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CYBER OPTICS is proud to be a sponsor of The May 2nd Benefit at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica to Benefit The Geena Davis Institute of Gender in Media! Check back for news on the eve’s events!

February kicks off travel to New York City for KSS & TOY FAIR where Cyber Optics will be debuting their ANIMATED SIZZLE REEL based on their Comic Book Series. Written and Created by Kathy Messick, Directed by Mark Simon and Animated by Loogaroo Studios, the animation expertly shows off the entire cast of characters. The newly reformatted 24 page, action packed Issue 2 Burger Mania Comic will also be released. Read it here on the site and send in the interactive contest from the inside back cover to win a free Cyber Optics Prize!

In the meantime remember whatever you post on the Net builds a textual and visual history that will be accessible to not only the colleges and jobs you apply for, but to that special person you’re interested in, should they choose to Google you or look you up on the social nets. Keep private what should be kept private. Your future self will thank you! But, please share the best news you have and your favorite new technology by e-mailing us at info@cyberopticsentrertainment.net. Zip, Java or Maya will get back to you if I don’t. Let us know which character’s storyline you’d like to see unfold next in Cyber Optics, and send in your name, age and the city/country you live in if you’d like to see a Cyber Optics TV Series. We’ll add it to the growing list!

Cyber Crime is on the rise! This past year besides the many corporations that were attacked and even more so embarrassed by the attacks – Criminal Hackers usual teenage suspects were joined by Criminal Corporate Hackers stealing information for headlines and financial gain. Corporate Hacking Scandals rates amongst the worst of cyber crimes, destroying the trust in the institutions the public puts their faith in. Anyone caught Criminal Hacking faces prosecution but corporations exposed to be using these practices biggest challenge is to regain not only the public trust, but the young talent it hopes to attract to work in its organization trust. Net Ethics goes both ways, we expect kids, teenagers, young students and employees to have it. Now we must also hold our corporations and public organizations to the same Net Ethics.

Well here it is February 2011 already, and the Groundhog in all of us is yearning for Spring. We’re off for our annual sojourn to New York… and ready to bear whatever old man winter still has to bring! We get to attend Toy Fair and will be exhibiting at the Women In Toys booth #5241, February 14th from 1:00 to 3:00. February 15th WIT will raffle off our comic in a special drawing. We also get to see all our pals at KSS, Kids Screen Summit and debut this awesome new website, along with the NEW reformatted, re-branded, 24 page ISSUE ONE OF THE CYBER OPTICS SERIES, “ A NEW IDENTITY.”

The girls and I got some new winter gear and Cyber booked us at the Hilton and arranged tickets for a Broadway Show. I’m super excited as this is when I get the chance to catch up with so many of my international friends. Zip, Java and Maya have a long list of places to ferret out and are sure to keep me super busy. They’re looking forward to having a break from the Magnet School in California and are busy testing all their new digital tools to battle Cyber Crime. So I am taking my vitamins and getting an upgrade from Cyber, to be in top form to look after the Girls! Check out our awesome cover at left, and hit me up for a Comic in NYC!

Best, James

Well here we are at MIPCOM in CANNES FRANCE. Java is loving it the most since she speaks French! The event is awesome and we’re getting to meet lots of people who have read our comics for Generation Net.

Btw the Comic Book Series is undergoing a REFORMAT to 24 pages for national distribution purposes, and we are REBRANDING to “Cyber Optics.” Kewl huh? Since Zip is no Angel – Sorry Zip … But after that last mishap in Issue 6 – Zip herself suggested we change the generic tag
to a name more fitting of the Information Age.

The new art by artist Sofyan Syarief is totally amazing. The illustration of the girls adventures reign supreme. We’ll be posting some of the new art soon and changing our logo. Our website will still be up and will just forward to the new site name, so no worries in finding us.

It is October – The official month for stamping out Cyber Bullies. So, Cyber and I just wanna give a shout out to the girls for all their hard work fighting cyber crime and keeping the Net safe!

Thanks to all our fans that keep sending us the crossword puzzles completed, and the great interactive pages you digitally colored and sent in. We will be posting some soon. In the meantime for those fans that sent things our way, look for our latest Issue to land in your mailbox!

Au Revoir – Until next time!

James