India Calling Cards

The only thing we need now is an open HTML5 store which handles the billing for developers who want the widest audience possible as their creative work is monetized . In January of 2008 I used a term Splinternet to describe the growing number of areas content providers need to focus on when delivering their services. It seems according to Forrester Research I coined the term as it refers to a splintering of the traditional Internet.

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The Splinternet Grows. HTML5 to Slow it Down

IPv6 a major catalyst for billions of dollars worth of deals? The Intel announcement of their McAfee purchase for 7.7 billion seems to indicate as much when Dave DeWalt, McAfee CEO is quoted as saying during a conference call, “If we look at the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, we’re seeing an explosion of billions of devices and they all need to be secured.” Then he continues by saying, “The embedded market is a very specific and high-opportunity market for us.” His estimate is that the number of connected devices will grow from one billion to 50 billion within 10 years.

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IPv6: Smart Investments and Smart Grids

Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend and enjoy this picture taken yesterday in Norwalk, CT. Follow me: Facebook Profile Google Reader Profile Twitter Profile Related Entries TrackBacks | Comments | Tag with del.icio.us | Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com Home | Permalink: Happy Labor Day Weekend Copyright Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com

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Happy Labor Day Weekend

A while back I left a GPS unit in a rental car and when I returned it. I don’t want to be offensive to any particular company so I will refer to the GPS company supplying my device as PomPom . When I realized I wasn’t going to get it back I called the company because I remembered it was M2M-enabled and as such I paid a $10/month fee for Google search access and other online goodies.

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How The Internet Can Reduce Global Theft

It has been an extremely exciting week again for tech news and moreover for me personally as I got a chance to open up my Sony Dash and it is a very cool addition to my desktop as it allows me to view my photos and take advantage of widgets of all kinds which among other thinks allow me to see the pandas at the San Diego Zoo. This handy gadget has a slew of communications, social networking and calendar features as well but for now, I just want to see the pandas.

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Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Google and ITEXPO News September 1, 2010

Having recently purchased a Sony Dash which I still need to take out of the box, I am obviously intrigued by the idea of devices which allow widgets to run on them. Apparently Alcatel-Lucent too is enamored with the concept of widgets and mobile apps as the company just picked up OpenPlug , a company focused on cross-platform application development solutions.

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Alcatel-Lucent Outlines Next Generation Communications

by Viral Acharya . Raghuram Rajan’s book Fault Lines (Princeton University Press for the international edition, and Harper Collins for an Indian edition with a special chapter on India) is possibly the most thought-provoking contribution in the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis that has engulfed the West after 2007 with significant global repercussions

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Fault Lines, by Raghuram Rajan

by Bindu Ananth and Nachiket Mor. Much has been said about the astronomical SKS valuations and the personal fortunes of the original investors. Speaking for ourselves personally, we are not at all disturbed by how much money was made by whom

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Don’t like the SKS valuation? Compete, don’t complain

In recent years, many economists have been attracted by the possibility of obtaining better knowledge using randomised experiments, which are termed the `gold standard’ for empirical analysis. I have long been skeptical about this approach, for three reasons: Reality is a complicated nonlinear relationship in many dimensions

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Randomised field experiments

The 7th research meeting of the NIPFP DEA Research Program This is 31 August and 1 September; here is the program . A pair of mini-courses From 6 to 10 September, we have a pair of mini courses : Sanjay Banerji will teach on financial crises, and Sourafel Girma will teach on the new quasi-experimental econometrics. NIPFP Macroeconomics Symposium On 14 September 2010, we have the NIPFP Macroeconomics Symposium .

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Three interesting meetings

Understanding the ADR premium under market segmentation by Matthieu Stigler, Ajay Shah and Ila Patnaik. The abstract reads: Capital controls can induce large and persistent deviations from the Law of One Price for cross-listed stocks in international capital markets. A considerable literature has explored firm-specific factors which influence ADR pricing when LOP is violated

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Understanding the ADR Premium under Market Segmentation

Monetary policy in an uncertain world: Probability models and the design of robust monetary rules by Paul Levine. The abstract reads: The past forty years or so has seen a remarkable transformation in macro-models used by central banks, policymakers and forecasting bodies

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Two papers on monetary policy

For many years, India has been in a slow processes of evolving towards a dual centre-state GST. The rough picture is one with two distinct but harmonised taxes, which have an integrated IT system so as to sharply reduce compliance costs. A key dimension is that of properly integrating domestic taxation with international trade in goods and services, by zero-rating exports (thus exempting non-residents) and by charging the GST upon imports (thus taxing the full consumption of residents)

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Implementing the GST

The first session at the Conference on Digital Media by CII focused on monetizing digital opportunities for broadcasters and movie studios in the highly competitive broadcasting space. Advertisement management, broadcast management technologies, air time sales, with the help of IT and upcoming technologies will be used for protecting the content and restricting piracy. But will this monetizing by the industry on a whole result in the consumer emptying his wallet?

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Digitization To Come At A Price For Consumers?

The Indian authorities are in the process of pushing listed companies to have atleast 25% shareholding with outside shareholders. I wrote a column in the Financial Express, titled Outside shareholding and market liquidity: Indian empirical regularities where I look at how size and outside shareholding come together to matter for stock market liquidity.

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The push for atleast 25% outside shareholding

An expert committee report: Harnessing the India Post network for financial inclusion has been released. This is a joint effort between Department of Post, Department of Financial Services, Department of Economic Affairs and Invest India Economic Foundation

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Post offices and financial inclusion

I wrote a column in the Financial Express today, titled Monetary policy is easy; Financial regulation is hard , where I contrast the complexity in public administration of doing monetary policy versus the complexity of getting to good financial regulation.

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Monetary policy is easy; Financial regulation is hard

Tuesday, June 29 at the Cisco Live Conference Las Vegas, John Chambers announced their newest product, the Cius tablet aimed at the enterprise market and positioned as a mobility product. That very same day a two hour IPv6 deployment panel, moderated by Cisco’s Alain Fiocco, featured Google, Microsoft, Comcast and Tata Communications in front of a room filled to near capacity.

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IPv6 Basking in the Desert Sun

According to their website, Google “believe[s] that IPv6 is essential to the continued health and openness of the Internet – and that by allowing all devices on a network to talk to each other directly, IPv6 will enable innovation and allow the Internet’s continued growth.” Google is undeniably a powerful player embracing the next-generation Internet Protocol, but will their IPv6 push be a tipping point? Last year at a conference, Google activated Google maps, enabling IPv6 access and within 24 hours, IPv6 traffic had tripled

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Will Google’s IPv6 push be the tipping point?

For telecom service providers, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has been a long time in the making. With IPv4 numbers set to run out by the middle of 2011 according to the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), coupled with the future of the telecom industry revolving around IP, the transition to IPv6 has become increasingly critical to the survival of all service providers.

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Tapping into the benefits of IPv6

The i3 Forum brings together the communications expertise of more than 37 telecommunications operators representing a combined retail base in excess of 1.5 customers in over 100 countries. The goal of the i3 Forum is to develop collaborative recommendations for an industry-wide transition of voice and related services to Internet Protocol (IP)

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What is the i3 Forum?

Watching the Congress grill Tony Hayward kept me from peak productivity today as my frustration with the government boiled over. After listening to the back-and-forth it became more apparent than ever why the approval rating for Congress is so abysmal as it quickly became clear that the banter had more to do with having sound bites for reelection commercials than for any other reason

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BP Oil Spill Symbolizes Dissatisfaction with Government

Recently I wrote about the DashPad environment from PXL Creations which allows iPad users to utilize Safari instead of the App Store to install widgets which multitask and allow you access to a bunch of tools like a calculator, notepad, calendar, searching in Google, the Yellow Pages and more. One request I made in a post on the matter was I hope that a weather widget would come soon. It seems the company will oblige me as I heard word late last night from company president Charles Carver that the weather widget is next to be released – along with performance improvements

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DashPad App Store Alternative to Get Weather Widget

I try to always look out for my readers and as such I have been one of the harshest critics of closed app stores and how they could change the computing paradigm via censorship which is not good for users. But for the US there may be very important reasons to embrace this new transformation – especially as it pertains to the Apple and iTunes App Store. To set this article up let’s explore the extent of global software piracy – currently the total amount of pirated software stands at $53B according to a study by the BSA and IDC.

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Apple App Store the OPEC of the West

Attention readers – in our never-ending quest to keep TMC’s growing audience up to date on the latest happenings in the market we will be in DC with our video crew next week interviewing companies in the Baltimore and Washington DC area. We are looking for CEOs, CMOs, and Presidents at companies which are in the tech and/or communications spaces

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Looking for CXOs in DC/Maryland for Video Interviews

Recently I wrote about the Google Apps Marketplace and how it brings a walled garden approach to the desktop and my thesis revolved around the idea that a few years back you could download any piece of software you wanted without having to go through a gatekeeper. I am not a fan of censorship of any kind – after experiencing a world where I could download any application to any computer I own, I am now seeing that this situation has changed for the worse .

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Google’s Thoughts on Apps Marketplace

If you want to thank someone for lowering your phone bill, you have a few options – you can thank the founders of Skype and Vonage or go back to the nineties and thank the many people at VocalTec who invented and popularized VoIP before anyone else even thought of it. Much of the reason TMC decided to launch a magazine titled Internet Telephony back in 1997 was because we saw the transformational power of the IP telephony gateways and software which VocalTec produced. VocalTec co-founder Alon Cohen is a personal hero for what he did by literally changing the way the world communicates

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Phone.com and the Next Phase of VoIP

It is no secret that apps are the key to platforms and anyone who lived through the eighties remembers the massive advantage Apple computers had over PCs in the graphic design world because of programs like PageMaker and Quark Express.

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Microsoft to Help OEMs with Windows Phone 7 Development

As a tech person I am often called upon to help people I know fix their computers when there is a problem. While my regular readers are no doubt aware of many of the Internet scams which infect computers with malware, Trojans and viruses, I imagine many of you have had to spend hours and money trying to undo damage done by some of this software because others have been duped into clicking where they shouldn’t have. Having said that, I have been meaning to put together some graphics of “legitimate looking” scams to avoid and today my capable MIS team sent these images around – which of course reminded me to attend to this post which has been on my mind for a while.

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Malicious Software to Avoid Online

Lalonde (1986) destroyed the old micro-econometrics as thoroughly as Lucas (1976) destroyed the old macro-econometrics, though it was a more nihilistic destruction (“it just ain’t working”) and not a sweet idea as in the Lucas critique. In recent years, these ideas have gained ground, including a symposium in the Journal of Economic Perspectives .

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The new econometrics