Indian NIT student lands a hefty job with Facebook

For a middle-class Indian student landing a job with social networking site Facebook, was like a dream come true. He is a student of the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. Facebook has offered him a package of Rs. 1.34 crores ($262,500). It has been the job offering of the highest monitory benefit, according to the officials of the MNNIT.

This is the highest paid job offered to a graduate student of the MNNIT in its history so far.

The identity of the student has been held back by the institute owing to security reasons. The student is currently studying his (or her, we don’t know) eighth semester of the B.Tech (Electronics).

There have been even more success stories related to MNNIT. However, the other successful students were offered packages in the region of Rs. one million. This is the first ever highest annual package for a student from all the NITs ever.

Google will bring out its tablet by yearend

People who are awaiting the Google tablet will not have to wait for an extended period of time. Before the turn of the year, Google is likely to bring for the users, their Android-powered tablet. It would be available exclusively through the Google stores. Users can reach Google stores if they want to get one.

There were all kinds of things being spoken about the Google tablet. Initial reports claimed that the Google gadget would pose itself as a challenge to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Another round of reports carried the information that the device would have a 7” display and would cost anything between $149 and $199.

This amount will bring it in direct competition with the Kindle Fire. In one of the latest developments, Google would join hands with Asus for launching the reasonably priced tablet. Google is likely to rope in Asus and Samsung to manufacture the hardware for the gadget.

It is rumored that Asus will launch the tablet through the online Google Store anytime later this year.

Apple comes forward with battery charging issues in iPad 3

There have been a host of problems for Apple for its iPad 3 like the over-heating issue and the Wi-fi connectivity, the battery charging issue being one of them. In fact, it has been around two months that Apple is facing the heat of the battery problems. But after iOS 5 was introduced, devices powered with iOS were facing awful battery problems. Apple had to jump in to solve them.

But the iOS 5.1 release has given a new lease of life to the devices. The Apple users will be glad to know that their device now gets too support from the battery. But Apple had hardly come out of the crisis when another was waiting for them – again regarding the battery charging.

Ray Soneira an analyst from DisplayMate, during the testing discovered that the battery was not charged entirely and yet the indicator showed 100%. Mr. Michael Tchao, who is the Vice President of iPad Marketing, said that it is a feature and not a glitch that allows one to keep the device plugged in as long as one liked.

Now that should be enough to put all the concerns to rest.

Microsoft and Nokia to invest for a mobile app

Nokia along with Microsoft will be investing an amount of €9 million each. A total of €18 million will be invested for developing a mobile app. The two giant companies are funding the amount to have the AppCampus program. The companies are expected to use it for at least three years.

The new app will be built around Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile OS. The hope is that entrepreneurs and students from around the world will come to Finland to help in the development of the AppCampus program.

The main aim of AppCampus program is to promote an innovative mobile app for Windows phone. It will be used in the ecosystem of the phone, the Nokia platforms that will also include the Symbian and Series 40.

The investment is aimed at having software for Smartphones for the Windows phone. The Aalto University will be managing the development of this program. Those who are interested can apply here.

The candidates selected after the application process will be given training in design and usability as well as in mobile technology. A lot more is to follow for the successful candidates in the future.

Why write for more than one site

Today online writing has become a passion for many budding writers. “Get Paid to Write” is an arm of “Make money online”. There are many successful online writers who are earning well just by writing. However, for those who are new to writing, they need to keep some things in mind when writing online.

The thing of first and foremost importance is that you should write for more than one site if you are looking to earn by writing online. Let’s have a look at the reasons now.

Sites can vanish

It is not new to internet. Sites can vanish in a matter of days or weeks, which many term as spam. There is no dearth of spamming sites as we all know. So just imagine all your work is uploaded only one site and one day you get a message, saying “This webpage is not available” or the site just refuses to open. It dawns to you that the site has turned scam with all your articles there. You lose all the hard work.

Divide your work on sites

If you have divided your work on various web sites, all you lose is only those articles which you have uploaded on that particular web site. It is still advisable to keep a copy of the articles on your hard drive and a backup on a CD or pen drive.

Mode of payment

At times modes of payment do not suit you even if you wish to write for a certain site. The technicalities in money transfer do not allow you to accept money in your country. This obviously doesn’t allow you to proceed with that site even if you wish to write for them.

Time of payment

There are some sites which pay only at the end of the month. On the other hand some sites have a specific cycle in their payment and can pay more than once in a single month. The various duration in your payment can work in your favor and you won’t have to wait to get the payment only on a specific date.