{"id":378,"date":"2009-12-20T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T04:39:51","slug":"2010-predictions-for-indian-technology-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/2010-predictions-for-indian-technology-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Predictions for Indian technology ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-396\" style=\"margin-right: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"Orion Nebula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/orion_nebula.jpg\" alt=\"Orion Nebula\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>As the year 2009 comes to close, it&#8217;s time to reflect on what has been done and also the time to dream what the world is going to achieve. Personally, I came back to India after a gap of almost a decade and have been playing catchup; trying to understand the changing business here with a perspective. Dreaming of things what could be achieved here,\u00a0 I thought I would throw some predictions for 2010 in the desi kitchen bag. Here is my list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A traditional media company or a telco acquires a 3-year young technology start up in the INR 100 crore range<\/li>\n<li>A mobile telco launches a domestic anywhere to anywhere unlimited talk time plan (long shot: for INR 3999\/month)<\/li>\n<li>Indian internet users climbs up to be in the Top 5 spot in their share of online piracy. Positive is the surge in Internet usage.<\/li>\n<li>Infosys\/TCS\/Wipro launch initiatives to align their interest with the startup ecosystem in India (the offering may be on the lines of Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftstartupzone.com\/BizSpark\/Pages\/At_a_Glance.aspx\">Bizspark<\/a>, Sun &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/in.sun.com\/startupessentials\/\">Startup Essentials<\/a>&#8216;)<\/li>\n<li>Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/cloudfront\/\">CloudFront<\/a> Content delivery network (CDN) launches an <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/cloudfront\/#pricing\">Edge location<\/a> in India<\/li>\n<li>Government of India passes the legislation to legalize Voice Over IP (VOIP) traffic originating within the country and terminating to a local telephone<\/li>\n<li>The Indian Advertising community tries to block sales of <a title=\"Tata Sky Plus: Indian DTH Recorder (Indian TiVO)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tataskyplus.com\/why-get-tata-sky.html\">Tata Sky Plus <\/a>(DTH Recorder\/Indian Tivo) as they realize that people are skipping ads<\/li>\n<li>2 kids from an engineering college launch a brand new search engine and get international investments\/coverage<\/li>\n<li>Amazon.in starts their online commerce operations, whereas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\">Techcrunch<\/a> kick-starts their Indian operations with a post on how they acquired their squatted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.registry.in\/whois\/techcrunch.in\">techcrunch.in<\/a> domain<\/li>\n<li>Reserve Bank of India launches a parallel payment network for credit and debit transactions; takes Visa &amp; Mastercard head-on<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The thumbnail is of <a title=\"Orion Nebula\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orion_Nebula\">Orion Nebula<\/a>, favorite amongst amateur astronomers and casual sky watchers. It is one of the closest star formation regions from Earth at a distance of 1,500 light years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the year 2009 comes to close, it&#8217;s time to reflect on what has been done and also the time to dream what the world is going to achieve. 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