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Dear Fitagians,
All of us are witness-
ing a historical hap-
pening in our country.
The elections happening
across the country are not
unique and the first time
for us. But, the current
political scenario, efforts
put in by all the political
parties, role play of
media in this elections as
well as the helpless com-
mon man of India having
a forceful look at the
rhetoric of all these
politicians, whether we
believe it or not, we are
being a forceful witness
of the most corrupt, most
expensive and the most
illusive
election
in the
history
of India
so far.
According to me
which ever party wins, it
will not be able to show
any sudden change in the
situation of the country.
This is surely raising a
question that what
should we expect from
the new government, not
as IT fraternity, but as a
common man. So we
should look at the areas
which are addressing our
routine life. I have put on
following few points...
Mr. Kaushik PandyaEditor
Best WishesTVS Solution,
Ahmedabad9824332745
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Google today announced
the launch of a new tool
as part of its elections portal
offering ‘google.co.in/elec-
tions’, called ‘Know Your
Candidates’. The new tool
will allow citizens to get easy
access to relevant informa-
tion about political candi-
dates contesting from their
constituency and their incum-
bent Member of Parliament.
This tool integrates publicly
available information sourced
from Indian organizations
such as the Association for
Democratic Reforms (ADR),
PRS Legislative Research
and Liberty Institute India.
The tool will provide valu-
able information for each sit-
ting Lok Sabha MP and con-
testing candidates such as
their disclosed educational
background, financial details
and social media presence
(wherever available) includ-
ing video bios of the candi-
dates provided by Ping net-
works. Mapped onto Google
Maps interface, citizens will
be able to find the informa-
tion by using pin codes of
their area or by zooming on
their locality on the map.
Know yourcandidates
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The tool will be updated regu-
larly to provide information
about all candidates as they get
finalised and will be made avail-
able at least a week before the vot-
ing day in each constituency. Prof.
Trilochan Sastry, a founding
member of ADR applauded this
launch saying,”We are delighted
to collaborate with Google to
launch this tool, which will help
our concerted effort to dissemi-
nate to the citizens of India the
background information of the
candidates contesting the Lok
Sabha 2014 elections that will
enable them to make an informed
choice during voting. As citizens
we have to play a proactive role in
ensuring that we choose politi-
cians who are clean, honest and
committed to the progress, securi-
ty and development of the people
of India, and we at ADR have
been working on deeper reforms
including political party reforms
and in the last few years have
obtained several landmark judg-
ments from the Supreme Court
and Central Information
Commission.” Commenting on
the launch, Rajan Anandan, VP
and Managing Director of Google
India, said “In the last five
months, we have made a concert-
ed effort to provide our users a
one stop destination for all their
information needs for the upcom-
ing Lok Sabha elections. With the
launch of this tool, we have added
all the important information of
the contesting candidates with the
help of groups such as ADR and
PRS Legislative Research who
have been doing a stellar job of
collating all the important infor-
mation about the candidates. We
hope that making this information
easily accessible will help Indian
voters learn more about candi-
dates running for public office and
help them to make an informed
decision.” The Google Elections
Hub is an online hub for elec-
tions-related news and informa-
tion created to help 800 million
Indian voters stay informed and
updated about the elections.
The site also includes features
such as elections related News
Videos, Search Trends, G+
Hangout Series, and an interactive
Pledge to Vote campaign. Google
created its first elections tools
seven years ago when our engi-
neers noticed a huge increase in
search traffic around the election
period in the United States. Today
over 20 countries including
Malaysia, Thailand, and now,
India have elections pages that aid
voters during election periods.
Google aims to encourage people
to be more participative and
engage with candidates. It also
allows voters to have a deeper
understanding of politics and gov-
ernance through engagement with
the candidates.<
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At a press event last week,
file storage and sharing
service Dropbox unveiled a
new version of Dropbox for
Business designed to give IT
departments more control and
visibility over storage and shar-
ing.
The update lets users main-
tain two separate Dropbox
accounts: one to store personal
photos and documents, and
another for business use and
company-owned data. Users
can access both via mobile or
desktop. Dropbox CEO Drew
Houston said the new version
will alleviate problems that
have long plagued many IT
departments, such as employ-
ees saving company documents
to their personal Dropbox
accounts.
The new Dropbox for
Business includes three updates
that give IT more control over
designated folders and content:
remote wipe, account transfer,
and sharing audit logs.
The remote wipe feature
lets both admins and users
delete the Dropbox folder from
a device if it is lost or stolen.
Admins can also remote-wipe
to delete a user's work Dropbox
folder from all devices if he or
she leaves the company.
[Dropbox's new mobile
app backs up your images.
Read Dropbox Carousel: 3
Highlights.]
In cases where an employee
leaves a team, admins can
transfer that account to another
team member to continue
workflows. Admins can use
this option either immediately
or after the user has been
removed, the company said.
The last addition -- the shar-
ing audit logs -- tracks how
data is shared inside and out-
side the company. Admins can
monitor shared folder and link
creation as well as changes that
employees make to shared
folder and shared link permis-
sions. Some of these features
already rolled out in beta to
select businesses.
Other changes to the new
version of Dropbox for
Business include updates to its
desktop and mobile apps, noti-
fications, APIs, admin console,
and sharing controls.
With its business version,
Dropbox enters a highly com-
petitive market where rivals
Box, Google, IBM, Microsoft,
Dropbox For Business
Targets Enterprise ITDropbox makes a play for the enterprise with new admin controls
and plans for collaboration tools.
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which say that we should
be expecting at least this much
from a government formed by
any party on immediate basis.
1. Lowest possible corrup-
tion level
2. Lowest possible fuel cost
These are the two most
important factors which will
effect any country's economy
at the basic level and increase
the living cost of a common
man. By reducing corruption
we can surely opt for lots and
lots of advantages really being
passed on to the desired bene-
ficiaries. We can also be one
of them!! Money allocated
for common man will be used
for them and then the lost trust
will slowly regain. Is it not
true that we have lost trust on
the functioning of govern-
ment? Any remedies?
Reduced corruption looks like
the only remedy as of now.
Fuel cost in India is one of
the most discussed, talked and
played factor. Prices of fuel
after being deregulated are
being artificially increased by
few business houses accord-
ing to a news. This is horrify-
ing and every Indian should
be asking answers from those
responsible politicians as well
as from the companies respon-
sible for the same. Any
increase in the cost of fuel will
increase the cost of all the
required household items.
And these prices will never
go down again resulting into a
huge imbalance between the
earning and spending capacity
of a common man. The situa-
tion is such that the price
index for household items
have increase manifold within
last 5 years and we, the people
of India, are helplessly watch-
ing the cruel dance of democ-
racy. Abolishing multiple
duties and levies on fuel cost
will reduce the cost of the fuel
more than half or even further,
and there are ways and means
to generate the lost revenue to
compensate the deficit.
So we must not only vote
for a change but we must
expect them to give better liv-
ing standards to Indian citi-
zens, be it any political party
forming the government.
Wish you a very healthy,
just and fair election. Let us
be proud to have a Gujarati
leading the prime ministerial
race.
Warm regards
Kaushik Pandya
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and others have already
made their marks.
Dropbox's consumer offer-
ing has around 275 million
users who save about 1 bil-
lion files to the service
every day, the company
says.
Dropbox for Business
launched in beta in
November and retails for
$15 per user per month for a
minimum of five users.
Dropbox adds collabo-
ration tools
Dropbox also offered a
sneak peek into a set of col-
laboration tools it calls
Project Harmony, which the
company plans to release
later this year.
Project Harmony works
inside Microsoft Office
tools such as PowerPoint
and Excel to improve col-
laboration in documents and
prevent situations in which
two people are working on
two versions of the same
file, Houston said.
"A bunch of us have had
this experience: You spend
the afternoon in a file put-
ting all the final touches on
something and making it
perfect, only to find out that
someone 20 feet away from
you was doing the exact
same thing," Houston said
during the press event. "You
have this awful collision --
in Dropbox we call them
'Conflicts.' "
Houston noted the popu-
larity of Dropbox's green
checkmarks that indicate
that a file is up-to-date.
Project Harmony will move
these checkmarks into a
Microsoft Office document
so you know you're working
on the most up-to-date ver-
sion.
You'll also see a pop-up
alert when another user
opens the file you're work-
ing on. Mouse over it to see
if anyone else is in the file,
and click their name to start
a conversation, which is
saved inside the document
for future reference. When
you click to save your
changes in the document,
Dropbox syncs them and
updates the file automatical-
ly for all users.
Dropbox plans to add
these collaboration features
to Microsoft Office tools
first, but others will follow.
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Dear friends,
IT has been a fantastic jour-
ney to be to gather. Now as
per our commitment we will
take our businesses & organi-
zations to a next level.
Networking is one of the most
powerful tools to expand our
business. If we ask five people
what networking is and we
may get five different answers.
I have observed that the
person's definition of network-
ing depends upon his/her use
of this important personal &
professional activity.
Networking may have Several
objectives
< To make new friends
< To find a new job
< To develop your current
career
< To explore new career
options
< To obtain referrals for sales
leads
< To explore new business
opportunities
< To broaden professional
horizons & many more….
But let's look at what it
actually means….
Network means a group of
people who exchange informa-
tion contacts and experience
for professional or social pur-
poses. Here are some tips….
I have seen that we have
invitations from all kinds of
gatherings. There is no short-
age of meetings to attend & if
you include face book &
linked in then…?
So, 'select' a meeting such
that you get the most out of
networking. Before you go,
please check. Whether the
event matches your business
profile, talk to network mem-
bers & decide if it is meant for
your kind of business.
You may have to "try" a
few meetings before you can
actually 'select' the appropriate
ones but that's how it is!
Initiate anyways!!!!
Networking has two - fold
objectives helping others &
finding people who can help
you. Remember, the person
whom you are speaking to may
not be relevant for what you do
but he/she might have right
connections..
When you meet the other
person, please be present to
what you share be clear & spe-
cific about what you are offer-
ing & what you are looking
for. Being effective requires
preparation & give a 'brief'
summary 30/40 seconds of
what you do & how others are
helped in the process. That
leaves people with an elevated
impression.
It is generally seen that we
are habitual ‘speakers' It is
normal also that we want to
say a lot about what we do &
what we offer.
But networking needs a dif-
ferent skill- listening.
Focus on
< Who you know
< Who you could connect
people to
< How you can help them.
< Gaffing feedback
By listening you get
< Unexpectedly great ideas.
< Feedbacks from your mar-
ket.
< A view of what is happen-
ing in your industry & what
trends are.
You should not move
around & meet people 'hoping'
that something will turnout in
your favor. It doesn't happen
anyways. So, please have
clear objectives & goals with
you. Let that be having new
customers, having new busi-
ness partners or expanding the
business wings.
Have a clear cut objective
& have conversations with
people. 'networking' is a very
resourceful activity & even
the non-relevant person can
provide excellent ideas. The
only question is are we listen-
ing for that?
This is the most important
tip for the business person. I
request you to be authentic
when you are networking.
Please keep in mind that it is
not just about you, it is also
about what you can do for oth-
ers. Be genuine & authentic.
The genuine desire to con-
tribute in the likes of others is
inspiring and infectious. It
builds trusting and lasting rela-
tionships. Your business will
really take off…. No other
option!!
It sounds obvious. But I
have seen that most of the peo-
ple do not carry business cards.
And even if they do, their
cards do not have a one-liner
about what they do & how they
help people. Don't offer the
cards, just for the sake of it.
Your quality of the card will
create an opportunity to be
contacted.
Your approach to the peo-
ple in the network will deter-
mine whether you are con-
tactable or not.
Your business grows when
you are easily contactable &
available
8. To network well, you
should have a brief conversa-
tion with one person & then
move on to another person. As
we have discussed… being
brief. This tip adds on. Make it
a game… how many business
cards can you distribute & in
turn collect? You may involve
your friend in this game & win
a prize.
Ask others what they are
struggling with and how can
you help. This will make both
of you think on the same thing
and establish some common
ground & potential synergy.
This is the most effective
tip. It is observed that almost
90% of the people, we meet
never follow up. It creates a
completely different impres-
sion when you do what you
had said keeping a promise. To
get in touch after a meeting is
very essential.
'Follow - up will make you
stand out & flourish.
If does not sound too posi-
tive but it is!!
Think about the quality of
relationships not the quantity
of it. Having actively engaged
customers are far more valu-
able than the unresponsive
people on a list. Remember, it
is not about the number of peo-
ple in the list it is about people
& their heart beat!!
And Finally
Networking is a fun and
easy way to enrich your life
broaden your horizons &
enhance your career / business.
Be generous in sharing what
you are best at!! Life is an
echo….. <
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Association of top 10
distributors on the anvil
The top 10 distributors in India with a
total annual turnover exceeding Rs.
30,000 crore have decided to from a dis-
tribution consortium/ association. Unlike
in the past, this is expected to be formed
as a legal entity and not as a loose asso-
ciation or group.
Ingram Micro, Redington, Supertron,
Savex, Neoteric, Compuage, Iris, Rashi,
Avnet and Inflow are the distributors that
are part of this new initiative, which is
expected to roll out in the next 15-20
days.
The association is expected to lobby
with the government on policy reforms
and taxation matters, work together to
share information to avoid bad debts, and
work with vendors to resolve channel
policy and industry issues.
Obviously resellers are concerned
about this association turning into a car-
tel. Remarked Toshy Mathew, Vice
President, AKITDA, the leading channel
association of Kerala, “The prime con-
cern is if this will become a cartel and
dictate terms to resellers. If that happens
the IT channel will be badly hurt. But it
they work for the betterment of the entire
industry then it will be positive.”
The penn Manor High School in
the US has doled out as many
as 1,725 Linux powered laptops to
its students. The school has provid-
ed every student, from grades 9-12,
an Acer TravelMate laptop pre-
loaded with Ubuntu 13.10.
Following a roughly 5-minute ori-
entation, students were then let lose
to use their creativity on the
devices. “We encourage our stu-
dents to install software and lift the
hood of the system to better under-
stand what makes it tick. I hope our
students run local Web servers, toy
with Python or simply explore
graphics programs such as the
GIMP. Linux offers so many oppor-
tunities to explore computing, pro-
gramming and the arts, “the
school’s technology director,
Charlie Reisinger, was quoted as
sying. “Linx allows a level of
exploration and control that other
closed devices don’t. The cost sav-
ings in switching to all open source
softwere is an added benefit,”
Reisinger added.
US high school gives away 1,725
Linux-powered laptops to students!
US high school gives away 1,725
Linux-powered laptops to students!India gets its
first ‘School
in the cloud’!The dream of Sugata Mitra,
Newcastle University profes-
sor for educational technolo-
gy, to bolster learning in
communities where there’s a
lack of access to basic educa-
tion, has finally come to life.
In his attempt to end
Schooling as we know it,
Mitra’s ambitious ‘School in
the Cloud’ has opened its
first branch in New Delhi.
The concept here is simple:
minimally invasive educa-
tion that allows kids to ask
and answer questions for
themselves!
Intel develops ‘cloudless’voice recognition system
As per current statistics, Apple’s
Siri holds the distinction of
being ‘almost’ the right voice recog-
nition system till date with its accu-
racy improving with every update.
However, the slowness of computa-
tion is something that bugs us all.
Chip manufacturer Intel has report-
edly found a solution for this prob-
lem, which will also take on the
might of Siri.
According to Mike Bell, head of
wearable technology at Intel, the
company is developing a voice
recognition system without the
cloud to localise processing so that
the round-trip to the cloud is ruled
out. Voice recognition systems
working on any platform are nor-
mally designed to work with
servers, and the device then sends
compressed signals to the server
and waits for a response.
To demonstrate how it works,
Intel has developed a prototype of a
wearable headset called Jarvis, with
built-in voice recognition softwere
The solution will be more respon-
sive than other ‘ cloud-obsessed’
solutions in the market, claims
Intel. The company has partnered
with an unnamed third party to put
the softwere on the Intel mobile
processors.
Fujitsu Helping Cut PowerUnifying communications by replacing separate PCs and telephones with a PC
equipped with a headset and some telephony software can sound like a great idea
until the first electricity bill for those always-on PCs comes in. Fujitsu hopes to
end that bill shock with an always-on multimedia PC for businesses that features
a special power saving mode. The esprimo X923 all-in-one business PCs fujitsu
revealed at the Cebit show in Hanover on Sunday include a headset, a handset, a
webcam, microphones and speakers for voice and video communications.
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used; Portuguese uses a São
Paulo accent in the world,
except for Portugal, where their
native accent is used. For other
less popular languages, the
audio is a garbled monotonous
vaguely male low-quality
voice.
Browser integration
A number of Firefox exten-
sions exist for Google services,
and likewise for Google
Translate, which allow right-
click command access to the
translation service.[12]
An extension for Google's
Chrome browser also
exists;[13] in February 2010,
Google Translate was integrat-
ed into the standard Google
Chrome browser for automatic
webpage translation.
Android version
Google Translate is
available as a
free downloadable application
for Android OS users. The first
version was launched in
January 2010. It works simply
like the browser version.
Google translation for Android
contains two main options:
"SMS translation" and
"History".
An early 2011 version sup-
ported Conversation Mode
when translating between
English and Spanish (in alpha
testing). This interface within
Google Translate allows users
to communicate fluidly with a
nearby person in another lan-
guage. In October 2011 it was
expanded to 14 languages.
Translation methodology
Google Translate does not
apply grammatical rules, since
its algorithms are based on sta-
tistical analysis rather than tra-
ditional rule-based analysis.
Indeed, the system's original
creator, Franz Josef Och, has
criticized the effectiveness of
rule-based algorithms in favor
of statistical approaches.[27] It
is based on a method
called statistical machine
translation,
and more
specifically,
on research
by Och who won the DARPA
contest for speed machine
translation in 2003. He is now
the head of
Google's machine translation
group.[28]
Google does not
translate from one lan-
guage to another (L1 ?
L2), but often translates
first to English and then to the
target language (L1 ? EN ? L2).
However, because English, like
all human languages, is
ambiguous and depends on
context, this can cause transla-
tion errors. For example, trans-
lating vous from French to
Russian gives vous - you - If
Google were using an unam-
biguous, artificial language as
the intermediary, it would be
vous - you - OR tu ? thou. Such
a suffixing of words disam-
biguates their different mean-
ings. Hence, publishing in
English, using unambiguous
words, providing context, using
expressions such as "you all"
often make a better one-step
translation.
Reviews
Shortly after launching the
translation service, Google won
an international competition for
English–Arabic and
English–Chinese machine
translation.
Translation mistakes and
oddities
Because Google Translate
uses statistical matching to
translate rather than a diction-
ary/grammar rules approach,
translated text can often include
apparently nonsensical and
obvious errors,[40] often swap-
ping common terms for similar
but nonequivalent common
terms in the other lan-
guage,[41] as well as inverting
sentence meaning.[42][citation
needed] Also, for the speech, it
uses only European French as
well as Latin American Spanish
worldwide, but both European
and Brazilian Portuguese
(European for
translate.google.pt and
Brazilian for all other Google
Translate sites).
Controversies
Google has been accused
of sexism due to the statisti-
cal assignment of gender
when translating from or
through English into lan-
guages where verbs are con-
jugated by gender. For exam-
ple, the phrase I drive used to
be translated into a masculine
conjugation, while I cook into
a feminine conjugation, due
to the higher occurrence of
such forms in corpora. Due to
public criticism in Israel,
Google has manually fixed
some apparent cases of sexist
translation into Hebrew by
using the masculine form for
all verbs.<
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