Transmeta + more news

Published: August 9, 2008 (Updated: February 13, 2023) in economics | 經濟學 | 경제학 | 経済, fmcg | 雜貨業務 | 소비재 | 食料品事業, howto | 怎麼做 | 방법 | 実行する方法, innovation | 革新 | 독창성 | 改変, japan |日本 | 일본, online | 線上 | 온라인으로 | オンライン, security | 保衛 | 정보 보안 | 情報セキュリティー, software | 軟件 | 소프트웨어 | ソフトウェア, technology | 技術 | 기술 | テクノロジー, wireless | 無線 |무선 네트워크 | 無線 by renaissance chambara aka Ged Carroll.

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Transmeta

Transmeta calls it a day and looks for a buyer | Channel Register – This was a shame, we lost a golden technological opportunity with Transmeta when it was crushed by the duopoly of AMD and Intel

Economics

BBC NEWS | Politics | Northern cities ‘beyond revival’

Managing Globalization » Not just for back-office anymore – interesting and slightly scary article

Manufacturing could hit a new upswing in the United States » VentureBeat

Current Analysis and Future Research Agenda on “Gold Farming”: Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online Games (School of Environment and Development – The University of Manchester) – gold pharming and power levelling could be as big as Indian outsourcing business

FMCG

Paul Kedrosky: U.S. Consumers Live in Smelly Houses with Fat Pets – interesting data on where the recession is likely to squeeze spending on the supermarket isles

How to

ITunes Tip: How to Trim Podcasts and Movies in iTunes – very handy for presentations

Daring Fireball: iPhone, iCal, and CalDAV

Japan

Japanese Women Shy From Dual Mommy Role – washingtonpost.com – “The stakes are high here in the world’s second-largest economy, which now has the world’s highest proportion of people over 65 and lowest proportion of children under 15. According to a recent forecast, population loss will strip Japan of 70 percent of its workforce by 2050.”