Stories, advice, and random thoughts from a thirty-something guy.
Canara Bank in Bangalore is implementing RHEL over 1000 servers and 10,000 desktops, as part of its total branch computerization project. Canara is one of India’s large majority government-owned banks, The Indian government has taken good decision in favor of open-source :)
Read more here
Today we celebrate dasara across all over India :D We celebrate dasara with the worship of implements used in daily life such as books, computers, vehicles etc.
This day marks the triumph of lord Rama over demon King Ravana. It is the victory of good over evil.
Checkout more information on the dasara festival along with pictures.
Yup. The sub $40 mobile is here. Motorola, in a bid to tap into ultra low cost mobile handset segment in new markets like india, has introduced a phone in the sin-$40 category. Motorola announced C series phone at 3GSM Asia show in Singapore:
It befits both consumer as well as mobile operators as dropping handset prices has always led to an increased subscriber base. All these new phone will be available by April 2006 in India.
Update: Philips to make sub-Rs 1000 ($20) mobile :)
You know it is pain to use 256kbps DSL with limited data-transfer option.
In India we don’t have bandwidth problem, so what’s holding back the Broadband in India? Elsewhere in the world fast broadband connection available at very reasonable prices.
First and most important lack of access to last mile connectivity. Private players don’t have last mile telephone network . Only government owned BSNL (or MTNL) has last mile network.
Cost of DSL/ADSL router/modem are also bit hight as compare to other countries.
Bandwidth itself is expensive for ISP. ISP purchase bandwidth from VSNL/BSNL in bulk and sales to end users. An E1 line from BSNL cost around 13 lacks/pa (INR. 13,00,000), DS-3 INR 10400000/pa etc. This is quite expensive as compare to other countries. Price was dropped by TRAI but VSNL claiming that the pricing hurts its business. So order sent back by to TRAI to consider VSNL’s concerns.
Today we use only 30% of bandwidth of the total capacity. Rest is not used and not given to end users like us.
I think both BSNL/MTNL should allow private ISP to use their vast last mile network, reduce prices. Private ISP should also move to latest technology such as WiMAX to provide last mile connectivity (still they can have fiber optic based backbone). And get fast broadband (minimum 1 Mbps) for all of us. Big market waiting for all ISPs. Hope private ISP and BSNL/MTNL/TRAI listing to me.
Till then it is Hakuna Matata!
Texas Instruments new chip will make this possible. We have already seen massive growth in Cell phone market in India and now with such new technology will go one step ahead. Well job done by TI’s Indian R & D team :D
Read more at biz.yahoo.com.
In dotcom era cybersquatting was at its peak. Basically booking or using domain names with bad-faith to make profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to large/small corporations. They also try to sell these domains for profit to others or even to business itself. Even after DOT-COM crash Cybersquatting still continues because of profits.
I remember when I uses to sell computers and my firms name was ‘Cyberciti Computers’, so I booked cyberciti.biz domain. I used to get an email from someone who claims to owner of domain cyberciti.com and willing to sell me the same.
By past mistakes I have also learned lesson to renew domains on time. My first domain vivek-tech.com was taken by someone. So if you got domain make sure you rename it on time or even in advance.
If someone takes your domain related to your business then you can take the help of laws. If you are in US you can take help of 1999 US federal law known as the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. I don’t think so we have any such law in India, under IT Act 2000.