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Archive for January 10, 2007
January 10, 2007 at 7:08 am
· City · Current Affairs
Indianexpress: The statistics point to the gravity of the situation. In 2006, as many as 549 boys and 627 girls went missing from Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. Of these, 212 boys and 241 girls still remain untraced.
Jolted by the Nithari incident, the top brass of Pune police have directed inspectors in-charge of all the 20 police stations in the city to form special squads to find out the whereabouts of boys and girls who went missing in 2006.
Police Commissioner D N Jadhav on Monday issued orders to all police stations to constitute teams comprising one sub inspector and four constables to search the whereabouts of the girls and boys who are still missing.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Sanjay Jadhav confirmed that such orders have been issued to inspectors in-charge of all police stations. “This is being done as an exercise to update our database. At times, missing people return home but the police are not informed. As a result, such cases remain unsolved in our records,” he said.
To begin with these teams would visit the residences of the missing children to find out whether they have returned home. The search teams have been asked to file status reports on the investigations in cases related to missing persons reported to the Juvenile Aid Police Unit in their respective police station jurisdiction, by January 15.
Although a number of cases related to missing persons are reported to the police every year, most of the cases remain unsolved due to failure of the police in tracing the whereabouts of those missing.
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January 10, 2007 at 7:06 am
· City
IndianExpress: With complaints pouring in from residents and the traffic police about stray animals walking on Cantonment roads and obstructing traffic especially on MG Road, East Street and Pulgate, the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) in July 2006, announced an incentive for citizens who would catch the strays and bring them to its pound at the Cantonment Store Yard in Babajan Chowk.
Six months after the scheme was announced, not a single animal has been brought to the pound by the citizens. The reason: While most Cantonment residents do not know about the scheme, others say the PCB is shirking its responsibility and putting the onus of catching strays on the citizens.
In July 2006, the PCB had advertised the scheme in the newspapers urging Cantonment residents to impound the strays and promised them Rs 200 per animal (buffalo, cow, bull, horse) and Rs 100 for every calf or donkey that was brought. The advertisement drew flak from Cantonment residents who maintained that it was the PCB’s duty to tackle the stray menace instead of putting the onus on them.
PCB Cantonment Executive Officer SK Sardana admitted the scheme had not taken off. “Our motive was not to expect citizens to do all the work . We wanted them to participate and help us in curbing the menace.”
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January 10, 2007 at 7:04 am
· City
Indianexpress: Two months ago, when an unseasonal rain hit Sangli, 55-year-old Subhash Dattatrey Arwe was one of the 200 farmers, mainly grape growers, in the State who was able to save his 40-acre grape plantation. For, a day before the rain, he received an SMS in Marathi, scripted in English, that warned him about it.
Arwe’s monthly investment of Rs 50 to receive the SMS helped him save about Rs 1 lakh that he would have incurred as a loss. Arwe and rest of his fellow farmers receive on an average two-three messages every week that gives them information about the cloud cover and rain predictions for the next couple of days.
For the past month-and-a-half, every week from IIT-Bombay’s Developmental Infomatics Laboratory with the information sourced from Baramati-based Krishi Vigyan Kendra, the “weather-through-SMS” criss-crosses the State giving weather predictions to farmers. “Before this, we sourced our weather information from the Internet through INSAT pictures, but the accuracy was just 40-45 per cent,” says Pimpalgaon farmer Arun More.
But with the SMS, More says, the accuracy level has gone up to 99 per cent. “Our experience with the SMS service has been amazing. We have been able to avoid unnecessary expenditure of Rs 1,000-Rs 2,000 per acre for fungicide spraying,” says the 38-year-old farmer, who cultivates grapes on his 35-acre farm with the produce going the local market, wineries and even abroad.
Agrocom, a spin-off enterprise of IIT-Bombay started by a group of software engineers, started this message revolution in the State to take benefits of technology to the agricultural community. Agrocom already has a portal ‘Almost All Questions Answered’ (AAQA), launched in 2004 that answers farmers’ queries and also runs a training centre that provides web and mobile agri-services to farmers.
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January 10, 2007 at 7:02 am
· City
Indianexpress: They did not make it to the IIMs but that will not stop them from making a mark in the world. Over 160 students from a Pune-based management college — who got an average percentile of 40 in the Common Admission Test last year — are vying to create a world record in the feat of memorising objects.
And they plan to do it in style with each of them individually breaking the current record of 225 ‘random objects recalled’ at a marathon event on Sunday.
The feat — called Salam Kalam in honour of President APJ Kalam — will be registered in the Guinness Book of Records if they manage to memorise over 250 random objects in a correct sequence. Officials from the Limca Book of Records will be present during the attempt and international guidelines will be followed to register it as a world record.
The postgraduate management students, part of the 2006-08 PGDM batch at the Sadhana Centre for Management and Leadership Development (SCMLD), have been practicing the past three months for over an hour a day to prepare for the record attempt. With some students already managing to remember over 500 objects — good enough to at least break the existing record — college authorities are confident of success
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January 10, 2007 at 7:00 am
· City · Education
IndianExpress: Jyotirvidya Parisanstha, an amateur astronomers association, will organize a sky observation programme on January 13. For more details, contact Jyotirvidya Parisanstha, Tilak Smarak Mandir between 6 to 7 pm or contact Deepak Joshi on 9371028567 or Aniruddha Deshpande on 9822612737
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January 10, 2007 at 6:57 am
· Technology
NYTimes: Apple Computer (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs confirmed months of speculation Tuesday by unveiling a new mobile phone that plays and downloads music and a set-top box that allows people to stream video from their computers to their televisions.
Jobs said Apple’s iPhone would “reinvent” the telecommunications sector and “leapfrog” past the current generation of hard-to-use smart phones.
“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” he said during his keynote address at the annual Macworld Conference and Expo. “It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.”
Jobs demonstrated the phone’s music capabilities by playing “Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, ” from the Beatles’ Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
iPhone uses a patented technology Apple is calling “multi-touch,” and is essentially a computer with a blank screen that users configure with easy-to-use software so they can touch the monitor with their fingers.
“We’re going to use a pointing device that we’re all born with,” Jobs said. “It works like magic. … It’s far more accurate than any touch display ever shipped. It ignores unintended touches. It’s super smart.”
The phone automatically synchs your media — movies, movies, photos — through Apple’s iTunes digital content store. The device also synchs e-mail content, Web bookmarks and nearly any type of digital content stored on your computer.
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January 10, 2007 at 6:54 am
· Technology
TechTree: At the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show, Intel Corp
formally introduced three more quad-core processors. One of these will be the first to carry the Intel Core 2 Quad processor brand name.
With this move, Intel has in its kitty - a total of 9 quad-core processor versions across desktop and enterprise market segments.
The Intel Core 2 Quad processor packs four cores or brains in every PC, and delivers the immense speed and responsiveness that is required to process media intensive applications.
Quad-core processors are based on the Intel Core microarchitecture, and are targeted at performance desktop and gaming PCs.
Computers with quad-core processors are excellent for high-definition video entertainment, and processing of demanding software applications.
Intel also introduced the Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 3200 series for single-socket servers. This series is again based on the Intel Core microarchitecture, and promises new levels of energy-efficient performance for entry server applications such as e-mail, Web, file, and print.
Two new processors are part of the Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 3200 series; each sporting clock speeds of 2.4 and 2.13 GHz, and a 1066 front side bus, and 8 MB of L2 cache.
Commenting on the launch, Intel President and CEO, Paul Otellini, said, “Today, Intel delivers another breakthrough quad-core technology for anyone’s PC. The performance once requiring a supercomputer is now on the desktop, allowing users to do new and amazing things.”
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January 10, 2007 at 6:52 am
· Technology
TechTree: AMD today introduced the AMD LIVE notebook PC, an easy-to-use mobile media center designed to help consumers simplify and enjoy their digital lifestyle. AMD also announced the AMD LIVE Home Cinema and AMD LIVE Home Media Server, two new consumer electronics platform designs, as well as additions to the AMD LIVE Entertainment Suite.
Meeting the needs of today’s consumers, the popular AMD LIVE solution helps them access their digital media virtually anytime, anywhere, regardless of file format or device form factor. With the latest solution additions, consumers have more ways to enjoy entertainment at home and on the go.
The AMD LIVE notebook PC powered by AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile
technology packs the same powerful media center features into the notebook, as the popular AMD LIVE desktop PC. Access to digital media outside the home, plus the ability to manage content or schedule TV program recordings remotely with the AMD LIVE Entertainment Suite, allows users to take their media and enjoy the benefits wherever they may go.
AMD LIVE PC customers can easily enjoy PC content such as Web-based videos and digital photos on their TV with a new active-TV PC feature, providing greater choice and interactivity in entertainment. Using common software tools such as Flash and HTML, consumers can aggregate content into a personal TV-web “channel” and stream it to the TV via active-TV-enabled set-top boxes from manufacturers such as Avtrex, Futarque, and Worldsat. AMD LIVE PCs powered by AMD dual-core technology are ideal for supporting this feature, leveraging the second processor core to format and deliver the TV-web content.
Joe Menard, Corporate Vice President of AMD’s Consumer Business, said, “The AMD LIVE family of products and software provides a truly unique media solution to meet a range of consumer needs, from basic multimedia users to savvy audio visual enthusiasts. With our innovative technology, open and flexible platforms, and diverse ecosystem of industry partners, the AMD LIVE solution takes digital media to an entirely new experience level.”
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January 10, 2007 at 6:50 am
· Technology
TechTree: Geodesic Information Systems has announced that it has entered into a co-operative relationship with BenQ, wherein its innovative offering “Mundu Radio” will be bundled on multiple BenQ smartphone models.
The company said that as a result of this relationship, users of BenQ phones would be able to listen to thousands of radio stations directly from their phones. Besides, users of Mundu Radio could also use it for chatting with their friends across major public Instant Messaging networks, across languages and platforms.
According to Geodesic, Mundu Radio is a revolutionary mobile Internet radio service that offers free access to unlimited music or broadcast content of choice to its users from any part of the world on their mobile devices.
It is further learnt that Mundu Radio is truly a differentiated product in the market today, and offers better quality sound than that currently offered on mobile phones by other products. And as opposed to other Internet radio stations, Mundu Radio supports streaming at 24Kbps and 32Kbps that results in superior quality sound. In addition to Internet radio, Mundu radio users can also enjoy unlimited news, sports, and other content from around the world
Speaking about the partnership, Kiran Kulkarni, Managing Director of Geodesic, said, “We are extremely excited about our association with BenQ and we are hopeful that this will help both of us to combine our strengths and reach out to a wider audience. BenQ’s global reach in wireless handsets will help us expand the user base of Mundu, thus creating revenue opportunities for both companies.”
Irwin Chen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Communication Business Group (MCG), BenQ, said, “For today’s youth across the world, mobile phones are becoming a fashion statement. We are constantly looking for ways to bring the digital lifestyles of our customers, right to their mobile phones. Mundu’s product suite lets us provide a unique experience to our customers for applications they regularly use while on-the-go.”
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January 10, 2007 at 6:49 am
· Technology
TechTree: The weekend (Jan 5 to 7, 2007) witnessed some intense, cut-throat gaming at the Logitech Crossfire PC Gaming competition held at Nehru Center in Mumbai.
According to the organizers, at the fest, both gaming pros and amateurs donned their annihilating best avataars - using Logitech gaming peripherals - mice, keyboards, game-pads, racing wheels, the works.
Thousands of people, young and old, competed against each other in popular multi-player games like “Need for Speed”, “Counterstrike”, “Warcraft Frozen Throne”, and “Corporate Challenge - Need for Speed Most Wanted”, vying for that oh-so-elusive crown.
A team of five from Mumbai calling itself ‘Accuracy Teamwork Experience’ or ‘ATE’ emerged undisputed winners in “Counterstrike”, which was incidentally the most popular game at the event.
The ATE team: Ben Varghese, Amar Ratnam, Mikhail Mehra, Ritesh Shah, and Hasnan Syed; is rated the best in the country in the cult game, ‘Counterstrike Condition Zero’. It was ATE who had represented India at the World Cyber Games last year.
One more team ‘F-10′ with members - Shawn Dexter, Anand Joshi, Surajit Roy, Nishant Patil, and Vivek Kachara took away the first prize in the “Warcraft Dota” game.
Whereas, a 20 year old, Arjun Singh, won the “Need for Speed” Challenge. The boy is unofficially ranked 7th in the world in NFS, and has represented the country in major tourneys abroad (Italy and France).
Another youngster, 21 year old Druv Modi of Games2Win, walked away with the coveted first prize in “Corporate Challenge - Need for Speed Most Wanted”.
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