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Pingdom.com has some awesome statistics of Firefox Browser; Within the first 24 hours, more than 7 million downloads have happened and in 48 hours – the total download count crossed 15 million!

Mozilla has a neat glow page indicating the live downloads, if you haven’t visited yet – please do http://glow.mozilla.org/

This is really a surprise and very warmly welcomed being a early X10 adopter. The last update provided was 2.1 and Sony Erricson mention that they do not have any plans to update it beyond 2.1

Rikard Skogberg writes on Sony Erricson product blog that by end of Q2/Early Q3 2011, they’ll upgrade X10 to GingerBread 2.3.3

Some key points to note:-

Will any functionality from the previous software version disappear by doing this upgrade?

Yes – the work is still ongoing so details will be communicated closer to launch but these are the current expected limitations:

• The current plan is that the Xperia^TM X10 will get the Android standard Camera user interface and therefore features like e.g. face recognition, smile shutter etc will be lost.
• Moxier is replaced by the gingerbread native EAS functionality.
• Mediascape is being replaced by the media experience widgets and music player included in our new 2011 products.
• DRM keys for protected content on your phone will be lost in the upgrade process.
• The Sony Ericsson Backup and Restore client is not supported in the Gingerbread version and will therefore be lost.
• Support for bi-directional languages will be reduced compared to the latest version of the 2.1 version of the Xperia^TM X10.

If it is going to be like the 2.1 upgrade, I’m gonna have to assume that this upgrade will actually kick in only by Q3 probably. Even then, this move is welcomed and Sony likes to prove a point that ‘they do care for the existing customers’

Way to go Sony Erricson….

Head over to the blog if you want to read more about it :: Here

One of the most sought after life cover always has been Term Insurance and normally it is compared to see who takes the premium less and stick with them. Well, there is another data to factor in which is the Claim Settlement Ratio as well. Think about you have insured yourselves for a high premium on hope to take care of your family on your untimely demise and then if they don’t get the benefit – how’ll that be???

Onemint has a great article regarding the same with factual data as below; The following are the quick graphs but head over to Onemint to get analysis and as well as the raw data in numbers.

So Amazon Android App Store is live and guess what you can download 1 app free everyday and today it is Angry Birds RIO.

http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011

So what are you waiting for, go get it…

Gold Rate for the year 2010; [8 grams 22 Carat]

 Gold Rate for the year 2009; [8 grams 22 Carat]

Gold Rate for the period 1925 to 2010; [8 grams 22 Carat]

Whether there is a market down situation or high inflation, for Indians, this metal has always been closer to heart and is one of the emotional values (other being the House) rather than as an investment. Well, the graphs above show that it does pay!

Source:KeralaGold.com

• “It’s amazing when people come in for an interview and say, ‘Can you tell me about your business?’ Seriously, people. There’s an Internet. Look it up.” -HR professional in New York City
• “A lot of managers don’t want to hire people with young kids, and they use all sorts of tricks to find that out, illegally. One woman kept a picture of two really cute children on her desk even though she didn’t have children [hoping job candidates would ask about them]. Another guy used to walk people out to their car to see whether they had car seats.” -Cynthia Shapiro, former human resources executive and author of Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You to Know
• “Is it harder to get the job if you’re fat? Absolutely. Like George Clooney’s character said in Up in the Air, ‘I stereotype. It’s faster.’” -Suzanne Lucas, a former HR executive and the Evil HR Lady on bnet.com
• “If you’ve got a weak handshake, I make a note of it.” -HR manager at a medical-equipment sales firm
• “If you’re a candidate and the hiring manager spends 45 minutes talking about himself, the company or his Harley, let him. He’s going to come out of the interview saying you’re a great candidate.”  -Kris Dunn, chief human resources officer at Atlanta-based Kinetix, who blogs athrcapitalist.com

Well this does sound creepy folks!

More at http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/dirty-little-secrets-of-hr/2905

Windows Internet Explorer 9 is out of RC and is released, this is one powerful browser if you have explored the RC or Beta version of it. Head over to see some of the improvements of this browser;

Comparison charts with IE 9 vs Others, IE9 vs IE (old version)

Above is a chart released by NSS Labs some time back where-in they found IE9 to be blocking 99% of socially-engineered malware [Read Full Report]

Some salient features;-

• First of all, it is fast!
• Support for HTML5 (Hardware accelerated support).
• Native download manager integration.
• Tracking protection (the user is in control to share information with the web sites while browsing).
• Smartscreen (intelligently follows the action taken on similar items).

So if you’re on Windows 7, head over and download to see it for yourselves. This one seems to be good

Might be interested in these as well;

Download O&O Defrag Free Edition

As per Sans, the 20 coolest Jobs in Information Security is the list below;

• #1 Information Security Crime Investigator/Forensics Expert
• #2 System, Network, and/or Web Penetration Tester
• #3 Forensic Analyst
• #4 Incident Responder
• #5 Security Architect
• #6 Malware Analyst
• #7 Network Security Engineer
• #8 Security Analyst
• #9 Computer Crime Investigator
• #10 CISO/ISO or Director of Security
• #11 Application Penetration Tester
• #12 Security Operations Center Analyst
• #13 Prosecutor Specializing in Information Security Crime
• #14 Technical Director and Deputy CISO
• #15 Intrusion Analyst
• #16 Vulnerability Researcher/ Exploit Developer
• #17 Security Auditor
• #18 Security-savvy Software Developer
• #19 Security Maven in an Application Developer Organization
• #20 Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Analyst/Manager

What do you think? If you want to know what is the Job Description in detail for each of the job’s above, head over to SANS

Another email forward, pretty good;

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