NEWS: February 2006 Archives - Ben Franklin Technology Partners of PennsylvaniaSubscribe
SaveSimply: Bringing Wall Street Services to Main Street Investors
Say "gambling" and most people think of casinos, slot machines and Texas hold'em poker. But more than 83 million households are rolling the dice with their hard earned money every day, and Jim Langenwalter wants to do something to make it less risky.... Read More
Spinworks: Providing a New Twist on Energy Savings
All bottom lines are affected by rising fuel prices-and rarely is that more true than in the industrial heat-treating sector. In this industry, even modest improvements in energy-use efficiency can spell tremendous cost savings in a short amount of t... Read More
Vivisimo: Search Technology That Cuts through the Internet Clutter
Vivisimo, the creator of innovative web-search software that clusters information according to topics, has unveiled a special Ben Franklin web portal in honor of Franklin's 300th birthday. Vivisimo launched a comprehensive one-stop web portal for ... Read More
Rajant: Using “BreadCrumbs” to Restore Critical Communications Infrastructure
The words "The network is down!" bring panic to workers who fear lost documents and missed deadlines. But when an entire communications infrastructure is down-including the system used by emergency personnel-the shutdown can become a literal matter o... Read More
A-Line Acoustics: Professional Audio That Challenges the Industry Standard
In the professional audio industry, well-established brands enjoy fierce customer loyalty. In such a competitive environment, simply building a better speaker is not enough of an advantage for a new company to make much of a splash. A-Line Acousti... Read More
PaperlessPractice: One-to-One Marketing Technology Goes Wireless
The next time you're in a doctor's waiting room or standing in line at a store, you may be greeted by Wink-an animated character developed to educate, inform and market to customers who are in "waiting situations." The WinkPad from Paperless Pract... Read More
Neuro Kinetics: Monitoring the Eye to Diagnose Diseases and Conditions
There are well over 200 diseases with symptoms manifesting themselves in unusual eye movement. Neuro Kinetics Inc. (NKI) has developed highly specialized goggles, a futuristic-looking rotating chair and software to monitor and analyze these movements... Read More
GlucoLight: Helping Diabetics with a Noninvasive Glucose Testing System
In a shocking testament to modern dietary habits, the National Institutes of Health recently reported that children born this decade have a one in three chance of developing diabetes by the time they are 50. Using infrared light, GlucoLight has fo... Read More
Preservation Technologies: Saving the Past, Preserving the Future
In 1731, Benjamin Franklin founded the first lending library in part to ensure important literary works would have a permanent home. What he didn't account for was Father Time's effect on the books and manuscripts. Preservation Technologies is doing ... Read More
Othera: Dropping the Leading Causes of Blindness
As the first wave of Baby Boomers turns 60 this year, an estimated 35 million people are poised to develop vision-debilitating cataracts. Exton-based Othera Pharmaceuticals believes that's 35 million people too many. Othera is a specialty pharmace... Read More
