Microsoft’s new employee bus!!!

Microsoft is a veteran software company, best known for its Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. Microsoft operates in 139 countries with a  manpower of 135,000 employees (2010). Hence Microsoft did not want to waste their manpower in cheap traffics. Hence it has come up with an excellent idea to save both time and manpower. Microsoft recently started bus service for employees. Employees can start work from the bus itself and their office hour’s counts from the time they start work in the bus. Traffic jam in cities is quite normal and company do not want to waste the time of the employees in roads. This is an initiative by Microsoft. The employees are satisfied with this work from bus program. Take a look at the bus!!!!

The bus looks cool and luxurious however the bus inside looks like a typical workplace.

Take a look at the infrastructure of the bus!!!

Wipro not bothered about Infosys says Premji

The recent Infosys’ announcement of giving an average salary hike of 14-17% is widely
believed to put pressure on other IT giants to go for aggressive salary hikes and
compensations.However, the country’s third-biggest IT company Wipro Technologies does not believe so. Nor the company sees any threat of a rise in attrition rate due to the recent salary hikes given by its rivals.

According to a news report, Premji said that we are not bothered about Infosys and that the company does not see the hikes as a huge concern. He added that when it comes to TCS, they are announcing hikes after a gap of 24 months, while we are only 18 months delayed.The company also said that it would give promotions in next two months. This is said to be in sync with the normal appraisal and promotion season which happened in June and July.

Google scraps plans to sell its own NexusOne Phones

Google resisted from planning to sell a Nexus One phone that works on Verizon Wireless’
network, the most widely used in the U.S.The about-face announced Tuesday shrinks the potential market for the Nexus One, a mobile phone that Google unveiled to much fanfare in early January.

At that time, Google said a Nexus One compatible with Verizon’s network would be coming in the spring.Now Google is advising Verizon customers who wanted a Nexus One to buy a mobile phone called Incredible that’s scheduled to go on sale Thursday. The Incredible is made by HTC and relies on Google’s Android operating system, just like the Nexus One.Google sells versions of the Nexus One that work on the U.S. wireless networks of T-Mobile and AT&T.