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IBM and Infosys fight for Indian IT captive unit of Fidelity

IBM and Infy are at loggerheads for having Fidelity’s, (the world’s largest Mutual Fund Company) Indian IT captive unit. IBM has proposed to pay about $150 million for the acquisition whereas Infy is ready shell out about $180 million for the unit. However, IBM is more likely to emerge as the winner because of the [...]

Microsoft appreciates H-1 B contribution

Microsoft has admitted that the H1 B holders have made significant contribution to the success of the software giant. It said that this has helped substantially in identifying the best talent from the world. However, the company is set to hand over pink slips to about 5000 employees in coming 18 months, some of which [...]

Apple Goes Over Microsoft In Market Cap As Steve Jobs Vision Comes True

Apple has become second to none in technology pushing US software giant Microsoft to the second spot for the first time in its 35 years of existence. The market values of Apple at the end of Thursday stood at 230.53 billion dollars, nearly 3 billion dollars more than Microsoft. Apple CEO Steve job is widely [...]

EU-Rambus Settle Royalty dispute

Rambus, a provider of high-speed interface technology, has come to terms with EU regulators by offering to cap its royalty of JEDEC DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) standards for five years. The company was accused of claiming unreasonable royalties by Germanys Infineon Technologies AG and South Koreas Hynix Semiconductor Inc. However, the chip-maker was not accused [...]

Hewlett Packard Scores Over IT giant IBM in global server sales

Market research company Gartner has claimed that Hewlett-Packard (HP) has generated more revenue in global server sales than IT giant IBM owing to the increasing demand for x86 servers and the downfall of Unix and mainframe systems. Gartner pegged the revenue from global server sale at $10.8 billion, registering a growth rate of 6 percent [...]

The 25 years of the Apple Macintosh

Some 25 years ago on a cold January day, the Macintosh was unveiled before the public in a stylishly produced advertisement at the SUPER Bowl in USA. The advert costing a fortune of 1.5 million dollars created by Ridley Scott, highlighted a PC(many considered them as an instrument then) that did not Conform(read Nineteen Eighty-Four [...]

Apple Launches Its Very Own Ad Platform Geared Towards Its Ecosystem

The Mac creator Apple has apparently unleashed its very own sophisticated mobile advertisement platform, iAd, which will allow developers to effortlessly inject advertisements into specialized applications meant for iPhone and iPad. The USP of the ad platform is that users will not have to leave their applications to visit a different website in order to [...]

Microsoft Initiates The Roll Out Of Windows Azure in India

Leading software giant Microsoft, has launched a new cloud services operating software for Indian customers. The software platform called Windows Azure is a platform supporting multiple languages and provides multiple environments supporting developmental, hosting and management services which can be used on the pre-existing Microsoft Visual Studio of the users as per the website of [...]

Video Games All Set To Become Entertainment Czars

Referring to the incredible growth video games during past decades, Activision’s CEO and President Mike Griffith, in his keynote speech at CES, claimed that video games are all set to “eclipse all other entertainment forms’in upcoming decade. During the five year period from 2003 to 2007, when movie ticket sales and number of hours for [...]

HP Launches 27-inch 2790m monitor

HP is an established brand which had build its name in the modern competitive market through its wide range of high-quality products and the introduction of new 27-inch monitor is again a new innovation over the old LCD products which has further strengthened its goodwill. Entertainment is brought to a higher level through this amazing [...]

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