congo news: June 2012

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Flight attendant loses cool aboard NYC plane

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American student mauled by chimps in South Africa

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/american-student-mauled-chimps-south-africa-154916158.html

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Virgin Mobile to start selling the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S from today

Virgin Mobile USA owned by Sprint Nextel Corp, will start selling the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S on its pre-paid network starting from today. Announced earlier this month, Virgin

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World Bank pulls out of Bangladesh project amid corruption

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/world-bank-pulls-bangladesh-project-amid-corruption-213944804--sector.html

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Gartner Says India Printer Copier and Multifunctional Product Market Grew 3.9 Percent in the First Quarter Of 2012

Mumbai, India,
June?27,
2012?

The combined serial inkjet and page printer, copier and multifunction product (MFP) market in India totaled 6,95,128 units in the first quarter of 2012, a 3.9 percent increase compared to the first quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc.

?The first quarter was a mixed bag for most of the print providers in the Indian market. The imaging industry saw a slight push by the government and the home segment despite the glum economic scenario prevailing overall in the IT sector,? said Amrita Choudhury, research analyst at Gartner.

HP remained the leader in the India printer, copier and MFP market (see Table 1), as its market share totaled 58.7 percent in the first quarter of 2012, followed by Canon with 12.7 percent market share, Epson at 9.7 percent, and Samsung with 8.8 percent market share.

????? Table1

?????? India Printer, Copier and MFP Unit Shipment Estimates, 1Q12 (Thousands of Units)

Vendors	1Q12 Shipments	1Q12 Market Share (%)	1Q11 Shipments	1Q11 Market Share (%)	1Q12-1Q11 Growth (%)
HP	408.4	58.7	377.3	56.4	8.2
Canon	88.1	12.7	144.1	21.5	-38.9
Epson	67.1	9.7	49.6	7.4	35.2
Samsung Electronics	61.0	8.8	42.9	6.4	42.4
Others	70.5	10.1	55.0	8.2	28.0
Total	665.1	100.0	669.0	100	3.9

????? Note: Totals may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding

????? Source: Gartner (May 2012)

The A4 MFP segment is expected to remain the growth engine in the print market as the price gap between MFP?s and printers continues to narrow amid a broader range of MFP products and a continued sales focus. This segment showed a healthy growth of 16.8 percent in comparison to the first quarter of 2011. HP maintained its leadership position at 59.2 percent market share, followed by Canon with 13.3 percent, Samsung with 10 percent and Epson with 8.7 percent market share in the first quarter of 2011.

In first quarter of 2012, A3 flatbed copier MFP segment also fuelled up a strong growth of 27 percent compared to the first quarter of 2011. Ricoh led the market with 25.3 percent market share, followed by Canon with 19.7 percent, Konica Minolta with 13.9 percent, and Kyocera Mita with 12.3 percent market share compared to the first quarter of 2011. ?

The page printer market declined 13.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012. HP dominated the market with 68.8 percent market share. Canon saw a major shipment decline of 67.5 percent compared to first quarter of 2011, and its market share also contracted significantly from 36 percent in the first quarter in 2011 to 13.5 percent in the first quarter 0f 2012. Samsung recorded a growth of 2.6 percent, and it accounted for 12.6 percent market share in the Indian page printer market.

The inkjet printers market declined 3.3 percent compared to the first quarter of 2011.The advancement of electronic media, such as smartphones and tablets, as a means of communication also contributed to the decline. In this segment, the market leader, HP, witnessed a shipment decline of 3.6 percent compared to first quarter of 2011, and it accounted for 58.3 percent market share. Epson sales grew 3.7 percent, and it accounted for 35.6 percent market share, while Canon saw a decline of 29.1percent compared to the first quarter of 2011, contributing to? 6.2 percent market share in the first quarter of 2012.

Additional information is available in the Gartner report "Quarterly Statistics: Printers, Copiers and MFPs, Asia/Pacific, 1Q12 Update". The report is available on Gartner's website at?http://www.gartner.com/resId=2024917

Contact:

Sony Shetty
Gartner
+91 22 67092031
sony.shetty@gartner.com

About Gartner:
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies, to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, to technology investors, Gartner is the valuable partner to clients in 12,000 distinct organizations. Through the resources of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events, Gartner works with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 5,000 associates, including 1,280 research analysts and consultants, and clients in 85 countries. For more information, www.gartner.com.

Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2063417

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Wind Energy Update: Expanding Indian Wind IPP Community Prepares for Key Meeting this September

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wind-energy-expanding-indian-wind-ipp-community-prepares-070353343.html

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Indian security forces kill 21 Maoist rebels

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indian-security-forces-kill-17-maoist-rebels-064831642.html

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Shatter The Blocks To Your Business Progress, Productivity & Profit ...

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Shed fear, invest in Afghan opportunity: India

NEW DELHI: India on Thursday unveiled its vision of promoting economic rejuvenation and stability of Afghanistan by asking companies from the region to invest in that country in the spirit of solidarity, despite the risks, and called for CEOs to replace generals to lead the country's reconstruction.

"We need to offer a narrative of opportunity to counter the anxiety of withdrawal, uncertainty, instability and foreign interference," External affairs minister SM Krishna told the first regional conclave organised in India to encourage private sector investment in Afghanistan.

"India will continue to pursue its vision to stabilize Afghanistan through trade and investment and regional cooperation," he said while jointly inaugurating the conclave with his Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rassoul.

"We invite international investors and regional countries to join in this vision for Afghanistan individually or in partnership with others," he said.

Afghanistan robustly backed this approach. "I believe greater investments results in increased economic national activities in any country including, but not limited to, additional revenues, job creation, income generation opportunities which in turn leads to increased prosperity and service delivery," said Rassoul.

Over 80 Afghan companies, 130 Indian companies and 70 international companies from 33 countries, including Pakistan, China, Iran and the Gulf countries, participated in the summit. The Afghan delegation included five senior ministers, including Rassoul, commerce and industry minister Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady, finance minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, minister of mines Wahidullah Shahrani and agriculture minister Mohd. Asef Rahimi.

The recommendations of the day-long investment conclave will be submitted as a framework at the Tokyo Conference July 8 where international donors will pledge funds for Afghanistan after international troops leave the violence-torn country in 2014.

The key recommendations of the summit included providing the private sector investment protection and risk mitigation, providing incentives for investing in Afghanistan, and the creation of an international fund for SMEs.

The conclave identified key sectors for investment in Afghanistan that included natural resources, manufacturing, infrastructure, agriculture, IT and telecommunications.

Acknowledging the security concerns of businesses about risks of investment in Afghanistan in the run-up to the phased withdrawal of international troops by 2014, Krishna exhorted the companies from the region to act in solidarity, saying if companies invest together and in numbers, they will all benefit from the collective security of venturing together.

"Investments can provide that hope for employment, training and opportunity for the future. We encourage our industries to venture into Afghanistan in numbers together with Afghan partners," he said.

"We feel that foreign investment and domestic private sector development, both small and large scale, can play that role. Let the grey suits of company executives take the place of olive green or desert brown fatigues of soldiers; and chief executive officers, the place of (military) generals," he said.

"They can also play a larger stabilizing role," he added.

Noting that the military withdrawal should not result in a political or security vacuum that will be filled by extremists once again, the Indian minister said there should be "something productive" in its place.

"This vision requires international support in the form of institutional finance and foreign investment," he said, recognising the presence of representatives from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and other international financial institutions at the day-long event.

Dispelling security fears, senior ministers from Afghanistan assured Indian investors a business-friendly environment and said there are 17 key sectors, including mines, cement, steel and agriculture, in which they can invest and reap good returns.

"Please don't write off Afghanistan. We are willing to pay personal attention to facilitate your investment in our country," Commerce and industry minister Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady here.

"We allow 100 percent foreign ownership of enterprises, easy repatriation of profits, treat foreign investors identical to domestic ones, and we allow accelerated depreciation," said Ahady.

Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma described Afghanistan as a country close to India's heart and said Indian companies will be offering cutting-edge technologies and expertise for the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

He also announced that he would soon lead an Indian business delegation to Afghanistan, in a bid to enhance economic engagements between the two countries.

"The visit will happen soon. Officials of the two countries will work out the dates," Sharma told reporters on the sidelines of the Delhi Investment Summit on Afghanistan here.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

[asr-forum] Proposition de sujet de th?se sur les r?seaux ...

*Proposition de sujet de th?se*
Pour candidater voir le site de l'Ecole Doctorale STITS :
http://ed-stits.fr/theses/detail-sujet-de-these/94

Titre : Quelques probl?mes de r?seaux v?hiculaires: clustering et
multihoming, diss?mination de donn?es

Some problems in inter-vehicles communications: dissemination protocol
for VANET; clustering and multihoming in V2V2I topology.

Reserach team : "Telecommunication and Networking Department"

Laboratoire des Signaux et Syst?mes (L2S)
http://www.lss.supelec.fr

The "Laboratoire des Signaux et Syst?mes" (Laboratory of Signals and
Systems, denoted as L2S) is marked as UMR and its parent institutions
are CNRS, SUPELEC and University Paris Sud 11, and which is located in
Gif -sur-Yvette.

PhD supervisor (contact person):

Name: V?ronique V?que

Position: Full Professor

email: veque [at] lss.supelec.fr
Phone number: +33 1 69 85 17 22

Context and key aspects of the proposed PhD

In recent years, Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) has become an intense
research area, as part of Intelligent Transportation Systems. It assumes
that all, or, a subset of the vehicles is equipped with radio devices,
enabling communication between them. This communication facility allows
drivers to enhance more safety on roads by exchanging weather alerts,
emergency alerts and traffic information. Another class of applications
is to target the passengers access to Internet with all classical
services: mail, web and chat. These communications are usually
classified in two classes: Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) or
Vehicle-to-Infrastrcuture communications (V2I). V2V communications
usually use ad hoc modes. This allows a vehicle to communicate directly
with another vehicle without the use of any dedicated infrastructure
(Base Station, Access Point, etc.). Although classical 802.11 can be
used for IVC, specific technologies such as IEEE 802.11p (also referred
to as Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments, WAVE) show a great deal
of promise. This standard includes data exchanges between vehicles and
between infrastructure and vehicles with a greater radio range than
classical 802.11. Also, by using ad hoc mode of these radio technologies
(all the 802.11 technologies have an ad hoc mode), we gain the advantage
that the scope of communications is not just limited to the radio range.
Hence, vehicles can act as routers, i.e. they implement forwarding and
routing algorithms, and form a Multi-Hop wireless Ad-hoc NETwork
(MANET), also called Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET). V2V
communications are mainly intended for safety applications which consist
either in periodic information broadcasting or in alert message
dissemination.
V2I communications uses existing cellular networks like UMTS or 4G/LTE
or need deployment of a telecommunication network infrastructure, like
WiMAX where some access points are distributed along the road, each one
connected to other through a wired network allowing the vehicles to
connect to the access point. V2I communications allows interesting
user-oriented applications like "Internet on the road" or geographic
information advertisements.
The main drawbacks of a complete road coverage are prohibitive costs and
inefficient use in case of
light traffic. Then, a new class of communications has been proposed by
telecommunication operators: V2V2I where vehicles communicate with other
vehicles to reach the access point using multihop communications.

This work will consist in two parts.
The*first part* will focus on the dissemination of warning and control
information. This allows a vehicle to obtain and disseminate information
about accidents, traffic jam, and road surface conditions coming from
other vehicles. Such applications rely on broadcast algorithms. These
algorithms are given the task of disseminating warning messages quickly
and efficiently through the network. Thus, the performances of these
algorithms are crucial.
The *second part* will focus on V2V2I communications where keys
questions are still open. For example, one possibility to provide the
communications is to use a VANET with a routing protocol or to build a
cluster of cars with only a leader connected to the infrastructure. As
the communication device is equipped with multiple network interfaces
that could be connected to different network providers and obtain
multiple IP addresses, this multihoming feature can also provide an
efficient way for mobility management. But due to intermittent
connectivity, several problems has to be solved.

Brief description of scientific and technical steps ---

This thesis aims to study and propose innovative protocols for the
communications in Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET). The PhD involves
the steps sketched below:

* Bibliography of existing dissemination protocols
* Study of alternative communication schemes for vehicular communication
* The study of existing protocols and extension of clustering
algorithms/other approaches
* Study on multihoming protocols
* The proposal of modular protocols to fulfil the different
applications' requirements
* Performance evaluation of these algorithms
* Model and Simulations
* Implementation.

Brief bibliography

1. Anthony Busson. Analysis and Simulation of a Message
Dissemination algorithm for VANET. International Journal of
Communication Systems. Volume 24, Issue 9, pages 1212-1230 (18
pages), Wiley, 2011.
3. Anthony Busson. Performance Evaluation of Broadcast Protocols in
VANET: a Point Process Approach. 6th ACM International Symposium on
Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous
Networks. October 26-30, 2009. Tenerife, Canary
Islands, Spain.
4. Muriel Mabiala, Anthony Busson and V?ronique V?que. On the
capacity of Vehicular ad hoc Networks. Ubiroads workshop of the IEEE
Global Information Infrastructure Symposium. Marrakech, 2007.
5. Kaisser F, Johnen C. , V?que V., "Quantitative Model for Evaluate
Routing Protocols in a Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks on Highway", IEEE
Vehicular Network Conf. VNC'2010. Dec. 2010, USA.
6. Kaisser F., V?que V., "On the Scalability Problem of Highway Ad
hoc Network", Proceedings of WCNC'09 (Wireless Communications &
Networking Conf.), Budapest (H), Avril 2009.

Pre-requisites ---

The applicant, beyond the Master degree (acquired in telecommunication
engineering or computer science, for example), should have good skills
in networks protocols, like TCP/IP and Internet, simulation, probability
and optimization methods and C/C++ programming.
*
The candidate has to send a list of his/her marks obtained in Master, a
motivation letter and a Curriculum Vitae.*

Skills fostered/gained during PhD --- The PhD is at the crossroad of two
scientific areas: intelligent transportation systems and networking.

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Monday, June 4, 2012

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