Another new mantra in the technology sphere. Green Computing… looking at the un-recyclable waste the computer hardware is producing today, the future is in thin clients and recylability.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Green computing Green computing is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently. Typically, technological systems or computing products that incorporate green computing principles take into account the so-called triple bottom line of economic viability, social responsibility, and environmental impact. This differs somewhat from traditional or standard business practices that focus mainly on the economic viability of a computing solution. These focuses are similar to those of green chemistry; reduction of the use of hazardous materials such as lead at the manufacturing stage, maximized energy efficiency during the product’s term of use, and recyclability or biodegradability of both a defunct product and of any factory waste. A typical green computing solution attempts to address some or all of these factors by implementing environmentally friendly products in an efficient system

During a conversation with Mr Rahul, from INFOFRIEND a magazine for IT needs, I was asked about the softwares on iPOTT that have RoHS compliant module. It was indeed a pleasure to know that we are talking about the RoHS factor in softwares. But I certainly felt the divide again.

There is this group which discusses the RoHS & Green computing, but there again is the other group which calls us to ask the difference between a client-server and web based application. Are we having a divide again?

When the digital divide is getting bridged is there another divide forming?

clipped from encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com RoHS ? (Reduction Of Hazardous Substances) European Union regulations enforceable on July 1, 2006 that set maximum concentration limits on hazardous materials used in electrical and electronic equipment. The substances are lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE).

The entire world is now looking at the BRIC countries. And Asia is home to India and China, two of the dynamic BRIC economies. IT spending will expand dramatically, with a market wide compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5% over the same period, or 80% growth over the market size in 2005. So lets make it happen.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org BRIC BRIC or BRICs are terms used in economics to refer to the combination of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The BRIC thesis[6] (defended in the paper Dreaming with BRICs: The Path to 2050) recognizes that Brazil, Russia, India and China[7] have changed their political systems to embrace global capitalism. Goldman Sachs predicts China and India, respectively, to be the dominant global suppliers of manufactured goods and services while Brazil and Russia would become similarly dominant as suppliers of raw materials. Cooperation is thus hypothesized to be a logical next step among the BRICs because Brazil and Russia together form the logical commodity suppliers to India and China. According to the study, India has the potential to grow the fastest among the four BRIC countries over the next 30 to 50 years. A major reason for this is that the decline in working age population will happen later for India and Brazil than for Russia and China.

The total domestic IT/ITes market revenue will touch Rs. 1,10,000 crore in 2008 which is 24% over 2007.The above is a key prediction by IDC India. Outline of the report is as below:
The trend for the coming year will be enterprise and consumer services. IT deployment will be across all market segments, including a number of emerging verticals. The government IT infrastructure is also likely to scale up. The consumer IT Sector will be driven by the Internet, Mobile convergence, web 2.0, social networking etc. Virtualization, Uptime, availability and performance management of infrastructure and applications to be at the core of innovation. Broadband will emerge as a favored choice in 2008, though mobile Internet will continue to grow as an alternative Internet access medium.

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US-based Access Market International (AMI) Partners Inc, defines small and medium-sized businesses as commercial enterprises with a maximum of 1,000 employees or up to 999 employees to be precise.

Small Businesses is defined a commercial enterprises with a max of 100 employees or up to 99 employees.

Trust you must have read our previous posts on issues with yahoo mail ids. We are now close of 20 days since we first raised hell. We have received, finally, a mail from yahoo informing us that “the status of our domain has been altered in their database”. Yet “they cannot assure that all mails will be delivered to the users” but “we can get in touch with the users and ask them to approach Yahoo to deliver the mails from our domain into the mail box” Makes sense? Not to us.

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Its now 6 days since we first wrote to yahoo on our bounced mails. Let’s talk ‘my dilemma’. We have close to 5000 users on iPOTT with yahoo ids. The ids are with us as they have registered as a ‘Promoter’ or ‘Buyer’ or they have subscribed for our Softnews letters. Today, we are not able to send out even our new year wishes to our registered users.

Yahoo has been very nice to send auto responses to every mail of ours. We have provided all possible details as evidence to claim that our mails are only opt-in mails. We are asked more and more information, when in-spite of providing; we don’t foresee any solution in near future. Come to think of it, the questions which are being asked? Take a look at one of the mails below:

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This is a must read if you have Yahoo mail ids or if you send mails to Yahoo ids.

Do you have friends with yahoo ids? Is your company using Yahoo ids to receive messages? Are you sending mails to yahoo ids? If you answer ‘Yes’ to a single question then don’t miss the information below.

Of late Yahoo! Mail has become more aggressive in its acceptance of SMTP connections and denies connections with error message “421 Message temporarily deferred.”

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iPOTT is the only website in India which lists softwares… this is old news!! Let’s talk the latest. We now have over 2000 softwares on our website. Guess what? I heard a number of users tell me “Ohh! You have started to confuse us”

I am not surprised. You have to get into a confusion mode, to think better, to get more ideas and ofcourse to make a clear decision. Seriously, it feels nice to be confused. But how do we move from this confusion mode to a clear mode? Let’s talk!

2008 is expected to be a strong growth year for the IT investments of businesses in the region, offering new opportunities for IT vendors, suppliers and service providers. The talk is once again around the SMEs. India’s small and medium-sized firms are predicted to increase their expenditures on IT by 20 per cent in 2008. IT expenses will include hardware, software & services. Read the rest of this entry »