Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional from New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I'm also pursing PG in Management. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
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Microsoft to buy Nokia’s mobile division… »
Eldar Murtazin, believes that Microsoft and Nokia will enter discussions next week looking at a possibility that Microsoft could take over Noika’s mobile division… Well the possibility exsits no doubt… First the move to Windows Phone 7 and then the renaming of OVI to Nokia Services…
And there you have another piece of information – the following week Nokia begins talks on selling the phone division at Microsoft. While the results of these negotiations will not be public, but the deal could be closed before the end of 2011, both companies are very much in a hurry. After all, today the problem for the current management of Nokia does not produce good products, but as soon as possible to destroy the company, and interesting assets transferred to the MS.
NOTE : you would need to translate the webpage…
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How Google Instant Mix compares to iTunes’ Genius Mix… »
A nice article by Paul Lamere on how the playlist generation tools of iTunes and Google Music compare to eachother…
“Evaluating playlists is hard. However, there is something that we can do that is fairly easy to give us an idea of how well a playlisting engine works compared to others. I call it the WTF test. It is really quite simple. You generate a playlist, and just count the number of head-scratchers in the list. If you look at a song in a playlist and say to yourself ‘How the heck did this song get in this playlist’ you bump the counter for the playlist. The higher the WTF count the worse the playlist. As a first order quality metric, I really like the WTF Test. It is easy to apply, and focuses on a critical aspect of playlist quality. If a playlist is filled with jarring transitions, leaving the listener with iPod whiplash as they are jerked through songs of vastly different styles, it is a bad playlist.”
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Apple’s new Instapaper like feature for Safari… »
Surely this would also be a part of iOS5…
”Reading List lets you collect webpages and links for you to read later. To add the current page to your Reading List, click Add Page. You can also Shift-click a link to quickly add it to the list. To hide and show Reading List, click the Reading List icon (eyeglasses) in the bookmarks bar.”
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Relationship advice from the Dalai Lama »
“I think genuine friendship between a father and a mother and making sure the children get maximum affection is very important.“
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Yahoo and Alibaba try to patch things »
Yahoo and Alibaba are trying to resolve their dispute, after trading barbs over the ownership transfer of Alibaba’s online-payments business
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How Telecommunications is changing… »
“Wireless carriers now funnel voice and data traffic over two separate networks and charge customers accordingly. In the not-so-distant future, analysts and industry executives say, all mobile services, including text messages and voice and video calls, will travel over data networks.”
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Apple Retail: Quotes »
“Does good design lead to increased sales-profit? The answer is clearly, yes.”
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The Ballmer Days Are Over »
Microsoft needs a swift kick in the ass.
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The Rise of Apple, RIM, and HTC… »
A nice article by Horace Dediu.