Third I Inc. history

Bell secured a patent for the device, and in 1877 he and two investors, Gardiner C. Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, formed the Bell Telephone Company, which they sold the next year to a group of financiers.

In 1879 Western Union, which was itself involved in a war of control between the Vanderbilts and Jay Gould, agreed to give up all its telephone patents, claims, and facilities in return for Bell’s promise to stay out of the telegraph business.

In 1881 Bell bought Western Electric; this leading maker of telegraphic equipment thenceforth became the dominant manufacturer of telephone equipment as well.

In 1885 Bell established the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, or AT&T, as its subsidiary responsible for building long-distance telephone lines.

After the Bell Company’s patent on the telephone expired in 1894, it encountered growing competition from independent phone companies and telephone manufacturers.

When 3M began in 1902, our five founders had a simple goal: to mine for corundum, a mineral ideal for making sandpaper and grinding wheels.

He consolidated the Bell associated companies into state and regional organizations, acquired many previously independent companies, and achieved control over Western Union in 1910.

Founded in 1976, Dakota Security Systems is a premier security integration company based in Sioux Falls, SD and has offices in Arizona, New Jersey and throughout the upper Midwest. (more…)

Founded in 1978, Post Browning is a full-service systems integrator providing consultation, installation, and maintenance for the retail banking industry. (more…)

Joining AT&T in 1981, Russo spent the next decade in marketing, human resources, operations, and strategic planning.

1, 1984, and were reorganized and converted into seven regional phone companies: Nynex, Bell Atlantic, Ameritech (or American Information Technologies, Inc.), BellSouth, Southwestern Bell Corporation, US West, and Pacific Telesis Group.

She completed Harvard University’s rigorous Advanced Management Program in 1989, and three years later AT&T chose her to restructure its faltering Business Communications Systems division as its president.

Among its efforts in this direction was the purchase in 1991 of NCR Corporation (q.v.), a major manufacturer of computers, electronic cash registers, and other data-processing systems.

Founded in 1992, Alphacorp is a full-service provider of security and fire and life safety systems. (more…)

In 1994 AT&T purchased McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., the nation’s largest provider of cellular telephone service.

It was cold and snowy Chicago day in January 2001 when Convergint Technologies was founded by Dan Moceri and Greg Lernihan. (more…)

As business dried up and layoffs and financial losses persisted, the chances of Lucent’s recovery seemed slim, but Russo boldly promised to return the company to profitability before the end of 2003.

In July 2009 Russo was appointed to the board of directors of General Motors.

Convergint Technologies has been named #2 in SDM Magazines’ Top Systems Integrators 2015 Report. (more…)

Convergint Technologies, a worldwide leader in service-based systems integration, was named the 2016 National Systems Integrator of the Year by Axis Communications at its 11th annual Axis Connect & Converge Conference.

Convergint Technologies, a worldwide leader in service-based systems integration, was named the 2017 National Systems Integrator of the Year by Axis Communications at its 12th annual Axis Connect & Converge Conference.

Convergint Technologies has been named the #1 systems integrator in SDM Magazine‘s 2018 Top Systems Integrators Report. (more…)

Convergint Technologies has been named the #1 systems integrator in SDM Magazine‘s 2019 Top Systems Integrators Report. (more…)