Tetrahedral Model of Business

August 20th, 2008 Vodaphone sent the pricing for iPhone 3G 8GB and 16GB models in India and I have to tell you it is daylight robbery! The iPhone 3G 8GB model costs Rs. 31, 000 (~ 738$) from Vodaphone whereas the 16GB model costs Rs.

July 19th, 2006 I am intrigued by OpenDNS business model. OpenDNS is a startup which offers DNS service to any user accessing the internet.

March 23rd, 2005 PubSub is a tool to push feed items to your desktop. You register at PubSub, identify topics of interest and the news will start coming to your desktop automated and in near real-time.

February 21st, 2006 Amazon is preparing to launch its own portable digital music player in direct competition to Apple's iPod. The plan is interesting for its business model.

June 30th, 2009 Swedish software firm buys Pirate BaySTOCKHOLM — A small Swedish software firm announced Tuesday it has purchased The Pirate Bay, the popular filesharing Web site, for 60 million kronor ($7.8 million). Global Gaming Factory X said the deal would include rights to use the Pirate Bay domain name and accompanying Web sites.

March 14th, 2005 On the long term viability of free content and free software - a side by side look.

April 4th, 2005 Previously I had posted on one of the best use of Flash. Now I have seen the second best use of Flash - as a cookie creator, cookies (persistent user information stored on client machines and accessible from the web server and are often used to track client's online activity) which are hard to delete and are not amenable to normal methods of cookie deletion.

September 16th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Business software maker Oracle reported a 5 percent decline in quarterly revenue Wednesday as businesses held off on buying new software. The Silicon Valley company said its sales dropped to $5.1 billion, but the company managed to increase profits by 8 percent to $1.1 billion, compared to $1.07 billion in the year-ago quarter.

June 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - IBM has signed a $15-million (Rs.71-million) outsourcing deal with Eureka Forbes Ltd., a leading Indian health and hygiene solutions firm, to provide business consulting, package implementation, infrastructure and application management services for five years, the global IT major said Monday. As part of the engagement, IBM's India subsidiary will take over the IT staff of Eureka Forbes and leverage its research expertise to help improve its customer's revenue with new tools.

February 1st, 2005 I have seen references in web-pages requesting visitors to show their appreciation or help by clicking on the advertiser's link. Such desperate methods are of questionable ethics as it provides unwanted clicks for the advertisers, who pays for them.

September 2nd, 2009 AP Sources: YouTube to offer online movie rentalsLOS ANGELES — YouTube, Google Inc.'s online video streaming service, is in talks with Hollywood studios to rent new release movies online, according to people familiar with the talks. The move follows similar deals by Apple Inc.'s iTunes and others.

July 31st, 2006 Apple has asked owners of its 15 inch MacBook Pro notebook who bought their machine between February and May 2006 to contact the company and request a replacement battery. Apple stressed the batteries it wants to replace "do not pose a safety risk".

June 19th, 2006 Microsoft Corp. is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple's iPod and creating its own music service to rival Apple's iTunes, sources familiar with the plans said on Friday.

December 20th, 2004 Ellison Brookes developer in James Goslings thoughts agrees with James Gosling that Sun's strangle hold of the APIs leads to greater stablilty. This is true.

May 18th, 2005 An excellent article describing Blackberry architecture and two application models (The browser-based model or Custom Java Application). The browser-based model allows developers to focus on developing back-end content in a standard markup language, such as the Wireless Markup Language (WML) or the compact Hypertext Markup Language (cHTML).