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A good car makes our world go around, literally and metaphorically too. A car speaks so much about the person. Now guess what a car’s accessories reflect the identity of the owner. So while it takes money to buy a car, to buy good accessories requires good taste.
Talking cars let’s talk about Chevy Camaro 2010. Its easy to buy the most luxurious car and if you have the money then a Chevy Camaro 2010 is a good option. Now buying a Chevy Camaro 2010 isn’t really a big deal and I truly mean this. Think about it, anyone could have it. But the way you customize it with your chosen accessories reflect your taste.
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Virtusa Launches Media Convergence Solution Accelerator
Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global IT services company that offers a broad spectrum of business consulting and outsourcing services, today introduced its new enterprise content management (ECM) offering, the Media Convergence Solution Accelerator. Modeled after Virtusa’s success implementing interactive Web platforms for the world’s leading media brands, the new service combines best practices consulting with proven technology components to ensure a consistent, branded user experience that optimizes revenue generation opportunities.
As content channels proliferate, consumers become increasingly migratory yet expect a unified and interactive engagement experience with companies. Media organizations often struggle to align their brand across channels, both from a content perspective and at the technical level. Misalignment in a converged world hurts the customer experience, and can diminish advertising revenue and increase support costs.
“As difficult as it is to manage content and technologies across disparate customer portals, it’s an opportunity for IT to directly impact the customer experience, branding and revenue generation – and these are precisely the kind of business results that Virtusa focuses on,” said Behzad Ilchi, Vice President for Virtusa’s Media and Entertainment segment. “Our Media Convergence Solution Accelerator is a truly proven approach that packages the best practices we’ve developed with some of the biggest media companies and gives customers more than 20 practical tools to replicate that success.”
“Virtusa played a significant role as a strategic partner for the re-launch of our www.travelchannel.com website,” said Drew Frederick, Senior Director of IT Technology and Operations at Travel Channel, which produces popular shows like No Reservations and Man V. Food. “Virtusa’s Vignette expertise and flexible engineering approach enabled us to adhere to the challenging timeline and deliver a high quality website with enhanced social media features. Virtusa’s technical and operational expertise helped us overcome significant infrastructure and technical challenges during the course of development, coordinating both on-shore and offshore resources to manage schedule and timeline. The end result was a new and improved user experience on a site that has been streamlined for ease of use and is rich with multimedia content.”
Virtusa’s new Accelerator includes consulting services, technology implementation and ongoing support and maintenance. Focused business consulting ensures the development of a media convergence roadmap, Web 2.0 strategy, user experience strategy and globalized content. With a technology-agnostic approach and deep experience with a variety of ECM vendors, Virtusa’s consultants guide customers through ECM technology selection and customize the Media Convergence offering accordingly.
Virtusa’s Media Convergence Solution Accelerator employs more than 20 pre-configured technical components that align with the following best practices:
* Multi-Channel Publishing – allows dynamic and consistent content sharing across multiple channels, including online, mobile Web, mobile applications and print media.
* Site Revenue Model – drives exposure and revenue with a branding strategy that is flexible enough to adapt to advertisers’ needs.
* Social Media Integration – facilitates engagement by integrating internal and external interactive features such as blogs, wikis, rating/ranking options and social bookmarking.
* User Experience Enhancement – consistent meta-data customizes the navigation experience based on user preferences while clear and conceptual content hierarchies and consistent branding ensure an intuitive experience.
* Ad Server Integration – unifies portal with multiple ad servers to improve revenue generation.
* Video Platform Integration – enables streaming and embedding capabilities while integrating systems and data for improved consistency.
* Internationalization and Localization – ensures website and content offer value to consumers in a globalized environment independent of location.
* Search Optimization – increases search engine rankings with federated search, keyword-rich URLs and site-specific search capabilities.
Virtusa has deep expertise in the media industry and was recently named a Best 10 leader for Entertainment and Media by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) in a sub-list of the 2010 Global Outsourcing 100 list. In 2009, Virtusa won Information Management’s 2009 Enterprise Content Management Innovative Solutions Award for its implementation of an ECM Center of Excellence for National Geographic. The project reduced website support costs by over 60 percent and improved content management usability by 50 percent.
This announcement of the Media Convergence Solution Accelerator comes on the heels of Virtusa’s recent introduction of its Enterprise 2.0 Services Suite. In addition to enterprise content management solutions, Virtusa offers a range of IT consulting capabilities in the business process management (BPM), data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) disciplines. Recognized for its innovative and efficient approach to enterprise solutions, Virtusa drives business results for customers through hands-on consulting and customized technology implementations.
Facebook Gross National Happiness Index
Facebook today announced the results of its National Happiness Index, an analysis of positive and negative words in status updates to estimate the happiness of people on Facebook in each of the countries, which has now been brought to 18 additional countries including India, Germany and Spain. Statistics from India revealed Independence Day and Holi as some of the happiest days for the country in recent months. 27th November 2008, the day of the Mumbai terror attacks, emerged as the day when India’s National Happiness Index dived to a deep low. Facebook examined these trends from September 2008 through the present.
The National Happiness Index illustrates a country’s happiness score is representative of the country’s culture and experience on a particular day. Besides popular holidays like Christmas and New Year’s Day, Facebook saw Saint Jordi’s Day in April spike in Spain. Similarly in India, Holi in March and its Independence Day in August also lead to peaks, as did big sports victories in many of the countries. In the United States, similar spikes every Superbowl were observed.
Sports also can lead to some of the lowest days in the happiness index. Ireland’s score dropped on Nov 18, 2009, when FIFA awarded a controversial win to France over Ireland in the World Cup playoffs. Similarly, Germany’s happiness level dipped on Nov 10, 2009, when the goalie Robert Enke committed suicide.
Unsurprisingly, disasters have a dramatic effect on happiness levels – as a result, Facebook saw a large dip in India’s index on November 27, 2008. Facebook also noticed a huge drop in Chile, corresponding to the tragic earthquake on Feb. 27, 2010. Chile’s happiness index has still not fully recovered. When another earthquake of a magnitude 6.3 hit central Italy on April 6, 2009, its happiness score dropped, as did Mexico’s index between April 24-29, 2009, during the H1N1 flu outbreak and an earthquake.
Cultural differences also play a role in people’s weekly happiness cycles and how they celebrate holidays. South Africans are happier on Fridays than Saturdays, a weekly cycle different from that of other countries. In several countries such as Spain and Germany, people are more festive on Christmas Eve than on Christmas Day. One week later, Singaporeans are happier on New Year’s Day than New Year’s Eve.
Because each country is analyzed separately to reduce effects due to language differences, Facebook cannot directly compare one country’s Gross National Happiness to another country’s. However, it can compare how the indices of different countries are changing: determine whether people on Facebook in specific countries are becoming more or less happy over time.
Siemens to slash nearly 2,000 jobs
German conglomerate Siemens has planned to slash close to 2,000 jobs at its various divisions in Germany as part of restructuring measures.
These measures are reportedly being taken due to the decline in the market for certain products.
According to the German company, as many as 1,140 jobs could be eliminated till the year end at its Drive Technologies Division. “By the end of 2012, a total of roughly 840 jobs at the Division’s location in Bad Neustadt an der Saale (Germany) are to be cut,” it announced.
Further in a statement, it added, “At the Division’s Erlangen (Germany) location, some 300 jobs are to be eliminated.”
Another 850 jobs would be slashed at the Industry Solutions Division.
Twitter blocked in China
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said on Saturday that he has been informed that his microblogging site has now been partially blocked in China. The reports haven’t been confirmed as yet.
On being asked for the official word on the same, Williams said, “That’s what I’ve been told.” He further added that the company hasn’t received any direct or official confirmation.
Williams remarked that China could use a firewall to block access to its service.
When asked about media reports that Twitter was developing ways to get around the firewall, Williams said “We’re not actively developing any way to get around it.” He however stressed, “We’re for the free exchange of information.”
Microsoft profit up 60% to 6.7bn
Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that the company’s earnings in the most recent quarter jumped as mush as 60 per cent. The earnings have reportedly been boosted by the rebound in personal computer sales.
During the holiday shopping season back in 2009, the sales of PC industry bounced back after almost a year long rough sales.
Microsoft’s earnings have been closely tied to computer sales because its two most profitable divisions make the Windows OS and the Office business software.
Microsoft’s net income for the second financial quarter, ending Dec. 31, rose to USD 6.7 billion as compared to the USD 4.2 billion in the year-ago period.
The company revenues grew 14 per cent to USD 19 billion.
The revenue from Windows grew 70 per cent as the latest version of Windows, called Windows 7, was released during the quarter.
iPad, the latest from Apple
Apple Inc.’s chief executive Steve Jobs, on Wednesday unveiled the latest and the most hyped gadget from Apple, iPad!
iPad, a touchscreen tablet computer is the latest buzz from the highly innovative company which has shaped up many trend setting products in the two and a half decades.
After innovations like the Macintosh computers, iPod, itunes, iPod, iTunes Store, iPhone, The App store, the Cupertino, California based company has now come up with the latest iPad, half inch thin, the slimmest tablet with 9.7 inch diagonal screen and 1024×768 display resolution.
The device shall have 16 to 64 GB flash storage, built in speaker and microphones, accelerometer and compass. It offers 10 hours battery with one month standby.
China says no limits on use of Google’s Android
Google’s Android operating system has got a clean chit from China’s government!
According to the government’s remark on Wednesday, Google’s android phone will face no limits on its use by China’s phone companies as long as it complies with Chinese regulations.
The Chinese government has assured that the dispute over the web censorship would not affect their relationship. Google Inc. had postponed the launch of its own smart phone in China following its Jan. 12 announcement that it will no longer censor search results.
While many other companies in China are also developing Android-based phones, penalizing Google could hurt their market too.
At a news briefing, Zhu Hongren, a spokeman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said, “As long as it fulfills Chinese laws and regulations and has good communication with telecom operators, I think its application should not have restrictions.”
Google Chrome 4.0 stable version released for Windows
Google has released a better, stable version of Google Chrome 4.0 browser for Windows.
The extensions, about 1,500 of them, were already released in December last year for the users of Chrome 4.0 bowers beta version. However, now the gallery is available for all the Windows users. While the extensions are already available for Linux, the process is still under development for Apple Mac. It might be released in another year’s time.
Ian Fette, Google’s Product Manager ensured that the new extensions use a multi-process technology that’ll ensure they do not slow down the browser or cause a crash.
Indeed extensions are among the most popular features that have gained Mozilla Firefox such huge popularity, allowing the users to add functions and other helpful shortcuts for common tasks.
Google claims that its new release Chrome 4.0 browser is much faster and boosts the speed by almost 42 percent over the last stable release. Chrome 4.0 has been tested faster than Mozilla Firefox 3.6 in three of the four tests.
The stable version of Chrome 4.0 can be downloaded from Google’s website.







