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If 1990s had been the era of search engines, 2000s us the era of refined searches. And Google, which has been a synonym for search engines, introduced Google SMS for mobile users in India. This beta offering brings the power of Google Search to the user’s fingertips, making information available on the move, without the need of a computer or an internet enabled phone.

With Google SMS moblie messaging service, users can get business listings, movie show times and more simply by sending a text message to the short code 54664 [5GOOG] from their mobile phones.This service is currently available on the Airtel, Aircel, BPL, BSNL and Reliance networks, and has relevant local data for mobile users in Bangalore, Delhi, Hydrabad and Mumbai.

Google SMS moblie messaging service saves time by saving a user’s location, so they don’t have to type their location every time they search. Google has been giving immense importance to mobile space and especially after information trickled out about engineers working on Goolge phone expectations in the tech world have been fuelled. The users would be charged between 80 paise and Rs.3 per SMS depending on the operator.

After having heralded the multi-core PC era last year delivering the quad core and other multi-core processors, Intel is witnessing strong sales of the new-gen processor families, officials said.

Company officials said Intel had shipped 60-70 million multi-core processors including roughly a million quad core processors in the past one year. Intel’s quad core brand is positioned as four brains inside a single microprocessor. However, company officials would not give statistics on the numbers obsorbed by the Indian market.

Phil De La Zerda, Intel’s Director of sales and business development of developer products division said over 200 universities across the world were now having multi-core processing as part of their curriculum. In India, about 250 colleges are understood to be in the process of including multi-core processing in their curriculum with some having already done so.

Narendra Bhandari, Intel’s director for Asia Pacific said the forecast was that 80% of the total procesor sales would soon be of the dual-core variety, which enabled significant power savings while enhancing performance, and that in course of time the trend would come to mobile phones as well.

Other players in the industry, too, have multi-core processors, pointing to the new generation of processors being the norm in the days to come, officials said.

De La Zerda said future programmers would work in the parallel environment, making use of the multi-core processors. It is estimated that once the programs are ready fir parallelism, longer battery lives would be a natural offshoot.

As lack of adequate skill sets continues to dog the IT industry, ‘brain gain’ or the trend of Indian professionals returning to the country is increasing, even if it means joining positions for lower pay. And some IT companies are cashing in on this trend. For instance, Hexaware Technologies is starting a talent acquisition drive in Australia this month and will be extending it to Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore in the next three months.

Hexaware Technologies will hire locals for its local businesses in these countries and tap Indian-origin talent for its domestic requirements. Hexaware begin this initiative in Mexico about two months ago and has recruited about 20 people. Chief People Officer Deependra Chumble told that they were looking for people with knowledge of ERP, Peoplesoft, SAP and testing with over three years experience.

Hexaware will be recruiting employees for positions of senior developers and project directors in India. Thereafter, the laterals will be exposed to an in-house training programme. Polaris Software Lab Ltd has no seperate plan for harnessing Indian-origin talent but is inducting them on an ongoing basis for the past three years.

Soma Sajeevan, EVP and Global Head-Talent and Change, agreed that the number of people returning to India was increasing because of the growing growing challenges in jobs and more opportunities in the country. Better infrastructure, good educational facilities for children and improved quality of work are other factors influencing this migration.

Saveevan said that more people were joining the Polaris office in India at senior and leadership levels with about 15 to 16 years of experience, through they had overseas-returned employees at different levels for different positions.