Indian IT‘s temporary hiring to double by 2020

The percentage of flexi hires in the IT sector is expected to double to 20% by 2020 as IT companies increasingly outsource non-core activities and focus on high-margin businesses, said a report by the flexi staffing body Indian Staffing Federation (ISF). "IT firms are swiftly adopting the practice of hiring flexi staff in order to...

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Hot sub-Rs 10,000 cameras

I want a digital camera for under 10,000 with at least 8X optical zoom and a 15MP image sensor. The shooter should be user friendly and lightweight; Wi-Fi is preferable though not mandatory.  --Ramesh Srinivasan, Santosh Kadam, Mohit Khanna There are several cameras that can be picked up for under 10,000, with very little...

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Apple has grand vision for TV market: CEO

After computers, Apple is now eyeing to take the TV market by storm following a hint by CEO Tim Cook who said that the company maintains 'a very grand vision' of improving the already experimented Apple TV.  Cook said that the television experience today is just the same as it was 10 to 20 years before and nothing has changed...

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Motorola: First made-in-US Moto X phone coming

Cellphone pioneer Motorola announced Wednesday that it's opening a Texas manufacturing facility that will create 2,000 jobs and produce its new flagship device, Moto X, the first smartphone ever assembled in the US.  The company has already begun hiring for the Fort Worth plant. The site was most recently unoccupied but was once...

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Facebook starts verifying high-profile accounts

Social networking giant Facebook today announced that it has started a new feature that allows users to identify official pages and profiles of celebrities, brands, journalists, businesses etc. Microblogging website Twitter already has this feature, called Verified Accounts.  As part of this initiative, Facebook will add a Verification...

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‘Deleted‘ Snapchat photos hit the internet

Photographs shared via popular photo-sharing app SnapChat have been reportedly leaked on other websites without users' knowledge.  SnapChat, which claimed that all the photographs shared on the app remain visible for only ten seconds, overlooked its minimal technical prowess leading to users storing the photographs forever.  In...

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Apple CEO calls Google Glass difficult

Google's wearable technology Google Glass, which has been gaining a lot of uncertainty about its usage and subsequent abuse related to privacy concerns, did not find a clear admirer in Apple's CEO Tim Cook. Cook, while addressing a conference, said that the product by Google is not only difficult in terms of wearing the technology...

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Obama‘s cybersecurity plan ‘apes‘ India‘s

India's top security brass has claimed that the Obama administration came up with an executive order that resembles India's cybersecurity initiatives after it had failed to get the Cyber Security Bill approved in the US Senate. A confidential document circulated by National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) — the apex agency looking...

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Sistema: It’s tough to do business in India

Vladimir Evtoushenkov is co-founder and chairman of Sistema, the $34 billion Russian conglomerate, which is the majority shareholder in mobile telecom firm Sistema Shyam. The Indian venture has managed to win back nine of the 21 licences that it had lost due to the Supreme Court ruling last year. Although it is looking to invest in new...

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Google: Students should take up jobs based on interests

Students should pursue jobs as per their interests and set a goal for their lives, a senior official at search engine giant Google said. Speaking to students of Rajasthan University, Google Slovakia Country Manager Rasto Kulich motivated and guided them to set and achieve their goals and gave tips on better learning.  Kulich...

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5 ways social media strengthens employee communication

What started as a phenomenon on a more personal level is now extending its reach to work and offices. Organisations started by using social media as a recruiting tool. But now companies are realising the importance of social media for internal communication as well. After all, the concept of 'Employee Branding' is catching up like fire...

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Google adds tabs to Gmail, aims to declutter inbox

Google on Wednesday announced a new inbox for Gmail, the company's email service used by over 400 million people worldwide. In a post on its official blog the company said that the new inbox would help users sort their emails better and focus on the communication that mattered to them.The new inbox, which will be rolled out...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 gets official price cut in India

Planning to buy a Samsung Galaxy S4? Here's good news for you, the device has recently received an official price cut in the Indian market, barely a month after its launch. The phone, which launched in India on the day of its global launch at a price tag of Rs 41,500, is now selling at Rs 40,300 on Samsung India e-store. This translates...

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Can video games treat dementia?

Ryuta Kawashima is used to children pointing at him on the street. They often shout "Kawashima Devil!" It's the price the neuroscientist pays for being the famous face of a lucrative series of brain puzzles that he developed for Nintendo.  Kawashima appears in the videos as a disembodied, floating head with horns and a bright red...

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‘Google movie’ nears release, company jittery

When The Internship, a comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, hits movie theaters on June 7, Google will be taking more than a little interest in how the film is received.  In an unusual collaboration, the internet giant was closely involved with the film, a $58 million Fox production which features two middle-aged watch...

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Wipro may set up network gear testing lab

The telecom department (DoT) is likely to ask Wipro to set up a state-of-the-art lab in India to test network gear used by mobile phone companies as it has failed to reach an agreement on the proposed funding model withTech Mahindra, which had earlier evinced an interest to set up such a lab, executives aware of the matter told...

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McAfee Transforms Endpoint Security Market with Industry’s First Chip-to-Application Coverage

McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection Suites Uniquely Deliver Hardware-Enhanced Security and Real-Time Security Management McAfee introduced two new suites: McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection – Enterprise, and McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection – Business. These suites are the first to link security from chip to OS to applications,...

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