Skimming Prices of Desktops and Laptops
For all those who could not afford a Desktop or Laptop now is the time. Full configuration, sophisticated features are now available at throwaway prices. Desktops in India are now available in the range of 20,000 Rs. (Assembled) to 30,000 Rs for branded ones like the Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop. Laptops with Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB RAM are as low as 35,000 Rs. for Dell Inspiron 1525 laptops. About 1 year back the same configuration of laptop was available for as high as 85,000 to 1,00,000 Rs. . So friends going could not get much better. Although Quad Core Intel Chips are the latest but for an average user the C2D is a good processor. And India and world over the variety and brand choice is abound and plentiful. So go an, make your pick, owning a computer was never going to harm any body’s interest.
Virus Programs and Computer Stability If you by chance Install two virus scan programs there is a serious threat of system instability. I did it with ENOD 32 and McCafee and experienced problems. So always uninstall one Virus program before Installing the other, to keep your system safe and agile in response time. The system instability also occurs because both the programs become Memory Resident and take up your valuable resources in RAM just not freeing up enough space for your regular programs.
Nokia’s Green Foray
It seems that Nokia has launched 40 Models of Green Phones to assuage the “Green Peace” an Ngo which ranked it 9th in 2007 as against 1st in 2006 as Eco Friendly organization. West is particularly aware about green Issues and hence the market share in west specifically depends on such rankings by Independent Authorities. According to sources such models will hardly affect Indian market where customers are least aware of any such moves. The first of these models which is 65% recyclable is already launched by Nokia. Hope Nokia’s ranking in 2005 Green Peace award improves this year.
Will Google Survive Google is placed precariously riskily as it depends 99% on search advertising. Slowly and surely Google is going to loose its dominant position as China, Europe and India will have there own companies which understand the local geography well and are surely likely to succeed to at least some degree in reducing the clout of Google. Google has added tens of new applications through Google Labs but all of them turn out to be just incremental and no blockbuster product has been introduced which could turn the Industry Dynamics towards it. Google is towards open sourcing, I think the opposite could help them. I mean by going revenues. Like they could enter the OS and Desk Top applications market, by having full fledged Desk Top version of MS Office and charge a 20% less than Microsoft. They already have Cloud Version of Office software and they could convert the Design to desktop in about a Month and do so. This gambit could create an additional source of income for Google and could seriously challenge the position of Microsoft. Also they could improve and refine the way search results by taking optional feedback from users about relevance and usefulness of search results thrown. This way they could even increase their market share Globally and in the US. How do you rank my strategy, Friends? Hmm!
