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Continent 8 Technologies is the world`s largest iGaming data center and global network solutions provider. Continent 8 provides high availability network solutions, managed services and co-location for today`s online business-critical service platforms. Our customers benefit from our continued investment in advanced data centres, high quality networks and online technologies. Continent 8 delivers its services over a private redundant highly secure global backbone, and offers services in over 40 connected locations across three continents. Continent 8 provides a truly global service capability to its clients, regardless of geography. Our services enable organisations to rapidly deploy to market and implement business critical back office or public frontend systems, across the globe. Available services include: Hosting, Co-Location and Disaster Recovery, Network Management, Monitoring and Provisioning, DDoS Prevention, Fully Managed Services, IP Transit and Tier 1 Peering, Global MPLS Connectivity and Cloud Backup & Connect.
Jim Fruchterman, Benetech`s founder and CEO, was an engineering student at Caltech when he learned how pattern recognition technology could guide a missile to its target. “If you could use this technology to recognize tanks or bridges,” Jim thought, “perhaps you could also recognize letters and words. Then we could use software to read those words aloud to people who are blind.” Years later, after a stint as a rocket engineer, Jim cofounded a VC-backed tech company called Calera Recognition Systems. Calera invented the first successful machine that could read almost any printed font without requiring human training. The products based on that technology had many commercial applications, but Jim hadn`t let go of his earlier idea. Soon he and the Calera team began prototyping a reading machine for the blind. Calera`s investors were impressed that the reading machine worked; however, they didn`t want to pursue Jim`s vision as it would generate negligible profits and take the focus away from developing more profitable products. Jim realized his dream didn`t fit in with the for-profit model. In 1989, Benetech was born with a business model intended to keep costs low for users. The organization quickly became the largest maker of affordable reading systems for the blind. Due to limited revenue to invest in new ideas, Jim decided to sell the reading machine product line to a for-profit company and reinvest the money from the sale—$5 million—to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good. Today, Benetech continues to be a different kind of tech company—a nonprofit—with a pure focus on developing software for social good. More than two decades after our founding, we`ve grown to include multiple program areas and initiatives that provide software to improve—even transform—the lives of people all across the world. You can read more about our work through our four main work areas: Education, Human Rights, Environment and Poverty. As a nonprofit tackling tough social issues, the funds to identify and develop new software solutions come from individuals, foundations, corporations, partner organizations, and agencies. Please consider supporting our work or partnering with us. Together, we can ensure that all of humanity benefits from technology.
RF Comsites is a Littleton, CO-based company in the Computers and Electronics sector.
TechFreedom, launched in 2011, digs deep into the hard policy and legal questions raised by technological change. We`re bullish on the future: for the most part, it`ll be great — if we let it. If those in power can resist the all-too-natural impulse for stability and control. The future isn`t a place we can design, it`s an ongoing, never-ending process of trial-and-error. In general, we`re for letting that process play out. Of course, it`ll be messy; it always has been. There will be real problems to confront; there always have been. But there are no tidy, top-down “solutions,” only adaptation, evolution, and policy frameworks that are better and worse at encouraging both. Crafting those frameworks is what we do. TechFreedom tries to write simple rules for a complex world — rules that focus on clear harms; rules can change and evolve over time; rules that leave people free to tinker, innovate and experiment; rules that unleash ingenuity rather than trying to direct it. In short, we teach policymakers how to be friends, not enemies, of the future.