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Understanding the working of our mind has been one of the oldest and long running human pursuit. Religions and scriptures although have given paramount prominence to mind and its roles in shaping personal and social life, they do not have any concrete suggestions and steps to understand it, at least from common man's perspectives. For long, most of human experiences and emotional responses were explained by attributing them to external causes or celestial sources. With the advent of Sigmund Freud , a first attempt was made to understand and explain human mind, its functions and some of human behaviour in a scientific manner. With the introduction of notions such as conscious, unconscious mind, ego, id, superego, Sigmund Freud to certain extent succeeded in unravelling the mystery of mind. For instance, dreams are nothing but the release of emotions during sleep suppressed by the conscious mind while we are awake. We get dreams during sleep because unconscious mind takes ove

Aurigo , a Bangalore based software company has become the first IT company in architecture engineering and construction space to secure certificate for Microsoft Dynamics . The certification - also called CFMD has enabled Aurigo and Microsoft to integrate their respective construction/inspection solution and ERP platform to provide a first-of-its kind software package targetted at construction industry. Bricks 2009, Aurigo's web based estimation and management application for construction industry, has now become part of Microsoft's ERP solution- Microsoft Project server and Dynamics AX- to cover both general business and construction specific requirements. The package is set to integrate inspection, financial estimation and project management aspects, which would enable projects to be carried out effectively.

Modern day world offer in numerable disciplines to study and to choose a career. Here is one such exciting line to consider. Financial Engineering is a process that utilizes existing financial instruments to create a new and enhanced product of some type. Just about any combination of financial instruments and products can be used in financial engineering. The process may involve a simple union between two products, or make use of several different products to create a new product that provides benefits that none of the other instruments could manage on their own. One excellent example of financial engineering is financial reinsurance. Companies that offer reinsurance options essentially provide a way for the ceding insurer to minimize a drain on available resources when a major shift in premium growth or reduction is taking place. In this scenario, the process of financial engineering helps to create a stable environment that will allow the insurer to remain solvent and stable even w

Now a days, there is lot of talks, debates and discussions on how "demanding" professions are becoming. We are told unless one balances his or her professional life with personal life in intelligent ways, it may lead to chaotic situations and invite health and associated challenges. One set of opinions says that it is impossible to have best of both worlds at all. This is more so in case of a woman professionals. Well, that view looks shattered by at least one recent example of Kim Clijsters . Kim Clijsters, the winner of 2009 US Open seems to have found right balance to enjoy to the fullest extent the best of both worlds: Professional tennis career and fulfilling family life. After winning 2005 US open, she opted out of professional circuit to devote herself for setting up her family. Two year later, after giving birth to kid, she came out of retirement and went on to win the US 2009 women cup. So the lesson is: The question for a professional is not which of the two worlds

Innovation is a process of connecting new things and trends into business models. Nurturing innovation is an integral part of any forward looking business. Wipro, a leader in the Indian IT sector has announced the launch of its Technology innovation Hub, Sangam. The purpose of Sangam is to create an integrated Centre of Excellence (CoE) that work across various technologies to develop innovative IT solutions. The centre has active participation by IBM, Microsoft, SAS, Sun Microsystem and Teradata. Located in Wipro’s Bangalore campus, the innovation will be involved in • Enabling customers to have compelling view of the solutions • Augmenting the development of strong competencies in technology • Evaluating emerging tools and technologies and incubate customer specific solutions

EMC ’s India Growth Plans Now a day, what is your “India strategy” is a regular question faced by any international company worth the name. Expansion into Indian market and investments in India are now a top priority for many companies. Microsoft TCS Virtualization center is one such example. EMC , a leading provider of information infrastructure solutions will be making an incremental investment to the tune of Rs. 7273 crores in the nextfive years.  The quantum of invest is highest for any of EMC ’s venture outside of US. The investment focuses on the following key areas Expansion of research and development ( R & D) infrastructure Increasing global services capabilities and Adding more technologies for deeper levels of engagements for local customers and partners In a new initiative integrates EMC ’s four global centers from four separate locations across two cities into one campus to be housed in its newly built employee facility with a capacity to accommodate 3500 emp

Virtualization is a process of abstraction of underlying computing resources from the user. Virtualization helps end user to focus on his task while system takes care of providing required resources. Virtualization can be used across all IT architectural layers such as server, machine, application and desktop. It is a value-addition provided by the service providers. Microsoft and TCS have formed a strategic alliance in the form of a Virtualization Centre of excellence ( CoE ) to be based in Chennai.  The aim of CoE is to help customers experience the right approach to applying and managing virtualization process in their business environment. The idea is to leverage best of breed Microsoft technologies: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System centre Virtual Machine manager 2008.

In smart phone market, features such as camera, email access and games are becoming common and commodity. Software is a new “ differentiator ” in smart phone domains. Developing their own platform allows a smart phone company to offer applications such as social networking sites and software unique to the phone. This help them attracting and retaining customers. Android entry into Indian mobile segment was mentioned in an earlier post: Android makes Indian Debut . One of the software platforms for which smart phone companies are converging is Android by Google. Android operating system specially designed for mobile devices allows smart phone companies to benefit from the brand name and harness the myriad of applications already available. Android’s open-source nature, meaning developers can customize the software to meet their own needs. Currently about 50% of smart phone run on Nokia ’s Symbian operating system and research in motion and windows mobile are next two leading choices.

Intellectual property rights ( IPR ) are in vogue. Every knowledge worker, enterprise, economy is realising its importance and role in global environment. Patent, one of the most famous form of IPR is proving to be very powerful means in safeguarding one's creative ideas and expressions. Here is an illustration. The software giant Microsoft has been ordered to pay penalty and stop selling its popular word processing product MS Word for its patent infringement. According to US courts, the Microsoft has been asked to do so because it has violated a patent owned by a another company i4i . The patent is related to XML . Microsoft has used the patented technology without paying license fee to i4i

Ever since IT industry came into lime light in 1990’s and become a desired career destination for technical graduates, they followed a very simple and straight forward career plan: complete degree, get campus recruited, join company and have a “settled” career path with occasional vertical and horizontal moves (promotions, marriages, specialization etc). Fortunately for over a decade or so it has worked very well. Many of my own students have been still serving the company they joined after graduation for nearly twenty years. Life is a basket of surprises and it pops them very unexpectedly. Like the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that forced European traders to discover alternatives to land routes which they have been used for centuries , the current recession or economic slowdown (circa 2008) has derailed many a career and forcing people to find new career paths. One of the paths that seems to be catching attention is that of pursuing higher education. For instance, the Internati

MindTree , a ten year young Indian IT company aspiring to be a billion dollar company in next 5 years (2014) .Given its feat of becoming a 100 million dollar company was achieved in six years, this target seems to be well within its reach. Although global down turn has come out as an unexpected obstacle, it has drawn out the following approach to realize its dream figure. MindTree started with two engines of growth – IT services and R & services contributing 75% and 25% revenues respectively. MindTree is well aware that it can not reach its dream number unless it expands scope of its business. Hence it has identified six growth engines to develop. It has acquired Aztec Soft from which they have got two more growth engines namely testing and R & D services (Although MindTree already had R & D, Aztec has made it a bigger pie. Now it has created six profit centre namely IT services, Testing, Infrastructure management and technical support ( IMTS ), Knowledge services and P

Wikipedia is a well known destination for information seekers on the web. In fact it is one of the 10 top most popular web sites on the web. Founded about 8 years ago , it is built using a simple concept of crowd sourcing where in anyone connected to the net and has something to say can contribute to wikipedia's growing repository. No wonder as online population grew, contributuions grew in number and now wikipedia has more content than traditionally popular encyclopedia such as Britanica and has fast replacing it as a first choice destination for information seekers. However, allowing anyone or everyone to contribute had led sometimes to situations where in quality of content contributed was shrouded in clouds. As wikipedia is gaining respect as a reliable resource, there is a need to transform its approach of content collection from embrace-the-chaos culture into something more mature and dependable. In other words, wikipedia needs to become a judiciously edited content from

India's first Android- powered mobile phone comes in partnership with Airtel . A tablet-style device, compact and sleek is called HTC Magic . It provides good mobile Internet and multimedia experience. Customers enjoy free data download of 100MB per month for six months. The device feature include a 3.2 inch HVGA touch-screen display,a trackball for easy access and a 3.2 mega-pixel camera. The Andorid OS offers a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middle ware and key mobile applications. It also has features of : Outlook synchronization, smart dialer and an onscreen keyboard with predictive text. Earlier Linux OS was integrated into Nokia mobiles .

New ages bring about new realities. The knowledge era has brought out a new reality called "Intellectual property". The reason for this and rationale for its prominence is that today much of economic and social value creation is through "idea-based" products and services. We are experiencing a " Commoditization " of manufactured products. Making these commodities more attractive to markets is possible only through adding "intelligent" features. The creation and realization of such intelligent features demands new approaches and new ideas. To encourage people to generate new ideas demands motivation. The generators of ideas when convert their ideas into practical application create "intellectual property". Unless community rewards these creative people for their "Intellectual property" one can not expect a sustained flow of new ideas and applications. "Intellectual property rights" is the means that assures the inve