“Our mission is to use Bluetooth and RFID technology in creating innovative products and concepts that will help businesses and individual consumers eliminate the problems of handling, detecting, surveying and monitoring objects. We use the latest technology available to develop intelligent tags for multiple purposes communicating with mobile phones, PDAs and other communication devices and are constantly on the cutting edge in order to meet the ever evolving customer needs.”

“As a worldwide membership organization, GBN engages in a collaborative exploration of the future, discovering the frontiers of knowledge and creating innovative tools for strategic action.”

“Five years ago, The New York Times on the Web announced its arrival. The site has changed quite a bit since January of 1996, but its aspirations are largely the same: to be the best news and information site on the Internet.”

“In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner studied the data from the recently completed 1890 U.S. Census and arrived at a surprising conclusion. The American frontier — what Turner called ‘the meeting point between savagery and civilization’ — seemed to have disappeared. There was no longer a clear line in the West that divided settled and unsettled territory. So in an important essay called ‘The Significance of the Frontier in American History,’ Turner pronounced the frontier dead. Is it time to do the same for the Web’s leading edge?”

“Everywhere you look, globalization is being hailed as the next evolution in Internet marketing. But before you jump on the globalization bandwagon with the expectation that the world will now beat a path to your online doorstep, there are a number of business and marketing issues that need to be considered.”

“This week, the world’s leading figures in technology, business and politics are meeting at the Davos conference in Davos, Switzerland to discuss the future of the Internet. One question: How the hell would they know? If we’ve seen one thing proven in tech in the last five years, it is that no one — especially no one in a position of authority — has yet been able to accurately predict where the Internet is going.”

“[The] industry is calling for companies to create feature-oriented sites that can be built into other sites as seamless, integral components. As users engage these features, they’ll hopefully remain clueless that they’ve been temporarily relocated to a new site while they shop, work, or play within a familiar brand environment. The idea is to move throughout the sites in one single, continuous interaction.”