Why Intel Will Be a Mobile Loser

Intel, as it’s wont to do, overnight made a splashy unveiling of a new family of processors: the Atom Z6xx series, whose chips are much more powerful than current versions but consume less power. Why the hoopla?

  Apparently these chips, which run at over 1.5 GHz, can be used to power not only smartphones but also tablets. So as I usually do when a public company announces major news, I checked Intel’s stock price in pre-market trading: largely unchanged from its closing price the day before. If this was supposed to be such a big deal, why was the market ignoring it, and responding by shrugging its proverbial shoulders?

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Amazing Facts and Figures : You must know !

Its been said that learning never ends and one can keep on earning more if he keep on learning more. The more you have IQ, more you can engage and attrasct people. Few facts and Figures which you must know:

Indian Tech biggies in race for $38-bn outsourcing deals

Top IT firms in india like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro are busy chasing multi-billion contracts. including China Mobile, Verizon US and Bharti Airtel, against multinational rivals as reported by ET.

As per one research done by outsourcing experts firms such as Ovum said around 500 contracts worth nearly $37.5 billion are set to expire by September this year, ranging anywhere between $1 million and $1 billion each. “It’s a long, tough summer,” said a senior official at one of the Indian tech firms exploring opportunities at telecom majors such as China Mobile and Verizon. “Coming out of recession, we are facing perhaps the toughest sales challenge ever — the deals are smaller, competition is breathing down our necks and there is this huge expectation that we are back to normal,” he added, requesting anonymity.

Larger offshore vendors, which now include the likes of HP, IBM and Accenture, are likely to bid for a number of contractual opportunities, said Jens Butler, principal analyst at Ovum. “Cost-cutting is not the only theme, it is a component of client requirements,” added Mr Butler, who is based in Sydney, Australia.

Not to forget that due to recession lots of contract which are due for renewal went on hold last year. Since the market has been stabilized, companies are looking further to renew the same but with those companies who can offer better deal than previous one’s in terms of commercial, services and flexibility. All this because of tight budget and possibilities of further negotiated T&C.

At the other hand various SMBs are also keeping an eye on these deals to get a pie. Most of the biggies who are likely to be awarded with few deals have started engagements with such SMBs to ensure the low commercials and high profit margin by outsourcing these deals to right companies in turn.

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Fake & Stolen Facebook Accounts are on Sale !!!

Researchers from iDefense Labs, a division of VeriSign, has tracked an effort to sell login data for 1.5 million Facebook accounts on several online criminal marketplaces, including Carder.su. According to Rick Howard, director, cyber intelligence, iDefense, a hacker, who used the screen name ‘kirllos’, was recently offering to sell bundles of 1,000 Facebook accounts with 10 or fewer friends for $25 and with more than 10 friends for $45.

Criminals steal login data for Facebook accounts, typically with ‘phishing’ techniques that trick users into disclosing their passwords or with malware that logs computer keystrokes. They then use the accounts to send spam, distribute malicious programmes and run identity and confidence fraud. Facebook accounts are attractive because of the higher level of trust on the site than exists in the broader internet, reports Economic Times.

Shoking facts about World Population, birth rate, death rate and CO2 emmision !

I am really shocked to see this. Click on the follwing link and have a look on amazing facts on how population is growing against the death. Also shows you the CO2 emmision countries….Much more country wise…..roll over to India to see deails.

World Population crossed : 6.9 Billion      Click here to view the Dynamic Facts