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The following was narrated to me over the weekend by a professor of finance and a former finance industry executive with experience in well-known multinationals.

Refund of Cenvat credits to call centres

The Foreign Trade Policy provides that trading units are not allowed to be set up under the EOU scheme. Trading units were permitted under the EOU scheme prior to March 31, 2002.

MSME bodies pitch for higher tax exemption limits

With 28 million units employing over 60 million people, the micro, small & medium enterprise sector is very large, highly heterogeneous and complex.

Different strokes

There are two new laptops in the market—HP ‘ProBook 5310m’ and Acer 3D Notebook ‘AS5738D’. Except that they both run on Windows7, they are different from each other.

Wiring up for agility

Information technology is playing a key role in fueling the growth of organisations.

Changing the face of personal computing

While I had not been invited to Apple’s preview event for its much-awaited tablet....

Cyberwar: US finds no easy deterrent

On a Monday morning earlier this month, top Pentagon leaders gathered to simulate how they would respond to a sophisticated cyberattack aimed...

With Sun, Oracle has all the pieces

Oracle, having spent the last nine months fighting rivals and regulators in order to own Sun Microsystems, has pushed itself into the middle of the scrum of technology...

Towards a smarter globalised research

If research can be described as an endeavour to understand phenomena, invent new solutions or enhance existing ones to improve our lives..

Making money online

Blogging in India has now become a profession from a casual writing hobby and this is mainly because of the money involved.

Application of central excise duty

We are a company dealing with cutting of hot/cold rolled coils into sheets and strips. We were under the belief that such an activity amounts to manufacturing under central...

M&A deals and ‘people issues’

At some point in their existence, many startups have to confront certain existential questions—about themselves and their future. Some of these typical questions

Industry association as a guarantor

Recent policy initiatives indicate the state is focusing on an orderly growth of the unorganised sector, with the spotlight on micro and small enterprises.

Mum’s the word

True to its name, Bose does things in style and it goes for the QC15, too. It comes packed in a velvet-black jewellery box-like carrying case. The pair of black and silver cans has soft leather and foam detachable padding on ear-cups for that perfect comfortable fit as well as on the headband for cushioning the hard plastic surfaces for extended usage.

China risks alienating its young, web-savvy Google users

At the elite Tsinghua University in Beijing, some students were joking that they had better download all the Internet information they wanted now in case Google left the country.

Reaching the masses

The recent economic crisis has reinstated government spending as a stabilising force in economies globally. Such government-aided stimuli has created pressure on governments to generate more financial resources to support economic growth.

Mobile: silver bullet to target the non-banked

After 62 years of Independence, the informal economy dominates 80% of India and half the below-poverty-line households still have no access to any kind of financial services. This will continue, unless radical steps are taken.

Coming out party for tablets

A slew of hardware companies have used the Consumer Electronics Show as a coming-out party for Internet tablets, presaging a boom in keyboard-less mobile computers.

A deluge of devices for reading & surfing

You've heard of Amazon.com's Kindle. And you probably know that Apple is likely to introduce a tablet computer this year. Soon you may also be hearing about the Alex, the Que proReader and the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid.

TV sets, mobile gear get gadget makers moving forward

The Consumer Electronics Show bounced back this year, buoyed by new hardware including 3-D TV sets and an explosion of handheld mobile devices, from smartbooks and e-readers to tablet computers.

Twin with a twist

This twin Nokia N97mini and Mobell M750 has nothing in common except that both are smartphones with touch interface and both saw light on 31st December 2009. Otherwise they are poles apart!

Blackboard versus whiteboard

How do you remember your classroom? Chances are there may have been a computer somewhere in the building, a fax machine and a photo copier.

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