Technology
Bollywood songs now on Google
Here comes fine news for the entire music aficionado in India. Google and Sa Re Ga Ma music in relationship with in.com and one more website shall be rolling out Google Music India on 26th of October, Wednesday.
This is an online music facility that shall facilitate the users to look for and listen to music online.
Google will append a music trait in its search facility that shall permit consumers to look for and listen to songs.
Railways plans Technology express
In a bid to spread the word of awareness about the development of technology in the nation, Indian Railways has decided to release a 'Technology Express' in the near future.
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee stated: "We will launch Technology Express soon to showcase the progress we have made in technology. The train will be starting from IIT-Kharagpur and travel across the country," reports came soon after flagging off the Commonwealth Express here.
Mumbai getting ready for monsoon
In the year 2005, on July 26th, a havoc wreaked in Mumbai, pushing the Indian Meteorological Department to think upon the situation more seriously. The department made a plan to install more accurate forecasting systems.
Now the time has arrived, monsoons are ready to usher Mumbai once again. But this time it is a bit different as the city will finally get its first state-of-the-art S-band Doppler Weather Radar by July.
Videoconferencing considered as next best thing in Taiwan
Taiwan researchers have discovered that two-thirds of nursing home residents who videoconference with family says it is the next-best thing to a family visit.
All of the 34 residents from 10 nursing homes in Taiwan, with an average age of 75, said the videoconferencing enriched their lives, while one-third said it gave them a true picture of family life, said Professor Yun-Fang Tsai, chairman of the School of Nursing at Chang Gung University in Taiwan.
Twitter Warns Of Possible Breakdown During WC Football
Twitter has been encountering various site problems since last week resulting in outages and meager performance. The micro-blogging site has, therefore, warned of probable breakdown, with the World Cup Football passion enthralling online users.
Jean-Paul Cozzatti, an engineer at the blogging site asserted: "As more people turn to Twitter to see what's happening in the world, you may still see the whale when there are unprecedented spikes in traffic”.
A whale emerges on the twitter site, whenever the site is down, usually along with a message requesting users to try after sometime.
FIFA Brings Malware Fear Along
Amid the soccer frenzy in Africa, temptation to get various offers and the resulting viruses are not very far. There are various emails that offer tickets for the football matches, at very low prices.
These emails have fake videos of football matches and also, the messages which lure the readers by announcing them as the winner of any football lottery scheme.
iPhone developer apps will keep a tab of Apple sales figure
The newly released iTunes Connect Mobile app will keep a track of application sales.
The app gains an access to the back-end portal of the App Store, and through this new iTunes Connect Mobile, the application developers can access their sales charts from anywhere in the world.
For the developers this app featured in the App store is a handy tool to keep an eye of their profitability factor as it gives a regular statistics regarding the download trend of their paid-for and free applications available on the platform.
Wipro and TVS sign for an outsourcing contract
Leading IT firm of the country, Wipro Ltd. has signed an outsourcing contract with the leading automobile and parts distribution specialist TV Sundram Iyengar & Sons.
The total outsourcing contract is for 10 years. Both the companies have announced this fact in separate statements. As per the officials of the company, the basic aim of this partnership is to leverage the utility of Information Technology in several organizations.
TVS & Sons has informed that the deal will help to provide business efficiency for all business units and functional areas of the company.
Mobile Ad network InMobi launches its USA operations
InMobi has announced the commencement of its USA operation. InMobi is the leading mobile ad network in the country. The company specializes in offering mobile adnetwork platform in India and now it's all set to offer the same service in USA as well.
The opening of its operations in the USA was announced by the company in a press meet. However, it has gone for a soft launch in the month of January this year. Now it has come up with a division for service.
Nilekani to head Finance Ministry’s technical advisory group
Nandan Nilekani will be the head of a technical advisory committee set up by the Government. The Finance Ministry has informed that it is going to set up a committee to advise effective use of information technology in several financial sectors and schemes.
As per the statement, UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani will be the head of this committee. This group will guide various systems like areas of income tax, new pension system and the proposed Goods and Service Tax to use IT applications effectively.
Netflix to feature in iPhone 4G
Considered to be the most anticipated, the most looked out for application of the summer- Netflix, has finally been made ready and will feature from June 21st in all the channels.
According to the company who publicized that the Netflix application has been launched especially for iPhone 4 and will soon be made ready for other platforms as well.
The news must have had brought a bolt of rejoice for enthusiasts who were eagerly waiting for this news to come up.
Qik pulled out its app from HTC EVO - temporary
According to the recent reports Qik, a video calling application is facing problems with its calls and supposed reason being an over-dumped server.
According to the reports released from Qik the server was jammed and was brimmed with 20 times more than its capacity.
Qik further reported via its blog that it will bounce back once the issue is resolved but for the time being it appears that Qik has pulled its application from the Android platform.
As of now no official pronouncement about the re-launch of the application has come up.
Dell’s new target is to reform State Health Services
Dell has formed a team of experts to help US for making health care services mandatory for all. As a result of the health care reform the added into law on 23rd March by the US President Barack Obama, at least 30 million people will join the Medicaid.
Before their joining all of them will have to register at the health information exchanges, which will be required by the federal government and is to be set up by 2014 in the states.
Microsoft to sell 1.15 billion dollars convertible debt
One of the largest IT companies in the world, Microsoft has decided to use some financial flexibility which comes from borrowing funds at comparatively low rates applicable today.
Despite having about 40 billion dollars in investments, the software giant has said that it is going to raise 1.15 billion dollars by selling debt which will be convertible to stock. This fresh amount of money would be used to payback the previous debt.
Company believes this decision will give the company more freedom to increase dividends or buy back stocks.
iPhone OS enjoys three times more market share than Android
According to the recent reports released by the market research firm Nielsen, it is claimed that iPhone scores well above the Android players.
The reports further highlights that smartphone database has increased from 16 percent to 23 percent of overall mobile consumers over the years.









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