Getting a passport from the Trivandrum Passport office is no longer the trouble it used to be – you no longer need to stand in queue from dawn or deal with the various haggling brokers. Thanks to our MP Dr. Shashi Tharoor, who brought in a new Passport Officer, and allowed only online applications to [...]
Discussing and negotiating for salary is a very crucial part of any job interview. Even the most seasoned of candidates often find it a nerve wracking task. However bungling on this aspect can hurt you in many ways. You ask for too much, and you lose the game. If you ask for less, you end [...]
The world’s largest search engine Google, which has so far not tasted success in the social networking domain, plans to launch Google Circles, which is expected to give head on competition to sites such as Facebook. If reports are to be believed, Google will launch its new social networking site Google Circles by May 2011. [...]
Most of us having a linked in profile, with all the professional information with experience details, Now there is a new feature in linked in which Turn your LinkedIn Profile into a beautiful resume in seconds. No more messing around with multiple Word and PDF documents scattered all over the computer. Pick a resume template, [...]
Everybody needs a new computer in average of two years of time. Here is an article which gives some insights on how to buy a new computer. The very basic rule is know what you want. computers are coming in different configurations and capabilities thus in different price ranges. If you need a computer to [...]
Microsoft is offering the Home and Student edition of Office 2010 for Rs.2999 (3-computer license). This is available from Microsoft India Store. Having surprised the world by giving for free the fully-functional version of Office 2010 Beta, Microsoft India is doing its part by slashing the price of the Home and Student edition from Rs.4999 [...]
The Indian Government and the Unicode Consortium deserves to be praised for getting this through so quickly. The new design for the Rupee currency symbol was approved in July this year and within a span of less than three months, the symbol has been made part of the official Unicode Standard. The Unicode Consortium, the organization [...]
How much does Google know about you? This is a question which many users are curious about, even if most Indians are not so much concerned about their privacy. Since Google offers a wide variety of services, users might also be interested in how much are they related, and how much of their information is [...]
Do you have an account in LinkedIn – The largest business network for professionals? Cyber criminals began a campaign Monday that targeted LinkedIn users in a concerted spam attack. The combination of extremely high volume and the focus on business users suggests the attackers are interested in employees with access to online bank accounts.At one [...]
Renjith Ramachandran, an IT Professional working with UST Global, Technopark has won the Nokia’s Make My App contest award. Only three entries were chosen as outstanding out of a total 8000 entries from India. His winning entry was an application for visually challenged to move around easily. Make My App contest is a promotional contest for Nokia’s N8 [...]
The No.1 search engine in the entire world – Google, celebrates its 12th birthday today. Watch google for the special birthday doodle logo by Wayne Thiebaud. Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. While conventional search [...]
Fits.me, the innovative biorobotics and virtual fitting room company for e-commerce clothing retailers and shoppers alike, announced today the official launch of the world’s first virtual fitting room for online clothing retailers in partnership with Hawes & Curtis, the leading UK specialized business and luxury shirt retailer. The biggest challenge for the e-commerce apparel category [...]
The world famous firefox browser now available in malayalam. The team for open source malayalam computing worked behind this great achievement. It is considered as a major milestone in malayalam computing. Firefox is the most popular web browser after the microsoft internet explorer. more than 30% of the internet community is using the firefox browser [...]
The Epic Browser is the first-ever web browser for India and the first product from a bangalore based Indian software company named Hidden Reflex. Epic’s built is based on Mozilla platform and open source software technology. The main feature of Epic is its Sidebar. It has got many apps/widgets in it. In Epic the user [...]
If you are a developer and you want to develop some cool applications in windows smartphone platform, here is an opportunity ! Microsoft is providing free windows 7 mobiles for developers. To get your name in the queue, assuming you haven’t already sent in an email, you can now send an email to wp7req@microsoft.com. A [...]
Recently there is a rumor in web that Google to launch facebook competitor very soon named -”Google Me”!. Google has offered the Orkut social network for years, and it’s been a failure for everyone except the Indians and Brazilians, who seem to love it.Google Buzz, more of a Twitter than a Facebook, hasn’t taken over [...]
Google launched a new software tool that helps anyone to make apps for mobile phones that use Android operating system. The beta version of the website is available at : http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/. That website having a video showing how easy it is to make apps, including a number of ideas for apps people can make themselves. [...]
Android is gonna be the next big thing in India. Here is the approximate price list of Android phone models available in India. Update on :26-july-2010 HTC HTC A3232 Tattoo Rs.12,499 HTC A6363 Legend – Rs.22,650 HTC A6262 Hero – Rs.22,916 HTC A6161 Magic – Rs.24,615 HTC Wildfire – Rs.25,000 Motorola Motorola Cliq – Rs.20,000 [...]
