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1: Your employees

Your own employees are your biggest source of security risks. Sometimes, it is deliberate; sometimes, it is not. Employees have the most access and the most time. We expend a lot of effort worrying about external …

The trial version of the faster and better Aakash would be released in May, Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal said during the higher education conclave organized by ICC recently.

Sibal said, “The second version of Aakash will be launched some time in May.”

He also informed that the trial version has been created by …

Takeaway: As Google expands its reach, many users are looking for alternatives to its services. Can you live without Gmail? How about YouTube? Check your needs against this list.

Over the last few years, there has been a fair amount of backlash against Google for a variety of things, most notably its use of personal data with advertising. A lot of people say they want to stop using Google’s services, but they …

A basic approach to upload and save image to a MySQL database and then display the image from the database.

First you need to create a table in MySQL Database to store the image data. Log into you database and run the following sql command:

CREATE TABLE  `images` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(100) default NULL,
`size` int(11) default NULL,
`type` varchar(20) default NULL,
`content` mediumblob,
PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

Once the table have been created, we

When Government of India announced Aakash tablet for $35, everyone went after it and started placing orders through DataWind prebooking service. I have no idea how many tablets I prebooked! In fact, the prebooking of Aakash and UbiSlate 7+ appears to be a joke and is meant to fool the people to …

A few months ago, Aakash tablet was launched with full fanfare and during its launch Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal said, “System of education in India would change dramatically due to access of low cost tablets to students. The tablet shall help enhance the quality of learning of children.” This certainly was a giant step in improving of school and college education. However, days after the big bang launch of the Aakash tablet by the government, doubts were raised over …

Using a search engine is more than typing in the address, putting a couple of keywords into the big text box, clicking Search, and choosing the first result. While that may work, it won’t give you the best results much of the time. Learning the advanced search, Boolean operators, and how to discern good results from bad results goes a long way toward enabling you to use a computer as a powerful research tool.

2: Word …

By the time the week was over, dozens of lawmakers had abandoned the two bills or voiced opposition, and a cloture vote on PIPA scheduled for this Tuesday in the Senate was delayed as lawmakers try to find a compromise. …

“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.” William Gibson

One of the best things about my job covering the latest technologies is getting early information about some of the amazing things coming down the pipeline in the years ahead. But, the flip side of that is that I often learn about some really cool stuff that won’t be available to the general public at a reasonable cost for a long time, which often leads to a case of …

Let’s now explore some of the popular services that’ll make it easy for you to transfer large files over the …

Let me preface this article by saying that I don’t believe that these are the only five upcoming Microsoft releases that will have a major impact on IT in the coming years. I specifically chose these products because I have some strong opinions on how they will help shape Microsoft’s enterprise future.

1: System Center Configuration Manager 2012

In a former life, SCCM was known as Systems Management Server (SMS). With the upcoming release of SCCM 2012, Microsoft is …

It’s a new year and a good time to strategize ways to get that long-overlooked promotion you deserve. Admittedly, there are risks involved with the 10 strategies listed below, but where has playing it safe gotten you thus far?

1: Gift your boss

A gift to your boss can go a long way toward your advancement. Don’t waste your efforts on lower management who have no say in your future. And don’t give money — that’s bribery! Instead, cater …

To format your hard disk for Mac and Windows on Mac follow the steps below:-

• Go to Finder -> Application -> Utilities
• Double click for Disk Utility
• Select the external Hard Disk you wish to format at the left column
• Click on the Erase tab
• At
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Among the 30-foot displays of massive TVs and the now endless parade of new smartphones and tablets, it’s easy to forget that CES is also the PC industry’s biggest and most important event of the year and has been for over a decade since the demise of Comdex. At CES 2012, PCs grabbed more of the spotlight than they have for years by focusing all their energy around one new concept: Ultrabooks.

Intel, Microsoft, and all the major PC makers …

If so, great! I want to help you figure out whether you need to do more of what you did last year and/or add new business-building activities to your repertoire.

Read the recommendations below for ideas that will increase your bottom line.

1. Test Your Market and Commitment

   If the blog you started in 2008 has

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Apple has mastered the art of making its products almost painfully simple to use. 

For users who want more robust features, choices, and customization potential, though, the Android Honeycomb tablets are light years ahead.

As I gear up for CES 2012 next week, I can’t help but think back to CES 2011 where the big story was all about Android tablets. I was in …

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One question that always comes up among IT people, especially those new to the game, is how to stay on top of all the new technology, bugs, and configuration issues. Hopefully you’ll get a lot of ideas on how to do just that from this post. Web 2.0 and social media are your friends, and it’s …

SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) Details and Current Status

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright …

Mobile apps have become an embarrassment of riches for iPhone and Android. In a world with over 500,000 iPhone apps and over 250,000 Android apps, the toughest part is finding the most useful stuff.

For iPhone users, I’m going to throw you an assist by sharing my top 20. My iPhone picks are all third-party apps that can help you be more productive, streamline regular activities, reduce the number of gadgets in your life, and take advantage of the top …

• References to outside managed assemblies with the same name but their own specific bitness (this also applies to COM interop assemblies)
• The MSI package (which, as has
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