Sorry for the irrelevant mail received below.

As I'm not the owner I cannot delete this group so it will stay alive,
but I have turned on moderation. Feel free to post event info here or
to www.japanevents.net using www.japanevents.net/submit.html

Andrew
http://hq.andrewshuutleworth.com

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wrote:
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>
>   Hope this is ok to post here... You can see a list of my groups on
Grouply at
> the link below. Maybe you'll find some you want to join.
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>   Charles
>
>   Here's the link:
>    http://www.grouply.com/register.php?tmg=2463104&amp;vt=
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>   Here is how to build List of Leads Faster and Get pay for it:
>  http://tinyurl.com/cjwcqj
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Hi everyone,

   Hope this is ok to post here... You can see a list of my groups on Grouply at
the link below. Maybe you'll find some you want to join.

   Charles

   Here's the link:
    http://www.grouply.com/register.php?tmg=2463104&vt=

   Here is how to build List of Leads Faster and Get pay for it:
  http://tinyurl.com/cjwcqj



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I will be out of the office starting  05/27/2007 and will not return until
06/20/2007.

if urgent, forward to Frank.Carrico@... with cc to
Aliaa.AlSaffar@...

Details of the 1st tokyo2point0 zero event, next Tuesday are here:
http://www.tokyo2point0.net/



Please note registration is required. Please sign up at
http://www.japanevents.net.



Thanks,



Andrew



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Hi,

The is David Moskowitz from Kansai, Japan.
I'm organizing an informal get together with members of my group:
CLICK! Community for Linking Internet Companies in Kansai!
We'll be having a beer garden get together on June 15th in Umeda.
If you active in the areas of IT or business, please drop by our
egroup page to learn more about the event.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/click-it/

Thanks,

David

In May 2007, Marc Canter, 'a well-known figure in the sphere of open
standards, social networks and blogging', will visit Japan. Take this
opportunity to hear from Marc and mix and mingle with Tokyo's
international internet community.

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW

Digital Lifestyle Aggregation: Portals 2.0 (DLAs)

As the worlds of social networking and blogging become more and more
of a commodity, new `destination' sites are arising which provide
integrated, aggregated and highly customizable interfaces. These DLAs
will bridge the world of PCs, with mobile, gaming and TV. Are they
long awaited solution for convergence? What about the battle between
the big boys (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace) and all the
smaller players? Will there be any crumbs left on the table - for us?

And what will the global, distributed, decentralized mesh of
inter-connected social networking and blogging platforms look like?

SPEAKER PROFILE

Marc Canter is a well-known figure in the sphere of open standards,
social networks and blogging. Marc co-founded MacroMind in 1984 and
began developing for the newly launched Apple Macintosh. MacroMind
became Macromedia in 1991. He was part of the team that created the
first multimedia player, the first cross-platform authoring system and
the world's leading multimedia platform. Marc was considered one of
the founders of multimedia and has been a speaker, developer and
evangelist in the industry for over a decade. Over the years Marc has
also traveled worldwide, consulting to global corporations and has
written on the multimedia industry and burgeoning world of
micro-content publishing and social networking.He is the founder and
CEO of Broadband Mechanics (http://broadbandmechanics.com) a digital
lifestyle aggregator (DLA) company. Broadband Mechanics builds tools
and environments to enable online communities. (Source: Wikipedia.org)

For Marc's full profile see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter

DATE: 17 May 2007

TIME : 18:30 'til late (Presentation from 19:00)

COST: 2,000 yen includes light finger food buffet. Drinks pay-as-you-go.

VENUE: The Pink Cow - Great food and drinks
Shibuya, Tokyo
http://www.thepinkcow.com

RSVP required. Limit 100 people. Sign from the link at the bottom of
this page: http://tinyurl.com/2qpf44

It is with great sadness that I pass on the news that Ben Miller,
founder of the JPNET list and a well known person in the Tokyo
community passed away at the end of February after suffering two brain
aneurysms.

Ben was a well connected person and a passionate researcher, most
recently spending a lot of his time on Web. 2.0, SNS and other online
services - many of which he posted about on his site:
http://www.benmiller.com/

The funeral has taken place but I will post to this list again as soon
as I have details of any other memorial services taking place or if a
web site is established in memory of Ben.

Please pass on the sad news to anyone who new Ben who you think may
not have heard. Ben's connections on LinkedIn can be seen here:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewConns=&key=136722

We'll all miss Ben.

Andrew Shuttleworth

JPNET is an anachronism.

For Tokyo English-language event news, I suggest you subscribe to:

http://www.terrie.com

and

http://www.japanevents.net/?trumbaEmbed=

or

http://www.trumba.com/calendars/japanevents

I've sold your email addresses to some friends in Nigeria -- see
http://www.419eater.com for details ;-)

Using Technology to Improve Personal & Business Productivity',

Gonzague-Alexandre Gay of Akihabara News and GeekStuff4U



Technology can be a tool to improve the efficiency of our businesses

and our lives. Unfortunately it's very difficult to keep up with all

the latest technologies available and knowing which ones can really

help us. Time to turn to an expert. Gonzague-Alexandre Gay (aka Alex)

of Akihabara News and other tech sites will share some his best

technology tool tips and secrets.



Alex runs http://www.akihabaranews.com, http://www.geekstuff4u.com

and http://www.nihoncarandbike.com



Date: Tuesday 24 October,

Time: Doors open 7pm 'til late

Venue: The Pink Cow (http://www.thepinkcow.com)

Cost: Free (Drinks and food pay as you go)



Organized by The Pink Cow and Andrew Shuttleworth, CVP (http://www.cvp.jp)





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From: MailList@... <MailList@...>
Date: Oct 23, 2006 10:14 PM
Subject: Tokyo English Networking Technology Users Group
To: ben@...


All,

We are re-starting TENTUG!  For those of you who do not remember
TENTUG stands for Tokyo English Networking Technology Users Group and
our goals are to bring IT people together with vendors to demonstrate
the latest and greatest products and ideas in IT.

For our first meeting we have decided the topic is AMD Opteron, and
will be presented by Brian Slattery of AMD, Thanks Brain. The meeting
will be this November 17th.

Synopsis: What are the reasons for processor manufacturer AMD's recent
market share surge?  Enterprise users have found great benefits in AMD
Opteron's performance, low power consumption, and platform stability.
One of AMD Japan's Business Development Executives, Brian Slattery,
will highlight the key characteristics of Opteron that separate it
from the competition. Come learn how Opteron can help lower
electricity costs, reduce heat in your data center, and increase
performance. Also, have a sneak peak at some of the exciting results
you can expect from Quad-Core Opteron.

The meeting will be held at BT office in Roppongi at the Ark Hills
Building at 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00pm. Go to the reception area on
the 1st floor and sign in say that you are visiting KDDIBT on the 24th
floor.  If you do not know where that is click on the following link
for direction.

http://www.ehills.co.jp/rp/dfw/EHILLS/morishop/ark/map_e.php

Please do not respond to this mail, if you have question please send an
email to  mailto:admin@..., or if you wish to be removed from
this list please send an email to  mailto:remove@...

Thanks

TENTUG Admin

Gerhard Fasol of www.eurotechnology.com will give a presentation on
Japan's mobile phone industry on 12 Oct.

http://fasol.com/blog/2006/09/japans-mobile-phone-industry-and-u.html

For the people interested in computer security, here is a good chance
to learn cutting edge topics.

Black Hat Japan 2006 Brifings will be held at Keio Plaza Hotel on Oct
5-6 and I am helping its production.
http://japan.blackhat.com/ (English and Japanese)

Black Hat security conferences are one of the world class highest end
security conferences. Black Hat USA has been held in Las Vegas every
summer since 1997, and this year's USA conference has attracted 3500
attendees for over 80 sessions in two days. The topics covered were
coming Windows Vista security issues to Web 2.0 related issues like
Ajax and cross site scripting vulnerabilities, as well as analysing
hiden rootkits and secure code writing.

Black Hat Japan is a scale down version of USA conference, will have
12 sessions including 10 selected speakers from abroad and 1 keynote
by Japanese government related personel. All the sessions are covered
with simultanious interpretation of Japanese to English as well as EN
to JP.

Attendance prices are JPY73500 for early registration by the midnight
of Sep 15 (sorry for the short notice!) and JPY84000 for regular
price afterward until the end of Sep.

In addtion to the Briefings, technical trainings will be held on Oct
3 and 4 at same Keio Plaza Hotel. Black Hat Training courses are
designed for actual security professionals and system administrators
to learn security enhancement techniques and methodologies with hands
on workshop.

Check out the Black Hat website and find out what will be presented
at the conference.

DATE: Briefings on Sep 5 and 6, Training on 3 and 4
TIME: Sessions start from 10:00am, Reception is held on Sep 5 night
VENUE: Keio Plaza Hotel, Shinjuku
COST: Briefings = Early JPY73,500 by Sep 15 midnight, Regular
JPY84,000 by the end of Sep
               Training = Early JPY 254,000 by Sep 15 midnight, Regular
JPY296,000 by the end of Sep
               (all include sales taxes)

From Conception to Execution: When you have to do it all!
Warren Arbuckle, PMP - Wednesday September 13, 7pm

Today's business demands put increasing stress on
high-performers. As more pressure is placed on individuals and
teams, it becomes critical to broaden each individuals skill set.
Taking an idea from conception and managing it through to the
end product or service requires extremely honed business skills
along with the ability to to align team goals with overall business
goals. Without the underpinning of business fundamentals, your
performance could hinder your progress rather that in enhance it.

This is particularly important for those who wish to improve their
career or run their own business.Warren Arbuckle, of Global
Learning Inc, will present a step-by-step method for analysing,
developing and presenting solutions to problems, a method which
is appropriate for individuals as well as teams. We will then learn
to use a very flexible tool called SWOT to analyse a problem,
task or situation.

== Presenter Profile ==
Mr. Arbuckle is the COO of Global Learning Inc., a
consulting firm specializing in education, training and business
development. Warren has lived in Japan for over 20 years, is fluent
in Japanese, and has been continuously active in numerous fields of
business and education in the Japanese market. He first began working
in the training field in the early 1990s after training and working
under Dr Betty Edwards - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - a
course in artistic confidence and creativity. After learning Mind
Mapping in 1994, he has studied and worked with the originator, Tony
Buzan, and has taught children, students and adults. Programs range
from learning how to learn, to taking a business idea from conception
and managing it through to the end product or service. He is a
certified Project Management Professional, (PMP) and provides
business development and project management consulting and training
services for project, quality and risk management to companies
ranging from IT and healthcare to financial organizations.

DATE: Wednesday 13 September 2006
TIME: Doors open 19.00 'til late, Presentation starts 19:30
VENUE: The Pink Cow http://www.thepinkcow.com
COST: No Charge for entry! Bar and food pay as you go. Registration NOT
required. Just turn up

Future events will be on the 2nd Wednesday of the month: 11 Oct, 8 Nov

This mail is sponsored by Customers, Vendors, People - The first place
to go when you're looking for top quality vendors.

http://www.cvp.jp


Featured vendors:

Fidel Technologies - IT Outsourcing
http://www.cvp.jp/vendor_it_outsource.php

Zeros & Ones - Outsourcing & Recruiting
http://www.cvp.jp/vendor_recruit.php

Business Grow - Writing, Editing, Promotion
http://www.cvp.jp/vendor_promotion.php

Action Japan - Organizational Development
http://www.cvp.jp/vendor_odc.php

I'm pleased to announce the launch of http://www.JapanEvents.net - a site
dedicated to listing community and networking events in Japan.

It has many nice usability features like e-mail subscription, RSS and iCal
feeds and 'Add to My Calendar'. There is also a place to submit your own
events on the site and a listing of related groups and associations. I hope
that it is a usseful time saver for many of you.

I will post regular summaries of the upcoming events to the JPNet list for
those that prefer toget info. From this group. (You can modify your delivery
settings on the group site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jpnet)

Comments and feedback are most welcome.

Andrew
--
Co-moderator, JPNet
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jpnet
http://hq.andrewshuttleworth.com
http://www.cvp.jp
--
Andrew Shuttleworth
Customers, Vendors, People - http://www.cvp.jp
    "Connecting companies with quality vendors"

Personal HP: http://hq.andrewshuttleworth.com

Mobile:090-7428-0928

My schedule

"Making Efficient Use of Your Corporate Website",
    Eduardo Galvani, Founder and Art Director, Galvani Creative
(http://www.galvani.net)

A corporate web site is an indispensable and critical part of any
company's image and communications strategy. Yet many
corporate web sites are simply badly designed and just serve in
frustrating visitors.
Learn some tricks of the trade to make your corporate web site a killer
site. Eduardo Galvani has been working in design

related fields his whole career and has established a reputation as on of
Tokyo's top designers.

While presenting his and others projects, Galvani will cover:
- The basics of corporate identity
- Searching for an unique concept for a corporate / sales-promotion
web-site
- How to best manage the contents of a site
- Making your site to stand-out from the competition

== Speaker Profile ==
• Former Art Director for Leo Burnett Advertising, McCann-Erickson,
SPAZIO Design Associates and Hitachi Business

International.
• Awarded from the International Broadcasting Society (Hollywood
Radio and Television Society) and the London International

Advertising Awards
• Creator of Canon EOS digital camera web-sites, Sony Packages,
Lion-McCormick packages, Hitachi G.U.I.s and many other

projects for well know brands and companies.
• Founder and Art Director of Galvani Creative. See
http://www.galvani.net for some samples of his outstanding work.


DATE: Wednesday 23 Aug. 2006

TIME:Doors open 19.00 'til late, Presentation starts 19:30

VENUE: http://www.thepinkcow.com

COST: No Charge for entry! Bar and food pay as you go
Registration NOT required. Just turn up

Future events will be on the 2nd Wednesday of the month:
12 Sept, 11 Oct, 8 Nov

===
Conspiracy events were conceived by Pink Cow owner Traci Consoli to bring
together people building their own businesses. The

events consist of a presentation that gives attendees practical tips,
advice or knowledge that they can use instantly to help

grow their business followed by networking with other people who are
building or want to build their own businesses.

Organizers:

Andrew Shuttleworth http://hq.andrewshuttleworth.com

Customers, Vendors, People (http://www.cvp.jp)
       Connecting customers and companies

http://www.thepinkcow.com - cool place, yummy food!

Calendar of community and networking events: http://www.japanevents.net

Supporting organizations:
-> International Computer Association - http://www.icajapan.jp
-> Investor & Executive Networking Meeting http://www.jci-inc.com
-> Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo - http://www.ea-tokyo.com
-> JET Alumni Group for Eastern Japan - http://www.jetaa.com
-> http://japan.ecademy.com - Connecting Business People

A friendly reminder about this Saturday's NetTokyo
<http://www.nettokyo.jp/>  charity business networking event.

NetTokyo once again promises to be an excellent day out for friends
and family and we aim to beat the 800,000 we raised for charity last
year! Limited to 300 people! Sign up here
<http://www.nettokyo.jp/register.php>

Nijikai from 5.30 at the Hobgoblin/Legends in Roppongi.

See you there! Andrew <http://hq.andrewshuttleworth.com/>

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Saturday, July 22nd
> 1.30pm - 5.30pm
> Shunju, Sanno Park Tower 27F
> 4,000 Yen in advance, 5,000 Yen at the door.
    . Includes light Japanese delicacies, one drink ticket and
      one raffle ticket for great prizes
    . All bottled beer, wine, soft drinks, cocktails just 500 yen.

VENUE
Shunju, Sanno Park Tower, 27F
2-11-1 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
http://www.shunju.com/ja/restaurants/tameikesanno/
<http://www.shunju.com/ja/restaurants/tameikesanno/> (Japanese only)
Directions: Sanno Park Tower is directly above, Exit 7 from Tameike
Sanno Station on the Ginza and Namboku Lines. Make your way to the
1st floor and catch the elevator direct to 27F.


RAFFLE PRIZES
* Authentic Vanutan antique valued at more than 100,000 yen
	    (Vanuatu Japan Friendship Membership Club
<http://www.vjf-mc.com/> )
* 5 Day Right Brain Workshop - value 89,250 yen
	    (RBR <http://www.rbr-art.com/ClassInfo?cat=62&classTitle=RB
Workshops> )
* 50,000 in yen gift vouchers
	    (Thanks to our Gold sponsors below)
* 3 x Sleeptracker watches - value 60,000 yen
	    (Sleeptracker <http://www.sleeptracker.jp/> )
* 5 x Skin Care Packs
	    (Home Business Master)
* Dinner for 2 with Wine
	    (Mako Restaurant)
* 8 x golf shirts
	    (Asian Tigers Premier Worldwide Movers
<http://www.asiantigers-japan.com/> )
* 10 x 3000 yen Gift Certificates
	    (TGI Friday's <http://www.tgifridays.co.jp/> )
* 20 x 2500 yen Gift Certificates
	    (Outback Steakhouse
<http://www.outbacksteakhouse.co.jp/en/index.html> )
* 40 x Energizing Tea Packs
	    (Home Business Master)

GOLD SPONSORS
- J-Seed Ventures <http://www.j-seed.com/>
- Phillip Financials <http://www.phillipfinancials.com/ja/index.php>
- Sozon <http://www.sozon.com/e_index.php>
- Vanuatu Japan Friendship Membership Club <http://www.vjf-mc.com/>

SILVER SPONSORS
- Asian Tigers <http://www.asiantigers-japan.com/flashcon.html>
- RBR <http://www.rbr-art.com/home>
- SleepTracker <http://www.sleeptracker.jp/en/default.html>

ICA Event - July 20th
The Future of Software

Speaker: Naotaka Nakase
Vice President of Marketing, SalesForce.com

Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business
services. The company's salesforce suite of on-demand applications enables
customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner
information on-demand. Our presenter, Naotaka Nakase is the Vice President of
Marketing for salesforce.com in Japan. His presentation will cover how new
technologies will shape the future of how software is utilized by enterprises
and end users, and the fundamental issue of why can't business applications be
used as easily as using the Consumer Web? Other topics to be touched upon in
this presentation include Web 2.0, AJAX, Folksonomy, Mash-ups, Blogs, Open
Source, Participation, Web service API.

Meeting Details
Date: July 20th
Time: 6:30 (pm) Doors open, 6:30 Networking / cash bar.
7:10 Dinner, 7:45 Presentation, 8:45 Finish
Venue: Yurakucho Denki Building, Foreign Correspondents' Club
http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php
Cost, including dinner: 3,000 yen for members, 5,500 yen for non-members
Cash bar available.

--------------------------
RSVP REQUIRED
If you would like to attend please RSVP on our sign-up page at:
http://www.icajapan.jp/signup.html
by 17:00 Tuesday July 18th

>----<< ICA Summer Rooftop Networking Party - July 26th >>----<
Join the ICA an for a summer networking party on one of the most beautiful
rooftop gardens in all of Tokyo at the new Holland Hills Mori Tower in
Kamiyacho, courtesy of Visto Corporation. This is a great opportunity to meet
old friends and make new ones in the Tokyo IT world. Unlimited beer, wine and
soft drinks will be served. This is a joint event together with the ACCJ ICT
Committee, our second of the year following our successful Shinnenkai in
January. This party will be limited to the first 65, so sign up early!

* Date: July 26th (Wednesday)
* Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
* Cost: 2,000 yen (members), 3,000 yen (non-members)
* Location: Holland Hills Mori Tower, Kamiyacho
http://www.mori.co.jp/office/hollandhills/en_access.html
* Please go directly to the reception table at the Visto office on the 16th
floor.
   The party will take place on the roof.

>-------<< Take a Child to Work - Summer '06 >>------<
The ICA is recruiting "big brother" or "big sister" volunteers for our annual
program for youth. We are looking for volunteers to act as a role model for
junior or senior high school students by taking the student(s) into your place
of work and showing the student(s) what you do to make a living. The students
come from a children's home in Kisarazu, Chiba and don't have strong parental
role models to look up to.

This year's event will be on Friday 25th August.

If you can spare the time to share your life with a child, please contact Chris
Ohta cohta@...

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
PM-GLOBAL

PM-Global provides enterprise-wide program and project management consulting and
training services. Our core competencies are IT and Business Improvement. We
help our clients achieve quicker time-to-market and increased shareholder value
by creating project success. We guarantee an increase in our client's project
success rate. http://www.pm-global.com

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Skillhouse Staffing Solutions
IT and Administrative Staffing Services.
http://www.skillhouse.co.jp/eng_home.htm

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Temple University
The oldest and largest American University in Japan.
http://www.tuj.ac.jp

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Access Technology
Japanfs premier technology - focused search firm.
http://www.accesstech.com/indexe.html

>---------<< JCI Investor and Executive Network Event >>---------<
The Investor and Executive Networking Event July 28th at the Top of Akasaka
Prince Hotel. (Akasaka Mitsuke Station)

The event provides executives, bankers, venture capitalists, lawyers,
accountants, entrepreneurs and angels alike with opportunities to direct
business matching.

Friday, July 28th - from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
10,000 Yen (covers food and beverages)
*Registration is limited to 100 people.

For further information, please contact mailto:seminar@..., or call
03-5226-5081 and provide your name, company, email, phone and fax numbers.

Details: http://www.jci-inc.com/executive.html

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Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
A talk by Adam Greenfield

Saturday, July 15, 2006
14:00
Mita Campus, Keio University


The age of ubiquitous computing is here: a computing without
computers, where information processing has diffused into everyday
life, and virtually disappeared from view. What does this mean to
those of us who will be encountering it? How will it transform our
lives? And how will we learn to make wise decisions about something so
hard to see?

Join noted writer and critical futurist Adam Greenfield as he explores
this new technology and its implications for society, for business,
for the way we design spaces and cities - even for the way we relate
to each other.

Adam Greenfield is an internationally-recognized writer, user
experience consultant and critical futurist. He was previously lead
information architect for the Tokyo office of Razorfish.

More about Everyware:
http://www.studies-observations.com/everyware/

Adam's Personal Site:
http://www.v-2.org/


Presentation by Adam Greenfield to be followed by Panel Discussion and
Q&A.

Panelists:
Junghoon Kim - Associate Professor, DMC Institute
Andreas Bovens - Research Associate, DMC Institute
Younghee Jung - Senior Design Manager, Nokia Design


Location:
G-SEC, 6th Floor, East Research Building
Mita Campus, Keio University
2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Yahoo! map: http://tinyurl.com/j7zuv
Campus map: http://www.keio.ac.jp/access2/mita_e.html (Nr. 4)


Registration and info:
bovens@...


This event is organized by the Content Industry & Policy Research Unit
of Keio University's DMC Institute. The DMC Institute is part of the
Strategic Research Center Development Program, established by the
Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology and financed by its Special Coordination Fund for Science
and Technology.

The Tokyo PC Users Group presents General Security for your PCs on
Thursday evening at 7:00 pm, July 6th, 2006, at the Tokyo Union
Church in Omotesando.

TPC members will discuss various aspects of Security and securing
PCs. Topics include Wi-Fi security, hardware and software
requirements, steps to secure your PC & wireless network, an
explanation of the standards and terminology, and some product
recommendations based on our experience.

AND... we will be GIVING AWAY the latest Norton Internet Security
2006 (Eng) to some lucky attendee.

Already use Security measures? Come and share your expertise and
experiences. Questions and participation from the audience is appreciated.

A map to the TUC can be found here:
<http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about>http<http://www.tokyopc.org/\
faxmessage/index.html#about>://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about

--
This announcement list is a service of the Tokyo PC Users Group.
http://www.TokyoPC.org/
To UNSUBSCRIBE visit http://www.TokyoPC.org/mailman/listinfo/tpc-list

Forwarded message:
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Dear Friends,

I'm Takashi Kinoshita at JCI,Inc.

http://www.jci-inc.com/profile2b.html

This is an announcement of JCI Investor & Executive Network
http://www.jci-inc.com/english.pdf

Next event is on 6/23rd,ĦĦ

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ICA Event - June 15th
Improving Communication and Presentation Skills

Speaker: Robert Burnside
President and Chief Communicator of Empowr

Having the best service or technology does not always guarantee success. To get
ahead in business today, effective communication and presentation skills are a
must. Our June speaker, Robert Burnside, specializes in leadership
communication--how to influence others with powerful verbal and visual
communication. He trains, coaches and consults at all levels to teach you how to
understand what you want to say, then say it so that others understand. Robert
will teach you to handle the following questions and situations:

  * Can you describe your business in 20 seconds, or in one minute explain how
you differentiate yourself from the competition?
  * Can you infect others with the enthusiasm you have for your business? Can you
describe your vision?
  * Does your audience take away a visceral understanding--an image in their
minds--of what, why, how?

Robert Burnside will explain what really underlies convincing presentations, why
we need them, why so many presentations are so bad, and how to work towards
making yours better. This is not about presentation skills as we know them, but
about the attitude necessary to acquire the skills; the principles of persuasion
that we have known for thousands of years (and ignore daily); the lessons of
evolutionary psychology and modern neurology; and about using authenticity,
simplicity and common sense. As president and chief communicator of Empowr (a
New Zealand company), Robert has been delivering his Powrtalk training and
coaching for several years at some major companies in Japan (such as Toyota, NTT
DoCoMo, Citigroup).

<< First drink free for all attendees >>
<< courtesy of Access Technologies! >>

Meeting Details
Date: June 15
Time: 6:30 (pm) Doors open, 6:30 Networking / cash bar.
7:10 Dinner, 7:45 Presentation, 8:45 Finish
Venue: Yurakucho Denki Building, Foreign Correspondents' Club
http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php
Cost, including dinner: 3,000 yen for members, 5,500 yen for non-members
Cash bar available.

--------------------------
RSVP REQUIRED
If you would like to attend please RSVP on our sign-up page at:
http://www.icajapan.jp/signup.html
by 17:00 Tuesday June 13

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
PM-GLOBAL

PM-Global provides enterprise-wide program and project management consulting and
training services. Our core competencies are IT and Business Improvement. We
help our clients achieve quicker time-to-market and increased shareholder value
by creating project success. We guarantee an increase in our client's project
success rate. http://www.pm-global.com

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Skillhouse Staffing Solutions
IT and Administrative Staffing Services.
http://www.skillhouse.co.jp/eng_home.htm

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Temple University
The oldest and largest American University in Japan.
http://www.tuj.ac.jp

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Access Technology
Japanfs premier technology - focused search firm.
http://www.accesstech.com/indexe.html

>---------<< JCI Investor and Executive Network Event >>---------<
The Investor and Executive Networking Event June 23rd at the Top of Akasaka
Prince Hotel. (Akasaka Mitsuke Station)

The event provides executives, bankers, venture capitalists, lawyers,
accountants, entrepreneurs and angels alike with opportunities to direct
business matching.

Friday, June 23rd - from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
10,000 Yen (covers food and beverages)
*Registration is limited to 100 people.

For further information, please contact mailto:seminar@..., or call
03-5226-5081 and provide your name, company, email, phone and fax numbers.

Details: http://www.jci-inc.com/executive.html

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June 1 2006 - Gaming - Not just for kids

Andrew Hayes, expert gamer and vice president of the The Tokyo PC
Users Group, will lead a discussion on computer games covering many
aspects and genres of this pastime including trends, latest releases,
future developments and hardware. The session will review
predominately PC-based games but also include console games. Several
gaming machines will be available for solo-play or networked head-to-head.

Such luminary titles as F.E.A.R., Call of Duty 2, Battlefield
2:Special Forces, UFO:Aftershock, X3:The Reunion, The Sims 2, Quake
4, The Bards Tale, and others - such as online Javascript-based games.

If you're a gamer with a favorite game, why not bring along your box
and show us? There'll also be an opportunity to discuss tips and
strategies, hardware matters such as SLi and Dual Core, and a limited
number of free DVDs with demo versions of recent or upcoming games,
plus a chance to win a copy of Quake 4:Special Edition for the PC and
other prizes.

The new hands-on PC Help Desk will run concurrently.

More at www.tokyopc.org

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Tokyo PC Users Group: Two more events this month
  Thursday May 11th Meeting: Wireless Networking with Wi-Fi
  Saturday May 13th TPC Akihabara Tour

(1) THURSDAY May 11, 2006 7:00 PM Meeting (tomorrow)
     Wireless Networking with Wi-Fi

The Tokyo PC Users Group presents Wireless Networking
with Wi-Fi on Thursday evening at 7:00 pm, May 11th,
2006, at the Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando.

TPC members will discuss various aspects of
wireless networking. Topics include hardware and
software requirements, steps to secure your
wireless network, an explanation of the standards
and terminology, and some product recommendations
based on our experience.

Numerous Wi-Fi capable cards will be available for
you to try connecting to the TPC wireless network.

AND... we will be GIVING AWAY a brand new Buffalo
AirStation WHR-G54S/P router/PC Card set to some
lucky attendee.

Already use a wireless network? Come and share
your expertise and experiences. Questions and
participation from the audience is appreciated.

A map to the TUC can be found here:
http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about


(2) SATURDAY May 13, 2006, 11:00 AM
     The First Akihabara Tour of 2006

Tour Electric City with Mr. Akihabara

Sigi Rindler, our very own Mr. Akihabara, will lead
a tour through the twist and turns of the back streets
and thoroughfares of Electric City in search of cheap
deals, trustworthy shops, and a decent lunchtime meal.

Need a new motherboard but on a tight budget? Looking
for an old Pentium III CPU? Have an urge to play games
but can't find any in English? Finally decided to junk
the CRT and go TFT?

Then join us for several hours of slogging around the
hustle and bustle as we brush shoulders with the Otaku
of Tokyo to fulfill your needs, or at least point you
in the right direction.

The tour departs from the Sato Musen / Clock / Ticket
Machine side of Akihabara JR station (left after exiting
the gates) at 11 o'clock *SHARP* on Saturday May 13th.

Be there beforehand to avoid disappointment, or being
left to wander around on your own.

ICA Event - May 18th
Mobilizing your Enterprise - Successful Case Studies

Speaker:  Hideki Shimizu & Tetsuya Nakamura
Mobile Solution Product Development Division, KDDI

The International Computer Association's May event will feature Hideki Shimizu
and Tetsuya Nakamura of KDDI's Mobile Solution Product Development Division.
They will give examples of how major Japanese corporations are using mobile
technologies to improve their businesses and bottom lines. They will also share
information on some of the latest KDDI technologies and services. Not to be
missed for any organization that wants to stay ahead and take advantage of the
mobile technology revolution!

Meeting Details
Date: May 18
Time: 6:30 (pm) Doors open, 6:30 Networking / cash bar.
7:10 Dinner, 7:45 Presentation, 8:45 Finish
Venue: Yurakucho Denki Building, Foreign Correspondents' Club
http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php
Cost, including dinner: 3,000 yen for members, 5,500 yen for non-members
Cash bar available.

--------------------------
RSVP REQUIRED
If you would like to attend please RSVP on our sign-up page at:
http://www.icajapan.jp/signup.html
by 17:00 Tuesday May 16

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
PM-GLOBAL

PM-Global provides enterprise-wide program and project management consulting and
training services. Our core competencies are IT and Business Improvement. We
help our clients achieve quicker time-to-market and increased shareholder value
by creating project success. We guarantee an increase in our client's project
success rate. http://www.pm-global.com

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Skillhouse Staffing Solutions
IT and Administrative Staffing Services.
http://www.skillhouse.co.jp/eng_home.htm

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Temple University
The oldest and largest American University in Japan.
http://www.tuj.ac.jp

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Access Technology
Japanfs premier technology - focused search firm.
http://www.accesstech.com/indexe.html

>---------<< JCI Investor and Executive Network Event >>---------<
The Investor and Executive Networking Event May 26th at the Top of Akasaka
Prince Hotel. (Akasaka Mitsuke Station)

The event provides executives, bankers, venture capitalists, lawyers,
accountants, entrepreneurs and angels alike with opportunities to direct
business matching.

Friday, May 26th - from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
10,000 Yen (covers food and beverages)
*Registration is limited to 100 people.

For further information, please contact mailto:seminar@..., or call
03-5226-5081 and provide your name, company, email, phone and fax numbers.

Details: http://www.jci-inc.com/executive.html

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Do you Skype? ?  A global viral and word of mouth success story
    Rainer Jeske - KUMA (Kuchikomi Marketing Association of Japan)

Date:        Wed. May 10
Time:        7:00 pm - Late (Presentation 7.30 - 8.45 followed by networking)
Cost:         Free
Venue:      http://www.thepinkcow.com
Web:         http://upcoming.org/event/72385/

Skype has revolutionized a staid form of communication which has become the
dominant way in which the world interacts?the telephone
call. Skype, which enables free Internet telephony, has more than 75 million
users worldwide and is the most successful
communication software company in history. Learn from Skype's success.

What You'll Learn
- Short presentation on Skype Technologies, the company behind Skype
- Entertaining and insightful stories from Japan and overseas of how Skype could
grow to 75 million users without spending almost
anything on marketing.
- Easy-to-understand results of proprietary research over the last 6 months with
interesting interviews from Skype partners,
affiliate marketing partners and Skype users and the world's first "Skype Day"
in Tokyo in November 2005 with more than 15 Skype
technology partners present.

How you can apply it?
* Use Skype yourself.
* Apply Skype's marketing in your business

Speaker
Rainer Jeske, born in Germany, is Principal at Comites Asia specializing in
retained IT Executive Search. Prior to joining Comites
Asia, he managed his own company, ConnectYou, providing consulting services for
word of mouth marketing consulting. He is President
of Japan's Kuchikomi Marketing Association (KUMA, kuchikomi means word of mouth)
and is at the forefront of next-generation
marketing initiatives. Mr. Jeske speaks Japanese, English, German and Italian.
He holds an MSc in Technology Management from
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology, in United Kingdom.

PCC Organizers
Andrew Shuttleworth, http://hq.andrewshuttleworth.com
The Pink Cow, Cool Place Yummy Food, http://www.thepinkcow.com





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ICA Newsletter May, 2006 #1

The International Computer Association is Tokyo's premier organization covering
Information Technology and the IT business in Japan.  Feel free to contact us
http://www.icajapan.jp/contact.htm or visit our website http://www.icajapan.jp.

Contents
1. President's Message
2. May 9th Event Postponed
3. May 18th Event

President's Message
Dear ICA Friends:

The ICA board would like to give a special thanks to our new corporate sponsor
Access Technology. Access Technology is Japan's premier technology-focused
search firm. Access joins current sponsors Skillhouse, Temple University & PM
Global.

As a part of the ICA's ongoing efforts to better serve our members, we are
continuously looking for feedback from our attendees. In doing so, we have
received a number of constructive comments. One of those comments has been that
there is not enough time to share information regarding each member's company
during the networking period, prior to the main presenter. For this reason, we
have set up two discussion rooms at Yahoo.  One of them is for assisting members
in better sharing information about their respective companies. Details at
http://www.icajapan.jp/yahoo_chat.html.

ICA Chat
This discussion group was set up to allow members to voice their opinions, offer
suggestions on ways to improve the ICA, or discuss whatever is on their mind.

ICA Company Promo
This discussion group was set up to allow ICA members and friends to post
information about their company.

Again this month, we would like to thank LINC Media for promoting our events in
their popular and informative email newsletters which are free of charge. For
those of you thinking of buying real estate in Japan, there is a wealth of
information in the archives of the Personal International Investor newsletter.
You can sign up for that newsletter and 9 others at:
http://www.japaninc.com/subscribe_news.html.

The big news around Tokyo has been the sale of Vodafone KK to Softbank.
Softbank's Son-san is moving quickly to transform the company which is a good
strategy in the ongoing battle with KDDI and DoCoMo. Sun Tzu, the author of the
Art of War, would approve. In chapter two Sun states "When doing battle, seek a
quick victory. I have heard of military campaigns that were clumsy but swift,
but I have never seen military campaigns that were skilled but protracted".  
Son's reputation with services such as Yahoo BB is to slash prices to gain
market share. This is great news for consumers and enterprise customers of
mobile services, but terrible news for KDDI and especially DoCoMo which is
already under pressure from price erosion. The next 12 months will be very
interesting to watch in Japan's mobile space. Hey, maybe the ICA can get Son as
a speaker later this year!
Sincerely

Darren McKellin
President - ICA

>-----------<< Partner Event-PM Global (May 9) POSTPONED >>----------<
ICA Professional Development Seminar:
Boosting your Career with Project Management
Note: This event originally scheduled for May 9 will be rescheduled to a later
date, more details to come soon.

Speaker:  Jason Frank, Partner, Representative Director, PM-Global, a project
management consulting firm.

A Project Management (PM) certification has risen from #10 to #4 in
CertCities.com's "10 Hottest Certifications for 2006." CIOs, Recruiting
companies, and clients are requiring their IT professionals to be well-versed in
managing complex projects. Are you ahead of the curve? Learn about how you can
move your career along with PM knowledge. Topics will include:

  * General trends in the profession-what's hot in PM
  * Functional areas such as organizational maturity
  * Sample career paths for the project manager of the future
  * Graduate programs and continuous education in project management
  * Professional Certification: A focus on PMI's PMP
  * What are the current trends for IT professionals with a PMP?
  * How do I get certified?
  * Enough about me: How can I develop my project team's skills?

Date: TBA
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Tokyo Design Centre
Map : http://www.designcenter.co.jp
Cost: 1,000 Yen members, 2,000 non ICA members

All attendees are entered to win a 100,000 JPY scholarship to the next 5-day PMP
Exam Training Course on May 20, 21, 26, 27, 28
(Course details at http://www.pm-global.com/service_2_1.html )


>------------------<< ICA Event - May 18 >>-----------------<
Next event Thursday May 18, Mobilizing your Enterprise - Successful Case Studies
from KDDI. Stay tuned for more details.

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
PM-GLOBAL

PM-Global provides enterprise-wide program and project management consulting and
training services. Our core competencies are IT and Business Improvement. We
help our clients achieve quicker time-to-market and increased shareholder value
by creating project success. We guarantee an increase in our client's project
success rate. http://www.pm-global.com

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Skillhouse Staffing Solutions
IT and Administrative Staffing Services.
http://www.skillhouse.co.jp/eng_home.htm

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Temple University
The oldest and largest American University in Japan.
http://www.tuj.ac.jp

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Access Technology
Japan's premier technology - focused search firm.
http://www.accesstech.com/indexe.html

>---------<< JCI Investor and Executive Network Event >>---------<
The Investor and Executive Networking Event May 25th at the Top of Akasaka
Prince Hotel. (Akasaka Mitsuke Station)

The event provides executives, bankers, venture capitalists, lawyers,
accountants, entrepreneurs and angels alike with opportunities to direct
business matching.

Thursday, May 25th - from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
10,000 Yen (covers food and beverages)
*Registration is limited to 100 people.

For further information, please contact mailto:seminar@..., or call
03-5226-5081 and provide your name, company, email, phone and fax numbers.

Details: http://www.jci-inc.com/executive.html

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ICA Event - April 22nd
Speaker: Jim Weisser
President of Weisser Consulting and Director of PBXL

Title:
IP Telephony, the Future is NOW

After years of hype, IP Telephony, Voice Over the Internet, VOIP and integrated
applications are changing both consumer and business interaction in Japan. Some
markets are beginning to see the "death of distance", while others (especially
Japan) are moving to a highly integrated phone and networking model.

Jim Weisser, President of Weisser Consulting and Director of PBXL, will speak
about migration from legacy systems to hosted services in businesses, how
consumer services like Skype and YahooBB fit into the global picture, integrated
applications and some of the entrepreneurial opportunities in this fast changing
environment. By putting voice and data over one IP network, companies can save
money and provide their workers with communication tools not available with
older proprietary systems.
Meeting Details

Date: April 20
Time: 6:30 (pm) Doors open, 6:30 Networking / cash bar.
7:10 Dinner, 7:45 Presentation, 8:45 Finish
Venue: Yurakucho Denki Building, Foreign Correspondents' Club
http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php
Cost, including dinner: 3,000 yen for members, 5,500 yen for non-members
Cash bar available.
All attendees will receive one free drink ticket courtesy of ICA sponsor Temple
University http://www.tuj.ac.jp.

--------------------------
RSVP REQUIRED
If you would like to attend please RSVP on our sign-up page at:
http://www.icajapan.jp/signup.html
by 17:00 Tuesday April 18

>--------------<< Sponsor Event - PM Global >>--------------<
ICA Professional Development Seminar:
Boosting your Career with Project Management
Speaker:  Jason Frank, Partner, Representative Director, PM-Global, a project
management consulting firm.

A Project Management (PM) certification has risen from #10 to #4 in
CertCities.comfs g10 Hottest Certifications for 2006.h CIOs, Recruiting
companies, and clients are requiring their IT professionals to be well-versed in
managing complex projects. Are you ahead of the curve? Learn about how you can
move your career along with PM knowledge. Topics will include:

  * General trends in the profession?whatfs hot in PM
  * Functional areas such as organizational maturity
  * Sample career paths for the project manager of the future
  * Graduate programs and continuous education in project management
  * Professional Certification: A focus on PMIfs PMP
  * What are the current trends for IT professionals with a PMP?
  * How do I get certified?
  * Enough about me: How can I develop my project teamfs skills?

Date: May 9, 2006
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Tokyo Design Centre
Map : http://www.designcenter.co.jp
Cost: 1,000 Yen members, 2,000 non ICA members

All attendees are entered to win a 100,000 JPY scholarship to the next 5-day PMP
Exam Training Course on May 20, 21, 26, 27, 28
(Course details at http://www.pm-global.com/service_2_1.html )

>--------------<< Partner Event - FEW >>--------------<
Open to foreign women only.

14th Foreign Executive Women Career
Strategies Seminar

Theme: Achieving Success with your Career in Japan

Created by women for women in 1990, this seminar is designed for foreign women
who are looking for career motivation, a new job, a change in career or to start
their own business while living in Japan. Presentations by foreign women who
have found new opportunities whilst living in Japan promise to be inspirational
and informative. A series of smaller workshops will enable participants to gain
a deeper understanding of the Japanese job market. Free to all participants is
the comprehensive Career Guide, updated for 2006.

Date: Saturday April 22, 2006
Time: 9am-6pm
Location:  Temple University in Minami-Azabu, Tokyo
Cost:  Pre-registration is \12,000, on the day registration is \15,000.
Breakfast, lunch and refreshments are provided.
Details: For further information please visit http://www.fewjapan.com
or email mailto:fewcss2006@...

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
PM-GLOBAL

PM-Global provides enterprise-wide program and project management consulting and
training services. Our core competencies are IT and Business Improvement. We
help our clients achieve quicker time-to-market and increased shareholder value
by creating project success. We guarantee an increase in our client's project
success rate. http://www.pm-global.com

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Skillhouse Staffing Solutions
IT and Administrative Staffing Services.
http://www.skillhouse.co.jp/eng_home.htm

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Temple University
The oldest and largest American University in Japan.
http://www.tuj.ac.jp

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Access Technology
Japanfs premier technology - focused search firm.
http://www.accesstech.com/indexe.html

>---------<< JCI Investor and Executive Network Event >>---------<
The Investor and Executive Networking Event April 27th at the Top of Akasaka
Prince Hotel. (Akasaka Mitsuke Station)

The event provides executives, bankers, venture capitalists, lawyers,
accountants, entrepreneurs and angels alike with opportunities to direct
business matching.

Thursday, April 17th - from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
10,000 Yen (covers food and beverages)
*Registration is limited to 100 people.

For further information, please contact mailto:seminar@..., or call
03-5226-5081 and provide your name, company, email, phone and fax numbers.

Details: http://www.jci-inc.com/executive.html

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Customer Centric Business Planning ---
    Henry M. Seals, President
    Merchant Global Technologies and Investment (MGTI) http://www.mgti.co.jp

Most concepts for a new business come from within, where one takes an idea in
their head, along with a perceived possibility, and
develops a business model. As a start-up business, a beginning that is either
too slow or too bumpy, can derail even the most
enthusiastic entrepreneur. What large companies do, and what many start ups can
take advantage of, is a customer centric approach to
business development; that means building a business plan based on an organized
assessment of customer needs.

In short, if you give your customer what they want, they will buy it.

There is a plethora of ways to economically and effectively be Customer Centric,
and these methods have provided large dividends to
many companies. Henry Seals will explain the methodology behind this method of
business development, and how it is used successfully
by large corporations, as how many start-ups can implement such steps,
economically, and quickly.

== Speaker Profile ==
Henry Seals began MGTI in 1998, at the request of one of his college professors,
to share his experiences in Japan with companies
and individuals in the West, whom were looking for in-roads into Japan.  To fund
his business he wrote a book about his professional
experiences, titled Making It in Japan, An Insider's Road to Success.  In 2000
he partnered with a US internet firm and created
BiPacificLink, a consultancy based in NY.  In 2002 he sold his interest in this
company and returned to focusing primarily on
companies in Japan.  At present, using a Customer-Centric approach Henry's firm
is now expanding into the education market.

DATE:  Wednesday 12 April 2006

TIME: Doors open 19.00 'til late, Presentation starts 19:30

VENUE:  http://www.thepinkcow.com

COST:  No Charge for entry! Bar and food pay as you go
	 Registration NOT required. Just turn up

Future events will be on the 2nd Wednesday of the month:
10th May - Do you Skype? A global viral and word of mouth success story - Rainer
Jeske
... then 14 Jun, 12 Jul, 9 Aug, 12 Sept, 11 Oct, 8 Nov

===
Conspiracy events were conceived by Pink Cow owner Traci Consoli to bring
together people building their own businesses. The events
consist of a presentation that gives attendees practical tips, advice or
knowledge that they can use instantly to help grow their
business followed by networking with other people who are building or want to
build their own businesses.

Organizers:
Andrew Shuttleworth http://www.andrewshuttleworth.com
http://www.thepinkcow.com - cool place, yummy food!

View and add local events here: http://upcoming.org

Supporting organizations:
-> International Computer Association - http://www.icajapan.jp
-> The Investor & Executive Networking Meeting http://www.jci-inc.com
-> Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo - http://www.ea-tokyo.com
-> JET Alumni Group for Eastern Japan - http://www.jetaa.com
-> http://japan.ecademy.com - Connecting Business People

ICA Newsletter March 2006

ICA Event - March 22nd
Speaker:
Brian Mitchell
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Business Planning and Mergers and Acquisitions,
for Asia Pacific and Japan. Oracle Corporation.

Title:
The Rapid Consolidation and Evolution of the Global Software Industry

The global software industry is consolidating rapidly, and Oracle Corporation is
leading much of the change. The drivers behind this, and the implications for
the industry, will revolutionize the IT and business landscapes. Our presenter,
Brian Mitchell, will discuss Oracle's Acquisition Strategy, and the impact and
implications of industry consolidation, and its relevance in Japan.

Prior to his current role, Mitchell was Oracle's longest serving regional
managing director for Australia and New Zealand. Before joining Oracle, Mitchell
gained extensive experience in a range of roles working for major technology
companies including sales manager at IBM Corporation, COO at Digital Equipment
in Australia, managing director at BIS Banking Systems in Australia and
subsequently head of global marketing and development in London.

Meeting Details
Date: March 22nd
Time: 6:30 (pm) Doors open, 6:30 Networking / cash bar.
7:10 Dinner, 7:45 Presentation, 8:45 Finish
Venue: Yurakucho Denki Building, Foreign Correspondents' Club
http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php
Cost, including dinner: 3,000 yen for members, 5,500 yen for non-members
Cash bar available.

--------------------------
RSVP REQUIRED
If you would like to attend please RSVP on our sign-up page at:
http://link.bizfunpro.wir.jp/l.ut?t=1kwMVN7
by 17:00 Monday March 20

>--------------<< Sponsor Event - PM Global >>--------------<
PMP Exam Preparation (PEP), in English
May 20-21, 26-28 (5 days) - Tokyo Design Center
Contact hours eligible for the PMP exam application: 35

Modeled after our successful courses with some of the biggest corporations in
the world, the PEP course gets you ready for the exam and fulfils the mandatory
training requirement from the Project Management Institute (PMI). PM-Global is a
Registered Education Provider with PMI.

Wefre offering the PEP course (reg. 225,000 Yen) to participants who complete
their registration on or before March 20, 2005 for 200,000 Yen?a 25,000 Yen
discount. If you register early, you will also receive:

On-demand, one-on-one instructor guidance for one month: We will be available to
answer your questions by e-mail for one month after you complete the course
(50,000 Yen value)

Application support: We will help you through the extensive PMP Exam application
process so that you can concentrate on preparing for the exam (10,000 Yen value)

At the training course you will receive:
A. Course textbook
B. 200 question practice text
C. Certificate of Completion
D. 35 contact hours needed to fulfill the PMI education requirement

Reserve your place in the course by downloading our application form at
http://link.bizfunpro.wir.jp/l.ut?t=1l0T487 and send it to us at
mailto:info@...
>--------------<< Partner Event - FEW >>--------------<
Open to foreign women only.

14th Foreign Executive Women Career
Strategies Seminar

Theme: Achieving Success with your Career in Japan

Created by women for women in 1990, this seminar is designed for foreign women
who are looking for career motivation, a new job, a change in career or to start
their own business while living in Japan. Presentations by foreign women who
have found new opportunities whilst living in Japan promise to be inspirational
and informative. A series of smaller workshops will enable participants to gain
a deeper understanding of the Japanese job market. Free to all participants is
the comprehensive Career Guide, updated for 2006.

Date: Saturday April 22, 2006
Time: 9am-6pm
Location:  Temple University in Minami-Azabu, Tokyo
Cost:  Pre-registration is \12,000, on the day registration is \15,000.
Breakfast, lunch and refreshments are provided.
Details: For further information please visit http://www.fewjapan.com
or email mailto:fewcss2006@...

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
PM-GLOBAL

PM-Global provides enterprise-wide program and project management consulting and
training services. Our core competencies are IT and Business Improvement. We
help our clients achieve quicker time-to-market and increased shareholder value
by creating project success. We guarantee an increase in our client's project
success rate. http://link.bizfunpro.wir.jp/l.ut?t=1kz5tD7

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Skillhouse Staffing Solutions
IT and Administrative Staffing Services.
http://link.bizfunpro.wir.jp/l.ut?t=1l3CS07

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Temple University
The oldest and largest American University in Japan.
http://link.bizfunpro.wir.jp/l.ut?t=1l4Zdw7

>------------------<< ICA SPONSOR >>-----------------<
Access Technology
Japanfs premier technology - focused search firm.
http://link.bizfunpro.wir.jp/l.ut?t=1kv0JS7

>---------<< JCI Investor and Executive Network Event >>---------<
The Investor and Executive Networking Event March 17th at the Top of Akasaka
Prince Hotel. (Akasaka Mitsuke Station)

The event provides executives, bankers, venture capitalists, lawyers,
accountants, entrepreneurs and angels alike with opportunities to direct
business matching.

Friday, March 17th - from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
10,000 Yen (covers food and beverages)
*Registration is limited to 100 people.

For further information, please contact mailto:seminar@..., or call
03-5226-5081 and provide your name, company, email, phone and fax numbers.

Details: http://link.bizfunpro.wir.jp/l.ut?t=1kxkhJ7

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This month's Ringo Macintosh User Group meeting will focus on the
theme of Japanese language study and reading aids.  The feature
presentation will be by the crew that produces JapanesePod101[1], a
free daily podcast designed to make learning Japanese fun and
relatively painless.  There will also be demonstrations of some web-
based tools (including Jim Breen's WWWJDIC[2]), an extension[3] for
Firefox and Thunderbird, LiveDictionary[4], the OS X translation
widget, and probably a flash card program or two.

Ringo Macintosh Users Group  http://www.Ringo.net/
Friday, March 17th  19:00~21:00
Theater, 3rd Floor, Apple Store, Ginza
Free admission.

Everyone interested in the Mac is welcome.  (Many of the topics
discussed at this meeting are cross platform, and so may be of
interest to the Unix/Linux and Windows communities too.)  Most Ringo
meetings are webcast live.  Check http://www.ringo.net/ during the
meeting for details.  The Ringo MUG hosts an active online bulletin
board[5] and mailing list[6] system for problem solving and general
discussion between the monthly meetings.

[1] http://www.japanesepod101.com/
[2] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
[3] http://moji.mozdev.org/
[4] http://www.eloquentsw.com/livedictionary.html
[5] http://www.ringo.net/Login/
[6] http://www.ringo.net/mailman/listinfo/


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Other events this weekend:
    Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring
      Fri & Sat, Mar 17 & 18  http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006/
    Tokyo Linux Users Group:  Free and Open Source Software Licensing
      Sat, Mar 18.   http://www.tlug.jp/meetings/next.php

Kanto Computer Calendar  http://www.OnJapan.net/calendar/
    available on the web, and in RSS, iCal, and AvantGo formats