[AI] Electricity Bills now in Braille

[Sweety bhalla]

Friends,

 

It is to inform you, in Delhi based electricity company BSES has been going
to provide its consumers electricity bills in Braille. It is a commendable
initiative taken by a private company in its CSR policy. Interested
consumers can provide their CA number on the following contact. 

 

J P Kumar 

(Programmer)

BSES Rajdhani Power Limited

1st Floor, C-Black, BSES Bhawan,

Nehru Place, New Delhi - 110019, India

Tel.: +91 11 3009, Exth.: 9652

Dir.: 91 11 3652,

Fax: 91 11 3890

Mobile: 9313585077

jai.ku...@relianceada.com,

www.bsesdelhi.com

 

With regards

(Sweety Bhalla)

Assistant Manager (Planning & Research)

IFCI Ltd 

New Delhi India

Mobile: +919990725641

E-mail: sweety.bha...@ifciltd.com

 


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Re: [AI] Judgement in PDF format

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Thanks a lot.

-Original Message-
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf
Of Madhumitha
Sent: 15/09/2014 2:49 PM
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Subject: [AI] Judgement in PDF format

Here is the link again for PDF format.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3276326/supreme-26022014.pdf

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Re: [AI] Supreme court judgement

[Sweety bhalla]

Please provide in pdf form.
With thanks

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Subject: [AI] Supreme court judgement

Hello everyone,

I just got the judgement and converted it into doc format with the help of
kurzweil and it is somewhat clear but not hundred percent. Kindly go through
it. 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3276326/supreme%20court%20reservation%20
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Re: [AI] hindu e paper.

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Same is here.

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Sent: 04/09/2014 6:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [AI] hindu e paper.

I have send a mail request four days ago.
but still didn't recieved.

On 9/4/14, Nagaraj H  wrote:
>  yesterday I have subscribed for Hindu News and today morning I
> recieved the news in attachment.
>
> On 9/4/14, Sweety bhalla  wrote:
>> Same is in my case.
>>
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>>
>> hi dear list members
>> even I also did same thing
>> but still I haven't  received any mails
>> I have written in text area like hindu paper subscription
>>
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>> On 9/3/14, Pallavi Sj  wrote:
>>> I didn't get even a reply when i mailed to the mail I.D provided
>>> above...
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>>>> should be invited by the owner of the group. Please tell us exact
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>>>>
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>>>>>> dear friends again i will remine you. You can send a mail to
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>>>>>> text area don't ssend a mmail to brailleaclgooglegroups.
>>>>>>
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Re: [AI] hindu e paper.

[Sweety bhalla]

Same is in my case.

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Of anjaneyulu
Sent: 04/09/2014 11:09 AM
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the disabled.
Subject: Re: [AI] hindu e paper.

hi dear list members
even I also did same thing
but still I haven't  received any mails
I have written in text area like hindu paper subscription


On 9/3/14, Pallavi Sj  wrote:
> I didn't get even a reply when i mailed to the mail I.D provided above...
>
> On 9/3/14, Mohib Anwar Rafel  wrote:
>> It is not working, each time I am receiving the message that you
>> should be invited by the owner of the group. Please tell us exact
>> procedure.
>>
>> On 9/3/14, Pallavi Sj  wrote:
>>> Is it just enough if we write a mail to this mail i.d?
>>> what r the further steps and how many days can be considered for the
>>> acceptence of our request?
>>>
>>> On 8/31/14, Rajendran Varadharajilu  wrote:
 dear friends again i will remine you. You can send a mail to
 braille...@gmail.com you can type hindu paper subscription on your
 text area don't ssend a mmail to brailleaclgooglegroups.

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Re: [AI] Fwd: [bsftb] abby finereader12 crack required

[Sweety bhalla]

I have also taken the same. The file is corrupt. Please provide it again.
With thanks

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Sent: 31/08/2014 8:35 PM
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Subject: [AI] Fwd: [bsftb] abby finereader12 crack required

hi  please find  crack  for fine reader


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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:15:39 +0530
Subject: RE: [bsftb] abby finereader12 crack required
To: bs...@yahoogroups.com

Hi,

Download the software and crack from the following link,

https://www.sendspace.com/file/91h9ww



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hope it helps.

Jeeva

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Re: [AI] Jaws video intercept error

[Sweety bhalla]

The same is appropriate for the window vista?

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Of Sameer
Sent: 31/08/2014 6:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [AI] Jaws video intercept error


Dear Kiran,

Kindly download & run the FS Video Intercept tool to solve the video 
intercept problem.

You can download the FS Video Intercept tool from the following link.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5c743tlm7i0i62x/FS%20Video%20Intercept.zip?dl=0

Regards
Mr. Sameer Latey,
Mumbai, India
-Original Message- 
From: Kiran Baug
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 9:46 AM
To: accessindia
Subject: [AI] Jaws video intercept error

Dear all,

I have uninstall jaws 13 and re installed jaws 15.  As Jaws 15 is
launched it is showing video intercept error.  I am running windows xp 
machine

Kindly guide me resolve it.



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Re: [AI] from where can I purchase Rivo keyboard?

[Sweety bhalla]

Yes, pleas provide me the id to subscribe.
With thanks

-Original Message-
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf
Of Lilly
Sent: 11/08/2014 3:20 PM
To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning
the disabled.'
Subject: Re: [AI] from where can I purchase Rivo keyboard?

Na, that's an email list for android.

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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 3:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [AI] from where can I purchase Rivo keyboard?

Sir, it is a mailing list where to discuss the queries about mobiles.

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Sent: 11/08/2014 3:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [AI] from where can I purchase Rivo keyboard?

What is eyes free?

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How to subscribe to eyes free group? 


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Re: [AI] from where can I purchase Rivo keyboard?

[Sweety bhalla]

Sir, it is a mailing list where to discuss the queries about mobiles.

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Subject: Re: [AI] from where can I purchase Rivo keyboard?

What is eyes free?

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Re: [AI] from where can I purchase Rivo keyboard?

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Re: [AI] Audio Format of Shri Ramcharit Manas

[Sweety bhalla]

I also request to send the same on my email id through dropbox.
With regards and thanks in anticipation

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From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf
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Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 7:54 AM
To: B. R. Nautial; AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and
issues concerning the disabled.
Subject: Re: [AI] Audio Format of Shri Ramcharit Manas

dear sir,
i don't know whether it is right or wrong. but I need it.
unfortunately, the links are not working. can you please send me in
someway or other? I would be welcome to recieve on my personal mail
ID. if not on accessindia, you can upload on bsftb or some other site.
surya.ga...@gmail.com
thanks in anticipation.

On 7/6/14, B. R. Nautial  wrote:
> Hello Friends!
> Have a nice day to all of you
> Friends, I know, most of us like to listen Shri Ramcharit Manas either in
> the morning or evening and may be both the time too.
> Here I am going to upload all the 7 Kaands of Shri Ramcharit Manas, sung
by
> Late Shri Mukesh Ji, the great Singer of india, we have seen in the past.
> The download links of all these Kaands are given below: Baal Kaand:-
> https://www.sendspace.com/file/gbquvy
>
> Ayoddhya Kaand:-
> https://www.sendspace.com/file/zewh8q
>
> Arannya Kaand:-
> https://www.sendspace.com/file/porvug
>
> Kiskindha Kaand:
> https://www.sendspace.com/file/0j0guo
>
> Sundar Kaand:
> https://www.sendspace.com/file/k9hr56
>
> Lanka Kaand:
> https://www.sendspace.com/file/zgcbyw
>
> Uttar Kaand:
> https://www.sendspace.com/file/s6qk5p
>
> With regards
> B. R. Nautial
> Mobile: 9915073368
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Re: [AI] Indian Express: how accessible are the Delhi Metro, DTC buses and the railways to the disabled?

[Sweety bhalla]

Correct, but more safety measures must be strictly adopted. Collective
efforts are required to sensitize the DMRC towards our special needs.

-Original Message-
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf
Of Ravindra Jadhav
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 3:33 PM
To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning
the disabled.
Subject: Re: [AI] Indian Express: how accessible are the Delhi Metro, DTC
buses and the railways to the disabled?

Delhi metro is much much better than Mumbai local. it may be.
And this is a real fact mumbai for blind people because I heard many
blind people fall on the railway track, even me also fall 3 4 times on
the railway tract. 1. at the Ghatkopar station, 2. Dadar. 3. Grantroad
and Kalyan but i came up safely on the platform without injury.
Now I am very conciously walking on the railway platform
I know most of the people had got this experience. But they don't want
to share their experiences due to hesitation because of the blindness.
Therefore, here everyone should be share his or her experience and
raise your voice and find some solution on it.
This is my humble request to all.
On 6/17/14, Ajay Minocha  wrote:
> Mumbai local is even tougher.
> I have traveled by it for almost two months and had to be  on my tows
> everytime.
> Delhi metro is much much safer than Mumbai local.
> Therefore, the policies should be uniform.
> Thanks,
> Ajay
>
> On 6/17/14, Kasia  wrote:
>> Ts fine to see they are demanding for assistance. But whenever you people
>> are talking or asking or demanding for some assistance, as far as I've
>> noticed, it's being asked, demanded or requested or even discussed all
>> about
>> delhi blind alone. Please extend it to national level.
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
>> Behalf
>> Of avinash shahi
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 1:40 PM
>> To: jnuvision
>> Cc: accessindia
>> Subject: [AI] Indian Express: how accessible are the Delhi Metro, DTC
>> buses
>> and the railways to the disabled?
>>
>> Timely written and published very handy...
>> http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/the-city-fails-them/99/
>> Mahesh Kumar (40) takes the Blue Line Metro daily from Uttam Nagar, where
>> he
>> lives, to Tagore Garden, where he teaches in a government school. In
>> November 2013, this visually impaired man reached the Uttam Nagar (West)
>> Metro station to board the train as usual. He was in the lift going up to
>> the platform, when he heard the train. He asked a fellow passenger if the
>> train had arrived. On being told it has, Kumar decided to hurry. He did
>> not
>> have a Metro assistant escorting him that day -- he had asked for one but
>> nobody was "free". So he walked unescorted towards the train. Before he
>> knew
>> it, he lost his balance and fell onto the tracks. Mercifully, there was
>> no
>> train coming on that track and Kumar escaped with minor injuries.
>>
>> "I was walking at the very edge of the platform and yet nobody paid
>> attention. It was only after I fell that people screamed. That alerted
>> the
>> DMRC staff who came and helped me get up. Usually, I get a Metro
>> assistant
>> to escort me till the train. But if none are available, we have to walk
>> alone," Kumar said.
>>
>> His plight is mirrored by other visually challenged persons who commute
>> on
>> Delhi's Metro, buses and trains every day. In the past three years, more
>> than 30 visually challenged persons approached the National Federation of
>> the Blind with complaints after they fell off the platforms of various
>> Metro
>> stations in the city.
>>
>> But such incidents involving the disabled are not limited to the Metro
>> system alone. Similar accidents on Delhi's buses and at railway platforms
>> show clearly that the capital has a long way to go when it comes to
>> making
>> its public spaces, particularly urban transport, disabled-friendly.
>>
>> Needed: Preventive barriers on Metro platforms, helpers for visually
>> impaired
>>
>> Vice-president of National Federation of the Blind Inder Singh says the
>> most
>> critical problem the disabled, particularly visually challenged, face at
>> Metro stations is the problem of falling on the tracks due to the gap
>> between the coaches and  the platforms.
>>
>> "The rubber-strips between the coaches and platforms are worn out. As a
>> result, many visually challenged people end up hurting themselves.
>> The most recent case is that of Sanjay Jha, a North Delhi resident who
>> works
>> with the Railways. He fell on the tracks and fractured his left hand,"
>> Singh
>> said.
>>
>> The other problem, he feels, is an absence of steel railings on several
>> platforms. "They have metal railings at the edge of platforms in Rajiv
>> Chowk
>> station. Why can't they put them up at all stations?"
>> he says.
>>
>> Also, Metro assistants who help disabled persons at stations are
>> reportedly
>> un

[AI] Feedback on the metro services

[Sweety bhalla]

Friends,

You may give your valuable feed back on the following link for Delhi metro.

 

http://www.delhimetrorail.com/Feedback-Form-on-Metro-Services.aspx

 

With regards

(Sweety Bhalla)

Assistant Manager (Planning & Research)

IFCI Ltd 

New Delhi India

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Re: [AI] DMRC

[Sweety bhalla]

Friends,
Please support my petition by clicking the submit link.
With thanks and regards

-Original Message-
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf
Of Sweety bhalla
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 4:46 PM
To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning
the disabled.'
Subject: [AI] DMRC

 

Hello! 

I've started the petition "DMRC: Not useful for disables, for the vulnerable
groups of society." and need your help to get it off the ground. 

Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link: 

http://www.change.org/petitions/dmrc-not-useful-for-disables-for-the-vulnera
ble-groups-of-society
<http://www.change.org/petitions/dmrc-not-useful-for-disables-for-the-vulner
able-groups-of-society?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petit
ion_created>  

Here's why it's important: 

Deficiencies in services of Metro Trains. Suggestions: The gaps between
trains and platforms should be uniformed. The Metro should have segregated
entry and exit points The doors alternatively be marked entrance an exit.
The tactiled yellow line with warning blocks or unique texture. warning
blocks at both ends of steps. An emergency alarm connected to the train
operator in an accessible place of each door. The visual - audible
provisions to demonstrate the ttrain facilities at platforms. Alarm or music
sound near the steps and lifts. Rajiv Chowk, the edges of every platform
should be protected with grills. 
Explain why someone should support this petition

You can sign my petition by
<http://www.change.org/petitions/dmrc-not-useful-for-disables-for-the-vulner
able-groups-of-society?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petit
ion_created>  clicking here. 

Thanks! 
Sweety Bhalla   

 

 

With thanks and regards

(Sweety Bhalla)

Assistant Manager (Planning & Research)

IFCI Ltd 

New Delhi India

Mobile: +919990725641

E-mail: sweety.bha...@ifciltd.com

 



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[AI] DMRC

[Sweety bhalla]

Hello! 

I've started the petition "DMRC: Not useful for disables, for the vulnerable
groups of society." and need your help to get it off the ground. 

Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link: 

http://www.change.org/petitions/dmrc-not-useful-for-disables-for-the-vulnera
ble-groups-of-society
<http://www.change.org/petitions/dmrc-not-useful-for-disables-for-the-vulner
able-groups-of-society?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petit
ion_created>  

Here's why it's important: 

Deficiencies in services of Metro Trains. Suggestions: The gaps between
trains and platforms should be uniformed. The Metro should have segregated
entry and exit points The doors alternatively be marked entrance an exit.
The tactiled yellow line with warning blocks or unique texture. warning
blocks at both ends of steps. An emergency alarm connected to the train
operator in an accessible place of each door. The visual - audible
provisions to demonstrate the ttrain facilities at platforms. Alarm or music
sound near the steps and lifts. Rajiv Chowk, the edges of every platform
should be protected with grills. 
Explain why someone should support this petition

You can sign my petition by
<http://www.change.org/petitions/dmrc-not-useful-for-disables-for-the-vulner
able-groups-of-society?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petit
ion_created>  clicking here. 

Thanks! 
Sweety Bhalla   

 

 

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[AI] DMRC

[Sweety bhalla]

 

Hello! 

I've started the petition "DMRC: Not useful for disables, for the vulnerable
groups of society." and need your help to get it off the ground. 

Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link: 

http://www.change.org/petitions/dmrc-not-useful-for-disables-for-the-vulnera
ble-groups-of-society
<http://www.change.org/petitions/dmrc-not-useful-for-disables-for-the-vulner
able-groups-of-society?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petit
ion_created>  

Here's why it's important: 

Deficiencies in services of Metro Trains. Suggestions: The gaps between
trains and platforms should be uniformed. The Metro should have segregated
entry and exit points The doors alternatively be marked entrance an exit.
The tactiled yellow line with warning blocks or unique texture. warning
blocks at both ends of steps. An emergency alarm connected to the train
operator in an accessible place of each door. The visual - audible
provisions to demonstrate the ttrain facilities at platforms. Alarm or music
sound near the steps and lifts. Rajiv Chowk, the edges of every platform
should be protected with grills. 
Explain why someone should support this petition

You can sign my petition by
<http://www.change.org/petitions/dmrc-not-useful-for-disables-for-the-vulner
able-groups-of-society?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petit
ion_created>  clicking here. 

Thanks! 
Sweety Bhalla   

 

 

With thanks and regards

(Sweety Bhalla)

Assistant Manager (Planning & Research)

IFCI Ltd 

New Delhi India

Mobile: +919990725641

E-mail: sweety.bha...@ifciltd.com

 


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Re: [AI] Voting experiences

[Sweety bhalla]

As I entered in the polling booth with my family, nobody asked for any help.
I asked for the information in Braille, the Ballot paper was immediately
provided to me and told my brother to fill a form for the persons with
disabilities who ever is going to assist them. He signed the form and then
we proceeded. The staff was well trained. They offered me a chair to sit and
said me to take your own time to read the Ballot paper. The experience was
very good. The staff was nice in behaviour.
With regards

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Subject: [AI] Voting experiences

Friends
How has been the polling experience and how accessible was the process?
Please share.
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Re: [AI] Online registration help for electors with disabilities in Delhi

[Sweety bhalla]

I tried the url, but not opened.

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Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 1:16 PM
To: AI List; Flight we the PwD
Cc: Ad Subhash Chandra Vashishth; Dr Satendra Singh
Subject: [AI] Online registration help for electors with disabilities in
Delhi

Hi.

The Chief Electoral Office, New Delhi has now launched a link on their
website by which voters with disabilities can register and ask for
facilities that may be needed on the polling day. It is for mobility
impaired, visually impaired, hearing impaired and the elderly/ infirm. One
can ask for wheelchair assistance and/or companion (as per Rule 49 N).

The more important thing is that this will give us the data on the number
of voters with different disabilities in New Delhi. Plz give it wide
publicity and coverage and request all your known friends with disabilities
to register.

If you a person with disability / a family member with a person with
disability/ NGOs working with persons with disabilities and the name of the
person with disability exists on the voter list, please register by
visiting www.ceodelhi.nic.in and look for *Electors with
Disability: Register here for Poll Day Help *! Keep your voter ID Card
number handy. The direct link to the registeration page is
http://www.ceodelhi.gov.in/OnlineErms/PollDayHelpRegistration.aspx


NGOs, Enabling Cells in Colleges/ Equal opportunity Cell in Delhi
university & Parents can facilitate online registration of voters with
disabilities in advance so that the booth officers are prepared to
facilitate their adult franchise with ease and dignity.

Please spread the word.

-- 
Warm regards,

Subhash Chandra Vashishth
Advocate
Mobile: +91 (11) 9811125521
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Re: [AI] Revised Channel List on TataSky

[Sweety bhalla]

Not able to download it successfully. It stops incompletely.

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Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 11:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [AI] Revised Channel List on TataSky

I suppose those who're having Airtel digital TV can do this, I did this for 
TataSky because I'm having its connection at my premises.
\
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Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] Revised Channel List on TataSky


sir,
please send the same for the airtell digital tv if possible. thanks.

--
From: "Vikas Kapoor" 
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 8:01 PM
To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning
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Subject: Re: [AI] Revised Channel List on TataSky

> The error has been rectified. The new link for the same is:
>
>
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3720459/List%20of%20the%20Channels%20on%
20%20TataSky.htm
>
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> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [AI] Revised Channel List on TataSky
>
>
> unable to open it. it is giving an error.
>
> On 12/1/13, Vikas Kapoor  wrote:
>> Click the link below to be able to download/view the desired file:
>>
>>
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3720459/List%20of%20the%20Channels%20on%
20%20TataSky.mht
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Re: [AI] keyboard commands for accessing ribbon menu in MS Office 7.

[Sweety bhalla]

Thanks a lot. I was little bit confused. Useful information.

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Of bhawani shankar verma
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 3:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [AI] keyboard commands for accessing ribbon menu in MS Office
7.

madam! vista is operating system and the primary mail was about ms-office 
2007. however, vista applies the same windows keyboard commands as you 
experienced in xp.


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Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 2:33 PM
To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues 
concerningthe disabled.'
Subject: Re: [AI] keyboard commands for accessing ribbon menu in MS Office 
7.

What about windows vista?
With regards

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Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [AI] keyboard commands for accessing ribbon menu in MS Office
7.

same shortcut keys as previously used. only the keys of menus have been
changed. if you are using jaws 12 and higher, open the jaws verbosity by
pressing jawskey+v and check the box virtual ribben menus. now this will
open all ms-word menus as a submenu style. however, you can open office 2007

files in the previous versions of ms-office. please download the following
patch from the microsoft and install it, you need not to upgrade to
ms-office 2007 if this patch is installed. this patch is applicable on
office xp sp3 and 2003. I am still using office xp and 2003 with this patch.

here is the direct download link:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/2/2/9222d67f-7630-4f49-bd26-476b515
17fc1/FileFormatConverters.exe


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To: "accessindia" 
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:58 AM
Subject: [AI] keyboard commands for accessing ribbon menu in MS Office 7.


> Hello acceesssindians, greetings of the day.
> After much delay i have recently upgraded to MS Office 7. i'm facing
> some difficulty in accessing ribbon menu. please share keyboard
> commands to use it without tabbing again and again.
> -- 
> S. P. Sharma
> Lecturer, Political Science
> Govt. College Kaladera
> Jaipur
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Re: [AI] keyboard commands for accessing ribbon menu in MS Office 7.

[Sweety bhalla]

What about windows vista?
With regards

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Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:24 AM
To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning
the disabled.
Subject: Re: [AI] keyboard commands for accessing ribbon menu in MS Office
7.

same shortcut keys as previously used. only the keys of menus have been 
changed. if you are using jaws 12 and higher, open the jaws verbosity by 
pressing jawskey+v and check the box virtual ribben menus. now this will 
open all ms-word menus as a submenu style. however, you can open office 2007

files in the previous versions of ms-office. please download the following 
patch from the microsoft and install it, you need not to upgrade to 
ms-office 2007 if this patch is installed. this patch is applicable on 
office xp sp3 and 2003. I am still using office xp and 2003 with this patch.

here is the direct download link:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/2/2/9222d67f-7630-4f49-bd26-476b515
17fc1/FileFormatConverters.exe


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Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:58 AM
Subject: [AI] keyboard commands for accessing ribbon menu in MS Office 7.


> Hello acceesssindians, greetings of the day.
> After much delay i have recently upgraded to MS Office 7. i'm facing
> some difficulty in accessing ribbon menu. please share keyboard
> commands to use it without tabbing again and again.
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Re: [AI] 3 wheeler booking service that may be useful for the disabled

[Sweety bhalla]

This can be discussed with the concerned service provider to sensitize the
drivers regarding the disabled commuters.
With regards

-Original Message-
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf
Of Mohib Anwar Rafel
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 4:36 PM
To: Dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones
and Tabs.
Subject: Re: [AI] 3 wheeler booking service that may be useful for the
disabled

I don't know but this service has been started by center for women
saifty and, the preference will be given to women. I m afraid where
are the disabled then? I mean to ask is there any service which gives
preference to disabled commuters?

On 8/7/13, Sweety bhalla  wrote:
> It is useful and available for all. Is it necessary to labeled it?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
Behalf
> Of Mohib Anwar Rafel
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 11:34 AM
> To: Dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile
> phones
> and Tabs.
> Subject: Re: [AI] 3 wheeler booking service that may be useful for the
> disabled
>
> any such service for disabled?
>
> On 8/7/13, Sweety bhalla  wrote:
>> Thanks a lot Prashant, very useful information. In fact I was waiting
>> this
>> service eagerly.
>> With regards
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
> Behalf
>> Of Prashant Ranjan Verma
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 10:01 PM
>> To: accessindia@accessindia. org. in
>> Subject: [AI] 3 wheeler booking service that may be useful for the
> disabled
>>
>> Someone forwarded this to me, so thought of sharing. If anyone uses it
> then
>> please share the experience.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Rajdhani Rides, a project by the Centre for Women Safety and
>> Empowerment,
>> is a newly launched dial-an-auto service. Booking an auto is as simple as
>> calling 011-30516000 thirty minutes in advance with details of travel. A
>> confirmation SMS followed by an auto within the area will make it's way
>> to
>> you. Each driver's record is pre-vetted, autos fitted with GPS trackers,
>> journey billed by meter and a printed bill presented to you at the end of
>> your journey. The service is open to all commuters but preference given
>> to
>> women and the elderly."
>>
>>
>>
>> For more details please check http://rajdhaniride.com/
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [AI] 3 wheeler booking service that may be useful for the disabled

[Sweety bhalla]

It is useful and available for all. Is it necessary to labeled it?

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Of Mohib Anwar Rafel
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 11:34 AM
To: Dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones
and Tabs.
Subject: Re: [AI] 3 wheeler booking service that may be useful for the
disabled

any such service for disabled?

On 8/7/13, Sweety bhalla  wrote:
> Thanks a lot Prashant, very useful information. In fact I was waiting this
> service eagerly.
> With regards
>
> -Original Message-
> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
Behalf
> Of Prashant Ranjan Verma
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 10:01 PM
> To: accessindia@accessindia. org. in
> Subject: [AI] 3 wheeler booking service that may be useful for the
disabled
>
> Someone forwarded this to me, so thought of sharing. If anyone uses it
then
> please share the experience.
>
>
>
> "Rajdhani Rides, a project by the Centre for Women Safety and Empowerment,
> is a newly launched dial-an-auto service. Booking an auto is as simple as
> calling 011-30516000 thirty minutes in advance with details of travel. A
> confirmation SMS followed by an auto within the area will make it's way to
> you. Each driver's record is pre-vetted, autos fitted with GPS trackers,
> journey billed by meter and a printed bill presented to you at the end of
> your journey. The service is open to all commuters but preference given to
> women and the elderly."
>
>
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> For more details please check http://rajdhaniride.com/
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Re: [AI] 3 wheeler booking service that may be useful for the disabled

[Sweety bhalla]

Thanks a lot Prashant, very useful information. In fact I was waiting this 
service eagerly.
With regards

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From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of 
Prashant Ranjan Verma
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 10:01 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia. org. in 
Subject: [AI] 3 wheeler booking service that may be useful for the disabled

Someone forwarded this to me, so thought of sharing. If anyone uses it then 
please share the experience. 

 

“Rajdhani Rides, a project by the Centre for Women Safety and Empowerment, is a 
newly launched dial-an-auto service. Booking an auto is as simple as calling 
011-30516000 thirty minutes in advance with details of travel. A confirmation 
SMS followed by an auto within the area will make it's way to you. Each 
driver's record is pre-vetted, autos fitted with GPS trackers, journey billed 
by meter and a printed bill presented to you at the end of your journey. The 
service is open to all commuters but preference given to women and the elderly.”

 

For more details please check http://rajdhaniride.com/

 

 

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Re: [AI] Assistance on Delhi Metro!

[Sweety bhalla]

Try to understand their situation.  How is it possible to trace the person
to be assisted? How the T O convey to your destination station to help you?
It is almost impossible to find a person in such a crowded trains to be
provided the required assistance. In the very 1st coach, even the space is
also available for the wheel  chair users. The problem is only that the same
doors are used for board in and out from the trains. Something should be
done to avoid this terrible situations, where the passengers try to use the
same way for entrance and exit. I already given the suggestion  in the
suggestion book, but no result come out. If the doors alternatively use for
the same, the journey will become more comfortable and hassel free. 
With regards
-Original Message-
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf
Of akhilesh
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 5:37 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] Assistance on Delhi Metro!

The only problem with Delhi metro is that they will force you to board
on ladies coach, and frankly speaking,  it does not suit me.

On 8/2/13, Sweety bhalla  wrote:
> Yes, certainly.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
Behalf
> Of anjali Anand
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 12:37 PM
> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> Subject: Re: [AI] Assistance on Delhi Metro!
>
> has anyone tried asking for assistance from the outside of metro
> station itself  where the auto or cab has dropped a vh?
> do they assist at that point also?
>
>
> On 8/2/13, Nirmal Verma  wrote:
>> if you are at the origin station you can ask people at the customer care
>> centre to help you. you need to tell them where will you get down and
>> they
>> communicate to the concerned staff at the other station.
>>
>> if you have boarded the train by yourself and need help at any other
>> station then in that condition also you can call this same number and you
>> will get assistance.
>>
>> Nirmal
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Kiran Kaja 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So how does it work? You call the number and tell them your origin and
>>> destination station? Do they then have someone to put you on the train
>>> at
>>> your origin? How much in advance do you have to call?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kiran
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
>>> Behalf
>>> Of Nirmal Verma
>>> Sent: 02 August 2013 07:52
>>> To: accessindia
>>> Subject: Re: [AI] Assistance on Delhi Metro!
>>>
>>> I can assure you that this service really works. I have seen many people
>>> in
>>> Delhi using this service already.
>>>
>>> Nirmal
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Kiran Kaja 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > This is good news. I would be very interested to know how good the
>>> > assistance is.
>>> >
>>> > -Original Message-
>>> > From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
>>> > Behalf Of George Abraham
>>> > Sent: 02 August 2013 07:45
>>> > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
>>> > Subject: [AI] Assistance on Delhi Metro!
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > If you are travelling by Delhi Metro and you need assistance then call
>>> > 155370!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > George
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > CEO
>>> >
>>> > Score Foundation
>>> >
>>> > 17/107, LGF,
>>> >
>>> > Vikramvihar, Lajpatnagar 4,
>>> >
>>> > New Delhi 110024
>>> >
>>> > Ph: 91 11 26472581,91 11 46070396
>>> >
>>> > Mob: 91 9810934040
>>> >
>>> > Email: geo...@eyeway.org
>>> >
>>> > Website: www.scorefoundation.org.in/www.eyeway.org
>>> >
>>> > Skype: georgeabraham13
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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>>> >
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Re: [AI] Assistance on Delhi Metro!

[Sweety bhalla]

Yes, certainly.

-Original Message-
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf
Of anjali Anand
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 12:37 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] Assistance on Delhi Metro!

has anyone tried asking for assistance from the outside of metro
station itself  where the auto or cab has dropped a vh?
do they assist at that point also?


On 8/2/13, Nirmal Verma  wrote:
> if you are at the origin station you can ask people at the customer care
> centre to help you. you need to tell them where will you get down and they
> communicate to the concerned staff at the other station.
>
> if you have boarded the train by yourself and need help at any other
> station then in that condition also you can call this same number and you
> will get assistance.
>
> Nirmal
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Kiran Kaja  wrote:
>
>> So how does it work? You call the number and tell them your origin and
>> destination station? Do they then have someone to put you on the train at
>> your origin? How much in advance do you have to call?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kiran
>> -Original Message-
>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Nirmal Verma
>> Sent: 02 August 2013 07:52
>> To: accessindia
>> Subject: Re: [AI] Assistance on Delhi Metro!
>>
>> I can assure you that this service really works. I have seen many people
>> in
>> Delhi using this service already.
>>
>> Nirmal
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Kiran Kaja 
>> wrote:
>>
>> > This is good news. I would be very interested to know how good the
>> > assistance is.
>> >
>> > -Original Message-
>> > From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
>> > Behalf Of George Abraham
>> > Sent: 02 August 2013 07:45
>> > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
>> > Subject: [AI] Assistance on Delhi Metro!
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > If you are travelling by Delhi Metro and you need assistance then call
>> > 155370!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > George
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > CEO
>> >
>> > Score Foundation
>> >
>> > 17/107, LGF,
>> >
>> > Vikramvihar, Lajpatnagar 4,
>> >
>> > New Delhi 110024
>> >
>> > Ph: 91 11 26472581,91 11 46070396
>> >
>> > Mob: 91 9810934040
>> >
>> > Email: geo...@eyeway.org
>> >
>> > Website: www.scorefoundation.org.in/www.eyeway.org
>> >
>> > Skype: georgeabraham13
>> >
>> >
>> >
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[AI] FW: My Case On Acid Attacks In Supreme Court

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From: Laxmi [mailto:m...@change.org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:50 AM
To: sweety.bha...@ifciltd.com
Subject: My Case On Acid Attacks In Supreme Court

 




  
 



 

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Sweety - 

Two men threw acid on me when I was 15 years old. This happened because I 
refused to marry one of them. 

It has been eight years since this incident and nothing has changed. In the 
last three months alone more than 60 acid attack cases on women in India were 
reported.

After this brutal incident, I decided to fight against the use of acid as a 
weapon against women. I filed a case with the Supreme Court of India to seek 
justice and control the sale of acid in India.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court gave the Government of India a final deadline of 
7 days to frame a policy to curb the sale of acid in order to prevent acid 
attack cases. 

If the Home Minister acts on this immediately, a lot of acid attacks can be 
prevented In India. That's why I started this petition telling the Union Home 
Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde to immediately take measures to regulate sale of 
acid in retail. 

With each passing day, in the absence of any regulation on acid sale, innocent 
women are paying a heavy price.

We need to build enormous pressure on our Home Minister Shinde and let him know 
that the whole country is watching his actions. We have less than a week to do 
this! 

Join me in telling Home Minister Shinde to immediately regulate and control the 
sale of acid. Sign my petition and forward it to your friends and family to 
save the lives of many more women in India. http://change.org/stopacidattacks

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Re: [AI] customising windows mail for jaws

[Sweety bhalla]

Better to use MS outlook. I lost my data using it. My IT enginior suggested
that it is not good and easily corrupted resulting of which I had to format
my system.
Regards

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Of bhawani shankar verma
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 11:24 AM
To: access india
Subject: [AI] customising windows mail for jaws

hello accessindia!

how to customise windows mail for jaws. I am unable to locate layout dialog
and also ctrl+m key is not working in my case.
also please let me know how to add cc and bcc field.

thank you,

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[AI] Highlights of the Budget2013-14

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Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday announced several measures in the
Union Budget 2013-14. 

Highlights of the Budget

Rs 14,000 crore capital infusion into public sector banks in 2013-14, says
FM.

 

Rs 5,80,000 crore to states and Union Territories

 

Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to include rickshaw pullers, taxi drivers and
ragpickers.

 

National Institute of Sports Coaching to be set up in Patiala at a cost of
Rs 253 crore.




Rs 6,000 crore to be allocated for rural housing fund in 2013-14.

 

Standing Council of Experts in Ministry of Finance to examine transaction
cost of doing business in India




Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) to submit its report
next month, says FM.

Rs 5400 crore to department of space and Rs 5600 crore to department of
atomic energy.

Defence gets Rs 2,20,000 crore, 86721 crore for capital expenditure.

National Skill Development Corporation to train 5 crore people in current
plan period.

Rs 11500 crore for backward areas

All towns of India with a population of over 1 to have an LIC office

17 per cent hike in education, 22 per cent in agriculture, 46 per cent for
rural development

All public sector bank branches will have an ATM

Coal imports during Apr-Dec 2012 crossed 100 million tonnes and expected to
go up to 185 million tonnes in 2016-17, says FM.

Policy on exploration of shale gas on the anvil; natural gas pricing policy
will be reviewed and uncertainty removed: FM. 

Govt to set up India's first women's bank as a public sector bank by
October, says FM.

Rs 80194 crore for rural development projects

Green revolution in east India significant. Rice output increased in Assam,
Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal; Rs 1,000 crore allocated for eastern
states



Rs 5,387 crore to be allocated for integrated watershed programme for
farmers in 2013-14, an increase from Rs 3,050 crore in the current fiscal.




Tax free bonds issue to be allowed up to Rs 50,000 crore in 2013-14 strictly
on capacity to raise funds from the market, says FM 




Rs 5,000 crore will be made available to NABARD to finance construction of
godowns and warehouses: FM

PPP project with Coal India in the pipeline to stem the outflow of forex.

Rs 500 crore allocated for programme on crop diversification.

Eastern Indian states to get Rs 1,000 crore allocation for improving
agricultural production.

Rs 7 lakh crore target fixed for agri credit for 2013-14 compared to Rs 5.75
lakh crore in the current year.

Coal imports to rise to 185 million tonnes from 100 million in four years.

Inflation indexed bonds and NSCs to be introduced

Zero custom duty for electrical machinery

Income level for Rajiv Gandhi Equity Scheme raised by Rs 2 lakh

First home loan up to Rs 25 lakh will get an additional Rs 1 lakh interest
deduction

Battle against inflation must be fought at all fronts: FM.

Faced with huge fiscal deficit, I have no choice but to rationalise
expenditure: FM

Plan expenditure in 12th Five Year Plan revised to Rs 14,30,825 crore or 96
per cent of budgeted expenditure

Budget expenditure is Rs 16,65,297 crore and Plan expenditure Rs 5,55, 322
crore: FM.

The revised expenditure target is Rs 14,30,825 crore or 96 per cent of
Budget estimate for this fiscal. In 2013-14, the budget estimate is Rs
16,65,297 crore

FM allocates Rs 41,561 crore for SC sub-plan; Rs 24,598 crore for tribal sub
plan

Rs 3511 crore allocated to Minority Affairs Ministry which is 60 per cent of
the revised estimates.

Rs 110 crore to be allocated to the department of disability affairs, says
FM.

Rs 1069 crore allocated to Department of Aryush: FM.

Rs 13,215 crore to be provided for mid-day meal scheme

Rs 5,284 crore to various Ministries for scholarships for SC/ST, OBC and
minority students

Medical colleges in six more AIIMS-like institutions to start functioning
this year; Rs 1650 crore allocated for the urpose.

Growth rate under UPA was highest

India can retain its high growth track

Economic space constrains due to high fiscal deficit, lower savings and
investment and tight monetary policy: FM.

Need $75 bn to bridge current account deficit

Average economic growth rate in 11th Plan period is 8 per cent, highest ever
in any Plan period: FM. 

Current account deficit is a bigger worry; fuel and gold imports responsible

Foreign investments must be encouraged.

Accelerating growth is the main goal.

Core inflation is down to 4.2 per cent, says the minister. Food inflation
remains a worry.

Need to ratinonalise expenditure.

We are not unaffected by what happens in the global economy

Global economic growth slowed from 3.9% in 2011 to 3.2% in 2012

Only China and Malayasia are the major countries that grew faster than India
last year

Without growth, there will be no inclusiveness and development.

 

 

 

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IFCI Ltd 

New Delhi India

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[AI] MTNL cuts call, broadband rates

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MTNL cuts call, broadband rates

PTI | January 31, 2008 | 16:32 IST

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited announced on Thursday a slew of offers which 
includes cut in rates of its services like mobile, landline, broadband, IPTV
and VoIP.

"Most of the private mobile operators have reduced their call rates to Re 1 per 
minute. We have gone a step further by fixing the rate to 90 paise per minute
from our Dolphin and Trump mobile phones. This will help us increase our  
customer base," MTNL Executive Director J Gopal told reporters in Mumbai.

MTNL had earlier reduced the call charges from Trump to MTNL landline from Rs 
1.50 per minute to 90p per minute from January 1 this year. However from January
26, a flat rate of 90p per minute is applicable to calls to any local number of 
Mumbai across all operators.

It has also reduced call rate to MTNL Delhi. Call rates from Dolphin post-paid 
has been reduced from Rs 1.65 to as low as 30 paise per minute and calls
to MTNL Delhi from Trump prepaid are 90 paise per minute against earlier Rs 2 
per minute.

"We have a total 37 lakh subscriber base of which there are 14 lakh mobile 
subscribers. With these initiatives, we aim to add another 1.5 to 2 lakh 
subscribers
by March-end," Gopal said.

To improve its service, the telecom major is adding seven and a half lakh 
switching capacity for mobile network to existing 13.25 lakh and 300 base 
transmission
stations for radio network to its existing 512.

Company's other initiative include reduction in download charges of GPRS from 
2p per kb to 1p kb for both pre-paid and post-paid customers. With effect
from January 7, MTNL has started offering Combo Plans on landline services. In 
this plan the customers can get combination of landline, Broad Band, IPTV
and VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol which helps in making ISD calls at 
cheaper rates) at lower rates.

Four such Combo Plans have been launched. Combo Broadband offers free 200 
landline calls and 400 MB download in Rs 500 per month. Combo IPTV offers 
Landline
with Broadband and IPTV services with 150 plus TV channels at Rs 500 per month.

Combo VoIP -- offers Landline, Broadband and VoIP with 100 free landline calls 
and 400 min of VoIP talk time in just Rs 400 per month, he said.

Combo Triple offers Landline, Broadband, VoIP and IPTV at Rs 750 only where the 
customers can get 400 MB free download, free over 150 TV channels and 400
min of free VoIP talktime.

Another important initiative which became effective from January 29 is a free 
Trump SIM card as a loyalty scheme for all its existing Dolphin, Trump, landline
and Garuda customers. This offer has been introduced to reward the loyal MTNL 
customers and extend the existing relationship with customers. The free SIM
card worth Rs 150 comes with a talk time of Rs 53 with a talktime validity of 
10 days, he added.

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Re: [AI] Happy New year to all!

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Very happy new year to all members of the group.
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> Hi Dears,
>
> A Very very happy new year to you all too.  Let this new year be the
gateway
> to go to more heights, get more peace of mind and achieve more happiness.
>
> with warm regards,
>
> Renuka.
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Re: [AI] Canara Bank: not allowing ATM fascility to visuallydisabled

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PL send the same on my E-mail ID, as below:
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Regards
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> dear sir plz send it to my E-mail ID
> with regards
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> > this is a problem with many of the nationalized banks. I am facing a
> > similar
> > problem with PNB.
> > however the fact of the matter is that the chief commissioner's court
for
> > disability has ordered in 2005 that the visually challenged should be
> > given
> > the ATM facility if demanded.
> > I can send you the copy of the order if you want. I believe its an issue
> > we
> > have to fight for.
> >
> >
> > On 12/25/07, shobhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >> Dear friends
> >> One of the branch of Canara Bank in Delhi is not allowing to avail ATM
> >> service to visually disabled and also forcing to bring one witness
while
> >> withdrawing cash. According to branch Manager, there is no provision of
> >> providing ATM service to visually disabled in Canara Bank and also it
is
> >> essential for visually disabled consumers to bring one witness while
> >> withdrawing money.
> >> So please guide me how I can handle these problems.
> >>
> >>
> >> Shobhan Singh
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[AI] Google's got your number

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Google's got your number

Google has been making wireless headlines recently with its new operating 
system for cellphones, Android, as well as its decision to build open wireless
networks--which fly in the face of traditional networks run by operators like 
AT&T Wireless. But it's not yet entirely clear just how this will change
the way you use your wireless devices.

But Google could have something else up its sleeve. In mid 2007, the company 
acquired the Fremont, Calif.-based company GrandCentral Communications. The
terms were not disclosed, but the company has long been known for its 
innovative services.
List of 2 items
. In Pictures: The Most Disruptive Companies
. In Pictures: Hottest Celebrity Mobile Phones
list end

GrandCentral was founded in 2000 by now-CEO Craig Walker and Chief Operating 
Officer Vincent Paquet. In its early days, the company procured around $4 
million
in funding from CNET founder Halsey Minor's Minor Ventures.

The idea behind GrandCentral: A phone number, and the voicemail box(es) 
associated with it, should not be tied to a location or even to your job. 
Instead,
the numbers should be tied to you as an individual. If you have a few different 
phone numbers--say, one for work, one at home and one for your 
cellphone--GrandCentral's
service will let you use just one number that can ring on all, some, or none of 
your phones, based on who's calling.

Another smart feature: The service gives you one central voice mailbox. So you 
can listen to your voice mail messages online or from any phone, forward
them to anybody, add the caller to your address book, block a caller as 
spam--and much more. You can even listen in on voice mail messages from your 
phone
as they're being recorded (as is possible with an "old-fashioned" answering 
machine), or transfer a call from your cell phone to your desk phone and back
again.
List of 2 items
. In Pictures: World's Most Expensive Mobile Phones
. In Pictures: How to Raise Your Phone's Intelligence
list end

This all reminds me of a very forward-looking story Andy Seybold wrote in 2003, 
in an issue of a newsletter, called Wireless Outlook, that he published
in conjunction with Forbes. Andy's lead story in June 2003 was called "Phone 
Number for Life." He was talking about local number portability for mobile
phones, which is now commonplace--GrandCentral's service takes this service a 
step further, beyond just wireless telephony.

GrandCentral's Web-based service is called One Number for Life, and so far, 
it's been offered for free. (You can sign up for the service at 
grandcentral.com.)
Besides helping you organize and manage calls and messages, you can also 
personalize ringback tones and greetings for individuals in your address book.
Using the service does not require you to change phones or carriers.

When you sign up, you'll get a choice of local numbers, based on your area 
code. You can then configure your account by linking the number GrandCentral
gives you to your home number, office number and cellphone number. When a call 
comes in, all the configured phones will ring. You can choose which phone
to pick up--so if you're at home, you can pick up the call on your landline 
phone to and avoid paying for minutes on your wireless phone.

You have a number of other options as well: You can accept the call, send it to 
voice mail, listen to it as the voice mail is being recorded, and pick up
if you want to. You can even switch phones in the middle of a live call--say, 
home phone to mobile, or mobile to desk phone--seamlessly, with the use of
a simple keypad command. When a caller reaches the subscriber's GrandCentral 
number, a softswitch queries the configured feature set and takes appropriate
action.

One avenue Google will surely pursue is linking up GrandCentral's features with 
its other Web-based productivity tools, namely, its e-mail service, Gmail,
and its VOIP service, GTalk. Of course, the bigger question is whether Google 
can succeed in using its handy arsenal of Web tools to crack into Microsoft's
Microsoft desktop dominance and prove a real threat to ubiquitous software like 
Outlook.

Android, open wireless networks, GrandCentral, Gmail--Google is clearly 
executing a big-picture plan to be at the forefront of the digital age, and 
wireless
services will likely be a core strength for the company. I believe we'll be 
seeing a lot more from Google in 2008 on the wireless front.

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[AI] How about wearing a computer today?

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How about wearing a computer today?

PTI | December 26, 2007 | 12:19 IST

It might be not long before you start wearing a computer just as you put on 
your shoes, watch and jacket.

"As general computing systems become smaller, we are reaching a point at which 
it becomes conceivable to don these devices easily," Andy Fagg of the computer
science faculty at the University of Massachusetts has been quoted by online 
ScienceDaily as saying.

Fagg, who is developing a wearable computer, said such a device offers access 
to information and communication resources at any time during walking hours.

"It isn't about being able to write a paper or send an e-mail while you are 
grocery store. It's about having digital assistance as you go about your life,"
he added.

Fagg's aim, ScienceDaily said, is to teach the computer to "notice" a user's 
routines and offer information accordingly.

For instance, if the computer notices that he enters a conference room at a 
particular time, "it should figure out he is going to a meeting and pull out
appropriate documents, including minutes of the last meeting, and notes from 
related discussions."

Another example offered by him: "I could tell the system I'm going to be 
cooking a certain recipe for dinner. The system will know what I have in the 
kitchen
cabinets at home. If I drive near the grocery store, it wakes up and whispers, 
'Don't forget to stop at the grocery store, and by the way, you need these
three items for the dinner you want to cook tonight.'"

One current challenge, Fagg said, is teaching the computer to interrupt him - 
politely. "The machine should present information at the appropriate time,
and in the appropriate way. I don't care what I need at the grocery store if 
I'm sitting in my office," he pointed out.

"Nor do I want it to convey information visually while I'm driving the car, 
although it's okay for it to occasionally whisper in my ear."

It is possible to make wearable computers because microprocessors are getting 
smaller every year, Fagg was quoted as saying. Commercial wearable systems
are already available, he says, although they are aimed at very specific 
industrial markets.

"The systems are becoming more stable and more comfortable," Fagg said. 
"Ultimately, a lot of the bulk will be gone."

ScienceDaily said while some might see a wearable computer as a bit of a pest, 
Fagg sees it differently: "The machine doesn't nag you after the fact, when
you've gotten home and forgotten to buy a gallon of milk. It reminds you to 
pick up the milk when you're still in a position to solve the problem."

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[AI] Laptops for Rs 15,000 soon

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Laptops for Rs 15,000 soon

Allied Computers International (Asia) Pvt Ltd is all set to rollout a laptop 
with a seven inch screen for Rs 15,000 by May/June 2008.

According to its promoter, Hirji Kanji Patel, this would be equivalent to the 
Pentium 4 technology but will be ultra low on voltage. The company also plans
to start 20 level 3 multi-brand chip-level laptop service centres across India 
by April 2008.

According to Patel, who is an NRI from UK, there is a huge market for the 
repair of laptops and ACi's centres would act as vertically integrated service
outlets for all leading laptop brands.

Currently, the company has 4 centres. He said that most of the centres would be 
opened in metros and would be run on lease-hold basis.

An investment of Rs 2.5 crore (Rs 25 million) would be made for assets and Rs 
1.5 crore (Rs 15 million) would be pumped in for acquiring equipment for the
centres.

The company has invested Rs 12 crore (Rs 120 million) at Gandhinagar to set up 
a global hub for sourcing of laptop motherboards for installing the country's
first chip-level laptop motherboards and also a recycling plant to address the 
demand and supply problem of the industry.

ACi is working on developing an LCD television that would be as cheap as Rs 
1,000 for one inch, he said.

ACi sold about 11,000 units of laptop in 2006 and recorded a turnover of Rs 35 
crore (Rs 350 million). It expects to do a business of Rs 75 crore (Rs 750
million) this year.

According to Patel, the company has got acknowledgement for borrowing Rs 100 
crore (Rs 1 billion) through FCCB (foreign currency convertible bonds) by the
second quarter of next year that would be used to fund 80 service centres and 
manufacturing facilities.

The company also envisages to develop laptops for Rs 10,000 and Rs 8,000 
through its extensive research and development in the near future.

(Sweety Bhalla)
Assistant Manager
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Re: [AI] about Income Tax.

[sweety bhalla]

If they are both, why shouldn't the benefit be double Rajesh?  VI men are
also getting in the same manner general and special.
Regards
- Original Message -
From: Rajesh Asudani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 19/12/2007 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.


> but, they are getting benefit for being a woman and also for being a vi,
correct if I am wrong., is it the case that they may choose only one benefit
i.e. deduction for females or alternatively that for VI?
>
> Rajesh
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:10 AM
> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.
>
> That's true, for all.  But I'm telling about particularly VI women, who
are
> not getting extra benifits.
> Regards
> - Original Message -
> From: Rajesh Asudani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: 19/12/2007 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.
>
>
> > why not!
> > For sighted women, exemption limit is somewhat more than that for
sighted
> men, I think 135000 or so. So, exemption of 75000 would be in addition to
> that, isn't it?
> >
> > Rajesh
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sweety bhalla
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:04 AM
> > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> > Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.
> >
> > No additional  exemptions for the vi women.
> > - Original Message -
> > From: Vetrivel Adhimoolam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Zujar Kanchwala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> > 
> > Sent: 18/12/2007 5:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.
> >
> >
> > > In addition, I have also been told that there are more exemption for
> > > visually challenged women. Could someone clarify on that?
> > >
> > > Vetri.
> > >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: Zujar Kanchwala
> > > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:05 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Mahesh,
> > >
> > > The information is correct. An exemption of Rs. 75000/- is available
to
> > > people with 100% impairment and it is Rs. 5/- in case of people
with
> > > less than 100% impairment. You can avail the exemption certificate
from
> > NAB
> > > every year.
> > >
> > > To add to this, we can also avail of exemption on Profession Tax, for
> > which
> > > the exemption certificate can be availed from NAB. You need to submit
> > > Profession Tax exemption certificate only once and not every year.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 Mahesh Panicker wrote :
> > > >Hi list.
> > > >
> > > >I am told that the visually challenged are exempted from income tax.
is
> > > >this
> > > >information correct? is it complete exemption, or are their any
income
> > > >limit? is there a government order regarding it? if yeas, where can I
> get
> > > >it?
> > > >
> > > >pplease get me the details.
> > > >
> > > >thanks in advance!.
> > > >with best regards.
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >Mahesh S. Panicker
> > > >room no. 121;
> > > >Kaveri-hostel;
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Re: [AI] about Income Tax.

[sweety bhalla]

That's true, for all.  But I'm telling about particularly VI women, who are
not getting extra benifits.
Regards
- Original Message -
From: Rajesh Asudani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 19/12/2007 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.


> why not!
> For sighted women, exemption limit is somewhat more than that for sighted
men, I think 135000 or so. So, exemption of 75000 would be in addition to
that, isn't it?
>
> Rajesh
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:04 AM
> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.
>
> No additional  exemptions for the vi women.
> - Original Message -
> From: Vetrivel Adhimoolam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Zujar Kanchwala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> 
> Sent: 18/12/2007 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.
>
>
> > In addition, I have also been told that there are more exemption for
> > visually challenged women. Could someone clarify on that?
> >
> > Vetri.
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: Zujar Kanchwala
> > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.
> >
> >
> > Hi Mahesh,
> >
> > The information is correct. An exemption of Rs. 75000/- is available to
> > people with 100% impairment and it is Rs. 5/- in case of people with
> > less than 100% impairment. You can avail the exemption certificate from
> NAB
> > every year.
> >
> > To add to this, we can also avail of exemption on Profession Tax, for
> which
> > the exemption certificate can be availed from NAB. You need to submit
> > Profession Tax exemption certificate only once and not every year.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 Mahesh Panicker wrote :
> > >Hi list.
> > >
> > >I am told that the visually challenged are exempted from income tax. is
> > >this
> > >information correct? is it complete exemption, or are their any income
> > >limit? is there a government order regarding it? if yeas, where can I
get
> > >it?
> > >
> > >pplease get me the details.
> > >
> > >thanks in advance!.
> > >with best regards.
> > >
> > >--
> > >Mahesh S. Panicker
> > >room no. 121;
> > >Kaveri-hostel;
> > >Jawaharlal Nehru university new delhi 110067 india.
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> >
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Re: [AI] about Income Tax.

[sweety bhalla]

No additional  exemptions for the vi women.
- Original Message -
From: Vetrivel Adhimoolam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Zujar Kanchwala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Sent: 18/12/2007 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.


> In addition, I have also been told that there are more exemption for
> visually challenged women. Could someone clarify on that?
>
> Vetri.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Zujar Kanchwala
> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [AI] about Income Tax.
>
>
> Hi Mahesh,
>
> The information is correct. An exemption of Rs. 75000/- is available to
> people with 100% impairment and it is Rs. 5/- in case of people with
> less than 100% impairment. You can avail the exemption certificate from
NAB
> every year.
>
> To add to this, we can also avail of exemption on Profession Tax, for
which
> the exemption certificate can be availed from NAB. You need to submit
> Profession Tax exemption certificate only once and not every year.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 Mahesh Panicker wrote :
> >Hi list.
> >
> >I am told that the visually challenged are exempted from income tax. is
> >this
> >information correct? is it complete exemption, or are their any income
> >limit? is there a government order regarding it? if yeas, where can I get
> >it?
> >
> >pplease get me the details.
> >
> >thanks in advance!.
> >with best regards.
> >
> >--
> >Mahesh S. Panicker
> >room no. 121;
> >Kaveri-hostel;
> >Jawaharlal Nehru university new delhi 110067 india.
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[AI] Are you ready for a PC-cum-TV?

[sweety bhalla]

Are you ready for a PC-cum-TV?

The HP TouchSmart IQ770 is a clear indication of a PC's evolution path. It has 
a touch-screen interface and also doubles up as a TV, personal video recorder
and MP3/CD/DVD player.

The guts of the HP TouchSmart IQ770 are laptop-like components that have been 
custom-fitted into a compact desktop unit. The base unit houses an Asus 
motherboard
built around an Nvidia GeForce Go 6100 chipset, a dual-core AMD Turion 64 
processor running at 1.6GHz, 2GB of dual-channel DDR 2 memory (a realistic 
amount
to run the full version of Vista) and GeForce Go 7600 graphics with 256MB of 
dedicated RAM. The TouchSmart's 19-inch widescreen display functions as both
a viewing screen and a navigation tool.

Microsoft's Tablet PC concept produced a lot of smoke, but precious little to 
fire the imagination. The trouble is, touchscreens are expensive to implement,
and the Windows Desktop graphic user interface is, sadly, inadequate for the 
average prodding finger.

With Touchsmart, HP seems to have realised that there is a need to make some 
software intervention to make a touchscreen Windows PC work and while Vista's
interface scaling makes a big difference in itself, it's HP's SmartCentre 
software (essentially a plug-in for Vista's improved Media Centre interface)
that adds the smart touch. Touch the 'Home' button on the to launch it, and a 
set of big, friendly icons greets the user, ready to be customised.

It's fun to see the HP PhotoSmart Touch application turning the PC into a 
digital photo print station, kind of like the one you see at your local shopping
mall.

Put a HP PhotoSmart A510 compact printer behind the screen and the photos slide 
out of the slot under the screen. Very cool stuff. HP has built a PC that
competes with the current benchmark system, the Apple iMac, at least when it 
comes to design.

In fact, for the most part, HP hopes that people would use the TouchSmart as a 
'screen' rather than a PC -- the mouse and keyboard can be neatly tucked
away and the screen can be angled to be comfortably accessible from a standing 
position.

For watching TV or DVD, the screen will move straight on, and one can retire to 
a more comfortable spot with the Media Centre remote.

For playing music or listening to the radio, there's a keyboard button 
combination for turning off the screen, although it would be better to have a 
hardware
switch on the unit itself. There are plenty of other buttons on the chassis, 
including volume and transport controls. The speakers are good too -- expect
the same quality as with a TV.

The system, on the whole, produces above average performance when set alongside 
comparably-priced systems and HP Touchsmart IQ770 is no impulse buy at Rs
99,990.

Then again, you really should expect to get less performance for your money 
when you consider the sheer convenience and usability of the touchscreen 
technology.

(Sweety Bhalla)
Assistant Manager
IFCI LTD
New Delhi India
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[AI] Vodafone in aid of the hearing impaired

[sweety bhalla]

Vodafone in aid of the hearing impaired

Pradipta Mukherjee in Kolkata | PTI | December 11, 2007 | 13:08 IST

A hundred and thirty years after the invention of telephone, cellular 
technology will finally take the device to people with special abilities.

In a first of its kind initiative and available only in Kolkata, mobile 
services provider Vodafone Essar, has launched the 'Sambhav' prepaid card, 
targeted
at customers with hearing and speech disability.

Available at Rs 151, the prepaid Sambhav card will enable the hearing impaired 
to communicate effectively using a cellphone. The card enables customers
with hearing and speech disability to use mobile phones primarily for sending 
SMSes.

The card which provides 500 free smses also has Rs 10 worth of calls for any 
emergency.

The card introduced in Kolkata on a pilot basis will be rolled out in the rest 
of the country eventually depending on the success of the experiment, says
Vodafone Essar East ceo, Sridhar Rao.

Rao says he has no problem if people other than the hearing impaired use it. 
But a call costs Rs 1.99 which is more than what other Vodafone options offer,
he says.

The special card called Sambhav was made after an NGO, International Deaf 
Children's Society, India, approached the company. It was tailor-made for deaf
children.

Vodafone, in Kolkata, has joined hands with the IDCS to ensure that the service 
reaches the maximum number of special people.

According to Sridhar Rao,  voice service is redundant for the hearing and 
speech impaired. Instead, they require to communicate through text.

"At Vodafone, we have been offering tailor-made services for various corporate 
clients as well as others. So we thought of launching a product tailor-made
for people who fail to use a cellphone, like the deaf. Since, telecom is all 
about communication, we thought of introducing a product for the hearing 
impaired
as well, to enable them to communicate too, using this technology," Rao said.

"Today, we have technology that allows one to communicate without having to 
hear or speak. We felt those with speech and hearing disability should not be
deprived of the opportunity to communicate," Rao said.

In addition, a Vodafone team will hold SMS workshops at institutes partnering 
with IDCS, to educate the disabled on how to write and access SMS on their
mobile phones.

The Sambhav card offers 500 local SMS for Rs 151 per month.

The card is valid for one month and is available across 15 Vodafone stores and 
68 Vodafone mini-stores in Kolkata.

The card also has a talk-time of Rs 10 for emergency purposes.

According to Sandhya Srinivasan, communications officer of IDCS, there are 12 
million deaf people in India. Over 25,000 deaf children are born across India
every year.

"When the telephone was invented as a means of communication, the deaf were 
left behind. With technology now available for the deaf to communicate, 
hopefully,
this will not happen now," Srinivasan said.

(Sweety Bhalla)
Assistant Manager
IFCI LTD
New Delhi India
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Re: [AI] Sharing good News

[sweety bhalla]

heartiest congratulations on this achievement.
Regards
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To: 
Sent: 03/12/2007 8:55 PM
Subject: [AI] Sharing good News


> Dear All,
> I was honored with state award for disability Role model  today, December
3, 2007. this award was given by governor of West Bengal and it is sponsored
by department of Social Welfare, women & Child development, government of
West Bengal.
> Thanks and wish you all the best.
> Asif
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Re: [AI] Draft policy for exams urgent

[sweety bhalla]

Kanchan!
If a person brings his/her own scribe, then there is no question of
percentage?  It means.  PL clarify.
Regards
- Original Message -
From: Pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 29/11/2007 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] Draft policy for exams urgent


> Sweety my dear the 55% is not for your scribe but only for the scribe
> provided by the Authority. Your Scribe is covered in clause 3 and then if
> you choose not to bring your own scribe then it is the authority who will
> provide a scribe with some minimum qualifications.
> Kanchan Pamnani
> Advocate & Solicitor
> 9, Suleman Chambers,
> Battery Street, Colaba,
> Mumbai - 400 039.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -
> From: "sweety bhalla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [AI] Draft policy for exams urgent
>
>
> > Moreover the scribe with 55 % marks for examinations, it is very
difficult
> > to get in this time.  It should be at least 60%marks.  Telling my own
> > experience and facing problems in my dept examinations.
> > Regards
> > (Sweety Bhalla)
> > - Original Message -
> > From: Vetrivel Adhimoolam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
> > Sent: 29/11/2007 8:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AI] Draft policy for exams urgent
> >
> >> Hello Kanchan,
> >>
> >> It is certainly a well drafted policy. It pretty much covers
everything.
> > But
> >> a couple of suggestions though: The policy also should include
sufficient
> >> guidelines describing what should be done in the event of certain
delays
> > as
> >> the result of computer problems or the malfunctioning of the software.
> >> Because things can go wrong on that front and visually challenged
> > candidates
> >> should not suffer as the result of such issues. So in my view, the
> >> software/hardware requirements should be amended to be inclusive of
this
> >> issue. Second, visually impaired candidates are also increasingly
> > appearing
> >> on various exams that require solving of extensive mathematical
problems.
> >> Some of those exams may actually allow regular students to use
calculator
> >> and in such circumstances, visually challenged candidates also should
be
> >> allowed to bring talking calculator in to the examination hall.
> >>
> >> Vetri.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> - Original Message -
> >> From: pamnani
> >> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:04 PM
> >> Subject: [AI] Draft policy for exams urgent
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Friends
> >> Have drafted a Policy for Examinations of the Visually disabled in
India
> >> thanks to the input from Anjali, Asif, Dipendra, Harish, Ketan,  Neha,
> >> Pranav,  Rajesh, Sam and SGS Sisodia and numerous others who helped
when
> > the
> >> Maharashtra Guidelines were being framed.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Please let me have your comments on this draft urgently and no later
than
> >> this evening. I need to send it to the Disability commission.
> >> thanks Kanchan
> >>
> >>
> >> Policy for Examination of the Visually Disabled
> >>
> >>
> >> The need for a standard and comprehensive Policy throughout India for
the
> >> examination of the Visually Disabled has been growing since:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>   a.. Every year more and more Visually Disabled candidates are
appearing
> >> for various examinations.
> >>   b.. Number of examining bodies has been increasing over the years
> >>
> >>
> >>   a.. Various orders/judgments/directions have been passed by various
> >> Courts/Commissions/Authorities and deal with the problem in piecemeal.
> >>
> >>
> >>   a.. Various examination conducting authorities have different rules
> > and/or
> >> implement the rules in different ways.
> >>
> >>
> >>   a.. Technology is improving and needs to be taken into account
> >>
> >>
> >>   a.. The anxiety suffered by the examinees before and during the
> >> examination has to be removed
> >>
> >>
> >>   a.. Questions asked at written examinations and the examinations
> >> themselves are varied and need to be answered in various ways.
> >>
> >>
> >>   a.. Competition is increasing and the Visually Dis

Re: [AI] Draft policy for exams urgent

[sweety bhalla]

Moreover the scribe with 55 % marks for examinations, it is very difficult
to get in this time.  It should be at least 60%marks.  Telling my own
experience and facing problems in my dept examinations.
Regards
(Sweety Bhalla)
- Original Message -
From: Vetrivel Adhimoolam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: 29/11/2007 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] Draft policy for exams urgent

> Hello Kanchan,
>
> It is certainly a well drafted policy. It pretty much covers everything.
But
> a couple of suggestions though: The policy also should include sufficient
> guidelines describing what should be done in the event of certain delays
as
> the result of computer problems or the malfunctioning of the software.
> Because things can go wrong on that front and visually challenged
candidates
> should not suffer as the result of such issues. So in my view, the
> software/hardware requirements should be amended to be inclusive of this
> issue. Second, visually impaired candidates are also increasingly
appearing
> on various exams that require solving of extensive mathematical problems.
> Some of those exams may actually allow regular students to use calculator
> and in such circumstances, visually challenged candidates also should be
> allowed to bring talking calculator in to the examination hall.
>
> Vetri.
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: pamnani
> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:04 PM
> Subject: [AI] Draft policy for exams urgent
>
>
>
> Hi Friends
> Have drafted a Policy for Examinations of the Visually disabled in India
> thanks to the input from Anjali, Asif, Dipendra, Harish, Ketan,  Neha,
> Pranav,  Rajesh, Sam and SGS Sisodia and numerous others who helped when
the
> Maharashtra Guidelines were being framed.
>
>
>
> Please let me have your comments on this draft urgently and no later than
> this evening. I need to send it to the Disability commission.
> thanks Kanchan
>
>
> Policy for Examination of the Visually Disabled
>
>
> The need for a standard and comprehensive Policy throughout India for the
> examination of the Visually Disabled has been growing since:
>
>
>
>   a.. Every year more and more Visually Disabled candidates are appearing
> for various examinations.
>   b.. Number of examining bodies has been increasing over the years
>
>
>   a.. Various orders/judgments/directions have been passed by various
> Courts/Commissions/Authorities and deal with the problem in piecemeal.
>
>
>   a.. Various examination conducting authorities have different rules
and/or
> implement the rules in different ways.
>
>
>   a.. Technology is improving and needs to be taken into account
>
>
>   a.. The anxiety suffered by the examinees before and during the
> examination has to be removed
>
>
>   a.. Questions asked at written examinations and the examinations
> themselves are varied and need to be answered in various ways.
>
>
>   a.. Competition is increasing and the Visually Disabled have to be given
a
> level playing field
>
>
>
>
> This Policy will apply to all examinations being conducted in India
> generally and specifically to examinations conducted by Educational
> institutions- schools and  colleges (both internal and external), School
and
> College Boards, universities and deemed universities, autonomous bodies
> conducting entrance or promotional examinations as well as all
> recruiting/promoting  authorities and any other authorities or bodies
under
> which a Visually Disabled examinee wishes to appear for an examination for
> any purpose whatsoever. The paramount purpose of the Policy is to
alleviate
> the hardship being caused to the Visually disabled candidate due to
> uncertainty in policy and to mitigate the effects of a disability.
>
>
>
>
>
> 1. Scribe
>
>
> a. The Visually Disabled candidate must be allowed the use of a Scribe who

> will read the question papers and write/type the answers dictated by the
> Visually disabled candidate.
>
>
>
> b. Since one of the important factors while doing an examination is speed,
> adequate practice is necessary, Visually Disabled persons should be
allowed
> to use the services of a scribe of his/her own choice. The Visually
Disabled
> candidate may however request the Examining authority to provide a Scribe.
>
>
>
> c. The discretion to arrange for his/her own Scribe or to be provided by a
> Scribe by the Examining Authority is with the candidate alone.
>
>
>
> d. No other restriction other than those mentioned in Clauses 3 or 4
herein
> below should be imposed on the selection of a scribe.
>
>
>
> e. It is desirabl

[AI] Unemployment up among the disabled: Study

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Unemployment up among the disabled: Study

A World Bank report has found levels of unemployment increasing among disabled 
persons in the country.

The study commissioned by the Government of India and based on a sample of 
2,000 households in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh says that employment rate among
people with disability (PWD) fell from 42.7 per cent in 1991 down to 37.6 per 
cent in 2002.

The five percentage point difference results in part from the different sample 
as people with mental illness and retardation were not counted as PWD in
the 47th round but were in the 58th round, where they were the PWD sub groups 
with the lowest employment rates.

However, the finding of a reduced employment rate among PWD between the early 
1990s and the early 2000s holds even when mental illness and mental retardation
people are omitted from the 58th round sample.

Excluding MI and MR, the study says that the employment rate of PWD still 
stands at 39.6 in 2002 i.e. 3.1 percentage points lower than in 1991. This 
compares
to a fall of only 1.1 percentage points for the general population (from 58.6 
to 57.5 per cent) between 1993 and 2000, the report points out.

The report finds no explanation for this decline in employment rates over a 
decade among people with disability. Says lead author Philip O'Keefe: "We are
still looking for answers for this one. I feel better reporting and better 
awareness about the matter could explain the figures partly."

The report, People with Disabilities in India: From Commitments to Outcomes, 
concludes that further research is needed to understand the determinants of
the decline in the job rate of persons with physical and sensory disabilities 
between 1991 and 2002, particularly to assess if it results from changes
in the demographic composition of the population with disabilities, in the 
increased severity of disability or factors in the labour market and society.

The report goes on to say that fall in the employment rates of PWD relative to 
the general working age population during the 1990s is almost universal across
the country except Sikkim. But the extent of the relative decline varies.

States like Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra exhibit small falls in the 
PWD/non PWD employment ratios, while others like J& K, Bihar, and Assam have 
seen
large falls in the relative employment position of PWD.

A further aspect of the unfair gap between the employment rates of the PWD and 
the general working age population is the variations between the two in the
levels of education.

The study says that the gap in employment rates between the two is more 
pronounced for those with the lowest levels of education in both periods. The 
gap
in employment levels has widened for all education levels, the study shows.

For the illiterate PWD population, their employment rate was 64 per cent of the 
of the general illiterate population in the early 1990s. This fell sharply
to 47 per cent by the early 2000s. Not only have PWDs lost out in employment 
terms in 1990s, but those likely to be the poorest have lost out proportionately
more, the report says.

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[AI] Tata Indicom offers STD calls @ 49p/min

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Tata Indicom offers STD calls @ 49p/min

Telecom service provider Tata Indicom introduced on Tuesday a new tariff plan 
under which its prepaid customers would be able to make STD calls at just
49 paise per minute in the same network.

The new plan -- STD plus STV -- would also allow users to make calls at 99 
paise per minute to all the other networks across the country, the CDMA company
said in a statement.

The tariff plan would come at a price of Rs 99 and would be valid for 30 days.

The STV would be applicable to all profiles -- existing and new subscribers, 
except those on double talk time plan (Go Easy plus and Go Xtra/Plus).

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[AI] 'Four or five new Blackberry models in 2008'

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'Four or five new Blackberry models in 2008'

Blackberry dominates the corporate PDA market. However, Research in Motion 
(RIM) clearly wants more. Growing international momentum and retail push are
driving the demand for Blackberry Curve as well as Blackberry Pearl, promising 
a good Christmas season for RIM.

Gregory Wade, vice-president (customer accounts), RIM, spoke to Business 
Standard about how the company is planning to fight the challenges as rivals 
offer
similar devices across price segments.

According to Gartner, RIM continues to lead the PDA market but its product mix 
has shifted towards smart phones. Is this an answer to competition?

Competitors cannot make up overnight for the years of engineering and 
refinement that have gone into the Blackberry solution and devices.

The Blackberry Pearl represented almost 55 per cent of RIM's total shipments in 
the first quarter of 2007 and with Pearl 8120 (dubbed as Pearl 2) our commitment
to have devices that are beautiful and rich in multimedia applications 
continues.

RIM recently shipped its 20 millionth Blackberry smart phone and the devices 
are ranked number one in the global PDA space with 18 per cent market share
according to third party research.

We will also announce another 4-5 models in 2008 and all of them would be 
packed with consumer-friendly applications and design.

Is RIM now targeting individual customers instead of enterprises?

We remain focused on the executives in boardrooms and have added individual 
customers to our potential consumer list.

Late last year, we started focusing on retailing Blackberry devices in India 
through our operator partners like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance, among
others. The carriers have reduced prices of data plans that allowed for 
services such as wireless e-mail, and the traction is visible.

Retail clients are clearly a new frontier of growth for RIM. Approximately 30 
per cent of our subscribers are non-enterprise and trend is more visible in
emerging markets.

RIM shipped close to 3.1 million Blackberry handsets in the quarter ended 
September 2007, and we now have more than 11 million subscribers overall.

RIM announced a host of new mobile applications aimed at pleasing the 
individual buyer. Will this be the company's strategy for Blackberry devices in 
the
near future?

Push-email paved way for the early success of this market, but mobile 
applications will drive the next phase for us, especially in emerging markets 
like
India.

Emphasis on multimedia will continue to grow as Blackberry becomes more of a 
personal device for the user. RIM's most recent tie-up with Facebook that brings
the social networking site to the phone promises a lot of growth potential.

Our software staff is working on bringing more navigation and global 
positioning system (GPS)-based tools to Blackberry along with developing a "map 
application"
to display an address or a route on the phone's screen.

Also, our software partners are developing support for 3D graphics to enable 
more powerful gaming, and rich-media content is on the cards too.

At $3 billion in revenue, RIM is bigger than companies in the networking world 
but still far smaller than a Nokia or a Motorola. Will this be reason enough
for RIM to aggressively tap the Indian market?

I don't think that RIM aspires to become a Nokia or anybody else in the market. 
India is a huge market, especially for devices like Blackberry Curve and
now the Pearl 8120.

It's inevitable that the Asian market will surpass other markets. Last quarter, 
RIM added 1.45 million Blackberry subscriber accounts and that speaks volumes
about our ability.

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[AI] Myth of the fastest supercomputer

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Myth of the fastest supercomputer

India may have launched itself on the world's map of raw computing power with 
the Eka supercomputer from the Tata group, but even the world's fastest 
supercomputer
cannot match the processing speed of your brain.

While your computer, on an average, can execute around 100 megaflops (million 
of calculations per second), it can barely handle dictation.

For instance, it will take a single PC more than a few days to weeks to 
calculate a weather map - a task best left to a supercomputer.

Your brain, on the other hand, is able to understand multiple languages, 
process complex visual images, control your entire body, understand conceptual
problems and create new ideas.

Scientists reveal that the brain is made up of about one trillion cells with 
100 trillion connections between those cells. Estimates put the brain as capable
of handling 10 quadrillion instructions per second.

Now compare that to the processing speed of the world's fastest supercomputer 
from IBM at over 475 teraflops (or 475 trillion calculations per second).

What's more interesting is that the world's truly fastest supercomputer - 
RIKEN's MDGrape-3 - will probably never be officially crowned with that title,
simply because it is so specialised that it can't run the software (the Linpack 
benchmark) used to officially rank computing speed.

MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break the petaflop barrier - that is 1 
quadrillion calculations per second - and is three times faster than the 
currently-ranked
fastest computer in the world, IBM's BlueGene/L. IBM's BlueGene/P is soon 
slated to achieve the petaflop distinction, though, with its machine nicknamed
'Roadrunner'.

"Getting to the petaflop stage is a Herculean task. It involves increasing the 
processing speed by over 10 times, besides scaling-up in a non-linear fashion.
The efficiency falls as you add central processing units (CPUs). You require to 
radically upgrade the architecture," says N Seetha Rama Krishna, project
manager of Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) - a wholly-owned 
subsidiary of Tata Sons. The Tata supercomputer has been ranked the fourth most 
powerful
in the world.

RIKEN developed the supercomputer along with Intel, and SGI in 2006 to carry 
out molecular dynamics simulations. In developing drugs, pharmaceutical 
companies
have to analyse thousands of chemical compounds to find out how they will 
affect the protein-bonding structures in the human body.

What takes most computers hours or days to analyse takes MDGrape-3 a few 
seconds. The functionality is invaluable in drug research since it can 
drastically
cut research time involved in the development of new cures. A subsidiary of 
pharmaceutical giant Merck has already booked time on the machine.

Construction of supercomputers is an expensive task. To get a machine from the 
laboratory to the market may take several years.

In Tata's case, however, it was done in a record six weeks. The most recent 
development costs of supercomputers varied between $150 and 500 million or more.

However, the Tata supercomputer cost around $30 million while the Riken one was 
reportedly around just $9 million. That's partly because MDGrape-3 relies
on fewer chips and less circuitry than its competitors.

Besides, Hitachi, Intel, and SGI Japan supplied the hardware and absorbed part 
of the cost of building the machine. One measure of the MDGrape-3's 
ultra-efficient
computing muscle is its cost per gigaflop (1 billion floating-point 
calculations per second), which Riken puts at $15. By comparison, BlueGene/L's 
is $140
per gigaflop.

Also, while BlueGene/L contains a whopping 130,000 processors distributed over 
65,000 nodes, Riken's closet-sized machine needs only 4,808 chips to achieve
four times its speed for certain applications. The Tata supercomputer used 
15,000 processors over 2,000 nodes.

Using a supercomputer is expensive as well. As a user, you are charged 
according to the time you use the system what is expressed in the number of 
processor
(CPU) seconds your programme runs, says Krishna.

In the recent past, Cray (one of the first supercomputers) time was $1,000 per 
hour. The use of this "Cray time" was a very common way to express computer
costs in time and dollars.

Meanwhile, the next generation of supercomputing - with DNA and Quantum 
Computing - is already being talked about. Of course, it will take at least 
another
decade before the new technologies will hit the work floor.

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Re: [AI] query about nokia 3110 classic

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It is not listed in the compatible devices of Nuance talks.  That is why
I've purchased Nokia  5500 for the Official use.
Regards
(Sweety Bhalla)
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To: 
Sent: 14/11/2007 10:59 AM
Subject: [AI] query about nokia 3110 classic


> Friends
>
> I would like to know whether talks supports nokia 3110 classic which runs
on symbion's s40 user interface?
>
>
> Rajesh Asudani
> Manager
> Reserve Bank of India
> Nagpur
> Cell: 9420397185
>
> The gratest tragedy that can ever befall a human being is to have eyes and
still not see...
> Helen Keller
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[AI] Imported laptops? Will burn a hole in your pocket

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Imported laptops? Will burn a hole in your pocket

The Supreme Court judgment -- which recently held that the government cannot 
levy additional 7 per cent customs duty on notebook PCs (laptops) as in the
case of desktop computers -- will not help in reducing laptop prices since the 
levy was already withdrawn two years ago.

The judge gave the ruling while dismissing a petition filed by the Commissioner 
of Customs. The court upheld the Customs, Excise and Services Tax Appellate
Tribunal's earlier judgement, stating that the interpretation by the tribunal 
was in consonance with the Computers (Additional Duty) Rules, 2004.

The tribunal had passed the order on an appeal filed by Bangalore-based Acer 
India, which had challenged levy of the additional duty. Industry observers,
analysts and vendors, however, point out that the ruling is two years late in 
coming. Much has changed since the case came up for hearing.

Raj Saraf, chairman and managing director, Zenith computers said, "The SC 
judgement will not make much of an impact because it was made for a provision
that was valid two years back. That provision no longer exists."

Local manufacturers enjoyed complete exemption from excise duty on computers in 
2005-06 and also enjoyed protection against imports as foreign computers
were subjected to additional customs duty (levied in lieu of excise duty) 
equivalent to seven per cent levied under Computer (Additional Duty) Rules, 
2004.

However, in 2006-07, the levy was withdrawn and the excise duty also got hiked 
to 12 per cent, presumably to enable local manufacturers get the benefit
of Cenvat credit and achieve cost optimisation.

The SC ruling, however, made another important observation. "We are of the 
opinion that a laptop or a notebook PC being an integrated item cannot be a set
of a CPU with monitor, mouse and key board."

A desktop is a combination of items like a central processing unit, monitor, 
mouse and keyboard, whereas, a laptop has all of these as a single integrated
unit.

Till date, under indirect tax laws, no distinction was made between assembly 
and manufacturing of computers. Which means that laptops do not enjoy separate
treatment when compared with desktops, and are subjected to same rate of taxes 
and duties.

The industry, though, is still not clear about the implication of the judgement 
in this regard. Vinnie Mehta, executive director, Manufacturers Association
for Information Technology (MAIT), said: "We are studying the implications."

However, the important issue here is: "Why should bureaucrats split hairs over 
such issues when the PC penetration is so dismal in India?" India has around
22 million personal computers (around 6 million being sold every year). These 
include desktops and laptops, whereas China sells around 25 million PCs in
a year.

Michael Dell, who was in New Delhi in April, had said: "India is losing 
investments because of its tariff structure." He urged the government to 
rationalise
the duty structure to make local manufacturing more attractive as compared with 
imports. Taxes add 20-25 per cent to the cost of computers in the country.

"Why can't we forego short-term revenue to rake in long-term benefits like 
bridging the digital divide?" asks a prominent PC vendor who wished to remain
anonymous. The industry, it appears, joins issue with this view.

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[AI] Disability insurance policies: 4 tips

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Disability insurance policies: 4 tips

When Sunil Kumar Sinha, 34, lost his left hand in an accident, he felt 
completely desolate. An engineer by profession, Sinha had got married recently, 
was
planning to purchase an apartment soon and then there were other financial 
goals that he wanted to attain in the years to come. But all seemed lost now.

A sad story that can happen to any of us. In advanced countries, there are 
support systems for people like Sinha, either in the form of direct financial
assistance or in terms of identification of opportunities.

For instance, in New Zealand, if you are above 16 years of age and have been 
permanently and severely incapacitated, the government has schemes under the
head of disability allowance and sickness benefits.

However, in India, there is no protection available for such people. Also, with 
the rising cost of medical treatment, it is a huge financial hit that one
has to incur in case of an unfortunate event. Thus, it is always prudent to 
plan for such issues in advance.

In order to plan for your financial support in case of disability you need to 
look into:

Cost of medical treatment: First, you should be aware of the insurance cover 
that your employer provides for you and your family. If this cover is not 
enough,
you need to buy additional cover.

Ideally, the total insurance should be to the tune of Rs 300,000 to Rs 500,000 
per head. The expense is also not too much. For a 30-year old, health cover
of Rs 300,000 would cost only about Rs 3,000 per year. Of course, the premiums 
are higher for older citizens.

It is also important that when you are taking additional cover, mention the 
existing cover from your employer in the application form. Most insurance agents
may ask you not to do it or may not even bring up the subject. But this is 
important because such hidden facts may allow the insurance company to reject
your claim at the time of need.

Transfer of other expenses: If your life insurance policies offer premium 
waiver benefit, take it. Essentially, these waivers are offered in case you are
incapacitated. Here, the insurance company, on your behalf, will pay for the 
premiums, either till the disability continues or the end of the policy term,
whichever comes earlier.

The cost of such riders is not very high. For a 30-year old taking a policy of 
Rs 50 lakh (Rs 5 million) for 20 years, the premium waiver option comes for
a mere Rs 490 a year.

Compensation: While expenses covered above are useful, they do not help in 
running a household. Here too, there are some good policies available. Almost
all policies have a critical illness plan as well as a disability rider.

If you are diagnosed with critical illness like paralysis, stroke, heart attack 
etc, you will get the entire assured sum. For a 30-year old, a critical
illness policy of Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) would cost Rs 3,000 a year.

Likewise, with the disability benefit rider with your life insurance, the 
company (depending on type of plan) will pay you regular instalments. For 
instance,
Reliance Life Insurance pays you basic sum assured in ten equal annual 
instalments.

However, while all these policies sound great, it is important to remember that 
it is cheaper to create safety nets through investment rather than insurance
plans. So, it would be great if you can get rid of such insurance policies as 
you grow older because the premiums are much higher.

That is, a Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) health cover costs just Rs 3,000 for a 
30-year old but the same policy costs Rs 30,000 for a 55-plus person. It is
the same case with other policies as well. Moreover, it is at this later age 
where your chances of such illness or disabilities are higher.

If you plan your finances well, you will be able to knock off the critical 
illness cover much before your retirement. Later, if need be, you can get rid
of other covers as well. The idea is to get rid of these covers as soon as 
possible. This is because you save the premiums which can be directly used to
invest in income generating assets.

Also, since these premiums get higher with age, it becomes particularly 
difficult to pay them during retirement years when income is practically zero.

But remember, this can only be achieved if you have planned your finances 
properly and amassed enough resources to take care of any contingency.

To do list:
List of 4 items
. Buy insurance of Rs 3 lakh to 5 lakh per person
. Opt for the disability rider in a health plan
. Get a premium waiver rider in the health plan
. Get a critical illness policy
list end

The writer is director, Acorn Wealth

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Re: [AI] Some 'cool' tools for mobiles

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Very informative, Rajesh!  Keep it up.
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To: 
Sent: 31/10/2007 10:31 AM
Subject: [AI] Some 'cool' tools for mobiles


> Some 'cool' tools for mobiles
>
> Anand Parthasarathy
>
> Push-pull effect: Viresh Parashar (left) of SlingMedia shows how home TV
content can be 'pushed' to a mobile phone anywhere; while Rishi Dawar of
Aims
> Migital displays a range of made-in-India cell phone application at the
Nokia's developer summit in Bangkok on Tuesday.
>
> Bangkok: You are far from India - maybe on another continent. But when
homesickness strikes, you can cure it - by switching on your mobile phone
and synchronising
> it to receive the favourite Hindi serial or a music programme that your
family is watching on the television back home.
>
> The technology to make this possible has just been launched worldwide -
but the brains that made it happen are based in Bangalore in the development
centre
> of SlingMedia. Viresh Parashar, the company's Foster City
(California-based Director of Business Development says the additional
software to extend the
> reach of the SlingBox to mobile phones is a $30 download in the U.S.
>
> This was just one of the examples of India-driven innovation, that drew a
lot of trade enquiries at mobile handset leader Nokia's regional developer
conference
> that opened in the Thai capital on Tuesday.
>
> Ever wondered how an SMS message can do double duty? It's called SMS 2.0 -
and another outfit driven by desi ingenuity - the U.K.-based Affle -
provided
> a 'sneak preview' of what will soon be available in India and elsewhere:
While you are reading the incoming text message, the unused bottom of the
screen
> runs scrolling content you have subscribed for - cricket updates, or an
astrological forecast or even a joke-of-the day. When you have read the SMS,
the
> extra content blooms to fill the screen, with more details - even some
pictures or a video. The application was crafted at the company's Gurgaon
centre,
> explained Executive Director Anuj Kumar - and it has already been snapped
up by service providers in Singapore.
>
> Sense Media
>
> As you walk past a clothing store in a mall in Chandigarh or Bangalore, a
message pops up in your mobile phone, inviting you to step in and look at
'new
> arrivals' in the jeans section. How did they know that you were just
there? It's called Sense Media - a 'cool tool' that hotels, shops and
cinemas can
> use to contact potential customers using the short range wireless
technology of Bluetooth. And it is the work of another Gurgaon-based
developer, Aims
> Migital Technovisions. Reliance recently tried out the technology in a
conference situation and will shortly use it to drive traffic at its Adlabs
multiplexes.
> Migital has also created dozens of tools, which can turn your mobile into
a voice recorder, an answering machine or hide your messages in case the
phone
> is stolen.
>
> 'Avatar' was a much used word at the Nokia expo: Japanese and Chinese
developers facilitate mobile users to create their alter egos or 'avatars' -
building
> from a library of body images, clothes, shoes and accessories.
>
> These are then used as screen savers, or animated characters you can
create to personalise phone-based games. One Chinese developer - Simlife -
showed technology
> that allows mobile gamers to control the on screen action by blowing air
on their mobiles, swinging them like tennis racquet or tapping the dots and
dashes
> of the Morse code on the handset's body.
>
> What brought mobile tools of tomorrow to one developer 'mela' was a common
platform such as Nokia phones or those sharing the same basic operating
system.
> "Web2.0 is already here It is now time for Mobile 2.0" said Shankar
Meembat, Regional Director, Forum Nokia.
>
>
> Rajesh Asudani
> Manager
> Reserve Bank of India
> Nagpur
> Cell: 9420397185
>
> The gratest tragedy that can ever befall a human being is to have eyes and
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Re: [AI] UN Handbook on the Convention on the Rights of Persons

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Rajesh!
I'm fime, what about you?  There is no attachment with your mail.  PL guide
me how to save it.  Thanks a lot in anticipation.
Regards

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Subject: Re: [AI] UN Handbook on the Convention on the Rights of Persons


> Dear Sweety
>
> Here it is.
>
> Hope you are doing well.
>
> Regards
>
> Rajesh
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>
>
> > Hi Rajesh!
> > I'm interesting to have this book.  PL send it to me.
> > With regards
> > (Sweety Bhalla)
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> >
> >
> >> UN Handbook on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities
> > Now Available
> >> The United Nations Human Rights Office and partners launched a handbook
> > last week that helps to explain the Convention on the Rights of Persons
> > with
> > Disabilities
> >> so that lawmakers and advocates can better understand the treaty's
> > provisions.
> >> handbook.
> >> is available with me, in case anybody desires it.
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Re: [AI] UN Handbook on the Convention on the Rights of Persons

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Hi Rajesh!
I'm interesting to have this book.  PL send it to me.
With regards
(Sweety Bhalla)
Assistant Manager
IFCI Ltd New Delhi India

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> UN Handbook on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Now Available
> The United Nations Human Rights Office and partners launched a handbook
last week that helps to explain the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities
> so that lawmakers and advocates can better understand the treaty's
provisions.
> handbook.
> is available with me, in case anybody desires it.
>
> regards
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[AI] Why telecom sector is exciting again

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rollout 
obligations!

As for a lock-in period before share transfers are allowed, this was the policy 
in 1995 as well. The reason why it was changed was simple, bankers couldn't
lend to firms as long as this was in place! After all, if Company A takes a 
loan of Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) but goes bankrupt, bankers/creditors need
to take over the assets - but they can't if the law prevents them.

The moral of the story: there will be trading in spectrum and the benefit of 
this won't go to the government, but to the companies just by virtue of them
being first in the queue - even lotteries don't reward people for being the 
first in line to buy tickets.

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[AI] BBC to launch DVDs in India

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BBC to launch DVDs in India

Cashing in on the fast growing DVD market, BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of 
the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), has decided to launch its DVDs
in India. It is likely to rope in music company Saregama as its partner for the 
venture.

BBC Worldwide holds the DVD rights for all its drama and comedy series 
including Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, collections of Shakespeare, the 
Sherlock
Holmes series and several classics and drama series.

Currently, the domestic DVD market (sale and rental) is estimated to be around 
Rs 700 crore and is dominated by Moser Baer, Ultra, Shemaroo Entertainment
and T-Series among others.

According to a Ficci-PricewaterhouseCoopers report, the home video market is 
expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 31 per cent to Rs 2,500
crore (Rs 25 bilion) by 2011.

Explaining the rationale behind BBC Worldwide's foray into the DVD business in 
India, John Smith, chief executive, BBC Worldwide said: "We have a large
collection of DVDs in the UK and when the media industry is booming in India, 
it makes sense for us to be here."

Smith said his company also wants to set up a production house that would also 
produce content for various television channels.

According to sources, through the Saregama-BBC Worldwide tie-up, BBC will bring 
in a large collection of English language classics at competitive price
points, while Saregama's collections will be available in the UK.

BBC Worldwide is also looking at expanding its brand portfolio across media 
platforms such as television, direct-to-home, print, online and radio.

Said Smith, "We are looking to bring in two more of our channels (BBC Knowledge 
& BBC Lifestyle) to India on the DTH platforms. Our radio tie-up with the
Mid Day group and the print venture with Bennett Coleman are doing well. We 
plan to launch Lonely Planet Publications in India soon."

On the proposed launch of its new media initiatives, Smith said its new 
website, bbc.com and video clip service, Kangaroo, would soon be launched for 
international
markets. Both these online properties would be advertiser-funded and cater to 
international consumers.

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[AI] Do-Not-Call registry active from Oct 12

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Do-Not-Call registry active from Oct 12

Telecom users will have relief soon as the National-Do-Not-Call registry --  an 
initiative of blocking unsolicited telemarketing calls, will be operational
from October 12.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had issued Telecom Unsolicited 
Commercial Communications Regulations, 2007, on June 5. This had put in place a
mechanism for curbing the unwanted telemarketing calls.

As per the available data with TRAI from the telecom service providers, more 
than 65 lakh subscribers have been registered in NDNC through their respective
telecom service providers.

The NDNC registry is now ready and is going to be operationalised on October 
12. Those subscribers who have registered before August 31, 2007 will not 
receive
unsolicited commercial calls. The subscribers who have registered after August 
31, 2007 will also get this benefit after a gap of forty-five days.

>From October 12 onwards, no telemarketer will call the subscribers who are 
>registered with NDNC. As per the Regulation, the telecom service providers have
been directed

to charge Rs 500 or disconnect their lines as the case may be if any 
telemarketer calls such subscribers. Therefore, all the telemarketers who have 
registered
with DoT are required to scrub their calling list from October 12 from NDNC 
website.

For getting the benefit of the NDNC registry, the subscriber will have to 
register his telephone number with his telecom service provider. The 
registration
of subscribers for NDNC has already commenced. The Authority had issued an 
advertisement to this effect in the leading national dailies in the last week
of August 7.

Subsequently, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) and Association of 
Unified Service Provider of India (AUSPI) have also issued advertisement
in the various National Dailies requesting the subscribers to register for Do 
Not Call Registry.

The details of call center number/SMS number on which the registration can be 
done are available on the websites of respective service providers.

Aircel has received over 54,959 applications, while that of BPL stood at 
58,706, BSNL at 1,57,489, Bharti AirTel at 30,97,974, HFCL at 28,730 and Idea at
822,387.

State-owned telecom major MTNL received 43,996 applications, while that of 
Reliance stood at 2,01,162, Spice at 1,03,447, Tata Teleservices at 3,32,609
and Vodafone received 16,19,863 applications.

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[AI] Got a gift from a relative? No tax on it

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foundation or university or other educational 
institution or hospital or any trust or any institution referred to in Section 
10(23C);
and

5. Gift from any trust or institution, which is registered as a public 
charitable trust or institution under Section 12AA.

Thus, scholarships, stipends or charities received from a charitable 
institution would be completely exempt from income tax in the hands of the 
recipients
without any limit provided the trust or institution giving the charity is 
registered under Section 12AA. Likewise, all gifts under a Will, and all amounts
received on the death of a person as a part of the inheritance are fully exempt 
from income tax.
Tax-Smart 3: Gifts in Kind are Tax-Exempt

Here is a point which should be very carefully noted that the provisions 
relating to taxation of gifts from non-relatives and non-specified persons in 
excess
of Rs. 50,000 would be liable to income tax only when the gift is a sum of 
money, whether in cash, by way of cheque or a bank draft. Thus, gifts in kind
such as a gift of shares, gift of land, gift of house, gift of units or mutual 
funds, jewellery, etc. would not be liable to any income tax at all.

A proper knowledge and understanding of the provisions of Section 56(2)(vi) 
relating to gifts is very helpful in order to get full tax-exemption in respect
of gifts received during a financial year.

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[AI] Expect the world in your mobile phones

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Expect the world in your mobile phones

Mobile VAS companies are ready to offer multi-player gaming, interactive video 
services, money transfer and extensive search solutions to cellular subscribers.

Imagine this. You are at a mall in Noida, and suddenly your mobile beeps to 
tell you that a friend is in the neighbourhood.

Your phone, which has a location-based service provided by your mobile operator 
with the help of a specialised mobile value-added services (VAS) company,
locates him as soon as he comes within a specified distance, giving you the 
option of catching up with him if you so desire.

This is just one example of what a mobile subscriber can expect from his phone 
in the near future. Canvas M, the mobile VAS specialist (a JV between Tech
Mahindra and Motorola), is currently experimenting with a 'person finder' 
application that could work across countries. Of course, for such applications
the people involved must be subscribers to the location service and also agree 
to be searched.

Clearly, the mobile VAS industry has come a long way from ring-tones and 
screen-savers. Indian and foreign mobile VAS providers - and there are a host of
them - say that India's mobile VAS market will grow 60 per cent to touch Rs 
4,560 crore (Rs 45.60 billion) by the end of 2007.

Mobile VAS can be sorted under three heads: content, utility and advertising 
and marketing services. Milind Pathak, Co-CEO and country manager, Buongiorno,
the Italian mobile media and technology company which set up office in India 
earlier this year, says that mobile music will grow.

"Full track downloads will increase as mobiles will be used as ipods." User 
generated content, community applications and interactive video services will
also become popular.

Buongiorno, for instance, launched Soccer Addicts in the UK with O2 (a UK 
mobile operator), in which football fans record their video comments after the
end of the matches and MMS them to the operator.

"The best contributions are edited and made available to all users of the 
football fan club as a three-minute video clip available for both streaming and
downloading," says Pathak.

In gaming, multi-player games are on the cards. "You could be sitting at home 
playing a game on your mobile with people and friends who may not even be
in the same country let alone the same room," says Jagdish Mitra, CEO, Canvas M.

However, the hitch is that some of these services need 3G networks, not 
immediately available in India, to give an evolved consumer experience.

Search will, of course, be a major utility application in the mobile space but 
mobile commerce will also be a key growth driver. Active Media's executive
director Raj Singh says that text message transactions are already prevalent.

Both cinema and airline tickets can be booked through the mobile and collected 
by showing the confirmation on the mobile screen. "But for India, mobile
money transfer could be a killer application."

Singh cites the example of Philippines where migrant workers send money home 
through messages on their families' mobile phones. He says that an Indian 
cellular
operator is working on a similar facility, though the application requires 
several government clearances.

For Canvas M, too, mobile commerce is a major focus area. Its trials on a 
mobile swipe facility are on in Chicago. "If it works, it will enable you to 
swipe
your mobile phone, like a credit card, at the Delhi Metro rail stations and 
toll bridges and money would get deducted from your account," says Canvas M's
Mitra.

The application requires near field communications (NFC) enabled phones which 
will be launched in a year's time. "We are working on this solution with a
credit card company called Discover in the US. These phones will have a chip 
and retailers will have readers to read the mobile chips," he adds.

In the advertising and marketing space, promotions will be a major VAS 
offering. Says Active Media's Singh, "We have our UK experience with Orange 
customers
where we sent them cinema tickets - one for one free - on their mobiles." 
Mobile promotions could also be used to reward loyal customers.

For instance, a credit card company could send a mobile voucher/coupon, of, 
say, Rs 500 to be spent at a particular shop or restaurant. "Here the 
gratification
is instant. You show the mobile screen and avail the offer," says Singh. Such 
loyalty schemes could be used by telecom operators as well once their subscriber
numbers reach a critical mass.

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Re: [AI] M S Word problem

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If you are using MS 2003, go to view menu and check normal.  Hope it will
help.
Regards
(Sweety Balla)
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> Dear List,
>
> While reading a book, I made notes in a separate M S Word file. I kept
> on saving my notes frequently. Sometimes I was typing and a few times I
> copied the definitions and pasted them in my notes file. Now the book is
> complete and I checked the notes file for any spelling mistakes. Today
> when I opened the file, jaws is not reading upto the 13 page but after
> that it starts reading. I asked one of my friends to read the 12 pages,
> and he said that it is  readable and written in English. On pressing the
> down arrow it is saying blank.  Any suggestions to correct the problem.
>
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[AI] Govt plans insurance scheme for disabled

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Govt plans insurance scheme for disabled

While the social security Bill for the unorganised sector may take a long time 
in becoming a reality, the disabled in the country may get their own insurance
scheme funded by a unique corpus soon.

The disabled who have been denied insurance cover by companies all these years 
stand to get insurance as a right once the scheme is in place this year.
The source of the funding of the insurance scheme is also unique.

It is to be funded through a Rs 2400 crore (Rs 24 billion) corpus that has 
accrued to the Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment from public sector
banks.

These banks, which had made a profit while rounding off their accounts, had 
been asked by the Supreme Court to spend the money for public good specifically
for the disabled after a PIL three years ago.

The ministry, which has started receiving the money, plans to implement the 
insurance scheme in this financial year using the funds.

Interest from this corpus would be used for various disability welfare schemes 
and the insurance scheme will benefit from this fund, officials said.

The National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, 
Mental retardation and Multiple disabilities and the Chief Commissioner for 
Persons
with Disabilities are working out the social security cum insurance cover with 
various insurance companies.

A three-member team of experts, including Pradeep Ghosh of the NGO Oasis 
Bhopal, Dr T V Ramesh of Insurance brokering firm Alegion in Chennai, and 
Shyamala,
director of Adi (formely Spastic Society of Northern India, has been working on 
the insurance scheme with the actuaries of insurance companies for the
last four months.

Pradeep Ghosh, one of the experts working out details of the insurance scheme 
with actuaries, said it was likely to be implemented on a pilot basis in one
or two districts to begin with and would be spread out to the rest of the 
country in phases. Ghosh added that it was a big achievement for the disabled
as they had been denied insurance cover by all companies so far.

Ghosh himself an Ashoka social entrepreneur who was formerly with the IT sector 
said the insurance companies came forward for a Governemnt-supported insurance
scheme after disability activists and lawyer Colin Gonsalvez threatened last 
year to move the court on the denial of insurance cover to disabled.

Poonam Natarajan Chairperson of the National Trust said that the scheme was 
being processed and she would not be in a position to give details now.

However sources said that the insurance cover would later incorporate products 
like endowment policies which would provide pensions to the disabled.

The two national agencies on disability would be sending a proposal of demands 
to the insurance companies and the scheme is likely to be implemented in
this financial year, sources said.

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[AI] Now you can recall your email!

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Now you can recall your email!

How often you've wished you could recall an email which you regret having sent, 
or which could embarrass you.

Fret not, help is here. IBM's latest offerings in the collaboration platform, 
Lotus Notes 8 and Domino 8 come with a recall feature that allows you to call
back an email that has been sent. Developed over the last 2 years, version 8 is 
based on the feedback of 25,000 businesses around the world.

According to the company, this release is one of the best in terms of 
collaboration features. It also has significant inputs from IBM's India labs. 
More
importantly, this version can be accessed on the Blackberry platform too. The 
software will offer features like email, collaboration, calendar, instant
messaging and other office productivity tools and custom applications.

It is for the first time that a software is based on the open-source eclipse 
platform, a departure from the fact that otherwise IBM has in the past used
its proprietary technology.

Sandesh Bhat, director (design and technology innovation), IBM, said: "The 
whole idea behind this was to offer users the best in the Web2.0 capabilities.
This is also our endeavour to develop the desktop of the future.

Lotus Notes 8 is much more than an email service, unlike competitive offerings. 
Lotus Notes 8 integrates work by building in instant messaging and presence
awareness, office tools to create and edit documents, presentations and 
spreadsheets and infusing a business' custom applications, including help desk,
CRM, sales force, discussion forums, blogs and more.

This is all possible as Lotus Notes 8 is built on the programming model of 
Lotus Expeditor 6.1.1, which is based on eclipse.org open standards. Lotus 
Expeditor
6.1.1 enables the construction and deployment of enterprise mash-ups, also 
known as composite applications. Lotus Notes 8 and Domino 8 support a variety
of platforms, including Linux and Windows for clients and Windows, Linux, Sun 
Solaris, AIX and IBM System for servers.

The office collaboration market is estimated to be in millions. Frost and 
Sullivan in one of its reports mentioned that IBM with a 44.5 per cent market
share is a market leader in India.

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[AI] Will you choose a new-age desktop over a laptop?

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or free bundled scanners and printer offers that are the 
epitome of false economies in almost all cases. One cannot expect great 
performance
from these, as cheap printers guzzle ink like there's no tomorrow. It would be 
better if you budget for whichever device you need and choose it properly.

Tricks that most vendors use to keep the costs down on the list involves lack 
of monitor in the price mentioned, not including an operating system, not
including VAT in the prices and not including delivery and/or credit card 
surcharges. Check all these out in advance before you indulge yourself with a
new-age desktop.

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[AI] Now, TV on Shatabdi wheels

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Now, TV on Shatabdi wheels

Having lost market share to low-cost airlines, the railway ministry plans a 
major upgrade of entertainment in its Shatabdi Express coaches.

These upscale inter-city trains will soon have flat-panel television 
touch-screens on each seat, equipped with head-phones offering passengers 
options of
"live" and pre-recorded entertainment and movie channels.

As part of its pilot project, the Northern Railway has invited bids from media 
and entertainment companies for television equipment and other acoustic support
in 91 coaches of eight Shatabdi trains originating from New Delhi.

The ministry is already working with private companies for offering WiMax 
services (faster Internet services) on select trains.

For the "infotainment" (news-cum-entertainment) services, the ministry has kept 
a reserve price of Rs 2.31 crore (Rs 23 million) for the first year, while
the licence will be awarded for a five-year period.

Leading media and entertainment companies like Adlabs and Dish TV were said to 
be in the fray, sources said.

"The railways will not invest in this project. The media companies will have to 
share a part of revenue with the railways," a senior Northern Railway official
told Business Standard.

Under the tender terms, the selected media companies will have advertising 
rights on the Shatabdis in lieu of the escalating licence fee during the 
five-year
period.

A Northern Railway official said since this was a new venture for them, the 
media companies would be asked to give presentations on the programmes they
would show.

According to senior executives of Dish TV, the Direct-to-Home venture of the 
Zee Group, the company has been in talks with the ministry for installing Dish
TV receivers on Shatabdi trains.

"We want to be present everywhere. We are present on Kingfisher Airlines 30,000 
feet above the ground and are experimenting with providing Dish TV on cars
and trains," Jawahar Goel, managing director of Dish TV, recently told Business 
Standard.

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[AI] Microsoft pushes W-Mobile in small towns

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Microsoft pushes W-Mobile in small towns

With growth in mobility and mobile penetration levels in tier II and III towns 
and cities, Microsoft India is looking at a larger chunk of its mobility
business from these regions.

Speaking to Business Standard, Sumeet Gugnani, India business head of mobility 
at Microsoft, said, "So far, our sales have largely been concentrated in
the metropolitan towns and cities. But with increase in mobile penetration and 
affordable handsets, we see a lot of business coming from towns like Barddhaman,
Haldia, Durgapur, Asansol, Siliguri in eastern India."

Microsoft launched its Windows mobile phone in July 2006, and so far have sold 
over a lakh devices till August now.

According to Gugnani, the BPO boom has resulted in mobility growth in towns 
where it was impossible to imagine sales of 8,000 touch-screens and smart phones
per month.

"What is interesting is that smaller towns like Pune outsold Mumbai during July 
this year in terms of mobile buyers. This is also because the base is low
and therefore growth is more," Gugnani pointed out.

Moreover, as executives are travelling more often and would vouch for 
email-on-move, the demand for such hand-held devices have gone up significantly.

Affordability of these mobiles have also played a major role in Microsoft's 
soaring sales.

Its smart phones and touch-screen mobiles are today available at as low as Rs 
11,000 and Rs 14,000 respectively, which used to be Rs 40,000 about three
years ago.

"Typically, the buyer profile for Microsoft phone would be entry-level 
executives. Most of them these days earn over Rs 20,000 per month and can easily
afford a Rs 14,000 touch-screen Windows mobile," Gugnani added.

By July 2008, Microsoft plans to sell 200,000 devices all over India, through 
its device partners that include O2, Hewlett Packard and Motorola, among others.

"One advantage Microsoft has over all other mobile phones is that people are 
already aware of Windows. So the moment you pitch a Windows mobile, Microsoft's
brand recall is very high. This would help us grow our mobility business 
without heavily investing in advertising," Gugnani added.

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[AI] Nokia controversy: 'Duplicate' battery sales take a hit

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Nokia controversy: 'Duplicate' battery sales take a hit

With reports of some cellphones not functioning properly while getting charged 
or during thunderstorms and unsafe batteries being recalled by one of the
largest cellphone manufacturer, Nokia, the grey market of duplicate batteries 
has taken a hit.

"Earlier, we had brisk sales of duplicate cellphone batteries which used to 
cost much cheaper than the original ones but now because of the Nokia 
controversy,
the sales have dipped," says Pintu, a shop owner in Gaffar Market, one of the 
biggest grey markets for cellphones in the capital.

While Nokia may have issued a warning about a batch of defective cellphone 
batteries offering free replacements, even grey market buyers have now become
smarter.

"We usually have different range of cellphone batteries catering to all kinds 
of people. Since, the controversy, the demand for lower end batteries has
dropped considerably," says Tarloch Singh, another cellphone shop owner in the 
capital.

Even though duplicate battery still sells, it is the better ones with a higher 
price than local batteries are in demand. According to Indian Cellular 
Association,
of the 45 million replacement batteries in the Indian mobile market, about 80 
per cent are counterfeit and unsafe, he said.

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[AI] mobi has to catch up with mobiles

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mobi has to catch up with mobiles

IsIt was one of the tech buzzwords of 2006. Called .mobi - similar to .com and 
pronounced as dotmobi - the domain name indicates that a site will work on
a mobile phone. Given the billions of mobiles worldwide, and millions in India 
alone, it should have flourished. But figures show that it has lost steam
along the way.

Net4India - one of the major domain registrars in the country - alone expected 
20,000 registrations by end 2006. However, it has managed to get only 1,000
registrations to date, according to Jasjit Sawhney, CEO, Net4india.com, who 
cannot hide his disappointment with the response.

And the Dublin-based Mobile Top Level Domain start-up which started accepting 
registrations for the '.mobi' addresses last year has so far managed just
about 6,25,000 registrations. Compare this with the over 65 million .com 
addresses.

The logic for a .mobi was two-fold. To begin with most Web pages aren't 
designed for cellphones or mobile devices, and hence make for an unpleasant 
viewing
experience with the pages getting skewed on the cellphone.

Vance P Hedderel director, mTLD, explains: ".mobi is designed to complement 
other domains, whether .com, .org or .gov. When you access a ".mobi" site, that
site will be designed specifically for mobile phones. It means an end user is 
guaranteed to have a good experience: the site will display quickly and the
user will see the site as it's supposed to be seen."

"It was a craze at one point of time when everyone wanted a .mobi domain. 
However these domains are not actively used, even if they have been registered,"
said an official of a global portal who wished not to be named. Sawhney echoes 
this sentiment: "Big brands particularly registered for two main reasons
- to protect their brand name from being taken by another and a part of future 
strategy, with the assumption that it might catch on later."

The .mobi domain has experienced moderate success in more developed countries 
like Korea, Malaysia and other western countries due to their advanced 
technology.
India is on the growth path. dotMobi (the company) anticipates the demand of 
.mobi domains will grow exponentially as more and more businesses develop
a mobile strategy and deploy content that meets the needs of users "on the go".

A sanguine Sawhney concurs: ""The response, especially in India, may be weak. 
However, with an increased sale of better mobile devices and better bandwidth,

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Re: [AI] It is the Kingfisher this time

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same is in my case, very comfortable.
(Sweety Bhalla)
- Original Message -
From: Pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 20/08/2007 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] It is the Kingfisher this time


> Write directly to Vijay Mallya. There has been another case of Kingfisher
> misbehaving with a disabled passenger and I am told he complained to Vijay
> Mallya and got a direct apolagy.
> I dont have to tell you to  follow up on both sides.
> I have travelled alone on King fisher and I have not had a problem.
>
> Kanchan Pamnani
> Advocate & Solicitor
> 9, Suleman Chambers,
> Battery Street, Colaba,
> Mumbai - 400 039.
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "harish kotian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:49 AM
> Subject: [AI] It is the Kingfisher this time
>
>
> > Hi friends
> > Yesterday I was to return back from Bangalore to Hyderabad. I had booked
a
> > Kingfisher ticket.
> >
> > The flight was at 9 pm and I reached the airport by 7.45.
> >
> > At checkin counter the female, asked me to see their supervisor and she
> > sent me along with an assistant. The supervisor said that I be given an
> > isle seat.
> >
> > They made me seated in the waiting hall and they told they would give me
a
> > boarding card and to be seated as there was a long queue.
> >
> > Half an hour elapsed and there was no sight of them. I went to the
counter
> > and I got the same reply and was again seated.
> >
> > I waited for another 15 minutes and by then, the security call was
> > announced. I again went to the counter and demanded for the boarding
card
> > and I insisted I would wait no more.
> >
> > At this time she rattled that she could not give me the boarding card
and
> > that she would give me full refund.
> > On demanding the reason, she went onto  say that all the cabin crew were
> > females on that flight and as I was travelling alone they could not
help.
> >
> > I had a heated exchange of words and refused to budge anything short of
a
> > boarding card.
> >
> > She spoke to the crew and made it clear that I was not giveing in. In
the
> > mean time I kept my cellphone camera in video mode.
> >
> > Finally I was given the boarding card and hurridly my security was done.
> >
> > I sat sulkily in my seat and made no bones showing my displeasure. I
hadto
> > give the crew a mouth full and I used my opportunity when they served
> > food. I told them I was too agitated to eat anything. They were very
sorry
> > at the end of it.
> >
> > Before deplaning on reaching Hyd I gave them another dose and demanded
> > from them what extra they had to do for me.  I finally told to tell all
> > their colleagues such an incident should never occur.
> >
> > I am surely going to complain to DGCA, how their new guidelines is
> > followed.
> >
> > Harish.
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Re: [AI] updated lists of identified jobs

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PL send it on my personal ID.
- Original Message -
From: Rajesh Asudani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 17/08/2007 5:35 PM
Subject: [AI] updated lists of identified jobs


> Friends
>
> I don't know whether it has been posted earlier here or not, but I was
delighted to find consolidated lists of identified jobs for disabled on
social justice and empowerment ministry's website, promulgated in
January/March 2007. I haven't gone through them yet, so am unable to say
whether they have added anything to previous lists of 2001, but at least
they are available in a consolidated form unlike earlier list. Our respected
member Dipendra Manocha was the member of government committee which has
gone into revising the lists, so we may expect a good work. Please read the
lists and comment.
>
> States like Maharashtra may take a hint and at least consolidate the list
instead of every department issuing a separate and fragmentary GR.
>
> The lists may be downloaded from the ministry's site, or I will be more
than happy to send them to anyone willing.
>
> Rajesh
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Re: [AI] updated lists of identified jobs

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Me too.
- Original Message -
From: hitendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 18/08/2007 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] updated lists of identified jobs


> Please send it to me also
> Thanks
> Hitendra Rupani
> - Original Message -
> From: "Harshvardhan Singh Negi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [AI] updated lists of identified jobs
>
>
> > Too me also
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Pradeep banakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Hetal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
> > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:54 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AI] updated lists of identified jobs
> >
> >
> >> Hi I also need  this
> >> - Original Message -
> >> From: "Hetal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: 
> >> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 8:11 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [AI] updated lists of identified jobs
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi Rajesh,
> >>> could plz send me the list.
> >>> Thanking u in advance,
> >>> regards,
> >>> Hetal
> >>> - Original Message -
> >>> From: "Rajesh Asudani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> To: 
> >>> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 5:35 PM
> >>> Subject: [AI] updated lists of identified jobs
> >>>
> >>>
>  Friends
> 
>  I don't know whether it has been posted earlier here or not, but I
was
>  delighted to find consolidated lists of identified jobs for disabled
on
>  social justice and empowerment ministry's website, promulgated in
>  January/March 2007. I haven't gone through them yet, so am unable to
>  say
>  whether they have added anything to previous lists of 2001, but at
>  least
>  they are available in a consolidated form unlike earlier list. Our
>  respected member Dipendra Manocha was the member of government
>  committee
>  which has gone into revising the lists, so we may expect a good work.
>  Please read the lists and comment.
> 
>  States like Maharashtra may take a hint and at least consolidate the
>  list
>  instead of every department issuing a separate and fragmentary GR.
> 
>  The lists may be downloaded from the ministry's site, or I will be
more
>  than happy to send them to anyone willing.
> 
>  Rajesh
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[AI] Nokia 5500

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Hi all,
Nokia 5500 sports, this mobile phone is listed on nuance's website and will 
work with talks.
Me and one of my friends  willing to by this phone after getting attracted 
towards it's very good features. Moreover, it's cost is just RS. 6800! And its
a third generation phone!
 A Month ago,  it's cost was around 13 K but now it is available on very cheap 
price.
There is a bit confusion about it's performance with talks. I have not found 
any user of this handset with talks so we can get the proper information. As
per the review, some of the sighted people are not satisfied with the 
performance of Nokia 5500.
  Its a Symbian 9.01 phone and has 64 MB internal memory and we can extend up 
to 1 GB memory card. There are many good features in this set but question
is that does it hang so oftenly? Sighted people are not happy with it, will 
this create any problem to us people too using with talks?
Why the price has come down at this level?
Please let me know whether should we go for Nokia 5500 or not if anyone of you 
is using the same mobile phone.  Thanks a lot in    anticipation.
Regards

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Re: [AI] books

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Me too.
Thanks & regards
- Original Message -
From: Chaodhari, Sanjeev IN BOM SISL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 07/08/2007 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] books


> Send me also
>
> When you don't have any choice, you have a choice to work hard.
> Sanjeev
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Space: http://daarshnicsanjeev/spaces/live.com
>  Call: +919820637390
> Direct office: +9102267572118
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rajesh
> asudani
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:10 AM
> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> Subject: Re: [AI] books
>
> Hello Hina
>
> Yes, I do have them, will be sending them in few days to you.
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Rajesh
> - Original Message -
> From: "hina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 8:15 AM
> Subject: [AI] books
>
>
> > hi friends,
> > does any one have books on basic  psychology?
> > i am also looking for some books on interpretation of dreams.
> > will be very grateful if anyone can help.
> > yours sincerely, hina.
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Re: [AI] Punjab National Bank

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Kanchan!
I never applied, as they didn't give me the prescribed form and denied to
process.  I got only cheque book after a hot discussion.  A new Manager has
joined and compelling me to surrouund the same back to the bank and advise
me to use the withdrawal slip.  But I didn't do so, trying to avoid to go
him for any purpose.  Otherwise my cheque book will also be taken back.
- Original Message -
From: pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 03/08/2007 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] Punjab National Bank


> Sweety Please complain to Sudhakar at the RBI address that Harish sent on
> the list yesterday.
> Give details  like branch name and bank also the date on which you applied
> for what and then the response of the officer with name of the officer and
> if possible the designation.
>
> So far we have 100% success with this method of complaining and it there
is
> no cost only emailing.
> Write to me off the list with all details.
> Kanchan
> ----- Original Message -
> From: "sweety bhalla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 16:04
> Subject: Re: [AI] Punjab National Bank
>
>
> > I'm also facing the same problem in IDBI Bank.
> > Regards
> > (Sweety Bhalla)
> > - Original Message -
> > From: pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 
> > Sent: 02/08/2007 7:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AI] Punjab National Bank
> >
> >
> >> Hi Rahul
> >> Please let us know if you got your ATM or not.
> >> You must revert to the group if you start an issue.
> >> If you havent got it as yet what have you done.
> >> Did you send an email to those email IDs that I had put on this list.
> >> Kanchan
> >> - Original Message -
> >> From: "Rahul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: 
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 00:28
> >> Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
> >>
> >>
> >> > hello, respected members
> >> > Nice to see this issue on Access India. I have my account in Punjab
> >> > national
> >> > bank. I have requested them to issue me an ATM card and  check book.
> > they
> >> > r
> >> > saying that these service are not available for a visually challenged
> >> > person. tell me what to do next to over come this major problem.
> >> > thanks in advance
> >> > Rahul Gambhir
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > - Original Message -
> >> > From: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > To: 
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:00 AM
> >> > Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> Sanjeev Good your problem is over.
> >> >> We will fight every battle in this manner till it becomes too much
for
> >> >> the
> >> >> banks to deal with each individual case as an exception. this is the
> > best
> >> >> way to get it.
> >> >>
> >> >> We are also working on a memorandum for the Banking facilities and
> >> >> will
> >> >> revert to this group when some proper drafting is done. Also looking
> >> >> at
> >> >> modifying and or challenging the CCPD order as well as IBA Rules.
> >> >>
> >> >> It will take some time because all issues have to be considered. In
> >> >> the
> >> >> meantime I am working on the NSDL representation and the Petition
> > against
> >> >> Rs. 2 coins. Check accessindia for further details.
> >> >> In another case I have senta notice to Bank of Baroda regarding non
> >> >> granting
> >> >> of ATM to one Anjali Jamale who is not part of this group. I think
it
> > may
> >> >> be
> >> >> worked out soon based on the reply that I have received from the
> > Branch.
> >> >> Will revert.
> >> >> If anybody has been denied any banking service because they are
> > visually
> >> >> challenged , they must start asking for these facilities immediately
> >> >> so
> >> >> that
> >> >> we can capitalise on the situation and use the RBI email IDs that I
> >> >> had
> >> >> emailed.
> >> >> Kanchan
> >> >> - Original Message -
> >> >> From: "Chaodhari, Sanjeev IN BOM SISL"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> >> To: 
> >> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2

Re: [AI] Punjab National Bank

[sweety bhalla]

I'm also facing the same problem in IDBI Bank.
Regards
(Sweety Bhalla)
- Original Message -
From: pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 02/08/2007 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] Punjab National Bank


> Hi Rahul
> Please let us know if you got your ATM or not.
> You must revert to the group if you start an issue.
> If you havent got it as yet what have you done.
> Did you send an email to those email IDs that I had put on this list.
> Kanchan
> - Original Message -
> From: "Rahul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 00:28
> Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
>
>
> > hello, respected members
> > Nice to see this issue on Access India. I have my account in Punjab
> > national
> > bank. I have requested them to issue me an ATM card and  check book.
they
> > r
> > saying that these service are not available for a visually challenged
> > person. tell me what to do next to over come this major problem.
> > thanks in advance
> > Rahul Gambhir
> >
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
> >
> >
> >> Sanjeev Good your problem is over.
> >> We will fight every battle in this manner till it becomes too much for
> >> the
> >> banks to deal with each individual case as an exception. this is the
best
> >> way to get it.
> >>
> >> We are also working on a memorandum for the Banking facilities and will
> >> revert to this group when some proper drafting is done. Also looking at
> >> modifying and or challenging the CCPD order as well as IBA Rules.
> >>
> >> It will take some time because all issues have to be considered. In the
> >> meantime I am working on the NSDL representation and the Petition
against
> >> Rs. 2 coins. Check accessindia for further details.
> >> In another case I have senta notice to Bank of Baroda regarding non
> >> granting
> >> of ATM to one Anjali Jamale who is not part of this group. I think it
may
> >> be
> >> worked out soon based on the reply that I have received from the
Branch.
> >> Will revert.
> >> If anybody has been denied any banking service because they are
visually
> >> challenged , they must start asking for these facilities immediately so
> >> that
> >> we can capitalise on the situation and use the RBI email IDs that I had
> >> emailed.
> >> Kanchan
> >> - Original Message -
> >> From: "Chaodhari, Sanjeev IN BOM SISL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: 
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 17:12
> >> Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
> >>
> >>
> >>> Dear members
> >>> Hi
> >>> Finally I got ATM card. Email id given by harish and kanchan has
worked.
> >>>
> >>> But the bad site of this is they still didn't have change there rules,
> >>> which means if another visually challenged person wants ATM card in
HDFC
> >>> bank. Then he will have to go again same procedure again.
> >>> They have given me ATM card considering me as exception, and I have to
> >>> go to there branch to collect my card and pin number. Usually for
others
> >>> it comes by corier.
> >>> And don't worry pranav, according to then they have issue ATM card to
> >>> you, when this rule was not there, so they cannot do anything.
> >>> So what do you think member's what should we do in order to realize
them
> >>> that I am not the alone,
> >>> Thanks.
> >>> When you don't have any choice, you have a choice to work hard.
> >>> Sanjeev
> >>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> Or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> Space: http://daarshnicsanjeev/spaces/live.com
> >>> Call: +919820637390
> >>> Direct office: +9102267572118
> >>> -Original Message-
> >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Chaodhari,
> >>> Sanjeev IN BOM SISL
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:15 PM
> >>> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> >>> Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
> >>>
> >>> Hi kanchan
> >>>
> >>> I asked about rules but Sr. Manager Corporate Salary but she sed its
> >>> there internal rule. When I mention the fact some other vi hold ATM
> >>> c

[AI] Making your mobile theft-proof

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Making your mobile theft-proof

With service providers and manufacturers moving into the  thefts prevention by 
installing tracking software, it might become difficult to steal a phone.

For example, global handset manufacturer Samsung has put software on its 
selected models that sends SMSes to a pre-designated mobile number and e-mails
when a new SIM (subscriber identity module) card is inserted into the phone.

These messages will have the SIM card number of the new user and tracking him 
down would merely be a phone call away.

"On a rough estimate, there are 1.2 million to 2 million handsets lost or 
stolen in the country every month. Assuming that these are low-end handsets 
(priced
between Rs 4,500 and Rs 5,000 each) the total lost or stolen value of mobile 
handsets would be around Rs 400 crore every year," Samsung Head of Marketing
Asim Warsi told Business Standard.

GSM operator Bharti Airtel has introduced this technology and BPL Mobile is 
close to launching it, while Vodafone-Essar and Idea Cellular are considering
it.

Samsung, sensing the growing potential of the technology, is planning to 
install it on all new models. BPL Mobile CEO S Subramaniam said: "Mobile phones
have now become the most important device as it doubles up as a wallet, not to 
mention its conventional uses of communication. It holds a lot of data,
e-mail accounts, power point presentation files and documents, and protecting 
this is as important as protecting your wallet."

The tracking software also ensures that data on the phones ??e phonebook and 
other details?? password -protected.

If the phone is lost, the user can be assured that it would not fall into the 
wrong hands, Subramaniam added.

Earlier, a Mumbai-based firm -- Virtual Mobile Security -- had rolled out a 
software that safeguards the images, phone numbers and SMSes stored on a mobile
phone from being accessed by others.

According to Warsi, this tracking technology is simpler and easier to use than 
the existing method of using International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)
numbers to track down a lost phone.

The  IMEI number is unique to every handset and the service provider can track 
the phone's usage anywhere in the world.

Voicing the same opinion a telecom analyst said, "Users never note down the 
IMEI number and tracking the lost phone using the number is cumbersome as it
involves legal hassles. Service providers need an FIR to be filed before they 
agree to track down the new user."

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[AI] 8 tips to make best use of your bank

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. Getting a duplicate 
statement is cheaper through phone banking for both ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank. 
While
seeking services from a bank, opt for cheaper and convenient media.

Make online payments through credit cards safely. Never enter a card number 
unless there is a padlock in the Web browser's frame, rather than the Web page.
The Web address should begin with 'https' rather than 'http'. The 's' is for 
'secure'. Consider reserving one credit card for Web use or signing up for
a separate online payment service such as PayPal.

7. Know your manager. One way to do this is to invent a pretext for meeting the 
bank manager and then creating scope for further interactions. If there
is a problem, knowing someone in the bank helps.

Most managers would like to build strong business relations with their 
customers. So, they are likely to reduce or waive a charge if you bring it to 
their
notice that it appears too high or that you have been billed for something 
beyond your control.

8. Be careful about bank investment instruments. Banks sell two kinds of 
investment instruments. Products such as fixed deposits and recurring deposits
are offered by banks themselves and carry a government guarantee against a 
default or loss up to Rs 100,000.

In the second variety come products such as insurance and mutual funds. Even if 
a mutual fund scheme has been sold by a bank, there is no guarantee against
a loss on an investment in it. Insurance will usually be pushed by your man in 
the portfolio management service.

The bank is the agent here and would tend not to serve your best interests but 
to maximise its commission while selling insurance products. Deals of banks
with insurance and mutual fund companies to push their products would limit 
your choice. So, do not blindly trust your bank for everything.
Finally, remember that banks are not charitable institutions. They incur costs 
when they offer services besides the basic ones. So, check whether there
is a charge for them and sign on only if you think it is worth your while to do 
so.

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[AI] BSNL plans major bonus for customers

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BSNL plans major bonus for customers


In a major bonanza, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is planning to offer its 36 
million customers an accident insurance scheme free of cost.

Customers will be insured for up to Rs 50,000 against death and permanent total 
disability.

The programme will cover the period between August 1, 2007 and July 31, 2008.

BSNL, the country's largest telecommunication service provider, is planning the 
offer as it has seen its fixed-line subscriber base erode by 2 million since
2004.

Six leading insurance companies, including public sector majors, have provided 
their quotes for the scheme. The company board will take a final decision
shortly.

Given the huge customer base, BSNL will not have to shell out much as premium. 
"Because of the size of our customer base, especially landline users, and
the coverage amount, it should not cost us more than Rs 15 crore," he said.

The official declined to identify the insurance companies that had put in bids. 
"We will hire the lowest bidders. We may tie up with more than one company,"
he added.

The insurance cover will be given to all subscribers from the date of the 
launch, and new customers shall be eligible to join from the date they subscribe
to a BSNL connection.

The cover, however, will terminate on July 31, 2008.

BSNL plans to ensure settlement of claims within seven days of the filing of 
the claim.

The insurance company will create a centralised claims team to process and 
monitor the claims of BSNL customers.

The insurance coverage is expected to cover over 33.7 million fixed-line 
subscribers and 3.4 million post-paid mobile subscribers.

The move could ensure a major benefit for over 13.8 million fixed-line 
subscribers (41 per cent of its total fixed-line base) who are based in rural 
India
and have negligible insurance cover against accident or personal disability.

More importantly, it is going to cover lower middle-class households.

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[AI] More evil than Google?

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uld legally link 
to copyrighted materials.

Meanwhile, Baidu has faced little criticism for its strict censorship of search 
results or for restricting the entries to Baidupedia, a Wikipedia-like site,
to politically harmless subjects.

By contrast, Reporters Without Borders called Google's decision in January of 
2006 to censor results for politically sensitive terms a "black day" for China.
The Free Tibet Campaign said in a statement that Google was "endorsing 
censorship and repression," and that its "Don't be evil" ethic was "in 
smithereens."

Greg Sterling, a search market analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence, says 
that's an example of how Google's "Don't be evil" motto has become an invitation
to negative press, regardless of how it behaves compared with its competitors.

"It's one way that Google has made itself vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy," 
says Sterling. "The perception now is that Google is trying to just make
as much money as it can, and that criticism wouldn't seem to be contradicting 
some fundamental principle in the absence of their 'Do no evil' statement."

So is it fair to hold a double standard for Google and other search companies? 
Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that it is: Because
of the company's unprecedented dominance of the search industry and its massive 
data collection, he says that a little evil from Google goes a long way.

"Google gets the most press because it's the biggest, and that's fair," Opsahl 
says. "Every decision they make has so much impact."

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[AI] 'Unlocked' iPhone to come with non-replaceable battery

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'Unlocked' iPhone to come with non-replaceable battery

If you are one among the millions of Apple fans who is planning to import an 
Apple iPhone and use it in India by getting it unlocked in the grey market,
there's some bad news in store.

If the battery fails for any reason, you will not be able to get a replacement 
from either the grey market or elsewhere, which means your approximately
Rs 30,000 (including the Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500 you shelled out for unlocking the 
phone), goes down the drain.

This is because Apple's iPhone battery replacement programme requires that you 
send the phone back to Apple in the US -- which you cannot if you have bought
it from the grey market.

Apple's combination of voice, media player, and wireless web surfing device 
will be sold at around $500 for a 4 GB version (approx Rs 22,000) and $600 (Rs
25,500) for the 8 GB model. Apple has an exclusive tie-up with AT &T in the US.

The phone will work only with an AT&T Sim card. Customers have to pay both for 
the phone which ranges from $500 to $600 plus sign up a 2-year subscription
contract (which will cost a minimum of US $ 59 a month) with AT&T.

Grey market dealers are promising to offer an unlocked iPhone (which will work 
on any network in India) for around Rs 30,000 for the entry level model,
but the battery replacement clause comes as a dampener.

Apple says the iPhone battery will last for 300 to 400 charges before 
performance will start to decline -- which generally is the case for any 
lithium-ion
battery over time. Usually for other phones, you can get a replacement battery 
from a shop and change it yourself.

Incidentally, even for genuine iphone users, Apple's battery replacement 
programme will be an expensive affair. Apple will repair your iPhone for a 
service
fee of $79, plus $6.95 shipping. The program cost is $85.95 per unit. All fees 
are in US dollars and are subject to local tax. Service may not be available
if your iPhone has been damaged due to accident or abuse.


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Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card

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Will you send me that on my e-mail id?  Thanks in advance.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards
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- Original Message -
From: prakash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 05/07/2007 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card


> i have a copy govt order which discribe all banks have to be provide all
> banking facility toblind person ,if they not provide then you can soo the
> bank in the cort
> - Original Message -
> From: "Rahul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 12:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
>
>
> > hello, respected members
> > Nice to see this issue on Access India. I have my account in Punjab
> > national
> > bank. I have requested them to issue me an ATM card and  check book.
they
> > r
> > saying that these service are not available for a visually challenged
> > person. tell me what to do next to over come this major problem.
> > thanks in advance
> > Rahul Gambhir
> >
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
> >
> >
> >> Sanjeev Good your problem is over.
> >> We will fight every battle in this manner till it becomes too much for
> >> the
> >> banks to deal with each individual case as an exception. this is the
best
> >> way to get it.
> >>
> >> We are also working on a memorandum for the Banking facilities and will
> >> revert to this group when some proper drafting is done. Also looking at
> >> modifying and or challenging the CCPD order as well as IBA Rules.
> >>
> >> It will take some time because all issues have to be considered. In the
> >> meantime I am working on the NSDL representation and the Petition
against
> >> Rs. 2 coins. Check accessindia for further details.
> >> In another case I have senta notice to Bank of Baroda regarding non
> >> granting
> >> of ATM to one Anjali Jamale who is not part of this group. I think it
may
> >> be
> >> worked out soon based on the reply that I have received from the
Branch.
> >> Will revert.
> >> If anybody has been denied any banking service because they are
visually
> >> challenged , they must start asking for these facilities immediately so
> >> that
> >> we can capitalise on the situation and use the RBI email IDs that I had
> >> emailed.
> >> Kanchan
> >> - Original Message -
> >> From: "Chaodhari, Sanjeev IN BOM SISL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: 
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 17:12
> >> Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
> >>
> >>
> >>> Dear members
> >>> Hi
> >>> Finally I got ATM card. Email id given by harish and kanchan has
worked.
> >>>
> >>> But the bad site of this is they still didn't have change there rules,
> >>> which means if another visually challenged person wants ATM card in
HDFC
> >>> bank. Then he will have to go again same procedure again.
> >>> They have given me ATM card considering me as exception, and I have to
> >>> go to there branch to collect my card and pin number. Usually for
others
> >>> it comes by corier.
> >>> And don't worry pranav, according to then they have issue ATM card to
> >>> you, when this rule was not there, so they cannot do anything.
> >>> So what do you think member's what should we do in order to realize
them
> >>> that I am not the alone,
> >>> Thanks.
> >>> When you don't have any choice, you have a choice to work hard.
> >>> Sanjeev
> >>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> Or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> Space: http://daarshnicsanjeev/spaces/live.com
> >>> Call: +919820637390
> >>> Direct office: +9102267572118
> >>> -Original Message-
> >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Chaodhari,
> >>> Sanjeev IN BOM SISL
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:15 PM
> >>> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> >>> Subject: Re: [AI] hdfc ATM card
> >>>
> >>> Hi kanchan
> >>>
> >>> I asked about rules but Sr. Manager Corporate Salary but she sed its
> >>> there internal rule. When I mention the fact some other vi hold ATM
> >>> cards in mumbai's hdfc bank (without providing any ditailes ab

[AI] Google launches Indian transliteration software

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Google launches Indian transliteration software
Do you want to send your friend an email in Hindi but don't know how to write 
the language? Or are you keen to read the latest Chinese newspaper in, say,
Telugu?
Such linguistic wonders are possible, thanks to advances in transliteration 
technology. That means all you have to do is write, for example, mera Bharat
mahan in Roman script and a software will automatically translate it into 
Devanagiri script.
This feat of transliteration is, among others, part of a massive research and 
development project underway from Google, the world's largest search engine.
Known as 'statistical machine running' technology, it aims to offer real-time 
and near-perfect translations in several Indian languages.
"Technologically, translation and transliteration is possible for local Indian 
languages. But I cannot give a time line for their launch. We are working
on all products that will be beneficial to Indian users. We must be sure before 
we come up with a beta product," Kannan Pashupathy, director, international
operations of Google, told Business Standard.
Pashupathy added that while the translation technology was in the experimental 
stage, it could dramatically change the way customers view content.
Google has begun to offer transliteration from English to Hindi on its blogging 
site, but the Indian R&D team is working on extending the same technology
to other products, including email.
Pashupathy explained that the new technology, which was based on feeding data 
on how language is used in various ways, would provide a near-perfect 
translation.
Google has already launched beta versions in Russian, Arabic and Chinese.
He said the company was also working on voice recognition technology, by which 
voice can be recognised and converted into data. Also in the works is visual

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[AI] China develops world's 1st solar mobile phone

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China develops world's 1st solar mobile phone

A Chinese company has claimed to have developed the world's first solar-powered 
mobile phone that uses sun's energy to recharge itself.

The company says a scale-like solar panel on the top side of the 
clamshell-designed phone can also be recharged by light from other sources 
including candles.

It can provide 40 minutes of talk-time after sitting in the sun for an hour. 
Hi-Tech Wealth, a well-known telecommunication products supplier in China,
claims its mobile phone is the world's first to use solar power to recharge its 
battery.

The company says it has developed the most advanced solar power technology and 
owns eight patents and has applied for numerous others.

Many companies around the world are working on similar mobile phones but their 
products are still at the experimental stage, Xinhua news agency quoted a
company official as saying.

"With more than 400 million mobile phones in the country, China would save a 
great amount of electricity if all its mobile phones were recharged by light,"
chairman of Hi-Tech Wealth, Zhang Zhengyu said. He claimed that the lifespan of 
the battery in the new phone is 2.5 times longer that traditional batteries.

The cost of the solar-powered mobile phone was not provided. The company plans 
to put six of its light energy mobile phones on the market this year, and
another 30 next year, the report said.

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[AI] Now search engine on your mobile phone

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Now search engine on your mobile phone

Onyomo, a mobile search company, has launched its mobile search service on GPRS 
site www.owap.in.

GPRS users can access the WAP site and find all relevant information on 
categories such as current movies, restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels, atms etc in
an interactive way.  This would be of great convenience for GPRS users to find 
what they need while on the move.

The content on owap.in is local and comes from well-researched sources, taking 
into account users' preferences and needs.  The service will allow all GPRS
users across all operators to access local information at no additional fee.

At the moment, the service is available for people of Mumbai, Delhi/NCR, 
Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Pune and will soon be extended to those of other
towns/cities.

GPRS Mobile Search Engine has been commercially launched across these locations 
on May 16.

GPRS users can access this service by logging on to owap.in on their mobile 
phone browser.  They can select their city of choice, a preferred location 
(optional),
e.g Bandra, and specify the service of interest, eg Chinese Restaurants, that 
they are looking for.

Users will be able to find reviews, ratings and other details on restaurants, 
movies etc. They will also be able to directly call the restaurants from their
phone or save the details for future use or forwarding to friends. SMS Find 
OWAP to 8558 for more service details.

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[AI] The world's thinnest laptop

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gents and salespeople
who tend to work from different locations, such as Starbucks, cars, and other 
companies' offices.

These users might appreciate this device's always-on wireless connectivity. 
Today's laptops can connect to Wi-Fi wireless networks but require special cards
to surf the Web via cellular networks.

This model's embedded chips let users access cellular, Wi-Fi, or WiMax wireless 
broadband networks. (Intel is expected to release embeddable chips that
access all these networks in late 2007, early 2008.)

Embedded cellular connectivity could change the way laptops are sold. In the 
U.S., cellular network technology varies by carrier.

So PC manufacturers might have to start selling special adapter cards, such as 
the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards used by some carriers in Europe.
Or the laptops may need to be marketed through the service provider for whose 
network they are designed.

Wow factor

The laptop contains other features its makers hope will resonate with users. It 
includes so-called small array microphones from Fortemedia, another company
funded by Intel Capital, designed to cancel out background noise, often 
experienced by fans of Web-calling applications like eBay's Skype.

The computer also is built to enhance security, boasting a fingerprint reader 
and a mechanism that lets users kill a hard drive by remote control.

Of course, whatever version of the computer makes it to market may not include 
all these features. And if it does, it's not clear the machine will be available
at the right price. For Intel, "price was not a concern," says Bob Sweet, 
account director at Ziba. The same can't be said for PC manufacturers, whose
margins are under pressure.

Still, Intel and Ziba hope the device wows some segments of the market. "If you 
want to make a splash in the market," Sweet says, "this is the way to do
it."
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[AI] Gene therapy at UF helps blind mice see

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Article published May 23, 2007
May 23, 2007 

Gene therapy at UF helps blind mice see


By DIANE CHUN

Sun staff writer

The three blind mice of nursery rhyme fame could have had their sight restored 
with a new gene therapy treatment developed at the University of Florida.

And researchers in UF's Genetics Institute are banking that the approach could 
lead to treatments for human vision problems.

The scientists used a harmless virus to deliver corrective genes to mice with a 
form of hereditary blindness. The discovery shows that it is possible to target 
and rescue cone cells - the most important cells for visual sharpness and color 
vision in people.

"Cone vision defines whether someone is blind or not," said William W. 
Hauswirth, professor of ophthalmic molecular genetics in UF's College of 
Medicine. "If you can usefully deliver a gene specifically to cone 
photoreceptor cells, there are implications for all blinding diseases, not just 
inherited ones."

Hauswirth explained that the findings in mice, reported in the current issue of 
Nature Medicine, suggest that it may be possible to rescue the vision of people 
afflicted with two very common types of blindness, age-related macular 
degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

The mice in the experiment had a form of hereditary blindness called 
achromatopsia, which affects about 1 in 30,000 Americans by disabling cone 
photoreceptors in the retina. The disease results in nearly complete color 
blindness and extremely poor central vision.

The virus that carries the corrective genes to the cone cells, adeno-associated 
virus, causes no disease. In fact, most people have been infected with AAV at 
some point in their lives.

Hauswirth sees the viral vector as a very effective form of "molecular scalpel."

"We take (the virus') own DNA out and put in the DNA encoding the gene we are 
interested in," he said Tuesday. Injected into the the eyes of mice, the virus 
enters the cone cells and deposits its payload of corrective genes.

Within two months of the gene therapy injection into the subretinal space of 
the mouse eyes, scientists measured the electrical activity in the retinas, 
finding that 19 of the 21 treated eyes positively responded to therapy, and 17 
of those 19 had electrical readings from their retinas on par with those taken 
in normal mice.

Part of the group of mice in the study were even given a test akin to the eye 
chart patients are asked to read in an ophthalmologist's office.

In experiments overseen by Robert B. Barlow, a professor of ophthalmology at 
State University of New York Upstate Medical University, the mice were 
surrounded by four computer monitors that simulated the appearance of being 
inside a moving drum with vertical stripes on the walls.

An animal with normal vision will naturally move its head in the same direction 
as the moving stripes. By making the stripes increasingly narrow, researchers 
could assess how well the mice could see. It's much the same as being asked to 
read the last few lines of an eye chart.

As a group, all of the mice displayed normal visual acuity in their treated 
eyes.

"People can talk and tell us what they see," said lead researcher John J. 
Alexander, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of ophthalmology at UF. 
"Animals are much more difficult. What makes this test so fantastic is that it 
involves an animal's natural response, and the results tell us that the 
animals' brains are involved in the process, that they are actually seeing 
something."

Hauswirth said he's excited by the prospect of applying similar gene therapy in 
people with eye disease, after a series of animal studies demonstrate that the 
approach is both safe and effective.

"The immediate impact could affect a few thousand patients," he said, "but 
there is the possibility of a longer-term impact that could affect millions of 
patients with other forms of blindness."

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University of Florida scientists William W. Hauswirth, left, and John J. 
Alexander used gene therapy to restore sight in mice with a form of hereditary 
blindness, a finding that has bearing on many of the most common causes of 
human blindness. (SARAH KIEWEL/UF Health Science Center)

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[AI] Smart phones, smarter viruses

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Smart phones, smarter viruses

We are yet to claim victory over computer malware, but here comes another 
threat -- mobile viruses.

Research organisation IDC estimates that the market for mobile security 
software in India will grow by 70 per cent a year and by 2008, reach around $1 
billion.

Symantec, McAfee and F-Secure are the front-running players in supplying 
security software for handsets. And all of them feel that tapping the domestic
smartphone base of 10-12 million users is worth it.

Kimmo Alkio, president & CEO, F-Secure says, "Today, you are more likely to get 
hit by Windows malware than by any mobile phone threat."

Yet, antivirus makers like F-Secure are raising the red flag as they predict 
the number of mobile attacks to escalate over the next year or two. "I think
we are really at the tipping-off point."

According to Juniper Research 'some sort' of mobile security product will be 
installed in almost eight per cent (around 250 million) of mobile phones by
2011.

N Ajay Kumar, country manager, Aventail India agrees: "Smartphones or converged 
devices like Blackberry have become the norm in Indian enterprises."

He feels enterprises have made a healthy contribution in adopting security 
solutions. Aventail's Connect Mobile for Windows mobile smartphones leverages
the unified access control policies of the Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private 
Network (SSL VPN, which can be used with a standard web browser), to limit
access to sensitive corporate data based on individual ID.

"In the event of mobile theft, corporates won't have trouble blocking or even 
deleting confidential data from a device that is secured with Aventail's 
solution."

Securing content (anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware and content filtering) is 
expected to be the biggest sector in mobile security, notes Juniper Research,
accounting for 40 per cent of the total security market.

"The security threat does not just cover mobile viruses and malware but 
identity theft, too. We expect revenues from mobile data and mobile file 
encryption
products to outstrip those in the PC market by 2011," the report continues.

Vishal Dhupar, managing director, Symantec India, is similarly optimistic, "In 
general, we foresee that our products will be on all handsets. India is adding
thousands of smartphones every month, which lends us business opportunity to 
expand our mobile solutions for customers and enterprises."

However, the average individual mobile security product, moderately priced at 
Rs 1,800-Rs 2,000, has not exactly been flying off shelves.

Kartik Shahani, regional director (Sales), McAfee, says: "We are yet to see 
customers demanding security solutions for their smartphones, even as enterprise
customers have been growing steadily."

Symantec, too, chooses to remain upbeat about individual customers, while it 
renews its focus on enterprises.

Last year saw the emergence of SMiShing (phishing via SMS) and spyware 
(MobiSpy) in the mobile domain. Yet mobile service providers continue to focus 
on
their networks rather than phones, as they try to thwart mobile virus threats.

According to Shahani, there exists a large gap between the kind of protection 
operators consider important and that which they actually deploy. "We are
in talks with operators to deploy applications and device-level protection."
The mobile world should not repeat the mistakes of the PC world, opine experts. 
Malware protection services ought to be built into networks first, and device
protection should be the last resort. It would be ideal if a network was able 
to recognise and eliminate threats, but that concept is perhaps too futuristic.

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[AI] Soon, you can get PAN cards online

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Soon, you can get PAN cards online

In a move that will come as a boon for taxpayers, the income-tax (I-T) 
department proposes to provide all tax-related services, including obtaining a 
Permanent
Account Number through its website.

This will also include the facility to pay taxes online at the website.

The income-tax department is in the process of overhauling its website, 
www.incom-etaxindia.gov.in, into what it promises will be a single window for 
all
direct tax related matters. The aim is to ensure that no taxpayer needs to 
visit a tax office in person for such work.

The online tax payment feature, currently available to only credit card holders 
of five banks -- State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, IDBI Bank, Union Bank and
UTI Bank -- will be extended to all credit cards directly through the website.

A taxpayer would also be able to check status of his tax payments and refunds 
online. If a taxpayer has not received the refunds due, he can log on and
ask for the same.

At present, only PAN application forms can be downloaded from the department's 
website. The department is thinking of allotting PAN cards to taxpayers if
they have a credit card or bank account.

In this case, the existing document proof with the concerned bank will be taken 
as the identity proof and no separate document will be required.

I-T department also plans to set up response teams to make the online platform 
interactive on real-time basis, a feature not available at the moment. The
response will be provided on a real-time basis.

The website will also provide user-friendly information about Indian tax laws, 
their implications to foreign investors looking for investments in India.
Similarly, portfolio investors will be able to access information about 
taxation in stock market transactions.
The department has invited expressions of interest from information technology 
experts to implement these changes.
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[AI] Will A Raja end roaming charges?

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rease when they're roaming, yet it chose
not to regulate this-as a result, telcos charge Rs 3.45 for outgoing SMSs, a 
number that is far more expensive than even a phone call!

And the piece de resistance: Trai's cost calculations were based on the 2003-04 
subscriber data. Since the number of subscribers has trebled since then
and the call minutes by even more, it is obvious the costs of offering roaming 
(the 7 paise to Rs 1.09) would have declined even more.

Go for it, Mr Raja.

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[AI] Computer phones, India's latest fad

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Y keyboards, 
scaled down Intel processors and is packed to the brim with software that
allows users to read and write Microsoft Office documents, sync mail boxes with 
official servers, and carry work in a size that is far more comfortable
than lugging a laptop around.

To top it all, between the price range of Rs 22,000-27,000, one can get phones 
that are as close and competent as a personal computer.

In short, if businesses are looking at a no-wires, no-worries gadget for their 
employees, then they should be squinting at a consummate mobile contraption.

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[AI] The danger of leaking cell numbers

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The danger of leaking cell numbers

Are you, like me, disturbed several times a day by a string of cell phone calls 
and text messages offering products, services and information that you don't
need? Loans, credit cards, club memberships and sundry offers, from ring tones 
to special discounts, in a barrage of incomprehensible accents and useless
beeps that make you want to hurl the handy object out of the window.

Disturb is perhaps too mild a word when you consider the contents of some of 
the messages received: from party propaganda to scurrilous rumour, lurid 
proposition
to dangerous threat. Intrusion is more often the case. And when the intrusions 
are repeated and reckless they add up to something else. Elsewhere in the
world they would invite a flurry of invasion-of-privacy suits.

Who actually is leaking millions of private cell phone numbers to providers of 
unsolicited services? Clearly, it must be the cell phone companies themselves,
either because of lucrative marketing alliances with banks, hotels, insurance 
companies and suchlike or because, it is rumoured, leaked lists that sold
profitably.

Either way, obtaining private numbers and circulating them without permission 
is a criminal act. It has lately been the subject of a complex and 
long-drawn-out
scandal that has rocked corporate US hitting one of the giants of Silicon 
Valley, Hewlett-Packard, a computer technology firm with revenue of more than
$90 billion.

The battle began in 2006, when the chairman of Hewlett-Packard's board, 
Patricia Dunn, decided to launch a secret investigation into who was leaking 
high-level
information about the company to the Press-sometimes decisions taken by board 
members at private retreats. Was it senior company executives who had been
passed over in promotions? Or others who had left unhappily? Or could it be 
members of the board with an axe to grind? With the help of in-house security
managers and lawyers she gave the job to an outside investigating firm, which, 
in turn, hired subcontractors to locate private phone records of journalists.

These were done through a variety of ruses: 'pretexting', or orally obtaining 
phone numbers from, say, switchboard operators while pretending to be someone
else, or, even more elaborately, by creating fictional identities of so-called 
'disgruntled' H-P employees, who made e-mail contact with journalists. By
pretending to be anonymous H-P sources
passing on inside information, the idea was to obtain cell numbers of 
journalists publishing the stories. Titled Kona I and Kona II, the company's 
'surveillance
activity' and 'covert intelligence-gathering operations' into media leaks 
became so complex that The New Yorker, which published a 14-page account in a
recent issue of how a huge corporation
went to war with itself, says it sounds 'like a parody of a le Carre novel.'

It came to a sticky end, of course. The crisis in the company hinged on a basic 
question: the legality or illegality of obtaining and monitoring cell numbers
or email IDs by covert means. This question divided H-P's board. The board's 
most senior and powerful member, Silicon Valley's legendary Tom Perkins, 
resigned
and threatened to sue because his personal phone records were 'hacked'. Company 
Chairman Patricia Dunn was pilloried in the Press as 'The Boss Who Spied
on Her Board' and forced to quit.

Even if passing on people's personal phone numbers in some situations can be 
deemed legal, is it right? After all, H-P's chairman had the support of her
board and senior executives to carry out the investigation into the Press 
leaks. The problem arose with the means by which some of those numbers and email
IDs were obtained and monitored-or 'hacked'. This is patently illegal.

Despite warnings by the Supreme Court that unwarranted sales pitching on cell 
phones is illegal, no one has tested its widespread misuse in court. This
has to happen in a country said to be the fastest-growing cell phone market in 
the world. The malpractice is actually in obtaining private umbers and placing
them in the public domain. I am only too happy to join ssue with anyone willing 
to do battle.

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[AI] 5 innovations that will change our lives!

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logies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental 
importance: Governments and companies are increasingly trying to improve
environmental stewardship and secure reliable and cost-effective resources like 
water, energy, etc. Information technology, materials science, and physics
will help meet environmental needs.

Nanotechnology -- the ability to manipulate individual atoms and molecules to 
form tiny new structures -- has already had a major impact on microprocessors,
making electronic products like PCs and mobile phones smaller, better and 
cheaper.

In coming years, nanotechnology will likely be used for water filtration. This 
could advance ecology and conservation, helping to address the growing worldwide
shortage of potable water supplies. Other areas where IT, physics, and material 
science will have a big impact are advanced water modeling and improving
solar power systems.

These five innovations were selected based on projects from the brains in IBM's 
Research labs, business research conducted by IBM's business think-tank,
and ideas pooled from more than 150,000 people from 104 countries, including 
IBM employees, their family members, universities, business partners and 
customers
from 67 countries, during a recent online brainstorm called 'IBM InnovationJam.'

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Re: [AI] reservation for the Physically handicapped in promotions

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Hi Subhash!
PL send it on my personal e-mail id.
Thanks in anticipation
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Subject: [AI] reservation for the Physically handicapped in promotions


Hello Friends!

Few months back was some discussion on this subject.
Friends I would like to inform you all that indeed there is reservation for
PH/VH in promotions.
I have a hard copy of an office memorandum No. 36035/7/95 Estt.(S.C.T.)
issued by Department of Personnel and training, Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances & Pensions, Government of India dated 18 February 1997.
I don't know whether these are the latest instructions. The Memorandum is in
hindi. I will soon get it scanned and uploaded on the web and the link will
be informed to the lis.
Some of the details contained in the memorandum are as under:
1) There shall be a total of 3% reservation for the Persons with
disabilities in promotions.
2) A separate register of 100 points shall be maintained in which point
number 33,67 and 100 shall be reserved for PWDs
3) Such reservation shall be applicable only to those grades and services
where the element of direct recruitment does not exceed 75%
4) If the number of Persons with disabilities in the Normal Zone of
consideration is not sufficient, then the zone of consideration may be
increased to five times its normal size and PWDs falling within this
extended zone shall be considered for promotion.

I request you all to wait till the same is uploaded on the web.


Regards
Subhash Agarwal


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[AI] Voice-based search: Next Net goal

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Voice-based search: Next Net goal

Voice-based search technology has become the new battleground for web majors 
including Google and Microsoft.

Google recently launched its free experimental service called Google Voice 
Local Search which allows users to dial a number and search for businesses in
specific cities, using technology that recognises what callers say.

Google's test, The Wall Street Journal says, comes less than a month after 
Microsoft announced plans to buy Tellme Networks Inc. for an estimated price
of $800 million.

The closely held Silicon Valley company specialises in services that combine 
voice-recognition technology with the Web, and already provides automated 
directory-assistance
services for AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon 
Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC.

Yahoo, another web titan will soon enter into the race for the huge opportunity 
to sell ads that will run on mobile phones. Yahoo in January launched a
cellphone-search service called oneSearch that required people to type queries 
into a handset browser or to send text messages. But Yahoo officials admitted
that eventually spoken queries would become an option.

"We do believe that voice technology in the mobile space will play a very 
important role," said Marco Boerries, senior vice president, Yahoo to the 
newspaper.

Until recently, voice recognition has been mainly used by telephone carriers 
and companies to lower their costs by reducing the need for live operators.
Recently, the technology also has been used by some new entrants to provide 
free, ad-supported alternatives to paid directory assistance, the paper said.

Google's experimental service, like the Web, can work wonders for the callers 
who don't know the name of a business they want, the Journal said, noting
that a user can ask about a type of business, such as a coffee shop, and 
specify an intersection or ZIP Code. The service will then read off a list of
nearby businesses that fit the criteria.

Another step forward in the technology is being tested by Tellme where the user 
will start with a spoken query but will get results from that question on
the display screen of their handset.

Besides the name of a pizza shop, for example, a user could instantly see a map 
to it. This technology however, requires a specific software to be operational
on the handsets, could also ultimately help the user complete a transaction, 
such as order a pizza, the report adds.

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[AI] Now, a talking SMS...

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Now, a talking SMS...

How about an SMS that has all the emotions of a voice call, not to mention the 
convenience of a normal text message? Well, it's for real. Welcome to the
age of voice SMS or talking SMS, a new value-added service that is being 
offered in the country by both CDMA and GSM operators, starting this April.

A talking SMS enables the user to record his or her voice and send it across 
like a simple text message, and the user can retrieve it at his leisure. Sending
a voice SMS is as simple as sending a text message. The only difference is that 
instead of keying in the text, the subscriber would have to record his
message and forward it.

The service is similar to a voice mail and can be retrieved by dialing a 
designated number. But unlike a voice mail, the message would be short (of 
around
20-30 seconds) and is treated as an SMS. This means it is not metered, like a 
voice call or mail. The service is expected to be a hit, as the charges are
on par with that of an SMS.

The operator would install the technology and equipment for the service at his 
end, resulting in no additional cost to the user.

A relatively new service to hit Indian shores, voice SMS was first introduced 
in the country by GSM service provider Aircel late last year. But it did not
gather momentum as expected, perhaps due to the lack of strong marketing 
initiatives.

Reliance launched it early this year, Bharti Airtel followed suit, MTNL 
introduced the services in Delhi in February and BPL Mumbai announced it in 
March.
Idea was also planning to launch the service, and is believed to be negotiating 
for the software.

Sumit Modi, a telecom analyst, Emkay Shares, says voice SMS is at a nascent 
stage in India, and companies are looking at this as another of their bouquet
of services.

"It will take some time before the service becomes a revenue," he said. The 
revenues from SMS would be around 5-6 per cent of total revenues of an operator,
and leading GSM provider Bharti Airtel might be recording 20-25 SMSes per user, 
says Modi.

Service providers who have already rolled out the service are levying Re 1 per 
voice SMS. But the infrastructure support needed for this service is much
higher than that of an SMS, and operators expect their money through the sheer 
volume of usage.

For example, a sender would have to pay Re 1 for a talking SMS, and while the 
recipient would be free to retrieve it the first time, for repeated listening
he would have to pay a fee, that increases with the number of retrievals.

Pressmart, a web services company, is taking this technology a bit further. The 
company has developed a suite that will send news clipping as talking messages
to the subscriber. According to the company CEO, Sanjeev Gupta, voice news can 
be received on cellphones, PDAs or other handheld devices.
However, all is not well with this service - that is, unless prices are lowered 
further. Says A R Vishwanath, CEO, IMIMobile, "When call rates are as low
as Re 1, people would prefer to talk rather than send messages." True!

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[AI] Soon, you can use cell phones on planes

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Soon, you can use cell phones on planes

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) may soon allow domestic 
airlines to permit passengers to use mobile phones and access mail on PDAs while
air-borne.

Sources said the DGCA is reviewing tests by the US-based Federal Aviation 
Administration (FAA) and European Air Safety Agency (EASA) on mobile phone usage
on board aircraft.

"We will permit domestic airlines such access as soon as EASA and FAA clear the 
applications of international airlines," a DGCA official said.

At present, passengers are asked to switch off their mobile phones in-flight on 
the assumption that telecom signals may interfere with the plane's navigational
tools and ground-based communications. But tests carried out by global agencies 
on airlines such as Emirates and Ryan Air have shown that there is no danger
or disturbance.

International players such as British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Qantas are 
also planning to install GSM mobile technology on board aircraft.

In India, Kingfisher Airlines could be the first off the block. The airline has 
sought government permission and started talks with German telephone equipment
company OnAir to install technology allowing passengers to use GSM mobile 
phones while in the air.

Under the new technology, GSM phone signals will be transferred from the cabin 
through a satellite to a GSM network on earth and connect the in-flight caller
to the receiver of the call.

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Re: [AI] Info Requested About PEN DRIVES.

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Will you give me the shop number?
Regards
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From: "Keshav Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: 28/03/2007 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] Info Requested About PEN DRIVES.


on 16 march 2007, 1GB pen drive, without MP3 player, was rupees675 and , the
same, with MP3 player+recorder+FM radio, was rupees2600, at Nehru Place
computer market in south Delhi.

2GB pen drive = rupees950 and 3200 respectively.

the in built battery can record, as long as 10 hours continuously.

regards,
Keshav.

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Subject: [AI] Info Requested About PEN DRIVES.


> Hello All,
> This is just to draw yr kind attn. to the fact that I ve come to know that
> presently  2 TYPES of PEN DRIVES are available these days.  ONE type is
> the MP3 Pen Drive in which songs can be heard with the help of Head/Ear
> Phones & data can be stored in them as well , but these pen drives don't
> have a very long life.  On the other hand, the other type of pen drives,
> which are of HARD DISKS TYPES only, though have a comparatively long life,
> but its not possible to listen to music with their help.
> These MP3 Pen Drives are little costlier also as compared to these hard
> disk type of pen drives.
> I just want to CONFIRM, from any1 of u ifh these informations are correct
> or not.
> If yes, can any1 of u pls let me know, WHICH TYPE of pen drive I should go
> for?  Which pen drive is better & also the approx. cost of both of them?
> What are the VARIOUS DISADVANTAGES of BUYING and using  MP3 PEN DRIVES?
> Hoping & Looking forward to be in receipt of yr kind & invaluable advice &
> guidance soon by return mail.
> With many thanks in advance & best regards.  Anubha.
> TELE : 0532-2409434, 0532-3291880.
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Re: [AI] ATM Cards For the Blind: Information Required.

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Hi Chetan Sir!
I'm very much in need of this.  PL send it my personal ID.
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With regards
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From: "Subramani L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chetan Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Sent: 28/03/2007 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] ATM Cards For the Blind: Information Required.


Hai Chetan:

I need a bit more info on your bank's PH a/c initiative and also the
order; both can be sent to my private id [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Subramani

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Sharma
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Hello Friends,

There have been two important developments which could be of some
relevance
to this issue.
First, after a protracted effort, I am in possession of Indian Banks
Association's guidelines issued to all Banks pertaining to Various
aspects
of Banking services to VI customers.  These guidelines  have been issued
in
compliance  with CCPD's order, but unfortunately they don't say anything

regarding ATM Facilities to VI customers.Secondly Our Bank, Oriental
Bank of
commerce has launched special saving account scheme for physically
challenged persons wherein our bank has extended certain facilities to
physically challenged persons.  Of course,  these do include ATM
facility.
If anybody on the list requires a copy of IBA's guidelines and circular
pertaining to our bank's special saving account scheme, please contact
me
privately.
   Thanks,

Chetan Sharma
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From: "Geetha Shamanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] ATM Cards For the Blind: Information Required.


> It is unfair to deny ATM cards on the pretext that ATM's are not
> accessible.
> Such banks should be informed that one can use one's debit (ATM) cards
to
> shop at any store accepting credit/debit cards, as well as to shop on
the
> Internet.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Pranay Gadodia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [AI] ATM Cards For the Blind: Information Required.
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>
> Hi Amiyo,
> I am sending you the CCPD's order in this regard.
>
> We are trying to get the relevant circular of RBI and / or Ministry of
> finance who has been ordered by the CCPD to issue such a circular.
>
> You wrote that SBI has some accessible A T Ms. Can you or anybody give
us
> the specific details in terms of their address and its connected
branch?
>
> thanks and regards,
>
> Pranay Gadodia,
> Project Eyeway - A comprehensive information helpdesk on eye &
blindness
> C/o Score Foundation,
> 125-B, Shahpur Jat,
> New Delhi - 110 049. India.
>
> Helpdesk # 09968 329 329 (Monday to friday 11 A.M. to 4 P.M.)
> Office Phone: +91 - 11 - 2649 4582 / 81
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Website: www.eyeway.org
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>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Amiyo Biswas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:55 AM
> Subject: [AI] ATM Cards For the Blind: Information Required.
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>
> Hello,
>
> One of my friends has been refused ATM card by SBI though the branch
> manager
> opened an account after a lot of fuss. I know thatr SBI has issued ATM

> cards
> and some accessible ATM counters have been opened in India. Would you
> please
> inform me the details and also the rules on it?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Amiyo.
>
> Cell: +91-9433464329
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[AI] Telecom tariffs set to fall from April 1

[Sweety Bhalla]

Telecom tariffs set to fall from April 1

Telecom tariffs are set to fall significantly with the telecom regulator -- 
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India -- announcing a cut of more than 37 per
cent in the levy paid by private players to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd for 
providing services in rural areas.

"The total amount of levy (access deficit charge) for the financial year 
2007-08 has been reduced to approximately Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) from 
the
existing level of Rs 3,200 crore (Rs 32 billion)," TRAI said on Wednesday.

ADC is the amount payable by the service provider at the caller's end to the 
service provider at the receiving end for accessing services rendered by the
latter in domestic long distance telephony.

In particular, international long distance calls are likely to become cheaper 
as the levy on such calls has been completely removed from 80 paise being
charged now.

All private operators pay ADC to state-owned BSNL for carrying out social 
obligations like providing services in unremunerative and rural areas.

"The authority expects that the reduction is ADC amount resulting from 
Wednesday's order would be fully passed on to the consumers by the service 
providers,"
Trai said.

The new regime would come into effect from April 1 this year.

TRAI also reduced the levy on incoming ILD calls by 38 per cent to Re 1 from 
the existing Rs 1.60 per minute. The ADC on percentage revenue share basis
of the telecom operators has been reduced by 50 per cent.

"Telecom operators would now have to pay 0.75 per cent of their adjusted gross 
revenues towards ADC from existing 1.50 per cent," TRAI said.

The levy would be charged on revenue of access providers generated from rural 
subscribers.

TRAI said ADC is a depleting regime and should be merged with Universal Service 
Obligation fund, if considered necessary by the Department of Telecom.

ADC, which is for a limited period, is mainly to give time to telecom operators 
for rebalancing the tariff during a transition period.

"The reduction in ADC would give greater flexibility to service providers for 
reducing the tariff and offer innovative tariff packages to consumers," it
said.

The reduction in arbitrage in international incoming calls would give less 
incentive for ILD grey market, it added.

COAI disappointed over TRAI's ADC cut

Private cellular operators expressed disappointment over telecom regulator 
TRAI's decision to cut the levy paid to state-run BSNL for its rural services,
saying the reduction was lower than expected.

"We are disappointed. We had expected the total ADC (Access Deficit Charge) to 
come down to Rs 1,600 crore (Rs 16 billion). . . the burden is 25 per cent
higher for the current fiscal," T V Ramachandran, director general of Cellular 
Operators Association of India, told PTI.

Ramachandran said COAI, the industry body of GSM players, had anticipated more 
benefits for domestic customers, which has not happened.

"It is a burden higher than expected," he said, adding the association had 
pleaded for sparing domestic ILD customers from the levy.

(Sweety Bhalla)
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[AI] One number that rings all your phones

[Sweety Bhalla]

One number that rings all your phones

Imagine having just one phone number for all the phones you have: mobile phone, 
office phone, residence landline. . . Imagine not having to check a host
of answering machines. Imagine never missing a call, whether you are at home or 
office or on a beach. Imagine having just one phone number for life.

Well, a California, US-based company -- GrandCentral -- has just turned 
imagination into reality, says a New York Times report.

The company allows you to choose one, new unified phone number which sort of 
'replaces' all your other numbers: mobile and landline. It's a new Web 
application
that lets you consolidate all of your phone numbers into one number.

Once you get this number, all you need to do is send it everyone you want to. 
Whenever somebody dials your new GrandCentral phone number, all your phones
will ring simultaneously, and you can pick up the call on any of your phones.

No longer will anyone have to track you down by dialing each of your numbers. 
It will no longer matter if you're home, at work or on elsewhere. The 
GrandCentral
phone number will find you.

If your cellphone is low on battery, you can easily switch to any of your other 
phones. To switch the call from a cellphone to a landline or vice versa,
you can press the * key on your phone to make all your phones ring again, so 
that you can pick up on a different phone in the middle of a call.

The service will also centralise your voicemail, meaning your voice messages 
will also come in one voice mail box. You can reach your voice messages by
dialling in from any phone, or you can play the messages on the Web (at 
GrandCentral.com), or you can ask to be notified by e-mail where an embedded 
link
will take you online to play the voice mail, says the NYT report.

GrandCentral was founded in late 2005 by Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet, who 
had worked closely together for years while running internet telephony pioneer
Dialpad Communications.

The GrandCentral service comes packed with more features. Apart from letting 
you to roll all your phone numbers into one, and checking your messages by
phone, email, or online, it also allows you to:
List of 15 items
• Keep all your messages online for life.
• Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail).
• Send annoying callers to SPAM.
• Click-to-dial from your address book.
• Record a custom voicemail greeting for each caller.
• Turn your Mp3s into the ring tones that your callers can hear.
• Forward, download, flag, and add notes to your messages.
• Every caller is also announced by name when you answer the phone.
• You can listen to a message someone is leaving, just as you can on a home 
answering machine. When you get a call, you can then press 1 to accept it, press
2 to send the call to voice mail, or press 3 to listen in on voice mail, or 
press 4 to accept and record the call.
• You can customise voice mail greeting for each person in your address book.
• Privacy filters/Call blocking
• Convert your mp3 files into ring tones
• Call screening
• Address book importing
• Click-to-dial from your address book
list end

GrandCentral has pitched the service, which is currently in Beta testing phase, 
as 'One number for life.'

Great service, indeed, but with a flaw: now people will find it very easy to 
track you down.

(Sweety Bhalla)
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[AI] Do we need laptops?

[Sweety Bhalla]

Do we need laptops?

Spent a week in stunning Udaipur (Liz and Arun were in Jaipur at the same time) 
armed as always with sufficient clothes, toiletries and of course my laptop
and mobile phone.

So, while I was away from work physically, I would, like always, stay connected 
virtually. Thanks to a data card on my laptop which would ensure 24-hour
connectivity.

So I thought. The data card would not work because the signals were weak or 
non-existent, at least where I was staying. I tried using my mobile GPRS (hooked
via Bluetooth to the laptop). It worked, sometimes. Mostly not. I gave up and 
gave in, to the hotel's extortionate Wi Fi network.

I then looked to see whether I had company in my disconnected misery. Not 
quite. Almost all my friends and delegates attending the seminar were carrying
BlackBerrys. Except for one or two, most of the BlackBerry junta did not even 
bring their laptops along. Or did not feel the need to reach for them, except
maybe at the end of the day.

Turned out their only desire to use a computer and the internet was to access 
email. Which their trusted BlackBerries were doing all the time,  silently
'pulling' mails from ether as we sat around tables and debated the relevance of 
Plato and Aristotle, yes the real guys.

And because the BlackBerrys were running on the GSM mobile phone network, 
connectivity was superior, at least better than my CDMA based data card. Yes,
one delegate did fish out a sophisticated Apple Mac Book once. Only to play a 
graphically enticing chess game.

All of this made me wonder, are the laptop's days somewhat numbered ?  I would 
think yes. Reason one being the email argument. Reason two being that there
are other small technology solutions to transport data physically or virtually. 
There are people I know who would rather carry a powerpoint presentation
on a pen drive and open it up at the destination. Anyway, the focus here is 
reason one.

Further, I believe that the BlackBerry (as a device or a concept), because it 
rides on the efficient GSM network, has actually caused a small consumer 
preference
jump in countries like India. As in if my primary interest in a laptop was to 
access mails while travelling, this device allows me to skip the laptop phase,
quite neatly.

Obviously not everyone only uses laptops for emails. Many work on their 
Powerpoint presentations while travelling. Or maybe pore over spreadsheets. 
Others
like me may want to surf aimlessly or catch up with the news. Or, like my 
friend, figure out new techniques to beat the computer at chess.

This is not about numbers but sales of smartphones (and Blackberry phones or 
phones powered by Blackberry like features) have grown something like 70% in
the last quarter. Overall sales for BlackBerry and its parent Research In 
Motion have done pretty well too, up 49% in value (profits up 42%) for the 
quarter
ended November 2006, over the previous year. RIM is in some accounting trouble 
though.

So more and more people are connecting to the web and accessing mails via their 
mobile phones. Maybe they are not discarding their laptops but surely using
them for lesser periods, as I found. As for me, my position was that I would 
not carry a BlackBerry or a device so enabled because of the feeling of being
over connected and so on. While I actually carried a 3 kg laptop all the time, 
I think the point that strikes is that the time has come to revisit the
matter. For weighty reasons, if nothing else.

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[AI] PDAs vs smartphones: who will win?

[Sweety Bhalla]

PDAs vs smartphones: who will win?

The verdict is almost out -- bulky, highly priced Personal Digital Assistants 
will have to give way to smartphones.

The figures are telling. Of the estimated 43 million units of converged devices 
(smartphones and PDAs) in 2006, India accounted for around 13 million --
29 per cent.

However, the market for smartphones in India currently is nearly four times 
that of PDAs and experts say the gap will widen even as converged digital 
multimedia
devices touch the predicted 250 million mark by 2008.

A PDA (priced between Rs 12,000-35,000) allows users to edit files, 
attachments, work with various email clients to access remote mail servers. 
Users, however,
appear to be opting for voice-enabled, multi-tasking, multimedia-friendly 
smartphones (priced between Rs 10,000-20,000) that can handle videos, music 
files
and allow users to view file attachments sent over emails.

"Features like camera, music, email are good enough for the majority of users," 
says Vineet Taneja, multimedia business director (India), Nokia, adding
that users do rate the aesthetics of the device and multimedia features more 
highly than any data-centric functions bundled in high-end PDAs.

RIM -- which accounts for 6.5 per cent of the combined PDA and smartphone 
market -- too was forced to modify its frisbee-sized devices to an appealing 
handbag-proportioned
Pearl.

PDAs, though, seem to click with enterprises. Gartner estimates the enterprise 
market to account for 52 per cent of all PDA shipments. "In India, the need
of enterprises to go mobile could drive up the penetration of Windows mobile 
devices," reasons O2 country manager (APAC), M Nathar.

He admits, however, to the trend of users flocking away from PDAs and picking 
up smartphones instead. On the other hand, Ajay Sharma, country manager, Dopod
Communication (India) has no intention of writing PDAs out, He notes: "A PDA 
with a touch screen, third-party software and applications is bound to be
on the higher side of the price mark up." Dopod is looking to lure the 
"entry-level PDA buyers and the SMBs".

Will this debate see smartphone and PDA prices fall? Nokia, with its 42 per 
cent share in the converged devices market, hopes to stabilise the prices with
a product at every level. Says Chakrapani GK, country general manager 
(enterprise solutions), Nokia: "E-series has phones starting at Rs 11,000 and we
will be adding more functionality to our line-up this year and there could be a 
vendor competition at the price front."

He adds: "Nokia will continue to look for ways to redefine the business phone 
category but it will be safe to say that smartphones (read N-series) appear
to be Nokia's prima dona in the foreseeable future."

Not wanting to be burdened with unwanted bulk, software applications that are 
never used, Indian users are clearly steering towards the new generation 
smartphones.
And going forward, the smartphone segment too will have to overcome the 
challenge of selling the benefits of smartphones over less-expensive enhanced 
phones
if they want to increase overall volumes further.

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