Tech Talk by Najam

Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models

2012-01-02T08:42:00.002+01:00

Also “completely virtual” are the models at the center of H&M’s swimsuit and lingerie online campaigns, the Swedish-based retailer confirmed. “It’s not a real body; it is completely virtual and made by the computer,” H&M press officer Hacan Andersson told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an article questioning the company’s picture-perfect online models.more......H&M under fire for using '

comScore Releases July 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings - comScore, Inc

2011-12-22T14:30:00.000+01:00

comScore Releases July 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings - comScore, Inc

Connect your things to the Internet - IoT

2011-11-29T09:29:00.004+01:00

http://ninjablocks.com/http://www.greenwavereality.com/http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/twine-listen-to-your-world-talk-to-the-internet

UI enviornment comparision

2011-10-13T16:17:00.002+02:00

Java vs. Flash vs. Silverlighthttp://www.shinedraw.com/image-manipulation/javafx-vs-flash-vs-silverlight/http://www.3djam.com/rozz/demo/speed_demo.aspxhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqjidzjkMM0

Quasicrystal - Nobel Prize

2011-10-06T18:22:00.002+02:00

Vindicated: Ridiculed Israeli scientist wins NobelJERUSALEM (AP) — When Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman claimed to have stumbled upon a new crystalline chemical structure that seemed to violate the laws of nature, colleagues mocked him, insulted him and exiled him from his research group.After years in the scientific wilderness, though, he was proved right. And on Wednesday, he received the

Facebook and Yahoo news

2011-09-27T17:11:00.005+02:00

Faster than Light

2011-09-25T23:22:00.002+02:00

I thought about it couple of years back, didn't thought that it will get real in my life. One other item will be added in this new world will be multiple dimensions more than what we know today. Look on following post for more on this:Out of Three Dimensional worldhttp://techtalk-ns.blogspot.com/2008/03/out-of-three-dimensional-world.html(Reuters) - An international team of scientists said on

Swiss candidate's platform: PowerPoint

2011-09-25T22:59:00.001+02:00

The 51-year-old former software developer-turned public speaking coach is so convinced of the evils of PowerPoint that he formed an entire political party based on his cause. He is now an official Anti PowerPoint Party (APPP) candidate in the upcoming Swiss parliamentary elections. more...http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/03/switzerland.anti.powerpoint/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Trial, error and the God complex

2011-09-25T22:54:00.002+02:00

Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex | Video on TED.com

Collaborative Document Management System

2011-09-05T22:18:00.002+02:00

Collaborative document management system http://www.box.net/home/

Driven off the Road by M.B.A.s

2011-08-19T22:34:00.001+02:00

Bob Lutz, the former Vice Chairman of General Motors, is the most famous also-ran in the auto business. In the course of his 47-year rampage through the industry, he's been within swiping range of the brass ring at Ford, BMW, Chrysler and, most recently, GM, but he's never landed the top gig. It's because he "made the cars too well," he says. It might also have something to do with the fact

Live and Leaner Video is following VOIP

2011-04-13T16:56:00.004+02:00

The first voice call over IP was made some where in the mid of 1995, even after 16 years it is not possible to call from one VoIP domain to an other VoIP domain. A lot of standardization effort was done but we still require PSTN or other gateway functions to connect different VoIP domains. If some one have an account on Skype there is no way to call AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Google messenger or to

Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China | Video on TED.com

2011-03-05T13:58:00.002+01:00

Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China | Video on TED.com

Apple, Google, NewsCorp and the Future of Content

2011-01-10T15:21:00.001+01:00

Apple, Google, NewsCorp and the Future of Content - John Mauldin's Outside the Box - InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.

Future of Content

2011-01-10T15:17:00.003+01:00

Also, in the "fusion" model I outlined before - news will be delivered in a completely new way. It no longer needs to be "presented" by a credible looking news figure. Instead, news will be raw and the "commentary" will be generated by the audience themselves. Imagine the kind of stuff that people write as comments on video clips on YouTube or Facebook now but taken to the 10th power. The

New media right standard (DECE) UltraViolet

2011-01-08T20:16:00.005+01:00

A Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) alliance that includes Warner Brothers, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Sony, and Fox is working to break down walls between gadgets and services to catalyze demand for films......The DECE alliance has set up an UltraViolet platform for film lovers to create free accounts in the Internet "cloud" where versions of movies they buy in DVD or digital

The disposable academic

2010-12-21T09:37:00.002+01:00

One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work as “slave labour”. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favourite flavour of instant noodle. “It isn’t graduate school itself that is discouraging,”

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com

2010-11-30T23:49:00.003+01:00

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.coma great talk.\\

Future of IP (Intellectual property) and patent in Open Source World

2010-11-02T18:37:00.004+01:00

Patent system created around a century before is already outdated. In today's world of Social communities and collaborative working it is very difficult to define the origin of an "Idea". It is true that intellectual property had created a capital investment revolution but at the same time it also create Grid Lock Economy. Michael Heller had identified this in his book very nicely. The IP system

Nobel Prize honors super-strong, super-thin carbon

2010-10-07T09:41:00.002+02:00

NEW YORK, (AP) -- It is the thinnest and strongest material known to mankind — no thicker than a single atom and 100 times tougher than steel. Could graphene be the next plastic? Maybe so, says one of two scientists who won a Nobel Prize on Tuesday for isolating and studying it. Faster computers, lighter airplanes, transparent touch screens — the list of potential uses runs on. Some

Facebook identity management service

2010-10-05T10:12:00.005+02:00

There are a lot of different consumer websites now offering login via facebook identity. Could be a good idea to have a single login but at the same time lose your personal data to facebook.

Skype offer internet over WLAN

2010-09-28T16:52:00.004+02:00

Pay for internet view Skype account. This was experience on a BTOpenzone WLAN access point in UK.

Some interesting news 2

2010-09-09T13:33:00.003+02:00

ROADMs Get Ready to Go Off-Grid Finisar Corp. (Nasdaq: FNSR) has been able to flexibly control the wavelength assignments in its wavelength-selective switch (WSS) all along. But as of yesterday, the technology got a cool name: Flexgrid. more.....Finisar news announcement

Netflix lets its staff take as much holiday as they want, whenever they want – and it works

2010-09-03T10:44:00.003+02:00

At Netflix, the vacation policy is audaciously simple and simply audacious. Salaried employees can take as much time off as they'd like, whenever they want to take it. Nobody – not employees themselves, not managers – tracks vacation days. So the company scrapped its formal plan. Today, Netflix's roughly 600 salaried employees can vacation any time they desire for as long as they

Huawei describes smart memory chip

2010-08-27T09:38:00.002+02:00

Very interesting news about new work on Network Processor.Huawei Technologies discussed work on a first-generation smart memory that will pack 32 Mbytes of IBM embedded DRAM on a 45nm chip consuming 60W. It will include an array of packet processing elements to drive data rates at rates up to 100 Gbits/second and achieve at least 250 million memory accesses per second. more.....http://

The End of Management

2010-08-25T12:09:00.002+02:00

Very interesting article and i agree completely.Business guru Peter Drucker called management "the most important innovation of the 20th century." It was well-justified praise. Techniques for running large corporations, pioneered by men like Alfred Sloan of General Motors and refined at a bevy of elite business schools, helped fuel a century of unprecedented global prosperity. But can this

T-Mobile: Google, Apple should pay us more to carry their services

2010-07-23T12:41:00.005+02:00

OTT = Innovation = Users love itSP (Mobile/Fix) = Defending them self = Users don't botherThe chief of T-Mobile's parent company Deutsche Telekom, Rene Obermann, argued in a German interview today that Apple and Google should pay more for higher-quality mobile data. iPhones and Android smartphones use much more data on the network, the executive told Manager Magazin, and should carry an

New Services from Service Providers

2010-07-17T14:29:00.003+02:00

Comcast Plots OTT Stealth Attack Telefonica VOIP over Mobile with JajahNetworked address book game-changers: Microsoft Outlook, Facebook and more

Transparent Proxy/Cache

2010-07-01T09:33:00.002+02:00

Known HTTP Proxy/Caching Problems RFC3143

New laser shoots beams of night

2010-06-22T16:20:00.001+02:00

A laser that doesn't produce light would ordinarily be a failure. After all, the first two letters of laser stand for light amplification, not light reduction.But a new laser created by scientists at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, shoots beams of night instead of beams of light. The "dark pulses,"

40G/100G Standard Ratified

2010-06-22T11:12:00.001+02:00

40G/100G Standard RatifiedIEEE, the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology, today announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet, a new standard governing 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet operations. An amendment to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3ba, the first standard ever to simultaneously specify two new Ethernet speeds,

Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices

2010-06-17T14:59:00.003+02:00

Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT) is lowering prices for content delivery network (CDN) services to match the same price customers pay for high-speed IP transport. more......Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices

Some interesting news

2010-06-17T12:20:00.004+02:00

Skype on Symbian SmartphonesSkype an advantage for Mobile phoneIs TV the next domino to fall?ZTE Overtakes AlcaLu in Broadband Battle Navteq Preps India Ad Launch

Best Buy video service links streaming, consumer electronics

2010-05-25T19:19:00.001+02:00

Can a consumer electronics big-box retailer be a player in over-the-top video? Best Buy is putting its best foot forward in this market, launching its CinemaNow service for renting and buying TV shows and movies online. Web-based buying via CinemaNow has been available for awhile. What’s new this week are plans to make the service available via the same electronics products that Best Buy sells in

Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame

2010-05-23T11:56:00.002+02:00

Wholesale Media market

2010-05-06T11:55:00.003+02:00

Here are some examples for Wholesale media market DVD/Kino/TV in Germany.http://www.paramount.de/http://www.kinowelt.de/http://www.kochmedia.dehttp://www.pandastorm.com/http://www.constantin-film.de

Eric Giler demos wireless electricity - WiTricity

2010-03-11T18:49:00.001+01:00

Wal-Mart buys Vudu; enters OTT delivery fray?

2010-03-01T13:52:00.002+01:00

Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) has agreed to acquire over-the-top (OTT) content provider Vudu, according to a New York Times report today. Terms of the acquisition weren’t released, but the Vudu screen shot companies reportedly informed Vudu’s Hollywood studios and TV manufacturers of the deal today. The acquisition could make Wal-Mart, already a leader in DVD sales, a formidable competitor in OTT service

Mobile SP - Apple's appstore and IMS Dilemma

2010-02-07T19:07:00.002+01:00

Until now the Mobile SPs was successful to hold their value added services and earn good money from their business. SMS was the biggest success but not an innovation, rather a by-product. As most of the voice tariffs are going flat Mobile providers are looking for alternatives. Currently almost all Mobile SPs are unanimously thinking that IMS (IP multimedia system) will provide additionally

Future Telco services

2010-02-02T11:23:00.004+01:00

Telefónica, Wikimedia Team UpWikimedia Foundation and Telefónica today announced a strategic partnership to improve access to Wikimedia educational and informational content in Latin America and Europe. The agreement will expand the reach of Wikimedia's projects, including Wikipedia, on multiple platforms through the development of customized applications for Telefónica's web portals, wireless

Patent vs. Open Source

2010-01-20T15:17:00.004+01:00

Patent is a European (including USA) development in order to give special right to an inventor or company for a specific invention. First patents was issued in Europe in mid of 1400 but the actual boom started in the beginning of 1800. In the start of 19th century most of the European countries provided protection of an innovation with state laws. The first International treaty was signed in 1883

Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense - Open Source

2010-01-20T13:44:00.004+01:00

In his video at the end he mentioned that he would like to put this as open source for every body to use. I am going to write on this topic next. Patent vs. Open Source, how the new words culture will change the way business is done today.

Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

2010-01-20T13:21:00.003+01:00

Patent increase in Emerging Markets

2010-01-19T18:08:00.006+01:00

Open OS Part II

2008-07-23T22:34:00.003+02:00

Most of the computers (PC, server, supercomputer etc) or modern day devices (iphone, xbox, PS3 etc) have main functionality common, than way not create a standard to do computation, storage and Input/Output which can free us from platform dependent OS and in long run applications too. Today on Internet point A is independent of point B and that is the main reason cloud computing and P2P storage

World needs an Open standard for Operating Systems

2008-07-22T13:32:00.003+02:00

Operating System (OS) is one of the main components in today's device world. Every digital electronic device requires an OS to operate, control and manage the resources. These resources could be in the form of Hardware like Processor, Memory, keyboard, mouse, and printer or could be in the form of Software like Browser, Spreadsheets and databases. An OS is required for using mobile phone, super

Ricardo Semler - Catalyst of Change

2008-06-16T14:49:00.003+02:00

I am impressed by this Brazilian guy due to his innovative ideas about running a successful business.Could be good learning point for Higher Management of dull and dump blue chips.http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2003/apr/27/theobserver.observerbusiness7http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/302/http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/308/I enjoyed these lectures and would completely agree with Ricardo's ideas.

Inovations - Out of box thinking

2008-06-16T14:15:00.003+02:00

There is a lack of innovation in the big companies. e.g IBM, Google, HP, etc.Let’s talk about Google; the core innovation in Google was from two friends, who develop a search code in the beginning. I do not know any product or service which was developed after that. Only other popular products from Google are acquisition of small innovative companies. The same pattern you can see across the board

Think Cloudy

2008-06-16T14:08:00.003+02:00

Business application for sharing business resources. Every big corporate have number of fixed computers with a lot of storage (P2P) and processing resources (Cloud computing). Why not using them together to make it bigger storage and process CPUs. Time shift in the world can help them to use idle resources from one to an other place.This is some thing where Google, IBM and others are currently

Electric cars - New origin of Innovation

2008-06-16T13:45:00.005+02:00

Kathmandu, Nepal, has one of the highest per-capita rates of electric vehicles in the world.http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2008/05/25/rivers.nepal.rickshaw.cnnThe most interesting part is the use of patrol stations as charging stations. Looks like a transformation which can not happen in developed world due to domination of Oil companies and Car manufacturers.Electric car hits

Video over IP "Open"

2008-05-11T14:10:00.003+02:00

IP as protocol for services create challenges for service producer and distributors. The only advantage of IP platform is for end users. In the form of WWW first time in history end-users got free access to general information. Second step was voice communication, which is got now almost free inform of flat rates or skype kind of applications. Internet also changed the music industry and now it

Ideas for increasing ARPU

2008-04-25T08:26:00.003+02:00

Internet access, email, and messaging are among the applications that are pumping up data revenues in general. Lehman Brothers analyst Inder Singh writes in a research note issued Wednesday that the operator's users of "integrated devices" -- of which the Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL - message board) iPhone is arguably AT&T's flagship -- deliver twice the data revenues generated by customers using

Internet - Who should pay the price?

2008-04-23T15:57:00.003+02:00

I think that Internet should be part of infrastructure of a country and Govt. should pay for it same like they do for roads, railway and other utilities.Value add services can be provided by Service providers. There are a lot of success stories for Service providers buying a wholesale infrastructure service and doing retail to the customer. In this way a service provider can really concentrate on

IPTV or Video as service

2008-04-23T14:00:00.003+02:00

We have seen during last months that TV Channels start providing content directly over internet. This trend will goes on further and soon we will see most of the TV channels will be available online with option of VOD and new features. In future it will be a great challenge for Telco to position IPTV solutions with customer. Why an eye bowl will go to Telco if the content can be available from

Bionade vs. Beer / Innovation vs. Commodity

2008-04-08T08:56:00.005+02:00

BIONADE Corporation is a young, innovative and privately owned German company producing and distributing organically manufactured non-alcoholic refreshment drinks under the BIONADE trademark.The company was established in 1995 on the occasion of the invention of BIONADE, the world’s first and still unique non-alcoholic organically produced refreshment drink. Borrowing from age-old brewing

IPTV on its best

2008-04-03T11:56:00.004+02:00

Slowly but IPTV is getting reality. France is leading as country for IPTV deployments and acceptance from customers. TV and Video content will come over IP transport it is just mater of time and innovation on productizing side. Following table have a top ten list:Table 1: Global IPTV Top 10 Carriers (by subscribers) Ranking Carrier Country Number of IPTV

Silicon chips stretch into shape

2008-04-03T11:49:00.002+02:00

Silicon chips can be starched find by US scientist. Is this is the possibility to use silicon chips in human body or other movable objects?http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7313203.stm

Brian Greene best-known string theorists

2008-03-18T12:54:00.003+01:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Greene

Out of three dimensional world

2008-03-18T12:49:00.002+01:00

Google says Microsoft's Yahoo buy might hurt Internet

2008-03-17T13:24:00.001+01:00

It is interesting to see who is saying this Google :-). I think they do not like any other incumbent that there is a competition. Microsoft do not like that some one comes up with a nice OS and Google do not like that there will be an alternative search engine. In every day life we always try to teach ourself about tolerance but in reality it do not work. Big fish always like to have power