Ballplayers get to swing at high-tech facility

FORT MILL -- Baseball and softball players gearing up for fall leagues or anxious to hone their skills for next season will have a high-tech practice facility beginning Monday. Frozen Ropes, an 18-year-old national chain out of New York, will open its first Carolinas location at 9030 Northfield Drive in Fort Mill.

Features include computer-enhanced baseball and softball pitching machines that simulate a pitcher's windup and delivery. There are batting cages, infields for fielding practice and full-time instructors. It's designed for team rentals, but individuals can use the facility, too, owner Chris Brami said. [read more...]

High-tech surgery center opens doors

St. Anthony Hospital unveiled Friday a new $30 million, 70,000-square-foot surgery center named in honor of longtime hospital volunteer Margaret Vessels Love and adorned with 21st-century high-tech features.

The hospital dedicated the fifth-floor Margaret Vessels Love Surgery Center in a late-afternoon ceremony attended by her children and grandchildren, who donated $500,000 to the center in her honor. [read more...]

High-tech gurus at Technology Marketing's magazines

The modest one-story brick building at One Technology Plaza in Norwalk could easily be mistaken for a light-assembly plant or a big dry-cleaner.

Passers-by might never suspect that the occupant, Technology Marketing Corp., publishes well-read magazines with a worldwide circulation of 187,000, or that its Web site registers 18 million page views a month, or that it organizes trade shows that attract thousands of people from around the globe.

The company, which is also known as TMC, is about to celebrate a milestone, the 25th year in publication for Customer Interaction Solutions, a 62,000-circulation magazine for the telemarketing industry. [read more...]