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Copyrights, Patents & Intellectual Property Rights: An Overview

by Navin Kabra on March 22, 2010

I am not a lawyer, so do not treat this as legal advice. However, I have learnt about copyrights, patents and other intellectual property issues the hard way, and hence feel qualified to give you practical ‘big picture’ advice (which might sometimes go against what a lawyer might tell you legally).

By way of background in [...]

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Facebook brings its support office to India

by Arun Prabhudesai

400 million subscriber strong Facebook is moving Eastwards, and its choice of destination is Hyderabad in India. It is interesting that Facebook has chosen Hyderabad over Bangalore to open up its first office in Asia. I think one of the important reasons for opening office here is Facebook has shown a [...]

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Internet Access at workplace: Should be or Should Not ?

by Arun Prabhudesai

Internet access at workplaces is restricted in most of the big & medium sized companies. They restrict blogs, social-networking, shopping sites, popular email sites (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo), forums, dating sites from being accessed while at work. Most companies do this as they think Internet access will affect productivity. The question is [...]

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How To Sell It Like Steve Jobs ? Apple iPad Selling Like Hot Cakes

by Ankit Agarwal

Call him crazy, arrogant and what not.But Steve Jobs does what he does best, “Sell a product like no one else can”. Well, the technology that goes in any Apple product is top notch too, but then so is the price.However, Steve Jobs manages to hypnotize the target audience with his presentation skills and make [...]

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Expressing Digitally: Bharti Airtel forays into Digital Media and Entertainment Business

by Viral Dholakia

The telecom market in India is slowly maturing and coming at terms to the reality of end of an era of weighing its business prospects led by higher average revenue per user (ARPUs) basis to gradually shifting at encoding the industry prospects, in this new decade, where the business may well be dictated by the [...]

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Indian Internet dilemma!

by rabigupta

I know each one of you is expecting an IPL post here, but I believe that you will be reading this post only if- 1. You are not watching IPL or 2. You are not watching IPL over youtube :). It’s amazing how this internet industry has transformed and [...]

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Twitter Statistics: 74% still have less than 10 followers – 21% really active !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Twitter statistics have kind of become a rage – We already have feature more than couple of studies and research on this. Now Barracuda Labs has released the latest Twitter Report which shows that only 21% of all twitter can be termed as real active twitterers. So how do they define [...]

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Google App Marketplace: A Phenomenon in the making !

by Arun Prabhudesai

WoW ! Just spent half an hour at Google marketplace, added 5 neat free application to my Google Apps account – Cant tell you how thrilled I am with the ease of use and the kind of functionality enhancements it brings to Google Mail, Docs, Calendar etc.

We have been reading & hearing about Google Marketplace [...]

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30 Terabyte Hard-drive by an Indian – Gets offered 1.4 cr salary by Seagate !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates once said (I admit it is so clichéd to quote this), “640K ought to be enough for anybody” – I think the minimum specs we have today are 1GB memory and for Hard-Disks it is 60 Gigs (I presume).

30 years since that statement was made, we are now looking at Hard-Disks [...]

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Remote Controlled Street Lights: Civic Authorities go Hi-Tech !

by Arun Prabhudesai

It is always a delight to come across this kind of news – India’s capital city, Delhi, will see country’s first remote-controlled street lights operational that will be use Internet & Mobile technologies to function ! Most of the Street lights in India are either manual or they use timers to switch on and [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: Vodafone Application Store, Self-Charging Phone From Nokia

by Ankit Agarwal

Vodafone Launches its own Mobile Application Store
It was always on the cards, wasn’t it.After the stupendous success of Apple iStore and the growing popularity of Android marketplace, there is no denying that fact that Application stores are the way forward for telcos.Among India telecom operators, Airtel already has a app store in place and Aircel [...]

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Twitter adoption: Indian companies close to zilch !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Did you know that MSN India has the most active company Twitter account, while MTV is the most followed brand. This is what iffort survey – Indian Companies on Twitter: A Usage Study – has to say.

The study conducted by iffort, took into account tweets between period of November 2009 and Feb 2010 with company [...]

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An iPad-er – To be or not to be

by Arun Prabhudesai

Just read this report on iPad – It mentions that iPad is seeing huge wave of demand, even though it has got late coming into the market.

As per the recent changewave survey – iPad is showing a huge wave of pre-launch demand for the iPad and offers key evidence that the Apple tablet will have [...]

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Nose Scanning – A Revolution in Biometrics !

by Viral Dholakia

Until now an identity card with a photograph was used by various institutions in order to verify the identity of a person. But, with a high speed up-gradation of technology these identity determining procedures are getting obsolete and risk oriented as duplicating such identity cards is getting easier.

With fast growing technology came safer scanning procedures [...]

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Bangalore Cops Armed With Blackberries, Will It Help Keep Corruption In Check

by Ankit Agarwal

Next time you see a cop on Bangalore’s road playing around with a Blackberry in his hand, you better be careful.He might just be checking your history of traffic violations and might hold you down for not clearing you earlier violations.

Bangalore traffic police has reached the last leg of Project Blackberry, a completely electronic traffic [...]

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