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October 28, 2009
It has been almost two years since Tata Motors (TTM) unveiled a prototype of its $2,500 Nano at the January 2008 New Delhi Auto Expo. Analysts and reporters predicted ...
September 11, 2009
The world may be struggling to emerge from the global recession, but that's not deterring many young entrepreneurs in Asia. Throughout the region, ambitious ...
May 20, 2009
Toyota Prius Chief Engineer Akihiko Otsuka cut a relaxed figure during a briefing at the carmaker's Tokyo offices on May 19. Toyota (TM), he said, is confident that ...
May 15, 2009
As a senior executive at IBM, George Bailey often coached Japanese electronics companies to break free of the low-margin business of churning out new gizmos every few ...
April 1, 2009
Take the most talked-about phone in recent history and launch it in one of the fastest growing cell-phone markets in the world, and you'd expect fireworks. But in ...
March 31, 2009
Don't expect to see it in a car at your neighborhood Honda (HMC) dealer soon, but Japan's No. 2 automaker is working on some pretty nifty technology that can control ...
March 16, 2009
Wouldn't it be great if you could walk into your local bank branch not to get a loan to help fund your new business idea but to get an equity investment? You wouldn't ...
March 16, 2009
For anyone interested in working in an innovative environment, the U.S. has long been the top destination. The U.S. has the culture to support innovation: the best ...
March 16, 2009
Last April, a team of Japanese engineers from Shimano flew to France to test a prototype derailleur (an electronic gear shifter for a bicycle) on an important focus ...
March 9, 2009
The last 30 years of reform have brought from the world's periphery to center stage. During each of the last two years, it contributed more in absolute value to world ...
February 11, 2009
A new portable electrocardiogram machine, the MAC 400, can take 100 EKGs on a single battery charge and weighs less than three pounds. This is appropriate for rural ...
January 23, 2009
Back in July 2007, architect Kenji Ikemoto got an unexpected call from a contact at Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony's (SNE) video game unit. Was he interested in ...
October 27, 2008
At 6:30 p.m. on a Friday, Park Sang Pil and three of his colleagues at South Korea's BCcard rush to play a round of golf together. Although their tee time is just 10 ...
October 10, 2008
The solar power industry these days is a mix of large and small companies pushing their own technologies. The playing field is still wide open for competing solar ...
September 22, 2008
From the end of World War II to the early 1990s, Japan had one mission—catch up to the West. Japan has largely succeeded and now enjoys one of the world's ...
August 15, 2008
Not long after Joichi Ito uploaded a photo he had taken of Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia last year, he noticed something odd. Most ...
June 13, 2008
Despite the buzz generated by the June 9 unveiling of the first major makeover of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, there's one place on the planet the U.S. brand isn't likely to...
March 6, 2008
For years, many in the PC industry dismissed efforts by a small group of innovators to come up with small laptop computers that would be far more affordable than the ...
February 14, 2008
The media have been going gaga over Tata, more specifically over Indian automaker Tata Motors' new Nano, the "one lakh" (100,000 rupees, or approximately $2,500 U.S.) ...
January 10, 2008
It's called the Nano, for its high technology and small size. It's cute, compact, and contemporary. It's a complete four-door car with a 623-cc gas engine, gets 50 ...
August 16, 2007
Everybody knows that the boss could be reading employees' e-mails and monitoring their mouse clicks at any given moment. But what if the snooping extended beyond the ...
July 5, 2007
Masatoshi Iji isn't a natural pitchman. So when the NEC (NIPNY) researcher offers a low-tech demonstration of how his "eco-plastic" is made, it's not all polish. Iji ...
May 9, 2007
South Korea's Samsung Electronics is in a predatory mood right now when it comes to gaining ground in the global mobile-phone market. With Motorola (MOT) in the grip ...
February 20, 2007
For any company hoping to jump into the flat-screen TV market, it helps to have a few things. For starters: ultra high-tech factories, a sizable labor force, and ...
January 30, 2007
Like other major company activities, innovation must be managed in a disciplined way. Yet innovation often is treated like a corporate stepchild. Because innovation ...
