Microsoft has always been fore-runner in promoting new technology related events for developers and IT professionals across the globe. You may have heard about Tech Ed. It is Microsoft’s premier gathering for software professionals. Here you can get technical education, community and product evaluation resources. Actually, it is a big opportunity to meet the largest [...]

Last week, I happened to visit rediff to read about top ten software companies of India. It nicely explained the achievements of top ten software companies including TCS, Wipro and Infosys. There I got the idea to discuss whether the Indian software industry is going in right direction or not. Let’s first see the data and reports [...]

It is not a rumor now as today Microsoft has announced that it has acquired Powerset which is an internet company based in San Francisco, California that is developing a natural language search engine for the Internet. Microsoft has future plans to integrate the company’s search and natural language features into Live Search. The San [...]

World’s number one mobile and cell phones company Nokia has completely acquired the Symbian software, a UK based smart phone software company. Its most popular software is Symbian OS. Symbian OS is a operating system, designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools. Now Nokia will have [...]

Just yesterday, I read in MSN about top Indian IT companies and their growth rate. Indian IT companies TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Satyam, Cognizant and HCL have acquired the top positions in the world of IT industry in terms of growth. They have around 2.4 % share of total worldwide IT services market in 2007. Earlier [...]

Today I downloaded Pirates of Silicon Valley using torrents. Pirates of Silicon Valley is a famous film which is based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. The film is based on the birth of personal computer through the rivalry between Apple and [...]

Yesterday, I got a phone call from one of my friends who is working in Amazon as a software developer. He told me to see Amazon.com in my browser. I followed his instruction. Then I came to know that Amazon was down. I only a blank screen with the error message: “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable. The [...]

Microsoft is planning to launch next version of Internet Explorer 8 which is Beta 2 in August. However Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 is currently available for download. But still this version is nowhere in front of Firefox. This IE 8 beta 1 is highly unstable and constantly crashed Windows Explorer. So Microsoft is hoping [...]

Finally Bill Gates has said bye to Microsoft. Yesterday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivered his final speech as Microsoft’s full-time employee at the company’s annual TechEd conference on Tuesday. Around 33 years ago he co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen and made it the largest software company of the world. During his 33 years old career [...]

As you know I am working a big multinational software company. I got this job when I was in final year of my college. For getting this job, I cleared three rounds. The first two rounds where written (which consists of technical and aptitude questions) and technical interview. After clearing these two rounds, I appeared [...]

Today I will tell you the story of Paul Allen. He was the man behind the foundation of the greatest software company of the world, Microsoft. He co-founded MicroSoft with Bill Gates in New Mexico, in 1975. Initially they used to sell BASIC programming language interpreter. In 1980, Microsoft under the leadership of Paul bought [...]

Internet giant Yahoo has launched a new search engine concept called “Glue Beta pages” in India. Now India has become the first country where Glue Pages Beta is launched. According to Yahoo, they have chosen India as it is a very strategic market for Yahoo as India is shifting to innovation, especially local innovation. Glue [...]

Yahoo has launched plan to turn its big internet empire of web services into a massive social network. This is termed as Yahoo’s Open Strategy. It will be something like centralized profile management system. Yahoo’s free e-mail, MyYahoo, Mash and chat messenger will be the launch pads for users to begin building their social networks. [...]

These days, whether company is small, medium sized or large, information systems and technologies are essential to ensure the success of the business. If the company is large then it has no problem in establishing the complete infrastructure like IT equipments, softwares and other IT systems for their business. Mostly large companies have separate IT [...]

Whether you working in an office, you need a work space that’s uniquely yours which suits your likes and dislikes. There are many ways to maky your office space more comfortable and conducive to work. In some cases the way your office is decorated can affect your stress level and work related productivity. To make your [...]