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...jumbo Tamagotchi pet? Nah. French tech company Violet (www.violet.net) has created Nabaztag, a plastic, 23-cm-tall (with ears up) white rabbit with a constant wi-fi connection. The device provides access to other Internet users and vital daily information like traffic reports and the weather. Programmed by its owner, Nabaztag (rabbit in Armenian) relays the information in a slightly cartoonish female voice, and flashes colored lights on her tummy when new e-mails arrive. The wi-fi rabbit, which also plays MP3s and MIDI files and dances a jig, flags these quotidian needs in order to reduce time spent...
...this happen? When the government is the main business owner, private parties cannot secure their property rights, especially when those properties are easy-to-appropriate intangibles such as brands, trademarks, business processes and ideas, whether they are protected by a foreign patent or not. The problem has been made worse because China emerged as an economic power around the time when information technologies created highways over which ideas could easily traverse the planet. Just as railroads and telegraphs in the mid-19th century made copyright and patent theft commercially important, so the Internet and associated information technologies redefined the market...
DAVID WIMPY, 49, CULTIVATES 800 ACRES OF CORN AND OTHER crops in Kentucky's hilly Amish country. As a member of the 2,300-strong Hopkinsville Elevator Cooperative, he is also part owner of the hottest new thing to hit town, Commonwealth Agri-Energy, an ethanol plant that started up a year ago in a stream-fed rock quarry a mile south of his land. The cooperative has a 94% stake in the $32 million plant, which has made an estimated $40 million in sales over the past year from ethanol and its by-products. Plant manager Mick Henderson says...
Zaslavsky, who along with Mark Gelman is a co-owner of Marky's, one of the country's leading caviar merchants, knows the market potential is significant. The U.S. imports 60% of the world's beluga caviar--well over five tons in 2003. Domestic beluga could be worth more than $20 million annually, double the $10 million Marky's takes in today...
...officer reported to Hollis Hall in response to an alleged e-mail account fraud, in which an individual had sent out e-mails without the consent of the owner. The officer filed a report of the identity fraud...