Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

What is SNS?

February 13th, 2010

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SMS, MMS and now SNS. SNS stands for social networking site which has reached the evangelical status among the netizens of the world. Almost one third of Chinese net users are member of these SNSs like Facebook, Orkut, hi5, renren etc. Recently these websites have succeeded in creating a new form of extreme online gamers who spend more than an hour everyday religiously. They have created online gamers cult which is the talk of everybody’s town. People discuss about it over a cup of tea, coffee and beer. The players have found a new topic to chat about and it has penetrated in almost all the countries regardless of the location. Social Networking games like FarmVilla and FishVilla are easy to play and you need not require a supercomputer like configuration like many other classic computer games. This unique and innovative strategy has helped this cult to reach people who could not play heavy computer games. SNSs have volumes which is the core requirement for a sustainable and scalable e-business model. Just wait and watch, how many games will bombard the internet in the coming years?
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Find List of Celebrities on Twitter – Latest to Join Sharukh Khan

January 4th, 2010

Sharukh_khan_TwitterSharukh Khan is now on twitter. The news was made public by Karan Johar to his 50,000 plus followers that Sharukh Khan has joined the social networking site. Within minutes thousands of people became followers and the group has been growing ever since. At present the list stands at 24,349 followers.

His last twit as for now is @bdutt(Barkha Dutt) “dont stress over political parties…for » Read more: Find List of Celebrities on Twitter – Latest to Join Sharukh Khan

Swipe and Read Credit Card on your iPhone – Apps by Morphie

January 4th, 2010

Iphone_Credit_Card_Mobile_AppMorphie, one of the leading third party app manufacturer would be launching a credit card reader application that would facilitate the user to process credit card transactions on the move. Morphie claims that the application would use the wireless connection of the iPhone to connect to the payment gateway. The launch is expected to be a part of the upcoming 2010 Consumer Electronics Show » Read more: Swipe and Read Credit Card on your iPhone – Apps by Morphie

Twitter bans 370 passwords

January 3rd, 2010

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Twitter the micro blogging social network site, founded in 2006, has banned 370 words for security reasons. Words like 123456, porsche, ferrari, chelsea, arsenal have been banned and users cannot use it as passwords. They state that these common passwords increase the risk of hacking and phishing.

How did they get the list of these words?

Is it that majority » Read more: Twitter bans 370 passwords

Small is Big!

December 22nd, 2009

Nano revolution

China, a communist country, started its economic turnaround with the concept of small organizations like Town and Village enterprises in the 70s. Many reports say that their infrastructure was the key to their miraculous growth. However, if we compare the infrastructure levels of India with that of China in early 80s, we find that the length of roads, expressways and railway tracks were all higher in India than China. During this period, China had only one resource called human resource or HR.

In the business cycle, all developed economies of the world have started with small innovations, developments and small organizations. Which grew by leaps and bounds with continuous improvement in process and technology. In the 90s, a general perception creeped in to the minds of people that Big is better and thus every country and » Read more: Small is Big!

Best way to go for ERP!

December 7th, 2009

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!

Key to key accounts management…

December 3rd, 2009

Business to business marketing is a specialized field of marketing where the rules of the game is substantially different. Transaction between Microsoft and Dell can be compared to transaction between P&G and a consumer John, but to a certain extent. The level of trust and relationship is markedly different in the above two business transactions. The intricacies of trust and relationship in B2B transactions have been discussed in depth in a paper written by Shelby D Hunt. In the past decade there has been a paradigm shift towards relationship marketing and this is more evident in B2B segment. However, at the kirana store level the importance of relationship marketing cannot be neglected in a developing country. It is seen that the importance of this concept varies » Read more: Key to key accounts management…

Rising Nations and their growth drivers

December 2nd, 2009

The world economic scenario was in a turmoil for the last two years. U.S., U.K. and other developed countries like Japan were struggling to find the root cause. There is a wise saying, whenever something goes wrong look at the basics. What are the basics of economic prosperity? It is not a rocket science to divide the economic engines into Agriculture, Industrial and Services sector. Everything else come under these three pillars of economy. Finding the right balance is long term and playing with anyone is short term. It is evident that finding the right balance always takes more time than disturbing the right balance. A little push or pull in any one of the » Read more: Rising Nations and their growth drivers

This is the country for you!

November 7th, 2009

How many of you want to live in the country of your choice? Which country is the best to live in?

A survey from 2007 to 2009 in 135 countries by Gallups revealed that 16% of the worlds adult population would like to leave their home country for a country of their choice. This 16% converts to 700 million people and that is more than adult population of entire North & South America!

The most desired country was found to be US, Canada, UK, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Out of these 700 million majority would like to migrate to North america. Among the countries from where people would like to » Read more: This is the country for you!

Cloud Computing is here

November 4th, 2009

Nivio, a Swiss company, promoted by two Indians provide storage and rent a software service to over 2.5 million customers around the world. Cloud computing eliminates the requirement of huge storage space for storing software and data at the user level. This technology works on a central server where all the major softwares are stored. Individual users can log on to there system and use the facility online for a monthly rent. Now a user need not update a computer every now and then to keep up with the software updates.

Interestingly, Microsoft office is available at around $2 a month to users all over the world. This $300 software which requires loads of memory is now available at fraction of its cost. The day is not far when you would not require an operating system in your computer. Just logon and explore the world at the fastest speed ever, and all that is » Read more: Cloud Computing is here