Archive for July, 2005
Alternate Transports for Web Services
In this excellent Article, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Choosing Alternate Transports for Web Services” by Simon Guest, Microsoft Corporation from The Architect Journal of July 2005, Simon Guest illustrates different scenarios that need an alternate transport to address the problem.
Why bad news always makes the front pages?
Posted here are the snap shots of BBC and CNN front pages, with full of items of killings, terror and such.
I do not understand how much all those news items matter to an individual. I understand that in many parts of the world, people are suffering due to few narrow minded individuals. I share their cocern in creating awareness. But too much focus on bad news alone make things worse. If your kid is not feeling well, what kind of stories you read him. Stories of suffering or stories of hope and healthly living? Some times it helps the greater cause, not to highlight the bad things.
Don’t these media houses have any social responsibility?
Talking Phrasebooks bags International Award
“Talking Phrasebooks”, a mobile application by GrapeCity India has won the prestigious US Handango Champion Award for best Industry Application for the Pocket PC for 2005.
News Posted at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1427484,0002.htm
Give me an Idea
An interesting insight into efforts towards turning risk-averse traditional Indian minds into full blown global innovators. I believe it is quite possible, for I don’t know why it is not possible. I see sparks here and there, but if it becomes an organizational effort and everybody in the community supports, as mentioned in the article, we are sure to make the I in India stand for Innovation.
Give Me An Idea
India needs to take risks and back innovation for scientific progress
opinion by Dr.R.A.Mashelkar
Read the Opion here
Successes in rural inventions
Image Courtesy: Copyrights by Historylink101.com & found at India Picture Gallery.
BBC News Posting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4650065.stm
Necessity is the mother of invention. This truth is quite evident from millions of every day innovations passed through generations in India. There are more so in the traditional scriptures. But there has been a focussed approach to collect and document all those grass root innovations in India by different organizations. Read this article to see some of those inventions and how the organisations started it all.
Here is another prominent web site, Good News India that showcases the grass root level innovation across India.
