NYSIA Monthly Meeting: Panel Called "Lively and Smart"
 Silicon Alley Insider covered September's NYSIA Monthly meeting ("Startup Supermen and Superwomen"), and was impressed with the content of entrepreneurial advice. Read it here! |
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High-Tech business opportunities in Singapore Meet with Senior Commercial Specialist Sweehoon Chia from the U.S. Embassy in Singapore to discuss business opportunities and prospects in equipment and technologies for broadband, wireless communication 3G, IPTV, security solutions, enterprise software solutions and wireless connectivity solutions. Sweehoon Chia will meet with businesses at no charge. The event is sponsored by the US Dept. of Commerce. Register here. |
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Tony Baer's OnStrategies Perspectives: Menage a Trois At first glance, Citrix's $500 million offer for hypervisor provider XenSource fills an obvious gap in Citrix's desktop virtualization product line: while Citrix built its business offering a terminal server deployment path for Windows (and other OSs), XenSource competes the picture by providing a way to virtualize the client side as well. It also nicely steals the headlines a day after VMware's partial IPO. Read the full article. |
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New York Safe Games Act of 2007 Will this law make young people safer, or will it freeze the growth of the games industry in New York State? Or both? Read more about this proposal, and how the games industry is reacting. Tell us your opinion! Read more about the proposal and vote here. |
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Tony Baer's OnStrategies Perspectives: Yet Another New Software Development Platform – Part II After previews of almost 9 months, Salesforce finally made it official: next month, Apex will formally be released. As Salesforce's own development language, Apex is something of a hybrid -- it runs in the database like a stored procedures language, but as a modern language built more like Java, it's more about objects and components rather than procedures. Read the full article. |
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 | | NYSIA Goes Green: Resource Page for CleanTech and Greentech Our environment has become a very controversial issue; NYSIA along with the help of some professionals has decided to see how technology can assist in protecting the environment for our future. We have compiled a detailed list of excellent resources; provided by our prominent speakers, that you can use to further educate yourself on what is happening with our environment and what we can do to help. Get all the info on our resource page. |
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NYSIA Board Member publishes popular on-line games:  Are you familiar with Chinese culture? Do you have children who love Clifford, the Big Red Dog? Here are your new games created by NYSIA Board Member Michael Pinto. The games are lovely to play and fun for the entire family!! Take a tour through China and answer questions about Chinese culture: The China Game. And here Clifford's Big Parade Game (featured on the PBS web site). |
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NYSIA Internship Program NYSIA's internship program connects your company with well qualified computer science students from the metropolitan area. Undergrad and grad computer science students are eager and prepared to lighten the load interning at your company. However, it won't lighten pockets because reimbursements are given to companies- up to 1,000 dollars per student per semester. Interns can work as programmers, analysts, support, developers, designers etc.. Learn more about it here. |
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 Monday, May 19, 6:00 PM - NYSIA May Monthly Meeting:
"NYSIA May Monthly Meeting -- Mary Jo Foley and Microsoft 2.0" -
NYSIA Monthly Meeting, May 19th, at JPMorgan Chase at 270 Park avenue, 6pm. Mary Jo Foley and Microsoft 2.0. |
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| Monday, June 9, 6:00 PM - NYSIA June Monthly Meeting:
"A NYSIA Event for Internet Week NY - June 9th" -
A NYSIA - Internet Week NY Event. This will be a chance for NYSIA members and non-members to network and socialize. Those who can't attend the Webby awards will be welcome to meet and talk with their fellow technology community members.
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Thursday, May 29, 6:00 PM -
NYSIA Legal Forum
: "The Art and Science of Negotiating deals" - The Art and Science of Negotiating Technology Deals
Technology-related deals raise many complex legal and business issues that need to be thoroughly negotiated and documented in the deal agreements. From complex software licensing to outsourcing to the Internet, tech deals have their own customs, usages and norms. In this session, Mark Grossman, a lawyer, author and speaker specializing in the field of technology law, will cover a range of areas. Whether you are on the "buy-side" or "sell-side," large company or start-up, the techniques to be learned in this session are invaluable for anyone involved in negotiating technology-related transactions. |
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Have an idea? Please share. We want our members to take part in our meetings any way they can, so we are asking you what would you like to learn more about. Share your ideas with us by emailing our SIG and Events Coordinator.
Want to get more involved? We are looking for a new Java Special Interest Group leader. We are also looking for people to create and lead new Special Interest Groups. Are you creative and an expert in your field? Please contact our SIG & Event Coordinator. We look forward to fresh and exciting leadership.
MISSED A SIG? - Many of our past SIG presentations can be found online! If there is a PowerPoint presentation or handout that you missed, or you want to refer back to something that you forgot months ago, we have it! Check out the past events page for your favorite presentations.
Visit the NYSIA SIG Village! Take a look at detailed information of your favorite SIGs, bios of the SIG Leaders, contact information, past PowerPoint presentation slides, past speakers and topics, and pictures of the SIG events.
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