CNN.com has inked a multi-year ad deal with Google.

The Adobe Flash Player will be supporting Hi-Def video. This is just about as good as video will get, especially on the web. The new version of the Flash 9 player is at http://labs.Adobe.com

Senators from Minnesota and Virginia are introducing a new bill to make it easier to get out of your cell phone contract.

Apple has now sold over 1 million iPhones. All of them will need to be sent in for service when the batteries die. The price drops affected about 100,00 of the sales. Blackberry had another outage today. Look for a new product announcement tomorrow from Palm.

Firefox reached 400 million downloads.

Adobe Photoshop Express is partially revealed at Photoshop World in Las Vegas.

For all the real links and real resources, check out wowtechminute.com.

From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii, this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the Wow Technology Minute.

Additional Resources

Google to Present at the Citigroup Technology Conference
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/adsense_cnn_20070828.html

Senators take on cell phone contract fees
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9774874-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Cell Phone Consumer Empowerment Act of 2007
http://klobuchar.senate.gov/inthenews_detail.cfm?id=281970&

Apple: 1 million iPhones sold
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9774593-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Another Blackberry outage
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9774170-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Palm to announce new device September 12, and it’s not the Centro
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9774227-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Firefox passes 400 million downloads

http://news.com.com/8301-13580_3-9773836-39.html?tag=repblg

Adobe gives peek at online Photoshop
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9773731-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Have? you read the? statement from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. They’re expressing more than concern at Google’s offer to buy the 700mhz wireless range at the next auction?? The CTIA’s statement doesn’t seem very? transparent. My first impression is that they support? data-restriction through government regulation.? Maybe it just comes across that way to me as I read Google’s requirement for open applications, open devices, open services and networks.? It also seems to me that they? want us to fear Google.

If Google’s intent is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and have advertisers pay the bills then more users would seem to lead to more money. If this effort manifests in part by brining more bandwidth to more users, then they’re truly leading an admirable battle. With more competitors, The Battle For The Bandwidth and the Net Neutrality debate will be healthy.

Pasted from CTIA’s press release.

“The veil has been lifted. Google’s letter to the FCC this morning highlights the Internet giant’s scheme to have the 700 MHz auction rigged with special conditions in its favor. If Google is willing to commit almost $5 billion dollars for spectrum that it wants encumbered with various requirements, then let it win that spectrum in a competitive auction and choose that business model. Google and its allies, with their collective market capitalization approaching half a trillion dollars, don’t need a government handout at taxpayers’ expense. The competitive wireless industry welcomes all new entrants, but no company should be able to buy a custom-fit government regulation that suits their particular business plan. Consumers should decide if they’re right, not the federal government”.? 

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Pasted from Eric Schmidt’s letter to the FCC:

“As you know, Google submitted an ex parte letter on July 9th explaining that, in order to promote genuine competition, the Commission must include open platforms as part of the applicable licensing requirements for paired commercial blocks in the Upper 700 MHz Band. In particular, our July 9th letter requested that the Commission should extend to all CMRS-type spectrum licensees clearly delineated, explicitly enforceable, and unwavering obligations to provide (1) open applications, (2) open devices, (3) open wholesale services, and (4) open network access.”

Additional Reading

Official CTIA Press Release
http://www.ctia.org/media/press/body.cfm/prid/1702

CTIA Homepage
http://www.ctia.org/

Who is CTIA?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_Telecommunications_%26_Internet_Association

The CTIA Fires an Opening Salvo Straight at Google
http://www.thesmartpda.com/50226711/the_ctia_fires_an_opening_salvo_straight_at_google.php

Official Google Press Release
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20070720_wireless.html? ? 

More? issues:

LG Phones to Bundle Google Apps
http://gigaom.com/2007/03/27/lg-google-mobile-apps/

Google acquires single-number service
http://www.smartbrief.com/news/ctia/storyDetails.jsp?issueid=47BD9BD1-2A45-4F0B-AD9D-61B89737E294&copyid=87B4E2E5-5888-4FCF-9B59-39167F323501&lmcid=1906249&brief=ctia

CTIA-The Wireless Association?® Renews Call For Presidential Veto of ITC Chip Ban As New Study Predicts Billions of Dollars in Economic Damage
http://www.ctia.org/media/press/body.cfm/prid/1701

Competition has a different meaning in the US
http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/competition-has-a-different-meaning-in-the-us/

Frontline to Verizon: Let?€™s Rumble!
http://gigaom.com/2007/07/02/verizon-frontline/

The Google Manifesto and Richard Stallman
http://rackit.gartnerwebdev.com/2007/07/21/the-google-manifesto-and-richard-stallman/

When titans clash: Google vs. AT&T for America?€™s Internet future July 23, 2007
http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/when-titans-clash-google-vs-att-for-americas-internet-future/

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I recently spoke with? the former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information under the Clinton Administration and President of the Irving Information Group. Larry Irving? is also an expert on the ExaFlood and shares his concerns for insuring the bandwidth will be here in the Aloha State of Hawaii and the U.S. in coming years.

His insights and perspectives are? very useful on many levels. Thanks again Larry for the interview.

Here’s the question…? 

(click on play button to hear the whole interview)? 

From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the Wow Technology Minute.

More Resources:

What is the Exaflood? – Internet Information Alliance
http://www.internetinnovation.org/iia/page/show/faqs

The ExaFlood – FTTH Council Video
http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/05/the-exaflood

Exaflood debate – Bret Swanson
http://www.disco-tech.org/2007/03/exaflood_debate.html

Bring On The Exaflood! Broadband Needs a Boost? - Bruce Mehlman and Larry Irving
Thursday, May 24, 2007; Page A31
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301418.html

Here Comes the Exaflood – Adrian Moore
http://communities.justicetalking.org/blogs/day26/archive/2007/05/24/Exaflood.aspx

Great new flash video on Exaflood — net nuetrality misses forest for trees
Scott Cleland’s blog
http://www.precursorblog.com/node/341

Note: The Irving Information Group, is a consulting firm providing strategic planning and market development services to international telecommunications and information technology companies.

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CNNMoney.com is reporting that the Webmaster is back and salaries are up. The online report also reflects that IT professionals with Project Management Skills is one of the hottest IT jobs in the U.S. To comment on this, I’m on the phone with Bill Cullifer, WOW Executive Director and the WhyITNow.org initiative.

Bill, can you tell us what’s changed from the slump of a few years ago?

“Brent, what’s changed is that business, industry and managers that hire Webmasters and IT Managers have an improved understanding of the skills required and the IT and Web applications that help drive their bottom line.”

That’s great Bill. Any suggestions for those looking to get jobs in this Space? ? 

“Brent, my biggest concern with the surge in popularity is that the “get rich quick” training companies selling short term training options will come out of the woodwork again. I caution individuals to consider training programs that offer the incremental training to land you a job yet will lead you to defined degree level programs within IT that promote life long learning.”

Thank you Bill. We’re certainly in it for the long haul for our readers and listeners.

From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the Wow Technology Minute.

Additional Resources? 

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0704/gallery.jobs_salaries.biz2/8.html

Google courts government sector webmasters
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/30/HNgooglecourtsgovtsector_1.html

Apple has released a Boot Camp beta for Vista. iTunes reportedly still isn’t Vista-ready.

According to? Eric J. Sinrod? at News.com, “A recent audit by the National Security Archive? –an independent, nongovernmental research effort at George Washington University–paints a bleak picture of governmental noncompliance with E-Freedom of Information Act? a decade after its enactment.”? ? 

They’ve probably lost most of the information. Having the government? manage their own information just sounds like trouble. What are they doing with information anyway. Just kidding, please don’t audit me.

There are two great? web marketing articles over at sitepoint.com. One titled, “Gear Up Your Site for Social Media Marketing“? is very timely and the other “The Essential 2007 Code Optimization Tutorial for SEO” is awesome for you slackers out there that need to catch up in a few minutes.

Which is longer than we have.

From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the Wow Technology Minute.

Additional Resources? 

Apple Boot Camp Update for 32 bit Vista
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Perspective:?  Freedom of information? Uncle Sam, get it right!
http://news.com.com/2010-1028_3-6170879.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

SitePoint Articles
Gear Up Your Site For Social Media Marketing
http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2007/mar/21.html

The Essential 2007 Code Optimization Tutorial for SEO
http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2007/mar/26.html

It looks like Google will be releasing a phone soon.

The Xbox is getting a memory boost.

WordPress users rejoice. You can now use your WordPress user name and password as an OpenID. That’s right, no more remembering usernames and passwords, you can just use your WordPress credentials. With more and more companies adopting OpenID, this is really sweet.

Speaking in front of the group Center for Democracy and Technology, Bill Gates urged for Federal laws to help data privacy issues. Specifically he’s asking for transparency from data collectors, granting users access to their own data and what companies must do that compromise your security.

Internap says they have integrated Vital Stream’s One-Click video publishing service into Adobe Premiere Pro. This is supposed to let us export Flash Video files directly from Premiere to the web.

From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii`i this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the Wow Technology Minute.

Additional Resources

Goggle Phone Inches Toward Reality
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/03/06/google-phone-inches-toward-reality

Giacomo ?» Forget phone, Think Goggle Phone
http://gigaom.com/2006/12/17/google-phone/

The future for Orange could soon be Goggle in your pocket | World …
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1973885,00.html

Xbox Upgrades Memory Units to 512MB
http://www.slyck.com/story1431.html

Microsoft Boosts Size Of Xbox Memory Unit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070305/bs_nf/50506

The Case for OpenID
http://blogs.zdnet.com/digitalID/?p=78

OpenID: Growing Quickly
http://kveton.com/blog/2006/12/05/openid-growing-quickly/

OpenID Viki
http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Gates urges federal data privacy law
http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-6165395.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 has been announced and like very other mobile application, it works on “some” phones.

The Barvarian State Library in Germany is offering up it’s books to Google for indexing. Thomas Rubin – Microsoft’s associate general counsel for copyright, trademark and trade secrets say’s the whole thing is wrong because they are using copyrighted work to sell ads. The whole idea sounds pretty kewl to me.

Friendster apparently agrees.? They just offered up some ad space to Google in an ad? partnership that excludes former partner, Yahoo! In semi-related news, Google just released their new Google Desktop 5.

Turkey has banned YouTube. Apparently, their government sucks.

According to comScore Networks, nearly 750 million people on the planet used the Internet in January. Only a few were in space.

The opinions are mine and I’m Brent Norris from Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawai`i for the World Organization of Webmasters and the Wow Technology Minute.

Additional Resources

Yahoo’s Super Duper Widget-tastic Mobile Deal
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/03/07/yahoo-unveils-super-duper-widget-tastic-mobile-deal

Google wins German library’s support
http://news.com.com/News.com+Extra/2001-9373_3-0.html?tag=rsspr.6165214

Microsoft counsel bags Google book search
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10212/53/1/0/

Friendster Partners With Google & Drops Yahoo
http://searchengineland.com/070307-100433.php

Friendster Drops Yahoo, Gets New Best Friend
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/03/07/friendster-drops-yahoo-gets-new-best-friend

YouTube banned in Turkey after video insults (Tim Hames/Times of London)
http://www.techmeme.com/070307/p66#a070307p66

Global Internet Audience Grows 10%
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/03/07/global-internet-audience-grows-10

Feedburner made some nice improvements to their free feed stats product.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is now shipping.

CNET.com is reporting that over half of U.S. homes now have broadband.

Blackberry users will want to download a Daylight Savings Time patch before March 11th. The same goes for Windows Mobile users. Same for Palm Treos running the Garnet OS.

Russia is attacking software piracy by attacking Microsoft. “We are constantly fighting against unlicensed use of software, but we need to fight not with the consumers but those who develop the software,” said Deputy Russian IT minister Dmitry Milovantsev. I wonder if Microsoft has the right to refuse service to an entire country?

Google is buying AdScape and Princeton University has joined the Google Library Project and there’s a new update available for Google Checkout.

All the links are right here at wowtechminute.com.

From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawai`i, this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the Wow Technology Minute.

Additional Resources

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Now Shipping
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/labs/archives/2007/02/adobe_photoshop_1.cfm

Quick Enhancements to Site Statistics
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BurnThisRSS2/~3/91347630/quick_enhancements_to_site_sta.php

Broadband adoption passes halfway mark in U.S.
http://news.com.com/2110-1034_3-6160422.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

Gadgets caught in daylight-saving switch
http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6159869-1.html?part=rss&tag=6159869&subj=news

Deputy Russian IT minister Dmitry Milovantsev
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6160083.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

Microsoft Speaks Out On Russian Piracy Prosecution
http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~r/ziffdavis/MicrosoftWatch/~3/88333719/microsoft_speaks_out_on_russian_piracy_prosecution.html
Google to buy AdScape for $23 million
http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6160088.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

Princeton University Joins Google’s Library Project
http://googlepress.blogspot.com/#117069504728582191

Google Checkout update
http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/

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Cisco has apparently purchased Five Across, Inc. a Social Networking company. It’ll be interesting to see? how John Chambers moves forward with the acquisition. CNET.com has a interesting take in their podcast.

The Feds are rethinking their decision last year to force certain voice over IP providers. The taxes forced on VOIP providers would require consumers to pay an extra couple of bucks every month. The money goes into the Universal Slush fund for something or other. The money is supposed to get spent on telephone service in rural and poor areas that probably already use VOIP to save on their long distance bills anyway.

According to a CNET report, PC retailers are seeing spikes in sales and they’re attributing them to the Vista release. There’s also a few patches you should know about for XP.

From the top of the Hilton Rainbow Tower with Diamond Head for a backdrop, this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the Wow Technology Minute.

Additional Resources

Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire Five Across
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_020807.html?CMP=ILC-001

Five Across, Inc.
http://www.5across.com/index.html

Federal appeals court weighs Internet phone taxes – CNET.com
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6158048.html

Yesterday’s taxes stalk tomorrow’s telephones – CNET.com
http://news.com.com/2038-12_3-0-topic.html?id=6190&name=VoIP+and+IP+telephony&tag=st.topic

Tax us whatever you want. – Comment at CNET.com
http://news.com.com/5208-1028_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=24924&messageID=237566&start=-1

The new head of the International Telecommunications Union said he’s not interested in taking over the governance of the Internet. This is important since he works for the United Nations who has expressed intentions to govern the Internet.

Considering the previous director’s wishes, this is a very good sign. The previous director? felt that government, specifically the ITU and the United Nations had a major role in the Internet. The United Nations has listened to Iran and China for many years on Internet policy and believe we may use the Internet for political gain and could shut enemies out. How ironic. Let’s hope they’re right.

Here at home,? the U.S. Attorney’s office has their first conviction in the HP spying case. No? web professionals were involved but many web professionals want to know why these convicts make so much money.? 

From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii, this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the WOW Technology Minute.

UN’s new ITU boss says Internet should still be run by key players http://news.com.com/UNs+new+ITU+boss+says+Internet+should+still+be+run+by+key+players/2100-1030_3-6150182.html?tag=st_lh

New ITU Chief Supports ICANN
http://www.betanews.com/article/New_ITU_Chief_Supports_ICANN/1168878951

UN Official Says UN Not Taking Over Internet
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/74878817/article.pl

UN Wants To Regulate Internet (March 25th 2005? - previous directator)
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/29/1626210.shtml?tid=95

The U.N. thinks about tomorrow’s cyberspace (March 29, 2005)
http://news.com.com/The+U.N.+thinks+about+tomorrows+cyberspace/2008-1028_3-5643972.html

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