Wasabi Wednesdays: What's the Scoop on GMOs?
I’ve gotten a lot of questions recently about GMOs, what they are and how they relate to organic foods. This coupled with the fact that October 2010 has been dedicated to GMO awareness, I thought I would write a post on the subject. I did touch on GMOs in an earlier post but thought I would answer some additional questions.
GMOs, as they have come to be known, are Genetically Modified Organisms that have been created by genetic engineering.
How common are GMOs?
According to the USDA, in 2009, 93% of soy, 93% of cotton, and 86% of corn grown in the U.S. were GMO. It is estimated that over 90% of canola grown is GMO, and there are also commercially produced GM varieties of sugar beets, squash and Hawaiian Papaya. As a result, it is estimated that GMOs are now present in more than 80% of packaged products in the average U.S. or Canadian grocery store.
So what’s the big deal? It’s been about 15 years since the first genetically modified crops went commercial and doctors, scientists, and health advocates are still raising concerns about the potential impact on human health. One would think that GM foods would be tested for human safety before being released to the public, but this is not the case. To date there has only been one independent study conducted regarding the safety of eating GMOs and the conclusion was there were potential problems. The study has not been followed up on as of yet. Also, earlier this month one of the agricultural giant’s GM corn was found to cause organ failure in rats which most certainly raises a red flag. In addition to not understanding the potential impact on our health, it’s estimated that since GM crops were introduced farmers have used 318 billion more pounds of pesticides than needed for non-gm crops. So the way I see it, more pesticides in my food and no clear idea whether it’s okay to eat. See earlier post for discussion on pesticides.
In 30 other countries around the world, including Australia, Japan, and all of the countries in the European Union, there are significant restrictions or outright bans on the production of GMOs, because they are not considered proven safe. In the U.S. on the other hand, the FDA approved commercial production of GMOs based on studies conducted by the companies who created them and profit from their sale. Many health-conscious shoppers find the lack of rigorous, independent, scientific examination on the impact of consuming GM foods to be cause for concern.
Polls consistently show that the majority of North Americans want to know whether the food they are buying contains GMOs. Whether or not you choose to consume GM food is your choice, but at least give us the ability make that decision. As I mentioned in a previous post, there is no labeling to show whether foods contain GMOs or not. There is a great new initiative called the Non-GMO Project that gives some hope that one day we will be provided with the appropriate information to make educated decisions about GMOs and our health.
The Non-GMO Project is an initiative of the North American organic and natural product industry to create a standardized definition of non-GMO and a 3rd party verification program to assess product compliance with this Standard. The Project’s Product Verification Program is entirely voluntary, and participants are companies who see the value of offering their customers a verified non-GMO choice. Many of the individuals and businesses leading the way with the Project are the same ones responsible for creating the original organic standards.
So what do we do until the Non-GMO Project starts making waves? I just read a great article, How Can I Avoid Genetically Modified Foods? They stated three things we can do while we wait to get GMO labeling.
Buy organic. Organic foods must be processed without bioengineering. Whether the label says 100 percent organic, organic, or made with organic ingredients, you can rest assured that the entire product is GMO free, since USDA regulations do not permit genetically modified ingredients in any category of certified organic food. And if you can’t afford to buy everything organic, at least make sure that the animal products you purchase — meat, dairy, eggs — are. With conventional beef, for instance, you can be pretty sure that mountains of Roundup Ready corn were fed to those cows. That conventional zucchini? Not as looming a threat, at least where GMOs are concerned.
Beware the SCCC. No, it’s not some new government agency (though maybe it should be). That stands for soy, cotton, canola, and corn, which are among the most common GMO crops. The statistics are startling: 91 percent of soy, 87 percent of cotton, 75 percent of canola, and 73 percent of corn crops grown in the US are GMO, according to the USDA. So unless the label specifically says organic, you can pretty much bet that any food or product you buy that contains any of the big four have been genetically changed. We’re not just talking tofu and tortilla chips, either: It’s the sheets on your bed, those potato chips fried in cottonseed oil, and the aspartame in your Diet Coke (made using a fermentation process that involves soy and corn).
Avoid processed, packaged foods. Thanks to farming subsidies that have produced unimaginable surpluses of cheap (mostly GMO) corn, we now have dozens of corn-based ingredients served up to us in increasingly creative ways by the processed food industry. As Michael Pollan points out in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, “Corn is in the coffee whitener and Cheez Whiz, the frozen yogurt and TV dinner, the canned fruit and ketchup and candies, the soups and snacks and cake mixes…there are some 45,000 items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.” Bottom line: If you’re concerned about GMOs, don’t eat anything with an advertising budget.
While I agree with the above that this is a good place to start you may remember an article I referenced earlier, When Organic Really Isn’t Organic, discussing that some products labeled organic may still contain GMOs. The point being it’s becoming more and more difficult to produce completely GMO free food.
You may or may not be interested in whether or not your food contains GMOs but if you are I hope you found this helpful. I’ve also listed some additional resources related to this topic that you might find useful.
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Algae grown in Pecos for fuel
oaoa.comWhile the Pecos center houses just a few researchers and some graduate students, Texas A&M sees algae for fuel as a potentially lucrative business for the area. Brown said that, in the future West Texas could be full of producers around a centralized processing facility.
Plans call for production systems up to 2,000 acres to someday be located in the Permian Basin. Texas A&M economists say each 2,000 acre unit could have a local economic impact of $190 million annually. That includes more than 1,000 acre-feet possibly being built by Texas A&M.
And with much of the land already leveled for farming purposes, Brown said that would make it easier to use for algae ponds.
The project could have a large economic impact around Pecos. Texas A&M agricultural economics professor James Richardson said that a 1,000 acre-feet farm could add 250 jobs during construction and 42 permanent positions. That could lead to 150 jobs elsewhere in the community.
Richardson calls algae a “drop-in fuel,” meaning it could be made identically or slightly better than petroleum-based diesel. He said this means it could use the same distribution system, tanks and pumps as diesel.
“We won’t need to modify our motors,”
US science chief warns: 'China will eat our lunch'
By Steve Connor in Washington, The Independent, 20 February 2011
China is in pole position to overtake the United States as the premier nation for scientific and technological innovation, and will do so if Americans fail to raise their game, President Barrack Obama’s own science adviser has told The Independent on Sunday.
John Holdren, the director of the White House office of science and technology policy, explained that the US faces a similar technological challenge to the one it faced half a century ago when the USSR launched the world’s first satellite—to the surprise of the Americans.
He warned that the United States faces another “Sputnik moment”, but this time the adversary is China, which is investing heavily in scientific research and development. Chinese schoolchildren are now consistently outperforming US pupils in science and mathematics.
“Everybody is looking at China and saying, if we don’t lift our game, China is going to eat our lunch economically because the amount they are investing in science, technology and innovation, while it has not yet reached anything like our level, is rising very quickly,” Dr Holdren said.
President Obama said in his State of the Union address last month that Americans today face their own “Sputnik moment” and that the US needs to reach a level of research and development that the country has not seen since the height of the space race five decades ago.
Dr Holdren, who trained in aeronautics and plasma physics and is a professor of environmental policy, explained what President Obama meant by his reference to the Sputnik satellite: “When the Russians put the first artificial satellite into orbit [in 1957], and we were able to look out at the night sky and see that glimmer of light as it passed overhead, it really had a profound effect on the people of this country and its policymakers,” he said.
“We always thought of the United States as being the first in science and technology, and suddenly we were beaten into space by the Russians, who at that time were our adversaries. What it led to was an enormous effort to catch up, and it led to the space programme as we know it, including the moon mission and the moon landings.”
“It led to enormous numbers of young people interested in and inspired about science, maths, and engineering. I’m in that cohort, somebody who was a kid at that time and who became even more excited about science and technology than I’d been before—by this event and by the challenge of catching up and doing exciting things. So when the President talks about the ‘Sputnik moment’, what he’s saying is that we are at some kind of turning point. He’s saying essentially it’s a wake-up moment. It’s time to realise we have to get going.
“Part of that Sputnik moment is the test scores of our kids on the international science and maths tests where the US typically ranks between 17 and 25. Part of our Sputnik moment is realising how hard we need to work to lift our game in science, technology, engineering and maths education.”
Only scientific and technological third wealth 939 million U.S. dollars of net profit in season of U.S.A. are increased by one time compared with the same period of last year
The storage chip manufacturers of U.S.A.’s maximum are beautiful to only release the third wealth wealth newspaper in season of this company on scientific and technological Monday. The wealth newspaper reveals, are risen and merge and bring the promoting of the accounting income by the storage chip price, only scientific and technological third wealth net profit in season of U.S.A. is increased to 939 million dollars.Here up to the third wealth season on June 3, U.S.A.’s only scientific and technological net profit is 939 million dollars, shut the thin income of 0.92 dollars of stand per share. This achievement is better than in the same period of last year, in third wealth season of 2009 fiscal years, U.S.A.’s only scientific and technological net deficiency was 365 million dollars, shut the thin income of 0.39 dollars of stand per share. U.S.A. has been only scientific and technological for the third wealth season the net camp charges for 2,290 million dollars, double than 1,110 million dollars at the same period last year. U.S.A. has only ney is offered to purchasing the chip manufacturers of the flashing memory to recall income of 488 million dollars that the semiconductor brings permanently to company in the wealth is offered ted. U.S.A. only claims to furnish funds of 1,270 million dollars and purchase the chip manufacturers of flashing memory and recall the semiconductor scientifically and technologically permanently in February of this year, thereby strengthen the flashing memory chip business of the company.
Only scientific and technological third wealth achievement in season of U.S.A. has exceeded the expectancy of market. Soup full of trees investigation of Reuter reveal market analyst expect equally before this, this company third wealth season per share stand thin income 0.43 dollars, it is 2,120 million dollars that the camp charges. U.S.A. is only scientific and technological mainly produce DRAM memory chip, and NAND flashing memory chip. This company the intersection of DRAM and the intersection of flashing memory and the intersection of chip and sales volume for third season such as wealth increase 10%, product average price float 9% in this season, relatively went up by 51% at the same period last year; NAND flashing memory chip camp accepts and increases by 16% compared with the same period of last year, among them NAND flashing memory chip sales volume increases by 21%, glide 4% of the influence brought to company after resisting the average price.
Only scientific and technological chief executive officer Steve and Appleton (Steve Appleton) in U.S.A. Had represented last December, the expenditure to new factory and apparatus of the whole industry was 4 billion dollars in 2009, well below 22 billion dollars in 2007, this indicates to be seldom chip manufacturers are interested in expanding output. But Samsung had already promoted the capital budget for expenditure in 2010 last month. Company this plan, drop 9,000 billion into to the intersection of storage chip and business ’ Nearly equal to 7,500 million dollars) ,Predicted 5,500 billion won before higher than thising. Over the past 10 years, U.S.A. is only scientific and technological only realized and made profits in 4. Because the chip industry is affected greatly by uncertain market demand, it is very difficult for the whole industry to adjust the production level quickly. The storage chip manufacturers of U.S.A.’s maximum are beautiful to only release the third wealth wealth newspaper in season of this company on scientific and technological Monday. The wealth newspaper reveals, are risen and merge and bring the promoting of the accounting income by the storage chip price, only scientific and technological third wealth net profit in season of U.S.A. is increased to 939 million dollars.
Here up to the third wealth season on June 3, U.S.A.’s only scientific and technological net profit is 939 million dollars, shut the thin income of 0.92 dollars of stand per share. This achievement is better than in the same period of last year, in third wealth season of 2009 fiscal years, U.S.A.’s only scientific and technological net deficiency was 365 million dollars, shut the thin income of 0.39 dollars of stand per share. U.S.A. has been only scientific and technological for the third wealth season the net camp charges for 2,290 million dollars, double than 1,110 million dollars at the same period last year. U.S.A. has only ney is offered to purchasing the chip manufacturers of the flashing memory to recall income of 488 million dollars that the semiconductor brings permanently to company in the wealth is offered ted. U.S.A. only claims to furnish funds of 1,270 million dollars and purchase the chip manufacturers of flashing memory and recall the semiconductor scientifically and technologically permanently in February of this year, thereby strengthen the flashing memory chip business of the company.
Only scientific and technological third wealth achievement in season of U.S.A. has exceeded the expectancy of market. Soup full of trees investigation of Reuter reveal market analyst expect equally before this, this company third wealth season per share stand thin income 0.43 dollars, it is 2,120 million dollars that the camp charges. U.S.A. is only scientific and technological mainly produce DRAM memory chip, and NAND flashing memory chip. This company the intersection of DRAM and the intersection of flashing memory and the intersection of chip and sales volume for third season such as wealth increase 10%, product average price float 9% in this season, relatively went up by 51% at the same period last year; NAND flashing memory chip camp accepts and increases by 16% compared with the same period of last year, among them NAND flashing memory chip sales volume increases by 21%, glide 4% of the influence brought to company after resisting the average price.
Only scientific and technological chief executive officer Steve and Appleton (Steve Appleton) in U.S.A. Had represented last December, the expenditure to new factory and apparatus of the whole industry was 4 billion dollars in 2009, well below 22 billion dollars in 2007, this indicates to be seldom chip manufacturers are interested in expanding output. But Samsung had already promoted the capital budget for expenditure in 2010 last month. Company this plan, drop 9,000 billion into to the intersection of storage chip and business ’ Nearly equal to 7,500 million dollars) ,Predicted 5,500 billion won before higher than thising. Over the past 10 years, U.S.A. is only scientific and technological only realized and made profits in 4. Because the chip industry is affected greatly by uncertain market demand, it is very difficult for the whole industry to adjust the production level quickly.
The investigation reveals: Science and technology industry on the senior level is still optimistic to industry's prospect
According to an investigation, though the global market situation is confused at present, there is the interviewed the high level of scientific and technological industry and representedding of 2/3, the depressed impact to them of economy, will not be as serious as foam situation of the network of 2000. But over 3/4 of the interviewees show, their business has already been influenced by financial crisis.
This investigation is to go on from September 23 to October 6 by the lawyer’s office DLA Piper; Have visited 145 reputable executives of scientific & technical corporations and scientific and technological domain venture capital firms.
And this investigation reveals, 27% of the interviewees show they have already cut down business and marketing expenditure, and only 15% of the interviewees show they have cut down and researched and developed the expenditure. ’ investigation result reveals, most companies hold the crisis this time not to produce the serious ballistic idea to them, and these companies still plan to make the investment continuously this prosperous cycle. ’ the whole world of legal business of science and technology of DLA Piper is in charge of Peter Astiz to represent.
Over over half of the interviewees think, economy is prosperous will spring back to rising the second half of 2009, but there are 1/3 to think that time will be in 2010 or later to rebound. But interviewees mostly agree, usually first public publication (IPO) of the real health status of scientific and technological industry of reaction The market, will go back warmly by 2010 if must at least wait for perhaps.
In addition there is an data display of investigation offered by Dow Jones VentureSource, the whole risk investment market of the third quarter glided 1% in more previously season, the amount of money wants 7,370 million dollars; This data relatively glided 7% at the same period last year. And the investment in IT enterprises glides 10% than the second quarter, the amount of money is 2,730 million dollars.
And the hot target of making the investment at present is the regenerated energy, invest the fund of this field than 71% of growth by a wide margin of the second quarter in the third quarter, the aggregate amount has reached 1,080 million dollars.
JAM establishes the system of stream and freight transportation by cooperating with Singaporean JSI Company
JAM scientific & technical corporation announced a few days ago, freight transportation and stream that Singapore JSI Company will offer Asia area for JAMTrueFidelity digital input audio amplifier products are served. JSI Company been devoted to setting up world-class supply chain management system all the time for over 20 years, offer the stream solution customized for JAM this time, will offer reliable global customer’s products freight transportation and stream supervisory service for JAM Company. JAM chief executive officer MikeHolt thinks: “Can offer the credible products delivery service to customer with the cooperative assurance JAM of JSI Company. At present, the stage that JAM is at the sales volume of the products to grow at top speed, need the aid of the advanced supply chain management system urgently, make the treatment of customer’s order reach more high level. ” TrueFidelity amplifier of JAM is designed on the basis of the genuine digital input open loop class d amplifier, can realize the audio frequency of the tone quality of 16 simulation with the efficiency of the class d amplifier. The introduction of TrueFidelity amplifier will meet audio frequency of electronic product market of consumption and amplify the transition at full speed that technology imitated from rule to digital rule in an all-round way. JAM American general headquarters lay in Texas Austin, it established the general headquarters located in Singapore newly recently, having announced the cooperation with JSI Company this time, the global influence is being strengthened constantly. The establishment located in general headquarters of JAM Company of Singapore makes JAM press close to the customers and cooperation traders of Asia area, the cooperation with JSI Company has further consolidated JAM strategy of supply chain management taking Asia area as the centre. The organizations of general headquarters that JAM lies in Singapore have staff group including each field such as IC design, manufacturing, project application and sale service. JAM American general headquarters are design centres of projects (EngineeringDesignCenter) The site, is responsible for the research and development finishing the new product specially.
10 great science and technology of Shanghai Expo
Huge ” morning glory ”In the monosomatous building of maximum of World Expo 2010 Shanghai - -In the axle of Expo, are inlaying 6 huge ” morning glories ” . Their formal name is very pleasant too: ” sunshine valley ” . The composition of the sunshine valley is a rare technological challenge of the world: The steel construction of each sunshine valley contains more than 1700 units, each node exhales 6 member bars, and have nothing in common with each other in the locus of each member bar.
Ask for the membrane structure building
This is another constituent element of an axle of Expo. Compared with traditional construction, time limit asking for the membrane building is only periodic 1/4 of traditional construction. Meanwhile, did not need sandstone, cement in construction, avoided the pollution to that the environment brings of wind-borne dust, noise.
LED light source
In the whole of Shanghai Expo garden, 60% to 70% of the lights will adopt LED to light. Relatively send the optical effect in the traditional light source dully in looks, LED light source is a little electronic product of undervoltage, have succeeded in merging computer technology, network communication skill, treatment technology of the picture, embedded control technique,etc., belong to the digital information-based products, so longe-lived, with high uncertainty, high power-saving.
Solar energy application of maximum
The materials that Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination announced last year reveal: The generating capacity of solar energy of World Expo 2010 Shanghai garden will reach 4.5 megawatts, will become centralized application of solar energy in the world in one of the areas of the largest scale.
4G must be technological
In mid-April, World Expo 2010 Shanghai TD-LTE which China Mobile undertakes the construction of (allow 4G technology) The mobile communication of broadband is demonstrated the network opens formally, this is one of frontier science and technology the most shown at this World Expo. This mean during the World Expo, on the basis of the intersection of movement and the intersection of high definition and meeting to demonstrate network, move the intersection of high definition and video, control, not portable to look at the intersection of person who spread and business the formal service World Expo 2010 Shanghai.
The mobile phone pays the bill
The impact that communication science and technology brings is not only in 4G. At present, Shanghai the intersection of subway and all station have 1500 specialized floodgate machine in all passway offer ” ’ coherent Expo ’ Mobile pay and employ the rail transportation ” service Function. There are 2 groups of floodgates entering and leaving stop machine at least at each station, label ” wallet private channel of mobile phone ” Words.
The Internet of things is first beautiful
Another prominent application of the Internet of things is that there is a independent intellectual property right ” core of Expo ” in the ticket of each Expo . The visitor enters the garden, can receive a tour and propose pursuing on the mobile phone; As what has been visited goes on, visitors can know the position ordered in nearest bus station, food and beverage at any time. Meanwhile, the organizer can follow ” core of Expo ” too Understand the audience in every venue is distributed, can send out the next visit to propose to the audience in time, can arouse the vehicle effectively, raise traffic efficiency.
Electronic guide’s appearance
The electronic guide’s appearance becomes indespensible equipment of this World Expo. It is even more than oneself that it is known that this apparatus understands thoroughly the language numbers, ones that explained the content are detailed, old Shanghai people all sigh for it ” ” . This guide’s appearance can broadcast seven languages such as China, Great Britain, Japan and Korea S., France, Germany, the west altogether, can explain in the internal and external automatic positioning of the garden of Expo. At present, more than hotels and each only for of three-star hotel of Shanghai dispose a Taiwan guide’s appearance, used as visitor’s charge free.
Water curtain of numerical control
A numerical control water curtain office as tall as 25 meters is in the central hall of Expo. And when it is shown that ” it is reached that A is all ” for the film, IMAX is more difficult to ask and similar than a ticket of 3D, it has not already been rare times in the water curtain film, the most high indoor numerical control water curtain can still be soul-stirring in the world.
Peasant’s robot
According to Britain ” daily post “: A ” star whom the cleverest peasants of the whole of China invented ” Will participate in World Expo 2010 Shanghai taking more than 30 robots made of oneself. Wu YuLu from Tongzhou of Beijing has already invented and made the robot of big and small different functions and amounted to 47. They have all kinds of functions, for example will jump, can draw, will drink, will massage etc..
The cloth fitful wind of Nokia throws three tubes to leave together
The investment priority that BlueRun enters China will be the establishment enterprises of mobile communication, IT, consumer products and service field. At present, it invest in for example offer network PPLive of net cast and the intersection of movement and palm of information platform limitless, etc
Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia of the maximum of the world, it is huge in battle array too on the venture capital overall arrangement, except that the exclusive innovative organization of the owned global overall arrangement, is absorbed in the innovative business and developed and made the investment, the investment funds of a risk inside and outside Nokia has also set up, each stages later period in the ones that have contained venture capital are early, look for TMT specially for it ’ Communication, media and science and technology) Chance of the field.
Nokia leading BlueRun risk investment funds and innovative organization Asian general headquarters of Nokia Asian enterprise in 2005 (Nokia Ventures Organization Asia, play and call ” NVO ” )Settle in the fragrant innovative centre of China of Shanghai together, this innovative centre Finland and China of Israel fetches justice to name. This year, until ” whether Nokia grow up partner ” Nokia Fund take aim to China and India especially.
Go ahead of the rest in the technological incubator base
As far back as 2003, the innovative organization (NVO) of Nokia enterprise The centre of development of new business of the Asian-Pacific area is established in Shanghai. According to the alignment at that time, NVO is devoted to establishing and the developing company managed the new business idea of the focal point at that time, devoted to promoting the growth of all key business at that time of the company and upgrading at the same time.
The working channel of NVO is very various. Face the entrepreneur, Nokia has many kinds of communications, the pioneering enterprise can enter into cooperation with each department of Nokia. Have certain technology as to just starting an undertaking and lack the company of the fund, NVO will be in its investment, carry on the development of technology and products together, and apply the technology and service to products and service of Nokia.
Representative achievement to introduce Chinese market to be first the hardware device among them, the complete set that software application and electronic navigation map are rolled into one moves the solution of navigating - -Nokia wireless GPS ’ Global positioning system) Module of navigation. It is used that this GPS module can be compatible with all intellectual mobile phones based on Series60 platform, and very compatible with others PDA or PC corollary use. In this field, Nokia has chosen with Shanghai Naveh information tech co. ( NAV2) Cooperation.
In addition, the propelled NFC cell-phone is paid in a more cost-effective manner at present in Nokia, it is one of the most important projects of this organization too. This is a technology expected to change user’s life style on a large scale - -Aim at the card reader with the mobile phone, can realize that take transit buses in the subway, see the film, pay the bill in the restaurant; Put the mobile phone before inlaying the poster with NFC label, can download film content, ringing sound of cell phone and poster,etc..
BlueRun integration promoted
Nokia tried hard to recommend the global risk investment funds of 1 billion dollars of management in September of 2005 - -BlueRun create invest fund claim, enter China formally, open the office in Shanghai.
Because Nokia is one of BlueRun big shareholders that 1 billion dollars wind of management invests the fund, had successively registered capital to BlueRun many times.
The investment of Nokia not merely hopes to obtain the rate of return on investment, the more important thing is, it is an irrigation ditch of Nokia’s technological source to establish Blue Run to 1998 too. Nokia not merely can seeks to make the investment through BlueRun, but also will arrange for one’s own innovative organization and BlueRun of enterprise to carry on cooperative investment.
BlueRun achieves and invests the fund partner to link the wide introduction oldly, the investment priority that BlueRun enters China will be the establishment enterprises of mobile communication, IT, consumer products and service field. As supporting the foundation of the company of initial stage of pioneering, BlueRun creates and invests funds and mainly invests in in early and middle period, the capital cost range of each one is among 2 million to 8 million dollars. At present, it invest in for example offer network PPLive, the intersection of movement and palm of information platform of net cast limitless, etc.
Chen WeiGuang emphasizes, because the investment priority is earlier stage, require the technological content of the company to be higher, then expand more high project of China’s technological content to the overseas market, make globalism, company facing world market.
Nokia grows up the partner for middle and later periods
For develop middle period and enterprise of mature period, global the intersection of fund and ” Nokia grow up partner ” that Nokia make the investment Absorbed in this. Established on December 7, 2004 ” Nokia’s growth partner ” Announce this year it adds 100 million dollars, on the basis of success of the Er early direct risk investment funds project, Nokia grows up the partner will still put more resources into Asia, especially China and India.
Nokia grows up the partner will continue creating and investing funds to cooperate with Bluerun closely. Two companies run independently, but have common investors: Nokia, and long-term firm cooperation history in human world from forming a partnership and both as supplemental technology and investment objective to make the cooperative effect.
Executive vice president and cheif technology officer Tero Ojanpera of Nokia show, Nokia is devoted to promoting Internet and excursive integration, and is seeking to innovate on the outside beyond company’s traditional key business actively. While Nokia utilized venture capital to promote innovation, Nokia grew up the partner played an important role.
European Union calls upon, where are IT women?
The committee of Europe will show a few days ago, science and technology and Carrier needed to recruit more woman staff members, otherwise IT labour force gap of 300,000 will appear in 2010.
According to zdnet website, the committee of Europe will show a few days ago, hoped more to be still at the girl at stage of compulsory education to pursue IT undertaking, thus guarantee IT labour force is supplied.
At present, there is not a woman staff member in 66% of the European Carriers.
Though Europe studies the technical students of information communication and increases, the committee of Europe will still hope more university students can enter this field. At present, the proportion that European university students study IT is only 2.3%, and U.S.A. is 5%, South Korea is 6%.
In 2006, in studying IT technical students, only 22% were women. As to enterprise, this kind of situation is more severe. Found by the investigation, there are no woman employees in 66% of the Carriers. In 14 large-scale IT Companies, women employee’s proportion is still less than 10%. (have a match and guide the network)
Ray is insulted the scientific and technological WLAN chip is authorized through China WAPI
Science and technology (Raink) that Ray is insulted 3x3 802.11n wireless access point RT3883 and wireless network adapter RT3593 leads the whole world and passes the Chinese radio local area network secure protocol (WAPI) AuthenticationScience and technology (Ralink) that Ray is insulted The company announces, following its other higher speed WLAN chip products, products such as its wireless access point RT3883 and wireless network adapter RT3593 up to 450Mbps of highest throughput,etc. have already led the same trade, pass the Chinese radio local area network secure protocol WAPI (Wireless LAN Authentication and Privacy) as the first group in the world 3x3 radio local area network (WLAN) with high capacity and efficiency tested Chip solution.
WAPI standard incidence contains all network devices to carry WLAN function, and make particular specification and test method to the physical layer interface. Use the engine technology of hardware encryption, throughput and safe protection efficiency of the scientific and technological products that Ray is insulted, surpass those solutions at the same level of business only relying on the software, enable the processor of every device while transmitting with the processing data, needn’t consume the processor efficiency and carry out encryption operation, but can vacate resources to deal with data transmission, and then the response rate of the lift system by a wide margin, this accords with consumer demand and expectation.
Qin ZhiQiang, alliance’s general secretary of WAPI industry, shows: ” very glad to see the science and technology (Ralink) that Ray is insulted The way construction of the hardware of using WAPI technology is on 3x3 802.11n products with high capacity and efficiency such as RT3883 and RT3593,etc.. High-speed wireless communication has already been now’s trend, so, the safe protection of WALN becomes primary problem that all consumers face even more, can solve the problem that in this respect effectively while adopting WAPI agreement. Our happy science and technology of seeing the thunder insult is devoted to expanding WAPI, develop the hardware type solution. This lets users can still get impregnable safe protection while enjoying transfer rate with high capacity and efficiency. ”
Ray insults wireless Division’s general manager Lin BoRong of science and technology to represent: “We have been devoted to with the construction WAPI cryptographic function in the goods in process of hardware solution that are optimized all the time, and already got the market and echoed warmly. As our 3x3 product line is authorized through WAPI too, we will further crane one’s neck to look into the distance in the Chinese market in the future, no matter developing fields such as personal action communication, wireless network access point and adapter, DSL/Cable modem gateway,etc., or on products such as home high picture quality radiovision, blue light player, camera of the network, top box of digital machine and digital picture frame,etc., there are more intact products choice. ”
Ray is insulted science and technology always contains extensively and well-knownly with the terminal products, already there are over 750 kinds of to carry thunder and insult on global markets the scientific and technological 802.11n technical product is circulating on the market at present. Displaying, operation efficiency and cost advantage of excellent performance of its product of science and technology that Ray is insulted, no matter paying attention to one grade of 11n form chip products of rudimentary of the high cost-effective, or put emphasis on transmitting the stable high-order 3x3 wireless multimedia solution, all Yes abundant manifestation.
11 five China will build 12 items of great scientific and technological infrastructure
The national development and reform committee released the basic ability construction of autonomous innovation on the 25th ” 11 five ” Plan, propose building 12 items of great scientific and technological infrastructure, set up the national scientific centres and national laboratories about 30 pieces, build and improve the national key laboratories about 300 pieces.
According to this planning that is jointly made by committee of development and reform, the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, ” 11 five ” The country will focus the consruction on scatteredly and split in the neutron source during this time, high-intensity magnetic field device, large-scale astronomical telescope, integrated survey ship of marine science, aviation remote sensing system, frozen wind-tunnel, continent structure environmental test network, the case study on active service of great engineering material comments on facilities, scientific research facilities of protein, the project, subterranean resource and earthquake forecasting extremely-low frequency are electromagnetic to survey 12 items of great scientific and technological infrastructure of the network, agricultural bio-safety research facilities at meridian.
Plan to propose, ” 11 five ” In strategy fields such as information, life sciences, space, ocean, nanometer and new material,etc. during this time, set up the national scientific centres and national laboratories about 30 pieces and well equippedly, scale merit is obvious, innovation ability is strong, the degree of opening is high. It is extensive and innovating the active research field day by day, build and improve the national key laboratories about 300 pieces to cross in discipline.
” 11 five ” During this time, the country, in order to speed up the development of high-tech industries such as information, living beings,etc., advance the information-based process of national economy, it is a goal to foster industry’s key competitiveness, key electronic device, common chip of high side, fields such as integrated circuit and software, Next Generation Network, wireless mobile communication, information security, great new medicine formulating, great infectious disease preventing and curing, modern traditional Chinese medicine of new generation,etc., build the facilities of industry’s key technology research and development of several support.
For reach the goal of planning to be put forward, country strengthen public finance to basic public beneficial researching and developing to drop into facilitying while being strategic; Strengthen the guide of the social fund of government investment; Strengthen the support of policy-related finance; The ones that strengthened and researched and developed facilities and put enterprises into were deducted before-tax, reduced or remitted tariff and imports value-added tax in importing the research and development facilities that China can’t produce. (Xinhua News Agency)
U.S.A. revises copyright law Analyse and explain iPhone legalization
U.S.A. revises copyright law on the 26th, allow users to analyse and explain intellectual mobile phones such as iPhone,etc., in order to change operator or third party’s software of installation.
Though Apple objected to strongly, U.S.A. copyright office still passed ” figure millennium copyright law ” (DMCA) on the 26th Revised edition. Promote the modified foundation of electronic front of U.S.A. (EFF) of this bill Issue a statement and say, the bill revises the legitimacy of acknowledging the broken relieving oneself machine on the same day, make iPhone cellphone subscriber install the third party software approved by apple, also can alter the mobile phone operator.
U.S.A. copyright office thinks, analyses and explains the intellectual mobile phone, make the operating system compatible with application software made independently, this kind is fair for compatible and carry on analysing and explaining completely. The foundation of electronic front says, more than 1 million iPhone users analyse and explain their mobile phone, otherwise users can only use the software bought through AppStore.
Apple argues, allows users to analyse and explain iPhone and damage apples and receive the protective critical technology of the copyright, lead to the fact the mobile phone presents the safe loophole, is infected with the virus or makes the hardware damage. But U.S.A. copyright office thinks, the main purpose that the apple locks the mobile phone is to truss users up in the set network, but not in order to protect its copyright.
