Thursday, August 11, 2011

AUGUST 12:IBM introduced its first personal computer.

AUGUST 12:IBM introduced its first personal computer.

On this day in 1981,IBM introduced its first PC,the model 5150.It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida.
The IBM PC,with increased memory capacity and backed by IBM's large sales organization,quickly became the industry standard.Uses of PCs multiplied as the machines became more powerful and application software proliferated.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Google+, the fastest website to reach 25 million unique visitors

According to the latest data from the comScore, only a month old Google+ is now the fastest website to have 25 million visitors. In comparison to facebook, facebook took 3 years to reach this milestone. But it was only offerd to college student first and only for a university while Google+ is open to world although only for invite but easy to get.
unique visitors is not the same as registered users and that comScore doesn't not count mobile app users. The comScore study says that users spent 50 percent more time in the week ending on July 24 on Google+ than they did in the week ending July 10.
After a huge success of Google+, Google have surely some plans after the website would be launched publicly.

Google integrates Google Scribe with Blogger

Google has announced that it has integrated Google Scribe with Blogger. Google Scribe is a nice editor tool which suggests words as you type, based on a prediction algorithm. 
Kuntal Loya, Software Engineer at Google announced,"Today we are happy to announce the availability of the text suggestions and autocomplete feature of Google Scribe, which is graduating from Google Labs and can now be found in Blogger in Draft."
If you want to use it in blogger, just click on pencil icon to enable the feature. The tool is available in several languages and Scribe detects the language used from the words already typed. Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish are supported.

Downgrade in US may hit IT hiring by 1/4

Indian IT industry is the biggest employers in country but it may fall by 1/4 due to the downgrade of USA's credit rating and economic crisis. Experts also said that it might take 5-6 months for recruitment activity of IT sector to gain momentum.
"We are expecting overall almost 26 per cent dip in recruitment in IT industries from first quarter of FY'12. It'll take at least 5-6 months to get momentum in hiring in IT industries," MyHiringClub.com Founder and CEO Rajesh Kumar said. 
"Due to the economic crisis in the US, the Indian IT job market is also going to be affected badly. The major reason behind this is cost-cutting in Indian companies' US division. In the near future, Indian IT companies having offices in the US are going to face a surplus in their existing manpower strength," he added. 
The US accounts for almost 60 per cent of the revenues of the $60 billion Indian IT industry. 
Most Indian IT firms agreed that while there are fears of another recession in the US and a debt crisis in Europe, it is still too early to know what is coming. 

Facebook will be distroyed on 5 November - Anonymous

The hacktivist group Anonymous plans to destroy facebook on 5 november. They had announced this by a video uploaded on YouTube in which they claimed to destroy social networking website faceabook which shares users data with government and law enforcement agencies.
The group  calls people to work with them by the message,"If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill Facebook for the sake of your own privacy."
After the launch of this video, the leader of Anonymous tweeted that the Operation facebook is fake. He wrote,"To Press: Medias of the world stop lying! #opFacebook is just another fke! we dont "Kill" The Messenger. That's not our style"


We can not say the truth about this claim but the tweet came after the launch of that video says that some one is trying to use anonymous name to spread false stories..