Why foreign travel is no more an incentive for techies / YouTube surpasses 4 billion video views per day

January 25, 2012

Why foreign travel is no more an incentive for techies / YouTube surpasses 4 billion video views per day

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Why foreign travel is no more an incentive for techiesFor IT engineers, the periodical one- or two-year stints in the US or Europe used to be the primary attraction of their jobs. They not only got to live in places that most Indians aspire to but, during those stints, they also received salaries substantially higher than in India and which allowed them to make significant savings. For business development professionals in IT, foreign travel used to be for short..

YouTube surpasses 4 billion video views per day
Google recently confirmed that YouTube now receives more than 4 billion video views per day.

Reuters reported the news Monday morning and noted that the site has seen a 25% increase i..

Intel's next big wireless play : It's not smartphones
Intel’s wireless ambitions go beyond smartphones and tablets. It’s set its sights on the guts of the mobile network as well. By embracing a new network design concept called Cloud-RAN, Int..

Tabplus Rio tablet @ Rs 11,990
A Bangalore based company has launched a new tablet, named Tabplus Rio, at Rupees 11,990. Launched by Digital Waves, the Android 2.3 tablet comes with a 1 GHz Cortex A9 processor, 7 inch screen with s..

freephoo to charge Rs 4.50/ min for global phone calls
Sweden-based application company freephoo today said it will charge $ 0.089 (Rs 4.47 approximately) per minute for making calls anywhere in the world on both fixed line and mobile phones.

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Aakash may not be able to address demands of Indian education
India's laudable quest for the "lowest cost" tablet looks more than a little curious. It's an 'ideal project' anyone would fall for. Some may call it populist. Clearly, it has raised expecta..

HP Announces Mini Netbook for Students, Business Users
HP has announced its 10.1-inch netbook for mobile business users and students on a budget.

The Mini 1104 is a netbook built for the backpack and trials of travel. Its 320GB hard drive not o..

The Pirate Bay Wants You to Download Physical Objects Now
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is apparently expanding its reach into letting users pass one another physical objects to download. Well, that’s actually not the case just yet. But the site is ..

Hacker Releases 100K Facebook Credentials
The ongoing Israel and Arab Internet feud continues. Now a hacker who says he is acting 'in defense of Israel' released 100,000 log-in credentials of allegedly Arab Facebook users, according to report..

PaaS Makes Progress in 2011
While Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has always had its cheerleaders - yours truly included - the harsh reality is that, commercially speaking, PaaS offerings have underperformed relative to expectation..

Google+ Updates Real Name Policy to Allow
Google VP of Product Bradley Horowitz has announced a series of changes to the Google+ real names policy. Google+ will now support 'alternate names,' such as nicknames, maiden names or names in langua..

Sony develops new CMOS sensor tech
Sony has announced that it has developed a new "next-generation" back-illuminated CMOS image sensor, which it claims "embodies the continuous evolution of the camera."The new senso..

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