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V6 N24 - 14 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
KEEP IT STUPID ZONE
GRADE A PIGEON The congressional aide who tried to hire hackers to improve his college grades six years after graduating has been canned. Todd Shriber, former press secretary to Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Montana), solicited hackers from Attrition.org to break into computers at Texas Christian University and "make an adjustment to [his] college GPA."
CYBERZONE
WARNER BROS. DEBUT DUAL-FORMAT DISC Top electronics retailers are lining up behind a new universal DVD format created by Warner Bros. to bridge the gap between the competing HD DVD and Blu-ray camps. http://www.playfuls.com/news_05790_Time_Warner_Plays_both_Sides_Total_HD_Revealed.html http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=02200295JTXG&nl=2
HOW TO GO TO M.I.T. FOR FREE By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at MIT will be available online to anyone in the world. Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. __The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at MIT in 2002, has now spread to some 120 other universities worldwide. _ http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0104/p13s02-legn.html
CISCO FILES SUIT AGAINST APPLE OVER iPHONE TRADEMARK Cisco Systems Inc. late today announced that it has filed suit against Apple Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in a bid to stop Apple "from infringing upon and deliberately copying and using Cisco's registered iPhone trademark."
Cisco, in a statement on its Web site, said it got the iPhone trademark in 2000 after it bought Infogear, which had owned the trademark and had sold iPhone products for several years. According to Cisco, Infogear's original filing for the trademark was on March 20, 1996. Linksys, a division of Cisco, has been shipping iPhone products since early 2006 and last month expanded the iPhone line further. "Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," said Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel for Cisco. "There is no doubt that Apple's new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission. http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1185240/255221/47075/2/
PUBLIC CAN PURCHASE $100 LAPTOP The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/technology/6246989.stm
DO WEB SITES NEED TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE BLIND? When an advocacy group sued Target Corp., it claimed that Target's Web site is incompatible with software used by the blind and called that a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California refused to dismiss the claims, leaving many questions unanswered. Target maintained that Title III of the ADA applied only to a physical place. Jenner & Block's Carla Rozycki and David Haase discuss the decision's impact on entities that host Web sites. http://www.law.com/jsp/llf/PubArticleLLF.jsp?id=1168336931451
RESEARCHERS USE WIKIPEDIA TO MAKE COMPUTERS SMARTER Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them "think smarter," making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. The new method will help computers filter e-mail spam, perform Web searches and even conduct intelligence gathering at more sophisticated levels than current programs. http://www.physorg.com/news87276588.html
SCIENCE ZONE
ANTI-CANCER ALGAE In a recent study, a University of Michigan research team was able to produce a class of anti-cancer drugs originally isolated from a compound found in blue-green algae called cryptophycin 1. http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20070111A2
WORLD WIDE MIND "World Wide Mind," the premiere episode of 22nd Century, a new PBS series, will air Wednesday, January 17, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. EST. In the first episode, surgeons have implanted an electrode in an injured man's brain to allow him to communicate just by thinking about what he wants to say. Watch the pilot program online http://www.pbs.org/22ndcentury
DESKTOP FABRICATOR MAY KICK-START HOME REVOLUTION Fab@Home, a cheap self-assembly device capable of fabricating 3D objects, has been developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers. They hope the machine could kick start a revolution in home fabrication, or "rapid prototyping," just as early computer kits sparked an explosion in home computing. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10922-desktop-fabricator-may-kickstart-home-revolution.html
ASIA PACIFIC ZONE
TOSHIBA APLOGIZES FOR REFUSES TO TAKE BACK FAULTY PRODUCTS IN CHINA Local China media report that after its PC products, and those of Fujitsu, NEC and HP, were exposed by the Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of Industry and Commerce as having problems, Japan-based Toshiba has apologized to customers but has refused to recall the products. http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-apologizes-but-refuses-to-accept-faulty-products/
82% OF ASIA PACIFIC MARKET USES GSM AND W-CDMA W-CDMA recorded the fastest growth in Q3 2006 in Asia, showing a 15.7% increase in customer base with 5.5 million new customers. The comparable rise in Q3 2005 was 4.0 million. Japan is the largest market in W-CDMA, with 83% of the total customer population.
Australia follows with 6% share at 2.23 million users. Taiwan and Hong Kong are third and fourth, with a total of 7% users in the region. Taiwan has 1.78 million and Hong Kong, 1.15 million. The Asia Pacific market is dominated by GSM. Over 750 million GSM subscribers were recorded at the end of Q3 2006. About 52% users were added in the preceding 21 months alone. If W-CDMA numbers are included, the figures rise to a 801-million customer population and 57% addition.
JAPAN HAS NOT INVENTED THE FORK...YET Sasebo girls' school to test chopstick skills of applicants A private girls' high school in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, has decided to screen applicants whether they can properly use chopsticks, in addition to their knowledge of Japanese language and mathematics. The Hisatagakuen Sasebo Girls' High School, well-known for its emphasis on discipline, says the new test aims to judge applicants' lifestyle habit. During the 10-minute test on Jan 31, applicants will be asked to transfer six types of small objects - marbles, dice, beads and three types of beans - from one plate to another using a specially designed pair of chopsticks with hexagonal surface. The school has only 40 students per grade, and has made art of tea ceremony and flower arrangement as part of required curriculum since it was founded in 1902. It is also known for its focus on basic manners and food education. (Kyodo News) http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/395605
WIRELESS ZONE
BILL SEEKS TO FREE UP VACANT BROADCAST SPECTRUM Senator John Sununu is set to introduce a bill that would free up vacant broadcast spectrum, which could provide additional frequencies for WiMAX and WiFi services. Sununu worked on a bill last year that would have required the FCC to permit unlicensed use of unused broadcast spectrum between 54 MHz and 698 MHz. Last year the FCC made it easier for low-power devices to take advantage of "white spaces," which traditionally have protected broadcast TV from interference. http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=69l,phaw,8mg,ib7l,exi0,l2d4,1mn9>article
SITE CITE
NEWS FLASH FIVE Check out this new site from PBS KIDSGO; "News Flash Five" is a Web site that encourages young people to take an interest in news and current events. Animated broadcasts offer a fresh way of receiving the news online. Additional interactive activities help kids understand how current events relate to and can affect their lives. http://www.pbskids.org/newsflashfive
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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