The Mobile Apps Market Growing Fast very Fast
(B) The Mac would not have been successful without VisiCalc, the iPod without iTunes and the iPhone without its Apps and the App Store. Applications are what gives life to a computer. While the […]
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The New World for Video From New Video Formats and New Streaming Protocols to HTML 5 and Google TV
(T) Video is everywhere. All over the Web with YouTube. On our iPhone and Android. And, now broadcast video and the Web are merging. On mobile networks, video is the […]
The Key to Success is Insanely Great Products
(B) In the 90s, many analysts and business scholars suggested, at that time, that Apple should sell its hardware business to an Asian PC manufacturer and focus only on developing […]
Wireless for Dummies 4G LTE EPC and IMS
(T) Each generation of cellular wireless networks has been characterized by new frequency bands e.g. radio waves, higher data rates, and new (but not-compatible!) transmission technology. The first generation of […]
A New Disruptive Technology Signals Market Value Destruction and Creation
(B) Someone asked me a few days ago the following question: who is the most threatening competitor to Microsoft? Without thinking, I answered Google! Wrong answer, I was told, it […]
Symantec Stuxnet Deep Diving
(T) “I think that computer viruses should count as life. I think that it says something about human nature. The only form of life, we have created so far is purely […]
Investing in Clean Energy Leaders
(B) The best companies to invest in Clean Energy are in the US and in China. But because of regulations and incentives, Germany has presently the largest installations of solar […]
Mathematics is Still Essential for Science and Technology to Progress
(E) We only hear about great mathematicians when they receive their Fields Metals or they solve a challenging problem. This week the four Field Metals winners, the equivalent of the Noble Prize […]
What Will it Take to Run the Country and the World with Clean Energy
(E) We are now witnessing the huge risks and the enormous impacts on the Earth ecosystems of deep offshore drilling with the present BP oil spill. As openly stated by […]
What Will it Take for Europe to Wake Up One Day
(B) Europeans enjoy some of the best social programs in the world, from the highest number of paid vacation days, the shortest number of hours worked per week, early retirements, […]
Getting the Salt Out of Seawater at the Same Price as Fresh Water from the Ground
(T) One of the most critical resources for life is water. Without drinking water, there is no survival. Without water for crops, there is no food. Without water for the […]
Superb Performance of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 by Hotaik Sung and the Stanford Symphony Orchestra
(E) If there is a piano concerto that every pianist dreams to play (especially me), it is, without a doubt, the Third Piano Concerto from Sergei Rachmaninoff (often named Rach […]
Carlos Ghosn on Zero Emission Cars
(B) Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault and Nissan, came to Silicon Valley earlier this year at the Churchill Club to share his views on the future of electric cars. I was […]
The Public Debts of the Developed Nations Could Well Lead to the Next Financial Crisis
(B) For the present academic year, some of the staff and faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, one of the most prestigious universities of the US, are on […]
Our Journey to a Sustainable Economic Development for 2010 and Beyond
(B) If every citizen, of every country on our planet, were to consume like an American citizen today, the world would need 5.4 Earths to sustain us! It takes today […]
Apollo Sun Silicon Graphics and NeXt the Ascent the Metamorphose and the Fall
(T) I will always remember the Monday morning in 1989 when I was “Up in the Air” traveling from Paris to London with my general manager and learning from the […]
Haiti Afghanistan and Darfur Why We Must Eradicate Global Poverty
(E) Watching the painful images of human losses from the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I cannot stop imagining how San Francisco will look like after the next big “ONE” […]
Please Donate to the Haiti Earthquake Rescue Efforts
(E) Please donate to support the worldwide earthquake rescue efforts in Haiti. The human suffering from the January 12, 7.0 earthquake is beyond what we have ever seen! More than […]
The Road to an Unsustainable Economic Development for 2010 and Beyond
(B) Rising world population, ever growing demands of goods and services, destruction of the earth ecosystems and resources and climate change are the four major challenges for our global human […]
Copenhagen Must Put the Planet on a Path to a Decarbonized Economy
(E) Continuing the path to an ever-expanding carbonized economy is taking the risk that global society will not flourish anymore. We all know that. The world’s current ecological developments are […]
Pre Copenhagen Climate Change for Dummies
(E) Since the start of the industrial revolution in the 1820s, human combustion of fossil fuels and destruction of forests have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the […]
The Road Map to the Smart Power Grid from EPRI
(T) Is the Smart Power Grid “reality” or “hype”? There are definitely a number of inflated expectations about what is presently the Smart Grid, why do we need it or […]
The Sun Our Future Energy Source
(T) We have many non-fossil alternative energy available to use today. If you consider all of them, the list is pretty long and include at least solar, wind, nuclear, hydroelectricity, […]
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