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_______________________________________________________ INTERNET THINK TANK FLASH NEWS March 12, 2008 _______________________________________________________ About Us Internet Think Tank is an Internet technology and research firm specializing in enterprise web applications and web services. Internet Think Tank develops and promotes technology that enhances how people use the Internet in new and exciting ways. To learn more about Internet Think Tank, visit our web site at http://www.inttk.com _______________________________________________________ Business *With EC's Blessing, Google Acquires DoubleClick On Tuesday, the European Commission cleared Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick without conditions. The EC review began six months ago and concluded the transaction is not likely to harm competition for online advertising. With that approval, Google quickly closed its acquisition of DoubleClick. The EC reasoned that Google offers free search capabilities and sells advertising through its AdSense network. DoubleClick, by contrast, sells ad serving, management and reporting technology to Web-site publishers and to advertisers and agencies, with a focus on relevant placements. "The commission's in-depth market investigation found that Google and DoubleClick were not exerting major competitive constraints on each other's activities and could, therefore, not be considered as competitors at the moment," the EC said. "Even if DoubleClick could become an effective competitor in online intermediation services, it is likely that other competitors would continue to exert sufficient competitive pressure after the merger." (Source: http://www.toptechnews.com ) *The iPhone iFund The big news out of the Apple event in Cupertino was that venture capitalist John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, is ponying up $100 million for an iPhone development fund called iFund. Say what? That's an awful lot of money -- enough to fund every whim of every Mac developer worldwide. "The iPhone is bigger than the personal computer," Doerr said at the event. But perhaps Doerr is getting ahead of himself. The iPhone is still in its infancy and given its modest user base, it could be hard to justify big-budget applications. "I think the iFund could conceivably enable people to tackle some larger scope app ideas that would require larger teams, but I'm not really sure there will be that many compelling iPhone apps that would necessitate that kind of investment," Buzz Andersen, a longtime Mac developer said. Nor is it clear that the iFund will do anything to quelch competition in the immediate future. While Apple is scrambling to meet its sales goal of 10 million iPhones in 2008, BlackBerry recently lifted its subscriber growth projections based on better-than-expected post-holiday sales. (Source: http://blog.wired.com ) *Novell Grows Its Linux Business So far, so good for Novell. For its first-quarter 2008 results, Novell reported growing income and revenues with a strong year-over-year showing from its Linux platform business. With Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 set to enter the market, Novell's CEO is optimistic that the company can continue to grow its business even further. Novell reported first-quarter 2008 net revenue of $231 million, which was up from $218 million in the first fiscal quarter of 2007. First-quarter net income totaled $16.8 million, ($0.05 cents per share), which is a turnaround from the net loss of $19.9 million ($0.06 cents per share) it reported for the first quarter of 2007. Novell's biggest year-over-year gains came from its Linux Platform Products group, with $28 million in revenue -- a 65 percent year-over-year gain. The company's workgroup products continued to garner the lion's share of Novell's revenues, at $90 million for the first quarter of 2008 -- though this represented only a meager 1 percent year over year gain. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *Alabama City Considers Third-World Laptops If $200 laptop computers are good for kids in Peru and Mongolia, why not Alabama? Birmingham's City Council has approved a $3.5 million plan to provide schoolchildren with 15,000 computers produced by the non-profit One Laptop Per Child Foundation, which aims to spread laptops to poor children in developing countries. The foundation says the deal marks the first time a U.S. city has agreed to buy the machines, which also are headed to such countries as Rwanda, Thailand, Brazil and Mexico in addition to Peru and Mongolia. Birmingham's school board still must agree to the deal, and some members have reservations. They want more evidence that computers designed for the African bush or the mountains of South America would be a good fit for an American city. (Source: http://www.usatoday.com ) _______________________________________________________ Early Adaptor Blog Steve Jobs discusses the iPhone and stock back dating on CNBC, Ericsson is predicting the hot spot may be a thing of the past, how YouTube may have been scammed by a Brazillian pop group and why Wal Mart stopped selling Linux equipped PCs. All in the EA Blog. http://earlyadaptor.tumblr.com/ _______________________________________________________ Portals *Ask.com Seeks Makeover As Women's Site In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google Inc. and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives. As part of the new direction outlined Tuesday, Ask will lay off about 40 employees, or 8 percent of its work force. With the shift, the Oakland-based company will return to its roots by concentrating on finding answers to basic questions about recipes, hobbies, children's homework, entertainment and health. The decision to cater to married women primarily living in the southern and midwestern United States comes after Ask spent years trying to build a better all-purpose search engine than Google. The quest intensified after Internet conglomerate InterActiveCorp bought Ask and its affiliated Web sites for $2.3 billion in 2005. But Ask.com remained an also-ran, despite spending tens of millions of dollars on an advertising blitz about dozens of new products that impressed many industry analysts. Through January, Ask ran the Internet's fifth largest search engine in the United States with a 4.5 percent market share, according to comScore Media Metrix. Google dominates the industry with a 58.5 percent share. (Source: http://news.smh.com.au ) *Hulu is Now Open to the Public Hulu is now open to the public If you've been looking forward to seeing Hulu, the online video site from NBC Universal and News Corp, but haven't been able to get an invitation to the private beta you're in luck. After several hours offline, preparing for the big launch, Hulu is out of beta and available to all U.S. residents. Hulu has been in private beta since October of last year, and has received very positive reviews from nearly everyone. In addition to offering ad-supported Streaming of both current and past TV shows, Hulu allows members to share video clips with friends in a number of ways. They can be embedded in web pages, added to social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, or submitted to Digg. (Source: http://www.afterdawn.com ) Hulu http://www.hulu.com *Ad Optimizer YieldBuild Raises $6 Million YieldBuild offers software that lets a web publisher optimize text advertisement placement and formatting, so the ads will receive the maximum number of click-throughs. In other words, it helps publishers make more money. Optimizing text ads without this type of software typically involves a lot of manual effort - compiling data from across ad networks on a site, running tests on format changes, etc. And, even after optimization, readers may stop clicking once they get used to the new setup. Instead, YieldBuild's algorithms automatically gauge ads' performances and make constant adjustments to their color, placement, and positioning. Text-ad optimization generally seems to be showing promising results, judging by the investment dollars being pumped into startups offering this service. San Francisco-based YieldBuild has just raised $6 million in a round led by Storm Ventures, with existing investor Hummer Winblad Venture Partners participating. Meanwhile, rival Pubmatic raised an $8 million round at the beginning of this year while rival Rubicon Project raised $15 million a month ago. (Source: http://venturebeat.com ) _______________________________________________________ Internet *Report: Spielberg's Spooky Social Site Who wants to believe? TechCrunch has reportwed that Steven Spielberg is developing a new social network where people can talk about their encounters with the paranormal and extraterrestrial. Spielberg, creator of sci-fi classics like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Men in Black, and the War of the Worlds remake a few years ago, is reportedly himself a believer in paranormal phenomena. In creating a social network for fellow enthusiasts as well as people who claim to have encountered the otherworldly, Spielberg is tapping into a lifelong passion. But its exact ties to tech and entertainment are unclear. "The project may have originally been associated with Yahoo but the project was killed off before launch," TechCrunch's Michael Arrington wrote. "But if our sources are right, the idea has lived on and a team in Los Angeles is working to launch it in the next few months." (Source: http://www.news.com ) *Cyber-Rebels in Cuba Defy State's Limits A growing underground network of young people armed with computer memory sticks, digital cameras and clandestine Internet hookups has been mounting some challenges to the Cuban government in recent months, spreading news that the official state media try to suppress. Last month, students at a prestigious computer science university videotaped an ugly confrontation they had with Ricardo Alarcón, the president of the National Assembly. Mr. Alarcón seemed flummoxed when students grilled him on why they could not travel abroad, stay at hotels, earn better wages or use search engines like Google. The video spread like wildfire through Havana, passed from person to person, and seriously damaged Mr. Alarcón's reputation in some circles. Something similar happened in late January when officials tried to impose a tax on the tips and wages of employees of foreign companies. Workers erupted in jeers and shouts when told about the new tax, a moment caught on a cellphone camera and passed along by memory sticks. "It passes from flash drive to flash drive," said Ariel, 33, a computer programmer, who, like almost everyone else interviewed for this article, asked that his last name not be used for fear of political persecution. "This is going to get out of the government's hands because the technology is moving so rapidly." Cuban officials have long limited the public's access to the Internet and digital videos, tearing down unauthorized satellite dishes and keeping down the number of Internet cafes open to Cubans. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com ) *Pentagon Bans Google Teams from Bases Google Inc has complied with a request by the Pentagon to remove some online images from its street-level map service because they pose a security threat to U.S. military bases, military and company officials said on Thursday. Gen. Gene Renuart, head of the military command responsible for homeland defense, said the Pentagon had talked to Google about the risks and expected the company to cooperate in removing selected images from its Street View service. "We have been contacted by the military," Google spokesman Larry Yu said. "In those instances where they (the U.S military) have expressed concerns about the imagery, we have accommodated their requests." The Defense Department, which is still studying how many images are available, has also banned Google teams from taking video images on bases. "We've got to get a sense of what is there and see how we can mitigate it," Renuart said. But because many images were taken from public streets, the military may not have a legal right to request that videos be pulled. (Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com ) ________________________________________________________ Weekly Quote "Growth rates in our most established markets, such as the U.S., Germany and the U.K., have continued to decline. Despite our efforts to stem these declines, growth rates in these and other markets may continue to decline and may become negative." In an annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, eBay warned of numerous risks that its business faces, including its ability to retain buyers and sellers on its sites, in addition to the normal concern of attracting new users. Attraction and retention were just two of the worries eBay expressed in a laundry list of potential risk factors outlined in the gloomy shareholders' report. Essentially, eBay realizes that it isn't the only game in town anymore. Citing the "changing demands of the e-commerce marketplace," eBay warned that it was facing increasing competition from Amazon, Buy.com and others, giving consumers more choice -- particularly in its fixed-price business lines. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) ________________________________________________________ Wireless *Study: Cell Phone Now Most Vital Device Americans have become more dependent on their cell phones than conventional phones. For the first time, Americans say they would have more trouble giving up a cell phone than a traditional phone, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said in a report Wednesday. Less than two years earlier, respondents still considered their landlines the most crucial technology. "The preferences have flipped," said John Horrigan, author of the new Pew report. "During that timeframe, people have gotten new devices that have more capabilities. People have more experience using cell phones for text messaging and other information tools. That has helped pushed cell phones as `go to' devices." The new survey found that 58 percent of cell phone users have sent or received text messages, an increase from 41 percent in April 2006. On a typical day, 31 percent of cell phone owners use text messaging and 15 percent use the devices' camera features. About 8 percent use the phone to play games and a similar percentage use it for e-mail. According to Pew, the cell phone is the technological tool its users would have most difficulty giving up, followed by the Internet and television. Landline phones ranked fourth in the latest survey, just above e-mail. (Source: http://news.wired.com ) *Apple's iPhone SDK Strategy Both Promotes and Stifles Innovation One of the earliest complaints about the iPhone--even before it was a shipping product--was that it could only use Web-based applications, which couldn't offer the same functionality as native applications. Today's announcement of the iPhone software developer's kit (SDK) fixes that limitation--and by doing so, sets the stage for the iPhone as the phone to beat. Period. Apple's SDK blows open the process of creating native apps for the iPhone by letting most any would-be coder get started. Developers can sign up and download the SDK for free, which in turn allows Apple to reach out to a wider cross-section of would-be coders than they might have otherwise. According to iPhoneDevCamp co-founder Raven Zachary, "The fear [in the development community] today was that Apple was going to constrain the ability for third-party developers to distribute apps, in the same way they did with the iPod games market." There, Zachary notes, Apple made it very difficult for small developers to create and release a game: "You have to get Apple's approval, have them approve the source code, and then they take a large percentage of the profits for the distribution of that app. (Source: http://www.pcworld.com ) *Nielsen Says Mobile Ads Growing, Consumers Respond About 23 percent of U.S. mobile phone users have seen advertising on their cell phones in the last 30 days and about half of them responded to the ads, according to a report from The Nielsen Co released on Tuesday. The number of phone users who recalled seeing mobile ads rose by 38 percent to 58 million in the fourth quarter compared with 42 million in the second quarter, Nielsen's fourth-quarter survey of 22,000 active mobile data users. Service providers such as AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. have long-discussed the concept of augmenting revenue with mobile phone ads and have been easing into the market slowly for fear of bombarding customers. But according to Nielsen almost a third of people who use data services such as text messaging or Web surfing are open to advertising if it lowers the overall bill. One service provider Virgin Mobile USA offers call discounts in exchange for customer viewership of ads. About 13 percent of respondents said they were open to ads if they improves the mobile content available, while about 14 percent said they were open to ads as long as they were relevant to their interests, the survey found. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com ) *Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier -- Congress Reacts A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems, exposing customers' voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003. "What I thought was alarming is how this carrier ended up essentially allowing a third party outside their organization to have unfettered access to their environment," Babak Pasdar, now CEO of New York-based Bat Blue told Threat Level. "I wanted to put some access controls around it; they vehemently denied it. And when I wanted to put some logging around it, they denied that." Pasdar won't name the wireless carrier in question, but his claims are nearly identical to unsourced allegations made in a federal lawsuit filed in 2006 against four phone companies and the U.S. government for alleged privacy violations. That suit names Verizon Wireless as the culprit. (Source: http://blog.wired.com ) ________________________________________________________ Technology *Cisco's $250 Million Routing Play Networking giant Cisco is spending a quarter of a billion dollars on a new routing platform that could change the entire networking landscape. Cisco's new Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 platform is a WAN aggregation platform that includes firewall, Session Border Control (SBC), VPN and other core networking features. "This is a new category of Router that will completely change how enterprise will look at their WAN edge and Internet gateway places in their network," Ben Goldman, a director of network systems for Cisco, said. The ASR 1000 also marks the debut of Cisco's new QuantumFlow microprocessor, which Goldman boasted is the most advanced piece of networking silicon ever created. The QuantumFlow is a 40 core processor that can run 48 billion instructions per second. "The QuantumFlow is designed to have speed and efficiency of an ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) with the flexibility of a microprocessor," Goldman explained. "It's fully programmable in C and lets us take IOS and other services and run at line rate of 10GbE and beyond." (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *As Energy Costs Rise, IBM Revamps Mainframe As enterprises struggle to contend with ballooning datacenter costs, IBM is banking that a more powerful, energy-friendly update of its z-series mainframe may be just the solution they need. The company today showed off its new quad-core System z10, which it said delivers a 100 percent increase in performance along with a dramatic reduction in power consumption. In unveiling the first new iteration in the z mainframe series since 2005, IBM executives gathered analysts and members of the press to introduce what it called a "commercial supercomputer," built to address workload demands on datacenters that are increasing at an exponential rate. "We think that we're at a fundamental inflection point in our industry in terms of the evolution of information technology," said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of software at IBM. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *New Supercomputer is a Rack of PlayStations When the PlayStation3 was released in November 2006, Gaurav Khanna's wife braved long queues so he could be one of the first people in the US to get his hands on the gaming console. But the astrophysicist was not itching to burn some rubber in Gran Turismo or shoot hoops in NBA 07. Instead he wanted to build his own supercomputer. Mr Khanna now owns 16 PS3s, which spend their days simulating the activities of very large black holes in the universe for the physics department at the University of Massachusetts. Hooked together in a single cluster, the PS3 consoles provide his department with the same amount of computing power as a 400-node supercomputer. "The challenge these days with supercomputing facilities is that there is a lot of demand for them. So even if I submitted a job that would be expected to take about an hour, it could actually take two days to get started because the queues are so long. "The PS3 cluster is all mine and was very low cost to set up, which makes it really attractive," he says. What makes the gaming console vastly superior to high-end computers for complex research algorithms, Mr Khanna says, is the Cell chip built by IBM to facilitate high-end gaming functions on the latest generation of consoles. In addition the PS3 was built with an open hardware architecture, which can run the Linux operating system. (Source: http://www.smh.com.au ) ________________________________________________________ You Tube *$40,000 for Man Tasered on YouTube About two months went by after Jared Massey was tasered by a highway cop in Utah before he turned to YouTube. The video, footage filmed from within the police car, was an instant hit, rocketing up the charts and making him the latest internet celebrity. It's been played more than 1.7 million times. Like other YouTube tasings, waves of outrage over excessive force followed — fire the cop, ban Tasers — and the police started an investigation a week and a half later. But the initial results were discouraging for the critics: The cop was cleared of wrongdoing; Mr. Massey paid the speeding ticket that he protested before being shocked twice. But a civil suit filed after has resulted in a settlement that will more than cover the ticket, and Mr. Massey's lawyer suggested it covered everything else as well. `'They made what we consider to be a very fair offer of a significant amount of money,'' Bob Sykes told The Associated Press. To be exact: he was awarded $40,000, including attorney's fees. The deal was announced a week after a Utah prosecutor ruled the Mr. Massey did not commit any crimes in the traffic stop, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. His civil case focused on the fact proven in the video — that the officer did not seek to arrest him before drawing and firing the Taser. (Source: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com ) ________________________________________________________ Security *India to Train Thousands more Cyber Cops Training centers for thousands more cyber cops are planned in India as the country's IT industry tries to boost its security credentials. President of Indian IT industry group Nasscom, Som Mittal, said the association plans to open a further six cyber labs to provide technology training for police in places such as Calcutta and Delhi, and 220,000 tech employees have already signed up for the National Skills Registry (NSR)--India's background check database. Cyber labs in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune have already trained up 4,000 police officers in tech crime since they were set up about four-and-a-half years ago. Mittal said that with large outsourcers employing about 60,000 people Nasscom was continuing to push employers to put pressure on workers to sign up to the NSR--which allows background and ID checks linked to fingerprints. The growing confidence in outsourcing to provide data security marks a shift in perception from a survey by analysts Gartner in 2005 that found security and privacy were once of the biggest fears among companies considering outsourcing. (Source: http://www.zdnetasia.com ) *Spammers Still Defeating CAPTCHAS Spam originating from Google Inc.'s Gmail domain doubled last month, indicating that spammers are still defeating the CAPTCHA, the distorted text used as a security test to thwart mass registration of e-mail accounts and other Web site abuse. Gmail spam went from 1.3% of all spam e-mail to 2.6% in February, according to data released today by e-mail security vendor MessageLabs Ltd. The new statistics are another nail in the coffin for CAPTCHA, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. Google is the latest free Web mail provider to fall victim to spammers who create software to determine the codes or sometimes employ people to solve the codes en masse. "It's only a matter of time before [CAPTCHAs] are comprehensively defeated," said Paul Wood, a senior analyst at MessageLabs. (Source: http://www.computerworld.com ) ________________________________________________________ Legal *Japan Investigates Possible iPod Defect Japan is investigating a possible defect in Apple Inc.'s iPod after one of the popular digital music players reportedly shot out sparks while recharging, a government official said Wednesday. An official at the trade and economy ministry, which oversees product problems, said a defect is suspected in the lithium-ion battery in the iPod Nano, model number MA099J/A. He spoke on customary condition of anonymity, saying he is reiterating a ministry position. The problem surfaced in January in Kanagawa Prefecture southwest of Tokyo, and Apple reported the problem to the ministry in March. No one was injured, the official said. Other details weren't available. Apple Japan did not contest the ministry statement but declined further comment. Nano players are sold all over the world, and it was still unclear where else besides Japan the suspected model was sold, said Masayoshi Suzuki, an Apple spokesman in Tokyo. The ministry has instructed Apple Japan to find out the cause of what it is categorizing as a fire and report back to the government. (Source: http://news.yahoo.com ) *Court Orders French Web Site To Stop Rating Teachers A Web site in France that allowed students to anonymously rate and name their teachers has been ordered by a court to no longer allow the practice. Teachers unions with the backing of the education ministry took the site to court, saying the personal comments were a breach of privacy and an "incitement to public disorder." The site note2be.com was created in January by French entrepreneurs, allowed students to rate and discuss their teacher's abilities. The judges in the case took the side of the teachers and said the Web site could no longer rate teachers by their names and any violation would require the sites owners to pay a $1,520 (1,000 euro) fine. "This is an astonishing and surprising decision that has worrying implications for the development of the Web," said Stephane Cola, who co-founded the site, Reuters reported. "The ranking and evaluation of professionals on the Web is a fundamental principle and a primary motor of the Internet around the world," he told reporters after the verdict. (Source: http://www.webpronews.com ) *Government Slaps $413,000 Fine on Adult Website E-mail Operation X-rated Web site operator Cyberheat today felt the slap of the FTC and the Department of Justice by agreeing to pay a $413,000 civil penalty for paying partners who used illegal e-mail to drive customers to its Web sites. While Cyberheat did not send e-mail directly to consumers, they operated an "affiliate marketing" program in which they paid others who used spam to drive traffic to Cyberheat's Web sites. The government's complaint alleged that under the CAN-SPAM Act, the defendant is liable for the illegal spam sent by its affiliates because the defendant induced them to send it by offering to pay those who successfully attracted subscriber to its Web sites. (Source: http://www.networkworld.com ) ________________________________________________________ Gadget of the Week *THX Razer Mako Advanced Desktop Speakers Bring The Sonic Ruckus Trouble is, most 2.1 systems score big in the aesthetics department but cough up a fumble when it comes to serious sound. That was until we got a hold of a set of THX Razer Mako speakers. This 2.1 desktop system is one of the finest we've ever laid eyes or ears on. First off, the giant mushroom black matte speakers are gorgeous — they're striking enough to amp up even the most grayscale office drone cubicle. Plus this unusual design serves an actual purpose. The rounded 100-watt satellites produce what's called omni directional sound. Unlike traditional speakers that spew audio in one narrow direction, the Mako's shoot sound waves downwards and outwards in 360 degrees. Result? Audio from your movies, music, and games can be heard from virtually any direction. Especially clear and resonant are high and mid ranges. But it's at low fidelity where the system runs into a bit of trouble. Bass response is a tad disappointing, especially when considering the sub's specs: 100 watts with a 120Hz crossover frequency. Four hundred bills may be a lot to ask for speakers designed to sit atop a desk, but if you've got the scratch, there's nary another 2.1 system that can match the Mako's performance. (Source: http://blog.wired.com ) Razer Mako 2.1 Advanced Desktop Audio Gaming Speakers Review http://www.i4u.com/full-review-360.html _______________________________________________________ Tech Terms syncromesh Microsft is currently working on a system required to create a seamless mesh that can synchronize content, services and applications across a variety of devices and user scenarios via the Web as a hub. (also called the "seamless mesh") After client/server and peer-to-peer comes the services cloud, small pieces loosely joined in a "mesh." _________________________________________________________ On the Web Intel gives a walk-through of the latest research coming out of its Berkeley, Calif.-based research labs. "Intel offers a glimpse at its technologies of the future" http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9888340-60.html?tag=nefd.top The customizable bits of software on Facebook and other social networking sites are the latest trend in viral marketing. But are widgets here to stay? "Building a Brand with Widgets" http://businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2008/tc20080303_000743.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk. http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/06/the-unfiltered-steve-jobs/ "The trouble with Steve Jobs" http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/06/the-unfiltered-steve-jobs/ _________________________________________________________ Wired Index March 11, 2008 $18.87 Last Week -0.12 Year to Date -12.96% Guinness Atkinson Global Innovators Fund (IWIRX) tracks the share prices of 40 public companies, selected by the editors of Wired magazine to represent the forces driving the new economy. 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