Image Source : studenthacks.org Companies are doing a poor job of using social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to engage their customers and employees. In fact, 70 percent of consumers want to interact with businesses via social media, but only 30 percent of companies are equipped to handle it. The grim news comes from a study by research firm Yankee Group, commissioned by Siemens Enterprise Communications.

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Businesses Failing at Social Networking

Image Source : Google.com Business owners can add their listings to Google, as well as edit or delete existing listings, by visiting Google Places. Business owners can specify a wide range of information regarding their business ( e.g

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Get your business listing into Google Search & Google Maps.

Image Source : WarnerBros.com The movie giant is being sued after allegations that it stole DRM intellectual property from another company. In an effort to combat cyberspace piracy, movie companies  have begun aggressively going after both the sites that provide access to illegal downloads and their customers as well.   In their latest efforts, some are incorporating digital rights technology to help restrict the use of their digital content online

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Warner Brothers Accused of Using Pirated Anti-Piracy Technology

Robots and Rockets Maker Faire | Image Source : Makerfaire.com Maker Faire is the stuff of legends: Robots, rocket ships, pyrotechnics, dragons, vehicles for land and sea, and ever so much more. Even if your interests aren’t roughly aligned with those of a four-year-old boy, Maker Faire is still pretty cool

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Robots and Rockets: A Tour of Maker Faire

Health Technology | Image Source : zunia.org NEW DELHI – Use of communication technologies like mobile phone, toll-free helpline numbers and internet portals can help in providing better health care services, recent research on the information needs of health care professionals suggests. The study titled “Understanding health information needs at the state, district, block and village levels” was conducted by Knowledge for Health (K4H) and John Hopkins School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs in Uttar Pradesh, funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It focused on the information needs of “ASHA” nurses who number 130,000 in Uttar Pradesh alone.

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‘Use Communication Technology for Better Health Services’

Technology Cool the Planet | Image Source: www.salon.com Why desperate scientists are considering outlandish ideas, from brightening clouds to dumping iron into the ocean? These days, it’s hard not to feel disillusioned about the fight against global warming

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Technology cool the planet

Five years from now there will be realistic-looking three-dimensional online applications, says Sean Koehl, a technology evangelist with Intel Labs. Sean Koehl, a technology evangelist with Intel Labs, said technology is emerging that will one day change the way we interact with electronic devices and with each other

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3D Internet will come in 5 years says tech guru

Nuclear capability, self-sufficiency in food production, an array of indigenous satellites and missiles, an unmanned Moon mission—India’s achievements in the scientific domain in recent years have been spectacular. But, according to the country’s best-known scientist A.P.J.

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The Scientific Indian: A Twenty-first Century Guide to the World around Us

Image Source : www.pikom.org.my PIKOM , THE NATIONAL ICT ASSOCIATION OF MALAYSIA is the association representing the information and communications technology (ICT) industry in Malaysia. Its membership currently stands at over 1000 comprising companies involved in a whole spectrum of ICT products and services which commands 80 per cent of the total ICT trade in Malaysia.

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PIKOM PC Fair 2010

Azim Premji | Source Image : mapsofindia.com Bill Gates loses top spot, but stock surge lifts fortunes of youngest and once-young technology moguls. Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest man

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Technology’s Richest Billionaires