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Triangle Technologies Annual Seminar Date – Tuesday, the 18th of December, 2001 Time -- 14:30-18:30 (Reception and private meetings, 17:30-18:30) Location – Sheraton City Towers Hotel, Ramat-Gan Target audience – CEO’s, VP/directors of business development, sales, marketing and finance Triangle Technologies is pleased to invite you to our first annual seminar in order to meet Triangle Technologies’ Japanese and Israeli experts and hear about the latest trends and opportunities in Japan. 14:30 Registration 15:00 Opening remarks – Embassy of Japan 15:05 Introduction: New trends in Japan – Dr. Daniel Isenberg, CEO, Triangle Technologies Ltd. 15:20 Raising capital from Japanese investors – Hidemi Suzuki, President, Triangle Technologies Japan K.K. 15:40 Broadband infrastructure, access, and services – Dr. Tsutomu Kobayashi, VP Business Development, Triangle Technologies Japan K.K. 16:00 Medical equipment and healthcare – Yoshinori Oikawa, VP, Triangle Technologies Ltd. 16:20 Mobile Internet in Japan – 3G – Dr. Daniel Isenberg, CEO, Triangle Technologies Ltd. 16:40 How to conduct business in Japan. Amir Pomerantz, VP, Triangle Technologies Ltd. and other Triangle staff + Case Study given by Gadi Becker EVP, Sales and Field Operations of Technomatix. 17:20 Summary and discussion 17:30 Refreshments and private meetings 18:30 End To register, please contact Tel: + (972) 3 575-8636; Fax: + (972) 3 575 8660; Email: a_lewkowicz@triangletech.com ***Limited Space Available*** Dan's Desk From Triangle's CEO Shoo-shoo-ism Last week I met with the CTO of one of Japan's largest electronics companies. He and his subordinate found a particular "Israeli" practice ironically amusing. When US Silicon Valley companies approach them, they said, in the initial meetings the companies present complete and rich written information: product descriptions, technological white papers, market surveys, business plans, patent descriptions and so forth. When they have met Israeli companies, the information is sparse and the attitude is secretive. This is so funny (read: strange), they laughed. How can the Israeli companies expect us to discuss our technology and products with them if they won’t reciprocate? Of course, we've come a long way - many Israeli companies have indeed learned that they must provide detailed and accurate information if they want to develop partnerships. Nevertheless, the vestiges of shoo-shoo-ism (security related secrecy) remain with us, and distinguish us from some of our foreign competitors. Rather than run the risk of saying too much, we say too little, and frustrate our potential partners. And it is not all shoo-shoo-ism, either - many of us are really weak at documentation at all levels (including R&D) and functions. The result is information deprivation to the point of starving strategic partnerships before they take root at all. Now, no one is advocating show-it-all marketing, but if you don’t show them yours, they won’t show you theirs. And no one is claiming that Japanese (or any other companies, including Israeli's) are angels in how they use confidential information. But in the past 20 years some of the large Japanese companies have learned some painful and costly lessons about patent infringement, and they may be as prudent and honorable (or the opposite) as their US and European counterparts, in my impression. ***ISRAEL-JAPAN NEWS*** +SOFTBANK, TDK COOPERATE ON MPEG-4 STREAMING Softbank Commerce and TDK are partnering in delivering an MPEG-4 Webcasting service. The new service will carry video, sound, still images, and text data and is based on TDK's proprietary MPEG-4 webcasting platform called WonderStream. TDK’s platform was jointly developed with Optibase. Triangle Technologies played a key role in the joint development between Optibase and TDK. +MARUBENI IN JOINT VENTURE WITH ALFINA SECURITY Marubeni is teaming up with Alfina Security to start a business counteracting cyber-terrorism in Japan. The venture will sell security systems made by the Israeli firm, which in the past has supplied systems to that the Israeli government as well as European and American financial institutions and government bodies needing advanced technology to prevent penetration by intruders and computer viruses. ***GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS*** +LINUX ON 35% OF COPRPORATE WEB SERVERS A recent survey by Access Media International and Impress Communications has found that 35% of corporates use Linux as their webserver OS. The top OS's are WinNT and Unix. Uses of Linux were: 63.1% as Web servers, 41.5% as DNS (domain name system) servers, 40.3% as file/printer servers, and 38.6% as Internet gateways/firewalls. +AVERAGE USERS SPEND $20 MONTHLY FOR I-MODE Japan's i-mode users spend $20 a month on average for paid information and shopping through i-mode services, NTT Group company InfoCom Research found in its survey conducted in August 2001. +ADSL USERS TOP 1 MILLION According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun the number of subscribers to ADSL services in Japan reached 1.2 million at the end of November, 2001. The surge was spurred by Yahoo Japan Corp.'s entry into the ADSL service in September, and the resultant fee cuts and access speed improvements by other Internet service providers, according to a survey by the Nikkei. +JAPAN REACHES 50 MILLION WIRELESS INTERNET USERS Recent figures from Japan’s Telecommunications Association show that there are nearly 50 million mobile Internet users in Japan. Figures for the period until November 2001 show that NTT DoCoMo’s I-mode service still has a significant lead in terms of subscribers over nearest rival services EZWEB and JSky. The figures are inclusive of the local-area PHS network services. The subscriber figures for Nov & Oct 2001 are as follows : +JAPAN’S NETWORK STORAGE EQUIPMENT SHIPMENTS TO ALOMOST TREBLE According to IDC Japan, Japan's domestic shipments of network-compatible storage equipment are expected to total $735 million in 2001. Shipments of equipment for storage area networks are expected to total $523 million and shipments of equipment for network attached storage are seen at $206 million. In 2005, domestic network-compatible storage equipment shipments expected to reach $3.7 billion. +THREE JAPANESE FIRMS IN DNA CHIP CONSORTIUM Asahi Techno Glass Group and two Olympus Optical subsidiaries, NovusGene. and Olympus Promarketing, will jointly develop DNA chips. The firms aim to develop chips that will be used to find disease-causing genes and detect genetically modified substances in food. +C&W TO ACQUIRE PSINET JAPAN Cable & Wireless (C&W) plans to acquire PSInet Japan. The acquisition will take place through the C&W's subsidiary in Japan, Cable & Wireless IDC (C&W IDC)
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