Q&A: Cybertrust exec sees advantage in global presence

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Gentek Marketing Inc. Expands Its Global
Presence

Gentek Marketing Inc. Expands Its Global
Presence 07/08/2004 02:06 AM
Gentek Marketing Inc., a leading high tech manufacturer of networking, broadband and related products is expanding its global presence by hiring a seasoned General Manager to expand its international operations, vendor relations and global sales channel. John D. Herrington, based in Toronto, is a highly experienced and skilled Executive with significant experience in building the reseller Channel for other high tech firms including Sonicwall, D-Link, and Tech Data. [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004]

Intel Exec Sees 64-Bit Irrelevant for
Home PCs Now (Reuters)

Intel Exec Sees 64-Bit Irrelevant for
Home PCs Now (Reuters) 02/19/2004 03:38 PM
Reuters - A top Intel executive said 64-bit technology, which gives computers greater memory capacity and more powerful data crunching abilities, would not become relevant to home PC users until sometime in 2006, later than anticipated by Intel's rival, AMD.

Study sees decline in global handset
market

Study sees decline in global handset
market 06/22/2005 02:56 AM

The global handset market will slow down, so companies must target new demographics and create innovative marketing strategies for existing users, according to a new study by consultancy Frost & Sullivan.

Although the total number of mobile handsets sold is expected to rise, the average price of each unit is expected to fall as vendors aim at emerging markets. Overall, worldwide revenues are projected to fall by nearly 16 percent by the end of the decade -- from $126.28 billion in 2004 to $106.59 billion in 2010.

The study, which described the current era in the handheld industry as one of "transition," offered suggestions to help handset companies attempt to turn the trend around. One way for the industry to gain revenue is to market newer and more expensive technology to existing handheld users, Frost & Sullivan said. For instance, the "smart phone," which includes a mobile phone, a PDA (personal digital assistant), and a notebook computer all in one, could appeal to current and former users because such a device is easier to carry than several different devices.

Another important move for mobile handheld device companies is to market toward the technology friendly youth market. Young people between the ages of 13 and 25 offer a lucrative revenue stream and the youth market represents demand for a variety of applications such as downloading ringtones, text messaging and interactive gaming. In fact, youths' downloading of ringtones accounts for the majority of the industry's current revenue.

But perhaps more important is another universal characteristic young customers in particular represent -- the demand for similar quality in wireless devices as in the wired Internet and the unwillingness to settle for less, the study said.

The study, which surveyed hundreds of companies, added that the industry should be -- and is -- turning its focus to emerging markets around the world. By moving production facilities to new regions that will soon experience greater wireless penetration the companies will be able to save on production costs and create proximity to the untapped markets.

The study suggested that though revenues are expected to decline, consumer electronics is still shifting more and more toward mobile devices. It hinted that the handheld industry will have a chance to capitalize as long as companies aggressively explore markets and demographics and respond quickly to the customers' need for personalized and integrated wireless equipment.

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Nokia sees global handset sales up 15
percent to 600 million in 2004 (AFP)

Nokia sees global handset sales up 15
percent to 600 million in 2004 (AFP) 06/14/2004 08:26 AM
AFP - Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, said the global handset market would see a brisk growth of 15 percent this year, reaching a total volume of 600 million units, but it admitted it was uncertain how many of those would bear its name.

Can Cybertrust BeTrusted to keep your
networks TruSecure?

Can Cybertrust BeTrusted to keep your
networks TruSecure? 09/22/2004 06:36 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 22 2004 10:17AM GMT

Cybertrust to open for business in 30
days

Cybertrust to open for business in 30
days 09/21/2004 12:17 PM
The new company, the product of the merger between TruSecure and Betrusted, will operate in Europe, Asia and North America.

Q&A: Cybertrust CEO describes new
security company's plans

Q&A: Cybertrust CEO describes new
security company's plans 09/21/2004 04:17 PM
John Becker, the CEO of newly formed Cybertrust Inc., talks about the company's plan to deliver a range of risk management services for enterprise users.

But Can Apple Take Advantage Of The
Advantage?

But Can Apple Take Advantage Of The
Advantage? 05/31/2004 04:12 AM
Jakob Nielsen: Companies that emphasize a good user interface can get a huge competitive advantage. Apple is really a good example of that.

Global Sources: Creating and
Facilitating Global Trade

Global Sources: Creating and
Facilitating Global Trade 08/31/2004 06:26 AM
Global Sources: Creating and Facilitating Global Trade
http://www.globalsources.com/

Global Sources offers product and trade information for volume buyers including product search, supplier search and country search. Also available are product alerts, my catalog, sourcing magazines and market intelligence reports. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Enhanced HRToolbox Helps Companies
Administer Rising Number of Short-Term
Global Assignments. Product Streamlines
Complexity of Global Workforce
Management

Enhanced HRToolbox Helps Companies
Administer Rising Number of Short-Term
Global Assignments. Product Streamlines
Complexity of Global Workforce
Management 04/08/2005 04:55 AM
In response to the growing trend of short-term global assignments, HRToolbox, Inc., has unveiled a newly-enhanced version of its namesake solution that streamlines the entry of common information tracked for short-term assignments. [PRWEB Apr 8, 2005]

NFC Presence

NFC Presence 04/01/2005 12:25 PM
I don't blog about what I really work on, for obvious reasons, but I just got two very nice 3220 phones with the Nokia NFC Shell, wrote a small web app, and got clearance from my boss to blog about it, as this stuff is gonna be in the shops, well, if not today, but very soon. NFC is geek for "Near Field Communication", which in turn is geek for "doing really close range communication between two really simple radios." If you're using any sort of a contactless travel pass, credit card, or access key, you're using NFC.

This particular app was pretty trivial to do (and required about five lines of code on the server side): I took two NFC tags (essentially very small memory cards with a radio that can be read/written from up to a few centimetres), wrote the URL of my web service on both of them (using the ServiceDiscovery app included), and wrote a little JSP page that handles the interfacing with my blog.

Then I stuck one tag on my work monitor, and another one at home. Now I can just touch one of these tags with my phone, and a few seconds later (some delays are involved with starting the Java midlet and connecting to GPRS) the little box on the right changes to show my location. Voila: NFC-powered presence.
This is in essence no different from doing a Trackback ping; I'm just doing it by touching something with my phone. Not traversing menus, not using the keyboard, not even glancing the screen.

Just touching. It couldn't be simpler.

Took me more time to take the pictures and blog about it than to actually write the app...

(Disclaimer: I work for the company, and I've been somewhat involved in giving birth to these babies. But I wouldn't write about it if it didn't give me the warm fuzzies.)

- Wi-Fi + 3G = big advantage?

- Wi-Fi + 3G = big advantage? 05/04/2004 09:14 PM
Computer Times Asia May 5 2004 1:20AM GMT

Wi-Fi + 3G = big advantage?

Wi-Fi + 3G = big advantage? 05/05/2004 04:55 PM
Computer Times Asia May 5 2004 9:19PM GMT

Your Playlist is not Presence

Your Playlist is not Presence 04/20/2004 02:13 PM
One of the great features of Instant Messaging clients is that they provide an easy to use way of communicating presence: Out for a bit, Eating lunch, At work, On a conference call, Don't bug me, and so on. But as of now, I count 4 different people on my buddy list who are using some sort of automated program to update their status every time their MP3 player switches to a new song. Ugh. I really don't care what...

UK mid-table in for e-gov presence

UK mid-table in for e-gov presence 05/12/2004 11:19 AM
Netimperative May 12 2004 3:07PM GMT

AT&T expands DSL presence

AT&T expands DSL presence 11/18/2003 04:28 PM
The company introduces digital subscriber line services in three more states as part of its ongoing effort to offer broadband to more customers.

Key Advantage Typing 1.0

Key Advantage Typing 1.0 12/03/2003 05:00 PM
Key Advantage Typing is an amazing program for learning how to type!

First-mover advantage

First-mover advantage 09/10/2004 01:32 AM
TechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT

Boeing's Non-Advantage

Boeing's Non-Advantage 04/11/2005 03:00 PM
Boeing won't win any advantages if the WTO decides the current aircraft subsidy dispute between the U.S. and EU.

Use Usability to Best Advantage

Use Usability to Best Advantage 09/13/2002 03:25 AM

Google's Ph.D. Advantage

Google's Ph.D. Advantage 06/07/2004 10:30 AM

Apple's Advantage

Apple's Advantage 03/17/2005 03:08 AM

The Mac mini's price may have spurred interest in a Mac, but what really made the Mac a contender was a change in how it is viewed: not as a PC, for working with word processors and databases, but as an appliance for managing all the digital photos and music. By Jason Snell, Macworld

Is physical presence necessary for
community?

Is physical presence necessary for
community? 12/19/2003 11:46 AM

A few months ago I responded to a site that claimed The Internet is Shit with a reposte designed to illustrate that although our networks might contain difficult and unpleasant material, they also contain enough of value and facilitate enough legitimate and real communities to be able to state pretty conclusively that The Internet is not Shit. Note - not that it's perfect, not that it doesn't have flaws, not that bad things don't go on in it, but that pound-for-pound it's more useful and valuable and community-generating than it is useless or damaging or culture-destroying.

Over the last few days, the post has turned into a bit of an argumentative arena, with various posters weighing with positions on what constitutes utopian rhetoric versus what constitutes a reasonable and rational position about the possibilities of (among other things) online communities. Throughout this article various people - myself included - have stumbled in our logic, presented clumsy opinions and misunderstood each other. Nonetheless, I want to pick up one particular fragment of these arguments - a fragment that I feel strongly about and am prepared to fight vigorously about. It's about the authenticity or otherwise of online 'communities'. At a certain point in the debate, my sparring partner posts:

"We're not talking about abstract information - which is expedited magnificently over the internet - we're talking about flesh and blood people. An actual meeting is far more meaningful than tapping on a keyboard. It is substantially different. Physically congregating with other folk is the same as being on the internet as is reading a book about Tibet compared to actually going there. Or reading a menu and eating the food. You can't reduce and flatten the physical, sensory, emotional, kinaesthetic and social world in that way."

Now I'm going to agree with the premise that the particulars of the medium through which people communicate can add a timbre to a community and that they can faciliate certain parts of the exchange more effectively than others. On the other hand, I'd also argue that the qualities of the community space are supprted by the software that they run on, and that quite possibly that software hasn't yet - in the ten/twenty years that it's been being developed - quite achieved the elegance and sophistication that we take for granted in some other social spaces. But the one thing I will not stand for is this sense that online communities are somehow inauthentic because they are unphysical - or that the truncation in social 'signal' somehow reduces them down to a point of uselessness or redundancy. So excerpts from my reply follow:

Your analogies are hideously flawed for a start - if I communicate on the internet or by phone with someone, it's not like a transcript of that person or a decription of that person. You're talking as if whenever you talked to people who weren't present physically (say via the telephone), that what you were actually doing was listening passively to bloody recordings! Of course they're not - it's not bloody radio! People are talking to each other!

Now obviously there are things that you can do in person that you can't do physically online. It's harder to guage someone's mood, it's harder to have sex with them, it's harder to get intonation or a tone of voice. But it's still communication! And the possibility of community still exists! I mean, there are many circumstances in which certain elements of the experience an interaction can be truncated - if you're on a phone for example and can't see the person concerned, or if they're wearing sunglasses so you can't see their eyes, or if you're actually bloody deaf and are forced to lip-read, for Christ's sake! But none of these things stop the possibilities of communication, and none of them stop people being supportive, helpful, useful, friendly or even forming communities through them. I work on the internet, and often my first experience of people is online. Sometimes my only experience of them is online. And yet we can be friends! Most of them have helped me out in some ways in the past, and I've helped most of them out in the past as well. Those I haven't met, I'd like to and those I have I see regularly. But that our relationships have moved sometimes from purely online to a mix of both online and off doesn't mean they weren't real to begin with.

You talk about 'tapping on a keyboard' as if touching keys was the entire point. You're confusing the method of communication with the communication itself. It would be like me saying, "There's a substantial difference between communicating with someone (online) and just causing air to vibrate with your vocal chords". It's trivialising, innaccurate, clumsy and - frankly - stupid.

[I should apologise at this point for resorting to name calling in the final line - put it down to frustration.]

There's a lot more to the argument that's worth reading and talking abotu on the post itself, but I just thought I'd ask do people still think that the term 'online community' is necessarily an oxymoron? Do you really think that the fact you're interacting through your fingers dramatically limits the strength of the relationships you can make?

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Alcatel Expands U.S. Presence

Alcatel Expands U.S. Presence 09/17/2004 12:34 PM
Internet News Sep 17 2004 5:20PM GMT

more of a presence in state legislatures

more of a presence in state legislatures 12/04/2003 06:05 AM
Standards of reason in the classroom .. seems to think .. more» .. Good piece

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Britain's Web presence to be saved

Britain's Web presence to be saved 06/24/2004 09:56 AM
Stop those Net pages dropping like flies

Bad Web Presence Case Study

Bad Web Presence Case Study 01/09/2004 09:58 PM

Charity Begins at Home. It Can End Online: Here's a fascinating story of incredible Web incompetence. A journalist tried to donate to the Cousteau Society but was thwarted at every turn by an abandoned site, a Flash site invisible to search engines (the link above), and an email delivery issue.

Why did I get no response to my e-mail? "E-mail is routed through France. That one went to the Paris office. The one person who picks up all the e-mail is the Webmaster," she told me. "He's supposed to forward anything in English to me. But he just left for the Red Sea expedition."

Bad design often has financial consequences.

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More Cities Have Presence on Internet

More Cities Have Presence on Internet 09/14/2004 08:57 AM
SiliconValley.com Sep 14 2004 1:26PM GMT

MeNowDocument - presence in FOAF

MeNowDocument - presence in FOAF 06/01/2004 11:40 PM

Though I'm not credited on the web page, I did have something to do with coming up with this new concept called MeNowDocument.  Really I'm just the cheerleader/marketing guy and it was Joel De Gan, Chris Schmidt and B.K. DeLong. MeNowDocument is to Presence what PersonalProfileDocument is to About Me pages.

Chris Schmidt has now been working with that schema recently.  he has some interesting insights below about......well just take a read.  BTW Joel is also the guy working on the PeoplesDNS, who created some new kind of filters recently and who is implementing the php version of the FOAFnet APIs.

:-)

Here's Chris' post....

Metadata , the quick and easy way. One of the biggest problems with FOAF is that it's difficult for people to use quickly and easily. Even with the FOAF-A-Matic or other similar tools, designed to make creation of RDF data simpler, take a concentrated amount of time to use to create good information.

Lately, I'd been playing with the menow schema that Joel and a couple other people interested in FOAF came up with. The basic idea behind it is to be able to describe yourself at the moment - an instantaneous description of what you're doing. This fits in along with other projects that I've worked on, such as Dashboard, where it tells you more about what you're doing on the computer at the moment. For example, a menowdocument could describe the fact that I'm out driving with Jess, with a goal GPS destination: something that FOAF typically doesn't do.

The MeNowDocument could be the first step towards solving Neil's Where was Social Networking? issue - how to connect the people better. The first step towards connecting is getting the information in a way that agents can understand it - and if both agents understand "late night, 10pm", then you're on your way.

Tired of all the problems related to creating these things by hand, I wrote two bots, both connected to the same backend for storage information. One bot hangs out on IRC - in #pa, on irc.freenode.net. The other is on AIM: menowbot.

These two bots aren't all that complex - in fact, the next step will be to add a bit more complexity, in creating the ability to alias different personalities together. The code for the bots is available at http://crschmidt.net/pa/menow/ . However, what they do do is set up an easy way to add information to a database without having to think about it much. It's not completely simple yet - and it's not particularly complete, cause you can add any predicate you want. However, for those people who just want something to hang onto their data for them as a reminder to others - something perfect for the quick "hm, remember this" note.

A quick transcript to demonstrate:

<crschmidt> menow, menow?
<menow> crschmidt : menow:mood = tired at 2004-06-01 19:17:33 menow:browsing = http://schema.peoplesdns.co m/menow/ at 2004-06-01 19:17:33
< crschmidt> menow, forget browsing
<crschmidt> menow, menow?
<menow> crschmidt : menow:mood = tired at 2004-06-01 19:17:33
<crschmidt> menow, add writing dc:description post about the bot
<crschmidt> menow, menow?
<menow> crschmidt : menow:writing = dc:description post about the bot at 2004-06-01 20:50:35 menow:mood = tired at 2004-06-01 19:17:33

Of course, no bot like this would be complete without the ability to browse other people:

<crschmidt> menow, crschmidt now?
<menow> crschmidt : menow:writing = dc:description post about the bot at 2004-06-01 20:50:35 menow:mood = tired at 2004-06-01 19:17:33

Lots of interesting uses, and I plan to keep developing it, but I believe in "release early, release often." So, here's version 0.1.

foaf:aimChatID=menowbot
foaf:nick=menow rdf:resource=irc://irc.f reenode.net/pa By crschmidt@livejournal.com. [Christopher Schmidt]

More Cities Have Presence on Internet
(AP)

More Cities Have Presence on Internet
(AP) 09/14/2004 08:50 AM
AP - When northern Kentucky resident Bill Glenn wanted to know about parking options in Covington, he logged on to the city's Web site and sent an e-mail.

When IM, VoIP and presence converge

When IM, VoIP and presence converge 03/25/2005 04:56 PM
ZDNet Mar 25 2005 9:44PM GMT

Philippines to end Iraq presence

Philippines to end Iraq presence 07/18/2004 03:35 AM
The last troops will leave Iraq on Monday - meeting a demand by kidnappers holding a Filipino hostage.

How to build an online presence

How to build an online presence 04/30/2004 03:02 PM
CNET Asia Apr 30 2004 6:13PM GMT

Brightmail Establishes UK Presence

Brightmail Establishes UK Presence 04/27/2004 05:18 PM
theWHIR Apr 27 2004 9:41PM GMT

Messaging and Presence @ IETF

Messaging and Presence @ IETF 02/19/2004 12:50 PM

After perusing the IETF's Working Group Guidelines and Procedures, I went perusing the web for charters to 'crib' from.  I came across SIMPLE and XMPP.&n bsp; These are not just interesting from a potential future IETF bretheren point of view, but also from a basic syndication and API point of view.  In particular, such protocols can avoid the scalability problems associated with a polling based architecture and can potentially navigate through gateways, firewalls and routers.

Authentication is the one area where I expect things to be different, but the uniform layout of the feed and entries are something that I don't expect to vary based on the transfer mechanism.

OpenScape builds presence

OpenScape builds presence 07/12/2004 02:19 PM
Siemens presents an update to its application for managing office communcations.

Presence? Mark Me Absent

Presence? Mark Me Absent 06/24/2005 04:47 PM
Microsoft is leading the charge to make 'presence' ever-present, and not just in instant-messaging. But is presence really progress?

Apple's Competitive Advantage

Apple's Competitive Advantage 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
Where Apple really stands out is in marketing. By Rob Enderle (TechNewsWorld via MyAppleMenu)

Blogs for Professional Advantage

Blogs for Professional Advantage 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
John Battelle's collumn at Business2.0 suggests that blogs will become a staple of business (reg. req.): So here's my prediction: Blogs will soon become a staple in the information diet of every serious businessperson, not because it's cool to read...
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