The New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) doles out honors to some of the state’s top tech companies this week.

Cognizant Technology Solutions today announced plans to further expand its existing real estate development program in India

Magnitude Information Systems has fired staff and moved its headquarters from Chester to Branchburg.

Verizon Wireless customers sent and received more than five billion text messages

Verizon Wireless and The Weather Channel Interactive launched the first Flash Lite downloadable application for select Verizon Wireless cellular phones that have the “Get It Now” feature enabled

Expand Networks in Roseland, a provider of application acceleration for wide area networks (WANs), opened new offices in China to support customers operating in Asia. Expand China in Beijing has branch offices in Shanghai and Shenzen

US Starcom in Reno, Nev., with offices in Perth Amboy, a provider of prepaid communications services such as prepaid phone cards, closed its merger with Bell Latino Multiservices in Long Branch

More than 91% of its U.S. subscriber lines are now equipped with Enhanced 911, or E911 service, a feature that automatically matches a physical address with the caller's telephone number, according to Vonage America, a subsidiary of broadband telephone services provider

Broadband telephone-service provider Vonage America has started offering local area code selection in Henderson and Wilson Counties, North Carolina

The new contract would provide upgrades to existing wireless base stations and add new towers to spread more voice and high-speed mobile data services in the provinces

Frank M. Shinneman will serve as the new president and CEO.

Garry K. McGuire to retire Dec. 31 and remain in a senior advisory role with the company through March of next year.