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Bugs cause Indian PMO to dump MS Outlook
The office of the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has reportedly dumped Microsoft Outlook Express for open-source email SquirrelMail following a computer virus that caused a massive breakdown in communications, said media reports on Tuesday.
According to a report in www.theregister.co.uk, the decision to go for open source was taken following an outage that saw emails go missing and unanswered during a three-month period last year. Among the lost emails sent to India's PM were those of a retired air commodore, it said.
"Many mails reportedly sent were not received in the Outlook Express and subsequently the Outlook Express was discontinued and the SquirrelMail was used," the report quoted the PMO as admitting in a hearing of the Indian Central Information Commission.
SquirrelMail is an email application written in the PHP scripting language and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
source : http://www.ciol.com/News/News-Reports/Bugs-cause-Indian-PMO-to-dump-MS-Outlook-report/18309117391/0/
According to a report in www.theregister.co.uk, the decision to go for open source was taken following an outage that saw emails go missing and unanswered during a three-month period last year. Among the lost emails sent to India's PM were those of a retired air commodore, it said.
"Many mails reportedly sent were not received in the Outlook Express and subsequently the Outlook Express was discontinued and the SquirrelMail was used," the report quoted the PMO as admitting in a hearing of the Indian Central Information Commission.
SquirrelMail is an email application written in the PHP scripting language and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
source : http://www.ciol.com/News/News-Reports/Bugs-cause-Indian-PMO-to-dump-MS-Outlook-report/18309117391/0/
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
After Chak De, Congress tries Slumdog Millionaire’s Jai Ho
The Congress party has decided to adopt the song ‘Jai Ho’ from the movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ as it’s theme song for the coming Lok Sabha elections. The party has bought the rights to A.R. Rahman’s song from Danny Boyle’s film and the tune from music company T-Series, said a senior Congress leader. The Congress plans to use the song to convey the message that the Congress-led government has been a saga of hope for the common man.
- Cong hopes for a ‘Jai ho’, to use Rahman’s song for campaign, Press Trust of India, Mar 4 2009
- Congress gets “Jai Ho”, The Hindu, Mar 4 2009
- From Oscars to LS polls: Jai ho to be Cong tune now, Hindustan Times, Mar 4, 2009
BJP leader, Narendra Modi, reacted to this news with expected sarcasm.
- Congress deserves Oscar for mushrooming slums: Modi, Sify, Mar 3 2009
- Congress should get ‘credit’ for Slumdog’s Oscar glory: Modi, Hindustan Times, Mar 3 2009
Previously, Congress had used the song from Shah Rukh Khan’s movie Chak De! for it’s campaign in Gujarat. Hopefully A.R. Rahman’s song will prove to be luckier for the party.
We wonder what BJP’s theme song will be ? How about “Aa dekhe zaraa, kismey kitna hai dum” . Any other suggestions ?
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