Moneymakers
FENCING OUT FELINES: Stray cats in Japan are in for a rude shock when they walk into private gardens unsuspectingly. Japanese biochemists have come up with environment friendly chemicals
Search Results
-
-
No penny for the Onges?
The discovery of a generation old plant extract used by Onges in The Andarnans has patent hungry profiteers jostling their way down There The question is, whether the custodians of the secret stand to gain anything at all
-
MONEYMAKER
CLEAN UP TIME: Pollutec Operations, Australia, has come up with a technology to extract litter and other solid debris from urban stormwater drains. The process, known as Continuous Deflective
-
Hanged to life
IN a world primarily by the dynamics of the global Market,where rules are made and broken at the whims of Corporate gaint, a parallel force is slowly but steadily gaining Ground. It is the force
-
Dupont decried
After the Thapar Dupont plant was driven out of Goa, and it found a refuge in Tamil Nadu, a ho,n,t's nest has again been stirred up
-
MONEYMAKERS
GREEN POWER: The greening of the Rs 300 crore Venkatesbwara Hatcheries (VH) has begun. The company's first windfarm with four 225 kw mills started whirring in power from September. This windfarm
-
Zippered bondage
Researchers take apart the mystery behind the ties that bind cells in multicellular organisms
-
MONEYMAKERS
COMPUTERESE IN CHINESE: When in China, turn Chinese. The US- based Microsoft Corp seems to have no qualms about following this strategy. It has just set Chineselanguage standards for its
-
Bitter truth
A neem pesticide patent acquired by a foreign farm has become for some a pill of contention
-
Flight to fame
A joint consortium by 3 Asian nations to build a passenger aircraft may shake the Western stranglehold
-
A quest for the best
A combination of optical microscopes and magnetic drives might be the answer to today's problems of data storage
-
Catching water where it falls
A movement to recharge the depleted groundwater aquifers in a parched district of Madhya Pradesh gathers momentum
-
The Enron short circuit
The Enron case is important as it was the first of the fast track projects and has been responsible for modifications to the government guidelines. Enron, General Electric (GE) and Bechtel jointly
-
MONEYMAKERS
BENIGN REGULATIONS: Go green and mint money: this is the message that Allied Colloids, a Bradford- based chemical company has been conveying to other industrial houses in the UK. In a
-
Light of life
Solar photovoltaic cells can help provide health care facilities in remote villages
-
Patent paradox
Developing countries may get trapped by the brazen and unabashedly faulty bio patenting model that a US firm is flaunting
-
MONEYMAKERS
TELEMARKETING MARVELS: Want to do a market survey before buying a new car? All you have to do is press a few buttons - on the remote control of your television. The UK-based Viewcall electronic
-
Alimentary cases
A battle royal rages in the courts of UK as two nondescript environmentalists take on a giant
-
MONEYMAKERS
COMPU RECORDS: The staff at River Hills West Healthcare Center in Pewaukee, Wis.,in the US are done forever with the tiresome patient logbook, where they maintained the minutest details of the
-
Thin ice
A debate on Earth's last virgin territory heats up as multinationals continue to stampede towards the Antarctic