Thursday, October 24, 2002



News.Com: Tech's big challenge: Decentralization. Kevin Werbach. These approaches are under siege--and not because there's a New Economy, or because information deserves to be free, or because of any fluctuation in the stock market. Centralized systems are failing for two simple reasons: They can't scale, and they don't reflect the real world of people. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Rethinking the Java GUI. Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. "When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet," he jokes. His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI. Its real mission in life was to become a platform for network services. I thought so too, from the moment I created my first servlet five years ago. [Full story at InfoWorld.com.] ... [Jon's Radio]
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PC World: When Will Desktop Chips Hit 15 GHz? Users can expect to see the processing speed of Intel's desktop processors hit 15 GHz and that of wireless device and PDA processors hit 5 GHz by 2010, the chip maker's chief technology officer said in Tokyo on Wednesday. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Intersil Sampling Duette. The dual-band PRISM Duette chipset is now in the hands of advanced customers; Intersil will show off wireless streaming video using the chips next month at Comdex. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Jacks? Dolls? Yo-Yos? No, They Want Cellphones. Among the second graders at the Kulosaari Elementary School, the object of desire is a Nokia cellphone. By Sarah Lyall. [New York Times: Business]
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Try, Fail, Then Gain Insights. When experimentation is used to test economic theory, it is often what goes wrong that can provide the significant insight. By Hal R. Varian. [New York Times: Business]
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Agere, Ericsson team on Wi-Fi. The companies unite to offer a package of products and services intended to help Internet service providers cultivate the burgeoning wireless technology. [CNET News.com]
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Report: Web services a decade away. Market researcher IDC says that although corporations are adopting the concept, it'll be a good, long while before the ultimate promise of Web services is fulfilled. [CNET News.com]
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PDA for Blind: Cost Out of Sight?. Freedom Scientific, a company best known for software that reads content off computer screens, is introducing the first Pocket PC for blind people. But some say the handheld's price is too steep. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
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Thinking of Radio as Smart Enough to Live Without Rules. RADIO spectrum has always been seen as a limited resource, one that needs to be divided up and managed by the Federal Communications Commission and doled out for use in the form of licenses. But what if it was possible to open up the spectrum to everyone, so that anyone could broadcast anything, on whatever frequency was most convenient, without interfering with anyone else's signal?. By Peter Rojas. [New York Times: Technology]
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Internet telephony revisited. A few days ago, David Weinberger announced a letter to the FCC's Michael Powell, signed by a flock of Net thinkers, entitled "Fail Fast." This document, along with the links that surround it, has got me thinking about how the prospects for computer telephony have changed since I wrote about the subject in a 1996 1994 story. ... [Jon's Radio]
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One Author's Path to Profitability: Repackaging Earlier Insights

Adrian Slywotzky, a vice president of Mercer Management Consulting, has built his reputation as a prophet of profit, a guru of gain. He is the author or co-author of four previous books on the subject -- most notably 1997's The Profit Zone, written with Mercer vice chairman David J. Morrison. In his latest effort, The Art of Profitability, Slywotzky takes material from his earlier books and presents it as an imagined series of meetings between the business equivalent of a martial arts sensei and an eager student.
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In Search of a New Investment Banking Model: The Debate Goes On

One of the panels at the recent student-sponsored Wharton Finance Conference was subtitled: "In Search of the Optimal Business Model for Investment Banking." Given the current pall on Wall Street, that search has taken on new urgency in the midst of a continuing debate over how investment banking should be structured when the markets recover, what the role of large universal banks and boutiques should be, and how the industry should better define the relationship between Wall Street research and investment banking.
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Is That a $100 Bill Lying on the Ground? Two Views of Market Efficiency

A few days before Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith won the Nobel Price in Economic Sciences for their research into how individuals make economic decisions, Wharton hosted a debate showcasing two views of market efficiency. The efficient-markets banner was carried by Princeton professor Burton Malkiel, author of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," while Richard Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, represented the behavioral finance camp. The debate was moderated by Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel.
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