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The Emerge – Product Forum 23 Oct 2013

Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Location: Fortune Pandiyan Hotel, Madurai

The Emerge–Product Forum focused on exploring millennial technologies that drive growth and innovation. Held at the Fortune Pandiyan Hotel in Madurai, the event was well-received and a huge success.

Key Highlights:

  • Discussion on emerging technologies shaping the future of businesses.
  • Exploration of how millennial technologies can fuel growth and drive innovation.
  • Networking opportunities for participants to connect and collaborate.

We thank all participants for their active engagement and contributions to the event’s success.

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Thank you for participating in The Emerge Product Forum. We look forward to hosting more insightful events in the near future.

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Arunachalam Muruganantham: The first man to wear a sanitary napkin

In under 12 minutes, listen to the fascinating journey of a workshop helper – from being rejected by the same women whose lives he wanted to change – to now gearing up to create jobs for a million women.

Arunachalam Muruganantham (Padman) is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine. He is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/lifestyle/first-account-of-the-man-who-wore-sanitary-napkin/305235

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A \’real\’ case study on FUNDING : Cricinfo.com – \’We were burning through a million dollars a month\’

Source : http://www.espncricinfo.com/cricinfoat20/content/story/674579.html 

\’We were burning through a million dollars a month\’

In part two of his account of Cricinfo\’s first decade, Badri Seshadri looks at how the site changed hands during the years of the dotcom boom

The first £100,000
Peter Griffiths brought a very strong connection from the scoring and statistics side of things. He was at that time probably the Secretary of Cricket Scorers and Statisticians. Alex Balfour was doing all kinds of jobs, one of which was freelance journalism. He did a story on Cricinfo. That drew him into Cricinfo and he started working as a volunteer. He was always ready to write copy for any document we had to write or presentation we had to make. In addition to that, he was well connected in London with the financial side, because he was doing a lot of research work during the dotcom period.

One such company that was brought in by Alex was called Pangolin. It later renamed itself as sportal.com and then collapsed eventually. They were a company run by a bunch of sports executives who were in some television company or the other, into rights negotiations and broadcasting. It was primarily driven by soccer. They had the idea of putting together a pan-European mega sports network. They said they would give us £100,000.

It was our first proper funding in return for virtually nothing. Amazing deal. They said they would give us the money in return for us to write a business plan. If they liked the business plan they would invest in us at the agreed valuation. If they didn\’t like it or we didn\’t like the offer, we were to return the money, and if we didn\’t have the money to return – because obviously the moment you take £100,000, you start spending it – they would take advertising on our site, since they were building a sports network and they needed advertising and they knew we had a good audience base.

We said, fine. There was nothing to lose. Cash for advertising, and that as a last resort. So we took the money and started using it. Simon set up an office in a place called Hartham, and I went there quite often. Alex would come in for a day or two a week for small money, to do some work, and me going there, staying there for a month and coming back – that sort of thing.

But now we could employ more people in India. With that kind of money, if we even allocated a couple of thousand pounds we could hire people in India to do scorecards and other things. So that\’s how the Indian office was set up. Even before that, in \’98, when I started travelling to UK, we tracked Murari Venkatraman, who had been one of the admins before me. We got Murari in, and quite a few other employees. In hindsight we probably should not have hired most of those people, but we ended up hiring about 60-70 people, lots of them typing scorecards, which was the starting point, whereas in UK we had just one employee.

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Google rolls out new Gmail for Android app w/ cleaner conversation view and more

Google announced today that it is rolling a new version of Gmail for Android that introduces a new and improved conversation view, improved multi-select functions, and other improvements.

The cleaner conversation view is pretty self explanatory from the screenshot above, and does a good job of making it easier to see email threads that get grouped together. You can also now tap profile images of senders within the conversation view to select multiple emails in the conversation.

As for the improved multi-select functionality, Google noted that the app also now includes “checkmarks for multiple message selection so you can easily see what messages you are about to move, archive or delete.”

You’ll also now be able to see if Account Sync is disabled directly in your inbox.

The updated Gmail app is available now on Google Play.

 

 

 

 

Source : http://9to5google.com/2013/09/25/google-rolls-out-new-gmail-for-android-app-w-cleaner-conversation-view-and-more/

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The Access 2013 Runtime now available for download

Source : http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-access/archive/2013/07/02/the-access-2013-runtime-is-now-available-for-download.aspx

 

After a long, hard effort by many people, the stars have finally aligned. The Access team is pleased to announce the release of the Access 2013 Runtime! We know lots of you are very anxious to get your hands on the Access 2013 Runtime. You can now go and download the Access 2013 Runtime from the following location:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c44d623-a8bc-4be5-a561-f11d33602505

The Access 2013 Runtime is available for download in 38 languages.

Microsoft Access 2013 provides a rich platform for developing database management solutions with easy-to-use customization tools. If no end user customization is required (including report modifications), you can choose to distribute those Access 2013 solutions so that they run without requiring a full installation of Access 2013. To do so, you must package and distribute your application with the Access 2013 Runtime.

Web-based apps for SharePoint that are built with Access 2013 do not require a runtime–only a supported web browser is required.

Enjoy!

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SIDA – Event – 24th Sept 2013

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Date: 24-Sep      Time: 5pm to 8:30pm     Venue: Hotel V Grand, Madurai

Event: “Consortium led approach for exponential growth” organized by Software Industries Development Association (SIDA)

  • ·         Meeting Chaired by: Jeyabalan RK, General Secretary and Varadharajan Pandian, President
  • ·         The Chief Guest: ‘Ma Foi’ K Pandiarajan, MLA of Virudhunagar, Eminent Industrialist
  • ·         Attended by over 50 SIDA member organizations and it’s representatives

Event Objective:

To mentor the members on the necessity of SIDA members to work as a consortium to pursue common interests, thereby grow together in terms of revenue, size and help the regional economy.

Excerpts from the event & Key note:

  • ·         Consortium is the way for SIDA member companies towards working together and growing together.
  • ·          SIDA members have disparate technology strengths and specialized in different business areas. However, they cannot scale up beyond a level, because they are small. Synergies from combined strengths and capacities can make SIDA consortium ONE stronger entity
  • ·         Being together and presenting as one entity could earn the trust from Governments, Public and private enterprises, thus to get preferential allotment and relaxation of norms
  • ·         Execution is the key. Building necessary infrastructure, creating working models, innovative business models can help to grow faster
  • ·         The consortium approach would result in at least 10 times of growth for SIDA members in 3 years, 10,000 jobs for aspirants in the region, prosperity and economic growth in the South Tamilnadu

At last, all members unanimously passed a voice vote that Consortium formation Activities can be commenced. The necessary task forces shall be formed in the next 2 weeks time.

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[SIDA event] \”Consortium-led approach for exponential growth\”

Mentored by Mr. \’Mafoi\’ K Pandiarajan | Madurai | 24-Sep-2013 / 5:00pm to 8:00pm; Venue: Hotel V Grand, Madurai

Please find the agenda for the event.

16:45     Onwards              –              Registration

17:00     17:10                     –              Introduction

17:10     17: 45                    –              Know your (SIDA) members – A set of SIDA member companies shall briefly present about their organization

17:45     18:15                     –              Open House – SIDA members

18:15     18:30                     –              Welcome note & Chief Guest Introduction   –
Varadarajan Pandian

18:30     19:30                     –              Keynote Address: \”Consortium-led approach for exponential growth\”: Mr. \’Mafoi\’ K Pandiarajan

19:30     19:45                     –              Next steps on the initiative – Q & A

19:45     19:50                     –              Thanks note – Jeyabalan

19:50     20:30                     –              Networking

Amidst busiest schedule and overseas travel, Chief Guess Mr. KPR has kindly agreed for this event. SIDA members will have to reciprocate by 100% attendance and active participation.

Kindly make a note of the venue.

V Grand Hotel – VIP Hall – 1st Floor

No 5, 120 feet road, Mattuthavani to surveyor colony road

Madurai 625 007.

Phone no : +91 452 4354777, +91 452 4376444.

 

 

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SIDA Questionnaire 2013 !

Dear esteemed SIDA members,

Greetings!

As we step into new era in SIDA and gearing up to expand our boundaries, we would like to collect the very basic information (of course, no sensitive, confidential or competitive details are requested here! We respect your privacy). These details will be then consolidated across SIDA level and a profile / presentation shall be made on the collective strengths. Going forward, we are targeting a lot of initiatives and for many such interventions with public and private sectors; For such external meetings, we shall be using the information collated here, without compromising your interests.

A lot of effort is made in

· Deciding what to be included and what not;

· Designing the form and web page

Once we receive the information, we shall again spend time in consolidating and creating a profile.

SIDA Questionnaire : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1da1OWFi06eYm_wyHbRzWMRvr5WuIHnkFbqmbLzEDj8o/viewform

Our humble request you is to spend this 5-10 minutes in filling this form. By filling this form, you will have no problems or issues, no reason to panic. And have all these details will be very help to initiate the future action. Therefore, we request you to make a serious effort here.

Thanks and looking forward to receive your inputs by this weekend. In case of any questions, you may revert or call me or our Secretary Mr. Jeyabalan.
Regards

TeeYes Siva
Jt. Secretary – SIDA
(93441 05858)

Contact Info:
Jeyabalan RK
Secretary

Mobile: (91) 96267 62999, (91) 99400 92145

Software Industries Development Association (SIDA)

Welcome to SIDA Tamilnadu

 

 

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