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Archive for April 4, 2007
April 4, 2007 at 8:04 am
· City · Special Mention
indianexpress: Education should bridge the divide between various groups within the working age population, said Wipro Technologies chairman Azim Premji. He was addressing students at the 100th Convocation of the University of Pune on Tuesday.
Speaking about the lessons learned from his own successes and setbacks, Premji suggested to the students an eight-point path to success. He said that while India would be home to a workforce of 829 million by 2015, this also threw up challenges like making this work force globally competent. “It is important that the gains of job growth are spread more pervasively across the working group, to minimise divides. Education is a crucial enabler that can make this possible,” said Premji.
Urging students to keep abreast with the latest information available, Premji said, “Information researchers predict that by the year 2010, the world’s codified knowledge will double every 11 hours. You will be obsolete unless you keep yourselves up-to-date with this information.”
Premji also advised students never to underestimate themselves when it came to success. Other tips included controlling one’s responses to prevent others from controlling them, allowing institutions to play a role in decision-making, developing an inner faith in oneself without being affected by external events, working in teams and focussing on the effort rather than the result.
Giving the customary report on achievements, plans and programmes of the University of Pune, Vice Chancellor Narendra Jadhav said that apart from programmes like Personality Development, Soft Skills and Work on Demand Programme, the University had also undertaken various major projects like the Samartha Bharat Abhiyaan and the Triple Connectivity Project
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April 4, 2007 at 8:03 am
· City · Special Mention
indianexpress: Seventeen-year-old Krishna Thapa hails from Dharam, Nepal. Physically abused by his father and forced to work, he ran away from home no less than 12 times, each time staying at railway stations across the country - Patna, Delhi, Goa and so on. Three years ago, he reached the Pune Railway Station, where he did odd jobs on the platform, smoking charas and sniffing gum. Today, Thapa is being reunited with his family, and will renew attempts at picking up the threads of his life from three years ago.
There are 27 children like Thapa, who attended a rehabilitation camp in March 2007 conducted by Sathi, a children’s organisation that rescues and rehabilitates runaway children found on railway platforms. While 15 children went back with their parents after the camp, 12 others, like Thapa, are being escorted by Sathi volunteers to places as far-flung as Nepal, Bihar and Assam.
“Many of these children are in the 9-18 age group and have been on the run for many years, living in deplorable conditions at railway platforms,” said Sathi’s Programme Coordinator Meenakshi Rakate.
At the camps, the children are given counseling on how drugs can negatively impact their lives, and also about the importance of family.
They are encouraged to return home and start new lives. “There have been cases where the children initially do not want to go home, but after the camps, they begin to view their home and family more positively,” said Laxman Manjulkar of Sathi.
There are those who ask whether it is advisable to send children back to a family that gave them a reason to run away in the first place.
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April 4, 2007 at 8:01 am
· City
indianexpress: Pune will figure prominently in the growth plans of Wipro Technologies as the company has opened its second development centre and the largest outside Bangalore at the Hinjewadi IT SEZ on Tuesday. The centre was inaugurated by Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Speaking at the function, Wipro Limited chairman, Azim Premji said: “We will invest Rs 375-400 crore over the next 3-5 years to develop this facility as we ramp up our headcount in Pune from 6,300 to 17,000 people.”
“The investment climate is favourable and there is good local talent available, which makes Pune a key location for our growth plans in India,’’ he added.
Wipro currently operates out of a 5.8 lakh sq ft campus at Hinjewadi, which after expansion will go up to 19 lakh sq ft. The Pune facility is primarily focused on delivering solutions in banking, securities and capital markets, insurance, telecom and embedded systems. It also includes BPO operations and remote infrastructure management.
The development centre will soon add to its portfolio Hedge Fund Services and Operations, Embedded Systems and VLSI (very large-scale integration) and mainframe technologies.
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April 4, 2007 at 8:00 am
· City
indianexpress: In the wake of financial irregularities being discovered in the functioning of the Shree Suvarna Sahakari bank, the bank’s director Dnyaneshwar Agashe, chairpersons Ashutosh Agashe, Mandar Agashe and Rekha Agashe, as well as 28 other present and former chairmen, were slapped notices for a recovery of dues yesterday. In this matter, 68 other officials and workers have also been issued notices.
The cooperative commissioner of Maharashtra had dismissed the board of the bank late last year, and had appointed an administrator to look after the day-to-day functioning of the bank. Consequently, the RBI had also placed the cooperative bank under a moratorium.
“The bank had been placed under an administrator due to financial irregularities and has losses of over Rs 300 crore.
The bank’s director Dnyaneshwar Agashe has been the biggest defaulter. The inquiry that had been conducted to assess who was responsible for the bank’s losses has now been completed,” said an official from the cooperatives department.
An audit had been conducted by the RBI, which had brought the financial irregularities to light. The apex bank’s report had revealed involvement of 96 present and former officers of the bank, all of whom have been issued recovery notices. A hearing will be held on April 20 by the deputy registrar of cooperatives.
The hearing will explore how the irregularities came about, and those issued notices will have an opportunity to give their counter arguments. Accordingly, recovery will be carried out from those found erring.
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April 4, 2007 at 7:59 am
· City
indianexpress: Due to the severe heat wave conditions in Pune, Air India Express (AI Express) flights from Pune to Dubai from April are making an additional halt at Mumbai and will continue till June 15. This exercise is being carried out by AI Express to minimise the risk posed by heat conditions besides optimising its operations.
There has also been a change in the flight schedule. IX-211, which departs from Pune at 1500 hrs will now leave at 1430 hrs. After an additional halt at Mumbai, it is scheduled to reach Dubai at 1705 hrs. On the return leg from Dubai, the flight will operate directly to Pune arriving at 2240 hrs.
The decision was taken as when the temperature exceeds 40 degrees celsius, the density of air reduces, thereby, lessening the load carrying capacity of the aircraft.
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April 4, 2007 at 7:58 am
· City
indianexpress: District guardian minister Ajit Pawar has directed the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) to remove all hoardings and banners in the twin township. Pawar, whose party rules the PCMC, has specifically asked NCP leaders and workers to pull down their “birthday” hoardings or they would be stripped of their posts.
Addressing a function in Chinchwad where NCP workers turned out in large numbers, an angry Pawar said, “NCP leaders should not remain under the impression that by putting up banners and hoardings they would get a party post. Those who put up hoardings will not get any party post for next five years.”
Pointing towards his and NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s cutout that adorned the stage, Pawar said this was nothing but “height of stupidity.” He said in Nagpur, the high court had to intervene to stop such cutouts from spoiling the city’s beauty. “I hope NCP leaders will not let this to happen in Pimpri-Chinchwad.” NCP president Sharad Pawar was also present on the occasion.
Pawar said the PCMC should not spare any illegal boards whether they belonged to an NCP leader or any other party leader. “Pull it down and impose a fine on those who put up such boards. Only a penalty will deter them from such acts,” he said.
The minister said his birthday will come and go, but it was no occasion to cause nuisance to citizens and depict the city in a poor light. He said those who take delight in putting up banners and hoardings should take proper permission and pay the necessary tax for the purpose.
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April 4, 2007 at 7:53 am
· Technology
zdnet: The OpenOffice.org community released version 2.2 on Friday, including updates to OpenOffice’s word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and database software.
OpenOffice.org claimed its free software package provides a “real alternative” to Microsoft’s Office 2007 product — and an easier upgrade path for existing Microsoft Office users.
The community claims to have addressed security issues in the upgrade, a number of vulnerabilities recently having been discovered in the suite. On 21 March the US Department of Homeland Security reported two critical vulnerabilities — a stack-based buffer overflow was reported in the StarCalc parser in OpenOffice.org, plus a vulnerability that would allow the exploitation of a user’s computer through manipulation of shell metacharacters in a prepared link in a crafted document.
Both vulnerabilities required user interaction, and both have been addressed in OpenOffice 2.2, according to a community spokesperson.
“OpenOffice.org 2.2 protects users from newly discovered vulnerabilities, where users’ PCs could be open to attack if they opened documents from, or accessed websites set up by, malicious individuals,” OpenOffice.org stated.
The organisation said that in version 2.2, users will notice an improvement in the quality of the text display. For example, previously optional support for kerning, a technique to improve the appearance of text written in proportional fonts, is now enabled by default in 2.2.
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April 4, 2007 at 7:49 am
· Technology
zdnet: One of the largest providers of flash memory has announced a memory architecture that it says will improve mobile phone performance and reduce costs for manufacturers.
Spansion, a former collaborative venture between Fujitsu and AMD, told ZDNet UK that phones using the MirrorBit Eclipse architecture, which combines several existing types of flash memory onto one die, will appear in the first half of next year.
Describing MirrorBit Eclipse as “the beginning of a new family”, Spansion’s product and alliance head, Patrick Le Bihan, said the architecture would “integrate all the benefits of different flavours of flash that are available today” and substantially reduce the costs of putting memory into handheld devices.
The three types of flash memory — NOR, NAND and Quad — each bring specific benefits and drawbacks. NOR flash, for example, lets phones boot up quickly but has a relatively slow write time, making it best suited to low-end phones which do not run memory-intensive applications. Conversely, NAND flash can handle the storage requirements of a high-end smartphone, but the slow copying of data from NAND flash into a phone’s RAM is also a reason why such smartphones take longer to boot up.
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April 4, 2007 at 7:48 am
· Technology
zdnet: Alcatel-Lucent has established a new facility in the island-state to help telcos and enterprises transition to a full IP-based architecture.
Housed alongside the company’s IPTV Competency Center set up last February, the US$26.6 million (20 million euros) IP Transformation Center is touted to help Asia-Pacific customers develop, integrate and test a range of networking hardware and software tools in an IP environment.
The first of its kind for Alcatel-Lucent in the Asia-Pacific region, the new facility adds to the list of similar centers already established in Antwerp, Belgium; Hilversum, Netherlands; and the U.S. states of Illinois, Texas and New Jersey.
Vince Pizzica, chief technology officer at Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific, said during a briefing Monday: “As we deliver services through broadband communications, suddenly, a lot more things can be delivered over an IP connection, and voice is one of the services that telephone companies realize they need to shift to IP to reduce cost.”
Pizzica added that embracing IP technology is necessary for telcos to differentiate themselves from competitors. The open nature of IP networks means operators can innovate at a faster pace, and reduce the cost of managing complex legacy networks while ensuring business agility, he said.
But the investment required to deploy IP networks with viable applications is not small, he noted. For instance, capital expenditure for BT’s 21CN all-IP network will come from the company’s network investment budget of £3 billion (US$5.9 billion) per annum.
Not every service provider in the Asia-Pacific region can afford that level of investment, Pizzica said, adding that directing focus in one location at the new center can help speed up the transition to IP.
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April 4, 2007 at 7:47 am
· Technology
msnbc: Engineers have concocted metals that remember their original shapes and with a little heat can snap back to new after being crumpled or dented.
“We showed for the first time that metal can snap back after deformation,” lead author Taher Saif of the University of Illinois told LiveScience.
Normally, if you bend a hanger or even a paperclip, it’s nearly impossible to restore the metal to a 100 percent unkinked state. Physical properties like this one are determined by the metal’s crystalline and chemical structure. The crystalline structure, or microstructure, is the result of tiny groups of atoms that take on different sizes depending on how the atoms within each group are packed together.
Saif said that when the lab method gets scaled up, the memory metal could be used for any metal object that could get dented, ranging from cars and aircraft fuselages to everyday objects, such as garden tools and the metal frames on suitcases.
Saif, a mechanical engineer, and his graduate students tried to mess with those grain sizes. They examined microstructures within thin films of aluminum and gold. By controlling the temperature during production, the team created metal films with very fine grains, under 100 nanometers. For comparison, the width of a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers.
“We found that the type of metal doesn’t matter,” Saif said. “What matters is the size of the grains in the metal’s crystalline microstructure, and a distribution in the size.”
The atom grains had to be small, but not too small, they reported Friday in the journal Science, to store a “memory” of their original state. Grains that are too tiny make a metal brittle and likely to snap when bent, while grains that are too large make a super malleable metal that bends and stays in a droopy position.
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