http://www.utahtechwatch.com Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:14:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From the No. 1 ranked company to the No. 25 ranked company, 18 firms in this year's "Top 25 Under 5" awards program can be categorized as technology companies. The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF) has been running this program for nine years now, and the Top 25 Under 5 event ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/industry/18-tech-firms-ranked-in-uvefs-top-25-under-5-awards-program/ One of the most interesting technology-related news items to come out of Utah last week was the fact that the Mormon Church has turned to a mixture of internet video and good-old-fashioned public relations to combat lingering misperceptions between "the Salt Lake City-based church and the polygamous group in Texas ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/industry/mormon-church-uses-internet-video-to-combat-lds-vs-flds-misperceptions/ Unless you've been locked in a cage somewhere, you know that the residential real estate market is suffering through its worst decline in decades. Some forecasters have predicted that the outcome could thrust more than two million homeowners into foreclosure. Sounds like a tough time to be in residential real estate, ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/industry/overstockcom-hits-home-run-with-overstock-real-estate/ Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and the Governor's Office of Economic Development in Utah announced last week via a joint news release that the company would build a 200,000 square foot Global Information Technology (IT) facility in West Jordan, Utah, a facility that would eventually house approximately 100 employees at wages ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/industry/why-oracles-285-million-it-facility-matters-for-utah/ That was the thrust of Part 1 of a two-part news report filed for Salt Lake City-based KSL radio by Marc Giaque: "Addicted to Text Messaging - Part 1." Giaque's story was triggered by an editorial entitled "Issues for DSM-V: Internet Addiction" written by Jerald J. Block, M.D. and published in ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/industry/addicted-to-text-messaging-ksl-radio-asks/ Amy Rees Anderson, chief executive officer of MediConnect Global, was recognized last Thursday (5-15-08) as the "Entrepreneur of the Year" by the MountainWest Capital Network. Anderson is the first woman to receive Entrepreneur of the Year honors from the MWCN. Past honorees include Dr. Wayne Evans, co-founder of Evans & Sutherland ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/high-tech-news/mediconnect-ceo-amy-rees-anderson-named-entrepreneur-of-the-year-by-the-mountainwest-capital-network/ South Jordan-based PC Laptops made news yesterday by announcing they will offer lifetime service & support to all owners of PC Club machines [Disclosure: a Politis Communications client]. PC Club recently filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and as a result left its customers high and dry. Read the article about PC ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/corporate/pc-laptops-offers-supportservice-to-pc-club-customers/ My Experience with Twitter this Past Saturday (5-10-08) at the Republican State Convention This past Saturday (5-10-08) found me and 3,500 of my closest friends --  ;-)  -- jammed into the McKay Events Center at Utah Valley State College as participants in the Republican Party's state convention. This was my first time ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/events/thoughts-on-twitter-and-microblogging/ Last year we participated in the annual Blogging for Business Conference and it was a great event. This year's event will be even better. The theme this year is Engage. [Disclosure: Politis Communications is a sponsor of the conference] Isn't that what we're trying to do as marketing professionals? In most ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/events/2008-blogging-for-business-conference-early-bird-registration-open/ I admit it. I was overwhelmed (and a bit surprised) by the sheer number of news releases being published every week by Utah-based technology, biotech, medtech, healthcare and/or nutraceutical firms. (Or such organizations with ties to the Beehive State.) So . . . although I still want to find a way to ... http://www.utahtechwatch.com/admin/back-in-the-saddle-once-again-with-utah-tech-watch/