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40th week of 2005 / Once Forbes magazine publishes
its annual list of the world's richest people -- others with
similar lists, like NBS100 Top 20,
-- follow the same type of Criteria and Selection Process,
with a few twists.
According to the Forbes' information, Russia
has 25 billionaires, the third largest group in the world,
adding an additional eight to its tally last year. The U.S.
is first with 279 billionaires, and Germany second with 52.
This year, Russia was able to oust Japan from the honorary
third place. NBS100's Top
20 include:
Bill Gates,
Steve
Jobs, Paul Allen, and Silvio
Berlusconi, of
Italy.
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main criteria used by the Forbes experts in their selection
of the world's richest, is the market capitalization of all
shares and assets belonging to a person. In
the NBS100 Top 20
selection process, the top priority is
Telecommunications.
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NBS100 honors only
those individuals in the world of EMw communications, who
have contributed to an outstanding Scientific invention,
Development, or to a Performing Art form of achievement,
since 1907. This is
because,
that
year was the advent of the automobile, ship-to-shore and
Wi-Fi land-line broadcasting, and beginnings of the era of
"watered stock" dealings. Click For NBS
story.
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The thing that helped most of those
on this year's Forbes group, was inflation, stock splits,
corporate mergers, the threat of "terrorism", and the price
of "oil". In 1908, says TVInew's, Mark Soval, the same
economical trends were happening, except, less
sophisticated. "Radio" -- at that time was called, the
"wireless telephone", the new reality.
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The main criteria used by those in
the old days to select of the world's richest, was about
like it is today, stock market capitalization. All of the
shares and assets, owned and reportedly sold by the mogul
and/or their corporations, never minding the cash assets,
was the guide for wealth."
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"Marconi was first, with GE,
Weshinghouse and Tesla's group fighting it out with
Deforest, and the various Stubblefield wireless telephone
groups,in the days of the unregulated stock market," added
Sovol. AT&T and Bell was just getting into the wireless
telephone act. The EM was just the wireless thing needed, to
help the land-line telepone company stimulate those people
working in their "Sherwood Forest. Of couse, AT&T became
the largest stock company in the world.
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As the 2005-2006 Forbes annual list
demonstrates, the total number of billionaires grew by 64,
to reach a record high of all times. There are 587 people in
the Forbes list.
•••Judging
by the Forbes' criteria the former head of Yukos oil
company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, still in jail, remains on top
of the Russian part of the list. His personal fortune is
estimated to be $15 billion. Khodorkovsky is followed by the
owner of Chelsea soccer club and Sibneft oil company, Roman
Abramovich, whose fortune is estimated to be $10.6
billion.
•••Studying
the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list, money can buy
happiness but not fame, or so it seems. You see many
celebrities, but there are fewer than 100 names the average
American might recognize. The modern culture of celebrity
obsesses over Hollywood types, but only until recently with
the Trump, "You're Fired" catch-on, the general public cared
less about tycoons.
Wireless Telephony, as
a science and an industry, since
1907, has always been intimately connected with the
land-line telephone, radio, television, satellites, and now
Internet, and WiFi streaming video. The NBS100 achievement
award is presented to those contributors utilizing the
electromagnetic wave, light, or digital form of wired -
wireless, that can send and receive Video, Audio and Images
through the atmosphere.
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The quest to build a list for the
rich and famous was brought on by Forbes Magazine 24 years
ago, (1981). TVI's,
NBS100 Top 100 got into the act a few years later, (1987) --
with Rupert Murdoch on the cover of TVI Magazine, to help
bring focus to the Fox movie/TV merger, and computer digital
editing, printing and audio/video streaming
research.
•••Below
are this year's 2005-06, 20 notable Telecom achievers that
originated from the inventor or developer of an art form or
the Radio, Television, Wireless Telephone, and the Internet.
Both the Forbes, and
NBS100 lists
include: Name, overall rank, age, net worth, residence
and sources of wealth.
•••With
the exceptions of those principals of privately held trusts
and/or company(s), both the Forbes, and
NBS100 lists
includs: Name, overall rank, age, net worth, residence
and sources of wealth.
NBS100's Top 20 in the World of
Communications • 01. Bill Gates, 49,
United States,$51B, Microsoft (1)
• 11.
Steve Jobs 5o, $3,3B, Apple,
Pixlar, U.S.
• 02. Paul Allen, 52, , United States, $22.5B,
Microsoft (3)
• 03. Silvio Berlusconi,
68. $12B billion, Italy (25)
• 04. Sergey Brin,
32, $11B U.S.A. Google Inc. (16)
• 04. Larry Page,
32, $11B , U.S.A. Google Inc. (16)
•
05. Rupert Murdoch, 74
$6.7B, News Corp (32)
• 06. Jeffrey Bezos, 41,
$4.8B, Amazon (42)
• 07. Donald Trump, 59,
$2.7B (83)
• 08. Ted Turner,
66, $2B U.S. (133)
• 09. Oprah
Winfrey, 51, $1.4B U.S. (235)
• 06. Jeffrey Bezos, 41,
$4.8B, Amazon (42)
• 10. Barry Diller
63, $1.3B, U.S.
• 11.
Sam Donaldson,
• 12. Quincy Jones
• 13. Ma
Yuzhen, China
• 14. Rod
Stewart, U.S.A
• 15. Michael
Bloomberg
• 16. David Filo, Yahoo
• 17. Jerry Yang, Yahoo
• 18. Philip Anschutz
• 19. Eric Schmidt, Google
• 20. Rod Stewart
That Legendary originators, patent holders, and
developers of Wireless telecommunicatins art form, since
1892, include the following the
Nine Smart Daaf Boys: --
•
Nathan B. Stubblefield
• Guglielmo Marconi
• Ambrose Fleming
• Reginald Fessenden
• Nikola Tesla
• Lee DeForest
• Edwin Armstrong
• Ernst Alexanderson
• Philo Farnsworth
• Thomas Edison, (his
aerial patent idea was sold to
Marconi)
• Frederick Collins
• Gen. George O. Squier
(Squire)
• David Sarnoff, NBC
• Charles P. Steinmetz,
General Electric
• Arthur Frederick
Collins
• Walt Disney, Animation
and TV program, (Original Company bought ABC)
3.
Editor's Note •
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When pure digital editing was
first used by VRA TelePlay in the early-1980s, it was the
first big step into a major line of inquiry in artificial
intelligence, and where it came from, and WHEN.
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With the exception of the
Smart-Daaf group, expecially, Marconi Dit Dah ticker and his
antenna system, and Deforest radio tube, few advances came
to the N.B. Stubblefield, wireless telephony patent, antenna
system and hardware, (1908). When the advances finaly
arrived to the consumer, (1918), the name wireless telephony
in America, was replaced by "radio". "The term was more
suitable for the voice/music radio broadcaster," said those
at heading the AT&T land line broadcasting network.
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As for commercial television
stations, and computer streaming, there were none until the
late 1940s. Telecasting was handicaped by World War II, and
no super computer was available for mass storage and
distribution, until 1958, and that one cost $10
million.
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1969 - Birth of the Internet. ARPANET commissioned by DoD
for research into networking.
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1973 - Global Networking becomes a reality. First
international connections to the ARPANET: University College
of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway).
Ethernet outlined how local networks are basically connected
today. Internet ideas started.
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1976 - 0101 Apple Computer is formed with the introduction
of the Apple I on April Fool's day 1976;
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1976 - 0327 Twenty-year old Bill Gates gives the opening
address at the First Annual World Altair Computer Convention
(WACC) held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 11/1/76 Paul Allen
resigns from MITS to join Microsoft full
time.
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1976 - 0327 The tradename "Microsoft" is registered with the
Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.
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After 1977, the Steve Jobs
MacIntosh development and its easy to use widow screen,
unique hand-held mouse, and file finder dynamics system,
connected to a wired network, contributed to the demand for
the first usable personal computer.
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1978 - Vine Street Stage
introduces the methods used to video tape music videos for
television, JVC 1/2" VHS Tape and VTR, and Laser Optic Disk.
2" video tape was used to video tape Rod Stewart. TeleKey's
telex System land-lines, and Vine Street Video Centre Laser
Disk (today's DVDs) production standards established.
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