Entries from June 2003 ↓

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Linux Vs SCO Vs UNIX NEWS UPDATES

• SCO-IBM Dispute Could Help Solarissays McNealy, the cheif executive. Since, Sun is in good graces with SCO, licensing intellectual property for its Unix-based Solaris software.He added further that “There’s no question we’re going to go after the AIX base and say Solaris is free and clear, with no legal or intellectual cloud hanging over it.”
• Law School Professor, EBEN MOGLEN General Counsel to FSF (Free Software Foundation) & one of its board of directors writes on SCO vs IBM : SCO’s lawsuit won’t cripple Linux and issued a FSF Statement on SCO v. IBM, which you can find on the same INQUIRER page
• SCO feeds the IT industry trolls : Opinion Roasting of clowns article of the INQUIRER points out that It’s not helpful that some industry analysts, certain pundits, and a few paid shills are leaping at opportunities to climb on SCO’s careening bandwagon and gleefully bash GNU and Linux as well as Open Source software in general.
• Linux enthusiasts picket SCO & SCO is preparing for the long-haul in its legal battle against IBM and others for allegedly stealing parts of its Unix code.But IBM lawsuit expenses can hurt SCO &
• Interview: SCO chief Darl McBride

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WMD UPDATES

Just headlines and no crap. Pure sexed up WMD stories.

• Blix Retires, WMD Hunt Must Go On
• Bush credibility linked to WMD in Iraq
• Weapons of mass deception: Make the liars pay
• Flu the new WMD
• NO SADDAM, NO WMD, PLENTY OF OIL; IRAQIS ANGERED BY US GOVERNANCE
• Release of New PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll on Iraq: WMD, Links …
• Utah facility tests WMD defenses
• Who Lost the WMD?
• US for alliance to plug WMD exports’
• Whither WMD? Hunt for Iraqi weapons also search for truth
• Bush goes back to well
• Red Cross offers WMD classes
• WMD Accusations Are Premature
• War of wars between British Govt and BBC over WMD
• Government accused of obstructing WMD probe
• Former UK Foreign Secretary Says Some WMD Intel Was ‘Plainly Accurate”

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Psychometric or Behavioural Assessment

The conventional method of recruitment process is more of a technical process and does not give any assessment of the candidate from the psychic point of view. That is you cannot judge whether a person who claims to be a very patient person is really patient, a candidate claiming to be friendly is really friendly and a person claiming to be team player is really a team player. To overcome the shortfall of the traditional recruitment process the latest buzzword found is : PSYCHOMETRIC or BEHAVIOURIAL testing. Comapnies like Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Dell, GE, AOL, Siemens are all implementing these tests in their recruitment process. Mr. Murlidhar S, director of MeritTrac, a comptency assessment company says that, “Psychometric assessment completes the selection process along with the ability and skills/knowledge tests. This is the current buzz in the BPO industry, where the call agent has to demonstrate a great deal of patience & empathy while handling a customer call.” The emphasis in now given on the ‘emotional intelligence’ and candidates are now being evaluated for their ‘real’ personality characteristics, interpersonal style and job specific aptitude.

But what about companies using the buzz words ‘equal opportunity employer’, ‘annual assessment’, ‘annual appraisals’, ‘performace linked incentives’, ‘healthy environment’ etc. etc. Think about it.

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Young Indian Achievers

BHUSHAN MAHADIK (16, Expertise Physical Chemistry) a student of Father Agnel Junior College, Vashi. His synthesis of nanotubes used in capacitors from vegetable oils won him four awards in the Intel sponsored International Science & Engineering Fair 2003 in Cleveland.In the same event MATHILI DAVE (16, Expertise in Medicine), a student of Srimati Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane won two awards for her research on use of coconut flowers to stop uterine bleeding. The dua has planned a great scientific future for themselves, Maithili wants to go in for bio-chemistry and genetics, Bhushan is plannin gfor chemical engineering or research. Maithili has even filed for a patent, while Bhushan is in the planning stage.

On the other hand : A IIT STUDENT DESIGNS A WHEELCHAIR THAT CAN CLIMB STAIRS - RAJAT SHAIL SINGH (26, Master of Design - Product Design), a student of Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at IIT, Mumbai has designed ASCENDER, a wheelchair that can negotiate the stairs. The estimated cost is Rs.10,000 to Rs.15,000 very cheap and cost effective as compared to the foreign motorised wheelchairs which are very expensive. Cheers!

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MOBY ON FUNDAMENTALISM

Fundamentalism (of any kind) troubles me. The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like. In my experience I’ve found that most fundamentalists aren’t so much attached to their professed ideologies as they are to the way in which these ideologies try to make sense of a confusing world. But the world is confusing, and just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we’re still going to live in a world that’s older and more complicated than we’ll ever understand. So many religious and political and scientific and social systems fail in that they try to impose a rigid structure onto what is an inherently ambiguous world. I’m not suggesting that we stop trying to understand things. Trying to understand the world can be fun and, at times, helpful. But if we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering. MOBY

MOBY is a world renowned Techno musician, the same man behind that famous MISSION IMPOSSIBLE theme music. He is a vegeterian by choice and maintains great essays and article about god, religion, fundamentalism, intolerance & humantiy that you MUST READ. And I forgot to mention he maintains a JOURNAL (BLOG) from a long time, Go to MOBY.COM

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GURURAJ DESHPANDE ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The Indiatimes article quotes Deshpande in a recent Delhi meeting of TiE where he comments on the spirit of entreprenurship…. “entrepreneurs must have a little childishness in them.” He must be right. Given the current economic downturn and continuing IT downslide, it’s only the most die-hard and, in a way, naïve entrepreneur who would venture out and bet his shirt on a new technology product or service others might find laughable or ‘too impractical.’ Deshpande likened the entrepreneur to the kid who cannot sleep until he gets his hands on the new bicycle promised to him by mommy in the morning.In India besides many other, DESH has invested in Tejas Networks whos performance is quite appreciable in the Optical Networking segment.

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RICHARD STALLMAN ON SCO VS LINUX

EGAN ORION on THE INQUIRER has posted a artcile “Richard Stallman on SCO versus Linux…Er, we mean GNU/Linux & in turn it conatins the artcile none other than by Father of Free Software Movement - Mr. Richard Stallman , the article titles “SCO smear campaign can’t defeat GNU community” He discusses the lawsuit, the unix, linux and gnu linux confusion and his stand on the same. If you want to listen to the god, be there.

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US REWARDS PAKISTAN FOR CONTINUING TERRORISM IN INDIA

Pakistan has publically acknowledged that their influence exists on the the terroists activities in India. President Bush, the democratically elected president has been casually asking the dictator of Pakistan to resolve the Pakistan-India-Kashmir issue and stop the terrorism. But recently since the Pakistan has contributed and helped US target Al-Qaida and US’s millitary effort in Afgahanistan. Though it might be a different issue that this was as pathetic as recent “Gulf War” because Laden is not found Saddam is not found. WAR for US is a big business, it won’t be surprise to find out that US had fought these war only for the sake of “rest of the world”. Laden and Saddam may be enjoying the life somewhere funded by US, the solution is simple… if somebody becomes uncomfortable to the public eye, say that you are killing him and hide him. Am I talking like a idiot, if you know that how JFK was asassinated and for which cause, you will find that I am just putting forward a very possible thing. Coming back to the issue, Read Editorial : Significant US package for Musharraf ‘ s Pakistan- Daily Times, US may repair, upgrade Pak’s F-16s - Times of India.

What very pious and ignorant Musharraf is offering: No guarantee on stopping infiltration in India and advice to USA. And our great Indian Prime Minister is planning to send Indian Troops to Iraq, the result as predicted by me : Pat on (pakistan’s) back, grant to pakistan, advice to India and small mention for the martyr soldiers somewhere where it would be as good as invisible. Bravo India, bravo…

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US REWARDS PAKISTAN FOR CONTINUING TERRORISM IN INDIA

Pakistan has publically acknowledged that their influence exists on the the terroists activities in India. President Bush, the democratically elected president has been casually asking the dictator of Pakistan to resolve the Pakistan-India-Kashmir issue and stop the terrorism. But recently since the Pakistan has contributed and helped US target Al-Qaida and US’s millitary effort in Afgahanistan. Though it might be a different issue that this was as pathetic as recent “Gulf War” because Laden is not found Saddam is not found. WAR for US is a big business, it won’t be surprise to find out that US had fought these war only for the sake of “rest of the world”. Laden and Saddam may be enjoying the life somewhere funded by US, the solution is simple… if somebody becomes uncomfortable to the public eye, say that you are killing him and hide him. Am I talking like a idiot, if you know that how JFK was asassinated and for which cause, you will find that I am just putting forward a very possible thing. Coming back to the issue, Read Editorial : Significant US package for Musharraf ’ s Pakistan- Daily Times, US may repair, upgrade Pak’s F-16s - Times of India.

What very pious and ignorant Musharraf is offering: No guarantee on stopping infiltration in India and advice to USA. And our great Indian Prime Minister is planning to send Indian Troops to Iraq, the result as predicted by me : Pat on (pakistan’s) back, grant to pakistan, advice to India and small mention for the martyr soldiers somewhere where it would be as good as invisible. Bravo India, bravo…

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WHERE THERE IS ELECTION, THERE IS LOTS OF MONEY

In India corporates provide fund the politicians so that they break the law, but in US its heigher level. Big Biz fund the elections so that the “favourable” laws and policies are made which are beneficial to their business. OpenSecrets.org provides a good statistics of the past 2000 US presidential elections.

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ANTIWAR.COM

Anti war, is anti war as the name suggests and to be painfully clear. Find everything about the war. It is the best source anti war news, viewspoints & activities (claimed by the site). The information is really overwhelming, see for yourself and find the truth about USA, UK, Predident Bush, President Blair and even if the world is still searching WMD, you can find lots of WMD stuff here and visit the “THE WMD CULT” also.

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LINUX & OPENSOURCE NEWS UPDATES

• Intellectual-property expert Richard Wilder says the liability issues raised by SCO’s Linux lawsuit will force distributors and developers to rethink assumptions about open-source software, IP rights and customer protection.
  >Read Open Source Time of Truth
• In an aggressive move that could have a profound effect on open-source software and the Unix arena, The SCO Group—which owns rights to Unix—has issued a warning that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix. The company also says that users of Linux may face legal liability. Read More
• The above stance of SCO drew the wrath of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), as shown in a paper online at www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html. OSI’s argument is that the lineage of Unix variants extends in directions beyond what SCO owns the rights to. The paper contends: “We wrote our Unix and Linux code as a gift and an expression of art. We did not write it to have it appropriated by men so dishonorable that after making a profit from our gift for eight years they could insult our competence.”
• UK Govt warned Dont Buy GPL
• SCO says : It has revoved IBM’s licence for UNIX.
  
• Please visit the respective links for full story, I have only provided the pointers.

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INDIAN SOLDIERS COMES VERY CHEAP FOR USA

Since British troops are getting killed in Iraq our Indian government is planning that India should also join them. Indian soldiers should also get killed for the cause. It is a very little surprise that just before the war House had resolved against the war, the same is pointed out by the opposition party “Troops to Iraq to violate House resolution: Opp”. VP Singh and Gujral whos political career only allows them to pass comments are also against sending the troops to Iraq. And what’s the bargain?- India could seek berth in G8 for sending troops to Iraq. Ofcourse, the quickgun BJP is taking the mileage out of it by yelling the slogan “Strong India”. The conclusion…the blood of Indian soldiers is cheap, they died in Kargil, they are dying on LOC and now they will die in Iraq. What’s the difference, if we were against the WAR initially… can’t we do this small thing for President Bush.

• Lets join “THE WMD CULT”

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LINUX NEWS UPDATES

• Wired reports that experts at a United Nations-sponsored event touted the need for low cost open source Linux to help stimulate the economies of developing nations, i.e “ Developing World Needs LINUX”
  
  “These (Developing) countries need cheap and efficient technology to make the giant leaps necessary to catch up with the rest of the world,” said Bruno Lanvin from the World Bank. “Many are now using Linux, which looks to become the No. 1 operating system in China and India soon.”
• Business Week columnist Alex Salkever dropped the bomb last week that next year, “Linux should pass Apple in market share for desktop operating systems on computers.” Read Flipping the Switch : Linux’s new popularity may hurt Apple more than Microsoft.By Paul Boutin on Slate
• And why should Linus Torvalds, the founder and lead developer of the Linux open-source operating system, should stop himself by putting some strong views about the legal dispute between The SCO Group and IBM, He shares his views with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli in an e-mail exchange last week.

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WMD NEWS UPDATES

WMD, PRESIDENT BUSH< PRESIDENT BLAIR & HEADLINES

• CIA Chief to Stand by Iraq WMD Report at Hearing
• Spooks Said Iraq WMD Use Unlikely
• WMD: Intelligence Without Brains
• Campbell will be quizzed on WMD reports after U-turn
• Full text: Straw’s letter to WMD inquiry
• Campbell to face WMD inquiry after all
• Campbell to face Iraq weapons quiz
• US evidence on Iraqi WMD “shaky”: Blix
• Blix Criticizes US for Lack of WMD Evidence
• US decision on Iraq WMD hasty: Blix
• New poll finds disinterest in Iraq’s WMD
• Blair’s ’spin doctor’ to front WMD probe
• I M TIRED NOW, LETS DO MORE WMD SOME OTHER TIME

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BLOGGING : IS BLOGGING A CREATIVE ACTIVITY?

Tony Buzan is the world-renowned inventor of Mind Maps and the multi-million copy bestselling author of Use Your Head, Use your Memory and the Mind Map Book. His web site Creativity Web suggests some 10 ways to Kickstart your creativity and do you know what’s #1 in the list, yes its JOURNALING. Now we bloggers have gone even ahead with this journaling concept. We have made the Journaling an environmentally friendly experience too by saving the paper and going completely electronic. You can quote me on this, lets start…

“Blogging is a creative experience and it’s environment friendly too”

- Santoshkumar, The Great

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INDIA JOBS UPDATE

Intel has some great plans for India and some great jobs too. Intel India is looking for Project Managers/Enginerring Managers, Application Developers (Web/SAP-ABAP/Microstragey), System Analysts (Web/SAP), Technical Leads (Datawarehousing) and Systems Engineers (SAP BASIS/ORacle DBA). Apply with Intel India Here. Thinksoft requires Software Testing Professionals, Test Managers and Business Analysts. ProcessMind requires people in Process Consulting / Business Process Analysis / Business Process Re-engineering in financial/insurance/BPO segment. ORACLE is having some exiting opportunities in Bangalore & Hyderabad and they are conducting interviews in Sunday, 29th June 2003. The opportunities are for ERP Professionals: HRMS, Manufacturing & Financial; Oracle Database Administrators, Oracle Application DBAs for their India Support Center. For more information check out Monday 23, Times Accent or check out the respective web sites for complete information and more opportunities.

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VIRTUAL ONLINE TOUR OF TAJMAHAL

This is your last chance baby. Taj Mahal may be only VIRTUAL in the near future. Why don’t you visit Taj-Mahal.Net. I can predict that this site is having an excellent FUTURE. Venture capitalists invest the future of this ONLINE TAJ ‘cos the REAL TAJ may be no more, very soon. Click NOW, IT’s FREE.

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TAJ MAHAL IS DYING

TAJ MAHAL may die very soon because some smart asses in the government of India thought that visitors & tourists of TAJ desperately needed some shopping, eating and entertainment experience around Taj Mahal which is such a dull and useless place. How about Mc Donald’s or Pizza Hut right next to Taj? or having the wonderful experience of buying your Jockey underwears in front of Taj? How exiting?. Actually these brilliant asses might have thought of having this all “inside” the Taj, but some idiots around the world call it “HERITAGE” site and consider it as some kind of “WONDER”. Otherwise you could have bhajiyas & samosas along with coke and pepsi inside Taj. Instead of you having the memories of Taj, Taj would have your farts and burrps as your memories. But any way… the brilliant plan was then modified and constructed “around” Taj. Now you will be able to see some real good concrete beauty around Taj, the mix and match of HERITAGE & and NEW AGE NUISANCE. This construction work is supposed to be going on since November 2002 or May 03 can’t say for sure, …. but since Taj is a heritage site nobody noticed it (IGNORANCE IS BLISS!), neither UP Chief Minister nor the central government (?). The construction plan was started without discussing with environment minsitry and acheological department (AMAZING, AS WONDERFUL AS TAJ ITSELF). When these BUSY (?) CENTRAL GOVT. was shown the work around Taj, the so called heritage structure, they took the very quick step of stopping the construction work In Aaj Tak TV news presentations one of the govt. official only admitted that since some construction, a kind of dam like thing whcih will increase the flow of YAMUNA river towards TAJ MAHAL.

TAJ MAHAL was built by Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan as a monument to his love for his favorite wife, Mumtazmahal, who died while giving birth to their 14th child. An army of 20,000 stone masons, gem cutters, marble fitters and laborers toiled for 22 years to build the stunning white-marble monument..

THE BRILLIANT PROJECT The tourism complex would be a 2-kilometer (1.25-mile) corridor filled with shopping malls, amusement parks and restaurants on the banks of the Yamuna River which flows behind the Taj. The development would stand just 300 meters (330 yards) from the world-famous monument.

BRAVO! OOPS WE DID IT AGAINJagmohan told the Indian Express that permission had not been obtained from his ministry, which is responsible for the upkeep of historical monuments. He said the project violated India’s Archaeological Sites and Remains Act of 1958.

It is not clear which government department approved the 1.75 billion rupee (US$40 million) project. CLAP CLAP CLAP.

India is such a large country with so many listed and not listed so called heritage sites that these kind of things can happen. And where politicians are busy in pure and pious politics and beaurocrats are busy in tieing the shoe laces of politicians (YES IT HAPPENS IN UP, IN A RECENT FLIGHT IAS OFFICERS HELPED MAYAWATI AND KANSHIRAM TIE THEIR SHOE LACES, THE HERTIAGE CONTINUES) it is not very surprising that they will now probing in to the matter.

DON’t MISS THE LAST CHANCE TO SEE TAJ MAHAL, CLICK NOW. ABSOLUTELY FREE.

• GOD BLESS INDIA (FROM INDIANS).
• PAKISTAN WE DON’T NEED YOU, WE ARE CAPABLE ENOUGH TO DESTROY OUR OWN COUNTRY.

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Film on CHILD LABOUR by children wins UK award.

RABIA a seven year old (future of India according to Congress, BJP and rest of the politicians of India) has a little time to enjoy life beacause the future of India is busy in picking rags at the garbage dumps near Rohini in capital of India where the black present of India lies. Rabia is not just the bread winner but she also has to do all the household chorees and look after her ailing family members; paralysed mother, asthmatic father, sister suffering from a skin disease and contantly ill two brothers. THE FUTURE OF INDIA IS VERY COLOURFUL. RASHTRABHASHA HINDI MEIN : BHARAT KA BHAVISHYA KAAFI RANGIN HAI. In Hindi, since I didn’t want to upset our young and energetic Prime Minister. Rabia is captured on film by children, who have had equally difficult lives. It is truly inspiring and touching. These four CREATIVE children guided by few adults and producers as children’s organization PLAN INTERNATIONAL. won critical acclaim and the Special achievemt Award at the annual media awards function, organized by the London based ONE WORLD BROADCATING TRUST. set up by BBC and ITV.

INDIAN FILMs & TV people should learn something from this and try to become honest with their profession. Majority (more than 99%) of Indian Films and TV do not depict Indian and Indians of today. Mr. Naseeruddin Shah rightly said once that “say after 20 years if we wanted to show our kids what was India and how were Indians in our (this) time, we will have NOTHING to show”. Think About It.

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Upset with USA

Thomas L Friedman offered “brief theory of everything” about why so many people are upset with America. His thesis : America has begun to touch other people’s lives more than their own goverments do and therefore people all over the world want to be able to vote on American power. He invited readers to to email their opinions and recieved over 8,000 e-mail messages. According to him two themes stood out : (1) People are now interested in foreign policy in the wake of 9/11 & Iraq and (2) People are worried about how alienated America is becoming from the world, blaming Bush and the world and feeling that something important is being lost.

The summary of the messages which he recieved:

• USA has been the beacon of hope past half a century to the disfranchised, thw wounded, the the refugees” ( we have now lost the hope now)

USA now was a Fair Arbiter of the World, The world doesn’t wan’t to see USA morph into just another imperial power

• Many of us in the world are frightened by the unproposed power of an Administration that has total disregard for those who disagree with it and threatens the future of this world with its indifference to anything outside it’s own plans…
• READ MY LIPS : For better or for worse the world is a buch of petulant teenagers that now think of us (the US) as the parent. They want our protection, our comfort (ourfinancial suport). They want us out of their rooms while keeping them tidy, freedom to mock us but come to us hwn they have problems… Most of all, they want no resposibility for their own behaviour. We should understand them.’Bout cover it? Only answer is for kids to grow up, realise parents don’t have all the answers and are, at best, imperfect being themselves.”

World are your listening?, India are you listening?, Mr. vajpayee are your listening?. Think About It.

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LINUX NEWS UPDATES

RED HAT’s earning meets expectationsand FORBES points the limitations of LINUX. RED HAT had a 10% increase in the growth in the Enterprise segment compared to previous year. On the other hand the second story of “limitations” points our that LINUX may be overhyped and “not a lot of depth” in some areas. The TCO total cost of ownership is also discovered to be high compared to other OS.The story ends with a note that “So, in the end, this is what we know: Linux is here to stay; it will get better; and sometimes it’s cheaper than alternatives, but it’s not right for every application. We know the very same about Windows.”

Keep the track of the RED HAT (nasdaq : RHAT, NEWS, PEOPLE)

Whatever might be the speculations, LINUX has proved that it is a Killer OS and it will continue to do so with the power of OPEN SOURCE. The good news ofcourse is that LINUS TORVALDS is cocentrating again on LINUX development.Let’s also hope that SCO Vs IBM legal battle doesn’t hurt LINUX. Opensource will ofcourse win the WAR “openly”.

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LINUX NEWS UPDATES ON GOOGLE NEWS

Where GOOGLE NEWS takes you for LINUX, REDHAT, LINUS TORVALDS & SCO vs IBM

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INDIAN SOFTWARE & STEPHEN HAWKING:

Mr. Arun Mehta and Mr. Crishna, who run a firm called RADIOPHONY has made themselves and India proud by getting a go ahead from Mr. Stephen Hawking on their software Hawking Communicator. Mr. Stephen Hawking is testing their communication software, since he suffers from a degenerative motor neuron illness and can only move two fingers of his left hand, cannot speak, and uses a computer-cum voice synthesizer to communicate with the world.

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SanSpeak’s Daily Dose Of Inspiration

“Tundiye mukhalif se na ghabra, ai aqab, / Yeh toh aata hai tujhe aur ooncha

udane ke liye”. (Don’t be daunted by the adverse wind, oh bird. This gust comes

only to waft you higher). If you know the author of this “sher” please leave a

comment and oblige me.

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MUMBAI SLUMS

New York based journalist ROBERT NEUWIRTH is writing a book on slum life in four countries, and has come to Mumbai and staying in slum to feel the “slum life”. According to him the common things in squatters all over the world, are High Crime Rates, Congestion, Battle For Cleanliness, Neglected Kids and Refusal to the resident to move out. In Mumbai he is co-ordinating with NGO Nivara Hakk and he has observed that “Free houses is not the solution to rehabilitate them. A family of 8 living in 225 sq. ft. house is again a slum. We need to harness the energy of this people to make the building plans which are economically viable, while the government should only focus on the infrastructure.”

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INDIA, THE IT GIANT:

India is home to around 650,000 developers or about 10% of the world’s developer population, and growing annually by the rate of 32%. This growth rate would make the Indian Community of developers the largest in the world in next 2-3 years. That’s why all these bigshots the Monster of IT are eyeing India as a profitable base to name the few - Microsoft, Intel, Sun, Oracle, IBM and consulting firms like EDS & Accenture. The few opportunities which you can fathom right away are as follows:-
- Log on to Microsoft India and choose India Business Center.
- Atos Origin opportunites at Naukri

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