As noise control assumes greater priority, acoustic nonwovens
materials are finding application in an increasing number of end-user
markets across North America. These include automotive, appliances,
marine, office partitions, and aviation, among others and the
increasing uptake among these sectors is helping the overall growth of
the North American acoustic nonwovens markets. The automobile segment,
however, remains the largest and most lucrative application segment,
accounting for 83.3 percent of the total market in 2005. Read more

Computers that read your mind

Around a year ago I had written a column on a project called MyLifeBits, a Microsoft research project, that records every byte, every conversation, every emotion, every photo you clicked, every line you typed, every word you said. An archive of that could recall nearly every waking moment of a person’s life. Now comes another interesting project that could reshape the entire technological and advertising arena.
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Compliance with regulatory standards were among the key components that drove demand for backup power solutions between 2004 and 2005 as organizations were forced to advance existing IT networks to ensure better tracking systems and improve accountability. Back up power is deployed to ensure uptime of these networks as well as to protect these against the damages caused by power abnormalities. Demand for backup power is not expected to halt in the following years either. The adoption of next generation blade server technology as well as the transition to IP telephony is expected to a put strain on the power infrastructure and the overall datacenter environment. Both power and heat density per square foot is expected to accelerate. Read more

Fidelity Fund Management Private Limited today announced its plans to launch a fixed income business in India. Fidelity has already established a fixed income fund management capability within its Mumbai investment operation and has now provided details of its first Indian fixed income product. Fidelity, which manages three equity funds and a multi manager cash fund, will launch the Fidelity Short Term Income Fund on 17 August. Read more

New Media Censorship in India

An IT savvy nation we definitely are. Maybe even an IT super power. We are also a nation that produces the best programmers in the world. IT has also ignited the entrepreneurial spirit like no other technology before. Yet we are also a nation of IT illiterate bureaucrats and politicians who have no idea about the new media and what it means. We are a democracy yet at the smallest opportunity our babus jump with the red tape. Just two weeks ago I wrote an article “Censoring the Blog” on the unfortunate Chinese censorship and just a week after that our government rushed on censoring the blogosphere as if it was in competition with China. Read more

San Diego, United States and New Delhi, Delhi, India Wednesday, August 02, 2006 — UTV and DivX, Inc., the digital entertainment company that created the DivX media format, announced a partnership on Tuesday to make available more movies to Indian consumers by offering a range of premium movie content in the high-quality DivX format.

The content is licensed from UTV of India, a content provider that owns distribution rights to hundreds of Hollywood and Bollywood titles.

All titles are encoded in high-quality, secure DivX format, compatible with millions of DivX-Certified consumer electronics devices from major manufacturers. Titles that will be available in DivX for the Indian market include: “The Myth,” “Swades,” “Main Meri Patni Aur Woh,” “Sin City,” “Unleashed” and “Pulp Fiction.”

“As new technologies emerge to give consumers greater control and more choices in viewing entertainment content, UTV is very happy to partner with DivX,” said Ronnie Screwvala, CEO of UTV. “Distributing our content in the DivX format will give our consumers more options. Our goal is to enable our users to enjoy more content, quality and value in entertainment whenever and wherever they choose.”

“By partnering with UTV, DivX can continue to expand and reach the global community in effort to create and build a better media future for consumers everywhere,” said Aparna Vashisht-Rota, Business Development, at DivX, Inc. “DivX technology enables several movies to fit on a single DVD, and by bundling premium content from UTV with popular DivX-Certified consumer electronics devices such as DVD players, we can work together to improve the digital media experience and allow more users to enjoy higher-quality content in more places.”

NetAlter Software Limited has revealed that; the US Patent and
Trademarks Office have published the Patent Application (Publication
number 20060165040) for its NetAlter Alternative to Internet and
Enterprise & Social communication framework on their website. The
entire patent application is now available for download from the US
PTO Read more

All currently available antiplatelet drugs viz- Aspirin, PLAVIX(r) ,
Persantine, Aggrastat, and Ticlid are toxic. The CAPRIE (1996) study
showed that the largest selling antiplatelet drugs PLAVIX(r)
(Clopidogrel) and Aspirin are quite toxic with over 50% of those who
take either of them suffer from various toxic side effects. Of course,
the added attraction for PLAVIX(r) is high cost, especially for the
non-responders without any effect on platelet aggregation.
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Advancements in fieldbus controlled valve automation has been driven
by the need to reduce costs, operator intervention and footprint on
the field. The ability to control and manage processes has increased
to a great extent where field devices can execute process control
loops. In comparison to the analogue transmission system the fieldbus
system involves reduced cabling and higher data transmission rates
resulting in more information transmitted over the network.
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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know
what to do with it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

There are good times and there are bad times. Bad times don’t last
long; bad news is that neither do good times last very long. Five
years ago nobody had imagined the web would be such a boom. Remember
everything with a dot com was perceived a losing proposition, the
great dotcom crash and ’school boys can’t run businesses’ etcetera.
Just two years before that everything with a web address seemed like a
road to a gold mine. Back to the present, what we are now witnessing
is a boom phase. A boom time that is based on pure fundamentals having
inherent growth and profitability strength. Read more