Re: [silk] cottage mobile phone industry in India

2007-01-14 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 1/15/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: shiv sastry wrote: [ on 10:09 AM 1/15/2007 ] >A few shops away I bought a DVD/VCD/SVCD/MP3 player with a built in audio >amplifier for Rs 1500 - while the going rate in the "main" market is about Rs >3000+. I suspect that would be a super-c

Re: [silk] cottage mobile phone industry in India

2007-01-14 Thread Udhay Shankar N
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 10:09 AM 1/15/2007 ] A few shops away I bought a DVD/VCD/SVCD/MP3 player with a built in audio amplifier for Rs 1500 - while the going rate in the "main" market is about Rs 3000+. I suspect that would be a super-cheap Chinese made one, and not made here in India. You c

[silk] The economic impact of open source on Europe

2007-01-14 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Rishab sent me a PDF press release that I am unable to extract the text from, so here you go... Udhay http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/the_economic_im.html January 13, 2007 The economic impact of open source on Europe (Report) Filed under: Open Source Rish

Re: [silk] cottage mobile phone industry in India

2007-01-14 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 14 Jan 2007 7:21 am, Manar Hussain wrote: > This pattern is happening, right now, in India with mobile phones. > 100s of small shops repair and rebuild phones with generic components > and reverse-engineered schematics, supported by a developed training > and tool-production infrastructur

Re: [silk] cottage mobile phone industry in India

2007-01-14 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Manar Hussain wrote: Interesting insight, with India aspect trailing the blog article: http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2007/01/09/japanese-repair-culture-and-distributed-manufacture/ Repair cultures usually take too much time to propagate knowledge and reach scale. The Ludhiana car spares ind

Re: [silk] 'Burqini'

2007-01-14 Thread Casey O'Donnell
On 1/14/07, Carey Lening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's more on the designer, wearing her own design: http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2005/12/the_burqini.html I found the same page via images.google: http://images.google.com/images?q=burqini Casey

Re: [silk] 'Burqini'

2007-01-14 Thread Carey Lening
It's not. I've seen other examples marketed elsewhere: Here's more on the designer, wearing her own design: http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2005/12/the_burqini.html Apparently it comes in both 'slim' and 'modest' cuts. http://www.ahiida.com/index.php?a=subcats&cat=20 On 1/14/07, Udhay Shankar N <

[silk] 'Burqini'

2007-01-14 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Can somebody in Australia comment on this? I'm still not convinced this isn't a hoax. Udhay http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/121275/burqini_making_waves_in_australia.html Burqini Making Waves in Australia By Anna Burroughs January 10, 2007 The beaches of Australia are filled with scan