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Hardware market heats up with M&A

With Cisco announcing its foray into Server market, M&A is gonna heat up.

Sun is now looking for possible buyer
http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/technology/ibm_sun_microsystems.reut/index.htm?postversion=2009031807

And some points to ponder why IBM would like to acquire SUN has been rightly put in a media article below:
http://www.crn.com/hardware/215900903

Interesting to see how will hardware market structure shape up

Party Hard Driver- the new service and biz model

Came across this interesting business started by young turk in Mumbai.

Its simple, you can avail their service to provide drivers on service basis to drive your car in case all of you want to party hard.

Neing run by young professional people, I am sure they must be providing good service.

You can register one time on their website , which is free and then just call them 1 hour in advance to avail their service which is 24X7.

For more you can visit their website www.partyharddrivers.com

So next time Dont Drive and Drive ..just Party Hard!!!

Whats next in game for Nokia-2

As mentioned in my post below, Nokia seem to be real serious about MVNO biz
Nokia To Launch Luxury Brand Vertu MVNO In Japan

http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-nokia-to-launch-luxury-vertu-brand-mvno-in-japan/

Whats next in game for Nokia

I would not be surprised if Nokia is planning an MVNO in India. They clearly meet criteria for MVNO biz.. strong brand name, leader in handset market in fastest groing wireless market- India, leader in equipment vendor in India with strong clients like Airtel and strong sales channel till Tier2-3 cities in India.
With TRAI having already floated recommendations on MVNO, players are busy designing their strategy including European player like Elisa

It is evident that focus in telecom will clealry shift to application rather than just network as was case in last decade. Technology evolution is not the only innovation in telecom space now. With VAS growing at expotential pace, it is quite a lucrative market for equipment vendors to avoid.
Moreover, equipment market space has already seen growth in services as a method to remain competitive. Nokia is currently in managed services deal for more than 13 circles in India with Airtel and working to gain more of such deals.

I see Nokia expanding is foot towards the application layer and positioning itself more towards end customer. The more they are able to increase mindshare with end-customer, better are their prosppects of becoming preferred alliance partner with operators in the geo. Notebook venture as per the news, seems one such attempt as an extension of thier strategy. With production units across geos, they can surly leverage economies of scale.
Moreover, Post IBM -Lenono deal, there has been a lot of change in market share game in notebook world.

Net-Net, I see Nokia expanding its presence from just being a leader in enterprise space in telecom world and expanding its foothold with end customer because, that the next field where next big games are going to player in telecom world