We are people who play with time. Every single second that passes from now onwards as well as every single second that has already passed would have made a significant change in a person’s life. It means every single second we spend on earth is important for everyone individually. Its way far important when it comes to the business world where we negotiate with business partners and customers who do own same set of tasks to be accomplished within a limited time period.
One of the major complaints that are being made by the customers of the IT project development teams is that not being punctual on project delivery. This may affect many of the clients’ aspects and make him unhappy. It may directly affect the client’s business plans and a considerable amount of delay can affect the changes of customer requirements.
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it project management, software project management, time management
The topic looks much controversial. Isn’t it? Microsoft, the largest software vendor in the world will be spending millions and billions up to maximum possible extent to build up the largest client base. Apple was a threat to Microsoft a few months ago and it seems that threatening remains same. But, Microsoft has approached something exceptional that Apple even could not think. Since early 2000s, Microsoft’s marketing strategy has been much more towards earning people over earning dollars. The best suitable phrase might be retaining people than earning people.
Since open source technologies looked to threaten the Microsoft Technologies, Microsoft yet conquers as the giant most areas. That is because they have found the languages that speak with people’s hearts while innovating the languages that communicate with machines. Few years ago, every middle class person was looking to buy a Nokia Phone. But today, the Nokia market has dropped down. But they still remember the name Nokia. Still they are the best suitable mobile phones for a middle class person. Nokia always lead their reputation with factors such like usability, durability and affordability. Microsoft expects to introduce Windows Phone to Nokia within couple of months where Windows phone was one of the major fall downs that Microsoft ever made. Let’s see the way how both stand together.
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Microsoft, Microsoft aquire skype, Nokia, Skype
Sri Lanka, being a country having 1,776,220 Internet Users by June 2010 out of the 20 Million population by that time has gained a keen reputation as valuable internet users since number of messy sites were blocked by the government. According to the statistics 838,380 amount of people use Facebook by end of March 2011. This supposed to be increased rapidly since it has shown a 3.9% of penetration during that quarter.
Being an internet user is a great privilege for most of the people since they really hard to find internet. I was also a part of that sample since I got access to internet by 2009. What I did as soon as I became an internet user was just create an email account and a Facebook account. Facebook was just a website for chatting with people who do I know and do not. Actually, that was the reason for me to pick Facebook over Hi5. Today, Facebook is reaching to be another Google. Having more than 50% of world population, it reaches a new era of connecting people.
How many Sri Lankan companies have Facebook Fan Pages? How many Sri Lankan companies have Twitter accounts? How often do the companies use available Social Media? When compared to Year 2008 and 2009, the population increase is around 2 lacks while the internet user population increase is around 4 lacks.
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Social Media, Sri Lankan Starter
