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India – More women workforce to join Corporate this year

Recruitment experts say that more women are likely to join the corporate workforce in the country this year, with overall hiring prospects are picking up and companies increasingly believing in maintaining a healthy male-female ratio.

IT services firm ITC Infotech’s HR Head Anand Talwar said, “Yes, more women are expected to join this year into the [...]

facebook.com turned 6 – 70% of growth from outside US

Facebook.com turned 6 on 04-Mar-10.  The company claims to have reached 400 million users – with 200 million added just in the last one year.
Mark Zuckerberg on facebook’s 6th b’day:
Facebook began six years ago today as a product that my roommates and I built to help people around us connect easily, share information and [...]

Location Aware Search – Google’s Latest Launch

Google has launched location aware search that lets you refine your search by location.
One of the really helpful things about this tool is that it works geographically — not just with keywords — so you don’t have to worry about adding “Chennai, India” to your query.
I did try some of the searches (for instance, Car [...]

Good news: Hikes on way at Infosys, TCS, HCL, Mahindra Satyam

As the services companies realing under recession from a long time have started to rebound, a number of them are planning to raise wages for their employees.

Infosys Technologies has announced a raise in annual pay for its employees starting April 1st. Last year, Infosys had deferred the salary hike and provided the same in October [...]

Jobs at Convergys : Convergys set to hire 1K

Here is some good news for the job-seekers in NCR region. Convergys Corporation is all set to hire more than 1,000 employees in India, over the next 3 months. All of these openings are at their Gurgoan centre. 
Convergys is listed on the NewYork Stock Exchange and has around 75,000 employees world-wide. It deals in relationship [...]

Wipro Greenware : 100% recyclable & toxin-free PC

We all know that we have been eating up the natural resources, and have been taking for granted all that is given to us by nature. But, its never too late and people have started consciously taking steps to stop, if not reverse, any further damage. Discussions on global warming, carbon credits, save water, save [...]

Mega Outsourcing deals are back: Billions of $ rolling in

Mega size outsourcing deals for Indian companies are back. One such example was the latest $1.5 billion British Petroleum ’s IT contract worth $1.5 billion awarded to Indian vendors TCS, Infosys and Wipro early this year. Experts suggest that there are more such projects in pipeline. With US trying to bring in anti-outsourcing laws and [...]

Google Apps Education in India – Is it available free to all schools, colleges or universities?

…Google Apps Education is another interesting acheivement of Google towards aiming for better communication, collaboration among school & college students. Google Apps education is a huge success in US and already many universities across US is using it for their following purposes ..To create their college email IDs (like manoj@iitm.edu, gobu@iimb.edu or murugs@pec.edu .. For collaborating documents using google docs (sharing project works, etc..Using calendar to schedule their weekly exams …

Techpedia : bridging the gap between academics & industry

When in the final semester of engineering, all of us put a hell lot of effort in our final project, running around to companies, public & private, research institutes, professors and everyone else possible, to get an internship. But once we are out of college, we will not bother to even take a back-up of [...]

Outlook 2010: Mailbox plus social networking

Taking a cue from Google wave and Novell Pulse and many others developing the next generation collaboration tool which will merge mail,blog,social networking,doc sharing etc etc all in a single package, the company which is single handedly responsible for changing the face of computers as it is now in the 90’s , microsoft is planning [...]