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Smart Card Implementation at IIM Calcutta – A Systems Consulting Club Initiative Monday, 21 March 2011, 5:33 am

Smart Card system is Systems Consulting club initiative to replace minor cash transactions on campus through use of single student smart card. These minor transactions include all the transactions made at eating joints on campus and mess bill. Inclusion of photocopying shops is undecided.A. DemoA successful Demo of the Smart Card system was provided on Campus on 27th Sep. 2010 in front of the student communityB. Benefits of the proposed system: 1. Benefits of Campus Cards – Cashless transactio. […]

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Know thy enemy, Know thy weapon! Monday, 21 March 2011, 4:47 am

We are a decade into the 21st century and we now live in a world full of wonders: marvels of technology, breakthroughs in medical science and an undeniably more comfortable standard of living compared to the previous centuries. While the occasional endemic (or even a pandemic) breakout of obscure diseases bares open the fragility of our existence, we have retreated into a cocoon of complacent living with political and financial turmoil dominating dinner table conversations. But, at this junctur. […]

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Misconceptions about social media in India! Friday, 23 July 2010, 2:12 pm

Web 2.0 has gripped the world like never before and even India has slowly but surely welcomed it. It includes social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook, Twitter etc, blogs, podcasts, wikis like Wikipedia and other such new age media which are making it really easy for people to share, interact and converse online.India has about 55 million Internet users at this moment. Undoubtedly most of them are in the urban areas. Orkut has about 16 million Indian users, Facebook has some 8 million Indian. […]

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How Barcodes and Smartphones Will Rearchitect Information Friday, 16 July 2010, 11:31 am

For many years I’ve wanted to be able to link any physical object (e.g from the marketplace) to anything digital about that object (e.g. all the information in the marketspace). I call this linking of physical information to the digital information about itFindIt! search, and I think we are finally starting to get there. eBay just announced that it bought Redlaser, a company that allows anyone with the Redlaser application on his or her iPhone to scan a barcode. The program then shows you where. […]

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Apple iPhone4 Success Masks Global Strategic Challenges Thursday, 8 July 2010, 1:36 pm

While Apple made headline news all over the United States this month, thanks to the launch of the new iPhone4, Nokia was making news of its own with the launch of its Nokia C3 smartphone. You probably didn’t hear much about it if you live in the United States, but in a series of special events in 10 Indonesian cities — which led thousands of customers to form huge queues to get the new handset — Nokia was the big story. The difference in media coverage highlights another critical difference. […]

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High on Sci-Fi: “The Moon” Friday, 2 July 2010, 9:52 pm

The moon has been an object of fascination for human beings since time unknown. So near, but yet so far. So beautiful but yet full of craters. So barren, but yet so resourceful. Resourceful? Indeed, the moon has millions of tones of Helium-3 embedded in the soil blown in by lunar winds. Helium-3 is one of the potential raw materials for a nuclear fusion reaction. With natural resources on earth fast dwindling and nuclear energy fast picking up popularity, helium-3 harvesting is one of the best a. […]

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Why didn’t I think of THIS – Part 1: Khanacademy Friday, 2 July 2010, 9:48 pm

For a long time the academia has been going gaga over the enormous education potential of the Internet. The Utopian dream of having quality education available for all has seduced many. Efforts have been made to put as much information as possible onto the net. Institutions like MIT have begun to make their lectures available to all. But there is a fundamental problem. The content and level of the material should match with the student. There was need and demand for content which doesn’t requi. […]

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Hello World! Friday, 2 July 2010, 9:45 pm

Hello and welcome to the SysCon Blog!! So basically, we are all about systems & technology in business and appropriately smitten by all the funkies going on in this space. From game-changing technologies like wearable office solutions and high frequency trading to deep dives into the inner workings of venerated tech giants, over the weeks and days, we’ll bring you worthwhile dirt on all that we believe holy. This is not a ‘how to’ blog and we do not intend to venture there (unless you ask. […]

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