Shielding Resources Group is a multimillion-dollar Tulsa company with truly humble beginnings. Mike and Theresa Lahita started the company in 1994 with $800 and three megs of RAM in a Packard Bell Legend 610 PC. Today, SRG produces shielded enclosures and enclosure components that are used in a variety of enterprises, including telecom research and [...]

Judd Wheeler wants people to know “mobile is a part of our everyday lives” and will affect the future of business. He also wants to share an opportunity to ensure business is ahead of the curve. “Morgan Stanley released findings that 91 percent of us have our phone within an arm’s length 24/7,” said Wheeler, [...]

The Economic Development Generating Excellence policy board announced six recipients will receive funding from the inaugural EDGE Innovative Ideas Program. IIP is a new EDGE program designed to support highly innovative, early-stage ideas for one year at a maximum level of $25,000. IIP awards are intended to help move an idea from its “theoretical” stage [...]

SpringPoint Technologies, a technology staffing and information technology services provider, and Peak UpTime, a midsized IT solutions provider, announced Peak UpTime has purchased SpringPoint’s application development division. The sale follows the retirement of SpringPoint’s founder, Roger Short, and will provide an opportunity to expand the firm’s staffing and managed services divisions. “Staffing and managed services [...]

Automated Mail Service announced yesterday it has successfully completed the implementation of the Intelligent Mail Full Service program, the next generation of U.S. Postal Service bar code technology used to sort and track letters and flats. The implementation required a significant investment of capital and resources by AMS. The implementation took several months, as the [...]

Fifty-one pedestrians were killed or injured in Oklahoma in 2008. Volvo representatives said they hope to significantly reduce such numbers with its world-first pedestrian detection with full auto brake technology. Introduced on the new 2011 Volvo S60, Volvo’s radar- and camera-based system can detect pedestrians in front of the car, warn the driver if anyone [...]

Zomm, an emerging technology company headquartered at 8620 S. Peoria Ave. in Tulsa, introduced the world’s first wireless leash for mobile phones, a CES award-winning device also called Zomm. The product is now available in Best Buy stores nationwide. Using Bluetooth technology, the keychain-sized Zomm prevents users from losing or misplacing their mobile phone by [...]