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Thursday, July 7, 2005 (No. 59)
Editor &
Publisher Milt Capps
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2nd
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News of Nashville Technology debuted July 8,
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Business
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NTC Tech Underwriter
Ken Nelson
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ISDN-Net's Dunlap says Supreme Court ruling on
broadband could foreshadow less
access to phone networks, may result in
more municipal
broadband initiatives, The City Paper, July
5.
Dialogic
Communications CEO Kirby outlines origins of firm, the
spur that came with 9/11, prospects for
$30 million revenues and plans to relocate data center
to downtown Nashville, City Paper, July
6.
DCC accepting apps for 2005 city/county grant
program
for free hosted notification services, FireChief.com,
June 30.
American
Healthways and Microsoft team for healthcare IT
solutions, release June
30.
Former TN State Tax commissioner and
Metro Finance director is named head of Multistate Tax
Commission,
working on streamlined sales tax, Nash. Bus. Journal,
June
22.
NashvillePost.com, June
22.
States move forward on Internet Sales Tax (Streamlined Sales Tax),
Wash. Post, July
2.
Medical Banking Leadership Forum at
Vanderbilt,
tomorrow, July
8. Related story on Med.
Banking Project, p. 1, July 1, Nash.
Bus. Journal.
COMBAT
(Cooperative Open-Source Medical Banking Architecture
and Technology) initiative begins this month.
Cool Springs Life Sciences Center welcomes
first occupant, BioMimetic, on
July 11, and Vanderbilt incubator will follow. The City
Paper, July 7.
Evaluators
of merit of iPayment buyout deal get monthly stipends
during evaluation, Tennessean, July
2.
NashvillesNews.net in
pre-beta testing, release July
1. Site encourages citizen
journalism, and
story popularity determines reporters' compensation.
Chess
Masterminds event
via Internet between Nashville and Russia begins Sunday,
airs July 24 for satellite distribution. ChessBase, June
30. Event uses Shahcom
ICCS.
Nashville's
FrugalReader.com, founded
by Gene McCabe, recently introduced
enhancements
that translate into credits for members whose used books
are listed and shipped to other members who request
them.
Nashville is
hottest headquarters location site,
says Business Facilities, NVPost, June
21.
Tennessean, June
22.
(July 27) Tech After Hours is back! Location:
Adventure Science Center. 5 p.m. Details and
registration here.
(TODAY) NTC Tech
Roundtable,
Supply Chain technologies and corporate strategies, with
emphasis on management, with panelists Kent Freeman,
President of Customer Service, Ingram Book
Group; Stuart Smith, Senior Vice President -
Supply Chain, Asurion; Bob Speith,
Chief Information Officer,
Ozburn-Hessey; Moderator Don Mabry,
Chief Operating and Technology Officer,
Cleartrack. 4 p.m. registration,
networking; program 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. $15 Member, $25
nonmember. Location: Vanderbilt Center for Better
Health, 3401 West End Ave. Suite 290 (37203).
Details
here.
(Aug.
24) 4th Annual InfoSec Nashville NTC-ISSA
Conference, Keynote Amit Yoran, former US
Homeland Security Cybersecurity czar. Nashville
Convention Center, details
here.
Sungard Availability Services is Platinum
Sponsor. Gold: CipherTrust, Nortel. Silver:
Courion. For remaining sponsorship or exhibit
information, write here or call (615) 743-3160.
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RenTech cranks-up
Brentwood data center, as co-location growth
accelerates
It's unlikely that fifteen years ago,
while driving an 18-wheeler for a local moving-van
operator – and regularly hauling IBM equipment
bound for Big Blue's next trade show – Ken Nelson
ever imagined that by 2005 his RenTech managed-hosting firm would be
cranking almost $3 million per year in revenues,
projecting another 25 percent bump in the coming year,
and opening a 12,500 sq. ft. data center at Cool
Springs, in addition to his 1,500 sq. ft. data
center in Green Hills.
RenTech offers managed co-location; dedicated
servers; disaster recovery; Internet and Web hosting;
and network services. RenTech is in the final stages of
SAS 70.1 compliance processes certification, and is
partnering with Electronic Compliance Management, LBMC and
other firms for an expanding suite of security and
compliance services.
Now 37, RenTech President and CEO
Nelson explains that while manhandling big rigs he
was not long out of Madison High School (Class of
'85), but was already a computer hobbyist
and Wildcat bulletin-board operator. While on
the road, he picked the brains of the IBM engineers
he met at trade-show destinations, where he devoured
technology information during layovers. When at home, he
focused on mastering computers, including his first, an
IBM 286 given him by a friend. Early in
his industrial mechanical-engineering studies at
Middle Tennessee State University, he bailed-out to
learn more in the "real world" about "all things
bright and shiny."
Soon, he parlayed his knowledge of
bulletin boards into a project setting-up a computer
network for his soon-to-be-employer and eventual first
paying client, Corporate Supply Network (CSN). In 1991,
he launched his sideline InTouch Computer Systems
business, quickly helping the music industry's
Buddy Lee Attractions move onto ethernet. Next, he
developed software to help Santori Water Group
market its Crystal Springs product.
By 1997, Nelson was working
nearly fulltime within InTouch; but, when
local entrepreneur Lep Andrews founded Renaissance
Technology, Nelson joined him as partner and vice
president, folding InTouch into the company.
Application-development, IT solutions clients soon
included Link2Gov, SunTrust Bank, Phillips Petroleum
and others.
Then, Link2Gov inquired about colocation
services, and Nelson says the "business light" went on
in his brain, signalling an opportunity. In 1998,
after market research disclosed few competing providers
locally, he signed CSN and Link2Gov for colocation
services, then secured his first data-center space in
Green Hills. In 1999, he founded Rennaissance
Applications Facility, soon thereafter changing the name
to RenTech. In 2000, he further sharpened his focus,
shutting-down all applications development in favor of
data-center operations.
RenTech has three times been named
a Future 50 firm by the Nashville Area
Chamber of Commerce and is applying again this
year. Tight management has allowed the firm to finance
from cash flow nearly 70 percent of the $1.7 million
buildout and startup costs of its new data center on
Commerce Way in Brentwood, in the former home of the
Service Merchandise data center.
Although the freshly operational
data facility is nine times the size of the first data
center and the grand opening isn't til August, the
facility is one-fourth leased, with Volunteer Credit
Corp. one of RenTech's first disclosable new tenants,
among a clientele that also includes Renderosity.com,
CMA, Alive Hospice, Clinix MIS, National Nephrology,
Bondware, NewsChannel5 (WTVF), Rivals.com and RealTracs
Solutions. RenTech's 170-plus hosting clients range from
$500 to $35,000 per month enterprises. RenTech staffing
is six fulltime technical support, two sales and two
admin. Nelson projects hiring two more engineers in
early 2006. RenTech management also includes Lawrence
Dospil, CFO; John Szente, Director-Operations; and, Ron
Styers, director-consulting business
development.
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(Sept.
14) Nashville Capital Network
program, "Managing the Fast-Growing
Business,"
5:30 p.m., Averbuch Audit., Owen GSM, Vanderbilt.
Details TBA.
Aspect
Communications, with 150 in Brentwood, will be taken
private by Concerto Software, NashvillePost.com,
July 5. Release July
5.
VC: Turney Stephens of Harpeth Capital
sees uptick in healthcare services,
biotechnology and medical-devices deals,
Nash.
Bus. Journal, June 24.
Nashville's
Paymaxx merges with Miami's Compupay,
June 24
release. Nash.
Bus. Journal, June
24;
NashvillePost.com, June
24; Tennessean, June
25;
The City Paper, June
27.
Ozburn
Hessey sells majority interest to New York
private-equity firm Welsh Carson, Tennessean,
June
27. O-H
reported moving from Nashville to Brentwood, p. 3, Nash.
Bus. Journal, June
24. City
Paper, June
28.
Sweden's Duni chooses Ozburn-Hessey Logistics and 3PL
support for Nashville hub, release June
30.
Sweden's Duni Corp. distribution center to
LaVergne, p. 2, Nash. Bus. Journal (see
related link).
Former
Smart Hospital exec David Joiner's Edgehill Studios
provides an artsy e-gathering cafe near
Vanderbilt, City Paper, July
6.
E.W. Scripps
completes Shopzilla acquisition, release
June
27. Scripps owns
Knoxville-based Scripps Networks and the Knoxville News
Sentinel.
IPIX wins DARPA
contract, June
30. IPIX
raises $10 million in private
offering,
June
22. IPIX stock
leaps upward on news of DARPA contract, Knox. News
Sentinel, July 2.
Denton's
Directories of Spring
Hill is international, has web design bus
too, Nash. Bus
Journal, p. 5, July 1, not on web.
Growth
of Knoxville's Strata-G startup illustrates value of
technology-incubation process, Knox.
News Sentinel, July
4. Chattanooga Center for Entrepreneurial Growth, a
high-tech incubator, moves into UT Chattanooga
Engineering School, Times Free Press, June
30.
Center for Entrepreneurial Growth moves from Tech2020 to
Chattanooga Chamber ownership, Chattanoogan.com,
June
30.
Memphis
Networx raises $7 million via Renasant Bank, and Memphis
Angels investor group expresses
support, Memphis Bus. Journal, June
21.
Memphis Networx sale authority questioned by Memphis
City Council, Comm. Appeal, June
22. back
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Correctional
Risk Services (Brentwood) wins Hickman County Jail
claims management contract, Nash. Bus.
Journal.
Vanderbilt
cited as enterprise running Oracle database on Oracle
Real Application clusters on Linux, AMEinfo,
July 4.
Cybera
CEO Duffey says firm's Smartnetwork security equal to
frame-relay standard enabled VPN enterprise to
earn Entrepreneur magazine national ranking for
growth, City Paper, June
22.
Capital
Confirmation's Confirm software/process received
one of ten honorable-mention awards during Tax
& Accounting Technology Innovation Awards (June
6). Confirm product/process validates bank balances
during audits, Tennessean, June
26.
Release, June
16.
Franklin-based
Passage Inc.'s RFID wristband with stored-value chip
makes it a lot easier to get indigestion at
Greer Stadium, as teams nationwide move to speed-up
concession sales, Tennessean, June
23.
Nashville-to-Memphis
IT transplant Wes Hicks' G-2 Technology has found a
niche in recruiting hard-to-find tech talent,
Commercial Appeal, July
4.
Nashville-based
PassAlong.com, the
innovative online music site from PassAlong
Networks,
announced June 29 it took top honors for active
listings on eBay.
MailNet
Services Inc. names Mike Mancini vp sales,
Tennessean, July 7.
Caremark announces senior-executive
changes for operations, finance, development;
Tennessean, June
22. Nash.
Bus. Journal, June
22.
City Paper, p. 11, June 22, not on web.
Employees without
checking accounts glad to have Comdata and other
paycards that provide immediate cash on payday,
Tennessean, July
4.
Sitemason publishing
release paces iTunes 4.9 release,
release
here. SBC
Comms. nets VPN contract with Tennessee's Forward Air
Inc., release June
29.
LBMC names partners Mark Fulford and Paul
Demastus of LBMC Risk Services, Nash.
Bus. Journal, June
21. Tennessean, June
26.
Baptists' NAMB
launches "See Who Cares" online platform for missionary
work, Witness article, June
30.
Background on WhoCares digital-media campaign, here.
Fierce
Zycron - Beacon sponsorship rivalry reflected in T-ball
results, Tennessean, June
29. back
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EBM: Stead announces VU Med
Center adopts Zynx EKM, June 22, Zynx (Hearst Business Media division of Hearst
Corp.) statement: "Vanderbilt Medical Center will use EKM to help
its clinical order set development teams review relevant
evidence as the teams decide on appropriate elements to
include in each order set. The development teams will
also use EKM to alert order set authors to new evidence
that might require updating of existing order
sets." Genetic Engineering News, June 22.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of TN and TennCare
Bureau consummate contract for EMR via
Shared Health subsidiary and Community Connection
service, NashvillePost.com, July
6. Nash.
Bus. Journal, July
6. Tennessean, July
7. City Paper, July
7. Blues
promise substantial RoI for State.
John Hammergren, Chairman/CEO of
McKesson, addressed Health Care Council
audience in June re: future of Healthcare IT. Nashville
Medical News, scroll
pdf to p. 5, July 2005.
E-health
initiative gains support among pediatricians,
Nash. Medical News, scroll
pdf to p. 15, July 2005.
Healthcare IT
will be focus for advertisers in September 2005 issue of
Nashville
Medical News.
National Alliance for Health IT
schedules Open Forum on systemic interoperability and
Alliance issues on July 12.
HHS Scty. Leavitt welcomes health IT legislative
proposals, statement June 30.
HIPAA vs Freedom of the Press topic of
June 21 First Amendment Center program at VU,
here.
Medtronic Solutions offers controls
on imaging costs, Nash. Bus. Journal, June 24.
HealthTrust Purchasing Group, Brentwood, awards
Omnicell
contract to install
OptiFlex open supply management system in 190
HCA healthcare facilities, release June
28.
Client Care Solutions call center opens
to improve healthcare customer-service
practices, Nash. Bus.
Journal, June 24.
Joint Commission Resources announces flaw
in hospital-accreditation software, NY Times,
June 24.
Commercial Appeal editorial support
RHIOs, healthcare IT, Commercial Appeal,
June 27.
McKesson installing clinical information
systems in six Baptist Memorial Healthcare
Hospitals, Commercial Appeal, June 24.
UT Memphis Health Science Center gets HHS
grant for Tech-Net cancer-treatment
telemedicine, Memphis Bus. Journal, June 22.
Franklin's Censis Technologies scores Vanderbilt
Medical Center as customer for Censitrack
surgical tool-tracking software, Nash. Bus. Journal,
June 22. Tennessean, June 27.
SAS introduces life-sciences knowledge
network, release June 27.
Increasingly, live surgical webcasts show
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Link to key in-state government
bid-tracking resources,
here. Also, see previous issues,
here.
Metro
Government Planning Department solicits GPS proposals
RFP
05-08,
due Aug. 19.
First Mobile (Cincinnati) gains Tennessee contract to install
docking devices for laptops in Highway
Patrol cruisers, Cinc.
Enquirer, June
28.
Metro Schools
tech-funding pressure relieved by reducing contribution
to implementation of payroll and accounting
systems - Tennessean explains change-up, Tennessean,
July
1.
Schools won't owe fee this year, City Paper, July
1. Metro
Schools and some Metro Council members reportedly
surprised by $900K bill-back for Metro Government IS
support, which was apparently triggered by Council's
tweaking of Mayor's budget, (note: despite June 28
caveat from Metro Finance). Tennessean, June
30.
Strain between
radio host and Sen. Cohen may have helped
stall statewide video coverage of General
Assembly proceedings, Tennessean, June 27,
scroll down
here.
Related story, State. Sen. Ron Ramsey (R-Blountville)
wants TV coverage and Internet postings of bills,
Tennessean, June 27.
Knox County
purchasing adopts Buyspeed.com software for
procurement, Knox. News Sentinel,
July
4.
Interim director
seeks to stem chaos in E911 services, following Knox
County director's resignation, Knox. News
Sentinel, June
23.
"Reverse 911" system
being adopted for emergency-notification in Greene
County, using Homeland Security funds,
June
29,
Greene County online.
Dueling Websites contest Sylvan Park
zoning, Tennessean, Davidson AM,
June
22.
Editorial applauds
inauguration of wireless Internet access in Metro Public
Library, Tennessean, July
1.
Memphis-area Public
Library's management is privatized: Under Library
Systems and Services Inc.'s management, more
data and information services among changes,
Commercial Appeal,
June 30.
Knox County
Schools may use Nextel GPS service to track school
buses, Knox. News Sentinel, June
30.
Knox County
terminates software contract for license renewal with
Clerk's son's CP Liberty
LLC June
30, Knox.
News Sentinel. Knox County Clerk's free-software
deal with son's firm CP Liberty LLC remains under
scrutiny in context of procurement rules, Knox.
News Sentinel, June
25.
Local vendors would
get bidding advantage in Memphis City Council
proposal, Comm. Appeal, June
22.
Online tax could be
coming, Clarksville Leaf Chronicle editorial,
June
25.
E-notification: Victims notified of
offenders' parole or release via VINE system,
implemented in Arkansas, devised by Appriss in
Louisville, Commercial Appeal, June
25.
Appriss supports Foundation that works to reduce
domestic violence, here.
Traffic-surveillance
cameras okayed by Memphis City Council, Comm.
Appeal, June
22.
Franklin's GPS
system enables tracking of Fire and Police
Vehicles, Tennessean, June
21.
Could Military draft
return? Pentagon reportedly pinning hopes for
all-vol force on new recruitment-database venture; federal
agencies are sharing more data, Washington Post,
June
23.
TN Human Services
RFP
345-01.201 for Web-based On-line
Vision Integration Program
(VIP), due
Aug. 31.
TN Secretary of State
replacement case-tracking system revised
RFP 305.01-003, due July 19.
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Northeast TN Tech Council TechStar Awards
nominations due by
Aug. 26
(Awards event Oct. 21). NETTC wins
TechLink award for advancing technology
in region, release
here.
At Kingsport,
Eastman
Chemical's Eastman
Innovation website wins Gold Award in Digital
Media with partner
The
Brewery
(London, England), release June
27,
related info here.
US LEC announced BIGVoice IP voice/data
service, Memphis Bus. Journal,
June
21.
Serious about
E-Commerce: Viking
Range (Greenwood,
MS) hires Memphis-based Lokion and
Cambridge-based ATG (Art
Technology Group) for web redesign and e-commerce
overhaul, Commercial Appeal, June
25.
Comprehensive
Computer Services, unit of Korean PC giant TriGem, is
locating computer-repair facility on former
Brother site at Bartlett (Memphis). Commercial Appeal, June
22. Related, Bartlett Express, July 1.
GPS
data helps detect active deformation in New Madrid
earthquake fault zone, Memphis Bus. Journal,
June
23. Memphis-area's Apex Global Emerging
Technology Corp.'s Amir Flippin will launch
group of news-information sites and archives,
Commercial Appeal, June
30.
Chattanooga-area
bloggers gaining influence, here. Related
bloggers article, Times Free Press, July
4.
Chattanooga
industrial site rumored to remain in running for
manufacturing site for unnamed auto giant,
Times Free Press, July
5.
Elvis
Presley Enterprises hires eFashion Solutions to manage
global Internet sales of The King's licensed
products, Commercial Appeal, July
2.
First
Solutions Teleconsulting opens in Memphis,
Comm. Appeal, July
3.
Memphis
Airport adopts AssureTec ID-validation system,
June
3.
Jackson-based
Kirkland's, specialty retailer, launches e-Commerce
site, dBusiness, June
29.
Baton
Rouge Chamber acquires Tech Council, launches technology
initiative in video-game space, Advocate.com,
June
29.
Chattanooga's
Copeland Inc. metal fabricator has used technology,
including laser and e-commerce software, to
advance tough business, Times Free Press,
June
30.
Chattanooga-based
restaurant chain digesting 246 Krystal Hotspots as free
Wi-Fi spreads, Knox. News Sentinel,
July
1.
Offbeat
Wonder Works science center is slated for Pigeon Forge
opening in '06, Knox. News Sentinel,
June
28. Chattanooga Airport unveils
www.chattairport.com website, Chattanooga.com,
June
21.
Southeast
TN and Georgia economic-development officials
collaborate for growth, Times Free Press,
June
27.
Reports
of identity theft in Chattanooga area, Times
Free Press, June
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TSU Astronomer Henry contributes to
finding planet with massive solid core,
reinforcing believe in model for planetary formation,
release
July 1.
Vanderbilt Engineering's
Institute for Space and Defense
Electronics receives NASA
subcontract to
help develop technology to protect systems from
extremes of radiation and temperature, release
July 1.
Grateful UT
Engineering grad and Garmin GPS co-founder donates
$17.5 million for College of Engineering
facility and scholarships fund, Knox. News Sentinel,
June
30.
Governors School for
Information Technology Leadership gives
students real-life lessons at Tennessee
Technological University, Tennessean, July
5.
Students develop business plan for IT product as
culmination to studies at Governor's Academy
for Information Technology at Tennessee Technological
University, Cookeville. Knox. News Sentinel, June
29.
U. Memphis Center for
Research in Educational Policy is finalist to be
evaluator of Cobb Cty. (Ga.) laptop-in-schools
initiative, Atlanta Journal Constitution, July
1.
Nashville
Academy of Science and Engineering picks first home on
Thompson Lane, City Paper, July
1.
MTSU Prof. Ricketts
advances knowledge of hydrogen-solar automobile
propulsion, Tennessean, July
1.
TN Tech Univ. Prof.
Robert Qiu advances UltraWideBand technology beyond
basics of GPS and communications applications,
Newswise, June
27.
To recruit talent
for Oak Ridge NL, officials use everything from research
appointments and internships, to contributing
$2 million to local high school, Knox. News Sentinel,
June
27.
Team at UT Knoxville
will collaborate with Univ. Arkansas researchers to
create semiconductors that can help avert
collapse of the U.S. power grid, as happened in 2003.
CompoundSemiconductor.Net, June
21.
IBM Blue
Gene cracks superconducting
list, according to UT-published Top500
list (Dongarra),
release
June 22.
Univ. of Memphis
getting new computer system, Comm. Appeal,
July
5. New
computer system will improve all aspects of teaching,
learning and administration at Austin Peay State
Univ., Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, June
22.
U.
Memphis Girls Experiencing Engineering seeks to
introduce more females to engineering fields,
Commercial Appeal, July
2.
Nation's military
budget may include money for U. Tenn. research on
technology to detect terrorist pathogens,
Commercial Appeal, June
22.
Oak Ridge National
Lab wins three awards from R&D magazine,
release
here.
60th Anniversary:
Atomic Heritage Foundation and Oak Ridge Manhattan
Project, resource here.
E. TN Economic
Council contributes cash for Oak Ridge High
School, OakRidger, June
30.
FedEx
Institute of Technology and
Texas-based Human Emulation Robotics partner on
robot that is expert on
author Philip K. Dick, Memphis Bus. Journal,
July
1.
Exhibit continues through July
8.
Another DeSoto High
kid in National Youth Technology
Forum, June
27-10days. Commercial Appeal, June
25. U.S.
Senate adds money to Dept. of Energy funding request,
boosting nanotechnology and other initiatives
at the national laboratories, Los Alamos Monitor,
July
2.
National Lab's
computer system simulates terrorism's worst-case
scenarios, Wash.
Post,
July 4.
Libraries
having tough time meeting customer demand for Internet
access. Times Free Press, July
4.
Both technology and
textbooks underfunded in school districts'
budgets, Times Free Press, July
4. Reinventing
the Internet(2): Update from the Internet Storm
Center, Washington Post, June
26.
Sumner County
Schools use Orchard Learning software to individualize
instruction for English Language Learners,
Gallatin News Examiner, June
20.
Electronic Computer Programming
College recognized as school of
distinction by Accrediting
Commis. of Career Colleges
and Schools of Technology, Times Free Press,
June
25.
Girls Incorporated
at Chattanooga win science-education award,
Chattanooga.com, June
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Recent Jobs Postings to NTC Careers
page, here.
COMPETING:
Nashville's IT
sector is only major employment sector
lagging in year-to-year employment gains (not
explained), Tennessean, June
25. State
labor-workforce site, here.
Silicon Valley firms experiencing
profitably, but jobless recovery, as firms move some
talent positions to lower-cost U.S. regions and
offshore, NY Times, July
3.
Author recounts how U.S. has lost ground during Bush
Administration on Internet, advanced technologies,
Foreign
Affairs
magazine (not yet posted) via NY Times, June
25.
Earlier Brookings scholars' testimony on U.S.
vulnerability in broadband and IT, as other nations gain
ground, Brookings Institution, here.
Offshoring may not be a morale-killer in the best
IT shops, ComputerWorld,
June 27.
Knoxville-based 4th Source becomes first
U.S. tech company to occupy Yucutan's Citi Centro
facility, shifting focus to offshoring to
Mexico, rather than to India or E. Europe. Release June 15.
Update on recycling computers and other
electronics in middle Tennessee, City Paper,
June
24.
Discarded computers piling-up in Hamilton County
schools, Times Free Press, July
6. Privacy: In Memphis, OnStar GPS at first
refused to track stolen vehicle for police, due
privacy policy, Commercial Appeal editorial, July
7.
CentreSource founder Nicholas Holland offers
thoughts on Pervasive Employee Monitoring, Nashville
Medical News, scroll
pdf p. 29, July
2005. Holland blog addresses comparative
benefits of
using an individual-as-contractor vs. using an IT
software-development projects firm, here.
IS Security experts say it's
unlikely the economy will be catastrophically
harmed by theft of information, but myriad of
small crimes, loss of confidence in systems, the threat
of 'extraction of self', and the futility of emphasizing
stopping theft over making information harder to use
(e.g., through better authentication) are concerns, NY
Times, June
26.
Decoys could lure hackers away from Global
Information Grid of DoD, Washington Post, July
4.
CIBER,
Inc. (NYSE: CBR) yesterday announced completion of
acquisition of Knowledge Systems Private Ltd.,
a Bangalore, India-based professional services firm
specializing in custom-application development. Release.
Gateway
founder gives $250K grant to group that will plot
roadmap for nanotechnology development,
SmallTimes.com, June
21.
Foresight group seeks to set standards for industry,
Znet news, June
22.
Nanotech push at U. Maryland is exemplary of
trillion-dollar potential of the nano-industry,
Wash.
Post, July 7.
Convention:
AFSMI customer-service and support
managers will rally at Nashville for annual
summit, Oct. 9-12, CRM Today, June
24.
MUSIC: Music
Row execs and downloaders reacted differently to Supreme
Court ruling on file-sharing that hit Grokster,
Tennessean, June
28.
Intent of peer-to-peer firms is key to industry's legal
standing, Tennessean, June
28. City
Paper, June
28. NY
Times, June
28.
Tennessean editorial supports file-sharing ruling,
Tennesseann, June
29.
Editorials: Supreme Court struck right note in opinion
on downloading, Commercial Appeal, July
1. Also
supportive, The City Paper, July 1. A third of all music
discs sold globally are pirated says IFPI, while in 31
nations fake recordings outsell legal products,
IFPI
release June
23. AP via Tennessean, p. 1E, June 24.
'Mobile
Music' is "beyond hot": Category could make up more than
half of digital music business,
Wash.
Post, July
2. Cellphones competing with iPod as music cache, NY
Times, July
7.
Intel
partners with actor Morgan Freeman for ClickStar movie
downloads, NY Times, July
7.
Knoxville's Eonstreams and Amick Research partner on
research regarding streaming media and
branding, release June
21.
Research not posted.
Mainstream
Media: Nashville's WKRN 2 (Young
Brdcstg., ABC) is training its staff in new Video
Journalism techniques, using Rosemblum Associates.
Release dBusiness news, June
30.The
Newspaper of the Future (Lawrence, KS, media
convergence), NY Times, June
26. It
costs little for mainstream media to listen to the buzz
around 'jailbreak media' like podcasting, and then
choose whether or not the new outlet is important for
them, NY Times, July
4.
Reuters offers public access to newsfeed in effort to
build brand loyalty, and emerge from the news
background, NY
Times, June
27. Interactive advertising campaigns increasing in
influence, NY Times, July
1.
Previously reluctant motion-picture studios
finally rushing to digitize films to meet Digital
Demand, NY Times, July
4.
E-mail
authentication: Despite others' mistrust about Microsoft
patent application, Wong sees hope for saving
E-mail via license-free Sender ID. Washington Post,
July
3.
Motivations of
bloggers vary, Commercial Appeal,
July
1.
RSS
rapidly diffusing among consumers and
advertisers, NY Times, July
5.
People are changing Web habits as a result of
Spyware, Adware, Pew
release July 6.
Grocers eye self-checkout
technology as focus of capital spending, IHL
Consulting (Franklin), release June
28.
CIBER initiative for
onshoring IT work in smaller cities is highlighted in AP
report, Knox.
News Sentinel, June
27. CIBERsites background.
Tech Community Volunteers
— Two initiatives need your help: “Youth About Business”
hosts “Nashville Business Camp” at Vanderbilt, in
cooperation with Owen GSM, June 6-10 or 13-17. And,
Metro Schools' Stratford IT Academy needs
companies to host Job Shadowing one day in July. For
more info, please visit
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* (July 7) The East Tennessee Nano
Alliance will meet 8-9:30 a.m. today at Technology
2020 in Oak Ridge. Tech 2020 CEO Tom Rogers will discuss
the East Tennessee Nano Initiative, a
regionwide economic development effort, and Lindsey
Kratzer, a University of Tennessee MBA student doing
market research on nanotechnology, will make a
presentation. The event is free. To RSVP call
865-220-2020 or e-mail rsvp@tech2020.org.
(July 7) NTC Tech Roundtable,
program on Supply Chain/Logistics. Details
above and here.
(July 12-15) Tenn. Valley Corridor 2005
National Summit,
Washington, D.C.
* (July 13) NASA's Discovery returns to
Space on 13-day mission, launch
July 13. Related story,
here. Bush Administration plan for NASA and
human space exploration is 'bold, but unrealistic', and
likely to harm U.S. space efforts, NY Times
citing AAAS report, June 23.
* (July 14) AITP Nashville, with
speaker Christopher R. Rehm, M.D., Chief
Medical Officer for Spheris Corporation, discusses
health information trends, with examples
of Spheris' medical transcription work. Holiday Inn
Select, 5:30 p.m. Information here.
(July 15)
ISSA Mid TN chapter program, 11:30 a.m., Network Anomaly
Detection, details
here.
(July 27) NTC Tech After Hours.
Details
here.
*(July 27) E. TN Tech Council monthly
meeting, 11:30 a.m., on Bush Bros. & Co. response to
Wal-Mart's RFID initiative, with Todd Schultz,
Sr. Manager - Logistics, and Steve Savell, Sr. IS
Manager - Supply Chain. For more info, write
here.
(Aug. 4) NTC Tech Roundtable on "Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP)," with Jerry
Dunlap, ISDN-Net; Mat Gaskins, AIM Healthcare;
Jackie Shrago, ThinkLink Learning; Rick Moran, Cisco;
moderator Tom Coffey, US LEC.
(Aug. 13-15) 14th IEEE International
Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive
Communication, Marriott at Vanderbilt.
(Aug.
18) TN
Business Roundtable: CEO
Summit on
Math & Science Education,
Oak Ridge.
(Aug. 24) – NTC-ISSA InfoSec Nashville
2005 information-security conference will be
Wednesday August 24, with CSI
information-security training Aug. 22, 23, 25, 26.
Keynote is former US Homeland Security Cybersecurity
Czar Amit Yoran. For further information, visit
here.
(Sept. 1) NTC Tech Roundtable, speaker
Ken Thoreson, President, Acumen Management
Group on creating sustainable revenues through
partnerships. Details
here.
*
(Sept. 7-9) National Health IT
Summit and National HIPAA Summit,
Washington D.C.
* (Sept. 8) AITP Nashville, with speaker
David Cochran, IT manager, Vanderbilt
Children's Hospital. For information, write
here.
* (Sept.
14) Nashville Capital Network program, "Managing the
Fast-Growing Business," 5:30 p.m., Averbuch
Audit., Owen GSM, Vanderbilt. Details TBA.
(Sept. 26-29) Fountainhead College of
Technology's Center for Information Assurance &
Cybersecurity Training (IACT) hosts National
Security Agency's (NSA) INFOSEC Assessment Methodology
(IAM) and INFOSEC Evaluation Methodology (IEM) training
and certification courses. Details
here, phone
(865) 688-9422 or write
here.
(Sept.
29) Music City Future 50 Awards
Dinner.
(Oct.
6) Nanotechnology conference, Co-sponsored by NTC and
Vanderbilt, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Caterpillar
Financial Auditorium. Details to be announced.
(Oct. 6) NTC Tech
Roundtable, program to be announced.
(Nov. 3) NTC
Tech Roundtable, presentation by Debbie Gordon, CEO,
Snappy Auctions.
(Dec. 1) NTC
Tech Roundtable, program on Meaningful Metrics in IT,
details TBA.
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