Glasses free 3-D television is still a long way from the market

Television manufacturers and content producers started out the year pushing 3-D television hard, hoping to ride the wave of success enjoyed by the 3-D movie Avatar. Though glasses-free 3-D is still some ways away, manufacturers hope to entice consumers with a flurry of products that make the best of the difficulties by bringing 3-D content to the small screen.

Apple could jolt the Smart Home Energy Market

Apple unearthed what it says is a patent for a smart home energy management system. According to the patent, Apple’s dashboard product would use powerline networking (using the electrical system itself for the communication portion) and specifically the HomePlug standard to enable users to manage the energy consumption of computing products like laptops, iPods, iPhones and printers. While filing a patent on the topic doesn’t necessarily mean Apple will launch such a dashboard, Apple’s efforts could go far just in showing the computing industry how important energy management will be.

Bringing Colour to E-Readers: Innovation just around the corner

One of the hot topics at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was the colour e-readers, with several companies showcasing new products. While E Ink has been a leader in e-reader display technology, the company has yet to produce a colour display capable of showing video, and the next generation of devices could threaten E Ink's dominance.

Small Companies offer a Big Dose of Iinnovation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro, has announced the launch of two strategic retail solutions, Digital Customer Experience Platform and Loss Prevention Platform. It is an effort to integrate social media, community features and personalisation, to provide an engaging customer experience.

Green uses of cell-phone technology will be unveiled next month at the GSMA Mobile World Congress (Barcelona, Feb.15-18) which kicks off with a keynote from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and winds up with a concert by rock band Duran Duran. In between, hundreds of exhibitors will sport cell-phone innovations, including the FIT, which will be showing its green middleware solution for smarter energy consumption.

Google is thought to be ready to unveil its new mobile phone, the Nexus One. Features on the new Nexus One device include two microphones, a super high-resolution OLED touch screen and a voice-to-text feature designed to allow dictation of notes and emails.

Both LG and Samsung knew that half measures wouldn’t work in India. Thus, LG has invested $300 million and Samsung $200 million in two production facilities each. “It wasn’t a global factory that also supplied to India. We didn’t want to make the customers wait,” says Rajeev Karwal, ...

B2B e-marketplaces like, Tradeindia.com, are the best places for Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) to market their products and services internationally, say experts at the 4th Indian Marketing Summit-2010, jointly organized by Milagrow and Birla Institute of Management and Technology.

The MSME task force, formed to suggest steps to help the sector brave the impact of global crisis, is likely to submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on February 5. "We may submit the report to the Prime Minister on February 5," Minister of MSME (Independent Charge) Shri. Dinsha Patel said at the Indian Marketing Summit jointly organised by Birla Institute of Management and Technology and Milagrow.

While everybody aspires to be tagged with something big, Rajeev Karwal with over 25 years of experience of brand building opted to work for start-ups. Milagrow, acts as a one-stop destination for the MSMEs by providing them knowledge solutions. Rajeev Karwal spoke to Franchise India Media.