Glassdoor, an online community that offer career advice to employees has released it’s first “Employee Choice Award” and listed the “Top 50 Places to Work”. The list of top 50 places to work is featured from more than 11,000 companies operating in United States of America. According to Glassdoor top places to work General Mills is the best company to work for in the United States. Adobe and Netflix are the only two companies from technology sector are ranked among the top five.
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Microsoft has removed the rouge Antivirus software program called Antivirus 2009 almost from 394000 computers. December’s version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), a free utility that Microsoft pushes to Windows users as part of Patch. Apart from the Antivirus 2009 some other rouge software programs are also removed by the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool including "Antivirus XP," "AntivirusXP 2008" and "Antivirus 2009".

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Microsoft and Apple are promoting their operating system with their ‘I’m PC ‘ and ‘I’m MAC’ contests. Now Linux foundation is also joined them with ‘I’m Linux’ video contest. ‘I’m Linux ‘ video contest, Linux community members are invited to create video, expressing what Linux mean to them. The winner will receive a free trip to Tokyo, Japan to participate in the Linux Foundation Japan Linux Symposium in October 2009. The winning video will also be unveiled at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit in San Francisco on April 8, 2009.

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Google has made a lot of  improvement with Google Apps this year. Google Inc. has added a new feature that will enable users to find and access their Google documents direct from their desktop. The gadget has associated with a tool for drag-and-drop uploading documents to convert them to Google Docs.  Now this gadget is available to work with Windows and Linux versions of Google Desktop Gadgets, as well as Google Apps work accounts.

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Finally Check Point has acquired the Nokia’s Security Appliance business. Nokia’s security appliance business provides purpose-built security platforms optimized for Check Point firewall, virtual private network (VPN) and unified threat management (UTM) software. About 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies have bought Nokia’s security platforms. More than 220,000 Nokia appliances have been installed with over 23,000 customers worldwide.

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Samsung is planning to launch this higher-performance Atom-powered netbooks in Feb next year 2009. The Samsung Laptop will be integrated with  the Nano processor, that is developed by Via Technologies. According to Samsung- its a niche product that will provide the specs of a low-power PC in the form factor of an ultraportable computer system. This story released on  the Genzomedia blog, after which it has been covered by Notebook Italia & Networkworld, but not yet confirmed by company.

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Symantec has released an updated version of Norton Internet Security for Mac OS X, the previous version was released in the year 2003. Norton Internet Security for Mac 4 comes up with Norton Antivirus 11 for Mac, Norton  Confidential and two-way firewall functionality. Norton Internet Security for Mac 4 protect your computer from virus, phishing, spyware and other security threats. Norton Internet Security for Mac4 automatically updates the list of malicious IP addresses so it provides a better protection for online threats also.

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On Wednesday, 17 December 2008 Microsoft has released an emergency patch to fix a  security hole in its Internet Explorer software, The hole in Internet Explorer’s security may allow hackers to hijack Internet Explorer browsers and take over computers. MS08-078, This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability by modifying the way Internet Explorer validates data binding parameters and handles the error resulting in the exploitable condition. This security update is rated Critical for Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, and Internet Explorer 7.

Microsoft said-

It plans to ship a security update, rated "critical," for the browser on Wednesday. People with the Windows Update feature activated on their computers will get the patch automatically. it has seen attacks targeting the flaw only in Internet Explorer 7, the most widely used version, but has cautioned that all other current editions of the browser are vulnerable.

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Dell has generated 1M revenue with the help of micro blogging website twitter. You are wondering how dell has made revenue of 1M while twitter is still struggling to find way to generate revenue. Dell has used the Micro blogging website twitter for its product promotions and to reach out to a large audience. According to Dell Twitter has helped it bring in $1 million in revenue over the past year and a half via sales Tweets and other promotions. Twitter users who follow Dell on Twitter, click links posted by Dell to buy or view Dell products. In this ways Twitter has helped Dell to get $1M sell from Twitter.

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Google had made sitemap submission really easy for webmasters and website owners. Now with Google website submission update, there is no need to specify the type of sitemap you are submitting, Google will automatically determine the type of sitemap you are submitting.

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