MTBC Welcomes 44 New Member Companies
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| Participating in the MTBC's membership campaign were (from left to right): Jason Villalba, Haynes & Boone; Greg Beck, SBC; Jimmy Cusano, membership campaign facilitator, Your Chamber Connection; Johnny Dawson, retired; Rusty Cone, Alliance Systems; Jim Rush, MCI; Wayne Rampey, The Insource Group; Lonnie Martin, White Rock Networks; and Andy Blanchard, University of Texas at Dallas. |
Six teams recently competed for bragging rights during the MTBC's annual fall membership campaign. In the end, the volunteers recruited 44 new members and SBC took top team honors.
MCI came in second and Texas Instruments, third. Scott Baum, of SBC, took top individual sales honors for recruiting seven new members.
For a list of new members, see New Members.
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RFID Group Launches National Branding Program
Kickoff Celebration Set For Nov. 10
No doubt most people easily recognize the Silicon Valley and Telecom Corridor® areas as two of the most familiar names that identify regions with a very high concentration of technology companies, innovation and engineering talent.
The MTBC's RFID Special Interest Group (SIG) wants to add another name to that list: Dallas The RFID Hub.
In cooperation with the American Electronics Association (AeA) and the local section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), the MTBC is embarking on an aggressive plan to showcase the influence and identity of the Dallas RFID industry. The branding project will focus on a marketing promotion plan to accomplish this goal within two years.
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MCI CEO Predicts Even Flatter Telecom Landscape
For those who have not read the bestselling book "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, or heard its author speak about trends that have caused a flattening in the global marketplace, Michael Capellas, president and CEO of MCI, gave his take on the phenomenon during the MTBC Membership Event on Sept. 13.
During his presentation, “Technology Mega Trends Affecting Business Today,” Capellas discussed many of the technology factors and competitive flatteners.
His remarks were based on his own experience as a long-time executive within the technology industry and his perception as a career technologist who wrote some of the first code for parallel computers -- “I'm really a nerd at heart,” he said.
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