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Videcon and the set top box installation.

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Lat week we decided it was time to get rid of my cable operator and get a set-top box instead thanks to the new government regulations. After talking to a few friends and contacting a few dealers we zeroed in on the Videocon d2h service -   http://www.videocond2h.com . Decided to buy the Satellite HD DVR which offered to record programs  http://www.videocond2h.com/WSC/products.aspx  and which was also their best model offered in terms of features and functionality. Sunday the dealer came home and promptly delivered the set-top box and told me that the installation will happen on Monday. I asked the dealer whether he needed  a site survey before selling me the box, he told me that there would be no problem to get ti working, it would happen in no time at all. Monday nothing happened and had to call the dealer to enquire the status and he told me he would help with sending the technician for installation. Late in the evening on Monday a technician landed up at my  home and told me he wou...

#Algorithmic trading? #Use Cloud Computing !

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Algorithmic Trading or the shorter term Algo is today's F1 engine for trading in financial markets.Wiki:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_trading   Alog Trading is like a high speed expressway. Photo Courtesy : Amitav Thamba Cloud Computing will make Algos faster  reliable and cost effective for trading in stocks and commodities globally. Algos which were the privilege of large fund management houses will now be available to any investor as a SAAS solution in the cloud. Here is a link to one such solution from EtnaSoft  http://www.etnasoft.com/solutions/etna-robot . Algos will make the day trader redundant and we will see more doctoral candidates stringing the Algo logic and the trade cycles being executed in shorter cycle time. The regulator will be forced to acknowledge and accept Algo trading and exchanges will need to move their trading applications to the Cloud to support the Algo engines. NYSE has already done significant work in le...