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Welcome to the CyberZone
Marty Plotnick's CyberZone is a weekly look at technology news,
events, and views of interest to global and Hawaii business, education,
and technology communities.
Highlights in the CyberZone
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some time off from the Cyberzone. He will send a note to
everybody once he is ready to start back up. Please send a
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ARSONIST FLEES HONG KONG TAX OFFICE BLAZE WITH PANTS ON FIRE
Hong Kong - Police in Hong Kong were Thursday hunting an arsonist who
set alight the city's tax office and then fled with his trousers on
fire. One hundred customers were evacuated after the middle-aged man
walked into the Inland Revenue office in ce. |
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STANFORD LAW GRAD FACES TAX BITE FOR ALLEGED WORK AS A PROSTITUTE
A Stanford law school graduate is facing tax evasion charges over
thousands of dollars she was allegedly paid while working as a
prostitute in 2003. Since then, Cristina Schultz has married David
Warthen, co-founder of the online search engine Ask Jeeves, now known as
Ask.com. |
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GAO EXAMINES HHS PANDEMIC PREPARATIONS
The Department of Health and Human Services plans a national stockpile
of 75 million treatment courses of antivirals primarily to treat
"individuals sick with influenza," reports the Government Accountability
Office. |
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RESEARCHERS ACHIEVE 39.7% SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCY
At 39.7% efficiency for a multijunction solar cell, researchers at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg have
exceeded their own efficiency record of 37.6%, which they achieved in
July of this year. . |
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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES DESIGNS SUSTAINABILITY
A state-of-the-art digital dome planetarium, a stunning rain forest with
live trees, birds and butterflies, and an aquarium highlight the
just-opened California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park,
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SEPTEMBER
THE HAWAII ENTREPRENEUR
INVESTOR PITCH COMPETITION OCTOBER 15 - NOVEMBER 19
The Hawaii Entrepreneur
Investor Pitch Competition. Starting mid-October, business
coaches will provide one-on-one assistance to entrepreneurs to
help them develop concise, articulate and compelling oral
presentations of their business plans. As an incentive to
participate in the training, companies that successfully
complete the training will be given the opportunity to deliver
short "elevator"
pitches and/or full
business plan presentations on November 19 to a panel of
bankers, investors and other financial leaders. The top rated
presentations in three categories will be awarded For more
information, please contact Mark Ritchie at 521-3611 ext. 11 or
mritchie@enteprisehonolulu.com; or Janice Kato at 539-3814
or
janicek@htdc.org.
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iThink |
John
Savageau
Net Neutrality and
the Carrier Hotel
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John Savageau presents a White Paper on Net Neutrality
and Carrier Hotels. As telecommunications worldwide
continues movement towards packet networks and services,
Internet protocol exchanges and interconnection points will
add even greater value to the global telecom community.
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Read the full article at
iThink |
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