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13 Sep 5, 2004: CYBERZONE/BIOZONE CALENDAR
A SERVICE OF CREATIVE
RESOURCES, INC. by MARTY PLOTNICK
HAWAI'I CALENDAR:
***Tuesday, Sept 7-- 5:45 p.m. CYBER PIZZA -- U.H. MARINE SCIENCES
AUDITORIUM. TOPIC: Internet2 Middleware - What's In It For You?SPEAKER:
Russell Tokuyama, UH Manoa ITS Dept., formerly of GTE Doors open at
5:45p, program begins at 6:00p Free. $6 for pizza and drinks
afterwards.More detail and parking information.
http://www.cyberpizzahawaii.com/upcoming.html RSVP for parking::
Send an email with your name and phone number to Courtney Brown
Courtney@hula.net
*** Wednesday, September 8, 12:00 noon - 1:00p UOP BROWN BAG SEMINAR
Topic: How Companies are Making Wireless Networking Pay Speaker:
Ron Dennis, Wi-Fi Editor for Wireless Business and
Technology Magazine UOP Honolulu Campus, 828 Fort Street, Rooms
101/102 Cost: Free
****Tuesday, Sept 14--5:45 p.m. ELECTRONIC PIZZA--U.H. MARINE SCIENCE
AUDITORIUM.
TOPIC: FUTURE OF MEDICINE. SPEAKER: Dr. Edwin Cadman, Dean, U.H. Medical
School.
Doors open at 5:45p, program begins at 6:00p Free. $6 for pizza and
drinks afterwards, More detail and parking information. http://www.cyberpizzahawaii.com/upcoming.html
RSVP for parking:: Send an email with your name and phone number to
Courtney Brown Courtney@hula.net
****NEW****Tuesday, Sept.21, 9am-4pm-- U.S. Dept. of Commerce/MBDA -
Inaugural Hawaii Venture Funding Showcase -- Presentations and a Funding
Expo for the business community at large at the Hawaii Convention Center
http://www.mbdafusion.org or contact Lisa Labonte at llabonte@pacificforums.com.
****NEW****Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 27-28, Building an Open Source
Software Economy: A Legal and Business Analysis. Sponsored by The
University of Hawaii, Novell, and HOSEF Presenters: Bruce Perens, Ho'ala
Greevy of Pau Spam, Anthony Clapes of Lawyers in Paradise, R. Scott
Belford of HOSEF This event is free, and registration is being handled
by Novell. http://register.novell.com/login/index.cfm?action=prelogin&fuse=event&id=13228&lcode=enu
****NEW*** Thursday, September 30, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Telecom 2004.
Sheraton Waikiki A full day of relevant telecom presentations, 20
exhibitors, and 200 telecom professionals all one place. Enjoy a large
discount if you sign up for both the conference and HTCA membership at
the same time!
Topics & program at: http://www.htca.org/2004_ac_main.htm
SEPTEMBER 4-18: CHINA TECHNOLOGY TOUR
The High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) has organized a trade
mission to visit four of the largest technology parks in China.
The mission includes visits to major tech parks in Shanghai, Xian,
Beijing and Tianjin, and also includes participation in the Pacific
Telecommunications Council (PTC) mid-year meeting in Tianjin.
Deadline for application is July 30, 2004. Only 36 participants can be
accommodated. For more information or to apply, contact Ms. Liwei Kimura
at 808-222-6938, or email lwkimura@yahoo.com.
http://www.hitechhawaii.com/webeventsview.asp?ID=828
SEPTEMBER 14--17: PACIFIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL [PTC] MID-YEAR
SEMINAR & EXHIBITION. TIANJIN, CHINA. "China-Opportunities and
Challenges for the World's IT and ICT Industries."
http://www.MY2004.org
General East-West Seminar information: Marilu Khudari,
khudarim@eastwestcenter.org, or phone 944-7384.
UH CALENDAR
http://dbserver.its.hawaii.edu/calendar/
HTDC CALENDAR
http://www.hitechhawaii.com/webevents.asp
IF YOU HAVE CALENDAR ITEMS, SEND THEM TO
martycri@lava.net
iTHINK ZONE
iF YOU NEEDED A PHONE NUMBER, IT WAS IN A MA BELL DIRECTORY For more
than 100 years, the Bell Operating Companies controlled almost all local
telephone service and traffic in the United States (an exception was
Hawaii). The Bells exclusively published phone directories for each city
and town every year. On the cover of every directory, every year was the
same artwork: "The Genius of Electricity". The history of this statute
and two photos will bring your memories back.
http://www.pacific-tier.com/iThink/Ithink-2.htm [Posted Sept 2]
STATE TAX CREDITS ZONE
U.S. CIRCUIT COURT DECISION ON STATE TAX CREDIT CONSTITIONALITY COULD
HAVE NATIONWIDE IMPLICATIONS A decision handed down Sept 2 by the 6th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against Ohio may begin the process of
limiting states' abilities to offer tax credits to companies as an
inducement for the firms to expand their operations or investment within
the state. It has an immediate effect on Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and
Tennessee, all of which fall within the 6th U.S. Circuit.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/9564196.htm
http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=2251815
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2004/09/02/ap1528744.html
The full opinion of the decision is available at:
http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=04a0293p.06
CYBERZONE
DNA ANALYSIS USED TO FIGHT SPAM
Researchers at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center have modified an
algorithm--originally created to discern patterns in protein
sequencing--to serve as a spam filter. The algorithm, named Chung-Kwei
after a Feng Shui character, analyzes e-mail, looking for patterns of
letters that exist in spam but not in legitimate messages. Because of
the amount of spam in circulation today, the researchers have an
abundance of spam e-mail to feed to the algorithm to train it to
identify those strings of characters that indicate a message is spam.
Chung-Kwei is able to process 88,000 messages in about 15 minutes, said
the researchers, and will continue to "learn" as more e-mail arrives.
The tool is able, for example, to identify e-mails that have "S"
replaced with "$" as spam. Researchers said Chung-Kwei is able to
successfully detect nearly 97 percent of spam.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3584534.stm
COMPUTERS WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES
"Virtualization software" allows computers to run multiple operating
systems and save money by using one computer to do the work of three.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/08/16/computers_with_multiple_personalities?pg=full
USER INTERACES: THE NEXT GENERATION
A growing list of user-interface technologies will allow human/computer
interaction via gestures, motions, speech and facial expressions.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C95055%2C0.html?nlid=EMC
COPYRIGHT LAW AND DATA EXTRACTION
Is there copyright protection in compiled data published online? As with
most things of a legal nature related to the Internet, it all depends on
the factual context. A number of recent U.S. court decisions have shed
some light on this issue. In Assessment Technologies of WI LLC v.
WIREdata Inc. , Judge Posner criticized a copyright owner for attempting
to prevent the extraction of data from a database.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/36296.html
NO DIGITAL COPYRIGHT VIOLATION FOUND IN UNIVERSAL GARAGE DOOR OPENERS
A federal appeals court has reaffirmed what might seem obvious:
Replacement garage door openers are legal to sell.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/02/BUG8M8I4K21.DTL
COURT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM SEES ALL
A court system's high-speed data network, a new breed of
Internet-enabled digital cameras and a lot of home-brewed software, are
at the heart of an innovative and cost-effective surveillance system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/02/technology/circuits/02cour.html?8cir
SANYO, TOSHIBA, NEC TO JOINTLY DEVELOP HD-DVD Sanyo Electric Co
will jointly develop a next-generation DVD format, called HD-DVD, with
Toshiba Corp and NEC Corp by providing a core component, the optical
pickup, Sanyo officials said. HD-DVD is capable of recording 30
gigabytes of data on a dual layer disk. Sanyo decided to join the
Toshiba-NEC camp because the HD-DVD parts structure is similar to that
of existing DVDs and the manufacturer can utilize its current
facilities, the officials said.
FULL STORY (Kyodo News)
R.I.P.? THE AMERICAN CALL CENTER
Offshoring clearly has become an entrenched trend in the contact-center
industry. Some 3,000 U.S. call centers will close by 2008, according to
a new report.
http://crm-daily.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=26643
TIME ZONE
Time [Zone] Travelers It's becoming the essential competitive edge: the
ability to
hopscotch the globe, switching countries, cultures, and languages as
easily as the rest of us change clothes. Meet some folks who are really
living the borderless life.
http://trax.fastcompany.com/k/w/mailman/fasttake/20040901/zones
INTERNET CONNECTIVITY IN PUERTO RICAN SCHOOLS About 1,500 schools
in Puerto Rico will be connected by satellite to the Internet after SES
Americom, the U.S. satellite arm of Luxembourg-based SES-Global [SESG]
was selected as the broadband services provider. The AMC-6 satellite
will start the services in September 2004. The two-way broadband service
will be via a small satellite antenna, which will also provideVoIP
telephone service between the Puerto Rico Department of Education and
the connected schools.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/vsat-04zzc.html
VoIP ZONE
SKYPE FOR MAC AVAILABLE IN BETA
And, it's free! Skype Technologies just announced that a Beta version of
their IP telephony downloadable program is now available for Mac OS X.
DOWNLOAD AT
http://www.skype.com/download_osx.html
TIME-WARNER LEARNS VoIP ON THE JOB
Dropped calls, clicks, hums, surprise service breaks haunt Time Warner's
VoIP rollout
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=117970
BIO/NANO/MEMS ZONE
MAKING POLITICAL SENSE OF STEM CELLS
With its attendant debates on grave illness, potential cures, and the
prickly question of when life begins, stem-cell research has entered the
nation's political fray in a way that few issues of science and
technology do. But lost amid this summer's public debate, say
researchers and observers, has been an accurate depiction of the state
of stem-cell research. While polls show that more than 80 percent of the
public has at least heard of the issue, expectations may be outstripping
the more sober truths.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/08/wo_asbrand083104.asp?trk=nl
RESEARCHERS HARNESS BANANA POWER
Researchers from the University of Queensland are looking at using
bananas to provide an alternative energy source.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1186474.htm
BIO-BRIEFS ZONE
East Bay--Audit halts ACET expansion start
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/997509
San Francisco--Bayer boss rides again: Pharma giant backs new Berkeley
biotech
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/997510
San Francisco--Biotech: Industry group to honor the risk-takers who bet
on biotech
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/997511
San Jose--$32 million in venture cash powers asthma drug quest
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/997512
CHINA ZONE
HAVE THE CHINESE BECOME THE CRAZIEST CONSUMER SHOPPERS?
Replacing the Japanese?" Luxury goods have beyond doubt landed in
China now with Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing and Dalian bathing in the
enjoyment of Aamani and Louis Vuitton. The luxury goods market in China
sees a great potential, attracting the attention of a lot of luxury
goods companies and the concern of authoritative media of the world.
http://english.people.com.cn//200408/31/eng20040831_155404.html
CHINA TELECOM REPORTS NET PROFIT OF $1.26 BILLION China Telecom
has reported an increase of 28.1% in net profits in the first half of
this year as compared to last year during the same period. The increase
in net profit was due to its broadband business doing well. Also the
company had taken over 10 telecom networks from its parent company in
the provinces. Net profit for the first six months this year was $1.26
billion. By June this year the company also enrolled 178.5 million
subscribers for local telephony services.
CHINA's LEGAL MOVES TO ENSURE INTERNET PROSPERITY As the Internet
has been up an running in China for 10 years, the government said it
will use legal measures to create a favourable environment for the
prosperity of the industry in coming years, senior officials said
yesterday at the Internet 2004 conference in Beijing.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-09/02/content_371036.htm
WIRELESS & HOTSPOT HITS ZONE
ULTRAWIDEBAND TAKES ON Wi-Fi
Capable of zapping data many times faster than the common home
networking technology, ultrawideband is moving closer to commercial
reality. Ultrawideband would enable you to swap data between your
digital camcorder and desktop computer or send signals from your digital
cable box to portable flat panel displays scattered around your house.
Now there's just that pesky fight over standards to resolve.
<http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=5fo,87tj,4rw,7rr7,axy5,21tx,ixhf>http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/wo_brown090204.asp?trk=nl
THERE'S GOLD IN THAT THERE DEAD AIR
At a time when the nation's wireless companies are increasingly
desperate for more airwaves to serve its customers, little-known
NextWave Telecom Inc. has networks up and running in 26 markets but has
never served a single paying customer.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W8RT04486B4480E3B2B653FA4F8E10
VERIZON WIRELESS SELLING WORLD PHONES
US-based Verizon Wireless is selling A790 phone manufactured by Samsung,
which works on mobile networks around the world. With these mobile
phones the users can go to Asia and Europe using Vodafone's network.
Verizon is first targeting business customers for the world phones and
in a few months time will sell to its consumers. The company will charge
$1.29 per minute for calls made to countries outside US.
INEXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT SPURS ON SoCal AT Wi-Fi GROUP Always a friend
to the those looking to spread Wi-Fi, Sputnik offered an equipment
bundle to the San Diego freenet at a price they couldn't refuse.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,13dr,1,86sv,7l1x,jcj3,9ffi
PHILADELPHIA CONSIDERS AT CITY-WIDE WIRELESS ACCESS City officials
in Philadelphia are considering a plan to install a city-wide wireless
network that would cover all 135 square miles of the city and would be
available either free or at a very low cost to the public. Cities such
as Chaska, Minn. (13 square miles), and Corpus Christi, Tex. (20 square
miles), have implemented similar networks, though on a much smaller
scale, and Cleveland has installed about 4,000 access points to provide
coverage of part of the city. Lev Gonick, chief information officer at
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, likened the network to PBS
and NPR, saying, "It should be a public resource." According to Dianah
Neff, Philadelphia's chief information officer, the proposed network in
her city would cost approximately $10 million to install and about $1.5
million to maintain annually. Neff said the proposed network, which
would offer high-speed Internet access to poorer parts of town that
currently have no such access, is "a technology whose time is here."
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9553298.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51804-2004Sep1.html
ARUBA LAYS OUT THE GRID
The switch vendor's new architecture is said to be analogous to an
electrical power grid and is designed to be a less expensive solution
for dense deployments in an enterprise.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,13ax,1,5uq4,k9to,jcj3,9ffi
Hotspots
A new Las Vegas hotel will be unwired; a Toronto suite hotel does wireless
on the cheap; Boston's Post Office Square offers access; and more.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,12r7,1,l0p5,ecft,jcj3,9ffi
Wi-Fi Makes Waves on Washington Ferries
Wireless Over Water officially debuts on the Puget Sound's favorite way
to commute, showing off technology that may eventually be used by the
Navy.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,13dr,1,buya,etmj,jcj3,9ffi
SITE CITES
SWITCH ON THE LIGHT BULB...AND KEEP IT ON?
Dr Karl's parents warned him that each time he switched on a light, he'd
burn up enough power to run the light bulb for 30 minutes. But several
degrees (university and Celsius) later he's putting their claim to the
test.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1185096.htm
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