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Archive for January 11, 2007
January 11, 2007 at 9:09 am
· City
Indianexpress: Twenty-year-old reshma Baburao Patole, of the Matang community from Katewadi in Baramati taluka, was allegedly molested by two youth —Pramod Maruti Zagade (20), Nilesh Mohan Jamdar (22) — at Bhavaninagar bus stand in Indapur on July 11, 2006.
When her mother lodged a complaint against them at Indapur police station, both mother and daughter were beaten up and threatened by the youth, their house was demolished on December 10 and they were forced to flee to another village where her father died of a heart attack on December 28.
Reshma, who was in Pune on Wednesday, narrated the incidents since July 11, 2006. She was brought to Pune by Lahuji Shakti Sena state president Shankar Bhau Tadakhe. “Reshma and her mother have suffered in the last seven months with the police harassing them for no fault of theirs.They should have registered a complaint against the accused. Instead of protecting the Patoles, the police are hand-in-glove with the accused,” he alleged.
“On July 11, both Zagade and Jamdar accosted, threatened and asked me to accompany them. They threatened to kill me if I did not obey. I told my mother about the incident and she lodged a complaint at Bhavaninagar police station,” said Reshma.
Hours later, the youths, accompanied by goons arrived at their home in Deepnagar and beat them up till both of them fell unconscious, Reshma said. “I was threatened and asked to withdraw the case,” she added. They approached the Baramati police to lodge a complaint against the duo. “They refused on the grounds that the earlier complaint was filed under the jurisdiction of Bhavaninagar police station in Indapur taluka.”
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January 11, 2007 at 9:08 am
· City
IndianExpress: As Pune emerges as a leading manufacturing hub in the country, Bharat Fritz Werner (BFW), a machine tool manufacturer, has queued up to establish a tech-centre in the city. Set up at an investment of Rs 3 crore, the technology center will provide modern machining solutions to customers through advanced research and development, demonstration and training.
The 8,000 square feet technology center will allow manufacturing companies to try out components on the modern machining centers installed at the facility. N N Upadhyay, senior Vice President at BFW, said: “Our CAD-CAM softwares installed at the facility will enable us to provide customised designs and solutions as per the customer’s specific requirements. Component manufacturers will be able to satisfy their queries about product application, cycle time or process sheet generation.”
Besides this, the facility will also house a training center where technical skills will be brushed up and soft skills honed through various programmes. The training center will also be leased out to customers and other companies interested in undertaking short-term skill enhancement courses. While Pune will be the first city to house BFW’s tech center, the company plans to follow it up with similar facilities in Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore, each at an investment of approximately Rs 3 crore
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January 11, 2007 at 9:05 am
· City
IndianExpress: In a scenario where a small but growing number of engineers from the manufacturing sector are switching to the more lucrative IT industry, members of the core industry have called for a more concrete strategy to attract and retain talent within the sector. This was discussed at a round table conference held on Wednesday at the College of Engineering Pune (COEP) as part of the International Conference on Advances in Machine Design and Industry Automation (ICAMDIA).
The conference, which was chaired by IIT Kharagpur Professor BK Mishra, saw academicians and industrialists come together to identify key areas where attention was needed. Mishra said nearly 30 per cent of students from manufacturing and other streams opted to go in for IT.
While most of the delegates agreed that financial compensation was a major driving factor for students’ preference for software companies, they stressed that there were other aspects that played a key role in attracting talent, such as the company reputation, office atmosphere, and so on.
“A crucial factor here is the nature of the work demanded of the employees. For fresh graduates, it is not just salary that is the main criterion, but the challenges that their work provides,” said Bangalore-based Altair Software Chairman JS Rao.
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January 11, 2007 at 9:03 am
· City
Indianexpress: Young scientists working with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) are facing severe shortage of professors and teachers to train them. Rising to the occasion, a group of retired technologists and scientists from all over the country who are members of the Institute of Defence Scientists and Technologists (IDST) have come together to teach them the basics like rocket technology, aeronautics, fluid dynamics and explosives awareness at a DRDO lab in Pune.
While the level of the courses is termed as basic, they will consist of specialised modules that are not taught in academic institutions. The first course stemming from this unique partnership was conducted on computational fluid dynamics for a group of 27 DRDO scientists in November.
It will now be followed up with more specialised courses. “The first course was taught well and we are looking now at more specialised areas. We can have courses on war gaming, rocket technology, IEDs and explosive handling,” said director of Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) Surendra Kumar who is hosting the courses at his lab.
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January 11, 2007 at 9:01 am
· City
Indianexpress: After the Road Safety Patrol (RSP) cadets manned signals in busy chowks last week to create awareness on road safety, it is now the turn of MBA students to do the same.
As part of the week-long traffic safety week, MBA students from the Vikhe Patil Foundation’s Centre for Management, Research and Development (CMRD) imparted traffic rules to school children from 15 private and public schools from standard V to VII.
Priyanka Bhonde from the institute says that it was nice to teach children. “We were amazed when children from standard V explained to us the meaning of several traffic symbols,” she said. The students from the institute also conducted games asking the school children to interpret the traffic signals.
An interesting part of the exercise was the use of street play. Instances of senior citizens and blind persons knocked down by a speeding vehicle and then being helped by others were put forward. The consequences of not wearing seat belts and helmets resulting in fatal accidents were also presented using posters designed by the Pune Regional Transport Office and Tata Motors.
As a finale to the road safety week, the MBA students carried out a rally on Wednesday on Senapati Bapat Road.
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January 11, 2007 at 8:56 am
· Technology
BBCNews: The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project are looking at the possibility of selling the machine to the public.
One idea would be for customers to have to buy two laptops at once - with the second going to the developing world.
Five million of the laptops will be delivered to developing nations this summer, in one of the most ambitious educational exercises ever undertaken.
Michalis Bletsas, chief connectivity officer for the project, said eBay could be a partner to sell the laptop.
“If we started selling the laptop now, we would do very good business,” Mr Bletsas, speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show, told BBC News.
“But our focus right now is on the launch in the developing world.”
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of the OLPC group, emphasised that the launch to the poorest parts of the world was the organisation’s main task.
Of plans to sell the machine, he said: “Many commercial schemes have been considered and proposed that may surface in 2008 or beyond, one of which is ‘buy 2 and get 1′.”
Durable
The laptop has been developed to be as low cost, durable and as simple to use as possible.
The eventual aim is to sell the machine to developing countries for $100 but the current cost of the machine is about $150.
The first countries to sign up to buying the machine, which is officially dubbed XO, include Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand.
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January 11, 2007 at 8:54 am
· Technology
BBCNews: The UK could soon have its first mission to the Moon - an orbiting spacecraft that would fire instruments into the lunar surface.
The “penetrators” would yield new information about the rocky interior.
The venture has been considered by Britain’s astronomy funding agency, PParc, and has been presented to European partners.
The concept is the work of a consortium of space interests, including Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL).
SSTL’s founder and chief executive, Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, says the costs of space exploration have fallen sufficiently for the UK to think about leading such a mission, which could be at the Moon by 2010.
Inside the Moon
The consortium proposed two lunar options.
The first, named Moonlight, would despatch four suitcase-sized darts on to the lunar surface from orbit. The darts would be sent into craters across a wide area.
They would hit the ground at a high velocity (300m/s) and penetrate to a depth of 2m (6ft).
The darts could carry a small suite of instruments, such as seismometers to listen for “Moonquakes”. Analysing these tremors would give scientists new insight into the make-up of the lunar interior.
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January 11, 2007 at 8:52 am
· Technology
BBCNews: Microsoft and Ford have unveiled a system to enable voice-activated music and telephone calls for car drivers.
The “Sync” platform, introduced at the Detroit auto show, will be available in 12 Ford vehicles this year.
Drivers will be able to say contacts’ names in English, French or Spanish, or tell the car which song they want to hear from their MP3 player.
“The market potential is absolutely enormous,” said Mark Fields, Ford’s president for the Americas.
‘Flourishing market’
In-car electronics are an increasingly important area in the battle for share in the US auto market.
Bill Gates says Sync will “enhance the pleasure and safety of driving”
More than 80% of US households use mobile phones and 60 million digital music devices have been sold there in what Ford called a “flourishing market”.
The agreement is part of a constant quest by Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, for fresh markets beyond the home and office computer ones which it dominates.
Ford, meanwhile, hopes that new technology will help it solve the problem of dwindling market share even in its home US market.
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January 11, 2007 at 8:49 am
· Technology
TechTree: Japan-based Buffalo has announced the launch and availability of DriveStation Quattro eSATA and USB2.0 External HDD with RAID5, as the most innovative Hard Disk Drive (HDD) in its class for the PC and server community.
Powered by four inbuilt drives and RAID 5, the DriveStation Quattro delivers unparalleled speed (up to three times that of a conventional USB HDD) and superior reliability, thus making it the drive of choice for server backups, storage expansion for SMEs, and reliable storage of multimedia files for home users.
Speaking on the occasion, Atsuo Shibata, Head of Indian Operations, Buffalo, said, “Home and office users are becoming increasingly sensitive to the need for secure and reliable storage for mission-critical data and precious digital content such as music, videos, photos, etc. The DriveStation Quattro is all set to take this market by storm with its high performance, higher capacities capable of storing larger data and video files, and high redundancy and reliability due to inbuilt RAID 5.”
The DriveStation Quattro eSATA and USB2.0 External HDD offers high-speed data transfer at 100MB/s, and allows the user to select the RAID mode of choice from RAID 0/1/5/JBOD/Standard. While the RAID 5 and RAID 1 option enables data protection even in the event of a hard disk failure, the drive offers full storage capacity at JBOD (Spanning mode), and high data transfer speeds at RAID 0 and Hardware RAID options.
Besides, its superior design and larger fan with an inbuilt fan controller allows it to deliver better air-flow, ensuring effective system cooling even during extended system usage resulting in stable performance, extended life expectancy of the hard disk drive, and near silent operation. The HDDs and cooling fans of the DriveStation Quattro can be easily accessed for effortless exchange in the unlikely event of drive or fan failure.
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January 11, 2007 at 8:47 am
· Technology
TechTree: Asus has showcased an array of products at the ongoing CES 2007 in Las Vegas that the company claims would raise the bar for visual satisfaction derived by consumers.
The company launched the XG station, as the industry’s first public demonstration of the world’s first external graphics card station for notebook computers. Equipped with Express Card interface, USB 2.0, and Dolby headphones, the XG station seamlessly integrates notebook computing with PC graphics power.
The XG Station is the world’s first docking station to provide a standard PCI Express slot for additional graphics computing power on notebook computers with Express Card slot, delivering VISTA Premium performance. The device also conveniently accommodates future graphics technology such as, HDCP and HDMI upgrades possibility.
The XG Station also features enhanced audio and video functions. Besides, it has a dedicated control panel to let users control the settings through the GUI based interface and easily switch modes between the notebook screen and the external LCD monitor. The XG Station is currently scheduled to be released at the beginning of second quarter of this year.
Asus also announced two new wide-screen notebooks, the G1 and G2, which have been designed with the serious gamer in mind, and would revolutionize the way games are played with blistering speed and true-to-life video and audio performances - on the go.
Based on the latest Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology with advanced graphic solutions, the G1 and G2 notebooks are available in two sizes, 15.4-inch and 17-inch, and are presented with design details incorporated to elevate the overall experience, including an OLED instant display, side/front speakers, hotkey highlights, as well as sidelights.
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