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Public Records and their Impact on Us

In this age when most of the world is virtual, there is always need for information from public records. In the business world, whether it is gauging a potential partner’s reputation or finding assets and ownerships, public records have increasingly gained in importance. But their validity is not confined only to the business world’s sphere of influence. Public records span a huge range of information, from legal documents such as [...]

Employees are Brands

This is very simple but thought provoking question- How can human resources be leveraged as a source of competitive advantage? Let’s try to find answer to the question through the example of the Google. Google emerged as a technological powerhouse with two extra ordinary innovations: ‘Search’ and ‘Adwords’, to its credit. The company attributes this enviable rise to glory to its most valued assets- The Google employees. These efforts paid [...]

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Calls For Internet Controls

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers. "The Internet cannot be something open where anything is said and done. Every country has to apply its own rules and norms," Chavez said. He cited German Chancellor Angel Merkel as having expressed a similar sentiment recently. Reuters reported, "Chavez is [...]

EU all set to achieve the Renewable Energy Targets

The European Union is to surpass its target of 20 percent consumption of energy from renewable sources by 2020, according to national forecasts submitted to the European Commission. The EU executive found that overall, the bloc will achieve a 20.3 percent share of renewables in its energy mix. EU countries are increasing their share of energy coming from renewable sources such as wind and water resources. According to a summary [...]

They Know How to Do It : Must Watch [Video of The Day]

The crowd at the Oprah taping in Chicago did a special flash mob dance to the Black Eyed Peas live performance of the song, "I Gotta Feeling." The group dance on the Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago was really cool to see from the Tribune Tower's 14th floor. This is for Oprah's 24th Season Kickoff Party. [...]

tête-à-tête with the Creator of Chatroulette:Andrey Ternovskiy

Following is the excerpt from NyTimes recent interview with Andrey Ternovisky, the creater of Chatroulette. We are posting some of the interesting excerpts from the interview. Andrey Ternovskiy, a polite, excited and eager Russian high school student, scoured the Internet trying to find a Web site that allowed random video chats with strangers. When he realized a site like that didn’t exist, he decided to build it. Three months and [...]

Apple COO Gets $22 M Bonus For Covering Jobs Medical Leave

Apple Inc has awarded its Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook a bonus valued at $22 million for leading the company while Chief Executive Steve Jobs was on 6-months' medical leave last year. The bonus, disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday, gives Mr. Cook $5 million in cash and 75,000 restricted stock units, half of which will vest on March 10, 2011, and the other half on March 10, 2012. At Friday's [...]

Apple iPad racks up 91,000 sales in just the first six hours !!

It's no holiday season and its no good time for consumers, but thats not going to stop people from following the Apple's iPad mania. Apple's iPad is to enter the market on 1st of April but the pre-order frenzy is on the run. Reports have mentioned that on Friday, the first day that buyers could pre-order the device , Apple racked up an estimated 91,000 sales in just the first [...]

The Botnet terrorists are seized

Not long ago, three men were arrested in Spain in connection with one of the biggest computer crimes in cyberspace history. These three men had the aliases of Ostiator, Netkairo and Johnyloleante and they not only used the hijacked information for personal gains but also advanced the information of the infected machines to hundreds of other hackers. The scam was known as Mariposa, spanish for butterfly. It was a botnet [...]

Big billionaires rising in China, says Forbes

Bill Gates is no more on the top billionaires list. Carlos from Mexico has topped the chart recently. This might look like a breaking news, but guess who is coming up on the list of world's richest people? China ! China-daily reported that there are more Chinese billionaires, analysed by Forbes. According to the latest list of rich people put out by the magazine, the US continues to top the list [...]

Take 5- USB 3.0

As “SuperSpeed” USB arrives with the latest variant called the USB 3.0, we shall have a look at the product that has been eagerly awaited and answer 5 basic questions that will help us understand it better. What is USB 3.0? USB 3.0 is the long awaited successor of USB 2.0 which has been the omnipresent interface on our laptops and desktops for almost a decade now. Pre- USB 2.0 [...]

Hi Tech Cities that Rule the Technology World

Internet speed to die for, gadgets that could give Mr. Bond a run for money, cars with utmost sophistication or tech savvy resident who wouldn't settle for anything compromising - what among these make a city hi tech? We live in the world of technology where people in love would rather get married in an Apple store than on the beaches of Hawaii. Lets have a look at which cities [...]

China warns Google from removing the filter

The latest sensation of tech industry is looking very dramatic. Google defending the freedom of speech and China adamant over their tradition, its like a clash between two entirely different values. Personally, the whole case could make a perfect controversial Hollywood movie. For last few days, I have gone through the each news posted on two different part of the world and I have always found myself moving to and fro between ambiguous statement. [...]

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