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Moore's law: Life for Intel, death for Cisco

What Intel CEO Paul Otellini said would rejuvenate his company, Cisco CEO John Chambers thinks could kill everything in its path.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Wednesday, Otellini and Chambers offered dueling keynote addresses on the future of mobile devices.

Cisco CEO John Chambers (left) and Intel CEO Paul Otellini have dueling views on the fast pace of mobile-technology development.

Both talked about Moore's law, the 1965 paper by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, which observed a trend that has held true for more than five decades: Microchip manufacturers can double the number of components on a piece of silicon every two years.

"Moore's law is as relevant in world of ultra-mobile devices as it has been with PCs and mainframes in last few decades," Otellini said. "Smartphones will change again dramatically in the next couple years, and Moore's law is what will drive this."

Intel (INTC, Fortune 500) has struggled to get its chips into mobile devices, but a slew of faster and more powerful tablets and smartphones are providing a new opportunity for the company to out-innovate the competition. It's already starting to pay off: several of the new mobile devices unveiled at Mobile World Congress will carry Intel's new Atom chips.

But one man's treasure is another man's trash.

"Guess what? Moore's law won't save us," said Cisco's Chambers. "That means doubling price performance every two years. That won't cut it this time."

Chambers said that Cisco's wireless partners -- and, by association, Cisco (CSCO, Fortune 500) -- are experiencing a critical problem: As Moore's law allows manufacturers to pump out smartphones that are better, faster and more ubiquitous, customers are demanding more and more data for lower prices. (extremely great point here. with lower prices, people demand more data, and because of the fact that it is highly elastic right now, the amount of data demanded is going to increase tremendously)

As a result, average revenue per mobile user has decreased an average of 42% over the past five years, while data traffic has grown by a factor of about 1,000. Revenues are forecast to to be flat over the next five years -- while the data surge grows by a factor of another 30 times current rates.

Video

But Chambers, also offered up solution: video.

(Regarding this point, I somewhat agree because people are really into videos right now. This is because they have the potential of going viral, which means that they will be passed around easily, intriguing a lot of interests. This can come in the form of viral marketing, or even sharing of Susan Boyle's astonishing audition at Britain's Got Talent, or even the latest Heartbreak Plastic Bottle on Valentine's) Even for big chains like BMW, they are utilizing video as their best form of marketing strategy. Video is seen as the new marketing for all retailers right now and they need to be innovative in how they present their ideas through a seamless 1 minute video to capture attention. Hence, video could really be the next big thing in marketing and all the posters, billboards will then be stripped down in the years to come.

By providing an immersive mobile video experience, Cisco and its wireless partners can drive innovation forward to the point where it can be monetized, he thinks.

"As long as people can be more productive and have more fun, people will pay for it," he said.

Cisco's CEO envisioned a not-too-distant future where 80% to 90% of mobile applications feature video in a deeply integrated way.

"You'll see a world where you'll have unlimited content coming at you," Chambers said. "Video of the future will not only reinvent TV, it will reinvent the Internet and social networking, as long as it is enabled by the service providers."

Until that happens, Chambers said, even Intel's rosy outlook is threatened.

"If we don't solve these problems, all of our businesses will be limited," he said, referring to other keynote presenters, including Otellini's Intel.

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Ice Hotel Canada

A winter wonderland on the outskirts of Quebec City has become one of Canada's hottest attractions and most sought out accommodations.

Guests huddle for warmth in sleeping bags on beds of ice, bonnets pulled over their ears to prevent frostbite, while sipping cocktails in glasses also made of ice.

Ice hotel Canada

A cool place to host a memorable wedding or for a romantic getaway, the Quebec Ice Hotel has attracted 600,000 curious tourists, including 30,000 who stayed overnight, since opening seasonally 11 years ago.

Like Victoria and Jeremy Martin, dozens of couples will exchange vows this winter in a temporary chapel adjacent to the hotel, sculpted entirely from blocks of ice with pews covered in furs.

Ice hotel Canada

"There's something I like more than being a little bit chilly ... it's (cuddling up for warmth) with somebody you love," says Victoria, sporting a fur hat, visiting with her fiance from the northeastern US state of Massachusetts.

Average temperatures fall below minus 20 degrees C (minus four F) in winter, but inside the hotel's 36 rooms it is relatively cozy.

Thick walls of packed snow and ice act as an insulator, trapping body heat inside. It is a building method conceived by Inuit who built igloos in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland out of blocks of snow in the winter.

Ice hotel Canada

First-time guests of the hotel, however, are recommended to stay only one night as sleeping in sub-zero temperatures is not very refreshing.

This year for the first time the ice hotel has teamed up with a bricks and mortar Quebec City hotel to offer packages for one night accommodations at each. Prices for one night only at the ice hotel start at 200 dollars per person.

Ice hotel Canada

"The place is an architectural feat," said a review from New Yorker "jblifeguard" on travel website tripadvisor. "Sleeping basically in an oversized igloo in freezing cold temperatures is a crazy experience. Do it. You won't have to do it again."

The 3,000-square-metre (32,300-square-feet) hotel, spa and chapel take six weeks starting in December to build, using 15,000 tonnes of snow and 500 tonnes of ice, at a cost of some 750,000 dollars.

Each room is uniquely decorated, using designs created by Quebec architecture students. Two hotel bars also sell exclusive cocktails in ice glasses.

Ice hotel Canada

"The aesthetic and organization reflects French North American culture," commented Jacques Desbois, who founded the hotel.

So-called snow plasterers stay on through to the end of March to patch up any blemishes caused by changes in temperatures.

"It's an elaborate winter dance. With electricians, a snow team and an ice team we manage to build and maintain the fragile structure," says Serge Peloquin, the hotel's artistic director.

But it is also fleeting. Eleven weeks after its seasonal grand opening, the hotel will close on March 27 and then melt away with the arrival of spring.

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Fair play enables harmony to be maintained: MM Lee

Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew speaks at the annual Tanjong Pagar Lunar New Year dinner. (AFP File Photo)

Providing everyone with equal opportunities is key to ensuring Singapore continues to fare well, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Friday.


He pointed to the Republic’s 14.7 per cent economic growth in 2010 – thanks to a boost from the tourism and manufacturing sector – and said that the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s forecast of 4 to 6 per cent growth in 2011 is not bad for a mature economy like Singapore, reported Channel NewsAsia.

“To keep this going at this stage, we need several things,” said Mr Lee, who was speaking at the annual Tanjong Pagar Lunar New Year dinner.


“First, stability and confidence of investors. Stability means everybody is satisfied and acts like a good reasonable citizen, he owns his own home, he has got a good job, his children are going to good schools, polytechnics, universities, ITE,” said Mr Lee.


He continued, “All races are given equal treatment, all use the English language, it is a common platform, nobody gets an advantage and it is also the language which has enabled us to connect to the world and get investments in.”


One specific factor that will help Singapore achieve further progress is providing children with better schools and teachers, he noted.


Mr Lee added, “Fair play enables harmony to be maintained. On that basis, we will continue to do well for many, many more years and our children will grow up in one of the most safe, secure and prosperous countries in this part of the world, if not the whole world.”


Credits -yahoo