“…But what is truly wonderful about the “mobile miracle” is that it has accomplished something India’s old socialist policies talked about but did little to achieve: It has empowered the less fortunate.”
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A list compiled by BusinessWeek.com of twenty-five businesses instigated by entrepreneurs under 25. Be Inspired.
America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs
Related posts: Subroto Bagchi on Entrepreneurship, Bill Gates on Innovation and Technical vitality
Bill Gates shares his insight on Innovation and Technical vitality – a succinct well written piece. I fully concur with his viewpoint – there is an urgent need for better science education and for reformed immigration policy for “global innovation” and for creating “greater value” (turning ideas into businesses and social welfare opportunities). An excerpt from an update — “The IT industry, I guarantee you,” Gates said, “will be in the U.S. to the degree that these smart people are here in the U.S.”
I’ve been quite lucky to have met and spoken with him recently. A collection of his thoughts – as articles, presentations and ‘Times of Mind’ essays.
Got what it takes to be an entrepreneur? (Part 1 of 3)
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Garbage -> Fuel
Researchers have built and tested for the military a portable machine that efficiently turns waste into electricity.
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Inkless printer
Rather than spray ink over paper, have the ink embedded in the paper and selectively highlight tiny points on the paper – neat!
With the hot standards battle for document formats, which one is your fav.? I’m betting on PDF since it is well understood, supported by tools like LaTeX and LyX; and ODF for new docs, which in turn can easily be converted to PDF. No more .doc, .xls, .ppt, .lwp, .123, .prz, .swx, .sxc, .sxi etc. Nice! Pervasiveness of MS tools may mean OpenXML + XPS is the new standard, but replacing PDF will be tough!
Why we must give up our obsession with apparently-pretty rocks, for which the supply is artificially reduced and which leads to huge suffering of fellow human beings.
“I want to talk about the implications for that marvelous aspect of the fundamental UNIX design: the pipe, and its ability to connect small independent programs so that they could collectively perform functions beyond the capability of any of them alone. What is the equivalent of the pipe in the age of the web? …This is one of the REALLY BIG IDEAS that is going to shape the next five or ten years of computing.”
Touted as the biggest change in computer chips in 40 years, the ‘high-k’ stuff allows to transition from current 65nm process to 45nm; Moore’s Law to endure, contrary to popular belief every n years that it has reached its limits! A simultaneous and independent breakthrough by IBM (and co) and Intel. IBM is to focus on higher performance, whilst Intel is to focus on lower power consumption at equivalent or better performance.