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Internet wars c m y k c m y k TECHNOMICS PAGE 13 Acer founder Stan Shih warns Google against concentration of value in Android ecosystem Sony Corp Chief Executive Howar d Stringer dismisses reports that he will step down next year. MONDAY 14 | NOVEMBER 2011 BENGALURU APPly yourself Get a first-person view of the planets and moons of our Solar System as you pilot your very own spaceship and explore the Solar System in stun- ning 3D easier. iPhone 3D SOLAR SYSTEM Angry Birds Seasons Ham’o'ween Android App by Rovio Mobile Ltd. is this year’s halloween lev- els for the Angry Birds Seasons series. It was a HAM’O’WEEN CBI JOINS FB, SEEKS HELP FROM NETIZENS T here was an interest- ing discussion at NASSCOM Product Conclave 2011. The title of the discussion was — how do we enable product start- ups? As the conclave pro- gressed, some of the break through ideas to emerge were ones conceived while attacking health and educa- tion sectors and in solving the ` 100,000 crores -human capital capacity opportuni- ty that I spoke of at the World Quality Congress earlier this year. The discussion zeroed down to two key human capital issues to enable high-tech product start-ups — the ent r ep r en e ur i al team and the business angels (BAs). As a business angel (BA), India is still to mature as the silicon valley of the East! A level of clari- ty is emerging in the start- ups about the role of BAs and as to how they benefit high tech start-ups. BAs assist the start-ups in four key ways; assisting in bootstrapping and over- coming initial funding dif- ficulties and hiccups; pro- viding active and hands on post-investment involve- ment in a start-up to scale faster; leveraging the industry network; and pro- viding leverage for the next round of funding. Although BAs are the old- est, largest and most impor- tant source of incubation funding for high-growth start-ups, collectively, BAs invest between two and five times more capital in start- ups than formal venture capitalists. But, the issue is about the selection of the start-ups to fund! Here is a 10-factor framework that I have used to assess a start- up to invest for from the perspective of a BA. First, the start-up team’s experience. For the product start-ups to succeed, high- tech experience is a critical success factor. Second, co- mmitment. The start-up team should have a passion and ability to execute a global ambition. Third, BA’s compatibility with the start up. Forth, business orientation of the start-up team. It is important that the team cares about the product and customers. Also the team has to show a global awareness and sensi- tivity towards the needs of the customers. Fifth, lead- ership. It may sound clich- éd, but integrity, focus and strategy are important fro- m my perspective. Manage- rial experience of the start- up team needs to be sharp. Second, guts and the endurance of the team. The team should be able to han- dle adversity and have the stamina to be a long runner while working under pres- sure. Third, the team work between the founders. Start-ups breeds cama- raderie and the winning spirit if team members have worked together in their earlier avatars and have some element of work understanding. Fourth, entrepreneurial experience to scale the venture beyond the idea and first few cus- tomers. Lastly, the team should know their weak- ness. For BAs the challange is whether the team will take advice or not; and willingly step aside to bring in others to handle the situation if required. Kapil Khandelwal is a leading healthcare and ICT expert. Kapil@KapilKh- andelwal.com A dose of IT Kapil Khandelwal Business angels enable start-ups The Central Bureau of Investigation has joined social networking site Facebook in a bid to get help from people in cracking cases. CBI sources said the idea of going online is first being implemented by its Bhopal unit on experimental basis which will be further followed by all its wings after assessing people's response. APPLE RECALLS FIRST-GEN NANO Apple has unveiled a worldwide replacement programme for the first- generation iPod nano music player due to over- heating bat- tery issues, telling own- ers to stop using the product and get it replaced for free iProblems SONY’S ‘DIFFERENT KIND OF TV SET’ The Japanese electronics giant is working on technol- ogy that Sony Chairman and CEO Sir Howard Stringer has confirmed his company is working on ‘a new form of television. Mr Stringer said “There’s a tremendous amount of R&D going into a different kind of TV set” Tech plus Phone Scan GOOGLE RELEASES ‘IRAN’ IMAGES Search giant Google has released satellite images of facilities at two Iranian cities that the UN claims may be used to develop nuclear weapons. Recent satellite images of Arak and Natanz show changes to the facili- ties when compared with images taken in late 2010. Edualert: A software to help you track your child’s career Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 13: It can identify the right career for your child, tell you when he’s mischievously miss- ing from the class and message you his test scores as soon as he’s been handed the answer sheet. A software developed by three IT professionals promises to change the teacher, students, parents dynamics. Called Edualert, the software has been developed by US-based Keralites Akbar Narendran and Sanjay Nair, and Rajiv Viswanath who is based in India. “Edualert can give suggestions to a student and his parents as to which career suits him best based on his academic perfor- mance,” 33-year-old Narendran said during a visit to Kerala to promote the software. The modus operandi goes some- thing like this. Details of a child’s entire academic history, his interests and extra curricular activities right from the first grade is fed into the software. “Through an analysis, it would reveal which is the best career option for the student,” Narendran said. Edualert operations manager Ramakrishnan said the thinking of parents in the state for long has been that there are only two good professions — engineering and medicine. “We have observed that many children for fear of earning the wrath of their parents unwilling- ly opt for either of the two most sought after professions,” said Ramakrishnan. The basic version of Edualert is free for schools. Around 10 schools in the state have already given the nod to this unique product. “In January, we will come again because we have got numerous enquiries from schools in some metros and Tier II cities. We will first do a demon- stration of our product in front of teachers and parents,” said Narendran. The software with add-ons ver- sion comes fairly cheap and it will cost 10 percent of the annual fee of a student, said Narendran. “It includes a centralised process of taking attendance which takes only a few minutes. When done, an SMS will be sent to the parents of all those stu- dents who are absent. Likewise, the moment corrected answer papers are distributed, parents will get an SMS about how their child has performed,” said Narendran. Another interesting feature is that the moment the child enters the school bus, he will be monitored and in case there is a traffic jam, an SMS alert will go to the parents. “It took us two years to fully develop it as we did it in our spare time. We are now working on some other add-ons,” said Narendran. Krishnamurthy Iyer, principal of the A.R.R. Public School, pre- dicts the “revolutionary” soft- ware to be a huge hit in the edu- cation sector. “We installed it just two weeks back and from the first look, it’s something unique. It is certainly going to improve the quality of students, parents and teachers. All the information on children and their progress would be available at a click of a mouse,” said Iyer. However, a Class 12 student had different views on the subject. “In many homes, the relation between parents and children is friendly. The software wouldn’t bother those kids. But overall, parents would always like to know what their ward is doing which is a little scary,” said the student, before saying that since his schooling was almost over, he had escaped. However, a mother of a Class 10 student said: “Children need not be worried because this is a tool for their own betterment and for their good future. Just look into the positives and not the nega- tive aspect that it will track chil- dren,” she said. — IANS New York, Nov. 13: Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 racked up more than $400 million in sales on its first day in stores in North America, Asia and the United Kingdom, set- ting a video game indus- try record. Activision’s biggest hol- iday title sold 6.5 million units in a single day after going on sale early this week, surpassing last year’s record of 5.6 mil- lion units or $360 million in sales. The version of the game released last year, called Call of Duty: Black Ops , went on to rake in $1 billion in less than two months. Chief Executive Bobby Kotick revealed in an interview on Friday the company will be able to expand the Call of Duty franchise by offering fans new game content each month over the Internet, and having them pay for it with annual subscrip- tions. Along with the console game, Activision is releasing Call of Duty Elite, a subscription ser- vice that costs $50 annu- ally and offers extra online content, including apps for mobile devices. “What you’re likely to see is a shift over time in the whole economic model for these kinds of games. It looks more like World of Warcraft than anything else,” he said referring to the compa- ny’s other big franchise. — Reuters Twitter can become a lifesaver soon: Study Washington, Nov. 13: Twitter could become a new mode of saving lives by providing vital infor- mation about health-relat- ed matters to its growing number of users. Researchers who studied tweets on cardiac arrest suggest that Twitter repre- sents a unique, promising avenue to respond to queries from the public and disseminate informa- tion about this leading killer. “Twitter is an incredible resource for connecting and mobilising people, and it offers users a way to receive instant feedback and information. The potential applications of social media for cardiac arrest are vast,” said Raina Merchant who led the study on this particu- lar topic. “Twitter might even be harnessed to save lives in an emergency, by allowing bystanders who respond to cardiac arrests in public places to seek information about the location of the closest AED (automated external defibrillator),” said Merchant, assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at Penn University. The varsity’s Perelman School of Medicine evalu- ated cardiac arrest and resuscitation related tweets during a month- long period in early 2011, according to a statement. They discovered that users frequently share information about car- diopulmonary resuscita- tion (CPR) and AEDs. CPR is an emergency procedure to manually preserve brain function- ing until further measures are taken to restore spon- taneous blood circulation and breathing during a cardiac arrest. AED is a portable device that treats life-threatening cardiac conditions with electrical therapy which stops the arrhythmia allowing the organ to re- establish an effective rhythm. In one of the new studies, the researchers identified 15,324 tweets involving cardiac arrest specific information. — IANS Mumbai, Nov. 13: The Election Commission is plan- ning to take the help of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to impart electoral messages to young voters, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi said. “The Commission is now seriously looking at the social media as the hubs to impart electoral educa- tion,” Quraishi said delivering the Maulana Azad Memorial Lecture 2011 titled ‘Education for Deepening Democracy’. “Like Maulana Azad, I believe that an educated and aware citizen is the best guarantee for deepen- ing both democracy and development,” Quraishi said. The CEC said he had recently held talks with pol- icy makers of Education and Youth ministries to integrate citizenship and voter education as a part of the curriculum of their various courses. “We have established the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management ( IIDEM) making voter education a core area of empha- sis in it,” Quraishi said. Regretting that many voters in the age group of 18-35 years do not exercise their voting rights for whatever reason, the CEC said the Commission has put voter education and awareness programme on fast track to improve the situation. In a strategic initiative called YUVA (Youth Unite for Voter Awareness), the Commission has planned to rope in the new and young voters, he said. — PTI EC TO EDUCATE VOTERS THROUGH FB The technology of fun: Four things to keep you going through the week Battlefield 3, Batman: Arkham City lead industry to 1% sales growth last month as revenues reach $1.08 billion. Xbox 360 maintains its lead position in the console market. GAMES WEBSITE BORED AT THE OFFICE? GIZMOS DARK SOULS Cons ole: PS3/XBox 360/PC Ga me type: First person shooter Developer: From Software T h e Good: ● A gorgeous and frightening world you won't want to leave ● Abundant, amazing A SECRET HALF PIPE Link: http://http://www.redbullprojectx.com Shaun White, American professional snow- boarder and skateboarder, talks about how Red Bull Project X came into reality. “I have all these tricks in mind I have wanted to try. I just needed a place to figure them out,” says Shaun. “Project X was born” ARE YOU READY FOR THE BATTLE? Developer: Bigpoint Li nk: http://waroftitans.agame.com/ Travel to Ancient Rome and let the online game begin. Real-life opponents await you: Experience the thrill of the fight in multiplayer battles with magnificent 3D graphics! Hone your blade and fight online in the arena where heroes are born! War of Titans takes place in various are- ALIENWARE M11X Developer:: Dell Pric e: Around ` 70,000 The Go od: Solid gaming performance in a very compact form; switchable graphics for longer battery life; great keyboard. The Ba d: ULV processor isn't as fast as most gaming laptops; no optical drive. T he Ver dict : With its fusion of a low-voltage processor and high-end graphics, the 11.6-inch Alienware M11x is a unique and extremely com- pact hybrid gaming laptop with a few compro- mises for its size. 7 1 0 Nokia W10 Prototype San Francisco, Nov. 13: US judge has ordered Twitter to disclose infor- mation about three account holders to US officials conducting a probe into WikiLeaks. In a 60-page opinion issued Thursday, US District Court Judge Liam O’Grady upheld a ruling by a US magis- trate judge concerning the Twitter accounts of Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of the Icelandic parliament, US comput- er researcher Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch vol- unteer for WikiLeaks. Magistrate Judge The- resa Buchanan ordered the San Francisco-based Twitter in March to hand over information about the three users of the service, rejecting arguments that the move violated freedom of speech and privacy. The ruling came after the US Justice Depa- rtment obtained a court order seeking informa- tion from the Twitter accounts as it considers action against Wiki- Leaks, which has rele- ased a trove of secret US diplomatic and military documents. — AFP ORDER TO DISCLOSE PROBE INFO ‘Call of Duty’ sets first-day record MODERN WARFARE 3
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Acer founder Stan Shih warnsGoogle against concentration of
value in Android ecosystem
Sony Corp Chief Executive HowardStringer dismisses reports that hewill step down next year.
MONDAY 14 | NOVEMBER 2011BENGALURU
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CBI JOINS FB, SEEKSHELP FROM NETIZENS
There was an interest-ing discussion atNASSCOM Product
Conclave 2011. The title of the discussion was — howdo we enable product start-ups?
As the conclave pro-gressed, some of the breakthrough ideas to emergewere ones conceived whileattacking health and educa-tion sectors and in solvingthe ` 100,000 crores -humancapital capacity opportuni-ty that I spoke of at theWorld Quality Congressearlier this year.
The discussion zeroeddown to two key humancapital issues to enablehigh-tech product start-ups — the entrepreneurialteam and the businessangels (BAs). As a businessangel (BA), India is still tomature as the silicon valleyof the East! A level of clari-ty is emerging in the start-ups about the role of BAsand as to how they benefithigh tech start-ups.
BAs assist the start-ups infour key ways; assisting inbootstrapping and over-coming initial funding dif-ficulties and hiccups; pro-viding active and hands onpost-investment involve-ment in a start-up to scalefaster; leveraging theindustry network; and pro-viding leverage for the nextround of funding.
Although BAs are the old-est, largest and most impor-tant source of incubationfunding for high-growthstart-ups, collectively, BAsinvest between two and fivetimes more capital in start-
ups than formal venturecapitalists. But, the issue isabout the selection of thestart-ups to fund! Here is a10-factor framework that Ihave used to assess a start-
up to invest for from theperspective of a BA.
First, the start-up team’sexperience. For the productstart-ups to succeed, high-tech experience is a criticalsuccess factor. Second, co-mmitment. The start-upteam should have a passionand ability to execute aglobal ambition. Third,BA’s compatibility with thestart up. Forth, businessorientation of the start-upteam. It is important thatthe team cares about theproduct and customers.Also the team has to show aglobal awareness and sensi-tivity towards the needs of the customers. Fifth, lead-ership. It may sound clich-éd, but integrity, focus andstrategy are important fro-m my perspective. Manage-rial experience of the start-up team needs to be sharp.Second, guts and theendurance of the team. Theteam should be able to han-dle adversity and have thestamina to be a long runnerwhile working under pres-sure. Third, the team workbetween the founders.Start-ups breeds cama-raderie and the winningspirit if team membershave worked together intheir earlier avatars andhave some element of workunderstanding. Fourth,entrepreneurial experienceto scale the venture beyondthe idea and first few cus-tomers. Lastly, the teamshould know their weak-ness. For BAs the challangeis whether the team willtake advice or not; andwillingly step aside to
bring in others to handlethe situation if required. Kapil Khandelwal is a
leading healthcare and ICT expert. [email protected]
A dose of IT
Kapil Khandelwal
Business angelsenable start-ups
The Central Bureau ofInvestigation has joinedsocial networking siteFacebook in a bid to gethelp from people in crackingcases. CBI sources said theidea of going online is first
being implemented by itsBhopal unit on experimentalbasis which will be furtherfollowed by all its wingsafter assessing people'sresponse.
APPLE RECALLSFIRST-GEN NANOApple hasunveiled aworldwidereplacementprogrammefor the first-generationiPod nanomusic playerdue to over-heating bat-tery issues,telling own-ers to stopusing theproduct andget itreplaced for free
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SONY’S ‘DIFFERENTKIND OF TV SET’The Japanese electronicsgiant is working on technol-ogy that Sony Chairman andCEO Sir Howard Stringer hasconfirmed his company isworking on ‘a new form oftelevision. Mr Stringer said“There’s a tremendousamount of R&D going into adifferent kind of TV set”
Tech plus
Phone Scan
GOOGLE RELEASES‘IRAN’ IMAGESSearch giant Google hasreleased satellite images offacilities at two Iranian citiesthat the UN claims may beused to develop nuclearweapons. Recent satelliteimages of Arak and Natanzshow changes to the facili-ties when compared withimages taken in late 2010.
Edualert: A software to helpyou track your child’s careerThiruvananthapuram, Nov.13: It can identify the rightcareer for your child, tell youwhen he’s mischievously miss-ing from the class and messageyou his test scores as soon as he’sbeen handed the answer sheet. Asoftware developed by three ITprofessionals promises to changethe teacher, students, parentsdynamics.
Called Edualert, the softwarehas been developed by US-basedKeralites Akbar Narendran andSanjay Nair, and RajivViswanath who is based in India.
“Edualert can give suggestionsto a student and his parents as towhich career suits him bestbased on his academic perfor-mance,” 33-year-old Narendransaid during a visit to Kerala topromote the software.
The modus operandi goes some-thing like this. Details of a child’sentire academic history, hisinterests and extra curricularactivities right from the firstgrade is fed into the software.“Through an analysis, it wouldreveal which is the best careeroption for the student,”Narendran said.
Edualert operations managerRamakrishnan said the thinkingof parents in the state for longhas been that there are only twogood professions — engineeringand medicine.
“We have observed that manychildren for fear of earning thewrath of their parents unwilling-ly opt for either of the two mostsought after professions,” saidRamakrishnan.
The basic version of Edualert isfree for schools. Around 10schools in the state have alreadygiven the nod to this uniqueproduct.
“In January, we will comeagain because we have gotnumerous enquiries fromschools in some metros and TierII cities. We will first do a demon-stration of our product in front of teachers and parents,” saidNarendran.
The software with add-ons ver-sion comes fairly cheap and itwill cost 10 percent of the annualfee of a student, said Narendran.
“It includes a centralisedprocess of taking attendancewhich takes only a few minutes.When done, an SMS will be sentto the parents of all those stu-dents who are absent. Likewise,the moment corrected answerpapers are distributed, parentswill get an SMS about how theirchild has performed,” said
Narendran. Another interestingfeature is that the moment thechild enters the school bus, hewill be monitored and in casethere is a traffic jam, an SMSalert will go to the parents.
“It took us two years to fullydevelop it as we did it in ourspare time. We are now workingon some other add-ons,” saidNarendran.
Krishnamurthy Iyer, principalof the A.R.R. Public School, pre-dicts the “revolutionary” soft-ware to be a huge hit in the edu-cation sector. “We installed it just two weeks back and from thefirst look, it’s something unique.It is certainly going to improvethe quality of students, parentsand teachers. All the informationon children and their progress
would be available at a click of amouse,” said Iyer. However, aClass 12 student had differentviews on the subject.
“In many homes, the relationbetween parents and children isfriendly. The software wouldn’tbother those kids. But overall,parents would always like toknow what their ward is doingwhich is a little scary,” said thestudent, before saying that sincehis schooling was almost over, hehad escaped.
However, a mother of a Class 10student said: “Children need notbe worried because this is a toolfor their own betterment and fortheir good future. Just look intothe positives and not the nega-tive aspect that it will track chil-dren,” she said. — IANS
New York, Nov. 13:Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare3 racked up more than$400 million in sales onits first day in stores inNorth America, Asia andthe United Kingdom, set-
ting a video game indus-try record.
Activision’s biggest hol-iday title sold 6.5 millionunits in a single day aftergoing on sale early thisweek, surpassing lastyear’s record of 5.6 mil-lion units or $360 millionin sales. The version of the game released lastyear, called Call of Duty: Black Ops, went on torake in $1 billion in lessthan two months.
Chief Executive BobbyKotick revealed in aninterview on Friday the
company will be able toexpand the Call of Dutyfranchise by offering fansnew game content eachmonth over the Internet,and having them pay forit with annual subscrip-tions.
Along with the consolegame, Activision isreleasing Call of Duty Elite, a subscription ser-vice that costs $50 annu-ally and offers extraonline content, includingapps for mobile devices.
“What you’re likely tosee is a shift over time inthe whole economicmodel for these kinds of games. It looks more likeWorld of Warcraft thananything else,” he saidreferring to the compa-ny’s other big franchise.
— Reuters
Twitter can become alifesaver soon: Study Washington, Nov. 13:Twitter could become anew mode of saving livesby providing vital infor-mation about health-relat-ed matters to its growingnumber of users.
Researchers who studiedtweets on cardiac arrestsuggest that Twitter repre-sents a unique, promisingavenue to respond toqueries from the publicand disseminate informa-tion about this leadingkiller.
“Twitter is an incredibleresource for connectingand mobilising people, andit offers users a way toreceive instant feedbackand information. Thepotential applications of social media for cardiacarrest are vast,” said
Raina Merchant who ledthe study on this particu-lar topic.
“Twitter might even beharnessed to save lives inan emergency, by allowingbystanders who respond tocardiac arrests in publicplaces to seek informationabout the location of theclosest AED (automatedexternal defibrillator),”said Merchant, assistantprofessor of EmergencyMedicine at PennUniversity.
The varsity’s PerelmanSchool of Medicine evalu-
ated cardiac arrest andresuscitation relatedtweets during a month-long period in early 2011,according to a statement.
They discovered thatusers frequently shareinformation about car-diopulmonary resuscita-tion (CPR) and AEDs.
CPR is an emergencyprocedure to manuallypreserve brain function-ing until further measuresare taken to restore spon-taneous blood circulation
and breathing during acardiac arrest.
AED is a portable devicethat treats life-threateningcardiac conditions withelectrical therapy whichstops the arrhythmiaallowing the organ to re-establish an effectiverhythm.
In one of the new studies,the researchers identified15,324 tweets involvingcardiac arrest specificinformation.
— IANS
Mumbai, Nov. 13: The Election Commission is plan-ning to take the help of social networking sites likeFacebook and Twitter to impart electoral messages toyoung voters, Chief Election Commissioner S YQuraishi said.
“The Commission is now seriously looking at thesocial media as the hubs to impart electoral educa-tion,” Quraishi said delivering the Maulana AzadMemorial Lecture 2011 titled ‘Education forDeepening Democracy’.
“Like Maulana Azad, Ibelieve that an educatedand aware citizen is thebest guarantee for deepen-ing both democracy anddevelopment,” Quraishisaid.
The CEC said he had
recently held talks with pol-icy makers of Educationand Youth ministries to integrate citizenship andvoter education as a part of the curriculum of theirvarious courses.
“We have established the India InternationalInstitute of Democracy and Election Management (IIDEM) making voter education a core area of empha-sis in it,” Quraishi said.
Regretting that many voters in the age group of 18-35years do not exercise their voting rights for whateverreason, the CEC said the Commission has put votereducation and awareness programme on fast track toimprove the situation. In a strategic initiative calledYUVA (Youth Unite for Voter Awareness), theCommission has planned to rope in the new andyoung voters, he said. — PTI
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San Francisco, Nov.13: US judge has orderedTwitter to disclose infor-mation about threeaccount holders to USofficials conducting aprobe into WikiLeaks.
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ORDER TO DISCLOSE PROBE INFO
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