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Today Anumaan (alpha-0.1 version) has been released by C-DAC, Mumbai as a part of its activities and commitment in the area of accessibility. Anumaan is a perspective-based, on-screen predictive text entry system for GNOME desktop. Basically, it is an extension of an Input Method (IM) mechanism (on GNOME desktop) in the sense that it extends its (IM) notion by including the power of text prediction. It has support for UTF-8 unicode encoding. The system allows users to train it and personalize and as per their writing style into different named domains. Hence, it adapts to user's writing style in some sense. Although, the current version does not support live mode adaptation, still a user can train a domain as many times he likes. Anumaan is designed for a (text) sequence prediction based on a certain Context.The context can either be a partial word context or a partial sentence context. Therefore, it is intended to help people suffering from different kinds of motor disability by...

On Friday, it was the Thane local train accident that caused disruption in the routine life of Mumbai people, again on Monday, they once again suffered by the strike of Central Railway motormen. Now, on tuesday it was the turn of Bhuvneshwar-Delhi Rajdhani Express, when it was abducted either by naxalites or by some naxalites sponsored group near the Jhargram station in West Bengal. Really, this as a railway week :). No, No don't misunderstand :), it is actually :(. In all these incidents, the ultimate sufferer in the poor common man (R. K. Laxman listening?) and culprit who? - The establishment who has the responsibility of manging all those tasks that affect our lives in way or the other, either directly or indirectly, or our so called destiny. Why common people should suffer? Today's incident is serious. An elite train is hijacked by a group. They write slogans to release their leader onto the walls of the train. The visual of these activities are flashed across all channels...

Local is the life line of Mumbai and if this life line gets even a single cut into its body, how chotic life can be in Mumbai, it was evident from scenes spread over CST to Vashi to Thane. Yesterday, in afternoon, when I saw the news of crashing of a pipeline over a local train in Thane, I didn't give much attention to it. But what I saw on CST in the evening, while trying to catch a Panvel-bound local to come to Kharghar returning from Mumbai Central, I realized how wrong was and perhaps Railway machineary was also not able to properly assess the seriousness of the situation. Normally, one is able to get on the train on harbour line rather comfortably from CST. But, the first Panvel-bound train I saw was jam-packed. I left that thinking of catching another one. What a big deal it is, was the thought. But I was amazed on seeing the crowd onto the platform. It was a "Jan sailab" indeed. As the next train came, people rushed madly towards the train just to board any how. Th...

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Google makes it easier to search for what’s really, really new : " Google announced several refinements to its “search options” feature today, which give users more control over the kinds of the results they see in Google. The most interesting addition, especially for folks interested in the potential of real-time search , is the ability to look at search results from the last hour, or from the date range of your choice. Google already included the ability to narrow results to the past day, week, or year in its initial set of search options , but the “past hour” feature is a real step up in timeliness. This is still distinct from real-time search, though, since the results come from Google’s standard web crawling, rather than instantaneous tracking of conversations on sites like Facebook and Twitter, as Search Product Manager Nundu Janakiram tells The New York Times . Another new feature lets users control how many shopping sites they see in their search results. If you’re actual...