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Friday, January 25th, 2008

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Happy Holidays

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

TechFutures is going to take some much needed R&R for the rest of the year…enjoy the holidays however you choose to celebrate them. We’ll see you again in 2008…

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Man Bites Dog

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. Sometimes outsourcing hurts you, and sometimes it comes back around. Remember Validis Kreb’s recent commentary on manufacturing? Now Fortune has this report on a call center moving from India to–you guessed it–Ohio:

“It would be easy to imagine Reno, Ohio, as the type of place that would be hit hardest by outsourcing - a small American town losing out to the invisible hand shifting jobs to places like Bangalore and Guangzhou. Instead, outsourcing is bringing the jobs to Reno. Across the street from an Army Reserve center and next to a farm, a customer-service call center hums, its 250 workers answering phones for online travel agency Expedia. The center’s owner? Indian conglomerate Tata Group.”

Click here to read the rest of the story…

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Brain Gain

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

OK, so this story doesn’t have anything to do with technology, but it has a lot to say about both the intelligence and the sense of humor we have here in Northeast Ohio. From Crain’s comes the following story:

The honors keep coming for Mental Floss, the offbeat, bi-monthly magazine with business operations run from

Geauga County by the husband-and-wife team of Toby and Melanie Maloney.

Inc. magazine included Mental Floss founders Mangesh Hattikudur and Will Pearson, both 28, on its 30 under 30 list of

America’s “coolest entrepreneurs.” The story notes that since its founding in 2001, the company has grown to 12 employees and annual revenues of nearly $2 million.

And Messrs. Hattikudur and Pearson, aided by the Maloneys, “have pushed the brand further than the magazine,” Inc. notes, by producing books, board games and a coming series of children’s books.

The honor comes a little more than a month after the Chicago Tribune named Mental Floss to its list of the country’s 50 best magazines.

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Broadband for All?

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

From Kauffman’s Public Forum Institute comes this news about broadband penetration in the US:

A new study of broadband use in California offers some useful insights for other regions around the country and overseas. The study, Broadband for All?, examines patterns of broadband adoption and availability across the state. It notes the presence of three broadband “digital divides” in the state. First, broadband availability varies widely. Not surprisingly, broadband is more readily available in wealthier and denser parts of the state. In terms of adoption, 47% of California households have broadband (compared to 39% nationwide). Finally, the study finds large racial and income disparities in terms of use – wealthier families are much more likely to adopt broadband. Hispanic and African-American families have much lower broadband adoption rates when compared to other Californians – even though the availability of such services does not differ by race. The report concludes by recommending that policymakers focus on two key goals: boosting broadband availability in rural areas, and boosting broadband adoption and use by Hispanic and African-American families.Access the July 2007 Public Policy Institute of California report, Broadband for All? Gaps in California’s Broadband Adoption and Availability, by Jed Kolko.

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Best Places To Live

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Richard Stuebi of the Cleveland Foundation sent along this interesting report from Money Online by Joel Kotkin on US migration patterns, but what’s even more interesting is the companion article about the Most Affordable Towns in the US.

Hmmm…notice any common threads in any of these??? You can check them out here.

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Cleveland + Medical Mart = A Healthier Economic Future

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

A lot of discussion lately about plans for a possible Medical Mart in downtown Cleveland. Several people in the industry (both in Cleveland and outside the region) have pointed out that we already get a lot of international traffic coming to town to see installations of cutting edge equipment at University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic–a Medical Mart would be the perfect complement and help drive even more of this kind of traffic. Given the strength of our health care industry, the idea makes perfect sense. Think of it as “one stop shopping” for docs–and a chance to capitalize on all the medical research and technology development we have here in the region.

If you’re interested in learning more about the project, Christopher Kennedy’s Merchandise Properties, Inc. has a separate site devoted to it (registration required). And tomorrow night the proposed sales tax increase to help fund the Mart will be the topic of discussion at the Cool Community Forum.

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Changes Afoot

Monday, July 9th, 2007

This week we’ve made several changes to both the TechFutures and NorTech web sites, in an effort to make it easier for people to learn about what is happening here in the region.

The “Action Plans” section of TechFutures is the new “Current Projects” section, which will take you to the home page of NorTech web site. Here you can read about the latest tech-based economic development efforts in the region. A new browser window will open up, leaving both sites available to you.

We’ve also moved from Blogger to Word Press and will be adding categories to make it easier for people to read or search through past posts. As with any switch, we may encounter a few difficulties along the way, but hope you’ll bear with us.

On the NorTech site you’ll find a greater emphasis on the specific projects each of our staff is working on, with brief updates provided as things advance or change.

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Note to All Subscribers to the TechFutures Blog Feed

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Starting on or about July 5–this coming Thursday–TechFutures will be migrating to WordPress from Blogger. As a result, if you currently subscribe to this blog through the Atom Feed, you may need to resubscribe.

If you are using feedburner, we *think* that we will be able to just re-link feedburner to the new XML file and there should be no trouble switching over for you–but if you encounter any problems, that’s why. We apologize for any inconvenience, but the new system allows us to do more and to integrate TechFutures with our parent NorTech site more closely.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

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