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Science & Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
PHYSICS
For faster computers
The madness of software patents
@ljishnu Issue Date: Sep 15, 2010
Per se is a straightforward term meaning by or in itself. Those who use it are pretty clear what the Latin-origin term signifies.And that’s what our lawmakers must have also believed when they used it in the 2005 amendment to India’s Patent Act.
Science & Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2010
HEALTH SCIENCES
What makes a robust egg?
Letters
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2010
Rohtang ecology under threat
Webcams rein in footloose doctors
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2010
Government doctors serving in rural areas of Orissa are often found missing from workplace. So, the chief district medical officer of the tribal dominated Sonepur district decided to use technology to watch over the doctors.
The standard is open, almost
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2010
INDIA’s draft policy on the software platform for e-governance has made a concession for proprietary software businesses like Microsoft. Proponents of open-source software called it a major departure from the Union government’s earlier stand, saying allowing proprietary software in the standards will limit people who can e-access the government.
Pakistan mulls ban on e-waste import
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2010
The Pakistan government is mulling a ban on import of used electronic goods, especially computers and its accessories. Electronic goods’ dealers and importers are against such a ban saying most Pakistanis can afford only used computers.
Tricks of the e-waste trade
Issue Date: May 31, 2010
Illegally imported e-waste reaches the Seelampur market every second day, said a 35-year-old trader in Delhi’s Nehru Place market. He runs a showroom of laptops and stores secondhand computers in the basement. “I know importing waste is illegal. But as long as ships come in, so do profits. My business of about 40,000 tonnes per annum of old computers is a trickle in the import of secondhand electronics market,” he said, requesting his identity be protected.
Informal v formal operators
Dismantling a computer into its basic parts is not hazardous. Then begins the dirty work INFORMALDoped and deadly
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2009
BY ITSELF, silicon is not an effective conductor.
It does not leave its electrons
free for smooth flow of information. To
make it less rigid, impurities are introduced
into a pure silicon chip. The
impurities free an electron or two and
make the element a better conductor.
This is called doping--a process essential
to creating the heart of every electronic
device.
Concentrations as small as one
atom of boron, arsenic or phosphorus
(impurities) per 100 million atoms of
