Earlier this week, the much awaited web browser ballot screen that was to be deployed by Microsoft Corporation in its Windows operating systems went live in the European Union and since then, one of the major web browsers, Opera has experienced an exponential growth in the downloads for its browsers. As per the company, Opera [...]

Webmasterpro survey found that 21% of PCs in Germany use the OpenOffice suite or other similar open source programs.
In this research, the company collected data from more than one million German internet users and by using statistics from Flash Counter Statistics Service for the numbers.
The study shows that most users – 72% – use Microsoft [...]

Never in the humanity’s history there was so much scientific production as now. If the Medium Age was described as an obscure period, nowadays the opposite can be said.
Impelled by the technological progress, several knowledge areas are more and more accumulating information in their respective knowledge fields. And in the last decades the knowledge accumulation [...]

Over the past decade, the employment rate has drastically dipped. To top it all, finding the right candidate with the right talent has almost become a challenge for most of the companies. A conspicuous reason for this could be because the best qualified candidates are already employed somewhere or the other, and hence, they seldom [...]

Antitrust regulatory agencies of the European Union opened an investigation on Thursday to investigate the background of the Sun Microsystems acquisition by Oracle, in s USD 7 billion operation, due to concerns that the deal would threaten competition in the database market.
The delay may affect the Sun, the fourth largest maker of computer servers of [...]

IBM will cut as many as 5000 jobs in the United States this year, which will amount to over 4 percent of the total IBM’s workforce. Sources say that the job cuts will be administered mainly in the IBM’s global outsourcing and consulting services.
These turn of events are only expected after the economic recession, probably [...]

Apple Inc is a very wealthy company — it sold 55 million iPods, 13 million iPhones and nearly 10 million Macs last year. Apple also is one of the most admired brands, both generally and among young people. In fact, Apple has done some good things. It has a good record on product power [...]

It has a processing power equivalent to 2 million laptops, and looks like a roomful of 96 refrigerators. Seven months after introducing the fastest supercomputer in the world, IBM has announced an even faster one. The company said it is developing technology for their new computer ‘Sequoia’ that will be delivered in 2011 to the [...]

The new US president elect Barack Obama after making promises in his election campaign about creating more jobs with control of the outsourcing industry cannot possibly take back his words, can he?
The attractive offers for tax breaks for companies, which plan to retain their businesses in United States, could change the minds of many employers. [...]

Finally the dream of creating a computer which works like human brain may come true, if things go well. IBM has sought the help of the US government to manufacture electronic circuits that function just like the brain. The project involves professionals from the field of neurobiologists, psychologists, material scientists etc.
US defense agency Darpa has [...]