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Monthly Archives: July, 2009

TCS announces promotions

TCS announced yesterday  full VA component for Q1 2010-11 and promotions will be processed for all employees who were recommended last year for the promotions. As we had earlier predicted here the Promotions are back on track, thanks to the increasing attrition and sinking employee morale. Here is the extract from CEO Ramadurai’s announcement “Additionally, [...]

How to setup a permanent domain redirect ? How to change your domain name ?

This post answers the following questions How to redirect your website to a new address ? or how to change a domain name ? How to setup a 301 permanent redirect ? How to setup .htaccess file? Most website owners might end up facing these questions, when we start our website we would be happy [...]

Gmail gives you a second id without asking

Today I received a spam mail and it wasn’t addressed to me, somehow it escaped Google’s mail spam filters and reached my inbox. When I opened to see the mail it wasnt addressed to my mail id instead it was a id very similar to my id just without the ‘.’ dot. And later learned [...]

Google Chrome OS – A brand new perspective on the OS since Unix/DOS

Finally Google is threatening Microsoft with its new initiative to launch a brand new OS or rather a totally new perspective on the term OS itself. The new Google Chrome OS will run on a new windowing system on top of Linux kernel. And Google has taken the web browser to another level by announcing [...]

TCS to start giving promotions within Two months

After the attrition started zooming TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) is working on a plan to initiate the promotions which are on hold for almost two years now. Some of the HR are advising the employees who are resigning to wait for 2 more months to see improvements within TCS, indirectly meaning that management and corporate [...]

Employees leaving in flocks from TCS, this time on their own

We have heard a quite a lot about TCS just before its 2008-09 Q4 results,  the number of employees fired from India’s Biggest IT company during that period is still not known. But after the results the trend came to a halt, it was quite evident that the management had a number in mind in [...]

Difference between Pulsar 220 DTS Fi vs Pulsar 220 DTSi (2009)

Bajaj introduced its newer and technologically inferior Pulsar 220 DTSi recently. And many would be wondering what are the differences between its previous model Pulsar 220 DTSFi and 2009 model. Here they are 1. Pulsar loses ‘F’ – fuel injection this was touted to be an advanced ignition system, but its actual benefits in Pulsar [...]

Samsung Marine aka Samsung Xplorer B2100 – Full Specification and Review

Samsung India unveiled its new phone ‘Samsung Marine’  a phone built for standing the abuse just like US marine corps. It is touted to pass the standards set by US Dept of Defence and Military. Samsung showcased this phone in the recently concluded Mobile world, where  onlookers were allowed to through the phone from a [...]

Death of The Pirate Bay

After all the struggle The Pirate Bay team went through over the years trying to run the world’s most popular Torrent Tracker (Most notorius among Media studios), the surrender seemed very meak and unexpected. There were dozen times I expected the eventual death, once their servers were raided a few years back and recently after [...]