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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
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Published: July 12, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — For many people on Friday, the iPhone was the iCan’t.
Apple suffered extensive network gridlock Friday morning, as many of the six million users of the original iPhone tried to upgrade to new software while the first buyers of the new iPhone 3G were trying to activate their purchases.
The setback was a classic example of the problems that can follow when complex systems have single points of failure. In this case, the company appeared to almost invite the problems by having both existing and new iPhone owners try to get through to its systems at the same time.
“There are certainly lessons in preparedness,” said Richard Doherty, a consumer electronics industry consultant who is president of the Envisioneering Group in Seaford, N.Y. He compared the day with Christmas morning, “the acid test for many years” for electronics companies because customers contact them in droves after opening presents and trying to get gadgets to work.
The problems led to slow-moving lines of would-be iPhone 3G purchasers at Apple and AT&T stores, while current iPhone users found that their phones had stopped working when they tried to upgrade them to the latest software. The iPhone must connect to Apple servers through the iTunes program for authentication before it will function again after a software upgrade.
Apple did not comment publicly on the problems, but privately executives acknowledged the missteps and said the combination of the software upgrades and new iPhone 3G owners trying to complete their activation swamped the company’s servers.
At Apple and AT&T stores on Friday morning, employees began telling buyers to take their new iPhones home and activate them there.
A year ago, when the original iPhone went on sale, customers performed the activation at home. But Apple and its cellphone partners changed the process this time, in part because the carriers are partially subsidizing the cost of the phones, so they are eager to make sure that phone buyers are locked into a contract.
Many of the original iPhones were bought in the United States and then taken overseas for use on foreign carriers. A number of industry executives have said that the change in policy was intended to reduce the number of phones that were bought and then modified for use on unauthorized cellular networks.
Early indications were that the company was facing strong demand for the new phones. In many cases the customers were existing iPhone users looking to upgrade to the iPhone 3G model.
Apple’s stores opened at 8 a.m. At the store in downtown San Francisco at 11:30 a.m., there was still a line of more than 300 customers stretching down one block and around the corner waiting for iPhones. Some customers said they had hired placeholders to stand overnight in line.
Mark Siegel, a spokesman for AT&T, Apple’s cellular partner in the United States, said the company had experienced extraordinary demand and that most of its stores nationwide were sold out of the iPhone during the day. He said he had heard reports that some customers were already camped out in front of stores waiting for the next shipment of iPhones on Saturday, but he could not identify a particular store.
Mr. Siegel said the rush of customers and upgrades had overwhelmed Apple’s servers, and that he sympathized with the company’s predicament.
“Apparently the iTunes system has just been overwhelmed by demand and Apple is working very hard to get this fixed,” he said.
He acknowledged that part of the problem was the new policy of requiring authorization in the stores.
In a related issue, customers had problems with Apple’s switchover from its .Mac Web service to a new service called MobileMe that is intended to seamlessly share information between Macintosh computers and the iPhone.
Apple’s stumble was an unusual one for a company that has taken pains in recent years to become more customer-oriented. The technology blog Gizmodo dubbed it the iPocalypse. When the original iPhone was introduced, AT&T took the blame for most of the early service problems.
Sergio Martinez, an editor at Teak Motion Visuals in San Francisco, said in an e-mail message that he had run into trouble with the software upgrade. “Like everyone else across the world, I have had no luck upgrading,” he wrote. “ Bill Gates must be enjoying this one.”
Laurie J. Flynn contributed reporting.
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
| Dentist do not fill or drill the teeths but now a days they regenerates them. Earlier the same solution was there for cavities with the dentist. The material that make up the teeth will be remineralized in decayed tooth to restore the damage, without making it look like repair job. Teeth are made from minerals and are susceptible to erosion.
Acids, like those produced by bacteria or synthetic soft drinks demineralize the enamel of the teeth. The body is constantly repairing small amounts of damage but when the defenses are overwhelmed, bacteria break through into the dentin below, the tooth decays.
The trials are still on and it will be a few years before your dentist can regrow teeth. Till than there’s no escaping the drill on your damaged teeth, or just avoid those cavity causing foods and soft drinks.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
| No usage of animals will be there to test the safety of everyday chemicals. Substitute of animals like rats and mice will be now cell cultures and computer models, scientists will screen suspected toxic chemicals in everything from pesticides to household cleaners
Safety of chemicals
More than 3.1 million experiments in the U.K. were carried out on animals in 2006. Of these more than 420,000 were done to test the safety of chemicals.
More than 100 million animals are used annually in experiments in the U.S., of which 15 million are used in toxicity tests. Replacement of animals in the U.S., was recently declared in Boston, will see researchers from the national institute of health and the environmental protection agency develop robotic machines to screen the chemicals.
Implications
They said if successful the robots could test a greater number of chemicals more quickly. This could have implications for the EU’s Reach legislation, which requires retesting all synthetic chemicals used in member countries.
Critics are worried that the new rules will increase the number of animals used. The screening machines will be inspired by those developed for medical research, which can quickly test thousands of different molecules in a few days to see if any have potential as useful drugs.
Chemical genomics
“We now are seeing tools newly available to us for chemical genomics research deployed for greater refinement, speed and capacity in chemical toxicity screening,” said Francis Collins, director of the national human genome research institute and author of a paper published recently in Science.
Describing the proposed techniques, Catherine Willett, science policy adviser at Peta, said: “This is a significant change in the perspective of U.S. agencies, which have historically relied heavily on animal testing out of habit and have been resistant to change.” -
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
| Anil Ambani CHAIRMAN Reliance Communications Ltd., India’s second-largest mobile services firm on way to be Global number one , said on Monday quarterly profit more than doubled, beating forecasts, on higher usage in the world’s fastest-growing mobile market.
Reliance Com , which gets more than 65 percent of its revenue from wireless subscribers, said it plans to spend over 100 billion rupees ($2.4 billion) in the current fiscal year that began on April 1 to expand its telecoms infrastructure.
The firm, which had more than 28 million users at end-March, said net profit for the quarter grew 154 percent to 10.24 billion rupees, beating a Reuters survey of nine brokerages which forecast on average 9.02 billion.
The company said it would take a decision in the next six months on “unlocking value” in its Reliance Telecom Infrastructure unit, and a potential listing of undersea cable unit Flag Telecom.
“We have a number of options in front of us. Listing is one of those options,” Chairman Anil Ambani told reporters at a news conference.
Strategic partnerships or private equity investment in these two units were also being considered, Ambani said.
He added the firm would aim to sustain its expansion in operating margins, which grew to 40 percent in 2006/07 from 24 percent a year earlier.
“We have seen margin expansion across the board … Our objective is for sustainability.”
Revenue for the quarter rose almost 33 percent to 39.37 billion rupees, but fell short of market estimates of 40.86 billion.
Larger rival Bharti Airtel Ltd. last week reported its quarterly profit almost doubled to 13.53 billion rupees.
Ambani said the company would also decide in the next two months on outsourcing its network and information technology services to enhance the quality of service.
“We are at a negotiating stage with all the global dealers,” he said, adding that the deal value would be “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
India has 12 telecoms firms which offer fixed-line and mobile services on GSM and CDMA platforms. In February, Vodafone bought a controlling stake in unlisted Hutchison Essar, India’s fourth-largest cellular operator.
“I don’t see Hutch going away and Vodafone coming in its shoes should not really make a very big impact on the telecoms sector,” Ambani said, when asked about how the company would tackle competition from Vodafone.
Shares in Reliance Communications rose 3.7 percent to 477.10 rupees in a Mumbai market that closed 0.26 percent down.
The shares fell 10.9 percent in the January-March quarter, pressured in part by a failed bid for Huchison Essar, compared with a 5.2 percent drop in the benchmark index.
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
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| The incongruity of the tax basis arises largely from the fact that, unlike in any other country, India now seeks to tax the employer for a benefit/income which accrues to the employee, most of it without the employer having granted it or having any control over it. |
The recent proposal in the Budget for levying Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) on employers Employees Stock Option Plans (ESOPs) is a complete reversal of the policy on the issue in place over the last 5-6 years.
The current scheme exempts employees from taxation if they sell the scrips got in an ESOP plan within one year from exercise. The proposed amendment throws up issues of technical interpretations and the tax impact for the employer. Some of these may become clearer once the rules prescribing the Fair Market Value (FMV) for the purpose of valuing fringe benefits are notified. But till such time employers are saddled with a problem they never bargained for and will have to work out solutions to mitigate the unexpected problems.
This article aims to briefly list out the harshness or multiple-wammy created by the introduction of this new provision. It also looks at the reasons which seem to be prompting the Finance Minister to introduce such changes and suggest some alternatives which may lead to a more rational way of taxation, should the Finance Minister wish to take away the concessional tax treatment granted to ESOPs.
Key concerns
The key concerns from the employer’s perspective are:
To start with, the employer suffers a hit to its Profit and Loss Account of the notional benefits to the employee at the time of the grant of the ESOP, equal to the discount in relation to the prevailing market value.
While the P&L takes a hit, there is a question mark on the deductibility of such “expense” for the purposes of computing employer’s taxable income.
On top of that, the employer is required to pay the FBT not only on the discount at the time of the grant but also in the appreciation of the value of shares in future (over which the employer has no control).
To compound matters, such FBT paid by the employer is not tax-deductible and effectively equal to much higher post-tax expenditure.
Further, as a lot of these employees who receive ESOPs may be mobile and render services in different tax jurisdictions between the grant and exercise of the stock option, they may end up having tax obligation abroad on some part of the benefits arising out of the ESOPs. While they may not themselves suffer double taxation, there would be an economic double taxation on account of the FBT paid by the employer not being creditable against the tax paid by the employee abroad.
Lastly, foreign companies having presence in India by way of a branch/Permanent Establishment/ presence of employees may also end up having additional burden of tax by way of FBT on ESOPs, thereby substantially raising their effective tax in India.
Interpretational issues
Apart from the above, quite a few interpretational issues are being debated in industrial/professi onal circles, andinclude:
Will the FBT for employer be 33.99 per cent or a lower rate, based on valuation rules to be prescribed?
What is the cost basis for employee for the purposes of determining capital gains when the options are sold at a later date?
In fact, some quarters are also debating whether the proposed amendments will take away the obligation of the employees for payment of taxes on the stock option.
Can the employer contractually/ tax-efficiently recover the FBT from the employee?
Leaving aside the interpretation issues for the moment, it is suggested that, at a conceptual level, if the benefits of stock options are to be taxable, the levy must fall on the person deriving the benefit. Even where the benefit is sought to be taxed in the hands of the giver, it should be limited to the extent of the benefit granted and not beyond that. Such a scheme of taxation should also provide for matching deduction and credits so that economic double/multiple taxation is avoided. Unless such equity is bought about in the taxation, the concept of stock option may have a premature demise.
Suggested changes
In the light of the above, conceptually, the following changes should be considered by the Government in the scheme of stock option taxation:
The FBT on the employer, if at all, should be limited to the discount to the market value on the date of the grant, as is required to be debited in the books of accounts under the accounting standards/guideline s applicable.
Correspondingly, such expenditure should be clearly allowable as a deduction against the taxable income of the employer.
Any forfeiture of such options resulting in disentitlement for the employee and reversal of such benefits should culminate in a corresponding deduction in the FBT obligations in future.
The benefit to the employee in the appreciation of the share price over the exercise price may, if at all, be taxed in the hands of the employee at the time of the exercise. However, ideally, as the employee does not realise any gain at that stage, there should be no taxation then, but only post ultimate sale of shares. When such profit, which is in the nature of capital gains, accrues, it should be treated just like capital gains on shares, as applicable to any other investor.
Given the importance of stock options to the growing economy of India, which is competing to reward its human resource, the industry should make a strong representation to the Finance Minister to withdraw the proposed amendments or to introduce a grand-father clause which seeks to apply the changes in law only prospectively.
Nikhil Bhatia
(The author is Partner, BSR & Co, Mumbai.)
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Nikhil Bhatia has rightly said
Given the importance of stock options to the growing economy of India, which is competing to reward its human resource, the industry should make a strong representation to the Finance Minister to withdraw the proposed amendments or to introduce a grand-father clause which seeks to apply the changes in law only prospectively.
Industry must protect the interests of the new generastion as the ESOPs are by and large given in the high tech areas of business . I f these are not protected there is a possibilty of more talent migrating from India to those countries where such taxes are not imposed .
The August body of Parliament must DISAAPROVE this proposal of the Honourable FM to allow the wealth creation by those who help companies create intellectual and physical properties which are the present and future wealth of our nation .
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday.
The squid, weighing an estimated 990 lbs and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said.
The fishermen were catching Patagonian toothfish, sold under the name Chilean sea bass, south of New Zealand “and the squid was eating a hooked toothfish when it was hauled from the deep,” Anderton said.
The fishing crew and a fisheries official on board their ship estimated the length and weight of the squid: Detailed, official measurements have not been made. The date when the colossus was caught also was not disclosed.
Colossal squid, known by the scientific name Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, are estimated to grow up to 46 feet long and have long been one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep ocean.
If original estimates are correct, the squid would be 330 pounds heavier than the next biggest specimen ever found.
“I can assure you that this is going to draw phenomenal interest. It is truly amazing,” said Dr. Steve O’Shea, a squid expert at the Auckland University of Technology. If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires, he added.
Colossal squid can descend to 6,500 feet and are extremely active, aggressive hunters, he said.
The frozen squid will be transported to New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa, in the capital, Wellington, to be preserved for scientific study.
Marine scientists “will be very interested in this amazing creature as it adds immeasurably to our understanding of the marine environment,” Anderton said.
Colossal squid are found in Antarctic waters and are not related to giant squid found round the coast of New Zealand. Giant squid grow up to 39 feet long, but are not as heavy as colossal squid.
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
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Houston, Feb 8 (PTI) Indian American flight engineer Sunita Williams and International Space Station Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria are venturing out once again for their third spacewalk in nine days.
“Beautiful day, I’m ready,” Sunita said.
The three spacewalks, termed EVAs 6, 7, and 8 because there were five previous station spacewalks from the US airlock Quest during increments, began at 0726 CST (1856 IST) today when no shuttle was present.
NASA spacewalkers on mission are packing tools aboard an equipment cart outside the International Space Station (ISS) as they prepare to head to their first worksite: a pair of rotary joint motor controllers outside the ISS.
The astronauts will haul the cart, known as a Crew Equipment Translational Aid (CETA), along the space station’s main backbone-like truss to the Port 3 (P3) segment to remove a pair of thermal covers from the two pieces of ISS hardware.
The Expedition 14 spacewalkers today tasks include removing protective thermal shrouds from a pair of Rotary Joint Motor Controllers on the space station’s Port 3 (P3) truss.
They’ll then haul in a pair of unneeded, expansive sun shades (each larger than a king-size bed sheet) and wrap them up into bundles smaller than an outdoor garbage can before tossing them overboard.
They are also slated to deploy attachment devices for a future spare parts platform on the P3 truss before heading up to the station’s space shuttle docking port on the Pressurised Mating Adapter-2 at the tip of US Destinay laboratory. PTI
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
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Hindus constitute a billion plus approximately, fifth of the world’s population today and with the fertile technology minds combined with the universal, spiritual, vibrating, dancing, life force energy are in a position to change the shape of the world for betterment of the generations to come.
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
| LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters Life!) - For sale: the world’s smallest country with its own flag, stamps, currency and passports.
Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea.
Built in World War Two as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers, the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army major Paddy Roy Bates who went to live there with his family.
He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britain’s territorial waters, to be the principality of Sealand.
The self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins.
The family saw off an attempt by Britain’s Royal Navy to evict them and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen to seize Sealand by force.
Roy, 85, now lives in Spain and his son Michael told BBC Radio on Monday his family had been approached by estate agents with clients “who wanted a bit more than a bit of real estate, they wanted autonomy.”
He suggested Sealand, which has eight rooms in each tower, could be a base for online gambling or offshore banking.
Asked to describe the delights of living on what he described as a cross between a house and a ship, the 54-year-old said: “The neighbors are very quiet. There is a good sea view.”
Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea.
Built in World War Two as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers, the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army major Paddy Roy Bates who went to live there with his family.
He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britain’s territorial waters, to be the principality of Sealand.
The self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins.
The family saw off an attempt by Britain’s Royal Navy to evict them and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen to seize Sealand by force.
Roy, 85, now lives in Spain and his son Michael told BBC Radio on Monday his family had been approached by estate agents with clients “who wanted a bit more than a bit of real estate, they wanted autonomy.”
He suggested Sealand, which has eight rooms in each tower, could be a base for online gambling or offshore banking.
Asked to describe the delights of living on what he described as a cross between a house and a ship, the 54-year-old said: “The neighbors are very quiet. There is a good sea view.”
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
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Houston, Jan 5 (PTI) India would continue to lead the IT supplier market this year despite Russia’s emergence as a strong contender in the IT outsourcing market.
Acceleration of global services initiatives will play a key role in shaping the top trends, according to a recent report by neoIT, a consulting firm.
The key trend will be business transformation, which global companies will leverage to improve time-to-market, gain new business, standardize processes and significantly lower costs, said the report which provides a snapshot of buyer, supplier and geographic drivers that will shape the top global services trends of 2007.
“Business transformation through services globalization is one of the most important levers that global companies can no longer afford to ignore,” says Atul Vashistha, CEO, neoIT.
“We see the services globalization industry continuing to grow at a brisk rate of 25 to 30 per cent in the coming year, as more and more companies ramp up their services globalization initiatives.” The new research brief looks at the factors that contribute to the growth in services globalization and identifies several trends.
The report takes an in-depth look at the impact that the increasing number of sophisticated buyers, who now have several years of global sourcing experience, will have on the industry.
On the supplier side, competitive forces are leading to increased supplier sophistication. 2007 will see an increased focus among service providers on developing industry-specific subject matter expertise through acquisitions. PTI
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