October 6, 2011 • 7:16 AM 0
A true visionary… he will truly be missed. Where would we all be in the Internet industry without the desktop revolution he unleashed?
RIP Steve Jobs
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March 25, 2011 • 12:22 PM 0
Warren Buffett on Gold:
It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
You could take all the gold that’s ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that’s worth at current gold prices, you could buy all — not some — all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?
Source:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/18/pf/investing/buffett_ben_stein.fortune/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett#Dollar_and_gold
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January 21, 2011 • 6:22 AM 2
According to reports in new media (click to read GTB’s report on the same) India’s telecom minister, Mr. Kapil Sibal is all set to unveil a blueprint for India’s National Broadband Plan within next 2 months. The idea is to connect 160 million households with high-speed internet connections by 2014. There is widespread support in the country for such initiatives from stakeholders like online publishers, media owners, agencies, students, consumers as well as industry bodies like the IAMAI which has been diligently pushing for a National Broad Plan with the Indian Government and The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (or TRAI).
Check out the key statement in the IAMAI press release on the same issue (dated 22 July, 2010).
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has said that an independent agency can ensure national broadband connectivity across the country within 36 months. This was said by the association in its response to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) new set of recommendations on the National Broadband Plan 2010. IAMAI fully supports TRAI’s recommendations brought out in the consultation paper on National Broadband Plan. IAMAI is of the view that the TRAI proposal alongside and in parallel with the developments in the market place viz., arrival of 3G and BWA will be able to bring in a true broadband revolution in India.
Click on the link to Download and read the full TRAI Consultation paper on National Broadband Plan
GTB’s report confirms that the Minister for Communications and Information Technology has consulted industry representatives to finalise the framework for the NBP and develop a strategy to roll out optical fibre. According to the NBP, the fibre network will be FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGED AS A NATIONAL RESOURCE!!!
This is superb news for the entire Digital Industry in India.
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December 22, 2010 • 1:16 PM 0
Ever since the Nira Radia phone tapping scandal related to the 2G Spectrum allocations broke out in Open Magazine, thanks to sustained trending of #barkhagate & #radiagate on Twitter (soon followed by a burst in Outlook India), there has been intense debate on the role of journalism in politics and business “lobbying”. Many journalists were involved from Barkha Dutt to Vir Sanghvi, along with politicians like A. Raja and Kanimozhi as well as industrialists like Ratan Tata . You can read the transcripts here in Outlook magazine: Radiagate
As is the norm in scandals, there was also fascinating buzz around some of the more “spicy” gossip which got leaked along with the 2G related conversations. Was this a deliberate move to malign reputations of respected businessmen by rivals or a clever ploy to distract masses from the real issues related to the 2G scam itself? We will never know.
One such popular tidbit was the conversation Radia had with a famous industrialist regarding her unused Roberto Cavalli Black Gown! One wonders why someone in the PR industry would own an expensive piece of high-end fashion and never (as she claims on the tape) use it! Maybe she no longer fits into a Roverto Cavalli hmm?
Nira Radia
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April 18, 2010 • 3:26 PM 2
Lessons from Indian News Media:
1. “If you are an intelligent, suave, well read, hardworking & good looking politician with a vocabulary & charisma that makes us News channel ‘journalists’ look like Feral children chewing microphones, we will do everything in our power to bring you down due to sheer envy. We especially don’t like the fact that you get respect from world leaders and the United Nations.”
Shashi Tharoor UN
2. “You shall NEVER refuse to give us a share of the IPL ad revenues worth $millions, even if we don’t deserve a penny. Else, we dig up dirt from your college even if its decades ago, & falsely accuse you of hiding taxes & slush funds. And…ummm.. we actually don’t care that you created a sports brand worth $3 Billion from nothing in 2 years, unlocking idle funds from industrialists & contributing to job creation.”
Lalit Modi IPL
3. “If you are a woman who is even remotely good looking, you will NEVER get our respect foryour work. You will always remain an object. no matter how much ‘sweat’ you put into a business”.
Sunanda Pushkar
Ragini MMS is a bold, sexy film, shot as if in real time!
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