Palm announced today about their promotion of Pre by offering a free palm pre phone to those who will be reviewer for their new smart phone. Palm’s Pre is the only smartphone which is a real competitor to iphone/ipod touch with a completely new mobile operating system webOS.
They will select the reviewers on May 8th 2009. One can enter the promotion by answering few questions here
Answer the following questions and enter your name in this lucky draw. Good luck.
Dipesh Khakhkhar Mobile Operating System, Smartphone, Software free, iphone, ipod touch, Palm pre, webOS
Seth Godin wrote a post about – Pick Anything- Calculus of Change and few days back I read a book (story) Almost Perfect (you can read the book online for free) about WordPerfect authored by one of the executive of the maker of software. The book describes the rise and fall of WordPerfect.
As mentioned by Seth Godin change in Operating System brought Microsoft Word into limelight and once ubiquitous WordPerfect is almost vanished now. Change is the rule of life where everyone participates and molds themselves. We can see change around us all the time – the way people are embracing Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Blogs is one of the example of how these tools are changing the way people disseminate news and information.
That’s why we saw influx of web 2.0 start ups in 2006-2008 where every other entrepreneur was selling/marketting their ideas (no matter how crappy was it). For example if we consider 100 web 2.0 application then 15 survives and 5 of them excel and become maas’s product and that brings the change which we adopt by using these products.
There is inherent Power in Change and one has to capitalize the moment to make use of the Change.
Dipesh Khakhkhar Software Almost Perfect, book, Change, Marketing, Power, WordPerfect
Tech Mahindra will acquire Satyam Computers at approximately $1.5/share for approximate total of $577.8 M (2889 Crores INR at 58 Rs/share ) Satyam Computer will operate as a separate entity with separate liabilities. There were other bidders too – L & T, Cognizant etc.
Tech Mahindra will buy31% stake in Satyam by paying $351.4 M approximately (1757 Crores INR). The transition procedure will be long and it will happen gradually. Tech Mahindra and Satyam Computers together will be a good competition to Indian/Major World IT Consulting Companies. They will be in same league as Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture, IBM etc.
Tech Mahindra’s stock soared during trading at BSE.
This move is a good one for Satyam as a company but as usual with merger and acquisition there will be shredding in some division and removal of redundant positions at executive levels.
Dipesh Khakhkhar India, Merger and Acquisition, Software Acquistion, Bought, IT Consulting, Satyam Computers, Tech Mahindra
