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UPCOMING ROUND TABLES & EVENTS

Triple Tree Reports on Telemedicine to Improve Health 
Triple Tree LLC, where Rob McCray is Managing Partner, has published an industry analysis titled "Telemedicine 2.0: Connecting Medical Devices, Patients and Providers to Improve Health." The 46-page report covers such topics as what is driving the growth of the wireless life sciences market; telemedicine; wireless implantable devices; who pays: consumers or insurers?; reimbursable devices; FDA regulatory requirements; is it a medical device or consumer electronic?; and how the market will evolve. Download the Report Here

ClinPhone Achieves First-in-Industry Accreditation
ClinPhone, where Nick Richards is a senior executive, has received accreditation from the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium for its electronic data capture product -- the first clinical technology organization to receive this. Users of ClinPhone's product can run a snapshot or archival export on demand and share the validated clinical data with any internal or external system through ClinPhone Connect.

Microsemi Signs Global Partner, Releases New Product
Microsemi, where Jim Peterson is CEO, and Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. have entered an agreement for Nu Horizons to become a global distributor of Microsemi's analog and mixed-signal products, including controller integrated circuits, ambient light sensors and LCD backlight inverters.  Meanwhile, Microsemi announced a new series of Power Solution Modules for high power L-Band pulsed radar applications.

Mitratech Chosen by Pharmaceutical Company
Mitratech, where Afshin Behnia is CEO, has announced that pharmaceutical company Astellas has successfully implemented TeamConnect in its U.S. legal department, which has improved communications between the Legal and R&D Contracts Administration departments and improved overall response time with the client groups.

NetworkD Updates Self-Service Password Tool
NetworkD, where Ashley Leonard is CEO, has released iControl for Windows v2.5, a self-service password reset tool that empowers end users to control and reset personal passwords without calling the Help Desk. As many as 30% of calls that come into the Service Desk are password related, NetworkD has found.

Roland's Wide-Format Printer Awarded for Innovation
The AdvancedJET AJ-1000 104" grand-format inkjet printer from Roland DGA, where Bob Curtis is CEO, has won a European Digital Press Association Award for innovation. The EDP awards recognize the best and most innovative digital printing products for the previous 12 months based on efficiency, performance, quality/price ratio, design and ease of use.

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

IT Security Going Unused
Password security has become a bigger issue within the last year, said 75% of respondents to a study by DigitalPersona and Business Performance Management Forum, and 77% said that a network data breach could be critical or disastrous to their company. More than 25% of respondents currently have fingerprint readers in notebooks or desktops. Yet fewer than half of firms that have them (often embedded in laptops) are using the technology. Less than half of respondents had any formal security system or policy to create an electronic audit trail. (eMarketer, 5/1/07)

Gates: "Online Services Top Priority" in His Last F/T Year
Bill Gates said recently that he intends to spend his remaining full-time employment with Microsoft primarily focused on developing online and advertising services. Gates has said that he will work with the company full-time until mid-2008. In his remaining months, his "biggest thing" will be directed toward "search, buyers and sellers... going head to head with companies including Google and Yahoo -- resulting in about a $2.7 billion increase in operating expenses in its current fiscal year. According to Nielsen NetRatings, in the month of March, Microsoft held a 10.1% share on the search market, while Google held 51.3% and Yahoo held 21.8%. (KenRadio's Daily Tech News Clicks, 5/9/07)

80% of Internet Users To Get Second Life
Gartner predicts that 80% of active Internet users and Fortune 500 companies will have an avatar or presence in a virtual environment like Second Life by the end of 2011. Enterprise clients should experiment with virtual environments, Gartner said, but hold off on heavy investments until the environments stabilize and mature. Gartner also offered five laws to guide enterprises in their virtual ventures. First: Virtual worlds are not games, but neither are they a parallel universe (yet).  Second: Behind every avatar is a real person. Enterprise users must consider their corporate reputations when dealing with avatars. Third: Be relevant and add value. "Do not expect to undertake profitable commercial activities inside most virtual worlds in the next three years," said Steve Prentice of Gartner. Fourth: Understand and contain the downside. Ask if virtual-world activities undermine or influence branding in the real world. Adult content is a large part of virtual economies, so appropriate behavior and ethics must be considered. Fifth: This is a long haul. Virtual environments have developed through the convergence of social networking, simulation and online gaming. The stability and scalability of many new entrants are not yet established. (eMarketer Daily, 4/27/07)

UPCOMING ROUND TABLES & EVENTS

5/11 - West Los Angeles Round Table
6/1 - 210 Corridor Round Table
6/7 - Thursday Orange County Round Table
6/8 - West Los Angeles Round Table
6/13 - Wednesday Orange County Round Table