Equity Always Underperforms Fixed Deposits
According to common wisdom, equity outperforms fixed deposits, bonds and other fixed income instruments in the long term. Depending on who you talk to, 'long term' could mean anything from…
Customers Of The World Unite, You Have Nothing To Lose But The Call Center Hold Music
Around the end of 2009, my HP OfficeJet printer broke down. I logged a call with the local office of Hewlett Packard’s service partner. I got no response for three…
Will Mobile Blogs Impoverish Bloggers?
I recently shifted a lot of my blog reading from a laptop to a smartphone. In the context of a blog that's mobile-optimized, let me make a few observations and…
Whither Cross Selling & Upselling With eBills & eStatements?
For a long time, I've been hearing about how electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) solutions enable billers to do more cross-selling and upselling. For the uninitiated, EBPP, among other…
Waiting For Refund
This lovemoney.com article titled Tenants: how to get your deposit back describes the trials and tribulations faced by tenants in the UK in getting their security deposits back after they…
How Mobile Network Operators Can Use Mobile Apps To Boost ARPU
I've used 3G in the UK several years ago but it was only recently that I "onboarded" on to this high-speed mobile network in India. I took baby steps by…
A Practical Guide On Work-Life Balance
From: S Ketharaman Sent: April 06, 2012 To: editet@timesgroup.com Subject: Work Life Balance Dear Editor of The Economic Times: In the past, whenever I've come across articles on restoring work-life…
Pushing The Envelope On Adopting Cutting Edge Technology – Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog post, I had lauded ICICI Bank for pushing the envelope on adopting cutting edge banking technologies by launching a Facebook App and Online Account…
Launching GTM360 Mobility Solutions
GTM360 Mobility Solutions. We focus on developing Android apps that are functionally-rich and call for superior user experience. Our areas of specialization include location based (LBS) apps, QR codes and…
Does Google Find It Difficult To Search Its Own Website?
In a post titled "Why Is It Easier To Search The WWW Than A Single Website?", we'd cited the examples of TechCrunch and a couple of other third-party websites to…