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This article was written on January 09, 2007 by CyberNet.

Fortune has released their list of the 100 best companies to work for in 2007.  Topping the list at number one is Google. Now, how does Fortune pick the best 100? Well, the first component is a process that involves their own evaluation of policies and the culture of each company.  The second component includes the opinions of the company’s (in this case Google) own employees.  They also take a look at the company’s demographic makeup, pay and benefits programs, and other such things.

So, what makes Google such a great company to work for? It could be a variety of things, because there are a lot of perks working at the Googleplex.  It could be the free gourmet food all day long, or snack rooms filled with yogurt, candy,and the like. Maybe it’s the shuttle-bus transportation from area train stations, or the onsite car washes and oil changes.  Would you like a hybrid car? Maybe it’s the $5,000 that Google will give you towards it. Need a haircut? No problem, you can get that done onsite. Just have a baby? You’re given $500 in takeout food to make things easier. Not to forget, there’s also a gym, exercise classes, and you can even get a massage, and this is just the start of the list of perks that Google offers.

Is it all of the perks that make Google such a great company to work for? Well, could be.  An organizational-behavior professor at Stanford has been doing research, seeing how benefits increases productivity and helps employees to focus on work. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin let people know from the start that they weren’t your traditional company. They said, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” So far, their plan has worked and it appears they are reaping the benefits from it.

Other popular Tech Companies on the list of 100 include:

• Cisco Systems (11)
• Qualcomm (14)
• Adobe Systems (31)
• Yahoo (26)

How much do you know about Google? Can you pass the Google test? Take it here, and find out what you know about the Best Company to work for in America ( I got 50 out of 60. There are 6 questions, and 10 points for each).

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A team of three developers has created a toolkit that can bypass Microsoft’s limitations on developing programs for the Zune. The kit allows independent programmers to create applications for the digital music player.

“This is the first Zune hack that works,” Glenn Anderson, one of the creators of the toolkit told Wired.com. “People can now bypass all of Microsoft’s limitations and develop for the platform.”

The toolkit called OpenZDK will allow developers to make new games, port old ones, create emulators and even have a rogue app store on the device. It will work on the original Zune and Zune HD.

OpenZDK could let people make applications on par with Microsoft-published games such as PGR: Ferrari Edition and Audiosurf Tilt. It could also spark a healthy homebrew community that would offer programs that are much better than what is available on the Zune now. 

Microsoft launched the Zune music player in 2006 and a HD version of the device last year. Zune, though, has barely made a dent in the market that Apple iPod consistently dominates. Zune reportedly has a market share of about 2 percent.

Earlier efforts to make Zune apps relied on a Microsoft kit called XNA development tools. In 2008, Microsoft released XNA Game Studio 3.0, which supports Zune development. But some developers say that XNA’s sluggish performance and lack of 3-D or internet access make it difficult to produce quality apps.

The OpenZDK toolkit could allow programmers to get around the limitations Microsoft has placed. The OpenZDK crew met on ZuneBoards, a popular online Zune development community, where they go by usernames Netrix (aka Anderson), Nurta and itsnotabigtruck. It took them a few months to work around Microsoft’s protections, Anderson said, and they have been testing it for the last two weeks.

But since OpenZDK has just launched, there are no apps or games based on it available yet. Getting started is easy enough, though, by following the steps on the OpenZDK wiki.

Microsoft’s newly announced Kin phones will also be running some of Zune’s software, but the OpenZDK team says it won’t be possible to simply port the hack onto the phones, because Microsoft has “locked the phone down.”

Which isn’t to say Kin is unhackable. “That remains to be seen,” Anderson said, hinting it could be possible in the future.

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