Archived News for 2003

December 2003

• Food Product Design: "Reflections on a Crystal Ball" (Dec. 2003):

While clearing out old files in anticipation of the new year, I ran across some food-product predictions for 2003. Some of these predictions ended up right on target, while others missed the mark. Here's what the gurus said we'd be gulping down this year:

...Susan Eldred, John Parker and Norman Birnbach of Birnbach Communications, Inc. predicted that "the battle of carbs vs. non-carbs continue," and that the courts will dismiss obesity suits against the fast-food chains. They also anticipated that consumers would continue to want comfort foods, super-sized portions, easy-to-prepare meals, and diet foods that taste like regular foods. (Lest you be too impressed, they also expected that although the Bush administration would bomb suspected weapons sites in Iraq, it would not invade the country.)

...Those who made forecasts based on mainly existing, solid trends turned out to be fairly accurate, although I give them credit for noting the rapid rise of low-carbohydrate products - something that took me by surprise based on the contradictory science. (Though I should know better - the magic-bullet approach always trumps boring scientific facts and/or hard work).

By: Lynn A. Kuntz

• Mass High Tech: "Sand Video Has the Key to Delivering Mobile Video" (Dec. 29, 2003)
• Gulf Daily News: "New Diabetes Centre on Way" (Dec. 25, 2003)
• Nikkei Electronics Asia: "Technology Analysis: Video from Digital Cameras to Reach 1.3M-Pixels/Frame" (Dec. 23, 2003)
• Venture Reporter: "Startup Profile: Q1 Labs' Shaun McConnon, CEO" (Dec. 15, 2003)
• EETimes: "Sand Video Crafts Core for Mobile TV" (Dec. 15, 2003)
• Boston Works: "Q1 Labs Names CFO, VP Marketing" (Dec. 15, 2003)
• Wall Street Reporter: "Interview With: Shaun McConnon Chief Executive Officer" (Dec. 12, 2003)
• ReThink: "Start-Up Watch: Sand Video compresses TV for handsets" (Dec. 11, 2003)
• Boston Business Journal: "Joslin to Launch Bahrain Diabetes Center" (Dec. 11, 2003)
• DerStandard: "Sand Video launcht AVC/H.264 Decoder Core Decoder ist speziell auf mobile TV- oder Videoapplikationen ausgerichtet" (Dec. 11, 2003)
• Network World Fusion: "New Decoder for Mobile Devices" (Dec. 9, 2003)
• EETimes: "Sand Video to Launch H.264 Licensable Core for TV-on-Mobile Apps" (Dec. 9, 2003)
• CommsDesign: "Sand Video to Launch H.264 Licensable Core for TV-on-Mobile Apps" (Dec. 9, 2003)
• eMediaLive: "Sand Video to Release Low Power MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Decoder Core" (Dec. 9, 2003)
• Ragan's Media Relations Report: "Paying for Publicity: Is Coughing it up for Coverage Ethically Fishy, or Just Plain Bad Business?" (Dec. 2003)

Press Releases

• Joslin Diabetes Center: "Joslin Diabetes Center and Gulf Diabetes Specialists Center in Bahrain Team Up to Launch Region’s First Treatment Center to Address Growing Diabetes Epidemic" (Dec. 11, 2003)
• Joslin Diabetes Center: "Sidebar: Bahrain Faces Growing Diabetes Epidemic" (Dec. 11, 2003)
• Q1 Labs: "Two industry Experts Join Q1 Labs; McConnon Expands Management at New Headquarters" (Dec. 9, 2003)
• Sand Video: "Sand Video to Release Industry's First Low Power MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Decoder Core for Video Enabled Mobile Aplications; AVC/H.264 Decoder Core is Industry's First for Cell Phones, PDAs and Automotive Applications" (Dec. 8, 2003)

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November 2003

• Boston Globe: "When the Boss Stays Put: More Companies Moving to Where CEO Calls Home" (Nov. 28, 2003)
• CRN: "Q1 Labs Mines New CEO's History With Channel" (Nov. 24, 2003)
• Mass High Tech: "Q1 takes in $14M, moves to Boston with new CEO" (Nov. 24, 2003)
• EETimes UK: "MPEG group discloses joint licensing terms for H.264" (Nov. 20, 2003)
• EETimes: "MPEG group discloses joint licensing terms for H.264" (Nov. 19, 2003)
• CommsDesign: "MPEG group discloses joint licensing terms for H.264" (Nov. 19, 2003)
• The Daily Deal: "Q1 Labs Lands $14.4 Million" (Nov. 18, 2003)
• The New York Times' Deal Book: "Q1 Labs, a developer of network security intelligence software, closed $14.4 million in its Series B funding" (Nov. 18, 2003)
• The Wall Street Journal: "Q1 Labs Lands $14.4 Million" (Nov. 17, 2003)
• VentureReporter: "Q1 Labs Raises $14,400,000 in Series B Round" (Nov. 17, 2003)
• eWeek: "Intrusion Prevention Pioneer to Head Q1 Labs" (Nov. 17, 2003)
• VentureWire: "Q1 Labs Lands $14.4 Million Series B, Names CEO" (Nov. 18, 2003)
• Mass High Tech: "Canada's Q1 Labs Makes the Move to Waltham with $14M in Second Round Funding" (Nov. 17, 2003)
• Boston Business Journal: "Q1 Labs gets $14.4M in VC, new HQ" (Nov. 17, 2003)
• CBS MarketWatch: "Q1 Labs Gets $14.4 Mln in Venture Funding" (Nov. 17, 2003)
• The New York Times: "Online Shopper: A Sofa Embraced in Its Native Habitat" (Nov. 13, 2003):
  • "I visited www.homeportfolio.com, an information-only site where shoppers can search for nearly any home design product imaginable. From appliances to flooring to rugs, HomePortfolio has a database of 700,000 products from 1,700 manufacturers. A search for "sofa," for instance, turned up 1,449 little images."
  • "Using the site's advanced search tool, I chose candidates that were traditional in style, with a tight back and an exposed leg. That narrowed the list to 19 from such manufacturers as Thomasville, Lexington Furniture and American Leather."
  • "From both HomePortfolio and Find Your Furniture, shoppers can link to manufacturers' own sites, many of which offer detailed information on model numbers, dimensions and the nearest retail location."
• MIT Technology Review: "Behavior-Monitoring Machines: A new breed of computer software keeps tabs on how people and objects act. To really work, though, these programs have to learn and adapt." (Nov. 17, 2003)
• Investor's Business Daily: "For Network Safety Anomaly Detectors Can Play In Traffic" (Nov. 7, 2003)

Press Releases

• Q1 Labs: "Q1 Labs Secures $14.4 Million in Funding: Polaris Ventures, Menlo Ventures Lead Series B Round; Security industry veteran Shaun McConnon joins as new CEO" (Nov. 17, 2003)

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October 2003

• CRN: "QVision Keeps Eye On All Network Activity" (Oct. 31, 2003):
  • "Network management and security are becoming increasingly complex, but Q1 Labs aims to help security professionals handle these tasks with QVision 2.0.
  • "As networks and intrusion attacks become more sophisticated, security is rapidly becoming an unmanageable job for most administrators. Critical to security management is up-to-date knowledge of everything happening on the network as well as the ability to quickly evaluate network traffic and events.
  • "QVision 2.0 is a comprehensive network monitoring and management tool that provides many of these capabilities,from examining network traffic to mapping incoming and outgoing traffic to geographical locations.
  • "...administrators are no longer in the dark when it comes to connecting network traffic with a particular activity."
  • "The QVision solution captures the header information of every packet the system encounters, which creates a comprehensive database of network events and traffic. That proves to be a real boon for those examining traffic and plotting network trends. The database is quite efficient and is surprisingly small and fast, considering the volume of data captured."
  • "Solution providers will find the QVision console easy to navigate, and the ability to use canned views or create custom views guarantees that solution providers can quickly demonstrate the value of the product."
• Arizona Republic, Oct. 25, 2003: "Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?"
• Boston Herald, Oct. 25, 2003: "Why Daylight Saving Time Doesn't Mean Time to Spare"
• Information Security's "Hot Pick": "Q1 Labs' QVision 2.0" (Oct. 2003)
• DM Review: "Khalix by Longview Solutions: A Single Source of Financial Truth" (Oct. 2003)

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September 2003

• Santa Cruz Sentinel: "A Man's Place is in the Kitchen and Bath" (Fall, 2003)
• HR Reporter: "Technology protects against file sharing litigation and computer virus trauma" (Sept. 19, 2003)
• EE Times Asia: "Sand Video offers H.264 decoder core licenses" (Sept. 16, 2003)
• Computerworld: "Vendors prep wares to manage network security" (Sept. 15, 2003)
• Network World Fusion: "Vendors prep wares to manage network security" (Sept. 15, 2003)
• EE Times: "H.264 video coding surges into view" (Sept. 15, 2003)
• EE Times: "Dueling video codecs square off at broadcast conference" (Sept. 13, 2003)
• CommsDesign: "Dueling video codecs square off at broadcast conference" (Sept. 13, 2003)
• The451.com: "Q1 Labs seeks to fill void in security software landscape with QVISION 2.0" (Sept. 3, 2003)
• SC Magazine: "That network balancing act; Keeping a clear view" (Sept. 2003)

Press Releases

• Q1 Labs: "Q1 Labs Launches QVISION 2.0 with Real-Time Network Monitoring to Identify Threats and Network Abuse" (Sept. 9, 2003)
• Sand Video: "Sand Video to Demonstrate AVC/H.264 High Definition PVR/DVR Technology at IBC2003" (Sept. 2, 2003)

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August 2003

• EDN: "Summer Movie Season: Tech Companies Hope Video will be a Smash Hit" (Aug. 13, 2003)
• PR Week: "Q1 Labs Selects Birnbach Communications" (Aug. 11, 2003)
• Marblehead Reporter: "Birnbach Announces Addition to Client Roster" (Aug. 7, 2003)
• Holmes Report: "News in Brief: Birnbach adds Atlanta-based Q1 Labs" (Aug. 4, 2003)
• Black MBA: Entrepreneurs Issue: "Bill Hughes, Espressiv" (Summer, 2003)

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July 2003

• ReThink.com: "Sand Video first to market with H.264 codec core" (July 29, 2003)
• EE Times: "Sand Video offers H.264 decoder core licenses" (July 21, 2003)
• EBN: "Sand Video ups ante in decoder sector" (July 21, 2003)
• CommsDesign: "Sand Video offers H.264 decoder core licenses" (July 21, 2003)
• CNN/Associated Press: "'Robosnail' reveals the wonders of goo MIT scientists try to unlock the medical secret of slime" (July 16, 2003)
• Boston Business Journal: "IdeaSphere Expands with its 'Business Rescue' Model" (July 7, 2003)
• Mass High Tech: "Tech Overtones: Calif. Law Takes 'Full Disclosure' to a New Extreme" (July 7, 2003)
• Mass High Tech: "Business Partners can Extend your Marketing Power" (July 7, 2003)

Press Releases

• Q1 Labs: "Q1 Labs Selects Birnbach Communications: Birnbach Brings Industry Expertise and Insight to Emerging Network Security Industry Innovator" (July 30, 2003)
• Sand Video: "Sand Video to Release First Commercially Available Advanced Video Coding/H.264 High Definition Decoder Core: Sand Video on track to deliver AVC/H.264 encoder-decoder chip in early 2004" (July 21, 2003)

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June 2003

• CFO: "Rolling Budgets, with a Twist: A full-blown rolling budget isn't practical at many companies. But some finance executives have found that a scaled-back approach suits them just fine" (June 3, 2003)

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May 2003

• Providence Journal: "Logan Airport Tests Perimeter Security System" (May 22, 2003)
• Airport Report: "VistaScape Security Software Installed At Boston Logan Airport" (May 20, 2003)
• Mass High Tech: "Infrared Technology on Trial for Logan Security" (May 19, 2003)
• WFXT-TV, Fox/Boston: "Intrudor Report: Logan Airport Tries Latest Security Technology" (May 17, 2003)
• CNN Headline News: "Hot Wired: Logan Tests New Security Technology" (May 15, 2003)
• Fox Report: "Intrudor Report: Logan Airport Tries Latest Security Technology" (May 14, 2003)
• Boston Globe: "Logan mulls infrared security" (May 14, 2003)
• Boston Herald: "Cameras help track intruders at Logan" (May 14, 2003)
• USAToday.com: "New technology would detect intruders at Boston airport" (May 14, 2003)
• Patriot Ledger: "Logan testing perimeter monitors" (May 14, 2003)
• Hangar.no: "Boston Lufthavn tester nytt sikkerhetssystem" ("Boston Airport Tests New Security System," May 14, 2003)
• WHDH-TV, NBC/Boston: "New Technology to Help Protect Shores around Logan" (May 13, 2003)
• WCVB-TV, ABC/Boston: "Logan Eyes New Security System" (May 13, 2003)
• United Press International: "Boston's airport tests new security system" (May 13, 2003)
• Associated Press: "New technology would detect intruders onto airport's shoreline" (May 13, 2003)
• Business Week: "The State of Homeland Security" (May 13, 2003)
• "Validating Technology in Today's Marketplace: Reviews and Awards"
• ExpertPR: Caveat Emptor: "Pay-for-Play" Media Outlets (May 1, 2003)

Press Releases

• VistaScape Security Systems: "Logan International Airport Deploys Advanced Perimeter Security System; VistaScape and FLIR Systems Provide Software and Cameras for Pilot Program" (May 13, 2003)
• Longview Solutions: "Industry Leaders Gather in May for Longview Solutions’ Customer Conference: Finance & Technology: Meet to Win" (May 1, 2004)

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April 2003

• WCVB-TV (Boston): "Laser Treatment Eliminates Varicose Veins: Procedure Cheaper, More Effective" (April 29, 2003)
• Information Security Bulletin: "NetIntercept 2.0 Raises the Bar for Network Forensics" (April 18, 2003)
• Sandstorm: "NetIntercept 2.0 Raises the Bar for Network Forensics Busines" (April 15, 2003)

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March 2003

• PR Week: "War Reports Force Shift in Media Strategies" (March 31, 2003)
• Dow Jones: "Diomed's EVLT Gets Approval From Health Canada" (Mar. 25, 2003)
• Boston Business Journal: "Diomed lands Canadian approval for varicose treatment" (Mar. 25, 2003)
• Mass High Tech: "Diomed gets Canadian OK for laser treatment of varicose veins" (Mar. 25, 2003)
• Diomed, Inc.: Diomed's EVLT Receives Approval from Health Canada: Minimally-invasive laser procedure now available to Canadians suffering from varicose veins (March 25, 2003)
• Time Magazine: "Giving a Helping Hand" (Mar. 3, 2003)

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February 2003

• New England Business Owners newsletter: Make The Most of Your Next Media Interview (Feb. 2003)
• Advance for Health Information Professionals: "Health Care Predictions for 2003" (Feb. 17, 2003)
• Advance for Health Information Executives: "Health Care Predictions for 2003" (Feb. 1, 2003)

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January 2003

• NewsBio: Media Predictions for 2003 (Jan. 29, 2003)
• MediaDailyNews: "Predictions for 2003: The State of the Media" (Jan. 17, 2003)
• ExpertPR: "Forward Thinking: Predictions for 2003" (Jan. 9, 2003)

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