30 January 2003

So is Science Espoo Science Park Generates Success Stories  A know-how concentration generating new companies has been created at Otaniemi in Espoo, Finland during the past decade. The strong areas of the Science Park are the software businesses and information technology. The business idea of the technology centre is to help new state-of-the-art business activities to start, grow and internationalize. The number of companies has risen to 400 and every year almost one hundred new ones are created. 3:51:27 PM     Finland is cool To see why check this out. 3:42:50 PM     802 Fever Detroit Students To Get Wireless iBooks : The 80 sixth-graders at Detroit's Malcolm X Academy are more eager than usual to head to school these days. So is teacher Jeffrey Robinson. (Mike Wendland via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 3:37:43 PM     Blogs target business Business targets the blogs. Online: As business begins to cash in on weblogs, Jim McClellan reports on those creating bucks and buzz from the online craze. [Guardian Unlimited] 3:36:46 PM     Fusion Weblog Mysterian is actively taking part in Bruce Morrison's excellent Fusion initiative. I'm setting up a Fusion Western Isles weblog and its temporary home is here. Later we will site it at the oh-so-vital University of the Highlands and Islands, at the Lews Castle College. Some of our members include UHI Lews Castle College Alasdair Macleod George Banks ReefNet Alex Matheson Alex Tearse WIE, Connected Communities and WorkGlobal Donnie Morrison Mairi Thomson Western Isles Health Board Eddy Yates Jon Harris Mysterian Forrest Duncan Malky Burns Neil Finlayson EMCUK Malcolm MacSween   3:22:40 PM     Lets make the Highlands and Islands hot BBC: "A total of 27 new sites will be opened at Welcome Break service stations, while 36 Hilton hotels will offer hotspots in their lobbies. Business travellers will also be able to log on at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Aberdeen airports." [Scripting News] 3:02:18 PM     And the mission is ... From the home website: FUSION is a membership, not for profit organisation that is home for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), researchers and inventors, and all those professional service providers involved in the challenging and exciting task of innovation. Our mission is to help the Highlands & Islands of Scotland turn ideas into commercial reality, through a dynamic network of people and organisations. Many networking organisations around the world have emerged from world class research institutions to commercialise the latest research ideas. 2:58:55 PM     Fusion Weblog I'm going to use this area to trial the Fusion Weblog. I'll try and route material  relevant to the mission in here ... At the moment only I can post - if George and co at UHI Lews can set Radio up we should all be able to post and route news ... 2:56:44 PM

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