August 2005 - Posts

WESC Photos
31 August 05 02:32 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

I will be uploading the photos soon. Thanks for your patience. Read More...

Cell Phones and Torchlights
30 August 05 04:38 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

On my recent trip to India, I came across a cell phone that also had a torchlight on it - the context is that in India electricity generation does not keep pace with consumption so there are occasional power outages - sometimes planned (called load shedding) Read More...

Thomas Friedman's talk - The world is flat
30 August 05 10:46 AM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

This morning Thomas Friedman, the NY Times columnist and author of books like 'The Lexus and The Olive Tree' and 'The World is Flat' was on the Microsoft campus. He was talking about his latest book 'The World...'. Was quite interesting. He mentioned Read More...

Mobile Phones in Asia
16 August 05 11:31 AM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

That is the story of the present. No other consumer product has impacted the lives of people as much as mobile phones at least in the past 25 years. I read a statistic that it is the single most successful consumer durable in the world with about 800 Read More...

Interesting tidbits
16 August 05 11:21 AM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

On my recent travels, I happened to take an LA - Singapore non stop flight - it was easily the longest flight I had taken - 17 hours non stop. It is offered by Singapore Airlines for which they use the Airbus A 340. It actually turned out to be quite Read More...

Back at work
16 August 05 11:04 AM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

Well I'm back at work now after my travels to the orient. I spent time in Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore before heading off to India on vacation. Bejing was just a short one day trip - attended MEDC where 4 of the Chinese teams that had participated Read More...