Change- Year that has gone by.

Over the past year there has been the change that everyone’s been expecting, both in the Technology and Financial Spaces. People’s Social life is on a high and it just took Into the next level with search giant Google’s Google+. Dubbed to be a stiff competitor to facebook, it is a Social Network to Geeks more often than to common people out there. Facebook too responded with a big deal of new features such as Skype integrated video calling, which only confused the users. At its f8 conference facebook introduced ‘Timelines’, a complete departure from the present ‘Profiles’ giving a makeover to facebook. Available only for developers{and me too}, this takes a little more time to go public. So all of you guys who think are normal and cool with your lives, just stay on the blue nation playing those never ending ‘Ville’ games!

In the technology front, there was the iPad 2 release{expected} in March from Apple Inc., which only raged the tablet wars further and also iPhone 4S release{unexpected, yet disappointed} as well iOS 5 on October 4th with Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO. The update with iOS 5 wasn’t a smooth thing and turned out to be hectic and also there are these battery issues after the update. With Siri and a lot more hardware upgrades, it’s the most amazing iPhone yet. And there’s this sad demise of Steve Jobs{56} after a day of this ‘Lets talk iPhone’ event, we will really miss him though. A few days later Stevies Biography, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson has been published. I tried to get a copy of mine on the first day and still in the middle of it reading, its really great! Marvelous I should say. And the patent wars between Apple, Google and Samsung reached new heights and looks like you can never see the light any soon. This also made Google to acquire Motorola Mobility, which brings into it’s stable a large chunk of Motorola’s patents{in thousands!}. Heck, Motorola itself introduced the first mobile and holds a patent for it! There’s a great leap in Android OS with the much anticipated release of IceCreamSandwich in Google’s new flagship device; Samsung Galaxy Nexus. As always it’s a piece of plastic chunk, the OS looks great though and device works better. Early reviews have to come in.

The Apple iPhone 4S releases this morning in India with a huge price tag of 44,500 INR for the 16GB model and so on, which makes its release definitely unnoticed! Good investment in July for the iPhone 4 White that I did{my dad did, nyways}, without waiting for the next iPhone.

Politics? No way! India’s doing great with it since the Mahabharata times and now with the present Governments as well! And the abandoned characters here unlike in our epics, are being sent to Tihar Jail. So lets leave it out to those Big Daddys. And it’s given a fresh look in Chetan Bhagat‘s new release; Revolution 2020. This novel is not much worth though, as I feel personally, but it only makes Chetan rise and rise! Proud of him{even with his ‘easy’ literary}.

India Inc’s profound search for its successor, of the historic Tata group has finally come to an end with Cyrus P Mistry as the successor to Ratan Tata effective from December 2012. I think there’s family feud involved in his electing as the Chairman{just a corporate joke, don’t laugh hard!}.

Now that we have finally come to an end, and also that I don’t know exactly how to let this end! I’ll wrap up with a..uh, bye? Nope, let me put this way; I hope you all had a great time reading my space and which also won’t fetch u a single grade in your academics{as yours and my parents say} but still, it’s always great to have insight into a few things like the ones I will be coming up with blogging. Peace.

Another Attempt.

It’s been a while that I was away from blogging; over two years from Blogger and about a year from WordPress. It was like blogging has been shortened to Status Updates on Facebook and Tweets in Twitter. With a little more knowledge on publishing a blog and making it reach to people more than ever{which I failed previously}, this will be my second attempt in blogging with Prashi’s Space.

Collaborative Sharing.

It’s obvious that this partnership of Windows Live Spaces with WordPress was overseen, when Windows stopped updating the Spaces. Though moving 30 million Windows Spaces customers to WordPress and providing them with a host of it’s impressive updates shows how far the collaborative sharing has come over the times. And also the passage was as smooth as possible.

It’s also the Social Networking that supports this concept of Collaborative Sharing when your tweets are simultaneously updated at Google Buzz and also, facebook; AT A TIME! The Twitter-facebook saga is just another example out of many happenings. The incredible things of all these is updating this blog from my iPhone, and this shows it! This kind of sharing among peers of the web also paves a way for the next version of web I.e., Web3.0.

The last decade has seen the evolution of Web2.0 which made the World a leveled playing field. And the coming decade is all about sharing the information through various and even unseen sources to an unimaginable extent.

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

Innovations in changing Business Dynamics.

Doing more with fewer resources, for more people, is what exactly an Innovation means. Nowhere is this more evident than in India, which was not exactly famous for innovation until recently. Whether it is 1-cent for a one-minute call, 30 dollar for a cataract surgery, 2000 dollar for a car, by an order of magnitude, are the lowest in the world.

Perhaps the most striking innovation is Bharti Airtel. Bharti Airtel charged its subscribers a high price for many years. In order to expand its subscriber base rapidly, it shifted its focus from ARPU- the key metric tracked by every cellular company in the world, to gross profit which allowed the company to expand its potential market to the entire Indian population.

 

Bharti Airtel outsourced all functions-customer management, regulatory affairs, brand management, and strategy creation-instead of being a vertically integrated company like other cellular carriers. For instance, Bharti Airtel outsourced its IT services to IBM, promising to pay the provider a percentage of monthly revenues and guaranteeing a minimum monthly payment. By tying IBM’s compensation to its own growth, the company gave its supplier skin in the game.

Bharti Airtel even collaborates with competitors in order to save capital. As it expanded to rural India, putting up infrastructure such as towers became a large expense; the company emerged with an idea of merging its infrastructure unit with those of two other cellular service providers, Vodafone and Idea. This structure allows the 3 companies to share the cost of setting up passive infrastructure and reduces the investment that each of them must make to expand operations in India.

Thanks to its unique business model, Bharti Airtel is able to charge 1 cent per minute of talk time-compared with 2 cents in China and 8 cents in the U.S.-making the world’s most affordable mobile telephone service. In 2009 the company had signed on approximately 100 million subscribers, and plans to double that number by 2012. Companies in every industry worldwide are trying to emulate Bharti Airtel’s formula for success.

first look…

My first blog entry on Spaces. This will be my second Blog on the Cloud next only to the one at Blogger, www.spiritinc.blogspot.com. Seems like Windows is doing great at Live. But not exactly understanding the strategy behind it’s few services like SkyDrive, with a whopping 25GB of memory space on the Cloud and, linking almost all of the present Social Networking sites of a person to his Windows Live account! These are only some of the few out of it’s amazing services, which i feel, are head-on with it’s rival, Google. Its "Do more with Windows" now!