Bill Gates Co-Founder of Microsoft corporation is officially joined Twitter. Bill Gates twitter is just one day old and more than 279,119 (at time of writing this post) people are following Bill Gates on Twitter.

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Panasonic has ushered in the cloud computing era by adopting IBM’s  LotusLive suite for of collaboration and communication. LotusLive suite enable Panasonic workforce to communicate and collaborate more efficiently with their global network of customers, partners and suppliers through a cloud-based community. Panasonic will adopt IBM’s LotusLive.com services for Web conferencing, file sharing, instant messaging and project management. The company will also implement LotusLive Connections for business social networking between employees, partners and suppliers to find and share the right insight when needed. As part of this investment in open IBM technology, Panasonic will migrate employees from Microsoft Exchange or other collaboration software to LotusLive for email, calendaring and contact management. Panasonic will present more details at IBM’s annual Lotusphere Conference January 17 – 21 in Orlando, Florida.

Mitsuhiro Aoyama, Vice President Corporate Information Systems Company, Panasonic Corporation Siad,

LotusLive is an integral vehicle for our employees to truly function as a globally integrated enterprise. It will allow us to work securely with our extended enterprise of Panasonic partners and customers as if they are all in the same location, bringing the promise of quicker, more efficient teamwork and commerce worldwide.

Sean Poulley, Vice President, IBM Cloud Collaboration,Said

Panasonic would only make this strategic move with the assurance that their daily business workflow will be safeguarded from costly interruptions and intrusions as millions of existing LotusLive users know. When responsible businesses such as Panasonic move to the cloud, they want innovative technologies without compromising security, reliability or privacy. That’s why they choose IBM.

Acer has recently launched Aspire One AO532h Netbook powered by Intel’s N450 Atom processor. Acer claimed that this newly launched Netbook will have 8 hours of battery life with the standard 6-cell Li-ion (4400 mAh) battery or 10 hours of battery life with a high-density 6-cell (5600 mAh) battery.

Acer Aspire AO532h comes with 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB SATA hard drive, a 10/100 Ethernet port, 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi, a media card reader, and a Webcam. It also has a multi-gesture touch pad that lets you use glide, pinch, and swirl your fingers to more easily move around the screen. According to Acer the keyboard is 93 percent standard size.

Acer Aspire AO532h comes preloaded Windows7 starter edition. The starting price of Acer Aspire AO532h is  $299 and it is expected to hit the market by the end of this month.

Acer Aspire One AO532h Specification

• Intel Atom Processor N450 (1.66GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 667MHz FSB)
• 10.1" WSVGA Acer CrystalBrite LED-backlit Display
• Mobile Intel NM10 Express Chipset
• Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150
• 1024MB DDR2 667MHz Memory
• 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
• Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
• Acer InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
• 10/100 Fast Ethernet LAN (RJ-45)
• Built-in Webcam
• Two Built-in Stereo Speakers
• Multi-Gesture Touchpad
• 3 – USB 2.0 Ports
• 6-cell Li-ion Battery (4400 mAh)
• 2.76 lbs. | 1.25 kg
• 10.17" (W) x7.28" (D) x .99" (H)
• Windows 7 Starter
• Three stylish colors: Onyx Blue, Garnet Red and Silver Matrix
• MSRP: $299.99

On 4 January 2010 Toshiba launched their third generation Netbooks  NB305 and NB300.  Both NB300 and NB305 would be powered by Intel’s 1.66 Ghz atom processor and have 11 hours of battery life.

Toshiba N305 Specification

The NB305 also has slightly beefier specs than its predecessor: a new Intel Atom Pinetrail CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 250GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data. hard drive , and Windows7  Starter Edition. It, too, has a six-cell battery., which Toshiba says lasts up to 11 hours. We can’t comment on battery life until we formally test it, of course, but given the original NB205’s impressive nine-and-a-half-hour battery life, we have great expectations. This time around, it weighs 2.6 pounds (the NB205 was 2.8 pounds)

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A cigarette alarm forced world’s fastest train to take a two-and-half hour stoppage , which is nearly as long as the train takes to cover the 1,100 kilometer (684 mile) distance between Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, and the central city of Wuhan. Train get this speed bump because of a smoker and managers of bullet train were unable to catch the smoker who fled the scene before the alarm sounded, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

A spokesman with the Guangzhou Railway Group Corporation was quoted as saying.

Smoking is strictly forbidden on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed train, even in the toilet,It could trigger the alarm and even cause equipment failures.

Reliance Communications has introduces two new SMS offers to its users. Unlimited SMS at Rs 1 per day and 1 Paise per SMS. These SMS plans are available for Both CDMA and GSM customers as well as for Prepaid and Postpaid customers.All Reliance Mobile customers, regardless of the tariff plans for voice and data services, can avail any of these plans.

Pre Paid SMS Plan

Post Paid SMS Plan

How to Subscribe

• E-Recharge with Rs 11 or SMS ACT SMS1P to 53739 or GSM subscriber – press *777*4*1# to activate.
• E-Recharge with Rs 14 or SMS ACT SMSDD to 53739 or GSM subscriber – press *777*4*2# to activate.
• E-Recharge with Rs 25 or SMS ACT SMSPACK to 53739 or GSM subscriber – press *777*4*3# to activate.

To prevent SMS offers being misused by telemarketers, a usage cap of 15,000 SMSs per month is applicable on the Unlimited SMS plan.

ASUS unveiled ASUS P7P55D-E / P7P55D series motherboards deliver true USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s data throughput performance. The ASUS Xtreme Design P7P55D-E Series motherboard has onboard support while the ASUS Xtreme Design P7P55D Series utilizes the ASUS U3S6 PCIe x4 expansion card to deliver the latest USB and SATA data transfer capabilities. Equipped with the Intel® P55 Express chipset, the P7P55D-E / P7P55D Series supports the latest LGA 1156 socket for Intel® Core™ i7/Core™ i5 Processors. Additionally, they also feature exclusive Hybrid Technology—Hybrid Processor, Hybrid Phase, and Hybrid OS—to give users intelligent performance enhancement, active cooling, and rapid online access.

ASUS P7P55D-E Premium Motherboard Specifications

ASUS U3S6 Expansion Card Specifications

This might be first time when an Information technology company is sponsoring cricket tournament. Compaq is is sponsoring cricket tournament planned from 8th to 14th September in Sri Lanka between India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand.

Internet users uses search keywords to find information over the internet. People uses billions of keywords to find information over the internet and malware writers keep eye on these popular keywords and create website that have high percentage of these keywords, a keyword rich website has a high probability of getting top position in search ranking. When users come to these websites, these websites tries to download malicious program on to the visitors computer.

A recent report published by McAfee Titles as “The Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms”. Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee Product Development & Avert Labs Said

Cybercriminals are smart, Like sharks smelling blood in the water, hackers will create related Web sites laden with adware and malware whenever a particular topic increases in popularity. Unsuspecting consumers are then tricked into downloading malicious software that leads them to blindly hand over their personal assets to cybercriminals.

McAfee researched more than 2,600 popular keywords (as defined by Google Zeitgeist, Yahoo! Buzz and others sources) to assess the degree of risk for each. Maximum Risk refers to the maximum percentage of risky sites a user might encounter on a single page of search results.

Microsoft is offering 65% discount on Visual Studio 2008 team system for any certified or gold certified partner in US. The Discounts will be discontinued on June 26, 2009.

Here is another big benefit of this promotion… Not only are you saving up to 65% off the Estimated Retail Price of these products, this image promotion is for the Open Value offering on these products, which means that you also get three years of upgrade protection included. So, when Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 becomes available, guess what? Yep, you get it included in this deal! In fact, because Open Value includes a full three years of Upgrade Protection (and all eligible Software Assurance benefits), any new version of the product that is released during that timeframe, you receive without having to purchase anything else. So not only do you save BIG today, your savings keep on coming for the next three years. But remember, you only have until June 26th to take advantage of this offer!