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!.
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 |
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.