Noble Systems Selected to Implement Hosted Technology Solution for Conn?s, Inc. Contact Center

Noble Systems Selected to Implement Hosted Technology Solution for Conn’s, Inc. Contact Center

Noble Systems

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) January 17, 2012

Noble Systems Corporation, a global leader in unified contact center technology solutions, today announced that it was selected by Conn’s, Inc., a specialty retailer of consumer electronics, home appliances, furniture, mattresses, computers and lawn and garden products, to implement the cloud-based Noble® Enterprise Hosted solution to improve customer support services for Conn’s collection operations.

“Noble Systems is proud to partner with Conn’s,” said Chris Hodges, Senior Vice-President of Sales at Noble Systems. “The cloud-based Noble Enterprise Hosted platform is a great fit for a multi-faceted, fast-growing business because of the advantages it offers in scalability and specialization.”

Conn’s, through its proprietary consumer credit program, provides financing to its customers for approximately 60% of its retail sales and manages all aspects of credit account collection and monitoring after the sale. Noble Systems’ contact center solution will play an integral role in customer communications and account management for Conn’s collection operations.

“We are pleased to be working with Noble Systems,” said Theodore Wright, Conn’s CEO. “Once it is fully implemented, the new system will help us improve the effectiveness of our dedicated, in-house collection operations.”

About Noble Systems
Noble Systems Corporation is a global leader in unified reaching center technology solutions, providing innovative products since 1989. Every day, millions of customer contacts are made by agents at 4,000+ client installations worldwide using the award-winning Noble platforms for inbound, outbound and blended communications. The scalable, incorporated Noble solutions include progressing ACD and predictive dialing; unified contact processing; and integrated IVR, recording, messaging, quality/monitoring systems, scripting, and real-time reporting and management tools. Based in Atlanta, GA, Noble Systems was the first vendor to offer an open, scalable, fully-distributed platform. For more information, contact Lee Allum at 1.888.8NOBLE8 or see http://www.noblesystems.com.

About Conn’s, Inc.
The Company is a specialty retailer currently operating 70 retail locations in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma: with 23 stores in the Houston area, 17 in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, eight in San Antonio, three in Austin, five in Southeast Texas, one in Corpus Christi, four in South Texas, six in Louisiana and three in Oklahoma. The Company’s primary product categories include:

Home appliances, including refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, dishwashers and ranges; Consumer electronics, including LCD, LED, 3-D, plasma and DLP televisions, camcorders, digital cameras, Blu-ray and DVD players, video game equipment, portable audio, MP3 players and home theater products; Furniture and mattresses, including furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and related accessories and mattresses; and Home office, including desktop, notebook, netbook and tablet computers, printers and computer accessories.

Additionally, the Company offers a variety of products on a seasonal basis, including lawn and garden equipment, and continues to introduce additional product categories for the home to help respond to its customers’ product needs and to increase same store sales. Unlike many of its competitors, the Company provides flexible in-house credit options for its customers, in addition to third-party financing programs and third-party rent-to-own payment plans. In the last three years, the Company financed, on average, approximately 60% of its retail sales under its in-house financing plan.

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Leading Publisher of Books for the Construction Industry Partners With Canvas to Offer Forms as Mobile Apps

Leading Publisher of Books for the Construction Industry Partners With Canvas to Offer Forms as Mobile Apps

(PRWEB) January 17, 2012

Canvas announced today it launched an App Store for Craftsman Book Company, a leading publisher of books and software entitling covering nearly every construction trade and task. Craftsman has taken the bold step to offer business forms from one of its most popular titles – Construction Forms for Contractors by Karen Mitchell and Craig Savage – as mobile apps. This will allow contractors to complete proposals, change orders, accident reports, subcontract agreements and much more on their Android, Apple, BlackBerry and Windows smartphones and tablets.

In contrast to boilerplate paper forms, every Canvas application is customizable by the end user, and comes with GPS/location, image recapturing, barcode scanning, electronic signatures and accessibility to a customer’s ain data such as parts catalogs and patient records. Once a constituted is completed, the output PDF tinned be emailed and is stored in the user’s account. This not only expedites the communication process, but also eliminate the need to fax paperwork or drive it back to the office.

As Craftsman puts a premium on educating and enabled contractors, they required that each app have an educational component. Before completing a specific constitute, contractors tinned read a detailed description of the form’s purpose and when and how to use it. This comes in handy for less commonly-used forms like safety agreements, waivers of lien on material and labor, non-responsibility notices, etc.

“Many long-time ‘ink on paper’ customers are starting to demand Craftsman’s products in digital format. Canvas apps offer the best of both worlds, by bringing Craftsman’s paper construction forms and educational components to mobile devices everywhere,” said Ben Moselle, Publisher of Craftsman Book Company, adding “The option to use the program with unlimited risk-free access for 30 days really speaks to the confidence Canvas has in their product. The flexible pricing options make their solution more affordable than Canvas’s competition.”

“Canvas is serving a fast-growing community of contractors as the industry realizing the potential of using mobile devices to capture information and data. Our partnership with Craftsman, a leading brand in this publishing space, now provides contractors of all specialties with pre-built apps they can download and use immediately,” added James Quigley, CEO of Canvas.

About Craftsman Book Company
Craftsman Book Company – originally Cal Pacific Builders (1952-1953) – developed from a partnership between a construction contractor and licensed civil engineer. The first Craftsman book, California Home Estimator, was published in 1953. Since that time, Craftsman has published hundreds of technical and professional references for the construction industry. Tens of thousands of contractors, remodelers, custom builders, appraisers, adjusters, estimators, architects, engineers and other construction professionals in the United States and Canada rely on Craftsman’s software products and cost estimating data publications. Craftsman’s Construction Contract Writer software is a first-in-class productivity tool used by construction professionals to meet increasingly more stringent state contracting standards.
Craftsman Book Company is headquartered in Carlsbad, California. To learn more visit http://www.craftsman-book.com.

About Canvas
Canvas makes it easy to publish data collection apps on smartphones and tablets as well as other devices such as laptops, netbooks and barcode scanning devices. Canvas reduces paper consumption, redundant data entry, and excess processes for businesses and mobile professionals. The Canvas software service enables mobile professionals to collect information using their mobile devices and share that information across their business community. This information can even be integrated with backend software systems.

Canvas also offers the first mobile business app store of its kind, allowing businesses from diverse industries to find mobile applications specific to their business that work on Android, Blackberry, Apple, and Windows mobile/desktop devices. Every Canvas application is customizable by the end user, and comes with GPS/location, image capture, barcode scanning, electronic signatures and accessibility to a customer’s own data like parts catalogs and patient records. To date, Canvas has automated nearly 400,000 manual processes/paper forms, making it one of the fastest growing mobile app services for businesses. To learn more visit http://www.GoCanvas.com.

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Personal Computer Shipments Worldwide to Reach 417.2 Million Units by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Personal Computer Shipments Worldwide to Reach 417.2 Million Units by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, California (PRWEB) January 13, 2012

Follow us on LinkedIn – The computer has come a long way since the mid 70’s, from being a scientist’s toy to now becoming a critical productivity tool for businesses, and a full fledged infotainment device for public in general. Personal computers have enveloped every sphere of modern day activity with their sheer magnitude of multiple applications. However, the transitional phase in the computing industry was wrought with numerous technological innovations. PCs have transformed into a mainstream force, which has changed the way people conduct business. PCs, inclusive of notebook PCs, personal digital assistants, desktop PCs, tablet PCs, are now common tools of business and personal life.

Laptop and Notebook computers are the primary source of revenues for the world PC industry. Globally, notebook personal computers are increasingly outpacing desktop PCs in terms of features, computing power and price. Laptops consume up to 90 percent less energy in comparison to desktops PCs. With rising energy cost and the shrinking price difference between a desktop and laptop over the entire product lifecycle makes laptop a cost-effective solution than a desktop from a TCO (total cost of ownership) perspective. The growth of worldwide notebook computer shipments is being further fuelled by the increasing popularity of consumer models that are designed to cater to the need to be mobile and for personal customization.

Netbooks or ‘mini notebooks’ are changing the way people think about the mobile broadband and Internet by enabling consumers to access photos, video, music, and much more, on-the-go. By combining the affordability of netbooks with cost-effective mobile broadband solutions, developers are bringing connectivity to the masses. As a result, netbook PCs will outpace sales of traditional notebook computers in volume terms. Gradually narrowing distinction between netbook PCs and notebook PCs, and cheaper price mean netbooks offer much greater variety and appeal to multiple demographics. Also, subsidies offered by telecommunication firms for signing mobile broadband contracts play a vital role in its uptake.

As consumers continue to embrace digital lifestyle, companies will create products that reflect the sophistication and mobility that is now a priority for enterprise and non-enterprise users alike. Portable computer systems will continue to shine in coming years as consumers continue to seek consumer electronic products they can use anywhere, anytime. An extreme example of this trend is introduction of Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPC) that delivers comprehensive PC capability in ultra-light and small-form factors for on-the-move business users. Also, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) are expected to surface as a result of increased usage of Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC). MIDs enable users to have data and high-quality voice capabilities for both professional and personal use resulting in rich Internet experience.

The personal computers industry is highly volatile and is characterized by strong competition, pricing pressures, changing customer preferences, rapid technological developments, competition from well-established high-tech and electronics companies and continuous disputes over intellectual property and antitrust. With a large number of competitors, the market is characterized by price pressures from competitors and price sensitiveness on part of the customers. Frequent product launches, changing industry standards, and high level of price competition in the PC market has resulted in short product life cycles and frequent reduction in selling prices. Manufacturers constantly face the risk of excessive inventories, due to the unpredictability of market conditions.

Asia-Pacific dominates the global market for personal computers and is forecast to grow at a healthy CAGR of 11.3% over the years 2010 through 2015. Driven by a strong performance in regional markets such as China, India and South Korea, Asia-Pacific is projected to be the fastest growing regional market for personal computers over the next few years. In the upcoming years, it is estimated that price reductions; growing usage of Internet across both non-professional as well as business communities worldwide; increased urbanization levels; literacy rate of adults; and population growth; will drive growth for PCs.

The research report titled “Personal Computers (PCs): A Global Outlook” announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report offers a rudimentary overview of the industry, highlights latest trends and demand drivers, in addition to providing statistical insights. Regional markets briefly abstracted and covered include United States, Canada Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Taiwan) Africa and Middle East (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia). The report offers a compilation of recent mergers, acquisitions, and strategic corporate developments. Also include is an indexed, easy-to-refer, fact-finder directory listing the addresses, and contact details of companies world-wide.

For more details about this comprehensive industry report, please visit –
http://www.strategyr.com/Personal_Computers_PC_Industry_Market_Report.asp

About Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
Global Industry Analysts, Inc., (GIA) is a leading publisher of off-the-shelf market research. Founded in 1987, the company currently employs over 800 people worldwide. Annually, GIA publishes more than 1300 full-scale research reports and analyzes 40,000+ market and technology trends while monitoring more than 126,000 Companies worldwide. Serving over 9500 clients in 27 countries, GIA is recognized today, as one of the world’s largest and reputed market research firms.

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CTL Unveils Next Generation of the 2go Convertible PC

CTL Unveils Next Generation of the 2go Convertible PC

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 12, 2012

Today at CES, Portland, Oregon’s CTL™, announced the 2go® Convertible PC NL3 10.1” ruggedized convertible tablet.

The 2go® Convertible PC NL3 transitions from a netbook to a tablet with the simple twist of a screen. It has a water resistant keyboard and screen and is designed to withstand a 70cm drop. With a shock mounted SATA or SSD Hard Drive, rounded re-enforced corners and a retractable carrying handle the 2go® Convertible PC NL3 is perfect for people on the go.

Featuring DDR3 memory a HDMI port, and up to 10 hours of battery life for increased usability, the 2go® Convertible PC NL3 is ready for a fully day of work. And with a Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, an anti-microbial coating and a webcam that rotates 180 degrees to capture images either facing towards or away from the user. The 2go® Convertible PC NL3 is available from $ 499.

Erik Stromquist, COO of CTL, said “We’re very excited about this new addition to our 2go®PC line. We have taken a great product line and added additional ruggedness with improved hardware performance. Customers have many choices in the tablet space. The 2go® NL3 Convertible Tablet fills a niche in the education, mobile workforce, and vertical markets.”

The 2go® Convertible PC NL3 is available for pre-order now at http://www.ctl.net.

About CTL

Founded in 1989, CTL™ designs and manufactures computer products including desktop and mobile workstations, LED Monitors, and high performance servers. CTL™ also manufactures specialty devices including ruggedized tablets, slates, and high definition LED televisions. CTL’s brands include the popular 2go PC™ and Nexus® Electronics.

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon with offices in Asia, CTL™ and their partners supply North American consumers, government agencies, and many of the most recognized corporate brands. For more information about CTL™, please visit http://www.ctl.net.

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Co-Working Community and Innovation Hub for Tech-Next Entrepreneurs Opens In Reston

Co-Working Community and Innovation Hub for Tech-Next Entrepreneurs Opens In Reston

Collaboration at the Campfire at weSpace

Reston, Virginia (PRWEB) January 11, 2012

The We Media group is announcing the launch of weSpace, an innovation hub for entrepreneurs, innovators and digital creatives at Reston, Va.‘s high-tech commercial and social center.

Located at 1801 Reston Parkway across from Reston Town Center, weSpace provides low-cost offices and creative workspaces for solopreneurs, startups and digital creatives. It establishes a location, community and network for tech-enabled economic development in Northern Virginia and throughout the Capitol region.

More than just affordable office space for startups, weSpace is designed to advance technology, business, culture, policy and investment in the digital economy.

“It’s how the future works,” says Dale Peskin, co-founder of the digital innovation agency, We Media. “Northern Virginia is a hub for brilliant developers, entrepreneurs and change- agents who are, quite literally, reinventing the world from our community. weSpace is a place for these innovators to work and collaborate. It’s a community that cultivates world- changing ideas and facilitates the connections that provide access to the essentials for success: knowledge, talent, resources, expertise, funding and attention.”

As an aviated project, We Media reconfigured its offices at Lake Anne Village in Reston into co-working space two years ago. The space filled quickly, launching several tech startups. weSpace now extends the concept in the heart of the expansive technology corridor stretching from Washington, D.C. to Dulles Airport in Fairfax County.

Canvas, a do it yourself service environment for mobile business apps and ane of the nation’s hottest “new economy” companies, is a founding sponsor and the co-developer of the Reston Town Center site. The fast-growing company has established its headquarters there.

“The vital connections at weSpace spur entrepreneurship and economic development throughout Northern Virginia,” says CEO James Quigley. “Collaboration was essential in the launch of Canvas. We are now excited to help launch a community in Reston where local entrepreneurs can be encouraged to grow their ideas into successful businesses.”

In addition to Canvas and We Media, two other tech-forward companies – AppTap and the nonprofit think tank iFOCOS — have opened offices at weSpace as charter members.

weSpace is member-based. Membership is open to startups, small teams and solopreneurs who can reserve private offices or workspaces by the month, or drop in by the day to use common areas, meeting rooms, collaboration campfires, and planning rooms. High-speed wireless access is available throughout the site, as are monitors, digital equipment and whiteboards. A coffee bar, kitchen and video-game arcade are open to all on-site members.

weSpace is hosting an open house from 11 am to 2 pm on Tuesday, January 17. RSVP at
http://wespaceopen.eventbrite.com/.

About We Media

We Media is a global digital innovation agency that helps organizations see, understand and respond to complex change. It operates a business studio that creates breakthrough ideas and designs innovations for a media-centric culture powered by everyone. Led by media and technology visionaries Andrew Nachison and Dale Peskin, We Media helps discover opportunities for investment, leadership, transformation and value creation. Through its media think tank iFOCOS, it produces leading-edge insight reports such as the ground-breaking We Media agenda that launched a movement, and a report for media-and-democracy policymakers on the global impact of mobile communications in the developing world . We Media also conducts public events, internal seminars, briefings and explorations into emerging technology, economic transformation and digital culture. Its annual We Media conference attracts thought-leaders throughout the world and its annual Pitch It! competition is ecognized internationally as one of the ten best investment challenges, Pitch It! identifies hundreds of innovative projects and awards $ 50,000 in seed investment to two promising startups ech year.
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About Canvas

Canvas makes it easy to publish data collection apps on smartphones and tablets as well as other devices such as laptops, netbooks and barcode scanning devices. Canvas reduces paper consumption, redundant data entry, and excess processes for businesses and mobile professionals. The Canvas software service enables mobile professionals to collect information using their mobile devices and share that information across their business community including with their customers.

Canvas also offers the first mobile business app store of its kind, allowing businesses from diverse industries to find mobile applications specific to their business that work on Android, Apple, Blackberry, and Windows mobile/desktop devices. Every Canvas application is customizable by our subscribers, and comes with GPS/location, image capture, electronic signatures and accessibility to a customer’s own data like parts catalogs and patient records. To date, Canvas users have saved overVtons of paper using our service making it one of the fastest growing mobile app services for businesses.    To learn more visit http://www.GoCanvas.com. Canvas is headquartered in Reston, VA at weSpace.

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EduTone to Market Platforms Based on Intel Classmate PCs

EduTone to Market Platforms Based on Intel Classmate PCs

Alameda, CA (PRWEB) January 11, 2012

EduTone announced today the selection of Intel classmate PCs as part of its ET Persona™ family of school-centric tablets and netbooks. Edutone’s devices will be bundled with the Mobile Edition of the EduTone Xchange™ (ETX), a 2011 CODiE award-winning services delivery platform aimed at the K-12 Education market. Unlike all of the consumer-centrical devices on the market today, the ET Persona product family offers school-centrical netbooks and exchangeable tablet solutions that incorporate Intel’s Educational software tools, pre-installed CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act) compliant filtering software and the EduTone Passport™ to equip easygoing and procure single sign-on wireless access to centrally-provisioned school applications. Together, the ET Persona and the ETX-Mobile Edition present the most comprehensive, financially sustainable technology infrastructure solution for personalized roving learning.

The ETX-Mobile Edition will also offer each school, or school district, a library of 200+ on-demand EduTone Connectors that enables the school administrators to configure each device, based on the role of its owner, to automatically access all of the school licensed content and software services through a single sign-on Passport. The EduTone Connector catalog is the most extended educational ecosystem on the market today and includes most of the expounded-based school-centric enterprise applications such as their Active Directory™ LDAP, Moodle™ LMS, Microsoft’s SharePoint™ Portal, various Student Information Systems, Learning Management Systems, and Library Information Systems, in addition to cloud-hosted school-centric applications such Google Apps for Education™, Microsoft Live.Edu™, the Global Grid for Learning™, and many more.

“The ruggedized Intel classmate PC -based ET Persona devices powered by the ETX-Mobile Edition and featuring Intel’s robust educational tools are game changers for educational organizations that are ready to personalize their education delivery model,” said Robert Iskander, CEO of EduTone. “We are truly excited to leverage Intel’s proven technology, tools and market leadership in providing solutions that will improve student learning outcomes around the world,” he continued.

“We are very excited to have EduTone as a partner following Intel® Learning Series solutions,” said Dr. Wayne Grant, Director of Research and Planning for the Education Market Platforms Group at Intel Corporation… “EduTone’s award-winning Xchange Platform will accelerate the adoption of the Intel Learning Series family of products and will equip educators provide a direct path to 21st century learning.”

Intel® Learning Series brings together a strong ecosystem of PC manufacturers, operating system vendors, education service providers, content and software providers to deliver a complete, end-to-end education solution. It offers marketing tools, training, online exposure and a forum for its members to partake resources and find common opportunities. More than 500 members in 70 countries are developing applications, peripherals and services optimized for the Learning Series. For more information, visit http://www.intellearningseries.com.

About EduTone Corporation
EduTone provides the sustainable technology schools need in order to deliver the 21st century teaching and learning environments their stakeholders require. Installed in thousands of schools around the world, the EduTone XchangeTM is a 2011 CODiE “Best K-12 Solution” award winning, Web 3.0 Platform-as-a-Service technology that enables on-demand, one-to-one services delivery in the Education Enterprise. EduTone is a DBA of VIP Tone Inc., a privately held corporation headquartered in Alameda, California. For more information, visit http://www.EduTone.com.

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