Google Threatens To Sue Huge YouTube MP3 Conversion Site

According to a letter seen by TorrentFreak, Google are threatening action against one of the web’s largest YouTube conversion sites. The site, which according to Google’s own stats is pulling in 1.3 million visitors every day, extracts MP3 audio from YouTube videos and makes it available for users to download. Google’s lawyers say this must stop, and have given the site seven days to comply.

YouTube is without doubt the biggest free resource of videos and music available online today. It can be enjoyed on the site itself, embedded in any webpage, or accessed via YouTube’s Application Programming Interface.

This API, as it’s better known, provides web developers with access to certain YouTube features, but like many free gifts it comes with certain strings attached, aka the YouTube Terms of Service (ToS).

One of the countless resources to use the

Samsung probes 'exploding' Galaxy phone

The Samsung Galaxy S III flagship smartphone. Photo: AFP

Samsung Electronics Co said it was investigating reports that one of its flagship Galaxy S III smartphones exploded in a user's car in Ireland.


Samsung launched the phone, the strongest rival for Apple's iPhone, in Europe on May 29 and in the United States on Thursday. It plans to roll out the device in Samsung's lucrative home market in South Korea on Monday.

A Dublin-based consumer posted comments and photos on a web site on Wednesday saying his Galaxy phone exploded while mounted on his car dashboard.

"There's no confirmation it was a fault with the phone. It may actually have been caused by a combination of my car mount and my car's heating system," the consumer wrote.

Ultrabooks to contribute 50 percent of revenue by 2014: HP India

Bullish about its business prospects, technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) India said the sale of Ultrabooks would contribute 50 percent of its revenue by 2014."We expect by end of 2013, 15 per cent of our shipment will be Ultrabook and by 2014 end it should be around 35-40 percent. And, if it touches 40 per cent, it will contribute 50 percent to our revenue," HP India (Consumer Laptops) category head Ashish Gupta said here today.
Currently, laptops comprise about 70 percent of the company's total sales. The key differences between a notebook and an ultrabook are that the latter is much lighter and slicker, with double the battery life and shorter booting up time.
"Obviously, we would like to consolidate our market share. Ultrabooks will comprise 10 percent of our total volumes in the notebook segment in 2012," Gupta said.
Buoyed by new Ultrabook models, HP India is eyeing 21 percent market share in the consumer notebook segment in India by the year-end.
HP, which currently has over 50 models in its notebook portfolio, recently hiked prices by two per cent to three percent due to sharp rupee depreciation against the US dollar.

Samsung to battle Intel for top slot in semiconductors

 Samsung Electronics, already a world leader in TVs and smartphones, is taking the fight to IntelCorp for the No.1 slot in semiconductors, betting on strong growth in so-called logic chips that are the brains inside today's fast-selling smart mobile devices. 


Intel dominates the market for computer processors (CPUs) - its Intel Inside sticker is on around 80 per cent of the world's PCs - but future growth is in mobile application processors. 


Demand for these is seen rising around 40 per cent annually through 2014, according to Nomura research, while growth in PC processors will be in single digits. By 2015, the global market for application processors (AP) will have jumped fourfold to $33 billion, while the CPU market will shrink by

HP launches new range of Ultrabooks, Sleekbooks in India

HP ENVY Ultrabook range is available at a starting price of Rs 57,990. ENVY Sleekbook range starts at Rs 41990.

NEW DELHI: Expanding its notebook portfolio,HP on Thursday launched a new range of Ultrabooks and Sleekbooks in India.


The new HP ENVY Ultrabook range is available in two colour options of red and black. As thin as 19.8 mm (0.78 inches) and starting from 1.75-kg, the new HP ENVY notebooks feature a soft-touch and slip-resistant base which make them easy to handle.


HP ENVY Ultrabook Envy 4 is available in 14-inch and Envy 6 is available in 15.6-inch diagonal display sizes. HP's latest offerings are powered by third-generation Intel Core processors and offer up to eight to nine hours of battery life respectively.


HP ENVY Sleekbook also comes in two variants — Envy 4 and Envy 6. Envy 4 Sleekbook sportsa 14-inch (35.56 cm) display, while Envy 6 is available in 15.6-inch (39.62 cms) diagonal display and powered by the latest Intel Core processors. It also boasts up to eight to nine hours of battery life respectively.


HP has equipped its latest products with ImagePad. ImagePad is an advanced image sensor that replaces the traditional touchpad to provide better precision and improve gesture responsiveness.


HP ENVY Ultrabook range is available at a starting price of Rs 57,990. ENVY Sleekbook range starts at Rs 41990. 

RIM launches BlackBerry Porsche worth Rs1.39 lakh

BlackBerry Porsche P’9981

In spite of the troubles its parent company is facing in the global markets, Research In Motion, the makers of the popular BlackBerry smartphones, on Wednesday said it will top industry growth this year in India.

The parent Canadian company RIM, which has been fast losing its grip on the market of late to more agile players like Samsung and Apple, launched the BlackBerry Porsche, developed in association with Porsche Design, early this year globally. The phone is set to be launched here this evening.

The ultra-premium BlackBerry Porsche P-9981 is priced at a cool Rs1.39lakh. On this highly aspirational phone, RIM India managing director SunilDutt said that the phone is about power, style and aspiration.

"We will not be selling this through the traditional channels. The discerning customers can order their phones to begin with and later on, we will have select outlets like luxe watch and accessories showroom located on the high streets," Dutt said, hours

Mithril Capital Management Launches Growth-Stage Technology Investment Firm

SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Peter Thiel today announced that Mithril Capital Management (Mithril), a new global tech venture firm based in San Francisco, will begin seeking bold technology entrepreneurs and sponsor the growth of their businesses.

Mithril focuses primarily on growth equity opportunities across the global technology sector, investing in companies that have moved beyond the traditional venture-backed stage and prefer to remain private as

DynamicOps Unveils New Cloud Management Extensibility Capabilities

DynamicOps, pioneer of the Operations Virtualization™ platform that enables unified cloud automation and management, today announced new capabilities that make it easy for enterprises to evolve existing infrastructure into a business-relevant cloud. The company is extending its award-winning DynamicOps Cloud Suite and Cloud Development Kit with a highly customizable self-service portal, enhanced workflow editing tools, new developer productivity tools and an expanded activity library.

"Private/hybrid cloud systems don't operate in isolation. To be

No management rejig on cards, says HCL Tech

HCL Tech BSE | NSE 20/06/12

HCL Technologies on Tuesday denied reports that there was any management rejig on the cards and said Vineet Nayar would remain the vice chairman and chief executive of the company.

A report in Times of India newspaper had claimed on Monday that the Shiv Nadar promoted software services provider was heading for a management reshuffle. Nayar is on his way out and Anant Gupta, currently president of infrastructure services will replace, the report had said citing an unnamed company official. Apart from Nayar the report had also claimed that several other senior officials close to Nayar were also quitting.

However, HCL Tech says

Quick learn about Technology Forecasting

Technology forecasting attempts to predict the future characteristics of useful technological machines, procedures or techniques.

Important aspects

Primarily, a technological forecast deals with the characteristics of technology, such as levels of technical performance, like speed of a military aircraft, the power in watts of a particular future engine, the accuracy or precision of a measuring instrument, the number of transistors in a chip in the year 2015, etc. The forecast does not have to state how these characteristics will be achieved.

Secondly, technological forecasting usually

Managing Innovations

Innovation management is the discipline of managing processes in innovation. It can be used to develop both product and organizational innovation. Without proper processes, it is not possible for R&D to be efficient; innovation management includes a set of tools that allow managers and engineers to cooperate with a common understanding of goals and processes. The focus of innovation management is to allow the organization to respond to an external or internal opportunity, and use its creative efforts to introduce new ideas, processes or products. Importantly, innovation management is not relegated to R&D; it involves workers at every level in contributing creatively to a company's development, manufacturing, and marketing. By utilizing appropriate innovation management tools, management can trigger and deploy the creative juices of the whole work force towards the continuous development of a company. The process can be viewed as an evolutionary integration of organization, technology and market by iterating series of activities: search, select, implement and capture.

Innovation processes can either be pushed or pulled through development. A pushed process is

Learn about Technology and Technology Management

Technology Management is set of management disciplines that allows organizations to manage their technological fundamentals to create competitive advantage. Typical concepts used in technology management are technology strategy (a logic or role of technology in organization), technology forecasting (identification of possible relevant technologies for the organization, possibly through technology scouting), technology roadmapping (mapping technologies to business and market needs), technology project portfolio ( a set of projects under development) and technology portfolio (a set of technologies in use).

The role of the technology management function in

an organization is understand the value of certain technology for the organization. Continuous development of technology is valuable as long as there is a value for the customer and therefore the technology management function in an organization should be able to argue when to invest on technology development and when to withdraw.

Technology Management can also be defined as

New Technology Allows Emergency Alerts to be Sent Via Text

  

Minnesotans will now be able to receive time-sensitive, critical information about severe weather, emergencies, and disasters with the next generation of emergency alerts on their smart phones and cell phones, according to a release from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (MnDPS).

Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) are location-specific so recipients will receive an alert based on their current geographical location, not where they live.

According to the statement, MnDPS will be ready to

Opera 12 launched with new features, Themes and Do Not Track

Opera has come up with some amazing features and Addons in Opera 12 that can make spending time on web browser more fun. Opera 12 is lunched and can be downloaded for free from it's official website. It has gone through a lots of performance enhancements to compete with Mozzila Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome

Following are the features of new Opera 12:

Opera 12 has added hundreds of appealing Themes to dress up your browser just the way you like. Themes are simply attractive background images and window border colors

DO not Track is the new privacy support. Which is similar to Do Not Call lists. This feature can tell sites that you don't want browsing information collected about you.

Opera 12 also involves

Bond yeilds, swaps rise; Duvvuri Subbarao adds to caution

MUMBAI: The bond yields and swap rates rose on Friday after the central bank governor said inflation cannot be controlled without sacrificing growth in the near-term, raising some caution ahead of the RBIpolicy decision next week.

Still, the comments were not enough to derail expectations the Reserve Bank of India would deliver a 25 basis points cut in the repo rate after economic growth in the January-March quarter fell to a near nine-year low.

However, the

USD INR exchange rate: Major trends in past few years and where is it heading ?

The USD-INR exchange rate is an important indicator of investor sentiment and can significantly impact not only the fortunes of individual firms and sectors, but also the government. The exchange rate of the Indian rupee (or INR) is determined by market conditions. However, in order to maintain effective exchange rates, the RBI actively trades in the USD/INR currency market. The rupee currency is not pegged to any particular foreign currency at a specific exchange rate. The RBI intervenes in the currency markets to maintain low volatility in exchange rates and remove excess liquidity from the economy.

It is believed that there is significant downside risk to USD-INR exchange rate  and here are some risk factors behind this.

Full Time MBA in Technology Management (Admission open for July 2012 Batch)

Selection to MBA in Technology Management 2012-13 to be based on CAT/CnMAT/CEPT entrance exam Faculty of Technology Management(FTM) was instituted in April 2008 to offer interdisciplinary programmes in emerging technological areas, such as Energy and Environment Management, Urban Management, Infrastructure Management, Real Estate Management,Telecommunications Management, Intellectual Property Management, Technology Entrepreneurship, etc, and to specialize in developing management pedagogy for these disciplines. FTM offers a two years full time program of M.B.A in Technology Management and a three Years Part time program of M.B.A. in

Faculty of Technology Management

  In today's globally competitive business world, technology is essential to run nearly every business and every facet of business. For companies to succeed in this environment, people who posses both business savvy and technology expertise are required. In emerging economies like India,  technology transfer and development have assumed a lot of significance. Influx of investment by global giants in technology development, setting up of research centers by global companies, government policies facilitating Industry-Institute technology transfers are some of the factors that have compelled Indian companies to understand and manage

Welcome to MTM

Warm Welcome to MTM (Masters in Technology Management), CEPT University.

This course gives you exposure to MBA in Specialised field

Operations Management,
Technology Management,
Information Technology Management,
Energy Management,
Infrastructure Management,