Trends Affecting Recruiter Attitudes

TopMBA indicates the following trends..

• Globalization
• Salary Equalization
• Business upswing cycle
• Small companies employment trend

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All About Blu-ray

With the end of format war and winning of Blu-ray, its time we get accustomed to what Blu-ray really it..the article from Tech2 helps a bit.
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The format war is over, and Blu-ray has won. During the war the Sony camp was referred to as the Boys in Blue, while HD DVD were the Boys in Red. Slowly and steadily the latter became less and less of a contender, and then it happened: one of the biggest Reds (Warner) upped and left. After that HD DVD came crashing down, and the lights finally went out late last week.

So Blu-ray is our next form of optical storage, and it will become popular in India soon. Demand has to be created for the product – and this time let's please not dilly-dally, we always lag behind when it comes to tech stuff (whiny tone). We enjoyed some HD content through our PS3, and it looks insane. So it's about time.

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Consumers Can Sue Microsoft Over Vista

A federal judge said Friday that consumers may go ahead with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. over the way it advertised computers loaded with Windows XP as capable of running the Vista operating system.

The lawsuit said Microsoft's labeling of some PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" was misleading because many of those computers were not powerful enough to run all of Vista's features, including the much-touted "Aero" user interface.

U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman certified the class action suit but whittled down its scope to focus primarily on whether Microsoft's "Vista Capable" labels created artificial demand for computers during the 2006 holiday shopping season, and inflated prices for computers that couldn't be upgraded to the full-featured version of Vista, which was released at the end of January 2007.

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ISB ranked 20 by Financial Times

Toshiba to give up on HD DVD, end format war

Toshiba Corp is planning to give up on its HD DVD format for high definition DVDs, conceding defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp, a company source said on Saturday.

The move will likely put an end to a battle that has gone on for several years between consortiums led by Toshiba and Sony vying to set the standard for the next-generation DVD and compatible video equipment.

The format war, often compared to the Betamax-VHS battle in the 1980s, has confused consumers unsure of which DVD or player to buy, slowing the development what is expected to be a multibillion dollar high definition DVD industry.

 

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Indian Tech Industry looking at 33% growth

Tech will contribute 5.5% of India's GDP in 2008, up from 1.2% in 1998

The Indian tech industry is expected to generate around US$64 billion in revenues in 2008--a 33 percent growth--while also having a significant impact on the country's economy.

Services and software exports are expected to contribute around US$41 billion with the domestic market generating more than US$23 billion, according to Indian tech industry body, Nasscom.

The Indian tech industry is aiming to hit total revenues for software and services of US$75 billion by 2010.

But Nasscom's 2008 Strategic Review shows the growth of the tech industry has had other benefits other than lining the pockets of India's mega-corporations.

As a proportion of national GDP the Indian tech sector will hit 5.5 percent in 2008, up from just 1.2 percent in 1998. It is also expected to contribute a net value to the economy of up to 3.9 percent.

A BusinessWeek article by tim Ferguson

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