The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 11, 2008

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ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING: Realty bytes
The real-estate sector is turning to IT to build efficiency into its operations.. The Indian real-estate sector is breaking new ground, you could say — in its adoption of information technology (IT). In recent years, many real-estate ...

INTERNET: Here's the future? See if you like it.
How would you like it if your friends knew where you were all the time? I mean, ...

SECURITY: Walking a thin line
The question is: Can a hacker assume a stance of innocence after a deliberate break-in?. A case that recently attracted wide attention on both sides of the Atlantic should be of great interest also to those in India who closely follow cyber crime ...

SOFTWARE: Drive by wire
Korean auto player says it can help you zip away, forgetting you are at the wheel of a geared car.. Ask any car driver what it feels like to drive through peak hour traffic - and you’ll get more than a mouthful. The start-stop-start ...

BOOKS: Integrate e-gov projects
Only then can the Government be ‘at the doorstep of the citizen offering a basket of services.’. With the exception of the Railways Reservation System, IT (information technology) applications seem to have had no remarkable effect on ...

M-COMMERCE: Doc finger on pulse of action
This player provides SMS updates on outpatient/inpatient collections in cash, credit card and cheques, lab and pharmacy collections.. After taking over as Director (Administration) of the 50-bed Senthil Hospital in Coimbatore, Hema found the ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Accent’ on innovation
Dr Kishore S. Swaminathan on how Accenture tracks technology.. Dr Kishore S. Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the $20-billion Accenture, and his team in Chicago sit together every year to chart out the major technological changes. They then ...

INTERVIEW: Making e-com a compelling buy
This calls for three key drivers in India, says this online player.. The founder and COO of online shopping mall IndiaPlaza.in (formerly Fabmall.com), K. Vaitheeswaran, says his is ‘a small but ambitious’ company. Over the next three ...

HARDWARE: Just wave at your PC
HP is working on gesture control technology. A look at what is possible in the not so remote future.. Imagine logging on to the Internet by just waving to your personal computer. Or listening to music even without laying your hands on the ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Compatibility mode in Windows XP
I came across ‘Dual boot with Win XP and Win 98’ in eWorld’s Tip-Off column. However, all I want to do is use some old software and hardware that will run on Win 98 but not on Win XP. I really do not want to try to make a new ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
2. Which country topped the list of Internet attacks with 16.77 per cent of the global attack traffic for the first quarter of ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“We’ve all been properly trained, but our Panchayat doesn’t have funds to buy a ...

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