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Editor’s note: RIoT, the grass roots Internet of Things organization based in the Triangle, put on a “demo night” during the recent All Things Open conference. Executive Director Tom Snyder provides a recap of a very busy evening at the request of WRAL TechWire. RALEIGH – Raleigh cemented its leadership position in Internet of Things (IoT) and Open Source last week, drawing over 3,200 people from around the US and the World to All Things Open and the partnered RIoT IoT Demo Night. Every year these programs have significantly grown in size and quality. Todd Lewis, organizer of ATO...

TOKYO — As a young man, aspiring opera singer Norio Ohga wrote to Sony to complain about the quality of its tape recorders. That move changed the course of his life, as the company promptly recruited the man whose love of music would shape the development of the compact disc and transform the Japanese electronics maker into a global software and entertainment empire. Sony’s president and chairman from 1982 to 1995, Ohga died Saturday in Tokyo of multiple organ failure, the company said. He was 81. (Read his obituary at Sony’s website.) Ohga’s connection to music steered his work....

CARY, NC — How strange that on a day when a North Carolina legend passed away that another pillar was recognized for helping built the state’s future. Former Governor Jim Hunt, a driving force to create the high-tech and biotech industries over the past three decades, received Thursday night the biggest honor that NCEITA can bestow: Its “Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award.” But Hunt, greeted by two standing ovations at the North Carolina Electronics and Information technology Association’s annual “21 Awards” in Cary, could not accept the award without mentioning warmly his long-time friend and fellow Democrat Jim Graham. Graham,...

MORRISVILLE,SmartPath, a developer of market resource management software, released version 5.0 of its MRM product today, saying it includes new vendor management, online bidding and media scheduling capabilities. Smartpath also has been included in Gartner Inc.’s “Visionary Quadrant” in its evaluation and raking of MRM vendors. Gartner based its quadrant report on a study of 450 MRM applications in use at Global 1000 firms, “The MRM space continues to grow and attract attention from vendors and enterprises that seek to automate marketing planning, execution and measurement,” said Claudio Marcus, Gartner’s research director of CRM and Business Technology in his...

Synchrologic, a developer of mobile infrastructure solutions, such as document, Web-site delivery and enterprise e-mail applications, recently released a statement glorifying a Gartner report that labeled the company as “visionary.” But at least one analyst says the “visionary” label is a bit exaggerated. Isaac Ro, an analyst with Boston-based Aberdeen Group, says the company should…at the most…be lauded for its stamina during an otherwise plunging high-tech market, especially being that Atlanta-based Synchrologic is focused on telecom. “I think they are a unique company in that they are focused on developing applications for the pocket PC market, and there is...