Death in an online age raises issues of ownership

Beware that smudge on true value

In a digi-printing tech world like ours, printing inks have a lead role. It’s no longer about black and white letters. We are talking of life-like reproduction of images and quality that sets newer standards.

Click here for an online assault

When Indira Gandhi National Open University’s first experiment with online testing collapsed last week, all fingers seemed to point at a malicious cyber attack.

Financial autonomy to regulatory agencies

An important feature of infrastructure regulatory reform relates to separation of policy-making, regulation and operation functions.

Towards sustainable tourism

Tourism and economics cannot be separated. Governments in many countries have realised this and are aware of the role tourism plays as a catalyst for economic growth.

Nuclear power: from atom to highway

Energy use and development are closely linked. It is estimated that India must invest in the power sector about four times the current level to graduate to an upper-middle income country, and by three times to reach China today.

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Sustainable Infrastructure and Built Environment in Developing Countries (SIBE 2009)....

An enabling ecosystem is needed to fuel solar energy

With sun taking the centre stage, India is seeing a sharp rise in interest in solar energy. An aggressive target of installing a generation capacity of 20 gw by 2020 has been set under the National Mission on Solar Energy...

‘Indian companies should complement diplomatic efforts’

The global climate change treaty negotiations are more than a diplomatic tussle between developed and developing nations. There seems to be a better understanding of the problem and its possible outcomes.

Climate business needs an impetus

The final round of negotiations before the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen begins in Barcelona today.

Input service as per Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004, is an expansive definition

We are a dealer based in Haryana engaged in trading of various household products. As the electricity supply in our area of operations is not very good, we are largely dependent on generators and accordingly, purchase diesel in huge quantity.

Can you be a victim of success?

I hired him as President thinking he would transform my company. He was experienced, had worked for Indian and MNCs and we got along well. He was the highest paid executive in my company at Rs 45 Lakh plus incentives.

Tackling the common problems in Saarc nations

Mr Khan from Lahore, Pakistan had to close his Rs 100 crore business in car batteries because of the easy availability of cheap smuggled batteries from Afghanistan. His government could not do anything to protect his business.

Big cellphone makers shifting to Android system

Since 1996, Microsoft has been writing operating systems for little computers to carry in your pocket. It was a lonely business until the company’s perennial rival, Apple, introduced the Web-browsing, music-playing iPhone.

Securing the weakest link

In today’s hyperaware world, managed network security services represent less than 1% of the overall security equipment and services market.

Windows 7: a strong case to migrate

With the release of Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7, there is a wave of excitement through the IT industry and the end users. We surveyed a subset of its 90,000 annual subscribers in the run-up to the launch to understand their perceptions and intent for migrating to Windows 7.

Movie studios’ quest for life after Dvds

Movie studios, desperate to return their home entertainment divisions to growth, are scrambling to shape the post-DVD era.

‘The consumer is ready for innovation on his mobile device’

As South Asia’s largest digital entertainment company, Hungama Digital Media has the rights to about 70-75% of the entire mobile content that gets consumed in India . Think ringtones, caller back tunes, mobile wallpapers, full song downloads, games, videos, news and so forth.

An industry in wait-and-watch mode

Is entertainment recession-proof? Well, yes and no; the film and television industries–both growing at double digits for three years now–will vouch for that. In films, the box-office is recession- proof if the content is good; in television, even a celebrity show cannot salvage the whole channel.

Invest in R&D to stay in the carbon capture & storage race

While developing countries are expected to take adaptive actions to the pollution that has already occurred, mitigation is an inclusive process and it requires innovation. The science & technology developments have a great role to play in mitigation.

Labels show food’s carbon footprint

Shopping for oatmeal, Helena Bergstrom, 37, admitted that she was flummoxed by the label on the blue box reading, “Climate declared: 0.87 kg CO2 per kg of product”. “Right now, I don’t know what this means,” said Bergstrom.

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