Technology
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IT Edge Helps Prepare HVAC Professionals This Month for Summertime Services
With summer right around the corner, it’s an important time for HVAC professionals to be marketing themselves correctly. Nobody likes being uncomfortable, especially in their own home. So, with the right amount of digital marketing, the months leading up to summer can be a very lucrative time for HVAC professionals. Local technology consulting company, IT…
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Radnor High Grad Doug Baldasare Expands on Phone Charger Invention
Back in 2011, before the pandemic hit, Doug Baldasare, a Radnor High School graduate and Villanova native, came up with a way to charge people’s phones and keep them in stores longer, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He came up with ChargeItSpot. “We would build, deploy and manage — free and secure…
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Marketing Mastery with IT Edge: Why Is Social Media Important?
In today’s day and age, everybody knows how popular social media is. From Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, there are countless ways for people to share their message to the world. While many people may think that social media accounts are only for personal use, there are several reasons why plugging your business into social…
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Local Tech Company IT Edge Featured In Western Chester County Chamber Video
Founded over 30 years ago, local technology consulting company IT Edge has been dedicated to helping small businesses find IT solutions that work for them. From center city Philadelphia to Coatesville, IT Edge operates all over the greater Philadelphia area and surrounding counties. Recently, IT Edge was the subject of a video series brought to…
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Inventor of ‘Steadicam’ Creates New Walker/Wheelchair Device
Haverford High School graduate Garrett Brown, known for inventing the Steadicam nearly half a century ago changing how movies were made, has now come up with the Zeen, a wheelchair and walker hybrid, writes Nicole Leonard for WHYY. He’s selling the product through his company’s office and assembly warehouse in West Chester. Brown’s first major…
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Chester County’s StreamGeeks Cultivate Global Following in Online Video Production Community
Paul Richards and Tess Protesto have made a name for themselves as a dynamic duo in the online live-streaming and video production community. As the faces of the renowned camera brand PTZOptics, the two have cultivated a global following while staying true to their local roots. PTZOptics’ technology campus in Downingtown employs more than 50…
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It Edge Aims to Help Nonprofits Grow Through Marketing Services
Local technology consulting company IT Edge has unveiled a new initiative for the month of April. IT Edge feels that nonprofits are the unsung heroes of communities, truly dedicated to bettering the area around them. That’s why this month, IT Edge is turning its focus towards nonprofit marketing and community-oriented organizations. IT Edge has been…
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Cavanagh Family Funeral Homes Now Offers AI-Written Obits
Cavanagh Family Funeral Homes, with locations in Norwood and Media, has placed an AI-driven obituary writer on its website, writes Victor Firillo for Philadelphia Magazine. The app comes from Tribute Technologies, a subscription service provided to funeral homes. It asks for basic information—name, gender, date and place of birth, date, and place of death, and…
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2019 House Panel Rejects Plan to Stop Production of Boeing’s Chinook Helicopters
An Army proposal to stop production of Boeing’s Chinook helicopters was rejected by a House panel that controls defense spending, a victory for Delaware County’s Boeing workers, writes Roxana Tiron and Anthony Capaccio for Bloomberg.com. Instead, the House Appropriations Defense subcommittee added $28 million for continued production of the Chinook CH-47 Block II. It directed…
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Real-Time Delco Crime Center Would Blend Public, Private Surveillance
Delaware County law enforcement officials are proposing a “real-time” crime center that would combine public cameras in high-crime areas with voluntary private security camera feeds provided by the broader public, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. The Delaware County District Attorney’s Office is expanding its contract with Fusus, a Georgia-based surveillance technology company for cameras in…
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Marketing Mastery with IT Edge: Make Your Google Business Profile Serve You
A Google Business Profile is arguably one of the most important tools that a modern-day business can seize and use to its advantage. Unfortunately, among many small businesses, these Profiles can be neglected, which leads to potential customers choosing different businesses for their services or products. On this edition of Marketing Mastery, IT Edge will…
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West Chester’s IT Edge Focuses On Making Dental Websites Squeaky Clean for March
With the winter months soon to be behind us, it’s time for people to start preparing for Spring and Summer. When people think about Spring and Summer, they think of new beginnings and rejuvenation. Additionally, people will start putting more effort into their appearance in order to feel and look good for the rapidly approaching…
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UK’s Largest Family-Owned Department Store Adopts Qlik Cloud
Qlik has announced that the UK’s largest family-owned department store, Fenwick, has adopted Qlik Cloud, to advance its analytics capabilities and empower more employees at the company to use data in their day-to-day roles. Fenwick, which launched its first store in Newcastle in 1882, is known for premium shopping and dining, with categories across beauty, fashion,…
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Swarthmore College Student Made Internet History in 1994 With First Online Credit Card Transaction
A Swarthmore College kid named Dan Kohn changed history forever on Aug. 11, 1994 with the world’s first secure credit card transaction online for a physical good, writes Rob Arcand for vice.com. He sold a CD copy of Sting’s 1993 album “Ten Summoner’s Tales” to a friend in Philadelphia who, for $12.48 plus shipping, received…
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Local Technology Consulting Company Launches New Podcast
You may have heard of local technology consulting company, IT Edge, in our publications before. Founded over 30 years ago, IT Edge has been dedicated to helping small businesses all throughout Chester County ever since. Now you can get IT Edge’s professional help and advice completely free of charge. It may seem too good to…
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IT Edge Details How Managed IT Can Help Small Businesses
Today, almost all of the business world is built with technology. Whether you’re hosting websites or managing client information with spreadsheet software, technology is an integral part of day-to-day functions at any given business. Unfortunately, when technology is so prevalent, there are bound to be issues. Life and business move too quickly for you to…
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Qlik to Assist Leading IT Innovator in Analyzing, Drawing Insight from Data
Qlik has announced that NTT Data Corporation, the leading innovator of IT and business services, has adopted Qlik Sense to analyze and actively draw insights from highly dense procurement data on externally acquired IT products and services. NTT Data has been at the forefront of transforming businesses through digital and IT modernization and managed services, enabling…
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Qlik Helps Boost Store Operational Performance for Companies Like Urban Outfitters
Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Urban Outfitters is a lifestyle retailer selling women’s and men’s clothing and accessories, a range of items for interior furnishing and décor and a music and technology collection. With 550 stores in the USA and 100 across Europe and the UK, gaining daily visibility of actionable data was…
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