The initial focus of the site will be IT, supporting IT-related startups. The site backers hope to sign up 20,000 experts in the first year. Toyota and other auto makers, as well as Matsushita and other electronics companies, are expected to invest in the new company. New air conditioner controlled by cell phone Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will sell from this fall a cell phone controlled air conditioner. The unit actually connects to a home PC, to which the user sends e-mail over their cell phone.
Users can turn the air conditioner on or off or change the operating mode.
The system requires that the user install supplied software on their home PCs to control the air conditioner. These energized seminars are making a positive difference with many of Tokyo's strongest players in the IT field. In what should prove interesting competition to the Caribbean, Sealand, a small WWII island fortress off the coast of Suffolk, England, has established itself as an unregulated data center for offshore Web sites. The center has been set up by HavenCo, and the service will start this fall. Sealand was founded as a sovereign principality in 1967.