Geeks Rule and MBAs Drool

First article in Eric Sink’s Business of Software which explores whether the business decision maker, or the geek developer is more important in making a software company successful… I think he fails to appreciate the rule of the business person, but still some good food for thought.

The Business of Software

Eric Sink wrote a series of articles for MSDN from Oct 2003 to April 2005 called the Business of Software. Many of the articles are available here, and mainly focuses on various experiences in managing a software company.

10/31/06 | 12:01 AM PST
Erica Ogg, for News.com
Several leading consumer electronics companies are expected to announce Tuesday that they are working together to develop a new standard for transmitting high-definition audio and video signals wirelessly.
Supported by LG, Matsushita (Panasonic), NEC, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and semiconductor maker SiBeam, the digital interface WirelessHD would enable high-speed streaming of audio and video content between consumer electronics devices like televisions, DVD players, game consoles and other portable devices without using cords. The group plans to release the specification in spring 2007.
Televisions are the “natural” application for this, said John Marshall, president of WirelessHD. Eventually the technology will make its way into adapters for source devices like notebook PCs, digital video recorders, HD disc players, digital audio players and digital cameras. Because it does not compress the digital video, the experience will be the same as using a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) or digital video interface (DVI) cable, he said.
The specification will maintain high-quality video, ensure the interoperability of CE devices, protect from signal interference and use existing content protection techniques, Marshall said.
WirelessHD will use the unlicensed 60GHz radio frequency band to send uncompressed HD video and audio at 5 gigabits per second at distances of up to 30 feet, or within one room of a house. While most other wireless audio and video transmissions occur in the 2.4GHz-to-5GHz range, WirelessHD says neither will allow the fast transmition speeds required for high-definition content.
Traditionally used by the military for ship-to-ship communications, the 60GHz band hasn’t been popular for consumer wireless use historically because it’s costly and often hard to work with, but breakthroughs in low-cost manufacturing have changed that, according to WirelessHD.
Tzero announced in September it is working on ultra wideband (UWB) technology using Analog Devices’ JPEG2000 video-compression technology to send HD content between televisions and other computer electronics devices

Bizinformer: Turn out the lights, the party is over!

Business Networking can be taken to extremes. here’s the story of a lady who decided that she hasn’t gained much after ‘getting’ 4,000 friends, and called it quits.

Social Bookmark Link Creator : Wordpress MovableType Blogger : Furl Del.icio.us Digg & More

Visit this site if you want to make it easier for others to bookmark you. A WordPress Plugin is available. If look at the upper left side of the screen, that’s it. And it can be done in a few minutes!

I will start bookmarking and sharing the things I read on the web. These will be mainly in our company blog if it is techncal, and my linkblog if it is about business, entrepreneurship and life.

If it is an article that is also about doing business in our country, I also bookmarked it to my EntrePreviews Links ( the site is called Negosyo Tayo which is on language means Let’s talk Business) which is all about encouraging business networking.

All these sites will hopefully reference better the things I read and for those readers who are interested to follow my daily reading adventure in understanding more about business, technology and life.

Baidu, A chinese Search Engine, places the current number of Chinese bloggers at 37 million.  Another blog maintains that China may have over 60 million bloggers by end of 2006 and 100 million by end 2007.  More …

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