The Surprising Facts are :
1. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!
2. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
3.80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
4. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
5. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million namesevery month.
6. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
7. For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.
8. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.
9. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
10. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
11. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hourson the mobile phone.
12. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
13. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
14. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
15. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
16. The world’s first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
17. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
18. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
19. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
20.70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
21.A program named “Rother J” was the first computer virus to come into sight “in the wild” — that is, outside the single computer or lab where it was created.
22.The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo (1991) attacked the boot sector of your hard drive and any floppy drive inserted into the computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly.
23.A virus can not appear on your computer all by iself. You have to get it by sharing infected files or diskettes, or by downloading infected files from the Internet.
24. Country with the highest percentage of net users is Sweden (75%).
25. The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released in 1993.
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The telcos say using open source software allows them flexible options for their networks to meet demands for new services besides freeing them from high licensing costs related to proprietary software.
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NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications (RCom) and Sistema Shyam Teleservices, also known as MTS India, are increasingly adopting open source software as it helps them significantly cut costs.
The two telcos say using open source software allows them flexible options for their networks to meet demands for new services besides freeing them from high licensing costs related to proprietary software.
"The implementation has brought down the need for licensing of software as well as the manpower requirement that has to be actually trained by these IT partners of ours," said Alpna J Doshi, chief information officer at RCom. She said sustaining licensed software is costly.
Open Source software are commonly free with availability of the source code for the community, adopter and end user to study and modify as per their needs.
Proprietary software typically prohibits access to modification of the source, and are usually available through licensing which comes at a cost.
Both RCom and MTS are using open-source software for their Business Support Systems (BSS) like billing & CRM, data and voice value-added services, applications, tele-databases and Virtualization of the server system.
MTS India chief information officer Rajeev Batra said freeware, or open source software, has helped the company reduce development plus applications management costs.
If put financial value to open source (replaced with packaged software), then it can be estimated to be around 20% of the overall software cost within MTS India, he said.
Rcom's Doshi said roughly 20% software within the company are open source and that mass scale adoption of such software would happen over the next two years. "Mobility and fault management applications which are currently on remedy perhaps can be migrated to open source, as industry evolves and matures enough to have higher level of maintenance," she said.
Their move comes at a time when the central government has mandated that all of its software requirements should be met through open source. In cases when proprietary software is adopted, the concerned department needs to justify the reasons for the same.
Top telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular declined to participate in the story.
Analysts reckon that open source is a step in right direction for telcos as it helps them achieve faster time-to-market, significant reduction in principal expenses and stronger mobility offerings.
Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst & group CEO at Greyhound Research, said the prime benefit of adopting open source approach for telcos is that such software can be altered as per the outcomes required.
The two telcos say using open source software allows them flexible options for their networks to meet demands for new services besides freeing them from high licensing costs related to proprietary software.
"The implementation has brought down the need for licensing of software as well as the manpower requirement that has to be actually trained by these IT partners of ours," said Alpna J Doshi, chief information officer at RCom. She said sustaining licensed software is costly.
Open Source software are commonly free with availability of the source code for the community, adopter and end user to study and modify as per their needs.
Proprietary software typically prohibits access to modification of the source, and are usually available through licensing which comes at a cost.
Both RCom and MTS are using open-source software for their Business Support Systems (BSS) like billing & CRM, data and voice value-added services, applications, tele-databases and Virtualization of the server system.
MTS India chief information officer Rajeev Batra said freeware, or open source software, has helped the company reduce development plus applications management costs.
If put financial value to open source (replaced with packaged software), then it can be estimated to be around 20% of the overall software cost within MTS India, he said.
Rcom's Doshi said roughly 20% software within the company are open source and that mass scale adoption of such software would happen over the next two years. "Mobility and fault management applications which are currently on remedy perhaps can be migrated to open source, as industry evolves and matures enough to have higher level of maintenance," she said.
Their move comes at a time when the central government has mandated that all of its software requirements should be met through open source. In cases when proprietary software is adopted, the concerned department needs to justify the reasons for the same.
Top telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular declined to participate in the story.
Analysts reckon that open source is a step in right direction for telcos as it helps them achieve faster time-to-market, significant reduction in principal expenses and stronger mobility offerings.
Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst & group CEO at Greyhound Research, said the prime benefit of adopting open source approach for telcos is that such software can be altered as per the outcomes required.
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