Technology

Shutdown hits IT sector in West Bengal

Aug 20th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India, Technology

Kolkata, Aug 20 (IANS) The Information Technology (IT) and Information Technology enabled Services (ITeS) sector in West Bengal was severely hit Wednesday following a nation-wide strike called by Leftist trade unions to protest inflation, price rise and other economic policies of the Union government.



Equity markets end losing streak (Roundup)

Aug 20th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India, Technology

Mumbai, Aug 20 (IANS) Indian equity markets closed in the green Wednesday, ending a five-day losing streak on the back of strong cues from the global markets. Capital goods, metal and realty stocks led the gaining rally.



Now, visually challenged part of Bangalore’s software boom

Aug 20th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India, Technology

Bangalore, Aug 20 (IANS) Meet Murali C (28), a mechanical engineer and system operation lead specialist at IBM, and K. Joshi (27), a masters degree holder in philosophy now employed by software major Infosys.



Google Gains Search Share, Microsoft and Yahoo Lose

Aug 19th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Biz-Tech, Technology

According to ComScore Inc, Google U.S search share increased in July while Microsoft and Yahoo’s share was slightly reduced. There were 11.8 billion search queries in July which was 2% increase from last month.



Yahoo Buzz Goes Public to Compete Digg

Aug 19th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Biz-Tech, Technology

Yahoo announced that its Buzz, social news website, is now available to the general public. According to Tapan Bhat, senior vice president of front doors, communities and network services, who wrote in his blog post that “”What does this mean for you? Anything you find on the Web is now buzzable”.
Further he wrote that Now […]



Google Starts Testing Ads on YouTube Mobile

Aug 19th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Biz-Tech, Focused, Technology

Google is always up to something. Recently, It announced that they are running tests of displaying advertising on mobile pages. The testing is primarily focused in U.S. and Japan. The company has been working on developing interface since one year.
According to blog post by Christine Tsai, Youtube product manager, “Our test advertisers will also have […]



iPhone 3G: Users still with Problems despite iPhone 2.0.2 update

Aug 19th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Biz-Tech, Technology

Apple has been facing  problems for few weeks  because of issues with MobileMe and then with iPhone 3G which cause users to experience dropped calls and  no signal etc.



Government targets 26,000 MW power from renewable sources

Aug 19th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India, Technology

Chandigarh, Aug 19 (IANS) The central government has set a target of generating 14,000 MW additional power through renewable resources in the 11th Five-Year Plan, taking the total generation to more than 26,000 MW, a union minister said here Tuesday.