TechTalk

>> HKG Partners, LLC, launched www.ITCareerPro.org, a portal for IT professionals intended to serve as a single source for education, training, career development, and socialization for IT professionals globally. In cooperation with CompTIA, ITCareerPro.org will offer CompTIA certification vouchers and other CompTIA products, as well as vouchers, mentoring, curriculum, practice exams, and relevant materials from key industry partners.

>> Simulation developer VSTEP released maritime training and simulation software Ship Simulator Professional v2.0 and Instructor Station. Aimed at maritime professionals, Ship Simulator Professional uses interactive 3-D technology from the computer gaming industry to offer a professional maritime training and simulation tool.

>> MotionKit.com released PowerMotion Toolkit for PowerPoint, a video background collection for PowerPoint users that includes 1,500 WMV video backgrounds, all encoded in WMV format and optimized for PowerPoint playback.

>> Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., introduced Healthy 401(k) Plan Analytics, a software tool designed to enable plan sponsors to evaluate the health of their organization's 401(k) plan and their employees' retirement readiness by tracking and analyzing participant behavior and trends. The technology allows plan sponsors to view aggregate data, including participant rates of return, balance, investment elections, and activity in all funds, by any participant subset such as location, division, or compensation level.