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Bye bye Outlook, never liked you anyway!
Posted by max in Opinions, World News on October 11th, 2009
Fax is dead, mail is dead, and now email is dead….. Turns out Rock & Roll outlived all of them in the end!
Check our the great story from today’s Wall Street Journal on the link below. Personally, seeing the rise and fall of email within 10 years makes me think again about the amazing accelerating pace of innovation, as well researched and documented by Ray Kurzwei…
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372.html?mod=rss_US_News
Facebook pay system
Posted by max in Singapore News, World News on June 3rd, 2009
We’ve seen it time and time again: first you give it for free, and once you’ve got enough clout, you start charging people. AOL tried it, Napster tried it. But this one holds more cards than any of its predecessors… Something to follow up on for anyone who is curious about online revenue models.
Facebook brings in payment system
Source: FT
By David Gelles
3 universities receive S$22m innovation grant to boost entrepreneurship
Posted by max in Singapore News on May 27th, 2009
After over 4 years in Singapore, I have come to admire how Singapore has invested in its educational and its private sector. Can you teach institutions to be “entreptreneurial”? Change management, Innovation methodologies and programme management techniques certainly help to reach that goal, so lets hope the money is being spent wisely.
Following is a Channel News Asia article on innovation funding being used by three Singapore universities…
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The Coming Superbrain
Posted by max in World News on May 26th, 2009
Today’s New York Times article on a subject that is so dear to me: the Singularity (and when will computers be smarter than humans?)
A new way to direct sound .. groundbreaking stuff
Posted by max in Multimedia on May 18th, 2009
Woody Norris is indeed “very fortunate”… His invention on how to direct sound is sure to revolutionize our world…. check it out:
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Deloitte staff trial Visa card with built in OTP generator for IT access control
Posted by julien in World News on May 13th, 2009
Deloitte employees are piloting a corporate Visa Barclaycard that includes technology for generating one-time passwords that can be used to remotely access the company’s IT system.
The three month pilot sees around 500 Deloitte staff using the card to remotely access their company IT system via a virtual private network (VPN).
Innovation Exercise #2
Posted by nigel in Innovation Exercise on May 11th, 2009
Hey Readers!
I’ve only managed to get 1 response from reader max, you guys are not exercising innovation if you do not spend time to think about innovation and talk about innovation!
Here goes your 2nd exercise/chance:
Build on this idea: Nasa & the Aviation Industry in general is continuously increasing propulsion power and improving efficiency to ensure the minimal amount of fuel is required to reach the desired destination. Do you have any innovative idea/perspective to increase efficiency than this conventional way?
As usual to get things started, my wacky ideas are as follows:
- Spend money on researching Teleportation and save the R&D money on propulsion research!
- We have invented bullet train by means of magnetism theory didn’t we? How about we bring it to the level of the creation of electromagnetism sensitive material where with some vectoring technique, this material replaces the jet engine?
Give me your inputs folks!
An invention that could change the internet for ever
Posted by romain in World News on May 10th, 2009
The new system, Wolfram Alpha, showcased at Harvard University in the US last week, takes the first step towards what many consider to be the internet’s Holy Grail – a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.
The Flu Vaccine Accelerator
Posted by romain in World News on May 9th, 2009
The key to averting the next flu pandemic may be churning in a water-cooler-size tank of peanut-butter-colored muck in a nondescript laboratory in Cranbury, N.J. There, Escherichia coli bacteria are growing to produce an experimental vaccine against influenza.
