CTS Off campus recruitment for freshers in India 2011

CTS Off campus recruitment for freshers in India 2011

Company name : Cognizant (www.shredskerala.org)
Location : anywhere in India
Experience : Fresher
Eligibility : BE / B.Tech / MCA / ME / M.Tech / M.Sc
Last date : 31 march 2011
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Eligibility Criteria
BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech (All branches) / MCA / M Sc (CS / IT / Software Engg)
Year of Passing: 2010 batch only
Consistent First Class (over 60%) in X, XII, UG and PG (if applicable)
No outstanding arrears
Candidates with degrees through correspondence / part time courses are not eligible
Candidates holding non-Indian passports are not eligible to apply.
Candidates who have participated in a Cognizant drive in the past 6 months are not eligible.

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AMD launches the world's fastest mobile graphics card, the Radeon HD 6990M

While AMD has been relatively quiet in the recent past about the growing prowess and adoption of its laptop graphics technologies, it has now decided to snatch some of the much publicise recent glory of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 580M GPU, by releasing the AMD Radeon HD 6990M as contender for the crown of the world’s fastest mobile graphics card. Claiming 25% better performance than the previous top-end HD 6970M offering, the HD 6990M is based on the same Northern Islands family’s Barts core as the 6970M, but with more stream processors, and faster clocks.

The AMD Radeon HD 6990M is already out in markets, starting with gaming laptops like the Alienware M18x (seen below), which offers it in single of CrossFire configurations.Yes Barts, and not the full-fledged Cayman architecture of the desktop HD 6990 GPU. Specifications of the HD 6990M GPU include a core clock speed of 715MHz, 2GB of GDDR5 RAM at 3.6GHz memory clock speed, a 256-bit bus with a bandwidth of 115.2GB/s, 32 ROPs, 56 texture units, and 1120 stream processors. The core clock of the card can be overclocked up to 740Mhz. The most noticeable difference between the GTX 580M and HD 6990M, apart from CUDA and PhysX, will have to be the lack of a switchable graphics solution like Nvidia Optimus for the AMD Radeon HD 6990M. This could have a serious impact on battery life, figures of which were notably omitted from the introductory announcement.

How to combine your Facebook and Google+ feeds

 

The Internet has a brand-new place to get social with Google+, but for many of the millions of people already on Facebook, the thought of keeping up with yet another network of friends may be too much to handle. If that sounds like you, you're in luck - a developer has come up with a way to see your Facebook news feed on Google+.

 

Crossrider, which markets itself as a cross-browser platform for other developers, released the extension, cleverly titled Google+Facebook, earlier today. After downloading and installing it, a small Facebook tab appears at the top of the page, right beside the Google+ Home button. Clicking on it will display your Facebook news feed instead of your Google+ Stream. Just click on Home to go back. The extension even lets you update your Facebook status from withing Google+.

 

Trying out the extension, we noticed that Google+Facebook imports only your "Most Recent" feed from Facebook—there's no option to get the more curated "Top News." It's also not an exact replica of that feed; in a side-by-side comparison, we noticed a few things ("like" notices, for example) that the extension missed. On top of that, it's a little buggy (your Google+ Stream still shows up when you click the Facebook tab, just way down on the page). We were grateful, however, for the unmissable blue Facebook flag at the top of the feed, a good reminder for which network you're looking at.

 

Crossrider says it took just one day for its developers to create the extension, which may explain some of the bugginess. It's available now for both Firefox and Chrome, and the download page says Crossrider is working on a version for Microsoft Internet Explorer, but that built-in security issues prevented them from supporting that browser upon the initial release.

 

What the hell is Crossrider, exactly? Describing itself as a free, easy-to-use framework for developers, it's a set of software tools intended to simplify the process of creating browser extensions. The idea is a developer creates an extension once, then Crossrider does the tedious work of making it compatible with multiple browsers. Previous applications of the tool include anenhanced Google "+Like" button and a tool that removes "annoying" image previews on Facebook.

 

You can download the Google+Facebook extension here.

 

Microsoft Research's Barrelfish OS code now available

Barrelfish is a research operating system being developed by researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland in collaboration withMicrosoft Research. Barrelfish is designed for the computers of tomorrow, following the current trends of an increasing number of cores.

Current generation operating systems have been adapted to take advantage of the increasing core count, and are now more multi-tasking enabled and aware, but as the number of cores steadily goes on increasing, a time will come when simply adapting current OSs will no longer be feasible.

There is still time, as a MIT researchers have shown Linux to be feasible even with as many as 48 cores, however when the cores go significantly beyond that, new kinds of operating systems will be needed. And Barrelfish is one.

Barrelfish is designed for not only an increasing number of cores, but also the diversity in computing platforms that is available now. Software such as Firefox, Opera, games like Angry Birds etc are available on both PCs and tablet / mobile devices. While most personal computers have x86-compatible hardware (Intel and AMD processors), most mobile platforms have ARM processors. Even on the same hardware, whether it be a desktop or a mobile, the architecture of the GPU differs greatly from that of the CPU. Our computing environments are already becoming more heterogeneous, and applications are being written with components that run on the CPU, and other components that run on the GPU.

Barrelfish is a "multikernel" OS, a completely new model in which instead of running a single kernel which runs on all cores, each core runs a separate instance of the kernel, whether it is an ARM processor, an x86 processor, a co-processor or even a GPU. Each of these kernels is a microkernel, meaning that it has only the bare minimum code needed to run on a core. The different kernels can pass messages to each other, and generally do not even need to know what architecture the kernels are running on.

Future computers could then have multiple different cores, each optimized to handle a particular kind of data, and the multikernel model would sort the rest out.

Currently Barrelfish is just a research OS intended to explore a new paradigm of operating system architectures, and had little practical application. The Barrelfish website itself does run on Barrelfish though.

Barrelfish has been released under the MIT Open Source licence, and is now available in amercurial repository.

Google+ has impressive start; set to hit whopping 10 million users already

While launching Facebook's Skype-powered video chat service, founder Mark Zuckerberg stressed that some 750 million users on Facebook will help maintain its dominance in social networking segment. It appeared Zuckerberg was trying to play down the hype building around Google's latest social networking move – Google+. However, reports are Google+ is rapidly becoming popular with some 10 millions users joining the new social networking platform within nearly two weeks of the launch. Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com and chief executive of Facebook app maker FamilyLink.com, says on his Google+ page that nearly 7.3 million people have joined the social network till July 10 and the figure is likely to reach 10 million by today.

Here's an excerpt of Allen's post on his Google+ page

“My surname-based analysis shows that the number of Google+ users worldwide reached 7.3 million yesterday (July 10) – up from 1.7 million users on July 4th. That is a 350% increase in six days. The userbase is growing so quickly that it is challenging for me to keep up, since the number of users of any given surname (even the rare ones I am tracking) seems to be climbing every day.”

“More impressive than last week's growth is the astonishing growth in users from yesterday at mid-day to tonight -- a 30% jump. My latest estimate tonight shows approximately 9.5 million users. This suggests that 2.2 million people have joined Google+ in the past 32-34 hours.”

If numbers given by Allen are to be believed, Google has really made an impressive start with Google+. It's notable that plus is still in initial phase and can be joined on the basis of invites. Opening up the invitation process may be a huge push for the new social networking website.

The rapid growth certainly indicates Google+ could be the fastest ever growing social networking site. Do you think Google+ will ever surpass Facebook? What makes you think Google+ will not meet the same fate as Buzz and Wave did? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below

Facebook launches Every Phone app for 2,500 different Java-enabled phones

Facebook is one of the most popular apps on App Store and Android Market, and has previously offered many other methods of mobile access, some, even without internet. Now the social networking company has taken a big step further towards expanding its global reach with the launch of Every Phone app – a free app that will run on 2,500 different Java-enabled phones. Theacquisition of Snaptu, and its earlier partnership, is once again bearing fruit.

“This app not only includes Facebook’s most popular features, such as News Feed, Inbox and Photos, but also enables you to upload photos and find friends from your phone’s contacts. People all over the world can download the app by visiting m.facebook.com and scrolling down to the download link, or by entering d.facebook.com/install directly into their mobile browser,” says Facebook in its note.

Facebook has also collaborated with several mobile service providers across the world to provide users free data access for the Every Phone app for 90 days. In India, Facebook is providing the app through the carriers namely Aircel, Airtel, Idea and Reliance. The full list is available on the Facebook note.

Though the Every Phone app is only compatible with Java-enabled phones, Facebook says it is working on making the app compatible more handsets in the future. It may be recalled that Facebook had launched a similar toned down version of the website called as “Facebook Lite”. The stripped down version loaded fast and apparently was tailor made for slow Internet connections.

However, the Facebook Lite gimmick didn't last long as the company soon rolled back the site. The company did not reveal reason behind the move. In a statement, it said, “Thanks to everyone who tried out Facebook Lite. We're no longer supporting it, but learned a lot from the test of a slimmed-down site. If you used Lite, you'll now be taken to the main Facebook.com site.”

It's quite predictable that Facebook's new app will create a huge interest among the users initially. But question is will Facebook be able to retain a long-term interest. It's pertinent to mention that Facebook seems to be leaving no stone unturned to maintain its edge over rivals including Google+. Let us know what you think about the fate of Every Phone app in the comment section below: