Facebook Profile Reviews Predicting Your Career Success

The recent study released by "Journal of Applied Social Psychology” in February 2012 shows that Facebook can be used as a tool in defining a person’s potential career and academic success.

The study called “Social Networking Websites, Personality Ratings and the Organizational Context: More Than Meets the Eye?” released by Donald Kluemper, of Northern Illinois University, and Kevin Mossholder of Auburn University attempts to validate the utility of these screening methods, which can be considered a violation of personal privacy.

India top source of spam in 3rd quarter of 2011: Kaspersky Lab's Spam Report

More than 50% of all spam messages in the world during the third quarter of 2011 originated from just six countries, with India accounting for the highest 14.8% of such messages.

Most Powerful Women - Forbes View

Forbes is an American publishing and media company. The magazine is well-known for its lists, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and its list of billionaires.

The list of Most Powerful Women in the world for 2011 was released on Wednesday, Aug. 24.

16-18% anticipated growth for India's IT Industry in FY12 – Nasscom Confident

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) said it remains confident about its projection for 16-18% growth of the Indian IT industry in the fiscal year 2011-12 even after the economic uncertainty in US and also in European markets.

"There is no reason for us to be worried... We have spoken to customers and they are looking at expanding into geographies and bringing newer solutions to the market," Nasscom President Som Mittal said on the sidelines of the Nasscom BPO Strategy Summit 2011.

Latest Skype 5.5 Beta - Adds Facebook Integration - Chat with FB Friends on Skype now!

Skype is bringing several new Facebook features to its voice over IP service. 

In today's latest release, Skype for Windows 5.5 beta, users can "like" things, comment on friends' statuses, and message Facebook friends without ever logging into Facebook. There's even a dedicated Facebook contacts tab rolled into the VoIP software—ideal for heavily invested Facebookers.

Microsoft acquires Skype for $ 8.5 Billion

Microsoft announced a definitive agreement to buy Skype for $8.5 billion. The deal, announced today, would be a shot in the arm for cash-rich Microsoft in competing with strong rivals such as Google and Apple apart from strengthening its footprint in the consumer markets.

"The companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for USD 8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake," the two firms said in a joint statement.

Google acquires Green Parrot Pictures Company

Google has acquired Green Parrot Pictures, an Irish company that makes tools to manipulate digital video and images.

Green Parrot Pictures was founded six years ago by Dr Anil Kokaram, an associate professor with the school of engineering at Trinity College, Dublin.  Green Parrot's technology to help users make better-quality videos, particularly for videos taken with mobile phones. Google said that Green Parrot's technology would enhance the look of videos posted on its site while using bandwidth more efficiently. 

Interesting new feature from Google - SMART FOLDERS for Gmail Users

Google continues to release interesting new features designed to help email users. It has improved filtering and helped us save time doing standard email-related tasks. But Gmail's newest feature, Smart Folders.

The Smart Folders automatically identifies bulk email messages and puts them in a “special” folder.

Kingfisher Airlines launches 5 New Domestic Flights

Kingfisher Airlines has announced the launch of five new flights on its domestic route network.

The new flights to be introduced are:

• Mumbai – Jabalpur
• Jabalpur – Indore
• Indore – Mumbai
• Mumbai – Belgaum
• Belgaum – Mumbai

Mr. Manoj Chacko, Executive Vice President – Commercial, Kingfisher Airlines Limited commented , "I'm delighted to announce the launch of the third wave of new flights in our winter schedule. Kingfisher Airlines is the first and only airline, to offer connectivity to both Jabalpur and Belgaum from Mumbai. These flights are open for sale from today. The flights to Belgaum will commence from January 10, 2011 while the flights from Mumbai to Jabalpur and Indore will commence from January 24, 2011.  The new flights will offer excellent connections between important cities of India and key metropolitan cities and will further expand the reach of our strong domestic network.” in the launching ceremony.

Well, Jabalpur and Indore flying in to Mumbai will have convenient connecting options for onward travel to Hubli, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.

Kingfisher Airlines caters to all sections of air travel varying from the low fare service – Kingfisher Red, to the premium economy service – Kingfisher Class, to the luxurious Kingfisher First. As a leading company in India, Kingfisher Airlines offers the high amount of flights than any other companies in India.

The best part is that today Kingfisher Airlines flies to 59 cities in India and Eight International Destinations and has over 360 Daily Departures with a fleet of 66 Aircraft.

Online Gaming Revenues to Hit US$20 Billions - ABI Research

Revenues of web gaming in 2012 are forecast to achieve over US$20 billion, driven by North American, European and Asia Pacific markets, based on market-research firm ABI Research.

The Asia-Pacific region, in particular China, could be the engine behind significantly of this development. However, in China,as a result of commonly lower levels of very own PC ownership, the firm models are enhancing a tiny differently. In accordance with market analyst Michael Inouye, "World of Warcraft, for instance, generates essential earnings for Activision in Europe and North America over a subscription basis. But in China, despite a big `subscriber` base, the revenues are far smaller: it`s a lot more of a pay-as-you-go design (prepaid game cards). This also makes a higher reliance on `cloud` or server-based games."

One more difference in Asia is regulation. "In China, Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere the rules are much more exacting in what they allow. Some games for instance, have had to adjust their content. utilizing WoW once more as an example, the developers had to get rid of the virtual blood."

The increasingly varied and variety of connected devices would also enable gaming on additional platforms, ABI Research said.

Walt Disney reaches 100 Million Facebook Fans

Walt Disney have got more than 100 million facebook followers, It's a pretty huge and great perhaps the highest number with anyother company. The company has announced the achievement on last Sunday, which coincidentally was Walt Disney's Birthday.

There are around 200 facebook pages ranging from theme parks, movies to characters such as Mickey Mouse and Dory, Where Disneyland's page alone reached 6 million fans.

Walt Disney has launched these pages in August 2009. Now the pages attract about 5 million new fans each week. "One of the reasons why we have been very successful is because we have fresh content all the time," Friedland said.

Other companies appear to fall behind Disney: Facebook itself has 29.6 million fans and Coca Cola boasts 20.3 million fans, according to Techland.com on Time Magazine's website.

New LG Star Tegra 2 Smartphones in India

The LG Star is an Optimus branded device expected to be the first smartphone to run on a dual-core Tegra 2 Processor. It is anticipated to have a well-sized display measuring 4 inches, large enough for you to view the videos you prepared in HD 1080p. A 1500mAh battery powers the model which will include a microSD slot to expand storage capacity. LG Star Price is yet to declare in India.

Specifications & Features

• 4 inch display (w/ TFT capacitive touchscreen)
• CDMA Network Device (Doesn’t use SIM card)
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• Accelerometer and Proximity sensors for user-interface
• Android OS, v2.2 Froyo
• 1GHz dual core CPU
• 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth
• 8 MP Camera
• Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh

Facebook's venture into E-Mail Service

Facebook declared plans in this month to offer users a fully functioning e-mail service that will be available sometime in upcoming weeks. Users will be able to get "@facebook.com" e-mail address, which will be able to receive messages from other e-mail service providers too.

The e-mail service is being called a potential "Gmail killer." The move is the latest in an ongoing battle between Facebook and Google, which says it will offer more social networking features in response to Facebook's growing popularity.

The service will be able to pull in text messages and instant chats, according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, will play a significant role in electronic communication in the future.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Facebook's new venture into e-mail will increase healthy competition. Also, he continues that "More competition is always good because competition makes the market larger," told the Washington Post. 

According to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey, text messaging has become the primary form of communication for U.S. teens. "We don't think a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail," Zuckerberg said in a press statement.

Well, Most of the people are ready to welcome the new service, while the others say “I hate change”.

What comScore says about Search Engines?! - A Quick Review

Google preserved its authority in search last month, capturing 66.3% of explicit core searches and 64.3% of total core searches, which includes Google Instant.

Well, Bing and Yahoo tracked behind, according to the comScore data Bing has got faintly uptime. comScore has continued it’s second month with the impact of Google Instant – which offers suggestions as someone types – when calculating its search engine rankings.

ComScore said last month that when people type something into Google, hit "enter," and then click on a link, it counts that activity in its "explicit core search" results. Results that show up in Google Instant as someone types will be included in "total core search" results if a user pauses on that for at least three seconds, comScore said.

As a result, Google had 66.3% of the open core search market in October 2010, up very slightly from 66.1% a month before. Yahoo came in 2nd with 16.5% of the market, losing 0.2%, followed by Microsoft sites with 11.5%, a 0.3% boost. Overall, more than 16.6 billion open core searches were conducted in October 2010, with Google capturing 11 billion searches, followed by Yahoo with 2.7 billion, and Microsoft with 1.9 billion.

Recently moved Ask.com – had 598 million searches, followed by AOL with 346 million. On the whole Google is only company in the hit list to make any gains month-over-month in a total core search, which includes Google Instant.

Recent article says that “Google had 64.3 percent of the market, up 1.4 percent from the previous month. Yahoo had 18.5 percent, down 0.7 percent, followed by Microsoft at 12.1 percent, down 0.4 percent.”

Spice launches 3G+2G Dual - SIM Phone

Spice Mobility has launched 3G dual mode QWERTY phone with the access of high-speed data transmission, advanced multimedia access, richer data and voice experience. They launched Spice QT 95 and Spice QT 68 to market.

Spice QT-95 - It's 220×176 resolution display feature, an optical trackpad, video calling support, 3.2 megapixel camera and 48MB internal memory features are very unique. The phone also gives access to social networking sites like Facebook, Snaptu, Yahoo and Nimbuzz IM for those who addicted to social networking. 

Another device Spice QT-68, the phone comes with Wi-Fi, EDGE and other social networking features.

Both the phones come with a Track Pad for browsing and supports dual expandable memory.

With all these features they have tagged the pricing for Spice QT- 95 for Rs. 5,499, and Spice QT- 68 will come for Rs.4,999.

Yahoo Messenger 11 Beta Version - Now with more FEATURES

Yahoo! users will be pretty glad to welcome the new Yahoo! Messenger 11 Beta Version to replace the current Yahoo! Messenger version 10. The new upgraded version would provide better performance and excellent communication experience.

“Online communication tools are an important part of people’s lives- whether they’re connecting with their friends and family, sharing pictures and videos or keeping up on news across various networks,” Managing Director of Yahoo India, Arun Tadanki was quoted as saying.

Yeah, Users can view, comment on, like it and post status updates, share it in networking sites and instant messaging with anyone. When you are out and about, you can still stay in touch with your friends by using Yahoo Messenger for iPhone or Yahoo Messenger for Android.

As the number of Internet and email users are increasing, the company expects Yahoo’s Mail Beta and Yahoo’s Messenger Beta would enhance user experience.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta - An Impressive 13 Million Downloads...

The recent launch of IE 9 has an impressive and tremendous number of downloads within a short span of time. Mozilla who strives to cross two million of their next version, Where IE 9 already has 13 million in just two months.

“We continue to see broad developer excitement and rapid user adoption of Internet Explorer Beta. Since the beta launch, we have already had over 13 million downloads of Internet Explorer 9 beta and it continues to be our fastest adopted browser to date,” published Microsoft’s Ziad Ismail.

Ismail appends “Download IE9 Beta today and see first-hand what a browser built for real-world performance can enable,”.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta Version is available for download on web.

Microsoft Windows turns 25

25 years ago on this november month, Microsoft published Windows. But over the years, it enhanced into a full-fledged Operating System, which has built one of the most recognizable brand names in the world that dominates the PC desktop.

Still Microsoft hits top with their exceptional deliveries to their customers. Though there were few mishaps with them, they're still proving their excellence in performance. Most of the people using MS-Windows. Approximately 9 out of 10 people using windows and its applications.

The recent launch of Windows 7 adds performance improvements, slightly faster booting and support for Windows, as well as some UI enhancements. Windows 7 made a stunning 150 million licenses have been sold, Microsoft says. It's a best and simple example, shows that giants performance.

Let's wish them a warm congratulations for its first quarter-century.

Boutiques.com - Google releases new fashion site

Google on Wednesday published boutiques.com, a shopping site designed to help users find clothes and other items that suit their personal tastes.

Munjal Shah, Google's product management director, said "uses computer vision and machine learning technology to visually analyze your taste and match it to items you would like,".

Boutiques.com - Beta

Boutiques.com is a personalized shopping experience, where viewers can find and discover fashion goods through a collection of boutiques curated by taste-makers -- celebrities, stylists, designers, and fashion bloggers.

It offers a variety of features for viewers to discover and shop their look and create the opportunity for designers to showcase their tastes and updated inspirations online.

The shopping site is now only available in the United States and only for women's fashion, but Google plans to expand it in the future, Shah said.

Next Generation Messaging - Facebook Email Service

Facebook announced Monday that it is building a full-fledged e-mail system into its 500-million-member social network. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the new e-mail offering will be introduced over the next couple of months to all FB users. 

As of now they began to offer a few thousands of e-mail addresses to U.S. members that consists of their user name followed by @facebook.com. It will take little time to make it available to all 500 million members.

FB founder and CEO Mark introduces a new Facebook E-mail Service.

"This is not an e-mail killer, It is a messaging system that includes e-mail. We don't expect anyone to totally switch from Yahoo or Gmail to Facebook." Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a press conference in San Francisco.

Facebook is clearly trying to match all the services Google provides around its core search capability. Beyond its messaging capabilities, you share links, photos, instant chat and videos as well. A partnership with Skype allows you to make voice calls from the platform; Google only recently added this capability to Gmail. E-mail is the piece that has been obviously missing, and now it is here.

According to eMarketer, Facebook would collect $1.3 billion in worldwide ad revenue in this 2010, Which is twice that what FB did in 2009.