Vijay Ashthana

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Asian Mobile Cloud Services Emerging in 2011

Vijay Ashthana

Thursday, May 5, 2011

The tremendous increase in sales for smartphones and tablet computers is a clear indication of their growing popularity among consumers.

Sales of mobile computing gadgets have already overtaken global sales of personal computers in 2010. Mobile gadgets, which include tablets, notebooks and netbooks, accounted for 61% of the overall PC market, while the remaining 39% referred to desktop computers. This wide gap in global sales is expected to increase much further and will hit the 75% mark by the year 2014.

Southeast Asia: Attracting MNCs for Clinical Trials

Vijay Ashthana

Friday, April 15, 2011

The ever-increasing cost of medicines and healthcare in Western countries can be attributed to the increasing cost of de- veloping new drugs as well as the considerable time consumed when conducting clinical trials.

RIM Setting Up Internet Filters for Blackberry Services in Indonesia

Vijay Ashthana

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

In the West, the image of people engrossed with their use of their Blackberry smart phones may seem like a normal day-to-day scenario.

Madurai: The Regional IT Hub

Vijay Ashthana

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

With the recent series of industrial developments Madurai has been experiencing, this area is seemingly becoming the regional information technology hub in India.

Some of the companies that are now operating in Madurai include TVS Srichakra, Fenner, and Madura Coats. There are also many business process outsourcing companies that are flourishing in Madurai. Since many companies are operating in the area, more opportunities are now becoming available for those living within the region.

Gujarat Launches Asia’s First Solar Park at Charanka

Vijay Ashthana

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

To date, the Gujrat state has been well known as India’s largest milk producing state, but now Gujrat will have Asia’s first and biggest solar power park which will generate up to 500 megawatts of power.

Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujrat, laid the foundation stone on the 29th of December 2010. The solar power park will be spread over 2080 hectares of land at Charanka, which lies in the Pathan District near the periphery of the famous Rann of Kutch. The park’s size will allow it to receive direct sunlight 300 days of the year.

Asia’s Going Smart: Smart Cards and the Asian Market

Vijay Ashthana

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

A smart card is the next generation of security authentication and other such key activities. In a nutshell, smart cards are small and pocketable cards that incorporate integrated circuitry.

They run the gamut from memory cards, which incorporate components for memory storage, to microprocessor cards that also incorporate microprocessor componentry.

Huawei Launches New Cricket WiFi Device

Vijay Ashthana

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The new Cricket Crosswave portable WiFi device is now available from Huawei. The dual mode EVDO/WiFi Crosswave has the ability to connect with up to three devices at the same time.

It is compatible with most devices that support WiFi 802.11b/g including Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7, as well as Mac OS X10.4.11 to 10.6.3 (both 32 and 64 bit).

Indonesia Consumer Confidence Decreases

Vijay Ashthana

Friday, October 1, 2010

While some Asian countries witness rising consumer confidence, it is slightly different for Indonesia. According to the MasterCard Worldwide Index of Consumer Confidence, the most comprehensive survey in the Asia-Pacific region, Indonesia’s consumer confidence score for the second quarter of 2010 is 61.4. This is lower than the 67 that the country scored for the first quarter of the same year.

Mastercard analysts consider the score as fairly optimistic.