Apple in Japan by Claudia Sonea

Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Apple is negotiating a deal with NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile phone carrier, to launch its newest product that was a hit on US and Europe markets, the famous iPhone. However, NTT DoCoMo spokesman Shuichiro Ichikoshi did not offered any details on the matter and the only thing acknowledged was that company President Masao Nakamura met recently with Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs. Besides numerous of unnamed people cited by Wall Street Journal, Apple's revealed intentions of launching the device in Asia in 2008 comes in support of the supposed negotiations. Definitely NTT DoCoMo would be the choice of Apple, because its strategy was always to choose an exclusive mobile operator for each region: AT&T Inc. in the United States, O2 in Britain, T-Mobile in Germany and France Telecom's Orange wireless arm in France. NTT DoCoMo controled more than half of Japan's mobile phone market at the end of September (with 53 million subscribers) and although it had difficulties in adding new ones due to fierce competition from KDDI Corp. and Softbank Corp., which have slashed rates and launched aggressive sales promotions, it is still the best option. Nevertheless, if they don't come to an agreement (Apple's demands to receive the same percentage of subscriber revenue from NTT DoCoMo that it receives from other carriers being an obstacle), talks are also being held with Softbank, according to the speculations of the report. Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock did not confirm the rumors, nor denied it. Apple wants to sell 10 millions iPhones- a combination iPod-cell phone-Internet surfing- until the end of 2008 and the launch on the market of the world's second-largest economy could just well fulfill these expectations. More than 1.4 million iPhones were sold since it was launched on June 29 in the United States and also after the introduction on Europe market it had boosted on sales. So, now Asia is the next target, with Japan and China (the chairman of China Mobile, China's biggest mobile services operator with nearly 350 million subscribers at the end of September, revealed the company was in talks with Apple to bring the iPhone to China) on the list. Good work to them and merry more sales.

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Schools and business in cooperation by Martina Harvanova

Cornell´s University in N.Y., Stanford, Pennsylvania State, Harvard, Howard and North Carolina State Universities and the Universities of Michigan, Washington, California, Minnesota, New Mexico and Texas. All of these high-level educational institutions have something in common. Except excellent evaluation of their workrooms, laboratories and other technical equipment at their science-related faculties, they have also another pros. They know how to make a use of it. Education is not only about gaining knowledges anymore. These highly placed schools have further visions. They want their name to sound privileged and distinguished. Achieving this goal, they try to take as many successful steps in science and research as possible. To score, all of them started participating in a project that is founded on hiring themselves out to businesses. And it is getting pretty popular both among the schools joined in the network and the companies taking advantage of it. It is simple. Universities dispose of the complicated and expensive nano-level labs and the companies, small ones but surprisingly bigger ones as well, want to use them as soon as their research can be done much more efficient and accessible at the same time. Building new labs is just not worth it and "it is the fixed costs that kill you," as Matt Miller of Multispectral Imaging Inc. says. In this particular case, the nano-labs owned by the universities are being used for developing thermal imaging technology to help rescuing people from burning buildings. Other example for the use of them is here: rearranging methane gas to create industrial diamonds. In spite of the tenuity of a nanometer, it is 10,000 smaller than the diameter of a human hair, the possibilities of it are huge. And economic benefits as well. Universities definitely own their unique know-how. It is established on great technical equipment and its use not only for schools themselves, but also as a contribution to science and research. And the economic convenience is a nice share of everything.

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Breaking innovation in the battery world by Daniela Simkova

Toshiba Corp. plans to enter the market with new, improved rechargeable batteries in 2008. The market is highly competitive in this way, but also very promising. The company wants to introduce an excellent SCiB battery, which can be recharged within a five minutes and ready to bring your phone to life. Mr. Toshiharu Watanabe, a Toshiba vice president stated: "The excellent performance of the SCiB will assure its successful application in industrial systems and in the electronic vehicles markets as a new energy solution." The SCiB's durability is about 10 years if totally discharged and recharged once a day. There has never been something as innovative as this battery on the market and we can expect even more innovative piece of technique. All the Japan companies compete to develop a Lithium ion battery of which use could be possible in hybrid cars, electric vehicles and mobile phones. But there are some safety concerns of potential fire when using the batteries. "The possibility of the battery catching fire is extremely low and it will not explode even if it ruptures," said Mr. Watanabe. Toshiba Corp. plans to start shipping the battery in March 2008 and hopes that the SCiB will be used in battery powered advices, for instance motorcycles, construction machinery, or bicycles. Toshiba general manager, Soshi Kawatsu expressed his opinion: "We will continue to advance development in this area so that when other companies launch their own batteries we will be ahead."

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To get lost, or not to get lost? That's the question... by Ludmila Martinicka

This are instructions how not to get lost in the times of thousands of navigation systems. Poor maps... I am afraid, that soon they will be able to be seen in historical museums only. But this is life. And nowadays life means technological progress. In western Europe almost everybody has a GPS navigator in the car. This trend is moving very fast to the east. The only reason for the slowly increasing number of sold GPS navigators is their price. But. Let's be honest. Is the most expensive always the best? Yes, for someone could be. But this is kind of personal question. Like everybody likes different style of clothes, everybody has different requirements for his beloved car, its interior and system improvements. For example, for adventurers and explorers would be GPS navigation totally useless, because getting lost in unknown areas and exploring them is their hobby, if not job, actually. But back to the instructions. The first thing you should not forget is to state clearly your needs and requirements. Wide screen, number of pixels, size of the device, simple orientation in menu, design, speaking device, beeping device,... maybe you can find even singing one. Second step is to define the final price you are willing to pay for your new toy, or device, call the "map upgrade" as you like. After this two steps you can open your web browser and start to explore the wide world of companies selling navigation devices. I have just one question: is there any device to guide us in the offers jungle?

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Data via Web providers by Claudia Sonea

Since the invention of TV and programs' broadcasting the primary means of making money has been to introduce an ad. There is no doubt that advertisement is a very profitable business for both the owners of TV channels and for the advertisers. Nowadays, the Internet is not only a way of communicating, but also offers the possibility to do your shops, book for a plane or a trip, buy tickets to a movie at the cinema or a football game, a workplace and fulfills even the functions of a TV; therefore it has become the main target of advertisers who seek to find ways of getting in touch with people's interest and needs, while respecting their privacy. Silicon Valley startup NebuAd Inc, has designed a system that peers inside Internet traffic and that makes the outdated cookies (tiny tracking files dropped by Web sites on visitors' computers) seem a toy for children. The cookie tells only the site visited and lead to the apparition of ads in connection with the sites visited, while NebuAd through Internet service providers (ISPs) can have an insight view, seeing everything customers do online and studying what they do there and what they hunt for on search engines. This way it can offer specific details on the interest of people. There is still unknown how many ISP collaborates with them and the only thing certain is that the providers representing millions of customers and that run NebuAd's system get a share of the revenue from advertising NebuAd places, according to CEO Bob Dykes. In the context of someone being able to find out what other people browse, what they read, which items they put in their shopping carts but fail to buy, the concerns about privacy are bound to appear. Although some of the techniques used by NebuAd are not that new, many of the retailers already launch "clickstream analysis" tools that monitor what customers do on a given site, NebuAd offers a much more insight perspective and it has to mitigate some of the preoccupations. Dykes pledges his company doesn't compile lists of sites that people have visited or what they did online. Instead uses a sort of meters measuring the interests of how many times the same thing was searched or how many sites with the same subject have been visited and so on and so forth. Also, it doesn't read e-mails or postings on social networking sites and the data grabbed via a Web provider is fed into a cryptographic system known as a one-way hash, producing a string of code that supposedly cannot be reversed to identify a consumer. In addition Dykes told the providers to offer their clients the option to not have the NebuAd introduced in their system. If the new system is better than the cookies used by powerful players as Yahoo Inc., Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, Microsoft Corp. or DoubleClick Inc. Tom Soevyn, CEO of Focalex Inc., a marketing agency that places ads with NebuAd is in favor of the system. However, a problem might occur if the customers feels that the privacy is violated, although it is not, according to David Hallerman, a senior analyst for eMarketer. Stay connected and find out if you are one of the multitude of people being tracked by NebuAd. Enjoy!

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New video camera by Claudia Sonea

The cell phone has reached a new peak and is in continuous evolution. Besides the fact that it is indispensable to people in an era of communication, the cell phone also offers the possibility to exchange e-mail, surf the Internet, read novels and navigate on miniature digital maps. The latest attribution found to the talking box is video camera used to take short movies by every day people. In 2005 in France a cell phone film festival debuted and now has is held for the first time in Japan on Friday, October 7. There were 400 entries in this international contest but only 48 pocket-size statements on film were selected and all were shot on camera-equipped cell phones. These short movies, streaming on monitors of cell phones strapped to tables, offer a voyeuristic feeling that because they are practically taken on the run with streets and cars whizzing past in a blur with close-ups that don't rely on zooms and other fancy editing techniques. Furthermore, the mini-videos point to an important emerging art form, says Masaki Fujihata, film professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and one of the festival's judges. He also added that the cell phone offers masses of amateurs have access to the world of film-making because is an easy cheap one-person operation. Among the movies participant were Seeking Truth" by Weilong Hong from Singapore (a young man with a cell phone walking in an alley and everyone around him walks backwards), "Remember," by Yang Duck-kyue from South Korea (layers of sepia-toned photos are torn on the footage like a collage of fading memories), "Passerby" by Michiko Tsuda, 27, a graduate student, "Walkers," whose main character is a pair of sneakers that takes a trip on a train. Also Kojima is a 20 year-old university student and director of "Thumb Girl"- a movie about a fantasy companion who eases human suffering by always being a willing listener. Jean-Louis Boissier, a French media artist and professor at University of Paris 8, in town for the festival, stated that the mobile phone is unique, not only working as a camera, but also as a projector that shows video on handheld screens. It is only the beginning but the forecast is promising. More to come…

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Can robot play violin? by Ivana Bruderova

He is 5-foot tall, all in white and can play the violin as a virtuoso. He's a robot. In Thursday Toyota presented it's latest invention. After his ancestor, which was able to play trumpet, Toyota create robot playing "Pomp and Circumstance" which charm everyone. It perfectly coordinate movements of arms and fingers to play precise. Katsuaki Wanasabe, Toyota president says, robotics is a great priority for company in the coming years. "We want to create robots that are useful for people in everyday life," he told. He thinks it's natural for automaker's to deal with robots because it's firmly connected with developing systems for autos, for instance pre-crash systems. Toyota Corp. have already proved that they are able to make robots which can help in everyday life to immovable patients, to make a guide and carry on simple conversation. In compared with competitive companies such as Honda Motor Co., Fujitsu Ltd. and other Toyota is a latecomer in robots. Honda is working on their own robot since 1986. In 2000, Asimo, considered to be one of the most sophisticated humanoids, became available for rental. Asimo is 51-inch tall, after many changes and improves it become smaller and it's move much more stabile. Toyota work hard to overtake it's rivals. It's cooperating with universities and group companies to go ahead faster. Also in Thursday Toyota showed robot called Robina. It doesn't have legs and move on wheels and is working in Toyota showroom as a guide. Interact to persons, carry on a simple dialogue and can sign its name with holding fat pen in its three fingers. "I'm a 120 cm tall and how much I weigh is a secret." said robot in a feminine voice. Besides the robots Toyota Corp. is doing research for instance in biofuels.

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Games and music by Claudia Sonea

Think you've heard everything? Think twice, because the Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of music made with obsolete computers and electronics will blow you away. At a hip Manhattan art space Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, succeeded to get all the attention of a crowd of people with shaggy-haired and wearing T-shirts and glasses. The room was vibrating with beats of electronic beeps and buzzes of a 1980's video game called Marion. She proudly held up her Nintendo Game Boy. Some of the former Atari jockeys are building a cult on music called chiptune or 8-bit, according to Mike Rosenthal, 29, one of Blip Festival's organizers. He states that the first generation that had an up bring dominated by video games and computers wants now to do more with their toys and therefore the chiptunes that includes also pop, metal and other styles is the best choice. Beck, an eclectic artist, an EP of chiptune remixes due to nostalgia created by the first electronic, tinny sound of the first commercial video game. The chiptune community is largely in contact mostly online through file-swapping and on bulletin boards, so Blip Festival is a rare event for them and that is why they travel far distances just top get to it and artists from Europe and Japan are brought in to perform. On the scene the do-it-yourself ethic of punk rock and hacker culture will be performed and artists rely on jury-rigged gadgets. Commodore 64 and Atari 80 is the favorite, but Game boy is the most popular. Chiptune artists' instruments are often more than 20 years old and it is expected to bring in the unpredictable in their performance. For all games addicted this is something on the must do list, so: enjoy!

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Let"s love flight services. by Zuzana Valkova

If you have flown by plane, you exactly know how does it look like inside during the flight. The airlines are trying to make the flight comfortable and nice, so scared people, and the others too, can forget their fears and enjoy the flight. What exactly should we expect from the crew and from the flight? It depends where you are traveling. When it is only national flight, we should not expect so much. Of course you will have comfortable seat, most of new planes have TV screen on every back side of the seat. You can usually watch cable TV, or listen to some radio stations. You are offered by some snack, usually something sweet or salty, and of course you can choose from big range of drinks. Where else can you taste blue chips, made from naturally blue potatoes? Only on flight with one American airline. But I have to say, that they tasted….hm….different. When you take international flight, the services are even better. Depends on flight time, but usually you get two or three hot meals and some snacks. Of course you can choose your favourite meal from the list. You can drink how much you want, what you want, non alcoholic drinks or alcoholic drinks. Its up to you. On international flights you can usually watch many movies. You just have to turn it on in the right time to catch the beginning. You can listen to music, play games, or connect your laptop and work. While boarding the plane, you might be offered by magazines or newspaper for free. Of course everything is for free. It's included in the price of flight ticket.

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Moon – new holiday"s destination? by Jana Kokavcova

What do you think about holiday on the Moon? Month on the Moon. Funny, or? I think it will be crazy to be a part of universe, to be the one who could explore new planets. Moon is only one step to this situation. If you think that it will be very dangerous, you are right. Our technologies are not safe enough to guarantee that you'll come back in one part of body. But we already do a lot of things only for feeling of adrenalin in our veins. Bungee jumping is good example of something really dangerous what we do only for this interesting feeling. And the way to Moon and a time spent on the Moon will be crazy too. In last few months some scientists compete to win Google price & 30-million-dollar X Prize. It is really very interesting for them, because money is big problem for many projects that have good idea, but are too expensive. And Google is fan of some universe projects and would like to give "some" money to one from these competitors. It will be easier to give money to one who is our darling and don't bothered about the another who's projects could be better. But Google would like to be honest and give a chance to all the people & group of scientists. Living on the Moon will solve our problems, because & as scientists said & there are a reason of our global changes and energies. So it will be really great to have a chance to explore the Moon better and better than it was by now. So, holiday on Moon will be really pretty idea, but expensive idea too. Maybe after about 1000 years it will be available for everyone. Who knows?

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Was Facebook a stolen idea? by Romana Schlesingerova

Networking website Facebook is to face legal action on Wednesday in a suit brought by a rival site's founders. Three founders of ConnectU say Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the site while at Harvard. Facebook has become a global phenomenon with about 31 million users, compared with ConnectU's 70,000. A Federal case accuses Mr Zuckerberg of fraud and misappropriation of trade secrets, and asks for ConnectU to be given ownership of Facebook. Last year, Facebook turned down a $1bn offer from Yahoo. Facebook has asked a judge at a Boston district court to dismiss the case. The ConnectU founders claim that while at college Mr Zuckerberg agreed to finish writing computer code for them, but that he stalled and eventually created Facebook using their ideas. In court documents, Facebook's lawyers say that ConnectU's "broad brush allegations" had no evidence to support them. "Each of them had different interests and activities," they said. "Only one of them had an idea significant enough to build a great company. That one person was Mark Zuckerberg." Like Facebook, ConnectU is designed to connect people online. Users create profiles and can post pictures and messages. The legal action alleges that ConnectU founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narenda began developing a networking site in 2002. They asked Mr Zuckerberg to help finish the code, which he agreed to, they claim. "Such statements were false," the court documents allege. "Zuckerberg never intended to provide the code and instead intended to breach his promise... and intended to steal the idea."

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Show yourself. by Zuzana Valkova

It became some kind of duty, in this time, to present yourself on the internet. If you are not registered, you are totally out. It's simple. You create an account on one of the special websites, called social networking website. You upload your photos, your videos, some information about you and you can start. These sites have enough space for you to present yourself. If you are an artist, you can put your work there, so other people can see it. It became easier for people to be in touch through the internet. If you are on the internet everyday, for example because of your school, or work, it's normal that you communicate with people in this way. It's exciting to look for new friends from different countries; practice your language skills, speak with them about your favorite things, and discover something new about different nations. But I think, sometimes it is sad, that many people are using this websites to contact their real friends, also that ones who live next door. We are becoming the generation sitting in front of the computer. But if you really want to join, which website should you choose? There are two main websites, which are competing for long time now. First one, the more successful is MySpace, and the second one, which is very close to that, is Facebook. So if you want to be seen, try one of these, or both.

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Messaging at lightening speed by Claudia Sonea

On Tuesday Red Hat launched software that combines messaging, real-time and grid capabilities for enterprises like those of the financial services industry that need an OS capable to process messages and transactions in the fast way possible. It is well regarded by some and despised by others. The software is expected to be available early next year on a subscription basis and represents a step forward for the company's so-called "automation" strategy for simplifying how applications are deployed and managed in distributed computing environments. The main goal of automation is to make it as easy as possible for an IT administrator to handle an application anywhere, whether it's hosted or running on a physical server or a virtual environment. In order to test it and get the hang of it, at the end of the week MRG will be released in a public beta version for which users can register online. By comparison with IBM's MQSeries or Tibco Software's Tibco, MRG it is not limited to messaging middleware, but it also refers to real-time capabilities and task-allocation and power-allocation features, therefore it can schedule tasks and provision power for resources running in heterogenous environments, said Bryan Che, a Red Hat product manager. MRG uses technology from two key projects to deliver an open-source infrastructure and one of them is to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard for describing what messages between disparate systems look like and it is made in collaboration with Cisco, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan Chase. The other one is Condor high-throughput computing open-source project out of the University of Wisconsin, which provides a way to efficiently allocate and use the computing capacity of an IT system. Nevertheless William Fellows, a principal analyst at The 451 Group, shows himself doubtful that people will begin ripping and replacing current messaging infrastructure with Red Hat's new software once it's available. Well comparing the benefits such a program offers by combining several technologies in a unique way for IT environments that need OSs to process transactions in microseconds, it may actually lead to such actions. Stay connected and see the result.

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Keep awake when you are driving! by Ivana Bruderova

How many people are driving their cars tired and drowsy? According National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 25 to 30 percent of car crashes are consequence of driver's inattention, for instance drowsiness. It can happens to everyone, when we are tired after sleepless night or have flu and just want go to the doctor. Now several automakers such as Saab and Volvo are developing their own systems to help drivers keeping awake during driving. System which specialist from Saab are actually working on is called Driver Attention Warning System. It is based on monitoring eye movements of driver by 2 miniature infrared cameras situated on driver's door and center console of the car. When system attends the eyes of driver have been closed for the time that is longer than a time of normal blink chime sounds and question: "Tired?" appears on the instrument panel. After first warning comes second and finally the third: "You are dangerously tired! Stop as soon as it is safe to do it!." Competitive firm Volvo says the system of eye scanning is not the right way because it has great problem for example with those people who are wearing glasses because thicker lenses and frames "makes the system confused". It's system called Driver Alert monitors the distance between car and surrounding road markings to define whether the car is being driven in what the automakers calls a "controlled" fashion. "We looked at eye scanning and due to the problems with accuracy & behaviors and eye shapes being different from person to person we decided to look into other ways," said Dan Johnston, Volvo's spokesperson. It's system should be available since 2008. "Systems that enable cars to monitor their drivers are not new," said Art Spinella, president of CNW Marketing Research in Bandon, Ore. Such systems have been developing since mid-80s and "technology is finally catching up" he said. Manufacturers are just working on last details and testing their systems, so we actually have to wait if the future brings expected results.

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Three laws…for who? by Zuzana Valkova

In many books you can read about robots, and you can see them in many movies. In some of these stories, the robot changes its behavior and starts to be dangerous for people. In 1942 famous American writer Isaac Asimov created his three laws of robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. These laws became very popular, and many science fiction authors started to use these laws in their novels. They seemed to be perfect; they protect people, and at the same time protect robots too. But do we need these laws in real life? I think we still have some time left to be afraid. The science is really fast, scientists are working hard, but they are still far away from robots, which can live with us like partners and helpers. The most advanced robot these days is ASIMO. He is made in Japan, he is 130 cm tall and he weight over 50 kg. He can walk with you, use the stairs, and can hold your hand. But what is more important, he can recognize you. He exactly knows who are you, what are you doing, or he knows where he is. Isn't that cool???

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