Open-Source Startups

July 20, 2005

Information Week has an article on the current wave of open-source startups, including Alfresco, SugerCRM, MySQL, Greenplum and Pentaho. Via alarm:clock.

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Personal Offshoring

July 16, 2005

Via Ideas Bazaar, links to recent articles on the emerging trend to personal offshoring – individual developers farming their work out to offshore developers. Thanks to Tad for the link.

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Business Plan Archive

July 16, 2005

“In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries, the Business Plan Archive collects and preserves business plans and related planning documents from the Birth of the Dot Com Era so that future generations will be able to learn from this remarkable episode in […]

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VoIP Quality Questioned

July 16, 2005

An extensive study that questions the audio quality of VoIP is making the rounds in the blogosphere this week. The Globe has the details. Gist: Internet-based telephone services are still very inferior to traditional phone connections in reliability and sound quality, according to an extensive study that judged Vonage and AT&T CallVantage best among the […]

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Offshoring E-Learning

July 15, 2005

MIT Technology Review has an interesting piece on Brainvisa, a new venture in Pune, India that is developing high-end e-learning solutions for US corporate customers. Gist: Brainvisa has over 400 employees — graphic artists, writers, animators, and programmers — most of them based in a main development center in Pune, as well as another center […]

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Try, Try Again

July 14, 2005

Dane Carlson’s blog has consistently interesting material for the entrepreneur. The latest is a post on an Entrepreneur article about a new book by Raymond and Stephanie Yeh titled The Art of Business: In the Footsteps of Giants – the book discusses the importance of failure as a preparation for success, and the value of […]

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A Passage From India

July 12, 2005

The author Suketu Mehta has written a superb op-ed column for the NYT on a cultural and historical perspective of offshoring to India. Gist: The rich countries can’t have it both ways. They can’t provide huge subsidies for their agricultural conglomerates and complain when Indians who can’t make a living on their farms then go […]

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Public Filing in M&A Transaction Discloses Protected Personal Information

July 12, 2005

Via David Fraser, the Alberta Privacy Commissioner has faulted the parties to an M&A transaction, and their respective counsel, for improper disclosure of personal information. Essentially, in this deal the customary employee schedule contained employee SINs and home addresses, and the schedule was not redacted before it was published on SEDAR, the Canadian online system […]

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Hands-free Celphones Do Not Aid Safety

July 12, 2005

I’ve now seen multiple references over the past few months to research on this point. The latest is a study in the British Medical Journal that is summarized in an article in the NYT today. The message seems quite clear: it’s not about the diversion of focus from the car and road to the device, […]

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Eavesdropping on Airborne Broadband

July 11, 2005

With the airlines now rolling out inflight broadband in earnest, US federal law enforcement officials are asking for the power to eavesdrop on communications via inflight broadband. Details in this Wired article.

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Data Theft: How to Fix the Mess

July 11, 2005

The NYT has posted an op-ed article recommending fixing financial and other institutions who collect data with liability for loss caused by its wrongful disclosure. Bruce Schneier’s views to this effect are quoted at some length.

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WIPO Guide on Patents for SMEs

July 8, 2005

The World Intellectual Property Organization has published guide # 3 in its series for small and medium sized enterprises – an introduction to patents. “The guide explores some of the most frequently asked questions about the patent system, providing companies with hints and tips on how to go about developing a patent strategy that is […]

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