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Now, manage cheques using a software Chennai: Cutchsoft , the software product development company belonging to the Cutch Group has unveiled its new Windows-based cheque management application, Cheque Strategic Office Software (Cheque SOS). Cheque SOS provides a comprehensive management function which includes cheque printing and aims to avoid preventable mismanagement of cheques. Designed for small and medium businesses, the software helps organize, print and track the cheques issued by a company. Aimed at increasing efficiency of a company's financial dealings, the interface not only saves time for writing and managing individual cheques but also eliminates human-error while writing them. "The software provides a professional edge to the small and medium businesses. The most obvious benefit is that it produces printed cheques that are legible since, the user doesn't have to handwrite the cheque," says Yaseer Rahman, Managing Director of Cutchsoft. The interface...

Sony launches VAIO E series notebooks Bangalore: Sony India has launched new VAIO E series notebooks with vibrant colors. The new E series comes in a number of screen sizes and configurations. These new VAIO E series notebooks would be available in 14-inch and 15.5-inch screen sizes. Major attraction of these new VAIO E series laptops would be gradient color pattern that looks attractive in Brown, Black, Pink, White, and Green. New Sony VAIO E series notebooks are bifurcated into EA series comprising of 14-inch models while EB series comprise of 15.5-inch models. These models claim to support full HD with 1366x768 pixel resolutions. The VAIO E series notebooks will come loaded with Intel Core i3 and Core i5 microprocessors - depending on the models that customers choose. Pre-loaded with Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium operating system these notebook models would hold up to 4GB RAM and up to 500GB HDD storage. For better graphics, Sony will offer choosing ATI's discrete Mobility...

Microsoft to drop Windows XP for netbooks Bangalore: Microsoft has informed that Windows XP will be dropped from netbooks on October 22. The policy is a reminder of a move unveiled in April 2008 but will require that all Windows-based netbooks use Windows 7 from the fall onwards. Switching is not expected to be a major issue as about 81 percent of netbooks were already using the much more modern OS by April, according to NPD data. The switch still represents one of the last steps in Windows XP's lifespan. Regular PCs moved relatively quickly to Windows 7 after dropping Vista and XP, but the lower price and system demands of XP led netbook designers to keep the nearly nine-year-old OS as a standard OS on their least expensive systems. XP's prolonged existence was mostly sparked by Vista, as its steep system requirements made it impractical to use on netbooks without inflating the performance and cost through extra RAM or advanced graphics. Microsoft also used the age of th...

Now, Facebook and Google Maps in Samsung TV Bangalore: Samsung has added Facebook and Goolge Maps to its HDTV-based Samsung Apps library. All of its 2010 Blu-ray players, Blu-ray home theater systems, and most Samsung TVs sized at 40 inches and larger have the ability to download and use the apps. With this users will be able to plan out trips before they leave their living room using Google Maps, and interact with friends on Facebook just like they would on their computers. Samsung Apps number in the 30s, with services that include Blockbuster, Netflix, Pandora, Twitter, USA Today and Vudu, among others

Users give thumbs down to Google's background image Washington: Google brought changes to its homepage with images from artists to sculptures and now it has dropped the feature after drawing the ire of users clamoring for the normally blank background. The new feature lets users personalize their wallpaper originally were intended to be on display on the Google.com homepages of users around the world for 24 hours. But Google returned to its plain white background prematurely because many users believed the change was permanent. On Thursday morning visitors were greeted with photos from National Geographic and Yann Arthus-Bertrand and images of the works of Dale Chihuly, Jeff Koons, Tom Otterness, Polly Apfelbaum, Kengo Kuma, Kwon, Ki-soo and Tord Boontje. Users who wanted to return to the Google white background found that they were unable to do so, however, and in addition were being forced to create a Google account to add a new image. "Remove Google background" w...

Twitter warns of possible traffic outages WASHINGTON: Twitter, which has suffered a series of outages this week, warned Friday that there could be more problems amid heavy World Cup traffic. Jean-Paul Cozzatti, a Twitter engineer, said on the Twitter blog that the micro-blogging service's problems this week were due to an internal network being over-capacity. Cozzatti said Twitter was doubling capacity and rebalancing traffic on the network to redistribute the load. When Twitter goes down, a picture of a whale -- known as the "fail whale" -- appears on Twitter.com and Cozzatti said his engineering team was hoping for fewer appearances by the creature. "You may still see the whale when there are unprecedented spikes in traffic," he said. "For instance, during the World Cup tournament -- and particularly during big, closely-watched matches -- we anticipate a significant surge in activity on Twitter. "While we are making every effort to prepare for ...

Need for more speed With new USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gb/s standards, you won’t have to wait too long for data transfers. In the last few months, we have seen updates to two standards. One is Hi-speed USB 2.0, which has been the interface standard for peripherals and external storage devices since almost a decade, and the other is SATA 3 Gb/s, which has been around for five years or so. With the upgrade to version 2.0, the USB interface received a speed bump that was 40 times higher than its predecessor, USB 1.1. Now with SuperSpeed USB 3.0, the peak theoretical throughput has reached 4.8 Gb/s, which is ten times faster than Hi-speed USB 2.0. Such a bump was long needed because external storage devices, especially hard drive-based ones, can easily saturate USB 2.0 bandwidth. Thus, the USB 2.0 interface has become a bottleneck for external hard drives, which are capable of transferring data at more than twice the interface bandwidth. The same isn’t the case with SATA 6 Gb/s, because even...