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UPCOMING ROUND TABLES & EVENTS

Berkus Endows Occidental with $1.25 Million
Kudos to multi-company Chairman and venture capitalist Dave Berkus, a trustee at Occidental College, for giving $1.25 million to his alma mater to create an endowment for the maintenance of all the buildings on the 120-acre Los Angeles campus. Designed by architect Myron Hunt, designer of the Rose Bowl stadium, Occidental's buildings date back to 1914. (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/26/07)

IOGEAR Gets Wireless USB Certification + New HDMI Switch
IOGEAR, where Sampson Yang is CEO and Jim Wittry is COO, is one of the world’s first vendors to receive Wireless USB certification by the USB Implementers Forum and FCC certification for an end-user solution, its Wireless USB Hub & Adapter Kit. Meanwhile, IOGEAR introduced a new 4-Port Automatic HDMI Switch, which enables consumers to simultaneously control and connect up to four High-Definition Multimedia Interface devices to TV sets.

Line 6 Introduces Portable POD
Line 6, where Mike Muench is CEO, has unveiled a battery-powered, portable Pocket POD, which enables the user to create guitar tones "wherever and whenever inspiration strikes" with its collection of legendary guitar amp sounds, stompbox effects, and over 300 presets dialed in by some of today’s hottest artists and studio musicians.

Microsemi's New Transistors Address Pulsed Avionics
Microsemi Corporation, where Jim Peterson is CEO, has announced a new series of LDMOS transistors for pulsed avionics applications, designed to handle lower power applications over the 960-1215MHz avionics band, as well as offer high gain and high load mismatch tolerance. All three devices offer the additional flexibility of being usable with heavy pulse conditions, including CW.

NDC Provides Filters for World's Most Powerful IR Camera
NDC Infrared Engineering, where Bromley Beadle is President, supplied five filter types for the new Wide Field Camera - the world's most powerful infrared survey camera, located in Hawaii. It will survey large regions of the sky at infrared wavelengths and is expected to discover both the nearest objects outside our solar system and the farthest known objects in the universe.

Orbis Terra Discusses Prospering in the Global Market
Orbis Terra, where Harold Yin is President, has produced a white paper: "Top Ten Reasons Companies Underperform Internationally," available for download.

Remote Dynamics Adds Maintenance Module
Remote Dynamics, where Gary Hallgren is CEO, a leading provider of GPS vehicle tracking solutions, has announced the finalization of its REDIview Maintenance Module to complement its fleet management offering. It allows managers of vehicles and construction equipment to track maintenance items and set alerts for when service is needed, as well as add custom events unique to their particular business needs.

Sendio Delivers eMail Integrity to OMM
Sendio, Inc., where Kelly Anderson is CEO, announced that U.K.-based Oneillmodernmedia Group has adopted Sendio's I.C.E. Box service appliance to secure their email communications and increase performance of their email servers.

Vision Solutions Enhances MIMIX for AIX
Vision Solutions, where Alan Arnold is a senior executive, has released 3.0 of MIMIX for AIX. Targeted at IBM System p and AIX environments running on System i, MIMIX for AIX replicates the production environment to a backup server in real time, eliminating data loss. Continuous self-monitoring, automated failover and continuous data protection ensures that business-critical AIX applications are protected and available.

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

"Internet of Things" Promises Huge Opportunity
What appears to be an inevitable explosion of data and connections to the Internet generated by billions of devices and sensors is creating a huge investment opportunity for venture capitalists, coming from the emerging need for new applications to leverage an increase in network traffic of several orders of magnitude, says Terry Opdendyk of ONSET Ventures. Such traffic is produced by devices ranging from the billions of tiny, wireless RFID tags increasingly used for inventory management and location control to sensors in buildings, factories, homes, or everyday objects that report or react in real time to changes in status. Additionally, as the underlying software enabling the "Internet of Things" becomes available and new sensors enable even more information to be harvested, thousands of additional reasons to connect devices to the Internet will emerge, creating a virtuous cycle of disruptive proportions. >> (Manufacturing Business Technology, 7/24/07)

So Cal Venture Funding Booms in Q207
Southern California pulled in a combined $1 billion in venture capital investments through 158 financing rounds for the Q207 – second only to Silicon Valley’s $2.5 billion on 208 deals, according to a Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne report. Companies based in L.A. received $459 million, up from $182 million last year – with 35% of the money going to Internet-based companies. Nationwide, firms invested $7.4 billion in the second quarter, an 8% jump from the same period a year earlier. In total, there were 717 rounds of financing, also up 8%, marking the highest deal volume since 2001. The median deal size in Q207 was $8 million, marking the highest median seen since 2000. (L.A. Business Journal, 7/23/07)

22% of World's Population to be Online by 2011
The worldwide online population will grow to 1.5 billion in 2011, from 1.1 billion in 2006, which will put 22% of the world's population online in 2011, according to JupiterResearch. Brazil, Russia, India and China are expected to account for most of the growth, mainly because the online populations of the U.S., Canada, Japan and Western Europe are already mature. North America's share of the worldwide online population is actually expected to shrink to 17% in 2001, down from 21% in 2006. (eMarketer Daily, 8/1/07)

Vista's Successor Due in Three Years
Microsoft is planning to ship its next major version of Windows - known internally as version "7" - within roughly three years. Windows 7 will be among the steps taken by Microsoft to establish a more predictable release schedule. The company also confirmed it is considering a subscription model to complement Windows but did not provide specifics or a time frame. (CNET News.com, 7/20/07)

$100 Laptop Production Begins
Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. The first of these should be ready to put into the hands of children in developing countries this October. (KenRadio's Daily Tech News Clicks, 7/23/07)

UPCOMING ROUND TABLES & EVENTS

8/2 - Thursday Orange County Round Table
8/3 - 210 Corridor Round Table
8/8 - Wednesday Orange County Round Table
8/10 - West Los Angeles Round Table