Posted on Wednesday, 29th July 2009 by Neeta
Bing launching has been timed well. It seems Microsoft moved according to a perfect plan. Bing has been steadily moving up the market share ladder since its launch few months back. Now with Microsoft’s deal with Yahoo which positions Bing in a new role, the going will be too good for Microsoft. As the terms [...]
Tags: Bing, MSN, Yahoo
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Posted on Tuesday, 28th July 2009 by Neeta
Microsoft has come out with a novel game to fine tune Bing. Page Hunt as it is being called asks users to come out with best queries which can rank the displayed page amongst the top five search results. Game is quite simple but when millions of users will participate and give out their suggested [...]
Tags: Bing, Google search queries, Page Hunt, SearchWiki, Yahoo
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Posted on Monday, 27th July 2009 by Neeta
It has become a sort of annual ritual. Every year millions of students sit our for engineering entrance examinations, lucky few get selected others either just take recourse to the paid seats or just bide their time for another year. I knew few IITians who graduated some twenty years back. I held discussions with them [...]
Tags: Career choices, Top career choices
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Posted on Monday, 27th July 2009 by Neeta
Infrastructure projects are associated with huge capital investments and a defined timeline and related overrun expenses. These projects are monitored today with many sophisticated project management aids like Primavera, MS Projects and SAP project suites. When a project is conceived, it is having defined and measurable milestones and interlinking activities with specified durations. No project [...]
Tags: certifications, Environment, Environmental controls, OHSAS, OHSAS 18001:2007, projects
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Posted on Sunday, 26th July 2009 by Neeta
It appears that Microsoft would be offering competing space to browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari in form of a browser ballot, where users can pick and choose browsers other than IE. If the recent post in Ars is to be believed then EU has had its way with Redmond. EU commission had earlier objected [...]
Tags: browsers, Chrome, EU commission, Microsoft windows 7, Technology, Windows
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Posted on Saturday, 25th July 2009 by Neeta
When I read this news, I was taken aback by the sheer size of projects. Four projects at Shaanxi, Qinghai, Shizuishan and Panzhihua with plant size ranging from 300 MW to 500 MW speaks volume about China’s determined foray in renewable energy. And mind you, these projects have been decided and placed on only one [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 22nd July 2009 by Neeta
IT has been ruling the roost for quite sometime now. We saw the opportunities galore in IT arena in the decade just gone by. IT has been struggling only recently. Over the years it has grown like no profession has grown in recent memory. India made some strategic decisions and people in the government came [...]
Tags: Change managemenmt, Environment, Green Building, Green living, management consulting, Technology
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Posted on Tuesday, 21st July 2009 by Neeta
22/7/09 will be long remembered as the day when complete solar eclipse took place in 21st Century. This is going to be the nature’s gift to all living beings. They will be witness to the one of the rarest of nature’s marvel. People have been flocking to the cities falling on the select band where [...]
Tags: Indore, solar eclipse. taregna, Sun goggles, Surat
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