May
17
When Telecom & IT babus just don’t get the Market
Filed Under Editorials, Internet, Policy, Telecom, india | Leave a Comment
For all who go to town declaring that India has an entrepreneur-friendly, liberalized Telecom sector, here’s a dampener. TRAI’s recommendations on “ Review of Internet Services“, a report dated May 10th 2007, show just how much (or little) babus in the ministry understand the Internet. We’re light-years away from a truly liberal Telecom policy, because the DoT hasn’t even grasped the concept of creating a free, healthy market.
Mar
27
The race for the smallest screen of ‘em all
Filed Under Editorials, Google, Internet, Mobile, Trends, Yahoo, india | Leave a Comment
Yahoo’s been quietly putting into place a set of very high-quality tools and services for mobile phones. From the time it launched Yahoo! Go last year, the company’s been working feverishly at plugging its diverse services (mail, search, instant messaging, news, photos, finance, entertainment) into the mobile platform (or the other way round).
Mar
31
Why don’t Indian CEOs blog?
Filed Under Blogs, Editorials, Google, Microsoft, Novell, PR, Sun, Yahoo, india | 3 Comments
Just came across Basab Pradhan’s Blog via Sambhar Mafia. So he’s one of the rarer breed on the blogosphere today - the Indian CEO Blogger. Apart from Rajesh Jain, there are almost no Indian CEOs blogging. First, Basab’s got a few good articles straightaway - one that wonders why Navi Mumbai’s rise has to be the result of Mumbai’s meltdown, or an intersting one about why passengers hurry to disembark from a plane at Bangalore airport, but not at Delhi airpor t!