Convergence of PC and Mobile Phone Industry

During last one decade lot of changes took place in both PC and mobile industry. Most of these changes brought PC and mobile phone closer than it was before. In case of PC focus was on miniaturization. In case of mobile focus was on improving resources such as memory and processing capabilities. Innovation is also in the direction of bringing best of the two industries. This is hinting at possible convergence of PC and mobile phone industries. This has resulted in Tablet devices at present. It has vast resources in terms of memory and processor speed as well as high-end communication capabilities such as 3G, HSDPA and HSUPA.
In PC there is no clear segmentation of product in the market. But in mobile industry, handset is broadly classified into three segments viz. expression, entertainment and enterprise. Expression segment is limited to basic communication such as voice and text. Entertainment segment is focused on multimedia enriched features. Enterprise segment offers enterprise solution for executives. But Tablets are supporting all the features because of vastness of resources and blurring the boundary between these segments. Since Tablet or its improved version has great potential to replace PC so we can think of Tablet as a future (mobile) computing platform. But there are some events which are still uncertain going forward. As we know the concentration in PC industry by “Wintel”. But mobile industry is totally fragmented. Even the highest market share enjoyed by Nokia is successfully challenged by competitors through Android and iOS. So we need to watch whether same fragmentation is retained in Tablet business as well. It has both pros and cons. In case of concentrated industry there is a threat of monopoly. Fragmentation helps in building competitive market through perfect competition. On the other hand fragmentations have impact on standardization which has bothered multimedia domain over a long time. Due to concurrent development of standards in the field of multimedia format, interoperability was compromised that resulted in compatibility issues whereas concentration in the industry will ensure standardization to greater extent. For a sound growth of industry and value for end-user this converged industry should be well balanced. i.e. there should be good number of player for competition and at the same time a forum should exist to standardize the technologies.

Euphoria - Stages of happiness

Happiness is the only thing which is mostly sought after in any ones life. Be it a beggar on the road side or a richest man on this earth.Yes some people believe that happiness can be bought by money, it may be true for those who believe it as it depends on what type of happiness they are looking for.Let us not comment on that.So what happiness a common person looking for in his life? Or else put it in better way what happiness a person should look for in his life. Most importantly what is that motivates anyone in this world to live and dream better tomorrow. Yes it is the happyness.So new question arises in mind whether happiness is a destination? No happiness is not destination it is a pathway. So how that happiness comes in journey of ones life. I heard these below mentioned line from one of the Kannada movie.Where a character in the movie depict the different phases of one's personal life. He says "First in our life we believe that I am happy World is sad, next we reach a state I am sad; world is happy."So to get back the happiness one must realize the reason to loose the happiness. That will make him to feel I am happy World is also happy.

All of us definitely go through these phases in one or other stages of our life.Let us see those.

I am Happy; World is Sad
Yes if we consider our childhood days we with innocent mind set think only about better part of life. We find happiness in each and every thing of life though it look trivial now,I feel all that because of our innocent mind set.Even if we don't realize at that moment that We are happy but later in the second phase we will definitely feel that, that time (childhood day's) "I was Happy; World was Sad"

I am Sad; World is happy
Later when we grow up our mind set will change. We run after the things that we desire and we Loose happyness.It is something like when happiness was in our feet we dare to drop it, and then we chase for the search of un lost happiness. We definitely feel now I am sad World is happy. This is the stage which is difficult to come out unless we realize the reason to loose happiness.

I am Happy; World is also happy
Always this question arises during our second phase of life. Why I should be happy?
In fact if we see this world with open mind there is a reason to be happy in life for no reason. Because there is no reason to be sad. If we realize that in our childhood days there was something which tied happiness closely with us then one must think why we lost it. The reason it self will help you to fine the happiness that we lost.

Yes may be above mentioned sentence may not clear many thing but I definitely feel that it will help one to find the lost happiness. Only thing is that we must know we were happy at one point of time in our life before for no reason. So we can be happy now also for no reason in our journey of life.

Fountain head

This is one of the books which I liked and loved most, in fact next to geeta (I mean Bhagavat geeta).Author Ayn Rand had beautifully sculptured the main character Howard Roark (Hero). His dedication and love towards his profession is awesome. Through this novel Ayn sends a message which is blending of philosophy and objectivism. Though narration of each character run over many pages, once you involve yourself in the story you will enjoy it. The novel focus on the message through each of the characters not limiting it to just hero character. Story is about a young architect who fights against all the odds that are thrown by some of the stalwarts of the society against him. His indifference towards insult during early stage of his career and mild acceptance of name and fame after getting recognition for his work is an "ideal" one. His strive for reaching perfection through out the life without kissing frustration in any stage of his life is a lesson for "professionals”. He is the person who can never get hurt by any worst situation of life. Serenity is natural state of his life which is effort less to him. Ultimately in single sentence its all about "things as they are and things as they ought to be". "Fountain head" conveys that “man’s ego is the fountain head of human progress” - a must read novel by Ayn Rand believed to be best of her novel collection.