Archive for October, 2009

Today’s IT Headlines

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HCL Technologies to hike salaries of its employees
IT services provider HCL Technologies will increase the salaries of its employees by 0-10 percent from October 1, which will result in a drop in its gross margin by 130 basis points.
Wipro employees quit during downturn, attrition at 14 percent
There seems to be no impact of the [...]

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Startup – Gyan

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India has become the Silicon Valley of the east and a nurturing ground for startups but these startups are often targeted with wrong assumption and myths. The most common myth that an applicant assumes is that working for startup is risky and unsecure.
Viswanath "Vishy" Ramachandran, CTO of Webaroo said that this is not true [...]

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GPhone – Will Google make it?

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After offering Android to several smartphone makers around the globe, Google is trying to use the operating system (OS) in its own branded smartphone. According to TheStreet.com, Google might be working with a mobile phone maker to launch their own branded Android smartphone later this year. This rumored Google branded smartphone is [...]

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1 km long mail for Obama from Uttar Pradesh

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Lucknow: Barack Obama has mail – from a place in Uttar Pradesh state in India that he would never have heard of. And how! Measuring over one kilometre, the letter has been put together by more than 11,000 people over eight months and carries a simple message for the U.S. President – "Come [...]

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TechNet – How Do I? Videos…

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Learn more about Microsoft products such as SQL Server, Security, Windows Server, Exchange and SharePoint with these "How Do I?" videos. TechNet has assembled these short videos for customers to learn how to accomplish specific tasks with Microsoft products: step-by-step. Subscribe to the TechNet videos RSS feed to learn about new videos.

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Windows7 – Are there new set of problems?

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After a gloomy performance by Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new Operating System (OS) Windows 7 launch and its grand reception may have relieved the company. The Personal Computers (PC) makers are offering Windows 7 based systems, including netbooks, as they hope the OS to surge PC sales. The computer shipments have shown some [...]

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How Does Bing Rank Tweets?

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Bing Tries to Bring Relevancy Factor to Real-Time Search As previously reported, Microsoft has made deals with both Facebook and Twitter, which will see Bing feature updates from both networks in real-time search efforts. This means social media just became an even bigger part of search engine marketing, particularly with Google also [...]

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Unobtrusive JavaScript – What is it?

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I came across this concept while reading “JQuery in Action”. I am on chapter 1 and the language and explanations given are excellent. (i.e. one can easily understand)
My understanding for it is:
It is a way to separate the behavior from the structure. Instead of clubbing the event behavior within HTML tags, we can use JQuery [...]

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IT Manager Community Chat: Windows 7 – What’s in It for You?

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IT Manager Community Chat: Windows 7 – What’s in It for You?
In this webcast, Kevin Remde and his guests discuss the improvements in Windows 7 that can reduce the total cost of ownership by helping to increase automation, improve user productivity, and provide flexible administrative control to meet compliance requirements.

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