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.