NYT reports on a new start up in the area of a brand new approach to Video-on-demand for movies. Sounds very interesting. But the thing that caught my eyes, particularly was the comments made by Brad Stone anout entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley. The following is a big difference in thinking among really ambitious people [...]
I am still trying to understand — no I am not angry because this whole thing about Shilpa and Richard Gere is beyond anger and comical — what is the motivation behind these things. Why would people get upset about a kiss on the cheek so much that it becomes a world news and there [...]
According to Infoworld India has now more than 200 miliion telephone subscribers. In 2006 the number increased 47.6% — yes that is right. So India must now be the third largest — after China and US — and may soon overtake US also in number of subscribers. A great opportunity for interesting businesses. But one [...]
The Virginia tech incidence is raising many questions. One of them — a very important one — is why can we not have an infra structure to propagate information more rapidly in such situation and warn people about the potential danger? If the information about this event could be propagated in time in the areas [...]
I squezzed out a mini vacation (a weekend +) in Hawaii during my trip to serve on a panel at ICASSP. Here are several photos in Seraja. http://www.seraja.com/event/639597 By the way, Seraja has much improved tools for uploading photos and for finding related events now. The site is very useful now.