With the deepening economic slowdown enterprises have started looking hard at optimizing their IT budgets, in some cases even resorting to free and Open Source solutions and softwares to address to their needs. The adoption of Open Source in enterprises will automatically imply a need for employees having familiarity with Open Source technologies. Here we look at what all opportunities that you can look at to start a career in the Open Source domain

Internet domain names grow to 177 million in 2008, latest VeriSign industry brief shows

Competition over average selling prices of chips has eased; now Intel and AMD battle on microprocessor features and functionality instead
Pinched by microprocessor price wars, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are trying to move away from competing over prices, to competing on microprocessor features and functionality instead, according to a study released by iSuppli.

Though Intel has a sizeable lead over AMD in global microprocessor revenue market, both companies recently noted that competition over average selling prices of chips has eased, which could signify the beginning of the end for the x86 microprocessor pricing war, iSuppli said in a statement.

Samsung looks ready to make good on its plan to release a dual-format Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD player in time for the year-end holidays.
The company, which has been a strong backer of the Blu-ray Disc format, said on Tuesday that its BD-UP5000 player would launch in mid-December. The machine was first announced in April, when Samsung said it would be available in North America and Europe by the end of the year.

Microsoft announces beefed up remote Windows Mobile management capabilities that allow administrators to remotely secure and manage mobile phones
Microsoft plans to announce beefed up remote Windows Mobile phone management capabilities with the introduction of System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 on Tuesday.
The software will allow IT administrators to remotely secure and manage mobile phones much the same way they manage PCs and laptops, said John O'Rourke, general manager of Microsoft's mobile communications business.

Airtel further strengthened its non-mobile services today by introducing 8Mbps broadband Internet access in India targeting mass customers, retailers and SMEs.

“Non-mobile part of Bharti is a strong engine of growth. Over the years we have invested around over a billion dollar in non-mobile service and it is a critical part of our operations now. We continue to further strengthen the Internet space,” said Atul Bindal, president, Bharti Airtel Limited, briefing the media here today.

Symantec has announced the launch of an India-only Hindi-English packaging for Norton Internet Security 2008 and Norton AntiVirus 2008, security solutions that have been enhanced to provide computer users with protection against new and emerging online threats, including disguised attacks used by drive-by downloads.

In addition, Norton Internet Security 2008 will also feature a new Norton Identity Safe to protect users’ identities when they buy, bank or browse online. The company has also optimized each product for "greater performance, improved technical support and reduced user interruption".

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd and Board for Information Technology Education Standards’ (BITES) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to address the training requirements of technology students in the state.

According to the MoU the training program would be open to all final-year and pre-final-year engineering graduate (BE) students of computer science and information science; as well as final-year students of the Masters Program in Computer Applications (MCA).

Intel Corp, the world's largest chipmaker, is on the verge of making its biggest push yet into mobile consumer electronics, seeking to replicate its success in mobile personal devices, as well as personal computers long before that.

In the first half of next year, Intel will deliver its Menlow platform, a collection of chips and other components to power so-called Mobile Internet Devices, or MIDs, said Anand Chandrasekher, head of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group at the company's twice-annual technical show, on Wednesday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will start selling its lineup of 64-bit PC servers preinstalled with the Windows Server operating system from Microsoft Corp. within 90 days, the two companies said today.
The two longtime rivals also said they will cooperate on technical development of Microsoft's server operating system on Sun Fire hardware, as well as making Sun's Solaris Unix operating system fully manageable under Microsoft's recently introduced System Center Virtual Machine Manager software.