Rising income levels in Bangalore / Bengalooru has put the city in the eyes of the world's best music system retailers.
Audio Video Revolution 2007 has begun today @ Kanteerva stadium. I like good Audio Systems but I feel a specialist can do a better job in reviewing the same. Yes, I bumped into an old school friend of mine, who now works for Philips CES and also has a blog to review the Sound and Music Systems.
We have heard about the Indian economy being overheated, but what do you call these announcements about BSNL IPTV and Bollywood on Demand ?
IPTV never makes sense to me in the context of Indian consumer. Questions sent to Airtel and BSNL GM, Dr Chakravarty, on IPTV have went unanswered. I think the journalists reporting these stories have no knowledge about what they write. Take for instance the BSNL IPTV announcement, not even a single reporter thought of questioning BSNL chief the simplest question - Unlimited Bandwidth ?
Now we see that Eros entertainment is partnering with Intel to provide Bollywood content on demand. I don't know the inner details of Eros - Intel deal but Eros has confirmed in a written response that, only Intel platform users can view the content. This means if you have a Media Center PC powered by AMD64, you can't enjoy the Bollywood content distributed by Eros.
Are the regulators of fair market or MRTPC [Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commision] in India reading this article ?
NASSCOM, India's voice for the IT and ITeS industry recently hosted the Indian Animation and Gaming conference in Hyderabad. Here are some important highlights about the Indian gaming industry.
The Indian Gaming industry was estimated to be USD 48 Million in 2006 and is likely to record a 72% CAGR over the next 4 years and reach USD 424 Million by 2010
India's leading ISP and international bandwidth carrier, VSNL along with Tata Indicom is set to live with IT Minister's words in making 2007 a year of broadband in India.
VSNL said that the cost of building wired broadband infrastructure per consumer is approximately Rs 20,000 and the same using Wimax deployment is Rs 25,000. VSNL however expects the WiMax based deployment costs to go down substantially in the next few years. VSNL is testing WiMax deployment in parts of Bangalore / Bengalooru city using Tata Indicom's towers but unsure when it will be made available to the consumer.
Published on Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 7:52 PM0 comments
Anil Ambani controlled, Reliance Communications Ltd which is desperately bidding for Hutch Essar's mobile operation is not wasting a minute when it comes International Bandwith. It launched the building of Next Generation Network [NGN] through its subsidiary, Flag Telecom. Anil said that it will take upto 36 months to build the NGN which will become the world's largest submarine cable system.
Flag NGN when completed will span across 60 countries in four continents reaching serving 5 billion people i.e 5 out of 6 people in the world.
Published on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 at 9:01 PM0 comments
