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VOL III No 49 May 16, 2004: CYBERZONE/BIOZONE CALENDAR
A SERVICE OF CREATIVE RESOURCES, INC. by MARTY PLOTNICK
HAWAI'I CALENDAR:
****Friday, May 14, 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
****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
****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.
****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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THINK ZONE
INSANELY DESTRUCTIVE DEVICES
If we can't defend against an attack, perhaps the rational response is to reduce the incentives to attack. Rather than designing space suits, maybe we should focus on ways to eliminate the reasons to annihilate us. Rather than stirring up a hornet's nest and then hiding behind a bush...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/view.html?pg=5
UNPLUGGING THE ADDICTION TO INFORMATION OVERLOAD Professor Urges Protection of Psychic Space, Quiet Time http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13029-2004May9?language=printer
WHY BIG COMPANIES CAN'T INVENT
R&D has become the ultimate corporate sacred cow. But, according to venture capitalist Howard Anderson, corporations are too slow and timid to capitalize on their own inventions.
<http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=5fo,6jrf,4rw,f383,73gw,21tx,ixhf>http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/anderson0504.asp?trk=nl
MAC USERS ALERT ZONE
MAC TROJAN MASQUERADES AS MS WORD INSTALLER A Trojan horse, masquerading as an installer for the latest Mac version of Microsoft Word, has been discovered in the wild. Copies of this Trojan horse have been located on peer-to-peer networks LimeWire and Gnutella.
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/33790.html
CYBERZONE
MIT OPENS $300 MILLION COMPUTER LAB
The new $300 million building - formally dedicated last week - is home to MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0510stata.html
MIT AIMS FOR THE BOTTOM LINE
With its building extension project still in limbo, and layoffs a fresh memory for some of its staff, the leaders of the MIT Media Lab met with electronics companies this week to persuade the businesses that the lab is serious about making technologies for the consumer market. "We're entering a period where we will be eating, wearing and breathing computers," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the Media Lab. And the Media Lab is developing the sensors, smart devices and wireless capabilities that companies like Sony will want to license for their consumer products.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63412,00.html
WHISPERING KEYBOARDS COULD BE NEXT ATTACK TREND Listen to this: Eavesdroppers can decipher what is typed by simply listening to the sound of a keystroke, according to a scientist at this week's IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy. Each key on computer keyboards, telephones and even ATM machines makes a unique sound as each key is depressed and released, according to a paper entitled "Keyboard Acoustic Emanations" presented by IBM research scientist Dmitri Asonov.
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci963348,00.html?track=NL+102&ad=482174
COMPUTER CHIP NOISE MAY BETRAY CODE
The noise emitted by computer chips could help code breakers decipher encrypted messages, according to preliminary research carried out at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. The researchers found that they could distinguish between different cryptographic keys being processed by the chip, according to the frequency of the sound emitted. They also found they could determine the length of a string of characters by measuring the duration of certain sounds. This is because these correspond to the amount of time taken to process the key.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99994979.html
COLOR DISPLAY BLOCKS PRYING EYES
A computer screen that scrambles images for all but the intended viewer could make it safer to display sensitive information in public spaces.
<http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=5fo,6jrf,4rw,aoqt,iktt,21tx,ixhf>http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_050704.asp?trk=nl
SEARCH ENGINE TACKLES TRICKY LISTS
KnowItAll, a search engine under development at the University of Washington, Seattle, trawls the web for data and then collates it in the form of a list. The approach is unique, says its developer, Oren Etzioni, because it generates information that probably does not exist on any single web page. The US Department of Defense's research arm, DARPA, and Google, are so impressed that they are providing funding for the project.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99994961
U.S. PLANS TO BUILD FASTEST COMPUTER FOR SCIENCE Viewing supercomputers as crucial to scientific discovery, the U.S.
Dept. of Energy Department announced plans to build the world's fastest civilian computer.T he supercomputer to be built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee will be funded over the initial two years by federal grants totaling $50 million. The project submitted by Oak Ridge scientists envisions a computer capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8646749.htm?1c
TECHNOLOGY FACILITATING SERENDIPITY
Social networking--A mobile link for 90 virtual friends: The creator of a new cellphone application says that the software "has changed the social fabric of everything."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/technology/circuits/13dodg.html?8cir
BUILDING CHARACTER, WRINKLE BY WRINKLE, IN A 3-D WORLD AS Hollywood action films are increasingly spun off into video games, game developers are facing more pressure to squeeze greater realism into their computer-generated characters and environments. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/technology/circuits/13howw
HISPANICS GOING ONLINE IN RECORD NUMBERS Hispanic Online Consumers Are More Active Than General Market in Online Entertainment Activities including Downloading Music Files, Listening to Music Online, Watching Video Clips Communication Key with Hispanics Sending/Receiving Photos and More Using Online Instant Messaging * The size of the online Hispanic population is growing rapidly, with nearly half of those surveyed (48%) having first gone online at home in the past two years - compared to 21% for total U.S. online consumers. http://www.roperasw.com/newsroom/press/p0301002.html
iDIRECT TO PROVIDE BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY PUERTO RICO SCHOOLS iDirect Technologies, a privately held company that designs, develops, and markets the fastest, most reliable bi- directional satellite-based broadband access solutions, today announced that the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) has selected iDirect Technologies to support a contract to provide high-speed internet connectivity to 1,539 school locations throughout Puerto Rico.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/vsat-04zg.html
BIO/MEMS/MEDICAL ZONE
BIOTECH FIRMS COULD HIT PROFIT IN 2008
Industry could reach aggregate goal in 2008 Publicly traded U.S. biotechnology companies could reach a significant milestone as early as 2008 by yielding their first net profit for the entire class, the accounting firm Ernst & Young predicted in a new industry report.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/13/BUGJK6KD431.DTL&type=business
NANO GOES TO COLLEGE THIS FALL WITH ITS OWN ACADEMIC PROGRAM Come this fall semester, Albany Nanotech and the University at Albany will open one of the world's first full-fledged College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. Ph.D.s and M.S. degrees won't be awarded in traditional fields such as physics or chemistry, but will revolve around novel multi- disciplinary "clusters" such as Nanosystems Sciences and Technologies or Molecular Materials and Architectures.
http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=7877
MICRO FUEL CELLS
A new type of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) is being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. It may help bring the goal of a micro fuel cell closer to realization using diverse fuels like glucose, methanol, and hydrogen.
http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20040511A3
BUILDING THE MENTAL MUSCLE
Worried about alzheimers? Concerned that your brain may be shrinking?
Staying sharp may simply require a spot of exercise - it seems that moving your muscles does wonders for your brain power! And the good news is that it's never too late to start.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/mentalmuscle/
BIO BRIEFS ZONE
Baltimore--JHU students win tech council competition, ready for 'next level'
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/846043
Honolulu--State sees 'green' in bioprospecting
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/846044
Kansas City--Bartle stakes his political life on cloning issue
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/846045
Louisville--University researchers awarded NIH training grant:
Funding will help U of L recruit postdoctoral fellows
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/846046
Philadelphia--Neose to work with German biotech firm
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/846047
Philadelphia--Biopharm hits $75M with IPO
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/846048
San Francisco--Bringing cell analysis to a scientist's desktop: Guava says market's ripe for its technology
http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/846049
San Francisco--California too broke to buy into bio bonanza: State, local marketing lag at huge conference http://www.bizjournals.com/ct/c/846050
CHINA ZONE
INTERNET USERS IN CHINA RANK SECOND IN WORLD The number of Internet users reaches 80 million in China in 2003, ranking the second in the world and is only next to US. China's Internet users number will become No. 1 in the world within five years, says a latest report on China's Internet prepared by Morgan Stanley.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn//200405/14/eng20040514_143308.html
CHINA's PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOLS OWNED 6.63 MILLION PCs IN 2003 About 6.63 million computers were utilized in Chinese middle schools and primary schools in 2003, which means there was one computer for every 32 students in middle and primary schools, according to the statistics from the Ministry of Education. China now has 34,749 school LANs (local area networks).
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn//200405/09/eng20040509_142761.html
CHINA's ORIGINAL INTERNET BACKBONE UPGRADED Xinhua reports China has upgraded its first national network for access to Internet with a total investment of CNY130 million. China's system was originally put in place in 1994 and the current network covers about 20 provincial areas through optical fiber and digital circuit.
Yan Baoping, director of Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, says in the report that the upgrade increases the transmission speed of the network, which currently reaches about a million end-users, primarily researchers and academics. The network, known as CSTNET, was the original system arranged in China to allow academics to get worldwide Internet access.
Full Story [China Tech News]
CHINA UNICOM USERS PASS 100 MILLION
China Unicom said Monday its number of mobile phone subscribers exceeded 100 million by May 5, becoming the third largest mobile phone network operator in the world after China Mobile and Vodafone.
Among the subscribers, 22.56 million are CDMA mobile phone users. The telecom operator now boasts a GSM network that covers 328 regions and cities in the mainland and opened roaming service in 75 foreign countries and regions.
Full Story [China Tech News]
LARGEST ONLINE "SCI-TECH DATABANK" COMPLETED IN CHINA With over 300 specialized databases and a data volume of 82 billion bytes, the largest sci-tech databank in China after nearly 20 years'
construction, was completed the other day in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn//200405/09/eng20040509_142724.html
CHINA: MANAGING "HAIGUI"
The word "Haigui" (meaning "returnee") has only been around for a few years. When China first opened up, only a limited number of people went abroad to study, and those who returned to China were simply called "returned students". However since the beginning of the 1990s, a greater number of students have gone abroad to further their education and experience. And as China continues to grow as a global economic force, these students are coming home in larger numbers than ever before to create their futures in China. The term "Returnee" has emerged to define this burgeoning and dynamic population.
http://www.cbiz.cn/news/showarticle.asp?id=2082
MULTINATIONALS BECOMING AN IMPORTANT FORCE IN WORLD ECONOMY As the largest developing country, China has been the hotspot investment region among multinationals in recent years. Among the world's top 500 enterprises more than 400 have come to China. They set up nearly 400 R&D centers. For nine consecutive years China received more foreign investment than any other developing country each year. As they press ahead with efforts to expand their business and increase investment size, multinationals in China have achieved more-than-expected economic and social benefits. China's strict performance of its WTO commitments and the new round of economic growth provide plentiful opportunities to invest in M&As for foreign businesses.
http://en.ce.cn/Insight/t20040514_844237.shtml
CHINA TO EXPORT US$150 BILLION IN HIGH-TECH PRODUCTS China expects to export high-tech products worth 150 billion US dollars this year, said Vice-Minister of Commerce Wei Jianguo Tuesday. Wei told a press conference that in the first quarter of this year that China's export of high-tech products rise 67.5 percent over the same period last year to 33.1 billion US dollars. In March the export topped 12.82 billion US dollars, a year-on-year rise of
74.3 percent.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn//200405/12/eng20040512_143021.html
RED CROSS TO CAUTION CHINA ON URBANIZATION An ancient example of urbanization and renewal: Red Cross representatives from around the world are meeting in Beijing this weekend to mark the centenary of China's Red Cross Society. They will also warn the Chinese about urban emergency preparedness and the urgency for clear policy and greater investment in city disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-04z.html
WIRELESS & HOTSPOT HITS ZONE
FIND A HOTSPOT IN CHINA
http://www.chinapulse.com/wifi/
FCC Seeks TV "White Space" Spectrum for Wi-Fi
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to let wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) to operate in unused spectrum space currently occupied by TV broadcasters. The proposal is aimed at giving consumers an alternative to cable and telecom broadband providers.
Allowing unlicensed operations in the TV bands would extend the existing service range of WISPs since transmissions in the TV spectrum travel further and can better penetrate buildings. The FCC proposal would also permit low-power unlicensed devices such as laptop Wi-Fi cards, wireless keyboards and network routers to use what is known as the "white space" between broadcast channels 5 to 51.
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3353941
INSTALLING THE FREE CANADIAN E-ZONE
The industrial corridor of the Canadian city of Fredericton is getting a wireless plan that founders plan to treat 'just like sidewalks' -- they'll always be free and up-to-date.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,wfa,1,6vbq,3ufe,jcj3,9ffi
Hotspot Hits
Britain's airports get T-Mobile; Maryland county is going totally wireless; a wireless golf tournament courtesy of SBC.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,w0i,1,l0p5,ecft,jcj3,9ffi
Chicaco's new luxury hotel is a hotspot; Australia's big WISP sells some sites; Britain's airports get T-Mobile; and more.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,w7i,1,l0p5,ecft,jcj3,9ffi
Britain's Rural Broadband Entrepreneur
The new company Telabria hopes, working with beer companies, to blanket the 25 percent of the United Kingdom that can't go online, using high-speed, mesh-based Wi-Fi to compete with legacy copper infrastructure.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,w30,1,4ac9,gsoj,jcj3,9ffi
SITE CITES
FROM THE BACKSIDE
Want to impress your friends? Take the remote control key fob that opens your car or operates its alarm. Press it against your own rear-end. You will now find the remote control works from much further away than normal.
http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/article.jsp?id=lw962
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