Common belief is that more money is better. Most people are always trying to have more money because it can never hurt you — in fact common wisdom is that it always helps. In Jainism, the religion I was born in but not practice its rituals and common practices, the belief is really opposite. To [...]
Wall Street Journal (US edition) has an article today ‘Better Virtual Meetings’ in which it says: A new generation of high-end video-conference systems is facilitating virtual meetings that users say are almost like being there — especially compared with conventional systems plagued by jerky video and speech that isn’t synchronized with lip movements. This article [...]
There is a review of Photokina in News.com. It points out: Kodak cameras include some bells-and-whistles designed to help newcomers used to pointing and shooting learn about manual controls. But the overall design seems to acknowledge that long-term consumer loyalty may come down to the quality of a photo the camera can produce in automatic [...]
Today I start conducting Entrepreneurism class in our school. This will be my second year to conduct this class. First year turned out to be an interesting experiment. Based on comments from students, they enjoyed it and so did I. This is a different class from normal computer science classes. I have been wondering how [...]
Do you see a pattern? by ZDNet‘s Esther Dyson — What’s beyond current search technology? A lot, and most of it has to do with pattern recognition. Come see some patterns with me… Esther Dyson is a brilliant thinker who is on top of the start-up companies. In the above post she talks about [...]