Technology
Is Technology Killing Intimacy
Touch or eye-to-eye bonding can never be replaced by silly, coded, corny, cryptic SMS —condensed tight and weirdly worded.
Signal & The Noise
The consumer insights that come from analytics give a competitive advantage to firms that use them strategically.
Restaurant Sites Target Scale
“Indians are a lazy bunch,” laughs Goyal. “So we wanted to create something very close to their physical world. While menupages.com has menus in [a] standardized format, we scanned the actual menu cards and then put them up.”
Angry Brides Thrash Dowry-Seekers Online
While women in India have come a long way, there still exist some age old taboos which hinder their status in society. Angry Brides is a fun game which reminds us that together we can stand-up against this inhuman practice.
Snapping a Deal
When you have nothing to show — no product, no customers, nothing — you have to do something.You have to sell your dream.
Playing with Light
The implications of the faster-than-light neutrinos experiment are both exhilarating and chilling.
Attero Recycling: Mining the Wastes
In 2007, when Nitin Gupta, an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and engineering degree holder from IIT-Delhi came to India from the US ending his association with some technology start-ups, what he had with him was an idea.
Finance Ministry For Special Purpose Vehicle SPV Model To Build Rural Broadband Network
The finance ministry has asked the telecom department not to entrust state-owned BSNL with the Rs 20,000-crore project to build a national broadband network to take high-speed internet to the hinterlands.
Websense Unveils Cloud Service in India
The US-based enterprise infotech security company Websense has introduced its cloud-based solution for domestic companies in India. It will offer cloud-based security-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to Indian companies, facilitating locally hosted security solutions necessary for data compliance.
Is the Universe Infinite?
The history — and knowledge — of the universe carved by humans, based on the information we received, is a small part of the big picture: a universe of our own creation, one that is plagued by dark forces and our ignorance.
The End Of Everything
Our universe will end without a doubt and no underground bunker will be safe. But relax, the end time is billions or even trillions of years away.
Searching For India
Wikipedia, the CIA and the U.S. State Department are the principal sources for a majority of people searching for information about India on the Web.
A World Of Worlds
Fractal patterns have no beginning and end. The whole exists in parts and a part exists in the whole. The universe is in you and you are in the universe.
The Mystery Of The Ghost Particles
The most abundant fundamental particles are paradoxically the most elusive.
The Genesis Of Genesis
The Big Bang is bound to happen again and again creating new universes and recycling old ones.
Other Worlds
Our ceaseless search for other worlds centers on exoplanets, some of which might be tuned for life similar to our own.
I Heard The Crows Call For Rain
As scientific tools falter in predicting rain patterns, Indian scientists turn to the Vedas and traditional knowledge for some fine tuning.
Biopiracy Killer App?
India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library believes it has found the silver bullet in the biopiracy wars. Critics say it is aiming at the wrong targets.
We Have Solved The Problem Of Biopiracy 100 Percent
Dr V. K. Gupta, Director of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, explains why the Indian approach to biopiracy has been so effective.
A Light on Dark Matter
What we see comprises just 10 percent of our universe. We know nothing of the remaining 90 percent, except that it exercises gravitational pull on observable objects.
Cosmic Parallels
Radical, new cosmological theories of multiverses, oscillating universe and the Big Bang have eerie parallels in Vedic cosmology.
Sabeer Bhatia Reboots
Rather than creating new products that would require companies to change or alter their way of operating, all these companies do the same thing at much lower costs.
India's Software Industry Reboots
The software product segment constitutes under 3 percent of India's $52 billion IT sector. But that may be about to change.
The Cyberspace Strategist From MySpace
Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace's chief security officer, on policing the world's largest community.
