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HD DVD Bets Big On Super Bowl Ad... Yeah, That'll Do It
In the biggest standards battle most people couldn't care less about, most folks are assuming that Blu-ray has finally won the battle. However, the HD DVD folks aren't totally giving up yet. After hanging their heads and canceling a party and press conference at CES, it appears that Toshiba believes the way to revive interest in the HD DVD standard is... to spend $2.7 million on a Superbowl ad. As if that's going to make a difference. It brings to mind various dot com startups from the last bubble who put their entire marketing budget into a Super Bowl ad. In the meantime, it may be time to start watching HD DVD's other backers. Microsoft still insists it's strongly behind HD DVD but have opened the door to finally giving it up. Meanwhile, Intel has a long history of jumping ship after it realizes it backed the wrong horse in various standards battles.
Hobnobbing In Helendale
Jim Nichols is doing a phenomenal job with his Silver Lakes Neighborhood Watch (NW) program. He continues to recruit new members and reminds us that, "The more watchers we have, the less crime there is to report." When crime increased in our community Jim was one who did something about it. We were hearing about thefts from cars, burglaries, graffiti, robberies, vandalism. Jim got his program going and now has nearly 250 members. He has a great newsletter with tips on how to deter crime. He features public meetings with guest speakers. He aligns himself with the Silver Lakes Association Board, our Wackenhut Security Force, the volunteer Citizens On Patrol (COP) and the Sheriff’s Department. He is like a snowball rolling down a hill, gathering information and growing bigger and bigger, all for the good of the community.
Keeping Watch for Burglars (And Tabs on the Kids)
As a police officer in southern Florida, Greg Varley was dispatched to investigate as many as 10 false alarms a day at residents' homes. He was frustrated to discover that most people didn't disarm their security systems properly. So after retiring and moving to Cookeville, Tenn., Mr. Varley three months ago looked for a home-security system that would give him more control over arming the sensors, helping him avert false alarms. He soon came across a company called InGrid Inc., a security system that he could install himself and control using the Internet. Mr. Varley now arms and disarms his security system by logging onto a personalized Web site. And in addition to knowing when something goes wrong at home, he also can monitor when things are going right. "It's easy to go online and check the status of your sensors," he says.
The Strange Case of ParkerVision
PROMISING THE BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH in wire-less since Marconi, Jeffrey L. Parker's company ParkerVision has enjoyed the backing of sharp investors like Leucadia National and a member of the Barron's Roundtable. It has also lost $160 million over 17 years without delivering a successful product. So the tiny Jacksonville, Fla.-based firm has attracted generations of short-sellers. The shares (ticker: PRKR) have bounced plenty, between 3 and 56, and were recently going for 10 bucks each. The company's fruitless persistence has fed a strange online debate. A bear with the ominous screen name "cassandra-oracle" runs a Website called PV Notes that meticulously pulls the wings off ParkerVision's claims of a revolutionary radio amplifier technology. PV Notes even pays to show its link (www.pvnotes.com) when you Google the word "ParkerVision." Defending ParkerVision in hundreds of postings, meanwhile, is a bull named "urspond" who seems to know a lot about the involvement of Leucadia (LUK), a financial firm known more for value investing than tech speculation.
New Delhi, February 29
All security measures are also in place, CBSE chairman Ashok Ganguly claimed. While the class 10th examinations will be conducted from March 1 to 27, the Class 12 examinations will be held from March 1 to April 2. The examinations will be conducted across 5,018 centres of which 375 have been marked as sensitive and will have additional security measures. The National Capital Territory alone will have 1,109 centres. The board, this year, is introducing redesigned High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) question paper for both the standards. Based on the national curriculum framework2005, the new design includes about 10 per cent of very short answer questions and about 20 per cent of questions to assess HOTS. Advising students to stay calm, Ganguly said the new pattern will test understanding of information and the focus will be on measuring students abilities to reason, justify and evaluate information.
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