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Kingmax Products are Compatible with Windows 7
Kingax announced all their product series of USB Flash Drive and DRAM products have passed Windows 7 compatibility test and are qualified to use the “Compatible with Windows” logo on the product packages. The latest Windows operating system was officially released on October 22, 2009.
The “Compatible with Windows 7” Logo is designed to help customers make better purchase decisions by identifying products that have passed Microsoft designed test for compatibility and reliability with Windows 7.
Windows 7 is intended to be a Windows operating system for use on personal computers and to be a more focused, incremental upgrade to the Windows line, with the goal of being fully compatible with application and hardware that are compatible with its predecessor Windows Vista, the company said in a statement. Kingmax whole series of product line are certified with windows 7 standards.
HCL, Intel Launch First WiMax enabled Nettops
HCL Wimax Nettops
“The cost of the devices will be a bit higher than conventional laptops, as it includes the WiMax access device,” said Chowdhry. The laptops will be powered by intel’s Atom processor. WiMax allows mobile broadband access with speeds up to 10 Mbps. It is ideal for remote and rural areas where last mile connectivity has not yet reached. State-run Bharat sanchar Nigam Limited plans to start rolling out WiMax broadband services in about 1,000 blocks in the country by November 2009.
Source : www.hcl.com
Overseas Indian Scientist Return Home for Career in ISRO
India’s first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has successfully launched and it has inspired many Indian space scientists working abroad to return home for a promising career in
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).
Chandrayaan-1, our moon mission made tremendous interest in the space scientists all over the world and successful launch has made all the abroad Indian space scientist to think and return to India and make their career prospects further working in this organization. Space Agency launched Chandrayaan, and it is started on October 22 from Sriharikota spaceport, and is located near about 80 km north of Chennai.
State-run ISRO’s human resource department is receiving applications from abroad, and the official who didn’t want to be named confirmed that their enquiries for job prospects in the space agency. There are several enquiries at personal level like for example director of chandrayaan, “M. Annadurai” got some e-mail from scientists, mostly of Indian origin, …
Video sharing law to take effect in China
Online video sharing policy will be implemented in China effective January 31. The rule limits online user to post or upload videos containing pornography and activism, especially those that could mar the country’s image like terrorism and national attacks. Under the rule, website owners that provide video sharing in China should secure a 3 year renewable permit to the government, violators will be banned from video sharing for five years.
Video uploading will be limited to state owned or controlled sites when the new rule takes effect. Reports however did not clear how different web hosting sites like Youtube will be affected.
Satyam Computer to make Malaysian centre a global hub
First phase of global delivery campus becomes operational
Satyam Computer Services announced on Monday that its 500-seat global solutions center (GSC) in Malaysia is fully operational. It is the first phase of the Satyam’s global delivery campus in Malaysia. The GSC was inaugurated by Malaysia’s Second Minister of Finance and YB Senator, Tan Sri Nor Mohmad Yakcop, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation YB, Dato’ Kong Cho Ha, and Satyam’s founder chairman, B. Ramalinga Raju. This was the largest facility of the company outside India.
The GSC had already engaged 300 IT engineers, mostly Malaysians, to support the company’s ASEAN, Middle Eastern, and American customers. Satyam’s progress with its GSC would accelerate consolidation of its ‘Global Delivery Model 2.0′, an integral part of the company’s strategy to provide a distributed delivery capability for global customers. The GDM 2.0 would entail completion of parts of large-scale projects whether it would make …
The reason for Google’s news wire deal
Google is turning into a media company, instead of being merely a technology firm, by filling the voids that media corporations leave behind.
Publishers: Be careful what you wish for. Journalistic organisations and news agencies have complained that Google has benefited from their headlines (while I argue it is they who have who have benefited from Google’s links). So the Press Association, the Associated Press, Canadian Press, and Agence France-Presse just forced the search engine to license their content. Now, rather than linking to the wire services’ clients for their articles, Google News is displaying the agency reports in full on its site.
The victory is pyrrhic. For the agencies have transformed Google into what it was not, into what they and their clients should most dread: Google is now a content company. It is a competitor not just for ad dollars but for readers’ attention. The deal also reveals the weakness …
A Search engine for all things gaming
Search engines have been around for almost as long as the web. Infact, a search engine is pretty much an indispensable part of any user’s browsing experience.
Rare indeed is the surfer who does not get his or her browsing session underway by not visiting a search page-be it yahoo!, Google, MSN or Alta Vista. And when one needs any information, the first page one inevitably heads to is that of a search engine. All of which has made search engines extremely popular. Almost every major portal has either its own search engine or has tied up with one of the major search service providers. Search service providers. Search engines are also getting more speciallised, leading to the development of vertical search services that specialise in specific subjects, as opppsed to conventional horizontal search engines like Google, which allow users to serach for just about …
IBM and Innovation Group open centre
IBM and Innovation Group, a global technology-enabled outsourcing services provider to insurers in 11 countries, opened a Global Insurance Centre of Excellence here on Thursday. The Banglore centre will work on next generation core systems, develop new bussiness models and tap emerging technologies for insurance sector clients, says a release.
GSLV F 4 Satellite carrying Insat 4CR Launched
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has today launched the GSLV L4 Satellite carrying Insat 4CR at Sri hari kota at the scheduled time of 6:20 Pm which was originally delayed by 110mins because of a technical glitch and then there was another 15 minutes delay. New satellite to boost digital video transmission , direct to home and telephony services.After the time 1000 seconds time point the whole GSLV Team was very happy with the results and the whole team has again proved themselves even though there had been many glitches during the launch.
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