TIMES BUSINESS THE TIMES OF , | THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 2010 RBI’S MONETARY POLICY IS ABSORBING EXCESS 3% OF GDP IS WASTED DUE TO CORROSION OF MACHINES LIQUIDITY, SAYS FM PRANAB MUKHERJEE AND TOOLS: MINISTER VILASRAO DESHMUKH EXECUTIVE DIGEST BlackBerry messenger service India Inc watches BB row keenly could be blocked, warns govt Swati Anand | TNN al market in India. If they’re banned, other phones like the TIMES NEWS NETWORK “We told the service : As the battle between Nokia E series and Apple’s iPhone providers in categorical terms BlackBerry maker Research in stand to gain. New : A day after the that the government will allow Motion (RIM) and the Indian gov- Snehal Mantri, marketing di- BlackBerry makers — Research them to offer those services ernment continues, India Inc is rector of Bangalore-based real es- in Motion (RIM) — expressed which could be intercepted by watching keenly.Governments are tate Mantri Developers, who is an their “inability” to provide ac- the security agencies. If any concerned they cannot monitor avid BlackBerry user is consid- cess to security agencies to in- service is not allowed to be in- BlackBerry traffic, because un- ering switching to iPhone or Win- tercept its messenger service, tercepted, we will not allow like rivals Nokia and Apple, RIM dows Mobile in case the ban comes the government on Wednesday them to run such services,” controls its own networks, which through. The entire marketing COMPUTING PROFIT: J T Wang-led Acer's warned that if the Canadian sources said. handle encrypted messages team as well as senior manage- profit surged 54% in Q2. Analysts had company does not come out with While expressing its inabili- through server centres in Cana- ment of the company has been as- expected that the firm’s sales in Europe to some ‘technical solution’, the ty to share access, RIM had said da and Britain. signed a BlackBerry. be battered due to the Eurozone debt crisis users will have to face blocking on Tuesday that the security ar- India is estimated to have over Nokia is already at an advan- of their ‘BlackBerry-to-Black- chitecture for its enterprise cus- 11 lakh BlackBerry users. “A sig- tageous position. Mobile adver- Berry messenger’ service even tomers is based on a symmetric nificant majority of this base tising networks Admob India ITI posts Q1 net loss though they would be able to key system whereby the cus- comprises of all top corporate shows that Nokia smartphones oc- continue with its voice and tomers create their own key and honchos in the country,”says Su- cupy all the ten slots in its Top Ten of Rs 63.83 cr email services. only they possess the copy of the jay Misra, MD of AZ Research smartphones list in May.In terms ITI, public sector telecom equipment Government sources said encryption. Partners. “And around 30% of all of share of operating systems in manufacturer, reported a net loss of Rs that once the company comes “RIM does not possess a BlackBerry users, have two Black- the smartphone market in India, 63.83 crore for the quarter ended June 30, out with a ‘technical solution’ master key nor does any back- Berrys — one for personal use and 2010. The company had recorded a net within seven to 10 days, as prom- these smart phones lies with the BSNL and MTNL are offering door exist in the system that one for work related use.” Misra BlackBerry was among loss of Rs 107.78 crore in the ised by it during a meeting with service providers, government BlackBerry services, it is the re- would allow RIM or any third himself carries two BlackBerrys. corresponding quarter of the 2009-10 Intelligence Bureau (IB) offi- sources said according to the li- sponsibility of these operators party to gain an unauthorised BlackBerry was among the the first phones to fiscal, ITI said in a filing to the Bombay cials, it will be tested by the se- censing conditions, the service to ensure that the security agen- access to the key or corporate first phones to introduce push introduce push mail Stock Exchange. curity agencies randomly.If the providers are liable to put in a cies get access to all the servic- data,” the company had said, mail service, where mail updates service, where mail Explaining the reason for the lower testing fails to have the desired mechanism to allow the securi- es they offer. adding RIM, therefore, will be hit the phone like an SMS, in In- losses this year vis-a-vis the previous result, the agencies will have no ty agencies to intercept any con- Sources further said that unable to accommodate any re- dia and was instantly lapped up updates hit the phone year, ITI chairman and managing director option but to block the messen- versation or message of any sub- RIM has so far only conveyed quest for a copy of a customer’s by corporates and entrepreneurs like an SMS, in India and K L Dhingra said in a statement: “we have ger service, they added. scriber whenever required. to the operators that services encryption key since at no time who were on the move. In time, was instantly lapped up been able to achieve this due to our Stating that the onus of giv- As telecom service providers like email and voicemail can be does RIM, or any wireless net- companies began doling out by corporates and prudent financial management and deft ing access to security agencies like Airtel, Vodafone, RCom, the intercepted by the security work operator, ever possess a BlackBerrys to not just their sen- handling of our operations.” to monitor the information on Tatas and the government-run agencies. copy of the key. ior managers, but also their mid- entrepreneurs who were “We are concentrating on new orders, management employees. So now, on the move. diversification of products and when there is a possibility that Many think that it would rationalisation of all our activities to turn India could go the UAE way and be prudent on RIM’s the company around as early as we can,” ban BlackBerry,the mood is that he added. Onus on operators to of concern. part to tow the Makers may resist “While national security is of government line. Toyota said Wednesday it roared to a net profit share information paramount importance, business of 190.4 billion yen, or $2.2. billion, in the April- users too need a secure and effi- June quarter, as sales in emerging markets New Delhi: In a new twist to the BlackBerry con- cient platform to communicate Symbian (Nokia’s OS) and iOS ac- and aggressive cost-cutting offset a strong government pressure troversy,the government on Tuesday said the onus while on the move,” says Keshav count for 96% of the market. Japanese currency and the lingering effects of of giving access to security agencies to monitor the Baljee, president and co-promoter Even globally, the European recalls on North American and European sales. New York: Under pressure from coun- Lazaridis de- information on these smart phones lies with the of the Royal Orchid group of ho- Commission (EU’s executive arm tries like India and UAE to provide ac- nied reports service providers. tels. Baljee himself has been using employing more than 32,000 people) Cathay Pacific Airways first-half net income cess to its customers’ messages, the that the compa- Government sources said, according to the li- a BlackBerry for many years and chose Apple’s iPhone and HTC de- surged more than eight-fold to HK$6.84 billion Canadian company which makes ny had already censing conditions, service providers are liable to has given out handsets to his sen- vices over BlackBerry when it de- ($881 million) helped by the sale of a stake in a BlackBerry on Tuesday made it clear granted special put in a mechanism to allow security agencies to ior staff and sales staff. “We have ployed a new technology platform maintenance provider and an 8.5% jump in that it will not allow such a thing to concessions to intercept any conversation or message of any sub- application wherein employees can in 2008 after measuring the plat- passenger numbers. happen as it would “imperil the firm’s the govern- scriber whenever required. access information on their desk- forms against a number of criteria relationship with customers.” ments of coun- As telecom service providers like Airtel, Voda- top, while on the move. If there is like security and financial impact. United Microelectronics second-quarter net “We are not going to compromise tries like India fone, RCom, Tatas and the government-run BSNL a ban, it will be very difficult for “The demands that the Indian income more than tripled to NT$5.3 billion that... That is what has made Black- and China, and MTNL are offering BlackBerry services, it is us to find a suitable substitute.” government is making is one that ($166 million) from NT$1.5 billion a year Berry the No.1 solution worldwide,” which have the responsibility of these operators to ensure that Venture capital firm Ven- any government can make. RIM earlier, the Hsinchu, Taiwan-based company Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-chief large numbers the security agencies get access to all services they tureast runs on BlackBerry — 25 should reach a common ground said in a statement. executive of RIM, told The New York of BlackBerry offer. Sources further said the maker of BlackBer- of its 32 employees, in its Chen- with the Indian government Times. owners. ry phones, RIM, has conveyed to the operators that nai and Hyderabad offices, carry soon,” says an industry expert. Foreign Direct Investment in the country His comments came as Indian se- “That’s ab- services like email and voicemail can be intercept- a BlackBerry handed out by the The Indian market is a signif- declined by about 45% to $1.41 billion in June curity agencies demanded that solutely ridicu- ed by the security agencies but no commitment has company.“Our mail is synced on icant one globally and it would be this year, an official said. The FDI inflows in BlackBerry allow them to monitor lous and patent- been given to services like BlackBerry Messager. Microsoft’s business productivi- foolhardy on RIM’s part to miss June 2009 were $2.58 billion. its services. ly false,” he said. RIM had said on Tuesday that not only the compa- ty oNline standard suite (BPOS). out on a market like India, espe- It also comes close on the heels of He said the encryption that was ny but even operators can decipher the encrpted So if BlackBerry services were to cially since it has already been Welspun India posted a net profit of Rs 15.55 Saudi Arabia ordering local cell- causing alarm among foreign govern- data on its smart phones. be withdrawn, it would have a sig- facing bans in West Asian coun- crore for the quarter ended June 30 this year. phone providers to halt BlackBerry ments was used for many other pur- “We told the service providers in categorical nificant financial implication,” tries. “Bad enough, Indian Black- In the corresponding period last fiscal, the service, saying it failed to meet reg- poses, including e-commerce transac- terms that the government will allow them to offer says K A Srinivasan, CFO of Ven- Berry users will now have to use company had registered a net profit of Rs ulatory requirements. Dubai will ban tions, teleconferencing and electronic those services which could be intercepted by the tureast. a separate phone when they trav- 33.27 crore. some of the Blackberry services from money transfers. security agencies. If any service is not allowed to Many think that it would be el to places like Dubai,” says Mis- October 1. “If you were to ban strong encryp- be intercepted, we will not allow them to run such prudent on RIM’s part to tow the ra. “They better resolve the issue TUV Rheinland, a global provider of technical, He said allowing governments to tion, you would shut down corpora- services,” sources said. While expressing inability government line. “Security is not in India soon. After all, most users safety and certification services, has set up a monitor messages shuttling across the tions, business, commerce, banking to share access, RIM had said on Tuesday that the a perceived threat, but a very real do not exchange information that large photo voltaic laboratory at Electronics BlackBerry network could endanger and the internet,” he said. security architecture for its enterprise customers one. So the government’s stand is is a threat to state security.” City in Bangalore. The centre, costing $3 the company’s relationships with its “Effectively,you’d shut it all down. is based on a symmetric key system whereby the justified,” says Kamlesh, princi- million, is spread over 20,000 sqft, and has five customers, which include major com- That’s not likely going to happen,” he customers create their own key and only they pos- pal research analyst at Gartner. (With inputs from Ishan climate chambers and two sun simulators. panies and law enforcement agencies. told The Times. AGENCIES sess the copy of the encryption. AGENCIES “BlackBerry enjoys a sizable loy- Srivastava) Deccan 360 now has two CEOs Gas-and-brake pedal gets

Anshul Dhamija & dia, has been hired to head the is also doing charters inde- Sujit John | TNN express logistics and distri- pendently.So we will run it as new look after recalls bution business. an independent profit centre. Daughter joins the biz Bangalore: Deccan 360, the The aviation business will Everything else is common. Hiroko Tabuchi cargo venture of aviation en- see H L Rikhye as its CEO. Deccan 360 has 2,000 people G R Gopinath’s elder daughter Pallavi has joined Deccan trepreneur Capt G R Gopinath, Rikhye has over three decades working for it, of which 400 are 360. She previously worked with Air- Tamana (Japan): Two pedals, has undergone a restructuring. of aviation experience, rang- on the company’s rolls, while bus, then ATR and then did an MBA. inches apart, one for gas and The 15- ing from flight test engineer to the rest are part of dedicated She’s an operations manager in the other for brakes. For years, month-old CEO at large national and in- franchises. Gopinath has fran- Deccan 360, based in Bangalore. “I a Japanese inventor has ar- enterprise ternational carriers such as chised the trucking and ware- told her to look after all the truck- gued that this most basic of car now has two SriLankan Airlines, Indian housing part of the business ing and warehousing, the land lo- designs is dangerously flawed. joint CEOs Airlines and Expo Air. G K to local players across India. gistics. She has a small team under The side-by-side pedal — one for the Anantha Raman continues as “The local guy can chase a her,” Gopinath said. arrangement, the inventor aviation the CFO of Deccan 360. rupee better, he can save a ru- So what’s the longer term plan says, can cause drivers mis- business and “I got two CEOs because avi- pee better, he’s local, he un- for her? “She will inherit my shares, takenly to floor the accelera- Gopinath the other for ation and express logistics are derstands the market, but he some of it, but she will not inherit tor instead of the brakes, es- the express two independent profit cen- is bound by a common net- Pallavi the CEO’s job because that will kill pecially under stress. The so- logistics (land operations) tres,” said Gopinath. “Even in work, a common plan, a com- the spirit of the company.And with lution? A single pedal that ac- business. Both will report to FedEx and UPS the person in- mon IT, and we have built the the kind of dilutions that takes place, you never know celerates the car when pressed the Board. charge of the express division IT in such a manner that he whether she would have the ability to automatically move with the side of the foot. More Thomas Matthew, an Indi- doesn’t know head or tail of the can today transfer the money in. In Southwest Airlines and Wal-Mart, the founders are to the point, when the pedal is Masuyuki Naruse, right, in his factory in Tamana, Japan an-Malaysian with over 25 aviation business. The aviation from his account into the com- there, they are shareholders, they are not running the pushed down, it always acti- years of experience in United division guy provides services pany’s account as soon as he companies. So this is basically a training ground for her, vates the brakes. ota Harrier has one of the ped- from the accelerator to the Parcel Service (UPS) and who to the express logistics guy.In generates an airway bill,” says she may want to do something on her own.” “We have a natural ten- als, said he switched after his brakes on cue, at times while set up UPS’ operations in In- my case, my aviation division Gopinath. dency to stomp down when we foot hit the gas instead of the accompanied by startling panic,” said the inventor, Ma- brakes and he almost struck a noises. Subjects under stress suyuki Naruse, who owns a bicyclist. sometimes hesitated or found small factory here in south- “I can never go back,” it difficult to switch from one west Japan. “The automakers Ohama said. “I now have peace pedal to the other, he said. call it driver error.But what if of mind, because there’s no The current standard ped- Be careful when you tweet about employers their design’s all wrong?” mistaking when there’s only al arrangement is a function Naruse, 74, is one of a hand- one pedal.” of automotive evolution. Shilpa Phadnis & very subjective process, and was involved in a drunken ful of people who have de- Ririko Takeuchi, a Tokyo- Naruse’s design is a unified Mini Joseph Tejaswi | TNN HR managers have the free- brawl in Goa,” she says. signed combined brake-accel- based spokeswoman for Toy- pedal, shaped to accommodate dom to hire or reject a candi- Though this information was erator pedals in an effort to ota, said the company could the entire foot. On the right side Bangalore: If you thought date based on his/her online not available in police records, prevent accidents caused by not comment on Naruse’s ped- is an accelerator bar. At any your joke about your employ- social networking behaviour. an obscure online newspaper unintended acceleration, al design. But she said Toyota point, the driver can push down er or prospective employer on- LinkedIn profiles are in- had report the matter. which has come under a spot- “listens to ideas we receive on the pedal to activate the line would go unnoticed, per- creasingly becoming a must- It can be cumbersome to light since charges that some from the public, because we brakes, while automatically re- ish the thought. HR folk are see for hiring mid and senior scan social networking sites Toyota vehicles accelerate believe there’s always room for leasing the accelerator bar. tracking you online and many management cadres. “It start- when you are hiring hiring without warning. improvement.” “Simply speaking, the con- companies are running pre- ed with IT hiring, but is freshers, and especially if you Regulators in Sweden are “If you ask whether the ventional pedal setup, which employment checks by ac- spreading to other industry are hiring in large numbers. testing a single-pedal prototype current pedal design is the best forces drivers to switch back cessing your Facebook, Twit- verticals,” says Madan Pada- But some believe it will soon by the inventor Sven Gustafs- we can do, the answer is no,” and forth between pedals, is ter, Orkut, MySpace and ki, CEO of skill assessment become part of the general son. In Japan, about 130 cars Takeuchi said. dangerous,” Matsunaga said. LinkedIn profiles. They are firm MeriTrack. hiring procedure. equipped with Naruse’s pedal, Naruse’s pedal, in various “Naruse’s pedal works be- also hiring third-party verifi- Ajay Trehan, founder and Padaki says companies mostly owned by friends and versions, has been around for cause it takes into account how cation agencies to track your CEO of background screening should also develop a judg- acquaintances, have been de- two decades. But until recently our bodies work,” he said. “It digital footprint. And that can firm Authbridge, says one of ment pattern, identifying clared street-legal, including his testimonials fell mostly on makes sure that when we make or mar your career. his clients rejected a candidate what is good, bad, irrelevant Naruse’s own Mitsubishi Dia- deaf ears — despite many acci- make a mistake, the car stops.” Employees should err on for a director’s position be- he had not revealed that to our news about candidates. or impactful, on the internet. mante sedan. He holds patents dents linked to pedal confusion. Replacing standard pedals the side of caution while post- cause they found a discrepan- client,” says Trehan. Vineeta Singh, director in Otherwise they could mis- for the Naruse (pronounced In experiments in Japan by with the Naruse device re- ing information related to cy in his graduation year men- Manish Sabharwal, chair- HR solutions firm Quetzal interpret a casual or frivo- NAH-roo-say) Pedal in Japan, Katsuya Matsunaga, an engi- quires no big changes to a car’s companies on social net- tioned in the company records man, TeamLease Services, Verify,says even blogs are ex- lous comment and lose a the United States and six oth- neering and psychology spe- braking or acceleration sys- working sites. Nandita Gur- and on LinkedIn. “When we calls it a “hygiene exercise”, amined. “A fresher from good candidate. er countries. cialist at Kyushu Sangyo Uni- tems, Naruse said, and retro- jar, group head (HR), Infosys did a due diligence, we found where HR managers trawl the Kharagpur was rejected for Still, you should watch out Yasuto Ohama, a security versity in Fukuoka City,driv- fitting costs about 1,00,000 yen Technologies, says hiring is a that he had failed in 1979 but net for any piece of negative the job after we found that he before you ping and poke! company executive whose Toy- ers were asked to switch feet ($1,156) each. NYT NEWS SERVICE