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In This Issue     Feature: An Open Letter to Jeff Immelt   Quotes of the Week   Takeout Window    Are All ISPs Created Equal? Apparently Not---  Current FiRe 2011 Invitation to Members   Ethermail     Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News…   New Members’ Welcome SNS Positions Open How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where’s Mark?

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Economic Cyberwar

 

Data Privacy: Global Policies

 

Online Privacy: Enabling Technologies

 

Investing in China

 

Improving Cloud Infrastructure

 

The New (CarryAlong) Pads

 

IPTV: Hardware and Software

 

Telepresent Entertainment

 

The Car Computing Revolution

 

Next-Generation Voice Recognition

 

Embedded Machine Vision

 

The EU’s Business Model

 

Financial Risk in the Global Economy

 

The Next Security Designs: Protecting Intellectual Property

 

The (now-famous) Annual FiRe CTO Design Challenge

 

4G Devices

 

New Targets in Venture Investing

 

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» An Open Letter to Jeff Immelt

 

  “If the American people sit back in the comfort of their home, whether it is in Ohio or New York State, and think that the only reason the Chinese succeed is because of the cheap currency, they’re missing the point. And I think that’s dangerous.”

 

– Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, during

Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit toWashington, D.C., in January. 

– The New York Times.

 

Dear Jeff,

 

You may remember me; I am the technology expert you hired to be the keynote speaker at your first worldwide meeting of General Electric, at your corporate campus in Crotonville. That was the year your personal theme for the company was that each division needed to be technology-driven.