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Candidate technologies receiving attention include various quantum functional devices, quantum computing, DNA computing, and molecular electronics explained for molecular diode switches, molecular transistors, and molecular logic gates.
This talk would provide an overview on one such candidate technology based on carbon and other nanotubes.
the novel Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL), which differs in design from traditional laser diodes.
This treatment burned out the protein shell and yielded two dimensional arrays of inorganic iron oxide dots on the Si wafer. articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led
by Cisco plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their
broadband money -- and they point out that their terrestrial
radio-based MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service)
solution doesn't require digging up any streets or placing
equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company offices.
(A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
The size and repeat distance of the dots were 6 and 12 nm, respectively, as measure by FE-SEM and AFM. As the diameter of the iron oxide dots is only 6 nm, this two imensional array of inorganic iron oxide dots has a potential to be used as quantum dots. Feasibility study of the application of this dot array to the structure of semiconductor memory is now in progress.
Symbian
joint venture between Psion, Nokia, Ericsson,
Matsushita and Motorola will be a connection between smart mobile phones
and Internet-ready games such as the consoless Sony’s PlayStation 2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service. With
Dialpad.com, you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US. Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software. You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
Religion and theology
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school - all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead, influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion, desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution - Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions - sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school - all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without the image, the vision of greatness.
weirdbrain
' (wîrd)
adj., weird·er, weird·est.
Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil.
Often Weird. Greek Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates.
weird'ly adv.
weird'ness n.
SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence: “At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: “
The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and
MMDS.
These are technologies for deploying high speed Internet
access using broadcast radio waves -- think of it as wireless
cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such as New York City and
Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations. But
according to the Oct. 26 New York Times
(http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html ).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
Imagine a fat monitor
or a hand held device or a card which is a personal linking device that
plugs into the electrical system and a USB ( universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )
that creates the connection to the life force.
The device can carry talk,
pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The device can charge expenses,
such as parking, travel, meals, and pay by use applications.
Electricity made mass
production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers possible,
and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing double
encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The Personal Communications Utility
or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal access device ) or NC ( network
computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects you to the backbone of the
internet.
The Stock Market Game
The
new tech search on hot companies for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch
suggestions: FIRST:
The list of companies in tele-communications
http://telecom.tbi.net/network1.htm
Technological search:
nano computers quantum optical network switching electronics high bandwidth photonics diode switches molecular transistors molecular logic gates Quantum Cascade Laser
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
A short introduction to quantum computation
Max PLANCK and Heisenberg, and Erwin SCHRÖDINGER's wave mechanics, and Born, are
the people of the 20th century who will most influence the 21 st. We will see the
application of quantum computer fairly soon. It could ( so will ) have some level of
self awareness we call consciousness
http://www.qubit.org/intros/comp/comp.html
Being in two places at the same time - or going from here to there without passing through the space
between.
The nature of matter at this level is little energy spots rather than matter as we experience
it, energy that change quantum states - transform from one state to another instantly.
"
The history of computer technology has involved a sequence of changes from one type of physical
realization to another --- from gears to relays to valves to transistors to integrated circuits and so on
...
On the atomic scale matter obeys the rules of quantum mechanics, which are quite different from the
classical rules that determine the properties of conventional logic gates. So if computers are to
become smaller in the future, new, quantum technology must replace or supplement what we have
now.
The point is, however, that quantum technology can offer much more than cramming more and
more bits to silicon and multiplying the clock-speed of microprocessors. It can support entirely new
kind of computation with qualitatively new algorithms based on quantum principles!
A
machine called NEXUM
The comprehensive, omnibus, all-embracing, all-encompassing, across-the-board, INCLUSIVE, EXTENSIVE widespread, epidemic, GENERAL international, world-wide, global, cosmic, UNIVERSAL, UBIQUITOUS appliance device, mechanical contraption, gadget, gismo, CONTRIVANCE doodad, doohickey, thingy, thingamabob, thingamajig, that we all will carry around. At the counter in Wal-Mat it connects quickly by infra-red link to the charge ( debit ) machine.
The true paper-less banking. What do we have ? What did we buy ? How much did it cost on record.
We talk to it. Call home. Get personal mail. Check on the price of dry wall. What is the quote on 20 year fixed term money ? Where do I go next ? How do I get there ? Call ahead and confirm I will be 10 minutes late. What’s on the menu, reserve the table by the window and order ahead.
Who has the best price on or for or going - on anything ? Who wants to buy or sell ? How is the car doing ? Can I fly to Jerusalem in the morning and rent a car and get a hotel and make appointments ?
When connected to a terminal I can type or see better - out of the digital airwaves or on cable or on optic fiber in Africa to China down-links and up links with nodes and storage and services at my command charges by the micro-penny. Always on with a flat connection fee.
How our packets travel
is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones, broadband, on the
electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything
. The Star Office 5.1 is
a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be updated, reconfigured
to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't need to be completely
installed on every terminal but can run off the system network.
In doing web pages,
Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different forms of
code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess each other
and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and Sun - part
of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone else - ) are
enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and too many other
changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX, virtual
machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This is why the complex
stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications systems can
communicate with each other.
The system knows where you are (GPS),
who you are ( IP) and what you are ( kind of device you are using ) and
what you want - voice, e-mail, conference, word processor, accounts, pay
a bill, collect a bill etc.
The standards have
to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee as in
the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled the net.
It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU
and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The WWW system standard was
set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international postal telecommunications
agreement could set up a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. Now MS
does the global job but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy, since it
is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in systems sales.
Tomorrow's story today:
Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
StarOffice 5 is a
free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice has a fully
integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft Office
compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice 5.1 includes:
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's really good !
The integration of
text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, mail, frames,
work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images, formula, is
really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free

This
is your entry point to access different pages within your Virtual
Office.
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Pflaum's Bookmarks
*See
Packets
Linux
to attack Windows
in
both the client and server arenas
Finance
Physics:
Of
course, market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass
psychology called perceptions. BUT, over the longer run, basic
economic principles and the laws of social physics will "correct"
the difference between false perceptions and a harder reality.
In
the current context the following will happen - the only question is
when:
1.)
The misbalance between American growth and ECUs struggles,
Japans and Asias problems put pressure on the dollar
because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates
dollar securities have to pay;
3.)
The higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a
market "correction" of the irrational exuberance of
speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in
the next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20
percent of the world's population and a great opportunity" for
the Pacific Rim.
The theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new
world orders" are global connections between utility network
NEXUM
computers.
Like
the human brain, the
internet's
packets system can reconfigure itself to work even after portions
were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits of the time, it
was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded that
all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital
traffic would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information,
like
a DNA molecule, and able to replicate itself correctly whenever a
transmission error occurred. With many additions and permutations,
his original design is today termed the Internet, click here for the
emerging history
of the 21st century.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Research
methods for the Internet:
Many
students and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research
tool.
There are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the
new technology which enable the research to create multi-search
engine archives and move fairly smoothly through the better sites.
Since most browses limit bookmarks and are prejudice in the use of
search engines, commercial interest now overwhelm academic or
professional standards and interest.
First
you need some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and
Netscape ( why not both ? )
Then look at
http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about
5 to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get
an idea of their advantages and limitations.
Then
find and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in
the way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the
problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After
you have downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the
options to set them for the browser you use, set the search for time
and number limits.
All the
multi-search work like
http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep
you files so you dont have to go back a fourth from the search
page to the sites and back.
TAKING
NOTES:
On most
pages ( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy
and paste to notebook or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word
processor. By using an unformatted plain text insert you may avoid
hard returns and other editing errors that will transfer with the
text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns or hard returns
that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can highlight
the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By using
the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in
Explorer right click "save picture as" BE sure to give
credit where credit is due.
As
important as the transistor ?
Imagine
3.4 terabytes in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it
costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all
using personal communication systems and very smart cards - every
transaction can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines,
ticket-less travel, using a smart card with memory and a small web
connection. Add the GPS and the map is the territory; anywhere and
anytime all is in a cell phone type device. You can not only know
where you are all the time but "the system" can know where
you or your kids are or where your car is.
The connection of GPS,
tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without great bandwidth
can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less banking,
travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other data
such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what
ever you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games
including day trading, security systems, ( little transponders at
each window and door ), or recording that recharge themselves.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of
individuals coupled together by advanced communications technologies
- continues to grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed,
real-world cases poses a significant problem when attempting to
analyze the business potential of linking remote workers in patterns
of
virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute
within the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME -
Cavendish Management Resources - is presented. Both practical and
theoretical insights into new flexible
patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and
economic transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as
communications.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers
Michael Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from
Britain's Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources
(CMR), of a "3-D Memory System" that promises this magic.
And they expect that this could be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (
http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes
per square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100
megabits/second. While few details are available while their patents
are pending, CMR does indicate that the process, funded in part by
the UK Department of Trade and Industry, exploits a new family of
metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical system not
dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed, solid
state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low
power storage solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
" The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches
will be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100
gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100
megabits/second, could this also replace conventional semiconductor
memory for some applications?
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true"
category, and healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand,
the Aug. 10 London Daily Mail does point out that this is the same
Ted Williams who "...led the team that built the ground-breaking
nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner for EMI," and so it
should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High
Density" hopes, imagine the implications: storage could become
so inexpensive and so pervasive that we'd never again have to think
about deleting old data; digital video might become as common as text
is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating disk drive industry
could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to
pass based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that
such innovations, this one or another one from some other source, do
have the potential to "change all the rules" in the blink
of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of
an amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables"
lab (
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server -
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see
a complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the
matches in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server -
http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web
server was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the
CPU, memory, serial port, and file system -- literally everything
needed, and connects to an Internet router via a serial connection.
Indeed, you can directly surf this match head Web server through a
link on the page that describes this accomplishment in more detail -
http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers
that power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller
Web servers, so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance."
Think "Internet-enabling" just about anything, like light
switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled cell phones.
Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is
clearly not all that far away...
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said there is no reason that people should
be ever be able to understand the universe. Our biological and
intellectual background is so naturally limited by our life
experience here on Earth. We have no way of comprehending or
visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways impossibly strange
to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves models that
are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within
a fifty mile range.
Their perceptions are defined within what is
called a tribal culture - part real and part superstition. Applied
rational knowledge is fairly modern as a cultural style and still not
seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The irrational base of
human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics and
commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as
little understood as the physical.
The new world order - lacks a
vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. Its not
surprising that it is difficult and there is a lot of active and
passive resistance.
The leaders and leading institutions often dont
get it. Non-linear, transactional, mutually dependent rapid change
appears to many as anarchy and chaos - morally questionable and in
conflict with traditional values. That is because global
transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
Technology
is going to make the world around us smart
as
we move away from proprietary architectures to a standards-based
ecology of information.
We
still need a name for the UCD: UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE or
"information - communications - appliance - utility- network
computer, cable or wireless black box modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ), play station, boom box,
CD, DVD, VHS, camera, VCR, telephone, wireless, cordless, portable,
TV, radio, pager, laptop, notebook, library, GPS, map, yellow pages,
combat walk and talk and call in air strikes more".
The
market for the bandwidth and the appliances is global - with billions
of clients world wide.
The
money is in software now moving from "programs" to content.
The content will be interactive media that includes program
functions. ISP such as AOL, will provide multimedia E-mail as a word
processor that can handle graphics, photographs, soon video and data
files.
The browser becomes a universal systems package do all the
most common functions as plug-ins.
Which is what StarOffice 5 does. It is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
The USB universal serial bus ties
to printers, sound and video systems, play stations, phones,
keyboards and voice commands, other appliances and services.
Microsoft-NBC-General Electric, merge into a convergence of media and
communications services. Time-Warner, the News Corp., Disney-ABC, are
positioning themselves for the transformation of many business into
one.
The current crop of Internet stocks are unlikely to be very
important.
Other
business includes finance, matching buyers and sellers, and a
thousand other ideas and items.
The ISP becomes a bank and travel
agent, department store, and service center. Wal-mart, Sears and
other may need their own ISP. Clients will pay the ISP for telephone
service, cable, lease of hardware, Internet, credit, and may buy
their insurance, tickets, or dishes from a company they trust, so it
all adds up.
A
limited set of functions and libraries in or around a CPU, with the
capacities of a play station, will run a package of on demand
utilities called from the network. Once there is a break in the
bandwidth, your browser can quickly call down any packages it may
need - high speed smart updates means you dont have to have
everything stored. Office systems can do this now but are afraid to
be pioneers with arrows in their backs. Once Sun, Oracle, IBM or
others really have high performance objective networks there will be
no need for the bloated windows operation systems.
The
market often is as slow as the political process in facing the
inevitable forces of technology and social history. Cartels and
semi-monopolies are the natural outcome of free competition because
organizations can join together to control markets.
The
robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century, such as
Morgan, Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Stanford, Dupont controlled
steel and oil, railroads and chemicals. General Motors president
Alfred P. Sloan worked with the du Pont's to control the auto market.
A U.S. Court of Appeals finds that Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa)
held a 90 percent monopoly in U.S. aluminum ingot production before
the war, a monopoly enjoyed by the Mellons for more than half a
century. See RCA (NBC - Victor ) below..
Sun's
McNealy portrays perils of running the Wintel 'gauntlet' ) (
Windows/intel )
http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=zdnews2.inp
Scott
mcnealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., one could easily draw the
conclusion that most of the ills in the computer industry stem from
one company and one company only.
The
charismatic McNealy used large portions of his keynote address here
Thursday at Sun's JavaOne developers conference, as well as a
subsequent press conference, to paint Microsoft Corp. as a ruthless
monopoly destroying companies and promoting a flawed business model.
"
The
market economy works until somebody gets so much market power that
they are beyond market principles," he said.
McNealy
said Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop through the Windows
operating system enables it to sell "bloat" like Office
2000 that people have to buy.
"
The
other opportunity it has is to go out and buy little companies that
wouldn't normally be successful, bundle them into their Windows or
Office hairball and use their lock-in and monopoly leverage to make
them successful and drive everyone else out of business,"
McNealy said. "That makes everybody want to sell their company
for a price lower than they want to because if you're not the one
bought, you're done."
One
of the best examples of how new technologies can be dominated by
powerful forces that control standards was the companion development
of hardware ( Radios, phonographs, and then television ) as well as
soft ware, the programming, records and content necessary to sell the
product. People wont buy radios or TV if there are no stations,
there cant be stations until people have radios or TVs. RCA
supported the networks in order to sell radios.
Then they made more
from the broadcasting then they did from hardware.
Sarnoff,
David, 18911971, American radio and television pioneer; b.
Russia. He worked for the Marconi Wireless Co., winning recognition
as the narrator of the Titanic disaster (1912). After the Radio Corp.
of America absorbed (1921) Marconi, Sarnoff became general manager.
As president (after 1930) and chairman of the board (from 1947) of
RCA, he played a major role in the development of television.
A
superheterodyne circuit developed by U.S. Army Signal Corps major
Edwin Howard Armstrong, 26, became the basic design for all amplitude
modulation (AM) radios. It greatly increases the selectivity and
sensitivity of radio receivers over a wide band of frequencies (see
1906; FM, 1933). Radio Corp. of America (RCA) was founded by Owen D.
Young (see 1919) who loans Ernst Alexanderson to RCA which will
employ him as chief engineer for 5 years (see 1906). RCA acquired the
Victor Co. and become a radio-phonograph colossus but anti-trust
court actions will separate RCA from GE (see VICTROLA, 1906; NBC,
1926). David Sarnoff urges marketing of a simple "radio music
box."
The American Marconi Co. says his plan will make the radio
"a household utility in the same sense as the piano
or phonograph" (see 1912; 1920).
American
radio and television pioneer who proposed the first commercial radio
receiver and in 1926 formed the National Broadcasting Company.
The
first vinylite phonograph record appears in October. RCA-Victor
issues a new recording of the 1895 Richard Strauss work Till
Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, but vinylite will not displace
shellac until the perfection of long-playing records (see 1948).
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End
of the Age of Innocents:
Why
does Clinton continue to gain support vs. the decline of the
negative, fundamentalist, religious dogmatic right and their talk
show hosts, such as Rush and all the scandal and conspiracy mongers
along with Ken Starr and the politics of the sexual inquisition.
We
are in the age of free forms, Saturday Night Live, Rap and hip hop,
the counter culture is the culture and the silent majority has become
the reactionary old minority.
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Well, what are you waiting for? You've got a date with the
future.
No,
Virginia there is not a literal Santa Claus, there is no tooth Fairy,
the bible is not the literal word of God, the world was not created
in seven days seven thousand years age and the President is a human
with human talents and faults.
To
love God with your whole heart, mind and spirit - emotionally,
intellectually, and mystically, is the first commandment, upon which
hangs all the law and the prophecies.
It
is ideology to worship the means or process, without understanding
the ends.
The means are formal while the ends are personal.
There is
a human quest to move beyond self, people want to go beyond time and
place to meet the universe as it really is and has been and will be.
Other people rather do anything else.
Our
ideas are usually false guides to a transcendental reality. We are
blind to the nature of Elephants, we are lions in a pit who will
attack those who try to rescue us, we do not really know who we are
and what we really need or want. In simple terms we are not really
awake but in a half sleep and only pretend to be conscious.
Thus
we are good customers of false hope, fast cars and women, bad fast
food, snake oil salesmen, demagogue and false prophet and prophetess.
The
ritual, the Laws, the traditions are means to the end of a synergy
society.
They are collective myths often mistaken for reality. In a
synergy benefits are derived from common sharing of spirit, trust and
faith. To made the law or traditions into a GOD with absolute truth,
is the fault made by Philistines and innocents everywhere.
Our
country is not always right, extremism in the defense of liberty is a
serious fault, moderation in the pursuit of earthly ends in always a
good idea, our society is not Zion, we are not a species of special
divine selection to be saints. We are not inherently different from
the general flow of world history, sinners and knaves, obstructing
justice, organizing collective stupidity, covering the road to hell
with good speeches and intentions.
Once
More From the TOP:
It's
about time !
The main line press has caught-on to the power of the
internet ? What wiredbrain and others ( mainly Netscape, Oracle, (
considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions. b.
An authoritative or wise statement or prediction ) IBM,
SunMicrosystems and the NOISE group ) have been talking about since
Netscape 1.0 and WINS connections - the virtual office and the
Network Computer has now arrived in the PC world.
"
The
new concept ( only to you ) goes by a variety of names:
instant Web office; virtual office; instant intranet; Web tone;
Internet dial tone; and so on.
The idea is to provide everything a
user needs on a central server. Users can then access that server
over the Internet with just a terminal and a phone line.
Then they
"rent" Internet and intranet applications for as little as
$10 to $20 per person per month. (That's a fraction of the per-user
cost of an in-house intranet.)"
and
a box that cost 10 % of a PC work station ( $500 vs. $5,000 ) and
doesn't crash, doesn't need systems managers, and doesn't require
constant upgrades but does need bandwidth.
MONDAY,
OCTOBER 27, 1997
Instant Intranets Just Stage One in Emerging Market Struggle
Jesse
Berst, Editorial Director ZDNet AnchorDesk
What
is clear but not said is this is the end of the Age of the PC. First
the main frame, then the PC now the NC -
There
is now a immense industry we can call
IT
IT
now represents the critical modern enterprise growing to be a quarter
of all economic activity.
IT
is a greater engine for growth than railroads in the 19th century,
oil and chemical industries in the first half of this century. IT is
equal to the auto industry, which reached 25 % in the 1950s. IT
like the auto industry includes the hardware ( the computer or car),
the infrastructure, (communications and networks or the roads) the
energy ( software or oil ) the services, ( consultants and staff or
Gas Stations ) and parts ( modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, drives, or car radios ). IT
includes the computers ( the car ), the roads ( the telecom business
), services ( software ) and the social educational infrastructure.
IT
provides the web of life for modern
enterprise - design, production, distribution, sales, of goods and
services. IT is the growth industry and in labor market.
There are
millions of new jobs and additional people needed world wide.
Unlike
the auto industry the IT business evolves quickly. New hardware
computers and chips, new methods of communications, new applications
evolve quickly. IT is quickly becoming one unified, highly complex
living system on a global basis.
The whole is more than the sum of
the parts - synergy that comes from elaborate interactions.
There
are critical flash point - global telcom systems based on
satellites connect to earth stations that can use telephone lines
including new high bandwidth technologies, optic fiber, wireless
broadband, and cable connections.
The high bandwidth connections use
improved modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s to provide support for networks.
These new networks
provide what have been called telephones, television, personal
computers, and something new - beyond what now are common utilities.
The
common base system is the browser, which will provide all
of the application in a Java type objects - in a Video User Interface
(VUI) using chips that can handle digital TV and Digital Hard Drives
for storage all as parts of the new super modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s.
IT
is why the DOJ Microsoft case is important. What was called the
operation system OS now becomes VUI, an interface between
a terminal ( telephone, TV, and PC = NC ) and a
communications media.
The interface uses program packets
as well as content packets the operational software is
contained within the data.
The difference between program and
content no longer is significant. With bandwidth the word
processor is attached to the files and comes as an instant
updated package at the moment of use. This is Netscapes, Oracle
and others vision and the real challenge to Microsoft.
Berst
Alert FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1997
Bandwidth
Progress Report
Lugar
Plan To Replace the Income Tax With A National Sales Tax
Since
other countries use the VAT, exports are taxed less ( exports don't
pay VAT ) and imports are TAXED more the socail costs of health care,
defense, highways are transfered from exports and onto imports a 20%
differenece. Also DO AWAY WITH THE IRS !
UP-GRADES:
Horse race or dog and pony show ?
Faster,
bigger, cheaper: vs. even much cheaper, even smarter, much simpler
systems synergy
More
of the same - but bigger and better is the image from
Intel/Microsoft, well maybe: there is certainly some more GEE WIZZ
stuff coming.
There
are alternatives to buying new PC's with all the new bells and
whistles.
There will be ways to run more and more complex and graphic
programs. It is and AND/OR but some of the same and something
different ? I can't upgrade my current 486 BOX because new systems
require a new mother board, new graphics, new memory slots. I might
as well get a new machine !
Let's
put it this way - which would you prefer ?
Just
keep what I have and shut up ! I will have to upgrade sometime...
Second,
replace my 486 80Mhz 16 Mb RAM, 2 hard drives, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ), machine with a
Pentium at "only" a $1000.00. BUT the new machine will need
to be replaced within 18 months by Pentium II and other major new
technologies - more integration into the CPU, different memory
managers, different mother boards, BIOS, power management, graphics,
Digital Video Drives - all NEW stuff will be here in 18 months to two
years. So should I WAIT ? What do I need it all for ? I don't get
into complex games - or graphics - or huge data files - This BOX can
wait to be given to the children !
Wait
----
A
third way !
When
Bandwidth arrives from the sky, from cable, from the power lines,
from new phone technologies then it will be possible to buy or rent a
super modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) that turns my monitor into a digital TV and my computer
into a smart terminal ?
The
single video card, hard drive and memory manager can download
programs when they are used. Instead of clicking on Word, part of a
100 MB office suite package, I Click on a Word Processor from the web
( like Netscape's Communicator Java Editor ) and the document window
shows up faster than it does now. If I use graphics then that is
called up from the network - many as Java Scripts - that will run on
almost any platform. When I save my files, I save to my web site
which won't lose my files or run out of space. All of this for a flat
fee - and no constant upgrades. I can still keep my system cluttered
with junk I don't use or grow out of the need to have copies of my
own but just a bookmark that lets me get what I want, when I want it.
People's
Liberation Army,
I
think Intel and Microsoft are in for a wake up call.
The PC market
will not continue to experience 20 % annual growth.
The Chip market
will but not the PC market. Growth markets are in utility machines
for the masses.
The Chip market will continue to grow but not the PC
market. Few want new and improved, few want to upgrade every other
year, and the many are fed up with overly complex hardware and
programs that crash as they say " contact your systems
administrator " . I don't have a systems administrator and don't
want one to keep fixing the un-fixable. This is what the
N.O.I.S.E
.
is all about (Netscape, Oracle, IBM, SunMicrosystem, and everyone
else )
Intel
ProShare® video conferencing product line. Mr. Gelsinger
discussed the
Balanced PC Platform.
New
and Improved ? Thoughts on the Explorer Upgrade
In
Europe it has been traditionally difficult to sell NEW type autos.
People say they dont want to buy a car, which they keep for an
average of seven years, until the bugs have been worked out and has
built a reputation for reliability. GM, IBM, and other big
corporations often do not have the best product or price but the
power of marketing, distribution, service, and habit.
They depend on
peoples unwillingness to be pioneers. Those on the frontier get
shot with arrows.
Now
billions of dollars, huge personal fortunes, the rise and fall of
great enterprises depend on complex technologies few understand.
Technology has become a horse race, the fastest win rather than a dog
or pony show where the judges reflect conventional values, where a
horse of a different color is unlikely to win. In the now systems of
knowledge, a 14 year old New Zealand boys solution to the
millennium bug is just as much in the race as the show horses from
the most established stables.
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STOCKS GO INTO ORBIT
The
economics profession, the federal reserve, national planners, and the
stock market is just learning to deal with this change in economic
behavior. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape are working on
a
Java
Machine that will be the core of most new computer applications.
Suites of application either on the "video" hard drive or
on a systems server will run on these virtual machines, so will
autos, and all kinds of "real" machines. This replaces
Windows, Dos or other OS and MS knows it.
The communications
industry, in fact all of Information Technology (IT) will provide
applications, voice, video, data and word processing on the internet,
intranets, extranets, are all built on this CORE system which
provides on demand applications. This is the BIG picture. This is the
central theme. This is the main thing. Do you "get it" ?
Review
the technology
with the central role of core
systems clearly in mind.
From
the time that humans formed villages based on agriculture the
technology of earning a living has interacted with the social and
political system.
New
Power-line
Telephone Technology
LONDON
- Electricity companies may become the latest providers of telephone
and Internet services to your home.
Forget
separate lines from telephone or cable companies: you might talk and
send computer data at high speed via existing power cables -- the
same lines that supply electricity to your washing machine and
fridge.
The
Industrial revolution from the 15th century to the 20th created the
middle class national states most of us call home.
What
we call the "modern world", is where we live.
The
new technology is creating a "new world order".. like it or
not.
OFF
THE WALL: Projections and forecasts:
1.)
President Clinton will resign ( because he has "had-it") to
become a University President sometime between the congressional
elections in Nov. 1998 and the opening of congress in January 1999.
This
establishes a new Constitution system of a six year Presidents with
the next president having years of "on-the-job" training.
It also allows for a selection process other than the crazy primary
process.
The new Vice-president will be black, female or both.
The
republicans will run Governor Thomson of Wisconsin with a female VP.
They may win because
2.)
A banking crisis in China - a run on the banks because of the
problems with state run firms and the PLA industrial complex -
China's People's Liberation Army is business
dynamite that can explode !
The
People's Liberation Army
(PLA) of China has
evolved
into the mainland's biggest
conglomerate over the past
10 years and is
spreading overseas
causes
a real crash before the Elections of 1999. A successful coup in
Russia, and a small war in the Middle East..
3.)
So much for peace and prosperity
.
so
welcome
to
the
21st
century
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GEORGE
SOROS:
and
common misconceptions: the division between conventional wisdom and
reality.
In
any case, there is something wrong with making the survival of the
fittest the guiding principle of a civilized society. This social
Darwinism is based on an outmoded theory of evolution just as the
equilibrium theory in economics is based on Newtonian physics.
The
principle which guides the evolution of the species is mutation, and
mutation works in a much more sophisticated way.
The species and
their environment are interactive, and one species serves as part of
the environment for the other species.
There is a two-way feedback
mechanism, similar to reflexivity in history, only in history the
mechanism is driven not by mutation but by misconceptions.
The
controlling Paradigm:
George
Soros has make billions when the common knowledge, conventional
wisdom is out of sink with reality. His central point is that
"objective reality" is separate from the ideas that
describe or explain what is being observed. Whatever our ideas about
"science" the physical reality doesnt change. Our
"uncertainty" or viewpoint on physical quantum doesnt
change the phenomena itself.
On
the other hand, public and expert perceptions of human activities
changes the nature of the activities themselves. Our beliefs change
our behavior and common social habits and ideas change who we are and
what we do. This is a reflective feedback loop between perceptions
and reality. Political theory, religious faiths, economic
assumptions, mass media chatter, advertising, hype, hope, needs,
wants, passions or truths and lies all make social reality
"unknowable" and social action can not be based on just
objective reality and the facts.
Now
the social reality of the human population on planet earth is going
through a basic mutation, a major change in form, new forms of
business evolution; where common perceptions and conventional wisdom
is often disconnected from the situation on the ground.
The mass
emotion on the death of Princess Diana, is unexplainable, so are
stock markets, the impacts of technology, political reform,
capitalism in China, and the major events of our lives.
There can be
balanced judgments and clever analysis but nothing close to certain
knowledge.
People's
Liberation Army
The
convergence of electronic mass media, global telephone systems in a
global economy of market capitalism, with privatization of postal and
telephone, low cost computers, mobile telephone systems, satellite
communications are forces changing the world into a new home.
USS-was, the
decline of political military industrial
interest groups and territorial parties and the current
economic growth all all connected but NOT in
the way political, economic or popular theories of the right or left
would have us believe. Basic relationships are changing with
communications patterns and reflect major new income and power
centers. The
fall of the
Donald
Tapscott,
author of the books Paradigm Shift,
The
Digital Economy
and the fourthcoming
Growing
Up Digital
, gives the introduction.
Each
individual human: teacher, student, businessperson, politician is at
the center of a network of connections, consultants, money, and
interests always shifting in their alliances to any larger group.
Each industry is a network of partners, relationships, and
connections. Each business, family, school, church is slowly becoming
a wide area network of dynamic relationships formed mutually with
others of their kind and with quite foreign groups. While people have
always been connected, the form, range and style of these connections
are most important, it's what we call society. Societies of local
tribal connections are very different in quality and quantity from
the global society on the Internet.
The style of the Free
Masons
is very different from Madison Avenue.
Communications
among people create beliefs and the myths "the people" live
by, and these common beliefs, habits and customs create social
groups, and these social groups are more or LESS successful in their
activities.
The groups with the "right" ideas for the
ecology and the times take over from those with the "wrong"
less powerful ideas.
The way to make money in the market, in
business, and as an individual is to first have the "right"
ideas. Thus it has been since humans have talked to each other and
had contacts with people who were different. This is what Allen
Wilson called the "catch-on" factor. Wiredbrain is your
guide to "right" thinking for the times that are coming.
Expectations
= assumptions (demands * needs ) / desires
or
the 33 1/3 GAP between preceptions and reality
While
long term, the high hopes and good desires of the future:
(
http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
and
futures.htm
and
images.htm
)
The
long term growth of Global Economy driven by
iTProtocol:
He who controls the interface controls the system.
Imagine a fat monitor similar to the Imax. It plugs into the electrical system that creates the life force. Electricity made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers possible, and now power the internet.
The Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline to the backbone of the internet.
Then runs everything.
The Star Office is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn’t need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system network.
In doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author in the middle.
How about
http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX, virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications systems can communicate with each other.
The standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in systems sales.
( Information Technology ) with WWT ( world wide telecommunications )
and IIOP ( universal transfer technology protocol ) the
way will be bumpy.
see
STOCKS some fly high some are sinking
I
told you so - ( when the market takes a fall ) the market is OVER
VALUED -
Those
securities that are based on return ( ROI, Income ) are worth at most
20 times their discounted income. 3 % inflation + 3 % real growth (
or dividend ) = 1.0 / 6 % = 16.6 Price/earning
as
income investments. HYPE/HOPE stocks based on income that are futures
expectations - STOCKS go into ORBIT are based on activities that do
not yet exist.
16/25
= 64 % of the current value ( 1/3 over valued ) so the market natural
bottom is 5,000 on the Dow Jones ( Large Cap Stocks based more on
income expectations ) .
If
this happens - there is be some shock in some places - but don't be
surprised.
First,
packets

The
railroads added about 5 % of GDP in the 19th century and were the
main engine of economic growth because transportation caused the
development of territorial industries and cities. Economic and
ecological change have several steps in the chain of interaction and
effects.
Communications
technology causes -----) news ways on doing business and new
businesses --------] causes demand for smart systems and services
-------^ causes new ways of thinking and belief system about what is
possible ------causes ------ news ways of group dynamics and systems
learning ---- news ways of communication and co-evolution of networks
of activities - physical location of people, technology, power and
money.
Trains
--- farms and ranches - factories and cities - banks and insurance -
stock markets - national media - political parties - labor unions -
mega-universities and international trusts - mass warfare - the
United Nations and the Atomic bomb - the computer - the internet and
the global money systems - and the great CRASH of ---
(non-communications stocks) Utilities is a good place to store money
for the next few months.
http://www.techweb.com/investor/feed/stockRes.cgi
Telecommunication
- Cellular
from Market Watch and
Telecommunications
Tele-communications
computer media hardware, software and services are now 16 % of the
GDP and growing at 1% a month. Information transfer and technological
is changing the course of history. In a 6 trillion GDP, 1 trillion is
IT, x .15 % ( growth) = 150 billion/6,000 = 2.5 % growth of GDP due
to IT. ( 2/3 of all real growth )
Like
the human brain, the internet's
PACKETS
system could reconfigure itself to work even after portions were
destroyed. But using the noise-prone analog circuits of the time, it
was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded that
all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital
traffic would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets," each containing its own routing information,
like
a DNA molecule,
and able to replicate itself
correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With many additions
and permutations, his original design is today termed the Internet,
and click here for the
emerging
history of the 21st century.

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for Synergy
Unwired
Planet Makes Internet Micro-Browser for Mobile Phones Available
--
Free of License Fees;
Every
Phone Can Now Be a Smartphone
Business
Editors & Computer Writers REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-
-(BUSINESS
WIRE)-
UnwiredPlanet,
Inc. (UP), today announced it is making its UP.Browser(TM) software
product available, free of royalties, to mobile phone manufacturers.
The UP.Browser, distributed as embedded software, will then be
available free of charge to consumers of mobile phones. Unwired
Planet adopted this business model to encourage the wide
availabilityof Internet and intranet information access capabilities
on mass market mobile phones.
The UP.Browser, based on Handheld
Device Markup Language (HDML), will allow every user of a mobile
phone to access Internet Email and corporate intranet applications,
as well asWWW information services.
http://www.wirelesstcp.net/rates.htm
Check
out these rates: 128 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps Unlimited time for $65.00 a
month

What
is MSS?
Mobile
satellite services (MSS) are two-way voice and data communications to
a handheld terminal, where the final link to the MSS subscriber is
via a satellite.
MSS
systems can operate from any orbital position, be it low earth orbit
(LEO), medium earth orbit (MEO) or geostationary earth orbit (GEO).
Our
definition excludes aeronautical and maritime applications, first
generation regional GEOs and Inmarsat, and broadband LEO systems such
as Teledesic.
+++++
WIREDBRAIN : 18 +++++ Publication:
Computergram
International
Issue
Date: 08-22-97 Issue Number: 3231
PHENOMENAL
GROWTH FORECAST FOR BROADBAND WIRELESS MARKET
Telecommunications
(Cellular/Wireless) Companies from PC Financial Network
The
Broadband Wireless market is to develop from a $1bn market in 1996 to
$15bn by 2005, according to a report by industry consultants
Ovum
On
the other hand, Wireless Broadband offers Gigabits of information per
second. As the technology is wireless, there is no capital cost for
the laying of cabling, such as co-axial cable or optic fiber. Instead
the same bandwidth services can be delivered for a third of the cost.
Broadband wireless has been used for the transmission of television
signals in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and in the US as wireless
Cable, the real killer application for broadband wireless is going to
be in high speed two-way data which is what the Brooklyn, New
York-based company Cellularvision is attempting with its 28 GHz
analog LMDS service (CI No 3,208).

*
The
Federal Communications Commission plans for a LMDS frequency auction
in November, which one FCC official reportedly described as the
"Grand-daddy of the Personal Communications Services auctions."
Ovum senior analyst Pauline Trotter is more skeptical than this and
instead believes that the immaturity of the technology, and the FCC's
exclusion of the cable and telco operators will lead to the auctions
"either being disappointing, or having to be postponed."
Within the next two years it reckons the LMDS technology is going to
take off, with Alcatel-Alsthom SA, Phillips Electronics Co,
GEC-Marconi, Bosch Telecom, and Hewlett- Packard Co, as the early
telco equipment suppliers that are developing the necessary hardware.
The end result will apparently be a new class of communications
operator, which can supply high speed data, voice, video and TV.
The
initial high cost of digital receiver equipment will initially
restrict the take-up, which will, at first, be restricted to small
and medium-sized business users. But the cost savings inherent in
operating wireless services will cause the industry to grow rapidly.
END
*****
CYUS
= celluarVision:

I
don't know if you noticed the amount of on-line training going on. To
get beyond E-mail lessons or slide shows Oracle and others are
working on "open classrooms". New technology and knowledge
industry is being built by inservice training rather than formal
schooling -
The schools and college just can't keep up - or pay for
todays talent - who what to do real stuff not teach "old"
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VODAFONE GROUP PLC ADR 52 3/8 +7/8 124400
SKM
SK TELECOM LTD SPONSORED ADR 10 1/2 No Chg 257800
NXTL
NEXTEL COMMUNS INC CLASS A 23 9/16 +1/4 1351900
LOR
LORAL SPACE & COMM LTD 17 13/16 +3/16 2037300
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MILLICOM INTL CELLULAR SA ORD ISIN#LU0038705702 55 1/4 +1 1/8 54800
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BCE MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC 36 1/16 No Chg 100
XO
360 COMMUNICATIONS CO COM 18 3/16 +1/8 207000
USM
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VIMPEL COMMUNICATIONS 36 3/8 +3/8 64700
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COMSAT CORP SER 1 21 7/8 +1/8 167900
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GLOBALSTAR TELECOMM LTD 38 1/16 +1 1/16 515700
WTSC
WEST TELESERVICES CORP 14 3/4 +1/4 29000
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Europe's GSM, Code Division Multiple Access, which will deliver
telephone, internet and ISDN services. Granger claims that the CDMA
technology is not the same flavor as that being used in US mobile
phone networks, and is instead Synchronous CDMA, more suitable for
fixed wireless access.
The frequencies used will be in the 2GHz
range, and Granger will provide 32Kbps channels, which can be tied
together for data use.
The customers will use normal telephone
handsets, rather than mobile handsets, which it is also providing
from OEM sources. Granger claims that the telecoms network will be
the most advanced in the Russian CIS.claims it can install wireless
telephone networks for a minimum of half the price of fixed networks.
NOKIA,
ERICSSON, SIEMENS AND ALCATEL UNITE OVER NEW STANDARD
Four
European mobile phone manufacturers are banding together to develop
the next generation of GSM aimed at adding wideband wireless
multimedia capabilities. Nokia Oy, LM Ericsson AB, Siemens AG and
Alcatel Alstrom SA, will put forward a joint proposal for the planned
European third-generation mobile system -the Universal Mobile
Telecommunications System (UMTS) - based on an evolved core-GSM
network.
The planned network will provide the infrastructure for
wideband wireless multimedia applications and internet connections
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additional layer to GSM that will add far higher data rates for
high-speed internet/intranet connections as well as full motion video
and multimedia applications.
The land base station system will be
launched in direct competition with satellite networks planned by
deployed by Iridium LLC, Teledesic Corp, Motorola Inc and Alcatel's
own joint venture with Loral Space & Communications Ltd.
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GSM infrastructure manufactures have a clear incentive to try and
build on their GSM technology as fast as possible to head of the
threat from the satellite ventures.
Both
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range. Because the 2 Ghz frequency is already allocated for UMTS and
designated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for
global, next-generation mobile services - IMT-2000, the four
companies say they will also push for UMTS and IMT-2000 network
interfaces to be aligned. Earlier in the year, the European
Commission said it was negotiating with a number of European firms
over the development of UTMS.
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satellite communications operators and regulators to push through the
UTMS development.
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