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Yahoo! Offers New Product Integration



Yahoo! has introduced new product integrations that continue bringing the

best social experiences from across the web to Yahoo! consumers around the

world. The announcement covers Facebook Integration and a refresh of Yahoo!

profiles, which allows people to manage their identity and activities across

Yahoo! from a central location. It has also refreshed the experience to make its

privacy settings easier to use and to give people a central dashboard to manage

what they share on Yahoo! from the external social accounts and apps that they

have linked to Yahoo!.

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Infosys and GIT Join Hands



The Georgia Institute of Technology and Infosys Technologies have announced

the intent to partner on potential research and educational opportunities. A

memorandum of understanding has been signed by Gary Schuster, Georgia Techs

provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Kris Gopalakrishnan, chief

executive officer and managing director of Infosys Technologies, formalizing the

collaboration. Georgia Tech is exploring the possibility of establishing a

small, high quality post-graduate research institution in Hyderabad, India. The

proposed Georgia Tech facility would include centers for excellence in

information technology and information systems, energy systems, biotechnology

and infrastructure studies. As part of the partnership, Infosys is planning to

collaborate on research projects of mutual interest in these areas of

technology. Moving forward, Georgia Tech and Infosys will create a roadmap to

identify the necessary resources and infrastructure to transfer these

technologies to market.

Internet

Hindus fighting Mainstream Media
In a bid to purify the concept

of public opinion by cleaning it of all biased elements, a new community on

Internet, named Internet Hindus, is slowly leading a war against those

section of media which, they say, is one-sided and not showing the other

side of the story. Internet Hindus are people socially active on blogs,

forums, social networking websites, micro-blogging websites, etc, that are

quite vocal about their views on Hinduism, media, politics and nation as a

whole, according to a blog post called Vu-point.

The term Internet Hindu has little religious

connotation. It is, instead, said to be a community which searches for the

other side of what is reported about India and its politics. Giving an

example as to how a normal Hindu slowly transforms to an Internet Hindu,

the blog post quotes a person (anonymous) as saying: I was a normal Hindu

about one year back. I used to watch news channels extensively and was

pretty much aware about the country and politics. Then I joined the Jaago

Re community on Orkut since I wanted to get my voter card made. There,

someone asked me to post an article in the NDTV community since he was

banned from there and couldnt do that. Subsequently, I joined the community

and got to know some more facts. The anonymous figure added, After many

months of long reading of various articles, I got to know the completely

different side of the picture. How the news articles are twisted, how the

breaking news are completely different from what happened, how the

headlines are made misleading to gain TRPs, etc. There are several people

who believe that Internet Hindus can fight what they called manipulation

of facts by media. A person named Vikas, commenting under Vu-point blog

says, Why cant..see our strength (is) growing. I hate news channels as

they are one-sided. But, I can say if the strength grows like this, then

soon we will start a news channel to show the truth.

Quantum Partners with Tata Elxsi



Quantum, a provider of backup and recovery services, today announced that it

has entered into a distribution partnership in India with Tata Elxsi, a product

engineering company. Tata Elxsi would market, resell, service and support

Quantum disk based backup, tape and software products in India.These products

will be marketed to end users, as well as other India based value added

resellers. In addition, Tata Elxsi would become a Quantum Authorized Service

Provider which would allow the company to provide maintenance and support

services for customers and channel partners.

Bharat Forge & KPIT Cummins in a JV



Bharat Forge, owned by Kalyani Group, and KPIT Cummins Infosystems have
announced an intelligent plugin parallel hybrid solution for automobiles. This

solution will be manufactured through a joint venture between Bharat Forge and

KPIT Cummins. The name of the indigenously developed hybrid technology solution

is Relovo. It can be fitted to any vehicle ranging between 800cc to 3,000cc, and

will cost between Rs 65,000 and Rs 1.50 lakh. Relovo is 50:50 joint venture

between these two companies, and both companies have plans to invest Rs 100

crore over a period of next six months.

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