IBM beats Infosys as India's 2nd largest pvt sector employer

While the news that Tata Consultancy Services is India’s largest private sector employer comes as no surprise, what is shocking is the second largest employer in India. This honour goes to IBM.
TCS has hired about 1, 63,700 employees as on June 30, IBM has appointed more than one lakh people in India.
Though no one will admit in IBM’s headquarters in the USA that it has hired so many Indians for the fear of backlash at home, this is a reality which was, hitherto, kept a secret.
According to a report in The Times of India, even though the company’s spokesperson denied commenting about it, a source within the company said that in a couple of years, the India employee strength could cross that in the US, where it employs about 1,55,000 people, and where the pace of hiring is substantially slower than in India.
What is interesting to note is that IBM globally has a little over 4,00,000 employees. So, close to 1 in 3 of its employees is already an Indian.
IBM has been aggressively recruiting in India. If we compare the number of Indian employees in 2006 and 2007, we will see a difference of 20,000 employees. This IT giant was even hiring during recession and has plans to hire more in the coming months.
Another interesting factor to know is that its staff strength is more than four times that of India’s biggest private sector company, Reliance Industries, which recruits about 23,000 people.
Infosys is third largest recruiter which employs around 1.14 lakh employees as on June 30.

Use Indian Currency-- Rupee Symbol From Keyboard

Recently we know that Indian currency rupee has got its own symbol, so now if we want to use the same as they way we use '$' symbol for dollar and many other symbol for different currency then what to do?

Government of India and many other IT experts predicted that within one year or little more we will can see the use of Indian rupee symbol in computer and all other printed forms.

But if you are excited Indian Citizen and just want to use the symbol of Rupee instead of 'Rs' , then you just have to download the Rupee font from below download link and can install in your system and use it from ' ~ ' key.

To install Rupee font follow below step :

Step-1 Download Rupee Font From any of Below Two Links :

Link 1
Link 2

Step-2 Instal the font on your PC.
To do so just Open Control Panel and open Fonts From there and copy the downloaded file there.

Step - 3 Select the Indian Rupee Font From the Font Style.

Step- 4 Just use Tilt key from below escape key (' ~ ')
Each time you will use '~' key you will get the symbol of rupee.


Just try it and give comments on it.

73,000 Wordpress blogs shut down by U.S. Government

This is alarming. Torrent news site TorrentFreak is now reporting that Wordpress host Blogetery has been shut down by United States authorities… along with all 73,000 Blogetery-hosted blogs.

Although details are still very tentative, here’s what we know: Blogetery’s entire site has been taken down, and the company’s ISP is claiming that they had to terminate Blogetery’s account immediately after being ordered to do so by law enforcement officials, “due to material hosted on the server.”

“This was not a typical case, in which suspension and notification would be the norm,” Blogetery’s ISP said. “This was a critical matter brought to our attention by law enforcement officials. We had to immediately remove the server.”

Although TorrentFreak speculates that this is part of a recent Homeland Security effort to take down file sharing sites, that doesn’t quite make sense: surely in that case Blogetery would have been asked to pull specific infringing blogs, not have the rug yanked out from under them.

No, the extreme response taken here by U.S. Authorities implies some sort of believed terrorist connection or child pornography ring, not just a handful of warez and MP3 blogs. Even so, though, unless Blogetery itself is suspect of harboring terrorists or child pornographers, it’s hard to condone this sort of extreme action that has instantly silenced over 73,000 users, the majority of whom are doubtlessly innocent of any wrong-doing.

Facebook to hire 500 employees in India soon

For all Facebook lovers who have the right skills, there is good news in store for you. The US-based social network site has recently announced that it will be launching an office in India in about two months. The office will be located in Hyderabad and will be in response to a growing demand for multilingual technical support. This move will facilitate communication between FB users, developers and advertisers.

If all goes well, this office will be operational soon and will generate plethora of job opportunities and will give a boost to the economy of the city.

As per a report in The Economic Times, Facebook has been assigned bout 50,000 sq ft space and is going to recruit close to 500 people for running its operations. Facebook, which has nearly 8 million users in India and nearly 500 million users across the globe, would reportedly invest $150 million in the initial phases.

The new office will add to Facebook’s operations in Palo Alto (California), Dublin (Ireland) and a recently opened office in Austin (Texas).

China Renews Google’s License

The world’s largest search engine and the world’s most populous country traded barbs and threats this spring when Google said it might leave the country over the Chinese government’s Internet censorship. That fight cooled to a simmer over the last few months. Today, Google announced on its official blog that China has renewed its content provider license, further defusing the tension between the two.

Google has been waiting to hear back from Chinese authorities about its ICP license since the company filed for its renewal last week. The company’s license must be reviewed annually. Its renewal will allow the search giant to continue operating its China-based site, Google.cn. If Google had been unable to renew its license, it could have meant the end of the company’s operations in China.