The US spends half a trillion dollars on oil every year according to Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place. Some think cheap gas is an inalienable right given by the US constitution quipped Agassi. So, given our nation’s addiction to oil, how do we break out of this habit? What are the alternatives out there? [...]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Technology’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 17th, 2010 • Category: Ideas, Infrastructure, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos, silicon valley
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Business, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
In early March there was a lot of buzz around Cisco’s press release about how it plans to “forever change the Internet.” What was this big technology announcement that Cisco was going to make? Could it be a new set-top box? Could it be Cisco would take a leadership role in the last mile access [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Americas, Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, San Francisco, Technology, Venture Capital
A few of the magical ingredients of what makes Silicon Valley unique is the easy access to mentors and investors. I turned to Yogen Dalal an engineer-turned entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist to find out the answers to many unanswered questions. Yogen came to Silicon Valley in the early 1970s to study at Stanford University. He is the Managing [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People, San Francisco, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
(A version of this article was originally published in Open Magazine, June 6, 2009.)
(Charlie Chaplin is an icon in India. Curiously in the state of Uttar Pradesh in North India Chaplin is often referred to as “Chaliss Chaplin.” Like many kids I grew up watching Chaplin movies. Every time my dad saw Chaplin he would invariably comment: “This [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
That is a demo of Cisco’s TelePresence, which provides an incredible “true-to-life” experience. Sitting around the table at this virtual meeting were people from different parts of the world. There was no lag and the quality of audio and video was superb. Using Cisco’s TelePresence is a delightful customer experience.
Currently Cisco’s TelePresence is deployed in 50 countries. [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Business, Ideas, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content
Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club held a sold out event last evening. About 400 people attended a packed event to listen to a conversation between Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix and Michael Eisner, CEO of Tonante that creates original content and incubates startups. Before this Eisner was the former CEO of Walt Disney, who turned around the company and [...]