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TIME spotlights California on its cover this week. As a country, California would be with the G8 ( between Italy and Brazil, thus displacing BRIC with CRIC i.e. California, Russia, India and China). Yet it has no world-class soccer team (despite having in-shored Beckham) just yet. That’s said, it is one of the brownest States…
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The Nobel Prize winners this year are being honored for their work on fiber optic (which made possible data transmission across the globe) and digital photography (pixel-driven process). Put the two inventions together with the rise of crowdsourcing, we got the phenomenon of iPhoto, Flicker etc.. I am sure Facebook and Match.com are direct beneficiaries…
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The Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in: we got 25% lower in carbon emission this past year, and maybe lower gas prices toward year-end. Extra cash for Christmas shopping: kids need shoes. Nation leaders are flying in to NY to attend a Summit on the Environment. Big boys (and powerful women) club. Hope they represent…
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Everybody loves a winner. Today’s is Apple, starts with the “A” in the alphabet. Not bad for a college drop-out who then learned calligraphy, hung out with “evangelist” Kawasaki, forced out then came back to the tune of billions. He embodied the “I” in I-phone. I remember my first encounter with personal computers, and…
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FIOS in Triple Play, for $79.00 for the first six months. The last time I looked, it was $100 for the Triple Play package: phone, TV and broadband. In China, kids played until they dropped dead (unwilling to lose their seats at the Internet cafe and online, where supposedly, they were up against competitors from…
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Digital TV is here. Selected reality represented by a series of 1’s and 0’s. I miss the Indian-head poster TV studios used to put up to “white balance” and signal align their cameras before each broadcast. The jump from analog TV to digital TV will be more significant than the jump from B/W to color…
Thang Nguyen 555 