Vodafone’s entry in India

Finally, Vodafone takes over Hutchison Essar.

finally Vodafone have won the Take-Over for the control of Hutchison Essar. This deal is perhaps the largest corporate deal in the Indian market so far. Hutch is India’s 4th largest mobile operator.

Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone group by revenue, put in a bid for Hutchison Essar that gave it an enterprise value of ~$19 Billion. It made an indicative offer of $16.5bn for Hutch around Christmas to Hutchison Telecommunications International, which owns 67 per cent of the Indian mobile operator.

Vodafone has been competing with three Indian groups for control of Hutchison Essar – Reliance Communications, Essar and the Hindujas.

The price is good, which reflects the premier position of Hutchison Essar as India’s leading operator. Essar, a conglomerate, that owns 33 per cent of Hutchison-Essar Limited has 21 days time to decide on whether to exercise its RoFR (matching the top bid) or the tag-along right (to sell its 33 per cent stake in the venture). The company’s India operations expects reaching out to 180 million mobile phone users by end-2007, up more than 25 per cent from 143 million now.

The Indian TV Media, right now, is pregnant with the Vodafone acquisition reports everywhere. It is reported that Vodaphone has offered Essar to become a partner firm.

As I too hutch user, I expect better service from Vodafone.

….. Jignesh Dodiya

Current state of Video Search

Niall Kennedy has written another good article regarding current state of video search, audio search and image search.

check them here

• Video Search
• Audio Search
• Image Search

following are video formats used ( just for my reference, lol)

• avi - Audio Video Interleave, an older format popular on Windows machines.
• mov, qt - QuickTime container, popular on Apple computers.
• mp4, m4v - MPEG-4 Part 14 files. M4V is a popular expression used by Apple’s iTunes.
• wmv - Windows Media video.
• asf - Streaming video using Microsoft technologies. The Advanced Streaming Format is not exclusive to video as it may contain streaming audio.
• flv - Adobe Flash videos.
• divx - DivX Media Format
• 3gp, 3g2 - 3G mobile phone format
• rm - RealVideo format by RealNetworks.
• mpg, mpeg - MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video file.
• ogm - Theora video format.

….. Jignesh Dodiya

Client Side Browser Storage - comparison

Niall Kennedy has posted interesting article, where he compares client-side-storage of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Adobe Flash Player.

Web browser local storage options
Browser — Storage — Max Size

Any — Cookies — 4 KB
Flash Player 6 and above — Flash local Shared Object — 100 KB
Internet Explorer 5 and above — userData — 1 MB
Firefox 2 and above — DOM Storage — 5 MB

Thanks to Abdul, I got a link from his blog,

Take a look of the article here

….. Jignesh Dodiya