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McDonalds goes Mobile
28 January, 2005
http://news.mobile9.com/2005/01/burger-giant-goes-mobile
Verizon debut's 3G cell phones on 02/01/05
28 January, 2005
Just in time for the nationwide launch of 3G wireless service in most major cities across the USA.
http://www.mobiledia.com/news/index.html
Halographic Communications
http://www.3dicon.net/core.html
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Eme: JPetroInc@aol.com
All the Best, JP
The beginings of AI
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.CL/0412098
The web might make all the difference to whether we make an artificial intelligence or not: "By repeating this process for lots of pairs of words, it is possible to build a map of their distances, indicating how closely related the meanings of the words are. From this a computer can infer meaning," says Vitanyi. "This is automatic meaning extraction. It could well be the way to make a computer understand things and act semi-intelligently," he says.
The technique has managed to distinguish between colours, numbers, different religions and Dutch painters based on the number of hits they return, the researchers report in an online preprint.
http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/~reingold/courses/ai/cyc.html
RFID is over. Make way for Super RFID 2015:
25 January, 2005
http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39127336,00.htm
RFID is now the mainstream, according to industry figures released today, and by 2015 it'll be time for the next generation of the technology.
Speaking at the RFID ROI Summit in London today, Nigel Montgomery, director of European research at AMR Research, said the track-and-trace technology is now starting to reach maturity and businesses are clamouring for it.
"The reality is RFID... has come on in leaps and bounds," he said. "There's been a lot of hype around what RFID might be able to do for you... but the reality is there's a business need there."
"When people say [RFID] is immature... that is an incorrect statement," he added. "We're now in the early adopter stage."
Sesh Murthy, director of IBM's RFID and sensors unit, said that by 2015 all processes will use RFID.
"I don't know how we will get from here to 2015 but the technology will change," he said. As well as a revamp of RFID readers, "back-end systems will change, the processes that use RFID aren't set in stone," he added.
However, with most CIOs now at least looking into the chip technology if not actively implementing it, the RFID pioneers are turning towards the next generation of the technology, dubbed 'super RFID'.
AMR Research's Montgomery said: "The truth is the technology has moved on immeasurably in the last three years" and now "sensor technologies" are being added to the RFID mix.
"There will be other sensors [coming to RFID] - temperature sensors, weight sensors," IBM's Murthy said.
Super RFID is essentially a sensor network or sensor telemetry. Instead of passive tags, which simply store information, sensor networks can be used to monitor conditions and record that data, and, if necessary, set off an alert if a condition moves beyond certain criteria.
Sensor networks could be used to monitor temperature-sensitive materials and send a text alert to a mobile phone if the material's temperature moves beyond its set range, for instance.
Super RFID is already being used. BP is working with Accenture on a sensor network to look after its rail cars.
As well as keeping track of a car's whereabouts with GPS, the sensors monitor a car's temperature, weight and whether it has been hit or knocked.
by: Jo Best
GOOG's Search for Meaning...
27 January, 2005
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18524846.100
COMPUTERS can learn the meaning of words simply by plugging into Google. The finding could bring forward the day that true artificial intelligence is developed.
Trying to get a computer to work out what words mean - distinguish between "rider" and "horse" say, and work out how they relate to each other - is a long-standing problem in artificial intelligence research.
One of the difficulties has been working out how to represent knowledge in ways that allow computers to use it. But suddenly that is not a problem any more, thanks to the massive body of text that is available, ready indexed, on search engines like Google (which has more than 8 billion pages indexed).
The meaning of a word can usually be gleaned from the words used around it. Take the word "rider". Its meaning can be deduced from the fact that it is often found close to words like "horse" and "saddle". Rival attempts to deduce meaning by relating hundreds of thousands of words to each other require the creation of vast, elaborate databases that are taking an enormous amount of work to construct.
But Paul Vitanyi and Rudi Cilibrasi of the National Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, realised that a Google search can be used to measure how closely two words relate to each other. For instance, imagine a computer needs to understand what a hat is.
To do this, it needs to build a word tree - a database of how words relate to each other. It might start off with any two words to see how they relate to each other. For example, if it googles "hat" and "head" together it gets nearly 9 million hits, compared to, say, fewer than half a million hits for "hat" and "banana". Clearly "hat" and "head" are more closely related than "hat" and "banana".
To gauge just how closely, Vitanyi and Cilibrasi have developed a statistical indicator based on these hit counts that gives a measure of a logical distance separating a pair of words. They call this the normalised Google distance, or NGD. The lower the NGD, the more closely the words are related.
“The web might make all the difference to whether we make an artificial intelligence or not”By repeating this process for lots of pairs of words, it is possible to build a map of their distances, indicating how closely related the meanings of the words are. From this a computer can infer meaning, says Vitanyi. "This is automatic meaning extraction. It could well be the way to make a computer understand things and act semi-intelligently," he says.
The technique has managed to distinguish between colours, numbers, different religions and Dutch painters based on the number of hits they return, the researchers report in an online preprint (www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.CL/0412098).
The pair's results do not surprise Michael Witbrock of the Cyc project in Austin, Texas, a 20-year effort to create an encyclopaedic knowledge base for use by a future artificial intelligence. Cyc represents a vast quantity of fundamental human knowledge, including word meanings, facts and rules of thumb. Witbrock believes the web will ultimately make it possible for computers to acquire a very detailed knowledge base. Indeed, Cyc has already started to draw upon the web for its knowledge. "The web might make all the difference in whether we make an artificial intelligence or not," says Witbrock.
SK Telecom & EarthLink form new US WSP
http://www.sk-earthlink.com/press/
MobiTV Brings TV To Cingular Phones
25 January, 2005
http://www.mobiledia.com/
Cingular announced today that it began offering streaming television on its networks through a partnership with MobiTV, the world's first live television network for cell phones. For $10 a month plus the cost of downloading, customers can access 22 channels directly on their handsets; shows including ABC News, CNN, and NBC Mobile, FOX Sports, Discovery, TLC, C-SPAN, and more. "With MobiTV, we can offer our subscribers live TV that will satisfy news junkies, sports fans, music lovers or anyone.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=088644&TICK=CINGUL1&STORY=/www/story...
Congrat's for some great DD:
I could be mistaken, but I believe it was a ALYNNB and Success who independently contacted NEOM and indicated that ShelRon's Active Shopper and PaperClick Technologies were a great match together. If this is the case, we owe a round of applause to both of them. And thats how it works gang. WE all help NEOM achieve notariety as well as help eachother succeed.
Rock On, JP
Success, 3-points from the outside...
Nice post. You nailed it.
All the Best, JP
MovieGuy...
Thank you for your kind words. Its all about people helping people. I-Hub has its long standing Best & Brightest, i.e. Retired, SmartBiz, Personalizit, Success, KoKoNutGuy, LeBonTon Roule, Don Balon, Diamond Tech, VG and a whole slew of other incredibly self-aware people. I'm just another Bozo on the bus, here for the ride.
In essence, we stand on the shoulders of giants; those that have gone on before us and those still remaining that are responsible for this explosive and pervasive global communications shift. It's well under way and it will forever change everything it comes in contact with.
I apologise if I did not include your name above. Anyone here who has contributed matters a great deal.
All the Best, JP
Vodafone's "Future Vision" site update
http://www.vodafone.com/flash/futures/index.jsp?action=hasFlash&lang=0&displayMode=normal&am...
Intel restructuring for Digital Future
18 January, 2005
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/employment/0,39020648,39184532,00.htm
New "Open Mobile Terminal Platform" forming
18 January, 2005
http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39127184,00.htm
Samsung phones to include Macromedia Flash
Sat Jan 22, 2005
http://www.mobiledia.com/
Success, nice catch...
What was Retired's favorite drink? We will have to order one in honor of him when we all gather at the Hilton in Vegas.
All the Best, JP
6th World Wireless Congress
May 24-27, 2005, Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel, San Francisco, CA
http://www.b3g.org/
Broadband Wireless World Expo
21-22 April, 2005 Ceasars Palace Events Center, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/bww05/
Computer World's Mobile & Wireless World Conference
June 13-15, 2005, Hyatt Regency Gainey Ranch, Scottsdale, AZ
http://www.mwwusa.com/
Some very prominent players will be attending.
All the Best, JP
Beeh, click on monikers for personal ID
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/profile.asp?User=33511
The Frog(s) Beat Google
20 January, 2005
Great catch from John Battelle Google setback in France on trademarks.
From C/Net news Google loses trademark dispute in France.
A French court has ruled that Google must refrain from using the trademarks of European resort chain Le Meridian Hotels and Resorts to trigger keyword ads.
On Dec. 16, a Nanterre court in France ruled that Google infringed on the trademarks of Le Meridien by allowing the hotel chain's rivals to bid on keywords of its name and appear prominently in related search results. Le Meridien had sued Google's French subsidiary on Oct. 25 after failing to reach an amicable agreement, according to court documents.
In a blow to Google's keyword-bidding engine, the French court ordered the company to stop linking ads to Le Meridien-trademarked terms by Monday or face a daily fine of $194 (150 euros). The company must also cease linking ads related to Le Meridien brands within 72 hours of whenever Le Meridien notifies it of listings in violation, or face a daily fine of 150 euros. Finally, Google must pay all court fees and a fine of $2,592 (2,000 euros).
A representative of Mountain View, Calif.-based Google said the company will appeal the decision. "We will continue to defend against this suit, which we believe is without merit," the representative said.
The decision casts a shadow on Google's billion-dollar money engine, keyword-based advertising, and potentially on the company's financial prospects in Europe.
The company makes about 98 percent of its revenue from keyword advertising linked to search technology, and many such ads are tied to branded or trademarked names of products and services. The technique has been effective because Web search is one of the primary ways that people find products and services.
But as the company has grown precipitously and has planted seeds of expansion in markets around the world, more companies have sought control over their brand names and trademarked terms in paid search.
There soon will be a way that brands and trademark owners will have direct control.
In Europe, some courts have been favorable to trademark owners. Louis Vuitton sued Google and its French subsidiary for similar alleged trademark infringement, and a French court ordered Google to cease the practice and pay a fine.
In the United States, however, the company recently won a favorable ruling in a case brought by Geico, the car insurance company. In December, a judge in Virginia ruled that as a matter of law, Google's use of Geico trademarks to trigger ads did not constitute trademark infringement and that Geico had not proven its case for dilution sufficiently. Google still faces other copyright disputes, including one brought by American Blind and Wallpaper Factory.
Google there's a way you can make nice with trademark owners and share in a very lucrative market as well...are ya interested?
What if trademark owners could not only "control" the way their brand was being advertised but also direct the interested query to a specific site. Let's say Parker Meridien could direct the searcher (with a deal w/ Google) that would allow a "parker meridien" query to go to the hotel site, in the city of their choice, and offer them a free night with a purchase of two.
Or if by using a cell phone, parker was typed (Parker Meridien would have to register this word) and by location based system (gps), Parker sees a tourist in Manhattan and would like them to stay at the 56th street location.
Send a text to cell "buy one night get second free" and respond within 2 hours. Would Parker Meridien find this info useful? How much would they pay for it?
I know when do a search for ANY hotel I am bombarded with travel agencies leading me to deals. Some of these hotels I give up trying to find their site because Google gives me everything BUT the hotel site.
If I'm willing to pay retail (instead of the Expedias and Pricelines) I want to go right to the main site of the hotel, not these travel sites.
I see a big future for hotel chains wanting to register their "name" in a registry for a direct connect feature.
Because after all, I was searching for the hotel not travel sites that could offer me deals wasnt I?
The Pondering Primate
Snow, thats why...
you pray that KB & BC stay on board, to get this baby up and running. They may not have known about KWG's private filings or the enormity of poor financial results. But they sure new what they wanted to accomplish by gaining the upper hand with NexGenEsys. Well be alright. JP
Quiet Day. No surf either.
When its jamin, you'll find me here on-point, on the 17th Ave. jetty:
http://www.belmar.com/webcam/
Next week should be a good one.
Via con Dios, JP
Cornell Capital...
HopeToRetire, first of all welcome.
Nice find on your last post. IMO, it has been NEOM's intention all along to become self-financing since they went deep into Cornell around November 03. They're acquisition with NMPR was specifically targeted at providing (one of a number of) ways to accomplish this.
For example, NMPR had announced $23Mil. in contract agreements over 5 years with Micro Paint Systems Limited of New Zealand (Australasia) as well as additional $300k materials contract as follows:
http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2004/20040601.jsp
http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2004/20041229.jsp
Additionally, NMPR has been picking up Canadian paint repair licensee's under the name of Crackmaster Distributors Ltd. of St. Albert, contained on bottom portion of PR as follows:
http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2004/20040716.jsp
With that said, I still believe it's NEOM's ultimate intention to spin NMPR off to the likes of a DuPont, or to have an equity position taken in NMPR by someone of similar caliber.
Additionally, NEOM's recently acquired BSDS/Triton Global announced revenues of $6.1Mil. as follows:
http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2004/20041221.jsp
And another recent contract for $500k:
http://www.pinksheets.com/quote/news.jsp?url=fis_story.asp%3Ftextpath%3DCOMTEX%5Ccn%5C2005%5C01%5C18....
Neom has revenue streams from Symbol as well, as LeBonTon recently pointed out as follows:
http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2004/20040623.jsp
We have also acquired steaming video I-Point as follows:
http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2004/20041026.jsp
We have working agreements in-place for NEOM's suite of products, i.e. PaperClick, Go-Window and WORD Registry with the following:
Amazon Partnership Program, Digital Rum, Big Gig, 12-Snap, 7 World Wide, Light, M-Bar Go, I-Coupon, Relyco, ISPO, Tibbs, SRP, SST, Aura Digital, Next-Code, Deusto Sistemas and E&I Marketing and Consulting Co.
Not to mention all thats going on with Intel & SAIC.
Not to mention our treble damage suits, which are well under way via Baniack & Pine, who are one of the top patent infringement law firms in the US with deep connections in Washington, DC. These guys are working without payment and are looking to collect their fees at settlement of these suits. What does that tell you about how strongly they fell towards NEOM"s patents?
With that said, a sale of 1ea. NEOM share at $0.05 is much different than 1ea. at $.25. Hence a reduction to the overall dilution factor at the higher share price weighs 5 times more in NEOM's favor. The counter side to all this is that NEOM may now have higher operating expenses as a result of their acquisitions of CSI and BSDS and I-Point. A bigger company has more mouths to fee and greater O&A. Its a balancing act. Every red blooded American business goes through the drill. The trick is to become profitable and stay profitable.
Furthermore, for NEOM to continue with Cornell only reduces their current 27% control over the company which does not bode well for the owners in the event of a hostile take over. They undisputedly recognize this. We we're told that a R/S will not happen during the Shareholders meeting. Hence, I'm very much inclined to see a share buy-back as opposed to a R/S.
Patience is key. Hold em. Hold em tight.
All the Best, JP
Toshiba's software controls PCs by cell phone
19 January, 2005
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,99012,00.html
Samsung completes 1st 512Mb mobile DRAM chip
20 January, 2005
New chip improve 3D games on 3G phones:
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/11740.shtml
Samsung Electronics says that it has completed the world's first working prototype of a 512Mb mobile DRAM device that operates up to 333Mbps, transmitting 32 bits of data simultaneously. This memory chip is fast enough to support high-quality 3D graphics and streaming video in next-generation mobile phones.
Two of the new 512Mb mobile DRAMs can be stacked together to provide a one-gigabit memory capacity, opening up new possibilities for mobile storage.
Powered by just 1.8 volts, the high-bandwidth Samsung chip is available in double data rate (DDR) and synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) formats to work with as many data transmission systems as possible. Samsung also will develop versions of the 512Mb mobile memory for its multi-chip packages (MCPs) and system-in-a-package (SIP) devices.
Third-generation mobile phones, which are equipped to handle streaming video, represent the largest market for the 512Mb mobile DRAM. Sales of 3G phones are expected to increase an average of 67% a year from 2004, to reach 280 million units sold in 2008. IDC, the market analysis agency, predicts that overall annual sales of mobile phones will reach 790 million units worldwide in 2008.
Samsung will begin producing the chip early in the second half of 2005. Both x16 and x32 devices will be produced.
Toshiba lets mobiles run PC software
20 January, 2005
The electronics giant has announced that it has developed software that should allow people to run standard PC applications on their mobiles - but it will only work for Windows.
Electronics giant Toshiba said this week it has developed software that lets mobiles use programs stored on most home computers, a breakthrough that further erases the divide differentiating the two devices.
Phones with the "Ubiquitous Viewer" software can read email stored on a PC, open a document or even use the PC's Web browser to view Web sites. The only requirement is that the PC uses Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Japanese carrier KDDI will debut the software in March. The company said other wireless operators have expressed interest, but did not disclose further details.
The software is another example of how mobile phones are catching up to personal computers both in features and functionality.
But just as mobile phones catch up to their computer cousins in functionality, they've opened themselves up to another common computer problem: viruses and worms. It has become clear in the last few months, as more instances of mobile phone viruses surface, that hackers are now targeting mobile phones.
In its statement, Toshiba said the Ubiquitous Viewer system uses passwords to protect the connection between phone and PC, and the information over that same connection is protected by SSL encryption, a commonly used set of rules for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet.
"It offers users real-time PC access at all times, whether they are sitting in a park or traveling on a train," the company said in a statement. "Ubiquitous Viewer is a breakthrough software innovation that bridges the gap between mobile phones and PCs."
By Ben Charny, CNET News.com
Chaoti.com supplies EMI Music to Europe's cell phones
http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?Art_ID=67646
AFPL
HP's Cool Town is Boss:
Click on MPEG and download the MPEG file under Cool Town (overview).
http://www.hpbazaar.com/cooltown/cooltown-video.asp
Give it about 10 minutes.
CF saw all this coming years ago.
It's what it's all about!
Compliments of SmartBiz; one of our best and brightest.
Rock On, JP
The End of There is Here:
Seamless mobility provided by Motorola.
Click on: Find out More.
http://www.motorola.com/seamless_mobility
All the Best, JP
Ah, to the contraire MV...
RB is no schlep. There are reasons for everything he does. Point blank, the guy is a business genius because he anticipates change and has vision. This kiosk is a prototype. You can imagine what he maybe seeking to do with travelers, ID and ticketing. Quick scan and you're on-board. He's into scanning big time. Remember our patent infringement suit with them, MuziKube and MSFT's software?
All the Best, JP
Integrative Cell & Wi-Fi devices...
Coming to a store near you soon:
18 January, 2005
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/38674.html
Virgins newest Kiosk
http://www.netimperative.com/2005/01/19/Virgin_kiosks
AFL
Up & coming Exhibitions & Conferences
http://www.mobilecomms-technology.com/exhibitions/
Qualcomm Produces 3G Chip Samples
18 January, 2005
http://www.phonescoop.com/
Forrester Research evaluates US mobile data SP's
19 January, 2005
Verizon ranks high...
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/11728.shtml
ALYNNB, thanks for the kind words...
Not to worry, we're all human. I admire people who have the ability to humble themselves. In my opinion, it's a God thing to be able to do so. What NEOM needs is a high tech well seasoned IR firm in-place to be able to field the volumous amounts of questions that are asked daily; or at the very least, a designated POC who can represent NEOM. They don't even have to be an employee. They could outsource it to someone proficient with NEOM's protocol. D. Kaminer is not the right agency for this purpose. His firm basically deals with PR's from what I've seen. I'm working on this issue. But with a tight budget and everyone's attention in Ft. Myers focused on bringing this baby home, I expect it will take time to implement this much needed assistance. I also have to remember, there is information that can't be disseminated because of the high degree of competition out there as well as possible legal ramifications.
All the Best, JP
Awesome, The Inter-connected World
It's what it's all about:
http://www.nttdocomo.com/corebiz/interconnected/icw.html
Chas, set your hook, line and sinker for this little fishy: NTT Do Co Mo. These guys are unreal.
Rock On, JP