Social media beating job portals in Job Search

Start-up companies building applications using social-media tools to pinpoint the right candidate for a job are prompting a wave of change in corporate hiring. With their ability to reach out to people who are not even scouting for a job, these technology-enabled startups look set to steal a lead over internet job portals that feature only candidates actively seeking new opportunities. In less than a year of operations, some of these startups...

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Google announces Let's Talk Mo service; helps create mobile site for free

Google India has come up with a new service called 'Let's Talk Mo', which aims to enable small and medium businesses to reach out to the 70 million mobile users in the country. With the Let's Talk Mo service, Google will help businesses create mobile sites for free. “With Indian smartphone users spending over 157 mins daily on the mobile web (89 percent of them are searching for information), the user-experience is not optimized for the mobile...

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IT firm Wipro join hands with Google to offer cloud computing solutions

Technology services firm Wipro has partnered with internet search engine provider Google to offer cloud computing solutions that leverage the vastcomputing infrastructure that the search major has built over the past several years. Wipro will build technology services solutions such as developing applications using Google App Engine, cloud-based storage solutions that use Google's vast data centers and data analytics that require significant...

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Analysts Reveal Exactly How Much Windows 8 Will Boost Flagging PC Sales

Analysts at IDC said Friday that the launch of Windows 8 in October will be directly responsible for boosting the flat U.S. PC market into a period of moderate growth next year. And they were surprisingly specific about how big a bump Microsoft’s new operation system will deliver. David Daoud, research director of personal computing at IDC, said the firm is attributing 5 percentage points of U.S. PC market unit growth to Windows 8. From Flat...

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‘Application development market to grow 22.6% in 2012’

The Indian application development maintenance (ADM) software market is expected to be worth more than $227 million in 2012, an increase of 22.6 per cent over 2011, according to research firm Gartner. Growth will be driven by new software delivery models, new development methodologies, emerging mobile application development and open source software. As more users switch from laptops to tablets and smartphones, the shift will hasten change in...

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Google concerned about dwindling number of women at higher positions

At Google, data is king. Now the company is using data to figure out if it can anoint a few queens. The company hopes its famous algorithms can solve one of the most vexing problems facing Silicon Valley: how to recruit and retain more women. Google has generally been considered a place where women have thrived, but it wants to figure out how to compete even more vigorously for the relatively few women working in technology. Executives had...

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Microsoft launches new logo after 25 years

Microsoft will use a new logo for the first time in over two and a half decades. The software titan has created a new logo which has been heavily inspired by the emblem of Windows operating system. This change in the logo also shows the company's focus on the tile-centric Metro interface, which it uses in the Windows Phone platform, XBOX 360 and the upcomingWindows 8 and Office suite. On the Microsoft Blog on TechNet, Jeff Hansen, the general...

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Source says that Iran is speeding up work on nuclear program

Washington: International nuclear inspectors will soon report that Iran has installed hundreds of new centrifuges in recent months and may also be speeding up production of nuclear fuel while negotiations with the United States and its allies have ground to a near halt, according to diplomats and experts briefed on the findings. Almost all of the new equipment is being installed in a deep underground site on a military base near Qum that...

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Internet analysts question India's efforts to stem panic

Mumbai: The Indian government's efforts to stem a weeklong panic among some ethnic minorities has again put it at odds with Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter. Officials in New Delhi, who have had disagreements with the companies over restrictions on free speech, say the sites are not responding quickly enough to their requests to delete and trace the origins of doctored photos and incendiary posts aimed at people from northeastern...

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Limited space on your PC? Use ‘cloud storage‘ to your advantage

Filled up the space on your mobile phone or tablet? As long as you have working internet on both ends, you can access your home computer's hard drive from anywhere. Use Your PC as a Personal Cloud To do this, you need to set up remote access to your computer — simpler than it sounds. A small server application needs to be installed on your home computer. LogMeIn (www.logmein.com) provides free server software for Windows and MAC OS X. Once...

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Apple is the most valuable company, ever

                                    Apple is the world's most valuable company, ever. On Monday, its surging stock propelled the company's value to $623 billion, beating the record for market capitalization set by Microsoft Corp. in the heady days of the Internet boom. ...

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Infosys, Wipro focusing on employees‘ecopreneurship

Six months ago, Infosys freed up two executives from their daily grind, gave them their own labs, financial grants and a licence to chase ideas in alternate energy. Vishwas Vidyaranya is now trying to produce electricity from bacteria and Deepan is looking at seawater as a source for power, in Mysore and Chennai respectively. Executive co-chairman S Gopalakrishnan handpicked the two after an in-house competition on alternative energy sources,...

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Coal loss Rs 1.86L cr, Delhi airport 24K cr, power 29K cr: CAG

New Delhi/India: The Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) reports on allocation of coal blocks without bidding and the Delhi airport concession given to GMR and power projects was tabled in Parliament on Friday. The report says that 44 billion tonnes of coal was given away at throw-away prices, while 194 coal blacks were allocated on mere recommendations. Importantly, as against the draft report, the final CAG report was silent on the role...

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Android top selling OS in smartphone market: Gartner

Google's operating system, Android has extended its lead in the smartphone market, as Apple's sales were stalled ahead of the launch of its new iPhone 5, according to new research. Industry analysts at Gartner claimed that Android was installed on 64.1 per cent of smarphones sold worldwide in the second quarter, compared to 43.4 per cent a year ago, as opposed to 18.8 per cent of Apple's smartphone operating system market share. Android's...

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Wikileaks revelation raises privacy concerns in US

A new release of stolen corporate e-mails by Wikileaks has set off a flurry of concern and speculation around the world about a counter-terrorist software programme called TrapWire, which analyses images from surveillance cameras and other data to try to identify terrorists planning attacks. "US government is secretly spying on 'everyone' using civilian security cameras, say Wikileaks," read a headline on Monday at the British newspaper website...

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Endemic protests could lead to flirting with chaos: Pranab

NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee today made a veiled attack at "endemic" protests against corruption warning that the country would be "flirting with chaos" if its democratic institutions come under an assault. Mincing no words in underlining the dangers in undermining institutions like Parliament, he said legislation cannot be wrenched away from legislature or justice from judiciary. He described Parliament as "the soul of the people,...

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Mumbai police were warned of violence

Mumbai: A report had allegedly warned Mumbai police of possible “law-and-order problems” ahead of recent violence in the city that claimed two lives and left over 100 injured, including 45 policemen. In the violence near Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in south Mumbai, about 100 public and private vehicles were damaged or destroyed, and the country's commercial capital was held to ransom for several tense hours. A report in a news channel...

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Firefighters tackle huge blaze 11 kilometres east of London Olympics Park

London: Firefighters were tackling a massive blaze at an east London recycling center Sunday, saying it was the biggest the city had seen in several years. Olympic organizers said the fire - which is about 7 miles (11 kilometers) east of the Olympic Park - would have no effect on the games' closing ceremony planned for the evening. By late Sunday, wind was blowing the smoke away from the park. The London Fire Brigade said in a statement that...

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Up to 50 dead as strong earthquakes rock Iran

DUBAI: Between 40 to 50 people were killed and 400 hurt when two strong earthquakes struck northwest Iran on Saturday, Iranian official said. The US Geological Survey measured the first quake at 6.4 magnitude and said it struck 60 km (37 miles) northeast of the city of Tabriz at a depth of 9.9. km (6.2 miles) at 12.34 GMT. It said a second earthquake measuring 6.3 struck 49 km (30 miles) northeast of Tabriz 11 minutes later at a similar depth. Three more lesser aftershocks have followed since then. The second quake struck near the town of...

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Key facts about virus that can steal banking credentials

A new computer virus, dubbed Gauss, has been discovered in the Middle East. Researchers say can it steal banking credentials and hijack login information for social networking sites, email and instant messaging accounts. Cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said Gauss is the work of the same "factory" or "factories" that built the Stuxnet worm, which attacked Iran's nuclear program. Here are some key facts about Gauss, according to Kaspersky Lab....

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426 Indians undergoing sentences in British jails

London: There are 426 Indian citizens - 421 male and five female - undergoing sentences in British jails after being convicted for a variety of offenses, latest figures show as demands grew to deport foreign prisoners to their home countries to serve their sentences. Official sources said on Thursday that according to prison figures as of June 30, there were 2,093 prisoners with citizenship of countries in Asia, which included 426 from India....

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The term E-Commerce is now changing to the word Social Commerce

The fast increasing social media population hooked onto Facebook, Twitter, etc is set to give a big boost to the already burgeoning domestic e-commerce market that has touched the Rs 50,000 crore-mark last year, says an industry study. According to latest Internet & Mobile Association of India numbers, with 150 online population, the country is the third largest in terms of internet users after China and the US. Out of this, 50 million are...

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Hackers reveled top 10 common passwords of Yahoo

A security breach at the offices of internet search giant Yahoo, which led to over 450,000 login details being leaked online, highlights how careless internet users are while choosing their passwords. Last month, a hacking collective posted account information belonging to thousands of Yahoo users on a public website in what they described as 'a wake-up call'. According to Enterprise Innovation, the incident showed that the company that holds...

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Gurudwara in US has been attacked......

NEW YORK: The gunman who went on a killing spree inside a gurdwara in Wisconsin was a "white man with a 9/11 tattoo" on his arm, according to eyewitnesses. Kanwardeep Singh Kaleka said those rescued from the Oak Creek, Milwaukee gurdwara described the attacker as a bald, white man, dressed in a white T-shirt and black pants and with a 9/11 tattoo on one arm -- which "implies to me that there's some level of hate crime there." Kaleka, a nephew...

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