GADVASU, CIFT to do value addition in fresh water fishes

GADVASU is going to give the technical support to the farmers for value-added fish products along with that even a proposal to start a small project on value addition by the state government, too, is in the pipeline.

According to information, Punjab produces 76,000 tonne of fish whereas the consumption of such fish is only restricted to the igrants due to the presence of intra muscular bone in the fish and now to fetch good market both at domestic as well as export level as CIFT has developed a fish meat bone separating machine for GADVASU which separates the pin bones and one could eat the tempting fish without bones.

Giving information, Punjab Fish Farmers’ Association president Kanwaljeet Singh Sidhu, who is also ex-officio member of Fish Farmers SDevelopment Agency and board member of the university, said Punjab has a good market for fresh water fishes, but to increase the level of people’s interest and farmers’ income value addition is the need of the hour and for this a two-day workshop is being organized by the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) in collaboration with college of fisheries GADVASU.

Hyderabad firm to work on network project

The Uttar Pradesh Police Technical Services has hired a Hyderabad-based semi-government organisation — National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) — as its technical consultant for the networking of police stations under the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) project.

The project is being supervised by the National Crime Records Bureau.

The NISG, in which the Centre has a 45 per cent stake, also works as a technical consultant for the Ministry of Home Affairs and the police force of states like Karnataka, Orissa and Rajasthan.

On Wednesday, Technical Services Director General Shailendra Sagar signed the agreement with Sanjiv Mittal — CEO of NISG.

No place for Big 3 in first UID project

India's [ Images ] top three IT companies are understood to have been rejected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for a project related to the country's biggest biometric count.

Tata Consultancy Services [ Get Quote ] (TCS), Infosys Technologies and Wipro [ Get Quote ] were eliminated from the selection process for the project on technical grounds. Another IT major, HCL Technologies [ Get Quote ], was also rejected. The size of the project is not yet known. UIDAI is working on an ambitious plan to give a unique identification number to each of India's 100 crore-plus citizens. It is headed by software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani.

UIDAI instead shortlisted global IT services companies IBM and Accenture, and also Bangalore-based IT services and solutions provider MindTree [ Get Quote ] for the application development services (ADM) segment of the UID project. ADM is the first of the many IT projects of UIDAI that have come up for bidding until now.

A TCS spokesperson said the company does not comment on customer-specific information. Emails sent to Infosys [ Get Quote ] and Wipro remained unanswered.

"The bids were opened today and of the 10 identified companies, the UID team shortlisted only three for this project. The final bidder will be announced soon. Those companies that are out of the race have been rejected on technical grounds," said a person close to the development, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

IT firms bidding for the project had to clear a technical test, which has a cut-off of 70 per cent. Those who would clear this would then be evaluated on a commercial basis.

McAfee Apologizes for Update Fiasco

McAfee on Thursday issued an apology for the faulty update that shut down users' computers and prompted a continuous reboot cycle.

"McAfee team members have been working around the clock to fix the problem and work with impacted customers," Barry McPherson, executive vice president of worldwide technical support and customer service for McAfee, wrote in a blog post. "We estimate that the majority of the affected systems are back up and running at this time and more systems are coming back online quickly."

The faulty signature update DAT file, which went out on Wednesday, affected the svchost.exe file on "a subset of systems" using McAfee VirusScan Enterprise on Windows XP service pack 3. Users with VirusScan Enterprise 8.7 were hit a bit harder than those running version 8.5, McAfee said, "because of the different implementation of memory scanning within the products."

Other versions of XP, Vista, and Windows 7 were not affected, the company said.

The problem resulted in blue screens, loss of network connectivity, inability to use USB, and continuous reboots, McAfee said.

Aviation stocks unable to hold on support levels

Over years, all these stocks like Jet 514, Kingfisher 48, Spice 57. Overall there are three sectors which have been doing very badly. One is sugar, second is telecom and third is aviation.

These have completely underperformed the market even around a run up previously eight-nine weeks. So for these stocks also, they just bounced back from the lower levels, again start getting hammered.

All these stocks are not able to hold on to their supports also now. They will start cracking more. Jet, it can go down maybe up to 480 levels. For Kingfisher, maybe we can see another slide coming down. It can go up to 46 levels. Spicejet, it can go down to 55-54 levels. So aviation stocks particularly are looking very badly. They are not holding on the supports also.

Flat start for equities; Capital goods, IT down

”Overall technical trend remains positive as Nifty continues to make higher top higher bottom formation on the daily chart. The weekly chart is also showing good amount of strength as the MACD has inched up in the positive territory and is moving northward while RSI too continues to move up. Traders are advised to stay long with the stop loss of 5290, the low made on Thursday. On the upside, crossover of 5400 will take the benchmark to about 5470, where trend line adjoining tops of October 2009 and January 2010 presents the resistance. Industrial production data for the month of February would be the key data to watch out for today. Tech biggie Infosys is coming out with its quarterly result tomorrow. The report after Friday's close that Reliance Industries has struck a USD 1.7 bn joint venture deal with US-based Atlas Energy, a key Marcellus Shale gas producer in the US, will enthuse the stock. It would also important to see how the stock market reacts to SEBI-IRDA tussle over Ulip investments in stock market,” said Anagram Research.

National Stock Exchange’s Nifty was trading at 5356.25, down 0.1 per cent or 5.5 points lower. The index touched a high of 5382.15 and low of 5348.55 in early trade.

Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex was at 17,903.08, lower by 30.06 points or 0.17 per cent from its previous close. The index moved in a range of 17,995.25 and 17,874.16 in trade so far.

The broader market however fared better than the benchmarks. The BSE Midcap Index edged up 0.12 per cent and BSE Smallcap Index moved up 0.34 per cent.

iPad launch marred by technical glitches

Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads on the tablet computer’s first day in stores, the company said yesterday, but reports claimed that some users had problems connecting to wi-fi networks.

New owners posted comments on Apple forums saying that their iPad had little or no wi-fi signal, where other devices worked fine.

The initial version of the touchscreen tablet computer connects to the internet only via wi-fi. Commentators have speculated that the problem could be a weak wi-fi antenna, located behind the logo on the back of the iPad.

“Casa de Trevino” from California said: “Having same problem with wi-fi being weak and constantly fluctuating. I have to keep entering my password to regain access to my network after having lost a signal. Two iPhones and two MacBooks showing full signal with no interrupts. Certainly hope this is fixable. Too pricey of a toy for it to have this issue right out of box.”

Seagate Wins 2010 CRN Channel Champions Award for Hard Drive Technical and Support Satisfaction

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Apr 05, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Seagate Technology /quotes/comstock/15*!stx/quotes/nls/stx (STX 18.29, +0.18, +0.99%) , the world's number one hard drive maker, has won the 2010 CRN Channel Champion award for Technical Satisfaction and Support Satisfaction in the SATA Hard Drives category. The CRN award is based on a survey that measures overall solution provider perceptions of vendor products and services. The survey is the largest and broadest-based technology integrator market study in the industry.

"Receiving the CRN Channel Champion award is a great signal that we are focusing our efforts in the right places," said John Vossoughi, Seagate vice president, America's Sales, Marketing and Global Channels. "Our consistent focus is on providing system integrators and resellers with the products, programs and technical support they need to thrive in an increasingly competitive marketplace. This is great news that the North American system builders have recognized Seagate for delivering the highest level of technical and support satisfaction in the industry."

285 is a strong support for NMDC: Sandeep Wagle

What is your take on NMDC?

NMDC, I maintain that 285 is a very strong support. It will have the strength to move to possibly 308 to 310 once 300 is taken out, outer side 320. I don’t have a view beyond that. 310 to 320 is the range I am looking at.