VOL III No 48 May 9, 2004: CYBERZONE/BIOZONE CALENDAR

A SERVICE OF CREATIVE RESOURCES, INC. by MARTY PLOTNICK

HAWAI'I CALENDAR:

****NEW****Tuesday, May 11-- 5:45 p.m. ELECTRONIC PIZZA -- U.H. MARINE SCIENCES AUDITORIUM. Speaker: Joshua Beil, VP of Business Development of Skywave Broadband LLC, an ISP in Honolulu specializing in wireless technology and networks. Topic: The ABC’s of Wi-Fi http://www.cyberpizzahawaii.com/upcoming.html for details and parking information.

****Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, May 10-12, Asia Pacific Conference on Emerging Technologies: The Challenge of the Mobile Revolution and the Digital Divide. Sponsors: East-West Center and the Korea Information Strategy Development Institute (KISDI). Renaissance Hotel in Seoul, Korea. For more information and registration materials: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sem-bp.asp
Registration Online: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/index.asp

****NEW****Friday, May 1, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PMHTDC Presents: Working with the News Media - How to give them the news they want! Speaker:  Craig Miyamoto, Miyamoto Strategic Counsel Manoa Innovation Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 2800 Woodlawn Dr FREE
RSVP: Provide your name, company name, phone number and email to sandyp@htdc.org by May 12

****NEW****Monday, May 17, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. WORLD TELECOMMUNICATIONS DAY SEMINAR. Dr. Nancy Lewis, Moderator; Dr. David Lassner, Dr. Richard Taylor. Hale Halawai at the East-West Center. Sponored by PTC Hawaii Foundation and the East-West Center Research Program. No Fee but UH parking is $3.00. RSVP a must to rjbarber@aloha.net

****Wednesday to Friday. May 19-21-- International Conference on Strategies for Building Software Industries in Developing Counties East-West Center University of Hawai'i at Manoa Strategies for Building Software Industries in Developing Countries will bring together experts and software industry professionals from around the world to identify, discuss and debate the various policy options governments have to cultivate their software industries and what strategies software companies can employ to ensure success in the international market place.
FREE FOR CONFERENCE.  <http://www.iipi.org/activities/forums.htm>http://www.iipi.org/activities/forums.htm  Or contact Anthony L. Clapes Technology Law Network tclapes@attglobal.net

****NEW****Thursday, May 27-- 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. UOP Brown Bag Seminar:
PauSpam - A Tech-preneur Success Story. University of Phoenix, Downtown Honolulu Campus, 828 Fort Street, Rooms 101/102. Free.
Local technology entrepreneurs, Hoala Greevy and Gordon Bruce, of PauSpam, Inc. will share how they started with a concept, developed it into a product, and became global software players in the anti-spam marketplace.

****NEW**** Friday, June 4, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. "The Future of Information Security: Strategic Insights from Steve Northcuttî.
Presented by Infragard Honolulu, the Hawaii FBI field office, and the SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security (SANS) Institute. Sheraton Waikiki Hotel FEE: $20.00 payable to Infragard Honolulu Registration confirmed upon receipt of payment.
Registration Deadline: Register and pay by Wednesday, May 26, 2004.
No refunds will be made but substitutions will be allowed by notifying the program coordinator, Wayne (931-8288).
 

General East-West Seminar information: Marilu Khudari, khudarim@eastwestcenter.org, or phone 944-7384.

UH CALENDAR http://dbserver.its.hawaii.edu/calendar/

HTDC CALENDAR

http://www.hitechhawaii.com/webevents.asp

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HAWAI'I JOB ZONE

Decision Research Corporation (Honolulu) has an immediate opening for an experienced software development project manager. Please email resumes to hr@decisionresearch.com. Please include the position and "CZ-0421" in the subject line.

HAWAI'I HOTSPOT ZONE

Wi-Fi NOW AVAILABLE AT HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ShakaNet, began providing wireless Internet access or Wi-Fi at the Honolulu International Airport. Coverage at the airport includes all gate areas. Honolulu International Airport is one of the few airports in the United States with such complete coverage. ShakaNet will be offering the service for free beginning May 1, 2004 for two weeks.
Beginning May 15, 2004, users will need to sign up before they can connect to the Internet. Service plans start at $6.95 for a One Day Pass and $19.95 for a Recurring Monthly Plan. There is no need to sign up before hand. The system automatically sends the user a sign-up page when it detects that a user is trying to access the Internet. Transactions are done on the user's browser with a credit card. ShakaNet has also set up a web site that maintains a list of all known public hotspots in Hawaii. The current list includes over 40 hotspots.
http://www.hawaiihotspots.com

THINK ZONE

HOW MUCH DOES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MATTER?
IN May 2003, The Harvard Business Review published an article by a former editor, Nicholas G. Carr, titled "IT Doesn't Matter." The reaction from industry chief executives was immediate. "Hogwash!" said Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft. "Dead wrong," said Carleton S. Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard. Craig R. Barrett of Intel responded forcefully, "IT matters a whole lot." Now, a year later, Mr. Carr has replied to his critics with a new book, "Does IT Matter?" (Harvard Business School Press).
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/business/06scene.html?pagewanted=print&position=

TELECOM ZONE

FCC's POWELL TELLS INCUMBENTS: WATCH OUT FOR VoIP Speaking at NCTA this week, FCC Chairman Michael Powell predicted VoIP would turn the industry upside down. "If you are an incumbent, you, in my opinion, out to be terrified," Powell told the crowd. "You ought to be terrified because we are lowering the barriers to offering a service to which you have dedicated massive infrastructure."
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzvoip053787285may05,0,1713259 print.story?coll=ny-business-headlines

NTT TO START FIBER OPTIC-BASED VoIP SERVICE IN AUGUST TOKYO - Fixed-line telecom carriers NTT East Corp and NTT West Corp said Wednesday they will start offering optical fiber line-based Internet protocol (IP) telephony service for individual customers in August. The local-call arms of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) asked the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications the same day for authorization to start the new service, the two companies said. FULL STORY (Kyodo News)
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=4&id=296909

GLOBAL CROSSING FACES DELISTING
Global Crossing announced that its independent Audit Committee has retained Deloitte & Touche LLP to conduct an independent review of the company's cost of access liabilities and cost of access expenses and the related internal control environment and Grant Thornton LLP to evaluate the company's procedures and its determination regarding the potential restatement of its financial statements. Global Crossing also announced that it received a Nasdaq Staff Determination on April 29, 2004 indicating thatthe company's common stock is not in compliance with the filing requirements for continued listing on The Nasdaq National Market and will be de-listed unless the company requests a hearing with a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel to review this determination. The company will request this hearing shortly.
http://www.boardwatch.com/document.asp?doc_id=52212

CYBERZONE

THE INTERNET's WILDER SIDE
Professors equipping their students with wireless keypads for classroom give-and-take say they make classes come alive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/technology/circuits/06chat.html?8cir

RESEARCHERS AT INTEL WANT TO KNOW ABOUT YOU Though the chip maker may be better known for its research and development work in physics and computer science, a small group of approximately 10 anthropologists and psychologists has been steadily accumulating research on how people use computer technology in their work and home lives since 1997. The purpose of the People and Practices group, which is based in Intel's Hillsboro, Ore., research and development facility, is to help translate this knowledge into better Intel products.
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,92937,00.html

CDs & DVDs NOT SO IMMORTAL AFTER ALL
"CD rot" -- a gradual deterioration of the data-carrying layer -- is just one of a number of reasons that optical discs, including DVDs, may be a lot less long-lived than first thought. http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7077

HOW TO CARE FOR CDs & DVDs
Handling tips for CDs and DVDs, including the recordable versions, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7078

IMAGES GET THEIR OWN SEARCH ENGINE
Backed by CIA funding, Pixlogic software can be "visually programmed" to monitor video feeds in real time to search for certain events or elements. The software sees objects in a picture or video frame and makes a mathematical formulation to describe them. The formulations are stored in a searchable database and compared to the formulations for objects that are already filed. A commercial version, Pixserve, will allow users to point to an image and ask it to retrieve similar images in the database. http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/2004/05/04/cx_pp_0504visualsearch_ii.html

FOR YOUR EARS ONLY
Two very different inventors have staked competing claims to a potential audio revolution-the ability to direct music or speech to a single person in a crowd. This "directional sound" technique uses an ultrasound emitter to shoot a laserlike beam of audible sound so focused that only people inside a narrow path can hear it. Elwood "Woody" Norris, of American Technology Corporation, and F. Joseph Pompei, of Holosonic Research Labs, have harnessed the same scientific principle to create competing directional-sound systems, and each insists his version will transform acoustics. Who's going to capture this technology's potential billion-dollar market?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/schwartz20504.asp?trk=nl

BIO/MEMS/MEDICAL ZONE

U.S. LAUNCHES NANOMEDICINE INITIATIVE, ASKS FOR BRIGHT IDEAS The National Institutes of Health formally kicked off its nano- medicine initiative by soliciting comments from the scientific community to help shape the research project aimed at developing new tools to improve human health. Nanomedicine is one of nine initiatives that make up NIH's roadmap, a long- term plan for improving and accelerating biomedical research.
http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=7809

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY PLANS LAYOFFS How many NIST employees in Gaithersburg and in Boulder, Colo., will be let go depends on the number of employees who agree to take voluntary early retirement or a cash buyout. The deadline for accepting an early out or buyout is Friday. Layoff notices will be sent next week.
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W4RT058C7267C0E3B2B653E2F22DA

NEW DETECTORS CAN NAIL SMUGGLED NUKES
Physicists have discovered a new signature characteristic of radiation that could be used to detect the gamma ray emissions of smuggled illegal nuclear materials, even if they are concealed among large bundles of shipping containers.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nuclear-blackmarket-04b.html

NEW COMPUTER TECHNIQUE DIFFERENTIATES MALIGANT & BENIGN CALCIFICATIONS ON DIGITAL MMOGRAMS Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a computer technique that "learns" how benign and malignant breast calcifications appear on digital mammograms so not only can it detect them, but it can also predict the likelihood that the calcifications are associated with cancer.
http://www.arrs.org/scriptcontent/pressroom/archive/2004/r040504g.cfm

NANO WEAPONS JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER Imagine being treated for cancer with a couple of visits to your doctor. He simply gives you an injection and then a couple of weeks later runs infrared light over your body to activate cancer-killing agents and excise the tumor. Sound like a Ray Bradbury novel? Don't tell Naomi Halas that. She is the Stanley C. Moore professor of electrical and computer engineering and professor of chemistry at Rice University, and she has more than imagined it-she's been developing the process since 1997, when she invented miniscule particles with huge therapeutic potential. She calls them nanoshells. It's just one of the research efforts under way to deploy tools of the ultrasmall realm for the diagnosis and treatment of tumors.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_harney043004.asp?trk=nl

VERMONT'S SELDON LABS WANTS TO KEEP SOLDIERS' WATER PURE A research lab in Green Mountain State has won a contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a water filter that uses carbon nanotubes to stick it to pollutants. Founded only 16 months ago, Seldon Laboratories LLC has already delivered a prototype filter that skewers biological pathogens as a soldier gulps water into his mouth.
http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=7764

BIO BRIEFS ZONE

Atlanta--Top biotech convention headed here
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/836263

Boston--BRM buffs up its business model with nude rodents
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/836264

Boston--Lifeblood for manufacturing: Medical device industry promises stable growth in state's declining manufacturing base
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/836265

East Bay--Back with a vengeance
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/836266

East Bay--Vaccines explored as anti-cancer trigger
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/836267

Kansas City--Plan sees area as beacon for life sciences
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/836268

San Francisco-- BayBio's board pulls out chairs for 10 new biotech executives
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/836269

San Francisco--Seeking biotech's Holy Grail: Deal puts East Bay company into race for cancer vaccine http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/836270

Washington--Panacea's new 'sound, simple strategy': The pharmaceutical company gets rights to cancer program back from MedImmune
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/836271

CHINA ZONE

CHINA SHUTS DOWN 8,600 ILLEGAL INTERNET CAFES China has shut down more than 8,600 unlicensed Internet cafes across the country since February when it launched a nationwide check on all Internet cafes, according to Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng. These cafes were closed for admitting juveniles in violation of relevant regulations, said Sun.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn//200405/06/eng20040506_142470.html

FAITH SPROUTS IN ARID SOIL OF CHINA  Signs of religious revival abound in China, especially among the country's largest Muslim minority, the Hui, but government limits on Islam remain strict.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/international/asia/06chin.html?th

CHINA's SOARING AMBITIONS The world's most visionary architects are rebuilding China. Inside the aesthetic revolution http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501040503/story.html

CHINA's FASTEST COMPUTER TO SERVE BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES he supercomputer set at the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CNIC, CAS) will be able to provide long-distance calculation services based on network. The supercomputer with a sustained performance of 4 Tflops is national Lenovo DeepComp 6800, now China's fastest and 14th among the top 500 worldwide.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/supercomputer-04c.html

CHINA SEEKS NEW INVESTORS FOR URBAN UTILITIES With pricing rights still in government hands, investors are finally being allowed access to offering daily necessities such as water and gas in Chinese cities. After drawing on the experience of developed nations, the ministry will grant qualified market players with an operation duration of one to 30 years concerning urban utilities.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/03/content_1451978.htm

WIRELESS & HOTSPOT HITS ZONE

WIRELESS LIVING
A special section looks at how wireless gadgets are spreading through American homes and businesses.
http://www.nytimes.com/techspecial/?th

STUDY REVEALS WOMEN & YOUTH TO DRIVE WIRELESS SECTOR Wireless service providers would do well to pay attention to the wants and desires of both women and younger wireless users, according to a new survey. These two groups of wireless users, compared to their adult male counterparts, are more apt to adopt new wireless services and applications, the Zelos Group says.
http://email.wirelessweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/egqr0C1swl0B4I0CV1y0A8

FREE IN SAN DIEGO
Can a loose-knit network of wireless users groups maintain a ubiquitous city-wide network and provide a reliable enough service to keep users online? SocalFreeNet says it can.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,vl6,1,ch6i,flrn,jcj3,9ffi

Atlanta lays out WiFi plans
ATLANTA LAYS OUT WiFi PLANS
Atlanta will offer citywide wireless Internet service within three years if recently approved plans to build a for-pay network come to fruition.The Atlanta city council passed legislation allowing city officials to go ahead with Atlanta FastPass, the official title of the city's WiFi initiative. It will first be established at city hall and Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, and then rolled out to other areas around the city.
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2004/0503/web-atlanta-05-03-04.asp

THE HOTSPOTS

An Iowa hotel chain provides free connections; Sprint Wi-Fi gets monthly; Malaysia's big hotzone is coming; USURF will unwire Rio Ranchero; and more.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,vnt,1,l0p5,ecft,jcj3,9ffi

iPass will work at truckstops; Atlanta and Indianapolis have plans afoot to offer city-wide Wi-Fi; Docomo customers can eaily pay for in-flight Internet access; and more.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,vhk,1,l0p5,ecft,jcj3,9ffi

SITE CITES

WHAT CAUSES HICCUPS?
William A. Whitelaw, a professor in the department of medicine at the University of Calgary, explains.
http://cl.extm.us/?fe8b12767261007f73-fe20167073670d7c7c1c79
 

 

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