Monthly Archives: October 2010

Indian IT Companies Are On Right Track Again

Release of financial reports of many Indian software outsourcing firms, including TCS and Infosys, indicates that the Indian IT companies are back on the right track. These companies expect double-digit growth rate during the second quarter. Continue reading →

Opera’s Open Mobile Ad Exchange

Opera, the company behind popular mobile browser Opera Mini, today announced Open Mobile Ad Exchange. The Open Mobile Ad Exchange will offer cloud-based advertising on feature phones and smartphones. Continue reading →

Internet Explorer’s Market Share Falls Below 50%

According to StatCounter, the web traffic analysing service, market share of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is below 50% now. Although, Microsoft released a new beta version of Internet Explorer, IE 9, in last month – its user base fell to 49.87% in September. Continue reading →

Twitter Gets A New CEO

Evan Williams today announced to step down as the CEO of social networking website Twitter.com, so that he can focus on product strategy. Evan, @ev on Twitter, is founder of Blogger.com (now owned by Google) and Twitter itself. Continue reading →

BJP.com – BJP Served Legal Notice To Congress

The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), the Indian political party, has sent a legal noticed to Congress over the cyber fraud. According to BJP, the party has its official website bjp.org, but a domain name www.bjp.com has been used to redirect internet users to the website of Indian National Congress party www.congress.org.in. Continue reading →

Government Rejects BlackBerry’s Current Solution

Indian Government has rejected the solution offered by BlackBerry to decode emails sent through its secured services. The Department of telecom has refused to accept the current technology provided by RIM. Continue reading →

Firefox Restartless Add-ons Appear In AMO

A great news for the users who hate restarting Firefox after installing (or uninstalling) add-ons to apply changes: Restartless Add-ons are now available in Add-on gallery. The restartless feature is only for the users of Firefox 4 (currently in beta). Continue reading →

IE 9 Beta Records 6 Million Downloads in September

The latest beta release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, IE 9, has been downloaded over 6 million times in September. Microsoft has made several improvements and speed optimizations in IE9. Continue reading →

Facebook Opens Office In India

Facebook has officially launched its operations in India, by opening its first office in India. This office, in Hyderabad, will help the most popular social networking website to focus on the Indian users. Continue reading →

Dropbox’s Offer For Students

Dropbox, the popular online storage and sync service, has launched a new initiative: Dropbox Edu. Dropbox Edu is specially projected for the students. Everyone (students?) with an .edu email address will get double credit for referrals. Continue reading →