Designs That Move: I.M. Pei’s Miho Museum

“Passing through a grove of peach blossoms in full bloom and through a cave, you arrive upon the village of the Peach Blossom Spring. What would you do if you were to create such a place?” I.M. Pei’s Miho Museum in Japan. Read the story of its design …

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Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 8)

Taher addresses some of the unexpected impacts of the growth of the Internet, and the impact this had on network design. These thoughts lead into the development of Securify. SM: What were you doing with Securify? TE: That was mid 1998, and it was an attempt to make networks work correctly knowing the entities you

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 10)

As a telecommunications company focused on rural markets, Maggie’s challenges are quite different from the urban carriers. When we were scheduling this interview, Maggie absolutely insisted that she would not do it on Skype: “they try to take the food out of the mouth of my babies as a competitor” … In this segment, we’ll

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Platform-Oriented Mobile VAS

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting from Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. Alok Mittal, Executive Director of Canaan Partners, emphasized the need for Mobile VAS companies to “own the customer” as well as directly create demand for their applications. This would be the best way for them to get a larger

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innerTee: Hybrid Web 3.0

innerTee is a design community and customized apparel service. It offers users the ability to create highly customized screen printed apparel using artwork that has been submitted by members of the innerTee community. It compensates artists for submitted artwork that is approved for use, and promotes their work on the innerTee site, as well as

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Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 7)

Taher continues the discussion regarding the development of SSL at Netscape, and then moving on to his next startup. SM: What did you have to do to the SSL algorithm? TE: It had security issues that needed to be fixed. It really had to be bullet proof for eCommerce. SM: It had holes? TE: Just

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 9)

After Microsoft, Maggie moved to her current role as CEO of Citizen Communications. Here she explains the reasons for her move and provides some background information about Citizen. The consumer business of Citizen is done under the Frontier brand. SM: After Microsoft you switched to Citizen? MW: I did. I was enjoying the job I

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Bite-Size Entertainment

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting on the Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. The second panel on “Mobile VAS: Time to look beyond Ring Tones and Wallpapers?” was moderated by Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director of Nexus India Capital. Rajesh Sawhney, President of Reliance Entertainment, emphasized how entertainment outshone all other applications

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