Indian Doctors' Software Distinguishes Malaria From Dengue

New Delhi: Indian doctors in collaboration with a Russian lab have developed software to differentiate dengue, malaria and other viral fevers, otherwise a challenging task due to their similar symptoms, an official said Friday.

The software, developed by a team of doctors from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) and Lab Tech Ltd in St Petersburg, is expected to aid in faster detection, reduction in cost of treatment and minimisation of antibiotic resistance as only fever-specific antibiotics need to be given to patients.

"Doctors face challenges in distinguishing malaria and dengue as both present similar symptoms like high fever, loss of appetite and chill," said Manorama Bhargava, chairperson, department of hematology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi.

Bhargava, who led the team of doctors, said dengue, malaria and other viral infections peak in northern India around the monsoon and post monsoon seasons.

"This leads to recommendation of battery of diagnostic tests and start of antibiotics for all three groups till a specific diagnosis is made, leading to escalation in treatment costs and use of unnecessary antibiotics," she said.

A research paper in this regard has been published in June 15 edition of International Journal of Laboratory Hematology - the Official journal of the International Society for Laboratory Hematology.

10 Best Tech CEOs Of All Time

Bangalore: CEOs are the driving forces behind a company’s function. Few of them take this responsibility in such a way that they transform companies that even though started in garages with no capital into one of the world’s most valuable companies. In tech world you can find many such examples, Steve Jobs at Apple, and Larry Page at Google. However, there are a few little known others too, who share the same or a more brilliant story.  

To rank the best CEOs of all time, Harvard Business Review has come up with a scorecard that takes into account their financial and corporate social performance. Here is the list of top 10 of them as compiled by Rediff.

#10 Ming-Kai Tsai

Company: MediaTek
Country: Taiwan
Tenure: 1997 – Present

Taiwan fondly calls him ‘King of the Bandit Phones,’ for it is because of him many companies can offer cheaper Smartphones.

He leads Mediatek, a semiconductor design company specializing in chips for TVs, DVDs and wireless communications after it parted from its parent company, United Microelectronics, which was one of Taiwan’s biggest chip companies.

Tsai is the first one to tap the opportunities by offering better services, cheaper product, for example, when the big chip companies were focussing on 3G chips, MediaTek focussed on improving the existing 2G chips to lower the cost and offered better services with it. And again, while other chip makers were focussing on developed markets, he did his gig at emerging markets like China, which has turned out to be the biggest smartphone market in the world today.

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#9 Tim Koogle

Company: Yahoo
Country: United States
Tenure: 1995 – 2001

Yahoo was what Google is today before the dot com burst. He helped the founders Jerry Yang and David Filo to build a company that challenged tech giants like Microsoft and as well as big content providers such as The Walt Disney Company. Under him, the company also pioneered the concept of providing content in local languages to the users. His vision of driving Yahoo to advertising-driven enterprise helped the company achieve revenues of $1 billion.

#8 Tomeo Kanbayashi

Company: NTT Data
Country: Japan
Tenure: 1995 – 1999

Some names of best CEO you already recognize but then there are few names which can surprise you, for the simple reason, “how could I miss it?” Tomeo Kanbayashi is one such name. He steered NTT Data to become Japan’s largest IT services company and also one of the biggest in the world. Under his leadership, shareholder’s return were at 658 per cent (country adjusted), according to Harvard Business Review.

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#7 John W. Thompson

Company: Symantec
Country: United States
Tenure: 1999 - 2009

John W. Thompson was vice-president at IBM, and had  28 years of career at the company, before joining Symantec Corporation as Chief Executive Officer. Thompson transformed Symantec from a consumer software publisher to the leader in internet security, data protection and storage management. Under his leadership, the company’s revenue grew tenfold from $600 million to $6 billion.

#6 Eric E. Schmidt

Company: Google
Country: Untied States
Tenure: 2001 – 2011

Schmidt joined Google's board of directors as chairman in March 2001 and became the company's CEO in August 2001. At Google, Schmidt shared responsibility for Google's daily operations with founders Page and Brin, and the three ran Google as a triumvirate. Schmidt had legal responsibilities typically assigned to the CEO of a public company and focused on the management of the vice presidents and the sales organization.

According to Google's website, Schmidt also focused on "building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while the product development cycle times are kept to a minimum."

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#5 John T. Chambers

Company: Cisco Systems
Country: United States
Tenure: 1995 – present

Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Operations. Since January 1995, when he assumed the role of CEO, the company has grown from $70 million in annual revenues to its current run-rate of approximately $46 billion. In November 2006, he was named Chairman of the Board, in addition to his CEO role.

#4 Margaret C. Whitman

Company: eBay
Country: United States
Tenure: 1998 – 2008

Whitman served as president and chief executive officer of eBay from 1998 to 2008. During her ten years with the company, she oversaw expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue. She resigned from the company in 2007 but stayed on the board for another year as an advisor to the new CEO.

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#3 Yun Jong-Yong

Company: Samsung Electronics
Country: South Korea
Tenure: 1996 – 2008

He joined family-run business Samsung Group after his graduation. He moved to Samsung Electronics right after it was established and remained there rising through the ranks to be at the helm. He is responsible for saving Samsung through the Asian crisis in 1996 and challenged the well-established giants, such as Sony, in their domains. He’s the one who spearheaded the growth of Samsung through chips for computers, cell phones, LCDs, and other electronic devices. And he is the one who changed the focus of the company from TVs and microwave ovens towards mobiles.

#2 Jeffrey P. Bezos

Company: Amazon.com
Country: United States
Tenure: 1996 – present

Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO Amazon. He played a key role in the growth of e-commerce and under his guidance; Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and the model for Internet sales.

He founded the company in 1994 after making a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way. He initially set up the company in his garage. He had left his "well-paying job" at a New York City hedge fund when he "learned about the rapid growth in Internet use", which coincided with a "then-new U.S. Supreme Court ruling online retailers don't have to collect sales taxes in states where they lack a physical presence"; he had headed to Washington because its relatively small population meant fewer of his future customers would have to pay sales tax.

When the dot com bubble burst, Amazon was one of the few companies that survived and rapidly grew to be a Fortune 500 company. The company has a customer base of over 30 million people and makes its primary revenues come from the commission it charges affiliates for selling their product through the website.

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#1 Steve Jobs

Company: Apple
Country: United States
Tenure: 1997 – 2011

He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming "one industry after another, from computers and Smartphones to music and movies".

After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998.

As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. The success of these products and services provided several years of stable financial returns, and propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011.

The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.

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7 Best Websites To Sell Your Old Gadgets

Bangalore: World is spinning fast and so are the product cycles. The popularity crown worn by one product shifts to other in no time, and so the desire of users. It is too obvious that if you opt for a new one, the old one gets redundant. And if you can sell the old one at a good margin, it may come handy to target the next. On the other hand, buyers get the chance to have a product of their choice, but at a cheaper price. So the re-commerce sites, the online sites where you can sell or buy the used products, provide the perfect platform for both parties. Read on to know 7 useful re-commerce sites for used products.

#7 Click India

Site: clickindia.com

It is a free classifieds site where you can post ads to buy and sell products and services online. The product list includes, real estate, education, automotive, pets, travel, matrimonial, electronics, home appliances, health, machines. You can also find the classifieds for the used and new products at best prices.

Clickindia.com is owned by Clickindia Infomedia Private Limited.

New Delhi Railway Station To Be The First In Country To Offer Free Wi-Fi

New Delhi: Waiting for a train to arrive will no longer be boring as Railways is equipping India's busiest station with free Wi-Fi connectivity, a first in the country, to ensure value-added amenity for passengers.

New Delhi railway station, which handles about 300 trains and five lakh passengers a day, will be the first Wi-Fi enabled station in the country to have such a modern facility like major international airports.

"A Mumbai-based company has been given the job to make the New Delhi station a Wi-Fi enabled station," a senior Railway Ministry official said, adding "the company was selected through tender."

Wi-Fi is a popular networking technology which uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed Internet and network connections.

Once operational, passengers on all 16 platforms of the station will be able to access Wi-Fi from their laptops of mobile phones, the official said.

The New Delhi station was chosen on a pilot basis to introduce the facility at an estimated cost of Rs 80 lakh. "The system is expected to be operational in 3/4 months," the official said.

The company will install towers at strategic locations to provide the facility, which will be extended to other stations in due course, he said.

Railways has already made Howrah Rajdhani trains Wi-Fi enabled.

There are also plans to replace information kiosks with tablet computers at New Delhi station.

"We are exploring to mount tablets on walls at certain places in the station for the benefit of passengers. The tablets will be equipped to disseminate information about the train position, expected arrival time and other relevant data required by the passenger," the official said.


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10 new features in Android 4.3

Dear all,
Google has announced the roll out of the next iteration of its Android operating system, dubbed as version 4.3, with the launch of its new Nexus 7 tablet. The new version will be called 'Jelly Bean' and would actually be the third version to carry the same tag after Android 4.1 and Android 4.2. The latest update comes about nine months after Google introduced Android 4.2.

(Also see: Android 4.3 rolling out to Google's Nexus devices: How to get it now)
However, as suggested by previous leaks, the new Android version doesn't bring a big makeover and comes with a few major features. The new OS is being rolled out first to Google's Nexus range of devices including the original Nexus 7, Nexus 4, Nexus 10 tablet and will ship with the new Nexus 7. We take a look at its new features.
1. Restricted profiles
Google added multi-user profiles in the last iteration of Android and it seems the search engine giant wants to enhance that experience through restricted profiles. With the new feature, users can restrict app usage and content consumption on an Android device. So you'll be able to set profiles for each user of the device in case of multiple users. For instance, parents can control what apps or games their kids have access to on their tablets. However, it's worth pointing out that the new restricted feature is only available on Android tablets.
2. Bluetooth Smart Ready
Google seems to be making way for wearable technology by introducing the Bluetooth Smart Ready feature in Android 4.3. Devices running Android 4.3 will now support low-energy Bluetooth Smart accessories like heart rate monitors, pedometers, thermometers and many others. Users can now sync the low energy devices without these affecting the battery usage of the device, as per Google. This feature was missing on Google's mobile operating system, till now. This would also make way for Android friendly wearable tech.
3. Dial-pad Autocomplete
Android 4.3 now adds the autocomplete feature in the dial-pad suggesting contact names or phone numbers when users start keying-in something. This is not a new feature as OEMs like Samsung and HTC had already introduced this feature on to their UI skins running on top of Android, but devices running stock Android were missing it. Users can initiate the feature by going to the app settings and enabling 'Dial Pad autocomplete'
4.Notification Access
The Notification bar has been a popular feature on Android and with Android 4.3, you can control and interact with the status bar notifications. This would allow users to control how notifications are pushed to the primary and connected devices(smart watches, fitness bands). Users will also be able to see all the notifications at one place.
5. OpenGL ES 3.0
If you are a gaming junkie, the new update will definitely excite you. This feature would let Android devices render high quality graphics in games and other apps. Google claims that Android 4.3 supports the new version of the industry standard for high performance graphics. Google also gave a demo of a game showing detailed textures, lens flare, and reflections. This was missing in Android 4.2.
6. Simplified Setup Wizard
Android Jelly Bean now supports corrections to user inputs while signing-in to the device, the first time. This is due to more streamlined user agreements. Now a user can change the information that was keyed-in during the first boot of the device. Google has also introduced faster user switching from the lock screen in case of multiple users.
7. Bluetooth AVRCP
Google devices running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean can sync with Bluetooth enabled car stereos and offer additional functionality. The Bluetooth AVRCP 1.3 version allows stereos to display metadata such as song names when music is being streamed from an Android 4.3 device.
8. Location accuracy features via Wi-Fi scan only mode
Google has now increased the location accuracy of Android devices by allowing location scanning via Wi-Fi.
It now allows apps to get location data through Wi-Fi even when Wi-Fi is set to off and not being used for data access.
9. Keyboard & input
Android 4.3 comes with an upgraded algorithm for tap-typing recognition that makes text input easier while chatting via messages or even while composing emails. It also brings a new emoji keyboard, which we've previously seen in iOS. The update also adds lower latency input for gamepad buttons and joysticks.
10.Hindi support lands on Android 4.3
Google has introduced native local language support to its operating system for Afrikaans, Amharic, Hindi, Swahili and Zulu. Hindi has finally reached the stock Android operating platform.
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Sony Xperia Z Ultra smartphone with 6.4-inch full-HD screen launched for Rs. 46,990 Sony Xperia Z Ultra smartphone with 6.4-inch full-HD screen launched for Rs. 46,990?

Dear all,
Sony has launched its biggest-ever smartphone, the Xperia Z Ultra, at a price point of Rs. 46,990. The phone will be available starting August 2, in Black, White and Purple colours.

The Sony Xperia Z Ultra sports a sleek look with a thickness of 6.5mm, and weighs 212 grams. It features a 6.4-inch full-HD display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels. It is the first smartphone display that integrates Sony's Triluminos technology, which the company introduced at CES with its Bravia televisions. Sony claims that through the technology the display reproduces a greater range of rich, natural colours to deliver true, natural shades. The technology also includes X-Reality for mobile, Sony's intelligent super resolution display technology which as per the company, analyses each image and reproduces lacking pixels to optimise quality for the sharpest videos.

Xperia Z Ultra is powered by a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM. It offers 16GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 64GB via microSD card.

The Xperia Z Ultra sports an 8-megapixel Exmor RS rear camera and a 2-megapixel front facing camera. The device includes LTE, NFC, Wi-Fi, 3G, DLNA and Bluetooth connectivity options. It has a 3,000mAh battery that Sony claims could deliver up to 14 hours of talktime and 768 hours of standby time.

Just like the Xperia Z and Xperia Z Tablet, the Xperia Z Ultra is also dust and water proof and comes with IP55 and IP58 certification. The Sony Xperia Z Ultra comes with handwriting recognition support and the device's screen can work with a pencil or a stylus/ pen that has a tip of more than 1mm(in diameter). It also comes with new and updated Sony Media Applications that include apps like Walkman, Movies and Album, in addition to apps related to handwriting recognition and some India specific apps such as Sony LIV catch up tv app and Sony Music Jive app. The phone will also bundle a month's access to BigFlix movie streaming app and the full version of the Asphalt 7 game.

Sony also announced some accessories including a stereo Bluetooth headset, magnetic charging dock and a cover with an additional battery, all available for an extra cost.
Sony Xperia Z Ultra key specifications

• 6.4-inch TFT Triluminos display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels and Shatter proof sheet on scratch-resistant glass
• 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor
• 2GB RAM
• 8-megapixel rear camera with Exmor RS sensor
• 2-megapixel front facing camera
• 16GB internal storage expandable up to 64GB via microSD card
• Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
• 4G LTE/ NFC/ Bluetooth 4.0/ Wi-Fi
• 3000mAh battery

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India To Buy 102 Percent More Tablets In 2014?

Dear all,
New Delhi: Rising number of people on the move, preference for a lighter device and better affordability are expected to drive an over 100 per cent growth in tablet sales in the country to 3.84 million this fiscal, says industry body MAIT.

Tablet sales in India, that is counted among the leading markets for sale of tables and Smartphones globally, stood at 1.90 million in 2012-13 fiscal, data provided by IT hardware industry body Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT) shows.

According to MAIT's annual industry performance review, conducted by market research firm IMRB International, tablets are eating into sales of desktops, notebooks and netbooks.

The 2012-13 fiscal has been the year for the tablet PC with consumers preferring it over PC as replacement, MAIT President J V Ramamurthy said.

The combination of basic functioning of a PC coupled with affordability is turning the tide in its favor, he added.

Compared to the growth in tablets, PC sales are expected to rise by a modest 8 per cent to 12.11 million in the current fiscal against 11.17 million in 2012-13 fiscal, he added.

"Tablets are cannibalizing the PC market and registering a phenomenal growth of 424 per cent in the second consecutive year," Ramamurthy said.

Tablet sales in 2012-13 stood at 1.9 million units against 0.36 million in 2011-12.

On the growth in tablet sales, research firm IMRB Group Business Director Biswapriya Bhattacharjee said as an increasing number of professionals are working on the field or are travelling, tablets are preferred devices as they are light and handy.

 
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