WINDOWS 8

 Windows 8 is expected to have the same system requirements as Windows 7, and will run on existing PCs/laptops that run Windows 7. Here are the following minimum system requirements to run Windows 8:

Processor: 1GHz or faster 32-bit or 64-bit processor

RAM: 1GB (32-bit) or 2GB (64-bit)

HD Space: 16GB for 32-bit (or 20GB for 64-bit)

WINDOWS 8 TASK MANAGER

 Based on all of the data and our background research, we decided to focus energy on three key goals

• Optimize Task Manager for the most common scenarios. Focus on the scenarios that the data points to: (1) use the applications tab to find and close a specific application, or (2) go to the processes tab, sort on resource usage, and kill some processes to reclaim resources.
• Use modern information design to achieve functional goals. Build a tool that is thoughtful and modern by focusing on information design and data visualization to help achieve the functional scenario goals.
• Don’t remove functionality. While there are some notable core scenarios, there is a really long list of other, less frequent usage scenarios for Task Manager. We explicitly set a goal to not remove functionality, but rather to augment, enhance, and improve.

This model allowed us to optimize the default view (“Fewer details”) around the core scenario of finding an application and closing it. It also allowed us to add much more detail in the other view because it would only show up when someone asked for it. In the “More details” view we decided to stay with the existing tabbing model of Task Manager and focus on improving the content of each of the tabs. This would help us to augment, enhance, and improve what we already had, without removing functionality.

Scenario 1: Ending processes quickly and efficiently

Scenario 2: Diagnosing performance issues

Network and disk counters

Many power users supplement their usage of Task Manager with other tools such as Resource Monitor simply because in the past Task Manager did not show per-process network and disk attribution. This was a gap, when you consider that a spinning disk or multiple applications competing for network bandwidth are the root cause of many perceptible PC performance issues. The new Task Manager now shows these resources at the same level of detail as memory and CPU.

Lighting up the resource usage

One of the biggest causes of PC performance issues is resource contention. When a particular resource is being used at a rate above a threshold number, the column header will light up to draw your attention to it. Think of this as a warning indicator, letting you know a good place to start looking if you are experiencing performance issues. Below, you can see that the CPU column header is highlighted to draw your attention to the fact that you may have multiple applications competing for CPU time.

Grouping by applications, background processes, and Windows processes

A big challenge with today’s Task Manager is that it is hard to know which processes correspond to an application (apps are generally safe to kill), which are Windows OS processes (killing some of these can cause a blue screen), and which are miscellaneous background processes that may need to be explored more deeply. The new Task Manager shows processes grouped by type, so it is easy to keep these separated while still providing an ungrouped view for situations where you need it.

Friendly names for background processes (and services, and everything else)

Looking at the screen shot above, do you see the line item for "Print driver host for applications"? In the old Task Manager, this showed up as “splwow64.exe”.

But if you still want to see the executable name, of course you can add it back as an optional column.

CUT COPY PASTE with Windows 8

A small change always makes a big difference so as now microsoft has decided to better out the basic file management such as COPY CUT PASTE etc..normally users find it hard to navigate to the file they are coying when u are copying multiple files so Windows8 comes with a new UI were all the files you copy are displayed in a single customized UI where users would be able to stop resume cancel perform any function on any copied file all in the same dialog box without having to navigate into multiple floating dialog boxes..

The users are also given the priority to resume one copying action to speed up the one the need in the same window.To make things more fun and detailed Microsoft has added new feature to specify  data transfer rate , how much data left to transfer etc in the form of a real time throughput graph..

When a file is paused it is denoted with an yellow color graph instead of a  green one.One of the major issues when we copy files is the one that occurs with file name collisions for instance when we copy multiple data , dialog boxes keep popping up asking us whether to replace or delete or copy those files when we have the slightest hint what the file is.. to sweep of the confusion Microsoft has come up with a new enriched UI that gives us all the files with same names with thumbnail views so that we can sort all those files in one click in one window altogether...

Beautiful Quote By Dr John Celes

READ it twice to understand much better..........This was the poem of  Dr John Celes.

I cannot wish with flowers, 

For they belong to God; 
I cannot wish with sweet foods, 
For they are man-made all! 

I cannot wish with rare gifts, 
For they may not be apt; 
I cannot wish with greetings, 
For they are soon forgot! 

I cannot wish with crackers, 
For they make noise and smoke; 
I cannot wish with clothes new, 
For they can lose their charm! 

But I can wish with words of love, 
Those come straight from my heart; 
Today, ( Oct 26 )good won o’er evil; 
Let’s share this truth by art! 

Let light prevail o’er darkness, 
And illumine this world; 
Let love of human life spread, 
And glorify the Lord! 
‘Happy Diwali,2011’

TOP 10 SOFTWARE COMPANIES IN INDIA

1. Tata Consultancy Services

The Indian software industry is set to keep up its growth rate despite the slowdown in the economy. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has forecast a strong outlook for FY08-09 strong with software and services revenue seen growing by 21-24 per cent. The software and services exports are set to hit the $50 billion-mark.

The software and services exports segment grew by 29 per cent (in USD) to register revenues of $40.4 billion in FY07-08, up from $31.4 billion in FY06-07. The domestic segment grew by 26 per cent (in INR) to register revenues of $ 11.6 billion in FY07-08. According to the latest Nasscom rankings, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Infosys Technologies Ltd. and Wipro Technologies Ltd are the top 3 revenue generators in India. Check out the top ten players in the Indian IT industry.

TCS

Founded in 1968, TCS is one of India's largest corporate houses. It is also India's largest IT employer with a staff strength of 111,000 employees.

The company began as a division of the Tata Group, called the Tata Computer Centre. Its main business was to offer computer services to other group companies. Soon the company was spun off as Tata Consultancy Services after it realised the huge potential of the booming IT services.

The company posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 1,290.61 crore (Rs 12.90 billion) for the first quarter ended June 30, 2008, an increase of 7.3 per cent compared to the year-ago period.

Its annual sales worldwide stands at $5.7 billion for the fiscal year ending March 2008. During the year 2007-08,

TCS' consolidated revenues grew by 22 per cent to Rs 22,863 crore ($5.7 billion). S. Ramadorai, is the chief executive officer and managing director of TCS.

TCS is IDC-Dataquest IT best employer in IT services in 2007. TCS also topped DataQuest DQTop 20 list of IT service 

2. Wipro

What started off as a hydrogenated cooking fat company, Wipro is today is a $5 billion revenue generating IT, BPO and R&D services organisation with presence in over 50 countries. Premji started Wipro with the 'idea of building an organisation which was deeply committed to values, in the firm belief that success in business would be its inevitable, eventual outcome'.  The company has over 72,000 employees. Wipro's revenues grew by 33 per cent to Rs 19,957 crore (Rs 200 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2008.   The net profit  grew by 12 per cent to Rs. 3,283 crore (Rs. 32.83 billion). The revenues of the combined IT businesses was $4.3 billion with 43 per Cent YoY growth. Wipro was the only Indian company to be ranked among the top 10 global outsourcing providers in IAOP's 2006 Global Outsourcing 100 listing. Wipro has also won the International Institute for Software Testing's Software Testing Best Practice Award. 3. Infosys Infosys Technologies Ltd was started in 1981 by seven people with $250.  Today, the company boasts of revenues of over $4 billion and 94,379 employees. Under the leadership of N R Narayana Murthy, the company has become a by Kris Gopalakrishnan.

The income for the quarter ended June 30 2008 was 

Rs 4,854 crore (Rs 48.54 billion). The net profit stood at Rs 1,302 crore (Rs 13.02 billion), global brand. The company is now headed Forbes magazine named Infosys in its list of Global High Performers.

Waters magazine rated Infosys as the Best Outsourcing Partner. The Banker magazine conferred two Banker Technology Awards on Infosys to acclaim its 

work in wholesale and capital markets in two categories - Payments and Treasury Services, and Offshoring and 

Outsourcing. 

The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) ranked Infosys at No. 3 in its '2008 Global Outsourcing.

4. Satyam Computer Services Established in 1987 by Ramalinga Raju, Satyam has a staff strength of 51,000 employees.  In 2008, the company's revenues crossed the $ 2-billion mark. 'A simple, yet extensive management model to create value, which promotes  entrepreneurship, a focus on the customer, and the constant pursuit of excellence,' is the  company's mantra for success. In FY2008, its revenues saw a growth of 30.7 per cent to Rs 8,473.49 crore (Rs 84.73 billion) compared to fiscal 2007. The net profit stood at Rs 1,687.89 crore (Rs 16.87 billion), a growth of 20.2 per cent over fiscal 2007. Satyam is among the youngest IT service companies to reach $1 billion in annual revenues. It is ranked No. 1 in the ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) BEST Award, 2007. 5. HCL Technologies HCL is a leading global technology player with annual revenues of $4.9 billion.  The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India, HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of 'India's original IT garage start up's.

The HCL team comprises 53,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, operating across 18 countries. At a time when 

India had a total of 250 computers, Shiv Nadar led a young team which passionately believed in the growth of the IT industry. Three decades later, he succeeded in creating a $ 4.9 billion global enterprise. The company has reported consolidated revenue of Rs 3017.5 crore (Rs 30.17 billion) during the quarter ended March 31, 2008. The profit after  tax stood at Rs. 81.5 crore. 6. Tech Mahindra Tech Mahindra was incorporated as a joint venture between Mahindra & Mahindra and BT plc in 1986 under the name of 'Mahindra-British Telecom'. Later, the name was changed to 'Tech Mahindra', in order to reflect the diversification and growth of the client base and service offerings.  The company was incorporated in 1986. Tech Mahindra is a global systems integrator and business transformation consulting firm focused on the  communications industry. At the helm of the fast expanding organisation is Vineet Nayyar. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has worked with the government,  International multilateral agencies and the corporate sector. Tech Mahindra's net profit rose 8.57 per cent to Rs 196.4 crore  (Rs 1.96 billion) on 6.09 per cent growth in net sale to Rs 911.6 crore (Rs 9.11 billion) in Q3 December 2007 over Q2 September 2007. 7. Patni Computer Systems Patni Computer Systems Ltd one of the leading global providers of information technology services and business solutions.  The company has clients across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific locations. The company has serviced more than 400 Fortune 1000 companies,  for over two decades. Patni Computer Systems Limited was incorporated on  10 February 1978 under the CompaniesAct, 1956. On 18 September 2003, the Company converted itself from a private limited company into a public limited company. The company headed founded by Narendra K Patni  by has a staff strength of over 14,000 professionals. The revenues for the quater ended march 2008 stood at $ 176.4 million (Rs. 7,061.2 million)  up 13.1% YoY from $ 156.0 million (Rs. 6,724.1 million). The net income for the quarter at US$ 18.1 million (Rs. 724.6 million) down 35.0 per cent  from  $ 27.8 million (Rs. 1,200.3 million).Frost & Sullivan ranked Patni 1st among 'Top 5 Engineering Service Providers'. 8. i-flex Solutions iflex started as a division of Citicorp (now Citigroup), wholly owned subsidiary called Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd. (COSL) in 1991. Later, a separate  company Citicorp Information Technologies Industries Ltd.  (CITIL) was formed and Rajesh Hukku was appointed as its head. CITIL started off with the universal banking product, MicroBanker which  became very successful. In the mid-90s, CITIL developed Flexcube at its Bangalore development centre. After the launch of Flexcube, all of  CITIL's transactional banking products were brought under  a common brand umbrella. CITIL changed its name to i-flex solutions to  reflect its growing independence from Citicorp and to strengthen its  Flexcube brand. In 2006, i-flex became a majority-owned subsidiary of  Oracle Corporation i-flex posted a top line growth of 8 per cent QoQ with  revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 at Rs 672 crore  (Rs 6.72 billion) as compared to Rs 601 crore (Rs 6.01 billion) for the corresponding quater during the (Rs 6.01 bi previous year representing a 12 per cent YoY growth.The net income for quarter stood at Rs 185 crore (Rs 1.85 billion) representing 73 per cent growth QoQ. The revenue for  the full year ended March 31, 2008 stood at Rs 2,380 crore (Rs 23.80 billion),  up 15 per cent as compared to the previous year. 9. MphasiS MphasiS Limited was formed in June 2000 after the merger of the US-based IT consulting company MphasiS Corporation (founded in 1998) and  the Indian IT services company BFL Software Limited (founded in 1993). Jeya Kumar is CEO of MphasiS, which has a staff strength of 27,000 people. For the year ended 31 March 2008,the MphasiS Group recorded revenues of Rs 2,423 crore (Rs 24.23 billion), a growth of Rs 662 crore, which is 38 per  cent over the previous year. The net profit increased by 42 per cent from Rs 180 crore (Rs 1.8 billion) to  Rs 255 crore (Rs 2.55 billion) during the year ended 31 March 2008. MphasiS was named among amongst the Top 100 Companies in Global Outsourcing. 10. L&T Infotech L&T Infotech is a global IT services and solutions provider. It is a subsidiary  company of is Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T), an engineering, manufacturing and construction conglomerate, with global operations. A M Naik is the chairman of the company. Originally founded as L&T  Information Technology Ltd (LTITL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T), the company changed its name to L&T Infotech on  1st April, 1997. In 2004, it tied up with Fidelity Information Services, a division of Fidelity National Financial to provide banking solutions for the  Indian banking industry. In 2007-08, L&T had recorded revenues of  Rs 29,600 crore (Rs 296 billion).

The new technology

Ipods,java the latest car accessories..........

The iPhone synchronizes music, photos, and videos in the same way that the iPod does -- via the iTunes software program and the iPod "dock connector" port.

Currently, you cannot officially synchronize the iPhone via Bluetooth or wi-fi.

Starting with iPhone OS 3.0, and continuing with iOS 4, it became possible for "any application, not just games, to communicate between devices using Bluetooth" and as a result, support for synchronizing additional data over Bluetooth is provided by some third-party applications as well.

As designed with the first and second versions of the iPhone operating system, the iPhone software did not allow one to transfer music, photos, or videos between iPhones. The iPhone could not be used to transfer data files via Bluetooth or wi-fi, nor did it support "disk mode" when connected to a Mac or PC.

However, as is often the case, where Apple decided to deny access, third-parties came to the rescue.

It's not quite as convenient as it would be to directly "beam" music, photos, videos, or data files between iPhones, but as first spotted by the TUAW blog, there is a third-party iPhone application called Song Sender that makes it easy to send a song by e-mail to another iPhone -- or any other device with e-mail access -- or add the song to the available ringtones on your iPhone.

To solve the lack of iPhone "disk mode" functionality, PhoneView (originally named iPhoneDrive) makes it possible to copy files from a Mac to the iPhone for transfer to another computer as well as access some types of files on the iPhone itself. For Windows users, TouchCopy provides many of the same functions.