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…!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.