In India, poor and illiterate patients are being used to test new drugs for the West and some are unaware they are even taking part in clinical trials.
I was casually munching away on my food, when a BBC news report shook my nerves ! We have all known India as an Outsourcing heaven, but how many of us have seen the dark side of outsourced patients?
Normally, an event like ‘The Queen’s Birthday’ would not make news for an Indian like me, but having moved to London you cannot help but stand up and take notice as the whole of England gathers up to celebrate the Queen’s birthday.
Well, yes on 21st April, 2006 and the Queen of England turned 80 !
(Trivia - Did you know the Queen has two birthdays? The Queen turned 80 on 21 April 2006, but will celebrate her official birthday on 17 June 2006. Read more : One Queen, Two Birthdays)
Twenty young people with a business idea in the creative sector will be selected to take part in the Creative Future School at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore in August. There they’ll learn how to structure their business proposition, develop their networking skills, understand what an investor is looking for and hear from successful creative entrepreneurs about how they have built their businesses. The faculty will include senior academics from IIMB, leading figures from creative businesses in India and the UK and other experts.
I recieved an interesting (rather suspicious) article yesterday from my friend Anuj Kacker. The article speaks about ‘In Sleep Advertising’ !! I gave it a brief read because it was supported with research figures from eMarketer.com and testimonials from (made up) VP’s of ad agencies.
My friend Kedar has done a decent evaluation of the whole thing. Sure makes for a fun read. Make sure you check it out on his blog post - In Sleep Advertising !
Yet, another example of — Why you should ‘not’ always trust the written word !
A little-known Taiwanese company has become a secret weapon in Microsoft’s arsenal. The outfit in question is High Tech Computer Corp., and it has helped Bill Gates & Co. extend Windows territory to smartphones, those souped-up handsets that can duplicate many of a desktop’s functions. HTC manufactures the phones for cellular operators who in turn slap their own brands on the devices. How important is HTC? A Microsoft exec says the two companies have “shared DNA.”
Read on to know more about it …
Aah those words … made Chaka Demus & Pliers famous ! And those were the exact words that came to my mind, just when I decided on write a post on ‘The Axe Effect’ !
I was intrigued by Nirali’s comment on Interactive Art … and was wondering myself how much the use of technology is prevalent in almost everything ! With technologies like Flash and active scripts its now possible to create brilliantly interactive adverts …. and what could help build a brand better than to engage its target audience in a way that actually allows them to ‘play around or fiddle’ with it !
Excerpt from a speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times….
When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, ‘think of the starving children in India and finish the dinner.’ And now I tell my children: ‘Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India who would make you starve, if you don’t.’
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University of New South Wales PhD student, Ori Allon, has invented a method of exploring the web, which is claimed could revolutionize existing search results.
The search engine, called Orion, finds pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the keyword.
Instead of just returning just a snippet (the brief info/description that is displayed for a webpage in normal SE’s), Orion returns a section of the relevant page and also lists other topics related to that particular keyword. The user can now select the most relevant results in context of what they are searching for.
It is such a shame that ministers like Arjun Singh and others who side with him (read wierdos) will do anything to woo the backward classes of India. Just becuase the OBC’s form a sizeable chunk of the voting population, these losers will put the entire nation at stake to make sure they have their ‘khursis’ under their shitty ass !
In one of the most recent propositions, they plan to increase the already high (27%) OBC quota in premiere educational istitutes to a whopping 50% !
I decided to write on this topic after it became a huge debate in the yahoo grp. I belong to.
I never knew Contemporary art would pique such curiosity and interest in me !
It all started with my visit to the National Portrait Gallery at Trafalgar Square today. Luckily for me, one of our prospective clients’ called for a meeting at the basement cafe in NPG. While waiting for our guest, my colleague asked me whether I would be interested in having a look at the Art display once the meeting was done … to which I replied, “I aint too sure”, took a moment and said again, “Art has never been a priority”. (If only I knew, how drastically this was to change)
