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V6 N23 - 7 January 2007
iTHINK ZONE
John Savageau presents a White Paper on Net Neutrality and Carrier Hotels. As telecommunications worldwide continues movement towards packetnetworks and services, Internet protocol exchanges and interconnection points will add even greater value to the global telecom community. READ IT ALL AT http://www.onewilshire.com/meet_me_room/WhitePapers/NetNeutralityandtheCarrierHotel.pdf
JUST SAY "NON" ZONE
FRENCH MARCHERS SAY "NON" TO 2007 Hundreds of protesters in France have rung in the New Year by holding a light-hearted march against it. Parodying the French readiness to say "non", the demonstrators in the western city of Nantes waved banners reading: "No to 2007" and "Now is better!" The marchers called on governments and the UN to stop time's "mad race" and declare a moratorium on the future. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6222153.stm
COLUMNIST SAY READ ME, DON'T ANSWER ME "Here's what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I don't want to talk to you; I want to talk at you. A column is not my attempt to engage in a conversation with you. I have more than enough people to converse with.
... Not everything should be interactive. A piece of work that stands on its own, without explanation or defense, takes on its own power. If Martin Luther put his 95 Theses on the wall and then all the townsfolk sent him their comments, and he had to write back to all of them and clarify what he meant, some of the theses would have gotten all watered down and there never would have been a Diet of Worms. And then, for the rest of history, elementary school students learning about the Reformation would have nothing to make fun of. You can see how dangerous this all is." L.A. Times columnist Joel Stein has no interest in boarding the < http://cluetrain.com/>Cluetrain.
CYBERZONE
TAIWAN QUAKE HIGHLIGHTS FRAGILITY OF THE INTERNET A few seconds of undersea quaking was all it took to cause massive telecommunications disruptions throughout tech-savvy Asia, where Internet services slowed or stopped. http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0030009XB8JO&nl=
SAN ANTONIO NET CAFE OPENS FOR DISABLED USERS Goodwill's Good Bytes Cafe aims to make technology accessible The Good Bytes Cafe has stained concrete floors, jars of scones and a small bank of computers in the corner, making it much like any Internet cafe. But the computers — outfitted with a joystick mouse, magnifying software and equipment allowing people to point and click with their eye movements — make Good Bytes one of just a handful nationwide specifically designed for disabled users. http://tinyurl.com/y4qesr
THE CLASSROOM OF TOMORROW: HERE TODAY, IN NEW JERSEY That dream classroom, perfectly integrated with technology and scalable for future innovations, is not such a fantasy. New Jersey already has three. http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604071
MICROSOFT KEEPS IT STUPID Cringefan and computer science professor Georges M. was trying to set up a Web site using Office Live Basics when his home page got corrupted. So he bravely contacted Microsoft support. He got back an e-mail asking him to answer 15 questions, try 26 troubleshooting steps, and let Microsoft lock him out of his account for four days while techies investigated the problem. The reply also contained this gem: "Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls."
Meanwhile, reader Seval G. posted a question to Microsoft's Live QnA Beta site asking, "Why is Microsoft tech support so horrible?" He's still waiting for an answer. So are the rest of us. From Robert X. Cringely
FIRST TELEGRAMS WERE KILLED, NOW THE MORSE CODE Morse Code used to be the ultimate SOS. Now Morse Code is in distress. The language of dots and dashes has been the lingua franca of amateur radio, a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have provided a communications lifeline in emergencies and disasters. The U.S.government will no longer require Morse Code proficiency as a condition for an amateur radio license. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/54918.html
SCIENCE ZONE
PEE CYCLING You recycle your household waste. You buy locally grown food, fit low-energy light bulbs and try not to use the car unnecessarily. Maybe you even irrigate the garden with your bath water. But you've still got an environmental monster in your house. Your toilet is wrecking the planet. http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19225831.600?DCMP=NLC-ezine&nsref=mg19225831.600
2007 TO BE THE "WARMEST ON RECORD" The world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007, the UK's Met Office forecasts. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/6228765.stm
TREATMENT KEEPS GIRL CHILD-SIZED Parents of a severely disabled US girl defend treatment to stunt her growth, saying it will give her a better life. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/americas/6229799.stm
BACK TO THE FUTURE: HOW THE BRAIN "SEES" THE FUTURE Whether imagining the future or recalling the past, the human mind calls on the same brain regions. http://cl.exct.net/?ffcb10-fe331571746c017b741574-fdfb15737467027b72147874-ff3310707762-fef61c7471640d-fe2615717c670174701272
ASIA PACIFIC ZONE
PHILIPPINE REGULATORS GET TOUGH ON TELCOS Philippine regulators are in the process of forcing wireline telcos to interconnect with VoIP carriers. It took a presidential order as late as 1993 to compel legacy carriers to interconnect with one another, and even then they imposed high rates for the privilege. Now, the telcos in the Philippines will have to do the same for VoIP carriers. http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business4_dec26_2006
PHILIPPINES GETS $3.89 BILLION OF NEW INVESTMENTS IN 2006 The Philippines Board of Investments (BoI) has received $3.89 billion worth of fresh investments in 2006, a year-on-year increase of 16%. Telecom and power contributed almost 60% of the total investments. The nation's three leading mobile operators helped in enhancing the BoI's figures, by providing the network infrastructure for new 3G mobile services. Smart Communications, the mobile unit of PLDT, plans to invest $678 million for providing the UMTS technology, though this figure has had to be revised. Gonkongwei's Digitel Mobile Philippines unit, which provides its services under the brand name 'Sun Cellular', will invest $122 million for providing its services. Globe Telecommunications also plans to invest $112 million in the first year of its 3G services.
PROJECT AIMS TO TAG TOKYO NEIGHBORHOOD WITH RFID A location-based services trial that will see a famous Tokyo neighborhood blanketed with around 10,000 RFID (radio frequency identification) tags and other beacons got its start earlier this month. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=15A022E:ECCF9AA50A17C8DC9B0BAEC642849F0BEFF29049075316B4
WIRELESS ZONE
NAKED WI-FI Wired News published this interesting round up of beaches with Wi-Fi: Florida's Haulover Beach is perhaps the only clothing-optional beach. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72371-0.html?tw=rss.culture
RURAL BROADBAND: FINDING ALTERNATIES TO DSL AND CABLE What do you do when you want to live in a rural area but you need high-speed Internet at home and you can't get cable or DSL? http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1172054/1423585/46332/2/
SITE CITES
THE BREWER'S TALE Nest time you raise a glass of something alcoholic to your lips, spare a thought for the humble organism that makes it all possible. From the crudest home brew to the most exquisite champagne, the production of almost all alcoholic drinks depends on the single-celled fungus we call brewer's yeast. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225831.100?DCMP=NLC-ezine&nsref=mg19225831.100
THREE INDUCTEES TO THE 2006DARWIN AWARD Out of the gene pool, into the hall of fame http://go.theregister.com/news/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/03/2006_darwin_
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
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