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Swaminathan to Lead AMD in India





Ravi Swaminathan has been appointed as the managing director and regional vice
president of sales and marketing for AMD India. The HP veteran will be
responsible for growing AMD Indias sales and marketing functions in the
country. He will be reporting to Benjamin J Williams, corporate VP & GM, AMD
Asia Pacific. Swaminathan replaces Ram Subramanian, who will remain a senior
member of the AMD team responsible for corporate strategic development.

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TCS Hires Mazenier



TCS has hired a new country manager for New Zealand. It has brought on board
John Mazenier, former Sun Microsystems country manager, to boost its presence in
the local market there. Mazenier would be reporting to Varun Kapur, TCS general
manager for Australia and New Zealand.


Kids Prefer Sex And Porn

According to
Symantecs OnlineFamily.Norton, sex and porn were amongst the most popular
items kids searched online in 2009. While YouTube, Google, and Facebook
showed up in the top three of both boys and girls search terms, boys
fourth search term was sex while girls fourth was Taylor Swift. However,
girls were still interested in the term sex, coming in at #5 on their
list. Boys top twenty-five search terms were mainly comprised of social
networking sites, shopping sites, adult terms, and games. Girls also showed
interest in social networking sites, but their top twenty-five search terms
focused more on music, TV, movie, and celebrity related terms, says the
report.

Michael Jackson
was the most popular celebrity, kids searched in 2009, coming in at #12
overall. While celebrity searches may seem safe, Norton has observed that
cyber criminals take advantage of news and events tied into celebrities,
using the topic to lure people into visiting infected websites and opening
spam or phishing emails. In 2009, Michael Jackson was one of the most
popular targets for cyber criminals.
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Thgersen Joins Four Soft



Four Soft, a global leader offering software solutions for transportation and
logistics, has appointed Johnny Thgersen as business head of its Nordic
operations. He will oversee business development, BPO and services space to
further strengthen the companys position in providing software solutions to the
transportation and logistics industry. He has twenty years of experience in
developing and supplying large ERP and production systems.

When Marriage Becomes Virtual Reality

Love is blind! Yes, this is a clichd usage for sure. But
when you see the mad ways of the world which goes to any extent in search of
love, you too wonder whether it is just blind or something more. This young man
from Tokyo, identified as Sal 9000, found his perfect love not in a real woman
but in a luscious, lovely, devoted and entirely portable video game character.
Her name is Nene Anegasaki, a character that only exists in the Nintendo DS
videogame Love Plus!

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Spam King Fined in Australia

The Federal Court of Brisbane imposed $210,000 fine on a New Zealander based in
Sunshine Coast, Australia, after a guilty plea over his part in a syndicate
capable of sending 10 bn spam emails a day. The accused man, identified as Lance
Thomas Atkinson, had reportedly sent billions of emails to websites including
the ones in India, according to Australian IT. The emails posted false adverts
offering lifestyle drugs to computer users and claimed the medication was being
legally dispensed from the US. Atkinson has already been fined $16 mn by the US
authorities.

Wipro Appoints Kohli



Wipro Technologies has appointed Rajan Kohli as its chief marketing officer, IT
business. A Wipro veteran of over fourteen years, Kohli has held various
leadership roles within the organization. He will report to Suresh Vaswani,
joint CEO, IT business and member of the Board.

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Searching for Murphy



Hollywood actress Brittany Murphys unfortunate death has given cyber criminals
yet another chance to push scareware or fake anti-virus software, warn
experts. They have said that the inevitable web searches lead Internet users to
some potentially unsafe sites and, according to Finnish security firm F-Secure,
this is, of course, a search engine optimization (SEO) attack. Users who click
on a poisoned search result link will be redirected to a website that swill
display a scare message trying to panic users into downloading rogue AV
software, said F-Secure.

New President for Toonz

Toonz Academy, the animation training division of the Technopark based Toonz
Animation India, has appointed N Radhakrishnan Nair as its president. Toonz
Academy runs training centers across the country, including two in
Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode. Nair has served previously as the executive
director of Toonz Academy in 2006. Earlier, he was the CEO of Technopark.

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Bandi for WD India Operations



Sushil Bandi will now oversee Western Digitals Indian operations. He will
replace Sharad Srivastava, who will officially step down on December 31, 2009 to
chase his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Bandi, who has been working with
Srivastava since October to understand the market dynamics, will work closely
with management to take a complete handover.


Lie of The Year: Palins Facebook Message

Sarah Palins
Facebook message that Democrats would set up boards to determine whether
seniors and the disabled were worthy of care was chosen as Lie of the Year
by Politifact.com. Politifact.com, the fact-checking, Pulitzer Prize winning
site run by the St Petersburg Times, said Of all the falsehoods and
distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the
restDeath panels. Sarahs assertion spread through newscasts, talk shows,
blogs, and town hall meetings.

PolitiFact
readers overwhelmingly supported the decision. Nearly 5,000 voted in a
national poll to name the biggest lie, and 61% chose death panels from a
field of eight finalists, said the website.

Palins message
had gone like this: As more Americans delve into the disturbing details of
the nationalized healthcare plan that the current administration is rushing
through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and were saying not just
no, but hell no!.

The Democrats
promise that a government healthcare system will reduce the cost of
healthcare, but as economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government
healthcare will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost.
And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly,
and the disabled, of course.

The America I
know and love is not the one in which my parents or my baby with Down
Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obamas death panel so his
bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their level of
productivity in society, whether they are worthy of healthcare. Such a
system is downright evil. Palins statement then launched the healthcare
debate into overdrive. The term was mentioned in news reports approximately
6,000 times in August and September, according to the Nexis database.

A claim by Glenn
Beck that Barack Obamas a science adviser John Holdren proposed forcing
abortions and sterilants on the US population, conspiracy theorist Orly
Taitzs claim that a birth certificate showed that Obama was born in Kenya,
and a claim by vice president Joe Biden during the H1N1 flu hysteria that
when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft, were
some of the runners up in the lie contest.
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3 Idiots on YouTube



When marketing genius Aamir Khan is at work, one can expect a blitzkrieg. This
time the producers of 3 Idiots have struck a deal with online video sharing and
broadcasting portal YouTube for an undisclosed sum. The movie will be released
on YouTube after eight to ten weeks. The deal with YouTube will allow viewers to
download the entire movie from the web at a fixed price.

MD Arrested for Piracy

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CBI has arrested two personsKamlesh Jha, MD of Delhi based KK Solutions, along
with his accomplice Krishan Kumarallegedly for carrying out pirated copies of
Microsoft products. The investigating agency has recovered large volumes of
counterfeit or tempered software CDs worth lakhs of rupees during the searches
carried out at fourteen locations in Delhi, Jaipur, Dehradun, and Hyderabad.

Fake Banker Jailed



A New Zealander posing as an international banker was jailed for a multi-million
dollar fraud in the US. Shaun Gregory Morgan, thirty-two, was sentenced to five
years of imprisonment by Utah judge Dee Benson last week, after he admitted
running a fake bank on the Internet. Morgan used to offer huge amounts as loans
to needy people on the condition that they first sent him money as security. He
had claimed he was an executive of the London based international bank First
Mutual and had millions of dollars of credit available.


Fugitive Updates Facebook Page

Police launch
hunt for a criminal who broke jail is no news. Neither it makes any news
when someone updates his Facebook page without revealing his whereabouts.
But when an escaped prisoner, whom the British Police has been searching
since September, 2009, makes it a practice to regularly update his page and
still manage to evade the police, that make a bizarre news. Escaped convict
Craig Lynch has nearly 4,000 fans and an info box that says Life is what
you make it, live fast, die young!. But the British Police is finding it
difficult to trace him. It was in September that the twenty-eight year old
convict escaped the Hollesey Bay Prison, located in Suffolk, about 100 miles
north of London. He had been serving a seven-year sentence for aggravated
burglary charges.

Though police
cant seem to figure out where he is, his Facebook friends get constant
updates with Lynch describing everything in his life. The Facebook page
gives the picture of the happy-go-lucky man who is not worried about the
police chasing him. His comments on the networking site run like this: Im
thinking, which lucky girl will be my first of 2010!! or mmm i just had a
12lb venison steak, roasted vegetable and chips, bangin meal. I feel stuffed
but still got room for the JDs. Hope you enjoyed the meal babes. Well have
to eat here again. The prisoner on the run even wished Merry Christmas to
his supporters posting Nearly made it to Christmas. Merry Christmas to the
supporters.

Chinese Novelist Sues Google



Google has received yet another blow to its ambitious book project, this time
from a Chinese novelist, who is suing Google over its alleged scanning of one of
her books into its online library. Mian Mian, a counterculture writer, filed
suit in a Beijing court in October, 2009, after Google scanned her latest book,
Acid House, into its library. Sun Jingwei, Mians lawyer, said that the author
wanted damages of 61,000 yuan (5,5756) and a public apology.

South Korea Pardons ex-Samsung Chief



The South Korean government has decided to pardon Lee Kun-hee, former Samsung
chairman and also one of the countrys most powerful tycoons. Convicted of
embezzlement and tax evasion over illegal securities transaction, Lee has been
now granted a special pardon by President Lee Myung-bak. The pardon will take
effect on December 31, 2009. This decision was taken so that Lee could take his
place back at the International Olympic Committee.