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Knowledge management (KM) started occupying centre stage in organisations in the 90s with the companies beginning to value their knowledge assets in addition to traditionally valued physical assets. Knowledge assets were largely repositories mostly comprising of explicit knowledge objects and some tacit knowledge inventories which employees and other stakeholders could access with relative ease as the discipline of knowledge management assumed the responsibility of coding, documenting, categoris

This year Iphone brands and personal technology brands are out of the ranking. (Reuters) Korean smartphone maker Samsung Mobiles has emerged as India’s most trusted brand followed by Sony and LG, according to ‘The Brand Trust Report 2016’. ranking second and LG third in both All-India and North India ranking.
Maruti Suzuki has plunged as North India’s fourth ‘Most Trusted brand’ and Dell secures fifth position followed by Nokia, Bajaj, Puma, Tata.
This report

Google is looking at a new way of showing search results around a celebrity or brand.
Google could soon let celebrities and brands publish their own posts, etc into a News Feed Like format itself on the results pages.
The Verge reports that Google has confirmed it is experimenting with such a format, which will let “any brand, celebrity, or organization have a dedicated Twitter-like feed built right into the company’s search engine.”
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Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has launched a plan that will allow corporate customers use pre-paid data on their respective post-paid plans.
Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has launched a plan that will allow corporate customers use pre-paid data on their respective post-paid plans.
The scheme will primarily benefit those customers who are unable to access mobile internet on their corporate connections because their company policy does not allow subscribing those plans havi

Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has launched a plan that will allow corporate customers use pre-paid data on their respective post-paid plans.
Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has launched a plan that will allow corporate customers use pre-paid data on their respective post-paid plans.
The scheme will primarily benefit those customers who are unable to access mobile internet on their corporate connections because their company policy does not allow subscribing those plans havi

Practo is offering free consultation to women for any kind of health-queries on March 8,Women’s Day.
Practo is offering free consultation to women for any kind of health-queries on March 8,Women’s Day. The company has also launched a social-media campaign called Practo Consult to invite women in India.
Read: Practo app review: A ‘healthy’ search engine with a lot of potential
According to Practo, a recent research suggests that a women’s heart is particularly

A team of scientists has developed new transparent electrodes and barrier materials which may power the next-generation light sources.
A team of European scientists has developed new transparent electrodes and barrier materials which may power the next-generation light sources and solar cells.
Researchers developed the new technology for use in the next generation of flexible optoelectronics as part of the TREASORES project of the European Union.
TREASORES stands for transparent electrodes for

LG is unlikely to make the next Nexus smartphone. LG Nexus 5X in this file photo. (Source: AP)
The next Nexus is unlikely to be made by LG. The company built the highly successful Nexus 4, 5 smartphones, and also the recent Nexus 5X. Last year Google launched two Nexus smartphones: Nexus 6P by Huawei which was the more premium device, and the LG Nexus 5X, which had a more mid-range pricing.
A CNET report quoted an LG official as saying that the company has no plans to build a successor to the N

The Samsung Gear VR headset: VR will be increasingly dependent on mobile and faster Internet connectivity.
I recently used the Samsung Gear VR headset extensively, my first long stint with the smartphone powered virtual reality rig, since I first played with it during the launch in Berlin a couple of years back. The device hasn’t changed much, but it has become consumer-centric, the content more accessible.There’s also a good reason why at the core of this virtual reality device is

With Google Glass, a team of researchers has found a way to monitor constantly organs-on-chips experiments without being physically present there.
With Google Glass, a team of researchers has found a way to monitor constantly organs-on-chips experiments without being physically present there.
An organ-on-a-chip is a multi-channel 3-D micro-fluidic cell culture chip that simulates the activities, mechanics and physiological response of entire organs and organ systems.
Must Read: The next Go

Google is looking at a new way of showing search results around a celebrity or brand.
Google could soon let celebrities and brands publish their own posts, etc into a News Feed Like format itself on the results pages.
The Verge reports that Google has confirmed it is experimenting with such a format, which will let “any brand, celebrity, or organization have a dedicated Twitter-like feed built right into the company’s search engine.”
Read MoreNew electrodes could power next-gen

Scientists have discovered evidence in a meteorite that a rare element named curium was present during the formation of the solar system.
Scientists from University of Chicago have discovered evidence in a meteorite that a rare element named curium was present during the formation of the solar system.
The team found evidence of curium in an unusual ceramic inclusion they called “Curious Marie”, taken from a carbonaceous meteorite.
“Curious Marie” and curium are both name

Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has launched a plan that will allow corporate customers use pre-paid data on their respective post-paid plans.
Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel has launched a plan that will allow corporate customers use pre-paid data on their respective post-paid plans.
The scheme will primarily benefit those customers who are unable to access mobile internet on their corporate connections because their company policy does not allow subscribing those plans havi

Apple Watch is being given at $25 to employees of one US-based company, who complete their fitness goals. (Source: Reuters)
You know you need to exercise more, but there’s always next week, or the week after. To entice you to stop procrastinating, your company or insurer might soon reward you for wearing a fitness device to track your steps, heart rate and more.
For instance, in one program announced Wednesday, some workers can buy a $350 Apple Watch for just $25 by meeting exercise goals

FBI Director James Comey and the DOJ – who are fighting to access an iPhone tied to the San Bernardino attacks – have long tried and failed to convince other departments to join the broader battle against unbreakable encryption. Representational Image (Source: Reuters)
Even as the Department of Justice battles Apple in court over access to encrypted data, the Obama administration remains split over backing requirements that tech manufacturers provide law enforcement with a “ba

Amazon Fire tablet: The company says it restore the encryption feature on the Fire Tablets.
Amazon.com Inc said it plans to restore an encryption feature on its Fire tablets after customers and privacy advocates criticised the company for quietly removing the security option when it released its latest operating system.
“We will return the option for full-disk encryption with a Fire OS update coming this spring,” company spokeswoman Robin Handaly told Reuters via email on Saturday.

A surveillance software that will track what you are saying online is the latest Orwellian nightmare come true (Source: Thinkstock Images)
This is not the column I wrote for you today. I had it all typed up, ready to be pushed out. It was about the one thing that has been consuming the country for the last two weeks — the incredible crackdown and malicious clamping down on one of the most respected premier universities in the country. #StandWithJNU has exploded across our collective psych