April 29 - May 1, 2008 – SchoolBrief has participated in the MSBO, Michigan School Business Officials, annual conference as an exhibitor at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids.

March 5, 6 & 7 2008 – SchoolBrief has reserved exhibitor booth 506 at the annual conference of MACUL, Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning.

February 2008 - Konnech starts to provide the Exchange Hosting to K - 12 schools. Konnech's customers will enjoy the communication and collaboration features of Microsoft Exchange without the hassles of maintaining their own Exchange servers. Your Konnech Exchange account delivers fast, reliable connections, virus protection, and 24/7 support… all for just a fraction of our competitors' charges! Sign-up and get Outlook 2003, Outlook Web Access, Data synchronization with ActiveSync, Virus scanner and anti-spam software installed on your Exchange Server. Outlook 2003 add-ins will populate the teacher's Contact Folders automatically with SchoolBrief data so the teacher has parents/student contact information in the Outlook Contact folders.

January 2008 – Microsoft has reached a Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) with Konnech for K - 12 schools. Konnech has invested substantial capital to build up its own hardware at a telecom data center to provide Host Messaging and Communications (HMC) service in addition to the existing web hosting service.

March 2007 - The Macomb Christian Schools confirms that they will begin using the SchoolBrief school management and communication system beginning in the 2007-08 school year.

January, 2007 - The East Detroit Public School system signed agreement with Konnech to begin using the SchoolBrief communication platform at Oakwood Middle School.

January, 2007 - Konnech will build for the United Federation of Officials--a Michigan-based sports officiating organization--a custom website and communication platform using SchoolBrief.com technology.

December, 2006 - The Confucius Institute at Michigan State University has reached an agreement with Konnech, Inc. to build ChineseBrief.com--a unique interactive communication platform and Chinese language learning tool.

ChineseBrief will enable students learning Chinese to:

• Receive from their instructor up to 5 minutes per day of spoken Chinese language informational content through any landline or mobile phone
• Schedule the Chinese content delivery for times and phone numbers most convenient for the student
• Respond to their instructor via voice message after receiving the Chinese language content
• Receive Chinese language content via text messaging through cell phones or email with sound files attached
• Log onto a dedicated Website to access the daily content (both text and sound files) and respond to their instructor via email to ask questions or to complete assignments
• Review on the Website all previous daily broadcasts and interactive communication from and to their instructors

The Confucius Institute at Michigan State University (CI-MSU) was established in collaboration with the China Central Radio and TV University under the authorization and sponsorship of China's National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. The Institute's objective is to meet the ever-increasing demand for Chinese language education in the U.S. by providing quality learning materials and experiences to both K-12 students and adults and to help train qualified teachers of the Chinese language. The institute will also train Chinese instructors to teach in Michigan schools, coordinate China-exchange programs for Michigan teachers and students, and provide other in-person and online programming for schools and businesses.

For more information about the CI-MSU please visit: ott.educ.msu.edu/confucius

November, 2006 - A vendor alliance agreement with MiCTA Service Corporation, the official program administrator of MiCTA, and Konnech has been signed MiCTA and ATAlliance members are now eligible to take advantage of great pricing with Konnech products.

"SchoolBrief.com has multiple applications and can be especially valuable to MiCTA members by providing schools with an integrated web site power dialer, text to voice, short message, email and web mail intelligent broadcasting engines," said Kim Ellertson, president of MiCTA Service Corporation. "We are very excited about the services Konnech offers now being available to MiCTA members."

"Additionally, Konnech brings value to MiCTA members in the following areas:

• Standards and interoperability
• Research and development
• Total IVR and voice communication integration through school web site
• Scalability
• Past performance
• Ease of use

June, 2006 - The Detroit Public School system has expanded its use of the SchoolBrief web portal to 16 of their 250 schools. This expanded pilot project covers 3 high schools, 5 middle schools and 8 elementary schools.

April, 2006 - Konnech CEO Earns Crime Fighter Award

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, (FCIK) an organization dedicated to helping Michigan youth stay clear of the juvenile justice system. For the first time in the organization's 10-year history, it also honored three business leaders. One of them is Konnech Inc, President and CEO, Eugene Yu.

"Eugene Yu has been a leading supporter of this vital program in Michigan," said K.P. Pelleran, Executive Director of FCIK. "It is imperative that the business community steps up to the plate to help prevent kids from getting into trouble at young ages. Through personal and corporate donations, in-kind contributions, and advice, Mr. Yu has been exemplary in this regard and we thank him."

Founded in 1996, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids is a bipartisan, nonprofit anti-crime organization led by more than 2,500 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, victims of violence, and leaders of police officer associations.

Among the strategies proven to be effective are early care and education programs for preschoolers, good schools, after-school programs and prevention of child abuse, as well as programs that nip delinquincy in the bud by getting troubled kids back on track.

January, 2006 - The SchoolBrief.com Website has been launched. The service allows schools, businesses, or other organizations to easily and effectively communicate with their members.

August, 2005 - Since it's release in July, K'Alert has been downloaded by thousands of people all over the world. Konnech is developing additional features daily and will continue to release updates to the public as they become available. For more information, click here...

May, 2005 - Konnech has successfully developed a dispatch solution that builds on their already popular telephone systems. The dispatch system can map callers location, plan the most efficient delivery route, and manage drivers. For more information, click here...

August, 2004 - Microsoft has accepted Konnech as one of their Certified Partners.

July, 2004 - VeriTest has finished their Microsoft Platform Test with Konnech's Microsoft Outlook Add-ins successfully, which qualified Konnech to be one of Microsoft Independent Software Vendors and Certified Partners

June, 2004 - Konnech has developed Sensor Controller and related software to link sensors to telephone system interactively.

May, 2004 - Konnech has developed Microsoft Outlook Add-ins using Microsoft .net technologies. For more information, click here.

November 1, 2003 - Konnech has developed Teacher/Parent Auto Dialer, and Student Hotline software with our innovative technologies.

January 12, 2003 - Konnech Inc. participated in the 2003 MACUL Conference, a large education technology conference.

August 12, 2002 August 1, 2002 - Konnech has developed a talking bird software application to announce a caller's name and phone number without freezing the keyboard.

June 16, 2002 - Konnech has reached an agreement with a server-based PBX manufacturer to integrate and market an advanced PBX product in the Midwest US and Canada.