The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 5)

SM: Is there really a high degree of mistrust in Europe?

TC: In Ireland you do not give your credit card to a waiter at restaurant. The waiter will bring the machine to your table where you swipe it yourself and enter your PIN. There is a high degree of mistrust. >>>

Designs of the Week: Redesigning the Wine Experience

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy.

The experience of drinking wine holds all the allure of history, science and nature poured into one glass. While we will always appreciate classic and traditional approaches to wine drinking, we’ve found people redesigning the modern-day wine experience with some of the most inventive and fun ideas this industry has seen. >>>

The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 4)

SM: Based on the way you are approaching the problem, it seems much easier to do relevance in a constrained domain than in an unconstrained domain.

TC: Absolutely. Relevance is the idea of constraining things. >>>

Design Your Way Out of a Downturn

By guest author David Godber of the UK Design Council

Fortunes can change for any business – large or small. Shifts in the global economy, changes in the marketplace or the ebb and flow of consumer sentiment are just some of the factors that can send a once-successful operation into decline. Even mighty businesses such as McDonald’s or national industries like Switzerland’s watchmakers can fall foul of challenging market conditions. >>>

The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 3)

SM: How successful is your architecture when it comes to indexing?

TC: We now index a lot more pages than other people. Microsoft and Yahoo! have fallen behind in terms of indexing and keeping up with Google. Google will get better with more competition. >>>

Cadence Names New CEO

Putting all speculation to rest, Cadence today named its new CEO. Lip-Bu Tan will be running the company. Tan has been on the board of Cadence for five years. Here are further details from EE Times and DeepChip. >>>

The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 2)

SM: Did Anna go to Google after it went public?

TC: She went there before it went public. Google was in a total panic as Yahoo! had come out with a competitive product. Google was in a hyper phase of trying to make things better, which is a terrible thing to do. They got nothing done because they ran around like headless chickens. >>>

Forbes Column 2009: Advice For Laid-Off Engineers

Here’s the new Forbes piece, Advice For Laid-Off Engineers. It profiles several entrepreneurs whose path to entrepreneurship began upon being laid off. Some continued in engineering. Some explored other markets.