HYDERABAD BUZZ: Students advocate use of clean energy!

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Express News Service / Last Updated : 09 Aug 2011 10:04:20 AM IST.

HYDERABAD: The state-level science exhibition, Inspire, at the St Patrick’s School in Secunderabad, saw the common theme of sustainable development for most exhibits on display.

The department of science and technology initiative called Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) had participants from 11 districts, exhibiting innovative scientific models. The winners of the exhibition will represent Andhra Pradesh at the national event from August 14-16 at New Delhi.

Under the INSPIRE scheme, selected students from each school from a district are given Rs 5,000 to create a scientific model. The initiative aims at promoting scientific research among students from class VI to post-graduate level.

Among the exhibits, the electronic cycle fashioned out of spare parts and used rechargeable batteries garnered maximum attention from participants and visitors alike. Sai Sri, a Class IX student at the Zilla Parishad High School, Injuram and her father Venkateswara Rao, an English teacher at the same school, developed the model with a budget of Rs 3,500 in two months’ time. “We sourced the various parts from a cycle-repair shop and used four 12-volt rechargeable batteries for the model. The cycle can average 60-70 km per hour after being charged for three hours,” explains Sai Sri, who aspires to be an IAS.

Out of the 737 exhibits, many used renewable sources of energy and addressed local problems of clean drinking water, by tapping into solar power to boil or purify water.

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TECH WORLD: BlackBerry under attack in corporate cradle!

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• July 2, 2011 
• Reuters 
• New York / DC.

The BlackBerry, once ubiquitous in business, faces deep challenges in that market as more companies allow employees to pick their own smartphones and add third-party security applications.

One of the BlackBerry's main selling points has been Research in Motion's top-tier security and management features, which appeal to IT managers eager to control what workers do with corporate information and protect business systems from cyber attacks.

But with companies such as Good Technology and MobileIron offering applications that could untether IT managers from their BlackBerrys, analysts say that consumer-market pressures could intrude into RIM's mainstay corporate market.

Only two of nine major U.S. companies contacted by Reuters said they exclusively use the BlackBerry, namely Boeing and Exxon Mobil.

The remaining seven, Alcoa, Caterpillar, DuPont, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo, Microsoft and Verizon Communications support at least one other brand, or phones that run Google's Android or Microsoft Windows.

"I would say their enterprise base has been besieged really, first by Apple, then by Android," John Jackson, a mobile device analyst at CCS Insight, said of RIM. "What's happening in the consumer market is repeating itself in the enterprise market. They've been materially hurt in their core enterprise market."

RIM's share of the U.S. smartphone market stood at 25 per cent in April, down from 35 per cent in October last year, pushing BlackBerry to third place from first place in the market, according to research firm comScore.

Most of RIM's problems, analysts say, can be traced to their delay in rolling out new phones to compete with the iPhone or Android phones sold by Samsung, HTC and Motorola.

Chemical company DuPont, which has 67,000 employees, started to give some workers the option to use the iPhone in the fourth quarter of last year. In a few months, iPhones grew to about a quarter of Dupont's smartphones, according to Eric Smith, a telecommunications manager at the company.

"The technology that people have available in their personal and daily lives, they want to use at work. People had their own iPhones and iPads, and they said, 'Hey, why can't we use these for work?'" said Smith.

Securing personal phones......................................................

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We didn't take Facebook seriously: former Google CEO!

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Executive Chairman and former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt speaks during a press conference at the G8 summit in Deauville, France recently - AP.

If he had another chance, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt would have pressed the Internet search leader to focus more on mounting a challenge to Facebook while he was still running the company.

“I screwed up,” Mr. Schmidt said late on Tuesday during a 75-minute question-and-answer session at the D- All Things conference in Rancho Palos Verde, California. The Associated Press watched a webcast of the conference.

Mr. Schmidt’s admission comes nearly two months after he ended his decade—long stint as Google’s CEO and became the company’s executive chairman. He was replaced by Google co—founder Larry Page, who is pushing the company’s employees to develop more ways to connect people with their friends and family like Facebook already does.

For users like me, who use both plus others too, it doesn't make any difference, if there is a healthy competition.

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