I'd like to see more discussion on advances in battery life when talking about advances in mobile gadgets..
A case in point - a friend of mone who works as a US defence contractor told me that they piloted some real fancy GPS + communication device. The only flaw was the battery life - the device wasn't so useful to mreit carrying around a charging backapck..
When I'm out shopping for a mobile device, battery life usually is among the top two crieteria..
MS's policy of deep discounting and philanthropy in India supports the theory that they are aiming for a monopolist situation.
India has 10% of the software development force. By flooding the ccountry with MS systems, they are shielding themselves from Open Source or other competition.
They are big and good in execution. They learn from their mistakes and don't fail. They contribute 5% to India's GDP
They're the only ones who have invested (to the order of a few billions) in optical infrastructure
They have extended the optical pipe to key office buildings for enterprise involvement
They have a large footprint in India - they can therefore provide cheap national rates.
CDMA/WLL (wireles in local loop) allows for good data throughput given the existing circumstances
Reliance has plans to set up multipurpose set-top boxes that provide a conduit for cable/voice/internet over IP
For deep penetration, PCs are too expensive. phones (cost USD 50) is a good substitute (untill a better device comes people's way)
Urban India with all its poverty likes mobile devices - there is a 20% penetration in delhi and bombay...
..total-immersion environment on the other, giving the user the ability to roam hallways, hold conversations and interact remotely through the robot.
Am I the only one who is thinking Doom??
I used to be part of the surface physics research community that looked into how to etch more finer than we currently do so. Saw this so I thought I'd add the little I learnt there.
Conventional etching uses plasma. Plasma is a soup of charged particles of energy of the order of a kev (1000 electron volts). It's use is mostly dictated by the fact that we understand how to create it quite well, rather than in our understanding of what is/are the consituents of plasma that actually effect the etching action.
What is found that the etching process sensitive to the charge element, to the quantum state of the incident ions, to its energy, to the angle of incidence. And of course this is purely from the beam side, from the surface point of view there are a lot more variables...
Did you know that the molecular process that does etching is very similar to that that creates a radio blackout in the space shuttle while reentry? Somewhat cool
There are thousands of institutions - universities, government offices etc - all over the world that have had this problem and moved on. What's so special about this?
Personalised in the sense, that my risk profile is better understood.
Currently premiums are profiled on factors like age, the make of your car, where you live etc. What these chips can do is feed more refined information than this and create more number of differential premiums that are better suited to you.
I once read about how inserting GPS and chips in cars can be used to better understand the risk of a car/driver leading to a personalised and dynamic insurance premium. This compares to the current model where the companies take an average view of the demographic (weighed by age etc), so even though I might have put my car in the garage all year, I still have to pay for the insurance.
Why can't the same be applied to medical/life/personal insurance given all these fancy tracking tools?
For someone like you who *uses* the bundled apps, your argument would make sense. It doesn't make sense for those that dont have any use for those apps. And that's the where the mass market lies.
Most importantly, Zire allows Palm to *focus* on those millions that have a use for *organisers*, not for a pda
I think it's sensible product positioning
The $99 Zire is an example of the non-general purpose PDA concept. Zire is only for scheduling, to-do lists, and an address book. It seems many were buying loaded PDAs and ended up using it as an organiser...
Let's face it: banner ads were conceptualised when advertisers felt that a web page is like a print page, so why not put a web ad like a print ad.
It's wrong. a web page is different than a print one, in that it allows for hypelinking, personlisation etc.
The best advice for placing web ads is: look at junctures where the user has to make navigational decisions (e.g. not *when* the user is composing mail, but right *after* the mail is sent).
Ads need to be more intelligent and respectful of people. Banners ads do neither of the two.
I find it hard to imagine how it is possible to segregate the online and offline channels, and talk about onine-only performance.
The players that have failed have separated their offline and online businesses (they are the ones that have entered the WEb half -heartedly).
There are two reasons why they cant be separated:
1. Everyone in the business will tell you that the key driver for a succesful online newspaper is managing editorial workflow and integrating closely with your regular print job. This means sharing budgets between departments.
2. The customer needs to experience consistent communication between the web version and the print version. That can't happen if the two channels are managed by different divisions!
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Waiter, One korean platter please...
well the hydrogen potentially can!
hmm I wonder how much premium I'll have to pay to insure this baby
A case in point - a friend of mone who works as a US defence contractor told me that they piloted some real fancy GPS + communication device. The only flaw was the battery life - the device wasn't so useful to mreit carrying around a charging backapck..
When I'm out shopping for a mobile device, battery life usually is among the top two crieteria..
When the service got launched in London, they did quite a big PR activity in the Indian press talking about it..
I wonder if they are also involved in the latest work
But then, isn't jostling at the bar a good way to meet people?
India has 10% of the software development force. By flooding the ccountry with MS systems, they are shielding themselves from Open Source or other competition.
..total-immersion environment on the other, giving the user the ability to roam hallways, hold conversations and interact remotely through the robot. Am I the only one who is thinking Doom??
"right pricing"?
Conventional etching uses plasma. Plasma is a soup of charged particles of energy of the order of a kev (1000 electron volts). It's use is mostly dictated by the fact that we understand how to create it quite well, rather than in our understanding of what is/are the consituents of plasma that actually effect the etching action.
What is found that the etching process sensitive to the charge element, to the quantum state of the incident ions, to its energy, to the angle of incidence. And of course this is purely from the beam side, from the surface point of view there are a lot more variables...
Did you know that the molecular process that does etching is very similar to that that creates a radio blackout in the space shuttle while reentry? Somewhat cool
Anyone?
stop making light of real progress
Yahoo on SMS works in India. Check out http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/
There's no reason why it can't support MSN etc. Don't want a separate device...
Rees' book reads like a well crafted research proposal! ;)
Smells like some sneaky PR work by the museum ;)
Gentoo what??
Currently premiums are profiled on factors like age, the make of your car, where you live etc. What these chips can do is feed more refined information than this and create more number of differential premiums that are better suited to you.
Why can't the same be applied to medical/life/personal insurance given all these fancy tracking tools?
For someone like you who *uses* the bundled apps, your argument would make sense. It doesn't make sense for those that dont have any use for those apps. And that's the where the mass market lies. Most importantly, Zire allows Palm to *focus* on those millions that have a use for *organisers*, not for a pda I think it's sensible product positioning
The $99 Zire is an example of the non-general purpose PDA concept. Zire is only for scheduling, to-do lists, and an address book. It seems many were buying loaded PDAs and ended up using it as an organiser...
Let's face it: banner ads were conceptualised when advertisers felt that a web page is like a print page, so why not put a web ad like a print ad. It's wrong. a web page is different than a print one, in that it allows for hypelinking, personlisation etc. The best advice for placing web ads is: look at junctures where the user has to make navigational decisions (e.g. not *when* the user is composing mail, but right *after* the mail is sent). Ads need to be more intelligent and respectful of people. Banners ads do neither of the two.
I find it hard to imagine how it is possible to segregate the online and offline channels, and talk about onine-only performance. The players that have failed have separated their offline and online businesses (they are the ones that have entered the WEb half -heartedly). There are two reasons why they cant be separated: 1. Everyone in the business will tell you that the key driver for a succesful online newspaper is managing editorial workflow and integrating closely with your regular print job. This means sharing budgets between departments. 2. The customer needs to experience consistent communication between the web version and the print version. That can't happen if the two channels are managed by different divisions!
I'm in Bombay, India, and I get more than that for 800 rupees a month. So what's the big deal?