Here it is.

Solar powered remote controlled mini airship.

Anybody has backgroud info on Gotham Financial LLC??

My Google search didn't find anything.

U.S. Missile Defense Agency Awards $1.25 Million Contract to Proton Energy Systems for Regenerative Fuel Cell Research

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-11-2006/0004449963&...


U.S. Missile Defense Agency Awards $1.25 Million Contract to Proton Energy Systems for Regenerative Fuel Cell Research


Regenerative Fuel Cell Study Aims at Greater Efficiency, Reduced Weight

WALLINGFORD, Conn., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Proton Energy
Systems, a leader in hydrogen generation and fuel cell technology and
products, and a subsidiary of Wallingford, CT-based Distributed Energy
Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: DESC), announced today that it has been awarded a
$1.25 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency
(MDA). The Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase III contract
calls for continued development of regenerative fuel cell technology for
high altitude airships.
The research project is part of a Department of Defense initiative to
develop a lighter-than-air, high-altitude airship Advanced Concept
Technology Demonstration (ACTD) prototype. According to the Missile Defense
Agency, this ACTD plans to demonstrate the engineering feasibility and
potential utility of an unmanned, untethered, gas-filled, solar-powered
airship that can fly at 70,000 ft.
Research will proceed during a one-year period designed to test the
efficiency and performance of Proton's hydrogen-generating "core stack." In
addition, its proton exchange membrane (PEM) stack technology will be
monitored closely as it is scaled up to the size required for high-altitude
airship deployment.
"By working with the MDA on the high-altitude airship application,
Proton will be better able to advance its expertise in regenerative fuel
cell technology for this and many other government and commercial
applications," said Rob Friedland, senior vice president and head of the
Hydrogen Technology Group. "In addition, all of us at Proton are grateful
to Senators Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman for their strong support of this
important technology program."
The proton exchange membrane electrolysis technology developed by
Proton produces energy by converting water into hydrogen and oxygen to
power the airship. This PEM reaction happens in a controlled environment,
enabling Proton's regenerative fuel cell system to provide the airship with
its necessary power. This same technology is also used to provide back-up
power in the telecom industry, as well as for serving huge commercial
markets for hydrogen, including cooling power plant generators.
Approved for public release, 06-MDA-1860 (5-Sept-06)
Proton Energy's Hydrogen Technology Group (HTG) is part of Distributed
Energy Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: DESC). The Military and Aerospace Team within
HTG designs, develops, models, and builds technology solutions based on
Proton's core PEM technology. They meet the technical needs of a diverse
customer base that includes commercial aerospace partners, and civilian and
military government agencies. Please contact the Military and Aerospace
Team at 203.678.2351 and online at
http://www.protonenergy.com/company/hyd-tech.html to learn more.
About Distributed Energy Systems Corp.
Distributed Energy Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: DESC) creates and delivers
products and solutions to the emerging decentralized energy marketplace,
giving users greater control over their energy cost, quality, and
reliability. As the parent company of Proton Energy Systems, Inc.
(http://www.protonenergy.com) and Northern Power Systems, Inc., Distributed Energy
Systems delivers a combination of practical, ready-today energy solutions
and the solid business platforms for capitalizing on the changing energy
landscape. For more information, visit http://www.distributed-energy.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of
the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Statements contained herein that are not statements of
historical fact, including statements concerning accretion to operating
results and growth in market share, may be deemed to be forward-looking
information. Without limiting the foregoing, words such as "anticipates",
"believes", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "might",
"should", "will", and "would" and other forms of these words or similar
words are intended to identify forward-looking information. Northern
Power's and Distributed Energy's actual results may differ materially from
those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various
important factors. Northern Power and Distributed Energy each disclaim any
obligation to update these forward- looking statements. Factors that could
cause results to differ materially from those contained in Northern's and
Distributed Energy's forward-looking statements include, but are not
limited to, failure of our products and systems to perform as specified or
achieve commercial acceptance, the impact of competitive products and
systems, and other factors detailed in Distributed Energy's Form 10-Q for
the quarter ended June 30, 2006, and other filings Distributed Energy may
make from time to time with the SEC.


SOURCE Distributed Energy Systems Corp.

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Here is the speaker program for the conference. Looks like NASA is there:

http://www.yorkhapweek.org/symposium_programme.php

Wednesday 25th October 2006
14:00
HAPs and Technology State of the Art

High Altitude Platform Aircraft at NASA - Past, Present and Future
John DelFrate, Business Development Office,
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

NASA: do they have a HAP project?

http://www.commsdesign.com/news/tech_beat/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193101260


Airships, balloons set to deliver broadband
By John Walko

EE Times Europe
okt 02, 2006

LONDON — The results of an ambitious three year project to develop a network that will use balloon- like airships to bring broadband communications services to remote rural areas, and even to moving trains, are due to be unveiled at a conference later this month in York, England.

The project, dubbed Capanina — with most of its Euros 6 million funding coming from the European Union under the Broadband-For-All Sixth Framework Program — linked an international group of communications companies and research institutes with expertise in both millimeter-wave and free- space optics technologies. The latter have been used to create interplatform links to supplement millimeter-wave-band communications for back-haul traffic

The effort is part of a larger project within the EU's FP6 aimed at improving ways to deliver broadband services to rural communities.

The results will be outlined as part of an international symposium on High Altitude Platforms (HAP) in York between October 23 to 27 that will focus on wireless and optical communications from HAPs, as well as the critically important field of HAP vehicle development.

The conference and exhibition will feature a number of keynote speakers including Rosalie Zobel, Director, of Components and Systems in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Information Society and Media, as well as speakers from other major HAP projects worldwide, including NASA.

Capanina's Principal Scientific Officer, Dr David Grace said: "York HAP Week will not only mark the culmination of Capanina but also act as a catalyst for the next phase of development. Delegates will discuss the most effective ways of realizing the full potential of this exciting technology."

Wouldn't Clearwire like to have some Strats?

http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/15/technology/disruptors_clearwire.biz2/index.htm?postversion=200609201...

Goodbye Wi-Fi: wireless signals get maximized
Clearwire founder Craig McCaw shakes up the telecom industry again.

By Erick Schonfeld and Jeanette Borzo, Business 2.0
September 21 2006: 10:47 AM EDT



SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) -- The Disruptor: Clearwire

The Innovation: National Wi-Max broadband wireless service


The Disrupted: Telecom and cable companies

It's almost a given these days that Clearwire, the Wi-Max wireless network founded by cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, will shake up the wireless broadband sector. "If anyone is going to do it, it's going to be Clearwire," says Joe Laszlo, a senior broadband analyst at JupiterResearch in New York. "They've got the best technology, great financing, and a lock on nationwide spectrum." The only real question seems to be how deep into the telecom establishment the shock waves from McCaw's latest bit of disruption will penetrate.

Clearwire's initial goal is to create a nationwide broadband wireless network based on Wi-Max, a more powerful relative of Wi-Fi technology. Because Wi-Max infrastructure is much cheaper to build and maintain than traditional networks, some analysts think Clearwire will be able to seriously undercut the broadband prices of Comcast (Charts), Verizon (Charts), and their ilk. But the threat posed by McCaw's strategy could be much greater than just price pressure. Clearwire's approach could put in jeopardy the billions of dollars that telecoms and cable operators are pouring into upgrading their existing broadband networks. And in theory at least, Clearwire could eventually offer the cutting-edge services that telecoms and cable companies are angling for -- Web-based TV, movies on phones, VOIP calls, and the like. Clearwire is already offering VOIP phone service to 13 markets, and some expect the startup to partner with mobile-phone, IPTV, or satellite-TV companies to further expand its range of services. (Full disclosure: AOL, owned by the parent company of Business 2.0, is a reseller of Clearwire Wi-Max service.) "Filling a need that others aren't addressing has always been a focus of the McCaw companies," says McCaw's co-chief executive officer, Ben Wolff. "We are creating a brand-new category."

Certainly, the press-shy McCaw knows a thing or two about shaping disruptive networks. He began building the country's first national cellular network in the early 1980s, eventually selling it to AT&T for $11.5 billion. With Clearwire, McCaw has moved on to Wi-Max. Wi-Max has big technical advantages over other fast pipes, particularly Wi-Fi. Unlike Wi-Fi, it operates on a licensed spectrum, making the service far more reliable. The range of Wi-Fi signals is measured in hundreds of feet; Wi-Max's range is measured in miles.

Clearwire already offers basic Wi-Max broadband service in Brussels, Dublin, and 27 U.S. metropolitan markets covering more than 200 cities and towns. Its network had 100,000 subscribers at the end of March. (The company won't say how many new subscribers it has added since then or disclose financial details.) Clearwire also has made the installation process, often a painful hassle for Wi-Fi users, consumer-friendly with Wi-Max. A customer plugs a paperback-size modem into a power source and into a computer (via Ethernet) and the network is good to go. "It's a very simple process for a consumer to get up and running," says Jupiter's Laszlo.

Clearwire has challengers, notably Sprint (Charts), which expects to spend as much as $3 billion in the next two years building a rival Wi-Max network and currently owns more spectrum than Clearwire. But Clearwire has powerful backers: In July, Intel (Charts) and Motorola (Charts) pumped $900 million into the company, a measure of their faith in McCaw's approach -- and of their hunger to sell chips and other gear that make Wi-Max work if it becomes a mainstream service. Perhaps most important, Clearwire has McCaw. "Disruptive," says Rich Begert, CEO of Wireless Services and a former McCaw executive, "is the best way to describe Craig."

U.S. ARMY CONSIDERS AIRSHIPS IN IRAQ


WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The U.S. Army has been examining the prospect of deploying airships to ease the burden on its unmanned aerial vehicle fleet.

Officials said the army has been briefed on the use of airships equipped with sensors that could provide continuous surveillance over insurgency strongholds in Iraq. The airships would ensure real-time information on insurgency threats to army commands.

"The capability of an airship would be much greater than that of a tactical UAV," an official said. "We could be provided with a comprehensive situational awareness picture before patrols and other missions."

The Defense Department has held a competition to provide a blimp for troop transport. The finalists were identified as Lockheed Martin and a tiny California firm, Worldwide Aeros.


http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2006/may/05_24_2.html

Lockheed prototype HAA not to start construction until 2007 and not fly until 2009. They are still "refurnishing" the hangar!

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/business/14516284.htm

Motley Fool again.

GTE metioned below in EnWrong!

http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2006/commentary06021004.htm?logvisit=y&source=estmarhln00199...



Don't invest in companies you don't understand. Beware managements that hype their own stock. Stay away from companies that have the "product of the future," because this may be the case in perpetuity. Think that the system will protect you better today, following the collapse of Enron? Maybe, but not if you don't protect yourself. And too few people do.

By Bill Mann (TMF Otter)
February 10, 2006

The trial of Ken Lay is upon us. More than four years after pipeline-utility-bullcrap conglomerate collapsed into a $70 billion dollar fraud-riddled industry, it's worthwhile to look back and write about what we have learned following the demise of a company where everything the market believed was wrong.

So here's a list of what's different about investors in the post-Enron, post-WorldCom, post-who's-the-dirtier-analyst world:

1. Nothing.*

*Seriously, nothing.

All hail the Jedi mind trick
If anything, I think we've backtracked, because now we have Sarbanes-Oxley to protect us. Or maybe stop-losses. Unfortunately, both will be about as much help as a French ally in a time of real Refco- and Enron-style fraud and collapse.

The real reason we're back where we started is that we're still greedily willing to believe. And doubt hurts. That's why when an analyst downgrades, or a journalist or online stock analyst writes something unfavorable, we attack like a swarm of crazed bugs (like the ones from that weird 1975 movie Bug).

Folks bought into Enron because they believed. They believed that a company could generate money from weather futures. They believed that -- although in the rest of creation it took telecommunications companies 30 days or more to get long-haul telecom bandwidth turned up -- Enron, having never competed in the business before against the Sprints (NYSE: S) and AT&Ts (NYSE: T) of the world, could turn up a dedicated circuit for you in 24 hours.

Well, I came to The Motley Fool after five years in the telecommunications business, and I didn't believe a word of it.

Yes, you did
Oh, yeah, that's right. I did.

By the way
I hear that Ken Lay's attorneys are pressing for his trial to be moved from Houston, where they believe that he will be unable to find a sufficient number of unbiased jurors to give him a fair shake in court. The demon in me hopes that the judge would accede and transfer the trial to another jurisdiction. Like Portland. Nope, nobody up there has heard of Enron. But the realist in me, wanting to ensure that our court system actually does operate under the innocent-until-proven-guilty founding principle, believes that one of two jurisdictions would be much better.

1. New Orleans. Don't like innocent until proven guilty? Well, they flip that on its head in Loosiana, where they have the Napoleonic Code. Besides, what better way to help the city get back on its feet economically than a long, expensive, high-profile trial that will be covered by half the journalists in the free world, plus some guy from Granma? It's almost too perfect.

2. Alabama. Call this the Dick Scrushy plan. Boosters of the squeaky-clean-according-to-the-criminal-justice-system former HealthSouth CEO have disclosed that they were paid during his trial to show support by sitting in court and planting favorable news stories. I'm not saying this is true. I am saying that I believe it to be true.

All hail David Langford
If you look back at the Fool's content during 2000, you'll find some glowing praise of Enron. Look, we're really sorry about that. In fact, we hope that you never find out that on a radio interview that Tom and David Gardner somewhat jokingly asked the same Ken Lay to come be the CEO of the Fool. Yep, that's buried. You'll never find it. We missed many of the signs, until things started to fall apart. We recovered, but mainly our warnings were met by threats, invective, bile, and questions about who paid us to trash Enron.

One of our guys got it right early. David Langford strolled in from the frozen tundra one day in early 2001 and tore a California energy crisis-sized hole into the story Enron was selling. "They're a market maker," he was paraphrased by me as saying, using passive tense in the process, "in a bunch of random markets where things will become more efficient as trading increases. Why on earth would anyone buy that?" And then he finished the beast off with this:

"Enron just issued another $1.25 billion in debt. Let's see, that's less than $0.7 billion in cash, and now more than $15 billion in debt. Ick. Well, that's one way to expand your business. Why isn't Enron using cash to expand? Maybe because it can't -- the latest net margin came in just below 1%. Double ick."

David didn't find the fraud -- it took Jim Chanos, a hedge fund manager with forensic accounting experience, and a crack Wall Street Journal reporter named Jonathan Weil to really start asking questions.

And guess what, all you "journalists who ask negative questions and talk to hedge funds are totally corrupt" ninnies? Weil had a point. So did Chanos, so did Langford, so did Bethany McLean at Forbes, and so, eventually, did I. (Still feel bad about the telecom thing, though.)

This is not to say that the market isn't beset by corruption ...

In fact, we still buy garbage companies
To my mind, there is nothing to account for people plowing their money into hopefests. What Enron should have taught people was that they ought to become a bunch of Missouris when it comes to investing: Companies have to "show me" before a nickel of invested capital is risked on them. Instead, speculators place a burden of proof on companies no heavier than the "Did you pack explosives into your suitcase?" question at the airport.

"Yes! I mean, No!" That's a tricky one.

Wait, they don't ask that question anymore. The point is still the same. Enron took people in and really hurt them because they suspended their doubt, and really, really wanted to believe. Plus, they were getting wealthy as the stock soared, so how could things not have been great?

"Dream a little" is not an investing thesis. "We can turn petrified dinosaur poop into high-grade jet fuel" isn't one, either. And yet, companies with stories nearly that absurd are garnering substantial market interest. Those who buy into them can look forward to the nearly inevitable losses that are coming their way.

The lesson Enron taught me is important: "Doubt saves."

Yes, doubt saves in a way that the protectors of our markets cannot. If you are invested in a company that happens to be a total fraud, no one can restore to you anything more than a tiny fraction of your investment. And yet, whenever one of my colleagues expresses doubt about any one of the, uh, low-probability investments that exist on our stock market, the level of vitriol we receive is too intense to be believed.

Do I think that GlobeTel (AMEX: GTE) will ever generate appreciable revenues from a dirigible network over Colombia? I find that unlikely. Will KFX (AMEX: KFX) -- after more than a decade of near-revenueless operations from its clean coal technology -- finally justify its $1.2 billion valuation? Again, I'm doubtful that shareholders will ever see economically beneficial outcomes at current share prices -- just a long, long line of further share dilution through additional secondary offerings.

These companies even have the imprimatur of being traded on one of the three major exchanges (well, the AMEX is nominally major). What, then, must we say of the people who have plowed money into micro-cap penny stocks, many of which don't fully report to the SEC (if they report at all)? I know what I say to them: "Good luck."

The trouble is that the human greed gene seems to have the prudence gene overmatched. Enron was a real company even if, after all of the false representations, it was a pretty average one. (It never generated much in the way of free cash flow and earnings didn't follow a huge rise in revenue.) But its marketing of its stock was phenomenal.

That's the lesson, I think. You'll never see the great companies of the world, the Johnson & Johnsons (NYSE: JNJ), the Fastenals (Nasdaq: FAST), or even smaller great firms like Hidden Gems selection Drew Industries (NYSE: DW) market their stocks. They don't put out press releases for events that lack economic substance. They don't address the evil shortsellers. They just execute.

Enron's management was great at convincing people that the company's stock offered the greatest opportunity since the Oklahoma land rush. It didn't. The fact that people continue to bet on hope means that the Enron lesson is sure to be repeated.

Drew Industries is a Hidden Gems selection. AT&T is a Stock Advisor pick.

Bill Mann is co-advisor to the Motley Fool Hidden Gems newsletter, the leading source for small-cap stock ideas. A free 30-day trial is free. No, really, free. Bill owns none of the companies mentioned in this article.

Murdoch eyes broadband-market entry

By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch
Last Update: 11:11 AM ET Jan. 10, 2006


WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The next piece of News Corp.'s Internet strategy is likely to be providing high-speed Internet access through its DirecTV unit.
Chairman Rupert Murdoch is willing to spend as much as $1 billion to offer consumers two-way service, the Financial Times reports. Currently, the company's
Currently, the company's Direcway unit offers one-way Net service via satellite. DirecTV had said it was considering entering the wireless market, possibly using WiMax technology, which is under development.


http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={E2D4BF7F-BBB2-43F7-AB85-56606365F26B}&siteid=mkt...


Murdoch into Wimax - he just has to be part of the "Agenda" IMO

I'm glad to hear that. On Ameritrade I got some of those flash news items (from Dow Jones I think??). One of those stated that the outstanding shares had increased to 125 mill. I can't find that item again (only the main news items are searchable). Did anyone else see that?

How can that happen? Hopefully most investors do better DD than just reading flash news from Dow Jones.

I'll scan in the article when I get hold of a scanner, and then I'll translate the important parts.

There really isn't any new info in the article. It just serves to show what kind of interest the Strat creates also outside the US.

I only have the article in print. I'll try to get it scanned in. Then post it here.

FYI, a leading danish newspaper (Berlingske) this sunday featured a full page article about Sanswire, and how this will be the future of communications. I'm not posting it here as it is in danish.

Just to let you all know that the word is spreading around the world and lots of media worldwide will continue this story in a big way once the Strat flies.

Bandwidth costs. No telecom is giving it out for free, nor will Globetel. If some city wants to provide free access to its citizens, the city still have to pay. Or?

It's much cheaper and faster to use a Stratellite than towers. Also as technology changes (more bandwidth), it is much easier to change the setup of equipment installed on a Stratelitte than make changes to equipment installed on lots of towers.

And by the way, the most obvious use for Stratellites is in countries where the amount of infrastructure today is very limited. I think that providing the possibility to bring the rest of the world (apart fom USA, Europa and some asian countries) up to speed is a huge opportunity. Then when these services actually starts to be better than what is provided in the US, I think demand will rise also here.

Wouldn't it be funny to have lets say south american countries provide superior wireless internetaccess to it's citizens, and then the US and Europe not having it?

All the discussions about Wimax and how it's NOT going to change USA (as stated by the big telcos), will take a completely different direction once Wimax (or other wireless protocol) is available from the skies.

It's just we need the Strat to work. As long as we do not show a working Strat, it will be the same old game.

Taiwan wants nationwide Wimax network, but still not sure how to provide it.

So Globetel should give them a call!

http://www.wimaxxed.com/wimaxxed_news/taiwan_tests_is.html

Taiwan Tests Island-Wide WiMax
October 19, 2005
Taiwanese government officials said on Monday they plan to make Taiwan the world's largest testing ground for WiMax, and inked a pact with Intel to work together on the wireless broadband technology.

The government will provide around $209 million in funding for the initiative, in addition to spectrum allocation and other assistance, while Intel is expected to pitch in its technical resources. Next year, the government will provide an additional $32.8 million in research funds specifically for WiMax, a separate budget from the above figure, said Minister of State Lin Ferng-ching.

Taiwan hopes to become a leader in developing products for WiMax, such as PC cards and notebook computers, as well as broadband services, by making itself a leader in the technology, according to Ho Mei-yueh, Taiwan's economics minister.

Officials said they hope to have WiMax network coverage for all of the island's 23 million people by 2007. The capital city of Taipei has been working on providing Wi-Fi access free of charge throughout the city in an ongoing project.


Despite the strong statement of support from Taiwanese government officials on Monday, the plan appears to be still in its infancy. Officials don't yet have a blueprint for how a network will be deployed, who will run it, or how much citizens will be required to pay for access.


Still, by pledging to lead in field testing for WiMax, putting government funds behind the plan and gathering its technology companies for a push in research and development, Taiwan could become a major player in WiMax hardware and services in the future.

Or we chip in, and create a BIIIG venture capital company, that will invest in all the businesses and services that are sure to follow worldwide, once the Strats are hovering the skies.

Earlier this year I stated that I think that anywhere wireless broadband will be more important to future economies, than oil are today. I still believe this.

I hear people talk about SIRI, and I hear them say: "if we could only get the market cap of SIRI, that would be big!"

Really, SIRI is just one-way radio signals for people to listen to.

My view is that anywhere wireless broadband with Strats as the "backbone" could enable many, many, many new services world wide, each the size of SIRI. How much of the revenue streams will go to Globetel? Depends on how they play it.

So to Globetel management I say: "do NOT sell this too cheap! Be patient, build the business, and ignore early buyout possibilities."

Thanks Testsite (now Sanswired) for the report. I wish I had been there myself. When and if events start to happen closer to where I live (Europe), I'll make sure to attend, and do my best to report.

And by the way, I look forward to meeting many of you guys in a few years, when we start arranging "we-invested-in-Globetel-and-became-very-rich" parties all over the world. There will be money to burn. LOL.

Serious, I apologize for implying stuff.

All is well, Rick is with us. Guess I'm just a bit paranoid - easy to become when you are protecting a large investment. I too hope that GTE will be succesfull.

And Rocky,

before posting here I did actually e-mail Searfoss asking him what is the facts. I also asked him if he ever attended the Tecnology summit in February and made a keynote speach. No reply yet. And I will share the reply with the board.

But Rocky, what should be the conclusion from the Serious post then be:

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=8258161

Rick Searfoss states (according to the post by Serious) that he has never been on the board of Sanswire. But in February 2005 Huff told us he was. They can't all be right. So someone is not being 100% true here. At least one of persons, Serious, Huff or Searfoss are wrong.

I'm not implying that Huff or Searfoss are lying - it's what I conclude that Serious wants me to think with the post.

Am I misunderstanding something here since you are so disappointed with me?

Rocky, you are correct that it was not directly stated that "big news" was coming. I read that between the lines, and it is of course only my personal view on what was reported.

I'm really happy that Serious did attend and did give us feedback, and I know how easy it is to become really excited about things, when you really want this to happen.

Maybe it was just the GTE folks at the ISPCON show that had too BIG smiles on their faces, when talking about what to come at the Vegas show, and Serious reporting that - nothing else.

I just feel like Serious could have told us the Searfoss thing earlier, not just after a big move up.

I enjoy this board, thanks.

serious1, you are really taking on us a ride here.

(i)
First you send back reports from ISPCON stating big news to be expected at the Las Vegas show. The shareprice jumps bigtime. UP.

(ii)
Now you state that you have known for some time that the Rick Searfoss issue was untrue. He was never a boardmember. This sets the Globetel management up as liars - or? Actions of an investor swingtrader. Or?

Sure hope this is unintentional!

From Telecom05

CTOs give their views regarding WiMAX

video:

http://www.ustelecom.org/media/video/TC05/open3.wmv

GDBLO, I agree!

The concept are not knew. It's about who actually does it.

The EU project have been on it for years.

http://www.capanina.org/

GDBLO, these are just balloons floating with the wind, not airships that are kept on station. There really isn't anything new about this, except maybe that they are able to use a MOVING high altitude platform. I can't figure out if there would be any good reasons to persue this direction of research - except of course if they can't build a Strat :))

Strats are MUCH more flexible and usefull.

About TAO,

I think that part of the Globetel strategy with all these partnerships, that on the surface only brings something to Globetel that they already have, is that they want to sign up all the expertise (in the world!) to work WITH Globetel, so that nothing is left to competitors (that are bound to pop up).

This is a very good way to think. Anyways I also do believe that the research and brains from the partners will help Globetel to go all the way to the top - and stay there!

About Dr.Bernd Kroplin:


http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=31670

TELECOMMUNICATION PROJECT AWARDED 1999 KORBER EUROPEAN SCIENCE AWARD


Hamburg, Germany - This year, Hamburg's Korber Foundation awarded its Kvrber European Science Award, which is endowed with DM 1.5 million, to an international research team for the development of new technical solutions to permit construction of stationary high-altitude platforms that fly at a height of 20,000 meters.

This year's prize went to
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Kroplin of the University of Stuttgart, who is also project coordinator, Per Lindstrand MSc (Lindstrand Balloons, Owestry, UK), Dr. John Adrian Pyle (University of Cambridge, UK) and Dr. Michael Rehmet (Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH, Friedrichshafen).

In the course of the next three years, the four-man team awarded the prize intends to find new technical solutions that will make it possible to build stationary high-altitude platforms that fly at a height of 20,000 meters. The technical concept calls for giant dirigible-like propeller-driven antenna carriers that can start and land on their own power and cover all energy needs with photovoltaic power, which means with solar energy. Part of the available electric power will be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen electrolytically. With the help of a combustion cell, it will be possible to provide enough energy to get through the night and keep the platforms in position at an altitude of 20,000 meters.

High-altitude platforms are expected to play an important role in telecommunication in the future. They will permit light-of-sight connections without intermediate relays, radio towers or delays for cellular telephony, radio and television as well as wideband communication. High-altitude stations can serve an area with a radius of up to 500 km on the earth's surface and complement satellites because of their low cost. This also makes it more likely that sparsely populated regions will have access to telecommunication possibilities. The prize-winners intend to use the funds from the Korber Foundation to solve problems with regard to the materials to be used for such high-altitude platforms, propulsion systems and flight attitude to open up the way for a new phase of technology on the way to the information society.

Korber European Science Award
The Korber European Science Award is intended to support international cooperation among scientists working in Europe. The Korber Foundation uses the prize to promote promising, innovative and application-oriented research undertakings in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, technology and medicine. The recipients of the prize are responsible for deciding how to use the DM 1.5 million.

This year, the Korber-Foundation has awarded the Korber-Prize for the fifteenth time since 1985. An international board chaired by the President of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Prof. Dr. Hubert Markl, selects the winners of the prizes and their projects.

The 1999 Korber European Science Award will be awarded on Sept. 7, 1999, at 11:00 a.m. in Borsensaal 2 of the Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg, which is located at Adolphplatz 1.

The Korber Foundation
The Krber Foundation is a private, non-profit organisation that has been involved in the promotion of international understanding for almost four decades. The Foundation promotes historical and political culture as well as science and research. As an operational foundation, it initiates and finances its varied activities itself. The Hamburg-based foundation is committed to using its projects to deal with contemporary problems and, in particular, to support individuals who are actively involved in shaping the future of our society.

Korber Foundation Board
Prof. Dr. Hubert Markl (Chair.)

Prof. Dr. Richard John Brook

Prof. Dr. Guy Ourisson

Prof. Dr. Benno Parthier

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schipanski

Prof. Dr. Peter C. Scriba

Prof. Dr. Widmar Tanner

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Ursprung

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I'm pretty comfortable with this new strategy and the StrateVOIP platform. Finally something that can be understood and is a B2B product that doesn't need the same marketing muscle (that Globetel doesn't have and can't afford) of a B2C product.

It has taken me years almost to realize that Globetel is a B2B company. I still think they need to explain their business and goals better, so that the average investor can actually understand it.

GlobeTel seeks partners to sell hosted VoIP solution

10/07/2005 05:58:24 PM EDT
BNamericas.com

http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/news/detail.xhtml?ID=115517&ArticleID=200510073200.1_44e6000a5a82...


South Florida-based VoIP platform provider GlobeTel Communications Corporation is seeking at least 10 partners by year-end to offer its solutions to service providers in Latin America and the Caribbean, GlobeTel's president for VoIP Daniel Erdberg told BNamericas.

GlobeTel is due to unveil its new turnkey VoIP solution at the ISPCON Conference and Expo in Santa Clara from October 18-20.

According to Erdberg, Latin America is GlobeTel's main market focus for 2006 with all of its VoIP budget being directed regional markets, Erdberg said.

The company announced this week it a connectivity agreement with international carrier of carriers and IP services provider Global Crossing's (Nasdaq: GLBC). The agreement gives GlobeTel access to Global Crossing's IP-based network to connect VoIP service between the US and Latin America.

GlobeTel will first focus on Mexico and Brazil before looking at Argentina, Venezuela and Chile.

According to the executive the hosted VoIP solution should be appealing to Latin American ISPs and cable providers because it avoids them having to make significant capital expenditure on infrastructure to get voice services up and running.

"We have a web-based system which is fully hosted, no equipment needs to be installed, and with no origination and termination agreements. We provide everything," Erdberg added.

The global trend toward VoIP is inevitable and it is just a question of how much the ISPs are willing to spend and how fast they want to get to market, he said.

"[The alternative to a hosed solution] is to make the capital expenditure into the hardware, into switches, into software, take the time, hire the resources and spend at least a year figuring out how to do it," Erdberg said.

Whereas, a hosted platform "can offer them everything they need without the capex without the required time, and they can offer probably a more advanced service in 30 days," Erdberg added.

Because no switching equipment is installed on the premises this can help companies to get round any complex regulations there might be in those countries -the VoIP switching is done in the US, Erdberg said.

The service provider can also offer the VoIP product under its own brand name with an integrated billing system, so the customer never knows that the VoIP service is a hosted solution.



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I'm pretty confused about the status of our GTE.

It seems to me the only core business we actually have is reselling longdistance carrier traffic. Everything else is something we are trying to build. And after we are finished building then we have to start selling.

I would like to have an independant analyst look into GTE and create a report.

I would personally sponsor USD 1000, if GTE guarantees that the analyst are allowed all status quo info that are not actual company secrets (like strat details). I think USD 10.000 would be enough to pay an analyst for doing this.

Anybody else?????

Holter,

Google and GTE would be a great match for a partnership. If Google wants to get in on telecom and offer Internet access and VOIP worldwide (not just US) the best way to do this is to partner with GTE and use Wimax (assuming GTE make the Strats work). Together they could really screw the existing very powerful telecom industry.

Hey Huff, are you listening?

Google and NASA!

Earlier Google stated they would bring broadband to all. Google -> NASA -> Globetel. It's easy!




Google's Out of This World
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMFBreakerRick)
September 29, 2005

When Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and NASA scheduled a press conference to make a major announcement last night, it was easy to go dizzy with the possibilities.

The debut of Google Earth: The Reality Series.
Google to colonize moon, populate craters with contextual ads.
Billionaire founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to buy Jupiter, lease out its moons.
NASA scientists reveal that the world really does revolve around Google.
Google astronauts go into orbit, Tang files trademark-infringement lawsuit.
Neil Armstrong trades moon rocks for Google stock certificates.
The reality proved to be more down to Earth, but not necessarily any less outlandish. Google will be teaming up with NASA to build out NASA Research Park, a huge million-square-foot facility within NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. There, the two parties will work together on technology-based research projects that may carry some weighty ramifications in the future.

Now, we've always known that Google was a brilliant geek with a sci-fi bent. You see it in some of the eclectic homepage dedications and in the amazing satellite-mapping wizardry of Google Earth. You even see it in Google AdSense, where the sample ads for publishers are for telescope companies.

As long as this project doesn't detract Google from its paid-search knitting, I say blast off at will! There may be another method to this celestial madness. The company has been a busy recruiter lately, adding 700 new hires this past quarter alone. Perhaps NASA Research Park will help Google lure the brainiac, scientific intellects that it covets who can't be swayed by piles of cash.

Google would rather hire an academic genius than a seasoned MBA. Don't believe me? You will. So is this a clever recruiting tool or a generous gesture to help NASA get back on its feet? Does it matter? Google's track record has been so good in the past that even the zaniest of projects deserves patient deference until proven faulty. It's why companies that once used to tower over Google like Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) get weak at the knees when Google so much as steps in their general direction.

So why is Google venturing into outer space? The better to see you, my dear.

http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05092901.htm?logvisit=y&source=estmarhln001999&npu=y

Stratoguy - they will all happen - eventually!

Does anybody really know for sure? I don't think so!

If I knew, I would buy (more) tons of shares!

New GTE website!!!!

http://www.globetel.net

If GTE are close to making the Strat work, Google could be a partner:

http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05092015.htm

Peacedog, being an european I also like the international way GTE looks at things. Adding a former diplomat is great also in that sense - BUT when you mention Rick Searfoss I remember how pleased I was when he was announced - but where is he??? I never heard him speak one single word!?? Now what about this new chap - will he actually add something?

I love the Strat thing - please let us see it soon!

Being very disappointed about the Strat delays there is still hope that the Strat will be ready in time.

In time, I mean that the world really isn't ready for Wimax yet anyways.

Ready to use now, is the non-mobile version of Wimax. It means that one would need a small fixed Wimax box with an antenna placed in your home/office. This Wimax box then connects to the local network and maybe a WiFi access point to give wireless broadband in a local WiFi hotspot. All this will mature in 2006 (fixed last mile)

WiFi as you all know is built right into most laptops today, which is great. What is even better is the fact that the next version of Wimax will be mobile (like WiFI today) and will be built into any laptop by Intel. This won't happen until 2007 and then the world is really ready for the Strat!!!!

So in terms of technology we have perfect timing if the Strats starts to work within 6 months and then really take off and mature in 2007.

Only problem is if someone else gets there first. But still I think there will be room for competion.

testing ... Is this board dead?

Ok , thanks Rocky. But this amendment is not very clear. 18 months after launch of prototype (S1) - but this was never launched - or was it?. So 18 months counting since april 11 2005, or? And 30 months since april 11 2005 for the first paying customer? I don't know?

Molen must still feel he will get his big reward in the end.

Thanks 23Melons!

Trying to read RB but so dificult to get an overview of all the bits and pieces reported from the SHM.