Why Should NTC Bring iPhone 4 To Nepal? - Business Growth Nepal

Hi friends,

I am very glad to hear that most of people are very interested to have iPhone 4 in Nepal in cheap rate via NTC. In this post I am going to write about why should NTC bring iPhone 4 to Nepal and how all Nepali would be benefited with it. So go on reading!

As we all know mobile development is developing and taking its space so fast in technical world that one can't avoid its existence. Without mobile devices we can't survive now a days. There are other mobile platforms also but Apple has been the most successful mobile platform in the world for past 5 years, its not a joke. Why people people prefer iPhone over android or Nokia? 

It's all due to the quality product that Apple has created with satisfied customers. And the "Quality Apps" that iphone users can buy in the iTune Stores. 

Nepal Not in iTune Stores

Update: From Thusday 21 June, 2012 Apple added iTunes Store for our Country Nepal and 32 other different countries. For more view my post here. 

We always want most out of our mobile devices. Mobile devices used to be for calls only past 5 yrs ago but now almost every technical works can be done in mobile and we want more and more to get out of it. The iphone iTunes Store is a app store where users can buy the apps for their apple products like iPhone, iPod, iPad. The apps are of very great quality and we can do great things with these apps. In other word, these app makes your iphone more alive than just for phone call. 

But I was very upset when I found that our country "Nepal" is not listed in the country list of iTunes Store. So, we are not allowed to buy/sell apps in iTunes store which is like we are deprived of using its full services and participate in the business plan with apple to Sell apps. (Trust me selling these apps you will definitely make lot of money). It is even though possible but the process sucks. We can't easily do our work in our country and for doing these work we have to rely on other countries.... that is now very sad.

So, what I want is to recognize Nepal in iTunes Store and use their services in affordable rate. This can not be done by individuals, only NTC can do and I heartily request NTC administrators to consider this opportunity as serious issue so that 

1. Our country "Nepal" is recognized in world wide via iTune Stores.
2. We can use better and smart services from these technologies.

You know friends, what is differences between people who live in Nepal (developing) and USA (developed)? They both are talented. But in developing country like ours there are less opportunities and in abroad there are lot of opportunities. So, we always lay low in competition with them but that doesn't mean we are not capable. We are of course capable or may be much more capable.

Why NTC should bring iPhone in Nepal?

1. Register our Country "Nepal" to iTunes Store which will recognize our country globally.
2. Grow the development opportunities in Nepal (iPhone development).
3. Economic upgrade of our country by the use of these opportunities.

These are summary points which is only screen cast. But the whole picture is much more enthusiastic and overwhelming. I can bet that mobile development will definitely generate higher revenues for government and development of Nepal. And the time of Mobile Evolution is coming so be prepared guys.

And finally, I have created a group in facebook "Nepal Telecom Should Bring Apple to Nepal". Please join the group. We will have our ideas shared and discussed in this group. Feel free to spread the information about the group.

Thanks for reading. Happy sharing, any thoughts please feel free to post it in comments below.

Qwiki, Information Consumption is easier now than from Google or Wikipedia!.

Hi friends,

In this post, I am going to write about the "Qwiki" which is the most awesome source of Information Consumption that we have ever dreamed of. Technology is always changing and evolving day by day and new things are coming all the time. In the same series "Qwiki" is the most awaited innovation that human has been waiting for consuming the information. Well, lets go first on what is Qwiki.

Qwiki

A “Qwiki” is a short, interactive story: a drastically improved information experience provided via interactive video. Unlike traditional rich media content, all Qwikis are created on the fly from web sources (without any human intervention). And This is amazing. (I am just wondering of which algorithm and how much AIs has been used within.)

Qwiki was created by Doug Imbruce and Louis Monier. The latter you may know as the founder of one of the original web search engines, AltaVista.

In my college time, when I was doing engineering, I took Multimedia Subject on elective. And I used to study that how interactive multimedia system can make your life easy to consume information. When I heard about Qwiki and used it, I just knew that this is what we used discuss that in Future, the information consumption would be much more easier than we use google or wikipedia to acquire information.

Today, Qwiki produces 3MM+ interactive, narrated Qwikis describing all the topics on Wikipedia - complete with relevant images, video, and structured data imported from linked sources. These Qwikis are embeddable anywhere on the web and compatible with all iOS devices. (iPhone, iPad)

Qwiki was launched in alpha testing mode on January 24, 2011 after it won the TechCrunch Disrupt Award in 2010. To know about brief history and partners of Qwiki, please visit this wikipedia link. It also raised $1.5 million dollar on TechCrunch from Groupon co-founders. Visit here for full news. This post also give nice views on Qwiki.

It has also released different MarkUp Languages and APIs through which, its different partners produced beautiful interactive experiences at scale.

What Qwiki Does?

1. Whatever topic you type in its search box, it will explain about your topic in audio and visual output in video format.
2. Now you don't have to read all lines to acquire information. Just give rest to eye a bit and hear voices. The voices are also of great quality.
3. Qwiki talks to you, telling you all you need to know about what you searched for, while also showing you key things about the subject or person.
4. And the data isn’t just from Wikipedia. Say you do a search for a person, Qwiki can look at their social connections and tell you about their LinkedIn profile, for example. But this feature is not available for all users now (like u and me). Hope in next release it would be great.

Benefits 

There are loads of benefits of Qwiki. Some of the vital are as follows:

1. Your eye strain will be definitely low coz you don't have to read all lines in the web pages. It's very great that our eyes will have less strain and ears would also assists you to acquire all informations.
2. Students who needs to find quick understanding and knowledge from internet would be very benefited from this site. It's lot easier to acquire information with this Product.
3. Fast way to consume any information would lead in acquire knowledge faster which is great.

If you guys have any known benefits please do leave comments below. I will add it to this list definitely. Let's have your say. Thanks and happy sharing.

Sources:

1. Wikipedia - Qwiki
2. Disrupt Winner Raises Like $1 million from Groupon Cofounders
3. CrunchBase: Qwiki

NTC planning to launch Apple iphone 4 (8GB) @ Rs 15,000 Only!!

Hi friends, you guys must have heard that Nepal Telecom is bringing iPhone 4 (8GB) to Nepal on contract. It seems to me interesting since I am an iphone developer and most of my friends are also excited about having iphones with cheap affordable price.

NTC and Apple Agreement

Once, NTC has tried to bring Blackberry Mobile to Nepal with it BES server integrated with ntc Carrier. But it failed due to lack of our carrier security and probably poor quality of signal strength of Nepal Telecom at that time.

After the failed attempt to bring Blackberry Mobile, largest telecommunication company of Nepal, NTC (Nepal Telecom Authority) is planning to introduce iPhone 4 (8GB) for Rs15000 (200$). According to the source, Apple and NTC have already signed the agreement for this process and it may be available within this year if everything goes fine.

Since we know that 16GB and 32GB iPhone are at high price, iPhone 4 with 8GB memory will be introduced by NTC for its customers. Some weeks ago Apple have announced that they will be introducing iPhone with less memory for promoting developing countries like Nepal to increase its market share. 

According to NTC Plan, to get an iPhone , subscriber have to sign a 2 year contract with NTC and pay Rs15000 to get iPhone. NTC will be selling this iPhone after locking the "NTC" carrier within the device. This scheme is most popular on different countries like in USA, where AT&T, Verizon sells carrier locked iphones on 2 year contract basis to  their customers.

Currently the price of iPhone 4 16GB is Rs55000+ in Nepali market, Rs 15000 for iPhone its not only cool but awesome.  I am looking forward for development of Apple product and iOS in Nepal.

Since Apple iphone is pretty cool gadgets for youngsters and business people it will definitely take great market share. I will be the first one to have it as soon as it arrives.

Challenges for NTC

The iphone is very sophisticated smart phone which uses high speed internet and great carrier services. In short, to maintain the quality standard with smart phone, the carrier service and other services like 3G, GPRS, etc also should be great and meet the standard. Following might be challenges for NTC:

1. Enhance the Carrier strength even in the time of LoadShedding. (I hate "Error In Connection" Message by the way and Ah.. "No Channels are Available" )
2. Provide high speed internet service, 3G and GPRS all over the country (not only inside Ring Road area). ( At Least must be competitive with NCell customers in terms of both data plan and service plan).

These are some basic feedback for NTC to enhance its service. If you guys have any feel free to add one in comment. I will add them in list.

Please go through my Post Why should NTC bring iPhone 4 to Nepal to know in detail about how life of Nepali people can upgrade with opportunities when we have iPhone 4 provided by Apple via NTC.

Thanks for reading and happy sharing. Hope within a year,  all interested iPhone fans would be using iPhone for entertainment and calls.

Setup Android Development Environment in Mac !!

Hi friends, when I did a quick search on above topic, I found answer on blogs, but they were not organized or were not easier to understand and start. So, here is a quick and short installation guide for setting up Android development environment using Eclipse. Eclipse is best IDE for Android development so, I suggest using eclipse and get started rather than wandering if there are other dev environments to choose.

Step 1: Android SDK setup

Android SDK is the package which contains all the libraries and API's needed for developing android applications.

1. In this step simply download the Android SDK from this site for Mac OS X.
2. After downloading SDK, unzip it. It is good to go through a Readme.txt file of that folder.
3. Open the terminal and execute the command "tools/android".
4. You will see an "Android SDK and AVD Manager".
5. Browse through Available Package, select only needed version of SDK such as 2.2 or above and some samples and documentation and then Click on Install selected Item. 
6. Accept and Click install. Then program will download selected item and install. 

NOTE: You don't need to install all packages to start android programming. Be selective, only install those which you might need. Later on you can download and install other packages too. 

Step 2: Installing Eclipse

In this step download Latest Eclipse from here for your Mac OS X. I have used the Eclipse - Indigo Version which also works great. I suggest eclipse version 3.6 or above.

Step 3: Install Android ADT Plugin in Eclipse.

Eclipse is based on a plug-in architecture that is used to extend its capabilities by third-party plug-ins. The ADT plug-in marries the tools found in the Android SDK with the powers of Eclipse. 

Installing plug-ins for Eclipse can be done either manually, by dropping the contents of a plug-in ZIP file into the plug-ins folder of Eclipse, or via the Eclipse plug-in manager integrated with Eclipse. Here we’ll choose the second route.

1. To install a new plug-in, go to Help > Install New Software..., which will open the installation dialog. In this dialog you can choose from which source to install what plug-in. First, you have to add the plug-in repository from which the ADT plug-in is fetched. 

2. In the first text field, you can enter the name of the repository something like “ADT repository” will do. The second text field specifies the URL of the repository. For the ADT plug-in, this field should be https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/. Note that this URL might be different for newer versions, so check the ADT plug-in site for an up-to-date link.

3. After you’ve confirmed the dialog, you’ll be brought back to the installation dialog, which should now be fetching the list of available plug-ins in the repository. Check the Developer Tools check box and click the Next button.

4. Eclipse will now calculate all the necessary dependencies, and then present you a new dialog that lists all the plug-ins and dependencies that are going to be installed. Confirm that dialog with a click on the Next button.

5. Yet another dialog will pop up, prompting you to accept the licenses of each plug-in to be installed. You should of course accept those licenses, and finally initiate the installation with a click on the Finish button.

6. Finally, Eclipse will ask you whether it should restart to apply the changes. You can opt for a full restart or for applying the changes without a restart. To play it safe, choose Restart Now, which will restart Eclipse as expected.

Step 4: Setting Android SDK Path to Eclipse

As one last step in finishing the installation of the ADT plug-in, you have to tell the plugin where the Android SDK is located.

1. Open Window > Preferences, and select Android in the tree view in the upcoming dialog.

2. On the right side, click the Browse button to chose the root directory of your Android SDK installation.

3. Click the OK button to close the dialog, and you’ll finally able to create your first Android application.

Now you can go to Eclipse and Use Android SDK and AVD Manager to add / remove SDK, create Virtual Emulators etc.

Conclusion:

I hope this quick and short steps will help you through installation of Android Development Environment in No Time. Thanks and Happy Sharing.