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VOL III No 39 March 7, 2004:
CYBERZONE/BIOZONE CALENDAR
A SERVICE OF CREATIVE
RESOURCES, INC. by MARTY PLOTNICK
HAWAI'I CALENDAR:
****NEW****Tuesday, March 2.
5:45 p.m. ELECTRON PIZZA. U.H. MARINE SCIENCES AUDITORIUM. SUBJECT &.
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for details and parking
information.
****Tuesday, March 9 10 a.m.-8
p.m. 2004 Technology & Internet Expo Ala Moana Hotel. Free with business
card.
****May 10-12, Asia Pacific
Conference on Emerging
Technologies: The Challenge of
the Mobile Revolution and the Digital Divide. Sponsors: East-West Center
and the Korea Information Strategy Development Institute (KISDI).
Renaissance Hotel in Seoul, Korea. Early Registration Deadline April 26,
For more information and registration materials:
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sem-bp.asp
Registration Online:
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944-7384.
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THINK ZONE
DISRPUPTIVE INCREMENTALIISM
Sometimes a cosmetic change can
be the innovation that makes a
product catch fire, writes
columnist Michael Schrage.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/schrage0304.asp?trk=nl
CYBERZONE
SCIENTISTS: THE LATEST MAC
CONVERTS
Although no hard figures are
available, anecdotal evidence suggests various Apple machines, from the
Xserve G5 to the PowerBook, have become viable options in the scientific
community. How are scientists putting Macs to work in their various
research projects and innovative endeavors?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/32837.html
PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM LAUNCHES
NEW WEB SITE ON EVOLUTION
The debut this month of a new
University of California, Berkeley, Web site devoted to evolution provides
a much-needed resource for teachers as schools across the nation are being
challenged to kick evolution out of the classroom or pair it with
instruction in non-scientific alternatives, such as "intelligent design."
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-04u.html
ROADBAND OVER POWER LINE VENDOR
ROLLS OUT SERVICE
More than a million residents
of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana will have a new broadband option this month
in the first large-scale rollout of broadband over power line (BPL)
service, despite concerns that the new BPL technology interferes with
other radio frequency devices, including ham radios.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=5643FA:1F8551F
LOSING CONTROL OF YOUR TV
Starting in just 16 months, the
Motion Picture Association of America will take a huge step toward
controlling the way we can use our television sets. As of July 1, 2005,
every TV sold in the United States will come equipped with an electronic
circuit that will search incoming programs for a tiny electronic "flag."
If the flag is present, your TV will go into a special high-security mode
and lock down its high-quality digital outputs. This high-security mode is
not designed to protect the television from viruses or computer
hackers-it's designed to protect TV programs from being copied by viewers
in ways that the entertainment industry doesn't like. Columnist Simson
Garfinkel argues that this is a very ominous development.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel030304.asp?trk=nl
NTT DOCOMO DEVELOPS SPEECH
RECOGNITION WITHOUT SPEECH
NTT DoCoMo Inc. lifted the lid
on its five-year-old research and development (R&D) center in Japan and
demonstrated a couple of the technologies the operator is working on,
including a speech recognition system that doesn't require speech.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=566741:1F8551F
HONDA TESTS FUEL CELL THAT
WORKS IN FREEZING TEMPERATURES
Honda Motor Co said Thursday it
has successfully tested its next-generation cold-resistant fuel cell for
cars, which it said overcomes a major problem of past models and can
operate at freezing temperatures. Honda said the test was conducted on
roads in Hokkaido in the morning and it confirmed
the fuel cell works even at minus 11 C. (Kyodo News)
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200403/01/eng20040301_136177.shtml
BIO/NANO/MEMS ZONE
NANOTECH's FIRST BLOCKBUSTERS?
Having recruited some of the
field's top scientists, a startup called Nanosys hopes to become the first
successful nanotechnology company by blitzing the market with
supercheap solar cells, faster and lighter computer displays, and
supersmall lasers and sensors. < http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=5fo,5it3,4rw,b3zf,9jm7,21tx,ixhf>http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/lenatti0304.asp?trk=nl
EXPERTS SAY NEW DESKTOP FUSION
CLAIMS SEEM MORE CREDIBLE Scientists are again claiming they have made a
Sun in a jar, offering perhaps a revolutionary energy
source, and this time even some skeptics find the evidence intriguing
enough to call for a closer look. Using ultrasonic
vibrations to shake a jar of liquid solvent the size of a large drink cup,
the scientists say, they squeezed tiny gas bubbles in the liquid so
quickly and violently that temperatures reached millions of degrees and
some of the hydrogen atoms in the solvent molecules fused,
producing a flash of light and energy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/03/science/03FUSI.html?pagewanted=print&position=
LIGHT-STORING CHIP
Stanford researchers have come
up with a scheme to store light pulses in microchips at room
temperature--a technique that could lead to
inexpensive chips for
all-optical communications switches.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_022004.asp?trk=nl
BIO BRIEFS ZONE
Albany--DrugRisk lands $500K;
partners with local biotech
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751001
Atlanta--Emory recruits leading
AIDS researcher
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751002
Birmingham--Vaxin seeks $10
million for flu drug: Bidding for venture
capital to pay clinical-trial
costs of vaccine mist
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751003
East Bay--Biotech IPOs could be
stronger this year
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751004
Philadelphia--Cephalon outbids
other Cima suitors: Company pays $515M
for 'fast-dissolve'
drug-delivery technology
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751005
San Francisco-- Genencor
targets nerve agents with biodefense license deal
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751006
San Francisco--Biotechs rally
to battle a legislative disease:
Canadian drug imports
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751007
San Francisco--Making a
business from big pharma's cast-offs: CoTherix
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751008
San Francisco--Personalizing
medicine for your genes: Genitope
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751009
Washington--A new niche:
Bioinformatics fails to live up to its considerable hype, but the sum of
IT and biotech's parts isn't dead
yet
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/751010
VoIP ZONE
VoIP WILL BRING DRAMATIC
TRANSFORMATION
Vonage chair and CEO Jeffrey
Citron discusses how Voice over IP technology will change the way
companies do business and the coming convergence of VoIP and wireless
technology.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,rc4,1,jnws,ejfr,jcj3,9ffi
CHINA ZONE
MEDIA FOLLOWS CHANGES REGARDING
3-MOST-WANTED BY CHINESE FAMILIES A report titled "the three most-wanted,
a mirror of the economic situation" carried in Japan's Tokyo Web Press
reviewed the three most-wanted goods for Chinese families. It said
the three most-wanted in China were watch, bike and sewing machine in the
1950s, TV set, fridge and washing machine in the 1980s, and phone,
computer and air-conditioner in the 1990s. Today when China ranks sixth in
the world in terms of GDP, there is no more static concept about the "three most-wanted" things. But
most media agreed that housing, automobile and kids education are the
three most-wanted in today's Chinese families.
No Click Through
WALMART TO CONVENE BOARD
MEETING IN CHINA
The world's largest retailer
Walmart announced that it would hold its annual global meeting of board of
directors for the first time in the Chinese mainland. Walmart
has opened 35 outlets in 17 Chinese cities, including 30 supermarkets,
three Sam's Clubs and two community stores, with a total
of 18,000 employees.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200403/05/eng20040305_136566.shtml
CHINA's WEALTHY LIVE BY A
CREED: HOBBES AND DARWIN, MEET MARX The rich in China these days are
moving into the villages of Napa Valley, Palm Springs, Long
Beach, Upper East Side and Park Avenue, all in the suburbs of Beijing and
Shanghai. When I grew up in Shanghai, places were called
New China Road, Workers' New Village and People's Square. Now China's real
estate tycoons have chosen American place names, and adorned what
they build with Spanish arches, Greek columns and faux Roman sculptures.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/weekinreview/29zhao.html?pagewanted=print&position=
SEARCH FOR A HOTSPOT AROUND
CHINA
As you're on the move, it's now
becoming easier to get online all over China. Wi-Fi/WLAN Hotspots are
turning up at coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, bars, and
conference centers. Come search the Wi-Fi Hotspot database at
ChinaPulse.com
http://www.chinapulse.com/wifi/
SETTLEMENT MEASURES OF INTERNET
BACKBONE NETWORKING
The new "Internet Backbone
Networking Settlement Measures," which are to be put into practice in May,
stipulate that all units inter-connected with China
Telecom Group should pay a settlement fee to China Telecom according to
the data exchange speed rate of their networking with the Broadband
China Internet CHI NA169.
http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=860
CHINESE BECOMES No. 3 LANGUAGE
IN CANADA
In Canada if you don't speak
English or French it is most likely that you speak Chinese. This is
indicated by the latest census conducted by the Canadian government.
According to the statistics Chinese has become a No.3 language used in
Canada and the number of people who speak Chinese keeps on
increasing.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200403/01/eng20040301_136199.shtml
WIRELESS ZONE
WIRELESS KEEPS ON TRUCKING
First it was Wi-Fi, now it's
WiMax. Truck stops across the country will be using the wireless broadband
technology to offer video on demand to truckers.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,r13,1,9q41,exqf,jcj3,9ffi
HOTSPOT HITS
The latest in public access
Wi-Fi: Holiday Inn at the St. Louis Six Flags; Evansville is one of SBC's
first hotzones; Pittsburgh's airport has free Wi-Fi; and
more.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,r13,1,l0p5,ecft,jcj3,9ffi
FREE Wi-Fi ACCESS COULD LEAD TO
MORE BUSINESS
Looking to drum up more
business, ACJ Technology is giving a little in hopes of getting a lot. The
wireless networking company is developing a network of free Wi-Fi hot
spots for Seattle area businesses.
http://email.wirelessweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/effN0C1swl0B4I0CPFq0AS
RFID ZONE
ANALYSIS: THE RFID vs PRIVACY
DEBATE
Retailers are coming to grips,
albeit slowly, with the need to invest heavily in RFID technology in the
foreseeable future, but now another worry is intensifying: the privacy
factor...
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/23289.html
SITE CITES
GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE -
PYRAMID BUILDING
Some imaginative theories have
been put forward to explain how the ancient Kings of Egypt could have
constructed the great pyramids. But according to Dr Karl it is quite
straightforward.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1057196.htm
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