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Web 3.0 & Online Movies (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 5th 2007

Top Ranking Sites Online Movies is emerging as a key segment in the US and today more and more users are going online for movie rentals, downloads, trailers, news, latest updates and show timings. This has resulted in increasing traffic to the various movie sites. Some of the top online movie sites are IMDb, Yahoo!

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 17)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 5th 2007

SM: Whom did you sell the high end product line to? EB: We sold it to Extreme. We put Extreme in business. It was a bad decision because the analysis was wrong. It was taken in an overheated period, by an over impatient board who were comparing ourselves with companies whose growth rate was inflated

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Offshoring Secrets: Why Small Tech Companies Should Offshore

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 5th 2007

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets” I came across this article in Business week July 2007 “Why Small Tech Companies Aren’t Outsourcing”. There are multiple reasons mentioned in the article which are portrayed as hindrances for small tech companies to outsource. I do not agree with the article and here are my

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Making Sense of Unstructured Information

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 4th 2007

By David Hatch, Guest Author Unstructured information is considered by many to represent over 80% of an organization’s data, and yet it remains largely untouched by conventional BI approaches such as query and reporting tools. This includes text analytics and federated search of customer service notes, call center dialog, web pages, web logs, word documents,

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Web 3.0 & Online Movies (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 4th 2007

Overview Watching movies, reading reviews and downloading movies on the Internet are fast becoming a craze in the US and other developed countries. The recent years have seen a consistent surge in downloading movies and buying of DVDs over the Internet. According to NPD there has been a 39% increase in subscription rentals of TV

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 16)

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 4th 2007

With Palm successfully launched, and the merger with USR stabilized, Eric was now at the end of his tenure as CEO of 3Com. Here is details his final decisions, and reflects back on some mistakes. SM: In our next series, I would love to examine Palm. Finishing up with the 3Com story, however, the USR

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 15)

Posted on Monday, Sep 3rd 2007

SM: What you are proposing sounds very disruptive. AA: It is completely disruptive; we can displace, depending on the market, FPGAs, DSPs, processors, ASICS. Right now initial markets are really in networking, but the fundamental technology is revolutionary. It will be the way all multicore systems are built in the future.

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 15)

Posted on Monday, Sep 3rd 2007

Finally, poised for success, 3Com did spin off Palm as a separate company. SM: I think you find that a lot with folks who are entrepreneurial by nature – they like to be in charge of their creations. I know you ultimately did spin off Palm as a separate company, when did that happen? EB:

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