It is lamenting indeed that increasingly often educational institutes are set up with business objectives acting at the fore. Historically, critics have rightly condemned widespread commercialization of education. Efforts by reform-oriented educationists to highlight...
Apple’s patent win is more significant for the tech world at large than for the Cupertino-based iPhone maker itself. It establishes a strong basis to serve as a precedent for companies willing to protect their patents and intellectual properties. As far as Samsung is...
Samsung has thrown up a big surprise, beating Microsoft’s close partner Nokia in unveiling the world’s first Windows 8 device supposedly by a week. Post the Apple’s patent win over Samsung, while it was indeed being speculated heavily that Samsung would be moving fast...
The revised 2G auction deadlines after the Supreme Court extension grant would have different implications for different parties involved:1. For telcos whose licenses were cancelled in an earlier SC verdict: Quite obviously, they get a fresh lease of life. They have...
If you have in recent times tried using the “I’m Feeling Lucky” search button at google.co.in, you would have noticed that it’s just there and does nothing. That’s because the button, which was earlier meant to take a user directly to the first search result for a...
The big patent win for Apple against Samsung could kick off a major shifting of equations in the mobile phone industry, and the biggest beneficiaries could turn out to be the Nokia-Microsoft combo.Why? Here are the five key reasons: 1. Nokia almost has an army of...
Large-format retail major Croma has managed to steal an edge by bringing the Kindle e-reader to its outlets, which has been duly supported by Amazon that simultaneously launched its Kindle Store for India.How is that an edge, when Kindle can anyways be ordered off...
The socio-political-economic realities of today are putting considerable strain on the principles of federalism and functioning of the governments. Time has probably come to tweak the cogs, and better the nation’s economic machineryUndoubtedly, India has emerged as a...
There actually is not much else that telcos could do than to mostly refrain from participating in 2G auction, lest they have a somewhat suicidal intent to stretch themselves too far on thin ice.Within seven days of Business & Market first suggesting that a leading...
Organizations taking a green road would go far if their C-suites are devoid of narcissist toxinsI’ve long subscribed to a basic idea that an organization’s sustainable performance is directly related to the DNA it inherits, grows or acquires. More than anything and...
Gartner released its 2012 Hype Cycle Special Report earlier this week, which provides strategists and planners with an assessment of the maturity, business benefit and future direction of more than 1,900 technologies, grouped into 92 areas, it said. New Hype Cycles...
The consumer has been the real loser so far and when the licensor is not thinking from consumers’ viewpoint, at least the government shouldThe Additional Solicitor General’s (ASG) opinion that Department of Telecom (DoT) could terminate licenses of operators has...