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7Editor: Ann Geiger
ripples and quakes
How to Translate Free to Fee
A Pitch for Smart Postal Stamps / Steganography, Next
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Informing your freeware users they have to pay sounds like a test to see how fast they can disappear. Not so, found point-and-click translation startup Babylon, which saw a 20 percent "user conversion rate" to payware.
Babylon's story is a familiar one, as software companies continue to move from free to fee. And while the lessons may be specific to this particular company, Babylon's story is an interesting peek into today's Internet environment.
article excerpt from Wired News Jan 22, 2002
In an effort to eliminate terrorist threats such as anthrax that are delivered by mail, the U.S. Postal Service is considering the implementation of "smart stamps" that would trace mail and identify senders.
Among the suggestions proposed by the Committee on Government Reform, which oversees the USPS, is one that would require postal customers to show identification before buying stamps, making it nearly impossible to send anonymous letters.
The anthrax-tainted letters that killed several people after the Sept. 11 attack cost the USPS $5 billion in equipment damage, clean-up efforts and lost revenues. Now the agency is scrambling to protect itself against future attacks.
article excerpt from Wired News Dec 19, 2001
Steganography, the science of burying secret messages within something innocuous, has endured bad publicity recently, with unsubstantiated rumors of missives from Osama bin Laden hidden in images on websites.
But the good guys can play, too. A new steganography-based technique hides barcodes inside pictures and could help create forgery-proof identity documents.
The Concealogram, developed by a scientist from the electrical- and computer-engineering department of Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev, slips a two-dimensional barcode inside a halftone image, which can be read by scanning the image with a regular optical scanner.
article excerpt from Wired News Dec 19, 2001
Show Me the Money. Finding funding sources for new businesses.
Wednesday, February, 13, 2002
The Butler House; Jacobs Executive Development Center;
672 Delaware Avenue. Directions
and map.
5:30 registration and networking; 6:30 program
Speakers:
Susan McCartney, Director, Small Business Development Center, Buffalo State College
Jack McGowan, President, Western New York Venture Association
Greg Simon, Empire State Development Corporation.
more info:
wNet of WNY
http://www.wnetwny.com/cal_events.html
Due to student requests, the following class changes have been made to the Spring 2002 class schedule.
MBA640 Introduction to Financial Planning
9 Saturdays at 8:30am - 12:40pm
February 9 - April 20
We plan to follow this course with subsequent courses in Medaille's Certified Financial Planner(tm) Board-Certified Program curriculum, meeting at the same time Saturday mornings. These courses can lead to CFP(tm) certification. For more information on the course or the Program, feel free to contact Evan S. Wardner at ewardner@medaille.edu
MBA500 Economic Analysis -MW 8:15-10:20
MBA621 Operations Mgt - MW 8:15-10:20
MBA501 Accounting Analysis - cancelled
MBA502 Math for Managers - cancelled
The MBA600 students were asked to mentor the MBA504 students this mod as a way to introduce the new students to the MBA program. This will help to get them acclimated to the rigors of graduate school.
As a part of this new program, the MBA SO is hosting a Meet Your Mentor social event on Friday, March 1, 2002, from 6 - 8 PM. It will be on campus with the idea that you may want to adjourn elsewhere for dinner, etc.
All MBA students, spouses, and friends are invited, to welcome the new MBA students to the program. Won't you come and join us....
There have been some ideas that students have expressed interest in seeing in the Gazette. Be sure to watch for these new column's in future issues.
Would you like to write a column for the Gazette? Do you have an idea for articles, interesting web sites, tutorials, tips and tricks, questions that you would like answered or anything else students might find interesting?
Please forward you thoughts and ideas to Ann Geiger so that they can be added to future issues.
Has it been a while since you have updated your web site on Ricci Street? Have you forgotten how to transfer your web page files from your laptop to Ricci Street? Check out this powerpoint presentation or the Ricci Street toolkit page for instructions on using WS-FTP.
Note: The powerpoint presentation may take some time to download to your laptop.
Have you accidentally deleted or lost your copy of your web site from your laptop?? Have you copied your web site from Ricci Street to your laptop only to have the links no longer work??
In order for FrontPage to recognize the links, you need to create a web out of your folder and then import your files into the web.
Creating a Web
Importing your files in your web
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