Information of HP Job Cuts

The Job market seems to be turning gloomy not only in the banking sector but also in the technology sector, with global IT giant Hewlett-Packard planning to slash close to 25,000 jobs across the world. Nearly half of the job reductions will take place in the United States. But Hewlett-Packard's decision to eliminate nearly 25,000 of its 320,000 jobs worldwide is expected to have significant impact on its Indian operations too. Analysts in India believe that in the short term, the company could lay off some 1,000 people, and that in a three-year period this could go up to 6,000 of its nearly 60,000 people in the country.

India a leader in Outsourcing

According to a new study, India continues to be a major global IT and BPO outsourcing destination amid a determined bid by neighboring China to give it tough competition in the field. According to a study by Global Services, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune are the six Indian cities in the list of top eight outsourcing cities of the world. China dominates the list of emerging cities for Global outsourcing with Shanghai and Beijing leading the list together with Cebu city from Phillippines.

Pallete images Information

Palette images are widely used in multimedia and internet applications for several purposes. I happened to go through a magazine which quoted the use of palette images in a rather interesting way. They had studied the various ways and means of using palette images. A new method for data hiding in palette images with security protection by color ordering and mapping, as well as parameter randomization, was proposed. First image pixels are classified as data embeddable or nonembeddable, and only the former ones are used to embed secret data. The proposed idea of data hiding is based on the use of a new type of color-ordering relationship, from which a color-mapping function is defined with binary values as output.