2. And thats content services for you : Another ex-state owned behemoth, under new leadership, cruises along on its journey of Broadband. Truly, VSNL must rank as amongst the most inventive of companies in this space. Their application which enables converges between the PC and the mobile phone, specific to blogging, is reflective of the vision and foresight of the company. What it though lacks probably is the smartness to effectively market the same, probably because it is a company which has brilliant geeks, who's end is the product delivered; kudos to VSNL on this one. Having said that, here is a real life example of the power of technology to create global social media, Podcasting is coming of age. But business are as confused as to how to leverage this phenomenon. With more research money being channeled here, there is a sense of urgency to create a business/revenue model from this fast catching habit. I recall Hutch's Great Indian Laughter Champions edits being sent around as MMS/Podcasts, but then I dont think the market was ready for it then, either from a transmission or a handset point of view. It will be interesting to see what happens next here.
3. Sam Pitroda's article on Knowledge as a source of power. Probably another big market we need to leverage as an organization is Online Education. Of all our content offerings, we seem to be spectacularly weak on this front. And if we believe that the youth are the largest market in the country, indeed we should be targeting them with offerings that are relevant to the nation too! But instead we operate and peddle Gaming and Music :-) Thats probably too harsh a view, but then these are indeed individual opinions - we need to get our act together on the content front of education and fast.
4. Apocalypse Delayed : For all those sounding the doom of telecom operators thanks to VOIP, a contrarion view is presented here. Though my personal view is still limited due to knowledge, I feel that the inertia of technology adoption as a reason for the delay of VOIP is limited to corporate segments and older folks. I would assume that younger folks are fully connected on VOIP leading to a generation gap of a very different kind! :-)
5. The genius of crime : Reminiscent of "Catch me if you can", probably the next big FBI or CIA agent will come from the youth infested criminal dens such as these, which thrive with an in-depth understanding of the technology and ways to beat the system. Indeed, this could be a job for the Batman or the Phantom!
6. The WiFi Net2Phone & The SMC WiFi Skype Phone : Its introduction with WiMax/WiBro or even simple mesh networks with wireless backhaul is another viewpoint on the probable evolutionary path that the telco industry may take. Further, given the explosive growth of this segment and the proliferation of hardware vendors entering this segment, the future seems quite exciting. Interestingly, even though Mobile applications are the real driver of WiMax, the lack of affordable wifi mobile handsets till 2009 will result in broadband driving the adoption of WiMax. According to Frost & Sullivan's research article, Asia will be the de facto test bed for the rollout of WiMax as it competes head on against 3G & Broadband. Yet the devices industry on this sector continues with Sony now launching a basic WiFi personal communicator, for chat, sms, and voip calls, at a mighty $350 tag - will be interesting to observe Moore's law here and see the effect on pricing of WiFi hardware.
7. Jpeg & the compression algorithm : I have no clue about this except that I remember someone telling me that you wont gain much if you try to winzip a certain files because they were already compressed. But when one reads of stuff like this, the old thrill of mathematics once again rises to the fore and I wonder what I'm doing here :-)
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