What a dreary, hectic, unromantic day or evening or weekend!! This is all we have to say if we had planned out for lunch or dinner. Isn’t that reflecting the true inner feeling that comes to your mind!
Let me narrate that further. So to start with, one has to find out a restaurant of choice, then queue up to get a place in the restaurant. If the queue is long then ‘hard luck’! Get some nasty comments from your partner (which you should have got used to). Next thing would be to find another restaurant and finally end up with a place which you would not have preferred anytime. Read more…
The next buzz in the industry is mobile tagging. It provides a different chance for the companies and their brands to communicate in a different way to their customers. The 2-d barcodes can be used to gather information about the purchase and the consumers can be lured with incentives and promotions to engage them in buying. A mobile tag is nothing but a 2-d image which has encoded information. Read more…
While I was studying the evolution of home appliances and their Smartness, one basic question that struck me was why did not anyone think of accommodating a basic Power meter in a Washer or an Air conditioner, which can tell me how much power it has consumed since the last power ON? Most of these appliances do have a nice LCD/LED display, which shows the various settings, time elapsed…blah blah but does not show how much resources have been consumed. Read more…
We create a problem first and then innovate to solve it (or complicate it, allowing room for more innovation). Exploitation of natural resources has resulted in the need to innovate the way utility companies or power grids run their businesses. Smart Grid is the answer from Technology vendors to solve the problem for Utility companies. By bringing in a two-way information exchange, right from the power generation plants to transmission & distribution all the way to homes, it is anticipated that the demand and supply problem in the Power sector will be minimized thereby allowing efficient usage of the power generated. Read more…
“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” – This is what an executive expressed while talking about getting into the radio business way back in the 1920s. In the 21st century, the Media and Entertainment industry is in a very different commercial conundrum – How do we monetize our digital assets? A model that is both sustainable and scalable. Read more…
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