record at ...

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The Nameless Dead in Connecticut: DNA and Databases May Help Identify Unnamed ...
Litchfield County Times
Of the 41 cases of unidentified remains listed on NamUs for Connecticut, only three show DNA samples have been submitted, with no DNA samples taken even for many cases in years when the technology was available, the site shows.

Kaspersky to buy out US investors, rules out IPO
Reuters
| CANCUN, MEXICO (Reuters) - Russian tech entrepreneur Eugene Kaspersky, who runs the world's fourth-biggest maker of anti-virus software, is parting ways with a group of US investors who bought 20 percent of his company a year ago when he was ...

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OPEL Technologies Inc. Announces Management Change
MarketWatch (press release)
SHELTON, CONNECTICUT AND TORONTO, ONTARIO, Feb 06, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- OPEL Technologies Inc. /quotes/zigman/6419487 CA:OPL +2.04% and OPEL Solar Inc. ("OPEL" or "the Company"), a leading global supplier of solar tracker systems and high ...

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Dr. Numan Gharaibeh named physician of the year at New Milford Hospital
Connecticut Plus
By New Milford Hospital NEW MILFORD, CT - Even in the era of healthcare reform and falling reimbursements, the importance of “bedside manner” still carries a lot of weight at New Milford Hospital, where physicians and staff recently selected their ...

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Educators look toward upcoming legislative session with anticipation
New Haven Register
Wealthy Connecticut, a state of haves and have-nots, has the distinction of posting the worst educational achievement gap in the nation. Education funding priorities, teacher evaluation, tenure and early childhood programs, are all seen through the ...

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CT leads US high-tech, but nation losing ground
Hartford Business
By Brad Kane Thanks to its strong educational system and manufacturing industry, Connecticut will pace America's high tech-sector for the next generation. But Connecticut is leading in a losing cause. Pacing the nation isn't what it used to be, ...

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Conn. readies innovation 'adventure'
Westfair Online
Connecticut is ready to select consultants to help it create an “innovation ecosystem,” looking both to poach ideas already implemented in New York and Massachusetts as well as inviting consultants to “choose their own adventure” in creating unique ...
Sikorsky Innovations

With move, Pitney Bowes sends 170 jobs from Shelton to Danbury
Ct Post
Pitney Bowes, the international communications firm, unveiled its Global Technology Center in Danbury on Thursday, a move first reported last May that sends about 170 jobs from Shelton to that city. With the move, Pitney Bowes brings under one roof its ...
Pitney Bowes Opens A

Windsor man appointed Connecticut's first 'power procurement manager'
Post-Chronicle
Gaudiosi, 39, has worked with the Manufacturing Alliance of Connecticut since 1997. In his role with the alliance, Gaudiosi developed an expertise in energy issues, creating and managing a power and natural gas purchasing pool for industrial

Connecticut Governor Seeks Storm Exercises, Utility Standards
Insurance Journal
Vickie Nardello, D-Prospect, co-chairwoman of the General Assembly's Energy and Technology Committee, said PURA has hired a consultant to do an even more in-depth review of CL&P's and The United Illuminating Co.'s responses during the

Hiring Logjam Breaks as CEOs Plan for US Growth
Bloomberg
'Pretty Decent' “The ground seems to be set for a pretty decent near-term outlook for manufacturing,” said Stephen Stanley, chief economist for Pierpont Securities in Stamford, Connecticut. “There's still room for job growth there if demand continues ...

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CL&P and Yankee Gas offering grants to 2012 FIRST robotics competitors
ShorelinePlus.com
Over 1500 high school students are expected to compete in the 2012 Connecticut FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, March 29 - 31 at Hartford's Connecticut Convention Center.
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Sikorsky's Army Scout entry will be privately funded
Ct Post
Sikorsky will fund 75 percent of the cost of the development with the rest of the group, which includes General Electric Co., Stamford-based Hexcel Corp. and Connecticut-based Hamilton Sundstrand, Kamatics and Spectrum covering the rest of the costs. ...
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Bioscience project draws skepticism
Ct Post
She spent a considerable part of the 90-minute discussion talking about plans to build a genome-research facility at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. That project would be a partnership with Jackson Laboratory, ...

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Angel Investing Jumps With State Tax Credit
Hartford Courant
"There is an explosion in entrepreneurship and people want to get in on it," said Matthew Nemerson, president of the Connecticut Technology Council, which started lobbying for a tax credit for angel investors more than five years ago. ...

Device Brings $1000 Genome Within Reach
Technology Review
Back in July, Jonathan Rothberg, CEO of the Connecticut-based biotech company Ion Torrent, predicted that his company would develop a chip that could sequence an entire human genome by 2013. This week, the company surpassed that prediction with a new ...
Insight: New DNA

Alcoa Foundation Gives CJR a Grant
Litchfield County Times
LITCHFIELD—Connecticut Junior Republic (CJR) has received a capacity building grant of $35000 from the Alcoa Foundation, one of the largest corporate foundations in the US, according to executive director John F. Boyd. The grant will be used to ...

Eastern Connecticut teens get taste of high-tech jobs
Norwich Bulletin
And University of Connecticut graduate students worked with teens in a workshop devoted to nanotechnology, including nanosand — a material coated with a special substance that prevents water from saturating it, helpful in cleanups after oil spills and ...

Conn. boosts spending to draw technology companies
Danbury News Times
ROCKY HILL -- The state's quasi-public technology investment agency unveiled a $250 million investment plan Wednesday to create new businesses in Connecticut and recruit new ones from out of state. Connecticut Innovations will invest $50 million a year ...
Conn. increases

37.5 MW Waste Gasification Facility for Connecticut
Waste Management World
The PRE project is owned by a subsidiary of Enova Energy Group and located on a 27-acre site in Plainfield, Connecticut. The developers claimed that the new plant will employ Best Available Control Technology (BACT) to control emissions and will be

SAIC, Enova Energy Group, The Carlyle Group Launch $225 Million Plainfield ...
Sacramento Bee
The PRE project is owned by a subsidiary of Enova Energy Group and located on a 27-acre site in Plainfield, Connecticut. The plant will employ Best Available Control Technology (BACT) to control emissions and is fully certified as a renewable

A Mix in Stamford, Conn.
Wall Street Journal
By MAURA WEBBER SADOVI A Connecticut developer that is remaking Stamford, Conn.'s waterfront is now tackling a vacant downtown office complex that was part of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s huge real-estate portfolio. Building & Land Technology is ...
FORMER GEN RE

Connecticut Delegation Split On Internet Piracy Bills
CT Newsjunkie
But the technology community, which doesn't have much of a lobbying presence in Washington, DC, was tardy in expressing its concerns about the legislation. The early debate was focused solely on the film industry, in which Connecticut has invested ...

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Conn. teacher brings travel lessons to classroom
Deseret News
Connecticut and national educators say teachers with that knowledge are increasingly valuable, especially as the world becomes more interconnected through technology and nations' economies. This June 2006 photo provided by Larry Shortell shows Shortell ...

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Glynn will coach MIT lacrosse squad
Boston.com
The South side includes Babson College senior goalkeeper Peter Crowley of Lexington, Eastern Connecticut State senior defender Aaron Smiles of Bedford, Roger Williams junior defender Kamali Webson of Bellingham, Brandeis University senior midfielder ...

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Despite challenges, state can influence 2012 economic outcome
The Connecticut Mirror
By Keith M. Phaneuf Connecticut's economy crawled out of the Great Recession at a snail's pace in 2011, and the New Year isn't expected to bring much change. But while Connecticut's economic fate rests largely with global factors, economists say

AAA 'Tipsy tow' program not offered in Connecticut
Middletown Press
The confusion, according to Fran Mayko, spokeswoman for AAA Southern New England-Connecticut, may have been brought on by the news and social media, each passing on the wrong information. “I just think the technology is immediate now. ...

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Fulfilling the promise of technical high schools
Westfair Online
Connecticut's technical high schools are a unique resource to our young people – students gain a direct connection to careers in an increasingly technology-driven, 21st century economy. Unfortunately this resource is substantially undervalued and ...

Congress to mull startup creation
Westfair Online
RemoteReality Corp. designs cameras that can produce video and thermal imaging across 360 degrees, with military and commercial applications; the company's technology was originally developed at Columbia University in New York City. Even as Connecticut ...