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Innovative "Rainbow" technology from India stores gigs on paper
Joel Orr By Joel Orr on 11/27/2006
A 24-year-old student in Kerala has come up with a way to encode data densely on paper:
Data Can Now Be Stored on Paper
M. A. Siraj, Arab News
 
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Education: Hot topic at COFES India Summit
Joel Orr By Joel Orr on 11/23/2006
The COFES India Summit, held 11/17-18/06 at the Hyatt Regency Delhi, drew an impressive variety of leaders from Indian and US organizations. We are in the process of assembling all the video, audio, and session summaries, and they will soon be posted on the COFES site.

For now, some interesting tidbits:
  • India has a small number of world-class engineering schools, led by IIT; but they turn out only a few thousand graduates per year. There are many other engineering schools, but they are hamstrung by financial issues, keeping them from hiring the kind of faculty that would turn out the kind of graduates needed by the economy.
  • In recent international reports on R&D spending by large firms, no Indian companies had measurable investments in R&D as a percentage of revenues.
  • Infrastructure development in India is quite extensive, and stands to grow even more in coming years.
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Patents - do they Stop Innovation?
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 11/8/2006 12:11 AM
InformationWeek published an interesting article about the 'Patent Trap' - an issue which has been dominating the IT news headlines for months now. And ends with the question - Do Patents Stop Innovation?
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Autodesk to Miss Filing Deadline, Gets SEC Request for Info
Brad Holtz By Brad Holtz on 9/6/2006

Autodesk today announced that they were going to delay submitting their 10-Q quartery report http://go.cadwire.net/?49918,1,1 

I spoke with Carl Bass last week regarding this possibility. Bottom line, this is an accounting issue. There will be no noticable effect to this on Autodesk's bottom line and there are no issues here that have any substance.

In other words, you can ignore it, even if you are a stockholder.

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Innovation - anything is possible
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 6/15/2006 5:49 AM
is there a point where innovation stops and engineering begins? Based on a conversation today, there isn't a defining line
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Ansys and Fluent - comments from Richard Davis of Needham
Brad Holtz By Brad Holtz on 6/11/2006
The recent decline in Ansys has set off fears in investors that something must be amiss with the Ansys-Fluent merger. My colleague, Richard Davis, has given me permission to post his explanation as to why that is NOT the case.
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Speaking of Innovation...
Rick Stavanja By Rick Stavanja on 6/2/2006 9:55 PM
INPEX bills itself as "America’s largest invention trade show" and showcases the newest inventions and products available today. It takes place next week in Pittsburgh.
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Most people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 5/31/2006 5:43 AM
This was the rather surprising title to a spam email I just received. This entry looks into how Spam is affecting my working life and questions what the future holds
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PGM - another industry acronym to add to the list
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 5/18/2006 3:52 AM
If you create a new term and no one hears it, was it worthwhile? A look at Right Hemisphere's activities with "Product Graphics Management" provides a great case study in how to gain acceptance for a new term or concept, but is the term actually right?
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We are all Victims of Marketing
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 5/12/2006 1:46 AM
Contrary to popular understanding that new products are driven by customer demand, new research finds that IT innovations are giving rise to a new breed of product - created by changes in IT and then revealed to the public to fuel demand.
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