On your next visit to the dentist, you might notice a computer monitor to the side of that ergonomic chair. That’s because software designed to manage a dental practice from companies like Dentrix is being used not only to automate [See the full post…]

For most of us, connecting technology systems is a bit outside our normal capacity. That’s why there are home automation dealers and integrators who can connect separate technologies in the home into a single automated system. Like other tech specialists, [See the full post…]

After 18 years designing and managing next-generation telecomm networks at AT&T, Frucall‘s CEO Dr. Behzad Nadji is allowing the modern shopper to wage a price war with the all-powerful cell phone. With the Frucall service, when shoppers see a product [See the full post…]

In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices‘ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss the top stories of the week from a Rocky Mountain perspective. The conversation includes a look at the Utah companies that made the [See the full post…]

At the end of the Human Genome Project, researcher Niroshan Ramachandran, at the Harvard Institute of Proteomics, opened the door into a much bigger challenge: isolating and measuring the interactions between individual proteins inside DNA. This science, or Proteomics, holds [See the full post…]

Politic 2.0 is a new Utah-based Web 2.0 tech startup that is mashing up wiki’s, blogs, blog search, live video streaming and in-person and in-the-field question, ranking and commenting tools. The system supports the popular town hall model but extends [See the full post…]

vSpring Capital‘s Dennis Wood talks with Cydni Tetro and Brad Baldwin about The v100 for 2007. From a base of more than 8,000 names, the peer-selection process identified the top 100 entrepreneurs most likely to lead a successful venture in [See the full post…]

Forbes Magazine has rated 3 of the top 11 Best Places for Business and Careers in the Rockies. Provo, Utah (#2), Boise, Idaho (#3), and Ogden, Utah (#11). While Provo and Boise have seen lots of press over the last [See the full post…]

Tom Karren, CEO of WingateWeb, demonstrates the social networking, auto-calendar population, and session management features in their latest event and conference management system. Fortune 500 companies — including many in the tech sector — turn to the combination of services [See the full post…]

Way back in 1998, Tom Karren and a handful of fellow Novell engineers set out to deliver a hosted application service built on Web technologies. The result was WingateWeb, an event and conference reservation and management system. Today WingateWeb’s offering [See the full post…]

When these homeowners wanted to add smart home functionality to an existing home, they turned to an integrator. The integrator presented Control4 as both a feature rich and affordable solution. Now this family has a single-remote experience to manage all [See the full post…]

Chris R. Johnson directs the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) at the University of Utah. Johnson was greatly influenced by several people responsible, in large part, for creating computer graphics as we know it today. Names like David Evans [See the full post…]

Tony Pearce, president and co-founder of MyComfort, talks with Kip Meacham about they company’s path from startup to leader in the market for innovation-driven cushioning and mattress technology. As an inventor, engineer, researcher and entrepreneur, Pearce took his knowledge and [See the full post…]

Adding a home automation system to an existing home used to require tearing out drywall, installing thousands of feet of wire and surviving the battle of the mess and endless dust. John Yoon, VP of marketing, and Wally Barnum, a [See the full post…]

RubberBall Productions is one of the longest-running independent stock photography studios. Mark Andersen, one of the founders, tells Brad Baldwin the story of moving from a an advertising photography service to a product company. While the Internet helped to create [See the full post…]

It’s more common than ever to use purpose-built hardware and software solutions, ( Xbox, firewalls and VPN appliances, Google Search appliance, etc.). John Yoon, VP of marketing, and Bill Harper, director of development at Control4, discuss the advantages to a [See the full post…]

Smart lighting makes that “old” light switch cool again. It also saves you money as you conserve power. Ed Ryan and Scott Moulton at Control4 talk about how little, everyday tasks can become conveniences with Smart Lighting. With Control4 “scenes,” [See the full post…]

Mentor Associates Founder Jack Carroll speaks with Dennis Wood about sales organizations in startups. He addresses questions such as: What is missing in most startup sales organizations? What to look for when hiring a sales executive? What are the most [See the full post…]

Convenience. That’s the big benefit of having all your music and video entertainment at your fingertips. Control4‘s Ed Ryan and Jeff Thomas discuss the benefits of every-room entertainment with Brad Baldwin. Using something called “scenes,” Control4 allows you to integrate [See the full post…]

Businesses are dealing with compliance and reporting from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in many ways. Allegiance CEO and Founder Adam Edmunds saw a niche three years ago and entered the market to provide confidential communication with his Silent Whistle product. Today, [See the full post…]

Tivo changed the way we watch TV. Just like you record your favorite 24 episode, Solera Networks offers network security for enterprises and governments that captures and replays an organization’s network traffic. Steve Shillingford, vice president of worldwide sales, speaks [See the full post…]

WiLife COO, Grant Beckmann, talks about managing growth in start-up companies. During the past 18 years, Beckmann has worked with some of Utah’s fastest-growing startups, including Folio (now FAST), Tenfold, NextPage, and WiLife. He discusses what he has learned about [See the full post…]

vSpring‘s Dennis Wood speaks with ContentWatch President and CEO Jack Sunderlage, about his participation in some of Utah’s most important economic development initiatives, including the Utah Technology Council, the Utah Partnership for Education, The World Trade Center Utah, and Utah [See the full post…]

Platforms are validated as partners develop solutions. Control4 invited a number of their key partners to display and show their solutions at CES. The solutions enhance and extend the lighting, climate, audio/visual, and security benefits. From Somfy‘s solutions to manage [See the full post…]

Utah venture capital and angel investment success is not limited to the Salt Lake Valley. Focusing on matching up investors and early-stage entrepreneurs, Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum chairman Steve Grizzell discusses UVEF’s origins and successes. A 20-year veteran in entrepreneurship, [See the full post…]