[telecom-cities] Media City:UK - Salford

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Townsend
http://www.salford.gov.uk/living/regeneration/geographicareas/quays-regen/mediacityuk.htmMedia City:UK is a new media city; an innovative and creative hub at Salford Quays. It will rival other new media cities emerging around the world.Salford Quays is Manchester's waterfront and Media City:UK

[telecom-cities] free e-book: Wireless Networking in the Developing World

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Townsend
http://wndw.net/news.htmlLondon, England-- Imagine trying to piece together a wireless network with no manuals, sporadic and slow access to the Internet, inadequate tools, a shortage of supplies, and in the most inclement weather. The authors of a recently published book, "Wireless Networking in

[telecom-cities] Bioentrepreneur - One year after its passage, California's embryonic stem cell research funding initiative remains a mixed blessing for biotech startups.

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Townsend
http://www.nature.com/bioent/bioenews/032006/full/bioent905.htmlBioentrepreneur homePublished online: 09 March 2006, doi:10.1038/bioent905Looking for the ripple effectStacy Lawrence **Stacy Lawrence is a freelancer in Oakland, CaliforniaOne year after its passage, California's embryonic stem cell

[telecom-cities] RES: [telecom-cities] free e-book: Wireless Networking in the Developing World

2006-05-31 Thread Rodrigo Firmino
Well, I am glad people are worried about accessibility in the so-called developing world. But I am also worried about such a biased view of what is being called developing world, where many different and complex realities are all thrown in the same bag. I haven't seen such a biased view, like

[telecom-cities] SJ Mercury - Navigation Nation

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Townsend
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/industries/ automotive/14692916.htm Posted on Mon, May. 29, 2006 Navigation Nation THOUSANDS OF CARS WILL REPORT ON TRAFFIC TO ENABLE THOUSANDS OF OTHER CARS TO AVOID JAMS -- IF COMPANY'S PLANS COME TO FRUITION By Matt Nauman

[telecom-cities] Life in the real-time city

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Townsend
shameless plug - these real-time traffic services make me think back to some of the predictions i made in my 2000 article - Mobile Communications in the 21st Century City - about how urban metabolism would speed up as these kinds of services come online and all kinds of daily decisions

[telecom-cities] a tangent: The Blue Economy Blog (by yours truly)

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Townsend
another self-promotion this one totally tangential some of you may be interested in my new blog dealing with the ocean economy http://urban.blogs.com/blue/ The Blue Economy Blog I've been working on this at a very low level for almost a year now, but after a weekend in Mendocino - a