Lake Geneva region (GenevaLunch) – This week’s business buzz, in the Lake Geneva area:

Le Richemond has new manager

Patrick Mossu has taken up the post of general manager at the five-star Le Richemond hotel in Geneva. The Rocco Forte hotel, built in 1875 across from the Brunswick Gardens, is one of Geneva’s landmark hotels. It was closed for 20 months for a complete renovation before opening again in September 2007.

Mossu has moved from the Kempinski Grand Hotel Geneva, which as general manager he opened in 2007. His move to the Richemond cements his return to the Lake Geneva area, where he grew up, and where he attended the Lausanne Hotel School before working in several leading hotels around the world.

Lift Asia looks at the post-web browser future

Lift Asia is gearing up in Seoul, South Korea and organizer Laurent Haug, who started the very successful Geneva-based Lift conference series, notes that going there from Geneva is surprisingly affordable: CHF2,000-2,500, flight and hotel. The conference raises an important question: what happens after the web browser? At the end of a decade during which the Internet revolutionized our lives and organizations, the network is now moving beyond the computer screen, invading objects, cities, toys, cars or medical devices. Where will the next big changes happen? What are the world’s most innovative people working on right now?

Now I phone, now I don’t

iPhones, the long wait: according to Le Temps, those who ordered but do not yet have their iPhones, either through Swisscom or Orange, will have to wait at least two weeks longer, with neither company giving a precise delivery date, nor are they saying how many they sold.

Put that in your pipe – but don’t smoke it

The Bloomberg Initiative, announced in New York last week by Bill Gates and New York Mayor Bloomberg, is accepting grant applications until 13 August: "proposals must focus on achieving policy change that will lead to substantial reductions in tobacco use. Grants are funded in the amounts of US$10,000 to $500,000." Grants have already been given for a number of projects in Asia and some in Africa.

Olympics fun online

The Olympics have
just become a lot more fun. The staid old site of Lausanne-based IOC
has had a makeover, unveiled Monday evening for the Beijing Summer
Games. It’s far easier to navigate than the old site, but it also offers a wealth of sporty things to do, from playing an official Olympics mini-game against other online players from around the world to getting tips from personal trainers on a variety of subjects. Even the old standbys, such as looking up world records and getting explanations about sports, have been brightened up.

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