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Exit PC enter Mobile (16 November 12:00) |
| Zero Mass Foundation, an NGO, has found an innovative way to use mobile phones for payment towards social services provided by the Central Zero Mass Foundation, an NGO, has found an innovat... |
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Stuck between the two (16 November 12:00) |
| If you fall, it's easy for you to get up and get going. If you fall between two stools, things become complicated. You may hit your head against a stool (or even both); the space between the... |
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COBOL — going strong (16 November 12:00) |
| Travelling backwards more than fifty years in computing is perhaps as stretched as rewinding by as many centuries in travel or commerce, politics or cuisine; but that's what happened when I ... |
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TEDIndia The Future beckons (16 November 12:00) |
| It has taken 25 long years for TED, a non-profit organisation devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading' to reach India, the land of hoary civilisation, a modern superpower in the making, and a re... |
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Predictions on Indian income (16 November 12:00) |
| You might call it a vision, a conviction or even an assumption, but health expert and data visionary Hans Rosling predicts that the day the average income of Indians would match that of US o... |
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TEDIndia snapshot Mythology and market (16 November 12:00) |
| It is not often that you meet a person who takes you back in time to the bygone ages, to Alexander and the gymnosophist on the banks of Indus, and to the early days of the clash of civilisat... |
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Crackling with interest (16 November 12:00) |
| TEDIndia was much more than Technology, Entertainment, Design. And it certainly went beyond spreading TEDIndia was much more than Technology, Entertainment, Design. And it certainly went be... |
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Stamp of soft power (16 November 12:00) |
| Shashi Tharoor was once accosted in a foreign land by a gentleman whose computer had broken down. Upon learning that Tharoor was an Indian, the gentleman pounced on him, requesting him to fi... |
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Gutsy crusader (16 November 12:00) |
| Anti-trafficking crusader Sunitha Krishnan is fighting a bigger battle than we can ever imagine, every moment of her Anti-trafficking crusader Sunitha Krishnan is fighting a bigger battle t... |
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Art and advocacy (16 November 12:00) |
| Is art for art's sake or for advocacy? Mallika Sarabhai knows the magic of marrying the two without making it Is art for art's sake or for advocacy? Mallika Sarabhai knows the magic of marr... |
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Reach for the sky (16 November 12:00) |
| And Shukla Bose, founder and head of the Parikrama Humanity Foundation, a non-profit organisation that runs extraordinary schools for poor children, is definitely one of And Shukla Bose, fo... |
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Spread the world (16 November 12:00) |
| I want to remain a student forever," says the lanky 16-year-old, sans exaggeration. Probably because he wishes to continue to spread the light of learning, a role that he has embraced so ea... |
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Much of technological donation is e-waste (16 November 12:00) |
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More teeth and byte to IT law (09 November 12:00) |
| Nearly three years after it was introduced in the Lok Sabha and almost a year after it received a green signal from both Houses of Parliament, the IT (Amendment) Act, 2008 has come into for... |
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Orkut promises new look feel (09 November 12:00) |
| Social networking is gearing up for a wave of evolution. Not just in terms of features and functions but in the very way it is being used, if recent attempts by Google to revamp its social n... |
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Big role for BIOS boss (09 November 12:00) |
| While most people tend to stop with bland statements, such as innovation is key in the technology industry, S. Shankar, President and CEO of the US-based American Megatrends ( www.ami.com),... |
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Waiting for the Wave (09 November 12:00) |
| I was almost consumed by a great Wave last month. It is a miracle I am still I was almost consumed by a great Wave last month. It is a miracle I am still |
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Simplify man-machine interaction (09 November 12:00) |
| Why can’t we interact with a computer as naturally as we interact with a fellow human being? Why do we have to learn to type, click, scroll or understand icons, error messages and keyboard... |
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Revival of Indian offshoring has begun (09 November 12:00) |
| I am privileged to have been given a third innings. I would like to make the most of it,” is the answer you get when you ask Ashok Soota what keeps him going well past the age at which mos... |
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Space technologies in defence (09 November 12:00) |
| Outer space is internationally accepted as the common heritage of mankind, but it is increasingly getting used for military purposes, cautions a recent report of the IDSA-Indian Pugwash Soci... |
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A Prodigy launch (09 November 12:00) |
| Prodigy Electronics has announced the release of its Handheld Industrial Computer PE-HIC, powered by Samsung ARM9 processor and ported with Linux 2.6 operating system. The PE-HIC is availab... |
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Solar recharge (09 November 12:00) |
| Sanyo Energy Corporation, a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co Ltd, has announced the extension of the company’s eneloop series to include AA-, AAA-, C- and D-sized batteries and accompanyin... |
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Fishing for small deals (02 November 12:00) |
| If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” posed the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The oft-quoted line underlines humanity’s belief in recovery after disaster, in good fortune a... |
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eLife after death (02 November 12:00) |
| Suppose I kick the bucket now, what happens to my data in all the social networks, e-mail sites and photo and video sharing sites? How will the sites know I am dead? How long will they kee... |
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Positive step forward (02 November 12:00) |
| Close observers of the cyber crime scene in India had, for long, carried on a strident campaign in favour of making penalties under the IT Act 2000 very stringent. The dithering on the subj... |
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Efficiency in store (02 November 12:00) |
| A warehouse is no longer a dumping place with large volumes of goods scattered all over. It is now an efficient storage place with technology at the core of A warehouse is no longer a dum... |
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Wrong technology can mean poor ROI (02 November 12:00) |
| Currently, the absence of a 3G/4G next generation network within India has slowed down the process of adopting mobile applications, feels Sunil Jose, Managing Director, India & Sub-Continen... |
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Services Computing in spotlight (02 November 12:00) |
| Services Computing is gaining importance in the Indian IT sector as the country increases its share in the global services sector. IEEE, the world’s leading professional association for th... |
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Transforming data into insight profitable decisions (02 November 12:00) |
| As principles-based enforcement takes hold, senior management in capital market firms will have to develop the capability to demonstrate accountability over the outcomes and build auditable ... |
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Its for ME (02 November 12:00) |
| HCL Infosystems Ltd has launched its new series of Notebooks and Netbooks under the brand name ‘ME’ i.e. ‘Mobile Excitement’. HCL’s new range comes with features such as ‘Split M... |
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Wireless router (02 November 12:00) |
| Netgear has announced the availability of its “RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WNDR3700.” The latest wireless router has features such as “ReadyShare for high-speed access... |
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A clash of wills… and bills (26 October 12:00) |
| With its spell-binding lakes, parks and gorgeous vineyards, the Swiss metropolis of Geneva is surely a European city with a difference.That, coupled with the presence of numerous internation... |
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Looking through Windows 7 (26 October 12:00) |
| After the delays that plagued the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft has surprised us by announcing the launch of the next version — Windows 7 — ahead of schedule.We had high expectation... |
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Happy to resort to Win 7 (26 October 12:00) |
| I was pleasantly surprised,” were the first words from Mahesh Manchi, Chief Information Officer, Mahindra Holidays & Resorts, when we asked him his opinion of Windows 7, the latest operati... |
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Pick… pocket video conferencing (26 October 12:00) |
| Video conferencing can never get simpler and better than this, it seems. One can not only carry the device in one’s pocket, but can also use it from anywhere without having to hunt for a ... |
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Windows 7 WHAT THEY SAY (26 October 12:00) |
| eWorld sought feedback from hands-on users: This is what 23-year-old Robin Anil, who works in Bangalore with a software company, has to say to our eWorld sought feedback from hands-on users... |
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Digital marketing (26 October 12:00) |
| The Internet has never been a medium short of excitement. Whether it is social media sites such as Facebook or Orkut or video sites such as Youtube, the fan following and the time spent on t... |
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Microsoft is listening to users (26 October 12:00) |
| How are industry watchers assessing the new release from Microsoft? Here are some takeaways, from analyst firms. Frost & How are industry watchers assessing the new release from Microsoft? ... |
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Play safe print em! (26 October 12:00) |
| There was a time when we all had cameras with film rolls that could take only 36 photos, and if you made a mistake, there was no way to delete the photo. You took the film roll to the phot... |
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Computers are language-neutral… (26 October 12:00) |
| If you are a talented computer programmer, there is nothing to stop you from learning several computer languages and becoming ‘multilingual,’ encourages Richard Mansfield in Programming... |
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A script for on-screen action (19 October 12:00) |
| Reading or writing in your local language on the mobile phone could now get simpler. No, you don’t need a Hindi keypad to type in Hindi, nor do you have to type in the local language. All ... |
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Chinks in cyberspace (19 October 12:00) |
| I’m not worried about a teenage hacker reading my email. I’m worried about you reading it. I’m not worried about a teenage hacker reading my email. I’m worried about you reading it. |
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Zero visibility (19 October 12:00) |
| Reviewing new products can be fun. It can also drive you round the bend, depending on the company that has sent the Reviewing new products can be fun. It can also drive you round the bend, ... |
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A feel of Windows Mobile 65 (19 October 12:00) |
| Windows Mobile, which has always laid emphasis on offering `workable solutions' at enterprise level, is now tuning in to the demands of the feature-hungry smart phone user of today. Wind... |
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eLearning market is wide open (19 October 12:00) |
| Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance, says Will Durant. Which, perhaps, explains why the word `education' doesn't often excite people, despite the counsel of Aristotle t... |
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Optimise your digital assets in online newsrooms (19 October 12:00) |
| Blogger relations, social media news releases, and the monitoring of online news outlets. If your company is already doing all these, it may be useful to know that these are only a part of t... |
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Storage drive (19 October 12:00) |
| Strontium, supplier of memory modules and flash products, has unveiled the Strontium Power Store Slim. “This portable hard drive features storage capacities of up to 500GB and strong dat... |
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Out of sight out of mind (19 October 12:00) |
| With cable outlets either side, CableBox Mini is ideal for hiding cords, adapters, small hubs and even small power strips, says J.S. Equipments. It is good for small power strips and cable ... |
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Viv! (12 October 12:00) |
| Latin America has emerged as a major destination for software companies setting up offshore development centres. In recent months, several Indian vendors, including Polaris Software, Tata Co... |
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So near yet so far (12 October 12:00) |
| Indian vendors have been expecting big business from the government sector. Tata Consultancy Services, for instance, is eyeing about $1 billion revenue from government contracts in three ye... |
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