Digital Transformation

North Little Rock – October 17, 2026 -- Highland County and Bath County, Virginia, went live on Caliber Hosted CAD on October 6 in a shared hosted environment, putting two neighboring rural dispatch centers on one platform across more than 900 square miles of mountainous terrain, Caliber Public Safety announced.

Each county keeps its own dispatch operation, configuration, workflows and local control. Both run on the same underlying platform, which removes the technical barriers that normally separate CAD systems in adjacent jurisdictions.

Shared tenant targets cross-county incidents in a sparsely staffed region

Highland County covers roughly 416 square miles and has about 2,300 residents. Bath County covers more than 500 square miles and has about 4,100 residents. Both are largely forested and mountainous, with few dispatchers and responders on any shift, and mutual aid is routine.

Needham, Mass. – October 17, 2026 -- Evident has launched the Pramana POD, a benchtop whole slide imaging (WSI) scanner that scans at true 40X resolution at 25 slides per hour under defined conditions and targets small and medium-sized pathology laboratories.

Evident extends autonomous Pramana WSI technology to smaller laboratories

The system is built for small and medium-sized labs and for specialty applications within larger institutions. Evident is extending its existing Pramana autonomous WSI technology to this segment as laboratories expand digital workflows amid rising case volumes and operational demands.

Automated imaging aims to cut operator intervention and post-scan QA

The scanner automates imaging with a tissue finder, extensive label detection, and automated focal plane and scan-profile selection. Built-in image-quality assessment is designed to deliver pathologist-ready images and flag scans that may need further review.

San Francisco – October 17, 2026 -- Corgi Insurance has appointed James Kullman, a commercial underwriter with nearly 15 years of experience, as Head of Underwriting, North America.

Kullman moves from Chubb's small and lower middle market unit

Kullman joins from Chubb, where he most recently served as Assistant Vice President and Pacific North Region Underwriting Manager for North American Small and Lower Middle Market. His earlier underwriting roles were at CNA Insurance, The Hartford and Liberty Mutual. There he worked across construction, middle-market accounts and property and casualty insurance.

Manchester – October 17, 2026 -- HelloNation has published an article featuring Eric Miltner of PayPact in Manchester, New Hampshire, arguing that eCheck payments can speed collections and reduce manual work for local small businesses still relying on paper checks.

Paper checks slow cash flow and add error risk for New Hampshire businesses

Mailing, depositing and manual recordkeeping extend the payment cycle, according to the article. Contractors, medical offices, property managers and professional service firms are most exposed to delays from mail delivery, manual deposits or payment posting errors.

eCheck payments move through the ACH network, but the terms are not identical

An eCheck is the customer's payment method, drawing funds directly from a checking or savings account. ACH is the bank network that processes the transfer. The article stresses that the two terms are often used interchangeably but describe different things.

San Francisco – October 16, 2026 -- Wink, the video and image editing platform of Meitu, has launched a browser-based HD Video Converter that exports enhanced footage at 1080p, 2K or 4K and processes multiple files in a single cloud job.

The tool targets creators, e-commerce sellers, social media teams and everyday users who reuse existing footage. According to the company, video from phones and cameras often passes through several stages before publication, including compressed copies made during transfer and versions downloaded from social platforms. By then, details can be softer, lighting uneven and compression artifacts more visible.

Shenzhen, China – October 16, 2026 -- ONERugged, a brand of Emdoor Information (SZ:001314), has expanded its Vehicle PC (VPC) portfolio with rugged vehicle-mount computers aimed at precision agriculture and autonomous mining, citing a market where autonomous mining vehicles are moving from pilot programs to full-scale commercial deployment.

Five models span 8-inch and 10.1-inch displays

The VPC line covers the V80J, V80T, V10J, V10T and V12R, in 8-inch and 10.1-inch form factors. Each unit uses a high-performance CPU architecture for edge processing and offers CAN bus communication for integration with native vehicle systems. Connectivity options include aviation-grade or Deutsch connectors and CAN, RJ45, RS232, RS485, USB and GPIO interfaces.

New York – October 16, 2026 -- Corporate travel manager ALTOUR has unveiled ALTOUR iQ, an in-house conversational AI platform that lets travel managers query program data in plain language, with broader market availability planned for Q1 2027.

The platform is in a phased commercial rollout following its debut at Business Travel Show America 2026. ALTOUR iQ was an Innovation Faceoff finalist at the show. Haley Rossow, ALTOUR's Senior Director of Global Business Intelligence, presented it on October 14 in New York.

ALTOUR iQ replaces dashboards with predictive and scenario analysis

ALTOUR says the tool moves beyond conventional dashboards and historical reporting. It delivers predictive insights, scenario analysis and actionable intelligence in seconds. Users no longer have to work through complex reports or fragmented data.

The platform is built around four functions:

Monett, Mo. – – October 16, 2026 -- Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JKHY) will become the first core banking technology provider to integrate with Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), giving banks and credit unions a route to offer tokenized deposits.

GCUL is a fully managed, distributed ledger service. Financial institutions use it to tokenize and transfer money and assets on a shared, real-time record with programmable, 24/7 settlement.

Community lenders face growing pressure from large banks and fintechs

Jack Henry says consumer and business expectations are shifting toward real-time, programmable financial experiences. Community and regional institutions face growing competition from large banks and fintech providers. The company says tokenized deposit infrastructure inside its ecosystem lets these institutions explore new transactional use cases and enhance digital experiences.

Houston – October 16, 2026 -- The 2026 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards drew a record 560 nominations, the most in the program's history, and presented 44 awards across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors at a black-tie gala at The Post Oak Hotel.

AI wins Best Digital Transformation in all three sectors

Artificial intelligence earned Best Digital Transformation honors in the upstream, midstream and downstream categories. Lower-carbon work in ammonia, hydrogen and CO2 recovery was recognized alongside advances in drilling, deepwater and pipeline integrity.

The individual awards covered careers at every stage, from the industry's most promising engineers to lifetime achievers.

Chennai – October 16, 2026 -- Zifo has been named a Gamechanger in Healthcare & Pharma in the enterprise segment at the Nasscom AI Gamechangers Awards 2026, for an AI service accelerator that speeds up master data creation for laboratory information management systems (LIMS).

Zifo's accelerator targets manual master data preparation in LIMS projects

Master data is foundational to configuring and implementing a LIMS. The source information is often scattered across PDFs, specifications, procedures and spreadsheets. Finding it, checking it and converting it into structured master data objects takes significant manual effort. The work must also meet the consistency, traceability and auditability that regulated environments expect.