Do you remember that old point about “inflection points” from “Only the paranoid survive”?
We had that great looking chart of various IT companies IBM, DEC etc. which had the entire stack of technology all by themselves. The hardware (often right from the chip), and the sofware. Then that model went bust with Microsoft dominating the [...]
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American recovery and reinvestment plan…. Whatever!
Posted in Economy, Energy technology, Environment, Environmentalism, Financial Markets, Incidental-musing, Investment, Legislation, Media, Stockmarket, Technology, Thought-Trails, tagged American recovery and reinvestment plan, Broadband internet access, Conservative Economists, Depression, Economic Depression, Financial Markets, Global depression, Global Economy, Global Recession, Green Energy, High speed rail roads in US, House, Hybrid cars, John Kenneth Galbraith, Liberal Economists, Main Street, National Power grid, Senate, stock markets, Tax breaks, Tax cuts, US Economy, US House of representatives, US Infrastructure, US Politics, US recession, US Senate, world economy on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House passes the granduosly named American recovery and reinvestment plan, and, it is irrelevant at this point. For this plan is not far sighted enough nor does it change the game in any way. But don’t blame the president for this, for he was just working with in the boundaries of consitution. Fact is this [...]
Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo is a loose – loose deal for both
Posted in Technology, Thought-Trails, tagged Google, IT industry mergers, Large Organization mergers, microsoft, Yahoo on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The raison d’être for Microsoft’s offer to yahoo share holders is that, together, Microsoft and Yahoo will be able to make an impact on Google’s dominance in the internet advertisement market. Other elements supporting this takeover are, together, Microsoft and Yahoo will be able to stand up to the power of Google in search Engine [...]
Free news online will cost journalism dearly – Los Angeles Times
Posted in Incidental-musing, Technology, tagged LATimes, Newspaper industry, Role of Newspaper on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Disclaimer: I regularly buy newspapers like NYTimes, LATimes, SFO Chronicle & Wall Street Journal. I also buy books and infact have bought the same books multiple times when i either lost, loaned & lost, gifted or misplaced them. I am also a regular visitor of NYTimes.com and other similar sites.
The reason for the above disclaimer [...]
Smart is the new Sexy… Check out “The Big Bang Theory”
Posted in Movies, Technology, tagged CBS Show, Leonard, Penny, Raj Koothrapalli, Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory on December 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I ran across this show quite accidentally but i can report that this is worth sparing 30 minutes of your time every week. Check out some of the full episodes that are available here and you will agree with me.
I especially like Sheldon’s character and some of his monologues. Who ever wrote that character is [...]
A $ a watt solar panels, will this approach work?
Posted in Energy technology, Environment, Technology, tagged , energy generation, Google, Nanosolar, Solar power on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This news story from infoworld talks about a technology startup working on a dollar a watt solar panels. Interestingly google founders back this company according to articles on CNET and nytimes.
At this price, solar power is supposedly cheaper than coal.
Points to ponder:
1. Does this pricing scheme include power delivery systems also?
2. What are the variables [...]
Thoughts on Henry Blodget’s Alley Insider article…
Posted in Incidental-musing, Technology, tagged Google, Google Apps, Google Knol, henry blodget, microsoft, Wireless spectrum on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the article i referred to in the title. I notice a sense of “Inevitability” to this and similar articles / blogentries / comments etc. IMPO (In my personal opinion), this is that old standby of journalism and opinion making, smooth out the edges – conclude the article (SOTECTA in short). For [...]
Google, a lot of good moves some inexplicable…
Posted in Incidental-musing, Technology, tagged Google, Knol, Wikipedia on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a nytimes story about google – microsoft powwow and this one is about google Knol, which i do not think is such a good idea after all. Wikipedia is a great thought, brilliantly executed and reaching a point where it becomes a de-facto standard. A new concept even one promoted by google will [...]
One device too many
Posted in Incidental-musing, Technology, tagged Consumer electronic devices, Device overload on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Have you noticed the number of electronic devices you have? Digital music player (One, or more depending on how many iPod’s you bought!), a digital camera, a mobile phone, USB based data storage device (again multiple depending on how many you bought along with your various other purchases) are the minimum you will find cluttered around. And [...]
Will there ever be a succesful e-Book Reader?
Posted in Technology, Thought-Trails, tagged Amazon kindle, e-book readers, Technology on November 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Amazon is debuting a new e-book display device branded kindle on Monday. (Though there are lot of web links on this, the one on Newsweek is in-depth.) e-book readers are available for a long time now, both as software or as a hardware, Sony’s device being the latest to have some traction. Not too many [...]
Death of Email?
Posted in Technology, tagged Diffusion of innovation, e-mail obsolescence, Obsolescence of e-mail, Slate article, Techno-sociology, technology acceptance model, The death of e-mail on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Slate is running an article titled death of e-mail. This is a rambling piece of disorganized thought that deserved a place in the rejected bin. While the initial paragraphs describe the premise as imminent, later the author takes a complete U-turn to reject it. Even after i re-read it, (which i did solely for the [...]
