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 If Apple is really the brains of the industry--if its products are so much better than Microsoft's or Dell's or IBM's or Hewlett-Packard's--then why is the company so damned small? (Consider that in the last 10 years alone, Apple has been issued 1,300 patents, almost one-and-a- half times as many as Dell and half as many as Microsoft--which earns 145 times as much money.). Apple have only 2% of market share on 180% billion PC market over the world.

             Conventional wisdom has long answered that Apple is the victim of a single, huge strategic error: the decision in the 1970s not to license its operating system. But that was long ago and far away.

 “TRUTH IS, SOME OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE INSTITUTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUSINESS HAVE BEEN COLOSSAL FAILURES.”

             It is not the number of patent, it is the number of patent can actually convert into value addition to products that matter. As Microsoft say “People ready” business where your staff are more important than your product. Apple never considered common man. They were in a fool’s paradise. Ipod is succeeded only because there was no competitor for them, If they can have the consistent groth by end of 2008 they survive or else they decline to 2% in ipod market too.

             Problem with apple is that it is growing on a big tree which is not accessible to common man, in fact you may need a ladder which cost more than apple to pluck the apple.

 Not All Innovation Is Equal
Technical innovation will earn you lots of adoring fans (think Apple). Business-model innovation will earn you lots of money (think Dell).

1. Innovate for Cash, Not Cachet
   If your cool new thing doesn't generate enough money to cover costs and make a profit, it isn't innovation. It's art.
2. Don't Hoard Your Goodies
   Getting to market on time and at the right price is vital. If that means licensing your idea to an outside manufacturer or marketer, do it.
3. Innovation Doesn't Generate Growth. Management Does
   If you covet awards for creativity, go to Hollywood. Managers get rewarded for results, which come from customers.
4. Attention Deficit Has No Place Here
   Every innovation worth doing deserves your commitment. Don't leap from one new thing to another. If your creation doesn't appear important to you, it won't be important to anyone else.

Microsoft has officially confirmed rumors that they will come out with a digital music player, the Zune

Google Inc. on Thursday will launch a long-awaited service called Google Checkout, which some analysts said could help online merchants boost sales and convince them to commit more advertising money to the Web search leader.

Analysts were mixed on whether the product, initially available only in the United States, puts eBay Inc.'s PayPal online payment system in Google's competitive sights.

The new offering, referred to in news and analyst reports as GBuy or Google Wallet, promises online sellers an easy way to add a checkout to their sites and can be used in addition to other options such as PayPal or a merchant's own pay system.

Google said Checkout stores names, shipping and credit card information and eliminates the need for consumers to resubmit that data with each purchase. Google is responsible for processing the credit card payments and keeping data safe.

"We think we're making e-commerce a lot more efficient and easier to use," Salar Kamangar, Google's vice president of product management, told Reuters. Google checkout

 

TELECOMS companies in Britain are preparing to face a challenge from Google, the internet search engine, which is planning a move into mobile communications.

The US firm is to launch a free wireless internet access service in its home town of Mountain View, California, later this month.

Despite assurances from Google that it has no current plans "to expand this community service beyond the Bay Area [San Francisco]", industry analysts believe the search giant is preparing to use the growing popularity of wi-fi to enter the mobile communications market outside the US.

It intends to take on a new role in becoming an internet service provider using a patchwork of wi-fi hotspots to provide high-speed internet access in public areas.

The company also has plans to partner wireless internet service provider EarthLink to offer a similar free internet access service across San Francisco.

Adam Walkden, a consultant at analyst firm Visiongain, said: "We believe they are considering offering the service - possibly by partnering other internet service providers, outside the US.

The San Francisco rollout will be a testbed.

"Google's successful advertising-based business model allows the company to offer services for free.

"If it can convert this business model to include local based advertising to wi-fi users, it poses a significant threat to mobile operators."

Google's head of special initiatives, Chris Sacca, last week told the American media that its network could be a vehicle for delivering advertising.

Search giant Google is preparing to launch an online spreadsheet which will put it into competition with the Microsoft's Excel product.

So far only a beta version of the spreadsheet has been released to an 'invitation-only' audience.
 
The spreadsheet will be free to download, but will require a constant internet connection in order to function. Features include the ability to import and export data from Microsoft Excel, as well as open access and editing for a number of different users.

But commentators were less convinced about its value as a business application, or its threat to Microsoft's dominance in the spreadsheet market.

"If I was an enterprise, I would go nowhere near this," Guernsey Research Analyst Chris Le Tocq told San Francisco Chronicle.

He said that if the Internet crashes the company has no access to its data.

"If I was a small-business person, I would also be extremely wary... The only people who should consider this would be people on a tight budget -- a student, or nonprofit or an educational institution."
 
In a report released by RBC Capital Markets, and quoted on Forbes.com, analyst Robert Breza said that he didn't see Google Spreadsheet as a credible replacement for Excel, going on to say that it was "very unlikely" for any enterprise to run their core spreadsheet requirements on a web-based offering:

"We believe it is more likely to spur Microsoft in developing a similar offering."

 

 

The People Ready Business

Inside your company is a powerful force:

a force that can cut costs, win customers,

and find innovative new business opportunities

all over the world.

 

It’s your people. Are they ready?

 

Overview

Businesses don’t garner insights or make decisions. Businesses don’t close deals, invent new products, or find new efficiencies.

People do.

Companies excel when they empower their people to drive the business forward.

Strategies, organization, motivation, and leadership all set the stage for business success. But to see results, you also have to give your people the right tools, information, and opportunities—because success ultimately comes down to your people. We call a business that fosters a winning environment a “people-ready business.”

Software is instrumental to the people-ready business. Software is increasingly how we harness information, the lifeblood of business today. Software enables people to turn data into insight, transform ideas into action, and turn change into opportunity.

 

What is a people-ready business?

A people-ready business is a business that knows people are its most important asset.

A people-ready business believes that people, more than processes, systems, machines, location, or outside consultants, are the ultimate drivers of business success.

A people-ready business invests in, and creates a culture around, a shared value system—an organizational infrastructure that empowers and enables its people to drive the business forward.

It gives people the support, resources, and mandate they need to act intuitively, respond decisively, and invent brilliantly.

When individuals realize their potential, your company realizes its potential. That realization is what separates what we call a “people-ready” business from an ordinary one.

Every business is different, but the outcomes that drive business success remain the same: creating loyal and profitable customer relationships, inventing and enhancing products or services, managing a business in the most efficient way possible, and building high-value connections with partners and suppliers. But it’s not the businesses that do these things. Businesses don’t find customers, streamline operations, close deals, or invent products. People do.

·         A people-ready business is a "destination workplace." The most talented and successful people and businesses seek opportunities to work at or with this company.

·         A people-ready business maximizes the satisfaction levels of all its constituents. Customers, employees, and the critical partners and vendors on whom its success depends are all satisfied. A people-ready business is also a balanced organization that does not neglect one vital constituency for another.

·         A people-ready business tempers its management's "force." A people-ready business balances management oversight and control, teamwork, and the constant improvement and innovation that come from empowered employees who live their lives on the front lines of the company.

·         A people-ready business is characterized by vision. The ability to see and act on both opportunities and problems is central to a people-ready business.

·         A people-ready business is focused on insight and action. A people-ready business is characterized by employees who have insight into opportuni­ties and problems, and the ability to act on them.

·         A people-ready business is marked by speed and flexibility. A people-ready business is as concerned with removing barriers to success as it is to driving success. And a people-ready business is agile and adaptable in a business envi­ronment of constant change.

·         A people-ready business is optimized for performance at the individual level. Individuals have the freedom to focus on adding value to shareholders and customers, rather than being constantly distracted.

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As usual Google is one step ahead of Microsoft, Really unpredictable guys

 

  Google has launched a beta Web publishing tool called Page Creator.  A small group of Gmail users were given access to the beta tool to create and publish their own web pages, Google said Thursday.

Google designed Page Creator for the web-challenged, meaning it's a simple tool to create and publish Web pages without having to download software or be very knowledgable about web development in order to publish a webpage.

 

 

 

Google on Tuesday confirmed it is testing a new service called Google Base, which could someday offer services that compete with EBay Inc.

The Google Base site was up for a short time Tuesday before it was taken down. Some bloggers, however, managed to capture a screenshot.

A company spokeswoman confirmed that the Mountain View, Calif.-based, search engine was testing a new service, but offered very few details.

"We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which will complement existing methods such as Web crawl and the Google Sitemaps program," she said in an email.

Google Sitemaps are tools the search engine offers to Web site operators to help improve their coverage in the search engine's index.

In a description on the Google Base site, the company described the service as "Google's database into which you can add all types of content."

"We'll host your content and make it searchable online for free," the site said.

Among the items listed as examples of what could be submitted were used cars, descriptions of a party planning service and a "database of protein structures."

 

I have seen a couple of news, saying this may be online service, sales service etc. But no one consider the quantum of data this service going to handle.

 

If they can manage such a huge data, where it may be residing? My personal opinion is that google is planning to do a test run on their database product. Who knows in future it may be named as G-Base.

Does it hit Oracle, DB2 and SQL server ?

I created an account at www.mailnation.net which is giving 1000 GB email space without any advertisement. It has a clean interface almost similer to Outlook web access.

 

Good news is that you need not to wait for an invitation to create an account, So what for you are waiting  now ?Go get one at www.mailnation.net

 

This is mail server running on Merak mail server provided by Icewarp software which is running on linux.

 

Honestly for me 2 GB is more than required.

 

Its good gmail storage limit is increasing at every second. But when it reaches to 1 terrabyte? Can you imagine a mail service provider with FREE 1000GB Email (POP3/IMAP Access). May be within a week it will be a reality at www.mailnation.net .feature at aglance

 

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( First impression is the best impression- I am not sure how far these guys go :=)

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1.      Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
   If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
2.        If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
3.        Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.
4.        At least one bug will be observed after the author leaves the organization.
5.        Bugs will appear in one part of a working program when another 'unrelated' part is modified.
6.        A 'debugged' program that crashes will wipe out source files on storage devices when there is the least available backup.
7.        A hardware failure will cause system software to crash, and the customer engineer will blame the programmer.
8.        A system software crash will cause hardware to act strangely and the programmers will blame the customer engineer.
9.        Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
10.        Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
11.        The documented interfaces between standard software modules will have undocumented quirks.
12.        A working program is one that has only unobserved bugs.
13.        No matter how many resources you have, it is never enough.
14.        Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user.

 

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This offer is open only to those with a Gmail email account. The reason for this is due to a little program called GmailFS, or more colloquially as the Gmail Drive Shell extension (say that three times fast...). This neat little tidbit creates a file system in concert with a Gmail account, effectively turning your Gmail mailbox into a network drive of 2 GB+ (as the Gmail team has been adding storage capacity to Gmail accounts (as of this writing, the capacity was at 2.656 GB and counting). I have been testing this program for the last week and found it to work beautifully, but of course, as a network drive, the faster your Internet connection, the faster the response.

GmailFS handles files essentially by turning them into attachments and sending them straight into the archived section of your Gmail account, which means that even if your network drive is offline, your files are accessible through Gmail's noted search function, just like any other email. GmailFS can be found at as a free download

 

This program is a beta. That means if it breaks or if Google decides to stop supporting it, it's nobody's fault. It's neat, but use it just like anything else computer-related: save early, save often, and in more than one place.

Summary: Visual Studio 2005 expands typed data access with TableAdapter, a new object that greatly simplifies interacting with data objects on the client machine and sending updates to a database.

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