India’s biggest life insurer opts for Linux

All of LIC’s 2,048 branches, 100 divisional offices, seven zonal offices, head office and subsidiary offices will be covered by the deployment. Along with this all of LICâ??s desktops will also simultaneously be converted to Linux. Approximately 60,000 users and five to six thousand servers will migrate to RHEL.

Blogs are back !!

the ban by indian govt on blogs has been lifted !!

July 21, 2006 | Filed Under news, web | Leave a Comment

High-profile India satellite launch ends in disaster

An Indian rocket veered off course after takeoff Monday, scuttling the launch of an Indian satellite that was to be used for broadcasting television signals and transmitting data, media reported.

“Things have gone wrong at the separation stage. We have to analyze the data (to know) why it went wrong,” the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, G. Madhavan Nair, was quoted as saying by Press Trust of India news agency.

Rocket veers out of control during satellite launch
High-profile India satellite launch ends in disaster

July 11, 2006 | Filed Under india, news | Leave a Comment

The Myth of the New India

“An NYT op-ed on The Myth of the New India reports that only 1.3M Indians are participating in the so-called new economy of BPO, leaving 400M have-nots without a piece of the pie. Despite recent gains, nearly 380M Indians still live on less $1 a day, setting the stage for rural and urban conflict.”

From the article: “No labor-intensive manufacturing boom of the kind that powered the economic growth of almost every developed and developing country in the world has yet occurred in India. Unlike China, India still imports more than it exports. This means that as 70 million more people enter the work force in the next five years, most of them without the skills required for the new economy, unemployment and inequality could provoke even more social instability than they have already.”

Few Comments :

A Dollar fetches a lot of things in India, and i’m surprised that a lot has been assumed and written about without checking the facts. as of today, a dollar equals about Ruppees 45.84 (that was yesterday’s rates). a Dollar fetches a lot of stuff, in fact i will give 2 examples – one for the metropolitan poor man with a dollar and the poor man in the rural india

Source : Slashdot

July 9, 2006 | Filed Under india, news | Leave a Comment

State of the Blogosphere

David Sifry posted Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth at technorati weblog:

The State of the Blogosphere is strong. The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago.
The Facts:

Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour

The blogosphere tracked by technorati is doubling about every 6 months, as the chart below shows:

April 19, 2006 | Filed Under blog, news, web | Leave a Comment

Itrans_Prv : Project Page up

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Project Webpage Up.
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