Can traditional news papers be replaced with internet??

A decade ago, if you wanted to read about the news, then the source would be none other than the newspapers. This is definitely true because you had to have a daily or monthly subscription if you want to know about the happenings going around you and the world. Other Medias like TV and radio had the time fixed for the news hour. But with the rise of the internet, things have definitely changed. Nowadays, more and more people are using the internet, if they want to get some updates about certain events

 It is already possible to have the type of news you specify delivered directly to your mobile phone, free of charge. It’s a matter of time before millions of people receive news this way. Cell phone screens are getting bigger and clearer, making them suitable for reading for longer periods, and the costs of downloading mobile data are falling worldwide.

You will even be able to find celebrity and entertainment news on the internet. Because of the accessibility and convenience of the internet, traditional media outlets are already experiencing a drop-off in sales and readership.

 The chain Associated Newspapers sold a controlling stake in the London Evening Standard as it announced a 24% decline in 2008 ad revenues. One industry report predicted that 1 in 10 UK print publications would cut its frequency of publication in half. Rapidly declining advertising revenues continue to be the industry’s core problem.

Print losses far exceed online gains. For 2011, the ratio was more than roughly 10 to 1. In 2006, online revenues were still growing quickly and covered about 80% of print losses. Then in the 2008-2009 recessions online flattened and fell slightly. For the last two years, revenue lost in print is nowhere close to being replaced by digital gains.

The newspaper market varies greatly by country due to such factors as long-standing historical and cultural traditions in each region; levels of social development in terms of education, literacy, and income; the news industry’s organization, economics, production and distribution system; and overall structure of public subsidies, government regulations, and national levels of democratization.

 The bitter reality is, a lot of newspaper companies have definitely experienced the heat because of the lower number of newspaper subscriptions in most countries. This is probably because a lot of people who live in city outcast the number in subscriptions of newspapers relatively compared to rural people are already turning to the internet if they want to learn about the world news, local news, or science news and updates. 

Most of the websites offer information for free, so this definitely translates to a lot of savings.

 Just like other countries, especially in China, the quality of facts reporting in the newspapers is sometimes under suspicion. They have a powerful government and they usually control the Medias to prettify some facts for their benefits.

Nowadays we can also find lots and lots of advertisements bombarding your eyes with several pages in the newspapers. People use the internet to release some governmental officials' corruptions or other illegal behaviors. Some people are brave enough to expose the truth because they only use a false name for registration without worrying about the consequence. In addition, people from different places can interact by discussing in the follow-up boxes. Whereas newspaper cannot provide these exciting events in timely manner.

News papers are becoming greedy and loosing the morality of spreading better news. It could have been no worse than a news paper printing in Karnataka published in Karnataka having the better things done add by tamilnadu government. One should have sense at least to publish the ads of a government in its on native land.

Newspapers are still a prominent part of many common people. Especially the ones with retired career life, their day starts with a cup of coffee and a newspaper. Few of them have the habit of going through various newspapers in their free time. There are people addicted to solving Sudoku puzzles and crosswords which appear in the newspaper every day.

When you talk about responsible journalism and factual reports, people still turn to traditional media for the latest news and updates. Readers still look for a source that they can trust, and newspaper articles are definitely the best way to go.

Journalists need to curate social media to find out what the news is and verify what is real and what is not from all the information out there, which isn’t always reliable. Newspapers need to stop treating their websites as a dumping ground for print stories and treat each somewhat independently, carefully selecting the stories better suited for each media. Including an environment that encourages innovative ideas will be very good in order to survive in the industry.

This is absolutely something that they should look into because people still believe in newspapers because of the level of respect that they have for these media outlets.

Lumia 520 .. Reaching expectations with Technology

The transition from a simplest basic mobile to the Smartphone could never be easier, thanks to Nokia Lumia 520 and Windows 8.For its primary usage as a phone- Excellent voice quality, speaker phone is at its best.

 Signal reception is also very good. SMS Interface is very different than regular basic phones and I found it to be quite innovative.

 The conversation view, add and search recipient option just above the message screen makes user easier to choose recipients. This avoids sending of messages to the irrelevant person.

Screen size of 4' is quite appropriate. It fits in your palm well. Display quality is excellent. It may not have the best viewing angle though, but for a single viewer, you get the best. Highly responsive touch brings even a brighter smile on us.

Windows 8 feel is very unique. Very user friendly, desktop kind of interface and positioning of applications could not be simpler. It will not be wise to ignore Windows phones thinking that it does not have enough apps. You would find apps for almost all of your needs.

The common complaint on all smart phones was that smart phones gets hang several times a day when applications are more. Whereas Lumia smart phones do not have the problem of hanging. We can switch into different applications very sooner than that of the other smart phones.

Nokia Music lets you download all the old and new songs direct to the phone at very impressive download speed.

Build Quality is so good and the mat finishing on its back gives you a firm grip.

To add, they have given all Nokia exclusive features like HERE Map, drive, transit; Cinemagraph, Smartshoot, Panorama lenses; Nokia Music with free music download for 3 months. Talking about design, one can easily say that it’s the best looking phone out there not only in its price range. The sleek look, bright funky colors, rectangular design, can easily make anyone say “I want it...!”

Nokia has also given an option to exchange shells. So you can buy an extra shell of any color. It is especially useful for those who want a colorful phone but office standards restrict them. Buy a black/white one extra and your problem is solved.

If you want a phone for your social needs, then don't look for any other phone. Windows Phones are best in this category as they have Facebook, Twitter, Skype integration, and a lot of IM apps to keep you connected. People Hub, merges your contacts from FB, Twitter, LinkedIn and show all of their latest updates on single tile. The colors on the screen appear very sharp and real.

HERE Drive is the one of the important application and very useful for the users while travelling. The navigation is crystal clear and it works very effectively in the rural areas also. The distance shown is very much reliable and the audio navigation brings upon a greater help to the one who is driving the vehicle.

HERE Maps is also a navigational application provided in Lumia, unlike HERE Drive it displays the details of the present location and surroundings with the possible details including street number and the name of the area. It has features including turn-by-turn walking navigation.

Using Lumia 520 makes u feel rich, the wide spread of android OS is the main reason for this, Android OS is becoming very common, the mid range smart phones with android platform has almost the same display with that of the  higher end smart phones. Whereas Lumia 520 being a windows operated gives u new feel of using Smartphone and the change which most of the people were waiting for.

How better may be the product but they do come with drawbacks, here are few drawbacks of the Lumia

Ø  Battery backup is inefficient.

Using internet explorer or while staying for in an audio call drains the battery very quickly. We can notice the notifications popping up at top of the screen as “Battery draining quickly 10% in 15 minutes”.

Ø  No front camera.

Ø  No flash provided in camera.

Ø  Relatively poor quality images in spite of 5mp camera.

Ø  The Bing search button provided at right bottom corner always comes in to play interfering with applications running due to touch sensitivity.

Cloud Computing at its simplest form

Cloud computing is delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, where by shared resources,software and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network.

Cloud computing consists of hardware and software resources made available on the Internet as managed third-party services. These services typically provide access to advanced software applications and high-end networks of server computers.

Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. The concept of cloud computing can be parallel drawn with electricity grid, wherein end-users consume power without needing to understand the component devices or infrastructure required to provide the service.

Cloud computing refers to software services and platforms that are offered through the internet... An easy to understand example is e-mail; some people access e-mail from a program on their computer while others use e-mail services online such as Gmail or Yahoo! Mail.

The different types of cloud computing services are

Software-as-a-service(SaaS)

   Services offered by cloud computing are actually software, but the software is never installed on a computer; this is what’s known as software-as-a-service.

Platform-as-a-service(PaaS)

   Provides a computing platform and facilitates the applications to run smoothly without the cost and complexity of installing and managing hardware and software and provisioning hosting capabilities.

Infrastructure-as-a-service(IaaS)

   Is a form of hosting? The IaaS provider will generally provide the hardware and administrative services needed to store the applications.

Network-as-a-service(NaaS)

    Delivers network services virtually over the internet on a pay-per-use or monthly subscription basis.

 The different types of cloud computing are

Private cloud

It is a cloud computing platform that is implemented well within the corporate network traffic, under the control of the IT department.

Public cloud

It is the most recognizable model of cloud computing to many consumers, in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to the general public over the internet.

Hybrid cloud

It is an integrated cloud service utilizing both private and public clouds to perform distinct functions within the same organization.

Community cloud

Here, infrastructure is shared between several corporate networks with common concerns like security, jurisdiction and so on, whether managed internally or by a third-party and hosted internally or externally.

Cloud computing importance

Cloud computing is an efficient way to store and maintain databases.

It’s an easy way to organize information in different departments while still allowing for company-wide collaboration.

Cloud services are updated by the provider, so everyone is always working on the latest platform.

Since it is accessible from anywhere it is generally less expensive than other solutions.

Top cloud computing service providers are:

Amazon

Amazon Web Service (AWS) provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings in the cloud for organizations requiring computing power, storage, and other services.

The customers can create virtual machines (VMs) that is, server instances called Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on which the customer can load any software of his choice.

Google

Google App Engine is Google’s platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offers building and hosting web applications on the Google Infrastructure. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offers business email and collaboration. It’s similar to the traditional office suits, including Gmail, Calendar, Gtalk, Docs and sites.

Microsoft Azure Service Platform

Azure Service Platform is Microsoft’s PaaS offering an operating system called Windows Azure that serves as a runtime for the applications and provides a set of services such as:

.NET Services, SQL Services, Live Services

Proofpoint

Proofpoint provides SaaS and IaaS services in the cloud related to securing the enterprise email infrastructure, with solutions. Proofpoint’s solutions are priced on a per-user, per-year basis, depending on the product features.

Targeted Users

All MNCs irrespective of their product and services will be having an IT department, at least with a database of its own. These departments will be linked with cloud services so that they can focus more on their primary objective. The data will be stored on the cloud and they need not worry during system crash scenarios.

Among the first companies to adopt cloud computing are small and medium business. The lack of infrastructure will be the main problem for small scale companies, and IaaS overcomes this drawback.

Main reasons to consider cloud computing are:

Cost

IT equipment and support contracts are not cheap. Traditionally the better software systems were expensive to buy and required their own server in their own place and that come with maintaining your own software and servers. However, now with cloud computing we can get access to software on a pay per user per month basis, without owning any licenses or any servers.

Productivity

Having access to data and applications and even your PC and servers from anywhere at any time really changes the business landscape.

We need not worry about the location of the service provider, or how they are providing. We just need to enjoy the service.

Drawbacks of Cloud computing services are

Reliability: Service provider makes no guarantee as to the availability all the time.

Security: They will not make any guarantee as to whom they will disclose your data.

Persistence: Ensuring persistence of data is complicated.

Network : the virtual network that allows cloud services to communicate has some quite   limitations

Cloud computing makes business dependent on the reliability of your internet connection.

Future of cloud computing

According to many analysts, the market for cloud computing solutions is booming. Forrester Research expects the market for global cloud computing to reach $241 billion in 2020, compared to $40.7 in 2010. cloud computing opens a great deal of opportunity for savvy telecom companies so it is important to understand if you could be competing with or developing partnerships with this sector.