he Internet is set to revolutionise television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday.
"I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had," he told business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum.
The rise of high-speed Internet and the popularity of video sites like Google Inc.'s YouTube has already led to a worldwide decline in the number hours spent by young people in front of a TV set.
In the years ahead, more and more viewers will hanker after the flexibility offered by online video and abandon conventional broadcast television, with its fixed program slots and advertisements that interrupt shows, Gates said.
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Web will be bigger than TV: Gates
January 29, 2007, 10:06 amIndians give thumbs down to mobile operators
January 29, 2007, 10:04 am
India, the world's fastest growing wireless market, might by attracting global attention from the likes of Britain's Vodafone and Egypt's Orascom, but most existing operators fail to meet sector regulator TRAI's customer satisfaction benchmark.
he country is adding more than six million mobile connections every month, but the quality of service provided to the subscribers is still way below satisfactory, according to a survey by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Only one out of the 128 cellular licensees–Bharti Airtel in Mumbai-in the country has been able to meet the overall customer satisfaction benchmark of 95 per cent.
In Delhi, Idea and MTNL's services were rated the worst with an index of 84 per cent each.
In A, B and C circles, not a single operator reached the TRAI's benchmark index for overall customer satisfaction.
"Overall customer satisfaction level is poor in all circles," the survey said.
On network performance parameters, only 14 out 128 operators met TRAI's benchmark index of 95 per cent. In metro circles, Airtel in Mumbai met the benchmark with 99 per cent.
Reliance Communications operating in Mumbai was the worst performer with an index of 68 per cent.
In A, B and C telecom circles, BSNL and RCoM recorded the worst satisfaction level in network performance with an index of only one per cent in Uttar Pradesh (east) circle.
The survey said 75.5 per cent of operators achieved 90 per cent satisfaction level in prepaid segment against 52.34 per cent operators achieving the level in postpaid segment.
In helpline services, 89 out of 123 service providers did not meet the benchmark, while 90 out of 105 operators did not meet the benchmark in maintenance segment.
Courtesy : www.expressindia.com
he country is adding more than six million mobile connections every month, but the quality of service provided to the subscribers is still way below satisfactory, according to a survey by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Only one out of the 128 cellular licensees–Bharti Airtel in Mumbai-in the country has been able to meet the overall customer satisfaction benchmark of 95 per cent.
In Delhi, Idea and MTNL's services were rated the worst with an index of 84 per cent each.
In A, B and C circles, not a single operator reached the TRAI's benchmark index for overall customer satisfaction.
"Overall customer satisfaction level is poor in all circles," the survey said.
On network performance parameters, only 14 out 128 operators met TRAI's benchmark index of 95 per cent. In metro circles, Airtel in Mumbai met the benchmark with 99 per cent.
Reliance Communications operating in Mumbai was the worst performer with an index of 68 per cent.
In A, B and C telecom circles, BSNL and RCoM recorded the worst satisfaction level in network performance with an index of only one per cent in Uttar Pradesh (east) circle.
The survey said 75.5 per cent of operators achieved 90 per cent satisfaction level in prepaid segment against 52.34 per cent operators achieving the level in postpaid segment.
In helpline services, 89 out of 123 service providers did not meet the benchmark, while 90 out of 105 operators did not meet the benchmark in maintenance segment.
Courtesy : www.expressindia.com
Popularity of Web brands signals power shift
January 29, 2007, 10:02 am
A consumer poll on Friday exposed the worst kept secret in the business world: Internet companies are becoming more important to people than firms that operate in the real world.
Google retained its title as the world's most influential brand, and video-sharing site YouTube and online encyclopedia Wikpedia were catapulted into the top five at the No. 3 and 4 spots, according to the annual survey by online branding magazine brandchannel.com.
While brandchannel's survey is not uncontroversial as it asks 3,625 branding professionals and students "Which brand had the most impact on our lives in 2006?", rather than measuring economic impact, the evidence of the result is everywhere.
Visitors of technology and telecoms tradeshows, for instance, may be forgiven for thinking that photo-sharing site Flickr, blogging software firm Vox, Internet calling service Skype and YouTube are multibillion dollar companies, because no company from the old world announces anything without them.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Internet service provider Yahoo, at 12 years already an old timer in the Web world, was marched on stage during several "joint product" announcements, including those with Sony (founded in 1946) and Motorola (from 192
.
Mobile phone giant Nokia (founded 1865) needed Skype, Flickr and Vox to beef up its new product launches.
"All innovation is coming from the edge of the Internet," said James Enck, an analyst at Daiwa Securities, referring to the websites which offer services online.
Courtesy : www.expressindia.com
Google retained its title as the world's most influential brand, and video-sharing site YouTube and online encyclopedia Wikpedia were catapulted into the top five at the No. 3 and 4 spots, according to the annual survey by online branding magazine brandchannel.com.
While brandchannel's survey is not uncontroversial as it asks 3,625 branding professionals and students "Which brand had the most impact on our lives in 2006?", rather than measuring economic impact, the evidence of the result is everywhere.
Visitors of technology and telecoms tradeshows, for instance, may be forgiven for thinking that photo-sharing site Flickr, blogging software firm Vox, Internet calling service Skype and YouTube are multibillion dollar companies, because no company from the old world announces anything without them.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Internet service provider Yahoo, at 12 years already an old timer in the Web world, was marched on stage during several "joint product" announcements, including those with Sony (founded in 1946) and Motorola (from 192
.Mobile phone giant Nokia (founded 1865) needed Skype, Flickr and Vox to beef up its new product launches.
"All innovation is coming from the edge of the Internet," said James Enck, an analyst at Daiwa Securities, referring to the websites which offer services online.
Courtesy : www.expressindia.com
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