New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) IT system integrator firm Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic (HSMC) on Monday launched TonerSaver, a Windows-based software that can help organizations reduce toner consumption by up to 75 per cent, thereby slashing printing costs.

“TonerSaver is the ideal product for organizations as it helps generate substantial cost savings, which, in turn, make a direct difference to the bottom line,” said Tarun Seth, Managing Director, Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic, in a statement.

TonerSaver uses patented printer driver algorithms that control toner and ink usage on all Windows-based printers and reduces consumption of toner and ink at an incremental rate of one per cent.

The software auto-detects laser and inkjet printers and applies optimized saving technology for each type of printer.

The company will provide free customer support, maintenance release (bug fix) and version up support to all customers.

BENGALURU: Karnataka, which is grappling with a garbage glut, has mooted 3R Environmental Parks for the 219 urban local bodies, including Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).
Based on the three principles of reducing, reuse and recycle, these 3R Environmental Parks will be developed and operated on the lines of the software parks that dot Bengaluru and other parts of the state. An order to this effect was issued last week by the department of forest, environment, and ecology and the government is expected to make a formal announcement soon.
“These parks will offer integrated solutions for all municipal solid waste (garbage) disposal problems,” a senior IAS officer told TOI. At present, around 8,700 tons of garbage are generated in the state every day: while BBMP generates 3,500 tons per day , the remaining 218 urban local bodies churn out about 5,200 tons daily. The situation will only worsen in the coming years as population growth projections for 2032 predict a three-fold increase in waste generation from the present level.
In fact, the urban local bodies are already finding it difficult to handle garbage because of insufficient infrastructure and obsolete technology . “Moreover, resistance has been mounting from locals against setting up of solid waste processing units in their areas. It was in this backdrop that the 3R parks were mooted; these will house all private and public waste processing units with all environmental safeguards in place. These parks will be in tune with the Solid Waste Management Rules 2011, notified by the Centre,” the officer added.
To start with, 10 such parks will be set up on 100-acre plots each. While three such parks will be developed around Bengaluru (beyond 10km radius) the remaining seven will be established in other city municipal councils. The waste-to-energy plant proposed by Karnataka Power Corporation Limited at Bidadi will be converted into a 3R Environmental Park by acquiring an additional 25 acres of land.
These parks will be developed by the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) and maintained by Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB). Wherever government land isn’t available, the authorities are entitled to acquire private land for these projects. The government will extend financial concessions to waste processing units as per the Swachh Bharat Mission. This apart, 4(g) exemption under the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurement (KTTP) Act 1999 will be given to waste-to-energy units with handling the capacity of 100 tons per day and established under a PPP model.
ALL IN ONE PLACE
Every 3R park will come up on a 100-acre plot beyond a radius of 10km from the municipal boundary. These parks shall have a buffer area that’s at least 100 meters wide. They’ll have compound walls of sufficient height and the buffer zone will be earmarked for the forest department to plant trees having dense green foliage. The small-scale recycling, segregating and reuse units that are functioning in the city will be relocated to these parks. Segregation, waste-to-energy plants, composting units, bio mechanisation plants, incinerators, briquette plants, e-waste processing units, paper, plastic, glass, rubber, metal recycling units, effluent treatment plants will be set up in these parks.
For years now, Bengaluru has been struggling with its garbage, with no solution in sight. The growing muck piles are not just defacing the city, but also repeatedly highlighting the government and BBMP’s inability to address the issue. If implemented in earnest, these environmental parks could wipe Bengaluru clean of its murky image. The startup city’s software parks are its defining structures. Similarly, these 3R Environmental Parks could redefine the image of a city that has, sadly, turned from a Garden City to a Garbage City. What’s needed is concerted effort, timely implementation and a commitment to see the project through.

auMina 2.4 Drives Business Outcomes by Addressing Core Business Issues
Uniphore Software Systems, a Chennai-based speech recognition solutions company, today announced the availability of the next version of their popular speech analytics solution, auMina. auMina version 2.4 introduces first-of-its-kind innovation of business packs, specifically designed to drive a set of business outcomes by providing predictive and prescriptive insights from data. The latest version enables quicker value realization through faster and standardized deployments by leveraging intelligence gained from multiple deployments. This release introduces 2 new business packs: the voice of customer analytics pack and a banking industry pack.
The voice of customer analytics pack will drive richer customer engagement by predicting a customer’s intent of call.
The banking industry pack will address business outcomes of reducing the risk of non-collection, increase cross-sell and upsell effectiveness, enhance customer experience and increase contact center efficiency through workforce optimization.
Business packs include pre-built industry aligned KPIs and metrics that will help enterprises realize their business outcomes faster without a lengthy discovery phase.
Speaking of the launch, Umesh Sachdev, Co-founder and CEO said, “We are excited to roll out this new version of our speech analytics software, auMina. This version will not only drive enhanced customer experience but will also offer a range of solutions that will help enterprises realize their business objectives at a much faster rate. With ever-growing consumer needs, it is crucial for enterprises to deploy solutions that rapidly address key business issues. auMina 2.4 is specifically designed to drive key business outcomes for our banking industry clients.”
Additional features of this new release include an enhanced ability to perform root cause analysis on data and a refined emotion detection capability.
About Uniphore:
Uniphore Software Systems is headquartered in IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai. Uniphore was incubated in IIT Chennai, India in 2008 and currently has offices in India, Philippines, and U.A.E with about 100 employees spread across all locations. Uniphore’s investors include Kris Gopalakrishnan, IDG Ventures India, India Angel Network, Your nest Fund, Stata Ventures. Uniphore has worked with over 70 enterprise customers and served over 4 million end users. Uniphore was recognized by Deloitte as a Technology Fast 500 company in Asia Pacific in 2014 and was also ranked as the 10th fastest growing technology company in India by Deloitte Fast 50 in 2015. Uniphore’s Co-Founder and CEO, Umesh Sachdev was recognized by the TIME Magazine list of 2016 amongst ’10 Millennials Changing The World’, and with India’s edition of MIT Technology Review’s ‘Innovators Under 35’ for the year 2016.

former software engineer from India, who claimed he was paid less than Americans, working for the Indian technology services company Accenture, has settled a class-action suit before it went to trial, with the company agreeing to pay up to $500,000.
Details were yet to come in of the case which Accenture settled out of court, according to documents filed in New York state court. However, the case has wider ramifications pertaining to the 85,000 H-1B visas given out every year, including 20,000 for students who graduate from US universities.
The Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has given ample hints in his campaign speeches that he wants to shut down the H-1B visa program for foreign workers, or at least to modify it so that it does not allow American workers to be replaced by cheaper foreign labor.
By settling the case with the software engineer from India, Accenture seems to have given some basis to Trump’s allegations. A class action suit if it had gone forward would likely have brought up more such cases to light.
Accenture has been in the legal spotlight over the past few years.
Last year, H. B. Fuller Co. won a $12.8 million arbitration case against Accenture, after a fallout over contract obligations in implementation of new enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. An arbitrator in Minneapolis also ruled that H.B. Fuller did not owe another $1.4 million in fees, bringing total damages to more than $14 million.
In 2001, Accenture paid the United States government $63.675 million to resolve a lawsuit regarding fraud, illegal commissions (kickbacks), and rigged bids.
The lawsuit by the Justice Department alleged that Accenture submitted or caused to be submitted false claims for payment under numerous contracts with agencies of the United States for information technology services.

Bhubaneswar: Software engineer Rakesh Pattnaik, who went missing in Mahendra Taneya river at Paralakhemundi while taking a selfie on Wednesday, was found dead a day later. The rescue teams of police and fire brigade fished out his body from the water in the morning.
This is perhaps the first official selfie death in the state. On September 26, engineering student Subhendu Nayak was seriously injured after he came in contact with an overhead live wire near Mancheswar railway station while posing for a selfie atop a goods train.
Babuli Nayak, inspector-in-charge of Paralakhemundi police station, said: “Pattnaik and his friend was taking selfies after climbing onto the branch of a tree which was jutting over the river. Accidentally he slipped and fell into the river. We tried a lot to trace him, but to no avail.”
The mishap took place close to B N Palace, a popular tourist hangout in town. Police said Pattnaik, who was working in a top IT company in Bangalore and had come to his native in Gajapati district for Dussehra, had first taken some selfies with his friend in the palace before trying a different shot and thereby plunging to his death.

PM Modi on Pakistan:
Today I am speaking to the people Pakistan directly.
From the leaders who read speeches written by terrorists, the world can expect nothing. But I want to speak to the people of Pakistan directly.
I want to remind Pakistan, before 1947, your ancestors used to consider undivided India their land, worshiped it. And in their memory, I want to tell you something.
The people of Pakistan please ask your leaders, you have PoK. You cannot manage it.
Bangladesh used to be yours, you couldn’t manage it. You cannot manage Gilgit, Baltistan, Pakhtun, Balochistan, Sindh…and you are talking about Kashmir.
People of Pakistan must ask their leaders to first give secure lives to their citizens.
People of Pakistan ask your leaders, Both our countries got freedom together. Why do India export software and your country export terrorists?
I want to tell the people of Pakistan to confuse you, your leaders have worked for ages. I am ready to face that challenge.
I want to tell the people, If you have what it takes, lets compete to end poverty in our countries.
Lets see who gets there first. People of Pakistan and India will like this competition.
The youth of Pakistan, come lets fight. Lets see who ends unemployment first – India or Pakistan.
Lets fight against illiteracy. Newborns, pregnant mothers die in both India and Pakistan. Lets see who can save them first.
And leaders of Pakistan hear this. The sacrifice of 18 of our soldiers will not go in vain.
India has succeeded in isolating you in the world. We will ramp it up and force you live alone in the world.
That day is not far when people of Pakistan will get in the fray to fight against their leaders and terrorists.
My dear countrymen, the future of our nation is connected to peace and good thoughts.
Our country wins when we stand together, say in one voice, have one resolution.
Today 1.25 billion Indians are ready to pay any price for our pride and peace. That’s why I see a glorious future for India.
My dear countrymen, on Deen Dayal Upadhyay’s birth anniversary we have decided to re-dedicate ourselves to work for the poor.
In the 21st century, our goal should be that India should be free from poverty, full of prosperity.
India should aim to be- Free from injustice, land of justice, Free from filth, land of cleanliness, free from corruption, land of transparency, free from unemployment, land of employment.
India should be- Free from crimes against women, land of dignity for women, free from disappointment, land of hope.
On Deen Dayal Upadhyay’s birth anniversary let these are our guiding goals.
PM Modi on terrorism:
We’ve been hearing it for a while – the 21st century is Asia’s century. And Asia has all it takes to achieve that.
But there is one country in Asia that is working towards thwarting that vision.
It is doing all it can to ensure Asia is bloodied, it is bruised by violence, falls prey to terror.
Wherever terrorism is happening in Asia, the blame is on one country.
Not just India, every country in Asia believes this. One country is exporting terror everywhere.
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, all neighboring countries and in the world, wherever a terror attack takes place.
It emerges either the terrorist set out from here or after the attack, like Osama Bin Laden, took refuge here.
Brothers and sisters, people of Kerala know what terrorism looks like.
Kerala’s daughters, nurses, were taken away by terrorists. Entire India was tensed.
But entire Kerala saw, how the government in Delhi returned the daughters of Kerala to their homes.
Terrorism is an enemy of humanity. Humanitarians all over the world have to unite and condemn terror.
India never has and never will bow down to terror, it will defeat terror.
The entire country is seeing the effects of terror.
In Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri, 18 soldiers had to sacrifice their lives.
Let terrorists hear this, India will never forget this Page Design Web.
In the last few months, 17 times terrorists in groups of 4 or 6 have tried crossing the border to spread destruction.
But our brave soldiers thwarted those efforts, they slew them on the LoC.
In the last few months, our soldiers have killed 110 terrorists – the highest in recent years.
Saving the countries from these 17 possible attacks was done by our soldiers, they stood guard and secured our citizens, we are proud of their service, their sacrifice.
You can imagine, the neighboring country succeeded in one attack and 17 soldiers had to fall prey.
If they had succeeded in all 17 incidents what would have happened?
Our soldiers, our police, all our security forces have won these battles not just because of the weapons. Weapons are toys.
Soldiers win on confidence, and India’s confidence is flying at its highest. This is our strength.
Leaders of the neighboring country said will fight 1,000 years, where did they disappear, we cant see them anymore.
And today’s leaders, they read speeches written by terrorists and singing about Kashmir.

PM Modi on BJP Ideology:
In the last century, India’s political life was influenced by three people, Mahatma Gandhi, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and Ram Manohar Lohia.
When elected members of the NDA chose me as their leader and when I gave the first speech on the floor of the Parliament, I had said this government is dedicated to the poor.
This comes from the thinking of Mahatma Gandhi and Deen Dayal Upadhyay. Our directive is based on their ideology.
And I want to assure BJP workers of Kerala, the service you have given, the injustices you have endured, the sacrifices you have made will not go in vain.
They will bear fruit and the BJP will herald progress in Kerala.
Kerala has all the capability to become India’s top state.
The BJP and the Indian government will be ready to all it takes to make this happen.
India is moving forward with one mantra- Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas.
The whole world recognizes India to be the world’s fastest-growing major economy.

India’s GDP is a function of its export of Information Technology to the Western world, let us acknowledge it far and loud, for once. There are brilliant codes written, genius software developed, in large numbers, literally every day. Tons of money is spent on the research and development of each of this software and hence, there is a major need to safeguard these intellectual properties – yes, they are that! – which drive India’s growth in more ways than one.

In this article, we look at protecting the intellectual rights of a software, a much-underrated entity although it makes for some of the highest copyright infringements.
Computer-related inventions can be really tricky. Firstly, you have to describe the invention very cleanly such that it makes sense and that, let me say, is not an easy job, especially when it relates to computers and software – areas not easily comprehensible to laypersons.

It is still easy to define the functionality that is required by the customer, and if you have the required coding skills, you can even build a programme that fulfills the desired functionality, but – and there is a big but here – the area that has to be protected by a patent lies somewhere in between. It lies midway between the functionality that is desired and the code that is written to achieve it. This makes defining it all very difficult, especially for those who are new to the area of patenting Attendant Design.

Software Patenting
“How to patent a software” is a hot question amongst many tech entrepreneurs in India, and in this day and age, when our country is undergoing a major entrepreneurial boom, we need a convincing answer to that question.

To put it in simple words, a software can be patented in India but it might not always be permitted.

Where Does India Stand On Patenting Software
In India, there was a clause proposed to include software patents way back in 2005 but the honorable Parliament of India rejected it. A common argument given in this regard is that software patenting form for minor inventions. So, as the argument goes, an invention that can be easily and individually replicated by many others should not be granted since it will only work to decelerate the progress of the field concerned.

If you think hard, there is a point there but less so when the country is India, a software giant in its own regard. This is in contrast to countries such as the US, Australia, and even Singapore, which allow the patenting of software innovations within their political boundaries.

Why Does The Indian Patent Office Reject Most Applications?
Section 3(K) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970 reads that “mathematical or business method or a computer program per se or algorithms” do not fall under the category of items that can be patented in India.

Therefore, keeping the law of our land in mind, the Patent Office duly rejects the majority of the applications even though they may be high on innovation, fortunately, or unfortunately.

Is There A Way Around It?
Yes! There is a workaround. If you go through the Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure pedantically, it states that not all computer programs fall under the category which cannot be patented in India. Hence, there are some kinds of software that can indeed be patented in India.

How To Safeguard Your Software In India Then?
The trick is not to patent the software program. Instead, try to patent the product in which the software plays an integral part, a very integral part, so much so that the software stands out more than the product itself.

That way, when you are patenting the product, you invariably provide patent protection to the accompanying software program too and you do that in the subtlest of ways, playing according to the rules made by the government.

Since we have discussed in detail about patenting, it is only fair that we look at other means of safeguarding intellectual property too, namely copyright and trademark registration. Do not underestimate them by any means in India.

Copyright For Software
In order to protect software in India, this mode of protecting intellectual property is all the more common. What needs to be done then? Simple: register computer software and programs as works of literature according to Section 2(O) of the Copyright Act, 1957. So, a copyright protection makes more sense for safeguarding software in India.

When you are applying for copyright registration at the copyright office, you need to submit the source code along with the duly filled-in application form.

Trademark Registration
In addition to patenting and copyright registration, the trademark registration can also be used to safeguard the brand name of the software.

One software product may have any number of brand names. For example, if a software offers an only one of its kind functionality, say it allows you to “bulk send” pictures, then you can trademark the term “bulk send” so that your competitors are not able to use it.

Even if your competitors do come up with a similar feature, they will have to devise their own term which may not be instantly popular and will definitely not be able to feed off the popularity your term has pre-created. So, there is a small win for you.

Trademark registration is often underrated when it comes to protecting a software, be it in India or in lands where a provision for filing patents for software programs exist.

If the software or the product name is not trademark registered, the competition can make use of the catchy terms built by you and exploit the lack of patent laws concerning software in India.

So, it is necessary to be careful when it comes to software safeguarding. You need to protect the business from legal tangles or get in touch with firms who can help you out. These throw completely different challenges when it comes to safeguarding, in comparison to say protecting a piece of art. The latter is much simpler.

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