8 Ways to Be Innovative

Can't be creative on demand? Not many people can. Fortunately, it's a skill you can improve. Trying to be innovative is, at least for most people, nearly impossible. Don't believe me? Try it. Right now. Think of something innovative. Come up with something new and different. I'll try it too. Back so soon? Don't feel bad; I was back long before you. Creativity isn't a switch most of us can turn on at will, so the key to being innovative is to view...

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5 Things That Really Smart People Do

Don't get in the way of your own learning. Here are five ways to step aside and continue to increase your smarts. Most people don't really think much about how they learn. Generally you assume learning comes naturally. You listen to someone speak either in conversation or in a lecture and you simply absorb what they are saying, right? Not really. In fact, I find as I get older that real learning takes more work. The more I fill my brain with facts,...

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Top 8 Indians among World's Best Performing CEOs

Washington: Eight Indian CEOs have made it to Harvard Business Review's (HBR) list of 100 best performing global chief executives headed for the last 17 years by the late Steve Jobs of Apple. ITC chairman Y C Deveshwar, ranked seventh overall (Rank 7), was first among the Indian CEOs. Under his leadership, ITC saw its value increase by $45 billion. He was followed by former ONGC's late chairman and managing director Subir Raha (Rank 13). During...

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'Swamy ye Saranam Ayyappa !'

The life of the man can be improved and re-energized by performing Tapas or austerity. Tapas may be performed in body, speech and mind as per 'Gita'. When man applies himself to these three components, he changes for the better. Given below are the austerities and regulations that has to be strictly followed for taking pilgrimage to Shri Sabarimala Deeksha has to be undertaken after getting permission from parents. Then one has to get the permission...

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Vaikunta Ekadashi

Vaikuntha Ekadashi (Kannada: ವೈಕುಂಠ ಏಕಾದಶಿ)(Tamil: வைகுண்ட ஏகாதசி) (Telugu: వైకుంఠ ఏకాదశి)or Mukkoti Ekadashi is the Shukla paksha Ekadashi that occurs during the Dhanurmasa period in the Hindu calendar (corresponding to late December - January in English calendar). Vaishnavism (Worship of Lord Vishnu) culture believes that ‘Vaikuntha Dwaram’ or ‘the gate to Lord's Inner Sanctum’ is opened on this day. The Margashirsha shukla paksha ekadashi in...

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Flash Flash.. Robots to do your household chores

Since the 1960's, robots have assumed major roles in industrial manufacturing and assembly, the remote detonation of explosives, search and rescue, and academic research. But theY have remained out of reach, in affordability and practicality, to most consumers. That, according to Andrew Ng, director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab, Stanford University, California, is about to change. One big reason is the mass production of smartphones and...

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“Airbag” to protect your Smartphone from cracking

US technology giant Amazon has devised a new motion-sensor technology for an airbag that can protect your gadgets including Smartphone’s, cameras and tablets from cracking when dropped. The system uses motion sensors, already built into most Smartphone’s, to detect when a phone has been dropped and the mini airbag is then deployed before it hits the floor. A traditional airbag in cars is deployed upon impact, cushioning the passengers' heads...

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Five “Ds” to keep your inbox clutter-free

A new workshop had revealed the six easy ways to keep our inbox clutter-free as we struggle to handle high volumes of emails every day. Productivity coach Wendy Cole, in her workshop "The Secret to Getting Things Done, and Managing 100+ Emails a Day", says majority of employees aren't trained to tackle vast volumes of emails and didn't know how to use email programs like Microsoft Outlook, News.com.au reports. According to Cole, here are...

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Internet availability and restrictions at some countries across the world

United Arab Emirates: Envoys in Dubai signed a new UN telecommunications treaty Friday that a US-led delegation says endorses greater government control of the Internet. The US and more than 20 other countries refused to ratify the accord by the 193-nation International Telecommunications Union.  Here is a look at Internet restrictions and availability at selected countries and regions around the world: NORTH KOREA: Internet use is extremely...

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IBM is working on chips which delivers data via light

Tech giant IBM recently announced that it has developed a chip that makes it easier to shuttle data about via pulses of light instead of using electrical signals. IBM said it should offer a way to move large amounts of information between processors in computer servers at higher speeds than at present. These provide computing power and data used by apps and other net services. The team behind the development said that using light, rather...

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Google+ adds members, photo-sharing app

Google recently said its online social network had grown to 135 million active users, as it added a photo-sharing app to compete against services like Facebook's Instagram. "Today Google+ is the fastest-growing network thingy ever," said Google senior vice president Vic Gundotra in a blog post. He added that "135 million (users) are active in just the stream," and that more than 500 million have upgraded their Google accounts to potentially...

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Adobe going to release game developer kit for mobiles, browsers

Adobe recently released a free tool kit to make it easier for developers to create Flash-based games to ride the growing wave of playing on smartphones and tablets as well as in internet browsers. Game Developers Tools made available were the first tied to the Adobe's "Creative Cloud," providing computing muscle from Adobe's online datacenters. "For anybody who wants to develop a game that targets the Flash player it will be a lot easier,"...

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Dark warnings about future of Internet access

Every time an Internet user watches "Gangnam Style" on YouTube, packets of digital data course through the global telecommunications system, converging on an iPhone, a tablet or a laptop. Having missed out on most of the lucrative revenue that the explosion of digital content has generated for internet companies, telecommunications providers in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere now want to charge them for carrying this traffic. No...

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