Dr Reddy’s Laboratories is set to deploy Bodhtree’s MIDAS to address its application integration challenges. MIDAS (multi industry data anomaly solution) will integrate mission critical applications such as ERP, SCM, and third party systems.

“Pharma and life sciences verticals are front runners on MIDAS adoption. We found heterogeneity of the enterprise IT brings a huge challenge in integration for the industry. Sanjiv Gupta, chairman of Bodhtree Consulting said.

New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Tuesday sought from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over Rs.6,600 crore as immediate relief following the recent flood devastation in the state.
Yeddyurappa told Singh that the Sep 30-Oct 2 rain and flashfloods had left a trail of devastation in north Karnataka, causing a loss of Rs.18,500 crores.

Besides killing over 220 people, the floods damaged around 650,000 houses and destroyed crops in about 2.5 million hectares.

Singh, who made an aerial survey of the affected areas Oct 10, has already granted Rs.1,000 crore to the state as interim relief.

Yeddyurappa also sought waiver of agriculture loans, enhancement of crop compensation amount and Rs.2,000 crore for permanent relocation of over 200 flood-prone villages.

Before calling on Singh, Yeddyurappa met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P. Chidambaram.

Yeddyurappa’s efforts to take an all-party delegation from the state to Singh failed with the Congress and Janata Dal-Secular accusing the chief minister of “playing politics in the times of crisis”.

State Congress chief R.V. Deshpande and JD-S state president H.D. Kumaraswamy told reporters separately that the state government should first properly utilize the funds available instead of rushing to the central government for more financial aid.

Yeddyurappa was accompanied by Home Minister V.S. Acharya, Revene Minister G. Karunakara Reddy, Rural Development Minister Shobha Karandlaje and Bangalore South MP H.N. Ananth Kumar

New Delhi, Oct 20 (ANI): An all party delegation led by Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.Yeddyurappa submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Tuesday for the release of over Rs.9,000 crore under the National Calamity Contingency Fund (NCCF).

Parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka witnessed devastating floods in September and October, rendering lakhs of people homeless and killing more than 800 people.

The Karnataka Government has estimated the loss from floods at around Rs.18,000 crore. As per the NCCF norms, the state is eligible to get only one-third of the total loss from the Centre, but the delegation demanded to increase the amount to 50 percent.

Addressing the media after the daylong meetings with the union ministers and the Prime Minister, Yeddyurappa said the delegation got an overwhelming response.

“The delegation got an overwhelming response fro the Centre. The Prime Minister said that as he himself witnessed the devastation, he will do at his best for the release of the amount,” Yeddyurappa said.

The delegation also demanded for the one time waiver of all agricultural loans on farmers in the flood-affected areas of the state.

“The region of north Karnataka which was suffering from draught has now been affected by devastating floods in the same year, so it’s highly impossible for the farmers to pay back the loans. The delegation urged the Center to grant for the one time waiver of loans,” he said.

As the farmers of the flood-affected area were not in a position to restart their life, the delegation urged Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to increase the limit of the relief amount given for the crop loss.

At present a farmer can get Rs. 2,000 per hectare for dry land, Rs. 4,000 for irrigated land and Rs.8, 000 for horticulture crops.

The all-party delegation demanded for an increase of Rs.5, 000, 8,000 and 12,000 per hectare respectively.

The delegation also demanded for the allocation of over 2 lakh houses under the Indira Awas Yojana for the affected people.

The Chief Minister said that the government has constituted a committee headed by the Rajya Sabha member Rajiv Chadrashekhar to prepare a road map for the development of flood-affected villages.

Yeddyurappa said that the delegation has also demanded for the release of 1.5 lakh metric tonne food grains under BPL rates for the affected people.

Meanwhile, a Central team is visiting the flood affected areas from Wednesday.

Union Law Minister M.Virappa Moily, Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister of State for Railways K.H.Muniyaappa, former Union Minister Ananth Kumar were also part of the delegation.

San Francisco, Oct 20  The social networking and micro blogging site Twitter has crossed the 5 billion-tweet mark.Twitter has had it 5 billionth tweet, according to GigaTweet.com which measure’s the micro-blogging service’s site traffic.

A tweet is a 140 characters update about what the user is doing. It is a smart and innovative way to keep in touch with one’s friends and followers. Followers are the people who follow you, and get to read your tweets.

Twitter clocked the 5 billionth tweet this week, with CNET saying that the person who sent the Tweet is Robin Sloane a former executive of Current Media, with his post simply saying: ‘Oh lord‘. It looks like a reply to somebody else’s query or tweet.

Robin Sloan’s tweet, which he has nicknamed “The Pentagigatweet,” is very unique because it actually has the number 5,000,000,000 in the URL. That’s because the number at the end of a tweet’s URL is apparently the running count of tweets that have been posted until that point.

Twitter has been around since 2006, and it hit the jackpot 1 billionth tweet mark just in November 2008. In less than a year, it amassed 5 times the volume to hit the 5 billionth mark. This itself specks volumes about the popularity of this site.

Twitter is not only accessible on the web, but also through a number of clients such as Gravity, EchoFon, TweetDeck etc. it also has a lot of applications made by third parties that help any user having a Twitter account to access Twitter on his mobile phone too.

Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon’s Kindle. The Web search giant said on Thursday it would launch Google Editions in the first half of next year, initially offering about half a million e-books in partnership with publishers with whom it already cooperates where they have digital rights. Readers will be able to buy e-books either from Google directly or from other online stores such as Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com. Google will host the e-books and make them searchable. “We’re not focused on a dedicated e-reader or device of any kind,” Tom Turvey, Google’s director of strategic partnerships, told journalists at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The announcement comes a week after Amazon said it would introduce the Kindle into 100 countries outside the United States, pushing its leading position in a small but fast-growing market in which its competitors include Sony’s Reader. Technology research firm Forrester expects about 3 million e-readers to be sold in the United States this year, from a previous base of about 1 million, helped by lower prices, more content and better distribution. Top U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble has been reported to be planning an entry into the e-reader market to complement a large online bookstore it launched in July. Microsoft had also been rumored to be planning a reading device, but Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said last week it had no need, since it already supplied the software that runs the most popular device for electronic reading, the PC. Google Editions will allow Google to make money for the first time out of one of its book ventures – which also include a controversial project to scan and index tens of millions of books through partnerships with libraries. Google will share revenue with publishers, and also with online retailers in cases where readers buy Google-hosted books through a retailer’s site. It already partners with publishers to make their physical books searchable and available for sale. Turvey said Google would give publishers 63 percent of revenues and keep 37 percent for itself where it sold e-books directly to consumers. In cases where e-books were bought through other online retailers, publishers would get 45 percent and most of the remaining 55 percent would go to the retailer, with a small share for Google, he said. Readers will be able to access e-books they have bought through Google on any device including PCs, laptops, netbooks and smartphones like Apple’s iPhone through their gmail account, Google said. The device need not be connected in order to read the book, after it has been accessed once, and payment can be made to Google through its online payment processing system Google Checkout, which stores users’ details in a personal account.
Google is also trying to settle a lawsuit in the United States with U.S. publishers and authors over its Google Books project, in which it has already scanned about 10 million books through partnerships with libraries and plans to scan many more. Google wants to improve its Web search by including the bulk of the world’s knowledge that is contained in books by indexing the books and displaying varying amounts in Web search results, depending on whether the books are in or out of copyright. In a long-running dispute, the American Association of Publishers and the Authors Guild have sued Google for scanning some in-copyright books without permission from rights holders. The parties have now reached a settlement agreement but have been sent back by a U.S. court to revise some details, and are due to file a revised version on Nov. 9. Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond told reporters: “We are very comfortable and confident that it will go through in some form.” The settlement only applies to the United States but has sparked fierce criticism from some parties in Europe, notably from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as it covers European books in U.S. libraries scanned in the United States. Drummond said excluding those books from the settlement was not being debated. “European books will be part of the settlement,” he said.

Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon’s Kindle. The Web search giant said on Thursday it would launch Google Editions in the first half of next year, initially offering about half a million e-books in partnership with publishers with whom it already cooperates where they have digital rights. Readers will be able to buy e-books either from Google directly or from other online stores such as Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com. Google will host the e-books and make them searchable. “We’re not focused on a dedicated e-reader or device of any kind,” Tom Turvey, Google’s director of strategic partnerships, told journalists at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

The announcement comes a week after Amazon said it would introduce the Kindle into 100 countries outside the United States, pushing its leading position in a small but fast-growing market in which its competitors include Sony’s Reader. Technology research firm Forrester expects about 3 million e-readers to be sold in the United States this year, from a previous base of about 1 million, helped by lower prices, more content and better distribution. Top U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble has been reported to be planning an entry into the e-reader market to complement a large online bookstore it launched in July. Microsoft had also been rumored to be planning a reading device, but Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said last week it had no need, since it already supplied the software that runs the most popular device for electronic reading, the PC. Google Editions will allow Google to make money for the first time out of one of its book ventures – which also include a controversial project to scan and index tens of millions of books through partnerships with libraries. Google will share revenue with publishers, and also with online retailers in cases where readers buy Google-hosted books through a retailer’s site. It already partners with publishers to make their physical books searchable and available for sale. Turvey said Google would give publishers 63 percent of revenues and keep 37 percent for itself where it sold e-books directly to consumers. In cases where e-books were bought through other online retailers, publishers would get 45 percent and most of the remaining 55 percent would go to the retailer, with a small share for Google, he said. Readers will be able to access e-books they have bought through Google on any device including PCs, laptops, netbooks and smartphones like Apple’s iPhone through their gmail account, Google said. The device need not be connected in order to read the book, after it has been accessed once, and payment can be made to Google through its online payment processing system Google Checkout, which stores users’ details in a personal account.

Google is also trying to settle a lawsuit in the United States with U.S. publishers and authors over its Google Books project, in which it has already scanned about 10 million books through partnerships with libraries and plans to scan many more. Google wants to improve its Web search by including the bulk of the world’s knowledge that is contained in books by indexing the books and displaying varying amounts in Web search results, depending on whether the books are in or out of copyright. In a long-running dispute, the American Association of Publishers and the Authors Guild have sued Google for scanning some in-copyright books without permission from rights holders. The parties have now reached a settlement agreement but have been sent back by a U.S. court to revise some details, and are due to file a revised version on Nov. 9. Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond told reporters: “We are very comfortable and confident that it will go through in some form.” The settlement only applies to the United States but has sparked fierce criticism from some parties in Europe, notably from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as it covers European books in U.S. libraries scanned in the United States. Drummond said excluding those books from the settlement was not being debated. “European books will be part of the settlement,” he said.