The Allahabad High Court rules by majority that the disputed land in Ayodhya be divided into three parts to be distributed among the Sunni Waqf Board, Nirmohi Akhara and the party for ‘Ram Lalla’, say lawyers.
Author: ashokkarania
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Standard Chartered IT Continues To Surprise!
Last Month, I faced a very surprising issue with Standard Chartered. I was using their Online Banking for my credit card for nearly one year. Suddenly it stopped working. When I called the customer care department, I was told that there is no Online Banking Service for my Credit Card. WoW. What was I doing for one year? My loan account also did not exist? Wow ! No need to pay back. Who is taking those EMIs?
The customer care executive do not listen. They have ‘Care’ in designation but do not care. I gave up my argument and simply asked for a new online banking service and a password. One month passed and today I called them. They had some IT Problem and they will issue it later. However, when I checked, I found that the mobile number and email number with them was all incorrect. How did it happen? God Knows ! I hope there is no virus with Standard Chartered System !
Pray – The only choice !
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MobileMonday opens a chapter in Ahmedabad, India
Ahmedabad, India & Helsinki, Finland September 27, 2010 – MobileMonday celebrates 10 years of collaboration, community, and innovation with the new chapter launch in Ahmedabad, India. With Ahmedabad becoming its 107th chapter, MobileMonday is now active in all continents. The Ahmedabad mobile community will join the worldwide group of mobile movers and shakers under the direction of Ashok Karania from InfoStretch with support of Rajnikant Joshi and Gargi Das.
The Indian Telecom Sector is growing at a scorching pace, with mobile carriers paying USD 15 billion for 3G spectrum. Bharti Airtel took over African operations of Zain while Tata Docomo initiated the lowest tariff of 1 Paise Per Second (USD 0.0132 Per Minute). Within a few months, Uninor, Telenor’s India Operations, reached 10 Million Subscribers.
“India is seeing amazing growth in the mobile industry. A new generation of entrepreneurs is leveraging the mobile technology for business and social uses. Whether it is ordering food and vegetables via mobile in India, transferring funds, weather alerts to fishermen, tracking logistics or teaching English – mobile is a central part of the emerging superpower,” commented Jari Tammisto, CEO of MobileMonday Global. “We warmly welcome Ahmedabad to our fast growing network of global mobile excellence.”
“We wanted to open a MobileMonday chapter in Ahmedabad to facilitate networking amongst mobile eco-system members of Gujarat state as well as collaborate and address the emerging challenges and enhance the local talent. The idea is simple – to bring together local people and companies interested in mobile: to meet and chat with each other, see what others are doing, share ideas, and possibly even work together,” says Ashok Karania, founder of MobileMonday Ahmedabad.
Ahmedabad is one of the fastest growing in India. It is already the No.1 city for small businesses featuring in the Top Ten Competitive cities of India. There are a lot of mobile innovation and development activities happening in the city. Many young mobile developers, students and established organization are fuelling mobile growth in Gujarat.
MobileMonday Ahmedabad’s mission is to promote mobile technology and to bring the people in Ahmedabad’s mobile industry together. MobileMonday Ahmedabad plans to bring together and facilitate networking amongst the professionals in the Gujarat Mobile Ecosystem – Mobile Development Companies, Mobile Testing Companies, VAS Companies, OEMs, Carriers, students and developers.
“The long tradition of entrepreneurship and mobile opportunities have created an ideal platform for the emergence of the mobile eco-system in Gujarat. Apart from hundreds of firms working on mobile application development services, there are an increasing numbers of product champions. Apart from Indian companies, mobile firms are able to successfully garner important projects from Western countries in critical sectors. Gujarat Government is one of the largest IT spenders in the country and a lot of the new Government spending is around mobile technologies. All these developments are creating new opportunities and providing the right encouragement to local talent and ideas. The outlook for mobile sector in Gujarat is very promising,” says Ashok Karania, founder of MobileMonday Ahmedabad.
Rajnikant Joshi of InfoStretch adds: “Ahmedabad is at the fore-front of the mobile industry with great talents on offer. Our APAC Headquarters are in Ahmedabad and we have a team of more than 150 software professionals working here. We have also hosted and managed India’s first mobile cloud platform from Ahmedabad.”
Gargi Das, one of the young Nokia Forum Champions, agrees: “The highly talented engineers from Gujarat are attracted to mobile software and are interested in firms providing the mobile exposure. This is a radical shift from the traditional bias towards Microsoft-led IT Services. IIT-Gandhinagar, Gujarat Universtity, Nirma Universtity and other leading colleges are helping create the next generation of talent.”
MobileMonday Ahmedabad activities will commence in October. All events of MobileMonday Ahmedabad are open to everyone and free of cost. If you are interested to participate, please contact MobileMonday Team.
MobileMonday Ahmedabad Contacts:
jari.tammisto(at)mobilemonday.fi
ashok(at)momo-ahmedabad.in
rajnikant(at)momo-ahmedabad.in
gargi(at)momo-ahmedabad.in
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Kerala Snapshots 2010
Pictures From Our Kerala Trip – Sep 2010. Detailed Travelogue To Follow !
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-12
- Ignorance Is Bliss ! #
- The Wrong Answer Will Indicate The Right One – The Pilgrimage #
- The New Blackberry Cloud – Test on Real Blackberries Around The World http://lnkd.in/tyva2t #
- Anybody Who Dies Rich, Dies Disgraced – Andrew Carnegie #
- Eid Mubarak ! #
- Though No One Can Go Back & Make A Brand New Start, Anyone Can Start From Now & Make A Band New Ending #
- Michammi Dukkadam ! #
- The Strongest Muscle In The Body Is The Tongue #
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Michammi Dukkadam
Forgiveness is the mental, emotional and/or spiritual process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution
I say, from the bottom of my heart, without any reservation, I forgive all living beings who may have caused me any pain and suffering either in this life or previous lives, and I beg for the forgiveness from all living beings, no matter how small or big to whom I may have caused pain and suffering in this life or previous lives, knowingly or unknowingly.
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Crossword In Gujarati
Crossword is a daily habit with millions of people. Many people including my parents take up the newspaper and start with Crossword. They fight for it as well. It is a ritual for many on Mumbai local trains. It is goes with morning tea for many. It is a mind yoga for several friends. The joy of solving the crossword is a pleasure of its own kind.
Gujaratilexicon brings the ever popular game of Crossword on your computer. Try it. Share it with Friends.
GL Crossword – http://www.gujaratilexicon.com/crossword/
GL Crossword is another addition to Gujarati Games after the popular Quick Quiz
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Hindu Business Line – InfoStretch To Raise Headcount
InfoStretch has featured in this week’s The Hindu Business Line
Please read the article here:
InfoStretch to raise headcount To tap emerging market in mobile testing, applications.
The US-headquartered InfoStretch Solutions, which launched the India Mobile Device Cloud in June, is increasing its workforcefive times in the next three years to tap into the emerging market in mobile testing and applications, worth $USD 31 billion, globally. A customer can use any cloud-enabled mobile phone, or prevent its misuse, from a computer anywhere in the world even if he does not actually physically possess. Moreover, the customer need not regularly upgrade his cellular phone to avail himself of the different services being added.
Smart shift
According to a Gartner report, most of the mobile phones in the world would be smart phones by 2013. “In India, about 15-20 per cent of all mobile phones, out of the current 600 million, added by 15-20 million annually, will be high-end smart phones,” Mr Ashok Karania, Head, Business Strategy, InfoStretch, told Business Line here. With this emerging market scenario, InfoStretch plans to increase its current strength of 300, in the US and India, to 1,500. Besides, InfoStretch is starting operations in Europe, Canada and Singapore, and looking for partners elsewhere. At present, InfoStretch has workstations at Santa Clara, New York, Seattle and Mumbai, besides Ahmedabad.
Cloud in India
India is only the sixth country in the world to have the Perfecto device cloud, after the US, the UK, Canada, France and Israel. InfoStretch was instrumental in bringing and managing the mobile cloud to India, he said. After the US-based Device Anywhere, InfoStretch is the only company in the world to provide such solutions that enable different kinds of mobile phones with varied specifications to come on a common platform to share common services.
He said the software testing market, globally, is seen at $13 billion in the next two years. This would include mobile testing market of $4-5 billion. Similarly, the global mobile applications market would be $18 billion, including $5 billion for India-based companies providing services abroad. Of this, about 5-10 per cent market will also be the Indian domestic market. In June this year, InfoStretch had added Indian devices and carriers to Perfecto Mobile’s global remote testing network to facilitate remote testing of applications on these devices and carriers.
InfoStretch, which provides mobile testing and certification services and customised mobile development, through its India Mobile Device Cloud, seeks to make Indian handsets and networks available to the global community of mobile developers and content providers. It also offered Indian developers access to the global network of remote devices. By combining its testing expertise, automation framework and global reach with Perfecto Mobile’s automated testing and remote device access technology, InfoStretch offered an end-to-end solution for a wide-range of testing needs through a single source. The system provides a Web-based user-interface through which the mobile community can use any handset in the same way a real-life user would, through its keys, touch-screen, or QWERTY keyboard, to validate that the handset and its applications work properly.
The system allows mobile telephone developers to test on real mobile devices without having to physically obtain them, on multiple devices and geographies, including India, on a variety of device models and OS versions, access the latest and popular handsets, showcase their mobile application by taking screenshots and video clips and run automated tests across multiple handsets. It provides for automated solutions as well, through which users will be able to install applications on handsets, automatically send SMS and email messages to the device under test and compare how their mobile Web pages are displayed on different phones.
The Indian mobile community could now access more than 1,800 mobile handsets at a click of a button, Mr Karania, said, adding his company also provides dedicated private handset cloud systems for mobile operators, handset manufacturers, and independent software vendors. InfoStretch services are being procured by leading VAS providers, mobile development and gaming companies, media houses, and others to improve the quality of their mobile offering.
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InfoStretch – The Partner To Rely On For Enterprise Moble Apps
InfoStretch, the leader in Mobile Solutions for Enterprise & Fortune Companies, continues to make news. One of the most read Silicon Valley publication, Silicon Valley San Jose Business Journal, recently acknowledged the difference InfoStretch is making !
Quick Excerpts:THE BUSINESS: Infostretch Corp. develops software and software-as-a-service mobile applications for companies. It also manages the testing, distribution and certification of the apps across different app stores and smartphone operating systems.
CUSTOMERS: Infostretch has provided mobile applications for customers in industries ranging from the financial sector, health care and telecommunications industries. Some of its clients include T-Mobile USA Inc., Sony Corp. of America’s subsidiary Gracenote, Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group, The Body Shop International plc., Dolby Laboratories Inc., Carrier IQ Inc., Ingenuity Systems Inc., Aravo Solutions Inc., Minted LLC and TNS UK Ltd.
LONG-TERM GOAL: CEO Rutesh Shah said that Infostretch plans to expand into the United Kingdom, Australia, China and India within the next two to three years. Shah said this follows the positive experience of opening a new office in New York that pulled in six new clients after less than six months of operation. Shah said that India and China are targeted because of their growing pools of mobile-devices users.
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Results Vs Processes !
Every organization has star performers and champions. Quite often these champs have a different way of doing things – they abhor bureaucracy, are passionate about goals and want to get the job done quickly. For them processes are a hurdle. Many IT Geeks I know – they are magicians with code but they just do not want to update the Project Management Software. Or The Sales Dude who exceeds his targets but never updates the CRM or is always late.
As organizations grow, it is important for multiple stake-holders to create sustainable, predictable and light-weight processes which help in an objective, knowledge-rich and manageable growth. Processes require extra effort and attention in the short-run but they help in the long run. It needs the support of top management in form of leading the processes and communicating the importance of these processes.
I believe that champs will continue to be champs with processes in place – in fact they will know the distance between them and also rans ! So the answer to Results Vs Processes is Results Backed By Processes !