Category: IT Services

San Francisco: Google has give a name to its soon-to-be released operating system for its Android mobile devices: Marshmallow. The moniker for the 6.0 version of the dominant mobile computing system follows a tradition of using sugary treats for Android including Lollipop (5.0), KitKat (4.4), Jellybean (4.1) and Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0). “Whether you like them straight out of the […]

Mumbai: To rapidly expand its portfolio and reach, property portal Housing.com has acquired HomeBuy360, a cloud-based sales lifecycle management platform that connects developers, agents and buyers, for $2 million. This is the second acquisition made by the company in 2015, after it bought Indian Real Estate Forum (IREF), a platform providing unbiased property information to consumers and realty business intelligence […]

The rupee’s sudden fall in the past few days may prove to be an added advantage for software exporters who are betting big on the improving outsourcing demand in the US and Europe. The rupee traded at 65 per US dollar on Friday. This is 2.5% depreciation from the average rupee level of 63.4 at the end of the June […]

New Delhi:  International Business Machines has said that it launched Linux-only mainframe servers called LinuxONE. The severs include LinuxONE Emperor for large enterprises and Rockhopper for mid-size businesses. IBM said LinuxONE Emperor can scale up to 8,000 virtual machines or thousands of containers, which would be the most for any single Linux system. The Linux One Empire system will be […]

Seattle: On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working. They are told to forget the “poor habits” they learned at previous jobs, one employee recalled. When they “hit the wall” from the unrelenting pace, there is only one solution: “Climb the wall,” others reported. To be the best […]

Nokia is hiring experts in software, testing new products and looking for sales partners as it is setting up its return to the mobile device and consumer tech segment that it abandoned when it sold its mobile handset business. Once the world’s largest maker of mobile telephones, the Finnish agency was wrongfooted by the rise of smartphones and eclipsed by […]