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NewsScan | 26 Apr 2006 16:40

INNOVATION, 26 April 2006

INNOVATION, 26 April 2006

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Innovation Weekly reports on trends, strategies, and innovations in business
and technology, and is sponsored in part by Norwich University
<http://www.norwich.edu>, Animatrix Inc. <http://www.animatrix.com>, and our
loyal individual and institutional subscribers. The editors are John Gehl
and Suzanne Douglas, editors <at> newsscan.com.
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TRENDS 
       Skyscraper as Ego Trip
       Robots on the Front Lines
       Services Science

STRATEGIES 
       How to Nurture Innovation
       Scrambled Hackz Challenges Copyrights
       Breaking Boundaries -- in Cooking and Business
       Multidisciplinary Design

INNOVATIONS
       Tiny Wireless Implant to Improve Cancer Treatment
       Smartball
       More Money for Scientific Research

SPONSORS
      Norwich University
      Animatrix Inc.
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NewsScan | 28 Feb 2005 17:27

NewsScan Daily, 28 February 2005 ("Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 28 February 2005 ("Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD" 
       NewsScan Goes Dark
       Esther Dyson Expands Her Horizon
       The Social Life of Innovation
       Creator of Macintosh Dies at 61
       Beep When You Score... Or Vibrate

FEATURES
       Flash Card
       Honorary Subscriber: Richard P. Feynman

NEWSSCAN GOES DARK
     We're going to let NewsScan Daily go dark for awhile, and will be
turning out the lights tomorrow, March 1st.
     While we're gone, maybe we'll reinvent ourselves. Or maybe we won't.
     We'll be continuing with our various other activities, including our
editorial work for ACM and the publication of Innovation Weekly, to which
you can obtain a free trial subscription from our the NewsScan site
<htpp://www.newsscan.com>.
     As for NewsScan Daily, please send us mail at editors <at> NewsScan.com, or
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organization has any interest in underwriting our work. And of course we'll
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NewsScan | 25 Feb 2005 16:36

NewsScan Daily, 25 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 25 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD" 
        Sony to Drop PDAs
        Privacy Issues and The Department of Homeland Security
        The Podcasting Business
        Brain Drain Changes Direction

FEATURES
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        Honorary Subscriber: Horace Liveright
        Mailbag: The World As We Find It

SONY TO DROP PDAs
     Sony will stop making personal digital assistants for Japan in July,
completing its withdrawal from a market hit by multi-functional mobiles, and
casting a shadow over the devices' growth potential. The move was widely
expected after the electronics and entertainment conglomerate said last year
it would stop selling new handheld digital assistants outside Japan,
striking a blow to PalmSource, whose software powers the devices. "The PDA
market is being encroached by mobile phones and other mobile devices that
can offer similar functions, making it difficult for PDAs to maintain their
position in the market," a Sony spokeswoman said. (The Australian 24 Feb
2005) (J. Lamp, Deakin U)
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NewsScan | 24 Feb 2005 18:32

NewsScan Daily, 24 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 24 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Networked Homes Spell Trouble for Consumer Electronics
        Threat of the 'L' Word Makes Software Makers Shudder
        Ads Embedded in News Stories Raise Concerns
        IBM Releases 'Hypervisor' Code
        E-Tags for Australian Pedophiles
        Study: Brits Feel Lost Without Mobiles

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NETWORKED HOMES SPELL TROUBLE FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
      The vision of the "networked home" is driving the digitalization of 
nearly every consumer electronics device, and eventually could lead to the 
disintegration of the consumer electronics industry as we know it, says 
Columbia University public policy expert and economist Eli Noam. Caught in 
the upward spiral of Moore's Law, the chips that run consumer electronics 
devices will become evermore powerful, and many stand-alone products, such 
as Blu-Ray Disc players, TVs and PCs, could entirely "disappear," says 
Noam. In fact, it's already happening: consumer PCs now come with built-in 
TV and recording functions, and vendors are selling DVD, CD and VHS players 
packaged as single units with hard disk drives. And while Noam predicts a
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NewsScan | 23 Feb 2005 16:58

NewsScan Daily, 23 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 23 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD" 
       EDS Shifts Call Center Work to India
       Legislation Against Businesses That Outsource
       UN Panel Hopes to End Web War
       Atlanta Subways to Feature TV Screens
       Protecting Yourself Against Identify Theft

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         Flash Card
         Worth Thinking About: Popular Song Lyrics

EDS SHIFTS CALL CENTER WORK TO INDIA
     EDS, a company that manages many corporate computer systems, plans to
close 21 call centers in the U.S. and Europe by the end of 2006 and shift
some of that work to India. EDS already operates three centers in India,
where salaries are much lower in the United States. EDS says that any U.S.
job losses would be by attrition and would be part of the 15,000 to 20,000
job eliminations that were revealed by the company last fall. Currently,
about 30,000 of the company's 120,000 employees work on software
applications, 27% of them in India and other "offshore" locations. (San Jose
Mercury News 23 Feb 2005)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10964039.htm>
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NewsScan | 22 Feb 2005 18:02

NewsScan Daily, 22 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 22 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Battling the Spim-Meisters
        First Spimmer Arrest
        U.K., Australia Top TV Piracy List
        Users Bypass Napster Copy Protection
        Mobile Phone Virus Infiltrates U.S.
        Engelbart Sees Power of the Web in 'Collective IQ'

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          Honorary Subscriber: Jerome Kern

BATTLING THE SPIM-MEISTERS
      Almost one in three instant-messaging users in the U.S. have received 
some kind of "spim" (unsolicited commercial instant messages), according to 
a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Results indicate that 
users age 30 and younger are more likely to get spimmed, compared with the 
next older age cohort (31-49). Other than the age discrepancy, however, no 
other demographic trends were discernible, says Pew: "Instant message users 
in all income brackets and in all racial and ethnic groups are equally 
likely to receive spim. Somewhat surprisingly, broadband users at home are 
no more likely than dialup users to receive spim, even though, presumably,
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NewsScan | 18 Feb 2005 21:55

NewsScan Daily, 18 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 18 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        'D' Is for 'Dismal' U.S. Gov't Cybersecurity
        Choicepoint Leaks Consumers' Data
        Gartner Urges CIOs to Prepare for Worker Shortage
        Newspapers to Cyberjournalists: Shall We Dance?
        Random House Eyes Cell Phone Applications

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         Honorary Subscriber: Edmund Halley

[HOLIDAY:  Monday will be a NewsScan publishing holiday, in honor of 
President's Day.]

'D' IS FOR 'DISMAL' U.S. GOV'T CYBERSECURITY
      Despite widespread agreement that computer security should be a top 
priority of U.S. government agencies, the latest cybersecurity progress 
report from Congress rates overall government efforts a D-, with seven of 
the 24 largest agencies earning a failing grade -- including the 
departments of Energy and Homeland Security, which, ironically, houses the 
National Cyber Security Division. "Several agencies continue to receive 
failing grades, and that's unacceptable," says Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.),
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NewsScan | 17 Feb 2005 23:21

NewsScan Daily, 17 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 17 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD" 
          Phone Company Suspected of Blocking VoIP Calls
          Database Company Warns of ID Theft Concerns
          Federal Agencies Get Failing Grades on Cybersecurity
          No RFID Tags for School Kids -- At Least for Now
          You Are What You Type

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         Honorary Subscriber: Isamu Noguchi

PHONE COMPANY SUSPECTED OF BLOCKING VOIP CALLS
    The FCC's investigating whether a rural phone company blocked access to
the Vonage Internet-phone service, which was competing for the phone
company's customers. The company has not been identified. The problem became
public several days ago when Larry Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law
School and an advocate of Internet freedom, mentioned Vonage's problem at an
industry conference in Boulder, Colorado. Shutting off a potential
competitor could violate antitrust laws barring companies that control
essential facilities from refusing to give competitors the access needed to
compete. (Wall Street Journal 17 Feb 2005) <http://www.wsj.com>
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NewsScan | 16 Feb 2005 17:42

NewsScan Daily, 16 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 16 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn Tapped for Turing Prize
        Telecom Mergers Raise Internet Access Concerns
        Wife Broke Law in Using Spyware
        'Peer-to-Peer' Radio Passes RIAA Scrutiny
        EDS to Upgrade Skills

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        Honorary Subscriber: Ellen Gould Harmon White
        Mailbag: The World As We Find It

VINT CERF AND ROBERT KAHN TAPPED FOR TURING PRIZE
      Internet pioneers Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn have been 
selected as winners of ACM's prestigious A.M. Turing Award, widely 
considered to be the computing field's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The 
two scientists have been credited with coming up with the structure for the 
Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, which 
enable different computer networks to communicate and share information. "A 
lot of people are responsible for the success of the Internet. Vint and Bob 
are responsible for the vocabulary of the Internet," says David Patterson, 
computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Cerf
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NewsScan | 15 Feb 2005 16:30

NewsScan Daily, 15 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 15 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD" 
      Mobisodes: Smaller Than a Breadbasket
       Verizon Buys MCI: Bigger Than a Breadbasket
       China's Crackdown on Internet Cafes
       Network Vandal Faces 10 Years in Prison
       Looking for Deals: The Trend Toward Mergers
       A Keyless Future

FEATURES
       Flash Card
       Honorary Subscriber: Howard Hughes

MOBISODES: SMALLER THAN A BREADBASKET
     Three new original action series (one produced by the creators of the
TV show "24") have been developed for showing exclusively on Verizon's
newest mobile phone and for distribution over that company's V Cast, a
high-speed cellular phone network that delivers broadband Internet-quality
video. Each of the one-minute mobile episodes (called "mobisodes") is
specially shot and edited for cellphone screens. Cingular and Sprint
currently offer video as well, but Verizon's content is sent over a
third-generation network known as EV-DO so that the video on V Cast runs at
closer to 30 frames per second -- the same as broadcast television. But is
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NewsScan | 14 Feb 2005 18:42

NewsScan Daily, 14 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )

NewsScan Daily, 14 February 2005 (" Above The Fold" )
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Music Players Not Just a Teen Thing
        'The New Format Is No Format'
        Microsoft Probes Spyware Attack
        'Smart' Driver's Licenses a Trojan Horse?
        Good Vibrations Deliver Data

FEATURES
        Flash Card
        Worth Thinking About (I): Feelings And Memories
        Worth Thinking About (II): Feelings And Memories

MUSIC PLAYERS NOT JUST A TEEN THING
      iPods and MP3 players have been heavily marketed toward the teen 
market, but a surprising number of grownups have latched onto portable 
music as well. A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project 
reveals that more than 22 million Americans 18 or older (11% of the adult 
population) own a portable music player, with male owners outnumbering 
female (14% vs. 9%). Almost one in five (19%) of iPod/MP3 player owners are 
under 30, and among the older crowd, those with teenagers in the house are 
more likely than those without to own their own music players. Not 
surprisingly, people with higher incomes and those with broadband Internet 
access are more likely to own a portable music player than those without.
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