Userful and ThinNetworks Announces World’s Largest Virtual Desktop Deployment

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft India and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - a leading IT services, consulting, business solutions and outsourcing firm today announced a strategic alliance between the two companies to launch Microsoft-TCS virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) in Chennai. Designed to help customers experience the right approach to applying and managing virtualization across IT architectural layers (namely server, machine, application and desktop) in their business environments - the CoE will leverage best of breed Microsoft technologies (such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008) to showcase virtualization scenarios to customers.

March 31st, 2009 KING OF PRUSSIA - Devon IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd today announced its new line of thin client solutions, orderable with IBM part numbers. Devon has worked directly with IBM to launch this complete line of thin client solutions that complements IBM's Virtual Client Solutions (VCS) infrastructure.

May 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bigpoint.com, the world's largest portal for browser games, today announces a partnership with PlaySpanT, the leader in monetization solutions for online games, social networks, and virtual worlds, to bring PlaySpan's PayByCash(r) and Ultimate Game Card(r) payment options to Bigpoint's more than 63 million users globally and 200,000 new registrations daily. Bigpoint.com is the world's largest portal for browser games and is one of the top three gaming portals in the world.

July 10th, 2008 We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were: We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx format.

May 28th, 2009 BANGALORE - Global software major Wipro Technologies has set up a virtual innovation centre for testing services on Second Life, the popular virtual world, the IT bellwether said Thursday. The innovation centre, a replica of the original lab at our campus in the electronics city will provide a one-stop virtual view of our Internet Protocol (IP)-powered solutions, the company said in a statement.

September 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new software tool creating virtual maps will help the visually impaired navigate through unfamiliar places. The visually impaired often rely on others to provide cues on navigating through their environment.

June 11th, 2009 MUMBAI - Between 7,000 to 10,000 Satyam employees have been put in a virtual pool, continuing their association with the company but with reduced pay, the IT firm said in a regulatory statement Thursday. The virtual pool programme is an innovative way of retaining the excellent human assets of Satyam despite the difficult economic situation, chairman Kiran Karnik said in the statement.

February 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - India can rightly be called the back office of the world for its achievements in Information Technology (IT) and IT-enabled services, Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Mao Siwei said Sunday. 'Now China is called the 'factory of the world,' while India the 'back office of the world'.

August 30th, 2009 Key milestones in the development of InternetKey milestones in the development and growth of the Internet: 1969: On Sept. 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, exchange meaningless data in first test of Arpanet, an experimental military network.

September 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists from Tel Aviv University have developed software tool that would help blind and visually impaired provide navigational "sight". The software developed by Dr.

May 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Virtual reality game 'Second Life' is not just about sex and pornography, it also educates its users about a wide range of health related problems, according to researchers at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network's Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC). 'Second Life' is free for users with basic accounts, and reported over 16 million registered users worldwide in 2008 and players of the game create online alter egos who live full lives, including having jobs, relationships and children.

February 24th, 2006 Apple users have downloaded over 1 billion songs from the iTunes Music Store since it was launched in April 2003. The magic number was hit at roughly 12:38am EST on Thursday morning, according to TUAW.

February 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA and Google announced Monday the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of the red planet. Besides providing a rich, immersive three dimensional view of Mars that will aid public understanding of Mars science, the new mode, Google Mars 3D, also gives researchers a platform for sharing data similar to what Google Earth provides for Earth scientists.

May 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of Egyptologists, digital modellers and web designers have been building a 3-D virtual-reality model of the ancient Egyptian religious site known as Karnak, one of the largest temple complexes ever constructed. The result of the two years of the joint effort is Digital Karnak.

April 13th, 2008 I am using Linux (Fedora Core 6) on a pretty high end hardware (at least when I bought it) - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz (4M shared L2 Cache) with 2 GB DDR2 RAM, nVidia dual-head graphics card for over a year now. And yet a simple change made it at least 20-40% faster.