Business Ideas, News, Startups, Technology

Best time for Indian small & medium ITES Cos

This is the best time for small and medium IT & Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) companies to start, as the cost of becoming an entrepreneur is shrinking two times than what it was five years back, said Sachin Vinod Rathi, Architect Adviser, Microsoft India.

He was speaking at a conference on “Future of India’s IT & ITES Sector; Evolving Business Models for Sustained Growth” organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with Punjab Infotech in New Delhi recently.

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Technology

Tips for All

Tips.net is a great resource for quick helpful tips on a variety of topics.  Whether you are looking for household tips, cooking tips or computer tips – its all there on this comprehensive and useful resource.

Many topics which demand detailed explanations have sub-sites of their own. So we have excel.tips.net for tips on Microsoft Excel, health.tips.net for Health Tips, home.tips.net for Home Improvement Tips that you can use, and cooking.tips.net to cook up a storm !

A nifty feature is that several tips are also accompanied by videos on How To, which become very valuable when we are looking at Fixing Scratches in CDs and DVDs, Using Hair Removal Creams or even Washing Your Sneakers

We all seem to love our cars. We spend a good part of each day either driving or being driven in cars, and that is no accident. We seem to grow more attached to our cars each day. Because cars are such a big part of our lives, doesn’t it make sense to learn all you can about how to better get along with your car? You can find the tips and techniques to do just that at Car.Tips.Net.

From now on, if you are surrounded by clutter, just look up organizing.tips.net and if you love your pet and looking for ways to help – you have pet.tips.net. And, of course, we all love our families – so if you are looking for Behavioral Tips, Marriage, Parenting, Parties and Safety tips, just connect to family.tips.net

So just go ahead have a tip-sy day !

Technology

Expense Sharing

We all go out with friends for dinners, movies, parties. And at the end of it all, we need to share the expenses. It is pretty inconvenient to share on the spot, especially if the payment is made by Credit Card. And it is much more inconvenient to keep track of multiple occasions and people.

Enter www.billmonk.com –  a simple way to split the bills with friends for free. BillMonk just needs you to enter the total amount of the bill and the no. of persons you want to split it with. Normally, the bill is split equally, but you can also split it manually for whatever amounts you please. You can add the names of the persons too. And BillMonk starts keeping track. BillMonk supports 30 currencies – including Indian Rupees.

So it becomes really simple – sometimes you could be paying the bill and sometimes someone else could be paying. BillMonk tracks the amounts once they are entered and at the end of the week or month, it will do the arithmetic and show who owes whom how much. When a settlement is made, you just enter it and the account is squared. Pretty neat!

Many transactions can be entered by Mobile Phones by just sending an SMS on the move – very convenient after a late night party – just sleep peacefully knowing that the money matters are safely taken care of!

It’s not just money. You could be lending or receiving CDs, Movies, Books to each other. BillMonk allows you to track who has borrowed what from whom and the suggested return dates. This helps track your assets and you will never forget whom you lent them to.

BillMonk keeps track of your money and stuff, so you don’t have to. And remember it is FREE !

Business Ideas, People / Stories, Technology

This car will cost you just 4 paisa per km!

Byravee Iyer

At 7, Race Course Road, the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, you can find a glittering array of cars. They are all fitted with post-modern gizmos and security gadgets, and their armour is thick as a tank’s.

There is also a small electric car which is used to carry passengers, one at a time, from the high-security gates to the house. It rubs in a subtle message to visitors from abroad:

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Business Ideas, News, Technology

Tata Swach – Water Purifier

World’s most cost-effective water purifier improves affordability of safe drinking water for millions of Indian families

Pure water is one of the world’s most precious natural resources. With much of India’s population denied access to safe drinking water, the delivery of safe, convenient and affordable water purification is one of the biggest social and technological challenges in the country today.

Responding to this challenge, Tata Chemicals unveils ‘Tata Swach’ – a unique and innovative water purifier. Requiring no energy or running water to operate, an early version of the product first saw the light of day as part of the Tsunami relief efforts. Today, the replaceable filter-based product, which is entirely portable and based on low-cost natural ingredients, delivers safe drinking water at a new market benchmark of Rs30 per month for a family of five.
Technology

Similar Image Search Engine

GazoPa is a next generation similar image search engine optimization that uses image features such as a color and a shape that are extracted from an image.

There are various kinds of methods to search for similar images.

  1. Upload an image from your PC.
  2. Draw a picture.
  3. Paste image URL into the search field
  4. Enter keyword to the search field and click any images on the result page.
  5. Install the GazoPa plugin for Firefox. Right-click on any web image.
  6. Install GazoPa bookmarklet and click on any web images.
  7. Click ‘Shuffle’ link and click on any images

Combined search(Image + Keyword search) : Set key image by any of above methods and enter keyword.

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Social Entrepreneurship, Technology

Renewable Energy Search

Renewable Energy Search – Ministry of New and Renewable Energy – GOI

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India &
Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship
presents

Renewable Energy Search

Visit us at www.re-search.in

Renewable Energy Search is an endeavor by CIIE (IIM Ahmedabad) and MNRE (Government of India) to identify, encourage and incubate entrepreneurial ideas aimed at solving the energy crisis through use of existing clean energy related research.

Objectives

  • Identify and commercialize the most viable research and innovations having the potential to solve India and developing world’s energy problems.
  • Create viable clean-energy start-ups through incubation, tech transfer, mentoring, funding and policy support.
  • Craft a synergistic Public Private Partnership with common objective of building feasible energy solutions.
  • Build clean energy entrepreneur base and facilitate action-oriented research.

Renewable energy: CIIE takes 6 incubatees

Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Saturday took its first step towards bridging the gap between technology and business innovation in the field of renewable energy.

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