General
- IT options growing for Indian SMEs
You could call it toys-for-boys, but it's also turning into something more serious. Computer hardware is turning into a vital tool for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across India to get that competitive edge.......
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- India & UK strengthen tech links with WMG & CII tie-up
International research group WMG is to enhance its links with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in order to strengthen work on climate change, high-tech manufacturing and global healthcare........
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- Indian Army orders 28 indigenous Weapon Locating Radars
The Indian Army is acquiring 28 highly sophisticated India-made Weapon Locating Radars (WLRs) to track and neutralize hostile artillery fire. The radars are being integrated by the state-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL),........
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- How will inflation hit India Inc's capex plans?
Inflation in India has touched its 13-year high, coming in at 11.05%. The manufacturing inflation was at 0.3% week-on-week, and India Inc would need to concentrate on this number. Whatever the Finance Secretary has said in terms of a deseasonalized cooling of inflation, the 0.3% week-on-week figure implies 15.6% annual inflation. ........
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- We are facing a digital doomsday
The digital doomsday is round the corner. In exactly 1,273 days there will be a web chaos in the world as we run out of internet addresses......
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IPR & Innovation
- Launch of First IPR Satellite Channel in Cairo
CAIRO - Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) and the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) in Egypt have signed an agreement of incorporation of "TAG-IPR-TV", the first independent Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) satellite channel.......
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- Cipla gets patent for Nexium, Fosamax modified versions
NEW DELHI: Domestic pharma major Cipla has received product patents for new forms of two blockbuster drugs-Osemaprazole and Alendronate-from the Indian authorities. While the company's patent on Osemaprazole is a modified form of Astrazeneca's blockbuster drug marketed under the brand name Nexium, Alendronate is one of the best-selling drug of Merck sold under the brand name Fosamax.......
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- India seeks Trips to bio-piracy
NEW DELHI: India has insisted that the issue of amending the trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights agreement (Trips) to check bio-piracy should be made part of the upcoming horizontal process at the World Trade Organization (WTO).......
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- Kerala Cabinet nod for draft IPR policy
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Cabinet on Saturday approved the draft intellectual property rights (IPR) policy aimed at protecting traditional knowledge and inventions. The policy states that the government will ensure protection of the rights of people possessing traditional knowledge and inventions........
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- India, Singapore to form IPR pact, step up trade
New Delhi, June 23 A Bilateral Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Cooperation between the Intellectual Property Offices of India and Singapore would be signed shortly, with both countries identifying science and technology and media and entertainment as areas for promoting bilateral trade and investment, the Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, said here on Monday.......
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- Global legal regime vital to tackle terrorism, IPR violations: CJI
"Terrorism and breaches of intellectual property rights are no longer a problem of a particular nation but an issue involving a number of international aspects. Since these are global phenomenon, responses to terrorism and breaches of intellectual property rights must also be global," the Chief Justice said......
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- Huawei India R&D centre files over 200 patents
Hyderabad, June 30 Chinese technology major Huawei has filed for over 200 patents from its India R&D centre and continues to expand its operations with an accent on localisation......
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Design & Innovation
- Harita sells design unit to KPIT
CHENNAI: Harita TVS Technologies, a TVS Group company, has sold a substantial part of its mechanical design services business to KPIT Cummins Infosystems for an undisclosed consideration.......
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Energy
- China takes cue from India on petro-products
The impact of China's recent petro-product price hike on its inflation will be of the same order as that in India. Nevertheless, the fact that China has done what India has shows that it is reasonable to restrain consumption of petro-products-more so than to be appealing to the sentiments of OPEC countries for restraint on price increases, says S. VENKITARAMANAN........
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- India moots a price band for petroleum
The oil shock continues to engage governments and policy makers around the world. In India it remains at the centre of the political economy. With inflation climbing above 11 per cent in early June-and unlikely to come down over the next four or five months-the Reserve Bank of India intervened aggressively by hiking the CRR and repo rate by 0.50 percentage point each. .......
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- India to restart Iran pipeline talks, but Left unimpressed
They have been backing the IPI project as an essential measure that India must take to meet its energy needs. "Energy security lies in using indigenous.......
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- ONGC Mittal Energy gets oil drill permit in Trinidad
Port-of-Spain: ONGC-Mittal Energy Ltd (OMEL) has become the first Indian energy company to be involved in oil exploration in Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago's Minister of Energy, Senator Conrad Enill said this at a press conference. "Oil and energy exploration has been traditionally dominated by European and more recently Canadian companies," the minister said on Friday......
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- G8 energy ministers look inward on oil, spare OPEC
The group of G8 ministers plus non-G8 guests China, India and South Korea, which together consume two-thirds of the world's energy, said they shared......
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- G8 energy ministers agree partnership on energy efficiency
Energy ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) - the seven largest industrialised economies and Russia - agreed Sunday to cooperate on energy efficiency as a way to fight soaring world prices for oil and natural gas.....
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Nanotechnology
- Luna to continue work on nanotechnology for military applications
Luna Innovations Inc. won a $3.9 million subcontract from General Dynamics Information Technology in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to continue work improving the performance of nanomaterials for military applications.......
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- Trap and zap: Harnessing the power of light to pattern surfaces on the nanoscale
A technique developed by Princeton engineers allows the easy creation of nano-scale patterns on uneven surfaces and without the normal requirements of a vibration and oxygen-free environment. The black bar next to the Princeton shield is 2 microns long. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology/Princeton University Princeton engineers have invented an affordable technique that uses lasers and plastic beads to create the ultrasmall features that are needed for new generations of microchips........
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- Nanotechnology Institute to undertake R&D
The Board of Investment (BOI) has signed an agreement with the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology to undertake research and development in nanotechnology for value addition and provide for export oriented manufacturing. On behalf of the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology, Ashroff Omar (Chief Executive Officer Brandix Lanka) and Mr. A. N. R. Amaratunga (Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology) signed the agreement. .......
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- Innovation showcase finalists named
A device that removes arsenic from groundwater will compete against a nanotechnology-based drug delivery system and eight other novel technology innovations at the 2008 ASME Innovation Showcase (ASME IShow) to be held Oct. 31, in Boston........
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- Using Nanotechnology to Kill Cancer
Biomedical scientists at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center and nanotechnology experts from UT Dallas are testing a new way to kill cancer cells. The procedure attaches cancer-seeking antibodies to tiny carbon tubes that heat up when they're exposed to near-infrared light........
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- Understanding the Nature of Glass
Imagine a plane that has wings made out of glass. Thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility........
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- State-of-the-Art Lecture: Aptomers Of Nanotechnology - Reported From The Annual Meeting Of The American Urological Association
Dr. Omid Farokhzad from Harvard addressed nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the assembly of particles < 100nm. In 2004 the NCI formed the Alliance for Nanotech, which was followed by large government investments in this field. Nanotechnology can be used across the spectrum of medicine to include prevention, diagnostics and therapeutics........
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- Nanotechnology breakthrough: a carbon nanotube so small that it has the highest curvature on earth
A chemistry professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and his graduate students have published new results in Nature Nanotechnology showing how they isolated a particular type of carbon nanotube from a sample and manipulated it in a way that could have broad applicability in drug and gene delivery, electronic devices, and nanotechnology research..........
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- Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches
Our ability to see is based on molecules in the eye that flip from one conformation to another when exposed to visible light. Now, a new technique for attaching light-sensitive organic molecules to metal surfaces allows the molecules to be switched between two different configurations in response to exposure to different wavelengths of light. Because the configuration changes are reversible and can be controlled without direct contact, this technique could enable applications that can be controlled at the molecular scale.........
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- Joint nanotechnology forum to focus on electronics, photonics, renewable energy
Applications of nanotechnology to electronics, photonics and renewable energy will be the focus of a joint forum to be held from August 10 to 14, 2009 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. An innovation workshop will also be presented in conjunction with the event........
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- Environmental TEM for Performing Chemical Research at the Atomic Level
FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, today announced the release of the TitanTM 80-300 environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM). The Titan ETEM is the premier solution for chemical research at the atomic scale, and is a significant advance for studying materials and processes of importance in the fields of energy and environment. The ETEM is the newest member of FEI's Titan TEM family, the world's most powerful commercially-available microscopes for direct observation with sub-Angstrom resolution........
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