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The Strategic News Service^™ is the most accurate predictive newsletter covering the computing and communications industries. It is read by top management and financial analysts in these industries worldwide.

This service is intended for strategic thinkers who depend upon business technology planning. The SNS charter is to provide managers with information that is not available in the press about critical computer and telecommunications issues, trends and events.

About Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson is the CEO of the Strategic News Service^™ (SNS) and its consulting practice, Technology Alliance Partners (TAP), and is chairman of the Future in Review (FiRe) Conferences. SNS was the first subscription-based newsletter on the Internet and is read by technology industry leaders and investors worldwide. TAP, founded in 1989, provides trends and marketing alliance assistance to countries and companies interested in the convergence of telecommunications and computing. The FiRe Conferences are international meetings of leaders in technology, global economics, bioinformatics, and policy, for the purpose of generating an enhanced understanding of future markets.

Mark holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University and has taught at Stanford, Harvard, the University of Washington, and other universities. He is the founder of two software companies and of the Washington Software Alliance (WSA) Investors’ Forum, Washington’s premier software investment conference. A member of the Merrill Lynch TechBrains Advisory Board, Mark is also an advisor and/or investor in Space Exploration Inc., Voyager Capital, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Ignition Partners, and others.

Mark is the founder and chairman of SNS Project Inkwell, a global consortium of vendors dedicated to the accelerated deployment of appropriate technology onto pre-university desktops. He is the founder and chairman of Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance, a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation created to reduce Orca whale mortality rates. He also chairs the Foresight Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to harnessing technology to create dramatic improvement in the human condition.

Mark regularly appears on CNN-TV, National Public Radio, and “Wall Street Review,” and in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. He writes the occasional “Future In Review” technology column for FORTUNE magazine and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.