July 14th, 2009

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Hitachi Software Engineering Co Ltd said the company has introduced a new product in its “StarBoard” series of electronic blackboards, which is intended to expand the sales to the education market.

The company said that it has changed the functions of the “PX-DUO-50″ electronic blackboard, and that this new product is meant for the “School New Deal program,” under which Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology proposed to enhance (information and communication technology (ICT) and quake resistance of schools.

Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has planned to set up the price of an electronic blackboard at approximately ¥700,000 for each elementary and junior high schools in Japan, and Hitachi Software is preparing to ship its product to half of them.

Hitachi’s PX-DUO-50 has a 50-inch PDP. This blackboard is equipped with an embedded PC and a coordinate detection device using two infrared cameras, it supports character input and character recognition. Besides, this new product comes with a terrestrial digital TV tuner and a movable stand.

The control buttons, are found on the left side of the display in the previous product, are placed in the right side of the new product in consideration of the opinions of teachers. Moreover, the company offers a protective cover as an option.

Besides the electronic blackboard, Hitachi Software said it has produced a coordinate detection device named “Universal Digitizer Kit (UDK)” which uses a lens with a field angle of 170° for its infrared camera. Since the distance between the two cameras can be narrowed, the coordinate detection device can be equipped regardless of the screen size.

For the coordinate detection device of the previous product, an infrared camera with a field angle of 94° is mounted on each of the upper right and upper left parts of the display. Hence, the size of the coordinate detection device has to be changed depending on the screen size.

Moreover, Hitachi Software will in the second half of fiscal year 2009 release a projector-type electronic blackboard equipped with the UDK called the “StarBoard Next-FX-DUO” (this is a temporary name still). Even the company has prepared to launch an external unit for digital TVs in fiscal 2010, called the “After-purchase StarBoard.”

Along with the increasing use of the Internet throughout the world, there have been rising demands for a new way of supervising some of its basic functions that include the allocation of domain name suffixes like .com and .org.

For the past decade, this duty as well, as other important technical functions have been carried out by Icann, a private and non-profit organization which is based in Marina Del Rey (California) based on an agreement with the US Commerce Department.

Among such demands is one that came from the European Union media and telecommunications, which called for a severing of Icann’s links with the US government when the current agreement with the Commerce Department expires this autumn. Instead, the European Union media and telecommunications has proposed the creation of a “G-12 for Internet governance” to supervise an independent Icann.

In the long run, the European Union media and telecommunications said, it is not defensible that the government department of only one country has watched an Internet function which is used by hundreds of millions of people in countries all over the world.

Besides, the European Union media and telecommunications, also has called for the creation of an “independent, international tribunal” to review Icann decisions.

At a recent Icann meeting in Sydney, there had been discussion of creating an international subsidiary of the organization, possibly based in Switzerland. But Icann said it will oppose efforts to fragment it, because no one can have it his own way and have it unified. It also said that part of the power of the Internet is that the standards that parties have to agree on are so minimal.

Icann has moved over the years to give itself a more international profile, holding three major meetings a year outside the United States. Gatherings are also planned for Seoul in October and Nairobi next March.

The organization’s Governmental Advisory Committee, which has representatives from more than 80 countries, has been trying to broaden its membership. China, for example, recently agreed to rejoin the committee after a five-year absence.

Now Icann is trying to persuade another big country, Russia, and hopes that a plan to allow Internet domain names to be rendered in Cyrillic, set to begin next year, will be helpful.

The move to embrace Cyrillic addresses, along with other scripts like Arabic and Chinese, is part of a broader drive by Icann to open up the domain naming system, an initiative that also has its critics.

The organization plans to start adding large numbers of new address suffixes, or “global top-level domains,” next year, making it possible to register city or company names like .paris or .nestle.

While Icann says the creation of new addresses will help accommodate the international diversification of the Internet, some companies worry that the process will make it harder to protect their brand names. The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, a group based in Washington and representing multinational marketers, says the expansion of domain names could lead to a rise in the practice known as cybersquatting.

Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse has called Icann to “halt all current or future policy initiatives” until a commission, appointed by the US President or Congress, and consisting of government, academic and business representatives, reviews its operations. The coalition said Icann has been too beholden to companies that sell and manage actual domain names on behalf of Web sites.