Defense, Homeland Security, people Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: Michael Jones has an unusual perspective on the defense industry for a guy who oversees a non-profit industry group for San Diego’s defense and homeland security companies. While the defense industry abounds with examples of advanced technologies, “big defense companies are not doing innovation,” says Jones, chairman and CEO of The Security Network. “They’ll even tell you that they’re not really innovators. What they want to do are big projects that combine technologies. They’re essentially big systems integrators.” So where does innovation come from in the defense industry? In San Diego , a lot of it comes through the small companies that belong to The Security Network. The organization, formed in 2004, coordinates the interests of government and law enforcement agencies, defense companies, university laboratories and other interest groups in the San Diego region. Sometimes that involves sponsoring events, such as the one-day forum held last week on “Maritime Law Enforcement and Security.” Sometimes that involves identifying and developing new technologies sought by Gary Wang, the chief technology officer at SPAWAR, the Navy’s San Diego-based Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. SPAWAR is a major Navy acquisition arm with more than 7,500 employees that awards billions of dollars in contracts each year—primarily to advance developments in C4ISR, a military acronym for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. So how does The Security Network work with Wang, who oversees SPAWAR’s science and technology labs on Point Loma? “The world that the DoD (Department of Defense) and defense contractors live in is very insular,” Jones says. “So (Wang) is interested in finding new technologies so the government doesn’t waste a lot of time and money trying to develop something that already exists. Because if you’re a big contractor like Lockheed Martin, you don’t care if the technology the government wants already exists somewhere else. You want the government to pay you to develop the technology yourself.” So The Security Network serves an important role, Jones says. “We try to find innovative, off-the-shelf, dual-use technologies from around the world—they could be from Des Moines or Boston, Perth or Berlin—and we try to help those technologies get to the right market. It could be the DoD, law enforcement agencies, or commercial customers.” Often times, The Security Network helps small companies adapt their commercial technologies for military customers. The Security Network at first sought to promote all kinds of San Diego technologies for military use. But in recent years, Jones says SPAWAR and other military procurement agencies have advised them to focus more on four specific areas of new technology development. Those areas consist of C4ISR, advanced robotics, information assurance, and the sensors and sensor networking technologies. As an example, Jones cites Intellicheck Mobilisa of Port Townsend, WA., which specializes in access control and identity verification technologies. During last week’s forum on maritime law enforcement and security, the company presented information on its development of a wireless buoy network that can detect waterborne threats and alert authorities. Another company based in the San Diego area, Micro USA, demonstrated Deep Sea View, its electro-optical system intended to look underwater for swimmers, mines, mini-subs and other submerged objects. “It’s really interesting,” Jones adds, “because most VCs have no interest in investing in new defense technologies or companies. They think the customer base is too concentrated and the government’s purchasing cycle takes too long and is subject to too many vagaries.” The Security Network serves a slightly different role than venture capitalists. Instead of supplying capital, it helps connect small companies with military procurement agencies and other sources of funding. While there’s not much coordination for many technologies being developed in San Diego, Jones says, “We’re a non-profit education organization that runs events in the hopes of creating opportunities for working together.” Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS Less

Simms Jenkins is the founder & CEO of of BrightWave Marketing, an award-winning permission-based marketing company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Email Marketing delivers a $46 ROI on very dollar invested - but done properly, it’s not quite as easy as it seems. In this interview, Simms discusses some of the benefits, pitfalls and myths involved - all of which are covered in his book, ‘The Truth About Email Marketing’. This is an ideal handbook for anyone that wants to learn about making effective use email or marketing effectively - either for the first time, or as part of an existing campaign. Web Links: The Truth About Email Marketing - Buy the book Brightwave Marketing - Company web site EmailStatCenter.com - Email Metrics Portal LinkedIn find Simms Jenkins on LinkedIn LinkedIn Group - network & interact with other Email Marketers Facebook - find Simms Jenkins on Facebook Facebook Group - network & interact with other Email Marketers Like this PodCast? Then share it with your network - or show your support by writing a Review on iTunes. And don’t be shy - please leave a Comment . Your feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated. If you’re a Blogger or Webmaster - you can download Embed Code that makes it easy to include this Episode of ‘Connections’ in your web page. Thank you Stan Relihan Expert Executive Search: www.expertsearch.com.au Less

innovation, networking, Coffee Gregory T. Huang wrote: Want to know where your favorite VC gets his or her morning latte? How about where tech and life sciences entrepreneurs gather to network and discuss ideas? If you’re looking to rub shoulders with the technological elite—or if you’re just looking for a quiet cafe to have a meeting or get some work done—you’ve come to the right place. Here at Xconomy Seattle, we’ve been keeping track of the coffee hotspots around town favored by the tech-business leaders we talk to and write about every day. We thought it would be fun to share what we’ve found, both as a list and as an interactive map you can click around on (see below). In many cases, we’ve met the innovators or investors in their favorite haunts and sampled the local beverages. In other cases, we’ve gone by what they told us. But this is in no way a comprehensive list. We’d love to hear from you about where you like to go, where plans get hatched, and where tomorrow’s deals are being discussed. We’ll update the list as we go. It may be cliché to say the Seattle innovation scene runs on coffee, but it seems to be true. One of the amazing things about the region is the sheer number of great cafes and places to gather, talk, refuel, and recharge. There’s something for everyone, from the quiet elegance of Caffe Fiore on Queen Anne Hill to the casual charm of Louisa’s on Eastlake to the hustle and bustle of Espresso Vivace near downtown. Not to mention the old reliables, Starbucks, Seattle’s Best, and Tully’s (especially on the Eastside—what’s with the lack of independent cafes over there?). View Larger Map And behind every great cafe is a great story. Take Trabant Coffee & Chai, known for its strong espresso, tasty drip coffee, and spicy teas. The Pioneer Square branch is a personal favorite of Dan Shapiro, the co-founder and CEO of Ontela—and there’s an interesting reason why. In early 2006, Shapiro says, he was one of several entrepreneurs pitching their companies at a Keiretsu Forum angel investor meeting downtown. “We were singing for our supper,” he says. The guy in front of him was pitching a $12,000 drip-coffee maker, and he had coffee samples for everyone (Shapiro was too wired to try any). The panel asked the coffee guy questions like, Aren’t you just going to compete with Starbucks? Why wouldn’t Starbucks just do this? He replied that Starbucks’ leaders were too set in their ways, and the only way they’d do it is if they saw it in action. The guy was Zander Nosler of the Ballard-based Coffee Equipment Company. His machine was called the Clover, and sure enough, he was right. His 11-person startup was bought last March by Starbucks, which now has Clover machines in several-dozen stores in the Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Boston metro areas. So what does this have to do with Trabant? The local coffee shop was a key early customer of the Clover, buying the machine in the spring of 2007. “Every time I go there, I feel like I’m supporting the local startup scene,” says Shapiro. There are many more stories, but we won’t get to them today. Instead, we present our first pass of the Greater Seattle Coffee Cluster: an alphabetical list of cafes, and some of the notable people you might run into there. If you’ve got a favorite spot, or a story to pass along, please do comment below or drop us a note at editors@xconomy.com. Then again, you might want to keep your local treasures to yourself… Belle Epicurean 1206 4th Ave, Seattle, WA Recommended by Megan Muir of DLA Piper for its pastries, good coffee, and confidentiality. Caffe Fiore 224 W. Galer St, Seattle, WA Martin Tobias of Kashless is known to arrive for meetings here on his Segway. Caffe Ladro 600 Queen Anne Ave North, Seattle, WA Favored by Paul Thelen of Big Fish Games. …Next Page » Comments (2) | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

innovation, networking, Coffee Gregory T. Huang wrote: Want to know where your favorite VC gets his or her morning latte? How about where tech and life sciences entrepreneurs gather to network and discuss ideas? If you’re looking to rub shoulders with the technological elite—or if you’re just looking for a quiet cafe to have a meeting or get some work done—you’ve come to the right place. Here at Xconomy Seattle, we’ve been keeping track of the coffee hotspots around town favored by the tech-business leaders we talk to and write about every day. We thought it would be fun to share what we’ve found, both as a list and as an interactive map you can click around on (see below). In many cases, we’ve met the innovators or investors in their favorite haunts and sampled the local beverages. In other cases, we’ve gone by what they told us. But this is in no way a comprehensive list. We’d love to hear from you about where you like to go, where plans get hatched, and where tomorrow’s deals are being discussed. We’ll update the list as we go. It may be cliché to say the Seattle innovation scene runs on coffee, but it seems to be true. One of the amazing things about the region is the sheer number of great cafes and places to gather, talk, refuel, and recharge. There’s something for everyone, from the quiet elegance of Caffe Fiore on Queen Anne Hill to the casual charm of Louisa’s on Eastlake to the hustle and bustle of Espresso Vivace near downtown. Not to mention the old reliables, Starbucks, Seattle’s Best, and Tully’s (especially on the Eastside—what’s with the lack of independent cafes over there?). View Larger Map And behind every great cafe is a great story. Take Trabant Coffee & Chai, known for its strong espresso, tasty drip coffee, and spicy teas. The Pioneer Square branch is a personal favorite of Dan Shapiro, the co-founder and CEO of Ontela—and there’s an interesting reason why. In early 2006, Shapiro says, he was one of several entrepreneurs pitching their companies at a Keiretsu Forum angel investor meeting downtown. “We were singing for our supper,” he says. The guy in front of him was pitching a $12,000 drip-coffee maker, and he had coffee samples for everyone (Shapiro was too wired to try any). The panel asked the coffee guy questions like, Aren’t you just going to compete with Starbucks? Why wouldn’t Starbucks just do this? He replied that Starbucks’ leaders were too set in their ways, and the only way they’d do it is if they saw it in action. The guy was Zander Nosler of the Ballard-based Coffee Equipment Company. His machine was called the Clover, and sure enough, he was right. His 11-person startup was bought last March by Starbucks, which now has Clover machines in several-dozen stores in the Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Boston metro areas. So what does this have to do with Trabant? The local coffee shop was a key early customer of the Clover, buying the machine in the spring of 2007. “Every time I go there, I feel like I’m supporting the local startup scene,” says Shapiro. There are many more stories, but we won’t get to them today. Instead, we present our first pass of the Greater Seattle Coffee Cluster: an alphabetical list of cafes, and some of the notable people you might run into there. If you’ve got a favorite spot, or a story to pass along, please do comment below or drop us a note at editors@xconomy.com. Then again, you might want to keep your local treasures to yourself… Belle Epicurean 1206 4th Ave, Seattle, WA Recommended by Megan Muir of DLA Piper for its pastries, good coffee, and confidentiality. Caffe Fiore 224 W. Galer St, Seattle, WA Martin Tobias of Kashless is known to arrive for meetings here on his Segway. Also the favorite of Paul Thelen of Big Fish Games. Caffe Ladro 600 Queen Anne Ave North, Seattle, WA Paul Thelen of Big Fish Games also lists this institution as one of his likes. …Next Page » Comments (6) | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Roundup, deals, VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: It was a pretty slow week for tech deals in the Northwest—chalk it up to the election and the Veteran’s Day holiday. Nevertheless, there was a trickle of activity in software, digital media, and energy. —Seattle-based Voyager Capital has led an investment in Keystream, a Mountain View, CA-based online video advertising startup. The deal closed earlier this year, and the financial terms were not announced. Keystream’s software allows Web publishers to insert ads into blank spaces in their video content. —Entrance Controls, a Tukwila, WA-based security company, acquired Portland, OR-based 1Pointe, a startup that delivers secure networking, storage, and wireless technologies to businesses. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. —Puget Sound Energy, the Bellevue, WA-based utility company, purchased 22 wind turbine generators from Vestas, a leading turbine manufacturer with U.S. headquarters in Portland, OR. The turbines will be used to expand the Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility in eastern Kittitas County, WA, and they make up most of the project’s $100 million budget. —Apptio, a Bellevue, WA-based startup that helps companies manage and optimize their IT costs, signed up a new batch of customers, including Alaska Airlines, SkyTap, and SumTotal. A year ago, the company raised $7 million from Madrona Venture Group, Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, and other investors. —Not a deal, but a list of dealbreakers: Seattle angel investor Geoff Entress, formerly a venture partner at Madrona Venture Group, gave his Top 10 list of why startups fail. (The list goes to 11, like a Spinal Tap amp.) —Also not a deal per se, but Luke reported on how Portland, OR-based Wellpartner, a mail-order pharmacy, is helping clinics that serve the poor gain access to drugs at half the average wholesale price that private insurers get charged. Wellpartner does it by cutting through the red tape of a federal program known as 340B. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Last century, we saw wealth created by large companies using economies of scale to keeps costs low so they could dominate markets. In the next generation economy [pdf], new wealth will be created by entrepreneurs through a network of great relationships built on trust. ___ ___ Trusting relationships will save you time and make you money. The question is, “How do you build this trust so you can build relationships?” There’s a concept called equal consideration of interests – you place your interest equal to the other party. That sounds so simple, but we believe it deserves emphasis. Win / lose. “I win, you lose” doesn’t work because it doesn’t build the trust that is necessary to have good relationships in tomorrow’s business world. Yet there are a lot of people who place their interest above everybody else’s. Lose / win. “I lose, you win” ultimately fails because fulfilling relationships can’t be one-sided. Eventually frustration leads to anger and the relationship (if that’s what you call it) dissolves. Yet there are a lot of people who place everybody else’s interest above their own. Neither one is the best path to building fulfilling relationships. There is a better way … Win / win. This is the perfect combination in today’s business world. Win / win is equal consideration of interests. Even if it benefits me, I won’t do it if it hurts you. We’ll work together to find a better way that is mutually beneficial. That’s the key to innovation – another 21st century necessity. What works today won’t be good enough tomorrow. By working together, we can find a better way than either of us could find on our own. Moving quickly on a new venture We just launched a new offline venture. We had an idea for a product. We talked it over with people in our network. Based on their recommendation, we revised it … a lot! But it was much better. We reached out to potential strategic partners and got them in place. Last week, one of those strategic partners began selling our product across the nation. It probably would have taken us six to twelve months to do this if we didn’t have the right relationships in place. Instead, this all happened in about two months. That’s another 21st century mindset – once you spot an opportunity, you have to move very quickly. It’s hard to do that if you have to develop the concept from scratch. You need to reach out to people and firms who have the infrastructure in place to help you capitalize on it. If they aren’t already in your network, it will take longer. So building trusting relationships is essential. But there are (at least) two points to consider … Relationship building is a long-term investment. It takes time to build your network. We have years of goodwill built up with some of our strategic partners. This helps get revenue-generation going quickly once you have the right idea. Don’t wait to build your network until you need it. It will probably be too late then. Make relationship building an everyday thing. Trusting people solve problems quickly. When you trust your partner and your partner trusts you, problems can be solved much more easily. As we’ve had issues, we’ve been able to deal with them very quickly. We can hear our partners considering our interests along with their own; they can hear us doing the same thing. The best way we know to capitalize on an opportunity quickly is when two or more people, with trust already in place, consider their interests equally and seek mutually beneficial solutions. It’s the way to create wealth in the 21st century! ___ Get the tips and tools you need to be a BIGG success! Subscribe to the Bigg Success Weekly – it’s FREE! ___ Join us next time as we celebrate our one year anniversary! Until then, here’s to your bigg success! Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes.  Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00262-111108.mp3 Related posts Relationship Building Blocks Failure to Do This Harms Relationships 3 Keys to Effective Networking (Image by darktaco) Less

deals, acquisitions, Security Gregory T. Huang wrote: Tukwila, WA-based Entrance Controls, a technology firm that manages electronic security for businesses, announced today it has acquired Portland, OR-based 1Pointe. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2005, 1Pointe delivers secure networking, wireless, and storage technologies to businesses in the Northwest. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Stan Relihan is a Recruiter & Headhunter in Sydney Australia. Although not strictly speaking an Episode of ‘The Connections Show’, it was this interview he did with Cameron Reilly on the G-Day World podcast (and the subsequent Challenge Cameron set him) that kicked it all off to begin with. If you’re interested in learning about how to use LinkedIn as a Business Tool (or just plain curious to find out about the show’s beginnings) - this is your chance. WEB LINKS: G’Day World - Cameron Reilly’s Podcast Show LinkedIn - Stan’s LinkedIn profile Expert Executive Search - Stan’s company Like this PodCast? Then share it with your network - or show your support by writing a Review on iTunes. And don’t be shy - please leave a Comment . Your feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated. If you’re a Blogger or Webmaster - you can download Embed Code that makes it easy to include this Episode of ‘Connections’ in your web page. Thank you Stan Relihan Expert Executive Search: www.expertsearch.com.au Less

Seth Godin joined us on The Bigg Success Show today for the first of a three-part series to discuss his fantastic new book, Tribes . Seth is well-known to most of us, but here are some of the details: He is known as the most popular business blogger on the web. He also has written 10 best-selling books, including three of our favorites: Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, and The Dip. Here’s a recap of the first part of our conversation: ___ ___ ___ I have to tell you, Seth, that your book The Dip was very influential in my decision to leave radio to build my own brand. You talked about how the industry forgot they were in the relationship business, not just the radio business. That really helped take me over the top and I said, “Yes, I’m going to start Bigg Success!” ___ ___ I’m so glad to hear that and Tribes is going to help you even more because I talk a lot about the difference between having faith in a vision, faith in the future, or faith in the content about what you do and abandoning the rules or the religion of the status quo. ___ What is a tribe? ___ We love this book, Seth. We see some of the themes from your previous books and you pull it all together, which is fantastic. Why don’t you start by telling us what a “tribe” is? ___ ___ A tribe is a group of people that are connected by a common goal, a common language, and common rituals. Usually they have a leader and a movement – they’re trying to make something happen. A tribe is very different than a crowd. A crowd is just a bunch of people. A crowd is people coming to your Grand Opening Sale, people clicking through to your web site, or people looking at your ads on TV. Marketers love crowds, but they have to earn a tribe, which is a totally different thing. ___ ___ Because a tribe interacts with each other and that’s what starts creating the movement. ___ ___ That’s exactly right. Tribes are always bigger than the leader himself. We can look at some famous ones, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. Clearly it was the movement and the tribe that made the difference, not the person at the front of the room. We see tribes in everything from marathon runners or triathletes all the way to the Red Hat Ladies, the fifty- or sixty-year old women you’ll see around the world at cafes or the women who have now taken up roller derby and do it in the evenings instead of watching TV. ___ Engagement comes from quality, not quantity ___ One of the things in your new book goes back to the crowd theme. It’s the quality, not the quantity, that matters. ___ ___ Exactly. What we’re seeing is there’s a guy named Gary Vaynerchuk, who has his own TV show about wine. Gary has a tribe. It’s only a couple of hundred thousand strong, so it’s tiny compared to what any TV network would want. But Gary has benefited enormously, both in terms of revenue and public appearances but also in terms of his impact on society and the people he wants to reach. It’s far more effective than if he had a spot on The Today Show. ___ ___ In your book, you point out something about Gary that I thought was very interesting. What he does is narrate his tribe’s passion. He doesn’t push it on them; he just leads the passion. ___ ___ That’s right. Almost every tribe was there before you got there to lead it. Almost all the things that human beings want to do, they’ve already figured out. What they’ve been waiting for is someone to connect them and give them a voice. My friend, Jacqueline Novogratz, runs the Acumen Fund, a very important philanthropic venture out of New York. She has trouble finding people who all along believed there was a better solution to the developing world. Once she finds them, all she has to do is point them in the right direction and they’re eager to get on board. It’s not about persuading the undecided; it’s about connecting the committed. ___ Seth is also the founder of Squidoo, where you can find a special page about Tribes. Next time, we’ll continue our conversation with Seth. We’ll learn what pushed Seth to become a tribe leader. He’ll also tell us about the power of one. Until then, here’s to your bigg success! Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes.  Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00253-102908.mp3 Less

Tana Goertz is an internationally-recognized Entrepreneur, Author, Public Speaker & Success Coach from Des Moines, Iowa. She’s probably best known as a finalist in Donald Trump’s hit TV series, The Apprentice 3: ‘Book Smarts vs. Street Smarts’ . She’s also appeared on ‘Fear Factor’, as well as being as the spokesperson for The Bedazzler and several other companies. Tana is a real bundle of energy - and combines a ‘can-do’ spirit & attitude with an inspirational message that has put her in high demand as a Public Speaker & Motivator for many Fortune 500 companies. In this interview, she discusses how she’s been using LinkedIn to enhance her personal brand, get valuable feedback on new business ideas - and help others achieve success. WEB LINKS: Hey, Tana! - Tana’s official web site LinkedIn - Tana’s LinkedIn profile Facebook - Tana’s Facebook page Wikipedia - Tana’s Wikipedia page The Apprentice- Season 3 Brochure of Speaking Topics Like this PodCast? Then share it with your network - or show your support by writing a Review on iTunes. And don’t be shy - please leave a Comment . Your feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated. If you’re a Blogger or Webmaster - you can download Embed Code that makes it easy to include this Episode of ‘Connections’ in your web page. Thank you Stan Relihan Expert Executive Search: www.expertsearch.com.au Less

Kelly Perdew is CEO of Rotohog.com - a Fantasy Sports platform that creates interactive online games with partners like the National Basketball Association . Based in Los Angeles, California, Kelly is a graduate of West Point Military Academy & the winner of Donald Trump’s top-rating TV Show, The Apprentice, Season 2 . As well as being an Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author (and all-round nice guy), Kelly is also a Presidential Appointee to the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation . In this interview, Kelly talks about his experiences - including what it was like working as part of The Trump Organization - and what he learned from the experience. And for listeners interested in playing RotoHog - Kelly has a bonus Promotional Code that lets you upgrade to the Premium version for FREE! (but you’ll only find out what it is by listening) WEB LINKS: Rotohog.com - Online Fantasy Sports League KellyPerdew.com - Kelly’s official web site The Apprentice- Season 2 Kelly’s Wikipedia page USA Freedom Corps - Make a Difference. Volunteer Like this PodCast? Then share it with your network - or show your support by  writing a Review on iTunes. And don’t be shy - please leave a Comment . Your feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated. If you’re a Blogger or Webmaster - you can download Embed Code that makes it easy to include this Episode of ‘Connections’ in your web page. Thank you Stan Relihan Expert Executive Search: www.expertsearch.com.au Less

Mobile, wireless, WiMax Wade Roush wrote: On Monday I blogged about a report that the XOHM WiMax network, Sprint Nextel’s venture into broadband wireless service, is up and running in Boston and several other cities, even though the company has officially launched the service only in Baltimore. Today, the source of that report, Robert Wray of in-car-computing site MP3Car.com, wrote to let me know that he has verified that XOHM is active here by driving through the city with a WiMax-enabled laptop. Wray flew into Boston on Wednesday, rented a car, and drove south from Logan Airport to Weymouth, measuring his network connection speed along the way. Even driving at 65 miles per hour, he was able to connect at about 2.5 megabits per second—three or four times the speed of 3G devices such as the Apple iPhone. “Coverage was patchy, but when it worked, it really worked,” Wray writes. Wray, who lives in Maryland, was even able to use the location-finding features provided by XOHM’s network, watching as a little man-shaped icon representing the car’s position moved across a Google map. An official at Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) told me on Monday that the XOHM service is still in the “developmental” stages in Boston and several other cities, including Providence, RI, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Fort Worth, TX. Any announcement about the official launch of the network in these cities, the official said, would probably come from “the new Clearwire,” the company expected to be formed this year from the pending merger of Sprint’s XOHM subsidiary with Kirkland, WA-based Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR). That merger is still under review by courts in Illinois and regulators in Washington, and is dependent on a $3.2 billion investment from Bright House Networks, Comcast, Intel, Google, and Time Warner Cable. Clearly, though, Sprint has already installed enough WiMax equipment in and around Boston to provide fairly comprehensive coverage. Wray’s full results are posted at his blog; he says he plans to test XOHM connection speeds at several more locations while he is visiting Boston. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

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Mobile, wireless, Internet Wade Roush wrote: Sprint Nextel, which is spending billions to blanket major U.S. cities with super-high-speed wireless networks based on the new WiMax standard, turned on its first city—Baltimore—last week. Now there’s a report from the blogosphere that Sprint’s so-called XOHM network is up and running—though not officially launched or supported—in six additional locales, including Boston. The automotive electronics website MP3Car.com reported yesterday, based on a conversation with a XOHM representative working at a booth at Baltimore’s Fells Point Festival, that the XOHM network has been turned on for testing purposes in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and northern Virginia. The network is “not supported,” the reports said, but computer users who have bought the Samsung Expresscard, one of the first WiMax wireless cards certified to work with XOHM, should be able to get onto the network. We’re seeking confirmation of this news from Sprint Nextel, which hasn’t yet responded to our inquiries. The XOHM website says that the network is “coming soon” to Chicago and Washington DC and that it’s “in the works” in Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Providence, and Philadelphia. XOHM is a so-called 4G or fourth-generation wireless network that delivers data to subscribers’ laptop or desktop PCs at speeds of 2 to 4 megabits per second. That’s a lot faster than 3G wireless: while 3G speeds vary depending on signal strength, I get downloads on my iPhone 3G at about 800 kilobits per second (0.8 megabits per second). But XOHM isn’t as fast as most cable Internet connections—here at Xconomy, our Comcast cable Internet service tops out at around 13 megabits per second. Sprint’s introductory prices for XOHM service in Baltimore are $10 for a day pass, $25 per month for home service, and $30 per month for “On-the-go” or mobile service. So, Bostonians—if you have a WiMax card and the XOHM network is working for you, let us know. (Leave a comment or write to editors@xconomy.com.) Update 5:15 pm, 10/6/08: John Polivka, a public relations representative for XOHM, sent the following note just now. I had asked Polivka whether XOHM is working in Boston for people who have WiMax cards. He didn’t offer a direct answer, so draw your own conclusions: “XOHM service is commercially available in Baltimore only, though we have a number of other cities where the 4G mobile broadband network is in various stages of development or implementation. Chicago and Washington DC are furthest along and developmental work is in process in Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Dallas and Ft. Worth. No timetables have been announced, and the privilege of doing so will likely fall to the new Clearwire—expected to be formed sometime this quarter from the merger with Sprint’s XOHM WiMax once all approvals are received. There has been a phenomenal response to our launch, so additional interest is certainly understood.” Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Raimund Genes is CTO, Anti-Malware at leading Internet Security vendor, Trend Micro , based at their European headquarters in Munich, Germany. As a result of meeting Raimund at the 2008 Gartner Security Summit held in Sydney, Australia, I invited him to appear on the show to expand on one of the themes that’s emerging as a matter of concern to all users of the World Wide Web - Internet Security. While the full extent of Malware threats is hard to quanity, what IS clear is that cybercrime is Big Business - with underground operators now making even more money than international illegal drug cartels! And although highly-publicized virus outbreaks (like Slammer of Melissa) now seem to be a thing of the past, this is only because today’s cybercriminals are motivated by profit instead of mischief-making - using silent, more stealthy forms of Malware to steal passwords and personal information from unsuspecting users. In this interview, Raimund presents a number of strategies that users & corporations can use to combat these threats. MORE INFORMATION: Inside the Hacker’s den MySpace a new fraud market The great Credit Card Swindle Gartner dispels security myths No names: inside the fake identity racket Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses Cloud Computing solution to cyberthreats Like this PodCast? Then share it with your network - or show your support by  writing a Review on iTunes. And don’t be shy - please leave a Comment . Your feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated. If you’re a Blogger or Webmaster - you can download Embed Code that makes it easy to include this Episode of ‘Connections’ in your web page. Thank you Stan Relihan Expert Executive Search: www.expertsearch.com.au Less

Corporate Research, labs, Computing Gregory T. Huang wrote: On a clear day, David Wetherall can see Mount Rainier from his desk. On a clearer day, he can see the future of Intel. OK, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. But Wetherall, the director of Intel Research Seattle, has certainly been charged with leading an exploratory research effort for the chip-making giant—blue-sky, “off-roadmap” stuff that won’t be in Intel’s products anytime soon, but is nonetheless vital to the company because it could help create the broader future of computing. Intel Research Seattle, located three blocks from the University of Washington campus, is one of three Intel labs tied closely to universities around the country—the others are at UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The Seattle lab, which opened in 2001, has 20 full-time researchers, with about an equal number of students, interns, and visiting researchers at any given time. I sat down with Wetherall yesterday as he was doing last-minute preparations for today’s annual lab open house. Wetherall has been director of the Seattle lab since mid-2006. He is also an associate professor of computer science and engineering at UW, and his own research has focused on wireless networks and distributed systems. It’s an unusual model, in that Intel hires its research lab directors for three-year terms, after which they typically go back to academia full-time. (Wetherall is the third director of the Seattle lab.) “The lab has a charter, to bring in new people from the university,” says Wetherall. This helps “invigorate things” and keeps the lab’s research on the “cutting edge.” As Wetherall explains, it’s a pretty open and forward-looking effort. “We have a lot of joint research, projects where university people work here, and we also fund research at the university. It’s a big way we get things done. There is a joint, open collaborative agreement between Intel and UW. People don’t have to sign an NDA,” says Wetherall. “We’re not focused on an immediate product, we’re focused around opening markets…We’re chartered with doing disruptive research that’s not on the product map. Intel is interested in new computing technologies. We’re trying to invent them, and stay ahead of the game. We’re a small scout organization looking for game-changing technologies.” The Seattle lab’s research theme is “focused on future computer systems woven into the fabric of everyday life,” says Wetherall. It’s the next step in the evolution of computers as they migrate from desktops to mobile devices to embedded devices. “We try to figure out what technologies and usage models work, how to power them, how to provide privacy, how to do sensing,” he adds. Researchers at the lab have expertise in hardware, robotics, machine learning, wireless networks, and human-computer interfaces, among other disciplines. “We believe in prototyping, from hardware through software systems, and we have a user-centered viewpoint,” says Wetherall. “We are finding out what users want.” It sounds a lot like the “connected computing” (or ubiquitous computing) trend that the founders of Voyager Capital were telling me about last week, from an investor’s perspective—the confluence of software, wireless, and digital media. I asked Wetherall what connections the Intel lab has with the local innovation community in these areas. …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Thomas Power , located in London, is the founder & CEO of Ecademy - the original Business Network. Founded in February 1998, at the suggestion of Thomas’ wife, Penny Power , Ecademy now has over 300,000 members and operations in 160 countries worldwide. Although smaller and a lot more exclusive than many other networks in existence today, In the last 10 years, Thomas and Penny have met over 10,000 people in 50 countries and run 3000 events and 2000 training courses - so they certainly are very active! As a recruiter, I’d always dismissed Ecademy as being too small to be useful to me - but that’s because I’d not fully understood its mission. Rather than just being a collection of people looking for jobs or social interaction, Ecademy’s focus is to be a Marketplace - where like-minded entrepreneurs & business professionals can meet each other (either online or at face-to-face gatherings) to conduct business and do deals with each other. So while Ecademy may not be a place where I’d go looking for Candidates, it might just be the place to go trawling for Clients - and I think anyone who is more interested in looking for ‘Buyers’ rather than ‘Sellers’ just might agree. WEB LINKS: Ecademy - join up today! Thomas Power’s LinkedIn profile Follow Thomas on Twitter Penny Power - the brains behind the business! Like this PodCast? Then share it with your network - or show your support by writing a Review on iTunes. And don’t be shy - please leave a Comment . Your feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated. If you’re a Blogger or Webmaster - you can download Embed Code that makes it easy to include this Episode of ‘Connections’ in your web page. Thank you Stan Relihan Expert Executive Search: www.expertsearch.com.au Less

Software, wireless, Hardware Wade Roush wrote: Boston-based Skyhook Wireless and Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Centrix.ca announced today that Skyhook’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), which allows wireless devices to determine their geographic location based on the identities of nearby Wi-Fi networks, has been incorporated into the latest version of Centrix’s popular NetworkLocation software. The program automatically adjusts user settings on a Macintosh computer—for instance, which programs to open upon startup, which desktop pictures to show, which screen-saver settings to activate, and which printers to connect to—based on the user’s location. The new “3.0″ version of NetworkLocation will use WPS in addition to other cues, such as the network addresses of Wi-Fi networks or wired local area networks to which a computer is connected, to determine a machine’s location. Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Scott just had to go deeper. We had a Webside Chat to introduce this dynamo of networking not too long ago and we both felt we could peer deeper into the topic of networking and personal branding. So here’s part two on networking effectively with Scott Bradley… | The Top 10 Best Questions to Ask When Networking ShareThis Less

The Internet and web are creating a new space for networking people, information and other resources: this has the potential to become an important 'fifth estate' to support greater accountability in politics, the media and other institutional arenas. Less