Monday, November 19, 2012

Two Women Now Take Charge of Windows


Since the emergence of the Internet, the tech sector, like the many other professions has been dominated by men. A report from nonprofit Catalyst indicates that women hold just above a quarter of the computing industry’s jobs, and that number has now declined over the past two decades. The executives of the industry also for the most part tend to be headed by men. A few exceptions to this gender biased tradition include:  Hewlett-Packard with two women CEOs Meg Whitman & Carly Fiorina; Then there’s Safra Catz, who is the president of Oracle. Sheryl Sandberg who sits at the helm of one of world’s most popular companies -Facebook, and who could forget Marissa Mayer who was recently appointed to take charge of a struggling Yahoo!.  However, none of Apple’s top five highest-paid executives are female. And although Intel does have a few female executives, none of them seem to play a role in engineering. So what could be a possible  reason behind this disparity?


According to a Carnegie Mellon study (2002), women tended to reject the “geek” tag significantly   more than their male counterparts and were more likely to say that they didn’t want computers to “become their life”; as reported by Alex Klein from thedailybeast.com.

Apparently, this had no impact on Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller: the two ladies who now take charge of Microsoft’s Windows division, which is undoubtedly the brand’s most important business. Julie Larson-Green replaces the former software boss Steven Sinofsky, who resigned from the company recently after his crucial Windows 8 launch met with disastrous reviews and much internal tension. Larson –Green will assume the role of managing the Redmond, Wash.–based company’s giant software engineering team, while Tami Reller will head Windows’ business strategy.

It’s difficult to chart out the amount of influence the two women will wield in the industry. According to Forbes, Microsoft is the world’s biggest public software company, with twice as much the sales of its closest competitor- Oracle. According to its 2011 year-end earnings report, Microsoft’s Windows division brings in a staggering eighteen billion dollars a year in revenues. While Yahoo’s total revenues added up to $4.98 billion in 2011. Larson-Green and Reller now join the software industry’s most powerful executives club.

courtesy : http://women.siliconindia.com

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Google's Nexus 4 - record break


Google Nexus 4 already sold out at U.S. Google Play store

Following a worldwide trend, the new smart phone goes on sale in the U.S. and within hours is no longer available.
Just minutes after going on sale in the United States, the new Nexus 4 smart phone from Google and LG was already sold out. Visitors to the Google Play store are greeted with a "coming soon" notice for both the 8GB and 16GB versions of the device.
The phones previously sold out in the United Kingdom in less than an hour. Some customers reported having trouble accessing the store or checking out successfully. Meanwhile, Dutch blog AndroidWorld reported that a planned Netherlands launch was scrapped amid high demand elsewhere.
It's unclear how many units Google was able to produce by launch time. The Nexus 4 won praise for its low $299 starting price, the fact that it arrived without a contract, and for subtle improvements in the Android 4.2 operating system, which it is the first phone to run. But itLG Nexus 4 drew criticism for failing to run on 4G LTE networks.
The expanded Nexus 7 lineup and the new Nexus 10 tablet, which also went on sale in the United States today, were still available for purchase in all their configurations.
For a complete review, check here : http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57549069-93/google-nexus-4-already-sold-out-at-u.s-google-play-store/

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Silence

Silence doesn't always means Yes
Sometimes it means
I am tired of explaining to
people who don't even
care to understand.