Year: 2004
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Most influential business leaders in last 25 years
THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY.. ( TGIF) . Lot of activities lined up for the weekend. > I thought OS wars are won by Microsoft to a great extent. Now IBM’s Blue Linux has all the potential to stop MS juggernaut in OS market. I really hate monopolies. So best of luck IBM!! > Wharton’s recent…
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Web services and utility computing
coming back to the blog after a few days break.. > A few months ago I was working on grid computing technologies. I was intrigued by “utility computing” – A meter based service where you pay-as-you-go for the amount of computing power required for your business. Now there is an interesting article in economist on…
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Brands that Rock
> Band loyalty!!!. “Brands that Rock” tries to explain how music stars used the basic principles of marketing to create an immortal image for themselves. Some good examples : KISS – merchandising, Rolling stones – product repositioning, Madonna – Product variations to suit life styles. Elton John – emotional connection with consumers etc.. India lost…
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MIT Top 10 Technology Trends
> Lifesciences and Healthcare seem to be dominating MIT – Top 10 technology trends for the current year. Personal genomics for effective personalized drug discovery, Latest T -rays for Medical imaging, RNAi techniques for gene expression ( how gene behaves under a particular stimulus) , synthetic biology for human cell programming are some of the…
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More on blogs
> I decided to do some more research on blogs as it is still an alien concept to me. Soon I started stumbling on interesting statistics and articles on blogs. A cursory look into influence of blogs on society led me to lot of theories. One theory that I believe summarizes rapid growth of blogs…