Android Phone, Tablet, TV - What more?

Google Android based devices are expanding with big players making devices across industries.

1. Android Phones - HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG, Sony Ericsson...(Mobile phone world)
2. Android Tablets - Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, Cisco...(PC/IT world)
3. Android ebook readers - Barnes and Noble (Nook)... (Digital book world)
4. Android MP3/MP4 Players - Philips (Go Gear Connect)...(Consumer Electronics world)
5. Android Google TV/Set-Top Box - Sony, Logitech(Revue)...(Consumer Electronics world)
6. Android Digital Photo frame - Nikon...(Consumer Electronics world)

More to come with big names support..

and in this party, notable absence are Microsoft, Apple, Nokia...

Is Android the next Windows for the Phone/PC/Consumer Electronics Industry?

Next Google, Facebook, Twitter? 5 Possibilities

Who will be the next

Google(1998) -Search, Facebook(2004) - Social Networking, Twitter(2006) - Microblog

and the next category creators on the internet.

Here are the 5 possibilities based on my understanding:

1. Zygna (2007) - Social Gaming (Mark Pincus)
2. Groupon (2008) - Collective Buying (Andrew Mason)
3. FourSquare (2009) - Location Based Social Networking (Dennis Crowley)
4. Square (2010) - Mobile Payment service (Jack Dorsey - also, Twitter founder)
5. Layar (2010) - Augmented Reality Apps (Raimo)

Other companies who came close are Obopay, Spotify, GetJar, Bump, Flipboard

Do you have any recommendation?

Top10 - K12 Education Change Agents

Indian K-12 (Kindergarten to XII standard) is changing. In my understanding following Ten people are bringing innovative new methods for this change. There are many other change agents too.

1. Shantanu Prakash Educomp Smart Class (ICT aided classroom)
2. Lina Ashar Kangaroo Kids Learner centric methods in Preschools
3. Ashish Rajpal iDiscoveri Teachers development
4. Nirmala Sankaran Hey Math Innovative Math learning
5. Sridhar Rajagopalan Educational Initiatives Asset - Diagnostic tests
6. Sharat Chandra Butterfly Edufields Science - learning by doing
7. Saumil Majmudar Edusports - Outsourced Sports!
8. Umesh Malhotra Hippocampus Library centered learning
9. Krishnan Ganesh Tutorvista Virtual teacher!
10. Pulkit Gaur Edubotix Robotics learning

Do you have any recommendation to this list?

Information Technology Biggies

Information Technology landscape is always on a tectonic shift. Mobile & Cloud are the new tectonic force. Here are the Top 10 by the market value.

200 Billion Plus USD (BPlus)

Apple, Microsoft

150 BPlus

Google, IBM

100 BPlus

Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle

50 BPlus

Qualcomm, SAP

Note: Dell is out and Qualcomm is in. What next?

World Expo 2010 - Begins in Shanghai #1

World Expo 2010 - Begins in Shanghai with a Theme - Better City Better life.

Some Stat

189 countries are participating and the event is held for 184 days.

70 Million visitors expected. and 200,000 on day one.

Urban Best Practices area is one of key pavilion themes. 55 Cities across the world participating..

Things which are looking promising based on first glance.

1. Odsense, Denmark -Bicycle as a transport for city life.
2. Taipei, Taiwan - Wireless City
3. Sao Paulo, Brazil - a City with out outdoor ads!
4. Pondicherry, India - Heritage preservation a way for better city
5. Vancouver, Canada - Urban Sanctuary through wooden structures

more to come for Better City Better Life!

Top 3 Techno Biz writers

Following are my top 3 pick of Techno Biz writers.

1. Nicholas Carr (My pick in his writings: Big Switch - He talks about IT transforming to Cloud computing and also, compares with electricity evolution in a similar way)

2. Chris Anderson (Both his book Long Tail and Free are good read to understand the Internet based biz trends...)

3. Tim O'Reilly (Defined the now famous Web 2.0 and now, he is defining the Internet Operating System)

what are your views and picks?

Survey : Mobile Operating System

New Breed of Indian Global Companies

1 Shree Renuka Sugars - From Belgaum to Brazil wanted to lead the Sugar space...(Murkumbi IIM-A is called as the Lakshmi Mittal for Sugar!)

2 Bharti Enterprise - From Allahabad to Africa wanted to lead the Mobile space in the emerging economies

3 Fortis Heathcare - aspiring to be a global health care player (first of it's kind as per Malvinder!)
Watch this new breed of Indian Global Companies..