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While working with software-based firewalls--layers of protection that block junk e-mail and attacks on computers from hackers and viruses--Xie noticed that those programs slow down networks. So, like a true Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he retreated to his garage in his spare time and started working on a new approach. He envisioned a remote piece of hardware that screened Internet content and didn't interfere with application software. In 1997 Xie, an engineering graduate from Tsinghua University in Beijing, launched the network-security company NetScreen, which was eventually acquired by Jupiter Networks. That success allowed...
Energy Innovations, launched in 2000, designed a generator that uses 25 mirrors to bounce light toward a silicon collector that is smaller than a square foot. A microchip continuously analyzes the light hitting the collector and repositions the mirrors to catch the most photons...
...Google Empire from its accidental inception on Stanford’s campus to its contemporary initiatives in genetic research. Through interviews, study, and a great many Google searches of his own, he relates the legend of two of the most successful computer-nerds to ever emerge from Silicon Valley, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.With Malseed’s help, Vise interviewed countless employees from Google’s CEO to its head chef, as well as teachers, family members, and Boy Scout leaders from the founders’ past. In short, Vise did his homework, and thanks...
...Certainly, Schwarzenegger will need all of his charm when he shifts the trip's focus from selling Californian products-think of all the Napa Valley wine that the Chinese could quaff!-to convincing China to combat the rampant piracy of Hollywood films and Silicon Valley software. On Thursday, the Governor will attend a premiere of the newest Harry Potter movie in Shanghai, although pirated copies of the film are already widely available in the city...
Some of that informality reveals the influence of Silicon Valley, where Zander spent more than 15 years at Sun Microsystems and then a private equity firm. He is trying to bring some of the Valley's spirit to the Chicago suburbs. He has challenged everyone--not just the mobile-phone designers--to come up with Motorola's next iconic product. Rau says his team was inspired by the Razr to develop the "zero-footprint base station," equipment for mobile-phone carriers that takes up less real estate than a standard cell-phone tower...