Nirvanik

Wouldn't it be great if your mobile phone could tell you when a friend is close by or when you are close to a restaurant that your friend recommends? Or, how about getting specific advertising messages based upon your preferences and physical location? These are all examples of location-based mobile messaging. Geographic Messaging Service or, in short GMS , is a new media in mobile messaging, aimed at providing similar functionalities to its subscribers. It is the delivery of messages associated with a particular geographic region to subscribers, when they are in that region. It allows subscribers to leave or receive SMS or MMS where they matter. For example, you may perhaps “leave” a shopping-list near a super-market as a reminder and “receive” it the next time you in the vicinity of that super-market. Or, perhaps a coffee-shop selling overpriced coffee could send across discount coupons to your mobile when you enter the region. GMS basically builds on the existing SMS and MMS s...

When eight year olds play soccer (football) something interesting happens. Both teams form a giant rolling pack of random legs from which, occasionally, the ball will emerge only to be recaptured a few seconds later. I’m being a little bit unfair. The goalkeepers do stand in their goals looking forlornly at the pack as it winds its way around the field. I wonder if psychological evaluations are needed to identify the kids who are least likely to crack and run into the pack rather than stand alone between the posts? What does this have to do with companies and projects? I’m glad you asked. I often wonder if some managers don’t need psychological evaluations to see if they think that behaving in a similar manner makes sense. Lets see - is there a crack team that is rotated into and out of projects to fix them when they are going wrong? Do projects get temporarily abandoned so that everyone can work on the current most important project? Have you seen these things happen? I sure have. The...