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New high-tech data storage firm
opens in Key Center
Firm offers “scan on demand” document retrieval
By Steven Kaczor |
| Storage Tech is a new Gig Harbor-based technology business offering secure electronic filing, storage, and document retrieval services. Brian Overland, CEO, a retired Microsoft executive, put his head together with a friend in real estate to develop the business concept. They researched the technology and business model for a year and decided electronic filing was a high growth industry... (Full Article) |
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Network Security II: Now what?
By Jim Kendall |
| So you are connected to the internet. You happily got yourself hooked up to that snazzy, zippy cable modem that is “always-on.” Never a busy signal. Fast enough to give you wind-burn. But you don’t have your PC firewalled... (Full Article) |
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WSTPA joins statewide tech coalition |
| The West Sound Technology Professionals Association (WSTPA) has been named as the eighth member of the Technology Alliance Associates program... (Full Article) |
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NW Network completes broadband installation |
Northwest Network Services recently completed installation of a DS3 fiber connection at its operations center on Bainbridge Island.
This DS3 connection provides ultra-broadband capacity to connect Northwest Networks customers and web services to the Internet... (Full Article) |
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Calculate toll cost at new local Web site |
Citizens Against Tolls (CAT) has a new Web site, www.no-tolls.com.
The new CAT site is an information resource for the community regarding tolls on the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It includes updates regarding CAT’s efforts to obtain fairness and equity in the tolling of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and offers a place where citizens can express opinions regarding the project... (Full Article) |
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Seven ways to protect your privacy online |
| 1) Think twice before filling out online surveys and questionnaires. It’s often a requirement to download free software, or to enter a contest, but these questionnaires can furnish detailed personal information including salary ranges, street addresses and phone numbers... (Full Article) |
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Gates e-mail making the rounds — again |
| It looks like that Bill Gates hoax e-mail is making the rounds again and as a public service we’re warning folks because of all those ignorant people that will fall for it — some of them more than once... (Full Article) |
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CommuniCreations tapped to redesign
Thriftway Web site |
| Continuing a six-year agency relationship, Thriftway Stores of Washington has retained Port Orchard’s CommuniCreations to redesign the store group’s flagship... (Full Article) |
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Yahooing! for big bucks |
| How would you like to make a few million for a little yodeling? Yahoo has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit with singer Wylie Gustafson, whose voice is heard in the signature Yahoo yodel... (Full Article) |
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Network Security:
More important now than ever
By Jim Kendall |
| Since personal computers became mainstream and moved onto office desks, network security has been an issue that is mostly over-looked or simply given lip service. That was true twenty years ago and it is true today. For every company or agency that has an effective network security program, there are thousands that don’t. In the new world of the Internet, that creates huge problems for everyone... (Full Article) |
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Claim period opens online for restitution |
| A company that promised consumers they could make money viewing advertising over the Internet will now use the Internet to offer restitution to the same customers... (Full Article) |
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Library’s LinkNet ISP service ending |
Kitsap Regional Library’s LinkNet service closed down Dec. 31.
The popular service, started in 1994, offered free Internet access to county residents and was one of the first Internet Service Providers in the county. Over the past eight years, LinkNet introduced over 40,000 Kitsap residents to the Internet... (Full Article) |
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VoxProPC adds RAM broadcast
to sales channel |
| Audion Laboratories, Inc., based on Bainbridge Island, has a new wholesale channel sales contract with RAM Broadcast Systems, one of North America’s leading systems integrators serving US and Canada broadcast and production markets... (Full Article) |
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State sues spamming porn king |
| Attorney General Christine Gregoire accused a Houston, Texas man of violating the state’s anti-spam law by deceiving Washington residents into opening e-mail that contained sales pitches for prescription medications and pornographic web sites... (Full Article) |
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Projector presentations go wireless |
Boxlight is setting people free with Projector Director, the first full-function wireless projector networking system. It allows users to walk away from their laptops and fully control content delivery and projector functions from anywhere in the room using a wireless-enabled computer or personal digital assistant.
“We predict that because of the distinct advantages a networked projector provides, both in content delivery and asset management, systems like Projector Director will become the new standard within the presentation products industry,” said Herb Myers, Boxlight president and CEO. |
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WSTPA tech summit huge success |
| If there was any doubt about the vitality of Kitsap County’s technology community, it was erased Nov. 21, when the West Sound Technology Professionals (WSTPA) presented the Western Washington Summit of Technology and Economic Development Entrepreneurship. The event took place at the Sons of Norway in Poulsbo... (Full Article) |
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Three NW tech companies tap
Sterling Communications |
| Sterling Communications, Inc., an independent public relations agency based in Gig Harbor, has signed three new clients. These relationships expand the agency’s telecommunications, software and biometric technology portfolio... (Full Article) |
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Haselwood Auto Group and Phynity team up |
| The Haselwood Auto Group and Phynity Incorporated have announced a commercial software product development partnership... (Full Article) |
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Exposing unsecured wireless networks |
| In an effort to inform businesses about lax security on their wireless networks, agents from the Secret Service have been wandering the streets of Washington, D.C., looking for unprotected wireless networks. Using a laptop, a wireless card, and one of several antennae — including one made from a Pringles can — agents drive through city streets, checking for access to networks... (Full Article) |
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Wunz and Zeros! What more is there?
By Jim Kendall |
| Wunz and Zeros. When you scrape off the shiny new paint, crawl under the hood, pop the top, or open the little hidden door, somewhere in there you are going to find wunz and zeros. Ok, ok. ONES and zeros. In almost every product sold that is not a food stuff or “consumable” you will find “wunz and zeros.” And you almost certainly will have to deal with “wunz and zeros” whether you are buying gum, gumbo, or gummy bears... (Full Article) |
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Broadcast video of funerals over the net |
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Rill Chapel has partnered with Memorial-Cast to be the first funeral home in Washington to broadcast a ceremony for the general public directly from funeral home, church, graveside or other location from their Web site at www.rill.com... (Full Article) |
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Paladin Data Systems spawns
new software firm |
| InterLocking Software Corporation has opened for business from offices in Poulsbo and Seattle. Owned by James Nall, Gary Macy, and Robert Johnston, the technology sales and marketing company will offer innovative software solutions to government and business enterprises nationwide... (Full Article) |
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South Kitsap geologist named
to scientific review team |
| Port Orchard consulting geologist William C. Haneberg has been named to a scientific review team being asked to answer questions related to logging, landsliding, sedimentation, and flooding in five northern California watersheds... (Full Article) |
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Free wireless access |
| Wireless Internet access is free in parts of New York City thanks to an underground movement that started there (nycwireless.net). Users who have wireless home networks make their systems open to passers-by on the sidewalk. Wireless providers aren’t wild about this. AT&T Broadband in San Francisco, where the movement also is active, said, “We view it the same way as cable theft.” |
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What will they think of next? |
| The trouble with palm-sized computers (and even some laptops) is the tiny keyboard. But the day of the virtual keyboard is coming. Israel-based VKB Ltd will soon offer a 1.4-by-1.4-by-2.6 inch device that uses light beams to project a full display onto the surface in front of you. Touch a letter or number, and you hear a comforting clicking sound as it registers the input. It will be available by the end of the year (www.vkb.co.il). |
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WSTPA to host Western Washington Summit
on technology and economic development |
| The West Sound Technology Professionals Association (WSTPA) will be hosting “Western Washington Summit: Fostering Innovation with Technology and Economic Development Entrepreneurship”. This first of its kind event, drawing together technology, business, economic development, and government leaders throughout the seven-county Puget Sound and Olympic Peninsula regions... (Full Article) |
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