City smart. Village smarter.

Every time the adjective smart is added to a person, concept, idea, or a device, it has elicited general interest. However, more often than not, smart turned out to be rather dumb.  Take the “smart” phone for instance, I have given up trying to tell it that “I really am wanting to type “of” and would you please let me do it? “ It has a mind of its own and will always try and change the “of” to an “if”! Smart Cities are likely to face the same predicament. To begin with, what makes a city smart? The ...

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5 Technologies that will matter to India

How big is the Indian market? Is it big enough to spur growth for my product? Do I need to explore it? Should it be a part of my international expansion plan? Numbers are big, but are they really big for us? That's the uncertainty global technology firms experience when they think about India. But this was something new for me. Being a witness to the growth here, I never doubted the potential of the market. However, when I came on board at TaraSpan, I realized this is a story worth telling, a story which has a big audience. I ...

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