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Archive for April 18, 2007
April 18, 2007 at 7:36 am
· City
indianexpress: TUESDAY morning, 9 am. On Pashan Road, near Abhimanshri Society, vehicles wanting to travel towards Shivajinagar lined up by the dozens and complete chaos prevailed for over an hour with nobody knowing which way to head.
Commuters were stranded for more than an hour while traffic coming from Pashan crawled at a snail’s pace. Many who left home for work, to keep doctors’ appointments or other routine matters, said they did not know which route to take.
It was Day One of the diversion to facilitate the construction of the University chowk flyover by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation under the Integrated Road Development Project (IRDP).
To ensure speedy completion of the flyover, the traffic police had announced the diversion over ten days ago. They banned entry towards Baner and Aundh from Vaikunth Mehta chowk on Ganeshkhind Road. The vehicles coming from Pashan and Sus roads were diverted via Abhimanshri Society. The plan was implemented from Tuesday.
With a large of students, professors and staff travelling to the University of Pune and government offices like the ARDE and NCL and a sizeable population living in Pashan, Sus, Baner and Aundh wanting to come towards the city, there were hundreds of vehicles stuck in the choke-up.
For people like Pashan resident Sadanand Krishnamurthy, it was a harrowing time. He had to wait in the traffic for over an hour beyond Abhimanshree Society where the traffic had converged, to take his 80-year-old mother to Sancheti hospital. “We were stranded for almost an hour. Moreover, we could not spot the traffic policeman to seek help in the midst of several vehicles,” he said.
The encroachments on Pashan Road too obstructed easy flow of traffic
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April 18, 2007 at 7:35 am
· City
indianexpress: THREE years from now, residents of 23 merged villages will have their names on property cards and also have maps of their properties. This will be courtsey the office of the settlement commissioner and director of land records and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) that are all set to launch the city survey in June.
Addressing a press conference, settlement commissioner and director of land records, T C Benjamin said the city survey exercise will be carried out with the help of Geographic Processing System and Electronic Total System and will be completed in a year’s time. “Another two years will be taken by the city survey officers to carry out the verifications,” he said.
Benjamin said the PMC has been given a fixed time graph during which survey process should be completed. According to the plan, tender notices should be given by April 20 and by May 31 the agency should be finalised to undertake the survey. The actual work will begin from June 1.
As of now citizens will not be required to pay for the city survey, however at the time of getting the certificate (sanat) the owner of the property will have to pay a minimal amount to the PMC.
While the 23 villages were merged in the PMC limits in 1997 there was no city survey in these areas as a result of which their growth and development was haphazard. “People were not aware till what limit their property was since they did not possess the maps. Acquiring a building permission from the PMC would also be a problem,” he said.
City survey exercise will also be launched soon in the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation which has 14 merged villages, said Benjamin
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April 18, 2007 at 7:33 am
· City
indianexpress: NEARLY five years after going digital and having spent close to Rs 2 crore on a Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) for its collection of approximately 4,50,000 books and manuscripts, Pune University’s Jayakar Library is still issuing books manually. The technology, which was to enable theft detection, is now known for false alarms.
On August 16, 2002, the University signed an agreement with the German company, X-Ident GmbH valid till 2004, which installed the necessary equipment including the smart tags, RFID reader and theft detection gates at a cost of Rs. 1.98 crore.
The RFID system uses radiowaves to identify and track objects. Using this system, ‘smart tags’, or flexible paper-thin microchips, attached to a book register information like the accession number or location of the book. This information then gets transferred from the chip to a computerised database, using a reader that converts radio frequencies into digitised format. If a book that is not checked out passes through the RFID theft detection gates, an alarm is set off. The system facilitates administration and inventories of the books too.
However, implementation of the system has been tardy. While the tags have been pasted for all the books and manuscripts, data for only 2,30,000 books has been entered so far. “This could not be done in case of books in the Devanagari script. The LibSys software did not have a provision for data entry of Hindi and Marathi books. But this problem has been solved now and the entries will be completed soon,” said librarian SK Patil.
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April 18, 2007 at 7:32 am
· City · Current Affairs
indianexpress: SHASHIKUMAR Upadhyay alias Vishal (26), a second year student of Annasaheb Magar College of Engineering in Pimpri-Chinchwad, who was arrested last week on spying charges, was to leave for London for advanced Army training when he was arrested on April 7.
This was revealed by assistant public prosecutor Sanjay Pawar when Upadhyay was produced before Judicial Magistrate (First Class) K K Patil for a remand hearing on Tuesday afternoon. The magistrate has extended Upadhyay’s police custody till April 22.
Upadhyay had received army training during his two visits to Pakistan — first in October 2006 and again in January-February this year, said Pawar.
Patil said investigations have revealed Upadhyay’s links with at least three Pakistani nationals who are suspected to have ISI links. Inspector Bhanupratap Barge, who is investigating the case, submitted that the maternal uncle of the Pakistani girl whom Upadhyay loved is a known ISI agent.
Pawar said investigators have recovered a receipt showing Upadhyay received Rs 35,000 from Pakistan through Western Union Money Transfer. He said the police were looking for receipts of seven to eight more transactions.
Inspector Barge read out extracts of a letter sent to Upadhyay by his fiancée’s father which revealed that Upadhyay had converted to Islam during his stay in Pakistan. The letter asked him collect the conversion certificate issued in his new name of Mohammed Bilal Mohammed Hussain, asked him to sacrifice his wealth, intelligence and even life for Islam and persuade his parents to embrace Islam.
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April 18, 2007 at 7:31 am
· City
indianexpress: AFTER experiencing water scarcity at Bhosalenagar for seven years, Sumitra Sayankar moved to Baner hoping things would be better there. The past five years in Baner locality have proved worse for her family. “We are now reduced to purchasing water from private tankers operators,” said the 53-year-old homemaker whose water bill runs an average Rs 400 a month.
Swapnil Paygude from Sawant Vihar in the Katraj locality too has been suffering severe shortage of water for over five years. “I pay a water cess to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and still end up paying around Rs 600 to the private tanker operator,” he said.
With a flat on the fifth floor, Paygude with a family of three including a old mother, is finding life difficult at Katraj. “I am selling off this flat and going back to my old house at Mundhwa,” he said.
Telco employee Ashok Waghmare and wife Snehlata from Tingrenagar are frustrated. “The water supply is irregular and inadequate. Sometimes we hardly get a pitcher of water. We are forced to buy water,” said Snehlata.
The Sayankars, Paygudes and Waghmares are merely representative cases who, despite staying in the PMC limits, have to depend on private tanker operators for their daily supply of water. All of them have been paying the annual water tax to the PMC.
These families would not mind paying the same amount they spend on buying water — Rs 350 for 10,000 litres — to the PMC but the civic body has failed to arrange tankers to these fringe areas residents.
Civic officials, though, stick to their oft-repeated claim that there is no area in PMC where citizens have to buy water. “Wherever the PMC cannot supply water through its pipelines it does so through tankers,” additional city engineer (water supply) Vivek Kharwadkar claimed.
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April 18, 2007 at 7:30 am
· City
indianexpress: GLOBAL Graphics Software, a leading developer of software used in printing and publishing has established a wholly-owned subsidiary company, Global Graphics Software (India) Pvt Ltd and launched its development centre in Pune recently. The Pune centre will jointly undertake the development, quality assurance and software testing work with the teams in the UK and the US.
More than twenty software engineering staff now work in the Pune office. Expansion is set to continue with Global Graphics planning to double the number people working in Pune by 2007-end.
The Pune office is involved in the development and testing of both Global Graphics’ RIP (Raster Image Processor) which converts text and images into a printable form that is used extensively in newspaper production and commercial printing throughout the world and electronic document technology.
The RIP technology is used in a variety of applications including in pre-press equipment and workflow solutions for commercial printing, as well as in high-speed digital presses, networked copiers and printers used in the office and consumer inkjet printers.
Jim Freidah, chief operating officer comments, “We are an international company, with offices in the UK, US and Japan, and our customers serve an international client base. There is an increasing demand for our software inside pre-press equipment and workflow solutions, digital printers and copiers, and software applications for document management and content creation solutions.”
Global Graphics’ electronic document technology is used by developers of document management and archival systems to add specific functions within their applications such as document creation, conversion of documents from one format to another, merging documents together from different sources, marking up documents and filling in forms.
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April 18, 2007 at 7:29 am
· City
indianexpress: THE Pune Municipal Corporation, to curb incidents of stray dogs biting people, is now planning to set up a dog care centre and make available anti-rabies injections in all the PMC-run hospitals and dispensaries.
With 9,145 people bitten by stray dogs in 2005 and three deaths in last year, the PMC has decided to control their population by sterilising and putting them into the centre.
Congress party leader and civic standing committee member Ulhas Bagul raised the issue of stray dogs in the standing committee on Tuesday. “Municipal commissioner Nitin Kareer has said the civic administration will acquire land on the outskirts to build a dog care centre,” he said.
Bagul said killing stray dogs is not a solution. “If the dogs are sterilized and cared for, they won’t be a menace,” he said.
Over the last six years, 30 people have died due to dog bites and between 2000 and 2005, some 1,11,700 people were bitten by stray dogs.
Now, RTI activist Vihar Dhurve has sought details on stray dogs in city limits. Dhurve said the PMC is lax when it comes to solving the menace. He added that large groups of stray dogs hover around the hotels at night on Jungli Maharaj Road, near NCR hotel and Annasaheb Awate road.
The civic administration in its reply has admitted that no action has been taken by it curb the menace.
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April 18, 2007 at 7:25 am
· Technology
cnet: Despite tepid sales of early units, Intel is doubling down on its investment in technology for handheld PCs with new chips and Linux support.
Intel executives Dadi Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher are expected to unveil the Ultra Mobile platform 2007 later on Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum here. Formerly know as McCaslin, the platform comes with one of two Intel processors designed specifically for UMPCs, introduced last year as hybrid notebook PC/BlackBerry devices.
While systems based on the Ultra Mobile 2007 product will fall into Microsoft’s Origami fold–and run Windows Vista–in 2008 Intel plans to bring out UMPCs and so-called mobile Internet devices (MIDs) that run Linux. Red Flag Linux and Canonical (Ubuntu) are the first vendors that have signed onto the program. That generation of devices will also come with a special low-power chip called “Silverthorne” that is based on Intel’s 45-nanometer manufacturing technology.
Intel says it thinks these devices, once they have been refined, have lots of potential for mobile workers and consumers who want more processing power than found in a smart phone or PDA. But early reactions to UMPCs have been mixed. The devices are very capable, but very expensive, and haven’t made a dent in the PC market.
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April 18, 2007 at 7:24 am
· Technology
techtree: Intex has announced the launch of its Platinum series of DSP Sine Wave Home UPS, comprising two new models with ratings 600 VA and 800 VA.
According to company sources, the DSP technology-based range is an advancement over existing Intex Classic Series models - Quasi Sine Wave Home UPS in 600 VA, 800 VA, and 1400 VA, based on MOSFET technology.
Targeted at households, SOHO, SME, government, and corporate sectors, the DSP series is a real power horse, due to its multiple applications and convenience in operation. The product is capable of running a wide range of domestic appliances, including high power consuming consumer electronics (PCs, Refrigerators, etc), and other sophisticated gadgetry used in hospitals and laboratories. This series of Home UPS has no ‘humming’ sound during operation, thus allowing users experience a ‘noiseless’ power back up solution.
Shio Thakur, National Product Group Head, Power Electronics, said, “We attribute our success to certain factors, particularly, our focus on customer service. The other factors being our commitment to quality and the company thrust on R&D.”
“As for the Platinum DSP Sine Wave Home UPS Series, it is a smarter technology that works according to users’ commands. Both new models come with a 24 months repair and replacement warranty,” Thakur said.
The new UPS models are available in aesthetic Silver-Black combos at prices ranging between Rs 5,790 and Rs 6,890 (inclusive of warranty).
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April 18, 2007 at 7:22 am
· Technology
techtree: Toshiba has entered the portable hard drive (HD) market with the launch of its 200GB 2.5-inch USB 2.0 portable external hard drive.
Calling it the world’s first 200 GB portable HD, the new drive, according to Toshiba, can deliver the highest capacity for any backup solution in the compact 2.5-inch hard drive class. It can store up to 57,000 digital photos; 52,000 MP3 music files; 88 DVD videos or 23 high-definition videos.
The portable HD comes bundled with NTI Shadow software, a click-free, switch-free, and button-free backup solution that enables users simply connect the drive, set backup parameters, and enjoy the peace of mind of knowing critical and cherished digital information is being protected.
The hard drives also incorporate a special patent-pending shock mount system to provide extra protection against normal wear and tear.
The ventilated sleek Black Aluminium housing stylishly complements other digital devices, and helps dissipate heat more efficiently than similar products on the market.
The hard drives are seco-conscious, RoHS compatible, and support both Windows and Mac OS. The accompanied 4-foot USB cable enables users easily plug in the hard drive to any laptop or desktop PC, while USB Hi-Speed Certification allows for use of the drive in any USB port configuration.
Toshiba’s new USB 2.0 portable external hard drives are available on the company site in four capacities 200GB, 160GB, 120GB, and 100GB at MRPs of $229.99 (Rs 9,588); $179.99 (Rs 7,503); $149.99 (Rs 6,252); and $129.99 (Rs 5,418) respectively.
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