Internet procrastinators got a second day to improvise virtual guitar tunes, thanks to the popularity of Google's homepage guitar logo.

The "doodle," as Google refers to its one-off logo designs, featured a six-string guitar, which let visitors record 30-second songs by strumming chords with a flick of the mouse.

Google posted the widget in honor of electric-guitar guru Les Paul's 96th birthday Thursday. Paul died in 2009 at age 94.

"Due to popular demand, we're leaving the Les Paul doodle up in the U.S. for an extra day," Google wrote via Twitter. "Thanks for jamming with us!"

The IT sector is likely to witness a 20 per cent increase in overall workforce levels in the coming year as this segment will continue to see double digit growth, says a survey.

According to the IT Employer Survey by HeadHonchos.com - a job search portal for senior management professionals, 76 per cent of respondents expect the increase in headcount to be in the range of 11-15 per cent whereas 36 per cent expect this figure to be as much as 16-20 per cent.

"Hiring is set to increase across all levels, including 9.5 per cent for middle management and 4.5 per cent for senior professionals," HeadHonchos.com CEO Uday Sodhi said.

There's another addition to the list of Bollywood's action babes. B'town hottie Sameera Reddy will be seen in an all new avatar doing stunts in Priyadarshan's thriller Tezz starring Ajay Devgan, Anil Kapoor and Kangna Ranaut. She has done all sorts of adventurous stunts from riding bikes to going under the water in the film.And interestingly, the actor even overcame her hydro fear while shooting for whitewater rafting and under water bike ride sequences for the flick

Apple Inc is recalling some of its iPad2 tablets that is designed to run on Verizon's network for connectivity issues.

"Duplicate MEID codes were flashed onto an extremely small number of iPad units for the Verizon 3G network," an Apple spokeswoman said but declined to say how many units were impacted by the issue.

Verizon declined to comment.

ASUS had launched a series of graphics cards with the DirectCU based technology; a few weeks back we reviewed the ASUS GTX 580 and it is one of the fastest cards around. Today, we see yet another one from NVIDIA’s stable - the ASUS GTX 570 DircetCU II.
Many manufacturers of GPU’s work on the base design of an AMD or NVIDIA graphics card and incorporate their own tweaks and features in them. ASUS follows suit and has worked on the base design of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 570 and added features such as DirectCU with dual fan design, a voltage tweak, factory overclocked among other nifty additions.

Internet search provider Google has joined hands with rivals Microsoft and Yahoo for a project, schema.org that will improve web search results.

These firms have launched a site called Schema.org, which consists of a common set of HTML tags that webmasters would use to mark up structured data on their sites.

"We are announcing schema.org, a new initiative from Google, Bing and Yahoo to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages," Google said in its blog on Thursday.

Better check your Facebook settings before posting a party invitation online.

A teenage girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday invitation as private on Facebook fled her own party when more than 1,500 guests showed up and around 100 police officers, some on horses, were needed to keep the crowd under control.
Eleven people were temporarily detained, one police officer was injured, dozens of girls wearing flip-flops cut their feet on broken glass and firefighters had to extinguish two small fires at the 16th birthday party in Hamburg, police spokesman Mirko Streiber said on Sunday.

The birthday girl, identified only as Thessa, went into hiding, Streiber said, but ‘nonetheless the party was a hit.’ Thessa had initially only wanted to ask some friends over to her home in Hamburg-Bramfeld when she posted her invitation on Facebook, but mistakenly she published it so that everyone on Facebook could see it.

S. Badrinath's solidity, the depth in the Indian batting and some disciplined bowling enabled a new-look India defeat a young West Indies outfit by 16 runs in the one-off Twenty20 International here on Saturday.

Pursuing 160, the West Indies finished at 143 for five. Coach Duncan Fletcher has begun his India tenure with a win. The match was also the 200th T20 International. Badrinath was adjudged Man-of-the-Match for his fighting 43 in an adverse situation after the West Indies pacemen had made early inroads.

West Indies skipper Darren Sammy's commendable four for 16 went in vain.

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At this institute, students and faculty are provided with an open ended academic and professional environment of intellectual enquiry, technological studies, extracurricular activities and self development. The college provides state of the art infrastructure, laboratory facilities and highly qualified and experienced faculty to impart quality education in the field of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Information Technology and Electronics Engineering.

New Delhi: The government's crackdown on Baba Ramdev and his followers has had one unintended effect: It has united civil society groups till now bitterly divided over the direction and scope of the anti-corruption movement.

From Anna Hazare to Aruna Roy, civil society activists on Sunday buried their differences and spoke in one voice against the midnight police swoop, calling it draconian and undemocratic. Mr. Hazare threatened to follow up a day-long fast on June 8 with a second country-wide movement along the lines of the April 2011 Janatar Mantar protest. Ms. Roy's Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan said the right to protest was fundamental to functional democracy.