Playing devil’s advocate :: Here is an interesting perspective by Curious Minds on our earlier coverage of Airtel/MyToday tussle: “I have always wondered if there has ever been any strong Business case presented to a mobile operator which would make them open up their networks. I find it a little difficult to digest that in a competitive domain like Telecom in India, anybody would let go a strong business case.” [comment edited to fit the ...

NTT DoCoMo, as was speculated earlier has acquired 26% stake in Tata Teleservices for $2.7Bn (i.e. Rs 12,770 crore) The deal values Tata Tele @ $10.4 Bn , i.e. Rs 50,270 crore - DoCoMo will buy 6% from Tata Sons and other group companies and the remaining 20% will be new shares issued by Tata Teleservices Deal numbers that you should know Tata Tele is valued more than RCOM’s market cap. Tata Tele has 25 ...

TRAI’s last quarter report has an interesting stat that is an eye opener to many of the telecomplayers - Of the 25 million customers added in the Apr-June quarter, 8 million are from rural areas! 70 million mobile users in villages (out of a total 300 million) compared with 40 million in September 2007 (out of 209 million). Nearly 75 per cent of mobile users in villages are now owned by private operators. mobile handsets ...

读到一篇优秀的论文<HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article,ToRead>，主要有两部分内容：一是考衡Tagging System的方法、二是用户的Tagging动机。其中，讲Tagging动机的部分很平淡，没有新突破。文章的亮点在于作者提出了考衡Tagging System的7个维度，提供了分析问题的新角度。7个维度如下： Tagging Rights[权限] （系统允许下列角色进行Tagging：仅作者、作者和朋友、所有人，etc） 因为不同角色的人有着不同的Tagging动机，这将影响Tagging结果 Tagging Support [提示] （没有任何提示，根据语义提示相关标签，简单列出所有历史标签，etc） 提示的好处：让用户提高Tagging效率，也能教育新用户Tagging是什么 提示的坏处：最先出现的Tags可能并不是最理想的，但它们会对最终Tagging结果造成很大的影响 Aggregation Model[模式] （对于同一个资源，所有用户共同维护一套标签，或不同用户维护属于自己的那一套标签，etc） 前者能够保证标签内容有代表性，能够完整、准确的描述资源 后者允许用户通过Tagging对资源进行符合个人使用习惯的标注 Object Type[资源类型] （文本、非文本，etc） 影响Tagging结果 Source of Material[资源来源] （用户贡献、系统提供、任意来源，etc） 资源来源的差异导致用户对资源的Tagging动机不同，进而影响Tagging结果 Resource Connectivity[资源间链接] （超链、同属某群组，etc） 可能导致同一个标签的高频出现 Social Connectivity[用户社交] （方言区、专业领域，etc） 拥有社交联系的用户习惯用相同的Tag，导致Tagging结果带有地域特色或专业特色，而且和主流用户的Tagging结果有差异 从这7个维度的角度来分析Delicious和Flickr，两个最具有代表性的Tagging System，其实本质上大相径庭，而用户在这两个网站上表现出来的Tag行为也确实有颇多不同之处。比如因素5导致的差异：Flickr用户更倾向于使用详尽的Tag来描述资源（自己的照片），以期被其他人搜索到。 从因素4、5的角度来看，也很容易解释为什么豆瓣上的Tag总是固定为：作者、演员、类型、流派了。

La crisis está dejando en la calle a muchos ejecutivos de primer y segundo nivel que nunca hubieran pensado en trabajar en una empresa de Internet. Las primeras empresas en reaccionar son las grandes multinacionales que limpian sus estructuras de forma drástica en los malos tiempos. Es importante, también en empresas de Internet, disponer de gente con experiencia en dar resultados semanales, mensuales y trimestrales y llevar un estrecho control de gestión y costes que ...

As mentioned earlier, Tata Teleservices is planning to sell 26% stake to NTT DoCoMo for $2.5bn (valuation of $9.6bn, i.e. 1/3rd of Bharati’s valuation). Under the proposed deal, 20% of the NTT stake will be in fresh capital,adding $1.92 billion to the loss-making TTSL’s coffers. The remaining 6% will be sold by Tata group companies, such as Tata Power Co. Ltd, which hold stakes in the phone firm. Mint couldn’t immediately ascertain which other Tata ...

Image via Wikipedia TRAI has released the quarterly report (ending June 2008) and here is a summary (useful data that you would need): 93 GSM and 44 CDMA Licensees Wireless subscriber base @ 286.87 million as on 30th June 2008 (as against 261.07 million subscribers in the previous quarter) - 25.80 million wireless subscribers added in the june qtr. 212.51 million GSM subscribers (74.08%) - prev qtr, 192.70 million 74.36 million CDMA subscribers (25.92%) at ...

Now that government has announced 3G Policy,handset manufacturers are gearing up to launch 3G compatible phones at affordable price. Huawei Technologies is planning sell 3G entry-level phone within $80 to $100. LG’s KU250 3G phone is priced at $100. Motorola has about 3 3G models ranging from Rs 14,000 to Rs 19,000 (i.e. $350.-$475) Will operator hold the gun? Probably not. A start-up package could cost around Rs 299, which is roughly what consumers pay ...

Suponiendo que necesitamos pasar de una pantalla a otra el valor de un numero por ejemplo (puede ser un id dentro de la tabla), dentro de la aplicación principal deben agregar una variable para guardar esta información (el código siguiente no esta completo): Inicio.mxml: <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ public var id_modulo:int; // Esta es la variable donde guardaré el valor ...... ]]> </mx:Script> .... </mx:Application> Modulo1.mxml: Ahora queremos que al hacer click en un ...