Infosys bags Microsoft’s 3 year Outsourcing deal

Microsoft has outsourced its internal tech support to Indian technology services firm Infosys, the companies have announced. The move was first revealed in an Infosys press release on 14-Apr-10 announcing a three-year deal to "manage internal IT services for Microsoft worldwide" and later confirmed by the US software giant. As part of this three-year agreement, [...]

Yahoo India R&D employees to join Microsoft Bing search team

Yahoo India’s R&D team in Bangalore who are mostly working on search and related technologies are now offered jobs at Microsoft as part of the deal. … The search and advertising integration might take 2 years and according to the terms of the partnership, Yahoo will host Microsoft’s search engine Bing on its operational sites, give … its advertising platform Panama with Microsoft’s AdCenter.So, as much as 200 Yahoo India R&D team employees are set to board the Evil Empire’s ship soon ..

Facebook to open office in Hyderabad, India

Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in Hyderabad – India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages.  Facebook, which lets users connect and share information with friends online, has emerged as one of the Internet’s most popular [...]

XBOX 360 – Project Natal.. Will MS bring the next step to our door step?

Project Natal is one of the ambitious projects of Microsoft combined with XBOX 360.

What is Microsoft has to offer with project natal and XBOX 360?

A full body gesture, facial and voice recognition in 3D. Yes, that is correct. Its in 3D.

“Fake Office” Zoho kicks “Real Office” Microsoft’s Butt

Zoho Corporation has been creating lots of buzz in the market for quite sometime now…. The “Evil Empire” Microsoft has once again made poking comments on one of its competitor’s product. Though it got beaten up many a times in the past for such disparaging comments, Microsoft never seems to learn the lesson. This time, it commented about a company which has a strong online presence and very many loyal customers. Yeah, Zoho.In a recent interview, Ron Markezich, corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s online Office application, said – “We’re not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace …”First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win …

Microsoft keeps up promise of free anti-virus

Back in Nov 2008, MS had announced that it would come up with a software focused on anti-malware protection, to improve user Windows experience and to protect PC from malware including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans. All this at no-cost.  MS has kept its promise, and has announced that MicroSoft Security Essentials (MSE) is available for [...]

India VoIP company SabseBolo acquires Canadian firm MobiVox – Sabeer Bhatia back in action

What do you think Sabeer Bhatia did with tons of money after he sold his HotMail to Microsoft for around $400MM ?… Recently he relaunched ArZoo as a travel portal, which I think is still around.Later he started a VoIP service company called SabeBolo (Sab Se Bolo = “(Let’s) Talk To Everyone” in Hindi) to enable easy conference calls from the exiting landline or mobile handsets without needing any extra softwares or devices. Back in June 2009, SabseBolo acquired Jaxtr (famous internet telephone service startup). And now, the company has acquired a Canadian firm MobiVox, an internet voice startup enabling users to do conferencing, group calls, call transfers etc.,Seems, SabseBolo is growing faster in the VoIP space with strategic acquisitions. Lets hope, Sabeer Bhatia repeats his HotMail success story with SabseBolo.

Google Chrome Frame for Microsoft IE

Want to experience Google Chrome with Microsoft Internet Explore? Go for Chrome Frame. This is the open source project that Google has recently released, so that you can run Google Chrome from Microsoft IE. This is stated to provide 8-10 times performance improvement in case of Java scripts. It also supports HTML 5. Reports also [...]

‘Courier’ for you from Microsoft

Microsoft is developing a small tablet-style PC, codenamed ‘Courier’, which is already in late prototype stage (Gizmodo reports). The booklet shaped device has dual 7-inch screens, built-in camera on the back, and Wi-Fi. The screens are touch & gesture sensitive and work on inputs like pinching, flicking, writing and drawing.  Looks like the Courier is being created as [...]

Good news: Hiring is on

Good news guys! Jobs are here. Yes, companies have started hiring. The hiring which was put on deep freeze with no probable date of hiring to begin has started though in small numbers. Companies like TCS,Wipro, Infosys who employ the maximum number of people and are potential big hires have started hiring. So have other [...]