Silicon Valley Entrepreneur and Strategy Consultant Sramana Mitra writes about Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Emerging Technology, Market Moves, and sundry other topics in her Blog "Sramana Mitra on Strategy". Read more of her writings at .
3D PDF : Analysis Adobe announced Acrobat 3D, finally. This is their first foray into 3D. I wrote earlier that they are missing the boat on 3D.The premise of Acrobat 3D is to enable smooth collaboration amongst various non CAD users within the organization's workflow i.e. sales, marketing, visual merchan... Source : Microsft CRM 3.0
What Is This Sea Change? Good Morning Silicon Valley reports that the recently leaked Press Release is actually confidential Microsoft memo."The next sea change" in computing -- software as a service -- has arrived, Gates writes, and Microsoft must embrace it or lose ground to the advertising-supported Interne... Similar Editorial : by David S. Levine. | Source : Microsft CRM 3.0
Google Vs EBay, Or Google Vs YahooBay? The media is full of stories and analysis on Google's announcement of GoogleBase, a user-database, that predict thet Google is taking sure steps towards eBay's turf. eBay is slowly and surely falling prey to its supremely powerful, but easy to copy and rather narrow core business model... Similar Editorial : by Michael Cheney. | Source : Web Traffic Ranking
Team Of 21 More than ever before, Indians are going back to work in India. Rajesh Jain wrote in July 2003: "There is an optimism in the air. Opportunities abound. India is rising. The time to think about a return to India is Now."Two years later, the trend is really and truly gaining ground.... Similar Editorial : by Paul Mroczka. | Source : Choosing a Career
Cisco: Inching Us Towards True Covergence Cisco acquires Scientific Atlanta, with the hope of combining the various home networks: video, data, voice, audio. In one stroke, Cisco has positioned itself at the pinnacle of the Network Convergence debate.Only two companies had a complete lock over the channel serving the STB market:... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933. | Source : Computer Data Recovery
Teens & Tech Careers The iPod generation of kids and teens are by far the most tech savvy thus far.During my teenage, through the mid-eighties in India, we hardly had access to computers. I took a computer class in 1987, at which the instructor used to give us "demos" on a real machine about once a week, a... Similar Editorial : by infoserv. | Source : Cover Letter Writing Tips
Hey, CEO ... Do You Know How To Dress? A few weeks back, Business Week did an article that caught my eye. Where MBAs Learn The Art Of Blue-Skying. For the longest time, High Tech has produced entrepreneurs and CEOs who are, for the most part, nerds. Fairly unidimensional, Silicon Valley is not known for its taste. It is known for its amazing talent in figuring out Physics and Electronics. BUT.The BUT factor is Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs...... Source : Advances In Technology
Stupid Immigration Laws My mother-in-law died last night in Belgium. Under normal circumstances, I would leave for Brussels tomorrow night, to attend the funeral on Saturday morning.Circumstances, however, are not normal. In fact, they are rather brain-dead. Immigration Policies in the EU do not permit long-term Visas, and I have an Indian passport, so I need a visa for Europe, and my Schengen Visa has expired. There is...... Similar Editorial : by George Laczko. | Source : Information Technology Manager
Ode To India Maharishi Mahesh Yogi could not have imagined connecting with his ardent disciple George Harrison on a cellular phone. He would have relied on telepathy or some other transcendental power to listen to "Jai Gurudeva ..." with Harrisson's guitar strumming along.Times have changed.A $2 Billion Indian mobile handset market is set to grow by over 60% in two years. Pretty dramatic. Nokia has 59% market...... Similar Editorial : by kroy. | Source : Advanced Urethane Technologies Inc
Future Of EDA There is an interesting recent article in EE Times called "Are ESL and DFM false hopes?" Richard Goering poses the question whether Electronic System Level Design (ESL) and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) software can save the EDA industry, seemingly caught in a spin cycle of same ol' same ol', fierce price competition, high cost of sales, and an overall unattractive future.Here are four things...... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips. | Source : Advanced Urethane Technologies Inc
A Vision For IC DFM This uber-DRC will then run through its rule-base - every Layout decision, make estimates about downstream Layout optionsdecisions like a Chess Player, and help along the Layout optimization proce...... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips.
Tutoring: Enormous Business Opportunity Bottomline The budget is there. It is upto the entrepreneurial energy and creativity expressed by people who are qualified to teach and tutor, to tap into this business opportunity... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips.
Indian Anime So, for India, the goal should be to develop a genre like Anime with deep and exciting plots, exotic imagery and ambience, make the films successful in India first, and then market abroad. The film ec...... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips.
"In Here" Not "Out There" Now it is nearly 6 AM. No wonder the main meditation times in India begin at pre-dawn and end with the sun rising another expression of the same theme.Bill... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips.
Strategic Blackmail With Infinite Compassion It was still a rare, warm San Francisco night when we came out. With a sigh I thought to myself Such, I hope, would be the anatomy of leadership in the years to come... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips.
Where Is Silicon Valleys A-Team? Look for peoples internal fire and ability to figure things out, and be fresh and creative, without being boxed in by a 25-year history in one narrow domain... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips.
RTL Hand-off And Predictive Prototyping One of the last few BIG opportunities remaining in EDA, around which, perhaps, a reasonably large 100 Million company can be built, because no matter what, the solution is so incredibly valuable, th...... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips. | Source : Texas School Of Information
3D PDF : Analysis If I were Dassault, then, would I want a proprietary viewer perhaps via a Tornado acquisition, or would I be okay with Adobes neutral position?... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips. | Source : Anti Virus Software For Windows
Affluenza Parents will surely open their wallets, if you can engage this perpetually distracted segment, and give them something that will serve them well in preparing for life!... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips. | Source : Why Do We Study Economics
Autodesk Gaining In 3D ... Adobe? think3. I guess there is only one way left for Adobe to enter the 3D market, but if Autodesk rolls up the 3D space altogether before Adobe has a chance to act . well then its game over!... Similar Editorial : by Miami Phillips. | Source : Anti Virus Software For Windows
