It’s time to work on Facebook…Age 21 but Salary 65 lakh…

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Ankur Dahiya, who hails from Rohtak in Haryana, and Radhika Mittal, who grew adult in Kolkata, might come from opposite backgrounds – his is a family of doctors, hers is endangered in several streams of commerce – though they also have a lot in common. They are both category toppers, BTech students during IIT (Delhi

and Kharagpur, respectively), and both will be operative with Facebook. The 21-year-olds can’t wait to finish their final division since a initial step in their post-IIT careers is a pursuit that will take them to a world’s mechanism engineering hub, Silicon Valley.

What is your pursuit form during FB?
Ankur: We’re going to be program engineers during Facebook’s domicile in Silicon Valley. They have not summarized a profile, though it will be associated to infrastructure upkeep and conceptualizing new services.

Radhika: we wish we get to work directly on ideas to urge a site, that is still during a flourishing stage. It’ll be hapless if we finish adult doing usually tiny modifications, while seniors get to do all a sparkling stuff. I’d like to have a leisure to minister directly to a new features.

What about a money?
Ankur: we don’t know where reports of R65 lakh came from since a final offer has not nonetheless come through, and even when it does, we will not be authorised to divulge a sum.

Radhika: we consider a total of R65 lakh and R77 lakh are formed on an estimation of a offers finished by general companies final year. Even we am nonetheless to get a grave offer letter, though we trust a smallest compensate joint is between $100,000 to $125,000 (approximately R53 lakh to R65 lakh, respectively) a year.

What was a talk procession like?
Both: Long!

Radhika: A month ago, FB gave us an online exam in that we had to write a programme that would discriminate formula well and quickly. The shortlisted possibilities afterwards had to write dual exams and bear 3 rounds of interviews on a day of a placements.

Ankur: we was given usually one created exam on Day 1 of placements during IIT-Delhi and afterwards after any turn of interviews, people were separated compartment it was usually me. we was asked questions about algorithms and programming.  They were especially endangered with my problem-solving abilities.

Did your march assistance we during a preference procedure?
Ankur: The march is especially theoretical, and a questions FB asked have not been taught since they were application-based. So we had to come adult with a resolution and pattern them ourselves formed on a speculation we learnt during college.

Radhika: we consider a tests, interviews and even a pursuit are all directly associated to my course. What I’ve complicated in a past three-and-a-half years and a projects that I’ve finished will assistance me solve problems and come adult with formula and programming solutions.

Did  other companies make we offers?
Ankur: we was shortlisted by 7 companies, though we could usually talk with 4 since there was an overlap. we got offers from Google India, an investment organisation in Gurgaon called Power Research and Facebook USA.

Radhika: we was shortlisted by Microsoft and IBM India Research Lab and got an offer from IBM in Delhi.

So since Facebook?
Both: It’s in Silicon Valley!

Ankur: To be means to work there is any mechanism scholarship graduate’s dream come true. we feel my form matches FB since it’s an internet startup and has usually 2,000 to 3,000 employees as against to say, Google’s 30,000.

We’re going to be program engineers during Facebook’s domicile in Silicon Valley Ankur Dahiya and Radhika Mittal.

Skifta App for Android Review

This is the app that brings your Android smartphone into the home entertainment setup. A quick handshake with most media streaming devices on the network, and you will be enjoying videos, pictures and even music on the television. However, this doesn’t hide the fact that Skifta will play limited video formats.

Pros

• Simple to setup
• Plays well with most DLNA capable devices
• Free

Cons

• Limited video format support

It has always been a mood spoiling factor when you realize that you want to watch a video on your phone on a big screen television, but don’t have an HDMI cable lying around or your phone doesn’t have the HDMI out anyways. However, if you are using an Android phone, there is a solution.

How to get it

This is a 4.5MB download available on Android Market. All you need to do is search for Skifta. The app is made by Qualcomm, and is free to download. Works with all phones having Android 2.2 and beyond. You should ideally be connected to Wi-Fi, saving you from extra data charges in the mobile bill. And also because you will need to be on the wireless home network anyways for this to work post install.

What really matters

This is the app that allows you to stream videos, pictures and music from your phone to any DLNA capable network device. Till now, you had to scramble for an HDMI cable to connect to the TV, and there was certainly a bit more teeth gnashing when the realization struck that there was no mini HDMI cable.

Setting it up

Once the installation is done, you need to connect the phone to the same network that the other devices will be connected to. It doesn’t matter whether the other devices are connected wirelessly or on a wired network.

Once connected, the app will do an update. For the first time, this update may take about 5 minutes, but for every subsequent launch, this process will only take a few seconds. The next screen is where you select the source the media is coming from. It can be your smartphone, or any DLNA capable PC on the same network. In case it is a PC on the network, Skifta will work as a remote.

The next step is to select the device that the media will be sent to for playback. Any network capable DLNA device will show up on the list – network media players, streamers, televisions, Blu-ray players etc.

Once the app ensures the handshake with the network device is successful, the next selection is activated. For simplicity, the content is cleanly separated into three categories – videos, music and pictures. The content lying on your device’s internal memory and memory card will be listed automatically in the correct place.

How it works

We connected Skifta to the WD Live media player, on the same home network. Once that was done, it is as simple as tap file to play. Since you have already preset the destination device in the first menu, there is no need to do that every time you play any media.

Audio playback was quite smooth, and it took a second from the time you clicked the file on the phone to the time the playback started. There is a similar waiting period for most high res images. The playback was smooth, and even selecting different media at quick speeds generated a smooth and sure response. Since it does not do any processing on any media being played back, the quality will be the same as what is on the original content.

Video playback is good for the most part. Select a video and it takes about 2 seconds before the playback starts on the device. Let us state here that this time is also dependent from device to device, and will vary a bit. All SD files in AVI format played back effortlessly. However, the playback of MKV and the M2TS files was disappointing. While you can see these files within the app, most HD containers aren’t supported. And since Skifta doesn’t rely on any third party media player for the playback needs, installing any media player on the phone wont help.

We say

This is the app that brings your Android smartphone into the home entertainment setup. Quick handshake with most media streaming devices on the network, and you will be enjoying videos, pictures and even music on the television. However, doesn’t hide the fact that Skifta will play limited video formats. But then again, there really isn’t any good alternative that does what this app does – makes your smartphone the hub in the home theater setup.

Price: Free

Specs:

Platform: Android; Compatibility: Android 2.2 (Froyo) upwards; media streamer application; DNLA based; compatible with videos, music and pictures.

 

 

Microsoft celebrates IE6 death as Google downranks Chrome

Microsoft has celebrated the imminent demise of version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser by baking a cake.

The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet surfers.

It is keen to kill off the old version of the browser and persuade users to move to IE8 or 9.

Meanwhile rival Google has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown on the promotion of its Chrome browser.

Chrome climbdown

It has downgraded Chrome in its search listings after the discovery that a marketing campaign paid bloggers to promote a video about it.

The search giant has distanced itself from the campaign, blaming third-party marketing firm Essence Digital.

The issue was discovered by Aaron Wall, who wrote in his SEO Book blog, how he found that a search for “This post is sponsored by Google” threw up more than 400 pages written as part of a marketing campaign.

Search expert Danny Sullivan said the revelation was “jaw-dropping”.

“Google, the company that has been fighting against paid links and ‘thin’ content seems to be behind a campaign that’s generating both on behalf of its Chrome browser. File this under ‘what were they thinking?'” he wrote on his SearchEngine blog.

Google told the BBC that it had never commissioned Essence Digital to approach bloggers and place sponsored links.

In its own statement, Essence Digital said: “Google never approved a sponsored-post campaign. They only agreed to buy online video ads. Google have consistently avoided paid postings to promote their products, because in their view these kind of promotions are not transparent or in the best interests of users.

“We apologise to Google who clearly didn’t authorise this.”

Celebration

Over at Microsoft headquarters, the mood was more upbeat.

“Time to pop open the champagne because based on the latest data from Net Applications, IE6 usages in the US has now officially dropped below 1%,” blogged Roger Capriotti, Microsoft’s director of Internet Explorer marketing.

“We hope this means more developers and IT pros can consider IE6 a ‘low priority’ at this point and stop spending their time having to support such an outdated browser,” he added.

In dropping below 1% of usage, the United States joins Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, which have already seen usage fall to very low levels.

In the UK, IE6 usage remains at about 1.4%, although some countries have far higher usage levels. In China, for example, it remains at about 25%.

Richard Edwards, a principal analyst at research firm Ovum, is unsurprised Microsoft is glad to see the back of IE6.

“I think it was rated one of the worst software products of all time by one tech magazine at the time of its release,” he said.

The browser was plagued by security issues which has its own knock-on effect, he thinks.

“In many ways, corporate computer networks have been locked down since partly because of the vulnerabilities found in IE6,” said Mr Edwards.

Mobile battleground

Industry watchers have predicted that despite Google’s current marketing woes, Chrome could overtake IE as the leading global browser in 2012.

Many had previously said that Mozilla’s Firefox would be the most likely candidate to end Microsoft’s dominance.

According to data from measurement firm StatCounter, Chrome increased its market share from 15.6% in January 2011 to 27% by the end of the year. At the same time, Microsoft dropped from 46% to 38.6%. Firefox also fell, from 30.6% at the beginning of 2011 to 25.7% by December.

Mr Edwards is more cautious.

“As long as Windows dominates, IE9 will remain the number one browser,” he said.

He added that the browser wars were moving to mobile.

“That will be the next battleground. That’s where Microsoft has to focus because that is its Achilles heel. Its mobile browser is some way off those for Android and iOS devices,” he said.

Gingerbread is top Android OS; ICS debuts with 0.6 per cent share

Google’s latest operating system, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, is now running on 0.6 per cent of Android devices, according to the stats released by Google on its developer website. Stats reveal about 0.3 per cent of devices are running on Android 4.0-4.0.2, while the remaining 0.3 per cent run on 4.0.3 version of the platform. While Ice Cream Sandwich makes its debut on the chart, the Gingerbread continues to be the most popular Android platform. About 55 per cent of devices currently run on Gingerbread. As expected, Android 2.2 Froyo has continued to loose its ground with its share dipping to 30.4 per cent.

Surprisingly, the ancient Eclair platform is still the third most popular Android platform, but its market share is shrinking rapidly. Also, the market share of the tablet-oriented Honeycomb platform has continued to expand with its three versions grabbing 3.3 per cent of shares. In early December, figures had suggested similar trend with Gingerbread having 50.6 per cent share, while Froyo ran on 35.3 percent of devices.

The advent of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the map is certainly good news. TheGalaxy Nexus, the first ICS device, is already doing good. The device is expected arrive in India soon. Huawei will soon follow with its Honor. It may be recalled that Sony Ericsson, LG and other manufacturers have already lined up ICS update for their respective devices for the year 2012. We are expecting the ICS will soon expand its market share by this year end.