Tailor-made technology helps physically challenged to reconnect with the digital world.

Assistive technology comes to aid the specially-abled

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E-waste, or electronic waste, implies discarded computers, mobiles, refrigerators or any other electronic appliance at the end of its life. With growing consumerism, discarding e-waste has become a big challenge in the country.

Time for mobile users to ring in recycling

Gaming is going to get a makeover this November. And yes, that means you had better start saving some extra bucks to buy Microsoft&rsquo;s Kinect &mdash; a controller-free, gesture-based gaming device that allows one or more people to play.

A Kinect with energy

How Lifestyle International Managing Director Kabir Lumba is putting the retail chain back on track Some time towards the end of February last year, credit rating agency Crisil had downgraded Lifestyle International, a part of the $3.2-billion Dubai-based Landmark group, a notch.

A thrifty lifestyle

Most termed it Ratan Tata&rsquo;s vanity play when he acquired the marquee brand in the UK.

Jaguar goes for the kill

Research In Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry phones, may be facing one of its worst crisis the world over, but Indian consumers don&rsquo;t seem to be too bothered about the security concerns being voiced by the government.

Pricing, retail push save BlackBerry the blushes

Never mind the globe-trotting rou&eacute; whom Dos Equis beer describes as &ldquo;the most interesting man in the world.&rdquo; On Madison Avenue, at least, that sobriquet belongs these days to Joel Ewanick.

A whirlwind moves into GM's marketing office

Harmindar Chawla (name changed on request) was just coming to terms with his father&rsquo;s untimely death when he received an email from his father&rsquo;s lawyer. It contained passwords to electronic records that belonged to his father. It also had details of data locked in CDs, DVDs, and cloud- or internet-based services like Facebook, Flickr and Gmail.

Digital afterlife: Leaving your legacy online

Imagine an internet where consumers paid a low price for basic services and more for add-ons such as 3-D video.

Net neutrality may end soon

We need to liberate khadi from the Bhandars.

Brand Khadi

Danseuse, activist, teacher and politician Mallika Sarabhai plays Ramkali in an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht&rsquo;s The Good Person of Szechwan.

Acts of fate

On the eve of Independence Day, two of India&rsquo;s leading designers pay tribute to cool khadi.

Freedom fibre

Omkar Das Manikpuri is the man of the moment with his debut movie Peepli [Live]. Tanushree Ghosh traces his journey from a small village in Chhattisgarh to Bollywood.

The making of an actor

Few know Vijay Singh in India, but over two decades now the Paris-based historian, journalist, writer and director has been making films with Indian themes. His last, the Indo-French-British production One Dollar Curry, did the rounds internationally, albeit with not much commercial success. But Singh is back now with a documentary, India By Song. He talks to Tanushree Ghosh about his journey as a writer and director, and how Bollywood is a great chronicler of modern India.

The French connection

One Formula to win

This coffee-table offering is a well-timed reminder of the country&rsquo;s diversity.

India, cinerama

Is the Skoda Laura petrol any good? Or is the Laura diesel a better bet? I understand that it also depends on how much a car is run, but overall which one is better? I plan to buy in a couple of days&rsquo; time, so kindly suggest.

Fuel for thought

Jawaharlal Nehru didn&rsquo;t have a very high opinion of businessmen. He disliked wealthy men in general and intrusive businessmen in particular. Under Nehru&rsquo;s influence, the All India Congress Committee resolved in May 1929 that &ldquo;in order to remove the poverty and misery of the Indian people and to ameliorate the condition of the masses, it is essential to make revolutionary changes in the present economic and social structure of society and to remove gross inequalities&rdquo;. And when Nehru became president at the Lahore session of the Congress later in the year, he left nobody in doubt where his heart was: &ldquo;I must frankly confess that I am a socialist and a republican and am no believer in kings or princes, or in the order which produces the modern kings of industry, who have greater power over the lives and fortunes of men than even the kings of old, and whose methods are as predatory as those of the old feudal aristocracy.

'Profit' is a dirty word

It could be a wonderful location, an unmatched view, the pleasures of solitude or the buzz of a great city. An unforgettable holiday could mean one or all these experiences. Geetika Jain &gt;shares some of her personal favourites.

7 luxe holidays

It is a universal Indian dish, yet rarely found in restaurants.

The khichdi conundrum

Bulls eye!

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