NCET

Please join us in honoring NCET at Truckee Meadows Tomorrow’s (TMT) 10th anniversary Accentuate the Positive luncheon on October 5, 2007 at John Ascuaga’s Nugget.   NCET has been selected as a 2007 Silver Star award winner for the remarkable work done to impact the Entrepreneurship Quality of Life Indicator.

Accentuate the Positive (ATP) is a community wide event honoring  individuals and organizations for the strides they have taken to make a positive impact on one or more of the community’s 33 Quality of Life Indicators.  The event is a fundraiser for TMT.  Proceeds from the event will enable TMT to research and publish the next Community Wellbeing Report, providing the region with the unbiased, comprehensive Indicator data it needs in order to continually grow and improve as a community.

ATP tickets and tables are available for purchase at http://www.truckeemeadowstomorrow.org/atp. 

Hundreds of people lined up early in Reno on Friday to get their hands on the latest must-have, cutting-edge piece of techno-wizardry — the iPhone.

At the Apple store at Summit Sierra mall, a line of more than 100 people started forming at

6 a.m. and ran along other storefronts.

“We skipped a wedding rehearsal to wait in line,” said Eric Anderson, 53, a graphic arts professor visiting from the University of Oklahoma.

Anderson was sitting on a lawn chair with his wife, Gail, and his 20-something sons, Ian and Kyle. They plan to buy five iPhones, one extra for an uncle. “It frees me from carrying everything a college professor usually totes on a laptop,” Anderson said.

Another long line was seen at the AT&T store on South Rock Street in Sparks. Other local AT&T corporate stores were also selling the phone.

Many of the people in line hoped the iPhone will replace all the separate electronic gadgets they carry by combining a camera phone, multimedia player, mobile phone and Internet services such as e-mail, text messaging and Web browsing. Read full story:

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AT&T plans to add 300 employees to staff a customer call center in Reno.
Another 350 employees will be based in Las Vegas. The 650 jobs will support AT&T Yahoo! high-speed Internet subscribers ? both business and residential ? who self­-install their service or have basic questions about the service.

Hiring will begin in Reno next spring, says Hal Lenox, president of AT&T Nevada. Those call center jobs will pay $30,000 a year in base pay, says Lenox, plus benefits. He values each job at $40,000 a year. An added benefit, he says, is entry to the corporate world.

Tom Fitzgerald at Nevadaworks gathered demographics to prove the region could pro­vide the needed employees, says Lenox. Market research, he adds, shows that 50 percent of the residential market will have high speed Internet before long. 

Meanwhile, AT&T?s Project Lightspeed is laying the groundwork for U-verse, an Internet television suite positioned to compete with cable. Already available in other Western cities, it?s planned to roll out Reno at an unspecified future date, says Lenox.

?Imagine a world where wireless, wirelines and television work together,? says Lenox. For example, a person can use a cell phone to start videotaping a TV show. A TV viewer can dis­play onscreen caller ID from the home phone land line.

But will people want communications so complicated?

?You can engage with the technology as much as you want,? he says.

The Nevada Legislature passed two bills that sweetened AT&Ts decision to base 650 jobs in the state, says Lenox. The laws affect video franchising and pricing flexibility; in effect, allowing large carriers the flexibility enjoyed by smaller telcoms. While passage of the bills did not directly influence AT&T?s decision, says Lenox,?They did add strength to my argument to bring jobs to this state. This is a state that says con­sumers deserve choice with minimal govern­mental interference.?

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Tax credits that industry officials said would speed the development of renewable power in Nevada were left behind when the Senate passed a broad energy bill this week.

On Friday, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., promised to revive a series of tax breaks that were blocked from the final measure.

The $32 billion package that was shelved included five-year extensions of production tax credits for geothermal, solar, wind, hydroelectric and other renewable energy projects.

It also offered tax breaks for investments in energy efficiency, and for purchase of hybrid vehicles, among other provisions. Read full story:

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