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Article Title: Bihar govt picks Bartronics smart cards
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MUMBAI, INDIA: Bihar government's Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) has selected Bartronics India Limited (BIL), a provider of solutions based on AIDC technologies, to provide smart cards for health insurance coverage.

The RSBY scheme aims at providing health insurance cover to below poverty line population of the state.

The cards will facilitate portability of benefits and cashless medical cover up to Rs 30,000 for the unorganized sector worker and his family (unit of five) per annum.

The scheme will cover over 39 lakh families across eight districts of Bihar and will launched in June 2008. The scheme allows each participating state to cover 20 per cent of their respective districts each year.

Almost every large state government has expressed its intention of joining the scheme and many have already issued tender notices.

In Bihar, Oriental Insurance Company Limited is spearheading the effort with Medicare TPA Service (I) Ltd. as the implementation partner.

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Yahoo! comes to Israel

_{On the Radio I heard this News Today:
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Yahoo! comes to Israel

_{By Raz Smolsky and Maayan Cohen haaretz.com}

Internet giant Yahoo! is coming to Israel, and not only over the Net. The company is taking its battle for survival against Google and Microsoft to Israel on two levels. It will open a research and development center in Haifa, and will also enter the content side of the business here for the first time through a cooperation agreement with Walla!, which is partly owned by Haaretz.

Yahoo! is following Google, which set up R&D centers in Tel Aviv and Haifa, as well as establishing a marketing center that also deals in joint content arrangements with Israeli portals. Microsoft, meanwhile, has set up a sales and marketing branch in Ra'anana, as well as R&D centers in Tel Aviv and Herzliya.

Yahoo! is now negotiating office space in the Matam high-tech park in Haifa; and is expected to open its research center within a few months.

Google kicked off in the Middle East with its Haifa R&D center in July 2006, despite the Second Lebanon War at the time; the center was its first in the region and only its fourth outside of the U.S. Other well-known companies in the Matam industrial park include Intel, Microsoft, Elbit and Zim.

Yahoo!'s first foray into the Israeli content market is based on a strategic deal signed with portal Walla!. The goal is to threaten Google's hegemony in the Israeli search market for the first time and the real challenge is to compete in search-based advertising.

Under the long-term deal signed between Yahoo! and Walla!, the technology and databases will come from Yahoo!, but the search engine will be branded as Walla! Search, the name of Walla!'s present engine.

Only six months ago there were reports that Walla! was negotiating with Google in the search market, but no agreement was ever reached. Google usually partners with a local search engine by providing the technology and the advertisements, while the revenues are split.

The joint Walla!-Yahoo! venture will continue using Walla!'s AdVantage platform. This will allow Walla! to continue to manage the advertising itself, and it will receive a higher percentage of the revenues than in a deal that also included advertising, such as Google proposed.

According to Walla! CEO Ilan Yeshua: "The search and advertising in search results sector is one of the fastest growing in the world, and also in Israel. The agreement with Yahoo! allows us to offer Walla!'s surfers an excellent search product ... for the Israeli user. The agreement will help Walla! increase its market share in the search-based advertising market. The existence of another strong player in the search and textual advertising sector will contribute to competitiveness , both in the search experience and in the range of possibilities available to advertisers."

Yahoo! and Walla! had previously discussed technological cooperation in the past, but nothing serious came of it. Walla!'s previous management, replaced in 2006, was never willing to allow outsiders to share its advertising revenues.

Israeli Internet advertising was estimated at $90 million in 2007, 10% of the total advertising pie. Of this figure, search engine advertising took about half, $40-50 million, the large majority of which went to Google.

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Linux News: 12:01 Jan 30, 2008
Microsoft and Novell Provide Renault With Interoperability
Under the agreement, Microsoft will deliver to Renault more than 1,000 certificates for priority support subscriptions to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell ( R), as Renault consolidates existing Linux* distributions to SUSE Linux

And you thought Java is Dead...!?

And you thought Java is Dead...!?

Subject: Java as a language is dead - What now?
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Forrester Calls Desktop Linux a Credible Threat to Windows

Forrester Calls Desktop Linux a Credible Threat to Windows
November 14, 2007
By Peter Galli  from eweek.com

Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow over the next year as its distributors continue to work hard at making it an enterprise-class offering, research group Forrester predicts.
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"Will desktop managers continue down the path of standardization on the Windows platform, and will Linux not exist on enterprise desktops? Not a chance," Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray says in a report released Nov. 12 and titled, "How Windows Vista Will Shake Up The State Of The Enterprise Operating System."


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"The high volume of client inquiries for Linux on the desktop clearly indicates it's not going away any time soon. Expect Linux to experience growth over the next year as the distributors work hard to make it an enterprise-class offering,"

But Windows Vista will be deployed across at least one-quarter of PCs in North American and European enterprises next year as desktop managers start moving away from the Windows XP platform, which will still run the majority of PCs within corporate environments, Gray predicts.

To read more about why businesses are still in no rush to upgrade to Windows Vista, click here.

The study was based on a survey of 1,001 hardware decision-makers at North American and European enterprises. Some 43 percent were from large businesses with between 1,000 and 4,999 employees; 35 percent were from very large enterprises of 5,000 to 19,999 staff, and 22 percent were from Global 2000 enterprises with 20,000 or more employees.


Nearly half of the enterprises surveyed said they have concrete plans to deploy Windows Vista, and 7 percent will have started their deployments by the end of 2007. That figure rises to 32 percent by the end of 2008, with another 17 percent planning to deploy Vista in 2009 or beyond.

But the report also acknowledges what everyone already knows: that Vista adoption within the enterprise has been extremely slow, currently standing at just 2 percent. "The era of Windows Vista within enterprises has officially started, with a whimper," Gray says in the report.

Read more here about Windows Vista SP1.

"But think of it as the snowflakes before the storm. Vista adoption has been cautious at best in the first six to eight months since its initial release, hovering at just 2 percent…North American and Global 2000 enterprises are leading the adoption with 3 percent of PCs currently running the operating system, while European enterprises have yet to begin deploying it. Many are waiting for news on SP1, which Microsoft has confirmed will be released in Q1 of 2008," he said

The study also says that while 90 percent of enterprises have become Windows XP shops, a surprising 9 percent remain Windows 2000 shops.

"The success of Windows Vista will largely be judged on the rate at which Windows XP shops upgrade to it, but, more immediately, Windows 2000 shops have essentially already hit this fork in the road. Will these enterprises make the jump straight to Windows Vista, or will they incrementally upgrade to Windows XP? And if they move to Windows XP, is it because they're not yet ready to deploy Windows Vista or a calculated decision to avoid that operating system?" he asks in the report.

Microsoft is looking to the holidays to lift Vista's prospects. Click here to read more.

The answer, the study found, was that only 38 percent of enterprises with more than half their PCs running Windows 2000 have specific Windows Vista deployment plans, and they are also not likely to move to Windows Vista in the near-term.

Only 4 percent are planning a deployment before the end of 2007, with just 20 percent looking to begin their rollout before the end of next year, the report said.

In contrast, Windows XP shops have more aggressive deployment plans, with just under half looking to deploy Windows Vista in 2010 or beyond, it found.