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Enticing girls THE UK Government is teaming up with the music industry in an attempt to entice young girls into technology. ITbeat is a nationwide initiative, designed to encourage girls aged 11- 15 to rethink their attitudes to careers in information technology. The initiative is a response to statistics that found that the number of female technology professionals in the UK has fallen dramatically over the last seven years to a low of just 20 per cent. The project, developed by e-skills UK, the Department of Trade and Industry, IBM, the Science Museum and some members of the music industry, will offer teenage girls the chance to design a Website for their favourite pop star. To inject a bit of girl power into the geeky image of technology, ITbeat has recruited young female role models including Kiss FM DJ Alison Hulme, Director of E-Music for Sony Andrea Duffy and Shannon Ferguson, Director of Entertainment at Yahoo!. Pop stars Liberty X, Rhianna and 3SL have also lent their support to the project. Statistics from research firm IDC show that the UK will increase its spending on technology by £17bn by 2005, creating another 5,00,000 jobs. Census Acrobat The department of Census, the single largest source of population statistics, has chosen Adobe Acrobat to create data in PDF format. This is the first time that the department will be offering data to its customers in PDF form, a company release said. "The amount of data we generate and manage every year is varied and enormous. Adobe Acrobat was definitely our first choice to create electronic data in PDF format", C. Chakraborty, joint director, Data Dissemination Wing, Census department, said. "We are closely working with various government departments on the deployment of Adobe Acrobat to convert paper based documents to PDF format," S. Anghia, business development manager, Adobe India, said. Virus ‘designer’ Scotland Yard said a British Website designer had been charged with sending computer viruses around the globe, including one rated the world’s third most prolific. Simon Vallor, 21, from Llandudno, in Wales, was arrested by British police following a tip-off from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has been charged with hacking and sending the "Gokar Redesi" and "Admirer" e-mail computer viruses, and with the possession of indecent images of children. The "Gokar Redesi" virus, which sent itself to everyone in an e-mail address book, affected computers in 46 countries, making it the world’s third most prolific. Vallor appeared before London’s Bow Street Magistrates and was bailed to return on December 20, a Scotland Yard spokesman said. Cellular base grows India’s cellular
subscriber base has grown by 5.21 per cent in the month of October 2002
to touch 89.7 lakh customers as against 85.3 lakh in September. Industry’s
monthly additions went up from 3.61 lakh in September 2002 to 4.45 lakh
in October this year, according to the latest figures released by
Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). The subscribers’
figures, however, do not include October data from
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