Archive for November 1st, 2008
Tai Chi on the Beach in Tel Aviv
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Paul Polak: 15 Rules for Business Success in Any Market
Paul Polak, a Pop!Tech 2008 featured speaker, has been starting businesses since he was 15. He’s now 75, and says he has succeeded — and failed — with more ventures than he can count. Polak’s first was a strawberry distribution operation in his hometown of Millgrove, Ontario. Later Polak prospected in real estate and oil and made millions. In 1981, he invested the proceeds into a nonprofit incubator of sorts called International Development Enterprises. Most of the ventures Pola...
The Glass Is Half Full
Many of the basic problems in the American economy are rapidly being addressed – it’s the “rapidly” part that’s the problem. A year ago we had the following economic problems: The savings rate was too low Credit card usage was too high Energy prices were staring to soar We imported too much oil We bought and drove too many gas guzzlers too far Housing prices were too high People were getting housing loans they’d never be able to repay The dollar was very...
GigaOM Readers’ Top Web Resources for the Election
Our post about the top 10 web tools for the election got some great suggestions from readers, so we’ve packaged them up for you here. Thanks to everyone who sent in their picks — and don’t forget to vote! Track voter rights news and resources at the nonpartisan Election Protection coalition’s 866ourvote.org. Check out a map-based overview of voting machines used in each state from VerifiedVoting.org and the Verified Voter Foundation, both run by technologists advocating...
Ultra-wideband Near Death as WiQuest Shuts Down
While I was out trick-or-treating with my daughter, EETimes reported that Ultra-wideband startup WiQuest had shut its doors. This is a sad day for the more than 120 employees of the Allen, Texas chipmaker, and unfortunate for the venture backers who put at least $54 million in the wireless networking company, but it’s something we should prepare to see more of as the wave of startups backing that technology finally run out of money and compelling arguments for UWB. If the supposed No. 1 v...
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Watch Two TV Programs at Once on Same TV!
It sounds like an offer out of the back of a comic book, but Texas Instruments (TI), the maker of the DLP Cinema chip, is developing technology that might make it possible to watch two programs on one TV at the same time. The company recently outlined some of its early developments that use 3-D technology for home entertainment at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Technical Conference and Exhibition in Hollywood, CA. One development, which TI expects to begin to preview ...
AMD Doesn’t Think Mobile Internet Devices Are All That
I visited the relatively new AMD campus here in Austin today, where the chipmaker employs about 2,600 people, for an overview of the products and computing trends that the company is keeping its eye on. Below is a quick video I shot of Pat Moorhead, V-P of advanced marketing, talking about AMD’s absence from the netbook and MID market. Basically the company isn’t sold on the idea of a third consumer device, sized between a smartphone and a laptop, because it believes that would invo...
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