Some of you may know TMC and Priceline have our headquarters in the same building at 800 Connecticut Avenue here in Norwalk, CT and as I drove into the garage this afternoon I spied an Audi R8 in a parking spot which belongs to Priceline. I am a huge fan of this car and have blogged about it before. It is the Audi answer to the Porsche 911 in case you are wondering
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Priceline: Revenge of the Dotcom
The iPad has so much potential when you consider all the things an iPod Touch can do – it goes without saying that having a virtually identical device with a much larger screen means you can watch movies more enjoyably and even control a computer remotely with more comfort and ease than on an iPhone-sized device. I came across an article at CIO which discusses 10 ways to get more from the iPad and it is worth sharing. I hope it helps.
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Get More from Your iPad
Let’s start this piece by saying it is meant to be constructive and that people who live in glass houses should never throw stones. Unlike many writers, I am also the CEO of a media company which means I get involved in lots of product launches myself – sometimes they are from my company TMC and sometimes they are with partners or even vendors in the industry who use our services to help them launch. Over the years, I have failed in some of my launches – and I feel what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and in an effort to utilize my collective experience to help others, I figured I would write about some of the areas where Google and Microsoft have tried to change telecom and failed
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Google and Microsoft Telecom Failures: Lessons Learned
When it comes to enabling technology, Google’s new mantra is its better to be needed than liked I first met the company called Global IP Sound around 2002 at TMC’s ITEXPO and Pulvermedia’s VON expos. What differentiated the company tome at first was the company’s ability to power wireless VoIP calls over PDAs – specifically Compaq iPAQs via a low-bandwidth codec. As you can imagine, at the time, the codec needed to not only be low-bandwidth due to the slow wireless connections but also had to be super-optimized because processors in PDAs at the time were not powerful.
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Google Buys GIPS – Here’s Why
I am a huge fan of any paradigm-changing technology and OnStar – the GM invented service which integrates a car’s computer and a remote call center is certainly one of these achievements. The service does lots of different things like provide turn-by-turn navigation but perhaps the crowning achievement of the service is the ability to connect to the call center when the vehicle’s sensors indicate there has been a collision. A few days ago, a couple was forced into their car at gunpoint near Chicago and a thief forced them to drive to a Currency Exchange to cash a check.
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OnStar Saves Woman’s Life
It is no secret that I have been hearing great things about the future of the optical market. Check out this post for optimistic interviews regarding the space with Hunter Newby of Allied Fiber and Jim Theodoras of Adva Optical Networking . Between the need for faster enterprise and consumer broadband connections and the need for more backhaul capacity to satisfy the needs of an ever-growing number of 3G and eventually 4G devices, the need for speed is real and consumers and businesses are paying for it.
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LIGHTWAVE One Optical Event New to ITEXPO in LA This Fall
I should start out this post by saying I believe that the momentum Apple has gained in the mobile and now tablet space is probably close to unstoppable in the near-term. Short of Steve jobs resigning and someone messing it all up, it is very difficult to see how anyone can catch them.
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Steve Jobs is My Hero but He Scares Me
On a PC, I have become dependent on the Hootsuite Hootlet which allows me to rapidly post links to social networks immediately or at a preset time. It also automatically shrinks the URL making it oh so easy to post the page you are on to Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and other social networks you like to share on. The process is pretty easy – you just create a Bookmark – any bookmark and then rename it Hootlet and paste this Javascript code as the URL
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Hootsuite Hootlet on the iPad
My mother received an iPad from the family on Mother’s Day and when she opened the box I noticed there was no user manual but there was an Apple sticker. How amazing I thought that customers are accepting of being marketing vehicles for a company – and in this case accept getting a sticker instead of instructions – or headphones for that matter. This week I had my MIS team get me a Griffin Technology PowerBlock Wall Charger for the iPad as I read it was the fastest way to charge the device
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Apple Shows the Success of Sticker Marketing
MNOs are starting to move towards IP communications with the introduction of Long Term Evolution (LTE). As we move further into LTE, MNOs increasingly require the right partner to enable the secure transport of voice, signaling and data services. Increase Offerings MNOs should look for a partner that will enable them to add service functionalities as this converged approach offers an efficient way to introduce new application and services to end users
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How to Choose the Right Partner
There is a lot of talk about rupee appreciation in recent weeks. It is claimed that rupee appreciation is bad for exports growth and that RBI must trade in the rupee-dollar market so as to force the exchange rate back to (say) Rs.50 a dollar. I wrote a piece in Financial Express yesterday , about the real effective exchange rate, exports growth, and the Chinese exports miracle.
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The bogey of exports growth
Like every other player within the voice industry, mobile operators know that they will eventually need to transition to an all-IP solution to gain the same benefits that other players are seeking, such as cost savings, more efficient architectures, and more flexible networks. However, mobile operators have a different relative priority list that is driving their transition to IP. Because mobile services still command a premium, particularly for international calling and roaming, cost efficiencies aren’t as urgent a driver as for traditional carriers, who have seen their margins eroded through intense competitive pressures
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The MNO Priority List
India is the second country of the world, after Brazil, where the currency futures are more liquid than the currency forwards. Today when I glanced at the order book of the near month rupee-dollar futures, I was struck by the big numbers that are visible: The tick size of this market is 0.25 paisa, so the top five prices cover 1.25 paisa on each side. So there’s nothing interesting about the prices: I focus on the quantities
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Liquidity on the currency futures vs. the Nifty futures
In India, inflation measurement is commonly done using year-on-year growth rates. The change in a price index from March 2009 to March 2010 shows the average rate of change over the 12 intervening months. But the most important thing to focus on is the point-on-point change seen in January, February and March
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Measuring inflation better
Mid-March a special plenary session of the Canadian standard committee isacc was convened in Ottawa to review the final report of the Canadian IPv6 Task Group. It was unanimously approved and the essence of its 66 pages are seven recommendations for Government, Industry, Service and Content providers, and the regulator, CRTC to proceed with diligence, even some sense of urgency. One paragraph provides an interesting new twist to the exhaustion debate: Is the Internet already becoming less reliable as a consequence? Paragraph 3.1 of the report says: Evidence has shown that most of the remaining IPv4 address space is already in use by organizations
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IPv6: Beware of dirty, muddy IPv4 addresses as the pool dries up
India has long operated a `silo system’ where the financial industry was sought to be broken up into vertical silos associated with regulatory agencies. The word `regulation’ is relatively little understood in India. Instead, there has been a central planning notion of comprehensive `control’ of a given financial firm vesting in a given regulator, so that a somewhat feudal arrangement prevails in each silo
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Frontiers of across-silo thinking in Indian finance
Shekhar Gupta’s column in the Indian Express today is about the incipient threats faced by freedom of speech in India. In this ranking for 2009, by Reporters without Borders , India’s freedom of press comes in at rank 106 out of 175 countries (top 60th percentile). We’re in the company of Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala and Oman.
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Freedom of speech in India
When we look back at the sweep of history, the 20th century stands out. It stands out as a time of immense progress in our knowledge, a time of great carnage, and the time when the great debate about socialism and the market economy ended.
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This century and the last one: A report card for the first 10 years
Over the years, I have written quite a bit in the media, and all of it is up on my MEDIA page . I recently looked at the logs of my website and it shows 2534 reads in 5 days, or 21 reads an hour. The top 25 articles are as follows: 1 What should the financial stability and development council (FSDC) do?
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The shelf life of newspaper columns on the net
In recent months, the discussions that have sprung up around some of the posts on this blog have been quite interesting: Taxi companies in Bombay: an episode in India’s urban transportation What does it mean when a million people apply for a thousand jobs? The joys of central planning Implications of ETF on the Hang Seng index that’s traded in India How efficient is the traditional Indian family-run business
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To the anonymous participants of great discussions
The problem The best thing that you can ask for, in getting around a city, is a comprehensive underground metro system, where a tube station is at worst 200m away from wherever you might be. There is no city in India that has this
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Taxi companies in Bombay: an episode in India’s urban transportation
Several economists have commented on the remarkable and relatively new phenomenon that’s seen in India, where a government agency (or a state owned enterprise) advertises (say) 100 job openings and gets a million applications. This is generally interpreted as a problem, as a reflection of the very high extent of unemployment amongst the educated in India.
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What does it mean when a million people apply for a thousand jobs?
It has been fascinating, watching the FSDC evolve from a pre-budget recommendation, to a cryptic paragraph in the budget speech, to a few immediate responses focusing on the big picture, and then more detailed writing as the idea has sunk in. 22 March Nirvikar Singh in Mint
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Media treatment of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC)
Recently I had a chance to meet with David Bettinger the CTO of iDirect to discuss his company’s achievements . His company founded in 1994 provides IP communications equipment for the satellite industry. By accelerating TCP/IP protocols the company allows more efficient voice and video communications over satellites.
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iDirect Optimizes IP communications over Satellite
At the Satellite 2010 show in Maryland I had a chance to sit down with Jon Douglas of Spacenet Inc. and learn about his company which is 30 years-old. An interesting twist on traditional satellite delivery – aside from providing VSAT service in North America the company plays in managed network services.
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Spacenet Satellite Services Aid Haiti, Boost Business Continuity
In one of the most unusual stories I have seen in a while, media and Internet titans Viacom and Google are sparring publicly . Earlier this week court documents revealed a YouTube cofounder consistently uploaded copyrighted material to the site to boost traffic
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Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube and Google gets Juicy
As a technology that enables consumers to gain greater access to better Internet services, WiMAX has captured significant attention in today’s marketplace. In particular, WiMAX can make important inroads to the Indian SME and consumer markets. Driven by basic broadband needs and VoIP, WiMAX is increasingly being considered as the most viable last-mile solution
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Why WiMAX?
Here is a beautiful shot from my hotel room as I get ready to leave for day two of the Satellite 2010 show in Maryland. 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: Day two of Satellite 2010 Copyright Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com
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Day two of Satellite 2010
I have a column in the Financial Express today on this. You might like to look back at my previous blog post on budget day, where a paragraph in the budget speech unveiled the FSDC.
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What should the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) do?
Having been one of the early evangelists of VoIP and launching the first magazine in the space – Internet Telephony and longest-running conference , etc – I think I need to take a moment and point out that one of the challenges of consumer VoIP is the need for external power. This past weekend, the northeast just endured a nor’easter where I saw massive trees buckle like dandelion stalks in the hurricane-force winds
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Nor’easters Remind us why the PSTN is Useful