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IT Culture & Women

A recent study indicated that 42 million women in the United States which is roughly 53 percent of the 79 million adult women in the country used social media frequently. In the addition to this, a survey conducted by the mobile data Association reported that 74 percent of women say that they have text messaged in the last two minutes, as compared to 26 percent of men. All these statistics prove that women are technologically forward but don’t consider texting or social networking as using technology.

Women generally abandon considering IT as a career in their early teens. This is the time when girls should be involved in computer clubs and other IT related extra curricular activities to change their perception. What women don’t realize is that technology is a part of out everyday lives and shapes the lives of both men and women. Therefore, why should women be left out in the process of developing technology? Secondly, the lucrative IT sector opens doors to hundreds of high paying jobs and women should be able to take advantage of that.

Women should also develop technical skills because most businesses most businesses these days are built on technology and having such skills equals power and prestige in large corporations.

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The Social Web of Social People

From cave drawings to e-mail messages, human communication has been an evolutionary process. Being deeply social creatures renders communication inevitable for us, human beings. We desire to interact, communicate, live and work with others whom we know and who know us. It Is therefore of little surprise that an information and communications network like the internet is littered with hundreds of social Networking websites. Be it Orkut, FaceBook, MySpace or ApnaSpace or any other social networking website, the popularity of social networking sites has skyrocketed in recent years.

Social web
Social web

In a way it is a micro-phenomenon of a much larger macro-trend that the internet has spawned since its birth, that is, a means of communication and digital self-expression. Although there is some debate as to an actual definition, social networking basically refers to an online community where one connects and Communicates with others on the internet.

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Review of western digital caviar green 2TB WD20EADS

There is always a greed for humans to get more and more. When it comes to technology, researchers want to invent much advanced technology making humans comfortable. Computer industry is now booming around the world. Important aspect of using computers is its storage capacity. Some people need hard drives with huge capacities to store their massive data archive, music, video and other multimedia files, etc. In order to satisfy their needs, western digital launched its 2TeraByte single hard drive.

Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS

First ever 2TB storage capacity in one single drive:

The cost of this hard drive is around $300. 2TB WD20EADS is far better than other high capacity storage devices and Western Digital achieved world’s first drive having 2TeraByte in single drive. Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 holds the honour for highest capacity of 1.5TB before Western Digital. It has four 500GB platters and each contains 400Gigabits per square inch. This drive occupies a place in WD’s Green Power Line of Hard Disk Drives, as it is eco friendly and consuming low power for working.

Performance of western digital caviar green 2TB WD20EADS:

This 2TB drive performs more than average under most conditions. When compared with its toughest rival, Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11 1TB, it performed better than its rival did. It ranked 5 in the PC World Test Center benchmarks, one rank ahead of its rival. It proved to be far better than its sibling Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB was WD10EACS as it completed 9 in the overall performance ranking. Since performance of 2TB hard drive is above average, it failed to compete with its best performer Western Digital’s RE3 Enterprise 500GB and Western Digital VelociRaptor.

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