Archive for the ‘Just a thought’ Category

Pay TV must be advertising free

Icon Written on April 23, 2009 – 4:28 pm

Historically we have paid for either service or content. In case of television, we have been paying for nothing as the content is advertisement supported and the service was free. With the passage of time we, consumers, got used to pay for the services as we migrated to cable, DTH and now IPTV.
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Windows 7 could open up Biometric enabled e- services

Icon Written on April 20, 2009 – 6:46 pm

Securing our private spaces over e-services we have subscribed to is everybody’s concern. We use e-services for emails, messengers, calls, watching videos, reading content, doing financial transactions and other several things. At present, the best we can do to keep them secure is keep on changing the passwords after some regular time period.
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Community video sharing over IPTV

Icon Written on April 14, 2009 – 6:02 pm

IPTV offers need to be crisp and crunchy. Television is not a service that is something new and IPTV at the end of the day is another method of delivering. It is not a service like mobile that will sell like hot cakes. Operators need to really motivate people to subscribe to [...]



Recession could see IP grow

Icon Written on April 9, 2009 – 8:56 pm

One basic benefit that attracts any person towards IP is cost saving. Where you were spending around a dollar on call per minute, IP alternative could either be offering that for free or around a few cents. Even at this level companies are enjoying handsome margin levels.
IP has really enabled certain technologies that [...]



Why do not content generators get their share?

Icon Written on April 7, 2009 – 4:07 pm

An ISP offers Internet services. In reality what is that service. It lays a wire or wireless network that connects your PC to the web. So they are the enablers of something that is not provided by them. Surfers access Internet for the content or services like a VoIP client, IM [...]



Content Regulation over Web

Icon Written on April 6, 2009 – 4:28 pm

Being a content generator or developer is not a big deal. You can share anything you like in any form. Be it text, audio or video you can share it with the people over Internet. The simplest way of sharing could be over a social networking and the more professionals are the [...]



Let political parties intensify usage of technology in campaigning for India elections 2009

Icon Written on April 3, 2009 – 5:49 pm

The bugle for 15th General Lok Sabha elections has already been blown. Political parties have started coming back to people with their ‘what they did’, ‘what others did not do’ and ‘what they will do’. Campaigning is one of the critical elements of electioneering and in India it plays a vital role in [...]



Adobe can help market researchers

Icon Written on February 14, 2009 – 5:04 pm

The end products for market research, reports have become soft - they are not now printed, except for those still conservative formal researchers. Many market research groups, small ones like ours, prefer to deliver output in soft copies as it saves a lot on printing, shipment and helps to keep the reports interactive.
There is [...]



Technology can make market research smarter

Icon Written on February 7, 2009 – 7:27 am

Market research has almost become paperless. By using simple technology solutions (although making them is not easy) market researchers worldwide have been able to put in research in a very cost effective manner besides squeezing the time schedules. A lot of tools help market researchers in the analysis part of the research making [...]