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Future of EDA

Uncategorized | August 9th, 2005 | 14 Comments

Future of EDA

Cricket on Cell Phones: India’s killer app

Uncategorized | August 9th, 2005 | 1 Comment

For Yahoo and Nokia, this is an example to take some cues from: Understanding the cricket ecosystem will provide numerous clues into the consumer psyche of a few hundred million Indians, and working that understanding into their local strategies would prove immensely lucrative.

India’s Hardware Prospects

Uncategorized | August 8th, 2005 | No Comments

Hardware System design or manufacturing has never been India’s sweet-spot. However, as the country becomes a major consumer of electronics systems, especially computers, consumer electronics and cellular handsets, it makes more and more sense to do more hardware design and manufacturing locally. EETimes reports on a couple of acquisitions:
PCB manufacturer Austria Technologie & […]

Artistic Visions: Some quotes

Uncategorized | August 7th, 2005 | No Comments

A rule says, “You must do it this way.” A principle says: “This works … and has through all remembered time.” The difference is crucial. Your work needn’t be modeled after the “well-made” play; rather, it must be well made within the principles that shape our art. Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers […]

March of the Emperor

Uncategorized | August 6th, 2005 | No Comments

Last night, we saw “March of the Penguins”, a spectacular National Geographic documentary about the mating and breeding cycle of the emperor penguins, over the course of a grueling year, weathering the icy winter in Antarctica. A ritual that repeats itself every year, for thousands of years.
It was a touching, moving, loving piece of work […]

Stop.

Uncategorized | August 6th, 2005 | No Comments

“When I think of the titanic efforts I made to canalize the hot lava which was bubbling inside me, the efforts I repeated thousands of times to bring the funnel into place and capture a word, a phrase, I think inevitably of the men of the old stone age. A hundred thousand, two hundred thousand […]

Indiana Jones & the Quest for Silent Cooling

Uncategorized | August 5th, 2005 | No Comments

Amidst an industry that is today largely dealing with incremental, little problems, why not take on something that is truly a fundamental problem?

The Salesforce.com of Security

Uncategorized | August 5th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Software as a Service (SaaS) continues to be a trend, as big domains get shifted over to the ASP model. Qualys is one such proponent of SaaS, following the footsteps of its larger and more successful brethren - Salesforce.com and Webex.