Next Step for IPTV - Targeted Advertisment

Targeted Advertisement (Microsoft and others)
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=163627
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=163659

Internet Service Provider

Internet is there today due to small and medium size ISPs. Most of the big Telecoms was never been interested in a platform which was threat to their cash cows (PSTN, SDH, ATM, Frame-Relay etc.). Today all of the big telcos talk about IP/Internet and would like to milk as much as they was doing before, they just don't know how.
Future consolidation will shows that only Internet/Infrastructure Provider and Over The Top (OTT) providers will dominate the connectivity market. A walled garden approach will be successful only in very rear cases.

Network Architecture

PBB + PLSB (Provider Link State Bridging)

Say goodbye to the computer mouse

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7508842.stm

Open OS Part II

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 is getting attraction. In Internet you can compute, store, put or get independent of OS running on client or server side.

World needs an Open standard for Operating Systems

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 computer, PC, Laptop or even a car's board computer. The main function for every OS is same and that is "managing resources". There are four main types of resources an OS have to control. They are components use for Processing, storage, Input and output of information. I do not agree with following both definitions about an OS:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/termshm/g/term_os.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system

The main function of all operating systems is same. I think there is a need to standardize the main functions of OS. I do not mean to create an OS like Linux instead only standardizing the main functionality. An open standard base OS can provide the platform to develop HW and SW in much robust way. Just for example imagine a world without device drivers or single software for every kind of OS (Mac, Windows, UNIX, and Linux). An open OS standard can help accelerate the development of HW and SW at much faster pace.

The open OS standard should be viable to use on Car's board computer, Handheld, PC, Laptop, supercomputer or virtually on any device which perform the main functions I mentioned in the first paragraph. The standard should not delivery any code instead it should delivery the way a code should communicate with the device. In order to understand the concept we can use the example of IETF which define open standards for Internet. There are no programming codes defined in the IETF instead only the way it should be written to communicate with rest of the systems.
I would love to discuss this idea with any body who is interested in it.

Ricardo Semler - Catalyst of Change

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.observerbusiness7
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/302/
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/308/

I enjoyed these lectures and would completely agree with Ricardo's ideas. There are still things can be improved or changed depending on industry segment but in general this is the way for future.

Inovations - Out of box thinking

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 in all major companies. This is not specific to IT only. We can see this too in other industry segments too.
I think the main reason for this is due to the close company structures. Most of the big companies have a big R&D center and every body working in the R&D center is getting monthly salary for doing an innovation. An innovation never happened in this way before and will never happen in future. Most of the R&D center just improves the product to the next level. For example Intel Processor is always a processor and it is not an innovation to just increase the speed and decrease the size of the processor. The main technology behind it stays same.
Look on Automobile industry; nothing had changed from last 100 years. Around 100 years before you had a car with 4 wheels, one staring, few gears, 2 or 4 door on the side and today you have the same just the speed and comfort changed.
For innovation; out of box thinking is required which could not grow in the legacy form of top down management of business. An innovator can not be judged on his capability to innovate some thing in a specific time period.
I think two things need to be changed to have innovative business. First the company structures should change from top down management to flat structure. Second is to create pool of intelligent people without giving them any target to achieve. Of course an R&D center will be still required to improve the innovation.

Think Cloudy

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 working. But in my opinion a new startup could gain the market much faster and easier as compare to big giants due to lack of innovations in the big companies.

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=152754

Electric cars - New origin of Innovation

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.cnn

The 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 the road in fuel-starved Gaza
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-genius-helps-beseiged-city-survive-a-year-of-israels-blockade-846258.html