David Spark

On Oct. 21, 2005, turner entertainment networks, a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, ran a very special promotion for the National Basketball Association on TNT, or Turner Network Television. To viewers, the promotion didnt look any different. But to broadcasters, it was quite unusual in that the video was loaded from a holographic disk […]

Veterans enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration, part of the Department of Veterans Affairs, have to answer a variety of questions regarding compensation, pension status, military service and more. Based on those answers, a veteran is given a priority group status label (from 1 to 8) within the VHAs continuous enrollment system. It sounds simple, […]

Before meeting Dan Martin at Connections for Business Inc., Dan Hummert was in a situation where he couldnt grow his business. “We were not able to track call history on which person of the team was talking to what contact about what,” said Hummert, former president of Hummert Construction, of Lantana, Fla. “The left hand […]

Seeking business efficiencies by merging the knowledge of technologists and industry professionals has been an ever-evolving process. But chief technology officers, such as Jeff Cooper, director of IT shared services at the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md., know the problem firsthand. He had a hard time finding project managers who understand the business […]

Seeking business efficiencies by merging the knowledge of technologists and industry professionals has been an ever-evolving process. But chief technology officers, such as Jeff Cooper, director of IT shared services at the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md., know the problem firsthand. He had a hard time finding project managers who understand the business […]

Bob and Nancy Brackett have a small but growing business certifying people who want to get a teaching certificate in Texas. For 10 years, their distance learning business, Web-Centric Alternative Certification Program, of Cypress, Texas, had been using a limited number of Polycom ViewStations, an expensive room-based videoconferencing system that didnt operate over dial-up. As […]

Getting an insurance quote from an independent insurance agent used to be a very manual process. Agents began by acquiring the latest rate information, which was mailed to them on disk by each insurance agency. Agents would load these updated rates onto their desktop, where their rating program would recalculate the most accurate quote. The […]

NASCAR officials are monitoring a race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala. The white flag has dropped, signaling the last lap of the race, but before the winner can cross the finish line, theres an accident on turn one. A yellow flag has dropped. The entire field is frozen. According to NASCAR rules, because […]

For close to two decades, Argus Research Group, an independent investment research company in New York, struggled with its antiquated premises-based voice system. Simple communications that other companies took for granted were not possible with Argus Startech Telecommunications Executone phones, said Bill Lehn, vice president of technology at Argus Research Group. Argus suffered a multitude […]

In the theater of operations in Iraq, the U.S. Marines rely on video from unmanned aerial vehicles to warn them as to whats ahead. What used to take as long as an hour to see is now being delivered to troops on the ground in real time. When a soldier is waiting to see whats […]