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URL: http://www.nytimes.com SUBJECT: AUTOMOTIVE FUELS (90%); ENTREPRENEURSHIP (90%); INTERNET & WWW (90%); SOLAR ENERGY (90%); ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS (89%); ENERGY EFFICIENCY & CONSERVATION (89%); RENEWABLE ENERGY (78%); WIND ENERGY (77%); ALCOHOLS (77%); SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE (77%); ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT (77%); ETHYL ALCOHOL MFG (77%); ENERGY & UTILITY SECTOR PERFORMANCE (77%); ENVIRONMENTALISM (77%); ETHANOL (77%); SMALL BUSINESS (74%); MICROPROCESSORS (74%); ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY (74%); COMPUTER CHIPS (74%); PATENTS (72%); HYDROGEN ENERGY (72%); AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY (72%); SEMICONDUCTOR MFG (72%); BIOFUELS (72%); ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLES (72%); VENTURE CAPITAL (71%); HYDROGEN POWERED VEHICLES (57%); ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES (61%); RESUMES & CURRICULA VITAE (90%); BUSINESS EDUCATION (69%) Energy and Power; Industry Profiles; Energy Efficiency; Solar Energy; Inventions and Patents; Computers and the Internet; Electric Light and Power; Energy and Power ORGANIZATION: Energy Innovations (Co) PERSON: ANN LIVERMORE (55%) Andrew Beebe; Matt Richtel GEOGRAPHIC: SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (79%); SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA, USA (93%) CALIFORNIA, USA (93%) UNITED STATES (93%) Silicon Valley (Calif); California LOAD-DATE: March 14, 2007 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH GRAPHIC: Photo: Andrew Beebe, president of Energy Innovations, said the excitement over energy could lead to overinvestment and poor planning by businesses. (Photo by J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times)(pg. C4) PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company 1023 of 1258 DOCUMENTS The New York Times
Late Edition - Final Good Cop and Bad Cop On Security Program's Case BYLINE: By JOE SHARKEY. E-mail: jsharkey@nytimes.com SECTION: Section C; Column 1; Business/Financial Desk; ON THE ROAD; Pg. 9 LENGTH: 803 words O.K., Steven Brill, we've got some questions, Joe Brancatelli and I: Bad cop, good cop. Take a seat. Which Mr. Brill did, though in the conference room of his own offices in Manhattan. I'm the good cop. I maintain that Mr. Brill's Registered Traveler program makes sense for frequent travelers, though I've expressed qualms about the hurdles put up by the Transportation Security Administration. So far, those hurdles have prevented the program from offering much more than a special security checkpoint and a biometric identity card. Mr. Brancatelli, the publisher of Joesentme.com, a business travel Web site, is the bad cop who has called the program an idea ''whose time has come and gone without actually having arrived.'' Mr. Brill, the journalist, media entrepreneur and founder of Court TV, is a true believer, of course. His company, Verified Identity Pass Inc., opened a version of the program under the Clear brand name in Orlando, Fla., in July 2005, and has recently opened checkpoints in Indianapolis, Cincinnati and San Jose, Calif., as well as Terminal 7 at Kennedy International Airport. Next month, Terminals 1 and 4 at Kennedy and Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport will be added. Still, the program -- with competing versions being developed by Unisys and others -- hasn't rolled out at nearly the pace originally predicted. One reason is that the Transportation Security Administration has taken longer than expected in approving various technologies that will offer members time-saving benefits, like not having to remove their shoes and coats. Mr. Brill's program has 40,000 members, mostly in Orlando. Skeptics like Mr. Brancatelli have suggested he made a bad bet against an intractable bureaucracy. Mr. Brill disagreed. ''I've looked at this from the perspective of someone who had an idea to launch a cable channel featuring cameras in the courtroom when most states didn't allow cameras in the courtroom,'' Mr. Brill said of starting Court TV in 1991. It was later sold to Time Warner, and described by Wired Magazine as ''the law's interface to the public.'' In 2003, Mr. Brill wrote a book, ''After: The Rebuilding and Defending of America in the Sept. 12 Era,'' that addressed matters like threats and risks and how to confront them. He said that the Registered Traveler program then came to mind. ''I just kept saying to myself, 'this is such a good idea, and it's so logical that it ought to happen,' '' he said. ''So, I decided to do it.'' He was aware, he said, that creating the program would be ''a long haul that depends on a lot of different pieces falling into place, some of which are very difficult, like changing bureaucracies' views of the world.'' In Congressional testimony in November 2005, Mr. Brill said that ''if the T.S.A. mapped a clear blueprint'' offering obvious benefits at the checkpoints, ''we and our competitors would likely be rolled out at 30 or 40 of the largest 50 airports within six months.'' Since then, many news accounts critical of the slow rollout have omitted the ''if'' in Mr. Brill's 2005 statement. The ''if'' still hasn't fully arrived. ''There was nothing deceptive or even speculative about that statement,'' Mr. Brill said. But, Mr. Brancatelli said: ''If you were doing my job as a columnist, wouldn't you say, 'why doesn't this guy see what I see?' And what I see is a bureaucracy that doesn't want you and will do anything it can to stop you.'' To which Mr. Brill responded, ''Where does it say I don't see that? Do I have any doubt that there are lots of people at T.S.A. who would just as soon see this program go away? No.'' But, he said, that the 40,000 members are an influential ''constituency'' and that the signals he gets from top government security officials are that the new technology will be approved after thorough evaluation. The biggest hurdle so far came in Orlando, when Clear began using a long-awaited Secure Registered Traveler Kiosk developed by GE Security, which integrates explosives detection, shoe scanning and biometric identification. But the machines, which were expected to routinely clear most travelers' shoes, instead rejected more than 50 percent for containing metal, thus negating one of the major advertised benefits. What Mr. Brill calls Version II of the kiosk technology is now being designed, under federal review, to differentiate ''O.K. metal versus dangerous metal,'' he said. If approved, ''you could go from clearing 60 to 70 percent of the shoes to clearing 95 percent.'' He said he expected Version II to be approved and to expand to other airports in a month or so. The Registered Traveler rollout, meanwhile, slowly chugs along. Yesterday, Mr. Brill's company announced that it expected to begin operations at the airport in Albany in about two months. URL: http://www.nytimes.com SUBJECT: AIRPORTS (91%); SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE FORCES (90%); TRAVELER SAFETY & SECURITY (90%); AVIATION SECURITY (89%); BIOMETRICS (76%); ENTREPRENEURSHIP (75%); INTERNET & WWW (74%); LAW COURTS & TRIBUNALS (73%); CABLE TELEVISION (68%); AIRLINES (66%) Airlines and Airplanes; Identification Devices; Security and Warning Systems; Airports; Computers and the Internet COMPANY: LIBERTY INTERNATIONAL PLC (55%) ORGANIZATION: US TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (84%) Transportation Security Administration; Verified Identity Pass (Co); Josentme.com TICKER: LII (LSE) (55%) PERSON: Joe Sharkey; Steven Brill; Joe Brancatelli GEOGRAPHIC: NEW YORK, NY, USA (92%); ORLANDO, FLORIDA, USA (92%); SAN JOSE, CA, USA (79%); INDIANAPOLIS, IN, USA (79%) NEW YORK, USA (92%); FLORIDA, USA (92%); NEW JERSEY, USA (79%); CALIFORNIA, USA (79%); INDIANA, USA (79%) UNITED STATES (92%) LOAD-DATE: March 13, 2007 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH GRAPHIC: Drawing (Drawing by Chris Gash) PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company 1024 of 1258 DOCUMENTS The New York Times
Late Edition - Final The Death of Geography? SECTION: Section A; Column 1; Editorial Desk; Pg. 18 LENGTH: 392 words A handshake can still trump a videoconference. The energy services giant Halliburton announced on Sunday that it will move its corporate headquarters and its chief executive, David Lesar, from the old boomtown of Houston (Texas) to the rising boomtown of Dubai (United Arab Emirates). The move sends the message that even in the new economy, some of the old rules still apply, including that location matters. Halliburton's name will forever be linked in many Americans' minds to its former chief executive, Vice President Dick Cheney, and a $16 billion contract to support American military operations in Iraq, which has led to investigations into overbilling and the mishandling of taxpayer dollars. While Capitol Hill critics may not like the company, they don't want to see its back either. Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, called the move ''an insult to the U.S. soldiers and taxpayers who paid the tab for their no-bid contracts and endured their overcharges for all these years.'' The company will remain incorporated in Delaware, other executive officers will stay put in Houston, and, the company insists, there will be no tax benefits from its move. Halliburton -- which is spinning off its embattled military contracting subsidiary -- says it wants to focus on energy. And as the saying goes, it's going where the oil is. That stands in conflict with the popular notion that the wired world has made geography irrelevant. But all the Blackberry devices and Internet phone calls in the world can't make up for in-person interactions. That's not just for old-economy companies like Halliburton either. Silicon Valley continues to act as a leading incubator for high-tech start-ups. Once you have a critical mass of software engineers and venture capitalists attending the same happy hours, a certain ferment takes place. News spreads fast in person, not just on MySpace. As a result, a city with a strong concentration of companies and a trained labor force -- like New York in finance -- can maintain its position within an industry. That's no argument for complacency by policy makers. It is easy to imagine, for instance, that Halliburton might not have deemed this particular move necessary without the visa problems that visiting businesspeople have been having, particularly those with Muslim-sounding names.
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Late Edition - Final As Mobile Phones Grow More Complex, Carriers Insist on Fewer Operating Systems BYLINE: By ERIC SYLVERS SECTION: Section C; Column 1; Business/Financial Desk; Pg. 10 LENGTH: 656 words DATELINE: MILAN, March 11 Two operating systems run more than 95 percent of the world's computers, but dozens of systems are behind the 2.5 billion mobile phones in circulation, a situation that has hampered the growth of new services, industry executives and independent specialists say. ''There are too many operating systems already and more are coming on stream, making things complicated for smaller software companies,'' said Tony Cripps, a senior analyst with the telecommunications consulting firm Ovum in London. Mobile phone carriers are watching with more than passing interest because the new applications they are counting on to increase revenue and profit may make it to only a limited number of phones as software developers struggle to keep up with the different operating systems. Having multiple systems is also time-consuming and costly for the carriers, which must configure the phones they sell. Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone company in terms of revenue, has been leading a push to limit the number of operating systems, declaring in November that it would eventually sell only phones that ran on Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Symbian Series 60 or Linux. For more than a year, NTT DoCoMo of Japan has concentrated on Symbian, a privately held British-based company in which Nokia of Finland has a nearly 50 percent stake, and Linux. ''What Vodafone did by choosing a few was inevitable,'' a Symbian executive vice president, Andy Brannan, said. Arun Sarin, the Vodafone chief executive, said last month: ''We need to reduce the number of operating systems on phones. I'm not saying bring it down to one, but several. With fewer operating systems, it will be easier for content delivery.'' Most mobile phone manufacturers use internally developed software to run their simpler phones. But smart phones, high-end devices that have access to the Internet and send e-mail, run on operating systems created by other companies. Mr. Brannan said that in the future, only the most basic phones would run on operating systems developed by the phone makers. Last year, two-thirds of smart phones sold ran on Symbian's operating system, an increase of about four percentage points from 2005, according to Canalys, a consultant and market research firm based near London. Microsoft was second last year with a 14 percent market share, slightly less than the year before, followed by Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry, with 7 percent, and Linux, with 6 percent, according to Canalys. Having so many operating systems makes it expensive to make software, said Faraz Hoodbhoy, the chief executive of PixSense, whose software helps users of camera phones save and share multimedia content. ''It's not like with computers, where anybody who has an Internet connection can download your software,'' he said. ''The barrier to innovation is higher in the mobile world.'' What operating system a software developer decides to concentrate on first will most likely depend on what geographic area and type of user it is trying to attract, Mr. Cripps, the Ovum analyst, said. Windows Mobile is stronger in North America and with business users, while Symbian is dominant in Europe and with nonbusiness customers. But despite the moves by Vodafone, DoCoMo and other service providers, the huge size of the mobile phone market will ensure that smaller operating systems survive, Mr. Cripps and several executives said. Fabrizio Capobianco, chief executive of Funambol, an open-source software company based in Redwood City, Calif., that has developed a highly popular e-mail program for mobile devices, said, ''I don't see convergence of the operating systems happening anytime soon.'' Citing Apple's new phone, Mr. Capobianco, who began as a technology entrepreneur in Italy, added, ''Vodafone is trying to standardize by going with three operating systems, but now the iPhone is coming, so they will have to have at least four.''
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''If I want to get out of this place,'' Ms. Erizku said one recent morning, ''I have to do well in school.'' Ms. Erizku, 17, moved here from Ethiopia with her mother and two siblings in 1997, unable to speak English but full of expectations for a better life. She has gone on to earn a place in the National Honor Society at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, join a program for aspiring scientists sponsored by the University of Vermont, log 100 hours of community service at the Park Slope Senior Center, where her father works, and earn early admission to Princeton University, which she will attend this fall. She also scored 630, out of a possible 800, on her verbal SAT and earned a 96.1 cumulative grade-point average, the second highest in a graduating class of 763. Ms. Erizku has capped her impressive resume with another achievement: winning a college scholarship from The New York Times. She and 19 other high school seniors will receive a four-year scholarship of up to $30,000, a six-week summer job at The New York Times Company and a laptop computer. The students are also paired with mentors from The Times and offered advice during their time in college from Roger Lehecka, an educational consultant and former dean of students at Columbia College, the undergraduate liberal arts school at Columbia University. Some 1,300 students from about 300 public, private and parochial schools in New York City applied for the scholarships this year. A two-month preselection process whittled that number to 157, and then, in late January, a group of editors and reporters from The Times, as well as former scholarship recipients, selected 37 finalists. The winners were chosen last month after a weeklong round of interviews. ''The extreme hardships these kids have been subjected to have not pushed them down a spiral of self-pity, and that's just special,'' said Eda Pepi, a member of the selection committee and a Times scholar in 2002 who graduated from Harvard University last spring. ''Their stories are testament of all the potential that kids have at that age, and of their amazing willingness to dream, to hope and to have faith that you can accomplish things, no matter how hard life might be.'' (Another past scholarship winner, Anahad O'Connor, participated in the selection for the second consecutive year. Mr. O'Connor, 25, is a Yale University graduate and a reporter for The Times.) Bianca Farrell, 18, who lives at the Frederick Douglass Houses on the Upper West Side and is graduating in the spring from Aquinas High School in the Bronx, said she hopes to move to Japan after college to design video games, which have been her passion -- and obsession -- since she got her first PlayStation at the age of 8. During winter break this year, Ms. Farrell, who has earned early admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used a few books and Web sites to teach herself the 46 characters of Japan's hiragana writing system, which is full of loops and curves and is the first one learned by Japanese children in school. ''I can read it well,'' she said with pride. ''I might have to go to the dictionary here and there to find out what the characters mean, but once college starts, I should be fluent.'' Having lost her father to gun violence while she was a toddler, Ms. Farrell was brought up by her mother, who gave up her own chance at higher education after her daughter was born. ''When I was young, my mother made education the No. 1 priority in my life. She taught me how to read with 'Hooked on Phonics.' She pushed me to keep up with my homework,'' Ms. Farrell said. ''She'd always say, 'People can take anything from you, but never your education.' That's been my motto ever since.'' Another of this year's winners, Harmain Khan, 17, of Staten Island, was a sophomore when he joined a scientific research team from Williams College probing reptilian teeth from an archaeological dig in India to reconstruct the prehistoric environment and migration patterns of crocodiles. His work earned him first place in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair last year, among other honors, and was scheduled for publication in ''The Journal of Human Evolution.'' The research required Mr. Khan to spend eight hours commuting to a lab in Nassau County. He used the time to study Russian and write his physics and lab papers. Mr. Khan tackled homework during lunch and free periods, he said, because he devotes a few hours each day to helping his mother, who has cancer and lupus, with household chores. In the spring, Mr. Khan will be graduating from Staten Island Technical High School with a 98.0 grade-point average and gearing up to study biochemistry and, later, medicine in college, preferably at Harvard. Mr. Khan, who was born in Pakistan, hopes one day to join Doctors Without Borders and care for the poor when disaster strikes. He set that goal last year, he said, after traveling to his native country to deliver supplies to victims of the 2005 earthquake. He bought the items with $6,000 he raised in New York by knocking on doors and holding food sales at mosques. The New York Times College Scholarship Program started in 1999, when six students received awards. Since then, it has helped pay for the college educations of 180 young New Yorkers. The scholarships are funded by The New York Times Company Foundation, contributions from readers and an endowment started with a grant from the Starr Foundation. The program also recognizes teachers who inspired the scholarship winners. Each student is allowed to nominate a mentor for a $3,000 award provided by Kathleen and Ernest Abrahamson. Mr. Abrahamson is an engineer who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to send students to college. Ms. Erizku, the Ethiopian immigrant, said the scholarship is the first step in her plan to give her family the life they dreamed of when they settled in their new country. Her father was the first to arrive in the United States, fleeing political persecution. Ms. Erizku, her mother and siblings joined him two years later, moving into a neighborhood of immigrants on the northern end of the Bronx where everyone talked about the future with hope. With their modest income -- Ms. Erizku's mother is a housekeeper and her father a custodian -- and with relatives to support back home, the family had to move into public housing to stay afloat. Suddenly, Ms. Erizku said, the poverty they had fought to escape in Ethiopia once again defined their existence. She strived to learn English and whatever else she could. She devoured scientific journals, listened to teachers and learned from neighbors. ''Victory is sweeter,'' she said, ''when you're at the bottom and have to claw your way to the top.'' Directory: ~hesterj -> Entrepreneur Entrepreneur -> Byline: By armand limnande section: Section mm; Column 0; T: Men's Fashion Magazine; Pg. 76 Length Download 4.36 Mb. Share with your friends:
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