Sunday, February 22, 2009

ICC to meet BCCI, ICL

On monday ICC is going to meet ICL and BCCI to end the long standing fight between the two. Note sure if the talks will bear any fruit but this is the first time ICC is going to intervene and try to solve the issue. ICC is under intense pressure from many other boards to recongnize ICL and consider it as a legal entity since many of its players have joined ICL. specifically New zealand, pakisthan and bangadesh cricket boards. BCCI has been putting a lot of pressure on these boards to ban its players who join the ICL. With the economic slowdown going on all over the sponsors for the game have become less, although denied by BCCI.

If the meeting is successful, then it would be break the most powerful BCCI monopoly over cricket in India. With the introduction of the ICL the monopoly got a serious threat but its looks like the slowdown is going to prove to be a boon for ICL. Lets hope that this meeting is successful and we get to see much better matches than IPL.


Updates:

The ICC, ICL and BCCI failed to reach a resolution after a three-hour meeting in Johannesburg on the unauthorised league's request for official recognition. No further discussions are scheduled and the ICL's application will be now be considered once again by the ICC executive board in April. :(

Monday, February 16, 2009

brain drain

why brain drain in India is very high. If you look at the recent events happening in India you will realise the reason why.
Mr. Narayan Murthy was appointed special IT adviser for Sri lankan president. Murthy was critisized by many political leaders. Naturally he would be fed up of it and now has decided to head the IT department in that country and develop it.
In the need of crisis situation we need someone like him to bring things back to normal, but its very sad to see that he is willing to help other countries before ours. Not his mistake though. When asked about this decision he said that it is his personal matter and wouldnt like to comment on it. He has already set up a big Infosys center in Sri Lanka. He is like a god father of IT industry in that country. So when someone gives a good recognition that he deserves to he would obviously accept it.

Monday, February 02, 2009

brew mobile platform (BMP) Vs android google

Qualcomm's brew mobile platform (BMP) the latest version of brew has a lot of modifcations compared to its previous version. The changes seem to be mainly targeting the challenge given by android, the open source platform from google. Qualcomm is a member of the OHA, a partner in the development of Android as well.

BMP has some unique featues like it supports lua scripts, flash programming, trigML, lua and trigML debugging capabilities. The combination of such powerful programming languages in one platform is a boon the developer.

The platform is open which allows a wide range of applicatons to be developed. Even though the platform is open, the source is still not open. A lot of code is made open to the OEM's and not to the developer.

One of the biggest disadvantages or advantage in being a BREW developer is that for the developer to post any application in the server and to be downloaded by the user the process is very lengthy and expensive. With the introduction of BMP Qualcomm claims that the certification process is greatly simplified and takes less than 2 days. But yet for the application to be available to the user it needs to be uploaded by the operator/carrier. This process may take lot of time. The same in the case of android market is very simple. The developer just needs to upload it in the market and the user can directly download it from there. The only difference is that the applications can be bug prone and its not certified. You may not get tech support for these apps.