A "security" firm gets a lesson about what the word means

Author:Abi      Blog :nanopolitan    Date: 2/20/2011 4:20:00 PM

This is a fascinating account -- no, make that a riveting account -- of how a 'security firm' had "its servers broken into, its e-mails pillaged and published to the world, its data destroyed, and its website defaced" -- through run-of-the-mill exploits the company was well aware of, but didn't protect itself against. And, oh, the exploits were by the group that calls itself "Anonymous". Great, racy story. Do read all of it. Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary (...)

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Previewing Watson

Author:Abi      Blog :nanopolitan    Date: 2/9/2011 4:39:00 PM

When IBM's Watson plays against the two most successful Jeopardy contestants next week, we may not be able to view it live, but IBM itself is likely to make it available on YouTube. At least that's what IBM's CEO Sam Palmisano told a huge crowd of over 1000 people at IISc during the Q&A following his talk [which was a part of the IISc Centenary Lecture Series]. Which made me go to YouTube checking for videos of Watson's "practice sessions" I found quite a few. If you don't pay (...)

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U.K Geological Society Issues Position Statement On Climate Change

Author:Suvrat Kher      Blog :Rapid Uplift    Date: 3/27/2011 10:50:00 AM

This is a good resource organized in the form of questions and answers on geological evidence for climate change. You will be able to learn a lot about past fluctuations in climate, the establishment of the post-Eocene cooling regime, the Pleistocene ice ages and their causes and the role CO2 has played through geological history, mostly as an amplifier of warming.The U.K Geological Society also firmly states and although there are natural drivers of climate change, burning of fossi(...)

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Google Music Beta Review

Author:Suhel Banerjee      Blog :Mind At Work    Date: 5/15/2011 10:20:00 AM

Last week Google announced the launch of it's online music service - Google Music Beta - at the annual Google I/O Conference. As expected, it received a lot of attention from the Tech media and also as has been the case with some of the newer Google products the beta is 'By Invite Only' to begin with. You can go to the homepage and request an invitation now. Someone from the team was kind enough to send me an invite last evening and I have been playing around with it since then.In a(...)

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Google Birthday Doodle For You

Author:Suhel Banerjee      Blog :Mind At Work    Date: 2/23/2011 6:49:00 AM

I was very presently surprised when I found this doodle on my Google homepage this Sunday, which was my birthday.Got a lot of queries about this one as I put the picture on Facebook and so wanted to clear all doubts and answer the queries.1) No, it was not visible to everyone in the world, however much I would have loved if that was the case! This was a personalised logo, visible only to me, only on my birthday.2) No, Google did not do this for me because I am an employee. We d(...)

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Amazon Kindle - Review

Author:Suhel Banerjee      Blog :Mind At Work    Date: 1/27/2011 11:47:00 AM

First things first, the Kindle is a reading device. So, if you're in the habit of reading - books, journals, magazines or anything for that matter, or if you like to read but cannot read as much as you would like to, only then should you think of buying one, or of reading this review for that matter. And if you belong to the category described above, I can assure you the Kindle will become one of your most trusted friends for years to come. I can safely say that even for a(...)

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An Innovative, Labnol-esque Calendar

Author:Suhel Banerjee      Blog :Mind At Work    Date: 12/30/2010 11:23:00 AM

Just received a most thoughtful and innovative New Year's gift from Amit (better known as Labnol) - a calendar!Cover page of Amit's CalendarAs you can expect, unlike normal calendars, something from Amit (he personally designed every page of it) has to be innovative and it starts with the envelope which it came in - it has this QR code along with Amit's address. Use a QR/Bar Code scanner if you have one (easily available in the Android Marketplace, in case you're using an Android de(...)

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What Did You Search For In 2010?

Author:Suhel Banerjee      Blog :Mind At Work    Date: 12/21/2010 10:40:00 AM

For the past 5 years or so Google has come up with it's annual Zeitgeist, at a global and also national level for different countries (e.g India). The Zeitgeist is the list of the most searched terms of that year. Of late this has been getting a lot of media coverage as well with television channels having dedicated programs discussing what the country has been looking for. In fact this year Facebook & Twitter with their large repository of data also came up with the most c(...)

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A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning

Author:Rohan...      Blog :ROHAN...    Date: 2/17/2011 5:47:00 PM

A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning !!!Tags: technology, science, glass, innovation =================================================== O************************O***********************OShare this blog with your friends...Please subscribe to my RSS feed! 

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BetterPlace & Renault launch first “unlimited mileage” electric car in Europe

Author:Vasudev Ram      Blog :jugad2 - Vasudev Ram on software innovation    Date: 4/18/2011 7:28:00 PM

By Vasudev Ram - www.dancingbison.comBetter Place and Renault launch Fluence Z.E., the first "unlimited mileage" electric car together with innovative eMobility packages, in Europe's first Better Place Center: http://ow.ly/1syYkO(It's not really literally unlimited mileage instead, what they are doing is providing much better and more widely and easily available infrastructure for users to recharge or swap the cars' batteries, since short battery life (i.e. how(...)

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I stand corrected

Author:Sayesha      Blog :Sayesha on the rocks    Date: 12/17/2010 10:43:00 AM

Viv - Your phone is really bad. You should change it.Me - What?! Why?? My phone is fine!Viv - It's not. It's really bad. You should change it.Me - You gave me this phone!Viv - I know. But now you should change it.Me - Change it to what??Viv - E71.Me - E71?! That's worse than my Samsung. The keys are microscopic! They need to throw in a toothpick free so people can type messages.Viv - It's a great phone. You should change to that.Me - Why should I get the E71 of all phones?? Just bec(...)

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Under the spell

Author:Sayesha      Blog :Sayesha on the rocks    Date: 11/27/2010 5:14:00 AM

My phone thinks it's damn smart. It does not provide me with alternatives when it can't recognise a word I'm trying to type -- it actually replaces the word without consulting me. Yesterday I was typing out a list of Indian spices for Viv to get from Mustafa and one of the items I wanted to include was 'Everest chilli powder'. And what did I end up typing?'Severest chilli powder'. Oh well, good for me. :P

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How to Use Technorati for Building Quality Links

Author:Elizabeth      Blog :Some Technical Funda    Date: 1/3/2011 11:07:00 AM

Image CreditIf you ask me if Technorati Authority is still useful, I would say a yes and a no...Technorati few years backI believe there was a time when Technorati authority was the ultimate indication of your blog or website's popularity. The higher your authority, the better your blog. As per Wikipedia, Technorati had 112.8 blogs indexed by June 2008. Technorati used different tags to index the blogs and provide authority to the blog based on these tags. The technorati authority o(...)

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An Entrenched Offshore Engagement

Author:Heartcrossings      Blog :Heartcrossings    Date: 3/20/2011 1:39:00 AM

I am back consulting for client after a hiatus of three years. The last time around, they had just made a major push to outsource their software development work. The old hands in the company were still around, took pride in the products they had built and were accepting the new order grudgingly at best. The offshore team was expected to deliver high quality and when they failed, they were excoriated to put it mildly. If the B team did not cut the mustard, the vendor made sure they (...)

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Data Trove

Author:Heartcrossings      Blog :Heartcrossings    Date: 11/18/2010 2:42:00 AM

Having mucked around in data for the longest time in my career, I am sucker for trends - the quirkier is the better. It's fun to tease out odd correlations between data sets even it has no practical value. For exactly that reason Christian Rudder's OkTrends makes for fascinating reading. Anyone who has sought a match online, is quite quickly able to identify some basic "types". Over time, they are able to tag a profile to a type with reasonable accuracy. Rudder with his access to th(...)

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Autonomous Cars

Author:Heartcrossings      Blog :Heartcrossings    Date: 10/14/2010 11:57:00 PM

The idea of driving as a hobby rather than a necessity is very appealing to me. I miss that one year I was car-less and used the Metro to go everywhere. As long as those commutes were, I enjoyed the luxury of being able to read and not worry about negotiating traffic. Can't wait for this technology to go mainstream. This is the best of both worlds - freedom from driving while being able to maintain autonomy over the route. There are many other appealing benefits as well - freedom fr(...)

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Komli acquires atkiv digital

Author:Maya      Blog :A day in the life of India    Date: 6/3/2011 6:42:00 AM

Komli is on an acquisition spree, no indian advertising company has been as active as komli in terms of acquisition. Komli has bought singapore based atkiv digital a fast growing advertising company with good reach in south east asia. This has provided komli excess to atkiv's advertising and publisher partners. Komli has in the past acquired postclick of australila and indoor media of Uk which

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CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES...for the cookie monster

Author:Ria Mathew      Blog :♥Ria's Collection♥    Date: 3/25/2011 2:19:00 PM

' I don't drown my sorrows I suffocate them with Chocolate Chip Cookies. '~Author Unknown~Iam a cookie monster, yes, I really am! I love cookies,especially Chocolate Chip Cookies. Not those that you get in the packaged form, but the freshly baked ones. The ones which have a soft centre and caramelised edges. The ones that have melted chocolate chips inside. The ones that are so good that you can eat a bagful in one go! These cookies are exactly all that I just described above.There(...)

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A more efficient piece of code

Author:Ajay Shah      Blog :Ajay Shah's blog    Date: 12/4/2010 11:14:00 AM

CMIE's firm databases use a fine-grained product code to identify each product. Each firm is also allocated to a product code based on its predominant activities. I like to reconstruct a coarse classification out of this that suits my tastes. I do this using this R function: cmie.14.industries <- function(s) { values.8 <- c("Food","Textiles", "Chemicals","NonMetalMin", "Metals","Machinery", "TransportEq","M(...)

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M.Tech/Ph.D Interviews - Department of Civil Engg. - IIT Delhi

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 4/30/2013 7:41:00 PM

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110 016, India Tele: (91) 011-2659 1999, (91) 011-2659 7135 Fax: (91) 011-2658 2037, (91) 011-2658 2277 E-mail: webmaster@admin.iitd.ac.in Tentative schedule for M.Tech/Ph.D interviews - Department of Civil Engg. The following tentative schedule has been fixed for M.Tech/Ph.D interviews: Short listing of applications : 12 May 2013

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Sparsh - Using Human as a USB - Pranav mistry

Author:Mallikarjun Gunda      Blog :IT EINSTEIN    Date: 5/2/2013 5:11:00 PM

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DTU - M.Tech 2013 - 2014

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/2/2013 7:03:00 PM

Delhi Technological University (Formerly delhi college of engineering) Shahbad Daulatpur, Bawana Road, Delhi – 110042 Admission to M.Tech Programs - 2013 - 2014 Applications are invited by DTU for M.Tech for academic session 2013 - 2014 Last date for M.Tech. Applications is 14.05.2013. Registration fee for M. Tech. admissions can be deposited between 17.05.2013 to 24.05.2013 only.

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Haryana OLET (LEET) - 2013 - B.E./B.Tech. 2nd Year

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/3/2013 6:10:00 PM

Haryana State Technical Education Society Bays 7-12, Sector-4, Panchkula Online Entrance Test - OLET (LEET)-2013 & Counseling for Admission to 2nd Year (3rd Semester) B.E./B.Tech. for the Session 2013-14 in the University Departments, Govt./Govt. Aided/Private institutions located in State of Haryana Admissions for LEET shall be made on the basis of the inter se merit of Online Entrance

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My homepage

Author:Shirazi      Blog :Logic is Variable    Date: 5/6/2013 5:48:00 AM

Homepage is a new genre brought into existence by the Internet. Every one who uses connected computer has a homepage. Some users keep having the same homepage that came when they bought computer? Some others pick new ones: blank or showing their main interest on the Internet.Homepage, also called as a default page, "is the main page or the first page of a Website that a browser opens with, or where the browser will return if the Home button on the Navigation toolbar is pressed." Goo(...)

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Why must we take time off from technology

Author:Anisha Aditya      Blog :Law Schools Terrace    Date: 5/8/2013 3:39:00 PM

“Damn the Wifi!”“Why is’nt Watsapp working?”“Please change the DP!”Common phrases are’nt they? Technology has brilliant and at times consequential effect in our lives. So much so that our virtual world, at times, eclipses our real world. The online social web has a magnitude has a bursting population. A new member joins Likedin every second. If Facebook would have been a country, then it would be the 3rd largest nation in the world. If Wikipedia were a book it would be 2.25 million (...)

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Chandigarh University - Admission 2013 - 2014

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/9/2013 4:19:00 PM

Chandigarh University General Helpline No:+91-160-3051003, +91-160-3014444 Admission Helpline No: +91-9915999224, +91-9915999223, +91-9501637000, +91-160-3044444 Admission 2013 - 2014 Applications are invited for the following courses for the academic session 2013 - 2014 Engineering Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science & Engineering Electronics & Communication Engineering

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Are you a confused developer?

Author:Praveen Puglia      Blog :    Date: 5/9/2013 5:47:18 PM

Are you a confused developer? By confused I do not mean a developer who scratches his head for answers to complex programming problems on StackOverflow or Quora. In this scenario, the developer actually knows what needs to be done. He has an absolute idea about the problem.

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Waze

Author:Heartcrossings      Blog :Heartcrossings    Date: 5/10/2013 1:52:00 AM

Reading this story prompted me to download Waze and check it out. We have a long drive coming up this weekend and I am looking forward to using it.  I was pleasantly surprised to see the density of social activity in my sleepy little neck of the woods. Like the author says "I didn't think enough people would take the time to enter information about things like traffic or speed traps into Waze to make it useful, but I was wrong."There were nearly a hundred different reports on t(...)

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IICPT Admission 2013 - 2014

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/12/2013 8:03:00 AM

Indian Institute Of Crop Processing Technology (Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India) Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 613 005 Admission Notice 2013 - 2014 IICPT Academic Admissions 2013-14 B.Tech (Food Process Engineering) M.Tech (Food Process Engineering) M.Tech (Food Science & Technology) Ph.D (Food Process Engineering) 1. Food Process Engineering: IICPT

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Thapar University - BE/B.Tech Lateral Entry Admission 2013 - 2014

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/12/2013 7:55:00 AM

Thapar University P.O Box 32, Patiala, Pin -147004 Phone : +91-175-2393021 Fax : +91-175-2364498, 2393020 Help line: +918288008120, +918288008121 Email: admissions@thapar.edu Admission Notice 2013 - 2014 Admission Open for B.Sc (Non Medical) Candidates for Admission in 2nd Year of BE/B.Tech Under Lateral Entry Eligibility: B.Sc (Non Medical) from recognized University with 60% (55% for

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Man from Nowhere – Korean Movie review

Author:--- :) ----      Blog :Prasanna's Ramblings    Date: 5/14/2013 11:30:02 AM

I usually watch movies which are off beat. One of my friends suggested a movie called Man from earth. I … Continue reading »

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DCRUST M.E. / M.Tech. 2013 - 2014, HCPET – M.E. / M.TECH. – 2013

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/14/2013 3:32:00 PM

Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology Contact Address: 50th K.M. Stone, N.H. 1, Murthal (Sonepat) Haryana 131039, India Admission To M.E. / M.Tech. Programmes & Haryana Common Postgraduate Entrance Test (M.E. / M.TECH) (HCPET – M.E. / M.TECH. – 2013) It is brought to the notice of all concerned that in pursuance of decision taken in the meeting of the Haryana State

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Nifty technical view update.. what next ??

Author:Sreejith K B      Blog :Nse Topper    Date: 5/14/2013 4:46:00 PM

Nifty technical view update.. what next ??Posted on April 11th >> "if nifty is holding around 5450 levels, we might get a relief rally for next 1/2 months." Yes, we got a nice relief rally.. towards the top of 6100 itself, that makes it more complex and if the bears are coming in, its going to be a flat correction.. In that case next first short term target will be the 5450 bottom and it may take next two months.As far as nifty is getting resistance from the cur(...)

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M.Tech Admission 2013 - 2014 - Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/15/2013 4:10:00 PM

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology Azad Hing Fauj Marg Sector - 3, Dwarka (Pappankalan) New Delhi - 110 078 Admission to M.Tech. Programme Academic Session 2013-14 On-line Applications are invited from eligible candidates for admission to M.Tech. programmes, (Full-time/Sponsored/Part-time), Academic Session 2013-14, in the following disciplines:- (i) Signal Processing (Division of

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Mahatma Gandhi University, Admission Notification for The Self-Financing Courses 2013-14

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/16/2013 7:33:00 PM

Mahatma Gandhi University (B Accreditation by NAAC) Priyadarshini Hills, Kottayam, Kerala Tele: 0481 2731050, 2731065 Fax : 91-481-2731002,2731009,2731011 Email : mgu@mgu.ac.in Admission Notification for The Self-Financing Courses 2013-14 Applications are invited for admission to the following courses in the Self-Financing Institutions under the

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Death of the PC

Author:vtrravikumar      Blog :Ravi's space    Date: 5/17/2013 3:18:19 PM

Just realized how much time I spend with my Nexus7 (tablet) now a days. I hardly sit before my laptop unless it is utterly necessary. Most of my usual task like Checking my email, Googling something, browsing a website, tweeting, checking my calendar, etc., all are comfortably done with the tablet over the couch watching […]

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M. Tech. Admission 2013 - 2014 - Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/19/2013 9:59:00 AM

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology Ratapur Chowk, Rae Bareli, U.P.-229316, India Ph: 0535-2704-244 Timing:10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (On all working days) Fax: 0535-2211888 Email: admission@rgipt.ac.in Admission Notice 2013 - 2014 M. Tech. The institute invites application for admission in a 2-year M. Tech. programme in the following disciplines for the academic session 2013-14.

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RGIPT Raebareli - B.Tech Admission 2013

Author:Manjit      Blog :Previous Year Papers, Admissions, Articles, Placement Papers, Educational News    Date: 5/19/2013 9:56:00 AM

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology Ratapur Chowk, Rae Bareli, U.P.-229316, India Admission Notice - 2013 Applications are invited from the Indian citizens for admission to the following programs for the academic session 2013-14 at Rae Bareli. Four Year B.Tech. Programme Petroleum Engineering Chemical Engineering Eligibility Admission will be based on IIT JEE (Advanced)–2013

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