CLEARWIRE LAUNCHES VoIP OVER WiMAX NETWORK Clearwire's customers in Stockton, CA, are able to subscribe to a new service which will enable phone services over the Internet. Clearwire says it is the first widely deployed wireless broadband company to offer VoIP services in the U.S. Clearwire Internet Phone Service is a facilities-based phone service specifically designed for use over the Clearwire broadband network. The service was jointly developed with Bell Canada.

Clearwire said it will only sell service to those who qualify for Enhanced 911 service. Among the features included in the company's offering are a local phone number within Clearwire's market, unlimited local and long-distance calling within the U.S. and Canada, international calling rates the company describes as "competitive," call forwarding, enhanced call forwarding, caller ID, voice mail, voice mail to email, three-way calling, call blocking and international call blocking. Clearwire customers will also be able to access and manage their call functions by using an online dashboard.

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DRUG SMUGGLERS TURN COCAINE INTO PLASTIC PRODUCTS Smugglers may be trying to incorporate cocaine into host of innocent-looking plastic consumer products, such as fish tanks and DVD cases http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025474.000?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg

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TIME WARNER EXEC URGES NETWORKS TO GO TO FREE VOD Time Warner COO Jeffrey Bewkes challenged cable operators to make all networks available on free, ad-supported VOD by the end of next year.

"I think that the record is clear for 20 years on pay-per-view that that is not the way to maximize usage," Bewkes said.

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STANFORD ANNOUNCES ONLINE HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIFTED YOUTH Stanford University has announced that its existing Education Program for Gifted Youth program will in the fall begin offering a full high school curriculum and a diploma to students who complete it. Started in 1992, the Education Program for Gifted Youth currently offers online courses to about 4,000 students between the ages of 4 and 18. The new offerings will round out a high school curriculum and will establish the program as the first online high school that targets gifted students.

Other institutions, such as the University of Miami and the University of Texas, operate online high schools without a focus on high-performing students. Stanford's new program will be open to students in grades 10-12 who must apply for admission; demonstrate excellent achievement after they are enrolled; and pay tuition for the program, which is expected to be about $12,000 per year. Stanford said it will offer financial assistance and will particularly look for students from disadvantaged schools.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14325928.htm

SCIENCE ZONE

LOW-COST MALARIA DRUG COMING SOON--UC-BERKELEY SCIENTISTS TO GIVE RIGHTS AWAY Scientists at the University of California-Berkeley announced April 12 that they have found a potentially dirt-cheap way to treat a global scourge, malaria -- and they'll give the rights to produce it to an East Bay biotechnology company for free. The Berkeley scientists have developed a strain of yeast that could be used to develop a treatment for malaria they hope will be nearly 10 times cheaper than the current medicine. Although malaria can be treated, it kills more than 1 million people a year, mostly in developing nations that can't afford the medicine.

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GRID COMPUTING PROJECT TARGETS BIRD FLU A research institute is harnessing the power of thousands of computers over the Internet to investigate potential drug treatments for deadly avian influenza.

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BIOTECH's GAINS AGAIN OUTSTRIP DRUG GIANTS

The American biotechnology industry has surpassed pharmaceutical companies for the third straight year as the primary source of new medicines, helping biotech revenue jump nearly 16 percent last year to a record

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HOW CHUBBY YOUNG BIRDS LOSE FAT TO FLY

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BIO-INK

Sitting in a culture dish, a layer of chicken heart cells beats in synchrony. But this muscle layer was not sliced from an intact heart, nor even grown laboriously in the lab. Instead, it was "printed", using a technology that could be the future of tissue engineering. Droplets of "bio-ink" - clumps of living cells a few hundred micrometres in diameter - flow together and fuse when squirted close to each other. They can be made to form layers, rings and tubes - which could serve as blood vessels - depending on how they are deposited. Bioprinting could develop into a fast and cheap way to engineer a variety of tissue types...

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SPRAY ON SILICON TO COAT CHIPS

Japanese researchers have made a liquid form of silicon they say might one day be sprayed onto chips with an inkjet printer.

http://abc.net.au/science/news/tech/InnovationRepublish_1610072.htm

OPTICAL FIBER ADVANCE

A joint team from Penn State (University Park, PA) and the University of Southampton (Southampton, UK) has created semiconductor devices, including a transistor, inside microstructured optical fibers. While the optical fiber transmits data, a semiconductor device allows active manipulation of the ight, including generating and detecting, amplifying signals, and controlling wavelengths. The resulting capabilities could have applications in fields as diverse as medicine, computing, and remote-sensing devices.

Optical fiber has proved to be the ideal medium for transmitting signals based on light, while crystalline semiconductors are the best way to manipulate electrons. A current technological challenge is exchanging information between optics and electronics rapidly and efficiently. This new technique may provide the tools to cross the divide.

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BIO BRIEFS

Jacksonville--FCCJ biotech graduates face uncertain market

http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/22074367

San Francisco--S.F. biotech inks $700M alliance: Sirna's first pharmaceutical deal, with Glaxo, is worth the wait

http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/22074368

San Francisco--No. 1 - giant companies: Genentech: Employees buy into lifesaving mission

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San Jose--Public bios turn to private follow-on funding

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ASIA-PACIFIC ZONE

CHINA MOBILE CUTS OF 19,000 ABUSERS

China Mobile has reneged the cell phone services of about 19,000 customers, citing "abuses" on the company's SMS service. The carrier accused the subscribers were using the service for unlawful purposes.

The abuses ranged from sending SMS intended to obtain sensitive monetary information from other subscribers, or dupe for money. China Mobile, in 2005 created a hotline to help wireless phone users to report the unwanted messages received. China Mobile had 393.4 million mobile phone customers by December 2005. The company said that connections were cut only after receiving seven or more complaints about a mobile phone number, to curtail the subscriber from sending abusive messages.

GOOGLE ENTERS CHINA UNDER NEW NAME

When Google Inc formally opened its engineering centre in Beijing yesterday, the Internet search giant also gave itself a Chinese name. Trying to make it easier for Chinese people to use its services, and in turn capture more users, US-based Google said it would also go by the name Gu Ge, which means "song of the harvest of grain."

http://english.people.com.cn//200604/13/eng20060413_258109.html

GOOGLE SEES SUBSTANTIAL REVENUE GROWTH IN CHINA Google Inc. expects substantial revenue growth in China, a market the Internet giant sees among its most promising but one in which censorship laws run counter to some of the firm's core values.

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WORLD's FIRST FUEL CELL POWERED TRAIN TO BE PRODUCED IN CHINA The world's first train using fuel cells as main driving power will be produced in July this year, announced East Japan Railway Company on April 11.

The fuel cell-powered train, with highest speed of 100 km per hour, has a hydrogen tank and two fuel cell units installed in the lower part of the carriage. The reaction of hydrogen and oxygen will generate power to propel the train. East Japan Railway Company has a plan to put the train into trial operation in April 2007.

http://english.people.com.cn//200604/13/eng20060413_258185.html

WIRELESS ZONE

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GOOGLE PATENT FOR VOICE SEARCH MAY SHED LIGHT ON WIRELESS PLANS Google has just won a patent for voice interface for search engines.

The company has indicated an interest in bringing voice-based search to mobile devices.

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WHY WOMEN ARE CHANGING THEIR MINDS ABOUT MEN As women's financial independence has increased, it seems their preferences in men have changed, with looks gaining in importance http://www.prq0.com/apps/redir.asp?link=XcdjegieDG,ZccdgbjehiEC&oid=UcjjbCB&

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