Google Inc is building software to run services on mobile phones rather than gearing up to build its own phone, as many industry sources have speculated, one Wall Street analyst said on Thursday.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said in a research note to clients that Google appears to be building software for Web search on mobile phones and location-finding services to work with Apple Inc's iPhone and other mobile phones.
"We believe Google is working with, not against, Apple in the mobile world," Munster said.
In recent months, various reports have described how Web search leader Google could be developing a 'Gphone'--a low-cost, Internet-connected phone with a color, wide-screen design. Newspaper and blog reports in recent months have Google shopping its phone design to potential mobile phone manufacturing partners in Asia.
Gadget enthusiasts who only two months ago were obsessed with the potential revolutionary impact on the phone industry of Apple Inc's iPhone device--due out in June and at prices starting at $500--have shifted their attention to whether Google is developing an even lower-cost phone.
"We obviously need another mythical mobile to drool over and speculate about--and the natural candidate is, of course, the so-called Google phone," geek hardware site Engadget wrote earlier this month at http://tinyurl.com/3b7bow.
"Mobile is an important area for Google," Google spokeswoman Erin Fors said last week. "We remain focused on creating applications and establishing and growing partnerships with industry leaders to develop innovative services for users worldwide. However, we have nothing further to announce."
Speculation about Google products has been wrong before. Google was widely reported to be building its own line of personal computers a little over a year ago. What in fact materialized was a set of free software programs designed to make any existing Windows PCs easier to use.
Over the past year, Google has branched out beyond computers to bring Web search, e-mail, mapping and other Internet services to millions of new and existing phone browsers worldwide. Rivals Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc also are racing to run Web services on mobile phones.
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'Google building software, not mobile phone'
March 24, 2007, 8:00 amJet Airways to launch US flight by July-Aug
March 24, 2007, 7:57 am
After a 15-month delay and getting stuck in a security probe, the country's top private airline Jet Airways will launch its long-planned maiden flight to the US by July-August this year.
The Mumbai-Brussels-Newark flight was slotted for takeoff on August 15 but efforts are now being made to advance the launch date, highly-placed sources in the airline told PTI here today.
Jet's American operations was originally scheduled in October 2005 but it got stalled follwing an inquiry by US Department of Transportation. The probe was carried out after an American company, also named Jet, alleged that its Indian namesake had underworld links.
The charges were investigated and subsequently found to be untrue. Jet was later given security clearance by Home Ministry last year.
The flight, to be operated by a Boeing-777 aircraft with a three-class configuration, may have an inaugural offer for an economy class return ticket at Rs 45,000 plus taxes.
Jet Airways also announced making Ahmedabad the fourth Indian city in its network to have direct flights to London's Heathrow airport from April 3.
Sources said the Ahmedabad-London-Heathrow flight would be launched on April three as a twice-a-week service, but the frequency would be increased to thrice-a-week from May one. It already operates to London from Delhi, Mumbai and Amritsar.
The initial economy return fare on the Ahmedabad-London sector would be Rs 22,000 plus taxes only, the sources said, adding this inaugural fare was likely to be valid for a month.
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The Mumbai-Brussels-Newark flight was slotted for takeoff on August 15 but efforts are now being made to advance the launch date, highly-placed sources in the airline told PTI here today.
Jet's American operations was originally scheduled in October 2005 but it got stalled follwing an inquiry by US Department of Transportation. The probe was carried out after an American company, also named Jet, alleged that its Indian namesake had underworld links.
The charges were investigated and subsequently found to be untrue. Jet was later given security clearance by Home Ministry last year.
The flight, to be operated by a Boeing-777 aircraft with a three-class configuration, may have an inaugural offer for an economy class return ticket at Rs 45,000 plus taxes.
Jet Airways also announced making Ahmedabad the fourth Indian city in its network to have direct flights to London's Heathrow airport from April 3.
Sources said the Ahmedabad-London-Heathrow flight would be launched on April three as a twice-a-week service, but the frequency would be increased to thrice-a-week from May one. It already operates to London from Delhi, Mumbai and Amritsar.
The initial economy return fare on the Ahmedabad-London sector would be Rs 22,000 plus taxes only, the sources said, adding this inaugural fare was likely to be valid for a month.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
Women venture beyond traditional to make their mark
March 24, 2007, 7:55 am
Ahmedabad, March 23: It isn’t just traditional business like pickles or handicrafts, Gujarati women entrepreneurs are treading into new and unknown territories and have become successful at that too Figures available with the business-women wing of the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) put the annual turnover of such entrepreneurs in Ahmedabad at over Rs 200 crore. Many such enterprising women gathered at the GCCI premises on Ashram Road on Friday at a function held to felicitate successful women entrepreneurs.
Women entrepreneurs in the State have gone beyond the traditional handicrafts business to venture into areas like that of manufacturing machines tools and even electronic goods. What’s unique about them is that they have excelled in their businesses without any compromise towards their family commitments. “Running the business and simultaneously looking after the children were never a difficult task for us,” they say.
Veenaben Parikh, who has three grown up sons, is engaged in the manufacture of ‘force-free’ lubricators and hydraulic cylinders used in compressor industries, since 2002. Her turnover in the first year of her business was merely Rs 26 lakh, this has now jumped to Rs 1.5 crore. She is in the process of setting up another manufacturing unit at Dahegam to expand her business.
Another woman Dakshaben Yagnik, who is manufactures packaging materials like corrugated boxes, has even developed a new material replacing thermocol after thorough research and development. She says that this packaging material can bear more pressure and works where even thermocol fails. She is doing a roaring business with her company getting orders throughout the year. Quite a shy lady, Dakshaben says her annual turnover is over Rs 1 crore. The success list doesn’t end here. Jalpaben Patel of Asal Caning Centre has also scripted her emergence as a successful business-woman.
Chairperson of GCCI’s business-women wing Gauri Chandani, a tax consultant and vice- president of Income Tax Bar Association, said that with favourable atmosphere for growth, more and more women were coming forward to set up their own ventures. She said that there were a number of women in Ahmedabad and other towns of Gujarat working in areas like information technology, fast consumer-durable goods, readymade garments, BPO, insurance, event management and tourism business.
She said over 450 women entrepreneurs were registered with GCCI and wanted the State Government to provide more infrastructural facilities, like outlets at exhibitions to women entrepreunrs, at concessional rates to promote women entrepreneurship.
While addressing the women entrepreneurs at the function, State Education Minister Anandiben Patel, expressed her happiness over women coming forward to establish their own business. She hoped that Kanya Kelavani Scheme, which encourages enrollment of girl-child in schools, will revolutionise the scene vis a vis women in the next 10 to 15 years with women achieving almost 100 per cent literacy in the State.
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Women entrepreneurs in the State have gone beyond the traditional handicrafts business to venture into areas like that of manufacturing machines tools and even electronic goods. What’s unique about them is that they have excelled in their businesses without any compromise towards their family commitments. “Running the business and simultaneously looking after the children were never a difficult task for us,” they say.
Veenaben Parikh, who has three grown up sons, is engaged in the manufacture of ‘force-free’ lubricators and hydraulic cylinders used in compressor industries, since 2002. Her turnover in the first year of her business was merely Rs 26 lakh, this has now jumped to Rs 1.5 crore. She is in the process of setting up another manufacturing unit at Dahegam to expand her business.
Another woman Dakshaben Yagnik, who is manufactures packaging materials like corrugated boxes, has even developed a new material replacing thermocol after thorough research and development. She says that this packaging material can bear more pressure and works where even thermocol fails. She is doing a roaring business with her company getting orders throughout the year. Quite a shy lady, Dakshaben says her annual turnover is over Rs 1 crore. The success list doesn’t end here. Jalpaben Patel of Asal Caning Centre has also scripted her emergence as a successful business-woman.
Chairperson of GCCI’s business-women wing Gauri Chandani, a tax consultant and vice- president of Income Tax Bar Association, said that with favourable atmosphere for growth, more and more women were coming forward to set up their own ventures. She said that there were a number of women in Ahmedabad and other towns of Gujarat working in areas like information technology, fast consumer-durable goods, readymade garments, BPO, insurance, event management and tourism business.
She said over 450 women entrepreneurs were registered with GCCI and wanted the State Government to provide more infrastructural facilities, like outlets at exhibitions to women entrepreunrs, at concessional rates to promote women entrepreneurship.
While addressing the women entrepreneurs at the function, State Education Minister Anandiben Patel, expressed her happiness over women coming forward to establish their own business. She hoped that Kanya Kelavani Scheme, which encourages enrollment of girl-child in schools, will revolutionise the scene vis a vis women in the next 10 to 15 years with women achieving almost 100 per cent literacy in the State.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
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