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Work

Why You Need to be Organised to be Creative

10 November 2007

Tagged as: creativity, organization, productivity, time management, to-do

Business Excellence

Mark McGuinness over at the Business of Design Online blog has written a series of articles (see links bel0w), on getting organized and improving creativity.  Often many of us pitch creativity versus organization and structure erroneously.  I believe organization and structure create (pun intended) an environment where creativity can flourish.  Here is was Mark thinks:
There, [...]

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Goodbye Myrio

31 October 2007

Tagged as: goodbye, IPTV, Jobs., myrio, stanford commencement

Communications

Dear friends and colleagues,
As I depart Nokia Siemens Networks (Myrio was acquired in 2005 by Siemens and is now subsidiary of Nokia Siemens Networks), today marks the end of an era for me–11 amazing years.
When we started working on the technologies that became Myrio, we had a
dream that one day companies all over the world [...]

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Ready or Not, AT&T Sells Uverse

1 March 2007

Tagged as: IPTV

Microsoft

Om Malik, from Gigaom (see links on right), has written a piece on AT&T Uverse deployment of the Microsoft IPTV platform.
It is hard to get a grip on AT&T’s IPTV efforts. Dubbed Uverse, some say AT&T’s television service it is still stuck in neutral, plagued by technical problems. AT&T, however feels otherwise, and has started [...]

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Siemens vs. Microsoft on IPTV (Part One of Two)

6 January 2007

Tagged as: AT&T, Business, IPTV, Microsoft, Television

Communications

Over at ITVT, there is a two part interview with representatives from Siemens and Microsoft debating their varying approaches to IPTV technologies and the market. Of course, I am biased as my team and I make many of the decisions about the Siemens approach to the market as well as many of the technology choices [...]

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In Praise of Radical Transparency

27 November 2006 Business Excellence

One of the issues that every company faces is how much information to share with customers and employees. At work, there is a constant battle between disclosure of raw and immediate information and processing or summarizing information to ensure it accurate and will be understood.
Over at The Longtail blog, Chris Anderson has posted an [...]

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2006 PLM Workshop in München

29 June 2006 Work

June 28 and 29th Siemens Home Entertainment held a semiannual PLM (Product Line Management) workshop in München. Check out the photo album here. Every 6 months, or so, the global Home Entertainment PLM team gets together to discuss our IPTV solution. We talk about what is going right and what isn’t, as [...]

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Siemens Pushes IPTV

6 February 2006

Tagged as: IPTV

Communications

I quoted on Techweb about one of our IPTV partners.
Tut Systems packetizes content from satellite broadcasters, such as TNT, CNN, and HBO, and makes it available for use on IP networks. Ryan Petty, vice president of product line management at Siemens Home Entertainment said the company also re-encodes the content into H.264, an ITU standard [...]

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