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Mobile phones have become the dominant means of communication as they provide greater flexibility and convenience to the subscribers in comparison to the landline telephones. This technology has made life much easier by helping people reach their friends, relatives and work colleagues anywhere at any period of time.

In India, the mobile phone market is growing with leaps and bounds, paving way for new and better models loaded with advanced and innovative technology. It is believed that the Indian market is one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world with around six million new connections every month. In the last five years, the market has showcased a growth of nearly 8.12% from 2000-2007. In 2008, it is believed that about three hundred million people have mobile phones in India. This number is expected to grow and double by the end of 2010.

When the first mobile phones were introduced in the Indian market, they were costly and loaded with basic features. Gradually, with the advent of technology many new features entered the mobile market. The latest development is the touch screen, navigation system, high pixel camera, polyphonic ring tones, MMS facility, and zoom applications. Apart from these there is much other advancement that has taken place in the Indian mobile phone market.

Today, all the leading mobile service providers are coming up with new strategies, offers, varieties coupled with cheaper rates and services to capture the growing market. This is not only helping Indian mobile service providers to attract their own people but is also helping them to compete with the cheap Chinese mobiles that are infiltrating the Indian mobile market. As a result, low-income, self-employed people like auto rickshaw drivers, maids, taxi drivers, construction workers, plumbers, carpenters and even food vendors are snapping mobile phones and connections. These service users are considered to be prospective clients of leading service providers in India. Continue Reading

VDF

VDF means Virtual Dish Farm (satellite systems) and the basic idea of this kind of system is to provide landlords with a muddle free, transparent method of providing TV signals and satellite feeds.

The requirements are in general for: digital satellite TV and radio, radio signals and terrestrial TV, satellite delivered data streams and analogue satellite television and radio.

There are many benefits to any landlord handling a VDF system including the following:

- The sheer numbers of dishes present on a property can easily be managed.

- The capability to create income from the satellite system.

- The landlord has no requirement to pre- wire many different floors.

- It is not necessary to maintain a restricting, predetermined network of channels.

- A tenant has got the flexibility to choose which channels to view without the need to gain permission to get a dish.

- Landlords keep the full control of a roof space.

- An excellent incentive in securing new business.

- Brilliantly future proof.

- Simple maintenance of an entire system.

- Landlord will enjoy a clear demarcation point.

These systems have a lot to offer both domestic and business enterprise tenants, though the requirements of domestic tenants may not surprisingly vary from those of business.

The main benefit offered to the tenant is as expected the easy access to TV, radio and satellite feeds, without most of the difficulties that may occur from the permission required. Continue Reading

The past decade has witnessed a tremendous growth in online social communities and user-generated models of content. It should be recognized that social computing models are characterized by richer interaction and communication in interlinked groups of communities. The breadth of technology has enabled social interactions and allowed individuals to tap into the “wisdom of the crowds”. This has shifted power to the edge of the network, enabling a bottom-up approach to product development and innovation. Fundamentally, social computing shifts the role of technology from information processing to actionable social intelligence embedded in computing platforms. An understanding of user interactions and participation facilitates improved design of social computing platforms. Businesses seeking to monetize social networks, in particular, could obtain insights to maximize the impact of targeted marketing, advertising and the spread of digital content.

In the past, before YouTube, Ebaumsworld, Break.com and the like, there was a screen capture program that was known as video 1.0. This was a relatively simple program, which allowed users to make an AVI movie from the activities on their computer screen. Unfortunately, video 1.0 did not provide sound, nor did it allow users the capability of making textual annotations. Its editing tools were extremely limited and the program slowed the computer down considerably. In addition, video 1.0 was not interactive. While clearly this was not as popular a feature at that time, it would have made the program friendlier and more functional.

Video 2.0, on the other hand, is an interactive, subscription-based service where users can chat, use video conferencing and upload and download content. It also has the capability of experiential learning (learning from hands-on experience). As video 2.0 became more accepted, the popularity of YouTube increased as social networking became widely accepted. While the collection of videos grew, viewers from all over the world started watching, commenting, and rating each other’s videos. Consumer technologies such as webcams, camera-phones, digital camcorders, and digital cameras simplified content creation to a level where most people could upload videos to YouTube with a simple mouse click. Continue Reading