TCS hires 300 associates for its U.S. center

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has hired around 300 associates for its North America Domestic Delivery Center, TCS Seven Hills Park. Seven Hills Park provides a wide-range of IT solutions, consulting, business process outsourcing and engineering services for TCS customers across industries including banking and financial services, life-science and health care, as well as manufacturing and retail.

“I welcome these new associates into the TCS family and am sure they will help our customers achieve even greater success in the future,” TCS’s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, N Chandrasekaran, said.

TCS Seven Hills Park is also the location of TCS’s new North American Training Center. Over the last several months, more than 225 associates have joined the company from top universities throughout the country, the release said. TCS has over 1,40,000 trained IT consultants in 42 countries.

Mobile phones too complicated, says Inventor

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

Bangalore: The lead engineer of the Motorola team which developed the mobile phone, Martin Cooper, told a privacy conference in Madrid this week that today’s phones try to do many things for too many people, reports Telegraph.

“Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well,” said the 80 year-old Cooper, who developed the first wireless call from a busy Manhattan street corner on April 3 1973.

“Our future I think is a number of specialist devices that focus on one thing that will improve our lives,” said Cooper, who also has criticized the iPhone for being overly complicated and hard to use.

“The first cell phone model weighed over one kilo and you could only talk for 20 minutes before the battery ran out, which is just as well because you would not be able to hold it up for much longer,” added Cooper. (read more …)

Now, a robot for Rs. 15k: Courtesy Indian Engineer

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

Bangalore: An Indian engineering graduate, Pulkit Gaur, has developed a robot that can go underwater and clean water or chemical tanks. This project is developed by Gridbots, an entrepreneurial venture by Gaur, this low-cost robot will remove any sludge particles in water. “This compact machine has tracks fitted for movement. It has a drive system on the front side to which a brush mechanism is attached to scratch dirt from the tank walls. We are also considering using a filter,” said Gaur to Bangalore Mirror.

This robot is available for consumers as well. This robot is available at Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 20,000, and is a consumer version of SaUsR, the robot that is already in use in medicine industries. These robots are targeted at those who make medicines. They employ them to prevent sludge formation in tanks. “SaUsR carries out underwater operations with ease and lets you use this robot as a sophisticated underwater cleaning unit. It has on-board intelligent electronics that lets it navigate in fully-autonomous mode. With a high resolution on-board camera having pan-tilt capabilities, it can spot even minutest details of your water/chemical tank,” said Gaur.

Gaur is a production and industrial engineer from MBM Engineering College in Jodhpur. He graduated in 2004 and since then has been pursuing his childhood passion. “I have been working on these robots since school days. Earlier, it was all about taking part in competitions. I soon realized robotics was in its nascent stage, and a lot can be built on it,” he said. His resume goes up to 17 pages and was appreciated by former President A P J Abdul Kalam for his efforts.

Gridbots was a start-up that took shape through his passion for robotics. “I wanted to start a venture that would come up with innovative products that run on intelligence. I wanted to do something more than the assembly of robots. It had to be a multi-purpose product for my client,” he said. Gridbots started two years ago in Ahmedabad and presently employs 15 people. It plans to recruit 35 more by this year-end.

Gaur already has many plans chalked out for his company. “We are working on developing defence robots, and also a surveillance robot that can be controlled via mobile or the Internet,” he added. Few of his other creations include an image- understanding technology and a consumer robot that does household chores.

Sudha Murthy sells shares to fund Catamaran

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

Bangalore: Sudha Murthy, the wife of Infosys Technologies Co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, has sold two million shares of her holding in the IT bellwether for over Rs.430 crore (Rs.4.3 billion/$91.5 million), Infosys informed.

In 1981, Sudha sold her jewelery to give her husband Rs.10,000 in seed money to start Infosys. This time the reason is again to fund her husband’s latest venture, a venture fund called Catamaran.

In a regulatory filing to the stock exchanges, the Infosys said post-sale, Sudha Murthy’s holding in the company had declined to 7,314,600 shares from 9,314,660 shares. In a related development, Infosys’ Co-founder and CEO S. Gopalakrishnan purchased 400,000 shares for around Rs.86.6 crore (Rs.866 million/$18.4 million) from the market.

“Post-purchase, Gopalakrishnan holds 6,656,726 shares,” the company said. The blue chip company’s share of Rs.5 on par ended at Rs.2,218 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Thursday. Infosys Chief Mentor Narayana Murthy sold 800,000 shares on October 22 from his holding in the company for Rs.177 crore (Rs.1.77 billion/$37.9 million) to set up a venture capital fund in India.

As one of the Co-founders of the global software major, Murthy’s holding in the company post-selling is 2.38 million shares.

Khans do not rule Bollywood: Ajay Devgn

Nov.05.2009 Entertainment News, Un Categories (0)

Actor-producer Ajay Devgn, who is riding high on the success of his latest flick All The Best, does not believe that Khans (Shah Rukh, Salman, Aamir) rule the Bollywood.

“It is totally wrong to say or assume that the Khans dominate the Bollywood film industry. I try to do the best I can,” Devgn said.

The actor added that he detests going to award functions and would rather prefer his work to speak for him.

“All the Best has just made a mark at the box office…I am only focused on my work which is my mantra to success,” he said. (read more …)

City woman boxer found dead

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HYDERABAD: A 21-year-old national-level woman boxer hailing from the city was found dead in her hostel room in L B Stadium on Wednesday morning.
The family members of the boxer, S Amaravathi, alleged that she had committed suicide due to harassment by her coach. However, hostel authorities denied the charge and said that the victim was suffering from a low self-esteem. The police said she was found dead with vomit all over and that the exact cause of the death could be ascertained only after a post-mortem. (read more …)

High fibre intake may affect ovulation

Nov.05.2009 Un Categories (0)

Women who get the recommended amount of fibre in their diets may have lower oestrogens levels and ovulate less often than women who eat less fibre.

High-fibre diets are associated with many health benefits, including lower risks of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer and breast cancer. Experts generally recommend that adults get 20 to 35 grams of fibre each day, depending on their calorie intake.

Higher fibre intake, particularly from fruit, was also linked to a higher risk of having anovulatory menstrual cycles – where the ovaries fail to release an egg. (read more …)

Why the PM’s apologising to this family

Nov.05.2009 Un Categories (0)

The Prime Minister has written to the family of a patient who died during the PM’s visit to Chandigarh on Tuesday. The family of the man who died blamed the prime minister’s security; the patient and his ambulance were held up for an hour at the hospital, they say. (read more …)

Ambani vs Ambani starts from scratch

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Thursday November 5, 2009,

The court battle between the Ambani brothers begins afresh on Thursday after two Supreme Court judges withdrew on Wednesday from two separate cases, both citing conflict of interest. (read more …)

Australia won the Toss and chose to bat v India

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Victoria pace bowler Clint McKay became Australia’s third debutant in the series, but he had to wait his chance to get into action as Ricky Ponting chose to bat on a flat Hyderabad pitch. With the match being played in the southern part of India, dew wasn’t a major consideration when making the call upon winning the toss. While McKay replaced Mitchell Johnson, the other two changes Australia were forced to make: Adam Voges for the injured Moises Henriques and Bill Hilfenhaus for the injured Peter Siddle. (read more …)