Cloud TV now in India – Thanks to Star TV

Star TV has decided to upgrade Television entertainment experience in India by uploading its contents on the cloud. As all the leading companies are doing what they can to move its data on cloud, the Star India is not behind the race. Star India is all set to offer Cloud TV to its Indian viewers, being the first player in India to shift all its operations to the cloud.

As Star is going to move itself on cloud, it has decided to shoot all its contents in HD and upload it on cloud after processing. This will fairly allow to stream its programmes on devices with an Internet connection and an Internet browser. Not to mention explicitly that these contents will be in HD. The contents such as movies, serials, shows will remain the same while the new entertainments like game, social networks are expected to enhance user’s digital experience.

As the new technologies always overrode the old ones, the cloud TV is expected to downtrend current TV technologies like cable TV or satellite in course of its time.
Star India owns popular channels like : Star Plus, Star One, Star World, Star News, Star Movies, Star Gold, Channel V and Star Pravah. And Star India joins the ranks of Apple, Google, Hulu, Netflix and Amazon to become the content provider on the cloud.

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LACS launches Tablet PC based on Google Android for just $99

Bangalore-based Lakshmi Access Communications Systems Pvt. Ltd. (LACS) has launched four tablet PC models powered by Google Android Platform at the price starting from US $99.

LACS announced 4 Tablet PC models called Pepper, Tamarind, Mirchi and Paprika under its Magnum Tablet PC series. These Tablets are available in multiple display sizes varying from 4.3 inches to 10.9 inches, and the price ranging from $99 to $799. The company also offering an upgrade warranty to their customers, which means that they would be able to upgrade to newer models by returning the older unit and paying the difference price.

Magnum is based on Android 2.3, which are 3G dongle compatible with Wi-Fi, MP3 player, eBook, Office documents and Gaming. The company expects Indians to buy tablets instead of laptop and desktop PCs to access internet, giving the new device to users that stands between cell phones and PCs to serve internet needs. "We have made it affordable, we have ensured it fits the pocket," said Mahendraa Kumar Jain, the company's Managing Director.

The company aims to open their outlets around the country to sell these devices. “We will open exclusive showrooms, Experience Zones and we are planning out to reach out to 15 cities in next one month,” he said.

The tablets are expected to be available on showrooms from September while online bookings will open within 10 days.

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Anna Hazare and the social networks

Anna Hazare the social activist, is the superpower of India's fight against corruption. He has challenged the government at the highest level for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill, the anti-corruption bill drafted by his team of reformists. The common man and well-known personalities likewise, are supporting him in the hundreds swelling to the thousands and now to the millions. And of course every sincere citizen of India will support Anna on their own ways.

The social media is playing big role in motivating young people and social networking addicts towards the fight against corruption. Practically speaking, More than 150 Facebook pages related to 'Anna Hazare' and 'India Against Corruption' have emerged in the last few months. And amazingly majority of these pages are not owned by any of the Anna Hazare's official team members.

The official 'India Against Corruption' page (facebook.com/IndiACor) has more than 360000 fans and its ticking every now and then.

Analysis of the official fan page has below stats.
India Against Corruption page analytics
  Page Name   → India Against Corruption
  URL of Page → India Against Corruption
  Number of fans → 363,140
  Today's fans → 21,238
  Today's interactions → 9,838
  Today's unique interactions → 8,453
( Source: buzzref.com on 18-08-2011)

The non official pages are not behind in numbers. For instance, one of the page titled, 'Join Anna Hazare's Fast To Bring the Jan Lokpal Bill' (Facebook.com/joinanna), created by a Facebook user, is followed/liked by more than 44,000 users.


The similar momentum can be seen on Twitter too. Thousands of tweets have mentioned Anna Hazare and the fight against corruption. The hashtag #isupportannahazare  is mentioned in over 15,000 tweets (As per topsy.com on  18-08-2011).

The influential power of official Twitter account/handle of the movement (Twitter.com/Janlokpal) has notably jumped by six points in the past two days. The Klout score of @janlokpal went up from 68 on August 15 to 75.6 on August 18. For the uninitiated, Klout.com determines the influential power of a Twitter handle.

The numbers keeps ticking......

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Generic top-level domains - now its "www.abc.anything"

Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Are you one of those people who are desperate to have their domain name with .com/.net/.org/.biz suffix and pressed down by someone who has already registered the same? Do not worry now. The ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved to bring the remarkable change to the Internet's Domain Name System, which will allow new "dot.anything" web variations ranging from .movies to .clips and .computers to .calculators - at a price of $185,000.

ICANN, the international organization that issues domain names has took this step to witness the upcoming rush in domain name registration process. The new system is called generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This move by ICANN increases the number of domains drastically from 22 ( current available suffixes) to a big number. The new system would allow companies and organizations to apply for their own suffixes, which could be anything from a brand like .coke to something more broad like .cars. Or even one can think about the name of the city too. Names will also be allowed in native scripts such as Hindi or Chinese.

Rod Beckstrom, The President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN said, "ICANN has opened the Internet's naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today's decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script"

The gTLDs may drag companies in confusion to choose the best possible choice. The new system would encourage companies and businesses to customize their website. Reuters reports that the Japanese company Canon already has its plans to use .canon. Soon we will be searching .apple , .fedora , .man.

ICANN will take applications starting January 12, 2012 through April 12, 2012 to operate these domain names. The registration would cost you $185,000 ,plus an additional $25,000 annually to operate the registry.

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