V4 N51 -  29 May 2005

iTHINK ZONE
 

Small Business CRM is Here to Stay

If you ask most small business owners what priority CRM has in their short-term business plans, chances are you’ll get more than one blank stare. The fact is that most small business owners don’t even know what CRM is not to mention how significantly it can benefit their growing company. This prevailing ignorance of small business CRM (customer relationship management) usually stems from just a few basic causes.

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http://cyberzone.pacific-tier.com/iThink.htm
[Posted May 14 ]
 

VoIP ZONE

NEW VoIP and IP TELEPHONY NEWS & INFORMATION WEB PAGE FROM CYBERZONE PARTNER PACIFIC-TIER COMMUNICATIONS. 
YOU CAN NOW READ CONSTANT UPDATES ON VoIP and IP TELEPHONY AT A NEW SISTER SITE ESTABLISHED BY OUR PACIFIC-TIER PARTNER.  UPDATED 24/7, THE SITE COVERS ALL RELEVANT NEWS AND INFORMATION ON VoIP ISSUES, SERVICES AND PROVIDERS.

YOU CAN READ IT & BOOKMARK IT AT
http://voip.pacific-tier.com/

OTHERS' THINK ZONE

CREATIONISM
Why No Single Entity is Capable of Dictating the Future By Robert X. Cringely How do you predict the future? That's easy. How do you create the future? That's hard.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050519.html

WHERE ARE THEY NOW ZONE

THE MAD GENIUS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA Unlimited energy. Fast-growing fruit. Free air-conditioning. John Piña Craven says we can have it all by tapping the icy waters of the deep.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/craven_pr.html

CYBERZONE

GOOD-BYE TO VENTURE CAPITAL
Technology finance has turned rational--so I'm outta here. By Howard Anderson http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/invite.asp?trk=nl

TECHIES RAMP UP FOR INTERNET's NEXT INCARNATION The 500 technologists hunkered down in the Reston Hyatt this week are plotting the best way to push us onto the new Internet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501760.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

CYBER CHARTERS THRIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, the oldest of Pennsylvania's cyber charters, started in 2000 in the Midland School District. Opened with 500 students and now enrolling nearly 3,000, it is the second-largest cyber charter school in the state.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05128/500990.stm

CYBERNOUGHT
The founder of cybernetics is largely forgotten. That's a pity.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/review_cyber.asp?trk=nl

NOKIA SHOWS (NON-PHONE)WiFi DEVICE
Nokia has unveiled a new device which relies on WiFi rather than cellular networks to connect to the Web and send email. The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is aiming for those connecting to Internet in their homes. This is Nokia's second response to the twin criticisms it faced a year ago: That it did not offer clam-shell phones, and that it was a bit thin in the smartphone/PDA dematement. The new device demonstrates Nokia's determination to reach beyond the cellphone market and position itself to compete more effectively with laptop and personal organizer makers. The device features a touch-sensitive screen and is a bit larger than typical personal organizers. It also uses Linux. Nokia will update the device's software to support Internet telephony early next year. The device will be available in the third quarter for about $350.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1820690,00.asp

NOT HAWTHORNE'S OR MITCHELL's SCARLET(T) Competitive athletes are always seeking ways to improve their performance. The results of a new study indicate that they need only look in their closets. It seems athletes wearing red uniforms experience a slight advantage over those decked out in other colors.
http://cl.exct.net/?ffcd16-fe56167170630c79701d-fe20167073670d7c7c1c79

IBM TO PROVIDE OPEN SOURCE RESOURCES TO HIGHER EDUCATION Long a backer of open source technologies, IBM has announced several initiatives to promote open source in higher education. The company will expand its partnership with Linux reseller Red Hat to help higher education develop job skills on Linux as well as IBM products.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5718616.html

BIO/NANO/MEMS ZONE

SINGAPORE'S NANOTECH GOALS UNITE SCHOOLS, INDUSTRY Singapore long has been a tight-knit world of government, academia and industry moving in tandem to stimulate growth. Now those groups are joining forces to encourage nanotech development in their tiny nation.
http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=9137

TELL ME WHAT I'LL BE SICK FROM TOMORROW
Doctors tell us what's wrong with our bodies today. Computer scientist Astro Teller says his BodyMedia devices and software will predict what is going wrong tomorrow. Within a year, Teller expects them to have ten times their current store of data, enough, he says, to write programs that may predict when someone will suffer a cold, epileptic fit or heart attack. "If it's true for just one case," he says, "we're on the cusp of a whole new wave of medical technology."
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0606/071.html

LIGHT GUN FIRES PHOTONS ONE BY ONE
The first photon gun capable of firing single particles of light over optical fibers was unveiled on Tuesday. Since quantum encryption works only if the key is sent using individual photons, the breakthrough may remove one of the final obstacles keeping perfectly secure messages from being sent over standard telephone fibers.Researchers at Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory in the UK have developed a light-emitting diode that produces up to 1000 single photons per second, allowing a data transfer rate of 1 megabits per second.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7420

INFINEON & IBM COLLABERATE ON NEW MEMORY TECH Infineon and IBM have launched a program to research phase-change memory, material that retains data by changing its structure between crystalline and amorphous. Phase change memory has the advantage that data doesn't depend on an electrical charge, so, like flash memory it persists when a computer is turned off. On the other hand, phase change memories can wear out mechanically.
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/html/z/footer/iframe.html

MOVE OVER PLASMA TVs: NANO-SCREENS ARE COMING Display manufacturers are developing lower-cost alternatives to LCD and plasma technologies. By John Brandon http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_052405brandon.asp?trk=nl

HITACHI DEVELOPS WRIST SENSOR FOR REMOVE MONITORING OF PULSES Electronics manufacturer Hitachi Ltd. said Tuesday it has fabricated a prototype wrist-worn sensor that can transmit pulse data to a remote monitoring center. The company said it will be useful for monitoring the health and other conditions of elderly people who live alone. The prototype contains what Hitachi says is the smallest sensor with communications functions in the world, in addition to a battery. It measures 6 centimeters long, 4 cm wide and 1.5 cm high. Pulse and other data of sensor wearers will be radioed to a remote computer for recording and monitoring. (Kyodo News)

BIO-BRIEFS ZONE

Memphis--St. Jude vies for critical gap funding
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/1447208

Minneapolis/St. Paul--Biotech charter school to open
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/1447209

Minneapolis/St. Paul--Local med-tech firms plan to grow in Ohio http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/1447210

Phoenix--Biomarker to develop cancer-screening tool
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/1447211

Raleigh/Durham--Serial entrepreneurs love the thrill of 'rolling the dice'
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/1447212

San Francisco--Mission Bay to get more research space: Backer of stem cell bid plans $100M expansion of lab building
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/1447213

San Jose--Cellerant in race to be first to market stem cell therapy
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/1447214

Washington--Freeze-drying firm warms to Maryland's biotech zone
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/1447215

ASIA-PACIFIC ZONE

NTT COMMUNICATIONS TO OFFER FRAGRANCES VIA THE INTERNET NTT Communications Corp said Monday it has developed a technology to offer fragrances via the Internet. The technology uses a scent-generation device that is hooked up to a personal computer, according to NTT Communications. When a scent is converted into data, the information is sent to the device via the Internet. The device then blends fragrant materials stored in it and creates the scent.
The device can produce almost any fragrance, says an NTT Communications official. (Kyodo News)

NEW ZEALAND POST ROLLS OUT IP NETWORK
The New Zealand government owned NZ Post has announced that it will roll out IP telephony network in couple of months. This will be the second largest network in the country and will enable the company to save nearly $2 million in the next four to five years. The company plans to completely change over to the IP network and will introduce 150 such wireless phones in the office of the Kiwibank. Earlier the American company Cisco had supplied NZ Post with 2700 IP phones. NZ Post has wired its various offices at Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland.

WIRELESS ZONE

MOBILE PHONE SALES REACHED NEW RECORDS IN FIRST QUARTER Mobile phone sales hit a new high in the first three months of the year, while the top three manufacturers tightened their grip on the market, according to a study published Wednesday.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=DA23C8:1F8551F

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Marty Plotnick's CyberZone is a weekly review of Hawaii technology and international technology news.  The Hawaii Technology Calendar is available on the front page of this site, with links and descriptions of events relevant to the Hawaii technology and telecommunications community.  CyberZone takes special interest in researching and collecting links to stories from international technology news sources of interest to CyberZone's readers.  If you have any comments or suggestions for improvements to his site and information resource please contact Marty Plotnick at martycri@lava.net