I never knew that seleting an air conditioner will be soooo difficult. Go to the market and experience the AC fight. The pricing of 80% of the ACs available in the market vary marginally by only 10%. This made me ponder upon whether the AC market has recently emerged with different segments. To my surprise » Read more: The Air Conditioning Market
Ahem! Getting the car serviced seems to be a very simple task but try getting it done in a populous city. Whichever day of the week you choose for the servicing, you cannot escape the Murphy’s law. Crowded and unmanaged. Every time the service manager would say “please try to bring the car in a less crowded day for a better service”. WOW! I spend lakhs of rupees to buy a car and i spend on maintaining it at the authorized service center because i feel that i will get a good service just because they are “authorized”. ALAS! they are seldom OK. » Read more: Getting your car serviced!
components of hard drive
Hard Drives will soon be available in a new format which might not run with XP. Currently the drives are manufactured in 512 bytes format which will be replaced by the 4k bytes format. The 512 byte format has reached saturation levels. i.e. it is becoming difficult to reduce its size further. Whereas 4k byte format has scope to reduce the size and increase efficiency simultaneously.
Experts in a discussion said that the industry has agreed to phase out the old formats by 2011. Except XP all other new operating systems are likely to support this new format. Some say that this new drive will still be compatible to XP but the data transfer speed might suffer.
I was » Read more: Microsoft XP to be obsolete soon!
turbulence
After the season of recalls, it is now time for the major players to reshuffle their stakes. The reason may be the unpredicted growth in automobile sales all over the world in the month of February. The recovery of JLR sales have increased the SPI of TATA Motors which in turn triggered Daimler to sell its 5.34% stake. Daimler, also plans to enter India by investing more than Rs.4000 crores for which it had collaborated with Hero Honda. However, the deal was called off. Now, after raising cash from stake sale at TATA, Daimler might strategically enter India and other developing nations.
In another move, » Read more: Turbulence in automobile industry..
underdog
Formula one will soon experience the unbeatable strategies of the greatest underdog of business world. Yes, it is Sir Richard Branson! He through his team Virgin Racing has developed a car with best aerodynamics created in half the cost of other competitors. Traditionally, teams used to test physical cars in wind tunnels, whereas Virgin has used computational fluid dynamics to cut through the expenses. His newly hired team of 200 designers have done it. Richard Branson known for his underdog approach to compete with British Airways, NASA spaceships and many more, will change the F of F1 to finance. His objective is to become the best team with minimum investment. Earlier top teams like » Read more: Underdog of F1
Now you will find Microsoft’s Bing search engine in all yahoo pages! Microsoft’s move to buy Yahoo’s internet search and search advertising business has been cleared.The European Commission ruled that the deal “would not significantly impede effective competition”.
How will this move affect the online search market?
Currently, Google is the market leader and is growing at much higher rate than the industry average. Amidst Google’s controversies in China over security and copyrights Microsoft has launched a soft attack by grabbing the opportunity to grow strong. Microsoft can now promote its technically sound search engine to a better and larger target segment. Together yahoo and Microsoft will now control 10% of the market share which is no where when compared to Google’s 90% market share but access to larger market can be exploited with strong strategic initiatives. Thus, this consolidation is likely to create more value for the customers in the long run.
Rogues
Vodafone recently launched the world’s cheapest mobile phone ‘Vodafone 150′ which is available at less than $15! This low cost mobile has basic features including voice, SMS and has built-in support system for mobile banking. This revolutionary product is again targeted at the “Bottom of the Pyramid” just like the many nano products being launched by the TATAs. Initially this mobile will be launched in India, Turkey and eight African countries. An advanced version is also launched simultaneously for $20 with color screen and an FM.
This strategy of Vodafone will help them play with volumes rather than margins. This product has the capability to help mobile phones penetrate to the remotest of places and hence contribute in their development.
Rogues
Apple's Strategy
Steve Jobs is known for creating revolutionary products and launching them like a box office thriller. The movie producers should learn a few tips from him! The launch of IPhone marked a new milestone in the history of tech products. Now, it is the time for IPad. What is IPad? In the last few years, the world has seen that the technological gap between a phone and a computer is reducing. Earlier people were satisfied with a basic phone which can be used to communicate only. Gradually the products’ expected features like internet, WAP and data processing abilities crept into the basic features. However, mobile manufacturers could not break the ice to think further, which Apple has done. Apple is trying to create a new segment where people want a multipurpose mobile device through which all basic needs of a mobile and a computer can be experienced with ease. IPhone implemented this unique ‘Filling the Gap’ strategy successfully. It seems that Apple has made this ‘Filling the Gap’ strategy it’s unique selling proposition. Is it sustainable? The sustainability of a strategy depends on the entry barrier for competitors. If the entry barrier is low then apart from the first mover advantage, Apple will have nothing. It will not be able to milk this newly created segment for a long time. One feature which is valuable about this product is that more than one lakh applets can be accessed through this device. These features are currently used in Iphones and IPad is compatible with it. So, the product is different but the features are developed on a common platform which can be used only on Apple products. It reminds me of the era when Apple tried to rule the market with Macs which could use only Apple’s applications and software. This strategy of Apple decades ago, did not last much because the competitors could sniff it and Microsoft and IBM reaped the benefits. Is it that this time the competitors are not aware or Apple has done its homework well enough. Apple has penetrated deep enough in most of the developed markets with its platform featured products IPhone, iTouch and IPod. Gradually they are moving back towards the PC in terms of features. WOW! Steve Jobs seems to implement his old strategy well enough to reach the levels of Microsoft with huge strategic advantages. Analysts say that IPad will not be able to replace the PC/Laptop market but you do not know what Apple is all for. It will not be surprising if Steve introduces an iPC which will run on the same platform used for iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Rogues
Best gadgets of the decade – best of last 10 years
Every time a new player enters the Indian telecom industry, the profitability of all the existing players take a dip. It happened in 2001, 2004 and 2009. Why does it happen?
When the world is fighting to reinvent the Dollars, Rupees and Yens Indian telecom sector has reinvented the Paisa!
» Read more: Blood bath @ telecom sector
Enterprise Resource Planning or better known as ERP has been the key IT Buzz since a decade now.Today every big company either has it or aspires to buy it. Why not? It is such a wonderful system that pressurizes the organization to adopt the benchmarked business processes. SAP being the leader in providing ERP packages, has gone through the entire business cycle and has developed key innovations. Considering » Read more: Best way to go for ERP!
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