Saturday, May 13, 2006

IIPM R & P (Chernobyl showed the horrible effects of nuclear power, even when used non-militarily)

Unfortunately, the problem of nuclear arms is still very serious today. Countries that have them – the members of the socalled nuclear club – are in no hurry to get rid of them. On the contrary, they continue to refine their arsenals, while countries without nuclear weapons want them, believing that the nuclear club monopoly is a threat to the world peace. The twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe reminds us that we should not forget the horrible lesson taught to the world in 1986. We should do everything in our power to make all nuclear facilities safe and secure. We should also start seriously working on the production of the alternative sources of energy. The fact that world leaders now increasingly talk about this imperative, suggests that the lesson of Chernobyl is finally being understood….

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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

IIPM R & P (By the people, of the people, for the...)

Even for sceptics, the iconic Aamir Khan’s presence at the Narmada Bachao Aandolan meet, and singer Lucky Ali shouting anti- WTO slogans, was an extremely motivating sight to behold. India is waking up, and not necessarily because of either Rang De Basanti or celebrity branding of public protests. One just hopes the much acclaimed Indian democracy continues to instill into its citizens the need to question wrongs, and to en masse support the right. As we mentioned, one just hopes this continues forever...

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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Saturday, May 06, 2006

The game of war

Avner (Eric Bana) – the main lead and ex-Mossad operative – is the leader of a band of five, hired to hunt and assassinate the culprits who terrorized the village during the 1972 Games. Steve (Daniel ‘Bond’ Craig), a vicious avenger, Carl (Ciaran Hinds), a selfpossessed cleaner, Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz), a bomb-specialist and Hans (Hanns Zichler), a master faker form the rest of the club. Avner then takes his crew on a killing spree, eliminating the eleven Palestinian perpetrators. But, as the bodies begin accumulating, so does Avner’s conscience that begins venturing into hallucinatory guilt trips; to the extent that his ability to distinguish between truth and deceit – good and evil – gets warped….

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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Friday, May 05, 2006

IIPM B&E (Mobile viruses are on the rise and for anti-virus companies it spells money!)

The threat of mobile viruses is as real as is the possibility of Microsoft issuing another security patch by the time you end up reading this article. Read: very high! And now, the Economic Intelligence Unit and Symantec have come out with a survey that shows that rising mobile phone security risk is preventing as many as 60% of companies worldwide from giving their employees high-end smartphones. Despite this scepticism, IDC figures also show that by 2009 the worldwide ‘mobile workforce’ will touch 27.3%. Moreover, Gartner predicts that by 2008, 80% of mobile users will access e-mails wirelessly on their mobile….

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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Thursday, May 04, 2006

David and Goliath

It is a different story that Intel was the first to market the dual core technology and still lost to AMD, as it introduced its processor on Itanium chip, which required users to get new software. The Itanium concept failed and AMD won the battle again. AMD is using its present momentum to capture more corporate clients than Intel. With Opteron, big clients like Sun Microsystems and Hewelett Packard are gladly jumping on AMD’s bandwagon, severely denting Intel’s marketshare. In fact, last year AMD introduced three new chips to compete with its archrival, which gave the company a head start in the server market – a more profitable proposition compared to the PC chip industry. Factually, Intel silicon chips still rule the overall market with roughly 80% share, while AMD has just a teeny-weeny 18% marketshare. But going by gains over the last year, AMD is gaining the competitive edge and may soon strip Intel of its dominant market status….

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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006