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Some interesting numbers India added 8.03 million mobile customers in july 2007. Foreign exchange reserves touched $229 billion. India employed 5,62,000 people in IT services, 5,45,000 in ITES, and 1,44,000 in engineering services in 2006. Indian life expectancy has increased from 31 years in 1947 to 64 years in 2005, thanks to inexpensive antibiotics. In India,there are 20 annual air travels per 1000 people,while USA has 2,300 & Sri Lanka has 30. Average pay in the government and private sectors in India is at Rs 2,45,745 and Rs 5,65,214 respectively. 2 million of the 40 million people working in managerial jobs left USA due to a supposed 'hidden' bias in dealing with foreigners. Hon Hoi precision Industry that manufactures laptops,mobiles and MP3 devices (including iMac,iPhone,iPod) employs 4,50,000 people! across the world.

TechCrunch , FeedBurner , iStockPhoto , YouSendIt , Meebo , Vimeo and Alexaholic . These are some of the most popular websites on the Internet. You have heard about them, you have read about them and you have most likely used or visited at least one of them. But how often have you read about what these websites are actually running on? This article dives into the facts and figures about the underlying hardware and software that keep these sites running smoothly in spite of their massive popularity. Pingdom performed a survey of these seven “super sites” that focused on web, database and file server numbers and setup, operating systems, bandwidth usage, network hardware and other technical questions relevant to maintaining a site. For those who are interested in the nitty-gritty details there is a PDF matrix with the survey results attached to this article . The variety of websites in the survey gives a good cross section of different kinds of setups. They all represent the crème de l...

September 26, 2007 Google Search users in the United States are 10 times more likely to encounter a problem than users in Brazil, according to this unique one-year survey from Pingdom . Google has a large number of localized versions of their Google Search homepage. We have monitored the uptime of Google Search for 32 different countries during a whole year to see how they perform when it comes to availability (uptime). The website with the most downtime was the Swedish Google Search ( www.google.se ) which was unavailable a total of 48 minutes. The website with the least downtime was the Brazilian Google Search ( www.google.com.br ) which was only unavailable for a total of 3 minutes. In other words, Google Search users in Sweden are 16 times more likely to encounter a problem than Google Search users in Brazil. The American Google Search ( www.google.com ) ended up in position 26 out of 32, with ten times more downtime than the Brazilian Google Search. Downtime measured from...

Many Microsoft Windows users who downloaded the recently released AntiSpyware program from Microsoft, or had it installed through an automatic Windows update, woke up to a surprise. Unintentionally, the heuristics of the software detected Internet Explorer as spyware, and removed the program from their systems. Microsoft has pulled the program from its website until the problem can be corrected. Elias Weatherbee, a Microsoft representative, said the program was "only in beta" and that "a fix was forthcoming." "It shows how powerful our AntiSpyware program is," said Weatherbee. "Not only is it able to remove spyware from the system, but also the source of most spyware. Our competitors can't match that." A representative from Lavasoft, which sells Ad-Aware another spyware removal program, complained that Microsoft was using its monopoly and knowledge of the operating system to "offer features that others can't match." "To...

Redmond, WA – In response to customer demands Microsoft announced that instead of patching bugs and improving features of Windows Vista in the next service pack release, they would just install XP. "We're focused on giving the customer what they want, and want they want is to just go back to XP," said Microsoft Development Chief Greg Elston. Elston said not only will the move improve customer satisfaction with Vista, but will allow the company to focus resources on the next operating system instead of the flailing Vista. "We can move people off of Vista development now, and move them to Windows 7 development," said Elston. "That should allow us to only delay Windows 7 by thirteen months past its scheduled date instead of the planned eighteen." Customers have had many complaints about Vista, so it wasn't surprising the response to the move was mostly positive. "Ever since I install Vista I've wanted to go back to XP," said Trey Sportia...

The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-FO4 lifted off from the Sriharikota launch range with India's latest communications satellite INSAT-4CR at 1821 IST on Sunday. The launch was earlier postponed twice -- three seconds before the blast off and then to 1821 IST. The countdown had stopped due to a "technical snag in parameters related to the launch", sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation said. The GSLV will put into orbit the INSAT-4CR, which carries 12 high-power Ku-band transponders for direct-to-home television services, video picture transmission and digital satellite news gathering. The last launch of the GSLV in July 2006 ended in failure, with the rocket falling into the Bay of Bengal shortly after blasting off from the Sriharikota launching range.

At least 42 people, including five women and seven students, have been killed and 50 injured in two explosions at a crowded park and a popular eatery here last evening, three months after the Mecca Masjid blasts, police said today. The week-end outing at the popular Gokul Chat shop at Kothi locality turned into a tragedy when a deafening explosion ripped through it killing 32 people and wounding 21, they said. Five minutes earlier, 10 people, most of them from outside the state, were killed and 29 injured in another blast in an open air auditorium in Lumbini Park near the state secretariat in the heart of the city when a laser show was underway, they said occured around 19:40 hrs on 25th aug 07. The blast at the auditorium, where 500 people were present, was so powerful that some bodies were flung in the air. Among the dead at the Lumbini Park were two students from Ahmedabad. Four Railways employee are among those killed in the blasts. The condition of some of the injured was stated ...

India celebrated her 60th Independence Day today.The nation has remembered its glory and its heritage and its development since the last 6 decades. In regards to this AOL.in has published a set of pictures that INDIA possessed in 1947 and the same in 2007.

Washington, August 9 2007: The US space shuttle Endeavour has lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, bound for the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft with seven astronauts on board is on an 11-day mission to install a 2.5-tonne solar panel on the ISS, conduct repairs on the orbiting station and deliver of supplies . Endeavour's last flight in November 2002 was the US shuttle fleet's last mission before the shuttle Columbia exploded on re-entry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven astronauts and temporarily halting the space programme. All shuttle flights were suspended , and the three remaining shuttles in the fleet were modernised during the years since the Columbia disaster. Endeavour reached orbit in eight and a half minutes after taking off Wednesday. Earlier, NASA crews filled Endeavour's external fuel tank in preparation for launch. Commander Scott Kelly leads the Endeavour mission. The crew includes astronaut Barbara Mor...

65th anniversary of Quit India Movement New Delhi, August 9: The nation is celebrating the 65th anniversary of Quit India Movement Thursday. On this day in 1942, Mahatma Gandhi launched a mass civic disobedience for the independence of India. A number of functions have been organised through out the country to mark the occasion. The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will release a book on Satyagraha in New Delhi Thursday evening. All India Radio-Delhi will broadcast live the launching of the book by the Prime Minister from 5.55 pm onwards on Delhi-D and additional frequencies. In Gujarat, nearly two million tree saplings are being planted to mark the occasion. The Maharashtra Government is launching the Nirdhar Darshan campaign from the August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai to highlight the spirit of Indian freedom struggle. Nirdhar Darshan will consist of five exhibitions which will be displayed in different parts of the state and country. A special postage stamp will be releas...

I found these facts in an IT magazine and wanna share these with you.Happenings in the last month observed were.. India has added 6.3 million mobile customers in May 2007. India would need 3,50,000 telecom towers by 2010 (The current number is 1,10,000) India is one of the first countries where digital music sales(Rs.1,026 crore or 10.3 billion)exceeded physical music sales(Rs.756 crore or Rs.7.6 billion)in 2006-07. The number of billion dollar companies in India has gone up from 29 (2001-02) to 71(2006-07) ,While the Chinese count has gone upto 90 from 18 over the same period. India has 203 paved runways, while USA has 5,119 paved runways. Insurance premium in India have dramatically increased from 525 crore (Rs 5.2 billion) in 1999-2000 to Rs 22,268 crore (Rs 222.7 billion) in 2006-07 ,thanks to privatization. 515 million people buy a newspaper everyday,while newspaper sales are going down marginally in the Western World (thanks to the internet),they are increasing in Asi...

Big Thanks for Everyone. You created history.And The TAJ MAHAL is in the list. From among the list of 21 competitors that were selected from over 77 participants all over the world.The day is marked in world history.The Taj accounted with over 10 million polls (even though its not more than 1% of the INDIAN population ). The voting for the new 7 wonders had received about 80 million votes worldwide .The New 7 wonders list now include Chichén Itzá, Mexico Christ Redeemer, Brazil The Great Wall, China Machu Picchu, Peru Petra, Jordan The Roman Colloseum, Italy The Taj Mahal, India

Vote For Our Taj.. Let its Beauty be eternal.. Lets its significance not de diminished.. Vote for the glory!! Vote our Taj .. SMS Taj Name Age M/F City and send it to 4567 .You can also vote online at www.new7wonders.com .Hurry !! Last date is on 07 jun 2007.

Welcome to my first blog .After reading alot of blogs i found that bloggers are very expressive and of all most creative people. The way they express things astonished me.. I may not be so expressive but was trying to throw a stone on this stuff about how can i find this one useful.Nothing much to express today... Will post some content when i feel something to be discussed...