Apple's Magic Trackpad

Now's the time to say Goodbye to the mouse!!! For here, comes the Trackpad!!!

The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. And inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. Use it in place of a mouse or in conjunction with one on any Mac computer — even a notebook.


Magic Trackpad is just like the trackpad on the MacBook Pro — but bigger. It’s made with the same advanced touch-friendly and wear-resistant glass surface. But with nearly 80 percent more area, it’s the largest Multi-Touch trackpad made by Apple. So there’s even more room for you to scroll, swipe, pinch, and rotate to your fingers’ content. And since the entire surface is a button that clicks, you can use it in place of a mouse.

Magic Trackpad features the same sculpted aluminum design as the Apple Wireless Keyboard, and side by side the two sit flush at the same angle and height. Go from typing to gesturing in one motion, or do both at the same time.

Magic Trackpad works using Bluetooth technology, so you don’t have to deal with an annoying cable that dictates where you place it. Once you pair Magic Trackpad with your Bluetooth-enabled Mac, you’ll enjoy a reliable, secure connection up to 33 feet away. Magic Trackpad detects periods of inactivity, and it’s equipped with an on/off switch. Together these features help to conserve battery life, so you can keep gesturing for months at a time.

Airtel Daily Use Pack Rs.5

Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced their new Daily Use Pack priced at just Rs.5 for its mobile customers in Delhi NCR. The Pack will enable customers to choose from various tariff options on a daily basis without any hassles. Under the plan, customers can choose from any one of the benefits listed below:

• 9 min of STD and Local calls

• 150 national and local sms

• Airtel to Airtel calls at 30p per min

• 50 min of night calling

• 50 MB of mobile internet

One can choose as many plans one wants by just dialing *222# (toll free). The price of each plan is Rs 5. For more details pls visit http://www.airtel.in/.

Mr. Shashi Arora, CEO - Delhi & NCR , Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel Limited, said, “Airtel has launched this cost effective daily plan so as to make our services more affordable for our pre-paid customers. We are confident that this value-added initiative will greatly benefit our customers and in return strengthen our association with them.”

He added, “Earlier, Airtel initiatives like the Easy Charge, Special five, Lifetime Validity have revolutionized the Indian market in terms of creating customer value. Airtel will continue to come up with offerings that facilitate an affordable and great mobile experience for our customers”.

Agile Product Lifecycle Management can help Pharmaceutical & Biotech Companies

The pharmaceutical and biotech companies should check out Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management.

Having worked in a pharmaceutical company (Eli Lilly), I can understand the risks and pains associated with the development of a single drug. It involves million of dollars and takes 10-15 years to develop a single drug. And even then it might fail during the development stage or clinical trial stage or might fail due to non-compliance with regulations.

As per Oracle, Agile is a complete product lifecycle management solution suite built on industry best practices that enables organizations to manage-from a single interface-the product compliant dataset throughout its lifecycle, including research and development, prototype development, clinical trials, regulatory submissions, new product introduction, market acceptance, and end-of-life content.

Oracle claimed that the major benefits that the Agile PLM solutions can provide to the pharmaceutical companies are as listed below:

• Drive product innovation and introduction with one central solution for collaboration across research networks both internally and externally, and managing all product portfolio aspects such as project and resource management, thereby automating the design control process across the organization

• Lower inefficiency and compliance exposure with a secure workflow-enabled change management processes for core product record components such as development documents and records, product and process specifications, through regulatory submission information providing a compliant archive to support regulatory audits

• Support enterprise quality management by providing one central solution for aggregating, analyzing, and acting on product quality issues from customer complaints to manufacturing deviations to adverse-event information or supplier corrective actions, and "closing the loop" on these quality events by resolving the product quality problem and communicating the resolution to all parties involved, including compiling medical device reports for submission to the FDA

• Enable regulatory compliance by providing the infrastructure to meet the requirements outlined by the FDA's quality system regulations, as well as providing a platform for full compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11. Agile also provides solutions to help speed the validation of your Agile PLM system implementation

• Leverage outsourced research, design, manufacturing, and packaging by providing secure role-based access to product information and progress status, allowing the company to focus on its core competency while ensuring swift progress and high-quality from its networked supply chain

From my perspective, the biggest benefit seems to be:

a) The ability to collaborate. Diverse groups are involved during the development of a single group and at each development phase; and if the groups or individuals are able to collaborate or if there is a break/miscommunication/misinformation during the flow of information—the whole cycle might break; that would result in loss of millions of dollars and wastage of hundreds of manhours.

b) Enabling regulatory compliance as listed by FDA and specifically full compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11. Non-compliance whether willing or unwilling with the FDA guidelines can mean a complete ban of the drug. Agile PLM can help be compliant with regulations like FDA 21 CFR Part 11.

Steve Disappoints iPhone Fans

The flaw in the iPhone 4 got termed as Antennagate and went viral faster than Apple could even think of a strategy or a stop gap solution. Even the Apple die-hard fans were left wondering why and how could such a problem be there in an Apple product and that too in an iPhone that was supposed to beat even the most optimistic product sales figures.

 

So the conference called by Steve to explain the problem to the select media and bloggers was the most sought after and awaited event. But even here, Apple failed to capitalise (going by the media reports).

 

Check out the press conference here.

 

Steve refused to admit that there was a problem and in fact claimed that problem exists with most of the Smart Phones (from RIM, HTC etc).

 

 

 

The solution that Steve offered were:

• Install the new iOS 4.0.1 update as it is supposed to fix the signal strength bars.
• Get free bumpers and cases from Apple. Those customers who have already brough the bumpers will be refunded.

 

His solution did not seem to merit appreciation as it seemed like a stop gap solution. He did admit later that Apple engineers are working overtime to fix this problem.

 

Knowing Apple we can confidently say thi problem will definietly be overcomes and a solution will be there to resolve the current problems. Let's wait and see what comes out.

 

But Apple's competitors are happy and customers are annoyed!!!

LTE-WiMAX War Goes On

The Indian telecom sector is on a high surge. Gartner had predicted that the Indian mobile subscriber base will cross 771 million by 2013. In fact, the total telecom subscriber base for India has already reached 638.05 million subscribers with a tele-density of 54.10. Additionally, Indian mobile operators have collectively added 16.9 million new mobile subscribers and hence the total subscriber base jumped to 601.22 million.


The opening of the 3G spectrum is further expected to boost the fast growing telecom sector. The market will definitely heat up with innovative products and services which would be beneficial for the customers as well for the service providers. And in this rapidly expanding market, companies with new and unique solutions will emerge as the leaders.

3G Scenario and Perception
There is more to 3G than the faster internet access and downloads, excess data limit, and better video and picture quality. The technology and the capital involved in providing 3G services to the customers is complex. In fact, 3G operations require large scale investment and are highly risky due to increasingly diversified and segmented requirements. Additionally, the investment patterns will lead to more diversification in the market.There would be more direct investment from shareholder and strategic investor, borrowing from local and international financial market, vendor financing from suppliers and revenue generation from current asset like tower.

In addition, it would be necessary for the service providers to have a robust network to roll out the 3G services where the scalability of the network would become extremely important. So as to provide seamless services to its customers, it would become increasingly more critical for the service providers to have the correct infrastructure and network, and the appropriate amount of capital.

Even though 3G offers much higher bit rates as compared to 2G, there are other technologies that enable the service providers to cater to the ever-increasing demand for fast wireless broadband. These kinds of technically innovation can not only improved the ROI but can also cut down the costs of deploying mobile broadband networks. All these demands and economical sense have led the service providers to 4G technologies.
 
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Psstt: Google to rival Facebook

Well, there’s been a chatter doing rounds that Google is coming out with something to rival Facebook. Well, Good Luck!! It would be tough to beat the giant that Facebook has become in the social networking scenario. But then it’s Google!!!

Google did come out with Orkut to use it at the place to be in for the netizens and to touch base with their friends and known ones. It was of same idea but with a different perception. It did well in countries like India and Brazil; but it did not really hit off in the major places of the world. Then it came out with Buzz which was similar to Twitter, but again it was not really a master-stroke.

Now Google is reportedly taking the talked about social networking initiative seriously. A Google insider even mentioned that Google sees Facebook as a strong competitor, and amount of data it stores (thanks to it ever growing members)—it won’t be a surprise if it comes out with a Search Engine of its own.

Google has the muscle and the talent to do it. Just look at success of its Android phones. Here wishing luck to Google!!!