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		<title>Go Green by going paperless &#8211; economic benefit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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Earth hour initiative I had participated in 2008 and 2009
Other personal initiatives undertaken by me in past
With the Copenhagen summit on climate change and reducing carbon emissions making front page headlines for the last so many days now, I wanted to shed some impact of this on my personal paperless habits:
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		<title>Rediff shopping online / my experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a terrible time shopping online with Rediff. I placed a fairly decent sized order on the Rediff Shop online about a month ago. I first of all never got a confirmation email of my order itself though the website said it had sent it (luckily I took a screenprint of the order itself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=1243&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Ultimate &#8211; usage review from India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s early days in my usage of Windows 7 Ultimate but it&#8217;s way better than anything I have seen with my last 2.5 years of Vista Ultimate usage.
Let&#8217;s come back to some basic items that I feel have improved.
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		<title>Received Blackberry Bold case from Otterbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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But was dissapointed with the service of USPS yet again. They took almost 1-month to deliver this case and their &#8216;track and confirm&#8217; on which I had blogged an year ago on the same issue still does not give a proper indication of the package movement. I know USPS is under losses etc. and they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=1167&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming up: Economics of ebooks/readers &#8211; a detailed study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this space closely as I collate information and present an analysis on this shortly. Someone left a feedback for me that I was totally deviating from the primary objective of this blog &#8211; Economics and Finance and I think their point is indeed valid. I have been all over the place again. I need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=1145&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The amazon kindle 2 now available for the Indian market &#8211; I am going for it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[amazon.com listened to me as I prayed for an International version of the kindle as Jeff Bezos wrote what sounded like music to my ears (rather what looked like a treat to my eye &#8211; since I was looking at the screen as I read it!)
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		<title>IIFT EMIB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been exactly five long years since I joined for my EMIB (Executive Masters in International business) from the prestigious Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi! I joined it on 9th August 2004. Time flies! But can say for sure that this degree has been my best investment made on education till date. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=1007&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comparison of revenue per employee/IT products versus IT services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take two top companies in their respective sectors:
For a change, for IT products, we don&#8217;t choose Microsoft but choose Apple Inc. for IT products. As expected, we choose India&#8217;s media IT service darling company, Infosys Technologies Ltd for IT services. Let&#8217;s see how they compare on this one metric.
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		<title>From Mckinsey &#8211; building innovation/innovation hubs in the world!</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/from-mckinsey-building-innovationinnovation-hubs-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goes to show how poor India is when it comes to innovation. We don&#8217;t even figure on this heat map. For a larger link to this picture, please see: http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/innovation/building-an-innovation-nation

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		<title>Should a recession affect your purchasing decision making?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the reduction in purchasing decisions/actual purchases made a good thing or a bad thing during recessionary times. While technically, India is still motoring along at over 5.5% GDP growth and is tipped to be the 2nd fastest growing economy in the world for 2009 (a miserable year for other world economies), should the discerning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=813&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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