Benefits of e-ticketing - Part 1

Today we discuss one of the benefits of e-ticketing or 'ET'. We will focus on a variety of different industries that use ET and how they each lay claim to heralding a new era of technology. However how easy is it to send and scan e-tickets and what benefits do they bring?

The Airline Industry, the multifaceted face of travel would unceremoniously like us all to believe that they have paved the way for e-tickets. The past week alone has seen an incredible amount of marketing jargon coming form more airline companies in a thinly veiled attempt at diverting attention from their inherent carbon unfriendliness.

The companies in this over burdened sector have found a new way to make their customers forget they are actually riding in expensive, fuel guzzling crafts of metal and fiberglass. But it's OK, they do e-ticketing, so its financially and morally OK to be burning fossil fuels with seemingly no return on investment.

In reality, Airline companies were arguably the pioneers of ET, however much like Apple, they may have invented the 'app' but open source engineered them to be what they are today. Open source is simply a pragmatic view that software should be distributed for FREE! The link in "FREE!" is our app. Which obviously costs nothing.

The other ET

So to answer the question of; "Just how easy is it to distribute and scan your own e-tickets?" Well, it's very easy, with our simple set up you can create an event site to distribute your tickets within minutes! Then download our app to start scanning in your attendees. Simple. If you don't believe us call on 020 88973 2591 and we'll talk you through it.

We have been championing the e-ticket/carbon friendly cause for nearly 5 years, and we're still finding ways of allowing our customers to have the ability to send and scan without having to buy or rent all of the unnecessary and over priced hardware. Our scanning app is approximately £300 cheaper and equally as secure as a hand held USB scanner, and it lives in your phone! YAY

Gone are the days of additional rental charges for scanners! Gone are the days of long wires connected to laptops and scanning terminals, join us on our journey to easy event management and embrace the technology.

Regards,

Professor Participant

Tech Bosses Who Lost It. Part 3

With little introduction, here is John McAfee. Pioneer of antivirus protection, wanted criminal and disgustingly eligible for this, the third part of our series.

When we say pioneer, we mean pioneer, he is arguably one of the first to trade in ecommerce, driving to computer owners in need of anti virus help in the 1980's which eventually sold to Intel for just under $8 Billion Dollars. Nothing to be sniffed at.

With an insatiable appetite for, it seems everything, McAfee has ventured into many interesting ventures. And here we present the top three not so venerable ventures that McAfee unsucssefully ventured in. Straight in at number three we have...





3. Aerotrekking

Aerotrekking a sport which involves a hang glider, a human, and a small rear facing propellor as demonstrated in the link. It is a sport, of sorts, created by the man who brought us instant messaging (yes he did that also). McAfee, short on adrenaline has named this winged engine "Icarus", perhaps symbolic of McAfee's own spectacular fall from grace.

Why is this a failed venture? Well, in 2006 it was reported that one of McAfee's engine strapped to a glider things had possibly malfunctioned and caused the death of a highly experienced pilot. An ex American Air Force pilot no less, no facing a $5-6 million lawsuit, this is McAfee's inaugural entry into the top three "Not so venerable ventures that McAfee unsuccessfuly ventured in".



2. Pharmaceutical Company

In at number two is McAfee's Medicine company, allegedly started with a 17 year old girlfriend, was designed to develop a anti viral made from naturally occurring substances and alkaloids. We suggest you glance at the linked article which is interesting to say the least. Unfortunately for McAfee the local authorities in Belize (where McAfee decided to move to as he was done to his last $4 million) thought that this was actually a cover for a meth lab, hardly surprising considering McAfee's past.

5 months after the raid on his house and lab McAfee was implicated to be the prime suspect in the murder of his next door neighbor. These claims are denied by the dotcom king who maintains that the President of Belize and police officials made an assassination attempt on McAfee but misidentified the house and killed his neighbor instead...sounds legit.


1. Every investment he ever made
Straight in at number 1 has to be every investment McAfee has ever made. He was, or rather is entrepreneurial however, successful serial investor, he is not. Serial investor, he certainly is. Unfortunately McAfee is all but broke, with latest news clearly indicating that he is looking towards Hollywood for a revival, having sold his story and film rights, the world has not heard the end of John McAfee. Prof P's prediction; another train wreck awaits.

Tech Bosses who lost it. part 2

Masayoshi Son, serial investor, serial looser?

Masatoshi Son is a man of two halves, for those eagle eyed readers among us, yes his name is part Korean, part Japanese, and it becomes more interesting.

Many people in the west have not heard of Masatoshi Son before, and it may come as a surprise that he is infact the second richest person in Japan, dubbed the East's answer to Bill Gates. Not because he can jump over a chair without a run up, but because he is, infact a serial investor with a extensive track record of what on the face of it looks like wild gambling that often reaches disgustingly lucky heights. But is it luck or the intuitive mind that has allowed Masayoshi Son to attain lofty billionairdom, 

Early Life 

Son was sent to the United States as a teen to learn English and study, it is reported he spent the vast majority of his time making money opposed to more conventional classroom learning. His first business was to import and lees pacman machines to bars and cafe's in California. Son began to rise when he struck up a deal with Forrest Mozer who invented the first ever rudimentary speech synthesizer in the early 1970's.

Fast forward to present day, Son's multiple investments have seen him bamboozle market analylists the world over. He is zealous, eager and above all visionary in his procurement and buying power. However, recently, Son has been setting in the land of the rising sun.

     

Masayoshi Son before he purchased spec savers

Present Day


After his acquisition of Softbank, of which Masayoshi is CEO he introduced with the iPhone to Japan, no mean feat, he also purchased Vodafone, a mean feat. It seems Masayoshi knows full well the cycle of investment. Take for example Softbank's acquisition of Sprint last year. Sprint's share price rose by a smug 14% whereas SoftBank's share dropped to a staggering 17% in a single day. Horrific news indeed, considering that Groupon's CEO just committed economical harikiri for a 77% share drop, Masayoshi should have at least removed a digit or two, no? Well, infact no.
SoftBank eventually recovered, however their bounceback-ability is henceforth limited. MAsayoshi's purchase of Vodafone has sent the company reeling into a spiral which it has not fully recovered from. Although there are signs that Masayoshi has no plans in losing further. Rather, it seems Son's dream of SoftBank dominating the market place are receiving much attention. In 2010 Son furthered his plan for world dominance, all be it posthumously.


"A Person's life is over in 50 - 100 years, but a company lives on through the people it is composed of and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone."


Strong words for a man who lost $70 billion, it seems Masayoshi is indeed the CEO that everyone would like to have, shrewd and modest, ethical and honest.
As a demonstration of Son's humanitarian spirit he has agreed to cover the living costs of a few residents of Tamura, which is one of the cities hardest hit by the Japanese Tsunami. By a few residents we mean 1,200 residents, he also pledge to give those left orphaned by the Tsunami a free phone with all bills paid for until the age of 18.

Indeed it has never been so true that one man's loss is another's gained.

Thank you for reading and we hope you enjoy the weekend.

Regards,

Professor Participant