On September 27th, 2006 I was so enthusiastic. I wrote an e-mail to Tom Fischer, then VP of EMEA for Pay By Touch, an innovative Biometrics company. It was almost one year I got out of college and Pay By Touch was on top of my wishlist for my entrepreneurial aspirations. Among many ideas, Pay [...]
24 Mar
Posted by Emrecan Dogan as Companies / Ideas I Love, Computing, Energy, Public Projects
I am pretty convinced that majority of the global population will not give up letting their computers open while they are not using it. The result? Millions of kilowatts lost to unnecessary heat and CPU computing time.
So why don’t computer producers preinstall some distributed computing programs (e.g. Stanford University’s Folding @ Home project) and give [...]
Every weekday, I wake up at 06:30 and head for the rendezvous point for my company shuttle for a one-hour drive. Usually, the service shuttle picks me no later than 07:15, a point in time that most of the people are still asleep. Today was just one of those ordinary days with one slight difference. [...]
History is full of unfortunate claims made by the industry leaders, government forerunners and arrogant scientists. Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate Technologies, will be the next one on that infamous list, which contains Sony’s Betacam and ATRAC bets and Kodak’s digital-photography inertia, in my opinion.
The Fortune blogpost covers the perspective of Seagate CEO on the [...]
Cyberworld is gradually turning into an alternate universe of brand new heroes, nations and economies. This post is not intended to run a Cyberworld 101, but only to reveal some fascinating things going on in one of the most mysterious sections of the internet: The Torrents.
Torrent is a world that is yet to be discovered [...]