[AI] Winning laurels against heavy odds
Date:01/12/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/12/01/stories/2010120154280200.htm Kerala Winning laurels against heavy odds A Correspondent ACHIEVERS: A reception was accorded to Neeraj (standing) and Joby Mathew (in the wheelchair)at the Nedumbassery airport on Tuesday on their arrival from Israel. Nedumbassery: It is their unyielding spirit in tough conditions and the will to continue that keep Joby Mathew and Neeraj George Baby to stay connected with an inestimable inner strength. With the ability to strive for focus and precision in movement, these young men have worked up a real appetite for taking part in competitions. This time, they duo have won medals for the country at the recently held International Open Paralympics Badminton Championship in Israel. While Joby won silver in the singles category (standing upper), Neeraj could bag a bronze in the doubles category (standing lower). Joby thinks this success in the championship against more technically perfect players across the world will inspire more young people in the State to follow his lead. A true sportsman, who has seven international medals from different sporting events under his belt, Joby also looks forward to the government level support to his initiatives. This is my first international championship though I have been playing the game for the past 15 years and this medal gives me a lot of confidence and inspiration to work towards the development of sports for differently abled persons in the State'', says an elated Joby. He is now all set to represent the country in the arm-wrestling world championship to be held in Ukraine and the Asian championship for wheel-chair fencing to be held in China, this year. Despite being 60 per cent orthopaedically challenged with severely under-developed legs, a condition caused by Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency (PFFD), Joby had been onto the podiums, both at national and international levels, for the last couple of years and even won gold in the general category during the 2008 World Championship in Spain. For Neeraj, the medal marks his return to the global ranking arena, apart from a qualification to the upcoming badminton world championship to be held in Guatemala next year. It was really a tough tournament with as many as 22 countries participating in it but I had the full support of my family and my sponsors'', says the 23-year-old, who wants to pursue a career in professional badminton. Known for his swift movements in the court, he was the first player from the State to win an international level badminton championship for the differently abled. Neeraj secured silver in doubles at the 2007 All India Super Six Badminton Tournament for the Physically Challenged and the Sixth National Championship in the same year. He also bagged gold in doubles and silver in singles at the 2008 Asian Paralympics Cup. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Number portability launched
Date:26/11/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/11/26/stories/2010112650790100.htm Front Page Number portability launched ROHTAK (HARYANA): India on Thursday ushered in Mobile Number Portability that will allow cell phone users to switch operators without changing numbers. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal launched the service in Haryana. - PTI E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Fw: (Keralavision) Blind with Camera to London
E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: bob pae...@gmail.com To: Keralavision keralavis...@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:36 PM Subject: (Keralavision) Blind with Camera to London teaches photography to visually-impaired and blind people. The art that participants create is stunning - be sure to visit the online galleries - and the impact that the organisation has on both sighted and non- sighted people is tremendous. In Bombay, we've been lucky to have regular access to Blind with Camera's mind-opening exhibitions and programmes. In a few days, the people of London will get a chance to see the world through the lens of the blind as well. On 26th November, investee Partho Bhomwick and his team will present The View from Here, an illustrated history of Blind with Camera, at the Nehru Center. If you're in London, this is a special opportunity not to be missed. ** There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Bible (Acts 4:12) With regards Bob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Keralavision group. To post to this group, send email to keralavis...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to keralavision+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/keralavision?hl=en. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Software to prevent misuse of cybercafe for crime
Date:18/11/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/11/18/stories/2010111864480900.htm National Software to prevent misuse of cybercafe for crime Y. Mallikarjun 15,000 cybercafes in country have installed the application Visitors will have to provide name, gender, age, address, photo HYDERABAD: What's common among 26/11, the Jaipur blasts and a threatening e-mail sent to Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa some months ago? In all three cases, mail was generated from cybercafes. In many such instances, the police might have ended up tracing the cafes rather than the criminals what with the cloak of anonymity they operate under. In a bid to prevent such anonymity, a Mumbai-based firm has developed software and is offering it free of cost to cybercafe owners and the police. Cybercafes, defined as intermediaries in the amended Information Technology Act, 2008, are being misused for terror crimes, fraudulent withdrawal of money and sending obscene mail, among others. This was mainly because the cafe owners failed to maintain proper user data, according to M. Krishnaswami, retail sales manager of the company. Following the mail to the Karnataka Chief Minister, the police traced the internet protocol address and the café, but could not find out further details, as the cafe owner did not maintain data, Mr. Krishnaswami said. Similarly, an e-mail sent to a Hindi television channel before the Mumbai terror attack was traced to a cafe in Rajkot. In a bid to help curb increasing cybercrime and supplement police efforts, Ideacts Innovations, a solutions provider, launched 'CLINCK Cyber Cafe Manager', which enables internet cafes to capture the relevant visitor data in a digital form. Once the software gets installed, the visitors would be required to register digitally, providing name, gender, age, address, photo, photo identification and contact number for accessing a terminal. All data gets encrypted and stored in the firm's CLINCK servers in Mumbai. Only law enforcement authorities can access it. Mr. Krishnaswami said, 15,000 cybercafes in different parts of the country have installed the application, including 1,400 in Hyderabad, 1,000 in Bangalore, 900 in Mumbai and 850 each in Chennai and Delhi. The company installed modules in the central crime station here and the zonal DCP's offices of the central and west zones to enable the police to quickly trace an IP address and the identity of the user in the event of a cybercrime. The software was installed in cybercafes in Vijayawada (190), Visakhapatnam (150), Nellore (85), Prodattur (70) and Kadapa (65). Praveen Kumar, Joint Commissioner City Police (Special Branch), said café owners could install the software voluntarily. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Facebook to launch e-mail service: reports
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Facebook to launch e-mail service: reports S T » INTERNET SAN FRANCISCO, November 13, 2010 Facebook to launch e-mail service: reports DPA Facebook's e-mail service will be integrated with Microsoft's recently introduced Office online services, say reports. APFacebook's e-mail service will be integrated with Microsoft's recently introduced Office online services, say reports. Facebook is set to announce a new e-mail feature on Monday that could challenge Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail as the most popular online e-mail services, according to news reports on Friday. The service by the popular social networking company will for the first time allow the site's 500 million members to use @facebook.com addresses and will also be integrated with Microsoft's recently introduced Office online services. The tech news blog TechCrunch, which first reported the development, said the Facebook service would be a full-featured e-mail client. Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product, TechCrunch wrote. The development comes amid growing rivalry between Facebook and Google, which this week raised salaries across the board to pre-empt defections to the social network site. Google also recently cut off Facebook's access to its own e-mail product to prevent Facebook from importing Gmail address books until Facebook allows Google to access data on its site. E Renuka, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Opening the doors to the differently-abled
Date:08/11/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/edu/2010/11/08/stories/2010110850120600.htm Education Plus Opening the doors to the differently-abled LIFFY THOMAS 'Opportunity Network for the Disabled' is a new initiative aimed at mainstreaming the differently-abled by facilitating employment in different sectors Photo: R. Ragu Tapping the potential: Candidates at an employability Fair. With good training, the disabled can create value for employers. Employing the differently-abled can be more productive for business. That is the goal of a new initiative that aims to reach out to one lakh differently-abled students spread across eight states in the next five years. Non-profit organisation Wadhwani Foundation has entered into a partnership with the American India Foundation (AIF) to train and place persons with disability through AIF's Market Aligned Skills Training Programme. Opportunity According to Ajay Kela, president and CEO, Wadhwani Foundation, five to six per cent of the population is differently-abled and their representation in corporate India is less than 0.5 per cent. 'Opportunity Network for the Disabled' is a new initiative where persons with disability would be given skill training programme such that it helps them get sustainable high quality jobs, said Mr. Kela. While AIF would identify and train potential candidates, the Wadhwani Foundation is connecting with corporates in various sectors to employ the skilled. Options Retail, hospitality, BPO, IT, ITeS and infrastructure management are some of the potential sectors. Candidates who have completed class X or XII would be chosen for the programme where training would be offered depending on the level of disability - hearing impaired, visually challenged, physically challenged - to be employed in a sector. Nearly 5,000 people have been enrolled for the pilot programme, which would be extended every quarter. Mr. Kela also pointed out that the level of attrition is less when people with disability are employed. As the programme scales up, the foundation is also planning to create a social networking site to enable potential candidates log in and register with their requirements. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] request for membership
You can do one thing. First unsubscribe from this list and subscribe aagain. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: sheetal prasad mrsheetal.pra...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 8:46 AM Subject: [AI] request for membership sir, I am sheetalprasad i am sending my request to renew my membership. In this regard I have also written about renewal of my membership. So consider my request and renew my membership. Thanking you in/regards sheetalprasad To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Legal support to free and open source software projects
Date:07/11/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/11/07/stories/2010110755180800.htm Front Page Legal support to free and open source software projects T. Ramachandran SFLC will bring to notice violations of licence terms Infringement by corporations holding software patents SFLC will focus on serving the FOSS community KOCHI: The non-profit Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC), which recently formalised its presence in the country by opening an office in New Delhi, has set up a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) defence centre. Founded in 2005 in the United States, the SFLC provides legal representation and other services to protect FOSS in the legal domain. Since its inception, it has legally supported and taken up the cause of many major free software and open source projects and organisations, including the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the Apache Software Foundation, the Drupal and the Gnome Foundation. The SFLC, New Delhi, has been registered as an independent non-profit society. It has been active in India since 2006 and has worked with various organisations, including the FSF, India; the Centre for Internet and Society; the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment; the Confederation of Indian Industries and different companies. The extensive use of FOSS in India by software and hardware companies has given rise to many instances of it being used in a 'non-compliant' manner, says Mishi Choudhary, SFLC counsel, who oversees its activities in India. The FOSS is generally distributed under different licences that mandate certain freedoms in their use and distribution. Essentially, these include the freedom to use the software, have access to and modify the source code and redistribute it. Non-compliance refers to the fact the software packages are being used in violation of the license terms under which they are distributed. The SFLC will bring such violations to the notice of the violators and will help them come into compliance, Ms. Choudhary said. However, given that it wants people to use FOSS as much as possible, ensuring compliance, rather than taking recourse to litigation was the main objective. About global challenges to FOSS, she said that software patents were a minefield that inhibited innovation. In India, as per the Patents Act, 1970 'computer program' per se is not patentable. But every year approximately 1,000 patent applications are being filed, and almost 100 patents are being granted in this field. This is a dangerous phenomenon making writing a computer program a risky proposition, where you could be sued for infringement by corporations holding software patents. This could seriously impede the growth of the software industry in India as well as put shackles on development of FOSS, she said. More recently, some hugely popular FOSS software packages have been taken over by large companies that deal in proprietary software. But this need not make much of a difference to the scheme of things if the licensing part has been properly dealt with, she said. New ownership may bring new outlooks or new commercial intentions, but the underlying structure of relationship between community development and profit-making business doesn't change. If a project has chosen its inbound and outbound licensing wisely, and has put strong internal governance mechanisms in place, changes in the ownership of copyrights should not make much practical difference. Where projects have not paid attention to these matters, changes in ownership may make the process of catching up with lost opportunities more time-consuming or more stressful, she said. In India, the SFLC would be focusing on serving the FOSS community in the areas of licensing, litigation support, trademark counselling, patent defence, non-profit organisational assistance, public education and lawyer training, protection of digital civil liberties and supporting the FOSS initiatives in education. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] request for membership renew
Hi, There is no need of the membership to be renewed. It will be continued till you unsubscribe from this list. Best regards, E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: dinesh shukla dineshshukla2...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [AI] request for membership renew sir please renue my membership I am dineshkumar shukla - Original Message - From: sheetal prasad mrsheetal.pra...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:54 AM Subject: [AI] request for membership renew sir I am sheetalprasad sending my request to renew my member ship. i thank you for your reminder. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] backing up of messages in the mobile to the memory card
Hi, Thank you for this info. I have successfully done it. But I could not find a way to see the messages or the phone numbers which I have moved to the memory card. It will be great if the method to see these will also be shared. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: YADAV, D. N yada...@iocl.co.in To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 5:16 PM Subject: [AI] backing up of messages in the mobile to the memory card Hello, Please try see. Once you on ‘Inbox’ folder, find ‘setting’ in option menu. Open ‘setting’ find ‘other’ (6th down arrow) in the end. Open it you may find … memory in use(3 or 4th down arrow). Change as per your need. Wish you a success. दीनानाथ यादव निजी सचिव - २ This Message was sent from Indian Oil Messaging Gateway, Refineries HQ, New Delhi, India. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] backing up of messages in the mobile to the memory card
But I cannot find the messages or the phone numbers which I have saved to the memory card. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: umarluha...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [AI] backing up of messages in the mobile to the memory card go to inbox and look as before you were doing. Umarluhar mobile 09687362272 -original message- Subject: Re: [AI] backing up of messages in the mobile to the memory card From: RENUKA WARRIER eren...@gmail.com Date: 03/11/2010 6:56 pm Hi, Thank you for this info. I have successfully done it. But I could not find a way to see the messages or the phone numbers which I have moved to the memory card. It will be great if the method to see these will also be shared. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: YADAV, D. N yada...@iocl.co.in To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 5:16 PM Subject: [AI] backing up of messages in the mobile to the memory card Hello, Please try see. Once you on ‘Inbox’ folder, find ‘setting’ in option menu. Open ‘setting’ find ‘other’ (6th down arrow) in the end. Open it you may find … memory in use(3 or 4th down arrow). Change as per your need. Wish you a success. दीनानाथ यादव निजी सचिव - २ This Message was sent from Indian Oil Messaging Gateway, Refineries HQ, New Delhi, India. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Wi-Fi Direct promises range, bandwidth higher than Bluetooth
Date:31/10/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/10/31/stories/2010103162651000.htm Front Page Wi-Fi Direct promises range, bandwidth higher than Bluetooth Ramkumar Iyer May present new opportunities for application developers Huge variety of existing Wi-Fi applications can be used This technology poses a security risk; its range and speed can be misused CHENNAI: Sharing, printing and connecting for Wi-Fi devices is going to be more convenient than ever with soon-to-be-launched technology Wi-Fi Direct, which enables devices to connect to each other without a conventional Wi-Fi hub. Previously known as Peer-to-Peer Wi-Fi, this new technology will allow the Wi-Fi Direct enabled devices to connect directly to each other anytime, anywhere. It's much like Bluetooth except that it promises typical Wi-Fi range (up to 200 metres) and bandwidth (up to 250 mbps) much higher than what Bluetooth technology offers. Moreover, the devices have a quick set-up mechanism, follow the latest security protocols and can easily connect to existing Wi-Fi networks. Seamless usage It means that the huge variety of existing Wi-Fi applications can be used with the new technology seamlessly. The Wi-Fi Alliance - a coalition of technology industry giants that does the research and standardisation in Wi-Fi - announced on October 25 that it had begun certifying devices as being compatible with the new technology protocol. According to the Wi-Fi Alliance website, the technology can be implemented in any device such as cameras, mobiles, laptops and human interface devices. Single-tech solution The Wi-Fi users worldwide will benefit from a single-technology solution to transfer content and share applications quickly and easily among devices, even when a Wi-Fi access point isn't available, said Wi-Fi Alliance Executive Director Edgar Figueroa in a press release. The technology is aimed at both consumer and enterprise applications and has a vast range of applications which aim at making gaming, sharing, printing and remote operations simpler and convenient. While the Wi-Fi Direct's entry into the market may present new opportunities for application developers, it may be argued that such kind of range and speed can be easily misused. Security consciousness Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Madras, agrees: This technology poses a security risk because if just one device in a group is compromised, almost all the devices in the group are at risk too. And this is especially true of organisations, because unlike in the past, wireless data transfers can now take place without the organisation being able to monitor them and particularly over a larger area. People will now have to be more security conscious than ever. Especially, the ones with a previous case of security breach. End of Bluetooth? Wi-Fi Direct not only has all the features of Bluetooth, but boasts superior transfer speeds and range. Does this mean the demise of Bluetooth? Experts speculate that Bluetooth will not be affected much. In an existing market where there are millions of Bluetooth-enabled devices, it is unlikely that any manufacturer will retire the technology just because of a new one. Bluetooth will not be affected much; at least in the next couple of years, said Sunil Abraham, Executive Director of Centre for Internet and Society, . E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Facebook to introduce technology to limit sharing of user
Date:31/10/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/10/31/stories/2010103162621000.htm Front Page Facebook to introduce technology to limit sharing of user ids Yogendra Kalavalapalli - Photo: Special Arrangement Krithiga Reddy HYDERABAD: A recent Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that the 10 most popular Facebook applications compromised user identities even when they set strictest privacy settings. It held popular applications such as the FarmVille, the Causes, the Mafia Wars, the Quiz Planet and Phrases, guilty of transmitting unique ids of users (WSJ: identifiable information) to third parties - mostly advertising and Internet tracking companies that profile Internet users, often for targeted marketing. Not only did this violate the United States laws but Facebook's privacy policy as well. Soon as the breach was brought to its notice, Facebook suspended several of the offending applications. It also sought to reassure its 500 million active users worldwide that none of the ids was used to glean personal information nor was any information misused. The company said new technical systems would be introduced that would dramatically limit the sharing of user ids. In saying so, it, however, did not rule out further breaches. As part of our work to provide people with control over their information, we've learned that the design and operation of the Internet doesn't always provide the greatest control that is technically possible, explained Kirthiga Reddy, Director, Online Operations and Head of Office Facebook India, in an email interview with this newspaper. After all, policing an approximate 5,50,000 applications, which 70 per cent users access each month, is an uphill task. More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from over 180 countries work on Facebook's platforms. Early May 2010, several social networking sites, including Facebook, were found to be (inadvertently) sharing user ids with advertisers each time they clicked on an ad. The Facebook took remedial steps immediately after the infringement was brought to its notice. Surprisingly, in both the cases, the compromised information was transmitted via 'URL referrers.' Referrers communicate the address (URL) of the previous page whenever a user clicks a link. This helps third parties gather information on a particular user. This is an even more complicated technical challenge than the similar issue we successfully addressed last Spring, but one that we are committed to addressing, Ms. Reddy stressed. Facebook, according to her, has incorporated numerous defences to ensure a safer browsing experience for its users. Its arsenal includes complex automated systems that work behind the scenes to detect and flag Facebook accounts that show signs of anomalous activity. These could include, for example, accounts that send out an abnormal number of messages in a short period of time, or those that propagate malicious links. Once we detect a phoney message, we delete all instances of that message across the site. We also block malicious links from being shared and work with third parties to get phishing and malware sites added to browser blacklists or taken down completely, Ms. Reddy explained. She, however, swore by the key rules of thumb: using up-to-date browsers, unique logins and passwords for every website, verifying the authenticity of the legitimate Facebook page from its URL and being wary of any message, post, or link that looks suspicious or requires an additional login. It would help users follow the 'Facebook Security' page. The company, which has grown very quickly in India with more than 15 million active users, is presently working on translating Marathi through its translation application. It is currently available in more than 70 languages. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Oriental Bank of Commerce 1105 Clerk Vacancies!
Oriental Bank of Commerce 1105 Clerk Vacancies! Oriental Bank of Commerce-OBC is inviting application for Clerks cadre having 1105 posts. Important dates: Opening date for online application will be 25th October 2010 Last date of online application and payment submission will be 24th November 2010 Written test scheduled on 09th January 2011 What will be age limitation? Age limitation vary in between 18-28 years as on 01th October 2010.There will be age relaxation will be 5 years for SC/ST,10 year for VH/HI/OC and 3 years for O.B.C. Application for fees will be Rs 300/- for OBC/Open where as it will be Rs 50/- SC/ST/XS/PWD Written test exam topics are as follows: 1)Numerical aptitude 2)English 3)clerical aptitude 4)Reasoning Test consist of four paper objective having 200 question time limit will be 95 minutes.Other part of test consist of Descriptive having 4 question out of which 3 question to attempt with 45 minute.Educational qualification will be Twelfth with 50% or Bachelor degree from recognize university Advt is available on www.obcindia.co.in E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] study materials for UGC net examinations
Hi friends, Could anyone suggest me websites which offer free study materials for the NET examinations for Dec. 2010? I tried to Google, but there is some problem in my screen reader and I could not get the result. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Application for Oriental Bank of Commerce Probationary Officers
Application for Oriental Bank of Commerce Probationary Officers table with 2 columns and 9 rows How To Apply APPLY ONLINEat www.obcindia.co.in table with 3 columns and 5 rows nesting level 1 Date of Commencement of Application : 11/10/2010 Date of Closure : 10/11/2010 Start Date for Fee deposit : 11/10/2010 Last Date for Fee deposit : 10/11/2010 Last Date for Reprint : 25/11/2010 table end nesting level 1 E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] In new Facebook features, a comeback for community
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : In new Facebook features, a comeback for community INTERNET CHENNAI, October 10, 2010 SRUTHI KRISHNAN Nearly 750 tweets bombard the web every second. Internet traffic is growing by 40 per cent a year. People post 2.5 billion photos on Facebook every month. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube. But who owns all that data? Until now, big business was in complete control and used the data to monetise operations. But all that is set to change. With Facebook launching two new features, 'Groups' and a 'Download your information,' the community is making a comeback. MORE CONTROL OVER DATA If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is to be believed, users now have more control over who sees their data and how much. They can also bundle up their entire social graph (as a zip file) and walk away to another service. 'Groups' tries to tackle one of Facebook's long-standing problems. On Facebook, everyone, from your boss to your long-lost school friend, is a friend. And this means annoying, sometimes embarrassing situations. An easy way to form small private groups on a social network, as we do in real life, is the biggest problem in social networking, Mr. Zuckerberg told journalists after the announcement. The Groups feature allows you to form small circles of friends. Up to 300 Groups per user are allowed, and the tool also allows Group chat and emails. The groups can be open, closed, or secret, depending on the privacy settings. Gaurav Mishra, Director (Digital and Social Media), MSL Group, Asia-Pacific, says this step is important for Facebook, given the rising competition in social networking. With alternatives on the horizon, such as Diaspora, which is being designed as an open-source, privacy-conscious social network, and Google's plans to integrate social networking elements into its services through 'Google Me,' Facebook has to take up this strategic pre-emptive move, says Mr. Mishra. But the Groups feature comes with its own baggage. It is not 'opt in.' A friend can add you to the Group, and you get to decide whether you want to be in it or not. It appears that in the trade-off between giving the user more control and encouraging use, Facebook has chosen the latter. Users will also have to be prepared for more noise as the new features offer a mirage of secure conversation space that will encourage them to share more personal details. The amount of sharing will go up massively and will be completely addictive, Mr. Zuckerberg predicted. Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, Centre for Internet and Society, says: Facebook has always taken a more promiscuous approach to configuring our social behaviour online, the primary motivation being the maximisation of user transactions and consequently profits. According to him, the logic of adding a user to a group without seeking permission first makes a lot of assumptions, including that you check your account regularly to do early damage control and that your friends follow best security practices. I would warn people not to do anything on a Facebook group - open, closed or secret - that they would not do on email. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Adding Emailids
Hi, Open the new sub menu in the file menu, arrow down to the contacts, open it and follow the instructions. You are done. With regards, E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: jagadeshwari kumari jags...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:12 PM Subject: [AI] Adding Emailids Hi friends! can anyone please let me know how to add Email ids to the contact list without composing the mail to that particular Email id? Thanks a lot in advance, bye. -- Mob: 9900250122 Res: 080-23236014 Skype: k.jagadeshwari78 Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] An initiative to promote real-time text technologies
Date:03/10/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/10/03/stories/2010100362510800.htm An initiative to promote real-time text technologies T. Ramachandran They will help users read and respond to messages as they are typed in a device RTT compatible with protocols used to facilitate voice and video communication over Internet It provides immediacy to text-based communications KOCHI: A global initiative is under way to promote real-time text (RTT) technologies, which make it possible for users to read and respond to text messages even as they are being typed or input into a device. An open forum and centre of excellence was launched some months ago to provide engineers, experts, companies and others interested with opportunities to push for the adoption of this mode of communication, based on character-by-character streaming in real time. It was launched by Foundation Real-Time Text Taskforce, a non-profit organisation based in Oss, The Netherlands. The Internet Society had assisted the Real-Time Text Taskforce by giving coordination assistance, technical expertise and implementation support during the early stages of its development. This paved the way for it to become an independent organisation last year. RTT is compatible with the protocols used to facilitate voice and video communication over the Internet or in certain other digital environments. RTT can be used on any network. In the past, RTT on the public telephone network used TTYs (or text telephones), but as we move to completely Internet Protocol (IP)-based telecommunications, we are actually talking about IP RTT, Foundation director Arnoud van Wijk explained to The Hindu. Those involved in the initiative agree that RTT provides immediacy to text-based communications, similar to what the telephone service provides for voice. Though originally developed for people with hearing and speech problems, it could have global appeal, given the immense popularity of SMS and chatting. Texting becomes more interactive, immediate and faster with RTT technologies, which are based on Internet Engineering Task Force and International Telecommunications Union standards. At the heart of RTT is the Session Initiation Protocol and the Real-Time Text transport standard, and it is designed to be compatible with voice over IP (VoIP) and video over IP environments. Ensuring interoperability and standardisation of the technologies used is an objective of the taskforce as is creating awareness of RTT among organisations, industry, end-users and governments. Real-Time Text can be used in isolation or along with other real-time communication modes such as voice telephony and videoconferencing to enhance their effectiveness. It can also be used in situations which do not permit the use of voice - such as meetings or noisy environments. It could be an important communication option for those who are aurally challenged because the exchanges are more conversational, with increased scope for quick interaction both ways, compared with the kind of responses that are possible with Instant Messaging and SMS. When the mobile phones finally switch over to VoIP, RTT will be more supported out of the box. But it is now possible to use RTT on more and more mobile phones. Blackberry, iPhone, Android Phones are all able to install the RTT program and use this directly. It is advised to use a smartphone that allows the user to install applications and also allows text input using a [virtual] keyboard, Mr. van Wijk explains. While 3G phones come equipped to support RTT, even 2G networks can support it, says Mr. van Wijk. If the network supports IP, RTT can be used. 2G networks that support GPRS can also use RTT, assuming that the phones/terminals allow UDP support [User Datagram Protocol, a technical Internet protocol]. All 3G phones support UDP, so, for those it is just a matter of downloading the IP RTT software. Telecom operators in Sweden, The Netherlands and France are offering different kinds of RTT services, he says. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Data usage in India is set to increase
Date:03/10/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/10/03/stories/2010100352070800.htm Data usage in India is set to increase Special Correspondent It is likely to grow twice as fast as in the rest of the world CHENNAI: Running out of space on your hard disk to store all your digital photos? Brace yourself for this prediction: in the coming decade, the data usage pattern in India is likely to grow at a rate twice as much as the rest of the world. The digital information in India will grow from 40,000 petabytes to 2.3 million petabytes, says a study on 'Digital Universe in India,' sponsored by information infrastructure solution company EMC Corporation and conducted by the IDC Group. The country's share of digital information is expected to grow 60-fold by 2020, driven by the rollout of 3G/BWA networks, digitisation of television networks and increased technology adoption among individuals, small and medium businesses and enterprises, and in government services such as the Unique ID project and census. India will consume twice as much data as the rest of the world, says Manoj Chugh, president, EMC India and SAARC, and Director of the Global Accounts for EMC Asia Pacific Japan. That is the most interesting finding. As of 2010, the study finds that the digital data in the country can be stored in 2.5 billion iPads (of 16 GB). The data, if stacked in those iPads one above the other, could form 4,64,000 separate towers of the size of Qutub Minar. Laid end to end, it will form a 600 million meters of iPads, roughly 10 times the running length of the Indian railway network. While the study itself was commissioned to understand the infrastructure demands of the chief information officers of various small and medium IT enterprises, the data deluge very much includes even the consumers. Individual consumers are in fact a lot faster in adapting themselves to the changes than even the big corporation. You already see a lot more individuals store their data on cloud computing networks, Mr. Chugh points out. Interestingly, already there is 50 per cent digital content surplus being created in the country that does not have storage space. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Not one to be daunted by adversities
The Hindu : Sport News : Not one to be daunted by adversities NEW DELHI, octobre 2, 2010 yK. KEERTHIVASAN SHARE · COMMENT · PRINT · T+ A BRAVE GIRL: British archer Danielle Brown's success story is one to be proud of and she will be looking to put on a good show at New Delhi. PHOTO: V.V. KRISHNANA BRAVE GIRL: British archer Danielle Brown's success story is one to be proud of and she will be looking to put on a good show at New Delhi. RELATED TOPICS Commonwealth Games 2010 sports event Commonwealth Games human interest Finding the volunteers struggling to arrange a ramp for her at the press conference in the Games Village here on Friday, Danielle Brown slowly rose from her wheelchair, used her crutches and took a few steps to reach the dais. The 22-year-old English archer suffers from a condition called reflex sympathetic dystrophy, which results in constant, chronic pain in the feet. It was diagnosed when she was 13 and the pain stopped her from fell-running (running in the hills and mountains) and golf- things which she enjoyed doing. But nothing has deterred her from achieving what she set out to do after taking up archery at the age of 15. Now, after years of struggle, pain and sacrifices, Brown will become the first Paralympic athlete from England to compete in the able-bodied event in a Commonwealth Games. I am very excited and I am glad that I got this opportunity, Brown said. It is the first time that archery is being included in the CWG (after a gap of 28 years) and it is not going to be in the next CWG in Glasgow. So this could well be a lifetime opportunity. Boyfriend's backing Brown wouldn't have made it to the selection trials for the Commonwealth Games but for the cajoling by her boyfriend and team-mate Ali Jawad, a paralympic powerlifter. To be honest with you, I was not going to turn up for the selection trials. I qualified three days before the closing dates because I was in Arizona at that time. I thought to myself 'Do I really want to go back and within five days turn up for the selection trials?' Brown also had doubts whether she could qualify for CWG in the compound section when the competition was going to be very tough. But her boyfriend told her about the importance of the Games and she agreed. I am really glad that I did it, Brown said. First time at Nymburk Brown's first international competitive event was at the European junior archery championships in Nymburk (Czech Republic) in 2006 where she reached the semifinals of the compound bow open class event. She then took part in the World archery championships in Cheongju (South Korea) in 2007. Competing in the compound bow open class section, Brown won the gold medal. She was also part of the British women's team which won gold in the team event. She capped her fine performance with a gold medal in the Beijing Paralympic Games. In fact, Brown was so focussed on the Games that she deferred her law degree at Leicester University to focus on training. Brown said she isn't under any sort of pressure in the Games and that she is excited to be here and just compete. Brown remarked that her disability has made her mentally strong to deal with challenges day in and day out. With my disability I had to be mentally strong. For me the worst time of the day is morning when I have to get out of bed and it is just a nightmare being in so much pain. I just had to put all that to one side so I guess in sports that also helps me. I had to develop strategies to cope with the pain, she said. Ironically, pain has kept pushing Brown to reach greater heights. SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Query regarding phone
Do you want to be a violator of rules? E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: nithin jain nithin.he...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 9:04 PM Subject: [AI] Query regarding phone Hello Accessindians, hope you are doing well. 'I beg your pardon, if below subject is already discussed. Is Nokia c5 compatible with Talks? if so, can 'I get it cracked easily? and which version can be instaled and please tell me A bit about phone. Thanks in advance. With warm Regards, Nithin. Moderator of Linkingleads. Phone: +919740730015 Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] header
What is this? E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: mahesh maheshs...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 9:50 PM Subject: [AI] header Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Twitter launches redesign
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Twitter launches redesign SAN FRANCISCO, September 30, 2010 DPA Twitter launched an ambitious new redesign on Wednesday designed to keep tweeters and their followers on the site longer and entice advertisers to splash their cash on reaching the fast-growing number of Twitter fans. Twitter said the new look would offer an easier, faster and richer experience by streaming searches and lists on the left of the screen and grouping together other features such as favourites, recently-followed feeds and trending topics on the other side. The new Twitter look will also make it easier for fans to view photos, videos and other media content. The changes will be rolled out over the coming weeks and users will be able to toggle between the old and new looks. These changes will roll out as a preview over the next several weeks starting with a very small percentage of registered accounts tonight, the company said on its website on Wednesday. Twitter announced the redesign in conjunction with a new advertising programme that it hopes will help the site to cash in on its surging popularity. The programme will allow advertisers to pay Twitter to feature in a section that is automatically customized for each user and which suggests accounts for them to follow. Twitter already allows companies to purchase Promoted Tweets and Trends that show up as the top feed when people search for related words, and the new system should further improve the site's friendliness to marketers. We're definitely beyond the experimentation stage, said Dick Costolo, Twitter's chief operating officer at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Mixx conference in New York. We feel like we've cracked the code on a new kind of advertising - advertising that starts out as organic content. According to the New York Times, Costolo said that Twitter now has 160 million users and is growing at the rate of 370,000 a day. Costolo said that companies would soon start spending millions of dollars to reach these users. That day is right around the corner, he said. Right now, there's a line out the door to advertise with us and spend significant dollars with us. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Any positive experience from alternative treatments for RP?
One of our Access Indian friend Mr. Sudhir has undergone Ayurvedic treatment from Sreedhariyam in Kerala, but in vain. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: Swati Sinha swatisinh...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Any positive experience from alternative treatments for RP? I undergone, the ayurvedic treatment for about 1 year but I couldn't find any possitive results. I guess, in the year 2005-2006, from Patunjali yogpitth, Haridewar. On 9/29/10, Mahesh Kumar mahesh.pr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Exactly I also need answer for the same question. I read and heard that there will be some positive result for the ayurvedic and acupuncture treatments for RP. I want to know if there is anyone in this list who underwent this sort of treatments. If yes, Please share your personal experience. Especially, I'm curious to know about the results of Kerala Aayurvedic treatments. Regards and Thanks, Mahesh Kumar Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- when things don't seem to be going your way, always know that God has a plan for you. If you place your trust in Him, He will give you great gifts. We don't always know what God's plans are for us. We just know that His ways are not our ways, but His ways are always best. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] disabled friendly library
Hi friends, As the subject line indicates I would like to know about the disabled friendly libraries in India. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] (no subject)
Please moderator, Do something about this nuisance. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: Neelam Jain Goyal neelamjaingoya...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:03 PM Subject: [AI] (no subject) On 9/20/10, accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in wrote: Send AccessIndia mailing list submissions to accessindia@accessindia.org.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in You can reach the person managing the list at accessindia-ow...@accessindia.org.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of AccessIndia digest... Today's Topics: 1. suscriver (Neelam Jain Goyal) 2. suscriver (Neelam Jain Goyal) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:58:21 +0530 From: Neelam Jain Goyal neelamjaingoya...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] suscriver Message-ID: aanlkti=wh6+cfmdysyra1wv7m=tudhprt0j_+kqoy...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 9/20/10, accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in wrote: Send AccessIndia mailing list submissions to accessindia@accessindia.org.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in You can reach the person managing the list at accessindia-ow...@accessindia.org.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of AccessIndia digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Dear friends, urgent info required on the availability of house registration fees relaxation for the differently abled. (RAKESH KUMAR GUPTA) 2. Re: question (BHAWANI SHANKAR VERMA) 3. Re: Laptop battery level (sweety.bhalla) 4. n72 copying notes and sms (anjali Anand) 5. Re: Regarding External Hard Drive (jayinfotech) 6. net offerings from google (Asudani, Rajesh) 7. Conducive environment sought for visually challenged in offices (Asudani, Rajesh) 8. Re: Conducive environment sought for visually challenged in offices (Ezhil Araasan) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:16:04 +0530 From: RAKESH KUMAR GUPTA rkgd1...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Dear friends, urgent info required on the availability of house registration fees relaxation for the differently abled. Message-ID: 000201cb5866$a4155100$0201a...@rakeshacfe97e6 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Hello, Only some states have given this type of relaxation, so, kindly contact your state level organisation or social welfare department of your state. Rakesh. - Original Message - From: Ram Kumar drkwis...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 8:19 PM Subject: [AI] Dear friends, urgent info required on the availability of house registration fees relaxation for the differently abled. Dear friends, as I am planing to purchase a flat in Pondicherry, I would like to know if any relaxation or concession is available for the visually challenged people in registration fees. If so, I would appreciate if any could provide me with the circular pertaining to the same. Your timely support is highly appreciable. -- COMING TOGETHER IS A BEGINNING, KEEPING TOGETHER IS A PROGRESS AND WORKING TOGETHER IS A SUCCESS. With best regards, D, Ramkumar, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of English, Kasthurba College for Women, Puducherry andPHD Scholar in English, Pondicherry university (a central University). Mobile: 09489693505 home: 0413 3290383 skipe name: ramkumarpondicherry alternate email id: drk_wis...@yahoo.co.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:15:30 +0530 From: BHAWANI SHANKAR VERMA bsvermad...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] question Message-ID:
[AI] a problem in serching an info
Hi friends, From today morning I am facing a strange in searching for any info. when I type any 'query, the result is being displayed, but JAWS does not read it. I don't know what is the problem. Any idea to come out of this? I am using JAWS E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Examinations
In Kerala the candidates can write their exams in braille for the SSLC examination and the pictorial based questions are exumpted. For other exams there is no such rule though. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: Swasti Mathur swastimat...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Examinations hello madam, my views are as follows: first of all to reduce dependability of vi candidates on scribes for appearing in exams, where ever possible use of assistive technology must be laid amphysis. for eg., few management exams are now conducted on line. as these are computer based exams, it is very practical to make use of jaws or other screen readers. such exams also overcome the hinderence of bias by examiner towards Vi candidates either too libral or too harsh as pointed by one of our friend. these technological advancements must be accomodated. secondly, There should not be any stringint rules to be complied with while arranging for a writer. in place of it, invigilator in charge should be very dedicated towards his/her duty because many times i came across people who take a very good writer and they themselves dont do anything other than sitting and in place the entire paper is solved by the scribe. such practises are dubious raising serious questions on the capability of entire vi community. people tends to develop a mallaicious tendency towards us. most of the time invigilators are not found on the duty or sitting there and engaging themselves in some other chores. they should be very alert and see that upto what extent scribe is assisting the candidate. is candidate herself is answering questions or they are ansered by writer? this practice also act as a partiality against other vi candidates. writer should be always from the same field or must be assosiated with the subject concerning the examination for which a vi candidate is appearing. writer must be in no case be arranged by the body conducting exams. this must entirely lie in the domain of vi candidate appearing for exam. questions of pictorial presentations must in every case be replaced by theoritical questions. in many examinations there is no such provision like in management exams. these exams have complex data to be interpreted. as i am aiming at CAT, FMS, XAT, SNAP etc. inclusion of screen readers will be a very cozy step in this direction. hope my opinions will add to this bettle against present dogmas. regards swasti Mathur Sandeep Gautam wrote: Dear all, the problem of a scribe is common to all VI people who are student or appearing for one or other exam (either for job etc.) I know one person, who is a graduate from very reputed college in Delhi and speaks very fluent, impressive, correct and intelligent English. but, when he is told to type a paper, he even don't know the spelling of that and other so simple words. . this was because he studied from audio material and with the help of readers and got high colours with the help of a intelligent scribe. This draws very bad image for VI person as it shows VI persons got pass in high colours due to the efficiency of good scribe ( although opposite cases are also there). I say, why we depend on good or bad writer? why we depend on his/her (writer) understanding or knowledge of spellings? When we use JAWS or Talks to access machines or informations by our own without any scribe, then, why we need a scribe to evaluate our capability and academic knowledge? We should have a simple and single law to use a computer (desktop/laptop) to appear any exam and, diagram and figure questions should be replaced with equally weighted theory questions. one practical difficulty appears in my mind that how examiner will respond to the computer typed answer sheets because it is clear from the answer sheet that this is of a VI candidate ( he could be too liberal or too rigid). bye Sandeep G Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your
Re: [AI] Examinations
This suggestion seems to be most suitable. Since the invigilater is suppose to spend the whole time in the room why can't they be the scribe? When I was appearing for the departmental tests, )only then I had to use the scribe, since I had vision till then.) the invigilater actually did not even come to the room. So, why wasting money on them? E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: m.chandrashekar chandru...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:27 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Examinations very nice, thank you for preparation and suggestions. 1 more suggestion I would like to add: in case of sudden absence of scribe, because of various reasons, let the invigilator become scribe, instead of simply sitting and observing, he or she can do this job. with best regards m.chandru - Original Message - From: Prashant Verma pr_ve...@hotmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Examinations Dear Kanchan, Here is another draft that is on the same subject for the University level exams. Exam writing policy for students with disability- 1. The term examination stands for all examinations conducted by the University, the Colleges and the Departments. It would include the final exams, the college conducted half yearly (House exams), the semester exams, the entrance tests and any other exams officially conducted by the University, the colleges or the teaching faculty. 2. The facilities specified in the Document will include the following categories of students: a. Students with visual disabilities b. Students with low vision c. Students with short term disability due to injury d. Students with orthopaedic disability e. Students with brain related ailments that demand support systems f. Students with any other type of disability accepted for this purpose by the head of the institution, (to be approved by an officer designated by the Examination Branch) 3. All students, in any of the categories mentioned above, may arrange for their own writers, scribes. In case they are unable to do so, the superintendent of the examination centre would provide a writer. The candidate must, however, request for a writer at least 24 hours prior to the commencement of the examination. A writers' bank must be created for the purpose for a ready availability of writers whenever required. The candidate must be given an opportunity to satisfy himself/ herself about the writer's ability to take dictation from the candidate. There should be, at least, a minimum comfort level between the candidate and the writer and the invigilator. 4. One hour extra time over and above the prescribed time for a paper of three hours duration and where the period is less than 3hrs., then extra time allowed will be 1 / 3rd of the total duration of examination, be given to write answer scripts, without obtaining prior approval of the University. 5. There should be no clause regarding the academic qualification of the scribe except a minimum level of education. As each candidate is required to be assigned a separate invigilator and a separate room, it is the responsibility of the invigilator to ensure a fair conduct of the examination. (UPSC guidelines may be used) (Suggestion from Vikas Gupta: students of humanities should preferably be provided with scribes of humanities background and those of science and commerce and different languages with scribes of respective backgrounds. He also feels that levels of minimum education could be different for different courses). 6. It should not be mandatory for a candidate to mention his/ her disability on the cover page of the answer script. 7. The writer must be paid at the end of each examination by the superintendent of the concerned Centre whether the writer has been arranged by the candidate or by the superintendent. Each Centre must receive the required remuneration in advance from the University. 8. The remuneration to be paid to the writers must be enhanced from Rs. 100/- to Rs. 300/- in accordance with revisions in the entire examination system. 9. An extremely cumbersome requirement of a certificate from the University Health Centre, in the case of persons with short term disability, should be replaced with a simplified and convenient approach. A certificate from an MBBS doctor and endorsed by the Head of the Institution should be acceptable for a candidate to seek a writer for writing an exam. 10. In case of a candidate, whose disability may not be a hindrance in his/ her ability to write the exam himself/ herself, but could cause a significant slow down in writing speed, the provision of extra time should be allowed even if the service of a writer is not required. (Vikas
Re: [AI] new blind person
Just follow the messages in this list. You will automatically get the ideas and suggestions. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: Jacinto Pinto jacinruth2...@rediffmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 11:37 PM Subject: [AI] new blind person partially blind at 90% and requiring assistive technology and ideas to improve the welfare of the blind. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] new blind person
Just follow the messages in this list. You will automatically get the ideas and suggestions. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: Jacinto Pinto jacinruth2...@rediffmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 11:37 PM Subject: [AI] new blind person partially blind at 90% and requiring assistive technology and ideas to improve the welfare of the blind. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Learning tool that enables home schooling
Date:05/09/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/09/05/stories/2010090550961000.htm Front Page Learning tool that enables home schooling Amruta Byatnal Pune: Home learning may well become the norm again. Maharashtra schools are definitely gearing up for the educational revolution of sorts. In a step towards free and uncontrolled learning, Pune-based Pragatipath Educational Foundation recently launched myEshala. myEshala is a learning tool that enables children to study the Maharashtra State (S.S.C.) curriculum from their home. Pragatipath Educational Foundation also runs the Millennium National School in Pune. The model of e-learning was tried and tested on the school's students first, before bringing it out as an open tool. The tool can be used independently and as a reinforcement to what has already been taught at school. The tool, a demo copy of which can be downloaded from the website, www.myEshala.in, comprises of lesson-by-lesson lecture videos of all subjects as per the State (S.S.C.) curriculum, including Maths, Science, History, Geography, and English and Grammar. The lectures are designed and scripted by a young team of professionals. The website claims that each lecture has been tried, evaluated and reviewed by school teachers and students, making it effective, accurate and interesting. After small segments, preliminary testing is done to check learning levels. A copy of myEshala is valid for a period of one academic year, between May 1 to April 30 every year. In this time period, one is free to use all the available lectures and attempt all the quizzes as many times as wanted. It is available at an annual fee of Rs. 3,500 for home use. Available only for the English medium syllabus from Class 3 to Class 8 as of now, the Foundation aims to expand it to other classes and to Marathi medium within a few months. As mobile phone penetration in rural areas is better than that of computers, the tool will be made compatible for mobile phones within the next year, to reach out to rural students. The Foundation has also requested the Pune Municipal Corporation to integrate the tool in Corporation-run schools. One broad aim of the Foundation is to encourage home schooling and enable children to give external exams. This will usher in more freedom from the current educational system, it believes. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] NGO offers helpline for disabled
Date:03/09/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/09/03/stories/2010090351120100.htm Front Page NGO offers helpline for disabled Karthik Madhavan COIMBATORE: Finally, there is one place where all persons with disabilities (PWDs) can turn to - if not for all their needs, at least for most. U and Disabled (UDIS) Forum, an NGO working for PWDs, has set up a helpline offering a host of services. It will be a one stop shop for PWDs, says M.N.G. Mani of UDIS. By dialling 0422 2405551 or 0422 2648006 or 99445 56168 one can learn about the schemes devised by Central and State governments for PWDs, the schemes available for education or service organisation that wish to assist PWDs, how to access disability-related facilities from various sources, about assistive devices and their availability, referral centres for education and rehabilitation, disability components in public and private sector enterprises and employment opportunities in industries. They can also access information related to disabled people's organisations and parents' groups, important national and international developments on disability and database on disabled persons. Mr. Mani, who is also the Secretary General of the International Council for Education of People With Visual Impairment, says that the helpline is also open for those who want to assist PWDs. Say, an organisation might want to recruit such people and it might be interested in knowing if any of the governments provide grant or not. Even such information is available at the helpline. The challenged people can access the helpline to gather information about whom to contact for their needs, what documents to be submitted, if they are availing of a scheme, and where to look for a job. He further says: In effect the helpline aims at involving all stakeholders, optimising their efforts and bridging the gap between PWDs and others. Information Information will be available between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the helpline. Assistance will also be available to those who visit the UDIS Forum in person. They can get forms for various schemes, aside from information. As for the database on PWDs, he says the details will be gathered with assistance from the District Disabled Welfare Office. And the UDIS advisory committee for helpline will meet periodically and update information. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Govt launches scheme to encourage organ transplantation
The Hindu : Health / Policy Issues : Govt launches scheme to encourage organ transplantation HYDERABAD, September 1, 2010 PTI A kidney transplant at Apollo hospital, Chennai. File Photo The Hindu kidney transplant at Apollo hospital, Chennai. File Photo In an effort to promote and streamline the process of organ donation to help hundreds of needy patients, the Andhra Pradesh government has launched a unique scheme and issued a comprehensive set of guidelines for its effective functioning. 'Jeevandan', a comprehensive scheme that would cover various aspects relating to declaration of brain death, infrastructure, coordination and public awareness for organ transplantation was announced by the government keeping in view the low rate of transplantations in AP. Despite the elapse of 14 years since the passing of the Act (for organ transplantation in the state) and rules by the Legislature and Government, the number of transplantations occurring in Andhra, especially cadaver transplantations have not increased significantly, primarily because of lack of a centralised coordination mechanism and the absence of a streamlined procedure for facilitating and regulating it on an end-to-end basis, a government order issued here said. Highlighting that the success of scheme depends on sharing real-time information about the availability of organs and allocating them to the needy patients, the government said a portal --www.jeevandan.org -- would be set up for the purpose. Noting that effective functioning of 'Jeevandan' scheme depends substantially on the portal, the government said its salient features include -- receiving applications of hospitals for registration as Non-Transplantation Organ Harvesting Centres (NTOHC) and Organ Transplantation Centres (OTC), receiving applications for registration with the AP Network for Organ Sharing (APNOS) by OTCs and NTOHCs. The government has also laid down a slew of procedures for running the portal effectively. It has mandated that the Director of Information and Public Relations should undertake an extensive campaign for promoting the 'Jeevandan' scheme among the public. The other innovative aspects of the scheme include appointment of Transplantation Coordinators and professional counsellors for its efficient implementation. The hospitals (both NTOHCs and OTCs) shall have a full-time transplantation coordinator who should be able to handle the situation arising out of the donation and transplantation, the government order said. Besides, the hospitals should also appoint professional counsellors to motivate the relatives of the deceased persons to take a decision in favour of organ donation. SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Google rolls out Priority Inbox
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Google rolls out Priority Inbox » SAN FRANCISCO, September 1, 2010 DPA Google on Tuesday rolled out a new Gmail service called Priority Inbox which automatically prioritises incoming messages and places the most important ones at the top of the inbox. File photo APGoogle on Tuesday rolled out a new Gmail service called Priority Inbox which automatically prioritises incoming messages and places the most important ones at the top of the inbox. File photo Intensifying the fight against the avalanche of e-mail, Google on Tuesday rolled out a new Gmail service called Priority Inbox which automatically prioritises incoming messages and places the most important ones at the top of the inbox. In a blog posting, Google said it was easy to filter out most spam but that people's inboxes were still getting cluttered with mail that isn't very important, which it called Bologna. Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules, said software engineer Doug Aberdeen. He explained that Google uses a variety of signals to identify important emails, such as those from people you email a lot, and which messages you open and reply to. Users can also fine tune the classification by marking specific conversations as important or not and helping the programme learn their preferences. While the priority emails are automatically placed at the top of the inbox, Google has also created two other folders. The starred folder appears directly beneath the Priority section and includes all messages that the user marks to be read later. The third section is called Everything Else and includes all messages that aren't routed directly to spam or to the two other folders. The new system is one of the biggest updates introduced to Gmail since Google introduced its e-mail service in 2004. Google said that the new feature was made available to initial groups of subscribers on Tuesday and that they would roll out to all Gmail users within the week. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Now, open source hardware
Date:29/08/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/08/29/stories/2010082955370800.htm National Now, open source hardware T. Ramachandran Draft version likely to be finalised at a September summit in New York KOCHI: The concept of open source is now generally well understood in relation to software, but can it be extended in a clear-cut manner to hardware too? Yes, say a group of open source hardware enthusiasts, who have been working on the draft version of a definition of open source hardware. They hope to finalise it at a summit, scheduled for September in New York. Open source in the context of software implies not only the free availability of source code, but also the freedom to modify and redistribute it. The concept has widened and is being applied in other domains too. Some open source hardware licences like the TAPR open hardware and non-commercial hardware licences were formulated and ideas from them are being incorporated into the draft. Effective definition Hardware enthusiasts and researchers apart, companies are embracing open source hardware these days. So the need for an effective definition of has become pressing. Peter Semmelhack, whose Bug Labs is one of the sponsors of the summit devoted to the open source hardware movement, says the time has come to crystallise the concept of open source hardware. There is a basic difference between open source software and open source hardware: the latter will never be totally free. The whole goal of open source is to reduce/eliminate the transaction costs of innovation in software and now, hardware. The big difference, of course, is hardware will never be free [as in free beer]. That doesn't mean, however, we can't drastically improve the process by which new hardware devices get to market, Mr. Semmelhack says. Anybody with a computer can download and install open source software; it is hard to replicate and use open source hardware as easily. The process of developing electronic hardware requires an approach, workflow and tools quite different from those required for creating software. Richard Stallman, free software stalwart, wrote in Linux Today more than a decade ago, Because copying hardware is so hard, the question of whether we're allowed to do it is not vitally important. Physical difference But, Mr. Semmelhack went on to tell TheHindu, There's an obvious physical difference between creating software vs. hardware - bits vs. atoms. But philosophically the approaches are identical. In the world of software applications, open source promises that when you get the application executable, you also receive the source code to modify that application. Open source hardware similarly promises that when you buy a device [the executed version of the design], you also receive all the source material for that device so you can modify it. In the case of hardware, it's not a single text source file but a collection of documents that, in total, equal everything you need. Implications G. Nagarjuna, chairman, Free Software Foundation, India, says: Free software movement and its method of granting freedom has implications for not merely software, but also other technologies, not even merely for computing devices. Therefore, when the hardware specs are known to the engineers, and they have the freedom to make changes, innovation will take several leaps. Some feel that India, which has a lot of catching up to do on the hardware front, should aggressively exploit the potential of this concept. I would say that it is relevant for every country, including India. India will definitely get the advantage. E Renuka, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Indian hardware market abuzz with tablet PCs
Date:29/08/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/08/29/stories/2010082955330800.htm National Indian hardware market abuzz with tablet PCs Karthik Subramanian CHENNAI: For a country full of software developers, India has seldom made a significant contribution when it comes to computer hardware entirely conceived and developed in the country. But that seems to be an old story. At least three different gadgets - all tablet PCs - have captured the imagination of geeks across the globe in the past few weeks. Two of the devices are staking claims to becoming the lowest-priced tablet PCs, while the other is a stunner that promises to take on the best in the game. The government-sponsored 'Rs. 1,500 laptop' (approximately $35) was announced by Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal last month as an answer to MIT (Nicholas Negroponte's famous One Laptop per Child was conceived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). By a very long haul, against $100 'xo' laptop of OLPC, the device ambitiously looks at becoming the cheapest computing device ever capable of running a complete operating system. There are questions as to whether the prototype would be viable for large-scale production, retaining the touted cost advantage. That the country does not have manufacturing hubs for computer components makes the questions pertinent. There have been suggestions that the government could cross-subsidise the cost of the device to its target student groups against commercial sale in other markets, may be for a higher price. What remains to be seen is will the device keep up its promise of becoming the most affordable computer that reaches the hands of millions of students. Mr. Negroponte, meanwhile, through his official blog for the OLPC project (blog.laptop.org), has welcomed the $ 35 laptop for educational purposes, and even offered resources for a possible collaboration. He has urged the Indian team of developers to focus on its design, making it a fun device for children to use, and in the process killing rote learning. Close on the heels of the announcement of the government laptop, another company headquartered in Bangalore, Allgo Embedded Systems, unveiled Stamp, a prototype device that runs Linux and Andriod operating systems on i.MX233, a cost-effective and low-end processor. So while it is not really a competitor in the retail market, the device could find many takers in the B2B market. A video demo of the device, that sports a 7-inch touch screen, has been put on Allgo Embedded Systems official website www.allgosystems.com. Speaking about the tablet, tentatively pegged at $50, the company's CEO, K. Srinivasan, said the device would target niche B2B applications, such as smart energy control panels or even for specific educational devices. The company is holding talks with manufacturers and hopes to go in for mass production in four or five months. The most interesting development from the Indian hardware stable though is the impending launch of Adam, the tablet PC designed and developed by Hyderabad-based Notion Ink. Its young CEO and IIT graduate Rohan Shravan recently announced on the company's official blog that the device is headed for a global launch in November. He also hinted that four variants (LCD and Pixel Qi screens with Wi-Fi and 3G support) would be available in the price range of $399 to $498. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Yahoo's search migrates to Microsoft
The Hindu : Business / Companies : Yahoo's search migrates to Microsoft SAN FRANCISCO, August 25, 2010 DPA SHARE · PRINT · T+ Yahoo and Microsoft have a combined 28 per cent share of the US search market, while Google has a roughly 66 per cent share. APYahoo and Microsoft have a combined 28 per cent share of the US search market, while Google has a roughly 66 per cent share. Yahoo has completed the migration of its web and mobile search functions to Microsoft's Bing search engine as the two companies hope that their combined market power may prove a more significant threat to the dominance of Google. The integration comes more than a year after Yahoo and Microsoft announced their 10-year search deal under which Microsoft will power Yahoo's search site, while Yahoo manages sales for both companies' premium search advertisers. This is a great milestone for Bing and Yahoo and our customers, and we are happy to report the transition has gone smoothly and we feel great about the progress our search alliance has been making over the summer, wrote Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft's online services division, in a blog post. According to recently published data, Yahoo and Microsoft have a combined 28 per cent share of the US search market, while Google has a roughly 66 per cent share. Yahoo expects the deal to save it the high cost of developing its own cutting edge search capability, while combining the two companies' customers is expected to entice advertisers to pay more for paid search ads. SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Facebook facing fresh privacy concerns
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[AI] Fake 'Dislike' button spreads across Facebook
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Fake 'Dislike' button spreads across Facebook WASHINGTON, August 17, 2010 IANS SHARE · PRINT · T+ Graham Cluley of the British security firm Sophos wrote in a blog that the fake Dislike buttons are going viral on Facebook. APGraham Cluley of the British security firm Sophos wrote in a blog that the fake Dislike buttons are going viral on Facebook. Social networking website Facebook, which offers its subscribers only a Like button for anyone's updates, is now faced with a fake Dislike button, which is spreading like a virus across the site. The fake Dislike button is followed with a link that takes people to a fake application. Instead of installing a Dislike button, the application uses the person's network to continue spreading the fake programme. Graham Cluley of the British security firm Sophos wrote in a blog that the fake Dislike buttons are going viral on Facebook. Watch out for posts that look like this: I just got the Dislike button, so now I can Dislike all of your dumb posts! CNN quoted Cluley as writing in the blog. If you do give the application permission to run, it silently updates your Facebook status to promote the link that tricked you in the first place, thus spreading the message virally to your Facebook friends and online contacts, he wrote. A message on technology blog Mashable said, As usual, we advise you not to click on suspicious links on Facebook, especially if they promise something that sounds impossible or unlikely. Do not give away your personal information, unless you're absolutely sure why and who you're giving it to. Cluley said the fake Dislike button is part of a recent trend of Facebook scams. It's the latest survey scam spreading virally across Facebook, using the tried-and-tested formula used in the past by other viral scams. Such schemes are designed to steal information from internet users. That information then can be sold to other parties. The scams are also used to affect an internet user's social network contacts. The experts give the following advice to avoid the fake button, If you accidentally installed the fake application, click on the 'account' button at the top right of the Facebook home screen. Navigate to the option that says 'application settings' and disable the fake 'Dislike' application. If the application is posted to your Facebook wall, go to your profile page and delete those posts to stop the scam from spreading further. Facebook has said it is trying to block the Dislike button. We're working hard to block and remove malicious applications that claim to provide Dislike functionality and inadvertently update people's statuses, a Facebook spokesman said. There is no official Dislike button. Also, don't click on strange links, even if they are from friends, and notify the person and report the link if you see something suspicious, the statement said. E Renuka, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Centre's policy handicaps school for the hearing-impaired
The Hindu : Today's Paper / NATIONAL : Centre's policy handicaps school for the hearing-impaired ALIGARH, August 14, 2010 Centre's policy handicaps school for the hearing-impaired SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SHARE · PRINT · T+ 5 % cut in grant-in-aid imposed since 2007 The cacophony and clamour from the street outside the school building that permeates the classrooms may have distracted ordinary children in an ordinary school. But the 110 children who study at the Pragnarain Mook Badhir Vidyalaya, located at the Sasni Gate in the busy heart of Aligarh, are not ordinary children, and neither is their school. The children are hearing-impaired and pursue their education against tremendous personal and social odds, their disability being just one of them. The school, recognised for offering specialised teaching for the hearing-impaired children up to Class VIII, is the only one of its kind in the six districts, including Aligarh. Started in 1967 by incumbent principal Ramji Lal Mathuria, an early specialist and teacher for the hearing-impaired, it has worked with quiet efficiency over the last 23 years in mainstreaming thousands of hearing-impaired boys and girls from poor families - children who would otherwise have been left by the wayside - onto the track of formal education. The school, despite its creditable record, now faces the threat of closure owing to a retrograde grant-in-aid norm drawn up by the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. From 2007-08, the Ministry imposed a five per cent cut in grant-in-aid to non-government organisations every two years, including schools for the disabled like this one. This, according to an official circular, is to enable voluntary organisations raise funds at their own level and reduce their dependence on the government. For this school, the writing on the wall could not be clearer: once their grant runs out, it must close. To expect us to collect donations to run the school, given the indifference among the rich towards the disabled in our country, is unrealistic, said Mr. Mathuria. Till 2007-2008, we somehow managed to run on the grants we received, but with the cuts, this will be impossible. The school has nine trained teachers, and the grants covered 90 per cent of their honorariums of Rs. 4,200 for a trained teacher and Rs. 2,800 for an assistant teacher, a full 50 per cent less than what government primary school teachers get. A school like ours should be taken over by the Union Human Resource Development [HRD] Ministry, or the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, as our students are taught the regular State Board syllabus. Our children should be eligible for free uniforms, books, and the mid-day meal. And we have no money to invest in infrastructure, said the indefatigable Mr. Mathuria, who has knocked on the doors of countless ministerial and bureaucratic offices at the Centre and State with the appeal that the school be taken over by the HRD Ministry as part of its national school system. Blissfully ignorant of the threat that looms over their education, the students of the Pragnarain Mook Badhir Vidyalaya are fully immersed in the adventure of learning with their remarkably committed band of special trainers. Amongst them is 10-year-old Yash, who proudly reads a poem off the blackboard; Lokendra, the industrious solver of math problems; and Shubham, who above all, loves talking. God give me speech, reads a message painted prominently on a wall. With the State threatening to take away their very right to education, divine intervention may be all the school can hope for. . The only one of its kind school in the six districts . Cut in funds 'to reduce dependence on government' Renuka E, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] feedback required on ANGELTalking Pocket Daisy Reader
I don't think it is so much ad jas you have mentioned. For me, the voice quality did not seem to be bad and I could read the instruction manual (e text) and the tutorial for JAWS11 (daisy) with ease. For the quality of the voice of the radio and the m p 3 and the radio was also sound to be good. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: himalaya singh Rawat himalayasinghra...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [AI] feedback required on ANGELTalking Pocket Daisy Reader hello all, to get an answer for the quality of angel player open it up and the answer comes in front of you. 1. the battery is certainly not good quality. 2. doesnt play daisy books properly. 3. who gives the technical support, what is the website, manufacturers address?? no body knows 4. the circuit board inside doesnt looks of indias. 5. medium wave and short wave radios are certainly no no for this type of device, users who are using this player can throw more light on this, but my suggestion is dont go for it. Himalaya On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:39 PM, yusuf vohra dr.yusu...@gmail.com wrote: hellow sir. One of my friend is using angel. I also so this player from him. I found that we can use easily without any asistance. it reads all the manue of the player. and also it anounces tytle of the track of mp3 songs. with warm regards, - Original Message - From: Srikanth Kanuri srili...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 3:43 PM Subject: [AI] feedback required on ANGELTalking Pocket Daisy Reader have anyone been using this product? what does it announce? does it read track titles when MP3 songs are copied? does it speech the menus of the player? is it possible to operate without assistance? your feedback is highly appreciated. Srikanth Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.inwith the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.inwith the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] RBI Recruitment 2010
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is the central banking field of India which has control on Indian banking and economical system and as per the economical scenario the RBI takes financial decision accordingly.. The bank was built on 1 April 1935 from the British-Raj in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India rule.We have also seen the Rupee currency symbol which was revealed by Govt of India soon the RBI will print it on the Indian notes RBI Recruitment 2010 Reserve Bank of India is going to recruit for Executive Interns having 200 Posts Age Limitation:As per notification in Between 21 and 30 years Last date for application submission will be 30th August 2010,Application can be submit by online or by post Annual package for applicant will be 50 and will increasing yearly. Education qualification will be graduation with first class or equivalent there is relaxation as per rule for ST/PWD HI/VH/OH/SC Advt is available on scripts/bs_viewcontent www.rbi.org.in | E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] NASA astronaut sends first message in sign language from space station
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Science : NASA astronaut sends first message in sign language from space station S T SCIENCE WASHINGTON, July 24, 2010 ANI An astronaut during a spacewalk. For the first time, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson has sent a message in American Sign Language (ASL) from the International Space Station to the deaf community. File Photo: AP APAn astronaut during a spacewalk. For the first time, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson has sent a message in American Sign Language (ASL) from the International Space Station to the deaf community. File Photo: AP For the first time, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson has sent a message in American Sign Language (ASL) from the International Space Station to the deaf community. In the video, Caldwell Dyson answered several questions about living and working aboard the station and how she became interested in sign language. I am truly grateful for this opportunity on behalf of the deaf community and the multitudes of students who will benefit from seeing their language spoken in space. It is my hope that this video will help inspire our next generation of scientists and explorers, said Caldwell Dyson. As NASA's missions advance beyond Earth's orbit, the agency will continue its efforts to highlight its diverse workforce. NASA strives to assist the next generation of researchers to gain access to science-related fields. Caldwell Dyson will work on several other videos targeted to users of ASL. When the videos are completed, they will be posted on the NASA's website. Keywords: NASA , astronaut , ISS , sign language Comments to : web.thehi...@thehindu.co.in E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] about signature
Parden my ignorence. But what is the harm in using the thumb impression? I havn't faced such a problem though I am signing in the ordinary way. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: Sathiyaprakash Ramdoss sathiya.ramd...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:20 AM Subject: Re: [AI] about signature Of course!!, we have to find answer for the legitimacy of using rubber stamp signatures. law of signatures has always had a whiff of technology about it. Whether the issue be the legitimacy of using rubber stamps or pre-printed forms, or the adequacy of a mere mark, there have always been those who argue that the method used to inscribe a signature is insufficiently permanent, unique, reliable or tamper-proof to satisfy a legal requirement for a signature. The English common law has never had much truck with technological objections. No English reported judgment has ever struck down a signature on the ground alone that inadequate technology has been used to create it. Even an X impressed with a rubber stamp can constitute a signature. This is not a complete answer and if you would like to know, you can refer http://www.rjerrard.co.uk/law/sweet/sweet2009.htm people interested can also read the book reviewed there in the website. Legal experts in our group can share their wisdom on this issue. Thank you. Actually, this information is taken from On 7/20/10, jignesh thakur jigneshthaku...@gmail.com wrote: is it valid? On 7/20/10, Sathiyaprakash Ramdoss sathiya.ramd...@gmail.com wrote: This is my opinion and I completely understand that this idea that I am suggesting below involves certain positive and negative issues as well. If some of us prefer, Why don't we have a rubber stamp for our signature? you can sign in a white paper to the best of your ability and give it to a rubberstamp maker and ask him/ her to make a rubberstamp for you. It is not a new idea and it already prevails in some big institutions where a person in higher designation requires to put thousands of signatures at a given stretch. Thank you. On 7/20/10, Suhas Karnik suhasvkar...@hotmail.com wrote: I use Braille slate to put my signature. If you write each alphabate in a separate cell, the signature does not vary and appears identical. You can try this method. Amities. Suhas Karnik. Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:55:12 +0530 From: jigneshthaku...@gmail.com To: mrmukeshsha...@gmail.com; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] about signature Sir, Thanks for sharing valuable information. This is a solution for electronic document, but how to sign a paper. Is there any trick? And please tell me how to get digital signature. We need to pay or it’s free? Thanks. On 7/19/10, Mukesh Sharma mrmukeshsha...@gmail.com wrote: A good explanation is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Subramani L Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:20 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] about signature Some of us have signed up to 3I Infotec's digital signature. Pl find out from their website if that is suitable to you. This company had told (AI members in Bangalore) that they are making their products accessible. Subramani -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of jignesh thakur Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 9:57 PM To: accessindia Subject: [AI] about signature Dear friends, Signature is one of the biggest issues for us. Lots of among us have suffered because signature difference. I couldn't find signature guide as a solution of proper signature. In banking demate and other legal document I have lots of humiliating experiences. One of my friends asked me about digital signature, I have tried to find it from Google, but unfortunately Google also has not satisfying answer. Though I have practiced enough but how ever my signature always differs. Please give me proper suggestion how I can sign well, or is there any solution such as digital signature. Your guidance will really help many of us. Thanks in advance. Your friend Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at:
Re: [AI] no subject
What is this? E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: narsimulu narsimulu1...@rediffmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 2:10 PM Subject: [AI] no subject n a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Narsimulu 6-34 bhavani nagar dhilshipnagar hydrabad 560 this is my phone namber 9989147900 Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] about visually challenged in BPO's
What is this? I got six copies of this message. E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: vikram babu vikrambandi5...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] about visually challenged in BPO's hi friends, this is vikram, again with an interesting topic. friends can anyone help with the information about BPO's. i usually get thoughts about BPO's that what kind of work is done in BPO's? can anybody help me with the information that what kind of works come under BPO sector and in wich what sort of works can be done by a visually challenged person? friends please help me with this information, so that we can get many good news soon. friends please post your valuable openions. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Request for orca shortcutkeys
Hi, Orca keys for the basic computer are more or less the same as that of the m s office. If you want detailed information, please contact me of the list in eren...@gmail.com or you can contact Mr.Balaram in chess.bala...@gmail.com He is more experienced than me in this field. With regards, E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: rajesh ramachandran rajesh.vishnum...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:49 AM Subject: [AI] Request for orca shortcutkeys On 7/16/10, nagarajan madasamy nagarajan.madas...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/16/10, accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in wrote: Send AccessIndia mailing list submissions to accessindia@accessindia.org.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in You can reach the person managing the list at accessindia-ow...@accessindia.org.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of AccessIndia digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Using wireless keyboard with Nokia N79 (Adhimoolam Vetrivel Murugan) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:36:55 -0400 From: Adhimoolam Vetrivel Murugan vadhimoo...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Using wireless keyboard with Nokia N79 Message-ID: aanlktikliqwu5ej2vuokz0ugung7jz9cbojnsb8ju...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 In a word, no. On 15/07/2010, Srikanth Kanuri srili...@gmail.com wrote: yes blue tooth keyboards can be accessed but i doubt about general wireless keyboards whether they could be accessed please let me know. On 7/15/10, Adhimoolam Vetrivel Murugan vadhimoo...@gmail.com wrote: That's done through bluetooth. In fact it used to be the case that the I-phone could not be connected with bluetooth keyboard, but with the latest firmware it has been addressed. Apple has it's own keyboard, but I heard that it could not be folded. Freedom input has come out with a keyboard for I-phone which is very compact and foldable. I think it costs around 59 British pounts or about 70 US$. Vetri. On 14/07/2010, Srikanth Kanuri srili...@gmail.com wrote: Oh! wireless keyboard can be used on mobile? interesting had anyone been using it? please throw some light on it. i know that it supports wireless L.A.N but how a keyboard could be used directly without connecting the P.C and keyboard. awaiting your replies: Srikanth On 7/14/10, Adhimoolam Vetrivel Murugan vadhimoo...@gmail.com wrote: Did you look at the user manual and was there an instalation CD? Because the first thing is to install the associated driver in your phone. I assume that it's done through Nokia PC suite. Vetri. On 13/07/2010, Vicky Singh ask.cha...@gmail.com wrote: Dear List members, Hope all are doing fine. Recently I had purchased a Microsoft wireless keyboard. I would like to know how I can use it for typing SMS on my Nokia N79. A step by step guide shall be highly appreciated. Also I would request some techie guys to create a channel on inclusive planet for Nokia N79 where all resources can be pooled and users can help each other in resolving the problems. I think it will help in reducing the traffic regarding Nokia N79 on main mailing list. Also it will help a user to browse a collection of problems and solutions before posting a query to the group. And browsing 15 ? 20 mails instead of browsing entire AI mailing list archives will be a lot easier. Similar channels can be created for more popular cell phone models like E63 etc. Regards, VS Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a
[AI] Fw: (Keralavision) Choornikkara holds hands with the differently abled
E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: Timy Sebastian Ettumanoor To: keralavis...@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:10 AM Subject: (Keralavision) Choornikkara holds hands with the differently abled the hindu news. K.A. Martin The panchayat shows that there is more to development than achieving material targets Photo: H.Vibhu Community development: Students at Buds School at Choornikkara panchayat in Ernakulam district. CHOORNIKKARA (KOCHI): Developmental challenges do not end with issues of higher productivity in the farm sector or creation of a better asset base. Choornikkara panchayat in Ernakulam district learnt this simple lesson when it decided to take a hard look at the needs of the differently abled children in the panchayat with the help of the Kudumbasree Mission. The problem was identified by the Community Development Society (CDS) under the Kudumbasree Mission. Haseena Salim, president of the CDS, says the first step, more than a year ago, was to do a survey of the extent of the problem in the panchayat. The survey was an eye-opener. It showed that scores of children needed special care as their parents were from extremely poor economic circumstances as they worked in marginal sectors. The CDS and the panchayat found that it was difficult for these parents to pay proper attention to their children facing emotional and physical challenges. The panchayat authorities decided to take the plunge and, despite having no facility to provide centralised care for the children, launched a project to support them. It identified a temporary location to house the children during the day time and began work on a permanent facility that could function as a second home for the children. The panchayat invested Rs.15 lakh in building a new place to house the Buds School. It became the first school for the differently abled children in the district to get government approval. The panchayat went a step further and bought a bus paying Rs. 6.5 lakh to ferry the children to the school and back. There are 21 children at the Buds School now, all well dressed and well-looked after. They get their meals and dress from the Buds School besides scholarships as incentives, says panchayat president K.A. Aliyar. The 'students' at the school, aged between eight and 40, are taking their afternoon rest when we arrive. A little coaxing from Ambika C.K. and T.M. Rasheeda, helpers at the school, see the children up and about in a little while. One of them pulled two chairs for us and shook hands as he motioned us to sit. It takes a visitor a while to make out what burdens these children. They appear to have suddenly shed their yokes, engaged in playing games and using building blocks sitting on a plastic mat spread over an impeccably clean floor. The panchayat is planning to install more training equipment to equip them physically and mentally to face life's challenges, says Mr. Aliyar. Please send your feedback to: storiesofcha...@gmail.com © 2010, The Hindu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Keralavision group. To post to this group, send email to keralavis...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to keralavision+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/keralavision?hl=en. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Google to buy Metaweb to improve 'search'
The Hindu : Business / Companies : Google to buy Metaweb to improve 'search' NEW YORK, July 18, 2010 PTI SHARE · PRINT · T+ Google inc plans to acquire Metaweb, but the company has not disclosed the terms of the deal. File photo APGoogle inc plans to acquire Metaweb, but the company has not disclosed the terms of the deal. File photo In a bid to improve its search operation feature, online search giant Google Inc has said that it will buy Metaweb Technologies, an Internet information database start-up, for an undisclosed amount. In a blog posted on Google's website, it said, We have acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains an open database of things in the world. Working together, we want to improve the search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone, it added. However, the company has not disclosed the terms of the deal. San Francisco-based Metaweb had a free and open database of 12 million things, such as movies, books, TV shows, locations, celebrities and companies, that would help Google's users get fast replies to search queries. Google and Metaweb plan to maintain Freebase as a free and open database for the world, Google Director (Product Management) Jack Menzel said, adding, We plan to contribute to and further develop Freebase, and would be delighted if other web companies use and contribute to the data. Metaweb, which was founded in 2005, helps site owners, bloggers, and developers make their sites richer and more engaging. Earlier this month, Google had announced that it would buy ITA Software, a flight information software company, for USD 700 million in cash. web.thehi...@thehindu.co.in E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] info about linex users mailing list requested
Hi friends, I know this info has already been posted. But sorry, if the info about the linex user's (especially the Ubuntu user's) mailing list is given, it will be highly appreaciated. Thanking you in advance, E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] “Rupee Symbol” and 1 more articles.
Isn't it oftopic? E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. - Original Message - From: Jeevaraj jeevas...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: [AI] “Rupee Symbol” and 1 more articles. InboxX Reply |iCBSE.com to me show details 3:47 AM (6 hours ago) Images are not displayed. Display images below - Always display images from no-re...@icbse.com “Rupee Symbol” and 1 more articles. Rupee Symbol Posted: 15 Jul 2010 04:18 AM PDT Indian Rupee Symbol Rupee Symbol @ Facebook Rupee symbol: A makeover The rupee symbol that has been defining the currency of India for years is now on a verge of a makeover. Now the question arises... Originally published at www.icbse.com AIIMS MBBS Result 2010 Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:53 AM PDT All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) has been declared the results of M.B.B.S. Entrance Exam 2010 which was held on 1st June, 2010 (Tuesday). Direct Link to Results Page:... Originally published at www.icbse.com with best regards Jeeva Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Epic: first web browser for India launched
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Epic: first web browser for India launched » BANGALORE, July 15, 2010 PTI Hidden Reflex, a Bangalore based software startup, has launched a browser targeted at Indian audiences: Epic. The browser has been created by a team of Indian engineers on the open-source Mozilla platform, it said in a statement. Any internet user can now download the browser for free by logging onto the website www.epicbrowser.com Epic provides a uniquely Indian browsing experience. Epic's India sidebar supports Indian content by providing users access to the latest national and regional news from popular publications, live television channels, videos, stock quotes, live cricket scores, top music albums, and local events, it said. Users can choose from 1500+ customized Indian themes and wallpapers ranging from freedom fighters to famous Bollywood and regional film stars. Writing in Indian languages is supported throughout Epic. Users can instantly write in Indian languages on any webpage or in Write, Epic's free built-in word processor. Twelve Indian languages are currently supported, the statement said. Free antivirus scanning and healing is built into Epic, while another security measure warns users when they're about to visit potentially dangerous websites. SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, KERALA. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Ambedkar's first biography in Sanskrit- The exceptional feat of Prabhakar Joshi, who lost hi s sight completely
The Hindu: NATIONAL PUNE, July 10, 2010 Ambedkar's first biography in Sanskrit PTI Portrait of Dr. Ambedkar which was unveiled at the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Chamber in Madras on September 9, 1980. Photo: DIPR Portrait of Dr. Ambedkar which was unveiled at the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Chamber in Madras on September 9, 1980. Photo: DIPR RELATED PHOTOS Dr. B.R. Ambedkar NEWS Declare Ambedkar birth anniversary 'public' holiday Ambedkar film: better late than never Battling a visual handicap, an 84-year-old Vedic scholar here has composed Bhimayanam , the first ever biography of the architect of Indian constitution and icon of the underprivileged Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in Sanskrit verse. The exceptional feat of Prabhakar Joshi, who lost his sight completely while still working on the biography undertaken in 2004, stands as a testimony to his unflinching determination and will power that saw recent publication of the book containing 1,577 Sanskrit 'slokas' covering the life span of Dr. Ambedkar unfolded in 160 pages with 21 'Sargas' (chapters). A victim of glaucoma, Mr. Joshi who has an illustrious background as a teacher of Sanskrit in schools and colleges, was immensely influenced by Dr. Ambedkar's mission to uplift the downtrodden. When he started studying Dr. Ambedkar's life, he came across certain facts that inspired him to take up the unique project of his Sanskrit biography titled Bhimayanam. Not many people know that it was an ardent desire of Ramji, father of Dr. Ambedkar, that his son should learn Sanskrit. When Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar opted for the subject after being enrolled in the Elphinstone High School in Mumbai, he was in for rude shock as the teachers there refused to allow him to study Sanskrit because he was a Dalit. Imparting knowledge of Sanskrit to 'lower caste' students those days was something to be frowned upon, Mr. Joshi said. After pondering over this episode, Mr. Joshi thought of an atonement of sorts by way of versifying in Sanskrit, the life of Ambedkar whom he reverently calls 'Mahamanav'. A progressive glaucoma started affecting the vision of the octogenarian even as he persisted with his writing, at times overlapping words as a result of poor eyesight. I was losing my vision fast but my resolve to complete the work was getting firmer notwithstanding the visual handicap. My wife read the lines I had written and made them legible for further processing. Many times, I got up in the middle of night to write the words that came to my mind without knowing that ink had dried, Mr. Joshi who has retained all his faculties at the ripe age recalled. Explaining his method that led to completion of his work, he said I first summarised important milestones in Ambedkar's life and then got it taped. Then I kept listening to the audio again and again, pondering over my next verse. According to Mr. Joshi, who taught Sanskrit at Fergusson College here and was a guide at Pune University for many students doing their doctorates in Sanskrit, Dr. Ambedkar was a great supporter of the language which he regarded as mother of most of the regional tongues in the country. Despite his strong opposition to the Brahminical dominance in the society and social discrimination that led him and his followers to embrace Buddhism, Dr. Ambedkar himself had mastered Sanskrit, which was identified with the upper cast, he said. Bhimayanam was published under Sharada Gaurav Granthamala series by Pandit Vasant Gadgil after six years of dedicated work by Mr. Joshi, a recipient of Maharashtra government's 'Mahakavi Kalidas' award. Maharashtra Governor Shankarnarayanan is expected to formally release the biography. As Mr. Joshi spoke, his unseeing eyes stared in a fixed gaze. But the words came gushing lighting up his face as he dealt on the towering personality so dear to his heart - Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar who bestowed dignity on those who suffered from injustice. ents to : web.thehi...@thehindu.co.in E RENUKA, SECTION OFFICER, ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED, CHMK LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT Calicut, University P O, Malappuram District, Kerala. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] strange problem with e 63
I also face similar problem in my Nokia 6681. When a message comes or when the mobile is swiched on after charging the battery, first the talks announces memmory low. Delete some data first.But the message come without any difficulty. Renuka - Original Message - From: jignesh thakur jigneshthaku...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 1:14 AM Subject: [AI] strange problem with e 63 Dear friends, I am facing a strange problem with e63. E 63 has 120 MB memory and I have used only 25 MB. While I have 2 GB memory card and its almost empty. Now the problem is I am getting message many times that your memory is full, close some applications and try again. What is the meaning of this message? Is it a talks problem? Or my mobile is faulty. Thanks in advance. your's learning friend. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Teacher with a feel for Earth
Please contact N I V H Dehradun. Renuka - Original Message - From: Swasti Mathur swastimat...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Teacher with a feel for Earth hello, are there such maps available in market for VIs so that proper understanding of maps could be possible? regards Swasti Renuka Warrier wrote: Sorry, I have talked to the teacher. According to him, it is feasible to meet the order from Kerala only. For others, it has to be made according to the instructions in the news paper - Original Message - From: Swasti Mathur swastimat...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Teacher with a feel for Earth thats really superb! will these redesigned maps will be available to individuals who want to have these? regards Swasti Renuka Warriar wrote: The Hindu: KERALA Kozhikode, July 2, 2010 Teacher with a feel for Earth Staff Reporter · T+ P.T. Mohammed Musthafa, a teacher at the Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Meenchanda, has never seen the Earth or soaked up its splendour. But, this visually challenged man has guided thousands of students through the planet's geographical contours with his specially moulded Braille-globe and atlas. For the past seven years, Mr. Musthafa has been depending on these aides to teach students. Students' help The 35-year-old, hailing from Nallalam here, modifies globes and atlases with the help of his students. Together they emboss Braille scripts on transparent pieces of adhesive tapes pasted on the surfaces of globes and atlases. With the help of students, he also marks out the frontiers of each continent with thin threads. This helps him to locate the areas and handle classes confidently. “Lack of eyesight can never limit the freedom of a teacher if the supportive aides are appropriately used,” says Musthafa, who has been teaching for the past 12 years. “Many visually impaired teachers still depend on usual models and maps available in the market, which they are not at all comfortable with,” he adds. The Social Science Club, headed by Mr. Musthafa, is now on a mission to craft more such atlases and globes for the benefit of visually challenged teachers. The club is undertaking the effort without charging extra. “To reduce cost, we collect globes and atlases from clients. It takes only an hour to design a globe perfectly. We will take orders from schools and colleges till July 15,” he says. “We never feel that he is visually challenged. His classes arouse our curiosity in the subject,” says K. P. Arya and Anagha Devan, Class IX students of the school. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Teacher with a feel for Earth
Sorry, I have talked to the teacher. According to him, it is feasible to meet the order from Kerala only. For others, it has to be made according to the instructions in the news paper - Original Message - From: Swasti Mathur swastimat...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Teacher with a feel for Earth thats really superb! will these redesigned maps will be available to individuals who want to have these? regards Swasti Renuka Warriar wrote: The Hindu: KERALA Kozhikode, July 2, 2010 Teacher with a feel for Earth Staff Reporter · T+ P.T. Mohammed Musthafa, a teacher at the Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Meenchanda, has never seen the Earth or soaked up its splendour. But, this visually challenged man has guided thousands of students through the planet's geographical contours with his specially moulded Braille-globe and atlas. For the past seven years, Mr. Musthafa has been depending on these aides to teach students. Students' help The 35-year-old, hailing from Nallalam here, modifies globes and atlases with the help of his students. Together they emboss Braille scripts on transparent pieces of adhesive tapes pasted on the surfaces of globes and atlases. With the help of students, he also marks out the frontiers of each continent with thin threads. This helps him to locate the areas and handle classes confidently. “Lack of eyesight can never limit the freedom of a teacher if the supportive aides are appropriately used,” says Musthafa, who has been teaching for the past 12 years. “Many visually impaired teachers still depend on usual models and maps available in the market, which they are not at all comfortable with,” he adds. The Social Science Club, headed by Mr. Musthafa, is now on a mission to craft more such atlases and globes for the benefit of visually challenged teachers. The club is undertaking the effort without charging extra. “To reduce cost, we collect globes and atlases from clients. It takes only an hour to design a globe perfectly. We will take orders from schools and colleges till July 15,” he says. “We never feel that he is visually challenged. His classes arouse our curiosity in the subject,” says K. P. Arya and Anagha Devan, Class IX students of the school. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Is it time for persons with disability to enter politics?
I think Akhilesh's point is more practical. If we tried to fight the election in the normal way do you think any political party will support us? Renuka- Original Message - From: Subramani L lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Is it time for persons with disability to enter politics? Don't you think it is rather bettr for us to fight the elections and come through the straight way? Subramani -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of akhilesh Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:14 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Is it time for persons with disability to enter politics? I think it would be wrong to say that Jamuna prasad shastri has not fought and not spoken about the rights of the disables. Probably you don't know, but he has started the blind school at the most backward region of the madhya Pradesh, and the same school is still flourishing and imparting the education for so many blinds in state of MP. I've got the opportunity to listen his speech, and I have done most of my schooling from his school. He passed away in 1997. As far as election is concern, I think we should start fighting from our constituency's right from the next elections. Except this, we should also demand the seats in lok sabha as well. If the Anglo Indian community is getting the representation in lok sabha through nomination, why not our community as well? Prepare the representation in this regard; I'm taking the responsibility of signature campaign in Delhi. Ask for the nomination, only and only then we'll be able to influence the policies which are made for us and influence us. Thanks, Akhilesh. On 7/1/10, Subramani L lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in wrote: I agree no less. My contention is: if you have disability and have a problem accepting it (especially if you are a politician) you distance yourself from assisting the govt to be effective in implementing disability policies. Of course, being a politician has its own responsibilities which one can't afford to overlook, disabled or not. -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:06 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Is it time for persons with disability to enter politics? But Subramani, A person with disabilitty who steps into politics and hopes to be elected will need to think beyond his or her disability. He needs to be relevant to all in the community. He or she will need to understand the issues that the community faces. He or she will need to champion the cause of the community, only then would votes come by. Likewise, for us to be included or be a real part of the families, communities we live in, we need to also start thinking family/community and not just be thinking disability. If we start doing what we can do for our community, then the community will open its arms to embrace us. If we need to succeed in politics, we need to think community and not just disability. Having said all this, when we get elected or get into a position of influence, we mustn't forget the issues pertaining to disability. Regards, George George Abraham CEO Score Foundation 17/107, Basement, Vikram Vihar, Lajpatnagar 4, New Delhi 110024 India Ph: 91 11 26472581 Telefax: 91 11 26472582 Mob: 91 9810934040/91 9810001181 Email: geo...@eyeway.org Website: www.eyeway.org Skype: georgeabraham13 Twitter: georgebhai - Original Message - From: Subramani L lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Is it time for persons with disability to enter politics? So... There are no elected MPs to the Lok Sabvha who acknowledge their disability in public and speak for the community. The one whose disability we know about is more an MP got in through the backdoor to Rajya Sabha from the state legislature. David Cameron perhaps gave this guy the ticket to contest for his party because he has a son with down syndrome and is abreast of the issues affecting disability. When people are not even acknowledging their own disabilities, it is rather difficult to count them as politicians with disability; least said about their commitments towards the issues we face. So my article would surmise there are none with disability -or- at lest there are none who uses his or her position as a politician to assist the MSJE or other ministries to implement disabled friendly policies. This is pathetic and I would explore a few suggestions/solutions. I am sure the crop of youngsters who are in college or just out of it can proviee a fresh thought to this subject. Subramani -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] IBM has asked its employees to use open-source Firefox astheir browser
And, they must be encouraged to use the open source softwhere for the operating system too. Renuka- Original Message - From: pradeep banakar pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Cc: friends...@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 7:12 PM Subject: [AI] IBM has asked its employees to use open-source Firefox astheir browser Dear friends it is good initiative, we also need to think of using Open Source software's like NVDA, Obi, AMIS OPEN Office and etc instead of some expensive screen reading software's. News - Tech - The Times of India IBM has asked its employees to use open-source Firefox as their browser SAN FRANCISCO: Technology giant IBM wants its workers around the world to use free, open-source Mozilla Firefox as their window into the Internet. Any employee who is not now using Firefox will be strongly encouraged to use it as their default browser, IBM executive Bob Sutor said yesterday in a blog post at his sutor.com website. While other browsers have come and gone, Firefox is now the gold standard for what an open, secure, and standards-compliant browser should be. Making Firefox the default browser means that workers' computers will automatically use that software to access the Internet unless commanded to do differently. All new computers for IBM employees will have Firefox installed and the global company will continue to strongly encourage our vendors who have browser-based software to fully support Firefox, according to Sutor. New York State-based IBM, known by the nickname Big Blue, has a corporate history dating back a century and now reportedly has nearly 400,000 workers. Today we already have thousands of employees using it on Linux, Mac, and Windows laptops and desktops, but we're going to be adding thousands more users to the rolls, Sutor said. Sutor is the vice president of open source and Linux at IBM, which launched an Open Source Initiative in 1998. Open-source software is essentially treated as public property, with improvements made by any shared with all. Firefox is the second most popular Web browser in an increasingly competitive market dominated by Internet Explorer software by Microsoft. Google Chrome has been steadily gaining market share, last week replacing Apple Safari as the third most popular Web browser in the United States. We'll continue to see this or that browser be faster or introduce new features, but then another will come along and be better still, including Firefox, Sutor said. I think it was Firefox and its growth that reinvigorated the browser market as well as the web. That is, Firefox forced competitors to respond. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Insulating endpoints from attacks
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Technology : Insulating endpoints from attacks TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD, June 27, 2010 ABHIJIT DEV KUMAR SHARE · COMMENT · PRINT · T+ The evolution of smart phones into being the next major computing platform has employees using them more like PCs than a phone. The HinduThe evolution of smart phones into being the next major computing platform has employees using them more like PCs than a phone. These devices are constantly at the risk of malicious attacks by hackers Addressing virtual attacks and keeping their computers and mobile devices protected is one of the major concerns of Indian companies today. Until a few years ago, a majority of computers were wired to the corporate network, but now, with the entry of laptops and smart devices, the scene is different. These wireless devices, technically known as 'endpoints,' are constantly at the risk of malicious attacks by hackers. According to a recent study by the International Data Corporation, the number of endpoints will reach one billion by 2011, with the Asia Pacific region accounting for a majority. Traditionally, the protection of these endpoints was limited to installing anti-virus, anti-spyware, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention and device control technology. However, with corporate boundaries melting, the increasing number of Indians working on the move has made the traditional approach to securing data insufficient. The recently released Symantec 2010 Enterprise Security Report on Millennial Mobile Workforce and Data Loss showed that employees are using their own personal devices for corporate purposes, either at workplace or while working remotely, says Vishal Dhupar, MD, Symantec, India. Moreover, 59 per cent of Indian enterprises feel employee-owned endpoints compromise on security. Also, with mobile devices becoming more sophisticated, they provide greater access and store more data and become a higher target for theft, he says. The evolution of smart phones into being the next major computing platform has employees using them more like PCs than a phone. However, smart phones too are prone to malicious attacks and instances of 'Bluejacking' and 'Bluesnarfing,' which involve sending malicious data through Bluetooth and copying contents of mobile device, are also on the rise. According to Symantec's report, organisations expressed concerns at the vulnerability of employee-owned mobile devices. The risk of smart phones being attacked was 62 per cent, followed by Windows-based laptops at 55 per cent, PDAs at 44 per cent and Mac-based laptops at 33 per cent. Smart phones are usually attacked by hackers through Bluetooth and MMS. They can also be affected by emails, instant messaging, Wi-Fi and Internet downloads. Another notable threat is from snoopware which compromises the device's functionality by disabling applications or sending text messages without the user's knowledge, Mr. Dhupar says. According to industry reports, more than 43 million Indians used mobile banking facilities for making and checking transactions, and as more people use such facilities, the financial incentives for virus writers and mobile hackers too increase. New software Companies should go a step ahead from the conventional methods of countermeasures such as firewalls, anti-virus and intrusion detection and prevention. We have also worked on these issues and come up with software such as Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile Edition 6.0 and Symantec Mobile Management 7.0, he says. Companies should also make sure that their software is up-to-date, adopt a password policy, keep security product subscription updated and finally, have a comprehensive heuristic file protection, intrusion prevention system and behavioural monitoring. Comments to : web.thehi...@thehindu.co.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Indian professor devises method to use cellphone for eye
The Hindu : Today's Paper / NATIONAL : Indian professor devises method to use cellphone for eye tests BOSTON, June 26, 2010 tests A team led by an Indian-origin professor has devised a method of using mobile phones for conducting eye tests, a technique it hopes will be useful in places lacking hi-tech eye equipment. The device NETRA (Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment), has been designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab Associate Professor Ramesh Raskar, visiting Professor Manuel Oliveira, student Vitor Pamplona and post-doctoral research associate Ankit Mohan. The two-minute eye test can be carried out using a small plastic device clipped in front of a cellphone's screen. The patient looks into a small lens, presses the phone's arrow keys until sets of parallel green and red lines just overlap. The process is repeated eight times with the lines at different angles for each eye. The process takes less than two minutes, after which software loaded in the phone provides prescription data. Our device has the potential to make routine refractive eye exams simpler and cheaper, and, therefore, more accessible to millions of people in developing countries, Professor Oliveira said in a statement. The technology takes advantage of huge improvements in the resolution of digital displays and their widespread proliferation in cellphones. Apart from the software to run on the phone, all that is needed is the snap-on plastic device, which, Professor Mohan says, can be produced at a cost of about $1 to $2, but cost a few cents more in large quantities. The team is preparing to conduct clinical trials, preliminary testing with about 20 people and objective tests using camera lenses have shown that it can achieve results comparable to the standard aberrometer test, which shines a laser into the eye and uses an array of tiny lenses to measure its characteristics. The group plans to launch production of the device, initially targeting parts of Africa and Asia. It also hopes to produce an advanced version that will be able to detect other conditions, such as cataract, which could be sold in the developed world as well. NETRA is a quicker, simpler and cheaper way to test eye sight, said the team, which has already applied for a patent. According to the World Health Organisation, uncorrected refractive errors are the world's second-highest cause of blindness, affecting about two per cent of the world's population. Nearly two billion people have refractive errors and they could be potential beneficiaries of the new system. - PTI . The test can be carried out using a small plastic device clipped in front of a cellphone's screen . The snap-on plastic device can be produced at a cost of Comments to : web.thehi...@thehindu.co.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Making it to MIT against odds
Date:21/06/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/edu/2010/06/21/stories/2010062150460400.htm _ Link: Education Plus Making it to MIT against odds YOGENDRA KALAVALAPALLI Bolla Srikanth, a visually-challenged boy, is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Sciences at the university PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL Winner: Bolla Srikanth in conversation with National Trust Chairperson Poonam Natarajan during the inaugural function of Abilities Mela 2010 in Secunderabad. Bolla Srikanth was barely few years old when many in his community counselled his parents to abandon him. The pressure was heavy on his illiterate parents, a farmer father and housewife mother, but they never yielded. Had they heeded their advice, the world would have been minus one inspiring story today. From a small village Sitaramapuram near Machlipatnam town in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh, this visually-challenged boy has made it to the portals of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. The 18-year-old is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Sciences in Brain and Cognitive Science, Business Management and Computer Science at the university. Though they are illiterate, both of them had a strong will to get me educated. This inspired me, he says. Shortly after, about 13 years ago, an uncle of his enrolled him in Devnar School for the Blind in Hyderabad, and life took a different spin for Srikanth. I didn't know anything when I joined school. I was like a rural introvert. I learned everything, I picked up English. I joined community service. Now, I have occupied a place in the society where people are respecting me, he says. It has been a long journey. From being a rural introvert, Srikanth went on to secure 92 per cent in the Class X Board Examinations and was a two-time recipient of Pratibha Awards given by the Andhra Pradesh government for students who excel in public examinations every year. He also received a citation for outstanding community service as Youth Leader in Lead India 2020 from former President APJ Abdul Kalam and was a national chess player playing against the likes of Koneru Humpy. Intermediate was next and he wanted to take up the Maths, Physics, Chemistry stream to be eligible to study engineering. But a disinclined officialdom was not encouraging. When I visited the offices for the first time, they asked me to get away. Even an IAS officer was not able to realise the potential of blind persons, he recollects. After a lot of trouble, Srikanth finally managed to enrol himself for the MPC stream at a private college, a good three months after the classes began. He went on to secure an aggregate percentage of 93 at the end of two years. Challenges persisted still. When I wanted to prepare for IIT, one coaching centre told me straightaway I was not fit to join them. Another top institute in the country did not even bother to respond to his application. I didn't even get my hall ticket. I was not even allowed to write AIEEE. But, I was not disturbed because I was focussed on my goal and I wanted to study sciences. Guided by his mentors Swarnalatha, teacher at Devnar School for the Blind, and G. Ravishankar, a software consultant in the U.S., Srikanth realised his ambition of studying at MIT. Only 120 seats are open to international students for which students from 70 countries in the world compete, he says proudly of his admission that came with a US $ 49,000 scholarship. My mentor Swarnalatha was like a backbone to me in whatever I did so far. She has worked harder than me. She was by his side throughout: fighting for him, managing his study expenses, recording material for him to study easily and even lodging him in her house during initial days of his Intermediate. Mr. Ravishankar, whom Srikanth met during an international conference at Indian School of Business, helped him apply to different universities abroad. Because I was a special student, we had to fill up some special forms. He also worked really hard with me for six months. Even now he is in contact and helps me with whatever I want. Persons with disabilities, he says, suffer from lack of exposure and lack of opportunities. You have to see where you stand in the society, not as a visually-challenged person but as a human being. He sings paeans about U.S. The university is very helpful. They have so many resources. People don't show sympathy there. In fact they provide you opportunities. He has already finished two semesters at the university (scoring 5/5 GPA) and currently is interning with GE in Hyderabad. Srikanth is keen on entrepreneurship and plans to launch a software firm after his course where he wants to give opportunities to rural youth. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send
[AI] 'Light chip breaks speed records'
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Technology : 'Light chip breaks speed records' Washington, June 19, 2010 PTI Scientists claim to have created an incredibly fast photonic chip, bringing computers a step closer to working entirely with light. An international team, led by Sydney University, has developed the optical integrator - a fundamental building block equivalent to those used in multi-functional electronic circuits - on a CMOS compatible silicon chip. According to the scientists, the device, a photonic chip compatible with electronic technology (CMOS), will be a key enabler of next generation fully integrated ultra fast optical data processing technologies for many applications including ultra fast optical information-processing, optical memory, measurement, computing systems, and real time differential equation computing units. It is based on a passive micro-ring resonator and performs the time integral of an arbitrary optical waveform with a time resolution of a few picoseconds, corresponding to a processing speed of around 200 GHz, and with a hold time approaching a nanosecond. This represents an unprecedented processing time- bandwidth product (TBP) -- a principal figure of merit, defined as the ratio between the integration time window to the fastest time feature that can be accurately processed - approaching 100 - much higher than advanced passive electronic integrators where the TBP is less than 10. Prof David Moss, who led the team, said using light for ultrahigh speed information processing, computing, and storage on a silicon chip was an important breakthrough. With society's demands for even faster technology, ultra fast optical computing and signal processing are important. This on-chip optical integrator is a key to enabling many optical functions on a chip, including ultra high speed signal processing, computing, and optical memory. This technology will ultimately provide the consumer with cheaper and faster computers, he wrote in the 'Nature Communications' journal. Link: Health Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] No GPRS? 'Jaamun' offers email on any p hone
Date:20/06/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/06/20/stories/2010062060831900.htm _ Link: Front Page No GPRS? 'Jaamun' offers email on any phone Ramya Kannan 'Jaamun' can help to configure any IMAP/POP supporting server _ One can sign up online or by sending SMS to 9773467755 There is a free trial plan of 50 messages a month _ The indigenous push mail service sans GPRS. CHENNAI: Ashamed to pull your phone out in a gathering? If you have a phone that would be hidden in the darkest corner of a museum of phone-snobs, all is not lost yet. Thanks to Indian entrepreneurs 'Jaamun,' you can now whip out that museum piece and check email on it. Oh yes, and without those GPRS charges too. 'Jaamun's tagline is email on any mobile, and this simple service is what they are providing - for the simplest of phones. 'Jaamun' is a venture by IIT Delhi alumni Pratiroop Mehta and Mayank Kumar. Mr. Mehta was previously working for the new product development team at Reliance, while Mr. Kumar was part of the enterprise software division at Microsoft India. They started out building a mobile email client, but found that a lot of users have phones that do not support GPRS. The solution, they found, would be to leave GPRS out of it. Any IMAP/POP supporting email server can be configured via 'Jaamun.' And you can sign up online or by sending an SMS with the email ID and password to 9773467755. Once you map the mail ID and Twitter handle to the mobile number, you are ready to receive, reply, forward and compose mails on your basic phone, Mr. Mehta says. For Facebook and Orkut, the integration is a little different - you will first have to sign up for Gmail updates for both these social networking sites. When you sign up online at http://www.jaamun.in, you get a free trial plan of 50 messages for a month, and you can subscribe to the service after the trial period expires. Apart from paying for the SMS (when you send mails), there are various subscription packages available for the service. Going by the site, it could range from Rs.49 to Rs. 75 a month. Push mail service over GPRS is obviously on the higher side. The advantage with 'Jaamun' is that it can work on any mobile and any network, the creators say - there is no need for either GPRS or for installing an application on the phone. As far as the service goes, there is smart message extraction, compression, auto spam filters and attachment alerts. On our site, we've made it very clear that we ensure the password and everything is secure. The connection as we link to your email is also secure, Mr. Mehta says. So if you are not ready to get rid of that decadent phone yet, here, finally, is a way you can redeem yourself. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] possibility of writing for late blind
What I use today after loosing vision at the age of 27, is that I stuck cotton threads in a writing pad as lines and fix the paper on the pad and by feeling the lines with the left finger, I can smoothly write on the paper with intercepting the lines. - Original Message - From: Subramani L lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in To: Bijal Patel bijalpatel...@gmail.com; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [AI] possibility of writing for late blind When I had low vision (for a short period of time only), I used to employ two methods. 1. Use the plastic scale to block the page. Since it is possible to keep it on a straight line and move down steadily, I feel it should bee a good idea. Another and the most common thing is to use the cardboard frames available with some of the organisations that allows you to keep the frame on an A4 size paper and write inside the frame. Since the line numbers from 1 to say about 10 is being marked on the side of the frame, identifying the line is easier. Subramani -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Bijal Patel Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 6:56 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Cc: l...@voicevision.in; aktr...@googlegroups.com Subject: [AI] possibility of writing for late blind Hello friends, It is possible to write for late blind person,isn't it? of course, such problem is created going up and down while writing. so is there any special devise for solveing this problem? or if anybody has other idea, please suggest me. With regards, Bijal Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Adam, the most-awaited Indian gadget
Date:13/06/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/06/13/stories/2010061356261500.htm _ Link: Front Page Adam, the most-awaited Indian gadget Karthik Subramanian Will Hyderbad-based Notion Ink's tablet PC become a hit with users? - Photo: Special Arrangement Notion Ink's Adam. CHENNAI: In a fervent plea to thousands of gadget enthusiasts the Hyderabad-based startup Notion Ink's young CEO Rohan Shravan, through his blog, urged people to just hold on and stop wildly speculating about the launch of his company's much-awaited tablet PC 'Adam.' The speculation of gadget fans is understandable. Ever since the world got a preview of the sleek 10.1 inch tablet PC at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, the buzz about it has been overwhelmingly positive. Some of the leading geek blogs, including Engadget, have handed high praise to the gadget designed by the Indian firm. Don't mind waiting What with a flurry of announcements from the big vendors, such as Asus, Acer and HP, and the growing march of Apple's iPad, several gadget enthusiasts are eager to know when Adam would hit the stores. Many of them don't mind waiting the extra couple of months as it could well mean a lower attack on the wallet. Notion Ink has stressed the aggressive pricing factor. Adam seems to have caught the attention for its innovations. Apart from featuring, as a standard, things that are absent in the basic models of the tablets already in the market today - such as the 1080p HD output, 3G and Wifi capability - it will also have some cutting edge technology hitherto unseen in mainstream gadgets. Fantabulous promise A case in point is the critically acclaimed American manufacturer Pixel Qi's transflective display that consumes the quantum of power used by traditional PC displays and works both as a backlit screen and a reflective display. Notion Ink's promise for Adam's battery borders on the fantabulous: over 140 hours of audio and 16 hours of HD video playback. Adam also features an innovative 180-degree swivel camera and a multi-touch input, two features for which Notion Ink has applied for patents. In an email interview with The Hindu, Mr. Shravan admitted that while other vendors might not waste time in replicating some of the hardware differentiators, the key differentiators for Adam could well be developers and the Apps store. Key differentiations The constantly refreshing Application Store will help expand its usage beyond everyday. We have 3 key hardware differentiations, but it does not take a while to replicate [though we have patents on 2]. The other extremely important differentiator is the User Interface (UI). It's a completely different concept and will leave its own mark on the UI which will be designed in future. Two versions Notion Ink will launch two versions of Adam; one featuring the Pixel Qi display and another featuring a cheaper LCD screen. For more details on Notion Ink and Adam, follow their official website at www.notionink.in. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Twitter warns of possible outages during World Cup football
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Twitter warns of possible outages during World Cup football » NEW YORK, June 13, 2010 Twitter warns of possible outages during World Cup football PTI SHARE · PRINT · T+ Twitter has been grappling with many site problems in the past week, resulting in outages and poor performance. APTwitter has been grappling with many site problems in the past week, resulting in outages and poor performance. With World Cup Football frenzy gripping online users, micro-blogging site Twitter has warned of possible outages due to heavy traffic during the event. Twitter has been grappling with many site problems in the past week, resulting in outages and poor performance. As more people turn to Twitter to see what's happening in the world (or in the World Cup), you may still see the whale when there are unprecedented spikes in traffic, one of the engineers at the micro-blogging site, Jean-Paul Cozzatti, said in a blog. When the site is down, a whale appears on the Twitter site, generally accompanied by a message requesting users to try after sometime. During the World Cup tournament, a significant surge in activity on Twitter is expected, according to the blog posted on June 11. While we are making every effort to prepare for that surge, the whale may surface, Mr. Cozzati noted. Last week, Twitter experienced several incidences of poor site performance and a high number of errors, which was due to over-capacity in one of its internal networks. Going by estimates, Twitter has over 75 million users worldwide. To avoid problems in the coming days, the blog said that Twitter has doubled its internal network capacity, apart from rebalancing the traffic to redistribute the load. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] FIFA fever kicks up malware fear
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Technology : FIFA fever kicks up malware fear BANGALORE, June 12, 2010 DEEPA KURUP A fake website, sourced from Symantec. Photo: Special Arrangement The HinduA fake website, sourced from Symantec. Photo: Special Arrangement Football fans, watch out! Temptation and the consequent virus are just a click away. Both come together in many forms - an innocuous email offering low-priced tickets to the FIFA finals, fake videos of game highlights or football news content, and messages that crown you the lucky winner of a 'football lottery' scheme. In keeping with trends in 'social engineering' - internet security parlance for hackers' attempts to play on human psychology or interest in particular events - this time too cyberspace is full of malicious email. Some of these entice you to click on innocuous links that install malware, which then steals your data, or sniffs out personal information such as bank/credit card details. Symantec, a leading internet security firm, warns that this time around, spammers are also optimising their fake websites. Hapless net users mistake these sites for original FIFA websites and end up paying for content or stuff that does not exist. Malicious activity on the web is known to be significantly high in countries, where new internet bandwidth is made available. South Africa's new tech infrastructure, and the huge interest that the FIFA events generate, creates a perfect storm for cyber criminals, says Shantanu Ghosh, Vice President, India Product Operations, Symantec. So, if you click on a colourful file attached to a cleverly-worded email from the Canada Lottery - Soccer World Cup 2010 Promotional Draw, for instance, be prepared to get sucked into an elaborate scam, involving your financial details, accounts and your computer. The Symantec also warns against falling for promotional offers from hotels in South Africa, that even throw in a free ticket for one of the matches. Don't be shocked if an iconic football player suddenly begins to 'follow' you on Twitter. Symantec came across a fake Beckham account, an indigenous attempt by an online retailer to push sales. The credibility of the fake account is bolstered by other fraudulent accounts linking back to it and by cross following legitimate Twitter accounts, which probably have been hacked earlier. These are a vehicle for spam advertising and even link to infected sites, Mr. Ghosh said. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Intraduction about myself
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[AI] Yahoo's site mirrors Facebook in latest fac elift
The Hindu : Sci-Tech Education » SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2010 Yahoo's site mirrors Facebook in latest facelift PTI SHARE · PRINT · T+ A sign outside Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo Inc. has announced that it will import personal updates from Facebook's social networking for users. File photo APA sign outside Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo Inc. has announced that it will import personal updates from Facebook's social networking for users. File photo Yahoo Inc's latest facelift will include a Facebook touchup. As part of changes rolling out this week, Yahoo will import personal updates from Facebook's social networking for users who want a bridge between two of the world's most popular websites. The Facebook link will need to be turned on by each Yahoo user. The personal updates, known as a news feed in Facebook's parlance, will be available throughout Yahoo's website, including its front page and e-mail service. Other tools will empower people to automatically let their Facebook friends know what they are doing and saying on Yahoo services such as its photo-sharing site, Flickr. The additional tie-ins follow through on a makeover that Yahoo announced late last year in an effort to make its website more compelling. Although Yahoo still commands a worldwide Internet audience of nearly 600 million, people have been hanging around for progressively shorter periods during the past few years. One of the reasons is because people increasingly congregate on Facebook to share photos, video clips and music, discuss current events and bond with their families and friends. Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, California, is betting that more of its visitors will stay on its website if they can simultaneously monitor what's happening on Facebook. Keeping people on its site longer would give Yahoo more opportunities to sell online ads and revive its revenue growth after an extended slump that has sapped its earnings power and stock price. Connecting with Facebook is just the first step in Yahoo's attempt to establish its website as a social hub. Later this summer, Yahoo intends to import personal updates posted on Twitter's short-messaging service. And by the end of the year, Yahoo will begin featuring widely played Internet games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and Fishville, made by Zynga. The increased emphasis on so-called social media could make Yahoo more susceptible to the privacy backlashes that have plagued Facebook in recent years. Yahoo is trying to ensure people don't inadvertently share any sensitive information by simplifying its privacy controls and urging visitors to review their settings. As part of that process, Yahoo's identify control centre has been renamed Yahoo Pulse. It had been called Yahoo Profiles since its October 2008 debut. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Windows 7 can help businesses save Rs 1,000 per PC
The Hindu : Sci-Tech : : Study NEW DELHI, June 6, 2010 Windows 7 can help businesses save Rs 1,000 per PC annually: Study PTI SHARE · PRINT · T+ Windows 7 augments standard power management components such as hard drive spin down and monitor shut-off. APWindows 7 augments standard power management components such as hard drive spin down and monitor shut-off. Windows 7, the latest operating system (OS) from the Microsoft stable, can help businesses save about Rs 1,000 per PC annually on power, a study said on Sunday. According to a report by Mindteck's Smart Energy Lab, companies can save about Rs 1,000 per computer a year on an average through Windows 7 as compared to older operating systems like Windows XP or Vista. Energy efficiency is a key factor that companies are concentrating on, and the research shows that the new OS helps companies to not only save money but also contributes to the various green initiatives they are taking, Microsoft India Director (Windows Client) Sumeet Khanna said. As organisations look at saving on operating expenses and reducing exposure to fluctuating energy prices, green initiatives are among the top focus areas in corporate IT roadmaps. Optimising desktop power management is one of the simplest, yet effective, ways to reduce power consumption in an enterprise. Increasing energy efficiency on Windows 7 has been one of the core areas for Microsoft, he said. The study said that Windows 7 focuses on reducing overall power consumption by investing in performance optimisation, idle resource utilisation, device power management and key end-user scenarios. Cost savings of up to $ 40.44 (84.46 per cent reduction) per client per year, not including LCD consumption, can be realised by ensuring that desktop PCs or laptops automatically enter sleep states during working hours, and at the end of the day, if the user forgets to manually turn off their PC, Mindteck Global Infrastructure head, Infrastructure, Services and Managed Services, Andrew J. Hacker said. Cost savings for businesses range from $ 14,821 (about Rs 7 lakh) at 500 PCs to a significant $ 296,426 (about Rs 1.4 crore) per year at 10,000 PCs (LCD not included), he added. Windows 7 augments standard power management components such as hard drive spin down and monitor shut-off. IT administrators can also monitor energy consumption and adjust power settings across their organisations, reducing the amount of wasted energy. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] The next step in telephony
Date:30/05/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/05/30/stories/2010053061371100.htm _ Link: Front Page The next step in telephony Ajai Sreevatsan and Shyam Ranganathan 3G phone allows simultaneous use of speech and data services CHENNAI: If a mobile phone is an integral part of your identity, all the recent talk about 3G might have left you a bit lost and confused. The government has earned windfall revenue from the recent 3G spectrum auction, but what does the acronym mean to users hooked to their mobile device? 3G or 3rd Generation is the next step in the evolution of mobile telephony standards. A mobile phone is essentially an extremely sophisticated radio (one which can send and receive a voice message overlapped on top of a carrier signal), and wireless telephony has come a long way since Marconi's first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telegraph message in 1902. The significant difference in the functionality offered by a 3G phone is that it allows simultaneous use of speech and data services, says Bhaskar Ramamurthi, head of the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT), IIT-Madras. Packet Switching The 3G phone uses a method of data transmission technology called Packet Switching. Data is split into packets that have a unique address. Data can be sent on any path in a network and recombined and inter-connected. Thus data will be transmitted faster than voice calls, though both are routed through the same virtual band of frequencies called the spectrum. The higher data rate, however, comes at a cost. During the recent spectrum auctions, 5MHz slots were allotted to various telecom players. Imagine the 2G GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard of 31 carriers of 200KHz to be 31 cycle tracks, says Dr. Ramamurthi, then the 5MHz 3G spectrum split into four 1.25MHz carrier pathways (as per International Telecommunication Union standards) can be viewed as a highway with traffic in both directions. Voice and data can be accommodated in the same channel, as the carrying capacity is greater. Data transfer rates can go up to several Mbps. Services like video calling and on-demand TV essentially tap into this extra space in the air waves. The amount of bandwidth required to explore the full potential of 3G could be as much as 15-20 MHz, a 500-fold increase in the amount of bandwidth required. The widened spectrum means that an upgrade of both the handset (due to the requirement for a baseband chipset architecture that supports the 3G cellular modem) and the air interfaces of the existing cellular network is required. The dominant 3G air interface technologies are W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) and CDMA200, which are 'revolutionary' upgrades of GSM and CDMA. As devices get upgraded, 3G will be at the convergence of computing, communications and consumer devices. How many are going to upgrade their handset just to get 3G services asks J. Shivkumar, Chief Technology Officer of Wi5, a wireless solutions provider. It is going to be a premium service and will be available only in high density zones like Central Business Districts. Data access speeds will drop outside these zones. In other locations, coverage will be available, but not the required bandwidth to offer fast data access. A mobile voice call typically consumes only 6-13 kbps. Pointing out that data usage revenue has already overtaken voice revenue in the U.S., A. Subramanian, Chief General Manager, BSNL Chennai, says: The focus is now going to be on getting more customers into 2.5G services such as GPRS and EDGE through cheaper rates. Most of the existing handsets can handle GPRS. Once initiated to data services, customers will tend to shift to 3G for better access speeds. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Coming soon: Bluetooth's new, low-energy consuming avatar
Date:30/05/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/05/30/stories/2010053061341100.htm _ Link: Front Page Coming soon: Bluetooth's new, low-energy consuming avatar T. Ramachandran Will pave the way for its use in a whole new range of devices _ Small devices that run on button cell batteries can be equipped with Bluetooth 'Next generation watches will act as hubs of information and interact with other devices' _ KOCHI: The availability of a new, low-energy consuming avatar of Bluetooth, the technology that facilitates short-range wireless communication between devices, will soon pave the way for its use in a whole new range of devices, say experts. The Bluetooth technology is now commonly used in mobile phones, computers and many other devices. There are three versions of this technology - the classic one that is used in a wide range of consumer devices; the Bluetooth high speed technology which is used for transfer of videos, music and photos between devices; and the low-energy technology. In recent weeks, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has released more information about its forthcoming Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0, the highlight of which is low-energy technology. Thanks to this technology, small devices that run on button cell batteries - the small coin-like batteries used in watches, for instance - can be equipped with Bluetooth. This means that small devices which receive data through various sensors will be able to transmit it real time to nearby gadgets like a mobile phone, laptop or computer and even a watch. For instance, the 'next generation' watches will act as hubs of such information and interact with other devices, say the promoters of this technology. So a range of button-cell powered gadgets connected with automotive and automation home entertainment, security, fitness and sports and mobile health will come enabled with this technology. Executive director of the Bluetooth SIG Mike Foley told The Hindu , I believe that 'hub'-type devices [mobile phones, personal computers, and television sets] will quickly include the low energy feature of the v4.0 specification. This is because the design of low energy makes this a simple hardware upgrade to existing design. What are the challenges the manufacturers face in deploying the new technology? The chipset is designed to be a replacement for an existing Bluetooth module allowing the antenna and other components in a design to be reused. However, to take advantage of the new use cases, additional software must be created, tested and deployed. Thus, some work needs to be done to take advantage of the new capabilities supported, Mr. Foley said. In the home environment, information provided by sensors could probably make it easier to track happenings and trigger activities - in the kitchen, for instance. In automobiles, such sensors could keep track of parameters like tyre pressure and alert the driver when there is need for attention. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] FW: regarding Handicapped coach
If the reservation is in the general coach, will any facility be given to those who use the wheel chair? Renuka.- Original Message - From: BHAWANI SHANKAR VERMA bsvermad...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [AI] FW: regarding Handicapped coach yes, absolutely. - Original Message - From: devendra d_nik...@yahoo.co.in To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [AI] FW: regarding Handicapped coach If this coach has been reserved than what is difference between sleeper reserved coach and handicapped coach? This handicapped coach should be for all handicapped persons who have general ticket. If any handicapped person reserves berth, it should be given in sleeper coach, not in handicapped coach. Regards Devendra - Original Message - From: tkg gopithiruvanch...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [AI] FW: regarding Handicapped coach dear friends to solve the problem my oppinion is that handicapped coaches open for all handicapped persons with ordinary tickets.the handicapped quota is allowed in the other coaches. the organizations working in the field of handicapped wanted to use their pressure on the authority in this matter. best wishes gopi t k skipe id thiruvancherigopi - Original Message - From: surya narayana surya.ga...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [AI] FW: regarding Handicapped coach they have uniform and other understanding with one another. so they can understand who is their men. here we are disabled possibities are less. moreover its hard to recognise the disability in short duration of time before the train moves. On 5/21/10, Subramani L lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in wrote: This is because military is powerful and if they make a noise you can hear the echo in the Parliament. Whereas if we make noise in front of the handicapped bogi we would likely be shunted out of the platform. Subramani -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Tushar Kansara Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 4:26 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] FW: regarding Handicapped coach military has got full bogie for itself and they dont even open the door for generals On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:57 PM, surya narayana surya.ga...@gmail.comwrote: do you feel that the coach is enough for all these people along with reservation? if all the two lower berths are reserved for handicapped, then wat is the status of other general ticket holders let us take thisssisue with railway minister and other officials. On 5/20/10, Tushar Kansara tarasn...@gmail.com wrote: amiyo if u had the reservation ticket with sl1 reservation it contains train number date and of course one needs certain communication skills to be able to have a constructive dialogue with the users of the compartment the lower berth generally gets occupied by seaters and sharers and then in the end it is used by the sleeper so reserved ones take upper berth or keep bag there On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Amiyo Biswas amiyo.bis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I traveled by handicapped couch from Howrah to Delhi by Poorva Express in March this year. My reservation was not confirmed and so I had to use this facility, in my fellow passengers' terms, at a loss. Anyway, what I understood from the passengers and the RPF on Howrah station is that if you have a handicapped card and a ticket in any form, you can travel by this couch. Escorts are also allowed in the same couch for the convenience of the handicapped passengers. I think, berths in this couch are not allotted during reservation process. With Best regards, Amiyo Biswas. Cell: 91-9433464329 - Original Message - From: surya narayana surya.ga...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [AI] FW: regarding Handicapped coach hello friends, i requested all the guard and railway police force. but no use. because there was no chart on the compartment containing my reservation details. even if there's any chart, how can we ask the handicapped fellow men to vacate the seat? they too have the right to sit on the seats as well as other passingers. it is pity to note that it is totally irrelavant to make arrangements to reserve seats in disabled compartment. On 5/20/10, Tushar Kansara tarasn...@gmail.com wrote: the nearest person who can help u in handicapped coach is the train guard On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:26 PM, surya narayana surya.ga...@gmail.comwrote: Hello sir, I too have a immemorable and bitter experience with handicapped coach. I was given reservation in that coach and
[AI] Can a cooler Hotmail catch up?
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Can a cooler Hotmail catch up? BANGALORE, May 23, 2010 Can a cooler Hotmail catch up? DEEPA KURUP SHARE · COMMENT · PRINT · T+ Microsoft appears to have pulled out of its hat an upgrade Is your email inbox a virtual mall - a one-stop shop for all your web needs and operations? Going by the latest upgrades rolled out by Microsoft for its free email client Hotmail, and Google's attempts to steal its thunder by providing API that allows third-party applications to integrate with Gmail, the focus has shifted from storage and in-built messengers to making your inbox the centre of your web universe. So earlier this week, Hotmail - that old email client that introduced many of us to the world of instant communication - got a makeover. Years after the email client with a proud Indian connection (courtesy, founder Sabeer Bhatia) gave way to younger, roomier and feature-rich email client Gmail, Microsoft appears to have pulled out of its hat an upgrade that is in keeping with the times. Though Yahoo! improved its client and messenger with successful iterations and Gmail consistently offered exciting tools/features through its Gmail labs (on a near-weekly basis), Hotmail was perceived as being caught in a time warp. Hotmail's last upgrade was about two years ago - this is no less than a light year in Internet time. Not surprisingly, in India, Hotmail retains a market share of just over nine per cent. This, when Gmail and Yahoo! are pegged at around 56.7 and 56.1 per cent (does not add up because people generally use multiple IDs), the March 2010 Comscore statistics reveal. While in foreign or mature email markets, where Hotmail is still the leader, this upgrade must be about retaining or beating the market share of rival services, in India the task at hand is a daunting one. So can a cooler , or 'hotter' if you may, Hotmail win over email users? Is its latest roll-out good enough to get email users to disengage from the existing IDs, particularly now when email IDs have become inextricably linked with the way we 'keep in touch'? Rathin Lahiri, Director Online, Microsoft Consumer and Online Business, believes that this upgrade may do the trick. Integration with other email accounts (including rivals Google and Yahoo!) and social networks, larger attachment capacity and enhanced spam recognition are key upgrades, he says. Of the many new features (many of them already on offer in Gmail and Yahoomail), the most unique is the uncluttered email experience: better conversation views (by threading email) and one-click sweep to delete or move emails to other folders. It allows you to preview photos, view slideshows and even videos from third-party applications, all from the comfort of your inbox. The upper-limit on attachment size offered herein is an unparalleled 10 GB. Photos and videos too can be shared through Microsoft's cloud-based SkyDrive, Mr. Lahiri explains. Significantly, the new Hotmail offers better integration with its new web-based Office suite, allowing users to view, edit and share documents in real time. Live messenger The upgrades have not stopped with Hotmail, Mr. Lahiri informs. Demoing an improved messenger service, he points out that it brings Video Chat in High Definition for a fully loaded experience. It allows users to share photos from SkyDrive and Facebook in real time, share and update status across social networks with a single click. An interesting feature, one that is indeed novel, is the ability to set availability status by category - that is, while I can appear active to friends, I can appear offline to co-workers, or appear 'busy' to my boss! To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Musical talent-visual impairment link
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Science : Musical talent-visual impairment link Link: Technology May 20, 2010 Lucy Tobin Link: Share· Link: print· Link: T+ AP Blind but brilliant: High-profile and brilliant blind musicians such as Stevie Wonder have long caused people to wonder if there is a link between music and blindness. New research suggests musical talent and vision impairment are closely linked. High-profile and brilliant blind musicians such as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and Andrea Bocelli have long caused people to wonder if there is a link between music and blindness. Now Professor Adam Ockelford, a musician and visiting research fellow at the Institute of Education, London, has some solid evidence. He and his research team surveyed and visited visually impaired children who had been premature babies, at home and at school. Working with around 40 blind children, as well as surveying parents, teachers and music therapists, the study showed that blind children are 4,000 times more likely to have perfect pitch - a traditional marker of exceptional musical ability - than their fully sighted peers. The research, which also quizzed parents whose children were fully sighted, found that 48 per cent of blind children demonstrate significant interest in everyday sounds compared to 13 per cent of those with full sight. More than two-thirds of the blind and partially sighted children played at least one instrument, compared with 41 per cent of the sighted group. Parents of the blind children reported that music was particularly important as a source of comfort, helping them to relax and express their emotions. According to Ockelford, the reason is the obvious one. He explains: In young babies, the brain is very mouldable, synapses grow and connections are made all the time. In blind children, the areas of the brain involved in sight are not being used, but others, including those used for hearing, become much more important. The greater focus on auditory input makes the brain develop in a different way. Ockelford says he repeatedly found himself astonished by young children singing in perfect pitch during his research. About 20 per cent of musicians have perfect pitch, and in the wider population it's about one in 10,000, but I was discovering these children singing beautifully in tune, time and time again, he says. Perfect pitch isn't a condition for great musicianship, but it is necessary in the development of exceptional musicality among people with learning difficulties. Ockelford says many blind people already use their awareness of pitch to help them overcome daily obstacles. Joshua Black, who was born prematurely at 32 weeks, is registered blind, with no sight in his right eye and only small amount of peripheral vision in his left eye. He plays the violin, trumpet and African drums as well as singing; he is academic, but music is his passion. It helps me overcome everyday stress; when I'm upset I go to music, Joshua says. Joshua uses his perfect pitch to convert sounds into colours in his head. If I hear an A note, in my head that's blue, he says. Ockelford says his research shows that music teachers should be more willing to make an effort with these children, especially as they are more likely to be talented. There are still a lot of stereotypes around about children with disabilities being harder for music teachers to teach, he says. Joshua's mother Clare Black agrees. She found it hugely difficult to find a teacher for Joshua. Joshua learns in a different way, mainly by ear - the Suzuki learning method has been the perfect way for him to learn the violin, for example. Ockelford says: Although sheet music is available for blind children in braille, it's only useful for those who are very academically able. For those who have learning difficulties, learning music aurally can be a huge confidence boost. - © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2010 To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Facebook rolls out new security features
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Facebook rolls out new security features NEW YORK, May 15, 2010 Facebook's millions of users are a lucrative target for Internet criminals. Photo: AP Link: Amazon adding Twitter, Facebook to Kindle e-reader Link: Facebook unveils new tools to conquer the web Facebook's millions of users are a lucrative target for Internet criminals looking to steal passwords and more. To combat malicious attacks, phishing scams and spam, the online social network is rolling out new security features. You can ask to be notified by e-mail or text message when your account is accessed from a computer or mobile device you haven't used before. The log-in attempt may be legitimate when you're travelling, but if you haven't left home in a week, you probably ought to change your password. Facebook is also adding roadblocks when it notices unusual activity, such as simultaneous log-ins from opposite sides of the planet. For example, you might be shown a photo with your friends tagged, and be asked to correctly identify who they are before the second log-in goes through. Users will also be able to check where the latest log-ins have come from. This is similar to a feature Google Inc. offers on its Gmail service, where users can view the date, time and location of the most recent log-ins to their account. Gmail also states whether the account is open on another computer at the same time. Some of these changes are already available, while others are still being tested and will launch over the next few weeks. Facebook typically rolls out changes over several days, if not weeks, so not all users will see them at the same time. The new features come as Facebook faces growing criticism over the way it handles users' privacy. It has been pushing them to share more about themselves with one another and with the outside world. The security upgrade is a sign the company is working to keep its users' trust in the way it handles the private data they post, even as it fends of complaints from privacy advocates, users and politicians. Hemanshu Nigam, former chief security officer at Facebook rival MySpace, said Facebook has many incentives to be mindful of privacy complaints. A little thing like this can turn into a big thing, and could turn into an advertiser saying, 'Well, I can take my dollars elsewhere,' said Nigam, who now runs online security firm SSP Blue but still consults for MySpace. The moment a lawsuit or government investigation begins, advertisers get very nervous of that. Facebook already has automated systems in place that detect when users access the site in a way that doesn't make sense, said Jake Brill, product manager at Facebook. This can include sending out an avalanche of messages or logging in from different countries at the same time. The secondary account verification system that Facebook is rolling out makes sure that when people log in from elsewhere, they are authorized to do so. Many websites try to do this by asking people to type words displayed in an image to prove they are human, rather than a computer seeking automated access. But this only helps keep those software robots out, not people, Brill said. The requirement to enter information that only you would know such as the identity of your friends can help stop unauthorized access should your password somehow become compromised. To get notified when someone accesses an account from a new computer or device, you have to turn that feature on. To do this, go to account settings, scroll down to account security, then click change. There, you can choose to be notified of log-ins by e-mail or text message. Facebook is asking users to activate, or opt-in to, the security setting, even as it takes an opt-out approach with some of its marketing and personalization features. With opt-out, participation is automatic unless the user takes action. Without giving an exact figure, Facebook says only a tiny percentage of its users have their accounts compromised. But a small percentage of 400 million can still be sizable. The site's users are a good target for cybercriminals because of the implicit trust people place in Facebook. They are more likely to respond to scams and other messages that appear to come from real friends, but are actually sent by hackers able to game the system. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] WHO study says mobile use 'can raise brain cancer risk'
The Hindu : Health WHO study says mobile use 'can raise brain cancer risk' London, May 17, 2010 PTI A WHO study says just half-an-hour daily on mobile can increase a person's risk of the disease by a third. File photo: Vipin Chandran. The debate over whether cell phone radiation causes brain cancer continues, with a new study by the WHO now claiming that just half-an-hour daily on mobile can increase a person's risk of the disease by a third. The Interphone report by the World Health Organisation has found those in the heaviest user category were in greater danger of developing malignant glioma tumours, which may lead to brain cancer, the 'Daily Express' reported. But the report's definition of heavy use is just 30 minutes a day and regular use was at least one call per week over a six-month period. The Interphone report, which has been largely funded by the mobile phone industry, was based on interviews in 13 countries over 10 years with 5,000 brain cancer victims or a friend or relative of those who had died or were too ill. No victims under 30 were interviewed, with researchers admitting many young people use mobiles for an hour or more every day. They found that tumours were more common on the side of the head where the phone was used. However, experts have warned that the real risk may be much higher as the study didn't look at other tumours including acoustic neuromas, which grow in the ears. Sarah Wright, Spokesperson for campaign group Mast Sanity, said They are only looking at two types of tumours. Other reports have come up with an average that doubled the risk and this Interphone study gives a 40 per cent increased risk. Evidence showed the number diagnosed was increasing by two per cent every year. Dr. Grahame Blackwell, a spokesman for health charity WiredChild, said: It's time for the government to stop saying, like the mobile industry, 'we need more research', to put warnings on mobile phone packaging and to issue cautions over children, similar to those in other countries. Parents just don't realise the dangers, which go beyond brain tumours, and the government needs to inform them because the manufacturers certainly won't. Added Prof. Denis Henshaw, Head of the Human Radiation Effects Group at Bristol University: Why should it come as a surprise that pressing mobile phones to people's ears increases the risk of brain tumours? These findings are completely as expected. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Blind-friendly library
This is a mail forwarded by me earlier. Could anyone from Tamilnadu convey the latest position? Renuka. Date:22/11/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/22/stories/2009112256970100.htm _ Link: Front Page Blind-friendly library L. Renganathan KARUR: (Thamil Nadu) In a few days from now, even the visually challenged would be able to saunter into the District Central Library, Karur, and savour books designed for them and stored there through the medium of computers. In a pioneering move, the library here is all set to welcome the visually challenged visitors by becoming a blind-friendly library. The proposal that had been under consideration for sometime got a boost with Collector J. Uma Maheswari deciding to grant some funds. While the necessary equipment to meet the demands had been listed the actual funding and procurement that would lead up to the launch of the section would take place in just about a couple of weeks, sources said. While the district administration is all set to grant around Rs. 10 lakh, the balance needs to be generated from willing donors. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Plastic lens may soon replace laser eye surgery
The Hindu : Health London, May 15, 2010 Plastic lens may soon replace laser eye surgery IANS Link: Share· Link: print· Link: T+ THE HINDU An eye specialist performing a laser operation on a patient. According to the researchers, the new treatment changes the path of light entering the eye by using a synthetic lens inserted in front of the natural lens. File Photo: Raju V. Scientists from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have come up with a novel treatment to correct short-sightedness in people. According to the researchers, the new treatment changes the path of light entering the eye by using a synthetic lens inserted in front of the natural lens. Myopia or short-sightedness is a condition where the eye focuses images in front of the retina instead of directly on it. This means objects further away appear blurred. Experts have carried out a review to compare these phakic intraocular lenses with laser surgery. Our findings suggest phakic IOLs are safer than excimer laser surgery for correcting moderate to high levels of short-sightedness, dailymail.co.uk quoted lead author Allon Barsam as saying. Although it's not currently standard clinical practice, it could be worth considering phakic IOL treatment over the more common laser surgery for patients with moderate short-sightedness, Barsam added. A year after surgery, the percentage of eyes with 20/20 vision without spectacles was the same for both procedures, but patients undergoing phakic IOL treatment had clearer spectacle corrected vision and better contrast sensitivity. London, May 15, 2010 Page Headline: Plastic lens may soon replace laser eye surgery IANS Link: Share· Link: print· Link: T+ THE HINDU An eye specialist performing a laser operation on a patient. According to the researchers, the new treatment changes the path of light entering the eye by using a synthetic lens inserted in front of the natural lens. File Photo: Raju V. Scientists from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have come up with a novel treatment to correct short-sightedness in people. According to the researchers, the new treatment changes the path of light entering the eye by using a synthetic lens inserted in front of the natural lens. Myopia or short-sightedness is a condition where the eye focuses images in front of the retina instead of directly on it. This means objects further away appear blurred. Experts have carried out a review to compare these phakic intraocular lenses with laser surgery. Our findings suggest phakic IOLs are safer than excimer laser surgery for correcting moderate to high levels of short-sightedness, dailymail.co.uk quoted lead author Allon Barsam as saying. Although it's not currently standard clinical practice, it could be worth considering phakic IOL treatment over the more common laser surgery for patients with moderate short-sightedness, Barsam added. A year after surgery, the percentage of eyes with 20/20 vision without spectacles was the same for both procedures, but patients undergoing phakic IOL treatment had clearer spectacle corrected vision and better contrast sensitivity. London, May 15, 2010 Page Headline: Plastic lens may soon replace laser eye surgery IANS Link: Share· Link: print· Link: T+ THE HINDU An eye specialist performing a laser operation on a patient. According to the researchers, the new treatment changes the path of light entering the eye by using a synthetic lens inserted in front of the natural lens. File Photo: Raju V. Scientists from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have come up with a novel treatment to correct short-sightedness in people. According to the researchers, the new treatment changes the path of light entering the eye by using a synthetic lens inserted in front of the natural lens. Myopia or short-sightedness is a condition where the eye focuses images in front of the retina instead of directly on it. This means objects further away appear blurred. Experts have carried out a review to compare these phakic intraocular lenses with laser surgery. Our findings suggest phakic IOLs are safer than excimer laser surgery for correcting moderate to high levels of short-sightedness, dailymail.co.uk quoted lead author Allon Barsam as saying. Although it's not currently standard clinical practice, it could be worth considering phakic IOL treatment over the more common laser surgery for patients with moderate short-sightedness, Barsam added. A year after surgery, the percentage of eyes with 20/20 vision without spectacles was the same for both procedures, but patients undergoing phakic IOL treatment had clearer spectacle corrected vision and better contrast sensitivity. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Disclosing disability in CV
I have been following all the mails discussing this matter and in my personal experience, informing the authorities about our disability well in advance before going to the interview do us good only. It makes them decide the suitable job for us and post us accordingly. Renuka - Original Message - From: Adina Galani lotusflowe...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Disclosing disability in CV Well, if you can manage employers' shocked face while seeing you, trying to make you feel horrible, just because they didn't know before that you are blind, I think is ok not to specify it. On the other hand, most of us have studied in schools for blind or visually impaired people, how is one supposed to avoid writing it? I am personally for writing it, even if the perspective is bit limited. If they do not want blind people amongst their employees', they will surely manage not to get you, with or without your specification in the c v. I doubt hiding it really brings much but contrary. - Original Message - From: Sameer sala...@gawab.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Disclosing disability in CV Dear Amit, Your point about employers being aware about the disability is valid when the job is reserved for the disabled. My query was whether we should indicate our disability on our CV when applying for a job in the open category - where there is no reservation. In such cases employers may not be aware of our disabilities if we do not mention it in our CV. In such cases, some of our friends have been not allowed to appear for interviews after reaching the place of interview because the prospective employers did not know that they were blind. Regards Mr. Sameer Latey, Mumbai, India - Original Message - From: Amit Bhatt misterbh...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Disclosing disability in CV As I have tried to indicate in my previous communication, if the employers are ready to call the persons with disabilities for appearing in the interview, obviously they would be aware about how a disabled person, say Visually Challenged person, can work in the Office with the support of various screen reading Application and other assistive technologies. If an employer is not aware of how a Visually Impaired worker can work in the company, they would simply not even think to open the position and arrange the interview for us. Thanks, Amit Bhatt - Original Message - From: Zujar Shabbir Kanchwala zujarbri...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Disclosing disability in CV My personal experience is that not mentioning the disability in CV/Resume may not give an opportunity to the potential employer to decide whether to call the candidate for the interview in the first place. There's no point in going to an interview and failing due to the interviewer not being aware of your disability. Not every employer may be able to provide you with vision aids at workplace. Mentioning about your disability, on the contrary, helps a willing employer to prepare for including a differently abled candidate in the work-force. I had been selected at four different places (not willing to point out on the list) in the initial stage of my career and then rejected simply due to those employers not being able to grasp that I can work comfortably with a little adjustments to the screen display. Yes, those days I was not aware of screen readers and even if I were, they seemed not in a position to acquire it in their organizations. After such unfavourable experiences, I decided to include my disability in my Resume. When I was called for an interview from Mphasis, my current employer, I first enquired whether the HR person calling me knows that I am visually challenged. His consent helped me know that I would not have to face a failure due to disability and I went for the interview. Its good to disclose what you are right in the first place. Of course, this may invite some bias but that's inevitable. Best Regards, Zujar... An optimist laughs to forget, whereas a pessimist forgets to laugh! -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Amit Bhatt Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 8:14 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Disclosing disability in CV I endorse to your opinion, Shadab. Generally the employers specify the vacant position for persons with disabilities. HR officials manage the database in some organizations in case they have any disabled employee. So it barely matters to disclose the disability in CV. Another fact is that there are very a few companies where the disabled employees are hired directly by
Re: [AI] Fw: i want to change my subscription in to daily digest modeto regguler mode i alrady member of accessindia daily digestplease guide me thanking you
Please read the last part of all the posts. There you will get the required info. Renuka. - Original Message - From: mallika mallika2ma...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:09 PM Subject: [AI] Fw: i want to change my subscription in to daily digest modeto regguler mode i alrady member of accessindia daily digestplease guide me thanking you - Original Message - From: mallika sandireddy To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:05 PM Subject: i want to change my subscription in to daily digest mode to regguler mode i alrady member of accessindia daily digest please guide me thanking you To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Blind Women Help Detect Breast Cancer
This posting has been done some months ago and some of has forwarded this mail to some NGOs. Could anyone inform any positive response from any NGO? Renuka. - Original Message - From: Sanjay ilovec...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 1:23 PM Subject: [AI] Blind Women Help Detect Breast Cancer (By Nick Wade and Joana Krause-Palfner. From CNN.com © July 30, 2009) Blind women are being trained to use their sensitive touch to help detect breast cancer earlier and more precisely than doctors. The program, called Discovering Hands, is the brainchild of German gynecologist Dr. Frank Hoffmann. Two years ago, he created braille strips as a system of orientation, allowing the blind to carry out breast examinations. Using these strips, blind women are trained to become medical tactile examiners (MTUs) because they are more able to detect smaller lumps than sighted doctors. Hoffman argues that because of their disability, the blind can possess a more acutely developed sense of touch, which has proved to be a valuable asset in breast examinations. Once the strips are placed along specific areas of the breast, they are then used to report a precise location to the doctor as the MTU reads their braille coordinates. We are turning a disability into a gift, Dr. Hoffmann told CNN. It's like the game Battleship, he added. You have the exact location. A study at the Essen University's women's clinic, Germany, concluded that MTUs found more and smaller tumors than doctors in 450 cases. The identification of smaller lumps allows earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment. Another advantage of having MTUs is that they are able to dedicate more time to examining a patient. Dr. Hoffman said he had previously been able to spend only a few minutes on each examination due to his other commitments, whereas MTUs can commit half an hour. Training takes place at the BFW occupational school in Duren, west Germany, a center for those who are no longer able to continue their profession because of visual impairment or blindness. So far, 10 blind women have qualified as MTUs. One of the women, Marie-Luise Voll, 57, told CNN: The work brings me a lot of joy. Voll had previously practiced as a nurse before losing her sight in 2007, but used the experience when training at Duren for her new role. The highly personal nature of the procedure means that only women will be trained. The MTUs report to the doctor-- for whom they act as an assistant, not a replacement--who then uses this information as part of their ultimate diagnosis. If an abnormality is located, the doctor will decide how to proceed, with ultrasounds and mammography being the most frequent course of action. The testing phase of the project between 2006 and 2008 has now been completed in Germany. The hope is that 20 trained MTUs will qualify every year after 2010. The program has been acclaimed as a success by both patients and practitioners in Germany. Health services in Europe, including Ireland, France, Denmark and Austria, have also registered interest in starting an equivalent of their own, Hoffman said. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Towards a new mobile user interface platform
Does this system benifit the visually challanged also? Wait and see. Renuka. Date:04/04/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/04/04/stories/2010040463341100.htm _ Link: Front Page Towards a new mobile user interface platform T. Ramachandran IBM is working on one that will help the elderly and the illiterate KOCHI: The development of an interface platform for mobile phones capable of helping users overcome old-age and illiteracy-related barriers is crucial for enabling a wider segment of the population gain access to a fast-growing range of mobile services, researchers at the IBM say. The new platform that the IBM is working on can be used to build mobile applications that richly support multiple modes of user interaction - based on voice, images, icons, and text. It will be common across different applications and not be an operating system itself. And it is to spearhead the development of such a platform that the IBM recently announced a research project, with the National Institute of Design (NID) being one of the collaborating institutions. Helping the illiterate Experts have said for long that 'multimodal' interfaces can help overcome barriers such as illiteracy. For instance, if a mobile application is capable of handling speech input and output along with text, a less literate user might find a task like filling up an online form easier using voice. Currently, we are trying to identify which modalities will make interoperability easy. The focus of this platform is on the modality such as voice, images, icons and text, Manish Gupta, Director, IBM Research - India, and Chief Technologist, IBM India/South Asia, told The Hindu. He explained that this platform should be able to facilitate an interface based on the modalities that a mobile phone supports, in a way that is convenient to the aged and less-literate users. The idea of the platform is to ensure that it can work with a phone that is as basic as a landline and can also use features of high end smart phones. The platform should ideally be able to adapt to the client device and suggest an interface on different modalities, depending on the modalities that are supported by the client device, he said. It was too early to say which operating system it would run on. First step The study that is to be carried out by the NID will be the first step in deciding the contours of the platform. The ethnographic research we are conducting will give us a clearer view to the requirements of the target audiences, says Jignesh Khakhar of the NID. It was likely to support the design and development of interfaces that could, for example, support touch, voice or gaze inputs, as well as text and/or image inputs. Not much progress had been made in India in the design of interfaces for specific communities addressing a specific context, or specific needs. This is a difficult task, as it requires a deep understanding of context as well as of behaviour. Interfaces in regional languages have also not seen widespread adoption, he said. Japan chosen Japan, whose population has a large proportion of aged people, has been chosen by the IBM for research related to the needs of elderly mobile phone users. Here, the IBM is collaborating with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo. The IBM has stated that the software developed will be made available as open source and 'other materials developed will be made publicly available' to governments and businesses. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Tracking made easy, smart
Date:28/03/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/28/stories/2010032860791500.htm _ Link: Front Page Tracking made easy, smart Ramya Kannan CHENNAI: If you thought a SIM card was useful only in tracking a stolen phone, think again. The Chennai-based Random Infotech has just the software to make the SIM the absolute tracking device. Chief executive C. Premanand says a couple of years of research went into the Random Location Tracker, which was originally conceived of as a personalised application to locate, for instance, the nearest ATM. The user will merely send an SMS with the bank name to a number and, using the Random Location Tracker, the software will cull out information about the ATM nearest to the phone and message details back. We soon realised that it had a much wider application when several train accidents happened because of fog. When a train was hijacked by Maoists, they took hours to pinpoint the location where it stopped. We thought that we could broad-base our application to accurately map the movement of trains, he says. The technology is so simple that you would wonder why no one thought of it before. Normally, every SIM picks up and transmits signals from and to four or five towers in an area, but only the strongest signal is used. The Random Location Tracker, developed in association with Artillum, U.K., uses data from all these towers and uses an algorithm to arrive at the closest location of the SIM. In urban areas, where there are more towers, we can predict between eight and 20 metres from the actual location. In rural areas, maybe 100 metres, says Mr. Premanand. It is not that tracking of goods is not being done; the satellite-based GPS tracking is being used widely, but expensive units need to be located within the container or train or lorry. The Random Location Tracker will make it cheaper by cutting down hardware costs. We will take sophisticated tracking to the humblest mobile phone with a SIM card that has pre-loaded software. The cost will be a monthly user-fee for the service, and tariff will depend on the service providers with whom we are talking. Besides with the Railways, which the Random Infotech team thinks will be the major beneficiary, talks are on with mobile service providers who can embed the software in the SIM card, fleet operators, call taxi operators and transport companies. While the primary task is tracking, there is the added advantage of data collection. If you are a paranoid parent, this is good for you as well, to keep a tab on your child. Mr. Premanand says the service could be available at Rs. 30 a month per SIM card. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Microsoft speeds up app development with free tools
Date:21/03/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/21/stories/2010032156351300.htm __ Link: Front Page Microsoft speeds up app development with free tools G. Ananthakrishnan The move follows a clear global trend of growing mobile data consumption and flat revenues per phone user CHENNAI: Microsoft has opened up a suite of software tools for the international developers, free, for them to write applications and games for its Windows Phone 7 series of mobile devices that are scheduled to go on sale later this year. The move to speed up application development follows a clear global trend, of growing mobile data consumption and flat revenues per phone user. As mobile data use becomes ubiquitous, the market for application software is expanding fast. Applications sales are estimated to be worth $17.5 billion by 2012, up from about $ five billion in 2009. Several phone and software companies are opening up their online marketplace to application developers, who now have the opportunity to write 'apps' that help users do anything from playing games to accessing social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, to booking tickets, tracking flights and listening to music. This they can do for various platforms built by Apple, Google, the upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone 7 series, and others, on different commercial terms. As it prepares for the coming festival season launch of Windows Phone 7 series mobiles, Microsoft recently announced free access to its main developer tools for phones - Visual Studio 2010, Expression Blend 4 and XNA Game Studio 4. The new phone series provides support for the Silverlight framework of Microsoft, which helps to build rich media applications for business and entertainment on computers, the web and on mobile devices. Free access to tools were among the highlights at the MIX 10 conference for the developer community held in Las Vegas, the U.S., between March 15 and 17. The guided approach to application development complements Microsoft's decision to define hardware standards for its Windows Phone 7 series devices to be made by leading vendors. By guaranteeing the specifications of a phone belonging to this series, the customer can be sure of performance levels, company executives say. The minimum features of the devices include a sensitive capacitive touch interface, GPS, accelerometer, compass, five megapixel camera with flash, a camera button, 256 MB memory, eight GB flash storage, directx 9 acceleration, ARMv7 Cortex/Scorpion processor or better. Joe Belfiore, corporate vice-president, Windows Phone, told MIX 10 that the new phone series, strongly woven around social networking behaviour, is designed for a user who is '38 years old, 76 per cent employed and 73 per cent in a partnered relationship. That user profile stands in contrast to the trend of phones aimed primarily at youth. The design specifications are oriented towards users who are described by Microsoft as life maximisers. Microsoft hopes that its foray into mobile phones will give it a significant share in the mobile data segment, which is estimated to grow at an annual compounded rate of 131 per cent and mobile voice at 112 per cent over the next three years. By comparison, data access from fixed lines is seen as growing only by 39 per cent CAGR, while fixed line voice use is actually expected to decline by 6 per cent CAGR. Speaking to journalists in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, Austen Mulinder, Microsoft's corporate vice-president, worldwide communications sector, pointed out that the number of wireless Internet-connected devices is expected to go up to 10 billion by 2015, up from two billion today. Another metric of interest is the number of users of social networking sites, which currently stands at about 800 million. The factor that will differentiate the smart-phones of the future is data integration - software and programs that connect the personal computer and the mobile phone - and not all providers possess all the pieces here. Music, gaming, search, maps, instant messaging and so on are part of this value set. Aaron Woodman, Microsoft's director of mobile communications, argues that Apple does desktop to mobile integration in the area of music, Nokia offers the service suite Ovi, and Google has search and map services, but in terms of deep integration of all these services with a gaming platform, for example, Microsoft is unique in also possessing the X-Box Live. The mobile small screen is set to witness a lot of action in the coming months. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at
Re: [AI] Self employed people.
Hi, I can suggest one wonderful personality called Mr. Ravindran. He was an officer in the sbi when he lost his vision due to RD. Not becoming desperate at this bad fate, he opted for a reversion to the post of telephone operator and performed his duty so successfully that he had grabbed the Kerala state award for the best physically challenged employ in 1988. After his retirement in 2005, he started the business of the taxi service and is now running it with much success. From one taxi, now he possess 15 or 16 taxis and he enjoys the business too. His contact no. is: Land line 04952355133, Mobile: 09349113339 With regards, Renuka. - Original Message - From: Eyeway Helpdesk helpd...@eyeway.org To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:54 PM Subject: [AI] Self employed people. Hi all, In one of the forthcoming episodes of Eyeway Radio Show, we would be covering the different avenues in self employment for the visually impaired people. For this, we are looking for visually impaired people doing well in any sortof self employment. Though, we do have contacts of many such people but would like to have a few more new names. Also We have very few names of self employed women. Would really appreciate if you can revert to us back with the names by tomorrow morning on this email id or our phone numbers. Sorry for calling this at such a short notice thanks and regards, Pranay Gadodia | Programme Manager Project Eyeway - A knowledge resource for living a fuller life with vision loss C/o Score Foundation, Y-70, Lower Ground floor, Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016. INDIA. Helpdesk:+91-11-460 70 380 (Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm) Cell: +91-9891791089 Email: helpd...@eyeway.org Website: www.eyeway.org To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] An open answer to Office
Date:14/03/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/14/stories/2010031463251500.htm __ Link: Front Page An open answer to Office Deepa Kurup __ OpenOffice is one of the most successful Open Source products It has crossed 300 million downloads __ BANGALORE: The decade-old OpenOffice was the Free and Open Source riposte to Microsoft's Office that has entrenched itself in the office productivity suite segment. Originally a proprietary software application that was open-sourced by Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice has come a long way, with the release of its new-improved version 3.2. Today, having crossed 300 million downloads - a third of this over the last year - this community project is among the most successful stand-alone Open Source products. Data legacy and incompatibility issues, as a majority of office software was already using proprietary applications, and widespread piracy, retarded early growth. Constantly competing with MS Office, it got better with successive iterations, though it has not quite caught up. The latest version, Office 2010, is due for release and offers browser versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, across the PC, mobile phone and browser. Open Office 3.2 The most in-your-face improvements of Open Office 3.2 Writer are the reduced start-up time (down by 46 per cent, it claims) and more features on Calc, its spreadsheet programme. It offers improved compatibility with proprietary file formats, including password-protected files, and increased compliance with Open Document Format (ODF) standards that have now been adopted by several countries. Why Open Office? For starters. OpenOffice is free - as in free beer and freedom/liberty, to roughly borrow the famous Richard Stallman analogy for Free Software. So when MS Office 2007 for home users costs Rs 3,000, and between Rs.14,000 and Rs.17,000 for professionals, OpenOffice is free. Though the frills and fancies are missing in the user interface, including simple features like a thesaurus, for a regular user what OpenOffice offers is basic and adequate. As for the freedom it offers, OpenOffice has driven localisation in a big way. Sunil Abraham, director of the Centre for Internet and Society, points out that its support for language computing is key. OpenOffice is available in 26 Indian languages (led by the CDAC's BharateeyaOO team and independent FOSS communities), years before proprietary options were available. Even today, Microsoft's Office Suite offers 12 languages, while OpenOffice offers dictionaries, thesaurus, spelling and grammar check. Though it has not been widely adopted in the way it is in Europe, there are some success stories, Mr. Abraham says. For instance, the Delhi government and the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu are migrating to OpenOffice. New acquisition With proprietary giant Oracle recently acquiring Sun Microsystems, the FOSS community that has contributed reams of code to Sun's Open Source project - like OpenOffice, OpenSolaris, and more importantly MySQL - is apprehensive. But with no competing Office products, there is little reason for Oracle to kill OpenOffice. Michael Bemmer, general manager of Global Business Unit, asserts OpenOffice will remain Open Source and free. The Oracle Office product family will be the first desktop-to-web-to-mobile solution centred on the ODF document standard - running on any platform, any device. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Devices that take one's breath away
Date:11/03/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/11/stories/2010031160622000.htm Front Page Devices that take one's breath away Smriti Kak Ramachandran 'Exhibition of Innovations' attempts to link inventors, end-users Seventeen-year-old Susant Patnaik gives a demonstration of the Super-Brain Modulator to President Pratibha Patil during the 'Exhibition of Innovations' at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday. NEW DELHI: The hardship faced by disabled persons while manoeuvring their wheelchairs, and the difficulty with which the speech-and hearing-impaired convey their needs inspired Susant Patnaik, a 17-year-old school boy from Orissa, to build a breathing sensor device to assist the differently-abled. Resembling a plastic toy-chair mounted on a maze of wires with sensors, the device could well be a fanciful gizmo designed by school boys. But for its innovator, it is a means of empowering disabled people. The super-brain modulator is based on the principle that breathing is something that everybody does. And the device relies on breathing for getting across the thoughts of the disabled and converts them into actions, says Susant, who is awaiting a world patent for his innovation. Two years went into designing the device, which will help physically challenged people perform tasks like switching on lights, reaching for a remote or communicating their needs. Susant's innovation is among several others that are on display at the Rashtrapati Bhavan as part of an 'Exhibition of Innovations,' inaugurated by President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday. The first of its kind in the Rashtrapati Bhavan precincts, the exhibition is an attempt to forge a relationship between innovators and end-users. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Fw: ResultsFunmit
Results India jobs n recruitment » NotificationsToday, I received the following message. But when I clicked the link mentioned, there was no news regarding the content. Could anyone throw any light on it? Renuka. - Original Message - From: Results India jobs n recruitment » Notifications To: eren...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:35 PM Subject: ResultsFunmit ResultsFunmit Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Technical non Technical vacancies Posted: 10 Mar 2010 02:52 AM PST Hindustan Aeronautics Limited is going to recruit for various post including, Trainees (IMM/Finance/HR Disciplines) IMM(Stores/Purchase) HR Finance Technician Trainees in Technical Disciplines – C5 Sheet Metal Turner Electrician Fitter Machinist Painter Ex-Servicemen Technician on Contract (Scale of Pay depends of Qualification Experience) Electrical Engineering Helper-Office Mechanical Engineering Diploma Trainees in Technical Disciplines Tool Die Making Computer Mechanical Civil Production Engineering 2 Advt is available on www.hal-india.com You are subscribed to email updates from Results India jobs n recruitment » Notifications To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] job alert in SyndicateBank
SyndicateBank (A GOVERNMENT OF INDIA UNDERTAKING) HEAD OFFICE : MANIPAL-576 104 Advt. No.PD/HRDD/REC/01/2010 Recruitment of Specialist Officers 2010-11. Syndicate Bank, a Premier Nationalised Bank, invites applications from Indian citizens for recruitment of 426 specialist officers. Opening date for Online Registration 10.03.2010 Last Date for making on-line application (All posts) and On line submission of Application form (Including for candidates from far-flung areas ) 10.04.2010 Date of Written Examination for the post code 01 02 03 (Probationary Officer) 23.05.2010 Last Date for submission of Application Print out in respect of Post code Nos. 04 to 17 19.04.2010 Last Date for submission of Application Print out in respect of Post code Nos. 04 to 17 - For far-flung areas 26.04.2010 Those candidates who wish to apply for two or more posts should submit separate on-line application with requisite fee for each post. NAME OF THE POST/VACANCIES: Post Code No. Post Scale No. of Vacancies Out of which TOTAL SC ST OBC GEN OH VH HI 01 Asst. Manager (RD) * I 125 44 22 79 150 -- -- -- 02 Asst. Manager (Marketing) I 150 02 02 02 03 OL Officer I 10 04 Technical Officers # I 10 05 Manager (IT) II 14 05 09 ' 36 ' 39 01 01 01 06 Manager (Law) II 08 07 Manager (Credit) II 50 08 Manager (Security) II 07 09 Manager (FX) II 05 10 Managers (Risk Mgt) II 05 11 Senior Manager (IT) III 05 05 02 09 19 01 -- -- 12 Senior Manager (Credit) III 20 13 Senior Manager (FX) III 05 14 Senior Manager(Risk Mgt) III 05 15 Chief Manager (IT) IV 05 -- -- 01 05 -- -- -- 16 Chief Manager (Risk Mgt) IV 01 17 Asst. General Manager (Risk Mgt.) V 01 -- -- -- 01 -- -- - Total 426 54 33 125 214 04 03 03 To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] link to syndicate bank
Sorry, I forgot to mention the link to syndicate bank. Here it is, www.syndicatebank.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] A device to help them speak
Date:07/03/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/07/stories/2010030754401200.htm __ Link: Front Page A device to help them speak Shyam Ranganathan ARM-based processor in AVAZ in the service of people with cerebral palsy - Photo: S.R. Raghunathan WORDS TO VOICE:A student at Vidyasagar tries his hand at the device. CHENNAI: An ARM-based processor in an iPod can help play music; in a Nokia N97, it can connect to the cellular network; inside a Nintendo DS, the processor can make games come to life. Last Thursday, an ARM-based processor in a device called AVAZ helped Rohit Jain speak a full sentence for the first time in his life. Rohit has cerebral palsy and cannot communicate orally. Like Santosh, who studies at Vidya Sagar [formerly Spastic Society of India, Chennai], and uses a chart to point at 'H' and then at 'I' to greet visitors. The two have also used devices like 'Link,' which uses a speech synthesiser to voice out sentences they type on a keyboard, or 'Pencentra' which converts their scribbled words into voice. Rajul Padmanabhan, director, Vidya Sagar, says there are more sophisticated devices which cost around Rs. 3 lakh and which can help the kids voice their thoughts with speech synthesisers and accessible input systems, but there is no maintenance support available in India. So when Vidya Sagar co-hosted 'Silent Revolution,' a conference on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), together with the IIT-Madras, engineers were encouraged to look at developing an indigenous Voice Output Communication Aids (VOCA). Enter Invention Labs [www.inventionlabs.in], a company started by alumni of the IIT-Madras, and with support from professors of the institute, AVAZ began to take shape. The availability of low-cost, low-power ARM-based processors and open source software was key to creating AVAZ at 10 per cent of the cost of similar devices available abroad. Even this cost is a function of the number of units produced and can come down as we go to mass production, says Ajit Narayanan, a co-founder of the company, who came back to India after a stint in the United States in a technology company. The user generates each sentence by scanning across letters and groups of letters on a touch-screen interface. A particular string is chosen by pausing the scanning process by touching the screen. Non-touch inputs are also recognised by connecting switches like ADITI (for motion sensing) or a mouse-shaped device (for tactile inputs). At the end of the message, the constructed sentence is voiced out with a text-to-speech synthesiser. Ready-made templates are also stored for frequently used sentences, and the strings at each stage are also arranged based on the frequency of occurrence. Kalpana Rao, a volunteer at Vidya Sagar, says AVAZ provides the children with an opportunity to communicate among themselves and with others. With a chart, it is difficult for children in wheelchairs, say, to point out each letter to the other. When the words are voiced out, communication is much simpler. But she reckons that the device is not perfect. We want full touch screen as those who can process information faster will be put off by the slow scanning process. They can directly point at the screen and form the words. We also want a local language interface. Ajit estimates that adding a full touch screen interface will increase the cost by around Rs.10,000. But our software built using open source tools has been designed taking into account the frequency patterns derived from this model of use. We will need to change our software to reflect the full touch screen operations. He also stresses the importance of field testing the product. After the IIT-Madras developed ADITI [a patented choice-activating device which uses motion data], they also gave us a number of ideas which we incorporated into their first piece of code. But only after coming to Vidya Sagar, did we find that we had to rewrite the entire software to suit the children's needs, says Ajit. As for local language support, he says the stumbling block is the lack of good text-to-speech synthesisers on which the company is working. Having obtained a Rs. 10-lakh grant from the Department of Science and Technology to develop the current 'beta version' of AVAZ, the company is planning to apply for a further grant to get the other suggestions made by Vidya Sagar fulfilled. This will also help the company, as potentially all those lacking verbal communication can use the product, says company CEO Aswin Chandrasekaran. While those who can afford it will consider it a worthwhile investment, the company, along with Vidya Sagar, will look for potential donors for those who cannot afford it. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe.
[AI] Ten billion, and counting...
Date:07/03/2010 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/07/stories/2010030754411200.htm __ Link: Front Page Ten billion, and counting... Deepa Kurup Twitter has seen an upsurge in India in recent months BANGALORE: On Friday, a team huddled together to watch the big board roll over to 10 billion tweets. @ev let the world in on this public secret when he tweeted about this milestone on the micro-blogging site Twitter.com, one that he co-founded in 2006. @ev is the twitter handle (unique ID that micro-bloggers go by) for Twitter CEO Evan Williams. Closer home, that day the Indian Parliament saw a new-age Web 2.0 phrase enter its vocabulary. Taking objection to Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's controversial twitter updates, a senior politician warned: All this tweeting can lead to quitting. With the mainstream media often using twitter to garner opinion, and Bollywood biggies such as Shah Rukh Khan using this medium to air their views, micro-blogging appears to have arrived in India. So how has Twitter been able to go where social networks and blogs haven't? The beauty of twitter lies in its simplicity. It revolves round a plain premise: 'What's happening?' In 140 characters, no more, users can punctuate their replies with wit, intellect, news or information (increasingly so) and, of course, brevity. Being text-based, your information stream is uncluttered, selective (depending on whom you choose to follow) and satisfies that inherent desire to talk to the world. Indian trending topics Seconds after cricketer Sachin Tendulkar scored his double century or controversial Swami Nityanand made headlines, twitterspace was abuzz. So #Nityanand was seen 'trending' worldwide for at least four hours, as have #Budget, #Mumbai4all (in response to the Shiv Sena caveat) or #FunnyIndianAds. Twitter user Tinu Cherian says Indian tweeple - twitter parlance for microbloggers - are excited. Some of these topics had 600 people tweeting at the same time. We hope Twitter will take note, he says. Indian twitter users lament the fact that Local Trends - a feature that makes Trending Topics location-based - has not been rolled out in India. What makes it click? Kiran Jonalagadda, who became a twitter celebrity of sorts when he tweeted live updates from the site of a fire accident in Bangalore, discovered himself swimming in retweets - with 400 messages in an evening. He believes that being primitive and crude is Twitter's USP. Twitter does what it does and nothing else, unlike facebook which tries to be all. So when something is going on, on Twitter it is very easy to jump into the action. That the @name (syntax) is universal is significant too, he adds. Further, Twitter's simple API has allowed for multiple clients, so it is easy to use across platforms, be it on the desktop or mobile phone. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] The computer helper: Gmail power tips
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : The computer helper: Gmail power tips Link: Internet Washington, March 2, 2010 The Hindu Logo of Gmail. Photo: Special Arrangement Google's Gmail is arguably the most powerful and configurable of the free e-mail services out there. But most people tap just a small percentage of its features. That's in part because a lot of what you can do with Gmail is hidden beneath the surface. The following questions involve bringing some of that functionality to light. I have multiple Gmail accounts. Logging on to each one is time-consuming, though. Is there a quicker way to manage them? Perhaps the quickest way is to take advantage of Gmail's POP3 functionality to set up your Gmail accounts in a traditional e-mail client, such as Outlook, Thunderbird, or Eudora. That way, you can download all of your mail from multiple accounts at the same time and respond to them from one location. For instructions on setting up individual mail programs to receive Gmail, open your Gmail account, and click the Settings link. From the Settings screen, click Forwarding and POP/IMAP. In the POP Download section, make sure you select one of the enable option buttons. And from the same section, click the Configuration instructions link to learn how to set up Gmail with the e-mail program you use. Instructions for Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Windows Mail, and more are provided. There's also instructions for iPhone users. If you use the Firefox web browser, another option is to download and install Gmail Manager (http://bit.ly/1i3TkM), a well-regarded add-on that gives you access to multiple Gmail accounts from your browser's status bar. With the add-on installed, you'll be able to see what's new in each of your Gmail accounts, and you'll be able to respond to compose mail or respond to messages quickly. I heard that I can use the storage space provided by Gmail to store regular files. I don't see anything about this in Gmail. Is this possible? Yes. The free utility Gmail Drive (http://bit.ly/33AjJ) will create a virtual drive based upon your Gmail account. Once installed, the drive will show up in Windows Explorer just like any other drive. In Windows 7, the drive is categorised as Other. When you first try to access or double-click the drive, Gmail Drive prompts you for your Gmail logon credentials. Once you're logged on, you can drag and drop files to your Gmail drive just as you can to any other. How can I back up my Gmail? The easiest way is to have Gmail forward a copy of all incoming messages to another e-mail account. You can use another free e-mail provider, such as Yahoo! or Microsoft if you wish. To set up forwarding, open your Gmail account, and click Settings. From the Settings screen, click Forwarding and POP/IMAP, and from the Forwarding section, select Forward a copy of incoming mail. Supply an e-mail address to which mail should be forwarded. In addition to backing up your e-mail, this feature will also give you a way to access your e-mail when Gmail is down or inaccessible for any reason. In an age when, for many people, e-mail is crucial to getting work done, backing up in this manner is a good idea. The main reason I don't use Gmail is that I hate web interfaces. They're completely mouse oriented. Is there some kind of add-on or macro program that will allow me to assign keyboard shortcuts to Gmail? You don't need an add-on to make Gmail keyboard friendly. All you need to do is learn and take advantage of the many built-in keyboard shortcuts available already. For instance, log on to your Gmail account, and press the letter c to compose a new message. While reading a message, press r to reply or a to reply to all recipients. Press f to forward. Press n to see the next message as you're reading the current one, and press p to see the previous one. To see a complete list of keyboard shortcuts, just click the Help link and type keyboard in the resulting search box. Of course, you can also set up your favourite e-mail program, such as Outlook, to retrieve and send Gmail, bypassing the web interface altogether. Then you'll have the familiar keyboard shortcuts at your disposal. There's a new Buzz link in my Gmail. I watched the video tutorial about Buzz and clearly have no use for it. How do I get rid of it? Buzz, the new Twitter-like Google service that allows you and others within a defined social group to post what's going on or what's interesting, is getting mixed reviews - and not just from those who see no use for it, like you. Some of those who actually use it complain that the service is resource-hungry and intrusive. If you use it, its integration into Gmail means that you're notified of a buzz via your Gmail inbox. It's easy to get rid of Buzz, though. From the Settings screen, locate and click the Buzz link among the available settings. From the Buzz choices section, click Do not show Google Buzz in
[AI] Internet abuzz after Chilean earthquake
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Internet : Internet abuzz after Chilean earthquake Washington, February 28, 2010 AP Residents look at a collapsed building in Concepcion, Chile on Saturday. News of the Chilean earthquake, one of the largest recorded over the last 100 years, sent millions around the world online in search of information and ways to help. The social networking site Twitter (http://twitter.com) was abuzz a mere minutes after the earthquake struck. On Twitter, which has developed into a key means by which both individuals and news organisations seek first-hand accounts of breaking events, thousands flocked to the hashtags #Chile, #earthquake, and #tsunami. Hastags are the means by which Twitter users organize messages - or tweets - around particular topics. The best way to follow topics on a particular hashtag is to visit Twitter's advanced search site (http://search.twitter.com/advanced) and type the topic or hashtag into the This hashtag text box. Then click Search, and every recent tweet containing that hashtag will appear. Followers of the hashtag #Chile provided links to up-to-the-minute news about the disaster, while those following the hashtag #earthquake concentrated on well-wishes and news about the potential after-effects of the historic quake. Reports of impending tsunamis around the Pacific Ocean sent legions to the hashtag #tsunami, where forecasts and first-hand reports from Hawaii and other endangered regions dominated conversation. Hoards also flocked to the tweets of Elliot Yamin (http://twitter.com/ElliottYamin), a former contestant of the popular American Idol television show, who was in Chile at the time of the quake. Yamin's tweets gave followers a sense of the magnitude of the disaster. Complete and utter chaos on the streets, Yamin wrote. No power. ... my heart is beatin outta my chest ... tsunami warning. Hours later, fans and followers were relieved to hear that Yamin was safe. I'm totally calm now, the star wrote. Got blankets from our rooms, and we're all huddled on the street, no aftershocks for a while. After the Haitian earthquake, Internet users quickly became used to donating to relief organizations either online or through their mobile phones. Unfortunately, there were more than a few scam artists on the prowl, too, seeking to take advantage of the world's generosity. In an effort to head off such deception, many of the major relief organizations quickly mobilized online. The Red Cross began accepting donations through its International Response Fund (http://bit.ly/9FR5Tw), while Save the Children asked for donations through its Children's Emergency Fund (http://bit.ly/9cXGzV). AmeriCares set up a Chilean Earthquake Fun web site (http://bit.ly/avqkWc). Google, too, quickly published a Crisis Response page (http://www.google.com/relief/chileearthquake), through which people could safely donate to the Chilean relief efforts of reputable organizations including UNICEF and the American Red Cross. Google launched a Person Finder tool on its Crisis Response page. Person Finder provides a way for those looking for loved ones and those who might have information about those loved ones to connect. Click I'm looking for someone, type a name, and Person Finder will provide a list of people. Click one of the names, and a profile page appears, offering places to leave messages or provide descriptions. Click I have information about someone, type a name, and Person Finder provides a way for you to enter what you know about that person's whereabouts. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] a clarification needed
Hi all, Does anyone know if any G O has been issued regarding this news? Renuka. Move to make obtaining disability certificate easier Primary health centre (PHC) doctors have been given the right to issue disability certificate in cases of severe disability, while others with partial disability will still have to go to the District Hospital to get one. http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article105270.ece To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] web brouser in ubuntu
Actually the problem is in reading the news paper, since when we exit after reading any llink, the focus is shifted to the top of the page, rather remain to the visited link and have to arrow down to the next link,which consumes a lot of time. In the webb IE, this problem was not there and the time could be saved. Renuka. - Original Message - From: Arpit Jain arpit@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [AI] web brouser in ubuntu Hi! There might be other web browsers for sure and some of them which work on windows can be made to work in linux using WINE, but I can't say how accessible this solution will be. Anyways, is there any particular problem which you are facing while using firefox in ubuntu. I ask this because whosoever I know using ubuntu is pretty happy in using firefox. Regards Arpit Jain Pune On 2/24/10, Renuka Warrier eren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Could anyone suggest any web brouser which works more easly than fire fox in Ubuntu9.04? Renuka. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] web brouser in ubuntu
Hi, Could anyone suggest any web brouser which works more easly than fire fox in Ubuntu9.04? Renuka. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
