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Comments on the potentials of electronic commerce, as illustrated in the Internet businesses of Amazon.com, eBay, Dell Computer and Cisco Systems. Online retail accomplishments by Amazon.com; Online auctions by eBay; Dell's sales of computers; Cisco's sales of networking switches and routers.

The author analyzes the outcome of the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES09) held in Las Vegas, Nevada. He observes that the attendance during the trade show is far below the 130,000 attendees predicted by the Consumer Electronics Association. He mentions the positive impact made by Utah-based consumer electronic companies Control4 and Skull Candy at the CES09.

Focuses on the aerospace competition by the X Prize Foundation in the U.S. in October 2004. Objective of the competition; Conditions for winning the prize; Information on previous X Prize aerospace competitions.

Reports on the executives of ClearOne Communications company in Salt Lake City, Utah. Appointment of Mike Keough to replace Fan Flood as chief executive officer; Details on a civil lawsuit filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against the company; Employment background of Keough.

Provides information on the Stoel Rives Utah Innovation Awards program. Role of the program in recognizing high-technology innovations in the state; Background on the development of the program; Finalists for the Utah Innovation Awards to be given in 2003.

Details the 2003 Investors Choice Global Venture Capital Conference of the Wayne Brown Institute (WBI) held at the Grand Summit Lodge at the Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah. Purpose of WBI in designing conferences; Participants in the event; Highlights of the event; Firms from Utah that were presented during the conference.

Comments on the appointment of W. Val Oveson as the chief information officer of Utah. Criticisms on his appointment; Emphasis on the educational background; Assessment on the previous job affiliations of Oveson.

Presents a list of holiday wishes for the Utah community for 2003. Employees and stockholders of the Novell company; Phil Windley, outgoing chief information officer for the state.

Comments on the resignation of Phil Windley as chief information officer for the state of Utah. Reason for Windley's resignation; Windley's accomplishments.

Reports on the software donation of the organization Partners for the Advancement of CAD/CAM/CAE Education to Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah in December 2002. Value of the donation; Views of BYU president Merrill J. Bateman; Information on the software licenses included in the donation.

Explains that people should grateful for the developments in information technology. Personal computers; Computer graphics; Local area networks.

Focuses on the acquisition of patents for portable devices from the company audiohighway.com in the U.S. Background on the establishment of the company; Details on the patents secured by the company for its products; Discussion on the decision of the company to sell its patents due to bankruptcy.

Focuses on the Utah100 annual recognition program held by MountainWest Venture Group in Utah. Honor given to fast growing companies; Limitation of the eligibility to corporations or partnerships headquartered in the state; Average annual growth rate of the top 100 firms.

Focuses on the issues concerning the impact of technology on business and the lives of the people in Utah. Use of Internet for business transactions; Importance of teaching children about technology; Achievements of shareholders.

Comments on the acquisition of Campus Pipeline Inc. by Systems & Computer Technology Corp. in the U.S. Amount of the deal; Background of Campus Pipeline; Target market of Campus Pipeline.

Comments on the positive effect of being able to overcome the economic condition in September on the technology industry. Condition of the stock market during the anniversary of terrorists attacks; Decline of the Dow Jones Industrial Average; Strength of Altiris in the stock market.

Comment on the rights of organizations to modify a legally purchased VHS- and DVD-based movies in the U.S. Alteration of swear words and scenes from movies by CleanFlicks company; Rental of the edited VHS- and DVD-based movies by organization members; Opposition to the movie-editing businesses by the Directors Guild of America.

Presents a copy of the fraudulent electronic mail from Werken BIJ DE LOTTO claiming that an individual won in the lottery in Salt Lake City, Utah. Money given to the winner; Mechanics in claiming the money; Comments on the prevalence of the Internet fraud.

Reports on Internet firm PointClick.com's shutdown of operations in Utah. Number of employees affected by the company's closure; Financial woes of the company before its closure.

Details the growth of the information technology (IT) industry in Utah. Individuals contributed to the development of the IT industry; Survival against the explosive growth of the Internet; Impact of the implosion of WordPerfect on the industry; Complaints of venture capitalists about investing in Utah companies.

List the top 100 fast-growing companies in Utah. Mountain West Venture Group; FatPipe Networks; Q Comm International Inc.; Technology Solutions Group Inc.

Presents information on the improvement of the economy of several Utah-based technology firms as of September 6, 2004. Amount of money raised by Utah-based technology firms in deals that were closed in August 2004; Selection of SiteCatalyst by Time Warner's America Online to provide Web analytics worldwide properties and services; Completion of Google's initial public offering in August 2004.

Comments on the advantages and disadvantages of technological innovations. Influence of technology on travelers; Uses of cellular telephones; Importance of Internet protection tools for business enterprises.

Deals with the sale of different business enterprises in Utah to firms in other U.S. states in 2004. Information on the sale of SBI Group's SBI.Razorfish interactive advertising agency to Seattle-based aQuantive; Terms of the agreement signed by Draper-based Cerberian with California-based Blue Coat System; Plans of Blue Coat for Cerberian.

Presents the latest developments in the technology industry in Utah as of 2004. Information on the Top 25 Under Five competition; Technology companies that were recognized at the awards luncheon at the Provo Marriott Hotel in Utah; Contract received by Salt Lake City, Utah-based Myriad Genetics from National Institutes of Health.

Comments on the postponement of the computer industry's COMDEX Las Vegas 2004 convention and exhibition in Nevada. Background on the COMDEX; Objective of COMDEX; Statement from COMDEX's owner Media Live International about the convention and exhibition.

Presents information on the impact of the acquisition of TherMatrx of Northbrook, Illinois by American Medical Systems Holdings of Minnetonka, Minnesota on BSD Medical Corp. in Salt Lake City, Utah. Terms of the acquisition; Products offered by BSD in treating tumors; Features of the Dose Optimized Thermotherapy of TherMatrx.

Urges public officials to support the advocate of the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA), an interlocal government agency focused on bringing the benefits of telecommunication connections within its member cities. Reason behind the formation of UTOPIA in 2002; Support given by municipalities to begin building the high-speed data communication networks within their respective cities; Proceeds of the fee that will be collected from service providers that will access the networks owned by the cities.

Comments on the agreement of SCO Group to buy back its convertible preferred shares from BayStar Capital and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) in cash and in shares of common stocks in 2004. Investment of Baystar and RBC in SCO in 2003; Information on convertible preferred shares; Request of Baystar and RBC to convert their shares into common stocks.

Presents information on the Innovation Awards presented at the Olpin Student Union building at the University of Utah in May 2004. Award categories; List of award winners; Advantage of the awards.

Explores the role of technology in health care. Injuries suffered by a handicapped from an accident; Advantages of using technology in providing health care; Features and capabilities of the GE Lightspeed Scanner Multidetector.

Focuses on the interest of two companies to invest in Utah. Fund raising completed by Sorenson Capital for its additional investment in the state; Institutional investors who funded the investment plan of Sorenson; Information on the investment plan launched by Peterson Partners.

Comments on the increasing activity in the initial public offering (IPO) market of the technology sector in the U.S. in 2004. Importance of Google's IPO; Information on Google's IPO; Status of capital funding and financings in the Utah technology sector.

Provides information on the Deal Flow Report, a document published by MountainWest Venture Group about funds raised by Utah companies in 2003. Decline in total funding activities; Amount raised by high-technology companies from venture capital and private equity sources; Money raised by the life sciences industry.

Focuses on Mindshare Technologies' CONNECT, a Web-based program that provides customers with a quick, simple and nonthreatening way to tell a company how they felt about its service. Technique to get customers to participate in the feedback surveys; Benefits from the implementation of CONNECT at Great Clips hair salon in Ohio; Cost of the service.

Discusses two business deals. Acquisition of MyCall by STSN; Completion of the sale of Authorize.Net to Lightbridge by InfoSpace.

Presents an update on various issues and topics in Utah as of April 5, 2004. Plans of NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. for its new drug application PREOS, a compound targeting osteoporosis in post-menopausal women; Completion of a private investment in public equity investment by Sento Corp.; Highlights of the Annual Member Meeting of Utah Information Technology Association.

Probes into the efforts of Novell company to regain its prominence in the U.S. computer software industry. Definition of open source software code; Software companies acquired by Novell; Significance of the Novell Open Enterprise Server.

Reports on the financing transactions closed by technology companies Buyer's United and U.S. Digital Television (USDTV) in Draper, Utah in March 2004. Value of the financing transaction closed by Buyer's; Revenues and earnings achieved by Buyer's in 2003; Details of the financing transaction closed by USDTV.

Presents updates on the biotechnology industry in Utah as of March 15, 2004. Marketing clearance given to the drug cinacalet HCl from NPS Pharmaceuticals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Addition of South Jordan-based Merit Medical to the S&P Small Cap 600 by the Standard & Poor's; Registration for the 2004 Brainshare event hosted by Novell.

Presents an update on several business enterprises in the U.S. as of March 2004. Lawsuits filed by the SCO Group against two end-user companies; Settlements reached by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with Francis Flood and Susie Strohm, former executives of ClearOne Communications; Private placement closed by Amedica for shares of its Series A preferred stock.

Presents information on companies in the U.S. that will possibly merge as of February 2004. Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless Service; Walt Disney Co. and Comcast; Headwaters and VFL Technology.

Expresses opinion on the market performance of Altiris Inc. Decline in its stock's share price; Profits posted in 2003; Probable impact of the corporate acquisitions of Hewlett-Packard Co.

Provides information on Mydoom computer virus. Infection rate in e-mail traffic according to some anti-virus vendors; Design of the worm virus; Speculation about the real purpose behind the virus; Information on the Mydoom.b, a variant of the virus.

Describes some electronic equipment and devices featured at the 2003 International Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas, Nevada in January 2004. Plasma display panel television from LG Electronics Inc.; DGX-505 keyboard from Yamaha Corp.; Hard disk drive from Toshiba Corp.

Provides information on the 37th annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Number of pre-registered participants; Companies that exhibited in the halls of Las Vegas Convention Center; List of Utah companies that participated in CES.

Reports on the acquisition of Kinko, a photocopying company in U.S., by Federal Express. Brief information on Kinko; Expansion on photocopying capabilities offered by Kinko; Amount of the acquisition.

Looks into various issues concerning the technology industry in Utah in 2003. Partnership between Rubicon Medical and Boston Scientific; Approval of the Venture Capital Enhancement Act by the state legislature; Complaints filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against ClearOne Communications.

Deals with the consolidation of several technology companies in the U.S. as of December 2003. Value of the acquisition of Wise Solutions by Altiris; Reason behind the acquisition of PowerQuest by Symantec; Plans of LANDesk to file for a public offering in 2004.

Comments on the effort of ClearOne Communications to resolve its legal problems. Proposed settlements of the class action suit filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Allegations against ClearOne; Terms of the settlement; Financial performance of ClearOne.