Browsers List for Windows

                                                                  

Internet Explorer – Browse with more confidence knowing Internet Explorer 8 helps protect you from evolving online threats right out of the box.

Firefox – Mozilla Firefox has been the most successful alternative web browser. The browser traces its lineage back to Netscape.

Google Chrome – Google rethought basic assumptions about what a browser should do & stripped it down to its essentials

Safari – Safari is an open invitation to innovate & claims to continuously redefine the browser, providing the most enjoyable way to experience the Internet.

Opera – Opera’s newest Web browser introduces a new technology platform, Opera Unite, allowing you to stream music or share files, photos and more, right from the browser.

Maxthon – Maxthon is an IE based feature-rich secure Browser, which gives a great browsing experience.

Avant– Avant Browser’s user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability.

Flock – Flock is a social browser that integrates with web services for blogging, photo sharing, and bookmark sharing. Update: 13th April 2011. Flock has decided to shut down.

Kid Rocket – A Kids Web Browser with an Internet Filter, PC Desktop Protection & more.

Lunascape – Lunascape is the world’s first and only triple engine browser. It has been downloaded over 15 million times and it’s available globally in 11 languages.

Slim Browser– SlimBrowser is a fast-tabbed multiple-site web browser software.

Sea Monkey – It is a Web-browser, with an advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing made simple; all your Internet needs in one application.

Prism – There are two ways to use Prism; as a Firefox extension or a standalone application. Either way, you can easily turn any website into a Prism application.

Deepnet Explorer – Deepnet Explorer is the world’s first browser with RSS news reader, P2P client integration and phishing alarm.

K-Meleon – K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine.

Amaya – Amaya is a Web editor/browser, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment.

Midori – Midori is a lightweight web browser.

Browse 3D – The Browse3D web browser offers user a visual advantage making finding and using web information more productive.  Using multiple browsing engines is made easier because each web page is represented by an image of that page not just a generic tab.

ShenzBrowser – This is a customized browser for individual use. It is simple yet functional.
JonDoFox Browser – Try it for private & secure browsing.

PhaseOut.net – PhaseOut adds functionality to your current Internet Explorer version. Once you install PhaseOut your version of Internet Explorer and its settings are not modified or touched.

CrazyBrowser.com – It is an easy-to-use fast browser.

Smart Bro – Smart Bro is a tabbed browser, similar to Internet Explorer, but with many new features, introduced to help you browse the Internet in an easier and more exciting way.

Bitty Browser – Bitty Browser helps you keep track of your favorite Web stuff by enabling navigable windows directly within your favorite sites — it’s like Picture-in-Picture for the Web.

xb Browser for Anonymous Browsing – The main advantage compared to other anonymous web browsers is that xB Browser requires no configuration or technical knowledge in order to achieve anonymity. xB Browser is open-source so you can feel safe knowing what goes into our code. Additionally, it is even portable on a USB stick so you can take it to work, school, or on vacation.

Sleipnir – Sleipnir is designed to be a highly customizable browser that you can configure to suit your individual needs. With Sleipnir, you can create your ideal browser by changing the design, skin, and visual appearance. You can also add custom functionality to Sleipnir with a wide range of plugins and user scripts.

Not all may run on Windows 7  so do check the requirements

IT Sector showing decline in sector

                                                               
IT companies have been witnessing a sharp decline in the attrition levels over the past couple of quarters . This is similar to what happened during the 2008 recession when attrition declined as job opportunities fell and employees grew cautious about changing jobs due to the uncertain economic environment . 
Surabhi Mathur-Gandhi , senior vice-president at Team-Lease , says a similar trend is building up now as people are worried that the economic troubles in Europe could snowball into a global recession . She noted, though, that attrition levels have not yet fallen to the single-digit levels that were witnessed at the height of the previous recession . The attrition rate at Infosys Technologies dropped to 15.6% from 17% over the past two quarters. At TCS, it fell to 13.7% in the quarter ended September, after having risen for several quarters to reach a high of 14.8% in the quarter ended June. MindTree's attrition rate fell to 21.7% in the latest quarter from 25.6% in the June quarter.

MindTree CEO Krishnakumar Natarajan, however, says the fall in attrition is due to the proactive HR efforts and employee-retention initiatives undertaken by the company. The growth in the sector is strong, and thus it is not the economic climate that is driving attrition down. "Clients continue to spend even on discretionary services (spends beyond what is required for maintaining existing IT infrastructure)," he adds. R V Ramanan, ED-global delivery at Hexaware Technologies, says that after the global economy began to pick up following the 2008 recession, attrition levels went up quite sharply as people had more job opportunities . What we are witnessing now is a moderation from those highs. Attrition levels at Hexaware fell to 14.7% over the past two quarters from 19.6%. 


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Top 50 Engineering and Technology Universities 2011-2012

Top 50 Engineering and Technology Universities 2011-2012

Subject Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Engineering and TechnologyOverall score
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	92.7
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	92.7
3	Princeton University	United States	92.4
4	University of California, Berkeley	United States	91.7
5	Stanford University	United States	91.4
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.6
7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	87.4
8	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	87.3
9	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	87.1
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	85.7
11	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	85.4
12	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	83.2
13	University of Texas at Austin	United States	81
14	University of Michigan	United States	80.8
15	Cornell University	United States	79.8
16	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	78.1
16	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	78.1
18	University of Toronto	Canada	78
19	National University of Singapore	Singapore	77.5
20	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	77.1
21	University of Tokyo	Japan	69.8
22	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	69.1
22	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	69.1
24	University of California, San Diego	United States	67.8
25	University of Melbourne	Australia	67.4
26	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	67.1
27	University College London	United Kingdom	66.6
28	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	66.1
29	École Polytechnique	France	65.9
29	University of Minnesota	United States	65.9
31	Tsinghua University	China	65.6
32	University of California, Davis	United States	65.2
33	University of British Columbia	Canada	64.5
34	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Korea, Republic Of	63.8
35	The University of Sydney	Australia	63.4
36	Pennsylvania State University	United States	62.4
37	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	62
38	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	61.5
39	Purdue University	United States	60.7
40	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Korea, Republic Of	60.2
40	Rice University	United States	60.2
42	The Ohio State University	United States	59.5
43	Technische Universität München	Germany	58.7
44	Peking University	China	58.5
45	Brown University	United States	58.3
45	The University of Queensland Australia	Australia	58.3
47	McGill University	Canada	57.9
48	Kyoto University	Japan	56.6
48	University of Waterloo	Canada	56.6
50	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	55.3

China successfully launches "Heavenly Palace" space craft

The Tiangong 1, or "Heavenly Palace," blasted off from a remote site in the Gobi Desert at 9:16 pm (1316 GMT), adding a high-tech sheen to China's National Day celebrations on October 1.
Premier Wen Jiabao watched as the small, unmanned "space lab" and the Long March rocket that heaved it skyward from a pad at Jiuquan in northwest Gansu province, lifted off under clear skies, in images shown live on state television.
It is the latest show of China's growing prowess in space, and comes while budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back U.S. manned space launches.
"Its name ... speaks for a dream home the Chinese have long envisioned in the sky. In Chinese folklore, a heavenly palace often refers to the place in outer space where deities reside," the official Xinhua news agency said.
The big test comes weeks after its launch, when the eight tonne craft attempts to join up with an unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft that China plans to launch.
Space docking tests conducted with the Tiangong 1 will provide experience for the building of a permanent manned space station around 2020, mission spokeswoman Wu Ping said.
China's government will hope to set a successful Tiangong mission alongside other trophies of its growing technological prowess, including the launch of a trial aircraft carrier.
And the launch, just before China's National Day holiday, was accompanied by an outpouring of proud support for the country's technological achievements.
"I feel great pride in being Chinese today. This is another great step forward for China in space," wrote Shi Zhongshan on the popular Twitter-like microblogging site Sina Weibo.
However, some wondered why all the fuss considering recent problems on another engineering feat China had lauded, the rapid development of its rail system.
In July, 40 people died in a collision on a high-speed rail line in eastern China, and this week more than 200 people were injured when two subway trains ran into each other in Shanghai.
"I'd prefer more attention be paid to the high-speed train and Shanghai subway crashes than to Tiangong 1. The later is related to face, but the former is to do with our lives," wrote "Weixiao Xiaoran," also on Weibo.
Engineers had been watching launch preparations nervously, after another Long March rocket malfunctioned and failed to send an experimental satellite into orbit last month.
Beijing is still far from catching up with space superpowers. The Tiangong launch is a trial step in Beijing's plans to eventually establish its own space station.
Russia, the United States and other countries jointly operate the International Space Station, to which China does not belong.
But the United States will not test a new rocket to take people into space until 2017, and Russia has said manned missions are no longer a priority for its space program, which has struggled with delays and glitches.
Earlier this month, NASA unveiled plans for a deep-space rocket to carry astronauts to the moon and Mars. President Barack Obama has called for a human expedition to an asteroid by 2025 and a journey to Mars in the 2030s.
China launched its second moon orbiter last year after it became only the third country to send its astronauts walking in space outside their orbiting craft in 2008.
It plans an unmanned moon landing and deployment of a moon rover in 2012, and the retrieval of lunar soil and stone samples around 2017. Scientists have talked about the possibility of sending a man to the moon after 2020.
China is also jostling with neighbors Japan and India for a bigger presence in space, but its plans have faced international wariness. Beijing says its aims are peaceful, and military involvement natural given the enormity of the undertaking.
"The military enjoys unique advantages in organizing and coordinating such large-scale activities, and its involvement in aerospace missions is an international practice," Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said this week.

NASA backed space taxi to fly in test next summer

Sierra Nevada Corp's "Dream Chaser" space plane, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, is one of four space taxis being developed by private industry with backing from the U.S. government.
For the unmanned test flight, it will be carried into the skies by WhiteKnightTwo, the carrier aircraft for the commercial suborbital passenger ship SpaceShipTwo, backed by Virgin Galactic, a U.S. company owned by Richard Branson's London-based Virgin Group.
The test flight was added after privately held Sierra Nevada got a $25.6-million boost to its existing $80 million contract with NASA.
The test flight will take place from either Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert, or from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Ed Mango, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, said at a community briefing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
With the retirement of the space shuttles this summer, NASA is now dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the space station, at a cost of more than $50 million per person.
The agency hopes to turn over crew transportation services to one or more commercial firms before the end of 2016, Mango said.
In addition to Sierra Nevada, NASA is funding spaceship development work at Boeing Co, Space Exploration Technologies, and Blue Origin, a start-up firm owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
"Having only one way to get crew to the station is a limitation," NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, who is currently living aboard the outpost, said during an in-flight interview last week.
The station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations, was finished this year after more than a decade of construction 225 miles above the planet. The outpost, which is about the size of a five-bedroom house, supports a variety of scientific research and technology demonstrations.
Along with helping to develop commercial space taxis, NASA is working on a heavy-lift rocket and capsule to fly astronauts and cargo to asteroids, the moon, Mars and other destinations beyond the space station's orbit.
Drawing heavily on equipment originally built for predecessor programs, including the space shuttle and the canceled Constellation moon exploration initiative, the new rocket, called the Space Launch System or SLS, is scheduled to debut in 2017.
That unmanned test flight would be followed in 2021 by a trial run with astronauts, said Kennedy Space Center director Bob Cabana.

Indian company list

World Rank	Company	Industry	Revenue (billion $)	Profits (billion $)	Assets (billion $)	Market Value (billion $)
98	Indian Oil	India Oil & Gas Operations	68.83	0.51	28.45	16.74
134	Reliance Industries	India Oil & Gas Operations	58.90	2.91	48.50	69.36
272	Bharat Petroleum	India Oil & Gas Operations	34.10	0.12	10.66	4.41
292	State Bank of India	India Banking	32.40	2.13	256.79	27.21
336	Hindustan Petroleum	India Oil & Gas Operations	28.50	0.15	9.73	2.55
359	Tata Motors	India Consumer Durables	27.50	-0.49	14.29	7.93
361	Oil and Natural Gas Corporation	India Oil & Gas Operations	26.90	3.86	35.66	51.82
370	Tata Steel	India Materials	26.05	0.96	23.95	11.04
506	ICICI Bank	India Banking	12.58	0.70	94.64	21.07
541	National Thermal Power Corporation	India Utilities	8.62	1.58	22.59	36.30
571	Bharti Airtel	India Telecommunications Services	7.27	1.53	12.88	23.00
602	Steel Authority of India	India Materials	8.39	1.22	10.98	19.57
648	Larsen & Toubro	Construction	7.87	0.74	11.12	19.90
672	HDFC Bank	India Banking	3.85	0.44	35.98	16.83
695	Punjab National Bank	India Banking	4.42	0.62	49.93	6.16
699	Bharat Heavy Electricals	India Capital Goods	5.16	0.61	8.96	25.24
741	Tata Consultancy Services	India Software & Services	5.41	1.02	4.45	32.31
742	Reliance Communications	India Telecommunications Services	4.04	1.18	20.15	7.04
783	Housing Development Finance Corporation	India Diversified Financials	2.28	0.45	22.84	15.50
807	Infosys Technologies	India Software & Services	4.22	1.17	4.34	32.20
826	Wipro	India Software & Services	5.00	0.76	5.49	21.53
858	Axis Bank	India Banking	2.68	0.35	29.02	9.85
892	Bank of Baroda	India Banking	3.58	0.46	45.78	4.61
902	Bank of India	India Banking	3.79	0.60	44.62	3.80
923	DLF Limited	Diversified Financials	1.95	0.87	9.64	10.94
946	National Mineral Development Corporation	India Materials	1.47	0.85	3.32	37.12
985	GAIL	India Utilities	4.80	0.55	5.79	10.98
1005	Hindalco Industries	India Materials	12.73	0.07	12.71	6.69
1008	Canara Bank	India Banking	3.82	0.40	43.39	3.49
1023	ITC	India Food, Drink & Tobacco	3.18	0.65	3.97	19.00
1093	Power Grid Corporation of India	India Utilities	1.28	0.33	10.71	9.78
1123	Power Finance Corporation	India Business Services & Supplies	1.28	0.39	13.45	6.22
1131	Jindal Steel and Power	India Materials	2.11	0.59	3.81	12.79
1278	Union Bank of India	India Banking	2.60	0.34	31.72	2.81
1308	Mahindra & Mahindra	India Consumer Durables	5.13	0.27	6.13	5.96
1385	NHPC	India Utilities	0.67	0.24	8.11	7.75
1423	Indian Overseas Bank	India Banking	2.20	0.26	23.86	1.04
1425	Grasim Industries	India Construction	3.58	0.43	4.79	5.36
1466	Oil India	India Oil & Gas Operations	1.41	0.43	3.32	6.04
1470	Sun Pharmaceutical	India Drugs & Biotechnology	0.81	0.35	1.59	6.92
1492	Rural Electrification	India Diversified Financials	0.95	0.25	11.03	4.54
1539	Tata Power	India Utilities	3.42	0.25	6.28	6.24
1568	Indian Bank	India Banking	1.53	0.24	16.58	1.53
1571	Hero MotoCorp	India Consumer Durables	2.40	0.25	1.20	7.68
1611	Syndicate Bank	India Banking	2.04	0.18	25.67	0.95
1642	IDBI Bank	India Banking	2.61	0.15	34.31	1.87
1670	Oriental Bank of Commerce	India Banking	1.93	0.18	22.19	1.49
1702	Reliance Infrastructure	India Utilities	2.45	0.26	6.81	4.91
1746	HCL Technologies	India Software & Services	2.13	0.27	2.50	5.37
1775	Central Bank of India	India Banking	2.25	0.12	29.15	1.31
1802	Corporation Bank	India Banking	1.38	0.18	17.13	1.37
1813	National Aluminium Company	India Materials	0.99	0.25	2.43	5.38
1852	Allahabad Bank	India Banking	1.66	0.15	19.28	1.29
1865	Adani Enterprises Limited	India Trading Companies	5.06	0.10	3.97	5.23
1910	UCO Bank	India Banking	1.78	0.11	22.01	0.68
1952	ACC	India Construction	1.76	0.32	1.74	3.76