ECB disk storage market declines 7.3 percent

Dec.04.2009 Tech News (0)

Delhi: Worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage revenue totaled more than $3.9 billion in the third quarter of 2009, a 7.3 percent decline from the same period in 2008, according to Gartner. (read more…)

Indian IT firms open up to the differently abled

Dec.04.2009 Indian news, Tech News (0)

Bangalore: Despite enacting landmark legislation to promote the rights of people with disability in the past decade and an increasing awareness of their marginalization, India’s actions to promote the rights of eight percent of its citizens has been found wanting, a World Bank report says. However, some Indian corporations are taking steps in this direction. (read more…)

What’s new in Windows 7

Nov.07.2009 Tech News (0)

Microsoft’s Windows 7 is finally here! With the new operating system, which comes after the disappointing performance of the company’s (read more…)

36 lakh mobile phones dead

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

Srinagar: Few days after the ban on pre-paid connections in Jammu and Kashmir, around 38 lakh mobile connections are virtually dead after the recharge facilities were put on hold by the telecom operators. The pre-paid connections were getting snapped with the expiry of recharge or validity facilities, reports Greater Kashmir.

“For the past two days, I am running from pillar to post to recharge my phone but it is not available anywhere. I have no other option left but to switch over to expensive post-paid service,” said Inam-ul-Haq, a teenager from Habba Kadal, waiting outside an Airtel outlet at Raj Bagh.
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Indian techie at HP starts portal to sell vegetables

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

Bangalore: A Hewlett-Packard (HP) engineer, RK Venkatesan, has started ‘Veggie Bazaar’, a web portal to order and buy vegetables, and deliver them to home on a 24 hour notice. Started in Chennai earlier in July this year, the portal has till now registered 3,000 users and made 7,000 deliveries at an average of Rs. 200 per order. (read more…)

Google introduces JavaScript programming tools

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (1)

Bangalore: With a project called Closure Tools, Google plans to start helping developers who aspire to match the company’s proficiency in creating Web sites and Web applications. Google is a strong proponent of using JavaScript to write Web-based programs, which is a part of its Web-centric ethos, reports CNET News.

Indeed, the company has pushed the language to its limits with services such as Gmail and Google Docs, and it developed its Chrome browser in part to enable JavaScript programs to run faster. But writing, debugging, and optimizing heavy-duty JavaScript can be difficult – in part because a given JavaScript program sometimes works differently on different browsers. Google’s open-source Closure Tools project is an attempt to help with some of these challenges. (read more…)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 videogame to hit stores

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

Bangalore: The new videogame called the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare two, the most highly anticipated game of the season is set to hit stores coming Tuesday. “It’s the biggest launch in our history, bigger than Halo three,” said Tony Bartel, Merchandising and Marketing Chief for videogame retailer GameStop, which has been taking pre-orders since April.

According to Wall Street Journal, the manufacturer, Activision Blizzard, has been advertising the first-person shooter game since March for which, Wal-Mart and Amazon are offering special deals. Analysts say that rivals have postponed the release of other big games to steer clear of Call of Duty, although the companies won’t admit it. Hopes are high that its sales will provide a much-needed boost to the whole industry. (read more…)

Texas cuts IBM contract due to security concerns

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

New Delhi: The U.S. state, Texas, has reportedly pulled its voter registration system out of an ongoing $863 million datacenter consolidation project being handled by technology giant IBM. Texas Secretary of State’s office is said to have cut the project because of data security and disaster recoverability fears.

According to ComputerWorld, the decision was prompted by an incident in August when a server being managed by IBM crashed resulting in a 13-day outage of the office’s business records filing system. (read more…)

TCS hires 300 associates for its U.S. center

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has hired around 300 associates for its North America Domestic Delivery Center, TCS Seven Hills Park. Seven Hills Park provides a wide-range of IT solutions, consulting, business process outsourcing and engineering services for TCS customers across industries including banking and financial services, life-science and health care, as well as manufacturing and retail.

“I welcome these new associates into the TCS family and am sure they will help our customers achieve even greater success in the future,” TCS’s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, N Chandrasekaran, said.

TCS Seven Hills Park is also the location of TCS’s new North American Training Center. Over the last several months, more than 225 associates have joined the company from top universities throughout the country, the release said. TCS has over 1,40,000 trained IT consultants in 42 countries.

Mobile phones too complicated, says Inventor

Nov.06.2009 Tech News (0)

Bangalore: The lead engineer of the Motorola team which developed the mobile phone, Martin Cooper, told a privacy conference in Madrid this week that today’s phones try to do many things for too many people, reports Telegraph.

“Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well,” said the 80 year-old Cooper, who developed the first wireless call from a busy Manhattan street corner on April 3 1973.

“Our future I think is a number of specialist devices that focus on one thing that will improve our lives,” said Cooper, who also has criticized the iPhone for being overly complicated and hard to use.

“The first cell phone model weighed over one kilo and you could only talk for 20 minutes before the battery ran out, which is just as well because you would not be able to hold it up for much longer,” added Cooper. (read more…)