Archive for 'Technology'

Cognitive Radio Technologies: Growing with the Times

Issue: July 2011 by .

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After his phone conversation with Samsung in Korea was interrupted by two energetic dogs bolting down the stairs, barking and howling, James Neel decided it was time to move the business out of his basement. “It was very embarrassing,” Neel, founder and president of Cognitive Radio Technologies, said. “I felt so bad!” Shortly thereafter, Cognitive [...]

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Virginia Technical Institute: Teaching Trades to the New Era Vocational-Technical Workers

Issue: June 2011 by .

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Ken Bond didn’t want to let a good opportunity pass him by. The 45-year-old Lynch Station resident, who does odd jobs to make ends meet, decided to go back to school to learn the Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning trade, commonly called HVAC. Bond had some experience in the refrigeration business, but no official certification. [...]

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Virtual Landscape and GPS-Guided Tours Take Poplar Forest Guests into New Realms

Issue: May 2011 by .

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Thomas Jefferson, a man who loved progression and innovation, among other things, would likely be thrilled. New technology now available at Poplar Forest in Forest, Virginia, is taking visitors to Jefferson’s retreat home closer than ever to its original landscape and numerous stories. Through the addition of the first-ever, three-dimensional virtual rendering of Jefferson’s ornamental [...]

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Virginia Business One Stop Web Site: One Site and You’re in Business

Issue: April 2011 by .

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When Gerry Peters was thinking of starting his own business, the Manassas, Virginia, business coach admits he wasn’t sure where to start gathering the resources and information he needed. Then, he discovered the Virginia Business One Stop (BOS) Web site, a tool created by the Commonwealth aimed at serving the needs of new, existing and [...]

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Up, Up and Away: The New Era of Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics

Issue: March 2011 by .

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Four students made up Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics program at its start in 2002. Over the past nine years, the program has rapidly grown and currently includes more than 400 students. As a result of the school’s growth, the university recently purchased a new 24,000 square foot, two-story building located on Airport Road near [...]

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Electronic Systems Inc., Wants to Improve Your Workflow

Issue: February 2011 by .

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While successfully servicing big name clients like Centra and BMW, Virginia’s Electronic Systems Inc. (ESI), maintains a small business-like relationship with many of their clients, consulting them on their workflow and servicing their technology products “from the cradle to the grave.” ESI began over 30 years ago in August of 1980 when Bill Kamerek, a [...]

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The Center for Innovative Technology Partners with High-Tech Start-Ups

Issue: January 2011 by .

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On its Web site, the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) poses the question, “How would you like to partner with us?” It’s this spirit of collaboration that has fueled the CIT for the past quarter century, enabling it to support thousands of budding tech companies and special projects in the Lynchburg area and across the [...]

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Sight, Sound & Science: Behind the Virginia Christmas Spectacular

Issue: December 2010 by .

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When Jon Daggett began putting together his home display of Christmas lights in the early 1990s, he got a lot of recognition from his neighbors as well as local news stations, which used his home as a backdrop for their holiday news reports. What he did not know then was that his simple decorative home [...]

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FUTURE FOCUS EXPO: Exposing Students to Career Possibilities

Issue: November 2010 by .

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Buses filled with middle and high school students made their way to the fifth annual Future Focus EXPO held at Liberty University’s Tolsma Indoor Track on Tuesday, September 15. Each year the EXPO, hosted by Virginia’s Region 2000 Technology Council, gives students who are interested in science and technology the opportunity to learn more about [...]

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A Welding Woman in a Man’s World

Issue: October 2010 by .

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For M&S Fabricators in Altavista, Virginia, a small, family operated welding company, the year 2006 was a difficult one. Melvin Allbeck, the owner and operator since the company’s beginning in 1991, lost a short battle with brain cancer in April, landing the company in the hands of his daughter, Renata Allbeck, who was five months [...]

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