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Mobile phone GPS systems are revolutionizing how we interact and shop, but pinpointing a user’s location to an exact point in front of a business can be difficult. Simsbury-based ConnectQuest hopes to solve that problem with a new service that gives shop owners the ability to attract customers as they pass by a storefront. The system involves a mobile app available for both the iPhone and Android-based smartphones and a custom (and patented) Bluetooth radio transmitter placed

A proposal to increase revenues offers a digital downloads tax, bringing the total on these products to 6.35 percent, commensurate with CT sales tax HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) – “A provision in a legislative package that has emerged would have the 1 percent tax on these products rise to 6.35 percent, the amount of Connecticut’s sales tax. Rep. Patricia Widlitz, D-Guilford, co-chair of the Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee, included the provision in the committee’s tax p

Automated system enables doctors to monitor patient adherence to care plans remotely and intervene via cell phones, the Internet Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for technology-based economic development, today announced that it has committed $150,000 in financing to healthcare information technology company MedAdherence LLC of Norwalk, Conn., through its Pre-Seed Fund. MedAdherence will use the financing to continue development of

In This Issue– FreePlay Labs Spotlight, new Web Savvy Marketers firm, Ruckus Mobile Media/Hasbro apps, CT Tech App, Events, Jobs and More. Startup Spotlight FreePlay Labs, a new Stamford-based digital publisher headed up by president Greg Easley, has pulled in game publishing veterans from Microsoft, Disney, EA, Atari and Sony to focus on production, marketing and distribution capabilities for licensed interactive properties. Congrats to the startup on its brand new licensing