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October 30, 2000 The 29,246-square-foot KSDO building in San Diego has been sold by Murphy Canyon Associates to Simon Levi Co. LTD for $3.29 million.
In the transaction, brokers Ken Kisbert of Burnham Real Estate Services ONCOR International and Thilo Koehler of Euro-Pacific Properties represented Murphy Canyon Associates. Bill Cavanagh of Business Real Estate represented Simon Levi Co.
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UCSD Connect has named the 19 products selected as finalists for the 13th annual Most Innovative New Products Awards.
Finalists were selected in the categories of: electronics, general business, Internet/software (application service provider and business-to-business/business-to-consumer), life sciences, and telecommunications.
The finalists are:
Electronics
• I-Witness Inc.’s DriveCam. DriveCam is an automobile Video Event Recorder that captures unanticipated events, such as crashes, road rage, erratic driving or theft. DriveCam incorporates a digital looping memory that continuously records video, sound, and G-forces. DriveCam is a low-cost, fully self-contained, small unit that mounts out of sight behind the rear view mirror.
• Novatel Wireless Inc.’s Minstrel V. The Minstrel V is an affordable, pocket-size, two-way wireless solution for the Palm Computing Platform, providing wireless WAN access from coast to coast. The internal and rechargeable lithium ion battery provides up to eight hours of access to e-mail, corporate networks, and native Internet connectivity. Using CDPD technology, the Minstrel V provides real-time data transmission speed of 19.2 kbps.
• Stellcom Inc.’s iCEBOX. The iCEBOX is an Internet appliance designed for state of the art kitchens in upscale homes. It integrates DVD, CD audio, and cable TV entertainment with a Bose quality sound system and Internet browser — including e-mail connectivity (DSL/Cable modem ready). The iCEBOX fits in a compact under-the-cabinet mount package.
General Business
• ISE Research/ThunderVolt Inc.’s ThunderVolt TB30HT Turbine Hybrid Electric Drive System. The hybrid-electric drive system offers the power and response required by urban transit bus operators, while providing reductions in emissions, both particulate and acoustic. Buses gets 50 percent of greater better mileage and 80 percent or better reduction in particulate emission when compared to a propane fueled engine. The improvements when compared to a diesel bus are more striking.
• Mobile Access Software Inc.’s PoliceMobile. The PoliceMobile includes three integrated applications. PoliceReports helps officers collect crime, accident and critical information in the field, and transmit clean, accurate reports electronically for review and approval. PoliceBrowser enables officers to instantly search and access files in the field. PoliceAccess allows reliable, compatible wireless access to data networks, delivering critical information to officers in the field.
• Vuetopia’s Vuetopia. The Vuetopia is billed as the first ultra-large-screen, Internet-delivered, digital advertising medium in major shopping malls. The screens are super-large format (from 64 to 192 square feet) with multimedia capabilities allowing the presentation of high-resolution graphics, full-motion video and high-fidelity audio. Vuetopia utilizes proprietary Sitecasting technology to ensure secure, accurate scheduling, distribution, and presentation of complex multimedia information at each screen.
Internet/Software Application Service Provider
• ChemNavigator.com’s iResearch System. The iResearch System is a Web-based application for life science researchers involved in the discovery of new chemical entities. By cross indexing research information generated on chemical compounds with those available for purchase in the iResearch System Library, ChemNavigator has created a cost-effective way of allowing researchers to more strategically purchase chemical compounds used in drug discovery testing.
•Mass Hysteria’s SyncTV. The SyncTV is being billed as the first application to leverage the power of TV to aggregate mass audiences, deliver personalized information on-demand, prompt impulse e-commerce purchases, and incorporate user-generated content into the broadcast experience. SyncTV combines the best of Television, Web, and Community based applications within one seamless experience for shared user experiences.
• SensCom Inc.’s Hand-Held Banking. SensCom enables financial institutions to offer wireless Internet Hand-Held Banking services to their customers. The company acts as a gateway between financial institutions' systems and their customers' wireless devices over the wireless Internet. Using a web-enabled wireless phone or personal digital assistant, consumers are able to check account balances, review account history, transfer funds, pay bills, and perform stock trades.
Ineternet/Software Business-to-Business/Business-to-Consumer
• Captiva Software Corp.’s FormWare v3.0. The FormWare 3.0 software features: I-Forms a way to extend data capture to the Web and take advantage of the Internet as a cost effective platform for data capture; Free Form Recognition Technology — provides the ability to locate data on complex forms - without defining a unique template for each form type; and XML Import and Export — enables data capture from Internet forms, e-commerce transactions and other electronic data sources in an XML format.
• Inetcam Inc.’s iVISTA 3.0 Personal Webcasting Software. With iVISTA 3.0, the company says anyone with a Windows based PC computer can now stream live video onto the Internet and allow live real-time viewing from any remote Internet on-ramp ... without any plug-ins or software downloads required by the viewer. iVISTA 3.0 also includes simultaneous video and audio streaming, multiple image streaming, motion detection, remote screen transmission, and WAP and i-mode enabled output.
• Intel Corp.’s Intel NetStructure 7280 XML Director. The Intel NetStructure 7280 XML Director is a high performance network appliance designed for enterprises engaged in Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce. Customers can use the XML Director to identify, classify, and route XML transactions based on the data contained within the actual transaction itself. This allows business policies to be embedded within their network.
• WIdcomm Inc.’s BlueStack. The company says BlueStack is a thorough implementation of the Bluetooth 1.0b specification and the only Bluetooth certified product on the market today. BlueStack is based on the core specification of the Bluetooth system and has been designed to be compliant with it, yet the layers of the stack are architected in a way which make it modular, lean, portable, robust and maintainable.
Life Sciences
• Digirad’s 2020tc Imager. The 2020tc Imager is the world's first solid-state digital gamma camera for nuclear imaging and uses patented, solid-state radiation detection technology. It weighs about 425 pounds and is highly mobile versus the 3,000 to 5,000 pound stationary vacuum tube cameras. This lightweight design makes it the world's first truly portable gamma camera for nuclear medicine.
• Quidel’s QuickVue Influenza Test. The QuickVue Influenza Test provides physicians with accurate test results that allow them to test and treat patients in less than 10 minutes. The test detects both A & B types of influenza. The testing kit offers everything that is needed to perform the test including positive and negative controls and test kits are individually packaged for single-use testing and disposal.
•Woodside Biomedical Inc.’s ReliefBand. The ReliefBand device is a watch-like device worn on the ventral side of the wrist. When activated, the device emits a low-level electrical current across two small electrodes on its underside. The ReliefBand is the only commercially available electronic medical device with FDA clearance for treating post-operative nausea and the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, pregnancy (all by Rx), and motion sickness (OTC).
Telecommunications
• Ensemble Communications Inc.’s Fiberless Broadband Wireless Access System. Fiberless is a third generation, point-to-multipoint microwave radio system providing broadband connections to business users. For the 95 percent of U.S. businesses without access to fiber networks, the Fiberless system offers affordable high-bandwidth services. Fiberless is the only system capable of delivering the full range of existing telecommunications services and new, differentiated offerings such as instantaneous broadband bandwidth-on-demand, Virtual Private Networks and Voice over IP.
• Littlefeet Inc.’s SPICE Wireless Network Infrastructure. SPICE is an innovative wireless infrastructure solution that can be easily and economically deployed by network operators worldwide to address escalating consumer requirements for high quality voice, data, and Internet-enabled services. Littlefeet combines the best features of micro base stations, repeaters and intelligent modems — and improves upon them in a pioneering product called SPICE.
• OMM’s MEMS 2D Photonic Switching Subsystems. The company’s switching subsystems provide the entire optical cross-connect switching solution to communications equipment manufacturers. OMM 2D switching subsystems provide non-blocking connections of multiple inputs to multiple outputs in milliseconds and eliminate the need to rearrange physical connections. OMM's family of switches function independently of data rate, wavelength, or signal protocol to accommodate changing requirements in long-haul, metro, and access networks
"The Most Innovative New Products Award finalists are to be congratulated on their selection. As another indication of the entrepreneurial explosion going on in San Diego, the quality of all entrants to this important competition was very high," says Fred G. Cutler, director of UCSD Connect.
The 19 finalists were selected from a pool of 132 nominees. To qualify, nominees needed to have sold a new product developed in the San Diego region (Tijuana to Temecula) between Sept. 16, 1999 and Sept. 15, 2000. All nominees' product profiles were then reviewed by a Finalist Selection Committee made up of local technical and business experts. The finalists will be invited to present their products to a panel of judges, composed of civic, business, and scientific leaders, which will then select one winner from each category. Winners will be announced at the awards luncheon ceremony on December.
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National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. has received a U.S. Navy contract for continuous maintenance of the DD-963 and CG-47 ships homeported in San Diego.
The contract, including the initial year and the four one-year options, has a value of about $68 million. Four DD-963 and six CG-47 San Diego-based ships are covered in the five-year contract.
The DD-963 destroyers were developed for the primary mission of anti-submarine warfare, including operating as an integral part of the battle group. Utilizing highly developed weapons systems, the DD-963 is designed to hunt down and destroy high-speed submarines, and can be used to engage ships, aircraft, and for land attack.
CG-47 guided missile cruisers are capable of sustained combat operations in any combination of anti-air, anti-submarine, anti-surface, and strike warfare environments. These multi-mission ships are built to be employed in support of carrier battle groups and amphibious assault groups.
"NASSCO is one of the leading repair yards on the West Coast and has completed successful maintenance availabilities of surface combatants in the past," says Richard Vortmann, president of NASSCO, a division of General Dynamics. "Since 1980, we have completed over 200 ship repair availabilities for the Navy in San Diego across all classes of surface ships. With the extensive ship repair infrastructure we have in place today, we now have the capability to repair all San Diego-based ships in their homeport. Homeport maintenance and repair has been a goal of the Navy in recent years because of the benefits it provides to sailors and their families."
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A 19 acre parcel of Otay Mesa property has been sold for $600,000 to the KJT Separate Property Trust.
The property is located at the southwest corner of Harvest and Lonestar Roads in Otay Mesa. Plans for the property call future industrial development. In the transaction, Burnham’s Charles Adolphe represented the seller, Community First National Bank. Randy Williams of Williams Reality represented the buyer.
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San Diego Stage & Lighting Supply Inc. has acquired Colwell Grip, Lighting and Expendable Supply. San Diego Stage says the move combines two of Southern California's most established entertainment equipment and service companies.
Jim Roth, SDSL v.p. and g.m., says the acquisition significantly increases his company’s inventory of television and film gear. SDSL and its subsidiaries represent manufacturers such as Mole-Richardson Co., Electronic Theatre Controls, High End Systems, Rosco Labs, Strand Lighting, Kino Flo, Nocturn UV Visual Effects and MSE Studio Equipment Inc.
"Incorporating Colwell's supplies and services into our extensive collection of offerings allows SDSL to serve an even wider client base," says Roth. "The Colwell team truly understands the mechanics of quality film and television and their expertise is a significant complement to SDSL's industry liaisons between crew and production."
Remaining with the company is Colwell’s founder, Michael Colwell, who has more than 17 years experience in feature film and television as well as broadcast events, national commercials and corporate programming.
SDSL employs more than 34 technicians and sales staff and maintains its inventory at its 45,000-square-foot San Diego based-headquarters. SDSL divisions include equipment and supply rentals and sales, project consultation and design services, and San Diego Stage Lighting Electric — a new contracting arm for installation of lighting and drapery systems.
SDSL also recently launched a new division and service called SetStuff.com. SetStuff.com is an e-commerce solution for lighting and production professionals in the entertainment industry, providing direct, quick, convenient and reliable access to a full line of top-tier and niche manufacturer products. SetStuff.com is a one-stop shop for purchase and worldwide delivery of a full range of staging, lighting, grip and expendable needs. For more information, visit www.setstuff.com.
Founded in 1975, San Diego Stage & Lighting Supply Inc. is one of Southern California's leading providers of staging, lighting, grip equipment and expendable needs.
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The San Diego Environmental Foundation has secured a $1.4 million grant from Ford Motor Co. to help preserve, protect and enhance the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve.
The announcement was made during a special event held Friday at the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy's Nature Center.
“This grant from the Ford Motor Co. Fund is the first in many steps we will be taking to secure funding from various national and international sources, and to apply those funds to all types of environmental projects in our region," says Steve Bimson, executive director of the SDEF. "I applaud Ford Motor Company's continued involvement in the environmental and coastal preservation of San Diego County and the surrounding areas."
Since 1996, Ford has donated nearly $250,000 to the environmental group Heal the Bay and their Beach Report Card program, which monitors and grades the water quality of the coastal beaches from Santa Barbara County to San Diego County. Ford’s environmental brand of vehicles, TH!NK Group, also is relocating its headquarters to San Diego.
SDEF was instrumental in securing the $1.4 million grant from Ford Motor Co. Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Co. The money will be used to purchase and manage 25 acres of land surrounding the reserve. The donation will be awarded directly to the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy for acquiring the 25 acres, which will be dubbed the Ford Wildlife Habitat Preserve. The conservancy's mission is to preserve, protect and enhance the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve, a 900-acre coastal estuary located between Cardiff by the Sea and Solana Beach.
"This is the largest single donation received by the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy," says Doug Gibson, executive director of the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy.
"When I was asked to serve on the advisory board of the San Diego Environmental Foundation, I accepted in the hopes that I could lend political support to this important environmental cooperation, which brings funding to the region for preservation and restoration of our important environmental treasures," says San Diego County Supervisor Pam Slater. "My goal is to protect our air, waterways, beaches and open space, so I am proud to be a part of this public-private partnership with the Ford Motor Company and I applaud their continued involvement in our community."
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