Thanks John. Yes, nice post. Cisco's $26bn in cash will get you through most downturns. Don't cry for me Argentina :-)

Tom:

Good recap.

Dave: What's interesting is that some of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs have attempted to make health care more efficient. There are huge amounts of inefficiency in the health care system, that translates into potential huge profits. But, health care has resisted nearly all of the productivity benefits of technology. I don't know of any other industry where technology has failed so spectacularly in making an industry more productive.

"Good luck with that Sramana, you are looking for help in the wrong place, imho. Our VCs won't do anything unless there are substantial profits to be had."

Funny how that works: smart, ambitious folks tend to focus their energies where there are profits to be had. Not speaking about Sramana specifically, but it amazes me how many folks who will trip over themselves to buy the next iPhone or other bit of Silicon Valley innovation never seem to worry if health care innovation wou

WAMU used to deposit any amount right away and make it available to me. Too bad they are now owned by Chase.

I've had the same outrageous treatment from Wells Fargo of late. I've been a customer for 38 years. They refused to deposit without a hold a large check from my dad's estate (drawn on US Bank--just down the street from Wells Fargo). They could have easily called to verify the check, but, oh no, the funds may be there this minute but you (the customer) could go on a spending spree and the check could be returned! I'll add that I have never had an overdraft or any fees on my account. As a

I LOVE Tripit!

Doubtful: Historically AMD has had yield problems and Hector Ruiz did a great job in improving production. Either way, being in the fab business is challenging enough and AMD's ATI knows the fabless business model very well. Best to stick to designs than running fabs, IMHO. But Intel could put a stop to that.
I think Intel should be a bit lenient with AMD, it's good to have competition. But Intel has a take no prisoners attitude when it comes to competitors.

I am 99% sure it's 2. Usually IP licensing agreements are very specific about the identity of the licensee and what is allowed. I bet AMD can't do this without Intel's approval, which will come at a very steep price...

Debbie here. Just to clarify, the software company that I help manage, Digital Anarchy, is the entity that lost all of its historical data. Over 1.5 years of press tracking, product revision info, vendor relationships. I brought this situation to Tom's attention because it is larger than just my company's issues. Former Stikipad customers (and folks who are confused if they ARE still customers) have found my complaints about Stikipad on my completely unadvertised personal blog and commented a

Where are your getting the info on AMD low Yields?
from your sponsor Intel?
you could have said bug designs, but this happened equally to Intel!

why don't you mention that with this JV,
The intel only advantage: fab financing
is removed !
(I put monopolistic position aside waiting for multi world judgements on those practices.)
you should also mention that AMD process dev cost is shared with other major IC manufacturers like IBM Toshiba, STM, Frees

Great topic, Tom.

Cloud Computing brings many benefits, but there will be additional risks as well. As more companies build their businesses in the cloud and utilize services (such as storage) from the likes of Amazon, Google, or Microsoft, an outage with any one company could bring down several hundred others. We should pushback and consider these risks.

As you mentioned, this pushback is healthy. We are moving forward with the technical details, but we also need to focus

Great post Tom, adn agree. Here's similar sentiment today on CNET:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10060141-80.html?tag=inside

Hi Tom,

It's become widely recognised and reported now that the financial crisis is and will continue to impact the tech sector. In order to survive, new start-ups will need to define revenue models upfront and will no longer be able to rely on the old "web 2.0" approach of first launching and only then worrying about revenue strategies at a later stage. For those types of companies, VC funding will be scarce.

Hi Tom,

I enjoyed your "Experiential" piece on Twitter, as this has been my exact experience. Initially I couldn't see what all the hype was about, but I succumbed to the wave of growing publicity and gave Twitter a try. Even then, I was a little circumspect but several weeks later and I am benefitting from Twitter immensely, in various ways. I have tried to explain Twitter to my colleagues, but they still look at me as if I'm crazy - like you say, you have to be "in it" to understand

Thanks Tom, it was a rare opportunity to have the time to talk and ponder so many important topics. We look forward to hosting you at our place, for an under the hood look at PR at Horn Group.
Sabrina

Thanks Tom for this article.
I watched the video and laughed about the German accents. They reminded me of a video called rampenfest (google it :))

Cheers and greetings from Germany,

Florian

Thanks for that video. It was great.