After reigning the Social Networking, facebook set to launch "the differnt" email service.
Social networking site Facebook may soon offer e-mail services to its 500 million members to compete Google and Yahoo, making it the largest such service on the planet. More significantly, the offering could lead to a fundamental transformation of e-mail.
Facebook would have a tremendous advantage because it owns a vast collection of data about people's relationships and would find it easier to graft e-mail onto its existing social services such as photo-sharing. The news has come up after the strategic alliance with the software giant Microsoft to incorporate the functionality of Facebook in the Office applications.
If it is announced, a Facebook e-mail service would allow its more than 500 million members to communicate with anyone inside or outside the walls of the social network. If they use it, Facebook would leapfrog the 361 million global users of Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo Mail's 273 million users and Gmail's 193 million.
The launch of the new service will be made official on Monday.
Now the question arises that would it be easier to divert, for their current email accounts to new email service from facebook.
Lets see...
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Real talent lies in the colleges other than IIT's and NIT's
The majority of talent for the IT industry lies in colleges other than the IIT's and NIT's and cities which are partially or completely ignored by companies for fresher placements in India, according to a study.
The scientific assesment team, Aspiring Minds, which compiled the study, segregated the country's colleges into a top 100 campus list and compared their employability with the rest of the campuses (which they termed "tier II" campuses).
To calculate their "employability", around 250,000 engineering and MCA students across the country, from more than 12 states, were tested on AMCAT, a test accepted by Indian IT/ItES companies as a standard of measuring candidates' skills.
Campuses which fall in the top 100 campus list were segregated and their employability was compared with the rest of the campuses (tier 2 campuses) and it was discovered that the major skill deficiency between the two categories was in quantitative abilities and not in communicative abilities as presumed.
More than 70 percent of all students employable for IT product sector and more than 80 percent of all students employable for the IT services/KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) sector are in tier 2 colleges, the study said.
The scientific assesment team, Aspiring Minds, which compiled the study, segregated the country's colleges into a top 100 campus list and compared their employability with the rest of the campuses (which they termed "tier II" campuses).
To calculate their "employability", around 250,000 engineering and MCA students across the country, from more than 12 states, were tested on AMCAT, a test accepted by Indian IT/ItES companies as a standard of measuring candidates' skills.
Campuses which fall in the top 100 campus list were segregated and their employability was compared with the rest of the campuses (tier 2 campuses) and it was discovered that the major skill deficiency between the two categories was in quantitative abilities and not in communicative abilities as presumed.
More than 70 percent of all students employable for IT product sector and more than 80 percent of all students employable for the IT services/KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) sector are in tier 2 colleges, the study said.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Mobile Number Protability service delayed again ya but apply for mobile number portability from Nov 25
The crucial decision for mobile number portability (MNP) would rollout by November 3, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting sources. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board FIPB will consider MNP licencee for south and east India Telcordia’s proposal on November 3. Sources added that number portability would be made commercially available by month-end.
Haryana would be one of the first states with MNP effective from November 25, while testing to begin from November 8. Mobile subscribers will be able to change service providers while retaining phone numbers from November 25.
To begin with, mobile number portability (MNP)— which allows subscribers to change operators while retaining the same number—will be introduced in Haryana. It will be extended to other circles in the next few months.
Operators’ networks are ready and have been tested fully. Applications from subscribers will be accepted from November 25 and the government will come out with detailed guidelines and advertisements in this regard in the first week of November.
Some experts said the introduction of MNP services could be a game-changer in the telecom sector. It could put pressure on leading mobile operators to announce new schemes to retain their subscribers. While no study is available on how many subscribers are looking for a change in service provider, telecom analysts feel it may not be more than 10% at any given time.
MNP is the facility that lets a mobile phone subscriber retain his/her original mobile number even after moving from one service provider to another.
In India, MNP has been elusive so far. It has been implemented the world over and we are one of the last countries left to implement MNP.
Haryana would be one of the first states with MNP effective from November 25, while testing to begin from November 8. Mobile subscribers will be able to change service providers while retaining phone numbers from November 25.
To begin with, mobile number portability (MNP)— which allows subscribers to change operators while retaining the same number—will be introduced in Haryana. It will be extended to other circles in the next few months.
Operators’ networks are ready and have been tested fully. Applications from subscribers will be accepted from November 25 and the government will come out with detailed guidelines and advertisements in this regard in the first week of November.
Some experts said the introduction of MNP services could be a game-changer in the telecom sector. It could put pressure on leading mobile operators to announce new schemes to retain their subscribers. While no study is available on how many subscribers are looking for a change in service provider, telecom analysts feel it may not be more than 10% at any given time.
MNP is the facility that lets a mobile phone subscriber retain his/her original mobile number even after moving from one service provider to another.
In India, MNP has been elusive so far. It has been implemented the world over and we are one of the last countries left to implement MNP.
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