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...Ghose, marketing manager for Unilever Vietnam. "I've been to tiny villages where there is no electricity and no running water indoors, and yet there's Sunsilk and Omo." When rising Third World incomes meet the shrinking cost of technology, multinationals are betting that markets will bloom. In October, Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices introduced a $185 Personal Internet Communicator - a basic computer - for developing countries, while Taiwan-based VIA Technologies plans to launch a similar device costing just $100. Motorola recently unveiled a no-frills cell phone priced at $40; the cell-phone manufacturer says it expects...
...than five lines of computer code) that you can download for free and use to make a website that can be edited by anyone you like. Need to solve a thorny business problem overnight and all members of your team are in different time zones? Start a wiki. In Silicon Valley, at least, wiki culture has already taken root. "A lot of corporations are using wikis without top management even knowing it," says John Seely Brown, the legendary former chief scientist at Xerox PARC. "It's a bottom-up phenomenon. The CIO may not get it, but the people actually...
Accel Partners, based in Silicon Valley, announced that it would invest in the 15-month old company, which currently has nearly three million registered users at over 800 colleges...
They could very well lose it. Rumors surrounding the PlayStation 3's processor make it sound like the Ark of the Covenant wrought in silicon, and it may be much further along than Gates gives it credit for. "We look at delivering a quantum leap in technology, not just Xbox version 1.5," a Sony spokeswoman said recently. ("Kutaragi's good at rhetoric," Gates says of Sony PlayStation czar Ken Kutaragi.) For all the Xbox's underdog pluck, the PlayStation 2 still has an overwhelming hold on the $25 billion global video-game market: 68% at last count, to Microsoft...
...point where they feel, well, my children are gone, I feel like I have an empty nest now, so what's me? They seem to feel the need to have somebody help them through the process." Kimberly Fulcher, who ran a software company in California's Silicon Valley, was lucky enough to have an early midlife crisis - at 28 - before the dotcom crash, and sold the business while it was still valuable. She trained as a life coach and built a clientele of women she coaches by phone for a monthly fee of $500 to $1,000. Hoping to find...