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Monday, October 08, 2012

US OFFICIAL LIST OF TERRORISTS: AND AN ANALYSIS OF WHY YOUR NAME COULD FEATURE THERE

January 20, 2009, Bush leaves the White House; but before that, he ‘updates’ the ‘official’ US terrorists list. 

Corporation being preferentially allocated to China by the Chinese government.” That then “would weaken the ability of the US to influence the oil and gas supplies of the Nation through companies that must adhere to United States laws.” The CNOOC deal therefore threatens “to impair the national security,” and “the President should initiate immediately a thorough review of the proposed acquisition, merger, or takeover.” From Dubai Ports to Singapore’s Temasek, all investments by foreign countries have faced similar opposition in the US.

Clearly, when the US drains out oil from Iraq, then it’s not a problem the Pope should worry about, but if some other country goes in for a legal acquisition of a powerful US company, then Nostradamus inferences are redrawn to ensure that such moves are nipped even before the bud is born. If Iran is the latest to face the brunt of Mr.Bush’s rottweiler-like attitude – who wants the world to stop trading with Iran completely – what is not often told is the fact that there are several Israeli companies, like Medent [quoting Steve Rodan, Jerusalem Post Service] who do brisk business running up to hundreds of millions of dollars at the same time with Iran.

Bush might be leaving on January 20, 2009; but has ensured that NCTC stays in absolutely safe hands. The current NCTC Director, Michael E. Leiter, is pretty well qualified. One hears that just a few handful of years back, Mr. ‘well qualified’ Leiter served as the Dy General Counsel and Assistant Director of the US President’s Commission on “US Intelligence Capabilities Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction!” Gotcha Elvis!!! Rock on!!!


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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Saturday, October 06, 2012

Satyen Gupta, former Principal Advisor, TRAI

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) played a pivotal role in the great Indian telecom success story. The body keeps a close watch on the quality of services offered by the telecom operators to millions of wireless subscriber. However, there is little that the regulator can do when it comes to implementation of these norms on the ground level. Former Principal Advisor to TRAI Satyen Gupta spoke to Akhilesh Shukla about the MNP and regulators role in implementation of QoS norms.

B&E: How you will rate the present QoS of the telecom services in India?
SG:
The QoS of the telecom operators has never been upto the mark. TRAI has not enough teeth to force the telecom operators to match the QoS benchmark laid by the regulator. Operators also did not see any incentive in investing in upgradation and maintenance of quality of services, due to the falling margins. Besides, issues related to building up a new base station were always there. Operators face several hurdles in putting up base stations, especially because of the rules and unrealistic taxes laid out by the local development bodies. Improper spectrum management has lead to a crunch leading to network congestion. But now MNP will force operators to improve QoS.

B&E: Some of the telecom operators do not meet the quality of service norms in some circles. What is the action that a regulator can take in that case?
SG:
Telecom regulator TRAI has a very little role to play when it comes to implementation of QoS norms. The maximum that the body can do is to bring out the QoS report in public, making consumers aware of the telcos not meeting the minimum norms set by the regulator. It can also recommend cancellation of license, but the final call lies with the Department of Telecom, the body which issue licenses. TRAI can penalise the operators also, but it is a cumbersome process as the regulator has to court of law.

B&E: After 3G and MNP, what is the next step you see in Indian telecom?
SG:
3G spectrum auction and role out of 3G services by private and PSU operators was one of the biggest landmarks in the Indian telecom success story. Implementation of MNP would be another milestone in the second largest telecom market. Now, it is the right time for the country to look forward for Next Generation Networks and Next Generation Access technology. Both the technologies will provide better and faster internet speed to subscribers. It would also be helpful in bridging the digital divide between the rural and urban part of the country.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Lack of long term strategies

Post the frenzied activity that begins in any sector opened up in the Indian Economy, many entrants, including the larger ones, lose out due to lack of long term strategies and inability to adapt to business dynamics. Ultimately, market forces take them off road, putting paid to all the aspirations that convinced them to enter the sector in the first place

The same has been the case in the insurance sector, where the state-owned Insurer LIC stands tall among its counterparts with close to 73% market share (as of September 2010) and 22 players are fighting for the remaining 27% market share. Clearly the market hasn’t picked up like it was expected (one wonders about the possible scenario when the new banking licences are issued, currently sought by a number of players). There were even forays made by a number of players in the IT and BPO space, but players like L&T & Birla failed to make a mark. For that matter, even steel has proved to be an El Dorado in India. Some Indian steel players may beg to disagree, but ask an Arcelor Mittal or a Posco and brace yourself for ayes galore! Players entering the power sector face innumerable constraints in terms of infrastructure, raw material, labour, et al, ever since they entered the sector to take advantage of the new electricity policy. The list goes on.

The fact is that new entrants come into the sunrise sectors solely on the basis of potential. However, only a few years later, they realise that success in the respective sector may be too elusive due to competition, market readiness, regulatory hurdles, infrastructure constraints, et al. If they have gone too far to start afresh from square one, they are left with no option but to move out. Resources can sustain them to an extent, but industry dynamics can take no time to overwhelm them if they are not prepared. And then there is no sense in putting more good money where the bad disappeared! B&E provides an in depth analysis into four major sectors that are giving every indication of being future El Dorados, even as the players remain engaged in a relentless battle in the hope that they won’t be the chosen ones for capitulation.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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Saturday, September 08, 2012

Feed me right!

Whether or not your baby will grow up to be an obese Adult, is partly in your hands!
 
Every son or daughter would vouch for the fact that one of the primary aims of parents, especially mothers, is to stuff them with all possible food available, world hunger and poverty be damned! And as a helpless tot, all you can do is burp. But here is something they would love their parents to read; now if only they took time off from making all those meaningless noises to get the li’l one’s attention! Researchers at the Institute of Child Health, London, have reported that 20% of adult obesity is caused due to this attitude and the practice of over-feeding in infancy.

Throughout the years, doctors have been voicing the benefits of breast-feeding, and besides the reasons of higher immunity being developed through breast-feeding, research now reveals that with bottle and formula feed, the baby ends up consuming more food than is required, which in turn results in them developing larger appetites. And with the development of a large appetite, there are more chances of the baby growing into an over-weight adult.

Priya Vashisht gave birth to a baby boy five months ago. After two months of rest, she rejoined work. On enquiring about her baby’s food routine, Priya said, “I had switched to bottle-feed after three months of my delivery. Breast-feeding is a tedious process. Also, now that I’m in office during the day, it’s easier with the bottle. And when we have easier options, why not?” Priya isn’t the only woman with this thinking, for there are many more like Priya who prefer to switch to easier options of feeding the baby, much sooner than the recommended period. 



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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Learning from the best

After an unexpected turn of events with Kites, Kangana is now hoping to do better with Once upon a time in Mumbai. The surprise of this film is that this time she’s finally playing a ‘normal’ girl and not a maniac or mentally disturbed character! A character inspired by Madhu Bala, Parveen Babi and Zeenat Aman, Kangana was required to pick up nuances of style, grandeur and sex appeal from the consummate work of these veterans. Awed by Madhu Bala, this 23-year-old now dreams of playing Anarkali someday.


Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Let Technology do it!

The Literacy divide between Urban and Rural India is Particularly Dangerous. Technology can Provide an Effective Solution

Today, millions of Africans are using mobile phones (m-banking) to pay bills, transfer cash and buy everyday items. It is based on the fact that millions of people who don’t own a bank account own a cell phone. The same can be used to bridge the Indian rural-urban divide in terms of literacy. Indian education systems suffer from a non-uniform standard of teaching, teacher absenteeism, low access to schools et al, but technology can be one certain solution.

With 3G and mobile broadband services, internet can be made available to myriad students who don’t have access quality education. With over 612.2 million mobile phone subscribers in India, this can be extremely effective. Distribution of iPads (especially cheaper Indian versions like ‘Adam’) along with the facility of downloading eBooks would go a long way. Adams cost $327 or Rs.15,700 compared to iPads that come for around $499, and further reductions in price are a positive sign. Massive proliferation of such tablets can be immensely beneficial as it would enable eBooks to reach remote villages at a fast pace and take care of the content standardisation problem we face currently. The Union Education Minister last year talked about introducing a touch-screen, wifi enabled, solar powerd tablet PC that costs just Rs.1,600. These are the innovations that have to pursued with extreme passion is India is to take the massive literacy leap.

Information & Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) are used by All China Women’s Federation to help rural women get access to updated health information, by Cuba to promote online health initiatives and by Egypt to encourage rural education.


Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Curbing inflation

Curbing inflation seems to be the major concern for RBI. But is the over emphasis on inflation hurting growth? Yes and no! Inflation, which is an iniquitous tax, hurts the poor more than the rich, and must be undoubtedly contained. To that effect, the banking industry seems to have paid heed to RBI Governor Y.V. Reddy’s suggestion (or was it an order?) that “net interest margin of banks was high and there was scope for reducing lending rates.” Considering the fact that non-food credit off-take has come down in the recent past, large banks like SBI, HDFC and ICICI decided to bring down the rates. Thanks to the ‘peer fear’, other banks are falling in line. Increasing credit flow to small scale and medium enterprises, and providing a boost to the housing sector as well as to other productive sectors are amongst the few cited positive effects of the rate slash. But in reality, have banks bent down because of a political diktat from the finance ministry?

Dr. Mukesh Kumar Anand (Senior Economist, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy) rules out the logic, and says “The finance ministry does not interfere with the banks in deciding their rates; the finance minister and the RBI governor merely asked them to consider a reduction in rates in order to boost growth.” But sir, that’s not what many banks are telling us. In fact, the smaller banks are waiting for a deeper rate cut, before following suit. Given the situation, bankers with a good quality portfolio and improved operational efficiency would benefit the most. And the rest will need to shape up. According to Ritesh Maheshwari (Senior Director, Financial Institutions Rating, Standard & Poors), “In 2008, the Indian banking system will continue to reap benefits of a strong domestic growth.” It is expected that prudent monetary policy changes will help bring about the benefit of anchoring inflation expectations. With inflation rate under control, interest rates could come down by 25 basis points or so, or remain stable.

Tied in exchange knots

On a visit to Tirupur, which is around an 80 minute drive from Coimbatore airport, there’s hardly anything that would strike you as particularly spectacular, barring the larger-than-life banners of AIADMK chief Jayalalitha and her party leaders. Even the locals grudgingly admit that there is not one tourist attraction to boast off, and if it were not for the giant strides made as an export hub for knitwear, Tirupur would have had a very slim chance of moving out of obscurity. But move out it did, and how, thanks to Verona, an Italian merchant who recognised the potential and brought in a deluge of business opportunities for these hardworking, entrepreneurial people, mainly from Europe & America. Indeed, the story of Tirupur is, in many ways, a story of the Indian resurgence in manufacturing and exports. Local exporters have been servicing many high-profile international apparel brands like Nike, Adidas, Arrow, Tommy Hilfiger, and departmental chains like Wal-Mart, Target, Sears and Mother Care. In 2006-07, Tirupur’s turnover was a whopping Rs.110 billion.

However, nothing could have prepared these people for the rude shock that came up last year, when the rupee appreciated by almost 14% to the dollar in a very short span of time, making it extremely difficult for them to negotiate better terms with their buyers. Largely unaware of the vagaries of financial markets and hedging techniques, many exporters, who were bullish about expansion till early last year, are now looking for ways to sustain, thanks to business lost to competing countries like Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. Sums up S. Sakthivel, Executive Secretary, Tirupur Exporter’s Association, on the impact, “We were enjoying annual growth rates of over 25% since the last two financial years. But we are expecting to register a turnover of Rs.90 billion for the financial year 2007-08 (which is, in fact, a negative growth of nearly 20%).”

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An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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Monday, September 22, 2008

‘Rate’d down, once again

US policy makers need to move beyond just rate cuts to keep recession at bay or else they will loose the grip
When the US economy sprinted through the third quarter 4psof FY 2007 at 4.9% (its fastest pace in the last four years), many felt that the worst was over. But, as the US Commerce Department, on January 30, came out with the latest numbers, it only provided further credence to the arguments that the US is knocking on the door of recession, if not already in.

Managing just 0.6% growth rate - its weakest in the last five years, the US GDP grew way below the industry expectations of 1.2% for the fourth quarter. Well, the main culprit once again was the tumbling housing sector that further chopped off a sizable 1.2% off GDP last quarter as spending on housing projects witnessed a deep cut of 23.9%, the most since 1981. Even the labour market weakened at 4.9% – a pace that in the past had showed the way to recession. The decline indeed poses a further threat to consumer spending that has already slowed to 2% from 2.8% a quarter earlier. Affirms Jay Bryson, Global Economist at Wachovia, “The perfect blend of a weakening labour market, plunging house prices along with a sharp credit contraction will continue to put pressure on the economy further putting a stop on consumer spending.”

No doubt, the situation is frightening and the policy makers are doing what seem best to them. What else? Go for rate cuts! Since September 2007, the Fed has cut its short-term policy rate by 225 bps to 3% from 5.25% – all to ease the economy. The industry even predicts further cuts as rates are still way above the 1% level in 2003. “We foresee a further rate cut by 25-50 bps by March,” agrees Dean Maki, Chief US Economist with Barclays Capital. Although, the Fed action will boost the liquidity in the economy. But then one should not forget that it was the rally of cuts in interest rates in 2001-03 (the last downturn), that sowed the seeds of the ongoing housing and credit crunch. Well, what about inflation, which is already proving to be double whammy for the economy watch dogs? Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is already been under criticism for being far too cautious. And if these cuts also prove to be temporary (which of course have a better chance), it would only worsen the situation.

The core personal consumption expenditure deflator (an important indicator of inflation) is already at 2.7% on an annualised basis – the second fastest since 2005. And as such, the threat of stagflation (a situation of both economic sluggishness and rising inflation) has to weigh on the Fed decision before it goes for another rate cut, otherwise it will lose its grip on the economy (or has it already?).
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Recent liberalisation will boost investments

“Policies were aimed to provide healthy competition, and level-playing field”
In a high growth sector, there is no need to trim staff. With the sector booming, every one can be accommodated, Union Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel, tells B&E’s Ranjit Bhushan in an interview. The minister, who is credited with turning around the civil aviation ministry in his four-year-stint, adds that far-reaching changes are going to be brought in its FDI policy to encourage private investments.

Your tenure has marked a definite turnaround in the prospects of the civil aviation sector. What do you attribute this upturn to?

The aviation sector has evolved over the past few years. The change in mindset in both the public and the private sectors has led to more competition, competitive and affordable fares, and more passengers. The reasons are clear and strong policies of the government have been aimed at providing healthy competition and level playing field to both the public and private players. The government has played a great role as being a facilitator in this sector. Your speech at the US-India Aviation Summit last year was impressive.

What are the gains that you see accruing from the deal? Also, technologically, the US aviation industry is light-years ahead of us. Which are the areas of common interest between the two countries?

The purpose of the US India Aviation Cooperation Programme is to improve coordination of US assistance to the Indian civil aviation industry, including the identification of aviation training and technical assistance meets, communication meets, and improving coordination with the US Government entities including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), US Trade and Development Agency (USPDA) and the US Department of Commerce.

The programme will be funded with the assistance of USTDA and would enhance safety, operational efficiency and system capacity of the aviation sector. The Union government has also approved a Memorandum of Agreement with the US in the civil aviation sector, which will provide the framework for seeking assistance of the Federal Aviation Authority in developing civil aviation infrastructure in managerial, operational and technical areas, as and when required.

You talked about attracting FDI, about more US involvement in Indian aviation. Is that going to be a reality?

The Union government on 30 January, 2008 liberalised and enhanced the FDI policy in the civil aviation sector. This is expected to greatly boost investments by not only American, but also other foreign companies in Indian aviation.

The market share of national carriers has gone down with more private competition coming in. And a lot of it has happened during your tenure as the minister. Do you see a situation wherein the national carriers could become minor players in the company of many private operators, big and small? Although the number of passengers carried by the national carriers has increased considerably, registering a growth of almost 25%, the market share has been impacted due to the entry of private airlines, availability of low cost carriers, decline in capacity share, and delay in acquisition of new and latest technology aircraft. However, a number of initiatives have been undertaken like acquisition of new aircraft, merger of Indian and Air India, aggressive marketing and sales initiatives, which has resulted in marked improvements in market share.

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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

BCCI’s performance as a cricket administration

But Pawar has many critics, who feel that BCCI’s performance cricketas a cricket administration institution and as a positive for the team is not up to the mark. “It’s easy to manipulate the masses when it comes to winning elections. But to really manage the Indian cricket team, you need to be an emotionally intellectual person, which Pawar isn’t at all,” feels a former cricketer who knows the BCCI President for the past five years. For instance, they say that the BCCI shouldn’t have been so quick in asking the Indian team to continue with the current Australian tour after what happened during the second test at Sydney. It should have waited to gauge the mood of the team and taken into account the feelings of the manager. In the end, BCCI had to backtrack and use its clout to force the ICC to arrive at a face-saving solution.

In a cricket crazy nation, if there’s anything that combines the denizens of this country after cricket, it is politics. But unlike the men-in-blue who are almost worshiped (only when they win), politicians are not as fortunate. So, can the two marry? Maybe, maybe not. But Pawar, who has the knowledge of grassroots feelings and emotions, is capable of having a long, patient, and courageous innings.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

BRIC’s BRICKS

Time to pay attention to the finer points of the BRIC report
Goldman Sachs’s most famous Global Economics Paper No. 99 named Dreaming with BRICs: Path to 2050 is no news now-a-days, at least in India, given the impunity with which this has often been referred to by nation’s polity and policy makers to showcase the bright future of our country. And also as if forewarn all those, who are yet to make up their minds about investing in India or take it seriously, as to what a grave mistake they would commit if they gloss over the writing on the wall.

This year, Goldman Sachs even revised their previous estimation thereby putting India even ahead of the US by 2050 in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Much to the glee of the Indian policy makers, soon thereafter, India entered the exclusive trillion dollar club. But in the midst of all these, one thing was completely ignored, i.e. the warning from Goldman Sachs which had laid down four conditions namely, macro stability, institutions, openness and education. While India’s combined fiscal deficit (that of the Centre and the states together) of about 9-10%, is a major dampener to the right kind of macro stability, lack of reforms in agriculture, power and education spheres and several other government departments like the Department of Post make sure that fiscal deficit would continue to remain high. Its reduction, if at all is not in absolute numbers but because of the increasing GDP, as a percentage looks lesser. Subsidies continue to serve the rich and middle class and incredible amount of loss in power and oil sectors is a proof enough of lack of right kind of institutional mechanism. All that oil bonds end up doing is to shift the subsidy burden to a future date. Sheer lack of pragmatic regulatory bodies ensure that cross subsidies remain very much a part of system of governance, thereby stifling growth in key sectors like aviation which continues to pay the price of the distorted price juggleries in oil sector. Incidentally, the price of aviation fuel in India is about 70% more than that in the international markets. In the same league, absence of institutional mechanism, translates into a challenge, when venture capital for starting a business is sought. Industries like insurance and banking are yet to receive full dosage of foreign investment even when they, and especially the insurance sector, are in dire need of fund infusion.

That the Indian economy is yet to be opened properly is vindicated by the fact that a stronger rupee is increasingly becoming a major cause of concern for the government and the exporters, at a time, when India ideally should be celebrating the strengthening rupee as a sign of a growing and potent economy. Instead, strict controls on capital outflow ensure that India isn’t being able to extract maximum mileage from it. The fourth and the most important point as stated by the Goldman Sachs report is on education. Unfortunately India’s dismal ranking (128th) in the UNDP Human Development Report portrays the dismal condition in terms of education and health. This can severely impede India’s economic dream run as it would invariably dry down the future supply of quality manpower. In addition to it, distorted subsidies for education like in other sectors, make sure that even today, urban college students spend more on one time recharge of their cellphones than on paying college fees, thereby depriving the millions who otherwise deserved the subsidy, more. It is for all these reasons that for India, BRIC dream is still nothing more than just daydreams. And to make it a reality, the bricks of the BRIC will have to be first of all put in the right place. Or else, the ‘I’ of BRIC would just collapse like a pack of cards.

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Source :
IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Tech giants’ leap to the cloud

Cloud Computing is the new buzzword, but can it deliver the expected?
Remember ‘Grid Computing,’ a concept that emerged almost a decade ago and was talked about in the IT arena as ‘the’ idea that would take away computing from the desktop to an imagined central hub – of course known to most, today, as the Internet. After a promising start ‘Grid Computing’ eventually found no takers, but the idea lingered on and has now made a comeback of sorts, reinvented and rechristened as ‘Cloud Computing’ or simply stated, a cluster of programs running through thousands of parallel computers and accessible through the Internet.

So shall we call it the first death-nail to the idea of personal desktops with individual copies of Windows Vista? Not for now but it’s surely an idea that has also taken big daddy Microsoft into its grasp – the people originally deriding the entire concept of Ethernet-connected graphics terminals but have now released Windows Live – a photo sharing and file storage application served from new data centers instead of just being served on the usual desktops.

But what exactly is ‘Cloud Computing’ and what is it about the idea that is causing ripples amongst geeks and technocrats alike? For one, you can call it a cluster of low cost extremely fast processing servers capable of handling tens of trillions of complex calculations in a jiffy that can be accessed through the Internet, thus empowering the common man in a way the Supercomputers have done to large corporations and government agencies.

Recently, on November 15, IBM embraced the process of ‘Cloud Computing’ by releasing a system named Blue Cloud, which will allow the banks to distribute their programs and processes across number of machines, delivering faster data analysis. “We’re aiming to train tomorrow’s programmers to write software that can support a tidal wave of global Web growth and trillions of secure transactions every day,” says IBM’s CEO Samuel J. Palmisano commenting on the tie up that aims at providing research setups to several American Universities, with Carnegie Mellon paving the way. Even Yahoo jumped into the ‘Cloud Computing’ bandwagon on November 12, allowing schools and colleges to conduct software research, housing around 4,000 processors to run on Yahoo servers.

However, the journey from ‘Grid to Cloud Computing’ is full of stumbling blocks. Be it the lack of Internet infrastructure or ignorance of mobile devices centred at tapping the Web world through ‘Cloud Computing’, for without a proper focus, the concept of ‘Cloud Computing’ will simply remain just another brilliant idea. Are the tech biggies like IBM and Yahoo listening?

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Increased presence of supercomputers

With ‘bus’ sizes doubling up, possibilities for the increased presence of supercomputers have only got better, which therefore calls for greater investments in R&D on the part of the companies. Amongst those in the current pack of leaders, Microsoft leads the rat race and its Windows Blackcomb OS (in the developmental stage) certainly holds many promises, even when you measure it by the ‘security’ rod. However, it fails to address the ‘size’ question; what with handheld and sophisticated computers (like palmtops, which call for embedded OSs) gaining enormous popularity these days? Well, we are not left with nothing here too with names like Chorus, coniX, VxWorks, and DR-DOS (which are far better alternatives to the likes of Windows CE, Palm OS & QNX).

Where OS for your darling handheld ‘mobile phone’ is concerned, Linux seems to be clearly heading towards to leader’s spot in the near future with mobile handset companies swearing by it. Mobiles with powerful applications call for devices to be compatible with each other; so that there is greater hardware flexibility and an enhanced ability to handle voice and data simultaneously (unlike what the traditional Palm OS is capable of). As per ARB Research, Linux with web-its browsing experience OS is forecasted to be the fastest growing smart phone OS by 2012 – a truth that is vindicated by the fact that currently, more and more handset producers are favouring it over the others in the category.

The future of operating systems surely seems to be favouring the community of ‘Open source’ (which was once termed as a ‘Cancer’ by Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft, when explaining how it was eroding his company’s market share), primarily because it offers more flexibility to users. In future, operating systems will employ traditional methodologies to code, control & coordinate the software development tree and these developments will certainly be giving the behemoths, mainly Microsoft, a slew of sleepless nights!

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

What’s the right time to exit?

Observe performance of the fund for a while before you say, “I Quit”

It is proven by facts that the right timing of entry and exit from the stock market or a mutual fund is a difficult call. The decision purely depends on the investor’s choice, driven by his investment objectives, his perception of the market and other relevant factors. However, common sense tells us that a good time to enter a market is when the market looks attractive and valuations of stocks seem relatively cheap. Similarly, exit when it is on a high. But for a happy exit, the following points should be kept in mind:

Under performance: One should study the performance of this fund against the benchmark and the peer group. If the fund is outperforming the benchmark and peers then one may remain invested in the fund till the time his objective is met. Selection of peers should be done carefully. One should never compare a debt-based fund with an equity-oriented fund or a sectoral fund with a diversified fund. Though every mutual fund publishes its data on regular intervals, it is not prudent to sell a fund because of its short term performance only. As a prudent investor one should observe performance of his fund for a while before he decides to exit.

Change in fund’s objectives: A fund says a lot about investor’s risk profiles and its own plans on investment. What it says and how it complies with them has to be seen. Any material change in the investment objective of the fund is an exit point worth considering. For instance, a fund whose primary objective is to invest in a diversified portfolio may start investing only in a particular sector. The investor needs to be cautious because it’s alarming if such changes are too often.

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