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Add-ons or extensions are small pieces of software that can add new features or tiny tweaks to your browser. They can add niche search engines, change the look of your browser tool bar, block annoying pop-ups, preview links, organise your browsing history and do much more. 

Mozilla Corp, which recently set a world record with Firefox 3, recently held its annual competition that recognises the year's best Firefox add-ons.

kalpa Jan 9th,2010 11:17 AM and has 0 comments

With 5 jobs lost globally every minute, it is little surprising that the number is piling up in India too. However, the word `layoff' still seems to be an `untouchable' one for the industry. With majority of the companies linking the job cuts in their companies to `performance'.
However, it is anyone's guess that it is the global slowdown that is pinching these companies. Here's a rundown on the job cuts at IT cos in India.

Sandeep Jan 6th,2010 01:00 PM and has 0 comments

There's been a change of guard at India's number 1 IT company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Forty-six-year-old N Chandrasekaran has taken over the company's reins from S Ramadorai.Among the youngest CEOs in Tata group, Chandrasekaran has been with the Tata group's IT giant for over 22 years. His long tenure at the company includes successful stints at the company's US, UK and European offices.
Here's all that tops TCS' new CEO's agenda.

pranita Jan 6th,2010 12:09 PM and has 0 comments

The year 2009 saw the ugliest face of slowdown -- layoffs. The tough economic climate led to companies of almost all sizes, across industries and verticals, cut manpower to rein in costs.The scenario was no different in the technology sector, where from Microsoft to Yahoo to Sapient all cut headcount to cope up with the slowdown pressure.
Here's looking at some of the biggest layoffs in the IT industry in 2009.

deepak Jan 6th,2010 12:49 PM and has 0 comments

The past decade was clearly one that belonged to technology. Never before did so many new technologies and products came to fore and changed the way we live and behave completely within a short period of 10 years. But such scorching pace of technological advent also meant that many a products and technologies of the immediate past got left behind and earned their epitaph.
Here is a list of some obvious, and some not so obvious ones…

aparna Jan 2nd,2010 12:00 PM and has 0 comments

Despite slowdown paring down consumer spending, 2009 was a hot year for product launches. The year saw some of the coolest technology debuts and makeovers across categories: mobile phones, media players, software, Netbooks ...Almost all the big daddies of the tech world, from Microsoft to Apple to Google, Nokia to Samsung to HTC rolled out a number of feature-rich products.
Here are some of the biggest technology launches that became talking point of the year 2009.

rakesh Jan 2nd,2010 12:44 PM and has 0 comments

India's large software service providers are going increasingly local with hiring in overseas markets, part of a drive to position themselves as truly global players and polish their image in advanced economies reeling from job losses.Beginning with employing foreign nationals for junior and mid-level positions, companies such as Tata Consultancy (TCS), Infosys and Wipro – together these three account for about a third of India’s IT exports – now have a number of foreigners in their top echelons.

aditya Jan 2nd,2010 11:43 AM and has 0 comments

IIT Kharagpur is the best tech school in India, according to an IDC survey of 111 engineering colleges across India.Seven National Institutes of Technology (earlier called Regional Engineering Colleges), made it to the Top 30 T-Schools list compared to only four in 2007-08. Due to the good placement track record of NITs, the HRD Ministry is proposing to convert some of them into IITs.

amol Dec 31st,2009 06:24 PM and has 0 comments

From the German town that unwittingly advertised pornography on its website to the American who interrupted his wedding to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts, the world was full of weird stories in 2009.“Standing at the alter with @TracyPage where just a second ago she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss the bride” is how Dana Hanna kept the world posted between “I do” and that kiss.

abhilasha Dec 31st,2009 05:59 PM and has 0 comments

It was the time when technology truly came out of geekdom and straight into our living rooms. However, there were also some gadgets which were gradually phased out.
Here are the gadgets which disappeared during the last 10 years:

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Mandar Dec 31st,2009 05:27 PM and has 0 comments

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