Author: AK

Sr. Mattress Tester at Urban Ladder

Job description: Urban Ladder is a tight-knit start-up at the forefront of driving furniture e-commerce in India. We’re looking for lazy and unmotivated individuals to join our team. If you’re someone who hates getting out of bed to get to work, this is the perfect job for you. As a mattress tester, you’ll get to stay in bed pretty much the entire day and actually get paid for it. We’re not kidding. Continue reading “Sr. Mattress Tester at Urban Ladder” →

What Are The Best Servers For Developers

Are you developing a new site and want to get the foundation laid out beforehand? You don’t wish to have a beautiful site that is going to look great only to realize the hosting is not up to par. When the hosting is not good, a site could look as great as a million bucks, but it is not going to do much for developers if the site can’t be viewed properly.

You want the hosting to be perfect, and that is why you need to look for best servers, those that are better than the rest, and you should be looking at them for your site. Continue reading “What Are The Best Servers For Developers” →

Models of Digital Services

Service industries are utilizing advanced information technologies, like the Internet, to improve the efficiency, reduce cost, and most importantly for providing customer with better service. All customer interaction happens at back end where various analytics is done through the use of technology. Across range of industries computer technology are being extensively used to improve market place exchanges in a variety of service settings. Apart from being so useful technology can sometimes be very hostile this can happen because of malfunction or break down. Use of Internet can potentially reduce cost on as per transaction that happens with customer but bad on line experience can severely damage customer satisfaction and customer loyalty towards service provider. Continue reading “Models of Digital Services” →

Amazon’s new game engine with its features

Code named Amazon Lumberyard, it has come to stir the competition in gaming engine. This may come as a shocker to a many people as Amazon is widely known for as an online selling site to many of us. But amazon has recently been moving into unchartered territory. Of late it has been very successful in the cloud services industry, having created AWS cloud that has very appealing features. It appears that they have really been busy as they have recently launched a new game engine known as Lumberyard. Continue reading “Amazon’s new game engine with its features” →

Risk Management Approaches

This is a study where we attempt to explore different dimensions of risk that a consumer of any service or product may face over an interaction between the service / product vendor / provider and the consumer. Results are descriptive statistics based on findings of an empirical study. Different dimensions of these risk, which are defined in scientific literature provide different interaction effect at the point of decision making and service consumption. That is why it is important to understand their dynamics when service science is being explored. Continue reading “Risk Management Approaches” →

Exploring multi-faceted risk in e-payments

The factors affecting proceeding of any online payments depends on multiple factors of risk perceptions by the consumer. Exploring multi-faceted risk associated with online transactions has been of interest to researchers as these parameters of perceived risk may influence consumer’s acceptance of online and other e-services. Some previous studies have been done on multi-faceted risk in e-services. This study tries to extend this line of research by examining user’s perception on multi-faceted risk in online payment in e-commerce transactions in Indian context. Results of this study indicate users awareness and there risk perception on eleven different facets of risk in e-payment transactions and tries to prioritize these risk facets into three categories based on user perception about them. Continue reading “Exploring multi-faceted risk in e-payments” →

What really are Smart Cities

We were having a discussion about what really are smart cities. Popular understanding was that smart cities are all about sprinkling a lot of sensors across the city to collect a lot of information about various activities that are going on in the City like cars travelling on the roads and people using mobile phones to interact with each other using the telecommunication networks. Continue reading “What really are Smart Cities” →

What are Smart Cities – A Scientific Perspective through Infographics

Smart city innovations are new approaches to holistic management of cities’ physical, socio-economic, environmental, transportation and political assets across all urban domains, typically supported by ICT and open data. The role of technology and the governance of the same is increasingly becoming a challenge that needs to be addressed. In fact, cities can evolve into smart cities only if they become more sustainable, and improve quality of life and economic performance. This can be facilitated through the use of smarter technology. Further to achieve this objective, this requires a shared vision of all stake holders like citizens, public and private organizations and many others. Continue reading “What are Smart Cities – A Scientific Perspective through Infographics” →

Top 12 Benefits of Cloud Computing Systems

Cloud computing is changing the way people at envisioning the role of information technology to help businesses grow beyond the regular business as usual and sustaining usual margins and profitability. Indeed today companies are increasingly looking at Cloud Computing as a paradigm that’s solve all there software related challenges and computational strategies. so what do you think are the top 10 benefits of cloud computing that CIOs the world envision the systems to provide an organisation. In this article with deliberate about this dimensions which will provide some benefit to the organisations adopting cloud systems. Continue reading “Top 12 Benefits of Cloud Computing Systems” →