With the advent of Facebook and other social networks, human resources professionals have a new means of checking into potential employees. In addition to running a formal background check to look into criminal activity, the fact is that many employers are also utilizing Facebook during the hiring process. What can Facebook tell HR personnel about
I’m sure, all of you have run into this tricky situation : You don’t know the song title, you just remember some musical element and you are desperately trying to figure out the song. I’m listing a few tools that will help you narrow down your search. If you remember the lyrics… You can try out my custom
Facebook introduced “Graph Search” at today’s press event. The idea isn’t new. Google has constantly been trying to display contextual search results with products like Google Now and Google Plus (Socially) integrated results. On top of that, users now demand exact results : things like Wolfram Alpha. Simply put, Graph Search is a search engine that searches
In the name of design, news outlets and blogs are raping information. If I land up on one ( Mashable, Yahoo, TheVerge, Reuters, … ) It’s humanly impossible to sort out information on these pages. I can’t decide which column to start from and which order to go in, to make sure I don’t miss anything Interesting.
History has made the split between inventors and visionaries quite evident. And right now, it matters the most because it decides the fate of an idea, whether it lives to see itself revolutionize the world or find its place in a museum. Inventors are concerned with “how” while visionaries are busy figuring out “what“. You
Smartphones are becoming an alternative to computers likes Apps to softwares. Text messaging’s potential has almost been neglected. txtWeb has built its business on this idea. Its a platform designed to allow developers create text based applications easily and release it to the community, free of cost to the users. What makes text-based applications stand
The nature of light has always intrigued scientists throughout ages. Ramesh Raskar with his team at MIT’s Media Lab has developed an apparatus to capture one frame per femto second (10-15 second). This reveals some stunning characteristics about light and its nature. Although particle nature may have been established firmly using experiments, the wave nature of
Android is surging, with over a million phones being activated on a daily basis, we are looking at over 350 million devices every year. That certainly is a massive pace at which Google’s Android platform is growing. Reaping the benefits of the OS popularity are companies like Samsung and HTC who have managed to backup
Nokia has committed itself to Windows phone and while the Microsoft partnership promises to bring a new life to now the dinosaur class smartphone market that Nokia is, the challenges are huge too. Windows Phone 7 is a year and a half old and it hasn’t really set sales records, for either Microsoft or Nokia.
Rumors of a Nexus tablet backed by Google aren’t new. It has been the trend with smartphones (or superphones as Google calls them). Now, people expect Google to do the same for tablets. In 2010, Google under the Nexus program worked with HTC to bring out the Google Nexus One phone, since then two more