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The age of electric cars

Post author By srungta
Post date July 22, 2007

The electric green valley car with lot of promise. Flashy, $98k tag and fast. Team is impressive: 250 employees in all create a new car, focus on core differentiating features, outsource mundane stuff and manufacturing, core tech and the bet is on laptop batteries (lots of them); and invent their own business model in mature auto segment. Success is to be seen, looks promising 🙂

Tesla: A Carmaker With Silicon Valley Spark

Business Innovation Technology

The Network/Internet is the Computer

Post author By srungta
Post date July 22, 2007

…how we change the fundamental nature of the Web. Web 2.0, mash-ups, and feeds are interesting, but they are step one of a two-step process. The Web today is a push model. People write content that is pushed out to people who read it. Programmers write Web applications that end users “use.” People write mash-ups or scripts to access the “pushed” content. These applications run on the PC today, but I believe that they could migrate into the Internet “cloud.” The Internet now becomes the programmable Internet and can run my applications for me. The tag line is, “The Internet is the computer.”… by Ex-IBM Fellow and now MS Technical Fellow (note: the emphasis on Software)

btw, Sun have had this tag line for sometime. See Schwartz’s blog entry (note: the emphasis on Hardware), their idea was well ahead of its time, but execution for this vision isn’t simple or quick, and thus hasn’t been so!

Business Education Finance India Innovation

Business Outsourcing vs Funding Startups

Post author By goelp
Post date July 20, 2007
2 Comments on Business Outsourcing vs Funding Startups

India and China may rule the world when bidding economic resources for information processing, however, its Central and Eastern Europe and Russia that are attracting attention from investors who look for creativity and innovation crucial for startups. – BusinessWeek
From an Indian perspective, there is a lot of raw talent and creativity out there. What needs to further develop is the environment that breeds this creativity and brings it out in the youth. Startups are being promoted in India no doubt, nevertheless, instilling such ideas at most schools and colleges (barring a few elite) is still almost non-existent. When this goes mainstream, there will be a boom in creative thinking from the Indian minds.

Where The VCs Are Flocking Now

Business Technology

Google competitor in the making?

Post author By goelp
Post date July 20, 2007

“Theseus, a German based project that is aiming to develop “the world’s most advanced multimedia search engine for the next-generation Internet.” will received a cash injection of $165 million from the German Government, under approval by the EU.” – TechCrunch

EU Google Competitor Gets $165 million Kick Start

Innovation Productivity Technology

Ghost – Global Hosted Operating System

Post author By goelp
Post date June 14, 2007

G.ho.st is a website that displays a virtual computer inside a browser. You can log into your account from anywhere to access your saved preferences, files, custom programs etc. Ghost is in early stages and there are other similar services out there. For more info and a list of web based operating systems, see here.

G.ho.st

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