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Monday, August 29, 2011

What is E-PAT?

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IIPM's Admission test E-PAT stands for Entrepreneurship & Planning Admission Test is based upon a written test, group discussion and inter view. Unlike CAT, IIPM’s admission test E-PAT is based more on parameters pertaining to EQ ( Emotional Quotient) and overall personality mapping since it has been globally obser ved that high IQ often takes a backseat to high EQ when it comes to Entrepreneurship, Management and dealing with human beings. Thus, the total scores of the written test, group discussion and personal inter view are compiled together to compose the final score. Success in E-PAT is more likely to make you a better future leader than success in any other examination focused primarily on IQ. E-PAT is conducted throughout India in more than 15 centres.

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Spam Emails: An Emerging Problem

Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM

Are spam-mails gaining the upper hand in our war against them?
Unsolicited bulk e-mail has not only become a part of regular e-mails, but has also emerged as a nerve-wracking problem for businesses and individuals alike. As per a conservative estimate, spam accounts for nearly 83 per cent of all e-mail traffic. It is estimated to cost around $10 billion to American business firms. The objectives of sending spam has also increased along with the increase in frequency of the same. From pornographic solicitations to plain fishing, account holders are bombarded with all kinds of spam for different objectives.

Are we losing the war against spam email? A report by Commtouch Software Ltd released on Jan 2010 said that more than 183 billion spam emails are generated everyday.

Strangely, much spam is also politically motivated. SonicWall estimated that the number of spam that had mentioned a political figure/issue in their subject row crossed the mark of 5 billion in a period of one month during Nov'08 American Presidential Elections. Accounts were flooded with spam declaring to contain “Obama Sex Video!!!” and it was astonishingly generated from “infonews@obama.com.” The email further read as “Sensation!!! US Senator for Illinois Barack Obama in 2007 travelled to Ukraine and had sex action with many Ukrainian girls! You may view this private porno in a flash video. Download and view now. Please send this news to your friends! Obama, it’s not the right choice!!!” But then, as expected, the email had no sex video but a Trojan virus that got downloaded during the process. Even during the Bush-Cheney campaign, bulk spam was generated with a link back to the official campaign site georgewbush.com and another link pointing to an anti-Kerry ad that alleged him being "wrong on defence." A Conservative group grassfire.org sent more than 300,000 e-mails with a link to an online ad where John Kerry and Ted Kennedy were shown as "opponents to conservative values." Similar tactics were also used by an anti-Bush liberal group (moveon.org).

Spam is denting bottom-lines considerably. According to a study conducted in 2009 by Nucleus Research Inc., managing spam costs American corporations more than $70 billion annually and leads to productivity loss of around $700 per employee per year. There is an urgent need for a universal solution regarding spam. Apart from the above mentioned productivity and cash loss, it easily dents profiles of individuals and even causes indirect loss in international trade. While at the individual level, there is little that can be done, and while email portals like Google, Yahoo, MSN can help in blocking these spam emails, unless nations come together in organising a coordinated action against spam sending entities and in shutting them down, we'll lose the fight!

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Anna Hazare Jan Lokpak Bill Vs Government Lokpal Bill

Given below is a comparison of the provisions of the Lokpal Bill as proposed by the Union government and civil society organisations.

Prime Minister's Office

Govt: Complete exemption of PM

Team Anna: PM can be investigated with permission of seven member Lokpal bench.


MPs

Govt: Include MPs but exclude their conduct in Parliament (their powers to speak and vote)

Team Anna: MPs' conduct in Parliament should be included


Judiciary

Govt: Exempt judiciary; to include it in judicial accountability bill

Team Anna: Include higher judiciary within the Lokpal


Lower bureaucracy

Govt: Included only group `A' officials (officials of the rank of deputy secretary and above)

Team Anna: Wants all government employees included


Merger with CBI and CVC

Govt: Wants to keep them separate, only a 11-member agency

Team Anna: Wants CBI and CVC merged with the Lokpal


Selection

Govt: Wants to set up a selection committee including PM, leaders of both Houses of Parliament, leaders of Opposition of both Houses, Speaker, cabinet secretariat, two SC judges

Team Anna: Proposes setting up of a search committee of five judges that would shortlist names to be sent to the selection committee. The selection committee would include two SC judges, two HC judges, PM, home minister, CEC and CAG


Removal

Govt: Only government can move a petition to the court to remove the Lokpal

Team Anna: Any citizen can move the court


Lokayuktas in states

Govt: State governments opposed to Lokayuktas so only one agency will function at the Centre

Team Anna: Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in states should function, also district officials


Grievance redressal

Govt: Disciplinary action will be taken if deadlines on citizens' charter are not met

Team Anna: Monetary fines should be levied for violating deadlines on citizens' charter


Inquiry process

Govt: Accused should get a hearing before the Lokpal registers a FIR

Team Anna: Court should hear the accused after the case has been filed


Power

Govt: Only high level corruption will be looked at

Team Anna: All corruption should be tackled


Jan Lokpal Bill

*The Lokayukta can only impose financial penalties for complaints found to be false.

*There is no such bar on the Lokpal's powers.

*The Lokpal will have to complete its investigation within one year & the subsequent trail will have to over in another year.

*Loss caused to government due to corruption will be recovered from all those proved guilty.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Anna Hazare: We will keep fighting till Jan Lokpal Bill is passed

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Anna Hazare's fast demanding a strong Lokpal entered the fifth day on Saturday with his team saying they were ready to talk to the government but no such communication channels have been opened.

Hazare came to the podium at around 10am as supporters started pouring in Ramlila Maidan where he launched his protest yesterday after coming out of Tihar Jail.

The 73-year-old anti-corruption crusader alleged the funds in government treasuries were being threatened not by thieves but from those guard it and the country is being threatened by these traitors.

"Why should we fight? The funds in government treasuries are ours. The treasuries are not threatened by thieves but by those who guard it. The country is not betrayed by enemies but by these traitors," the Gandhian said.

He said he has lost three-and-half kg in the last four days. "I feel a little weak. But there is nothing to worry about it. The fight will go on till we get a strong Lokpal," Hazare said in his brief address to the gathering.

His close associates Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia said the team was ready to talk to the government on the issue of Lokpal Bill but no one has approached them.

"We are ready to talk to the government but there is no communication from their side. Where should we go to talk and whom should we talk to?" Kejriwal and Sisodia said.

Hazare had yesterday raised the political stakes by giving a deadline to the government to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill by August 30 failing which he would continue his fast "till my last breath".

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Friday, August 19, 2011

Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare addresses supporters at Ramlila Ground

After three days in jail, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare reached Ramlila Maidan and addressed thousands of supporters urging them to continue the fight for a strong Lokpal Bill.

Anna was received by cheering crowds, many of who had been waiting for days.

Earlier in Anna Hazare at Ramlila Groundthe day, just past the Tihar Jail gates he addressed the crowd outside , raising his hand to the air and shouting "Victory to Mother India" and declaring the fight against corruption would continue whether he was "alive or not" before slowly winding his way in a truck decorated with flags through massive crowds.

Looking fit, the 73-year old Gandhian who is on day four of his hunger strike, urged his supporters outside jail to make sure that the torch of the movement against corruption is not extinguished. He said that India gained freedom in 1947, but the freedom movement had actually begun long time back meaning that the march to end corruption will be a long drawn one.

"We got freedom in 1947. Now the second freedom struggle has begun on August 16. A revolution has started. The fight against corruption will continue whether I am alive or not," he said as the hundreds of supporters waiting for him since early morning cheered and clapped.

Anna said, "After 64 years of independence, we still haven't achieved complete freedom."

"The fight is far from over, it has just begun," he added.

Many supporters had been there overnight and some had offered prayers to the god. Others chanted "the whole country is Anna".

Greeted by rains, the procession made slow progress as Anna waved to his supporters on his way towards Rajghat where he paid obeisance to Mahatma Gandhi before proceeding to Amar Jawan Jyoti at the India Gate and from there to the Ramlila ground, the protest venue.

Hazare supporters accompanied the procession waving the tricolour while he accepted greetings from people gathered on either side of the road in West Delhi.

The improvised vehicle had a huge umbrella to protect Hazare and his close aides from the pounding rain. Apart from walking along with Hazare's vehicle, the supporters followed him on bikes, jeeps and cars.

The procession affected vehicular traffic in and around the Tihar Jail premises including in Janakpuri, Mayapuri and Hari Nagar in West Delhi.

The tireless Hazare was greeted by the supporters with garlands and bouquets at various intersections en-route his procession which was marked by chants of 'Anna' and "Vande Mataram".

Children, housewives and others were seen standing on their balconies and rooftops to have a glimpse of Hazare and the procession.

Thousands of people, many of them school children, waited at Ramlila Ground despite rains to support Anna Hazare.

With the many tricolours, patriotic songs playing in the background and loud slogans and the sun playing hide and seek, it was like a carnival at the sprawling ground in central Delhi where Hazare will continue his fast that began Tuesday.

There were hundreds of school children in the crowd, some who had bunked their classes to come out in support of the 74-year-old Hazare.

"I have come here to support Annaji and we will get the civil society version of Lokpal bill passed come what may," said Prateek Babar, a student of Rajkiya Sarvodya Vidhyalaya School in west Delhi.

As it started pouring heavily, some people started dancing.

"When the government could not stop us, this downpour is nothing. I am here to witness history in the making," said Rehan Singh, a Class 9 student who had a tricolour painted on his face.

Authorities looked worried though.

"The marquee put up at the Ramlila ground is not waterproof. The ground is already wet. If it rains more, it will be difficult to handle," said Deputy Mayor Anil Sharma.

Anna's exit from jail today, took place after two days of hard negotiations with the government and the two sides agreeing that Hazare will undertake a fast for 15 days at the Ramlila Ground subject to certain conditions.

Hazare got from Delhi Police the spacious Ramlila Ground for his fast instead of the smaller J P Park.

Significantly, Team Hazare made it clear that his fast would not be a fast-unto-death and he will be on hunger strike only till his health permits.

73-year-old Hazare, in a video shot inside Tihar Jail, said the protests by "all my brothers and sisters, the elderly and the children" is giving him a "new energy" for his fast.

He said people were fed up of corruption and the government should not take long to bring a strong Lokpal Bill.

Hazare, who is on the third day of his fast inside Tihar jail, also said he is not "tired" at all.

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We support Anna Hazare's efforts to eradicate the corruption



Coming out in support of Anna HazareAnna Hazare, Indian-Americans have appealed to the Indian government to take serious steps to curb the menace of corruption in the country.

"We NRIs want to remove corruption out of India. We support Anna Hazare's efforts to eradicate the corruption, pass Lokpal Bill and declare black money as national assets," said Dnyanoba Kendre, a yoga teacher from Pennsylvania.

Of all the protests in India in recent times, this is the most legitimate and at the grass root-level, that can change the fate of the country, said Rangarajan, a student from the University of Maryland.

Another student, Umang Agarawal, said they are emailing Supreme Court en mass directly to take suo motu action and save the nation.

"More than Indians fighting against corruption, it seems government is fighting against people who are fighting against corruption. This is going to be one of the watershed moments of Indian history," said Vibhash Jha, a PhD student at the University of Maryland.

Indian-Americans from in and around Washington for the third day held a demonstration in front of the Indian embassy here. Similar events in support of Hazare are being reported from various parts of the country as well.

A large number of Indian-Americans held a similar protest demonstration outside the Indian Consulate in Houston.

"We NRI in Houston feel connected to the movement in India and are expressing support in several forms like Facebook, Twitter, Google, websites in addition to their presence in local gatherings around apartment club houses, public parks and other community places," said Raghava R Solipuram.

Shocked and saddened by the arrest of Hazare and his supporters, Non-Resident Indians for Secular and Harmonious India (NRI-SAHI) said Indian-Americans support the demand of Team Anna to bring every one under the Jan Lok Pal Bill.

"We demand the government of India keep its promise and promulgate an effective Anti-Corruption Bill," NRI-SAHI said.

In a statement, Atlanta-based US Hindu Alliance strongly condemned the measures taken by the Indian government against the peaceful and democratic anti-corruption movement led by Hazare.

"The right to speak freely and the right to protest peacefully have been earned by the people of India after a prolonged struggle which involved the sacrifices of millions of its people.

"Hindus around the world cannot remain silent spectators when the government snatches away the fruits of India's freedom movement and attempts to create a political environment which has all the hallmarks of a police state," it said.


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Thursday, August 18, 2011

7 crore IIPM Rabindranath Tagore International Prize was won by Ramapada Chowdhuri and six others

IIPM Mumbai Campus

Nobel Laureate Mohan Munasinge and Lord Meghnad Desai came down to hand over the first edition of the 7 crore IIPM Rabindranath Tagore International Prize which was won by Ramapada Chowdhuri and six others.

Mohan Munasinghe and Lord Meghnad Desai along with IIPM’s Founder Director Dr Malay Chaudhuri and Dr NR Chatterjee handed over the first Rabindranath Tagore International Prize to Author Ramapada Chowdhuri for his classic work ‘Banpalashir Padabali’.

Dr Malay Chaudhuri announced, “We want to break the western monopoly on awards. The award is being primarily instituted in the field of People Centric Economics/ People Centric Management/ Literature/ Peace as an alternative to the Nobel Prize since it has been observed that economists, of the likes of Maurice Dobb, Oskar Lange and Joan Robinson, and authors from the developing world have been deprived of due recognition by the capitalist Western world.”

The first edition of the award was won jointly by Rmapada Chowdhury along with six authors posthumously i.e. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Manik Bandopadhyay, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Jibanananda Das and Ashapurna Devi.

IIPM is setting up Foundations of Rs 1,00,00,000 each in their memory. Excellence in literature at a regional / national level will be awarded from the income generated from them.

With the Rabindranath Tagore Memorial International Prize and an array of prestigious prizes instituted by IIPM in past like Manavata Vikas Award, Surama Chaudhuri Memorial International Award IIPM looks set to alter the international awards landscape for good. Further elaborating the reason to launch such a huge award, Dr. Chaudhuri explained, “This award has been instituted as a move to take away the West’s exclusive power to decide what is good in literature, art and peace efforts. The Nobel Prize for literature/economics has not always gone to great writers/economists. The Peace Prize has been, in recent times, given to people who have committed genocide. Therefore, the idea is to institute an award comparable with the Nobel Prize as a public demonstration of our opposition to the Western monopoly on awards for excellence in various fields. I see a shift from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is happening in economics and planning. Why shouldn’t it also happen in the domain of awards? Our effort is to push an initiative based on that superstructure. We want to decisively intervene in the process of deciding on awards and thereby having a say on what is worth appreciating and emulating.”

The Nobel Prize for literature this year will fetch the winner 1.08 million euros. Last year, the amount was 1 million euros. IIPM wanted to match that and make a real impact. IIPM’s Surama Chaudhuri Memorial International Award for Literature and Journalism is accompanied by an amount of $100,000. Indeed the prize moneys are big but does it really make the award as big?

Dr. Chaudhuri was candid about it as he said, “Well, I do not believe that money alone can decide the worth of an award. An award acquires prestige if it is consistently given to deserving people. This prestige is built over time. If our selection is proper and research based, the awards will be coveted by people all over the world over a period of the next few decades.” The coming years will surely decide if IIPM's initiatives will become globally as big as the Nobel, for now its time to celebrate the fact that an Indian has had the courage to institute a prize as big as the Nobel in value. In a country with the highest number of billionaires, that it comes from an educationist is another aspect to cheer about.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Delhi Police arrested Anna Hazare: India Against Corruption

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Anna Hazare courted arrest after being detained by Delhi Police at his residence in Mayur Vihar ahead of his indefinite fast on Tuesday.

Senior officers of Delhi Police reached Anna Hazare'sIndia Against Corruption: Anna Hazare arrested flat early in the morning and informed him that he could not leave his home. However, Hazare turned down the request following which he was detained.

"We have detained him as he did not budge from his position of defying prohibitory orders," police official said.

Anna in his addresses to the nation before his arrest asked his supporters not to stop the agitation. He urged the protesters to remain peaceful.

He added: "I appeal to you that let there be no violence in this movement. I also appeal to you, young and old alike, to give eight days of your life to the nation - if necessary for a jail bharo andolan."

Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia were also taken into preventive custody by the Delhi Police.

"This is exactly what happened during emergency. Emergency has revisited the country. This detention is unconstitutional and undemocratic," said Kiran Bedi while courting arrest at Raj Ghat.

According to sources, Anna is being taken to Officers' mess, Civil Lines in Delhi.

Ahead of the proposed fast by the Gandhian, a group of people had thronged the east Delhi apartment where Hazare was staying to pledge their support to his protest.

Security personnel, including some in plain clothes and some from the special branch, were deployed around the apartment premise.

Around 500 police personnel have been deployed from early morning itself after the city police imposed Section 144 around the park, police sources said.

Late Monday, at least 50 supporters of Anna Hazare were detained at Jai Prakash Narain Park, the venue of the anti-graft crusader's planned fast, for defying prohibitory orders clamped in the area.

The supporters of the Gandhian were taken in a police bus to a nearby police station, police said.

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Meet Anjali Raj, 18, Madrasa Topper

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It irks Anjali Raj, 18, no end when someone pronounces Phulwari Sharief, the Anjali Raj, 18, Madrasa TopperPatna suburb where she lives, with seen (S) rather than sheen (Sh). In parts of eastern India, there’s no dearth of people who do so. In fact, after repeated attempts, she has barely managed to get her parents to pronounce Sharief right. Living in a society where people cannot differentiate between these alphabets, life is never easy. And under the circumstances, you cannot help but appreciate the teenager’s command on the language. The credit goes to her madrasa education.

An alumnus of Madrasa Imad-ul-Uloom Khankah-e-Imadia of Patna city, Anjali topped Fauqania (Matriculation) exams in the non-Muslim category with 805 marks out of 1200. And if that were not enough, she is also a CBSE matriculate. Incidentally, she has done well in both. And most of all, she has made her father, Ajay Raj, a businessman involved in the milk trade, really proud and happy. That we came all the way from Delhi to interview her daughter brought visible pride on his face. I am sure that happiness will last many a lifetime.

He says: “She has been interviewed by many journalists here. But now her popularity has reached Delhi too. I made it a point to teach her Urdu. And look what wonders it has done. It brought you all the way from Delhi.”

Phulwari Sharief is a Muslim majority neighbourhood. It is therefore natural that Ajay has lots of Muslim friends. He always wanted his daughter to study Arabic and Urdu. But he did not know the way to go about it. But then, one fine morning, Waiz-ud-Din Rahman, Urdu teacher at the school where Anjali used to study, advised Ajay to get his daughter admitted to a madrasa. He also insisted that it will help her in the Civil Services exams.

As things turned out, neither Anjali nor her mother appeared particularly enthusiastic. Anjali always wanted to speak Urdu as fluently as her friends and she had acquired a few basics too. But to read in a madrasa was a different ball game and she was not game for it. “I did not like it initially. In fact, I protested hard when papa took me to a madrasa. But as he was adamant I had no choice,” she says. The father offered her a way out. He said that she would continue studying in the CBSE board and attend a madrasa too.

The madrasa she got admitted in was 20 km from her home. Now that created another problem. Anjali was categorical that she would not let her studies suffer because of this. Rahman, her teacher, waived off compulsory attendance.

So how was the first day at the madrasa for a student of an English medium school? “It was all new for me. I was very scared and was looking for excuses for not attending the madrasa. Although I knew all the sums in mathematics, I could not attempt a single one because of the terminologies that were in Urdu. I had done really well in mathematics all along and here I was not able to do a simple sum. It was all so embarrassing,” recalls Anjali. In fact, when she came out, she broke down and made up her mind that she would not return.

But then, Rahman came to her rescue. He told her that these were initial hiccups. The carrot of the Civil Services was again dangled before her and Anjali finally complied. Since her madrasa was quite far she would attend classes just a couple of times in a month. Yet she managed to do well. There are people who question the very basis of how marks are doled out in madrasa and Sanskrit board exams.

But all the negative talk has not daunted Anjali one bit. She is now all set to take the Maulvi (intermediate) exams, one eye firmly on making it to the Civil Services.

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Saturday, August 06, 2011

India: Facebook's 2nd biggest market

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In a two-room shanty with no running water in northern Mumbai, Darshana Verma makes tea on a small stove. On a bench nearby, her 18-year-old son, Vishal, messages Facebook friends on the keypad of his Nokia smartphone.

"This Facebookis the Internet age," said the 36-year-old domestic helper, who spent more than half her $300 monthly income on Samsung Electronics Co and Nokia Oyj mobile phones for her children. "Facebook is there, all these things happen there now -- they make friends, maybe they can even find jobs there."

Cheaper Internet-ready phones may make India Facebook Inc's biggest market after the US next year with more than 50 million users, according to Nielsen Co. As Google Inc's rival social network also gains in popularity, companies including Pepsi Co are boosting Internet advertising to reach the 352 million children under age 15 who are coming online.

"There's a mob out there," said Tarun Abhichandani, group business director at IMRB International, part of WPP Group, the world's biggest ad agency. "India has a young demographic, and it's social networking that brings them online."

The number of active accounts in India jumped 85 per cent to 32 million this year, according to socialbakers.com, which tracks user data at the Palo Alto, California-based company. That's the world's third-biggest behind the 153 million in the US and 39.2 million in Indonesia.

Mobile handset sales in the world's second-fastest growing major economy will surpass 206 million units annually in 2014 from 175.9 million last year, Gartner Inc forecasts.

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Pepsi and Viacom Inc's MTV have been quick to tap the popularity of Facebook in the South Asian nation through promotions and contests. Their Indian pages have garnered 1.4 million and 2.9 million "likes," respectively.

"Indians want brands to communicate with them using social media," said a Nielsen report, adding that 60 per cent of Indian social-media users are "open" to being approached by brands.

Online advertising in India rose 26 per cent to $223 million in the year ended March, according to IMRB. Advertising on social networking sites grew as much as 65 per cent from the year before.

"The shift to online advertising is just starting to happen," Abhichandani said. "The number of Internet users here is on the rise and is going to keep rising for some time. Advertisers are realizing that."

Facebook opened an office in Hyderabad in southern India in September to serve users, advertisers and developers in the country and around the world, spokeswoman Kumiko Hidaka wrote in an e-mail. The company is trying to improve service by working with mobile partners and "building relationships with India's strong network of developers and entrepreneurs," she said.

China block

Facebook is blocked in China, the world's most-populous nation. The social-networking company has held talks with potential partners about how to gain a foothold in the country, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg in April.

China, the world's largest Internet market with more than 450 million Web users, bans pornography, gambling and content critical of the ruling Communist Party.

"Facebook has chosen to focus on open markets, rather than markets like China where there's censorship and control," said Foong King Yew, vice president of research at Gartner in Singapore. "India's the biggest of those. It's rapidly growing. It's an untapped market."

A mobile phone allows 22-year-old student Rachel Thomas to log on when she's at school.

"Facebook is the first thing I do each day," said Thomas, who is studying for a master's degree at the Delhi School of Social Work and counts about 1,000 friends on the social- networking site. "I don't know anybody who's not on Facebook. My mom's on Facebook. My whole class is on Facebook."

Bollywood tweets

Twitter Inc is also gaining in India, helped by iconic users like Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, business tycoon Anand Mahindra and former minister Shashi Tharoor. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS), India's largest software exporter, posts its earnings in 140-character messages on the micro-blogging website.

LinkedIn Corp has 10 million members in India, its second- largest market after the US, according to the Mountain View, California-based company's website.

Facebook faces new competition from Google+, which started June 29. The service had 6.44 million visitors in the US through July 24 and 3.62 million in India, not including mobile usage, said Andrew Lipsman, ComScore Inc's vice president for industry analysis.

Google is testing a mobile application in the US and India that allows users to send status updates via SMS without an Internet connection. Most phone users in India don't have Internet browsing. Facebook has a similar service in India.

'Facebook button'

Research In Motion Ltd said its growth in emerging markets such as India and Indonesia has largely been driven by social networking applications like Facebook for BlackBerry 2.0. Rival Huawei Technologies Co sells phones with a "Facebook button."

"You press it once and all your social networks are integrated in one -- you don't have to log in everywhere," said Paul Scanlan, vice president of solution and marketing for the South Pacific region at Huawei. "If a phone doesn't have a Facebook button, you're not going to sell 10 million handsets."

A big draw for many Indians is the falling cost. Phones with Internet browsing capability sell for as little as $23. For Verma, who never learned to use a computer and saved for 10 months to buy her elder daughter's phone, that gives her children an opportunity she didn't have.

"What I don't know about -- Facebook, Internet -- they need to know about," she said. "It is worth the expense."


Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Nokia brings out 1GHz Symbian phone Nokia 500

IIPM Mumbai Campus

Beleaguered cellphone maker Nokia has brought out Nokia 500its first Symbian-based smartphone running on 1GHz processor, Nokia 500. Nokia 500 is based on the current version of Symbian OS, Anna.

Measuring 111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1mm, the phone weighs 93 grams and comes with changeable back covers. Sporting a 3.2-inch capacitive touch display with a screen resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, Nokia 500 has a 5 megapixel camera.

The latest Symbian Anna OS mobile phone comes with a refreshed user interface (UI) and improved browser and split-screen messaging. The phone also has the latest version of Nokia Maps for free drive and walk navigation pre-installed.

The phone also packs a music player with FM and internet radio. There's a Social app that brings users all social media updates directly on the homescreen.

As for memory, the smartphone is equipped with 2GB memory expandable up to 32GB with micro-SD card. For connectivity, there is Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi b/g, 3.5 mm jack and microUSB port.

Nokia claims that the smartphone's battery offers 5-7 hours talktime, 450+ hours standby or up to 35 hours of music playback. Nokia 500 is expected to come at a price of 150 euros (Rs 9500 approx) and is scheduled to hit markets in the third quarter of this year.

Nokia 500 Data Sheet
Planned Market Introduction: Q3 2011
Category: Smartphones
Nokia 500 Key Features

1 GHz processor and WLAN for fast access to Nokia 500 Symbian OS Annafreeapplicationsand entertainment.
  • Download free applications from Ovi Store
  • Enjoy full web browsing with pinch zooming
    Play your favorite tunes from your music carousel
Make it your own with changeable covers and multiple home screens
  • Express your individuality with colorful, interchangeable back covers
  • Personalize your multiple home screens with your favorite applications, themes and pictures
Get your friends’ updates straight to your home screen
  • Chat with friends instantly on What’s App and other popular chat clients
  • Share your status and get friends’ social networks updates directly to your home screen
  • Check your emails on the move
Connectivity
  • WLAN 802.11 b/g
  • HSDPA up to 14.4 Mbps, SUPA up to 5.8 Mbps
  • Bluetooth 2.1
  • A-GPS
  • Micro-USB connector and charging
  • 3.5 mm Nokia audio connector
Additional Features
  • Symbian Anna for faster browsing and enhanced touch user interface including portrait QWERTY keyboard and split-screen messaging

  • 5 MP camera, video capture
  • Ovi Maps with free global drive and walk navigation, Here and Now, and Gig Finder (Please check for availability in your country) to find great events near you
  • Ovi Store for apps and other entertainment content
  • Music player, stereo FM radio, thousands of free internet radio stations
  • Easy access to WLAN through home screen widget
Nokia Standard Sales Package Includes
  • Nokia 500 handset
  • Nokia Battery BL-4U, 1110 mAh
  • Nokia Charger AC-8 or AC-15
  • Nokia Headset WH-102
  • Connectivity Cable CA-101D
  • 2 additional battery covers
Nokia Original Accessories
  • Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-505
  • Nokia Mini Speaker MD-11
  • Nokia 32 GB microSD Card
Colors
  • Black (available from Q3 2011)
  • White (available from Q4 2011)
  • Battery covers: black, orange, khaki, purple, coral red, azure blue (green, pink, silver dark available from Q4 2011)
Technical Profile
  • System: WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
  • OS: Symbian Anna
  • Dimensions: 111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1 mm (L x W x T)
  • Weight: 93 g
  • Display: 3.2 inch nHD capacitive touch, 640x360 pixels, widescreen 16:9, 16M colors
  • Memory: Internal user memory 2 GB (eMMC), support up to 32 GB micro-SD card
Operating times
  • Talk time: (GSM/WCDMA) Up to 7 h/ up to 5 h
  • Standby time: (GSM/WCDMA) Up to 500 h/ up to 455 h
  • Music playback: Up to 35 h
  • Video playback: Up to 5.3 h


Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Kapil Sibal's voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill

IIPM Mumbai Campus

Taking on HRD minister Kapil Sibal, Team Anna on Monday released the interim results of its 'referendum' in the minister's constituency of Chandni Chowk which showed 85% of respondents were against the government-proposed Lokpal Bill.

The civil society activists question whether Sibal still represented the "aspirations of his people" since the results contradicted whatever he had been saying in joint committee meetings held earlier to draft the anti-corruption Bill.

Anna and his supporters claimed they distributed four lakh forms in Sibal's constituency out of which 86,000 forms had been collected.

"After evaluating 72,000 forms, the trends that have come out are overwhelming. About 82% agree that the prime minister should be brought under the ambit of Lokpal, whereas only 6% were against this. At least 88% respondents felt MPs' conduct in Parliament should be investigated by an independent Lokpal," said Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal.

He said 86% of those polled wanted the judiciary to be brought under the purview of the Lokpal and 84% voted in favour of the Lokpal having the power to dismiss a corrupt official.

Kapil Sibal's team was quick to return the fire, alleging that the referendum was carried out by BJP-RSS workers. Sibal himself chose not to join issue and merely gave out a terse statement mocking the exercise.

"They are being modest. In fact, the result should have been 100% in favour of Jan Lokpal Bill. I am thankful for their generosity," Sibal said.

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