Now Access Skype on iPhone, Blackberry
Skype has launched its application on the Apple iPhone and announced plans for a similar service on Blackberry phone for next month.
Google Now Has Semantic Abilities
Google has tweaked its search engine using technology developed in Australia. With this Google has added semantic capabilities to its search, in which its engine now looks for the relationship between words in posting its results.
Interview:Rajat Mehta : Rajat Mehta, Hewlett-Packard India Sales Pvt. Ltd
The data centre is one of the biggest energy consuming components of a business involving IT operations
Enterprise Class Xeon Processor 5500 Series Launched by Intel
17 enterprise-class processors, led by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, designed for addressing the increasing computing needs of many industries, was introduced by Intel. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, previously codenamed ‘Nehalem-EP,’ offers several technologies to improve system speed and versatility.
Facebook Growing at a Rapid Rate
Five-year-old Facebook is very soon expecting a membership 200 millionth users. This suggests that Facebook is rapidly becoming the Web
Going Green with Data
[This article was published in the April 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Data centres are the chief contributors to the degrading environmental conditions of our times and there is an absolute need for adopting the
Sony Strikes a e-Book Deal with Google
More than half a million public domain books from Google’s digitization project will now be available for free on the Sony Reader in its e-book store.This has been made possible by a deal struck by Sony Electronics with Google.
Internet Explorer 8 Introduced by Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation released a new version of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8), adding features meant to speed up common Web surfing tasks and bringing the browser’s security measures in line with those of major competitors.
Matrubhasha Launched by Lenovo
A vernacular computing initiative ‘Matrubhasha’, has been launched by Lenovo India as a part of its corporate social responsibility. This initiative is meant to enable school children to gain computer proficiency in their mother tongue, without even depending on English.
Servers of MEA Hacked
Servers of the Ministry of External Affairs(MEA) have been hacked. Though the government does not have any specific idea about who the hackers were, the IP addresses left behind suggested the hand of Chinese. Indian officials are already on their way to China to investigate the matter further.
