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TELUGU - Developer as Business Man

This blogpost is for Telugu folks. If developer has to tell the dialogues of business man... here is what it looks like. Nenu andarila elago alaga batikeddamani IT loki raledu. Code tho vucha poyinchadaniki vacha.... Coding chethakani vade baggula gurunchi matladathadu... Hard coding saswatham kadu standards mukhyam antaru, Kani Hard coding migilipotondi, standards mari potunnayi. Ekkuva mandi tester lani petti confuse cheyyakandi, confusion lo ekkuva coding chesesthanu... Design lo vundi kabatti manaspurthi ga coding cheyyatam ledu.. Yevaru Yekeebhavinchin a, lekapoyina naaku Nachchindi..... anthe....!!! Mundu salary gurunchi matladatha, tharuvatha code gurunchi matladatha Visiting card ivvataniki nenu chesedi executive job kadu, kavalante rendu variables istha vunchuko.. Project Manager developers ni udakapetti, vepi rakarakaalugaa thinesthaaru. Ade oka  PM ni   developer question cheste prapamchamlo anni  news channels  lonu choopistaaru....

Amazing or Amazon ???

Founded : Incorporated July 1994 Vision : To be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. If you are studying about eCommerce your study is not complete without reading about Amazon. What amazes me about amazon is their strategy. They are not like other companies who will become competitors. They conquered an industry (book publishing). They never competed, they conquered. This company is spending lot of money, they are not worried about profits, margins and success. Every body knows about Amazon.com, Amazon Kindle Fire, amazon cloud and their web services. But there is more than what meets human eye here. Amazon is also into several businesses which we are not paying attention. Like Music, Video, App store, Grocery distribution (Seattle, WA) etc., It has faster growth than eBay and Google on a scale of 5 years. Netflix, IMDB, foursquare, zynga, Yelp use Amazon web service. Amazon.com has 38% growth in...

@WalmartLabs Blog: Goodbye, Kosmix. Hello, @WalmartLabs

@WalmartLabs Blog: Goodbye, Kosmix. Hello, @WalmartLabs : Two weeks ago, I announced the exciting news that Kosmix had agreed to be acquired by Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. At that poi...

IT Vendor Consolidation

Every CIO will hear this from his team, our IT is too complex, too difficult to maintain and increasingly challenging to secure. IT vendor consolidation is the new mantra in IT efficiency. All the Fortune 100 companies either completed vendor consolidation OR in the process of completing it. IT vendor consolidation supposed to provide below things. Reduced costs Improved Efficiency Effective service delivery Streamline the relationship management Some of the consolidations that can be considered are as below Help desk consolidation: Depending on the maturity, select the help desk vendor in your area. Unicenter from CA, BMC software are couple of famous help desk consolidation software's available in the market. Hardware consolidation: For network Cisco and for Server IBM is the buzz word in the industry. IT Services consolidation: Select any matured IT company, which is having efficiency in your domain. Indian IT companies can easily provide Banking, Fin...

iAttitude vs iVision

News media about Steve Job's when he was alive: An arrogant who thinks he’s above the law. A slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong. He got attitude. Selling his products at ridiculously high price and thinking he is helping world. He cancelled his trip and came back for Antenna gate problems of iPhone 4. He is scolding media for hyper attention on small issue. He says don't buy if you don't like, he needs PR. News media after Steve Job's death: A visionary, innovator. Every body dreams of changing the world, only few does that in reality. A wonderful human being is lost. Media means people, that means we change our opinions with an incident. I want to close this blog post with the story that tells about power of an Incident. One day a father and 3 children walked into a local train in New York. Children started making so much noise, it is causing inconvenience to others in the train. One guy told the father that he has to control his children other...

IT as profit center

IT is slowly becoming POWER CENTER, its no longer a cost center of your business. The reason it was cost center all this while is, IT departments used to get grants from business. But now things are changing, IT departments not just reducing costs for business, it started generating income. IT department is the growth engine for any line of business like Retail, Health care or Banking. CIO's role is now becoming more and more important every day. Executives and Boards started looking at IT department for their solutions, new ideas and key income generation. In today's world eCommerce, social commerce, mobile payments, self checkout kiosks, Smart phone apps are changing the world pretty quickly. Businesses realized where their next big bucks are going to be. IT is grabbing the chair next to main line of business. IT department is the missing business inclusiveness all this while. It aligns all your business much strategically in today's world. It is the value engine al...

Health Care Cost in USA

Some of the facts about health care costs in USA. These are collected facts from Business Insider magazine. If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would have the 6th largest economy on the globe.  Profits at U.S. health insurance companies increased by 56 percent during 2009. According to a report by Health Care for America Now, America's five biggest for-profit health insurance companies ended 2009 with a combined profit of $12.2 billion. Between 2000 and 2006, wages in the United States increased by 3.8%, but health care premiums increased by 87%. According to one recent report, Americans spend approximately twice as much as residents of other developed countries on health care. The United States spent 2.47 trillion dollars on health care in 2009. It is being projected that the U.S. will spend 4.5 trillion dollars on health care in 2019 What the United States spent on health care in 2009 was greater than the entire GDP of Great Britain Health insurance premium...