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iPhone… wow!

I quickly discounted the new Apple iPhone launched this week as the latest fad; clearly I was wrong. After seeing Mr. Showman’s keynote there is little doubt that iPhone’s technological innovation, product innovation and business model innovation has great potential. However there are few not-so-impressive things: slow web traffic, limited choice of service providers, no third party apps and $499 price tag. (Btw, AAPL stock is all-time high at $94.62 today, up from $86.37 before the keynote!). iPhone – it’s everything 🙂

Macworld San Francisco 2007 Keynote Address

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Education Innovation Technology

How to write a cool CS conference paper…in 5 secs

How to write a cool CS conference paper…in 5 secs? Use an automatic paper generator. Thanks to folks at MIT for highlighting the sadly low standards of some of the conferences these days. Via Grady Booch’s blog.

SCIgen – An Automatic CS Paper Generator

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Business Innovation Social Technology

The Urban Vehicle Grid

I came across some exciting research work that the UCLA CS team are doing  around “the urban vehicle grid”, a vehicle-to-vehicle system (much like a peer-to-peer network), whereby vehicles may participate in opportunistic “Ad-Hoc” wireless networks and may produce data about its environment (pavement condition, weather data, physiological condition of passengers); act as an information gateway for such content; and collaborate with other vehicles (forward collision warning, intersection collision warning, ice on bridge…). Pretty cool.

Communication and Content sharing in the Urban Vehicle Grid (very detailed info)

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Business India Technology

15 Most respected Indian companies

Most respected non-government India-based companies in my personal opinion are:

  1. Infosys
  2. Tata Group
  3. Reliance Group

Others alphabetically: Aditya Birla Group, Apollo Hospitals, Bharti, ICICI Bank, Jet Airways, Mindtree Consulting, NDTV, Oberoi and Taj Hotels, Ranbaxy, Rediff and Tally Solutions.

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Business Technology

Why I would skip HD DVD and Blu-ray rubbish

HD DVD and Blu-ray format war for next-gen high definition content just doesn’t excite me at all. I don’t see a great need to choose between the two mediocre and confusing things; and the DRM obsession beyond reason in both is simply too much to accept. Add the price/performance factor, and you’ll quickly realise it’s simply a dumb idea to invest in these technologies. On the other hand, IPTV (and generally, convergence to IP) is amazingly cool and I’m really really looking forward to it in next 2 years or so.

10 Reasons Why High Definition DVD Formats Have Already Failed

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Productivity Technology

Best graphing/plotting tools

The best ones I’ve found so far. Any recommendations for better ones? Google directory has many more.

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India Productivity Technology

Google now maps India

Google Maps now include Indian cities! Thanks to Navneet for the tip.

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Innovation Technology

Insight into future of Computer Architecture

A very insightful interview by the legendary H&P. Summary: The future is parallelism and we don’t (yet) have a good programming abstraction for it. The most promising solutions IMHO thus far are STMs and some aspects of IBM X10 (ppt).

A Conversation with John Hennessy and David Patterson

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Productivity Technology

GNU Solaris on VMWare

The GNU Solaris project looks very promising, even at current Alpha 6 level. It combines a robust Kernel with GNU software. Thanks to VMWare image at VMTN. GNU is now UNIX!

GNU Solaris on VMWare Screenshot

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Productivity Technology

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