Monday, January 31, 2011
Top 5 Android phones below 10,000
The recent surveys done by top research firms like Gartner point to the growing popularity of the Android operating system (OS). Worldwide, the shares of Android OS have jumped and it is now the second most popular OS after Symbian, as per Gartner's third quarter smartphone data released in November 2010.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Indian corporate houses hiring foreign managers
Call it reverse outsourcing or local talent hunting, but high-tech Indian firms have been hiring foreigners as part of their long-term growth strategy. Top firms in the country increase the proportion of foreign employees in their workforce as they seek to address protectionist lobbies and position themselves as 'job creators' in the markets they serve. 
Mahindra Group is hiring managers from overseas stating, it wants to master the complex technologies in their businesses ranging from automobiles to the making of aerospace. IT firms like Wipro, TCS, Infosys has always been hiring foreign employees at lower level.
Globalization of the Mahindra Group has opened routes for Indian executives who were sent to the markets of U.S. and China. Alberto Strazzary, an engineer who has worked in companies like BMW and Ducati, is heading a project to bring cutting edge design to Mahindra's two-wheeler business, which is dominated by giant rivals Hero Honda and Bajaj Auto for several years. Peter Schmidt and Gabriel Periotti have also been brought on the board to make the technology meet European standards.
The group has a total workforce of 1.17 lakh, out of which 9600 are non-Indians. Of its total revenues worth $7 billion, almost 10 percent come from global markets.
While TCS aims to double its foreign workforce from the current one over the next few years, Infosys and Wipro could see non-Indians account for 10-15 percent of their total employee base in three to five years time, from around 5 percent now.
"It's a strategy to reverse the trend, as we realize that it's necessary to shed the old way of getting only Indians to do the jobs," said Pratik Kumar, Corporate Vice-President and HR Head of Wipro. "How can you justify the fact that despite significant overseas revenues, we still have over 95 percent Indians on the payroll?" he added.
Mahindra Group is hiring managers from overseas stating, it wants to master the complex technologies in their businesses ranging from automobiles to the making of aerospace. IT firms like Wipro, TCS, Infosys has always been hiring foreign employees at lower level.
Globalization of the Mahindra Group has opened routes for Indian executives who were sent to the markets of U.S. and China. Alberto Strazzary, an engineer who has worked in companies like BMW and Ducati, is heading a project to bring cutting edge design to Mahindra's two-wheeler business, which is dominated by giant rivals Hero Honda and Bajaj Auto for several years. Peter Schmidt and Gabriel Periotti have also been brought on the board to make the technology meet European standards.
The group has a total workforce of 1.17 lakh, out of which 9600 are non-Indians. Of its total revenues worth $7 billion, almost 10 percent come from global markets.
While TCS aims to double its foreign workforce from the current one over the next few years, Infosys and Wipro could see non-Indians account for 10-15 percent of their total employee base in three to five years time, from around 5 percent now.
"It's a strategy to reverse the trend, as we realize that it's necessary to shed the old way of getting only Indians to do the jobs," said Pratik Kumar, Corporate Vice-President and HR Head of Wipro. "How can you justify the fact that despite significant overseas revenues, we still have over 95 percent Indians on the payroll?" he added.
Is the RFID tag on Indian students in U.S. justified?
Indian students in the Tri-Valley University, U.S. are forcibly made to wear radio collars around the ankles that keeps a tab on their movements. Is the move by the U.S. authorities justified?
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna strongly condemned the reported forcible wearing of radio collars around the ankles of Indian students in the Tri-Valley University in U.S. and demanded severe action against those responsible for the "inhuman act".
"We demand the U.S. government initiate severe action against those officials responsible for this inhuman act.
Indian students are not criminals. The radio collars should immediately be removed," he told reporters here.
"The Ministry will extend all help to the students.
"The parents need not worry since the matter has been taken up with appropriate authorities," he said.
The government would also provide suitable assistance to the affected students if they wished to return to India, he said.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna strongly condemned the reported forcible wearing of radio collars around the ankles of Indian students in the Tri-Valley University in U.S. and demanded severe action against those responsible for the "inhuman act".
"We demand the U.S. government initiate severe action against those officials responsible for this inhuman act.
Indian students are not criminals. The radio collars should immediately be removed," he told reporters here.
"The Ministry will extend all help to the students.
"The parents need not worry since the matter has been taken up with appropriate authorities," he said.
The government would also provide suitable assistance to the affected students if they wished to return to India, he said.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Top 10 Free Android Applications Must Install on New Android Smartphone
As soon as you get a new Android device you wish to try each and every application that's available. Choosing the best ones can be really difficult from tons of application floating around but we have listed down the top 10 free android application that one must installon any brand new Android smartphone.
Barcode Scanner
Surprised why is this application at priority one. I don't know what other thinks but according to me it's the most important application for an Android device. Using it you can scan the QR code of any application on Appbrain or on any other website and get the download link instantly. Also you can share your contacts, apps, and bookmarks via QR Code.
Lookout Mobile Security
Security is the one of the prime concern, be it anything and lookout is the best in its class. It has got a Antivirus & Security feature to protect your phone from any viruses, a Find My Phone module to track down your lost or stolen phone and finally Backup and Restore module to take backup of all your valuable data on your Android device so you don't have panic lines on your forehead even if your device is wiped out by chance.
Advanced Task Killer
Android OS has multitasking support and thus you can run parallel application back to back. Some times this boon rather changes into curse when you have many parallel task running side by side munching on your RAM. The above mentioned tool kills your running application with a single click. You can either kill all the application by a single click or select them prior of dumping.
ASTRO File Manager
Although Android comes preloaded with a default file manager but believe me that is not enough. Now when you have ASTRO installed on your device you will have features like File Manager, Backup, Image and text viewers, Networking, SMB, Bluetooth, SFTP, Zip Tar, downloader, thumbnails, search files, application manager and task manager in a single application.
Opera Mobile
Opera Mobile web browser is one of the best web browser for Android and will make your browsing easy, interactive and fun. One of the best feature of Opera is its Turbo mode that help us to save on data costs.
Pulse News Reader
Pulse is the best and at the same time beautiful news reader for Android device. Pulse takes your favorite news websites and blogs and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. If you like a story you can even Share it with your friends via Facebook, Twitter and Email with just a click.
Google Goggles
Probably this is one of the only Google application that does not come preinstalled on an Android. Using Google you can search almost any thing on internet by just clicking the picture of the stuff. Goggles uses image recognition technology to recognize objects and return relevant search results. the latest version also solves Sudoku with in no time.
arcMedia Player
No doubt the default video player of Android is a decent application but it has very less file type support. Using arcMedia player you can easily play avi, divx, mkv, mov, mp4, rmvb, wmv, vob, xvid video easily.
eBuddy Mobile Messenger
We love to chat with our family and frends any where and every where and eBuddy takes full care of it. Using it you can always stay connected with all your friends and family on MSN (Windows Live Messenger or WLM), Facebook, Yahoo!, MySpace, Gtalk (Orkut), ICQ, AIM (AOL) and Hyves.
Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers
Zedge is home of millions of free, unique and rare ringtones, notification sounds & wallpapers shared by 19 million Zedgers. Using it you can fancy your mobile with a new ringtone or wallpaper every day.
Well this list is not the end but its just the beginning to the extremely wonderful world of Android applications. If you want more you can visit AppBrain instantly and start downloading what suits you the best.
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