Category: Technology
Facebook hired IIT Student for Rs. 65 lakh per annum
New Delhi: Social networking site Facebook has hired Ankur Dahiya, a student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Twenty one-year-old Ankur, who belongs to Rohtak, will have a package of Rs. 65 lakh. This is the first time that Facebook has hired someone from IIT-Delhi. Ankur’s family is elated. “Since the time I [...]
YouTube got new design look and feel
YouTube received a more polished design yesterday that focuses the user’s attention on the channels he/she follows and adds a video feed that reminds slightly of a twitter feed. The new homepage consists of a predominating gray background, bigger video thumbnails and a cleaner video watch page. The redesign comes with a fresh homepage that [...]
Toyota’s new car looks like a Giant smartphone
Tokyo: Toyota’s president unveiled a futuristic concept car resembling a giant smartphone to demonstrate how Japan’s top automaker is trying to take the lead in technology at the upcoming Tokyo auto show. Toyota Motor Corp. will also be showing an electric vehicle, set for launch next year, and a tiny version of the hit Prius [...]
Top Tech People Who Changed The World
Steve Jobs – Apple Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook Bill Gates – Microsoft Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Linus Torvalds – Linux Evan Williams – Twitter & Blogger Shigeru Miyamoto – Nintendo Jeffrey Bezos – Amazon Tim Berners-Lee – the World Wide Web Akio Morita – Sony
Google removing more products in house cleaning
Google on Tuesday announced the latest list of products being tossed out as part of a drive by chief executive Larry Page to focus resources on more promising projects. “We’re in the process of shutting a number of products which haven’t had the impact we’d hoped for, integrating others as features into our broader product [...]
Google offer Free Website for Small Business
Google India on Wednesday said it is offering free websites to an estimated five lakh small and medium businesses in the country. Google India, the Indian unit of the global internet giant, said on its official blog that it has launched an ‘India Get Your Business Online’ program to provide website, internet domain and web [...]
Steve Jobs biography hits the bookstores
Washington: The eagerly awaited biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hit bookstores on Monday, painting a candid portrait of a technology visionary who could be as bruising as he was brilliant. The 630-page book, titled simply “Steve Jobs,” is already number one on the list of best-sellers for Amazon’s Kindle and goes on sale less [...]
Apple posts video of Jobs memorial
San Francisco: Apple is allowing the general public to get a look at a star-studded memorial service it held for employees to celebrate the life of Steve Jobs at its Cupertino headquarters last week. Apple Inc. posted a link on its website late on Sunday to a video of the service, which was held on [...]
Dennis Ritchie – Father of C Language and Unix Died
After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and an esteemed computer scientist, died last weekend at the age of 70 – October 8, 2011 (aged 70). Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. [...]
Sriharikota : Megha Tropiques satellite to study monsoon
India’s latest satellite, the Megha Tropiques, launched in Sriharikota today Sriharikota: India’s latest satellite, the Megha Tropiques, launched in Sriharikota today, will study the patterns and dynamics of the monsoon. The 1000-kg satellite was one of four hoisted into space today, about 80 kms from Chennai. The French flavour in the name of the satellite [...]
