Internet unraveled

Is there any worthy competitor to the ubiquitous iphone!!!There have been many smartphones offering similar functionality at a significantly reduced cost.But Iphone somehow maintains sole domination in the smartphone market.Now things can get a lot more interesting with Motorola launching their latest smatphone called “Droid”.The official launch of the phone was on the 6^th of November. It has all the features of the Iphone and also adds some extra featues and maintains the same cost. This is why it is being considered as a worthy match-up against Apple’s flagship product. The Droid comes with a default memory size of 16 GB which can be expanded to 32 GB. The camera is 5mpx as compared to Iphone’s 3Mpx.But it lacks the nifty video editing features of the Iphone. The battery life is also increased to 6.4 hours in the Droid.One major feature in the Iphone that is found lacking in the Droid is the native support for aac(Apple audio codec) which has become very popular these days.But it more than makes up for this shortcoming by having support for almost every other video format and multitasking feature.With this phone, the Iphone would have found its match. But the fact that the number of applications for Iphone is around 10 times will always turn public opinion in favour of the Iphone,

Twitter has revolutionised the way people share their views. With its customary tweets , it lets people share their opinions on particular domains. Apart from this tweets can be as simple as their current status message or about how a user is feeling at the moment. Now the unceasing search-engine wars has taken a new stage with a new dimension. Bing , the new search engine by Microsoft has announced native support for searching through Twitter’s gazillion tweets. It gives you an intuitive interface to perform a Titter search based on the genre and also lists the frequently performed searches. You can even customize you locale or country and perform domain specific searches. Its a win-win situation for both Microsoft and Twitter because both of them stand to gain equally from this new feature.It comes as no surprise that Google, taking cue from Microsoft has also decided to implement such a feature.

Online shopping is one of the most awesome features of the net-revolution. This in every sense has made the world a global village. Why not? When you can sit in your living room and order stuff around the world as if it is in your adjacent lane. Having said that, how many of us really do online shopping?  The time delay involved in shipping the ordered item to the required destination is always a turn off when it comes to online shopping. But that might not be the case if the user orders something from a nearby franchise.  Also the potential risks involved while typing out your credit card number in some site owing to phishing attacks is also a major deal breaker. Added to all this is the overhead incurred due to the shipping charges and also the customs/duty. But for people who do not mind shelling out a few additional bucks for some gadgets/stuff that is not available in their domestic markets, online shopping is a great boon. For others it is just overkill!

Its been more than a year since the world plunged into the jaws of recession. Not only did it snowball into a global pandemic but also left an indelible mark in every country it was experienced in. The single and the most disastrous consequence of the recession is obviously the business meltdown resultig in mass layoffs and jobcuts. So many premier business conglomerates have laid off a sizeable number of their workforce. This resulted in a very insecure job position in many of the western countries including the US. Now , it seems the dark days of recesion are a thing of the past. There are clear cut indications of the long awaited “ Light at the end of the tunnel”.  There is new found energy for companies which is eflectd in renewed hiring of personnel. People who have been forced to do lesser jobs are now getting better opportuities that promise an increased pay. It can be said with certainty that the worst that the recession had to offer had been endured and now things are looking up. It might be a bit too early to jump the gun and sy that the job situation is back to normal. But going by the curent positive signs, it might well be so in a year and a half or less.

Whenever google implements a new feature and if it is a hit, Microsoft tries to ape it and produce similar results and the recent feature wars between google and Bing bear testimony to this statement. Let’s take a peek into the shopping feature of the two search engines. Bing has a shopping link in the left side of its main search page and when you search an entry, it not only produces results that correspond to the lowest rates, but also sites that have opted for Microsoft’s cash back policy. It also displays two kinds of reviews pertaining to every product-namely User reviews and Expert reviews. Google can take a page or two from Microsoft’s book and incorporate such features too. Besides Google can save people from a great deal of trouble by making its shopping feature more accessible and also improve utility features it has. Currently it can be accessed as http://www.google.com/products. When the next time I decide to buy something will I Google it or Bing it? I will definitely Bing it !!

Every person has his/her long cherished dream of making it big in one of the top companies in the world. But how many of us really live the dream? The companies that really fill us with awe might vary from person to person. But there is a list of the “cream of the crop” companies that is universally accepted by people as the best of the lot. Best in terms of employee satisfaction, job satisfaction and also corporate muscle and job security. Taking into account all these factors, the famous FORTUNE magazine, comes out with their annual list of the  FORTUNE 100 “Top companies to work with “. This list is a very reliable one and has been formulated for the past so many years. Routine ones to make it to the list are obviously big conglomerates like Google, Microsoft, and EBay. But getting into any of these 100 companies is no mean achievement. Since they pay high, the expectations from their side is definitely going to be high. So be prepared to face the music!