Monday, May 01, 2006

 

Scientists use a weed to cure skin cancer in 2 days

Early clinical trials of a new gel based on a common garden weed have cleared up the most common type of skin cancer in 2 days.

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Gates Mocks MIT $100 Laptop

Just like the title says. Of course, it would be a great idea if it ran windows, right?

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A Billion Reasons to Care About India

"If you want to know what India feels like today, it's very simple. Pull out a champagne bottle, shake it for an hour, and take the cork off. You don't want to get in the way of that cork."

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Is the Next Silicon Valley Taking Root in Bangalore?

Twenty young engineers, mostly from the Indian Institute of Technology, India's premier technology school, peer into computer monitors in the no-frills office of Read-Ink Technologies, a start-up company housed in a small building in the bustling Indiranagar neighborhood of this city.

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An Indian housewife's inspired idea worth Rs1 crore

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then 21-year-old British student and millionaire Alex Tew should be suitably impressed.

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India plans a Mega City across Mumbai

"A few years ago, the world discovered Shanghai. 5 years from now, India plans the yet-unnamed city across Mubai which will all latest and modern facilities and infrastrucure" per Time of India.

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India's BSE touched 11,000, maximum ever

India's BSE Senstive touched 11,000 for the first time in history today. Though it fell a bit during the later sessions.

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Professors Getting Wise to the Power of Podcasting

The subject of exporting software engineering jobs to India generates heated debate both in the class and the community. Plenty of published articles and broadcast segments promote the pros and cons from a U.S. viewpoint, but what do East Asians think? Thanks to podcasts, students can gain some insight.

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Dell to Double Staff in India in 3 Years

Dell plans to double the number of its employees in India to 20,000 in three years, Chairman Michael Dell said Monday, in what appeared to be moves by the world's largest personal computer maker to beef up its presence in one of the world's fastest growing markets.

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India Rising - One Billion Reasons To Care

Click here to see an interesting little video profiling the rise of India, despite all the hinderances and lack of infrastructure.

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Indic Blogger Awards 2006

Indic Blogger Awards 2006

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New scare in India - calls from mobile phones that kill

Rumors of "devil calls" swept the Indian state of Orissa. Receivers of a call from an 11- to 14-digit numbers, instead of the regular 10, are afraid they will fall sick or even die.

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Google Videos Working in India now without any workarounds

Google Videos can be viewed from any Indian IP now. I just confirmed and it is working without needing any workaround like an American proxy or anything.

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Outsourcing in India

India is undisputed leader of outsourcing: Gartner
"Despite political backlash in United States, outsourcing of Information Technology jobs will continue, and one out of every four high-technology jobs in developed nations today may be outsourced to emerging markets such as India by 2010"

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Intel Shows Picture of "Community PC"

Intel shows picture of community PC from yesterday"s launched of the innovative PC platform that has been developed exclusively to meet the needs of rural villages and communities in India.

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Pune to be India's first Wi-fi City

Termed "Unwiring Pune", the project will offer citizens access to Internet from anywhere in the city through a wireless device. It would offer Wi-Fi connectivity to approximately a 400 sq km area.

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India killed the radio star.....

India's authorities are being urged to relent after shutting a popular community radio station in northern Bihar state for not having a licence. They took his job!!!!.

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Indian Army Boss Says: "Google Earth compromises India's Security!"

"These satellite images compromise our sensitive and strategic sites"
Hmmm... ya think that an aerial photo of the Indian Parliament is that compromising? You be the judge...

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Major Indian newspaper found spamming

This article details how the website of Indian Express, one of the best newspapers of India, has got spammy links for purchasing illegal Phentermine

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Induslogic Gets $12.5M

Latest Indian product development outsourcer gets funds from VCs.
April 5, 2006

WestBridge Capital Partners, Indiaâ??s most active venture capital fund with nearly $350 million under management, led a new round of investment Wednesday in Induslogic, a provider of outsourced product development services.

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Marketing Excellence world tour â?? first stop India

Read how India's meteoric growth is changing the face of Marketing and how US based Marketing needs to re-invent itself

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Linux a BIG hit in India

Linux a BIG hit in India

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Opportunities in Indian Real Estate

Indian Real estate is a growing opportunity for all those who have the means and the inclination to own property in the most versatile and beautiful country of Asia. In the current Real estate market India is considered to be the most exciting place to be

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India finds birdflu, bans sale of antiviral drug

After bird flu was detected in India, the government banned retail sales of generic versions of Tamiflu to prevent the drugs indiscriminate use. Furthermore, drug maker Cipla has put its plans to manufacture 'Anti-flu', the generic version of Tamiflu, on hold. "There is not much demand of the drug as of now." Really?

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My BarCamp Chennai, India Experience and Photos !! :)

BarCamp was organized in Chennai on 8th and 9th of March at the famous Ramanujan Computing Center at Anna University Chennai, India. The 2 day BarCamp Chennai focused on Web 2.0 and Next Generation Internet Technologies. The whole Experience was mind blowing and loads of chat, demos, discussionâ?¦ check it out it's COOL !!

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India to have 21.3 m 3G users by 2010: Study

In two years, India is expected to become the third largest mobile market in the world

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Outsourcing IT Saves Less Than Claimed

Dell Corp. Gateway, take note: I don't want to talk to India, and it's not saving you that much money, so quit it already!

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Real time population counter

Crazy to watch. View any countries birth and death rate rise and fall in real time. The deaths come with a brief description like "Adult, 30 - 49 years old (Male)" and it tells you if the birth was a boy or girl. Watch China or India to see the most active. Even Iraq's birth/death rate may surprise you. Cool to watch and/or use for research.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 1:56 AM  
 

The Straight Dope on Global Warming...why worry?

Cecil Adams comments about our earth heating up. Has an realistic outlook on the "problem". Are our farts warming the earth? Can a country reduce emmisions and still be economically viable? What about China and India...can they fulfill their destiny to become powerhouses without carbon fuels?

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 1:55 AM  
 

The world's most modern management - in India

Indian IT outsourcing firm HCL Technologies' president feels that 'employees come first and customers second.' Every employee rates their boss, their boss' boss, and any three other company managers they choose. The article's argument: India has the most modern management system in the world.

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Why Terrorists Love Google

India is joining South Korea, and a number of other countries, to pressure Google to "do something" about it's "Google Earth" service. The security organizations in these countries are alarmed at the ease with which Google Earth enables any user to quickly get a satellite photo of just about any area on the planet.

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Indians 'want hi-tech products'

Technology companies in the West should stop thinking about India as a place to dump cut-price, low-tech versions of their products, a senior Indian researcher has said.

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Man from India claims to be Electric Shock Tolerant

A man from India is explaining to a television crew that he can tolerate electric shocks. He also makes a demonstration. Trick or real naturla power - who knows ?

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Indian Outsourcee, Wipro, Profit Jumps 27%

India's third-largest software exporter, Wipro, has said its annual net profit climbed 26.9 percent as revenues crossed the two-billion-dollar mark in a booming outsourcing market.

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Indian Telemarketers having nervous breakdowns due to verbal abuse

Workers in India are having nervous breakdowns after being abused by fed-up Australians â?? but they aren't getting much sympathy. Quote: "Some companies are regretting outsourcing their business to India because of the damage it does to their products' reputation." Finally!

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Microsoft to aid Indian software startups

Microsoft held a summit in Bangalore where over 150 Indian companies discussed how they can be part of the global product opportunity. The Microsoft programs for startups comprise offerings such as idea validation, product building, product planning and architecture, managing a product company, go-to-market and venture capitalist introductions.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 1:52 AM  
 

People are against Reservation in INDIA

People started reacting against Reservation in INDIA. Lots of blogs coming up.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 1:51 AM  
 

Boeing to set up $100-m Maintanence hub in Nagpur - India

Aerospace giant Boeing will set up its $100 mn maintenance repair overhaul (MRO) hub in Nagpur India. The company would spend $185 mn on MRO and allied activities of which the investment in the first phase would be around $100 mn. Boeing will also invest $75 mn in an aviation academy in the city to train pilots.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 1:51 AM  
 

Vietnam cracks down on Piracy day before Gates Arrives

"Government begins software piracy crackdown"
Vietnam started cracking down on software piracy the day before Bill Gates arrived. Vietnam is hoping to compete with India for outsourced IT labor.

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Tech Crisis: China & India pass US in Engineering degrees

While American youths study to head into law and finance, students in China and India are earning engineering degrees in droves and have passed the US in absolute numbers. If science and innovation drive the wealth and productivity of a society, we have a problem...

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The latest twist in Indian Outsourcing - Wombs?

I just think this is wrong on so many levels..... Judge for your self:
Women are getting paid as surrogate mothers to help Western couples with infertility problems. Is such outsourcing a logical outgrowth of India's fast economic growth or an ethically troubling trend?

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Indian Outsourcer Satyam Crosses $1B Revenue

Indian software and services outsourcer Satyam Computer Services crossed US$1 billion in revenue in its fiscal year ended March 31, riding a boom in offshore outsourcing

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Fake paper detector

You may remember the story of some cheeky MIT students who wrote a computer programme to generate scientific papers. Well, now some researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics have come up with an Inauthentic Paper Detector to foil it.

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# posted by IRTTech Blog @ 1:48 AM  
 

Indian Engineer's Beheaded Body Found in Afghanistan

Taliban militants shot an Indian hostage dead in Afghanistan as he was trying to escape. Indian Prime Minister Manoman Singh's office confirmed the killing of K. SuryaNarayan, an Indian engineer. He had been employed by a Bahrain based company, al-Moayed.

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Tsunami warning Network expanded.

The US operated warning system has been expanded to include the Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and eastern Canada. I had no idea Before the Indian Ocean Tsunami we we blind in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Hindustan time Promotes Piracy, provides Illegal Links!

India's leading newspaper has actually provided links to illegal trackres, and moreover encouraged readers to download from there to get movies and music for 'free." Not the slightest indication of anything being wrong.

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