Firfox want to Hit Bicycle Market too !!!!!!!!!

Google hires, but Yahoo fires

Mr. Alan Eustace said ..he is exitced about 2011 because it will be our biggest hiring year in company history. while Yahoo said on Tuesday it will cut 1 percent of a global workforce that stood at about 14,100 at the end of the third quarter, just weeks after announcing it would lay off about 4 percent, or roughly 600 people, from its workforce.

'Only 1 in every 20 engg grads suitable for IT product job'

Three out of every five students that graduate from the country’s engineering institutes need to go through further training to be eligible for any job in the IT/ITeS sector, says a study by a local talent assessment firm. 

It said just one in every 20 engineering graduates are fit for a job in an IT product company, while only one in five was fit to work with an IT services provider. The study by Gurgaon-based firm Aspiring Minds highlighted the need for improving training of students to make them employable. 

The report tried to use actual candidate quality measurements and industry recruitment benchmarks to create a measure for employability, said Aspiring Minds co-founder Himanshu Aggarwal. 

The employability study that covered over 40,000 engineering graduates and post graduates in Computer Applications, was based on the results of a standardised computer-based test called AMCAT taken by the engineering students across the country. 

AMCAT covered various objective parameters for adjudging employability in the IT/ITeS sector including English communication besides quantitative, problem-solving and programming skills. While employability of students for BPOs and technical support jobs (TSJ) are relatively better at 38.23% and 25.88% respectively, companies in the knowledge based segment or Knowledge Processing Outsourcing (KPOs) find only one in every ten technical graduates employable. 

All that's new in Gmail!

Search giant Google has revamped its email service Gmail. The company has overhauled the contact management tool found inside Gmail.

In a blog post Benjamin Grol, Gmail product manager said "An improved Contacts interface has been the number one requested feature from user feedback."
While the core Gmail experience has been changed significantly since its 2004 launch, the Contacts interface has not seen too many changes. The new version of Gmail's contact manager, which Google says is already in the process of going out to users, brings with it a number of changes and addons.

* Mail, Contacts, and Tasks links have moved to the top left of Gmail.

* Compose mail is now a button rather than a link.

* A smaller header area puts the first message in users' inbox.

* The Select All, None, Read, Unread, and Starred links that used to be above your messages are now options in a drop-down menu, next to the Archive button.

* Keyboard shortcuts now work in Contacts too, and Google has made selecting and grouping contacts more like selecting and labeling email.

* Users can now sort contacts by last name. Look under More actions for this option.

* Use custom labels for phone numbers and other fields.

* Now, when users have the option to undo their recent changes.

* Automatic saving: This means users no longer need to worry about 'edit' mode or `view' mode — just edit away and Gmail will save your changes.

* Structured name fields: Users can now set name components (i.e. Title, First, Middle, Last and Suffix) explicitly or continue to use the name field as a free form area if they prefer a less structured approach.

* Manual and bulk contact merge: Users can now merge contacts from the More actions menu. All they need to do is select the contacts they would like to merge and select Merge contacts from under the More actions menu.

Facebook hits saturation point in UK

LONDON: Social networking website Facebook is nearing its saturation point in Britain and its growth in the country has gone down over the past six months. 

Britain, however, has the second-largest membership of Facebook in the world, at 25 million. The list is led by the US, while Indonesia and Turkey follow Britain. 

Despite Facebook getting its 500 millionth user in July, the average amount of time spent on the social networking website by a Briton has decreased from 30 minutes in December 2009, to 27.36 minutes in July 2010, a study by web-analytics firm Hitwise said. 

Facebook is, however, still the second most visited site in Britain, after Google, and it accounts for one in every six webpages accessed in the country. 

Robin Goad, Hitwise's research director, says the figures show that Facebook is nearing its saturation point. 

"Facebook's market share of page views has trebled over the last five years, but growth (in Britain) has slowed significantly over the last six months. Last month, there was a slight decline in share, but this may well be down to seasonality - the August to September back-to-school/college/university period is significant for Facebook," he said. 

Blink-induced log-in now available on 64-bit Windows

It is now harder to blank on computer security with the newest version of Luxund's facial-recognition log-in program, Blink!. The newest version supports Windows Vista andWindows 7 64-bit, in addition to the original32-bit version. On Luxand's Web site, the company promises "more stability, more reliability, and thus more security."

This free application uses advanced biometric identification, allowing users to log into their computer simply by looking into a Webcam. Blink cleared numerous tests, including sunglasses. The program has multiple security functions, such as support for multiple users and the capability to create a log of those who access the computer. It is great for people who have trouble remembering passwords, as well as those who want an added layer of log-in security.

The lack of support for Web site log-ins is an obvious deficiency, but maybe that is coming next to the handy app.