Business
BSNL’s free telephone service to employees and DOT staff
A reader of the Tribune, Chandigarh has written in to complain about free telephone service provided to employees and to staff...
BSNL provides this service to their current employees and staff at DOT (probably above a certain grade) and to retired staff from BSNL and DOT. However, the treatment of these subscribers - who often times [...]
Google picks up another major piece of the content generation puzzle: Feedburner
With this acquisition, Google will now practically own the feed generation and management market as Feedburner is the preferred method through which most bloggers (including me) process their feeds. A nice fit when integrated with Google's Webmaster tools and Google Reader apps.
Here's what Tech Crunch has to say about this:
$100 Million Payday For Feedburner - [...]
Outlook on the desktop
While I would love to be in an environment where I had to use only Macs, in the business world its rare to see that - especially in India (okay, the music and film community here is the major area where Macs are prevalent). So, I get to use a windows laptop and Outlook at [...]
Telecom & IMS: Quote
Telecom & IMS: Quote: "IMS is a polygamist. It tries to marry all the protocols and hogs bandwidth resources, just as it should."
Vijay Anand's got a post up on Telecom & IMS that discusses a conversation he had on IMS. I agree 100% with the quote. IMS is to communication what middleware is to IPTV [...]
Characteristics of a successful entrepreneur
A VC: VC Cliché of the Week
Here are the characteristics that I find most commonly in great entrepreneurs: - Super bright, smartest person in the room syndrome - Engaging, compelling, social personalities - An insatiable passion for creating things - An expertise and focus on the product - The ability to rapidly [...]
Missing the Mac Opportunity
In his latest article on the column Converge Sense at Business 2.0, Om Malik points out a very intriguing trend: while the startup buzz is back, entrepreneurs are neglecting a major platform with over 5 million ready users who are frequently early adopters – Apple’s Mac.
For greater insight on why entrepreneurs (or even developers) should consider the Mac [...]
SBC + AT&T
Following up on my earlier post on the subject (first time I’ve posted to a weblog from work!), here are some articles that discuss the acquisition of AT&T by SBC.
BBC News: SBC agrees to buy AT&T for $16bnI’d especially like to highlight this segment of their article:Faced with fierce competition, revenues at AT&T have fallen [...]
SBC & AT&T to merge
SBC and AT&T have announced their merger today.
SBC To Acquire AT&T; Creates Premier, Global Provider for New Era of Communications (Press Release)
Transaction is valued at $16 Billion. This puts together a strong combination of SBC's wireline business with AT&T's strengths in VoIP and business services.
Technorati Tags: Business, Converged Networking, Uncategorized, VoIP
Blog Business Summit
Mitch Ratcliffe has a great transcript and comments on Robert Scoble’s keynote at the Blog Business Summit.
Also, Pete Blackshaw learns not to leave his IM client running while presenting on stage!
Technorati Tags: Business, Uncategorized, Weblogs
Powerpoint’s “Presenter View” with Office 2003 and Office 2004 for Mac OS X
Michael Hyatt wrote about PowerPoint’s “Presenter View” earlier this week. I’ve loved this feature and in fact enjoy using it more in Mac OS X than in Windows. This might have something to do with the fact that my laptop is a Powerbook G4 .
An entire session can be timed from the moment you start, comments from [...]
Business contacts marketplace
A new website and service was launched this week, called Jigsaw. Jigsaw is a startup that aims to be an ebay of business contacts.
Here is Yahoo! News coverage on .
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