- 2.4 GHz (802.11b, 802.11g, and Bluetooth)
- 5 GHz (802.11a)
- Dual band (a & b) looks like a winner
- Look for repeaters to be released soon
- What do you need? (Firewall, Router, AP)
- Screens (Format, size, technology) ? Standard are stable
- Tuners (Receivers, Cable Boxes) ? Finally some standards here
- Agreement between Consumer Electronics Association and National Cable and Telecommunications Association will mean cable-ready HDTVs will be plug-and-play
- If set-top box is required it will attached through a digital video interface connector (DVI)
- Firewire (IEEE 1394) will connect to TV and DVD recorder
- Audio (Surround Sound) ? Standards are stable
- Recording Devices (DVD) ? Standards are evolving
- Powell set to loosen regulations for Baby Bells to share lines in order to get into broadband
- Hollings no longer Chair of Senate Commerce Committee (a vocal critic of Powell)
- New chair in John McCain (a Powell supporter)
- Cali Colombian Drug Cartel found using an $1.5M IBM AS400 Mainframe eight years ago
- Business intelligence software to correlate phone calls on employees to key government and enforcemenet officials
- Sophisticated supply chain management software now in use
- Mapping of radar patterns to plan flight paths
- Latest encryption techniques for distributed computing currently used for communications network
- Reverse auctions to launder money uses the latest e-business technology
- January 1, 1983 the 400 computers hooked to the ARPANet were switched to TCP/IP
- TPC/IP, the protocol, was conceived 33 years ago in an ARPA research contract
- Reston Based Firm
- Wi-Fi for major ports
- Cruise lines to pay $500/month for access
- Must include Sun Java Virtual Machine
- Rather than only Microsoft?s version (which Sun says in not fully compatible)
- Sister Marie Bernardina
- One of 14 nuns cloistered at Carmel of Port Tobacco Monastery
- 37 year old nun is Web Mistress of ICS Publications
- Publishes works from Institute of Carmelite Studies in Washington
- Convent also does Data Processing work for the Archdioceses of Washington
- Sister Marie Bernardina spends two hours per day on the computer
- Steve Potter of Georgia Tech combines electronics and neurons
- Placed a droplet of solution containing thousands of rat neurons onto silicon chip
- Chip is embedded with 60 electrodes connected to an amplifier
- Robot sends signals back to the neurons for training
- Trying to develop concepts for self-healing computers
- Computer hardware top selling ($6.24B, up 50%)
- Electronics ($2.54B, up 38%)
- Entertainment ($1.72B, up 61%
- Apparel ($1.61B, up 10%)
- Death of CD-ROM
- Instant Message for Business
- More Linux in Business
- Web Access Prices to Go Up
- Wireless to Continue Strong (not as standalone 802.11b)
- Law enforcement information database sharing will be up
- In July, Flooz.com sells $1000 of Flooz currency for $800 to AmEx holders
- Suspends offer one month later
- Declared backruptcy in November (Flooz currency now worth nothing)
- Listed as Numbers 5 & 6 in 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
- You can e-file and e-pay your taxes
- You can?t e-scape your taxes
- Grad Program Review
- Undergrad Program Review
- Next Start January 6th