Hi, this is Chandrashekar Reddy, working as a Software Engineer in Truss Techno Softs Pvt.Ltd.,. Truss Techno Softs is a software development and web designing company in Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad.
Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of mobile applications store - Airtel App Central. The store has around 1250 Apps across 25 categories for their business, games, books, social networking and other needs. Offering an easy single click purchase - with no credit card required - the cost is automatically added to the customer's mobile bill or deducted from the available talk-time. Starting as low as Rs. 5, Airtel App Central will offer local and regional Apps for customers across the length and breadth of the country.
Announcing the launch, Atul Bindal, President - Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel, said, "As the undisputed leader in the Indian telecom industry, we are committed to constantly delighting our customers and offering innovations to enrich their experience. With the Airtel App Central - India's first mobile app store- we are offering a one-stop shop open 24x7 to meet all our customer's personal device needs. We are empowering our mobile customers to transform their phones into smart devices - with the click of a single button."
Customers can choose from India Specific Apps - religion and devotional Apps such as Ayyappa the God to Bhakti ki Shakti where our customers can express their devotion to Maa Durga to Qibla which allows our customers to calculate the direction from anywhere on the globe to the holy city of Mecca. Old local favorites such as Book Cricket and Gilli Danda stage a comeback in a Mobile Avatar along with other Games and Apps around popular festivals such as Holi, Diwali, etc. There is an SMS Directory App which saves you the trouble of remembering formats and those difficult to remember numbers which are required to query for popular services and information such as your flight details, cross check your railway booking or even find out insurance details.
To experience the Airtel App Central, Airtel mobile customers can visit Airtel Live on their mobile phone and browse into App Central.
Companies are experimenting with the concept of open innovation, which let them reach out to talent beyond the firm. It is an innovative concept and companies are using this new strategy. But are companies, with all their good intentions, getting the most from open innovation?
The initial successes represent only the beginning but companies should take it one step forward. If you look at most of the widely cited examples of successful open innovation, the model in use poses a question to a group of "solvers" who then provide an answer. You might call this the transactional model of open innovation - involving only narrowly defined, short-term transactions. Problem posted, solution offered, payment made, transaction completed, all parties move on explores John Hagel III and John Seely Brown in their blog post on Harvard Business review.
This approach has two limitations. First, it misses the opportunity to build long-term trust-based relationships among participants. Second, it does not encourage participants to build cumulatively upon the contributions of others.
This evolution is beginning to occur spontaneously. One of the most prominent open innovation platforms discovered to its surprise that many of its most prolific Solvers were in fact supported by teams that had come together offline. These teams had been organized to bring together a more diverse set of skills and tacit knowledge that would be helpful in solving problems posted on the site. The company running this platform is now hard at work developing mechanisms to encourage teams to organize and creating collaborative workspaces that can help these teams to work together more effectively.
Following the recent hacking attacks on the search giant, Google's Co-founder Sergey Brin has said it has become "very hard to operate" in China, but he is optimistic Google can continue to "open up information for everyone everywhere, free of political censorship."
"In the past couple of years, especially since the Olympics, the situation has gotten considerably worse on a variety of fronts," Brin told Reuters. On January 12, Google had announced that it would stop censoring Chinese search results, and said it was considering shutting down its operations in the country.
Brin's comments are among the first by senior Google management on the issue since the announcement. He said that not only has information been omitted from the company's core search service in China, but also other Google products as well. "Other sites of ours, such as YouTube and Google Docs are blocked," Brin added.
Young researchers struggling to muster funds to establish their startups have reason to smile - the government Monday set up a corpus of Rs.55 crore to help scientists convert their prototypes to tangible commercial products.
"This (venture capital) fund will now help researchers become entrepreneurs," Science Minister Prithviraj Chavan said Monday.
The Rs.55 crore fund will be provided to startups registered with nearly 40 science and business 'incubators', which help researchers set up new companies, in the country during the 2010-11 financial year. These incubators help to take the laboratory prototypes to the masses as tangible products.
The fund will be managed by the Science and Technology Park in Pune, where the Indian Steps and Business Incubator Association (ISBA) secretariat is located.
Rajendra Jagdale, secretary general of ISBA, said the fund will help many new enterprises to come up as it would help researchers shift their innovation from the science lab to the market. This is the first ever venture capital fund for business incubation.
"There is no point producing a prototype or publishing a thesis hoping that someone will pick it up. Here ISBA and the fund will come to their help. ISBA is just five years old but they are doing a great job in networking for resources," Chavan said.
"The whole intention is to convert knowledge to enterprises," the minister said at the 4th ISBA conference here.
He said the Indian government has been at the forefront to help set up startup companies to generate employment among science and technology graduates.
"Innovation through incubation is the way forward for sustainable inclusive growth. This initiative will go a long way in achieving sustainable growth through science and technology tools," said R.M.P. Jawahar, president of ISBA.
India is currently spending around one percent of the GDP on research development, as compared to over four percent being spent by countries like Israel and Finland.
Vodafone Global Enterprise has been appointed by Oracle to manage its mobile service needs in its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region in a four-year deal.
Under the agreement, Vodafone Global Enterprise, the dedicated division of Vodafone that manages the communication needs of its largest Enterprise customers, will supply mobile services management, mobile voice and data services to over 16,000 Oracle employees in the EMEA region billed on a fixed-fee, per-user basis. For Oracle, the deal will offer the potential for significant savings as well as enhanced efficiencies, through Vodafone Global Enterprise's managed services platform.
Vodafone Global Enterprise will also combine and simplify the management of mobile services within the company to drive standardisation and provide enhanced levels of control. "Vodafone Global Enterprise is committed to helping Oracle reduce their costs and simplify their processes," said Nick Jeffery, CEO of Vodafone Global Enterprise.
You can easily see that simply counting the number of inbound links does not give us enough information to evaluate a site. It is oblivious that a link from www.microsoft.com should mean much more than a link from www.trusstechnosofts.com/index.html. You have to take account link importance means popular link. I here are five ways to increase link popularity.
Link Text (Anchor text) :
The link text of any inbound link is vitally important, if you place targeted keyword or key phrase in link text surely it will help you in search engine result ranking. The anchor text should not too long. It should relevant and meaningful.
Relevancy of Referring Page: Apart from importance of link text second factor of link popularity is relevancy of page where you are placing link. e.g. Suppose we are promoting a site about valentine day gift site then you should you should think about gift shop site where much more importance that a similar link from a site about gardening.
Submitting to General Purpose Directory:
While submitting a link to a directory site there are such directory that contain only particular group of links. E.g. A site about health directory where are only about health such as diet, nutrition, skin care, fitness etc. And your site about electronic gadgets so there is better way to avoid such directory submission. You should always consider about general purpose directory where all type topics meet.
DMOZ Directory:
The DMOZ (www.dmoz.org) is an open directory project. This is the one of most popular directory in internet. If you submit your site to demoz directory you will get a valuable link from the directory itself as well as from related additional resources. This means that the DEMOZ directory if of great value to seo aware webmaster. You probably know that it is not easy to get your site into DEMOZ directory. There is an element of luck involved. Your site may appear in the directory a few minute after it has been submitted or it it may take months to appear. So you have to read all requirements that site have been defined.
Press Releases, News, Feeds, and Thematic resources:
This section is about site marketing rather than pure seo. There are many information resources and news feed that publish press release and news on various topic. Such sites can supply you with direct visitors and also increase your site popularity. If you do not find it easy to create a press release or piece of news, hire copywriters they will definitely help you to create new newsworthy. Look for resources that deal with similar topic to your own site. You may find man inherent projects that not in direct competition with you, but which share same topic as your site. Try to approach the site admin. It is quite possible that they will be glad to publish information about your project.
Twitter is becoming one of the important part of my digital life and personal learning network. Here is a basic introduction of twitter for teachers. The beauty of twitter is its ease of access ,you don’t have to learn menus and buttons to use this powerful tool 1. Basics- What is twitter ?
Step 1 : Watch this video – Twitter in Plain English
Step 3: Put your picture and complete your profile in twitter by going to http://twitter.com/account/settings after you register yourself and login. STep 4 : Follow teachers with similar interests on twitter. One way of finding teachers is to check out of these following directories of teachers in twitter :
I follow people whose conversation is valuable to me and who I, therefore, want to “promote” through my attention, and
I drop people if their refusal to engage when prompted is more annoying and frustrating than the value I derive from their one-way stream.
Step 5 : Install twitter clients. Twitter clients are installable software in your computer which makes it easier for you to follow your tweets. Its optional but it makes following tweets little more organized:
There are lot of other twitter clients out there. You can find the list of top 20 twitter clients here.
Step 6 :Find Information : Once you have followers, you can leverage that network to find information. Learn how to find information by asking questions in twitter. Other way of finding information related to the a particular topic is to go to search.twitter.com. Make sure you understand the power of twitter to find information and share that with your kids. Its as important as learning search with google. Step 7 : Share your work : if you blog , announce your blog post to other people. If you are in conference, share your key learnings. Because twitter allows 140 characters , its a great way of announcing your projects and work with the world. Step 8 : Go through this presentation on 19 ways to use twitter in education.
Step 12 : Track Event : During the event , go to www.twitterfall.com and put the keyword of conference or conference tags (e.g : #necc) and track tweets LIVE on your computer screen.
Step 13 : Track Education Community :Pulse of education helps you to track useful tweets on twitter related to education. Step 14 : Twitter for libraries : From lexirby blog : There are examples of libraries using Twitter as a reference service or to inform its ‘followers’ about new releases, library events and even when reservations come into stock but I’m just not sure how well it has all been received. Step 15: Think beyond Email Integrate twitter as a messaging system with your students. Look here for more inspiration. Step 16 : Twitter your assignments : This can’t be applied for all subjects but there are some really innovative ways of twittering assignments. Step 17 : What is edmodo or Yammer ? - If some stupid people in your district don’t like web 2.0 or you are concern about security , there is edmodo. Its a twitter like service for schools with built-in security features that give teachers privacy controls over their virtual classrooms. www.edmodo.com. You might also want to check a similar service built for corporations www.yammer.com Step 18: SMS - Learn how to use twitter as a sms tool – watch this video
Step 19 : Twitter Groups - Learn how to create groups in twitter by following this tutorial. You can also check out this twitter groups of teachers. Step 20 : Using twitter as a district communication tool - Learn how Broward school is using twitter as a district communication tool. Step 21 : Twitter as teacher training tool : Explore the usage of twitter as a teacher training tool. Step 22 :Book Free ebook on twitter for teachers available now. Step 23 : Downsides : Every technology has its downsides. You might want to check potential misuse of twitter by reading these posts by Holtz and readwriteweb.
I hope you will find this useful. If you have any other ideas , please leave a comment and hey, I am gcsr143 on twitter.
