By GURBIR SINGH, TIMES NEWS NETWORK
MUMBAI: If you’re rich and in Jakarta, you want that hot new tech gadget. In India, 44% of the rich and influential want designer labels and brands. A new survey tracking media, prosperity and influence across Asia Pacific shows that the ‘haves’ of Asia have shrugged off last year’s economic recession, and are splurging again on that new car, caviar, and five-star daydream.
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By: Ramon Ray, smallbiztechnology.com
Weblogs are all the rage around the Internet. Can they help your business? Sure, with the right approach. By now I’m sure most of you have heard about blogging, an easy way to publish content to a website. You type what content you want (this is called a post), press one button and your content is now online for all the world to see. Blogging had been more affiliated with the personal musings of a teenager or some guy at the fringe of societal norms, but now blogging is getting more popular. At the last two major political conventions this summer, for example, bloggers (as those who blog are called) took a prominent role for the first time, reporting on the happenings of the convention.
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NEW ORLEANS — Don’t be fooled by the long-winded title, the Technologies for Public Safety in Critical Incident Response convention taking place downtown this week is nothing short of a gadget convention for crime fighters. The three-day conference, which is being held at the Hyatt Regency, intends to show off all the latest technology for first responders in government public safety agencies. Roughly 80 exhibitors are showcasing a variety of solutions designed to help law enforcement officials better respond to emergencies ranging from terrorist attacks to natural disasters. Exhibitors are touting high-tech body armor, mapping devices, portable bullet-proof barriers, chemical sensors and more.
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You can be fashion-conscious and still carry around lots of geek data with this stylish black strapped watch with white face and glow-in-the-dark hands.
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Vinod Moorjani has been a gizmo freak for as long as he can remember. As a youngster, he would eagerly scan various science and technology magazines sent to him by his US-based cousin. When he visited Hong Kong and Singapore and saw the varieties of laptops and notebooks available there, he realised a business opportunity was knocking. In partnership with a friend, Moorjani established V N Techno Structure to import gizmos and retail them in the Indian market at competitive prices. The company has now opened a fancy showroom in Delhi, Gizmo World, to stock its products, and plans more in the next couple of years. With a turnover of Rs 3 crore (Rs 30 million), Moorjani has discovered that it does pay to tinker around with gadgets.
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By David Greenfield, Network Magazine
When Joan Gargano, CIO at International Catastrophe Insurance Managers (ICAT), needed a Web conferencing solution to train the company’s sales force, she didn’t select WebEx or any of the other leading Web conferencing services. She did what many network architects and CIOs are increasingly starting to do, and that’s opt for a Web conferencing server — and she hasn’t looked back since. As more IT managers turn to Web conferencing to reduce travel expenditures, they’re eschewing the ongoing costs of Web conferencing services in favor of servers that sit on the corporate network.
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By KEVIN COURTNEY, Register Staff Writer
If a new piece of high tech equipment does the job, the days of meter maids marking the tires of parked vehicles in downtown with chalk may soon be over. Instead of using chalk in timed parking areas, the city will employ AutoFind, a $75,000 gizmo that photographs license plates from a moving vehicle and records their location using a satellite positioning system.
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By Jerri Stroud, the Post-Dispatch
Ken Devine used to carry a laptop, cell phone, personal digital assistant and a camera when he visited franchisees for his employer, Panera Bread Co. of Richmond Heights. He’s ditched all but the cell phone – a PalmOne Treo 600 SmartPhone from Verizon Wireless. The phone has a built-in camera, organizer, a full keyboard and messaging capabilities, including e-mail and mobile Internet access.
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By SARA CLEMENCE
NORTH GREENBUSH — Something’s cooking at Ceralink Inc. At least, it appears to be. A turntable rotates inside a humming microwave, a brushed-metal model found in many American homes. But what’s inside the appliance is not for eating, and the person watching it is no chef. Ceralink is working with advanced materials, figuring out ways to process them faster and more efficiently using a technology that, until now, has been mostly confined to the kitchen.
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By Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sales of portable digital audio players like Apple Computer Inc.’s trendy iPod are booming and are expected to generate $58 billion in revenue worldwide by 2008, according to a research report released Tuesday.
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