Vermont News

In less than one month, Cabot Creamy Cooperative will announce the Grand Prize winners for Reward Volunteers 3.0, a free computer widget and mobile app for iPhone, which enables individuals and organizations to track the time they spend volunteering in their communities. Since the third phase of Reward Volunteers began in January, Cabot has rewards dozens of volunteers for their hard work with a variety of prizes, including cash, vacations, gift baskets, and more. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120213/MM52737LOGO ) "So far, we've ... read more

Verizon Wireless: WHO: Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation’s largest 4G LTE network and largest, most reliable 3G network WHAT: Verizon Wireless recently enhanced voice and fourth ... read more

Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell has honored Mike Smith, Vermont state president of FairPoint Communications, with the Attorney General's Pure Vermont award for Smith's "significant efforts to educate Vermonters about telephone scams and to protect them from wire-transfer fraud." The Attorney General's Pure Vermont Awards Program recognizes individuals, businesses and organizations that exemplify the best Vermont traditions of caring for its communities, helping neighbors, and fair dealing in the marketplace. It is only the second time the Attorney General has presented the ... read more

AT&T is committed to providing its customers reliable communications during the upcoming hurricane season - before, during and after storms - and has one of the industry's largest and most advanced disaster response programs to keep its networks operational. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/DA23287LOGO) "Communication is critical when severe weather disrupts our day to day routines. That's why AT&T invests an enormous amount of time and energy in our network reliability and disaster response capabilities," said Patricia Jacobs, president, AT&T New England. "We know people ... read more

The Vermont Center for Geographic Information (VCGI) announced the launch of a new online service last month to allow GIS professionals and others to register for educational events throughout Vermont and pay securely via credit card over the web. The new online service was launched on ... read more

K-TOR, LLC, designer and manufacturer of portable power generators, announced today the release of their second-generation Pocket Socket hand crank generator, the Pocket Socket 2. This affordable human powered generator features a standard outlet interface, which provides backup energy and emergency power to a wide range of electronic devices. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130516/NE15790 ) A more than 120% increase in blackouts annually in the US in recent decades has left more and more Americans looking for a backup power supply when the ... read more

AT&T* New England today is urging all Vermont drivers to pledge never to text and drive. AT&T's New England team is educating drivers across the region on the dangers of texting while driving, and urging them to take AT&T's "Txting & Drving: It Can Wait" pledge never to text and drive. The team has set a goal of gathering 500,000 pledges across all six New England states by the end of the year. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/DA23287LOGO) Taking the pledge is easy: ... read more

Today more than 250 local Comcast Vermont employees and their families and friends will "make change happen" as they volunteer to improve five sites across the state as part of Comcast's 12(th) Comcast Cares Day. Comcast Cares Day is Comcast and NBCUniversal's signature day of service and the nation's largest single-day corporate volunteer effort. Today Connecticut volunteers will roll their sleeves up at sites in Brattleboro, Burlington, Rutland, Saint Albans and White River Junction. This year the Company expects more than ... read more

In the spirit of National Volunteer Month, Cabot Creamery Cooperative -- the New England and upstate New York farm-family owned dairy cooperative widely known as the maker's of the "World's Best Cheddar" -- is pleased to announce the top performers in another inspiring round of Reward Volunteers 3.0. The program, a free computer widget and easy-to-use mobile app for iPhone, enables individuals and organizations to track the time they spend volunteering in their communities. From February 28 through March 31, ... read more

Tech Vault, Inc. announced today that the State of Vermont Department of Information and Innovation has recently signed a five-year agreement to provide colocation services to support Vermont’s data center consolidation and technology upgrade efforts. ... read more

Dealer.com, a leading provider of digital marketing and operational products and services for the automotive industry, received four awards in Auto Dealer Monthly Magazine's 2013 Dealers' Choice Awards - two Diamond Awards for Digital Marketing and Website Design; and two Platinum Awards for Mobile Media and Internet Trainer. Dealer.com is the first company to win four awards in multiple distinctive categories. "The Dealers' Choice Awards are scored by our clients--dealers and dealership personnel - and that makes us especially ... read more

Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company, today announced that its Ethernet services will be available in the coming weeks across six communities in Chittenden County, Vermont. Targeted for businesses with more than 20 employees, these services provide access to the company's next-generation fiber network and speeds up to 10 Gbps, and offer a better choice for businesses, schools, hospitals and other organizations requiring more bandwidth or the need to connect multiple locations. As the most populated county in Vermont, ... read more

Following a successful Phase Two launch of Reward Volunteers last August, Cabot Creamery- the New England and upstate New York farm-family owned dairy cooperative best known as "The Maker's of the World's Best Cheddar" - has expanded and re-launched Reward Volunteers 3.0. The program, a free computer widget and easy-to-use mobile app for iPhone, enables individuals and organizations to track the time they spend volunteering in their communities. Volunteers can use either the app or the widget to earn chances ... read more

Verizon Wireless: WHO: Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation’s largest 4G LTE network and largest, most reliable 3G network WHAT: Verizon Wireless recently activated new fourth generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) ... read more

Leading online travel company Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) and the Vermont Department of Tourism today launched a five-part online video series, "Orbitz Originals: Winter in Vermont," hosted by award-winning travel expert Richard Bangs and available exclusively at Orbitz.com/Vermont. Building on the success of previous "Orbitz Originals" installments that highlighted destinations as diverse as Ireland, New York and the Cayman Islands, this new series harnesses the power of online video to showcase Vermont's winter attractions and will be followed by "Orbitz ... read more

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CONIX Systems, Inc. (CONIX) is introducing its Risk Detective(TM) solution for real time scoring of client eligibility in support of financial institutions' risk management strategies. Challenged to comply efficiently with FFIEC guidelines and to mitigate the risk associated with the expansion of payment options, financial institutions must carefully target the marketing and availability of these products only to customers who have been properly vetted. "Decision making in the world of electronic banking is an opportunity within a challenge - an opportunity ... read more

CONIX Systems, Inc., a leading international provider of payment processing solutions to the financial services industry, is pleased to announce that Trustmark National Bank (Trustmark) will add Fraud Detective® to the bank's payment processing operation. Fraud Detective helps banks and payment processors reduce both risk and cost by improving the speed and accuracy of identifying payment fraud across payment channels. Trustmark, with approximately 220 branch locations in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas, is a subsidiary of Trustmark Corporation, a ... read more

AT&T* invested more than $45 million in its Vermont wireless and wireline networks from 2010 through 2012, with a focus on expanding 4G mobile Internet coverage and enhancing the overall performance of its networks.** (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/DA23287LOGO) AT&T has made nearly 80 wireless network upgrades in six key categories in Vermont during 2012, including activating new cell sites, adding capacity, upgrading cell sites to provide fast 4G mobile Internet speeds, deploying high-capacity Ethernet connections to cell sites, and adding or upgrading Distributed Antenna ... read more

David Long, president of Vitech Corporation, announced today the current agenda and lineup of speakers for the company’s Insight 2013 annual user conference in April in Chantilly, Va. The conference promises informative and inspirational messages from thought leaders in government, ... read more