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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Apple iPhone set to launch in June end!

The proximity sensor detects when the phone is lifted to the ear and immediately gets into the power save mode! Since the phone will be up against the mighty Nokia N series and Sony Ericsson W series, Apple has made sure

that its music phone is not deprived of the regular high end ‘expected’ features. EDGE, a 2 MP camera, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 will accompany the handset. The iPhone will also be available with the usual iPod features. The iPhone comes in both 4GB and 8GB versions, enough to store 16 hours worth music.

On the prospective entry, Avinash Ramachandra, Head (Marketing), Apple Asia, told 4Ps B&M, “The iPhone is going to be launched by the end of this month (June) in the USA. The 4GB version will retail for $499, while the 8GB version will retail for $599.” His answer was unclear though when asked about the India debut; but Manil Shetty of Maple Technologies, a reseller of Apple products in Mumbai, tweaked our hopes as he said, “The Apple iPhone might just reach India by January next year.” Till then, let’s make do with the Chinese, eh!

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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Monday, March 24, 2008

Getting a makeover

The Air India

crew has decided that enough is enough: it’s time to move with the times and smartly! As a starter, the emphasis will be on being well turned out. Fashion guru Pierre Cardin and reigning desi diva Ritu Beri have been roped in for the makeover. While Ritu Beri will create new uniforms for the female cabin crew – Cardin will take care of the male dressing. High time Air India became more fashionable – particularly now that Jet and Kingfisher have been giving everyone a complex!

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Monday, March 03, 2008

A commitment to saving lives and looking good!

It wasn’t always like this though. If we go back in time, during the Age of Sail, we find that the only kind of lifeguards then, were people who were paid to rescue ship-wrecked sailors. Armed with little more than a row boat, this fearless group

of people would row out, oft en in a wild storm to rescue sailors in danger. However, the advent of steam-ships and a general increase in the sturdiness of the sea vessels rendered them obsolete. The need for lifeguards began to be felt in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when going to the beach, surfing and swimming began to gain acceptance. With this development came the inevitable rise in water related fatalities. For instance, during one weekend in Newport Beach, California, in the early 1900s, 18 deaths were reported, the cause – drowning. Alarmed by this and other similar incidents, beach authorities and local bodies decided to set up life guarding services so that trained professionals would be on constant stand-by in case of an emergency. That was the start of lifeguards, as we know them today. Initially, reflecting their heritage, these early lifeguards were also equipped with long row boats. During emergencies they would row out and pull the victim into the boat before he drowned. Single rescues, popularised by Baywatch the world over, where a lone swimmer would swim out and save someone from drowning, were frowned upon, as the panicked victim presented a danger to everybody. This type of rescue was possible only much later when rescue buoys came into existence.

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An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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Monday, February 18, 2008

The crystal ball

One may be tempted to draw parallels to the US real estate boom, which has now shown signs of a painful slowdown. The outlook for appreciation in 2007 is relatively fl at out there, while at least a third of American metro areas are expected to see slight declines in housing prices. According to RREEF (research firm with Deutsche bank), capital allocated in real estate in US in 2007 is expected to be less than its value in 2006, while in EU, an additional $70 billion is expected to be invested. Investment in Asia Pacific reached $63 billion in 2006, five times its value since 2000; and is expected to shoot up to $366 billion by 2010.

One area that shows a huge promise, even to us, is the SEZ space. Just 8-9 SEZs are currently operational, while around 230 SEZs are formally approved. But critically, the major fault with the sector lies with the government, which, instead of initiating a long standing public-private partnership to plan economic growth & ensure coordinated development of housing for masses & development of commerce, has limited itself to using the ‘interest’ stick as an electric control rod.

Unless the government reworks its understanding of structural macroeconomics, the real estate sector, uninhibited during both boom times and depressions, could lead to India’s economy being exposed to extremely dangerous vagaries of yo-yo economics, where markets rise and crash very fast and during very short periods. Real estate was never meant to be a speculative industry; unfortunately, that is what it has started becoming, with players buying and selling property in order to make money over the short term. Can our government put an urgent stop to this? We haven’t got a reply from them; if you do, call us.