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The author discusses the convergence of community and journalism to tell important stories in the digital age. She cites an act of citizen journalism by Los Angeles, California resident George Holliday, who recorded how police officers brutally beat African American Rodney King using a hand-held video camera. She mentions her effort to explore how digital storytelling may instigate political mediation. She talks about her online documentary "Highrise: Out My Window" about residents of high-rise buildings.

The article reports on the unveiling of a new version of WebwasherR Web gateway security by the Secure Computing Corp. in San Jose, California on September 24, 2007. Webwasher is the only Web gateway security solution that integrates caching and security to deliver bandwidth savings and reduced latency without compromising security. Secure Computing Corp. is a leading provider of enterprise gateway security which delivers a comprehensive set of solutions that help customer protect their critical Web, email and network assets. Webwasher has several features including Anti-Malware Engine for Web threats, reputation-based Filtering powered by TrustedSource, and Webwasher SSL Scanner.

The article discusses the connection between a librarian and a digital communicator. Library skill is a strategic resource that can transfer to a broader field within organizations. Digital communicators use public service strategies to create outreach opportunities. The strategies command to extend the services, community and values of the library to the users. Background on the fundraising effort of the library team at the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California in Berkeley is presented.

Reports on the demonstration of ViaSat engineers on the equivalent of a digital subscriber line connection inside a moving Humvee during the Command and Control On-the-Move demonstration by the U.S. Joint Forces Command Joint C4ISR Battle Center in Carlsbad, California. Basis of the new system on ViaSat's ArcLight technology; Purpose of the demonstration; Evaluation of the commercial-off-the-shelf products for tactical utility enabling accelerated introduction of transformational capabilities to the warfighter; Introduction of the new transformational technologies for joint forces news; Exclusive technologies behind the ArcLight system; Plan of building integrated network based on the Internet Protocol (IP); Development of transmission control protocol (TCP/IP) under contract from the U.S. Department of Defense; Implementations of ViaSat commercial satellite IP networking products.

Features various companies involved in digital media in Hollywood, California. Nature of business; Specializations; Negotiations and transactions; Media holdings; Business partnerships.

Announces the appointment of Robert Tercek as president of programming for San Diego, California-based PacketVideo Corp. Part of a series of announcements involving television executives moving into digital start-ups; Tercek's stint with the Columbia TriStar Television division of Sony Pictures.

The article reports on the method that step ups speed of digital signal processors (DSP) developed by Renesas Technology Corp. in San Jose, California. The technique is implemented in a Very Long Instruction Word-type low power consumption synthesizable DSP core. It employs a hierarchical structure maximized for speedy operation instead for function modules.

This article presents information on the IK-UM44H, CCD remote-head color camera model. The model is from Toshiba Digital Solutions Division in Irvine, California. The high-resolution 410,000- pixel COD with microlens technology uses digital signal processing. The product comes with three remote camera cables, two lenses-a standard 5.5- millimeter and 18-millimeter telephoto.

Reports that San Francisco, California-based Cadence Design Systems Inc. will announce in March 2004 that its Virtuoso Custom Design Platform is able to handle analog and digital blocks in the same design flow. Resolution of integration issues; Combination of all analog and mixed-signal technologies to offer designers a single environment for integrating analog and digital block on a system-on-chip.

Two year old Wan Optlmization startup Peribit Networks this Fall will turn its attention to application response time and larger networks, with new software and hardware for each. The Santa Clara, California, company next month will add new PFA (Packet Flow Acceleration) technology to its Sequence Reducer hardware, which employs proprietary Molecular Sequence Reduction technology to compress redundant data flows crossing expensive WAN links. With wait times fairly lengthy over long distances, the PFA technology promises to bring LAN-like performance to users accessing remote ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications from one continent to the next, according to Peribit user Chip Greel, architect at Finisar Corp., in Sunnyvale, California.

The article presents information on companies including MegaPath Networks Inc., that help other companies locate Internet service providers (ISP) or digital subscriber line (DSL) subscribers. MegaPath, an ISP in Pleasanton, California rolled out its Broadband Rescue program for computer network subscribers. Another company Axcelerant Inc.'s Lifeline program, targeted at large enterprise customers coordinates service migration by determining the most appropriate provider, placing the order, monitoring the order and extinguishing the existing connection. The services are striking a chord with DSL users left in the lurch. Axcelerant uses the customer relationship shortcomings of the large and unwieldy regional service providers as an opportunity to serve as middlemen.

Focuses on the introduction of second-generation Fiber Channel computer network products at the 2000 Comdex Computer Show in California. QLogic's bus adapter and switch; Emulex's LightPulse 9002 hosts bus adapter.

Features the end-to end content management system, Digital Content Express Suite (DCXP) of the TVN Entertainment Corp. in Burbank, California. Presence of cable headends eager to provide first-run pay-per-view movies; Creation of the system based on the cable operators' distribution preferences for hardware and software; Demonstration of the DCXP at the Western Cable Show.

Reports on the Center for Software Development's (CSD) Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) test network. Sponsors; Background information; Equipment; Membership fees; Consulting firm Diablo Research Corp.

Editorial. Comments on common theme of conferences concerning electronic industries in the United States at the Design SuperCon 1996 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara County, California. Combination of circuit system, software and test engineering into a common system-engineering model requiring various professional expertise; Simplification of processing and input-output systems.

The article presents the program and schedule for a conference and exposition related to knowledge management, intranets and portals. The conference will take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California from October 26, 2004 to October 28, 2004. The conference will be dedicated to the exploration of the potential of knowledge management and related technologies of intranets and portals. The conference will be attended by leading knowledge management, intranet and portal solution providers.

Highlights the Fast Net Futures trade show held in conjunction with the Voice on the Net event in Santa Clara, California. Focus on broadband service and digital subscriber line providers; Services and equipment demonstrated during the event.

Reports the continued support for the Vestigial Side Band transmission system for digital television broadcasting in Carlsbad, California. Need for improvement in the existing digital television system; Commitment of broadcaster to the transition; Complaint of Sinclair Broadcasting over the system.

The article presents information on the Regional Command and Control Communications (3C) Pilot Project implemented by the local government of San Diego, California. The project aims to expand and increase capacity of existing public safety microwave networks and provide secure digital communication systems for first responders, senior officials and emergency operations/dispatch centers across San Diego and beyond.

The article discusses the benefits of broadband technology over power lines. Although broadband is a promising technology, its uses were limited to a few prototype projects in the United States and Europe. Even with the Federal Communications Commission's support it has been considered mainly as a delivery mechanism for rural areas that are not served by cable or DSL technologies. This is bound to change with the approval of the proposal to allow state power utilities to form separate companies to develop and sell BPL to consumers in California.

This article focuses on the business planning of Sun Microsystems Inc. The company's Sun Labs in Menlo Park, California, employs some 200 scientists and engineers and spends $80 million to $100 million a year. Its projects include sensors, supercomputers, high-speed networking, optical interconnects, third-generation Web technologies, Java and more. Internet switches capable of handling tens to hundreds of terabits of traffic per second today cost millions of dollars and fill entire rooms. But if an ongoing project at Sun Labs is successful, such switches will have dimensions and price tags more like those of PCs. Last July, Sun won a three-year, $50 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design a supercomputer with ultrahigh internal bandwidth based on proximity I/O. IBM and Cray Inc. each won awards for designs based on different principles. Sun Labs is working on computers at the other end of the spectrum as well, and it claims to have developed the world's smallest secure Web server. Code-named Sizzle, the server is the size of a quarter and is intended to go inside home appliances, personal medical devices, sensors and the like.

Assesses the sales potential of the Apple's iPod digital music player in Cupertino, California. Appreciation on the industrial design of iPod by retailers and analysts; Price of the player; Specifications of the iPod.

Reports the implications of the launch of SiPix Inc. on the digital imaging market in Milpitas, California. Effect of the focus of the company on the digital imaging market; Advantages offered by the company to the digital imaging world; Results of the strategic partnership of the company with software companies.

The article features Adlink, a cable interconnect that services the Los Angeles, California, market in 2001. Key issues discussed include Adlink's Hispanic sales plan that uses digital transmission technology to feed English-language commercials with Spanish voice-overs and the companies that have signed on to use the firm's technology.

Discloses that San Francisco, California-based NorthPoint Communications would extend its digital subscriber line services by the third quarter of 1999. Services to be added by the company; Plan of Rhythms NetConnections to expand into 35 markets.

The article highlights the fifth annual Digital World show held in Los Angeles, California. The personal computer is clearly the interactive device and everybody is focusing on reality, which is interactive TV, according to Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies Research International. Knowledge Adventure Inc., a leader in consumer educational software, introduced a software system that could be used for home shopping and online services. Kaledia Labs demonstrated software designed to make it less expensive to turn out sophisticated multimedia software.