Pune takes roads taken by Silicon Valley
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- Pune takes roads taken by Silicon Valley
- Solving the dinner dilemma
- Net equality, neutrality
- The Peninsula On-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
- The killing of an innocent.
- POINT BLANK RANGE FOR STORM
Pune takes roads taken by Silicon Valley
Economic Times – Jul 18, 2006
There are also the global players, PTC and Symantec (formerly Veritas
and BindView), BMC. There are also the companies positioned as outsourced
product developers, like Persistent Systems (PSPL), Symphony Services and to a
very small extent, Synechron. Being small, home grown players took in
fresh young graduates straight from college. The local companies took them in
when larger companies would have turned them away. Some of the colleges took the
pro-active step of starting developer laboratories, creating a high-tech
environment in college. This, in turn, pushed up the work at the companies here
to a higher level. While industry admits that the number of product
companies here is high, they point to the way these companies have moved: some
began as product companies, moved to services as products did not pay, and now,
are moving back to product development.
Solving the dinner dilemma
The Age – Jul 18, 2006
For instance we tend to use liquidstock and only make our own stock on special occasions. We lovefrozen Italian wood-fired pizza bases, keep bottles of tomato sugoin the pantry and are happy to pick up a well-made oven-readylasagne to save time. Another secret is to have a few home-grown herbs in the gardenor in pots. We usually have parsley, rosemary, mint, thyme and bayleaves on hand. All seem to grow without too much fuss. There areusually a few lemons on the tree too, making for plenty of extraingredients to add an extra flavour boost to dishes. Using seasonal ingredients is essential to our cooking.
Net equality, neutrality
Seattle Times – Jul 18, 2006
That’s hardly the case. The Internet has fostered numerous innovations because everything from a family’s Web page to Verizon’s site are treated the same through the broadband that feeds computers. What happens to services such as iTunes if the telecoms provide a rival music site? Potentially, iTunes could be slowed down while a home-grown proprietary rival gets preferential treatment. How does that serve the consumer?
Lawmakers need to insert language that perpetuates the Internet as a breeding ground for divergent voices and services, even if that means taking a whack at a new telecom bill next session. Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company.
The Peninsula On-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
Peninsula On-line – Jul 18, 2006
The police said a rare mixture of explosives was used in the Mumbai train bombings but refused to pin blame on any group for the blasts that killed 182 people and injured nearly 900. Raghuvanshi told reporters that analysis of small amounts of bomb debris revealed that they were made up of powerful RDX explosive, ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. He declined to identify any group that could have put together such a device but said those behind the blasts were likely to be both home-grown militants and elements from