Windows Vienna to follow Vista

Published on 12 February 2007 by Nirmal in Microsoft, News, Technology

Windows Vienna is the new codename for Windows Blackcomb the successor to Windows Vista. Not much is known about Blackcomb officially and Microsoft has not given any details about Vienna
While Windows Vista is intended to be a technologies-based release, with some UI changes (in the form of the Aero set of technologies and guidelines), Vienna [...]

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Some Things to Cheer About

Published on 12 February 2007 by Nirmal in Personal

Last weekend I went home mainly for 2 purposes, one being my sister’s birthday on 8th Feb. I have purchased a gift for her-Brand new Sony Ericsson z710i (Read my review of the phone here). Soon after I reached there I handed over the gifts, the mobile was fully covered in gift wrapper and in [...]

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Second life!

Published on 11 February 2007 by Nirmal in Leisure, News, Personal

In my previous post I had mentioned the pathetic state of my computer running on a 128 MB RAM. So last weekend when I went home, I had made up my mind to upgrade it at any cost. So I phoned my father on Friday morning and asked him to enquire the price and [...]

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My Journey in Infosys

Published on 11 February 2007 by Nirmal in Leisure, News, Personal

June 2004 Gets selected to Infosys on 6th June 2004 through a campus recruitment test held in Pondicherry Engineering college.
August 2004 Gets employment offer letter from Infosys.March 2005 Gets the appoinment letter from Infosys. My date of joining- 24th Oct 2005 Place of posting- Mysore
October 2005 Date of Joining postponed New Date- 7th [...]

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Few facts about Indian IT Industry

Published on 09 February 2007 by Nirmal in News

Major IT companies in India

TCS
Wipro
Infosys
Satyam
Patni
HCL

Number of Employees (2005-06)

TCS-66480
Wipro-53271
Infosys-52175
Satyam-26674
Patni-12428
HCL-32628

Other Facts

TCS is the first Indian company to hit a billion dollar mark in a quarter.
Infosys to become 3 billion dollar company by March 2007
Infosys spent a whopping $145 million (Rs 652.5 crores) in a year for training of its employees
Satyam spend around 350 crores for training.
TCS [...]

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