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Charter Pipeline now available at local Gateway store
Consumers can sign up for cable modem service when buying new PC |
| Consumers can now sign up for Charter Pipeline high-speed Internet service at the same time they’re buying a new personal computer at the Gateway store in Silverdale. A retail partnership between Charter and Gateway makes it easy for customers to sign up for a broadband access package that includes equipment and ongoing support... (Full Article) |
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Online privacy guide released |
| The United States Chamber of Commerce has released “Privacy Made Simple,” a guide to online privacy management, in conjunction with the Privacy Leadership Initiative... (Full Article) |
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Morpheus goes legit
Maker of file-sharing program to put limits on MP3 swapping |
| Morpheus, the leading alternative to Napster that was labeled an “insidious virus” by top music officials, has announced plans it hopes will appease the entertainment industry while still allowing its millions of users to share free files... (Full Article) |
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It’s a jungle out there in cyberspace
By Jim Kendall |
| In case you have been hibernating in a cave in the wilds of Alaska, an international ring of pedophiles has been broken up. Their communications means-of-choice was chat rooms on Yahoo... (Full Article) |
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Phynity Inc. of Silverdale rolls out
software upgrade |
| Silverdale’s Phynity Inc. announced the roll out of version 1.2 of its flagship product “Camelot Reporting,” a Web-based enterprise information management tool aimed at small to large sized companies and corporations... (Full Article) |
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Software helps identify true source of e-mail |
| A new software product that analyzes e-mail headers and identifies the sender’s geographic region has been released by Visualware Inc. eMailTrackerPro, is designed to assist in detecting the true origin of e-mail helping users in the identification and reporting of spammers, and verification of the email source for security purposes... (Full Article) |
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New book written for tech lessees |
| Leasing Power Tools Press (www.leasingpress.com) has released its long-awaited book on Technology Leasing for users of technology equipment: Technology Leasing: Power Tools for Lessees... (Full Article) |
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What will they think of next? |
| Have you ever heard a song on the radio and tried to figure out the name of it? Scientists at Phillips are working on a technology that will do just that. To use the service, you dial up a new computer system they’ve devised, and then hold your cell phone up to the radio for a few seconds... (Full Article) |
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Sun Microsystems offering free software |
| For all who increasingly are angry about paying big bucks to Microsoft for a new program, there’s another way. Sun Microsystems recently released StarOffice 6.0 Beta, and a reviewer for the CNet Web site said, “From the looks of it, the final (due out the first half of 2002) might just lure a few thrifty folks out of Microsoft Office’s clutches... (Full Article) |
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WSTPA to meet April 18 |
| The West Sound Technology Professionals Association (WSTPA) will hold its next monthly meeting on April 18, in the new Community Meeting Room of the Poulsbo Branch of the Kitsap Regional Library, located at 700 Lincoln Ave. The meeting time is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m... (Full Article) |
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Donobi and Linux-Works form strategic alliance |
| Silverdale internet service provider Donobi Inc., and Linux-Works recently signed a strategic alliance that will expand services offered to each firm’s clientele as well as open up new markets for each of the companies... (Full Article) |
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Digital MediaZ announces new Web service |
Bremerton’s Digital MediaZ Performance Hosting and Design recently announced the launch of a new web hosting and design service. Biz-Web, as it is called, is targeted at small businesses seeking a professional, dynamic content, online presence.
According to Mike Momany, principal of Digital MediaZ, the firm uses the best elements of the Open Source commerce and hosting software to provide the service at an affordable cost.
The service can be previewed at www.dmzhost.com. |
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Gadgetry |
| A new fingerprint reader keeps others from logging onto your computer. The Ethenticator USB 2500 ($129) ends the need for user names, passwords and the need to keep them secret without forgetting them. The machine uses a sensor to turn the details of your fingerprint into digital code. Yes, it can tell if the finger is alive, so nobody else could use a copy, a latent image — or your finger — to invade your computer. |
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IBM to rival Microsoft’s web services tools |
| International Business Machines (IBM), the world’s biggest computer maker, has unveiled a challenge to Microsoft’s dot.net strategy, which defines a new model of business computing... (Full Article) |
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Microsoft unveils Internet software |
| Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates recently unveiled Visual Studio .Net, a set of development tools to permit programs from different vendors to be linked together easily over the internet in a “plug-and-play” manner... (Full Article) |
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Little-known Web browser highly useful, customizable |
| Some people like the relatively unknown Web browser Opera, because they want an alternative to Internet Explorer or Netscape. Others like it because it’s fast and relatively small... (Full Article) |
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Browse without leaving a cookie trail |
| Surfing the web is getting to be a little like living in a glass house – much of what you do gets noticed... (Full Article) |
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“Smart” e-mail on drawing board |
| A big Microsoft push in the next operating system following XP will be in message management. For example, at the office of Microsoft senior researcher Eric Horvitz, e-mail is delivered with a sound. The messages in his computer deem most important might be heralded with a trumpet, while less important ones might produce a quack... (Full Article) |
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Bainbridge author releases new tech book
By Nancy L. Stump |
| Quick, what do you do? You’re a small business owner who would rather devote time to growing your business than learning about a software package. But you suspect Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS) might be just the ticket to help manage, organize and streamline your operation... (Full Article) |
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Telecom fires burning bright in Kitsap County
By Kevin Dwyer |
| Chris Walker likes to compare the craziness that is reverberating throughout the telecommunications industry to the predictability of the staid, old beverage business... (Full Article) |
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Donobi announces acquisitions |
| Donobi, Inc. recently announced the recent acquisition of World Front Technologies Corporation (WFT), also known as Bandwagon Internet of Silverdale. The transaction included all of WFT’s customers, equipment, and locations throughout Western Washington... (Full Article) |
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Exactly how big is the Web? No one really knows |
| No wonder it’s so easy to get lost on the Web. The Web is growing so fast that no one is really exactly sure how big it is... (Full Article) |
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Beating the market |
| Remember when IBM’s supercomputer beat chess master Gary Kasparov? That was interesting but unlikely to change the world in any fundamental way. Now a supercomputer experiment by Jeffrey Kephart at IBM’s research center really may have long-lasting impact. He pitted the computer against six expert commodity traders. The computer made more money on its trades than the experts. “The impact might be measured in billions or dollars,” he said. |
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PIP Printing relocates to downtown Bremerton |
PIP Printing has moved from Redwood Plaza in East Bremerton to 711 Pacific Avenue in downtown Bremerton. The new location is the original site of the former Dickson Fletcher Printing.
PIP offers both traditional offset printing as well as digital production, a line of advertising specialties, large format laminating, blueprint copying, web design services, bindery operations and bulk mail processing. |
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Apple co-founder launches new tech company |
| The co-founder of Apple Computer, Steve Wozniak, has emerged from semi-retirement with a new company called Wheels of Zeus. His focus is on the development of cheap consumer electronics devices that make use of global positioning technology (GPS) and other wireless technologies... (Full Article) |
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Netscape sues Microsoft for antitrust violations |
| Netscape Communications, AOL Time Warner’s subsidiary, has filed suit against Microsoft for damages, citing its anti-competitive behavior during the so-called “browser wars” of the mid-1990s. The private antitrust lawsuit is based on the government’s antitrust case against the software giant, which found the company guilty of anti-competitive behavior... (Full Article) |
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Careers at the Crossroads:
Eton Technical College helps bridge
local gap in private vocational training
By Larry Sivitz |
| At the crossroads of highway 3 and 16 just outside of Port Orchard, Eton Technical Institute may just be the largest facility of its kind in Kitsap County, and maybe the oldest, you've never heard of. Still, the next time you're getting a medical or dental exam, or having a prescription filled you may be depending on the technical skills of one of their graduates... (Full Article) |
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TSCNet and WCI connect for voice and data services |
| Silverdale Internet Service Provider (ISP) TSCNet recently announced that the company had signed an agreement with World Communications, Incorporated (WCI) of Seattle to provide businesses local dial tone and long distance telephone services in Western Washington... (Full Article) |
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Bill introduced to outlaw SPAM |
| SPAM — the highly annoying, unsolicited commercial and adult-oriented junk that clogs up your e-mail box — would become a thing of the past under a bill introduced by Sen. Bill Finkbeiner, R—Kirkland... (Full Article) |
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Gateway cuts 2,250 jobs and closes 19 stores |
| Gateway, the fourth-largest US computer maker, announced it would cut about 2,250 jobs and close 19 of its 296 retail stores — including one in downtown Seattle and others in our state — in an effort to further reduce costs... (Full Article) |
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Ebay, AOL ready to raise fees |
| Online auctioneer eBay has announced plans to increase some fees next month. It will raise its “final value fees” — its take of each sale — by one-quarter percent. The company also plans to raise the fee charged to list a vehicle for sale on eBay Motors to $40 from $25. The cost of listing real estate and some other items will remain unchanged... (Full Article) |
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WSTPA to show how software is developed |
| The West Sound Technology Professionals Association (WSTPA) will be presenting the topic “How Software is Made — An Overview of the Process of Software Development” at it’s February monthly meeting... (Full Article) |
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New Web address for Kitsap County |
| On July 2, Kitsap County activated www.kitsapgov.com, a new Internet address. The County made the change to enhance its online offerings according to county Webmaster Mary Jo Rose... (Full Article) |
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What will they think of next? |
| When a Baltimore college student logged onto the Net with a stolen laptop in June, he had no idea that the pilfered PC was making a secret call to it’s owner, the University of Maryland’s Audio-Visual Services Department. “Hi, I’m at this location,” the computer said. That was all officials at Absolute Software in Vancouver, B.C. needed to track down the laptop. The stealthy software and other anti-theft programs are helping corporate owners around the country find stolen laptops and desktops by sending homing signals to online monitors, which begin to track the computer’s location. |
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Super Webgirl snares Golden Web Award |
Bainbridge Island’s Super Webgirl, aka, Jane Lindley, was recently awarded the Golden Web Award for the site she built for Posh Speaker Systems. The Golden Web Awards are given for excellence achieved in Web Design, Content and Creativity.
Reach Super Webgirl at (206) 842-2983 or jane@superwebgirl.com. |
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Donobi, Inc. and Solutions form strategic alliance |
| Two Silverdale high-tech firms, Solutions and Donobi Inc., recently signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement to provide enhanced business improvement programs, integrated electronic commerce and Internet technical services for clients of both companies... (Full Article) |
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NNS offering free Web creation tools |
| Bainbridge Island’s Northwest Network Services Inc., provider of NorthsoundNet and BainbridgeNet Internet Services, recently announced it is offering free Web creation software called SiteBuilder Creator from Trellix... (Full Article) |
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Super WebGirl finishes four new sites |
| Jane Lindley, also known as Super WebGirl, recently completed work on four commercial Web sites. One site, for Miles Yanick + Company, features the work of well-known Bainbridge Island illustrator Richard Stine... (Full Article) |
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SunshineSmiley completes Web work |
| Poulsbo’s SunshineSmiley Web Design recently completed work creating and designing several web sites for clients in New York, Idaho, California, Kingston and Nevada... (Full Article) |
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Colson earns MCP designation |
| Bainbridge Island resident Erika Colson, co-owner of Autonomix, Inc., recently earned the Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) credential for her successful completion of the SQL Server exam “Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0... (Full Article) |
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Womensnet makes grants available |
| The Amber Foundation, a nonprofit organization set up to help women of vision start new online businesses or help an existing one take a step forward, has announced a new grant program... (Full Article) |
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IT education is available locally at many venues
By Maria Marsala |
| When you ask Kitsap County residents about the availability of Information Technology (IT) classes or training, Olympic College is the school most often mentioned... (Full Article) |
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Paladin offers major new technology at Hawaii ITEC |
| Poulsbo’s Paladin Data Systems Corporation, the northwest’s largest independent Oracle consulting group, presented a major new technology known as Corporate Portals, at Hawaii ITEC recently... (Full Article) |
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