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In The Renaissance Mind, I started a discussion on creativity that stems from the multi-dimensional mind. One of the readers, Gregory, brought up an additional “zone” from which creativity emerges. It is the zone beyond thought, beyond intellect, beyond the mind.
Most of the time, our mind is engaged in incessant chatter. The patterns of this […]
Magma Design Automation, Inc. (LAVA) provides electronic design automation software products and related services, and is our fourth and final company in the EDA review. In February 2007 I reviewed Magma and noted they were a potential acquisition target given their legal problems in a losing patent fight with Synopsys. I pondered on the possibility […]
Here is an article from the New York Times that gives me a perfect segue into a topic that I have been pondering a great deal over the last few months. It discusses the nature of innovation and its relationship to knowledge, and it concludes with:
In her 2006 book, “Innovation Killer: How What We Know […]
Here is a good analysis of the US 2008 presidential election, also from the Economist. Some nuggets:
“America tried lightweight in 2000 and came to regret it.” “The November election, for all its drama and passion, will usher in a period of pragmatic caution rather than tub-thumping ideology.”
And some fun:
Al Gore, should he change his mind and […]
Brad Feld has a good post here on entrepreneurship and early stage venture capital. It is actually an email from one of his readers.
You have read our coverage of Web 3.0 and Online Music. Here is a good article from the Economist, The slow death of digital rights, on the online music industry and the repercussions of removing DRM.
Meanwhile, I still am an old fashioned enthusiast for live music, and on Wednesday, we went to Yoshi’s to listen […]
By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author
So far, I have presented an argument for why Interdigital stands to gain from the iPhone. Early this fall, the company signed a 7-year licensing agreement with Apple. Here is my interpretation of the license –
By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author
I concluded the last article in this series postulating that Interdigital will stand to gain not only from the licensing of essential patents to Apple but also from individual iPhone sales. To reason this out, let us take a quick look at the Infineon chipset in the current iPhone design-
