Moto G

The price of a smartphone is $650? That’s not gonna persist. Motorola can “attack” the market in ways that Apple and Samsung can’t.

DailyTech: Motorola Introduces $179 Moto G

Quick notes: Jobs number, Benchmark booster..

• 'Govt counted 40L jobs that weren't created': Against 1.39 crore that the Kaangress govt has claimed, only 93.5 lakh jobs were created.



• Samsung's Kaangress style slyness: AnandTech discovers hard-coded exceptions in Galaxy S4, intended to inflate benchmark figures.



• Bharat Ratna minus the award: Indian philanthropist, cardiac surgeon and founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya, Devi Prasad Shetty has cut the price of coronary bypass surgery to $1,583. The same procedure costs $106,385 at Cleveland Clinic.



• Small states - exactly what problem do they solve? The experience of the last state creation process under the NDA govt, which gave birth to Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh, has not been uniformly positive.



• Tulsi leaves for fluoride free drinking water: Fluoride has been linked to a number of negative health effects like bone fractures, thyroid disorders and impaired brain development and function.

YouTube Usurping Media Control

We've all talked about how blogs have been invading and liberating the space once monopolized by traditional print media. YouTube is a slightly later phenomenon, but one which has also shoved its way past traditional broadcast media and into the mass consciousness, along with cameraphones. Now YouTube is impacting the course of electoral campaigns. In a world where various messages are competing for attention, the vivid persuasiveness of video is now increasingly a differentiator that allows a message to stand out over others. Whereas in the past, excellence in oral and written talent have been recognized and immortalized by society, in the future it may be the best video editing skills which leave the biggest impression. We all need to consider this. After all, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then video extrapolates to a whole lot more. RSS needs to spend less effort on classes for holding lathis, and instead try to hold more classes on desktop publishing, video editing, blogging, etc. It's the only way to take on India's Left-dominated media.

wharton: IK@W February 23 - March 8, 2007

feb 22nd, 2007

 

good stuff from wharton, although i find that fellow ed luce to be yet another limey ass.

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how jobs got the cingular iphone deal together

feb 20th, 2007

love him or hate him, you gotta admire steve jobs. a true marketing genius. or, if you prefer, a true control freak.

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