GEELONG - The Silicon Valley dream for the Australian city of Geelong were shattered when the massive accounting fraud with its potential partner, Indian IT giant Satyam surfaced in January this year.

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World markets buoyed by Intel, Goldman Sachs

LONDON — World stock markets rose Wednesday after a raft of upbeat U.S. earnings — particularly from chip maker Intel Corp. and investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — fueled demand for riskier assets amid hopes that the U.S. economy could soon be growing again.

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ICANN hires former cybersecurity chief as new CEO

The Internet agency with key oversight of the monikers behind every Web site, e-mail address and Twitter post named former U.S. cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom Friday as its next chief executive.

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MELBOURNE - Tech Mahindra, which took over scandal hit Satyam Computer Services, will hold high-level talks with key Australian corporate clients of the troubled IT firm in a bid to salvage the reputation of the company.

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NOIDA - Birlasoft has been named among the top 10 best outsourcing service providers in Australia and New Zealand region, by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), in their list 2009 Global Outsourcing 100. Birlasoft has been chosen by an independent panel of industry-recognized experts from business and academic institutions. Birlasoft's selection is based on a set of measurable parameters like excellence in service delivery, customer experience, technical competencies, management capabilities and growth. Full article (304 words) »

I currently have 1Mbps connection from Tata Indicom & 256Kbps connection from BSNL, both broadband connections are load balanced with fail-over for reliability and greater effective bandwidth. I am planning to add a third connection, preferably Airtel Broadband.

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The "do no evil" mantra of Google is slowly fading into oblivion as Google, like any other large corporation, plans to axe 300 jobs from newly acquired DoubleClick Inc. This is the first time that Google has made significant job cuts.

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AdSense supports Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) for direct deposit of you AdSense income in 26 countries. Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) directly deposits into your bank account, in your local currency, to greatly speed up and simplify the payment process. You do not have to take the hassle of submitting your check every month nor do you have the fear of losing / misplacing your check. Other PPC publisher like Yahoo Publisher Network supported it from the beginning. The bottom-line is that if EFT is available in your country (check here) then you should definitely sign up for it asap. There are no known downsides.

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