US technology giant IBM has said it will invest six billion dollars in India by 2009, the company has about 43,000 employees in 14 cities across the world and India is one of its important centres outside the US.
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Electronic version of fish and chips planned to track sea life
Posted in Hardware, News, Software, Technology on Feb 13th, 2007
In a modern update of “fish and chips,” researchers have announced a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures like whales, turtles, shark etc to be tagged with tiny electronic devices.
Following pilot testing in the north Pacific, the Ocean Tracking Network will expand to the Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico.
Details of [...]
CCEA approves Rs 3,000 cr FDI by telecom infrastructure co
Posted in India, News, Technology on Jan 18th, 2007
The government gave a go-ahead to foreign direct investment of up to Rs 3,000 crore (about 674 million dollars) by Independent Mobile Infrastructure Mauritius Ltd (IMIML) in India.
IMIML would be making the investment over a five-year period, Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi told reporters in New Delhi after the proposal was cleared by [...]
2 MBPS DOWNLOADS FROM JAN 1
Posted in Hardware, India, Internet, Technology, broadband on Dec 21st, 2006
From January 1, state-owned, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd will offer broadband connections with minimum download speed of 2 mbps, communications and IT minister Dayanidhi Maran said on Wednesday. The existing subscribers of the two firms would be upgraded, with the tariff remaining same. At present, the minimum speed broadband connection is [...]
The Power of PDF Files
Posted in Education, Facts, Software, Technology on Dec 18th, 2006
You can listen to any PDF FILES instead of reading with Adobe Reader 7.0 Or 6.0,
and the short cut is:
Ctrl+shift+b - to hear the entire Document
Ctrl+shift+v - to hear the page
Ctrl+shift+c - to resume
Ctrl+shift+e - to stop
Open any PDF File and test…. unbelievable
So now on…instead of listening to music, listen to PDF documents
100 Useful RUN Commands
Posted in Software, Technology on Dec 18th, 2006
100 Useful RUN Commands
To Access…. Run Command
Accessibility Controls access.cpl
Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl
Add/Remove Programs appwiz.cpl
Administrative Tools control admintools
Automatic Updates wuaucpl.cpl
Bluetooth Transfer Wizard fsquirt
Calculator calc
AMD + ATI = CPU/GPU integration
Posted in Digg-News, Hardware, Technology on Jul 24th, 2006
Now that the merger is official, AMD has a set of pages up with information on the combined company’s future plans - enable the combined company to compete on the corporate desktop, and system-level CPU-GPU integration. They also mentioned die-level CPU-GPU integration.
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All of LIC’s 2,048 branches, 100 divisional offices, seven zonal offices, head office and subsidiary offices will be covered by the deployment. Along with this all of LIC’s desktops will also simultaneously be converted to Linux. Approximately 60,000 users and five to six thousand servers will migrate to RHEL.
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FTA - “stupid users are putting important data into spreadsheets and running their businesses with them. Oh, those stupid lazy users, if only they’d learn to put their data into normal form and enjoy all the benefits of a relational database.”
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Structuring Personal Information When Everything Can Be Saved and Searched
Posted in Education, Google, People, Software, Video on Jul 16th, 2006
Google TechTalks May 17, 2006
About William Jones: William Jones is an Research Associate Professor in The Information School at the University of Washington where he manages the Keeping Found Things Found project (funded by the National Science Foundation , http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/ index.asp; see also http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/).
ABSTRACT: Many people are curators, consciously or not, of large and growing [...]