Rotary Club of Hong Kong South Meeting Report

resident Kishore welcomed Rotarians and Rotariannes to our regular meeting.

Fellowship Chairman PP Paul introduced :

Mr Bill Cathy, Guest of PP Nicholas

The following Announcements were made:

Joint Meeting with RC of Victoria on August 27, 2001 (Monday) at Island Shangri-La Hotel (Our Lunch Meeting on August 30, 2001 will be cancelled)
District Governor Johnson Chu's Official Visit on September 13, 2001 (Our Regular Lunch Meeting)
From September 2001, our regular evening meeting will be arranged in Chinese Dinner

Sergeant-at-Arms Rtn Ernie announced that fines and voluntary contributions totaled $920, the raffle raised $480, for a total of $1,400.

Speaker:

President Kishore introduced Mr Tomson Lee, the speaker for the luncheon meeting who spoke on "Bluetooth". Mr Lee explained that his company, Zi Corporation, is a technology company delivering intelligent interface solutions to enhance the user experience of wireless and consumer technologies. The company's core technology product connects people to short messaging, e-mail, e-commerce, Web browsing and similar applications in almost any written language. They have offices in Calgary, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Tokyo, Stockholm and San Francisco.

Mr Lee further explained how his company supports "Bluetooth" wireless technology. Bluetooth wireless technology is a global specification for low power, short-range, two-way wireless communication. By the year 2002, it is expected that millions of devices will have a Bluetooth interface. Bluetooth electronic module can be embedded into any electronic device allowing for direct communication or communication through well-established global networks. Bluetooth wireless technology enables data, images, sound, video and remote control commands to be wireless transmitted anywhere around the world. This technology is relatively new having been officially released in July 1999.

As potential or already consumer of Bluetooth technology this translates into an additional feature on our wireless device that will increase the convenient transmission of data wirelessly. The speaker reaffirmed the confidentiality of this connectivity as some members expressed concern in this area.

PP Paul thanked our speaker in the usual and customary way. President Kishore presented our speaker with a souvenir of his visit to our club. The Speaker was invited to draw our weekly raffles which were won by IPP Bob and PP Paul.

President Kishore advised that the speaker for the next week's lunch meeting would be Mr Paul Forrest and the topic would be Orbis Project.

All Rotarians present were invited to drink the customary toast to the Rotary International. With that, the meeting was formally closed.