Facebook is Covering the Whole World

Networking sites are the most popular sites in most of the countries in the world and the name of Facebook springs up out of the many sites in the present virtual world. Recently the company made news that it had earned loads of money by its new business relationships with FriendFeed deal and the Huffington Post. Well this was not the last effort of Facebook but it also earmarked a new target by finishing a new iPhone application which is named as “Lite” version.

Facebook has a large network in the United Kingdom and USA. The latest report suggests that this hottest social networking site is growing in a faster pace. It is making plans to step into India as well. India is a bigger market for them as it is known for its massive crowd. If it is successfully enter into this Asian country then there would not be much problem in garnering loads of revenues.

It is quite crystal clear that Facebook is thinking bigger because this enormous social networking site recently hit headlines because of its huge deal of $50m with FriendFeed deal. The undertaking of this deal by this company shows that it is making potential plans to overcome it rivalry Twitter. Great go Facebook…!

Dell Announces to Walk on the Footsteps of Indian IT Companies

Dell Inc. is a leading maker of personal computers and it ranks the second position next to Hewlett-Packard. The company representatives have made it clear that it is looking forward to acquire a few smaller IT companies operating in India. It is looking for expansion because it wants to perk up its revenue scale as well as credibility of its services.

Dell is a smart player in the field of personal computers which can be witnessed by its potential to create 60% of its revenues by selling personal computers only. Next to this strong market reputation, it has also flagged its success in providing a back up business for corporate PC users. Presently it is making plans to multiply its service business by creeping into managing companies’ computer networks.

The president of Dell’s large enterprise operations Steve Schuckenbrock says that the kind of route chosen by it completely differs from rivals IBM and HP. It will mainly assist firms in minimizing their costs and free them from getting into long-term consultancy and software contracts. Dell owns $10 billion in cash and also it has a granary of short-term investments. In addition, it was also stated by Schuckenbrock that it would expand through acquisitions in an organic way.

Videos on MJ Bagged lots of Money through the Virtual World

It is unbelievable but nevertheless it holds the truth. During the funeral period the videos on Michael Jackson bagged lots of money. It did happen through the virtual world and the websites which had great design and excellent attributes were counted to be in the top rankings.

This hue and cry which happened during the death of the king of the pop is a landmark in the history of the music world as well as in the history of web world. So, unique and extra-ordinary websites haven’t lost it significance. Nowadays, University and colleges are organizing web design competitions through out the UK. The main objective behind organizing such competition is to hunt for the most brilliant and talented youngsters in the realm of web design.

Recently a computer whiz from Weston won a gold medal in a web design competition which was held at the national level. He was none other than Dan Wood of Milton Brow, an 18 year-old. He was actually hunted out by Weston College as soon as he designed a mind blowing website. After winning the accolade, he told that he was very happy and furthermore, he became more ambitious. He continued to say that he would include this great achievement in his CV so that he gets better paid jobs in the future. Congratulations to Dan for his lifetime achievement.

This is an evident what competition and University courses on web design and development can do. It is reported that Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland will soon start offering a career oriented virtual world creation course. The institution revealed that the course will be assigned to fourth-year computing students which will include the design and development of 3D virtual worlds with the usage of the OpenSim and Second Life platforms.

Toshiba Gears Up its Marketing Plans with a SEO Agency

For every industry SEO is mandatory as it is the effective means of increasing audiences in the virtual world. Recently Toshiba announced that it is going to launch a SEO campaign for its new blogging site. The suggested website is ToshibaLife.com designed to allure scores of online audiences. Yet for the success of this newly released website it has to make its SEO campaign a victory. It is reported that it will be a blogging site. It especially keeps a track of all the blogs posted by customers before and after purchasing their essential goods.

Chris Scott is the Marketing Manager of Toshiba eBusiness says that SEO is much crucial to them as it is necessary to flourish its brand image. In addition, it also helps in the mass awareness of its presence in the digital world. Uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com sells the products of the company and ToshibaLife.com assists people what and how to utilize their products and services.

Toshiba is a brand company and has a worldwide presence. The launch of its blogging website will certainly earn a stable market. Now for customers of Toshiba products it will become easy to buy their necessary products online as well as at the cheapest price.

Google Voice: Flawed, Yet Awed People Allowing Call 6 Numbers At A Time

Google voice will convert your voice messages to have you read them through either text messages or emails and will also let you make and receive calls from multiple numbers simultaneously.

The newly launched Google Service, though is found to contain some flaws and rough patches continue to awe people with its services which are able to manage communication more efficiently. According to a recently published Google Blog, the service which is actually a re-launched service of GrandCentral will facilitate users to call at multiple numbers simultaneously and that too can be up to six numbers – indeed a dream come true voice based communication services.

That means, users are allowed to choose a local number that comes with the flexibility to dial at six different numbers at a time. It is not this flexibility of dialling several numbers that have raised much raves for Google Voice – but the numbers are able to route incoming calls coming from separate numbers as well. Moreover, Google Voice will be great tool to convert those messages that you prefer to read over listening – by converting your voice mails into either test messages or emails. Using the Grand Central Communications technology, the service, is temporarily accessible limited number of users, will be perfect solutions to many in near future. Conversion of voice messages into text or emails has some blemishes, but a good start though.

IT is Expanding & Simultaneously Flagging Its Significance

Information technology is a must for each sector. The recent contract received by General Dynamics for an amount of $20 million from the U.S Army shows that information technology is no more an abandoned subject. All the sectors in our present world need the support of IT’s robust innovations and programs. This particular project worth of $20 million will give IT services for assisting both Army and U.S marine warfighters. The handing over of this crucial project to General Dynamics indicates that IT is expanding and it is rigorously flagging its success and significance.

The senior vice president of General Dynamics Information Technology’s Army Solutions division, Zannie Smith stated that the warfighter would get weaker if it is not well armoured with sophisticated hardware and software applications. The US Army and Marines are the epitome of patronized security and power for combating against the global terrorism.

Through this project it looks forward to tighten its whole army fleet. The need of new technology cannot be redeemed as a trivial matter as it is known to most of us that it helps war fighters to deal with their enemies with might and strength. It is reported that this $20 million worth contract will be in the nest of General Dynamics Corp for a period of five years. Well it is a big challenge for General Dynamics to expose their creative skills for upgrading the defence potentiality of the US Army and Marines.

Identity Protection Measures to be taken by Tech Giants

Theft has no limited area, perhaps, it has taken hold of every sector in all over the world. For any company it is necessary that it takes up all the possible measures to ensure the protection of its valuable data of office as well as of its clients. We often hear about some people losing their social security numbers, credit card numbers and other valuable information by hackers. Even the companies which are into the field of IT products have become the victims of high-tech thieves. What is the most important asset for a company? Of course, it is none other than that of its homogonous information/data.

Being bitten hard by the piracy and stealing of precious information, many tech giants are tightening their belts to think out ways so that they can deal with Identity protection in a stringent way. Network World did an audit survey of a Boston based pharmaceutical company and later on it discovered that around 700 leak cases of crucial informative data which included like SSN, financial information, pricing etc. This journal also brought more than 4,000 cases into spotlights which were against to HIPAA and the US Department of Defense’s Information Assurance Certification rules.

Soon iPhone Users Can Download Movies & TV Programs

Folks might give up watching various TV programs at home as the next version of Apple’s 3.0 software creates new software. This software is specifically designed for iPhone and iPod Touch. Pocket Internet access on these gadgets has already won the hearts of many users. However, for a long time users have been waiting for software which would make their TV entertainment on mobile phones more exciting. Finally, the software of Apple is on the way and soon the users of iPhone and iPod Touch will be able to watch movies and download the same in an instant way.

This facility will be of great advantage as the users need not to follow a host of steps like plugging the device into computers, getting the help of iTunes or restoring a harmonization between the two. When the gadgets have the required Internet connection as well as installed with Apple’s new entertainment software then folks can easily watch their favourite movies at any time from anywhere. Till date mobile phones have been accused of poor downloading feature but the recent announcement made by Apple is gaining momentum through out the world. As soon as this product comes to market iPhone and iPod Touch users can set on a new adventure of movies and exciting video downloading programs.

Meltdown in Global Economy Leads to Downfall in HP Revenue

Being hit by the tough global economy weather HP is soon going to lay off around 6.000 employees globally. Not able to generate adequate revenues to tame the current figure of professionals it has come to this strong decision. The layoff will happen over the next 12 months. The Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak told in a press release that it has finally decided to reduce its headcounts by 2 per cent that is approximately 6,000 employees.

In the second fiscal quarter ending on 30th April the company’s earnings per share were $0.70. In addition to it the giant received a profit of US$ 1.7 billion. The spokesperson of the company also added that it looks forward to garner earnings ranging from $3.76 and &3.88 per share for fiscal 2009.

It is also reported that HP is undertaking a process to eliminate 24, 600 EDS jobs. It seems that the company is in wavering situation as it is not able to restore it vast network of employees. On the other hand, the selling of desktop personal computers has witnessed a downfall by 24 per cent and the sales of notebooks faced a downfall of 13 per cent. Moreover, the company’s revenue in its printer section was figured out to be down by 23 per cent.

VoIP to Get Prohibited By Microsoft

The announcement made by Microsoft on the discontinuation of VoIP service is upsetting many mobile stores in the mobile market. It was clearly stated that Voice-over-IP applications will be wiped out of Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace. These voice over Internet protocol applications are gaining popularity because these help mobile users to make cheap Internet calls. If this facility will not come with the whole package of Microsoft’s Marketplace then it will no doubt annoy many mobile users. This announcement shows that Microsoft is in constant fear that the inclusion of VoIP in their operating services might crash down their sources of revenue generation.

It shows that new technology is the enemy of the traditional technology. Many critics think that even if Microsoft forbids the usage of VoIP service in its mobile operating system then also it cannot be said that mobile users will close their eyes from using the VoIP service. There are many websites on the Internet which are offering voice-over Internet protocol services at the cheapest rates. Microsoft earns lots of revenues by selling applications in the Marketplace and recently it requested many developers to associate themselves with this company for making new applications through which they can earn scores of profits.

Offshore TCS Employees Will Come Back to India

The mercury of cost-cutting measures is gaining high temperature. Its consequences are transparently visible in TCS. In a recent press release the company made it clear that it is going to move back a substantial number of its employees to India as a measure to save its revenues. At the global stage TCS is India’s largest outsourcing firm but this giant is also finding it difficult to manage its costs. In the 4th quarter of last year the company garnered Rs 121 crore by shifting its large number of US staff to India.

It was also told that TCS would increase its crew by hiring more professionals। The approximate figure for India is estimated to be 24, 855. It is also looking forward to add 250 new comers in the US. There might be hiring of few people in China as well. The Chief Operating Officer of TCS N Chadrasekaran has confirmed it that the relocation of its US staff to India would not lead to layoffs. Besides, he also added that presently the company is not looking forward for lateral hiring and furthermore, the increments to its employees have been suspended.


The decision taken by the company would make its offshore employees happy as they will have to resume their work in their own country and also it would be an opportunity to be among their families and friends.

Global IT Report Ranks UAE No.1 in MENA Region

The United Arab Emirates takes away the pride of having the most sophisticated and highly developed information computer technology in the whole region of the Middle East and North Africa. It was declared by a research study headed by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD business school. The UAE being already 1st in MENA also acquires 27th position as the best information computer technology whereas in last year it dominated the 29th position for ICT.

The United States of America gets the topmost position in the global ranking for information computer technology. The 2nd and 3rd rankings were led by Denmark and Sweden. The rest of the rankings are being held by Singapore and Switzerland. The World Economic Forum in collaboration with INSEAD brought out the study. Cisco Systems, the leader in designing networking and communication technology supported the project.

The report also suggested that the contemporary recession is a global issue which has to be curved down by improving the prevailing education system accompanied by advanced technological back-ups and yes, last but no the least necessity is innovation. The United Arab Emirates has been capturing many rankings in different sectors. The same report placed the UAE as the No.1 in the world for having the highest density of residential monthly telephone subscriptions in 2007.

Recession Tolls Heavy on Infosys as It Prophesies Major Drop in Revenues

Infosys Technologies, the second leading outsourcing company says that it is going to have a major reduction in its revenue generation in the fourth quarter. The blame for this prediction goes to the ongoing recession. The representatives of the company have informed that the revenue generation will reduce from 3.1 per cent to 6.7 per cent which means between US$4.35 billion and $4.52 billion in this financial year.

As most of the companies are trying to shrink their prices and expenditure, the same pressure can be seen transparently with Infosys Technologies. This can be well understood from the net profit made by the company in the fourth quarter which is exactly is 2.6 percent effecting $321 million and on the other hand, the full year net profit rose to 10 per cent effecting $1.3 billion.

Siddharth Pai, a co-worker at outsourcing consultancy firm TPI stated that it is evident that the outsourcing industry is going through a stormy night as many customers are postponing new contracts. Unless the customers welcome their contracts, an outsourcing company will not be making money. Recession affects the company’s hiring figure as well. Last year Infosys Technologies took in 18, 946 employees whereas the hiring figure till March 31 is 13, 663 only. That’s a vast difference which is the resultant of hammering effect of the shrunken global economy.

Sun Microsystems Beats Cisco by Introducing Blade Network Switch

Recently Sun Microsystems brought to light its Nehalem-based server line-up. In addition, it also introduced a networking product specifically a blade network switch. The innovations of Sun are no about giving a hard competition to Cisco in the server market. The launch of these products is safeguarding the poor market of Sun as it is facing the worst scenario in the server market. It was also in whisper that the company was about to be acquired by IBM. However, no confirmation has been received on this.

Last month Cisco made surprising announcement by offering a blade server as the significant segments of its Unified Computing System. However, Sun says that it has made a new product for the function of its blade servers and it does not require the help of Cisco’s switches. The new product of Sun comes as the Virtual Network Express Module shortly NEM is a hardware which can be slid into a blade chassis. It performs all the task of an aggregation switch which carries out the traffic between the blades and 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch. John Fowler, the executive vice president of Sun Microsystems business states that the new silicon product has set users free from depending upon a switch borrowed from a third-party vendor.

Sermon on IT Investment by McDowell

There will be a lecture on “The Challenge of Realizing a Return on Your IT Investment” by Microsoft Corporation executive, Robert L. McDowell. The timing is scheduled as 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22 and the venue set is Bryan Building, Room 160. The entry to this sermon is completely free and open to public. In this peak of recession IT is also not at a safer zone and it does require a revitalizing push. The lecture by the famous personality McDowell would throw light on this crucial issue.

Dr. Prashant Palvia, director of the McDowell Research Center says that McDowell has immense knowledge on Information Technology management who is also an author and VP of Microsoft. The lecture by this eminent leader will converge on IT Invesment and its relationship with investors. McDowell has authored two books “Driving Digital” and “In Search of Business value: Ensuring a Return on Your Technology Investment”. He did his graduation in Economics from the Virginia Military Institute. Besides, he also holds a master’s degree in business administration from Boston University. As reported in 1990 McDowell joined Microsoft and from then onwards he held many executive-level positions in the company. Some of the significant positions held by him are as the vice president for enterprise business relationships and vice president for worldwide services.

India Still the Paradise for Cyber Crimes with Ineffective IT Act 2000

Elections are getting closer but still there are no measures taken for making amendments in IT Act, 2000. As usual political leaders are busy in safeguarding their interests. Unless they get their demands they won’t act efficiently for the immediate amendments in Indian IT laws. At the world’s centre stage, Indian cyber law is distinguished as weaker and lacking in stringent security portfolios. Today the nation has become the haven for cyber crimes. This freedom is obviously granted by the faded and rotten Indian Information Technology Act, 2000.

After a long period of 8 years, amendments were allowed by the government of India to modify the defaults in IT Act, 2000. To a great delight the IT Amendment Act, 2008 is successfully passed by the Parliament of India in the month of December, 2008 and it is even flagged off by the president of India on 5th February, 2009. However, the Bill needs further notification by the government and then only it will become effective. Mr. Praveen Dalal, India’s well-known techno-legal expert expresses his resentment over the recommended Bill, 2008 by stating that the Bill has to be refined with more amendments till it gets the actual power. On the other hand, the judges of the Supreme Court of India have pointed out the weaker face of the present cyber law of India.

Further Cost Reduction of IT Outsourcing Services By 2010

Gartner, the giant IT research and advisory company recently announced that the cost of IT services in outsourcing sector are predicted to fall further by 5-20 per cent within 2009-2010. The reason for this gloomy figure is the current shattered economy which is passing through a wavering stage. Additional causes responsible for this anticipatory announcement are the meagre IT budget and the instability in the contemporary financial market.

It also added that this downturn in price would occur due to the growing competition among the old and new IT players who are battling for generating the set target of revenues by offering cost-effective services. In the whole scenario of the IT economy, this rate race would harshly affect its GDP as well. Outsourcing is a must for the global IT industry and the present market condition is even lashing most of the clients to renegotiate various terms and conditions set in contract letters with their vendors.

The Indian IT sector is also falling prey to the global recession as most of the outsourcing companies are being bound to reduce their outsourcing rates. The recent happenings like the Satyam scandal, bloodshed in Mumbai terrorist attack, the sea-saw ups and downs in rupee exchange rate etc. are standing as the proposed obstacles in front of the IT outsourcing players for bidding their favourable market prices.

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 With Power to Outshine Its Rivals

Microsoft has finally raised the curtain from IE 8 to regain its lost glory from counterparts Safari, FireFox and Chrome.

Microsoft is well and all equipped once again to surmount its rivals - Chrome and FireFox. Yes, you have guessed it right: Microsoft has finally finished days of waiting to pull off the curtain from its much talked latest internet browser, Internet Explorer 8. Users who are using older versions of Internet Explorer will be impressed by new look and features of Internet Explorer 8 version of the browser. On finishing, Microsoft has launched this new browser on Thursday with a light hearted video to reminisce the history of the to boast off evolving of the Internet Explorer and its coming of to the present age where it has embedded some great new features with IE8. One of the most fascinating features of this latest version of IE 8 will be its ‘private browsing mode’ and ‘accelerators’ to allow users to take any action without needing them to leave the web page they are visiting at that moment.

Furthermore, this pristine version of Internet Explorer has been released with a demo showing its process of downloading and explaining its spyware protection capabilities, anti-malware features which are able to provide protection from click-jacking attacks. The performance of this browser will numb the criticism of its previous versions by gearing up the loading time of some of the most major websites along with other additions.

Bored With Sameness Of Yahoo Home Page – Will Soon Notice A New Face At Metro

so what are you expecting from this new Yahoo! home page face lift? A basic personalised home page, a sophisticated, high end customisable search engine, your inbox dragged closer with lesser clicks – you’ll get it at Metro.

Yes, you have heard it right! Yahoo! is working on to create a whole new incarnation of the home page of Yahoo. This new home page under the code name of ‘Metro’ is planned to surface in the later phase of the year. The re-decoration procedures commenced long back and garnered.

After receiving discontented testing feedbacks – Yahoo! geared up the process of to bring a better, advanced and personalised with more customisable options and speedy email access. The Metro will mitigate efforts of email users to access their inbox – that means lesser clicks to see your inbox, Voila! Email accessibility is just one of the advanced features and applications the Metro will be boasting off – users will be facilitated with flexibilities to customise the home page by installinbg different ranges of applications.

The My Yahoo section is the customisable part of Yahoo’s home page. Now Yahoo has come up with this plan to differentiate this My Yahoo for more discerning users who hunt for advanced degree of personalization including theme alterations, moving and adding modules etc., while this new home page will be consisting of some form flexibilities to customise that normal users look for and stick to basic changes, usually. Therefore, while My Yahoos will be released as a high end search engine product, the newly decorated home page of Yahoo! will be targeted for masses.

YouTube Declared No-Tube Viewing For UK Viewers!

YouTube has turned down the claim of royalties ask by British based songwriters’ society as the renewable amount surmount previous amount and taking significant pie from their profits.

Worldwide renowned and loved video sharing website of Google, YouTube has turned off its video viewing from UK video enthusiasts. Confirmed from Google the news broke that, YouTube will impede all music videos to be viewed by British based viewers because of site’s inability to arrive at a rights deal that is to be settled with royalty-collection society of songwriters. The predicament related to the rights deal begins arises as one of the British society named ‘PRS for Music’ claimed the world’s most ubiquitous and famed video sharing portal, YouTube to pay royalties on behalf of around 50,000 composers. The amount which was being claimed surpassed to a much higher level than the amount of earlier licensing agreement which is now reported to be expired. According to spokesperson has concluded that the ‘costs are simply prohibitive’ for them as per the terms making them lose substantial amount of their capital with each playback of songs.

This disagreement between the PRS and YouTube is indicative of the rising tension between partnerships between music industry and the worldly popular site. At the same time, the disagreement to pay off the royalties also signals site’s growing endeavour to check their operational costs under stern control to in order to produce greater profits for the parent site, Google.

Firefox Boasts Off New Tab Screen To Accelerate Page Loading Instantly

The mastermind behind FireFox, Aza Raskin has come up with some new tab screenshot feature to accelerate page loading and improve search operation.

FireFox is on fire with introducing new tab screen by programmers working behind it to stay follow their counterparts in the internet browser industry. The programmers working behind interface and functions are up to inducing new tab screen being influenced Chrome and Safari. Aza Raskin, the guru of Mozilla browser interface has come up with this new tab screenshots with some new modifications which would be benefitting computer without taxing it. This new tab screen is intended to quicken page loading and will turn out to be more useful than earlier.

There will be a new entry of feature on the FireFox named “quick access bar” which will display the thumbnail view of all the mostly and frequently browsed web pages. The display of those web pages will depend on the basis of their registry to the browser and also how repeatedly and recently users have viewed them. In the upper left of the browser interface will be buttons which would be for various actions. For example, if users select some part of the texts prior to opening a new tab, then that selected text can now be presented as search phases. And the search can be carried out by clicking on the button which will be visible from new tab.

Along the right edge is the "quick-access bar," a stack of thumbnail views of your popular pages selected on the basis of how recently and frequently you visited them. In the upper left are buttons that take various actions. For example, if you've selected some text on a Web page before opening the new tab, that text will be presented as a search that can be performed by clicking the button in the new tab.

Microsoft Is Developing Intuitive Internet Search Engine: Kumo

Despite Microsoft’s aspiration to build alliance with Yahoo, it is woring on to test its own internet search engine Kumo which is supposed to be more intuitive and better than its prevailing rival.

Microsoft is up to revealing another triumph cards from its sleeve – and the testing work is ongoing. Yes, this software giant is getting prepared with its ‘Kumo’ – soon to be a new entry to internet search engine to empower it to compete in the market that is preponderated by Google. Microsoft is maintaining complete intrusion proof wall of privacy to test its new search engine, Kumo.com. The search engine is said to be grounded upon semantic technology which would be intuitive enough to fathom relationship between words and sentences too.

Already a great deal of excitements is brewing in the lab of Microsoft which are creating ripples both externally and internally, as has been confirmed by elated Mike Nicholas, the general manager of Microsoft Live Search Engine through his online messaging.

Mike Nicholas is expecting much and ‘great’ feedbacks from the employees of Microsoft and that he is soon anticipating to be a part of feedback receiving experiences externally. The company is building hopes on this intuitive internet search engine to arise from its third place behind the leader, Google. However, the name ‘Kumo’ is still in the process of being replaced by ‘Live Search’, as Mike Nicholas sais that the name ‘Live Search’ is yet to replace initial codename ‘Kumo. Microsoft is up to providing better and more useful search engine experiences which will help search beyond searching and will helping in overall accomplishing of their tasks.

Microsoft Is All Set To Raise Curtain From Windows Opens Vista SP2 Release Candidate

The latest Microsoft’s Windows Vista Service Pack Release Candidate has been announced to be available for worldwide masses with further support and reliability and compatibility advancements and features including RSS, WiFi, Windows Media Center, Blu-ray disc recording etc.

Microsoft has finally heralded to raise the curtain from its Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) Release Candidate (RC) to be available to the world. This brand new operating software pack is for a start, released one week ago to only limited subscribers – to MSDN and TechNet members. With this announcement, Microsoft has offered masses to download this service pack to test the penultimate version before the final launching.

The Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Release Candidate and Windows Vista mark the new age operating systems to address to attend to feedbacks from partners and customers, as confirmed by Microsoft.

The Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 Release Candidates are updates to the operating systems that address customer and partner feedback, according to Microsoft. In addition to rendering all types of security patches, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 also comprises some changes that offer support to new edition of hardware device and various newer standards.

This version of Windows Vista has been far advanced from previous version in terms of compatibility and reliability for even non-Microsoft based applications. Other advancements to be noticeable in this SP 2 edition are support for 64 bit central processing unit from VIA Technologies and better WiFi connections, RSS updates, Windows media Center and record data to Blue Ray.

Even Cupid Couldn’t Avert Online Spending From Dropping In February 2009

Recent survey has unveiled decline in online shopping in such occasion when people want to shop the most, but did not.

What has been just flashed through a recent report published by Coremetrics was not at all surprising – rather shocking. The report has brought unusual decrease in online shopping during February 2009 which has shown a decline by 3 per cent. The study has shown that items bought via ecommerce zone are just fewer than 13 percent. Since, online shopping results from various online participations such as online visits, product views and average time spent in site, therefore, notable drop has been witnessed in overall consumers participation at online shopping sites. While web page viewing has descended by 1%, product description viewing per session has mitigated to 2.5% and average span of time for which visitors were engaged in site viewing came down to 4.5%.

Further reports published by Coremetrics have denoted that average dollar value of purchase order during Valentine’s Day witnessed fairly small increase of just 4 percent for gifts retailing while a alarming decrease of 14.3 per cent in jewellery items. Such modest increase and decline in online shopping denotes that even on those special occasions when people could not resist from shopping have started to.

Does Google Stand In The Same Row With Those Worst Spam Providers?

Google is recently found as one of the worse spam providers as per list published by a nonprofit company, Spamhaus.

Have this nonprofit association some degree of recognition around its locale, will now be globally known as they have blamed the search giant, Google to be one of the worst Spam providers. This Spamhaus, the nonprofit company has released a list of top 10 ‘Worse Spam Service ISP’ list wherein Google shares its standing with some other famous ISP. The list looks as follows –

1) sistemnet.com.tr
2) hostfresh.com
3) google.com
4) vsnlinternational.com
5) gilat.net
6) cnuninet.com
7) uatelecom.co.ua
8) sprint.net
9) verizon.com
10) simplenet.com.

Google has been indicated as the third Worst Spam Providers. This anti spam nonprofit organization has revealed that despite all these networks boast off their resistance toward spam, they have been registered to show support by supplying their services to spammers.

According to this organization, most of the major world service providers have collected repute of dodging spammers in order to sustain a healthy anti spam status. However, works of these ISP get corrupted by mismanagement or often by tempt of greed. And that is how they end up supporting spammers and finally got included into this list of Spam providers.

Spamhaus has explained that the networks get caught as the spam providers are comprising negativities like incompetence, parsimony etc. However, Google unlike other companies in the list is mush capable and active in avoiding spammers having policies against misuse of services by spammers. Therefore, the Google has other reasons to acquire its bad name as spam providers. Google features online services which usually get abused. For example, often spammers and cyber criminals exploit Google Docs to send people to harmful sites, as studied by the organization to publish the list of spam providers, Spamhaus. However, the organization also affirmed that as and when found such open holes enabling spammers to execute their malicious intension are closed by staying in association with Spamhaus. Google adopts effective remedies to settle spamming issues sooner or later as the organization lays it focus on any spamming activities.