General
- What Technology Does My New Business Need?
Congratulations, you've opened your new business! As your hands run over the new furniture and you wrap up a few things with your lawyer and accountant, you're probably starting to wonder what kind of computing infrastructure you should consider for your business.......
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- Biggest IT Challenges for Entrepreneurs
Technology can be a very valuable tool for business owners trying to streamline their businesses and increase productivity - and just make their lives easier - but it's a tool that's multifaceted, complex and just a plain mystery to some. If used effectively, you'll reap huge benefits for your business, but using it improperly may mean more inefficient systems, lost customers and a host of other problems........
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Innovation & IPR
Nanotechnology
- Plot for Nano Tech Park Identified
Karnataka has identified a 15 - acre plot in North Bangalore to develop a nano-technology park. The park will come up close to University of Agriculture Sciences campus in Jakkur. The state intends to rope in private players to develop the park.......
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Indians, key to nanotech battery breakthrough
Bangalore: Researchers - most of them Indians - at the oldest technological university in the United States, have announced a breakthrough that might see ultra-thin batteries, made up of cellulose, the main component of paper. .....
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Agriculture
Biotechnology
- Biotech Park soon in Guwahati
The Government of Assam in association with the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) is working towards establishing a biotech park in Guwahati. According to TERI sources, the government has already sanctioned 100 acres of land near Guwahati University and Assam Engineering College for this project. The park will facilitate education and research work in diverse areas........
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- Agriculture Biotechnology
While TERI's Delhi campus is gearing up to shift to its permanent premises in mid-October this year, it has also launched a new one-year postgraduate diploma in regulation in agriculture biotechnology. The programme will commence from October 2007, ........
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- India, Slovenia to develop R&D unit
In a bid to enhance economic cooperation between the two nations, India and Slovenia are keen to sign a memorandum of understanding to create a joint forum for promoting R&D in various fields, relating to the manufacturing sector........
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- Poultry litter turned into bio-oil
BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 20 (UPI) - U.S. scientists are developing portable pyrolysis units that can convert poultry litter into bio-oil in a system that addresses biosecurity issues. .......
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Electronics & Communication
Design
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Nokia Locate First "Satellite studio in India to design Mobile Phone"
BANGALORE: Finnish mobile-phone maker Nokia on Wednesday opened a global design studio in India to stay ahead of rivals such as Motorola in the world's fastest-growing wireless market.....
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India nurturing homegrown ideas
A little seed money has helped to unleash the potential of this rural nation's many back-yard inventors
Tribune photo by Laurie Goering, July 28, 2007.....
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The effort has had a few big successes
A penniless cotton farmer in Gujarat state eight years ago invented a machine to extract cotton from unopened bolls, a tedious task women and children had long done by hand. Gupta's innovators network-a constellation of Indian.....
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New twist on old ideas
A tree-climbing device, fashioned by a coconut harvester in Kerala state, is now sold across India and used as far afield as the United States by biologists studying trees. The device tightens around a tree when a climber steps on it, creating a stable platform......
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Funding unleashes innovation
"Many people have ideas but no support to turn them into entrepreneurs," said Sidique Siddiki, 18, an Imphal high school student at the conference. "If they can get support, India will develop."......
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Artificial limbs for Mozambique planned
KOLKATA: As part of a goodwill gesture, Coal India Ltd (CIL) is planning to send artificial limbs to Mozambique. Joint collaboration for development of coal mines there is also under consideration.......
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Pharma, Biotech & Health
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Home Remedies for Children's Constipation
The treatment for constipation will depend upon the age of the child whether he is a small baby or a child, four or five years of age. When a baby is on breast-feeding, constipation is usually the result of wrong feeding on the part of the mother, and it must be corrected. The baby should be kept on water and orage juice for a day, and small enema of warm water given......
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