As part of the Robert Half CIO Masters Series, a senior IT executive from one of the world’s most influential technology companies talks about the impact of what he does on today’s business model.

“Technology is actually crucial to the success of every business,” says Alan Noble, “it’s just that some businesses don’t realise it yet.” These are important words for those pursuing technology jobs or technology careers.

As the Engineering Director in Australia & New Zealand for Google, Noble knows his stuff. Google Inc. is the American multinational corporation invested in internet search, cloud computing, advertising technologies and search engines. Not to mention the numerous internet-based services and products it develops.

Noble has lived and worked in Australia, Japan and the United States for multinationals and startups alike. He has founded or co-founded internet software companies and served as CTO of network performance software developer Foursticks. In 2005 he founded NWAN Optimisation solutions company NetPriva, itself acquired by Expand Networks in 2007—the same year Noble joined Google.

“Coming from a technology company like Google,” he says with no small amount of wonder, “it’s actually hard to get my head around the concept of technology in a support role because it’s so intrinsic to what we do.”

“But I’ll set that aside.There are tremendous opportunities for businesses today to focus on what’s important to their business. The technology should be the technology that really enables the business to differentiate itself and succeed. That’s very, very exciting.”

And Noble cautions that now is the time for business to focus on this, as the rate of change is accelerating dramatically and will create a huge challenge for the CIOs of the future. “Interesting statistic,” he says. “in 2009 the amount of digital information finally reached eight hundred exabytes. That’s eight hundred, followed by eighteen zeroes. But within a couple of years it’ll be almost a zettabyte, which is another three zeroes. How do you manage information flow? Fortunately, technology can play a huge role there.”

Inevitably, Noble believes, CIOs will migrate to the CEO’s office. “Our CEO is an engineer,” he points out proudly, referring to Google’s Eric Schmidt. “It’s probably a minority of companies like that today. I think you’ll see more of that in companies where either the technology is the lifeblood of the business or CIOs and CTOs themselves become more generalist, spending more of their careers outside of just IT.”

The corporate chain of command is mutating as well. “Google has a very large matrix organisation,” Noble explains. “So we do have the traditional VPs reporting in to the CEO. We have multiple VPs in engineering, we’re probably unusual in that there’s not a single engineering VP, there’s four VPs at last count. The CIO reports in to one of those senior VPs, so it’s a very senior position close to the top.”

“I think the reason we have more engineering VPs than other companies is because of the importance of technology to Google. I mean, at the end of the day we are a technology company first and foremost. And Google uses a lot of technology.”

As young IT professionals approach technology recruitment, it is imperative they understand the importance of technology to modern business.

The demand for high definition LCD and plasma TV’s has grown significantly in the last few years. As well as using them for movies and entertainment in one’s home, these TV’s are also being used in offices and other business events for corporate purposes. Along with different tastes, you can find high definition screens in a variety of sizes, shapes and designs to suit any individual or business – making it as much a fashion statement as just being there for entertainment.

You can even see high definition TVs in restaurants, clubs, fast food restaurants and hotels. It is not an exaggeration to say that these TVs have now become a status symbol and it is yet another reason behind their rising demand.

In the early days LCD TVs were only available from a few companies such as Sony, LG, Philips and Samsung; and due low supply and high manufacturing costs, prices were high as well. Now, however, the situation has totally changed as more companies have entered into the market. Combined with ever advancing technology, lower manufacturing costs and more competition, cheap LCD TVs and plasmas are quickly replacing old tube TVs.

While they look complex, most LCD and plasma TV’s work much like any other TV, and installation is no different. If anything, the process is faster thanks to more processing power in today’s TV’s. If you get stuck, however, you can always refer to instruction manuals that come with your screen and installing a TV should soon become as easy a walk in the park.

Wall-mounting your TV can be a little trickier and it is advised that you get a professional. While it really is a question of screwing the mount to the wall and then attaching your TV to it, there are things that need to be taken into account. Firstly, you’ll want to make sure the wall you’re mounting it on to is strong enough to support the weight of your TV. Secondly, you’ll want to be sure you’re not drilling into any electrical wires or pipes inside the wall; and thirdly, you want to be sure you don’t drop your TV when lifting it up onto the wall-mount.

Once installation is done, all you need to do is, sit back and enjoy.

We had seen iPhone 4 last year. This iPhone 4 is one of the latest improvements in this field. The feedback for the stunning camera and HD camcorder was very favorable. The ‘retina display’ was one of the key features which people had admired a lot. Moreover Apple also included A4 processor which helped to improve speed of this wonderful gadget. This latest improvement has forced to think that what more can come now into the market. There are a lot of rumors around the world however we are providing some latest information that can be beneficial for you.

The first important thing to discuss in this field is the arrival of Verizon iPhone. The talks are going around the web about this iPhone however it has been said that we can utilize this machine from “V-day” onwards. The booking for this iPhone will start around 3^rd February. Internet survey shows that people are very much interested in this machine because the success of iPhone 4. People are interested to see that how the gadget has been modified in comparison to other gadgets. These results show that the popularity of iPhones is increasing continually. The market share of Apple is going to increase considerably. The latest hardware improvement on iPhones are also due and it will be around June of this year. This phone is going to attract a bigger portion of the market. On the other hand it is also important that iPhones should have good apps to enjoy all the benefits.

Motorola Atrix 4G vs iPhone 4.

Backlight LCD television Generally called as LED TV’s which uses LED backlighting instead of using florescent lights which is normally used in LCD televisions.

LED’s come in two forms, the first is dynamic red led which are positioned behind the panel or with the edge of led panels and other is EDGE LED’s which is positioned around the rim of the screen.

LED’s generally provide several general benefits over typical CFL TV’s especially higher brightness compared to CFL TV’s there is also color benefits in this TV’s.

However this TV’s provide better clarity of the picture and takes low power consumptions are also possible. Moreover you don’t have to experience the motion blur because these televisions have the automatic motion blur feature which provides soft motion blur picture quality.

Several companies have launched the LED TV’s like Samsung, Panasonic, and LG etc.in the market long time back.

Different Model’s are there in Samsung LED’s like

Samsung 6000 series:  These televisions are categorized in entry level of Samsung led TV’s. These models have 120 MHz refresh which generate good quality images with less blur so that we can experience the good picture quality. With Samsung 6000 series we can view our images from the camera and can watch the video from the camcorders.

Samsung 7000 series:  Samsung 7000 has extra features than series 6000. These televisions have extra USB input which can be useful to connect the internet without running any cables. These models also have web capabilities by which all the widgets can be accessed while watching TV itself.

Samsung 8000 series:  these televisions have simple glass ascent that goes over frames. Samsungs has doubled its refresh rate to 240 MHz by which we can see the smoother and crisp action.

LED’s are performing well in the electronic market so when you think to buy a TV think about buying LED once because this should mean that your are buying a TV that will fulfill all your needs without any complaints.

TGV known as train GRANDE A VITASSE in French which means high speed train of France. This is France high speed rail service operated by SNCF Voyages. The High speed TGV trains were first started in France in 1981 between Pairs and Lyon. The TGV network centered in Paris which has expanded the services across the every major cities of France and in the adjacent countries of Europe continent. The TGV has record the fastest speed train of 574.8 km/h on 3 April 2007 which was driven by Eric Pieczak.TGV has previous record of 279.4 km/h which was surpassed by Chinese railway Harmony Express.

The actual idea of TGV was proposed in early 1960’s when Japan has began the construction of Shinkasen in 1959.At that time the French government was actually was in the favored new technologies.Alternatievly SNCF has started researching the high speed trains the would operate an conventional track.

TGV was first opened in for public means between Paris and Lyon on 27^th September 1981 with the same ticket rates as for trains running on parallel conventional lines. To counteract the major popularity of TGV SNCF has started the advertising camp gains focusing its major strong point speed, frequency and same price.

On 3^rd April 2007 TGV become the world’s fastest train covering the speed on 574.8 km/h under test conditions.

Moreover TGV Lryia is the service brand for the TGV trains who serves in the connecting France and Switzerland.

Current services Operates TGV Lyria

• Geneva Paris upto 7 round trips per day covering the distance 3 hours 30 minutes
• Lausanne Dijon Paris upto 4 round trips per day covering the distance in 3 hours 45 minutes

There are also many service operated by TGV Lyria.

Today France operates more the 400 TGV trains 1800 kilometers of track builds especially for TGV Trains. France have topped in fast railway service technology and now is the leading country in fastest railway transport system followed by Japan , China and Germany.

India’s largest telecom service operator Airtel has now started their GSM services in India’s neighbor country Bangladesh.

With the launch in Bangladesh, the company had joined the global Airtel family with over 200 million customers having completed their achievement of Bangladesh based Telecom Company named Warid telecom, from Dhabi group.

On this occasion the CEO of Airtel Bangladesh, Chris Tobit has said that “we are happy to begin our journey in Bangladesh with our new global identity. The people of Bangladesh are loving and very passionate about their identity, their culture and their language.

The company also unveiled a GPS based vessel locating system for fishermen community so that the fishing vessels can be tracked in the line to taking promise to provide telephony service in rural areas.  Customers of Bangladesh who live in rural areas may experience many services in future as part of Airtel focus on contributing towards the vision of digital Bangladesh.

In past 11 months, Airtel Bangladesh has begun deploying a state of art mobile network. They will expand their coverage in rural Bangladesh. More customers from the larger part of country will enjoy enhanced voice quality and faster data access.

After the launch in Bangladesh, Airtel (Warid communications) has around 4 million customers till today and covers more than 60 districts in the country.

Aircel, which is India’s leading mobile operating company (with part of maxis communication Malaysia) had gave a contract to Ericsson to roll out their 3G/HSPA network across six out of 13 circles or in the geographical market areas.

The six Aircel circles where Ericsson will provide 3G service will be Tamil Nadu, Bihar-Jharkhand, Orissa, Jammu and Kashmir, North East and Assam. These six circles having more than 100 million subscribers of Aircel and Ericsson will be Aircel’s largest partner for the 3G implementation.

Ericsson will provide Core, Radio and transmission network equipment also the related services such as network rollout, network technologies and consulting, radio network optimization and support service will also be available under the agreement of Aircel.

The mobile broadband network will have the latest multi-standard radio station, RBS6000 and the MSC server based cluster. This will severely increase the capacity of the network and evolve it into an IP network. This contract will be implemented from 2010 to 2012. It will also deliver and deployment which will be underway. Aircel and Ericsson has already made their first 3G call last week between Chennai and Coimbatore.

Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has launched “Simplified ISD calls At Local Rates“for its subscribers in Mumbai telecom circle in a bid to provide maximum benefits to its landline customers.

Now MTNL users can make ISD (except PCO users) to any mobile and landline phones of 6 countries that include USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore and just Re 1/min as default tariff, so customers don’t have to make recharge of any special scheme and there is also no need to pay any additional security deposits for ISD activation or any bonafide verification.

MTNL users can avail this offer and make ISD calls to above countries by just dialing 13-00 followed by the ISD code (without zero) and phone numbers. For example if any one wants to call in USA then he/she can simply dial 13-001 and the phone number where he/she wants to call.

According to MTNL, the new ISD call rates provides greater convenience to its customers and gives best value for money and also seamless and affordable connectivity with family and dear ones. This offer will be available for free and without any pack to all MTNL users in Mumbai telecom area for 3 months

For more details just call MTNL 1500 or 022-22221500 this is the toll free number.

So finally ISD rates are also getting cheaper, thus now MTNL customers can make affordable ISD calls with paying any security deposit which is the best scheme by MTNL for those who regularly calls in those countries.

Tata docomo which has recently introduced the 3G services has now announced the tariffs, the video call and the data charges for the 3G services in 9 telecom circles in India. Tata Docomo’s normal video call charges will be 5p/sec and the voice call will just charge 0.66 paisa.

The 3G Data plan for prepaid customers starts from Rs 350/- and it is valid for 30 days and 3G data plans from postpaid customers starts from Rs 500/-. All the 3G data plans come with preset tariffs that include data voice and voice calls.

If the customer purchase and recharges of Tata Docomo 3G service done before 30 December 2010 will also get additional 100MB of free data per month for first two months as an invitation offer.

The Tata Docomo 3G service will be available in the nine circles across India where it has the 3G license they are: Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh (west), Maharashtra-Goa, Punjab and Haryana.

Small screen 3G life tariffs plans are like:

These are small screen 3G life plans which are available for Tata Docomo Users. This plans work well for the users who need both 3G voice and high speed data connectivity.

There are also basic 3G plans available for Tata Docomo Postpaid and Prepaid users.

Currently there are only two plans available for basic 3G plans and all the above plans will be effective from 10 November 2010.

Free Unlimited plans are also available such as

Asus RT-N16 is a great product and it’s a fun router for networking enthusiast who wants to use their computer with third-party. It has an open source firmware such as Tomato and DD-WRT. However users have to wait till Asus provides a more stable version of the firmware.

Like motherboards, Asus is also known for making other hardware’s. You can see lot of third party operating system which is called Firmware on the RT-N16. It is equipped with over lockable 480MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM. The router has performed great when it is tested by the experts when it was running DD-WRT, which is one of the most popular LINUX based open source router firmware options.

If you don’t mind if the third party uses this firmware then RT-N16 which costs just around 100$ is the best choice as it offers a lot more features than other routers in the same price range.

The Asus RT-N16 has the traditional square router design having three removable antennae sticking up from back. The router is just about 30% larger than most similarly other routers.

The web-interface which can be used by pointing an access to the browser’s router IP address has the good look and can feel good too and it seems to be well thought out. For example when you change the setting then it displays a message that shows the percentage of the process from the beginning to the end. This is the best feature it has because most of the other routers leave you hanging and you can only know the process, which is done when the interface becomes responsive again.

This product has multifunction wireless router that has impressive specs including gigabit Ethernet and two USB ports. It also performs well and works great with third party and has open source firmware. But ASUS RT-N16 is bulky and does not support dual-band communication. Also the router is buggy and has unstable wireless signal.