Microsoft has struck a deal to sponsor The Simpsons on Channel 4 in UK. This move comes as a part of their multi-million pound advertising campaign to promote Microsoft’s search engine Bing.
This is the first time Microsoft has ever sponsored a television program in UK. The deal begins on Thursday evening at 6 PM and [...]
In today’s age when we create a lot of content and rely on data, even the thought of losing some valuable information sends shivers down our spine. A nagging virus, your PC being hacked, software or hardware malfunction or an accidental deletion of a file- any of these can cause important data to be lost. [...]
Nature documentaries are back in vogue again. Ever since March of the Penguins made $127 million back in 2005 and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, we’ve been seeing a lot of similar attempts to bring lavish landscapes and cute creatures to the big screen with varying success. Then Oprah re-ignited the craze by [...]
The London Stock Exchange has embarked on what many call its greatest IT transition in history. The LSE recently announced that it has begun a twelve-month migration to the Linux platform. By the end of 2010, it wants the Linux-based Millenium IT trading platform up and running. The software was gained by acquiring the Sri [...]
The gaming market is witnessing an ever increase growth in the popularity of racing games in the recent years. Blatant disregard for traffic rules and high speed racing cars seem to dominating the genre of racing games right now.
Keeping in accord with this trend, a good number of racing videogames are being released. Sony’s “Gran [...]
Often remarks made by eminent personalities spread faster than a wild fire to attract criticism or appreciation from most quarters. The same thing happened when Microsoft’s Executive Vice President Scott Charney recently suggested the federal government impose an internet security tax on internet users to help MS fix the malware problems.
Preposterous as it may sound [...]
Microsoft made a huge noise about Windows 7 much before its launch. After a huge failure in Vista, Microsoft had to pull its act together. The frustration had given rise to a high expectation. Did Windows 7 live upto its expectation? Find out in the cartoon below:
Image Source: xkcd
If you come across any cartoon you’d want to [...]
When the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) came back online a few months back, scientists knew that their IT system had to be flexible in order to process the wide lattice of information. As the world’s most powerful particle accelerator geared up for operating well beyond its previous best performance, [...]
When Haiti was rocked by the country’s strongest earthquake in its 200 year history, a lot of aid was rushed in from various parts of the world. And as devastation offers opportunity for help which can come in any form, Information Technology could not be left far behind. Natural calamities often invite groups that bring [...]
“Don’t be evil” is the informal corporate motto (or slogan) of Google, originally suggested by Google employees Paul Buchheit and Amit Patel at a meeting. Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he “wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out,” adding that the slogan was “also a bit of a jab at a lot [...]
