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_______________________________________________________ INTERNET THINK TANK FLASH NEWS February 14, 2007 _______________________________________________________ About Us Internet Think Tank is a portal software and development firm specializing in portal modules, portal development tools and customized portal programming/deployment. Through portal technology, Internet Think Tank envisions enormous opportunities to enhance how people and companies interface with the Internet. Visit our website at http://www.inttk.com _______________________________________________________ Business *Music Service Aims to Steal iPhone Thunder An alliance of all major music publishers and 23 mobile operators said on Monday they would launch a cellular music service to 690 million phone subscribers, stealing the thunder of Apple's iPhone. Initiated by British mobile music firm Omnifone, the mobile phone music service will be launched by the second quarter, offering unlimited track downloads at 2.99 per week - $A5 - including data traffic charges. "We expect to definitely get to the millions of subs [subscribers] by the end of this calendar year," said Omnifone founder Rob Lewis about the new service, called MusicStation. MusicStation will be on offer in all major western European markets before iPhone is introduced, and the first operators to provide it will be Telenor in Norway and Vodafone partner network Vodacom in South Africa, Lewis said. The special software to download tracks and play music will turn most phones into music-playing handsets, even models that were not designed as music phones, he said. (Source: http://www.smh.com.au ) *Samsung to Pay $90 Million in Chip Price Case Samsung Electronics of South Korea, the world's largest maker of memory chips, agreed yesterday to pay $90 million to settle civil charges that it conspired with six other makers of computer chips to fix prices, the attorneys general of 41 states announced. The six other companies have yet to settle with the states, which are pursuing the case in Federal District Court in San Francisco. Samsung said that the settlement effectively ended civil litigation in the case. Earlier, the company settled with computer makers and other direct buyers as well as some buyers of computers who had paid inflated prices as a result of price fixing. The states have yet to agree on how to split the money, and once they do, a means of distributing it to consumers will be announced, John T. Milgrim, a spokesman for the New York State attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, said. Samsung will pay $80 million in damages and also pay the states $10 million to cover the costs of the investigation and litigation. The civil case is one of many that grew out of a criminal prosecution in which three Samsung executives pleaded guilty and were sent to prison for overcharging for memory chips from April 1999 to June 2002. Four executives of another company, Hynix Semiconductor, were also convicted. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com ) *Cisco Acquires Social Networking Company Cisco Systems Inc., whose core business is selling the routers and switches that direct data traffic over computer networks, said it has acquired a small social networking company that allows businesses to create MySpace-like communities on their Web sites. Cisco said Friday that it was paying an undisclosed amount to acquire privately held Five Across Inc., an 11-person San Francisco company whose software allows companies to add user-interaction functions and multimedia-sharing capabilities to their Web sites. Five Across' publishing platform allows users to create personal Web pages and post photos, videos and audio clips, much like the proprietary system used by News Corp.'s MySpace. (Source: http://entmag.com ) *Broadcom 4th Quarter Profit Drops Semiconductor maker Broadcom Corp., whose chips are used in cell phones and Apple's iPod, said fourth-quarter profits plunged 76 percent on charges related to how it previously accounted for stock options grants. The Irvine-based company reported net income of $45.1 million, or 8 cents per share in the three months ended Dec. 31, 2006, compared with $186.7 million, or 32 cents per share, in the year earlier period. The most recent results included the expense of stock-based compensation as well as payments made after the company's investigation into its accounting of stock options grants found irregularities. Other charges included $6 million in legal and accounting costs associated with its stock options investigation. Excluding one-time charges, the company said its fourth-quarter net income would have been $184.9 million, or 31 per share, compared to $196.8 million, or 34 per share in the prior year period. (Source: http://news.yahoo.com ) _______________________________________________________ Portals *Japan's Mixi Site Unfazed by MySpace Arrival The young founder of Mixi, Japan's wildly popular Internet networking site, has said he is not worried about the arrival in Japan of international sensation MySpace. "I think it will be hard for MySpace to cut into the subscribers that we have," Mixi Inc. President Kenji Kasahara told a news conference Wednesday. "Our social networking service is unique and we are continuously creating new services and renewing older ones," said the 31-year-old. Mixi, which allows users to develop and expand their network of friends, ranks number one among online community networks in Japan with 8.01 million subscribers and 88.9 billion page views per month, according to the company. Mixi's popularity spread rapidly after being launched in 2004. Its share price nearly doubled within a day of being listed in September last year. Kasahara said the business, which receives most of its revenue from online advertisements, "still has room to grow." "With so many page views by our users, our social networking service can provide advertisements in very unique ways," he said. "We can target our ads in very precise ways -- by gender, residential areas, hobbies," he said. "Rather than pushing ads onto viewers, we can send information that the viewer really wants to see." (Source: http://www.smh.com.au ) *UK Portal Promises to Ease SAP Recruitment A new recruitment website promises to make finding and hiring SAP consultants easier and cheaper. The online portal, called Zaple, allows SAP consultants to post profiles describing their work history and skills. Employers can then search those listings to find individuals with the capabilities they are looking for. It is available in Denmark, Holland and the UK. Zaple was launched at the beginning of the year by former SAP consultants and recruiters who were "frustrated" with current recruitment methods and were looking for a better way to link up talent with companies using SAP, according to the site. Along with consultant profiles, the site offers a 'talent management system' which allows companies to keep track of budget spent on SAP consultants and helps with management tasks such as checking the availability of individual consultants. To use Zaple companies are charged £250 to £400 per month plus a fee for each CV they use. (Source: http://services.silicon.com ) *Lenovo Taps into Viral Web-Marketing Lenovo has totted up around four million hits on a viral video site - and said it would consider using viral marketing again. The PC maker launched a series of viral videos on a website called The Lenovo Tapes last year.The site claimed to have obtained three videos smuggled from Lenovo's labs of some soon-to-be-released laptops with inventive attributes - including one with mini-jet engines which deployed in the event of it being dropped, to save it from hitting the ground. Mike Etherington, marketing manager at Lenovo, said: "We weren't bothered about people noticing the videos are fakes, we just wanted to get the discussion and interest in Lenovo going." The Lenovo Tapes site was subsequently discussed in 2,248 blogs in 165 countries and received nearly four million hits, with an extra one million views estimated from sites such as YouTube hosting the viral videos. Etherington told silicon.com that following the success of this campaign, the company would consider using viral marketing in the future. (Source: http://networks.silicon.com ) The Lenovo Tapes http://www.lenovo.co.uk/tapes/ _______________________________________________________ Internet *Amazon, TiVo Partner to Put Downloaded Videos on TV Amazon.com, the online retail giant, and TiVo, pioneer of the digital video recorder, are teaming up to help downloaded movies and TV shows make the leap to television screens. In a deal expected to be announced Wednesday, Amazon and TiVo will allow TiVo owners who shop on Amazon's digital download store, called Amazon Unbox, to send films and TV shows to their broadband-connected TiVo machines, and pause and fast-forward through them as they do a regular TV program. The partnership gives Amazon an advantage over other download services like the iTunes Store, CinemaNow and a new service from Wal-Mart. Moving video files purchased on those sites from the PC to the television is tricky, generally requiring the setup of a home network. Apple plans to start selling a device this month that will attach to a TV and pull in videos from a computer over a wireless network. TiVo and Amazon will begin testing the new service on Wednesday and plan to make it available more broadly in the coming weeks to the 1.5 million owners of broadband-connected TiVos. (Source: http://news.com.com ) *Yahoo: Pipe in Data, Then Mash It Up The Web giant on Wednesday released Yahoo Pipes, a hosted visual-development tool that lets people manipulate data feeds from Web sites to create new applications. Mashup applications combine data from different Web services; some of the most popular mashups involve taking data from one source, such as real-estate listings, and displaying them on Web-based mapping services. With Yahoo Pipes, which is in beta, the company is trying to give developers--and tech-savvy users--more power in combining structured data feeds, typically done through the Really Simple Syndication or Atom protocols. Although the service currently works only with RSS and Atom feeds, Yahoo intends to expand the number of data sources with which people can work. It also plans to allow third parties to create add-on modules and to expand the service's information output composition to include formats such as maps. (Source: http://news.zdnet.com ) Yahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/ *Despite Lawsuits, Digital Music Downloads Grow Despite success in suing people who download music illegally and in reaching deals with personal networking sites like YouTube, the music industry is still bleeding millions of dollars in sales to online piracy. It is a major issue for an industry that is desperately trying to boost revenue from legal downloads to make up for falling sales of Compact Discs, which declined 23% globally between 2000 to 2006. To get an idea of the size of the problem, Eric Garland of Web consultants Big Champagne estimates that more than 1 billion digital tracks are illegally traded for free each month. By comparison, Apple's iTunes Music Store, which has more than 70% of legal digital music sales in the United States, has sold only a bit more than 2 billion songs since its launch in 2003. Russ Crupnick, an analyst at consumer research group NPD, said the number of U.S. households engaged in P2P over the last year rose 7%, while the number of illegal downloads were up by 24%. "P2P remains an unacceptable problem," said Mitch Bainwol, president of the Recording Industry Association of America. "The folks engaged in the practice are doing more of it." (Source: http://www.usatoday.com ) ________________________________________________________ Weekly Quote "If such requirements were removed, the music industry might experience an influx of new companies willing to invest in innovative new stores and players. This can only be seen as a positive by the music companies." --Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs in a statement posted to his company's Web site. Mr. Jobs called on the four major record companies to start selling songs online without copy protection software to thwart piracy known as digital rights management (DRM). Jobs said there appeared to be no benefit for the record companies in continuing to sell more than 90 percent of their music without DRM on compact discs, while selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system. Apple has been under pressure in Europe to make iTunes music compatible with players other than the iPod. (Source: http://today.reuters.com ) ________________________________________________________ Wireless *Microsoft Looks to Crack Mobile Enterprise Nut Microsoft is introducing Windows Mobile 6 in the hopes of making inroads in the enterprise handset market. The new platform now allows users to edit Microsoft Office applications on their handheld devices. The company said this and other enhancements to its mobile client will help it gain traction in a market that has been dominated by Research in Motion, Palm and others, by giving customers a user experience that more closely resembles what they get on their PC. The challenges have been adding PC-type capabilities and applications in a manner that doesn't hog too much memory and making those applications usable on a small screen. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *MySpace Goes Mobile in Europe, with Vodafone The big social networks are looking for ways to reach more people, and they're having to partner. MySpace.com, the giant social network, will enter the European mobile phone market with an exclusive relationship with Vodafone, they just announced. This comes just as Facebook announces an agressive move into video, with Comcast. MySpace's grip on the European market is more tenuous than in the U.S., where players like Bebo and others are tougher competitiors. In a statement, MySpace said Vodafone users will be able to edit profiles, find and add friends, post photos and blogs and send messages while on the move. MySpace Mobile will be pre-loaded on future, selected Vodafone handsets, the companies said. (Source: http://venturebeat.com ) *Hey Google: Hold Up on Wi-Fi By The Bay When is free not a good deal? When it locks you into last year's technology. That's the argument some San Francisco activists are taking in protest of the City by the Bay's plan to offer free Wi-Fi access. Last year Google and Earthlink won a joint bid to provide free Wi-Fi access to San Francisco but some want to put the clamps on the deal and start over. "We're proposing both faster Wi-Fi and fiber access be part of the immediate plan," Eric Brooks, campaign coordinator for activist group Our City told internetnews.com. "We want to see the city install as much fiber as possible as well as Wi-Fi. But something faster than the 300 Kbps that's in the plan now or the 'cheap' 1 megabit paid option." Our City joined a coalition of community groups called Public Net San Francisco, in calling for the current plan to be scrapped. As an alternative, the group wants the city to use extra capacity in its existing high speed fiber optic network as "the backbone to build a truly modern, fast, and free, public communications systems. Public Net complains the deal gives Google/Earthlink a monopoly deal when a city-run operation could provide free Internet service at speeds at least ten times faster. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) ________________________________________________________ Technology *Intel Prototype May Herald a New Age of Processing Intel will demonstrate an experimental computer chip with 80 separate processing engines, or cores, that company executives say provides a model for commercial chips that will be used widely in standard desktop, laptop and server computers within five years. The Teraflop Chip has 80 separate processing engines and takes advantage of manufacturing technology that Intel introduced last month. The new processor, which the company first described as a Teraflop Chip at a conference last year, will be detailed in a technical paper to be presented on the opening day of the International Solid States Circuits Conference. While the chip is not compatible with Intel's current chips, the company said it had already begun design work on a commercial version that would essentially have dozens or even hundreds of Intel-compatible microprocessors laid out in a tiled pattern on a single chip. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com ) *Apple Shifting to All-Flash iPods? By the end of this year, Apple could be planning to shift all of its iPods over to flash memory storage, according to an analyst report. The report, from Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora, was spotted by AppleInsider. Tortora believes that by late 2007 Apple could shift the video iPods over to flash memory as part of a redesign of the product. The iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle already use flash memory. Flash memory has many advantages. It has no moving parts, unlike hard drives that can fail from repeated jostling or falls, and it allows Apple to make smaller, thinner iPods. Moving to flash memory would also enable Apple to increase the battery life of a video iPod from 3.5 hours of video playback to 5.5 hours, based on the 30GB model, Tortora said. The drawback is that flash is more expensive, especially in the quantities needed for the video iPod line. But Apple has flash memory deals with Samsung and other companies, and flash memory prices continue to decline. Totora also predicted that the redesigned iPods might look a lot like the iPhone, with flash memory, integrated Wi-Fi and GPS chips, and a more refined touch screen display. (Source: http://crave.cnet.com ) *Sun Bags First Server-Database Appliance Customer Sun Microsystems has signed up the first customer for its data warehousing appliance that integrates Greenplum's massively parallel processing database. In an interview with ZDNet Asia, Scott Yara, president and co-founder of Greenplum, said Philippine telco Smart Communications bought Sun's "Thumper" server-storage hybrid appliance called the Sun Fire X4500, to power its call center. Founded in 2003, Greenplum provides open source databases for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. Specifically, Yara said the Sun appliances will allow Smart to make customer call records available to call center operators in real time. The hybrids are powered by the Solaris 10 operating system and Greenplum's modified version of the open source PostgreSQL database, complete with parallel processing and business intelligence capabilities. "There is a huge lag time between the time a telecom company stores call details and [makes the data] available to customers," he explained. "So, they're using our software to get real-time, detailed call record information to the call center [to provide] better customer service." (Source: http://zdnetasia.com ) ________________________________________________________ You Tube *Google Turns Over User IDs Google's YouTube and a company called Live Digital will offer no refuge to users who uploaded pirated copies of Fox Television's "24" and "The Simpsons" onto their video platforms. In an e-mail to internetnews.com, a 20th Century Fox Television spokesperson said that Google and Live Digital complied with subpoenas issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern California and disclosed to Fox the identities of two individuals who illegally uploaded entire episodes of "24" prior to its broadcast and DVD release. According to copies of the subpoena applications, Fox found this season's first four episodes of "24" on LiveDigital and YouTube on Jan. 8, a full week before they were to air for the first time in the U.S. Fox said a YouTube user who goes by the handle "ECOTtotal" uploaded 12 episodes of the popular animated show "The Simpsons." The LiveDigital user's display name was "Jorge Romero." "We intend to use the information provided to pursue all available legal remedies against those who infringed our copyrights," 20th Century Fox Television Vice President of Media Relations Chris Alexander told internetnews.com. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *MySpace Adds Video Fingerprinting Social networking site MySpace today unveiled a pilot program designed to block videos that violate copyrights. Universal Music Group (UMG), which last year accused the site of "rampant copyright infringement," is among the first customers. NBC/Universal and Fox are the first media companies participating in the free video filtering. News Corp. is the parent company of both Fox and MySpace. Although it will block the uploading of audio and video that includes copyrighted UMG content, MySpace will still offer promotional music videos from the media giant. Digital fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic compares the audio track against a database, Van Ikezoye, CEO and founder of Audible Magic, told internetnews.com. It then blocks any video matching a fingerprint in MySpace's database. The video filtering follows last year's digital-fingerprint scan of audio uploads to the popular online hangout. "MySpace is dedicated to ensuring that content owners, whether large or small, can both promote and protect their content in our community," Chris DeWolf, CEO and co-founder of MySpace, said in a statement. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) ________________________________________________________ Security *Hack Attack Hobbles Key Network Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic today in one of the most significant attacks against the internet since 2002. Experts said the unusually powerful attacks lasted for hours but passed largely unnoticed by most computer users, a testament to the resiliency of the internet. Behind the scenes, computer scientists worldwide raced to cope with enormous volumes of data that threatened to saturate some of the internet's most vital pipelines. Experts said the hackers appeared to disguise their origin, but vast amounts of rogue data in the attacks were traced to South Korea. The attacks appeared to target UltraDNS, the company that operates servers managing traffic for websites ending in "org" and some other suffixes, experts said. Among the targeted "root" servers that manage global internet traffic were ones operated by the US Defence Department and the internet's primary oversight body. (Source: http://www.smh.com.au ) *VeriSign Plans $100M DNS Upgrade As people turn to the Internet for everything from e-mail to e-commerce, so have criminals increased their online interests. To handle the growing threats, VeriSign, which manages the .com and .net domains, plans to spend $100 million to beef up security with Project Titan. Although VeriSign said it escaped the recent attack on key Domain Name System (DNS) sites, the domain manager expects the size and scope of assaults to leap 50 percent each year in the near future. As part of Project Titan, VeriSign plans to increase its current 20 gigabits per second capacity to more than 200Gbps. The company will also expand the number of daily DNS queries it can process from 400 billion to 4 trillion. VeriSign now receives 24 billion DNS queries each day. The DNS capacity is important, because a denial of service attack often attempts to overwhelm a system flooding it with queries. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *Windows 'Fails' Active Virus Test Security tools that work with Windows Vista have failed tests to see if they can detect viruses circulating online. Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare security tool was one of four products that failed independent tests carried out by the Virus Bulletin. The security testing group found that Live OneCare missed far more active viruses than any other program tested. To pass the tests anti-virus tools must spot and stop 100% of the malicious programs used to attack them. When Vista was launched on 30 January, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates claimed that it was "dramatically more secure" than other operating systems. (Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk ) *Patch Day Yields a Dozen New Fixes From Microsoft This month's Patch Tuesday event from Microsoft is a bit heftier than in previous months, with half of the dozen security bulletins fixing issues outside of the operating system. All of the operating system-related vulnerabilities are confined to Windows XP and Windows 2000. No security bulletins have been issued for Vista. The trend toward non-OS vulnerabilities has been increasing in recent months thanks to a combination of Microsoft hardening the operating system and the advent of "fuzzers," hacker programs that automate searching for vulnerabilities, like buffer overflows. This allows less technically-savvy people to search for exploits. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) ________________________________________________________ Legal *Belgian Papers win Google Copyright Suit A court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Belgian newspapers that sued Google, claiming that the Web search Internet search leader infringed copyright laws and demanded it remove their stories. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company that operates the world's most-used search engine immediately said it would appeal, claiming its Google News service was "entirely legal." A Brussels court ruled in favor of Copiepresse, a copyright protection group representing 18 mostly French-language newspapers that complained the search engine's "cached" links offered free access to archived articles that the papers usually sell on a subscription basis. It ordered Google to remove any articles, photos or links from its sites - including Google News - that it displays without the newspapers' permission. But in the future, it said it would be up to copyright owners to get in touch with Google by e-mail to complain if the site was posting content that belonged to them. Google would then have 24 hours to withdraw the content or face a daily fine of 1,000 euros ($1,295). (Source: http://www.usatoday.com ) *Concealment a Crime in Latest Data Breach Bill Promising long overdue reform, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy introduced legislation today to strengthen personal data protections and to require data-breach notifications to consumers. The Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007 would make it a crime to intentionally or willfully conceal a security breach. The bill would also increase criminal penalties for identity theft involving electronic personal data. The bill, co-sponsored by Judiciary Committee ranking member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), would also require businesses and government agencies to give notice to individuals and law enforcement in cases of breaches involving sensitive personal data. Under the Leahy-Specter legislation, the trigger for notice is a "significant risk" of identity theft. There are exemptions for national security and law enforcement needs and credit card companies using fraud prevention techniques. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *Teen Files Lawsuit Against Record Industry A New York teen has filed a lawsuit against the record industry for defamation, violating anti-trust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has called this kid a pirate and so the five record companies filed a lawsuit against him. Robert Santangelo would have been 11 when the alleged offense was committed. He has denied sharing music with P2P file sharing networks and has said it is "impossible" for the RIAA to prove otherwise. He claims in his defense that any music the RIAA alleged that he pirated, he already owned himself on a store-bought retail CD. Robert and his lawyer, Jordan Glass, have demanded a jury trial and filing a counterclaim against the companies for allegedly damaging the boy's reputation, distracting him from school and costing him legal fees. "The record companies have engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the courts of the United States," the court documents say. The teen says that the record companies are acting together in violation of the antitrust laws by bringing the piracy cases jointly and using the same agency "to make extortionate threats ... to force defendants to pay." (Source: http://www.afterdawn.com ) *Law Would Ban iPods When Crossing Street Walk, jog or bicycle across a New York street with an iPod plugged in your ears and you could get slapped with a $100 ticket under a new law proposed by a legislator from Brooklyn. State Sen. Carl Kruger's bill would also outlaw the use of cell phones, Blackberries, video games or other electronic devices when crossing the street. He cited the death of a 21-year-old man who was listening to music when he stepped off a curb and was hit by a bus in Brooklyn in September, and the death of a 23-year-old iPod listener last month. "If you're so involved in your electronic device that you can't see or hear a car coming, this is indicative of a larger problem that requires some sort of enforcement beyond the application of common sense," Kruger said. (Source: http://news.yahoo.com ) ________________________________________________________ Work *How to Avoid Being Outsourced IT workers need to become more business-savvy, move up the management ladder and keep up with the latest technical skills if they are to avoid being outsourced, according to a new guide. The Outsourcing Survival Guide by recruitment company ITJobBoard.com warns outsourcing is too significant a trend for anyone who works in the IT industry to ignore and that it should be factored into career progression. This means keeping abreast of the latest trends and avoiding career cul-de-sacs by specialising in legacy skills such as Cobol, PL/1 and RPG. Hybrid business technologists are the future of IT. The guide says: "Outsourcing is often used as a way of flushing out legacy systems. Avoid being perceived as obsolescent." Stronger business skills will also make an IT worker less likely to be outsourced, as will having genuine expertise in the company's business processes. The guide adds: "Technology skills will not be enough. You will be expected to have business process expertise and be very user-oriented. Hybrid business technologists are the future of IT. Being one will increase your value to your business, and so make it less likely that your role will end up overseas." (Source: http://services.silicon.com ) ________________________________________________________ Gadget of the Week *Samsung Shows World's Thinnest Phone, Again Samsung Electronics today at 3GSM 2007 launched its brand new Ultra Edition II handsets. The Ultra Edition II portfolio consists of two sliders, the Ultra Edition 10.9 (U600) and the Ultra Edition 12.1 (U700); a metallic clamshell, the Ultra Edition 9.6 (U300); and a candy bar handset, the Ultra Edition 5.9 (U100). Each of these designs offers 3 megapixel cameras, high-speed web connectivity, as well as extensive multimedia and audio capabilities. Of all its new handsets, Samsung is most strongly emphasizing that its new lineup contains what it claims to be the slimmest phone today: the Ultra Edition 5.9 (U100), besting its big brother, the Samsung X820. The Ultra Edition 5.9 (U100) official measurements of the sporty handset are 105.5 x 50 x 5.9 mm and features a 1.93-inch TFT. (Source: http://www.dailytech.com ) Review: Samsung Ultra Edition 5.9 http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2007/01/24/samsung-ultra-edition-59-makes-phone-of-the-day/ _______________________________________________________ Tech Terms HDMI HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) is a specification that combines video and audio into a single digital interface for use with DVD players, digital television players, set-top boxes, and other audiovisual devices. The basis for HDMI is High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) and the core technology of Digital Visual Interface (DVI). HDCP is an Intel specification used to protect digital content transmitted and received by DVI-compliant displays. _________________________________________________________ On the Web How Zillow is turning online voyeurism into a real estate revolution. Fortune's Jeffrey M. O'Brien reports. "What's your house really worth?" http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/02/19/8400262/index.htm?postversion=2007020712 Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him. "Can't Touch This" http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/112/open_features-canttouchthis.html Give birth to a tech idea in Silicon Valley, and the chances of success soar. "When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/business/yourmoney/11ping.html?ref=technology _________________________________________________________ Wired Index February 13, 2007 18.35 Last Week -0.15 Year to Date +2.06% Guinness Atkinson Global Innovators Fund (IWIRX) tracks the share prices of 40 public companies, selected by the editors of Wired magazine to represent the forces driving the new economy. 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