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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...