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6 Observations for the Indian BPO industry!

BPO Companies May Find It Tough To Retain Their Middle Level Executives, Post Recession !READ»

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ETHONOMICS   |  Comment

Will the World's Cheapest Solar Lantern Pull in Profits While Igniting Economic Development?

When the sun goes down, much of the world goes dark. At-home productivity sinks--you can't read or learn without light--unless you can afford to buy kerosene, which emits noxious fumes. D.Light, a company that originated as a ...READ»

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Should Green Tech be Open Source?

Obama is hoping for some big climate handshakes in separate talks with China and India next month--including the announcement of India's first cap-and-trade scheme. While the big talking point will be setting CO2 limits at levels ...READ»

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16 Inventions That Boost Habitats, Humanity, Health and Happiness

While working to develop products like the Hippo Roller, a water transportation device, Emily Pilloton, founder of the non-profit Project H Design, began collecting examples of similar products that solved social problems. Her recently released book, Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People features those findings. Featured here are sixteen examples from the book.READ»

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GM   |  1 comment

GM India and Reva Team Up to Develop Cheap Electric Car

Forget the high-priced Teslas and Fiskers of the world. The electric vehicle revolution can't begin until the masses have access to the technology. READ»

Ivan Glickman

Force Your Competition To Defend Multiple Fronts

One of greatest Union generals in the U.S. Civil war, William Tecumseh Sherman, described the goal of effective military strategy as maneuvering so that the opposing general finds himself “on the horns of dilemma.” That ...READ»

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A Collapsible, Biodegradable Cup for Public Restroom Washing

Toilet paper is the post-toilet self-cleaning method of choice for most Western countries (though the bidet is also popular), but many Indians prefer to use water to clean themselves. At the same time, many Indians often find ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Power Comes From Coordination

I’ve interviewed hundreds of business outthinkers, and one of the most common patterns of success is “coordinate the uncoordinated.” We’ve seen this work for companies like Credit Justice Services, an ethonomic credit ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Go Dumpster Diving For New Strategies

A Chinese phrase advises that you “borrow a corpse for the soul’s return.” This metaphor points to the fact that we tend not to dig through garbage. Once we’ve thrown something away we mentally label it “trash” and so ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Good Cause, Good Ideas, Good Money

When I pull up to the village in which my mother grew up in Bangladesh, I feel like I'm on the set of a cowboy movie. Two long streets cross in the center, each bordered by a well-planned lineup of storefronts. From this ...READ»

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India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Cooker, Makes Lunch for 20,000

Pilgrims visiting the shrine of 19th century saint Sai Baba in Shridi, India have a new reason to stick around: The world's largest solar cooker. The $280,000 system, partially paid for by the Indian government, generates 3,500 kg of ...READ»

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FC CALENDAR   |  Comment

Total Solar Eclipse, Eastern Hemisphere

While you were sleeping, the lights went out in the Eastern Hemisphere as the largest solar eclipse this century cast a shadow from Asia to the South Pacific. The total solar eclipse cast complete darkness over an area up to 160 miles ...READ»

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BUS   |  Comment

How a Simple Design Tweak Could Save Fuel and Keep Bus Passengers Cool

It's virtually impossible to ride around on a public bus during the summer without having someone crack open a few windows. At the same time, open windows--and air conditioning, which is present on less than 5% of inter-city vehicles ...READ»

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ENVIROFIT   |  Comment

Envirofit's $25 Clean-Burning Cooking Stove Is Ready for the Developing World

Envirofit International is already known for its clean-burning cooking stoves, which have been on the market since May 2008. Since then, the stoves have reached 60,000 customers. Over the next five years, these stoves could reduce ...READ»

3G   |  Comment

Growth of Mobile Services in India

Since I joined Dilithium Networks in June, in the exciting field of mobile video, I have had a chance to reminisce about my 15 year on and off association with the telecommunication industry in India from a vendor perspective.READ»

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FC CALENDAR   |  Comment

Fifth International Conference on Tourism

Business travel is expected to drop 5.6% this year, according to the U.S. Travel Association. Academics who study travel (sweet gig, right?) will convene in Greece to discuss the decline. There are only about 100 of them, so their ...READ»

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Rice Power: Cisco, DFJ Award Seed Money to Husk Power Systems

Husk Power Systems, a startup that turns rice husks into energy, beat out over 1,000 competitors to win the Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco-sponsored Global Business Plan Competition.READ»

BROCHURES   |  Comment

Logo Designer India

The Design Zone is creative Logo Designer, Logo Designer India, Annual Report Designer, Calendar Designer, Brochure Designer, Catalog Designer, Leaflet Designer from Mumbai India. We are a think design team Overflowing with ...READ»

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The Site With 8.64 Trillion Hits in One Day

The day before India's Lok Sabha elections, the country's election commission made a new Web site live to provide election results in real-time. The commisson overbuilt the site, so it thought, readying it for almost 3,000 hits per ...READ»

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Tata, Maker of the $2,000 Car, to Build $8,000 Apartments

Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company, has unveiled plans to build what might be the world's cheapest high-rise apartments--ranging in price from $7,800 to $13,400. The company is already famous for it's $2,000 ...READ»

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An Artificial Knee, for Just $20

High-tech prosthetics can easily cost $50,000. They're a luxury usually afforded only to Westerners. But an engineer at Stanford has just unveiled an artificial knee that costs a mere $20. Last year, Joel Sadler was presented ...READ»

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Tata Nano: What's the Environmental Impact of 14 Million More Cars in India?

  At long last Tata Motors has started selling its vaunted Nano. [For more on the launch, read "Tata Nano: Meet the World's Cheapest Car."] Market research suggests that the Nano may bring safer, four-wheeled ...READ»

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Tata Nano: Meet the World's Cheapest Car

Tata, an Indian auto maker, is unveiling its Nano car today. The animating idea is that the Nano has been designed to bring road transportation to the masses in India, particularly people who'd never had access to a vehicle before. ...READ»

EMAIL   |  Comment

Aghreni delivers 1.5 million emails for Indian Marketers in less than 2 months of its operations

Aghreni Technologies, leader in interactive email and mobile marketing recently published the numbers to the Industry. It sent about 1,450,000 emails through its email marketing platform in just less than 2 months of its operations in india.READ»

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End to End Email and Mobile Marketing automation Solutions and Services for Marketers

Aghreni Technologies, that is part of a global email marketing giant is offering e-messenger, email and mobile marketing automation platform that can send high volume emails and mobile messages with high deliverability to Indian Marketers.READ»

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