okay, i'd like to see this. just to find out what happens, and more importantly, how Apple will handle it if Google DOES come out with its own phone.

Quoted: Mobile biggies are quaking at the idea of competition from a free, ad-based service...For big cell carriers, that's the real nightmare. And it may be coming in the form of a Google phone. Wireless industry consultants and marketing executives with knowledge of Google's plans say it has been showing prototypes of a new phone to handset manufacturers and network operators for a couple of months. Its plans have been kept top secret, but Google is expected to tap a company on the Pacific Rim that specializes in mobile design and manufacturing to build a handset to its specs.

insightful, oddly ironic, but smart move

Quoted: India is outsourcing outsourcing.
“It’s the equivalent of a bachelor’s in computer science in six months,” said Melissa Adams, a 22-year-old trainee. Ms. Adams graduated last spring from the University of Washington with a business degree, and rejected Google for Infosys.

Quoted: Most people think of TCS--like the other Indian outsourcing firms--as not much more than a software programming factory. Lots of people in cubicles doing commodity programming work for large western corporations. While that's still a major part of what TCS...

i'm considering doing the joint MPP/MBA program at Pepperdine, so thought i'd get a head start and begin familiarizing myself with some of the issues. interesting article, nevertheless.

Quoted: But something is still missing—zoom lenses. While some manufacturers, such as Nokia and Sharp, have brought out camera-phones with optical zooms, these machines are bulky, fragile, expensive and no serious threat to what remains of the stand-alone camera market. A small French firm called Varioptic may, however, have a solution to the close-up question. That solution is to build zoom lenses out of liquids rather than glass.

WOW...that is ingenius and extremely cool!

Quoted: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is being touted as the new Steve Jobs, and his company as the next Google

Quoted: The study, being released today by I.B.M. and the Transportation Research Institute of the University of Michigan, notes that Indian automakers are plagued by a shortage of skilled workers, inferior product quality and deficient highway infrastructure, among other challenges.

Its authors, who interviewed 30 high-level executives and automotive experts in India, are confident that the industry will surmount the impediments to make India one of the world’s top 10 vehicle-producing countries by 2015. But they suggest that the Indian car market remains in a fairly primitive stage of development.

“Roads are the big problem,” said Allan Henderson, senior manufacturing consultant at I.B.M.’s Institute for Business Value. “The infrastructure needs to be improved more than you might think. There’s a number of problems, but they’re aware of them and they know what it takes to overcome them.”

Quoted: Most firm administrators and managers know quite well what questions you can and can't ask in a job interview. But, increasingly they are making an ...