Mohomine Helps Qualcomm Mine the Internet for New High-Tech Talent
San Diego-based Wireless Knowledge, Inc. sees a market in the markup language blues.
That is the problem large computer systems have when sending information wirelessly to handheld computers or wireless phones.
It seems the wallet-sized devices using the Palm or Pocket PC operating systems demand HTML (hyptertext markup language).
Wireless telephones, though, need either HDML (handheld device markup language) or WML (wireless markup language).
To combat this mangle of MLs, Wireless Knowledge has introduced a software product. Its name is Echo.
Company publicists describe Echo as a “transformation engine.” The product sits in a company’s Web server. When the server gets a request for data from a mobile device, Echo determines what type of markup language the device needs, and instantly translates the HTML output of the requested Web application into that markup language.
One company that has sprung for a license to use Echo is Commerce One Global Services of Pleasanton. The company is a division of Commerce One, which provides software and services for e-marketplaces.
Right now, Echo runs on Windows servers, which makes sense, given Wireless Knowledge’s lineage. The company is a joint venture between Microsoft Corp. and locally based Qualcomm Inc. But Wireless Knowledge has plans to expand the offering to Linux and Unix operating systems.
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Mining The Net For Names:
Qualcomm is shopping locally to meet its recruiting needs. The company has decided to license data mining software from San Diego-based Mohomine, Inc. Mohomine’s product, called Web DataBuilder, will help Qualcomm peer farther into the Internet when looking for resumes, then classify the resumes into categories defined by Qualcomm human resources people , all to build a searchable database.
The news follows word from last month that PeopleSoft Inc., the Pleasanton-based maker of e-commerce software and solutions, will embed a similar Mohomine product into its recruitment product.
Mohomine projects $8 million in revenue from the PeopleSoft deal over three years, said a company spokeswoman.
Mohomine touts the search capability of its technology. Used on resumes, the technology can scan for single or multiple attributes (like a prospective employee’s degrees, skills and location) rather than general key words.
What’s the advantage? Using what Mohomine publicists call “a very basic example,” this means if a company wants to find a current San Diego resident with experience in the Java programming language, the software user can specify those criteria within the “address” and “skills” attributes.
That would eliminate resumes of people who worked in San Diego long ago.
Not to mention those irrelevant resumes that mention Java, Indonesia.
Columnar Components:
The Cubic Transportation Systems subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corp. will sell 160 touch-screen ticket vending machines to the bus, ferry and rail system of Vancouver, B.C. The contract is worth about $18 million. San Diego-based nStor Technologies has signed an original equipment manufacturer deal to put its NexStor-brand “fibre channel” storage system into storage area networks offered by Gain Systems, Inc. of Norcross, Ga.
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