BT partnering to convert ATMs into wi-fi hotspots (Kaching)

June 22, 2009

BT has signed a five year deal to convert fee-charging cash machines into Wi-Fi hotspots on its Openzone network. AIM-listed firm Cashbox has 2,500 cash machines across the UK, mostly installed in restaurants, bars and shops. The company turns a profit by charging a commission on cash withdrawals, and so tends to place its machines [...]

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Pay as you -Go- . Some airlines want you to pay for using toilets .. uh!!

June 22, 2009

Airlines struggling to make money launching ‘a la carte’ fees at fliers. I guess they figured they will make more money this way without increasing the base fair you pay for flying. Computing and now travel choosing to make it appear that you only pay for services you consume and it should be cheaper.
Here [...]

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facebook chat serves 1 billion msgs a day .. here are some eng notes abt how they did it

June 17, 2009

Facebook Chat usage has increased steadily since its launch last year, and this week we reached 1 billion messages sent per day.
Key component of facebook’s chat scalability is their channel server. They choose to use erlang a language that is fast getting the much needed attention for building real time infrastructure.
The channel servers are [...]

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Salesforce announces free access to force.com

June 15, 2009

Salesforce trying to entice ISVs and corporate developers to build applications on force.com providing free edition that allows users to develop one custom application that can be deployed to up to 100 users. The offer also includes online training, sample applications and a testing environment.
Salesforce link
Some highlights:
Customers who create sites under the Force.com Free Edition [...]

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What does facebook wants to be when they grow up?

June 13, 2009

Scobble interviews Mark Zuckerberg on this new rackspace sponsored series called bulding43. This is a interview that runs for about 10 mins.
Mark Zuckerberg is pretty sure the future of the company won’t really be as a destination Web site, but as the Web-wide platform that connects us not just to our friends, but also the [...]

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Amazon reaching out to enterprise customers with its secured cloud computing strategy (WIP)

June 12, 2009

With all the opportunity and interest around SaaS, PaaS or IaaS architectures, enterprises have been very skeptical of cloud computing security.
Amazon recently announced a series of initiatives to make EC2, S3 and the other Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities more secure, and to clarify the level of security currently in place:
(from the press [...]

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India’s first stemcell transplant for traumatic brain injury

June 7, 2009

A 27-year old woman, suffering from severe disability for the past one year following an accident, has succesfully underwent brain stemcell transplant surgery, the first such case in the country, doctors at a superspeciality hospital here claimed on Saturday.
A team of Neurosurgeons led by Dr NK Venkataramana, chief neurosurgeon and vice-chairman, BGS Global Hospitals, carried [...]

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GM: How to protect the union and fail the company

June 5, 2009

Harvard business blog (Why GM failed) had a post on why GM failed. Here are a few simple but interesting facts. A company which was started in 1909 went on to stay well ahead in the automobile industry for 100 years collapsed. GM stopped making profit in 2005. Since that time GM lost more than [...]

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Cloud , SaaS could be more expensive – there u go i got your attention

May 27, 2009

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Another day and one more analyst says SaaS could be more expensive.
Want to save money using SaaS? Be wary of contract terms
Companies can end up spending more on SaaS than they would for an in-house application
http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/want-save-money-using-saas-be-wary-contract-terms-880
Every other day there is some analyst firm that warns enterprise customers to be careful and [...]

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Airtel joins the netbook revolution

May 25, 2009

Bharti Airtel has now launched a low cost net PC. The Airtel Net PC is being marketed in Airtel and Next stores in india for a cost of Rs7,999. Airtel is not the first entrant in this space. Novatium released a similar service last year making it affordable.
The device bundle is a 15-inch LCD monitor, [...]

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