Professors to get paid like creators, earn royalties from digital twins, AI avatarsMasters' Union has introduced a royalty model for professors, where they can earn per student and receive honoraria for online courses thei...
21 Jul, 2025, 01.29 PM IST
Phone companies may rework royalty pacts to avoid probe, say expertsThey say the Enforcement Directorate's investigation into Xiaomi India's royalty payments has larger implications for overseas companies in...
21 Nov, 2022, 07.51 AM IST
Improving plant productivity, quality: IIT-Madras has an algorithm to fix factory woesThe algorithm was originally fed notions of high-performance, based on which it will scrounge the data sets for parameters that are indispe...
10 Oct, 2017, 11.20 AM IST
IIT-Madras has an algorithm to fix factory woesThe software, built on general-purpose computing languages like Python and Java, has mathematical models as driving fundamentals.
09 Oct, 2017, 10.56 AM IST
Mainak Sarkar did not impress in class, says UCLA professor of Indian-originMal said Sarkar was quiet and reserved and would not even greet when the two passed each other, which the professor found odd as both hail ...
05 Jun, 2016, 02.47 PM IST
CEWiT research may get incorporated into the global standards of 4GA piece of research by the CEWiT is expected to get incorporated into the global standards of the fourth generation (4G) mobile communicati...
22 Nov, 2012, 06.31 AM IST
US patents: Ittiam Systems has more than twice that of InfosysIttiam has been patenting feverishly but uses the patents as a defensive strategy, to avoid being sued when they sell IP.
01 Dec, 2011, 07.31 PM IST
How to help the mining displacedThe tribal people who constitute a substantial majority of the Indian population still spend their time in jungles and other inaccessible a...
03 Jun, 2011, 08.10 AM IST
- Microsoft appeal of 899-million euros fine may limit EU powers
Microsoft challenge to an 899 million-euro ($1.26 billion) EU penalty for failing to comply with an antitrust ruling may lead to a curb on ...
25 May, 2011, 01.26 AM IST
- 'Trojan in govt draft' for adopting open source software
According to people familiar with the draft recommendations, a meeting of the apex body on Standards for e-Governance was held last week, a...
21 Jan, 2010, 05.31 AM IST
- Govt’s e-governance policy biased, say OSS lobbyists
India’s open source software (OSS) lobbyists allege that popular software solutions from large companies, such as Microsoft, are being favo...
20 Jan, 2010, 02.46 AM IST
- Steps to adopt open source standards draw flak
India’s open source software lobbyists allege that the country’s proposed draft recommendations for adopting open technology standards favo...
19 Jan, 2010, 07.15 AM IST
- World Wide Web conference opens, 20 years after its invention
A global conference on the World Wide Web got under way in Spain Monday, 20 years after the invention of the global information medium that...
20 Apr, 2009, 04.32 PM IST
- Obama taps Indian American to head Indian Affairs
An Indian American who served as the attorney general of Idaho was nominated to become the head of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs.
11 Apr, 2009, 08.17 AM IST
- Cabinet nod for Bill giving scientists share in IPRs
Scientists conducting research using public funds may soon get a share in the intellectual property rights for their discoveries and invent...
31 Oct, 2008, 06.18 PM IST
- Legislation on intellectual property to scientists
Indian government plans to introduce a new US-type legislation to promote innovation and flexibility in the country's universities where sc...
10 Sep, 2006, 03.45 PM IST
- Bill to help professors encash IPRs coming
The government is planning to table a bill in the Parliament to give ownership in the form of royalties to individual professors who contri...
17 Jul, 2006, 12.24 AM IST