Virtual Trip at the FT Telecommunications, Media and Technology Conference

Virtual Trip presents Solo Telco Gateway at the region's major Telecommunications event of the year, presented by Financial Times Global Events, Telecommunications, Media and Technology Conference.

Solo Telco Gateway is a new, one-of-a-kind integrated platform for Telecommunications Providers, that allows them to deliver Unified Communications services to Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs).



It is based on a device that is installed in the SMB's premises which in turn is always connected with the Telco's Data Center, via the broadband service chosen by the SMB. While all services appear local to the SMB user, critical ones like Web and e-mail are hosted at the Telco's Data Center, thus making the best of both worlds: fast and efficient local services -such as telephony, fax and surveillance, and robust, always-on website and email service.


The solution is offered as a service to the SMBs, only adding a small monthly fee to their telephony and broadband bill. The return is immediate, since there are major savings in running costs and a significant increase of the SMB's productivity.

That combined with zero investment from the SMB side and a huge competitive advantage in the critical SMB market for the Telco, Solo Telco Gateway is an offer that is hard ofr any party to refuse!

Next Generation Learning Services (NGLS) presents its innovative elearning services & tools at the Training and Development Conference 2009

NGLS a member of the V.Trip Group of companies, is participating at the Training and Development Conference 2009 that takes place on May 25th, 2009 at the OTEAcademy, Pelika & Spartis 1, Marousi, Athens.

On behalf of NGLS, Mr. Tsigos Dimitrios, General Manager, is going to present the views of the company on the subject :"eFront: A new approach to Social Learning - eLearning 2.0"

NGLS brings together technology, educational methodologies and synergies through strategic partnerships in order to offer unique services in the fields of education and training making use of advanced methods of mixed education/training and technologies of information and communication .

NGLS's solutions are aiming to help companies to:
• Test the knowledge of (candidate) employees (gap-analysis)
• Organize training materials as training courses
• Build user-tailored training paths based on organization needs
• Minimize the organization's training costs
• Pin-point the best candidates for tasks
• Fulfill the inner-organization communication needs
• Preserve the company knowledge
• Certify the employee knowledge

Virtual Trip delivers High-Performance Computing in Computational Molecular Biology

The R&TD dept. of Virtual Trip has successfully completed in 2008 the PA.MICH ("PAthogenous MECHanisms") project, a co-funded, R&TD, computational molecular biology project in the framework of the Regional Enterprise Program (PEP) of Crete, run in collaboration with the Lab. of Crystallography, dept. of Biology, Univ. of Crete.

The project developed a methodology and related computational tools that assist in the design and synthesis of durgs, that are capable of inhibiting the undesired actions of certain proteins and enzyms. Virtual Trip developed a tool that scans through world-wide databases of small molecules, (e.g. the "Cambridge Structural Database", containing ~400.000 molecules), and superimposes each candidate on the "active center" of a given target-protein. Subsequently, all candidates are reported and new "lead compounds" are synthesized. The project's results have been successfully demonstrated with the BcZBP protein of the Bacillus Cereous, a protein with significant similarity (3 homologues) with the highly hazardous B.anthracis. 111 compounds were computationally synthesized and have been proposed as candidates to inhibit the infectuous activity of this protein.

The above outcomes, combined with recent global research results from cancer research, immunology and cardiology can potentially lead to the development of a wide range of antibiotics, to the cure of certain forms of cancer and to the reduction of cholesterol and the atheromatic plaque (which cause cardiovascular diseases).

Virtual Trip and the Univ. of Crete are committed to followup this research work and proceed with the real synthesis and clinical testing of the PA.MICH results, as well as to extend the application domain of this methodology and tools to other areas.

Virtual Trip submits five business plans to the Athnes 10th Venture Capital Forum

The Virtual Trip Group has announced that participates to the 10th Venture Capital Forum via the submission of five independent business plans of equal group spin-out companies. Specifically, the plans that have been submitted are of the following companies:

- EPIGNOSIS Ltd, vendor of the eFront e-learning platform
- MVNS SA, vendor of the mVision mobile services platform
- NGLS SA, provider of the StudyBox on-line learning service
- Solo Gateway, new spin-out, vendor of the homonym unified communications gateway
- Insurance Manager, new spin-out vendor, of the homonym information system for insurance agencies and brokers

Virtual Trip, after having grown organically 60 times in revenue and 12 times in human-resources since its foundation in September 2000 at the Science & Tecnology Park of Crete - Greece, aims to raise capital for boosting its expansion to the international markets while retaining the technology edge and publishing new products both with VC Funding and with entering the PLUS stock-exchange.