http://cities.iftf.net/
Be there or be square. We've left Google Groups to explore our own
Web 2.0 existence.
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Old sea
I'm also working on a feature that will let registered users post to
the new site by email so we'll be back the way we were for people
that like it that way!
On Jun 6, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
> Anthony Townsend wrote:
>> Look in the lower right h
Look in the lower right hand corner, or sign up directly at
www.feedburner.com
http://cities.iftf.net
There are also instructions on how to post remotely by blog client.
Honestly, if you're not willing to figure out how to get yourself set
up for that, I'm not sure how interested I am in h
On Jun 6, 2007, at 5:54 AM, Adam Holt wrote:
>>> I guess I have to say that I'm disappointed. I've always been a
>>> fan of
>>> email lists, and dislike web-based vehicles, be they forums or
>>> blogs,
>>> for several reasons:
>>>
>>> 1. I'm far more likely to read messages that come to me (
f.net/user/register
Any questions - find me at the coordinates below...
Anthony Townsend
Research Director
Institute for the Future
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+1-650-233-9522 (desk and mobile)
aim/skype/twitter/dopplr anthonymobile
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http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/15-06/st_dirtierwar
Drug War Gets Dirtier as What You Flush Becomes Evidence
Joshua Davis
Think twice before you flush the toilet. You might be sending
evidence straight to the authorities -- at least if you're getting
high in Italy or Switzerland.
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All Rights Reserved
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Limited - Asia Intelligence Wire
Business Daily Update
May 10, 2007 Thursday
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?
in_article_id=459200&in_page_id=1770
Big Brother's watching: The secret CCTV bunker that monitors our
every move
Last updated at 13:17pm on 1st June 2007
Comments Comments (9)
In a bunker beneath the bustling streets of central Lon
http://www.planningalerts.com/
a UK-based service
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Old searchble archives at
http://www.mail-archive.com/telecom-cities@
Does anyone know of good examples of digital, place-coded
storytelling projects that are about the future of places, rather
than most of the ones to date, which have been about history and the
past?
Is anyone using location-based media to facilitate planning/what-if
type discussions?
If
d Portland, Ore.,
complete pilots and expand their much-hyped networks.
"They are the monorails of this decade: the wrong technology, totally
overpromised and completely undelivered," said Anthony Townsend,
research director at the Institute for the Future, a think tank.
Municipal Wi
http://www.economist.com/cities/briefing.cfm?city_id=LDN
Supercharged
Drivers in London may soon look back fondly on the days of the £8
($16) congestion charge. From next February, drivers of high-emission
lorries (over 12 tonnes) will have to pay £200 a day to enter a new
low-emission z
http://www.cuwin.net/2007summit/2007schedule
DC people please join us this weekend in Columbia, MD for the
international community wireless summit.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2165929/pagenum/2/
Pop!
Why bubbles are great for the economy.
By Daniel Gross
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at 5:35 PM ET
If you blew the kids' college fund on Pets.com stock back in 2000, or
dropped $800,000 last year on that spec house in Phoenix that you
knew you
http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/18711/
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Comcast CEO shows off 150 megabits per second download on next-gen modem
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled
a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in
public new te
"Take SMIC. The chipmaker will soon operate plants in five cities
across China. By contrast, SMIC's Taiwanese rivals, United
Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Co. (TSM), have built most of their factories in two science parks
just a few hours' drive from o
>
> The Pew Internet and American Life Project announce the release of:
>
> A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users
>
> Fully 85% of American adults use the internet or cell phones - and
> most
> use both. Many also have broadband connections, digital cameras and
> video gam
NPR has a great story on this today
-
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2733832&C=america
U.S. Intel Agencies Modernize Info Sharing
Use Variations Of MySpace, Wikipedia
By STEPHEN LOSEY
The U.S. intelligence community, which is struggling to share
information as its corps of mid
Begin forwarded message:
> Telecommunications Reliability in the Information Capital
> May 17, 2007
> Presented by the
> Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
> and the
> New York Telecommunications Reliability Advisory Council
>
> Faculty Room, Low Library
> Columbia University
> 116th Stree
due to some infrastructure issues we're having at IFTF, we're going
to stay on Google Groups for a few more months. stay tuned.
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this is pretty neat - its part of the DNI's big push to open up its
intelligence gathering a la Wikipedia
Begin forwarded message:
> From: DNI Opensource 2007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2 May 2007 5:06:13 PM EDT
> To: DNI Opensource 2007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: DNI Open Source Confere
i recently poisted to IFTF's Future/Now about the imminent death of
Dodgeball, one of the pioneers in this space, whose founders have
left google.
http://future.iftf.org/2007/04/the_end_of_mobi.html
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/technology/30social.html
April 30, 2007
Social N
The Future of Wireless: ISPs, Businesses and Even Cities Seek to
Offer Cheap or Free Connections -- Which Will Win?
April 30, 2007
Not so long ago, Wi-Fi was a home project for tech geeks with a high
tolerance for fiddling with router settings and WEP encryption.
Today, wireless Internet ac
http://www.echoditto.com/careers
EchoDitto's greatest strength as an organization lies within its
people. In addition to our full-time staff, we work with a broad
network of progressive activists on a regular basis, as well as with
others on a contract basis. And of course, we would not be
I'll be there if anyone else is coming
Begin forwarded message:
>
> INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT TO ADDRESS FUTURE OF BROADBAND
> -- Community Technology Leaders from Six Continents to Participate --
>
> Champaign-Urbana, I.L., April 18 -- The CUWiN Foundation and the
> Center for
> Community Informa
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 24 April 2007 4:41:24 PM EDT
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: ** CTFC Job Announcement - Program Associate **
>
> COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA
>
> Job Announcement
>
> Job Title:
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "CPRsouth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 24 April 2007 6:24:44 AM EDT
> To: "CPRsouth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: CPRsouth2: Conference on "Empowering rural communities
> through ICT policy and research", December 15-17, 2007 in Chennai,
> India
>
> CPRsou
Doesn't this sound like fun?
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Aharon Kellerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 23 April 2007 10:14:21 AM EDT
> To: אהרן קלרמן <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: FW: Digital Communities Update
>
> Dear colleagues:
>
>
>
> You are all cordially invited to attend our annua
Begin forwarded message:
> ART
> FOR
> SHOPPING
> CENTRES
>
> Thirty years after Brian Eno's Music For Airports, Futuresonic
> presents Art For Shopping Centres, an exhibition of major artworks,
> after which you will never look at a shopping centre the same again.
>
> A part of FUTURESONIC
i have one word - FaceBook
-
http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/18543/
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Colleges look for faster ways to get urgent emergency messages to
students during crises
By Associated Press
The two hour delay between the time when shots first rang out at
Virginia Tech
Due to some IT infrastructure work at the Institute for the Future,
our migration from Google Groups to the new portal is being delayed
by about a month. Expect the switchover to happen mid-June.
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an interesting wildcard in the wireless infrastructure race...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/technology/09spectrum.html
April 9, 2007
Silicon Valley Moneymen Make a Play for Airwaves
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 Some of Silicon Valleys most powerful
venture capitalists and
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Eric Paulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 8 April 2007 2:27:33 PM EDT
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Urban Atmospheres] Intel Research PaPR Summer Intern
> Position (DEADLINE 15 APRIL)
>
> PaPR Summer Intern Position
>
> Application Deadline: April 15th, 2
>
> Democratization and the Networked Public Sphere
> * Panel Discussion with dana boyd, Trebor Scholz, and Ethan Zuckerman
>
> Friday, April 13, 2007, 6:30 8:30 p.m.
> The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
> 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
> New York City
> Admission: $8, fre
Eric is doing more great cool stuff over at the Intel Berkeley Lab
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Eric Paulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: March 28, 2007 6:48:30 PM CST
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Urban Atmospheres] Urban Atmospheres Presents:
> Participatory Urbanism
>
> Participato
http://www.ippr.org/centreforcities/jobsandinternships/
obs and internships - Current vacancies
Researcher
Researcher - Centre for Cities
£28,000 to £32,000 + benefits
The Centre for Cities is an independent urban research unit, based at
ippr. We are one of the UKs leading voices on urban
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/nyregion/20ebay.html
March 20, 2007
Lumberton Journal
A South Jersey Town Emerges as a Hub of E-Commerce
By JONATHAN BERR
LUMBERTON, N.J. With its red-brick exterior and a wood-paneled
lobby that is decorated with artwork from students at the nearby
elemen
this is one of those NYTimes pieces where you struggle to find some news or
concrete information, but its a semi-interesting story, though already reported
elsewhere (BW, WSJ, etc)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/technology/14valley.html
Start-Up Fervor Shifts to Energy in Silicon Valley
http://www.doorsofperception.com/
March 12, 2007
High-tech beads for the natives?
You know what? I just don't think Sunnyvale, California is the right
base from which to save the world with Tech.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Architecture for Humanity have
announced a $250,000 competitio
http://www.calendarlive.com/architecture/cl-ca-
wifi11mar11,0,4003622,print.htmlstory?coll=cl-lat-homepage
http://www.calendarlive.com/architecture/cl-ca-
wifi11mar11,0,2685831.story?coll=cl-lat-homepage
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
A wireless L.A., but with strings attached
Blanketing the city in Wi-Fi c
Begin forwarded message:
> ne Tiny Town Becomes Internet-Age Power Point
> By JIM CARLTON
> March 7, 2007
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117323782744829194.html
>
> QUINCY, Wash. -- While much of the U.S. frets over a residential real-
> estate slump, this small farming town on Washington St
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18284/
Monday, March 12, 2007
TR10: Peering into Video's Future
The Internet is about to drown in digital video. Hui Zhang thinks
peer-to-peer networks could come to the rescue.
By Wade Roush
This article is one in a series of 10 stories we're running t
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/technology/10google.html
March 10, 2007
Googles Buses Help Its Workers Beat the Rush
By MIGUEL HELFT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. The perks of working at Google are the envy
of Silicon Valley. Unlimited amounts of free chef-prepared food at
all times of day. A c
told ya so...
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8780650
City-wide wireless internet
Wi-Fi for the masses
Mar 1st 2007 | SAN FRANCISCO
From The Economist print edition
America's cities are learning to love the idea of universal internet
access
Freeing the data
http://www.dailywireless.com/features/most-connected-cities-030607/
The 10 Most Connected Cities in the World
(1 Comment)
Daily Wireless profiles the 10 most connected cities in the world.
By Daily Wireless Staff on March 6th, 2007
Whether you are a webmaster, a gamer, or just an occasional o
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18321/
Friday, March 09, 2007
Build Your Own Social Network
Ning, a new Web service, lets users become the CEOs of their own mini-
MySpaces.
By Wade Roush
Cram Tokyo, Seoul, New York City, Mexico City, and Mumbai together
into a single megalopolis, and
I've set up the beta site for the Future of Cities community at
http://cities.iftf.net/
You'll be able to author stories (like you post here), create your
own future of cities blog, etc.
Sign up here - http://cities.iftf.net/user/register
I'll test this for a few weeks, so please send me com
http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/18268/
Monday, March 05, 2007
Computer chips send jabber to Tokyo strollers in technology project
By Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) -- It makes for a jabber-filled downtown stroll -- getting
deluged by chatter over earphones from some 1,200 tiny computer ch
http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/18271/
Report: China will not allow new Internet cafes to open in 2007
By Associated Press
China will not allow any new Internet cafes to open this year, state
media reported Tuesday.
The Xinhua News Agency said 14 government departments, including the
i guess the reporter didn't think i was important enough to mention
by name, cause i'm a mayoral appointee on this Broadband Advisory
Committee too!
-
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/104248
New York City Mayor Receives Award for Technology Leadership
Mar 05, 2007 News
among other innovations, Underkoffler was the creator of the Luminous
Table, a device used to do urban design simulations at MIT
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/luminousroom/
---
http://g-speak.com/press/bg-gspeak-26sep2005.html
From sci-fi effects, real potential
By Scott Kirsn
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Paul Seletsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: February 28, 2007 1:54:38 PM PST
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: AIANY Tech - March 2007 Event
>
> March 2007 Event
>
> Date: Monday, March 5th, 2007
>
> Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm ET
>
> Location: Center for Architec
Begin forwarded message:
>
> **
>
> REALCOMM ADVISORY - 2.22.2007 Vol. 6 No. 8
>
> **
>
> Virtual Building Operations Center
>
> The concept of the Virtual Building Op
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_09/b4023059.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_telecom
FEBRUARY 26, 2007
THE FUTURE OF TECH
The 21st Century Meeting
Beam them up, Scotty: The latest gear may finally deliver on the promise of
videoconferencing
We've
Published: Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007
We got all Google-eyed and after that, it's just a blur
By JOHN MURRELL
Oh, how hearts must have raced in Caldwell County, N.C., back in late
2005 when local officials first sniffed the possibility of bringing a
Google data center to an area hit hard by
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18213&ch=infotech
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Startup hopes to create online marketplace for open parking spaces
By Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) -- Finding a parking spot often requires drivers to
summon their inner-caveman: Scan the horizon
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18196/
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Type 911.gov
Two scientists think that social networks can improve disaster relief.
By Brendan Borrell
In this week's Science, two researchers at the University of Maryland
suggest that local, state, and federal govern
Begin forwarded message:
>
> Future Now and Virtual China got written up in the latest issue of
> Rolling Stone, David Kushner does a regular column on interesting
> Web sites, and this week he profiled several futures-related sites
>
> The piece doesn't seem to be online, so I've retyped i
The global village and the madness of e-crowds
By Thomas W. Hazlett
Published: February 5 2007 14:31 | Last updated: February 5 2007 14:31
Todays buzz is You, whom Time Magazine honoured as Person of the
Year for igniting community and collaboration on a scale never seen
before. Your b
>
> The Post-Post Bubble Valley
> New report says Silicon Valleys economy looking up; affordable
> housing remains an issue.
> January 31, 2007
> By Alexandra Berzon
> http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21055&hed=The+Post-
> PostBubble+Valley
>
>
>
> Full report at:
> http://www.jointve
sts by email, and I'm glad to help anyone with the transition.
As always, please share your thoughts and reactions publicly or
privately with me.
Regards,
Anthony Townsend
Research Director
Institute for the Future
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+1-650-233-9522 (desk and m
11. Innovation and Growth: Size Matters *
Executives talk about their companies DNA and roles in business
ecosystems, but the analogy to living organisms is more than
metaphorical. Like the mathematical laws governing how organisms
metabolism, growth, evolution, and mortality depend o
Saturday, January 27, 2007
In Vietnam -- and across developing world -- cell phones play vital
role in fueling growth
By Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Nguyen Huu Truc's trusty cell phone has
revolutionized his small embroidery business -- and his life.
When he bought his first mobi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6298641.stm
Criminals 'may overwhelm the web'
By Tim Weber
Business editor, BBC News website, Davos
Criminals controlling millions of personal computers are threatening
the internet's future, experts have warned.
Up to a quarter of computers on the net ma
The report is here:
http://www.jointventure.org/publicatons/index/2007%20Index/The%202007%
20Index%20of%20Silicon%20Valley.pdf
---
Dear Friends:
Silicon Valley has entered a new phase in its dynamic evolution.
The economy is clearly growing and transforming, evidenced by the
region adding mo
Begin forwarded message:
> http://snipurl.com/18he2
>
>
> N.Y. scanners spark union cries of "geoslavery"
> Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:58 PM ET
>
> By Michelle Nichols
>
> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Every morning Dennis Colson, a surveyor at New
> York City's Department of Design and Construction, begins h
all the usual deficiencies of Markoff's reporting but nonetheless
interesting
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/technology/24munich.html
January 24, 2007
Move Over Silicon Valley, Here Come European Start-Ups
By JOHN MARKOFF
MUNICH, Jan. 23 A technology and media conference being held
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070115/full/070115-13.html
Published online: 19 January 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070115-13
Crowd researchers make pilgrimage safer
The science of pedestrian motion meets the annual Hajj in Mecca.
Philip Ball
Multiple entry points in the design of the fu
this is a great example of the "sousveillance" or bottom-
up=surveillance trend that my colleagues and I have been tracking at
the Institute for the Future
---
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/18/youve_got_mail.php
January 18, 2007
You've Got New Yorkers' Mail, 911 and 311
Hello,
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Aharon Kellerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 18, 2007 12:59:09 AM EST
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FW: Digital Communities 2007
Dear colleagues:
Kindly find below the call for papers for our 2007 annual meeting,
jointly sponsored wit
they started running ads for this on the NYC buses yesterday. i will
check it out tomorrow and blog for you all at IFTF's Future/now
(http://future.iftf.org)
--
http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1575877,00.html
Home to the Future Exhibit to Showcase Digital Leadersh
Internot
An earthquake off Taiwan on Boxing Day seriously disrupted Hong Kong's communications. Eight of 18 undersea cables linking the region to the rest of the world were severed or suffered major damage: China, Taiwan and Singapore were all affected, but Hong Kong was particularly badly hit. M
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/13/
wgoogle13.xml
Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'
By Thomas Harding in Basra
Last Updated: 2:06am GMT 13/01/2007
xxx
Royal Green Jackets provide ‘top cover’ from their Bulldog armoured
Begin forwarded message:
>
> ENVIRONMENT 2.0
> a Futuresonic 2007 festival special feature.
> 10-12 May 2007
>
> Futuresonic is taking steps to reduce the environmental impact of the
> festival, starting with a pioneering study of the carbon footprint
> of the
> Futuresonic 2007 festival, und
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/using_cabs_to_f.html
Using Cabs To Find Cellphone Coverage Holes Permalink
By Brady Forrest on January 01, 2007
Ericsson has a plan to find cellphone coverage holes in the New York
City area. They are going to install modem-sized sensors in cabs that
http://www.nysun.com/article/46449
abbing Taxi Drivers Talking on ‘Party Lines'
By ANNIE KARNI
Special to the Sun
January 11, 2007
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
It's not just wives at home or relatives overseas that keep taxi
drivers tied up on their cellular phones duri
Begin forwarded message:
> "Successful Response Starts with a Map: Improving Geospatial Support
> for Disaster Management"
> http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11793.html
> Geospatial data describe the locations of things on the earth's
> surface, and geospatial tools manipulate such data to create use
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72371-0.html?tw=rss.culture
By Marty Graham| Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Jan, 03, 2007
Wi-Fi is like sand -- it gets everywhere. If you're toting your
laptop to some sunny paradise this winter, you'll find you can
combine body surfing, board surfing
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0109/p01s03-usec.html
Too prosperous, Massachusetts is losing its labor force
By Ben Arnoldy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BOSTON
What if you threw a wildly successful economy, and nobody showed up
to work?
Welcome to Massachusetts, where the jo
Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> Call for papers: Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together or
> Tearing Us Apart?
>
> International Communications Association Pre-conference Workshop #4
>
> There has been much attention paid to the state of social cohesion
> during the past decade. Robert P
DMB hits Manhattan
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18051&ch=biztech
uesday, January 09, 2007
Crown Castle launches trial of live cellular TV service in New York City
By Associated Press
* Print
* E-mail
* Bookmark »
o Digg th
the full report is at http://www.dhs.gov/xprepresp/gc_1167770109789.shtm
-
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1167843848098.shtm
DHS Releases Nationwide Interoperable Communications Assessment
Release Date: January 3, 2007
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: (2
CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS:
***IMAGING THE CITY ***
Exploring the Practices & Technologies of Representing the Urban
Environment in Human-Computer Interaction
An interdisciplinary workshop at CHI 2007
San Jose, April 29 2007
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/cdisalvo/chi2007workshop/
Recent techn
CNET News.comhttp://www.news.com/
Wi-Fi will be hitting the road in rentals
By Christopher Elliott
http://news.com.com/Wi-Fi+will+be+hitting+the+road+in+rentals/
2100-7351_3-6146498.html
Story last modified Tue Jan 02 06:06:40 PST 2007
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Try connecting to a high-speed wire
last update on this for now, lots of good detail in this NYTimes piece
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/business/worldbusiness/28quake.html?
_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
December 28, 2006
Asian Quake Disrupts Data Traffic
By CHOE SANG-HUN and WAYNE ARNOLD
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 27 —
guessing this is RFID?
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17945&ch=biztech
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Tokyo stores to beam adverts to shoppers in real time
By Associated Press
Stores in central Tokyo are set to beam news of special offers, menus
and coupons to passe
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061208/3/2u3ty.html
PluggedIn: Taipei, global cities, hum Wi-Fi tune
Saturday December 9, 5:14 AM
TAIPEI (Reuters) - As much of the world buzzes with high-speed 3G
mobile services, Taipei is humming another wireless broadband tune
with a year-old network providing
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/
wpn-60-20061221GoogleGoingSouth.html
Google Going South?
Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
Published: 2006-12-21
Google has possible expansion plans near the South Carolina coast.
The company confirmed they were considering the Goose Creek area in
Berk
http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=27711
Dec 26, 2006Project Aims to Tag Tokyo Neighborhood with RFID
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A location-based services trial that will see a famous Tokyo
neighborhood blanketed with around 10,000 radio frequency
identif
the i-bankers are freaking out... Bloomberg has an update
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFQUj_CM458c
"Damaged cables include the APCN2 cable and Sea-Me-We3 cables, Chunghwa's Leng said.
Eight STM-1 cables from Okinawa off Japan and 4 STM-1 cables to Shanghai are acting as
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061227/D8M988MO0.html
Taiwan Quake Disrupts Phone, Web Service
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Dec 27, 9:33 AM (ET)
By STEPHAN GRAUWELS
(AP) A Taiwanese commuter rides his scooter over a fault line that
cracked the road after a 6.7...
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - T
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/111/next-world-class.html
Moon Over Munchen
It's a balloon! It's a really big light! It's both!
From: Issue 111 | December/January | Page 32 | By: Michael Dumiak
That new moon hanging over a midnight work site? It's a balloon,
actually. A big, helium-fille
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/world/middleeast/19electricity.html
December 19, 2006
Iraq Insurgents Starve Capital of Electricity
By JAMES GLANZ
BAGHDAD, Dec. 18 . Over the past six months, Baghdad has been all but
isolated electrically, Iraqi officials say, as insurgents have
effectiv
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5060400.html
THE Subway has unveiled plans to give mobile phone coverage
underground - and is to trial internet access.
A phone network could be set up for all 15 of Glasgow's tube stations
connecting up one of the city's last no-go zones.
And wi-fi
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/63620737/
Big Fiber Is Back
from GigaOM by Om Malik
Transglobal fiber networks that crisscrossed the planet were the most
visible and expensive manifestation of the broadband boom (and later
the bubble) of 1990s. Thanks to overbuilding, collapsing p
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17921&ch=biztech
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Prosecutors: New Jersey worker put data-wrecking 'bomb' in computers
of drug company
By Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A computer administrator angry about possibly
losing his job plan
a major project that the Institute did for the UK government has now
gone public
http://www.deltascan.org
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i have started using Boingo Wireless recently and am quite happy with
it - can get online at pretty much any TMobile location (i.e.
anywhere there's an SBUX) plus lots of hotels and airports
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/business/19connect.html
Offline Involuntarily
Ben Garvin f
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/france-tel-approves-widespread-
fiber/story.aspx
France Tel approves widespread fiber roll-out
Last Update: 3:46 PM ET Dec 15, 2006
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PARIS (MarketWatch) -- France Telecom (FTE) plans to roll out fiber
optic cabl
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