Monday, November 22, 2010
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Reliance Communication gets the GSM spectrum
The department of telecom(Dot) today alloted the spectrum, to the Anil Ambani led ADAG group, for their GSM operations in India.
The group also enjoys the royalty of being the largest CDMA player in the country finally got it piece of share in the GSM sector as well.
Waiting for one of the largest IPO's to hit the market, it was another gift in the parcel for the group.
Spectrum is basically the radio frequencies that enable wireless communications.
The group also enjoys the royalty of being the largest CDMA player in the country finally got it piece of share in the GSM sector as well.
Waiting for one of the largest IPO's to hit the market, it was another gift in the parcel for the group.
Spectrum is basically the radio frequencies that enable wireless communications.
Yahoo has an answer
Emulating Google, Yahoo has lived up its competition with it for the mobile-phone users across the globe. Yahoo has unveiled a new version of its mobile phone home page and it also offers software tools to independent programmers who intend to create features for their handsets.In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, an industry agenda-setting conference taking place in Las Vegas this week, the Yahoo co-founder will highlight a series of enhancements the company is making to its Internet services to optimize them to run on hundreds of millions of existing mobile phones.Yahoo wants to play a very big role in these new markets while being the major internet service provider. after receiving few setbacks in the web search and advertising arena, Yahoo plans to usher in the mobile market with a view to re captivate its glory.
Some of the other services that Yahoo is planning to initiate is a new (trial version) Yahoo.com home page that would be optimized to cater to the mobile phone users and its layout and the content would be different from those meant for computer users.Yahoo also announced an upgraded version of Yahoo Go, a bundle of services pre-installed on some phones made by Samsung, Nokia and Motorola.
Some of the other services that Yahoo is planning to initiate is a new (trial version) Yahoo.com home page that would be optimized to cater to the mobile phone users and its layout and the content would be different from those meant for computer users.Yahoo also announced an upgraded version of Yahoo Go, a bundle of services pre-installed on some phones made by Samsung, Nokia and Motorola.
Microsoft to acqire FAST SEARCH & TRANSFER
ON January 8,2008 Microsoft announced that it plans to make an offer to acquire enterprise search technology provider Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) for about US 1.2 billion. The acquisition is expected to be finalized in the second quarter of 2008.The software giant says it has received approval from FAST’s board of directors to go ahead with the transaction.
Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft’s business division said "underscoring the partnership deal is a common vision for enterprise search, and the belief that it will be for workers of tomorrow what Web search is for consumers today."
Raikes offered some statistics from an IDC report published in 2007 suggesting that a company employing a thousand information workers can expect to lose more than US $5 million in annual salary, simply searching for specific corporate information.
He added that several key factors have come together to bring enterprise search to a tipping point, including the realization among companies of the importance of the technology to their business and the fact that the technology has become better and easier to use.
Raikes also said "furthermore, companies will face the challenge of merging increasingly sophisticated enterprise search technology with broader infrastructure tools."
The overall combination of the two merged companies will mean users will have a single vendor for enterprise search technologies, said Raikes, adding that before this, customers were forced to choose between high-end specialized and mainstream infrastructure search tools.
He also added "I find it mind-boggling that today you can find football scores faster online, but inside somebody’s company it can take five hours or more to track down last year’s business plan."
Being acquired by Microsoft will allow FAST to “further extend its reach” and take its technology to “the next level,” according to FAST’s CEO, John Lervik. The company will also be able to take advantage of the “tremendous momentum of SharePoint and also use Microsoft’s extensive partner and developer network,” he added.
In terms of what FAST brings to the table, Lervik added that the company has been working on expanding search capabilities beyond the usual e-mails and documents to content like numerical data, for instance. In defense of its offering versus IBM’s OmniFind search tool, Lervik said its technology is based on services-oriented architecture, and is global and scalable. “It’s much larger scale than anything else that is out there.”
"The partnership will allow FAST to more effectively serve its existing customer base and rake in new clientele through SharePoint," said Lervik.
Raikes declined to comment on the go-to-market strategy and the integration of both companies’ software models moving forward, citing the necessity to complete a “period of review” before joint planning can begin. However, on the topic of Internet search engines, and Windows Live in particular, Raikes did say the company is pleased for the relevance of FAST’s work in the area of search.
Six years ago, Vancouver-based telecommunications services provider Telus Corp. announced a partnership with FAST to use its technology to drive search on its customer sites. However, following yesterday’s announcement by Microsoft, a spokesperson for Telus could not confirm whether that relationship still exists, adding it is too early to comment.
Toronto-based ACIS Consulting Inc., a reseller and systems integrator of FAST’s technology, doesn’t see this acquisition as affecting Microsoft's existing customer base. Instead, “FAST now has the opportunity to be deployed at a wider customer base and that can only mean more opportunity for us,” said Efrem Habteselassie, principal with ACIS Consulting.
Habteselassie added "the benefit is in the potential for FAST’s technology to be more tightly integrated with Microsoft products. If anything, future customer offerings will be better."
Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft’s business division said "underscoring the partnership deal is a common vision for enterprise search, and the belief that it will be for workers of tomorrow what Web search is for consumers today."
Raikes offered some statistics from an IDC report published in 2007 suggesting that a company employing a thousand information workers can expect to lose more than US $5 million in annual salary, simply searching for specific corporate information.
He added that several key factors have come together to bring enterprise search to a tipping point, including the realization among companies of the importance of the technology to their business and the fact that the technology has become better and easier to use.
Raikes also said "furthermore, companies will face the challenge of merging increasingly sophisticated enterprise search technology with broader infrastructure tools."
The overall combination of the two merged companies will mean users will have a single vendor for enterprise search technologies, said Raikes, adding that before this, customers were forced to choose between high-end specialized and mainstream infrastructure search tools.
He also added "I find it mind-boggling that today you can find football scores faster online, but inside somebody’s company it can take five hours or more to track down last year’s business plan."
Being acquired by Microsoft will allow FAST to “further extend its reach” and take its technology to “the next level,” according to FAST’s CEO, John Lervik. The company will also be able to take advantage of the “tremendous momentum of SharePoint and also use Microsoft’s extensive partner and developer network,” he added.
In terms of what FAST brings to the table, Lervik added that the company has been working on expanding search capabilities beyond the usual e-mails and documents to content like numerical data, for instance. In defense of its offering versus IBM’s OmniFind search tool, Lervik said its technology is based on services-oriented architecture, and is global and scalable. “It’s much larger scale than anything else that is out there.”
"The partnership will allow FAST to more effectively serve its existing customer base and rake in new clientele through SharePoint," said Lervik.
Raikes declined to comment on the go-to-market strategy and the integration of both companies’ software models moving forward, citing the necessity to complete a “period of review” before joint planning can begin. However, on the topic of Internet search engines, and Windows Live in particular, Raikes did say the company is pleased for the relevance of FAST’s work in the area of search.
Six years ago, Vancouver-based telecommunications services provider Telus Corp. announced a partnership with FAST to use its technology to drive search on its customer sites. However, following yesterday’s announcement by Microsoft, a spokesperson for Telus could not confirm whether that relationship still exists, adding it is too early to comment.
Toronto-based ACIS Consulting Inc., a reseller and systems integrator of FAST’s technology, doesn’t see this acquisition as affecting Microsoft's existing customer base. Instead, “FAST now has the opportunity to be deployed at a wider customer base and that can only mean more opportunity for us,” said Efrem Habteselassie, principal with ACIS Consulting.
Habteselassie added "the benefit is in the potential for FAST’s technology to be more tightly integrated with Microsoft products. If anything, future customer offerings will be better."
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