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A perspective on the use of technology in the battlefield.  Read it here.

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UNIVERSE IN 2009 Is MIT Obsolete? On the future of invention. by NEIL GERSHENFELD • Posted February 3, 2009 11:27 AM   Illustration by Raymond Biesinger. Today’s advanced research and education institutions are essential to tackling the grand challenges facing our planet, but they’ve been based on an implicit assumption of technological scarcity — advances in those technologies now [...]

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Reboot the FCC We’ll stifle the Skypes and YouTubes of the future if we don’t demolish the regulators that oversee our digital pipelines. Lawrence Lessig Newsweek Web Exclusive Economic growth requires innovation. Trouble is, Washington is practically designed to resist it. Built into the DNA of the most important agencies created to protect innovation, is [...]

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 Ole media struggling to re-invent itself – largely failing except Newscorp(Rupert Murdoch).  Seth Goldin, lives in upper Westchester, NY and writes the peice below; not new, well known to the technorati for almost 5 years. Watching the Times struggle (and what you can learn) – Seth Goldin Page by page, section by section, the influence of [...]

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Brilliant idea ! http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/ Clean, Safe, Affordable Power  Where you need it,  When you need it. Who would have thought that the benefits of generating electricity from huge nuclear power plants…    Clean no greenhouse gases to contribute to climate change Safe the most controlled and regulated type of power on the planet Affordable the cheapest in terms [...]

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Steve Balmers’s letter to Jerry Yang   Mr. Jerry Yang CEO and Chief Yahoo Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Dear Jerry: After over three months, we have reached the conclusion of the process regarding a possible combination of Microsoft and Yahoo!. I first want to convey my personal thanks to you, your [...]

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Jeff Bezos, founder, CEO of Amazon.com, has been a remarkable entrepreneur. His latest product introduction Kindle – sometimes called a “wireless reading device” is the first successful digital book.  In a letter to shareholders of Amazon.com, Bezos provides interesting insights on Kindle. Read the letter here.

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Rupert Murdoch, born in Melbourne,Australia(1931), now a naturalised US citizen, continues to consolidate and strenghten his global media empire. His acquisitions in the New York market (e.g. Wall Street Journal)suggest that the NYTimes may lose its unquestioned influence of the past in the “newspaper”/opinion maker market. Here is an analyst’s view: Lauren Rich Fine On Rupert Murdoch’s [...]

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President Bush today announced  in the Rose Garden new national goals: to stop the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emission by 2025. He said : I have put our nation on a path to slow, stop, and eventually reverse the growth of our greenhouse gas emissions. In 2002, I announced our first step: to reduce [...]

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In a thought provoking article at the Harvard Business Review site titled “Beyond the Banking Crisis: A Strategy Crisis”, Umair Haque looks deeper into the impact that the Internet has had in leveling many playing fields. Competitive advantage is fundamentally about making markets work less efficiently. One catastrophically effective way to do that is to hide [...]

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