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DONOBi, Inc. now a public company |
| Silverdale-based DONOBI, Inc. and H-NET.NET, Inc. recently announced they have completed the acquisition agreement between the two companies that was put in motion last year... (Full Article) |
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KPUD’s first fiber installation scheduled |
The Kitsap Public Utility District’s (KPUD) first fiber installation on Bainbridge Island is at the DayCity/Sound DSL facilities. This main hub for the Bainbridge section of the KPUD/NoaNet fiber optic ring will provide DayCity/Sound DSL with a geographically diverse, redundant fiber connection to back up their primary fibers to the Seattle GigaPOP from their Day Rd. co-location/Day Center facilities. DayCity/Sound DSL’s co-location and carrier facility is scheduled for completion this March.
Sound DSL will offer Qwest customers a new 1.5 Meg residential Internet package featuring competitive pricing and better stability and security, compared to other highspeed Internet solutions.
For more information call (206) 855-9594. |
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Sprint announces DSL expansion |
| Sprint announced the expansion of high-speed DSL data services to the 10th Avenue, Powder Hill, Hwy 305 areas in Poulsbo. The company also launched its high-speed DSL services in Brinnon, on the north side of Hood Canal. |
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Wi-Fi planned for RV parks |
The broadband subsidiary of Hughes Electronics Corp. is offering to help turn RV parks and resorts that want to offer Wi-Fi, but are too remote to get fast Internet connections through DSL or cable, into wireless Internet hot spots fed by satellite.
The parks can charge users whatever they want and Hughes will handle the billing.
Hughes is not the first to eye this market. After Marlin Jensen began offering Wi-Fi last year in his RV park in Kerrville, Texas, he started a company called Wireless Web LLC to spread the technology. So far he’s set up Wi-Fi at seven parks in California and Texas. |
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Super WebGirl completes two Web sites
and tapped to redesign two more |
Super WebGirl, Inc. (SWG) recently completed custom web sites with content management for The Russell Family Foundation in Gig Harbor and the Mannix Canby Foundation in Seattle.
Also SWG has been chosen to work with Yes! Magazine and the Seattle Book Company to redesign their web sites.
For more information contact Super WebGirl, Jane Lindley, at (206) 842-2983 or via email at jane@superwebgirl.com. |
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CAN-SPAM? Unfortunately, indeed they do
By Jim Kendall |
| There is good news and bad news about junk email. The good news is, according to sources in State Government, the Federal “CAN-SPAM” law does not pre-empt the Washington State law. A preliminary opinion reads in part: “Section 8 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 expressly preempts state law that “expressly regulates the use of electronic mail to send commercial messages, except to the extent that any such statute, regulation, or rule prohibits falsity or deception in any portion of a commercial electronic mail message or information attached thereto... (Full Article) |
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Sprint PCS to roll out Hitachi’s
new mobile phone |
| Sprint PCS said it will roll out Hitachi’s Windows-based mobile phone known as the SH1000, the first Pocket PC to integrate a rotating camera, built-in keyboard and wireless phone all in one device... (Full Article) |
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Guess what ‘they’ know about you…
Online privacy may appear to be fading
but experts say there is hope
By Rodika Tollefson |
| With home invasion, robberies and other crimes being so prevalent today, anyone would consider leaving a door unlocked or a purse visible in a car less than prudent. Consumers arm themselves with home security systems, buy weapons for personal protection, up martial arts training, or use those blasted car noisemakers they call alarms... (Full Article) |
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Wireless phone ad campaigns
dwarf beer, soft-drink spending |
| If you’re standing in a remote cornfield, Verizon Wireless wants you to know its phone works well there. If touchy-feely is your thing, AT&T Wireless wants you to “reach out” with its phone. Sleek and sexy T-Mobile wants to slip its phone into your back pocket... (Full Article) |
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Court rules FCC erred in decision on net access |
| In a setback for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a federal court issued a ruling recently that may force cable companies to share their high-speed Internet, or broadband, networks with competing Internet service providers... (Full Article) |
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Handsets get more storage space for apps |
| In the early days of wireless, users could expect their phones to store, perhaps, 100 names and phone numbers. Today, users in some cases can expect their phones to hold an entire half-hour TV show, complete with audio and video... (Full Article) |
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Bush signs major anti-spam bill |
| President George W. Bush pauses before signing the Controlling the Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, which establishes a framework of administrative, civil and criminal tools to help America’s consumers, businesses and families combat SPAM... (Full Article) |
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Telebyte offering high-speed dial up |
| Telebyte NW clients can now surf the internet up to five times faster with the firm’s new service called Accelerated Web Access. Using plain old telephone service (POTS) and your plain old modem, the company says it can deliver access to your favorite websites up to five times faster... (Full Article) |
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WSTPA announces program schedule |
West Sound Technology Professionals Association (WSTPA) upcoming monthly meeting and presentations include:
Jan. 15: Computer Forensics and Investigations – presented by Steve Hailey, president and CEO of CyberSecurity Institute... (Full Article) |
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Digital signage pioneers join
Mercury Online Solutions
John Kirkpatrick and Ian Forbes, co-founders of
FRED Systems, Ltd accept positions at Mercury |
| Bainbridge Island-based Mercury Online Solutions, Inc., a provider of digital signage networks, including interactive kiosks and dynamic signage, recently announced that John Kirkpatrick, and Ian Forbes have joined the firm... (Full Article) |
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More turmoil and rough waters
ahead for telecom
By Jim Kendall |
| The “convergence” of telecommunications technology and computer-based data sharing is reaching a “critical mass” as 2004 opens. Actions taken, court decisions reached, and announced plans are clear signals that the traditional Telco business model has died and we are simply waiting to bury the body. The problem lies with regulation, both State and Federal, and with what is sure to be a bloody battle over such issues as open access, line sharing, interconnections and the definitions of telephone service vs. data services... (Full Article) |
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Technology trumps tete-a-tete |
| In today’s fast-paced corporate world, who has time to convene in person when you can “hit send?” In a new survey of executives, 92 percent of respondents say managers often send an e-mail message rather than meet one-on-one... (Full Article) |
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A 3-D monitor — minus the glasses |
| Remember putting on those ugly cardboard glasses so you could watch locomotives crash through the movie screen and into the audience. Probably not, since 3-D at the movies never really did catch on... (Full Article) |
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Bainbridge “Sees the Light” with
KPUD fiber connection |
| Silverdale-based Donobi, Inc., an Internet service provider, the City of Bainbridge Island (COBI), and the Kitsap Public Utility District (KPUD) announced that the Bainbridge City Council approved an agreement between the three parties to install and carry data over a new fiber optic Wide Area Network... (Full Article) |
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Workplace e-mails can be
a disaster in the making |
| E-mail, the electronic equivalent of DNA evidence, is playing an increasingly common role in workplace lawsuits and regulatory investigations. A primary source of evidence in high-profile discrimination, sexual harassment and antitrust claims, e-mail is used to bolster cases, embarrass organizations and damage reputations... (Full Article) |
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Autonomix’s Colson makes presentation
at national conference |
| Autonomix Vice President Scott Colson recently presented the features and capabilities of Microsoft Business Solutions CRM at SMB Nation... (Full Article) |
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Just how secure is it?
By Jim Kendall |
| With the holiday season fast approaching, Christmas shopping is heating up at the local stores and malls, and is already going full blast on-line. Every year the amount of on-line sales sets new records as more and more outlets develop a web presence and the ability to shop on line... (Full Article) |
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Workers downloading music and movies
at work violate copyrights |
| Employees who are downloading and swapping the latest music and video files at work may be doing more harm than just wasting company time and making the network grind to a halt. Because songs, movies, and most computer games are copyrighted, such activity is illegal... (Full Article) |
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Gas stations will increase sales
with partial debit authorization |
| A new payment processing technology custom-designed for the pay-at-the-pump customer is making it possible to pay for gasoline even when cash supplies are low... (Full Article) |
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Kitsap Regional Library selects
NW Commnet for fiber installation |
| The Kitsap Regional Library (KRL) has selected Bremerton’s NW Commnet to connect the library main branch in Bremerton to the Kitsap Public Utility District’s (KPUD) fiber optic network. NW Commnet will also provide Internet services to the library under the agreement... (Full Article) |
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Hackers now targeting your cell phone |
For computer hackers and virus writers, the new frontier is your cell phone.
According to computer security experts, a phone virus or “Trojan horse” program could instruct your phone to do some extraordinary things... (Full Article) |
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WSTPA upcoming meeting schedule |
| The West Sound Technology Professionals Association (WSTPA) upcoming monthly meeting presentations — unless otherwise noted — will take place from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Poulsbo Branch of the Kitsap Regional Library, 700 NE Lincoln Street, Poulsbo... (Full Article) |
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Phynity and Donobi team up |
| Silverdale-based Phynity, a software development firm, and Bremerton-based internet solutions provider Donobi, have found common ground between their firm’s offerings... (Full Article) |
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Kitsap Regional Telecom Committee:
What has five years of influence accomplished?
By Kathy Cocus
Business Recruitment and Retention Manager
Kitsap Regional Economic Development Council |
| Educating elected officials and the business community about telecom as an important component of economic development has been one of two continuing goals of the Kitsap Regional Telecom Committee (KRTC) for five years... (Full Article) |
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Major domain name scam hits
Network Solutions and eNom |
| A major security breach at Network Solutions has allowed some very valuable domain names to be transferred to eNom, and a new owner. ENom is one of the larger registrars in the fast growing domain name reseller market. The scam threatens the whole integrity of the domain name registration industry and the booming domain name reseller market... (Full Article) |
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First tenant at Olympic View
Industrial Park connects to fiber |
| Stretch Island Fruit, maker of the popular Fruit Leather, is the first tenant in the Port of Bremerton’s Olympic View Industrial Park to “light up” a fiber optic connection using agreements prepared between the Port and Kitsap Public Utilities District... (Full Article) |
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Prewiring for Broadband becoming
common practice
By Linda Thomson |
| Prewiring your home for broadband capability during construction can help you meet the future without tearing out your walls or emptying your wallet. The future may come sooner than you think! Broadband is rapidly becoming an expected part of the infrastructure of a home... (Full Article) |
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Bluetooth technology:
“The little engine that (still) could”
By Rodika Tollefson |
| Imagine a world where a user’s computer can “talk” to the mobile phone, which can talk to the washing machine, which can talk to a camera, which can talk to a pen, which can talk to the stapler, which can talk to the shower controls… and they can all talk to each other, synchronize, coordinate and download information painlessly and wirelessly — while the user sips a mocha and watches Seinfeld reruns... (Full Article) |
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The story on wireless in Kitsap
By Rodika Tollefson |
| So what if Seattle invented the concept of sleepless and forever put online dating and that annoying “You’ve got mail” on the map. Kitsap too is trying to keep up the pace with the modern “always on the go,” “always connected,” “always busy doing something, preferably working” lifestyle — and Kitsap residents don’t even need to wait for the ferry to have its wireless network in place... (Full Article) |
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Solving the spam problem |
| Perhaps the most interesting thing about the recent grand “anti-spam” event hosted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is that nothing of interest happened... (Full Article) |
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Phynity Executive featured at
SK School District kick off |
| The South Kitsap School District recently held its All Staff Kick Off for 2003-04 with the theme “Reach for the Stars.” A highlight of the event was alumni speakers from last year’s “Leaders of the 21st Century” activities calendar... (Full Article) |
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WSTPA Summit set for Oct. 9 |
| Time is running out to register for Western Washington Summit 2003, the West Sound Technology Professionals Association’s (WSTPA) second annual Technology and Economic Development Entrepreneurship event being held Thursday, Oct. 9 from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Sons of Norway, in Poulsbo... (Full Article) |
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