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More Than A Shop Expands Its Software Product Selection to Include Open Source Software

Kingston, NY (PRWEB) March 15, 2011

More Than A Shop offers a full line of commercially available consumer products such as Microsoft Office, PhotoShop and DreamWeaver. Company representatives just announced they will now also carry full line of free open source products starting March 15th, 2011.

Representatives of More Than A Shop felt they had to start offering free open source software alternatives to the commercially available software products. Its part of their corporate mission which is to provide customers with solutions instead of just a listing of products.

Recently, one of their customers was facing a situation where his Windows Vista operating system had become so corrupt that he could no longer reboot his computer. He had important information on his computer that he needed to be able to access. Reinstalling his windows operating system was not an option as he had lost his installation disk along with the receipt. The customer had originally purchased his operating system from another software company. More Than A Shop representatives, therefore, could not simply just send him another installation disk.

Because he had access to another computer and an internet connection, representatives from More Than A Shop were still able to offer assistance. Representatives directed him to a website for downloading a free copy of the Ubunta operating system.

Ubunta is an open source computer operating system that can be installed on just about any computer.    It can also be run from a CD leaving the current window operating system in tack. Open source software is software that is not patented, and its free for anyone to use. The purpose in making it free is to encourage individuals within the community to further develop and refine the product.

When most people think of a word processing program, the first name that often comes up is Microsoft Office. If asked for good software package for editing photos, most people mention PhotoShop. These are great software programs which are well written and are easy to use, however, they are a bit pricey.

There are alternatives to each of these programs. The staff at More Than A Shop looked into each of these alternative programs and found that they work just as well as their expensive brand name counter parts. These programs fall under the category of open source. The Ubunta operating system comes with many of the equivalent free versions of the most popular programs.

It shouldn’t be the just the responsibility of potential customers to research and find the exact product that will best meet their needs. Retailers should also be fully engaged in researching and offering advice on which products will best meet the needs of a potential customer. The company president was quoted as saying, “We’re in the business of offering solutions to individuals. People visit websites in the hopes that they will find the answer to their problems.”

Looking for free high quality software. Visit More Than A Shop’s wide selection of free software.

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Outstanding Business Partnerships and Future Business Leaders to Receive Major Awards

(PRWEB UK) 11 October 2011

Businesses and higher education institutions from across the UK will celebrate the year’s most successful and innovative partnerships and recognise future business leaders when the annual Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) Awards are presented at the Innovate11 conference and exhibition in London today.

The KTP Awards honour and celebrate the best Knowledge Transfer Partnerships from the previous year and the winners of the accolade ‘Business Leaders of Tomorrow’. The awards recognise the outstanding partnerships fostered through the Technology Strategy Board’s KTP programme, which supports innovation-led, three-way partnerships between businesses, academic institutions and graduate associates.

The highlight will be the announcement of the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships National Award Winner. Five partnerships have been selected as finalists and will attend Innovate11, where one will be selected as the overall national winner. The Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, will present this award.

The five finalists (involving a business, academic institution and graduate associate) are:

Cherry Pipes, Queen’s University Belfast and Justyna Grabowska

Aurora Medical Limited, University of Southampton and Alex Dickinson

Joseph Rhodes, Sheffield Hallam University and Karthik Ramakrishnan

Logical Glue, University of Essex and Faiyaz Doctor

Risktec Solutions Limited, Liverpool John Moores University and Roisin Gray

Some of the projects managed through the award-winning partnerships include:

    The development of a novel hip replacement system that has been implanted over 3500 times;
    The establishment of a plastics recycling department, which has tripled employee numbers from 20 to 60 and grown company turnover from £2.5 million to £10.5 million;
    The development of novel artificial, computational intelligence based systems that enabled the realisation of an intelligent data analysis and decision support system. This is expected to lead to company profits of approximately £6 million within three years.

Commenting on the eve of the Awards, the Technology Strategy Board’s Chief Executive, Iain Gray said:

    “KTP is the leading programme in Europe helping businesses to improve their competitiveness, productivity and performance through partnerships with higher education institutions and research organisations. It is an integral part of the Technology Strategy Board’s strategy and range of programmes to support businesses on their innovation journey.”

“Businesses are increasingly aware of the value of such collaboration and the rewards it can bring. KTPs help get the best minds working to solve problems, respond to challenges and spark     creativity, thus stimulating growth and helping to drive the UK’s future economic prosperity.”

The Business Leaders of Tomorrow awards, for the graduate Associates who demonstrate clear potential to be future business leaders, will be presented to:

Catia Guimaraes – Oxford Brookes University and Intercontinental Hotels Group plc

Kenneth Macfarlane – Staffordshire University and Clive Durose Woodturners Ltd

Lisa Finney – Staffordshire University and GDM (Heat Transfer) Ltd

Matthew Druce – University of Southampton and Geotek Ltd

Simon Pykett – Sheffield Hallam University and Penny Hydraulics Ltd.

Other KTP awards to be announced at Innovate11 include:

    Business Impact Award (given to the Business that has benefitted most from its KTP project in the 12 months following its completion): Bombardier Transportation UK Ltd.

    Award for Engineering Excellence (sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering): Aurora Medical Limited, University of Southampton and Alex Dickinson

    Award for Academic Excellence: Graham Cockerham, Sheffield Hallam University

    Award for Best Application of Humanities for the Creative Economy (sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Council): Historic Royal Palaces, Kingston University and Suzannah Lipscomb

    Award for Best Application of Social Science in a KTP (sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council): Clydesdale Bank, University of Leeds and Alena Audzeyeva

KTP partnerships work by employing a high-calibre graduate in a business to help address a specific needs-based project, with an academic institution acting as a ‘knowledge base’ to support the project’s development. As a result of the government’s investment in the KTP programme during 2009/10, it is estimated that UK businesses stand to benefit from over 15,870 business staff trained, some 1,443 new jobs created (aside from the recruitment of KTP Associates) and an overall increase in annual profit before tax of over £150 million – an increase of 19% on the previous year.

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Bytewize Computers Head Office and Retail Showroom in Kingston, Ontario, Canada is Moving! Our New Location Will Ease Access and Increase Product Selection to Our Customers Within the Region.

(PRWEB) December 1, 2004

http://www.bytewizecomputers.com has enjoyed a continued increase in support from all our customers throughout Canada during 2004. As part of our efforts to continually improve our business operations and our ability to provide the highest level of customer service our Head Office is moving to a new facility. Additionally, we have expanded our market share here in our hometown of Kingston, Ontario and are therefore increasing the showroom space and stock levels at our Kingston retail location with this move.

The new Kingston location, as of Dec 3, 2004, will be:

Bytewize Computers

2793 Princess Street

Kingston, Ontario

K7P 2X1

Phone#: (613) 384-3900

Fax#: (613) 384-1229

Email: Kingston@bytewizecomputers.com

Website: http://www.bytewizecomputers.com

The Bytewize Kingston retail store will carry all items available at our E-Commerce Division and work to keep strong stock levels of common upgrade products, computer systems, and laptop systems for an easy shopping experience. Within the Bytewize Kingston retail location there will be branded stations setup for popular products carried at Bytewize as well as online terminals to allow customers to browse our entire product selection and even ?Shop Online? from within our showroom.

Our technical services department is also expanding to ensure a maintained service quality level and provide our team with the ability to handle increased volume of technical support and service for customers and client within the Kingston region. This expansion will also increase the turnaround time and speed of our technical services team for our customers across Canada as all technical requirements for this division are managed at our Kingston Head Office.

Bytewize Computers was founded in Kingston, Ontario and after growing to be an E-Commerce operation with National reach, within Canada, it is wonderful to see our company growing and expanding our popularity here in Kingston, Ontario. The entire Bytewize crew here in Kingston is excited to bring forth a better shopping experience for our fellow Kingstonians.? ? Mike Reed, President

For all inquiries please contact:

Michael A. Reed

President

Bytewize Media & Technology

1-866-458-2983 x 023

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