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CSI eNewsletter -- Feb 2013

The CSI eNewsletter for Feb 2013 can be accessed at
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Contents
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-- History of Computing in India – 1955 to 2010
-- Cloud Computing: The New Normal?
-- Cloud planning guide
-- eBook: Cloud Computing: Discover the Skills that Power the Cloud
-- Top 10 Business Intelligence Solutions
-- Server virtualization technology guide
-- Desktop virtualization software and virtual desktop management guide
-- Green IT systems services guide
-- Storage Learning Guides
-- Data Management Learning Guides
-- ebizQ eGuide: Teaming BPM and ECM for more effective content management
-- Business intelligence strategy guide
-- Human Resources and Social Media
-- Science as a Service
-- 7 Innovative Solutions to CAPTCHA User Attention
-- Free Trial Software: InfiniteGraph 3.0
-- Exploring the Internals of Mobile Devices
-- The Software Industry and Developing Countries. The Information
Economy Report 2012
-- Video: Welcome to the 2020s (Future Timeline Events 2020-2029
-- New Portal of CSI
-- Positive Thinking
-- Announcements
-- ICT Events
-- ICT News: Voices & Views
-- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance
-- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves
-- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, New Initiatives
-- Book: IBM Cognos TM1 The Official Guide (TMH
-- Book: 8086 Programming and Advance Processor Architecture (Wiley India
-- Book: Business Communication Today (Pearson)
-- Book: Code in the Cloud: Programming Google AppEngine (SPD)
-- Book: Managing Your Time (Universities Press)
-- Book: Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (Springer)
-- Book: Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT (CRC Press
-- Book: Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices (John Wiley & Sons
-- About the CSI-eNewsletter
-- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter

InfoQuiz–2013-02-01
===================

TWELVE Prizes to Win – FOUR Prizes of Rs. 500/- each and EIGHT books

1. Safer Internet Day 2013 was observed on ------.
2. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-02-01.pdf
3. Which IT Major is developing a new UK headquarters (on a plot of
2.4 acres in central London) which could be worth as much as 1 billion
pounds ($1.6 billion) when finished.
4. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-02-01.pdf
5. Expand SMAC -- the new buzzword for software firms.


Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2013-01-01
========================================

Psy's 'Gangnam Style', PC, Idea Cellular, Mouse, Open Source For You

CSI eNewsletter -- Jan 2013

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Contents
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-- CSI eNL wishes its readers a Happy 2013
-- Welcome to the Home of the Future
-- The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 from Gartner
-- The top five in-demand IT certifications for 2013
-- 14 global cybersecurity challenges for 2013
-- Security Resolutions for 2013
-- SaaS in 2013: Companies and Trends to Watch
-- 13 E-Commerce Trends for 2013
-- Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving
-- The Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2012-2017
-- Computer Engineering: Feeling the heat
-- 10 things to try when applications won't work with Windows 8
-- Use Real-time Compression to Reduce Storage Cost
-- Five amazing things made reality by M2M technology
-- The trouble with hurried solutions
-- The White House’s long-awaited Digital Strategy
-- Understanding the Three Most Common Open Source Licenses
-- Open Source Compliance in the Application Development Space
-- Discovery Channel - Global Warming, What You Need To Know: (1 hr 27
min 32 sec
-- Nature: 2012 Review of the Year
-- eBook: A Data Quality Primer
-- eBook: Clearing the Air
-- eBook: Conquering the Cloud
-- (IN)SECURE Magazine
-- eBook: "Modern Malware for Dummies
-- Video: Google's Larry Page Talks Privacy, EU Troubles in Rare Interview
-- Video: Defending the Data Center
-- Video: TED Talks: How do we consume data? (08.08), may 2012
-- Opportunity
-- Announcements
-- ICT Events
-- ICT News: Voices & Views
-- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance
-- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves
-- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, New Initiatives
-- Book: Hacking Exposed 7 Network Security Secrets and Solution, 7/e (TMH)
-- Book: Digital and Analog Communication Systems (Wiley)
-- Book: Software Testing: Principles and Practices (Pearson)
-- Book: Bioinformatics Programming Using Python (Shroff Publishers)
-- Book: Persuasive Reports and Proposals (Universities Press)
-- Book: Leadership Skills (Universities Press)
-- Book: Rigorous Software Development: An Introduction to Program
Verification (Springer)
-- Book: Windows Networking Tools: The Complete Guide to Management,
Troubleshooting, and Security (CRC Press)
-- About the CSI-eNewsletter
-- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter

InfoQuiz–2013-01-01
===================

TWELVE Prizes to Win – FOUR Prizes of Rs. 500/- each and EIGHT books

1. Name the song video which made history as the first ever video on
You Tube to reach 1 billion views.
2. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-01-01.pdf
3. “An idea can change your life” is the tagline of ------
4. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-01-01.pdf
5. The popular “Linux For You” magazine is now known/renamed as ------

Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2012-12-01
========================================

Texting/SMS, Ajit Balakrishnan, Google Glass, Pope Benedict, Section 66 (A)

CSI eNewsletter -- May 2013

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http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-05-01.pdf
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Contents
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-- The first 20 years of Wired: 1993-2013
-- How to advance your IT career in one simple step
-- OK, so stick with Windows XP: But how big a risk do you run
-- 12 Must-Do PC Tasks
-- Mastering digital business
-- The 21st Century Data Center Special Feature
-- Best Readings in Green Communications
-- How Green is Your IT?
-- A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to green computing
-- Green computing energy efficiency guide
-- How Mobility Is Changing the Enterprise
-- CIO Playbook: How Mobility Can Transform Your Business
-- Big data: What’s your plan?
-- The coming era of ‘on-demand’ marketing
-- Five routes to innovative problem solving
-- Wi-Fi Network Technology Technical View
-- 40 Gigabit Ethernet: The Migration Begins
-- MOOCs and the Meta Campus
-- Video: 7 Skills students need for their future
-- Video: The World in 2030
-- Video: Eric Schmidt on disruptive technologies
-- MBA Exam Questions through the Ages
-- Announcements
-- ICT Events
-- ICT News: Voices & Views
-- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance
-- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves
-- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, New Initiatives
-- Book: Quick Test Professional: covers QTP 9.2, 9.5, 10.00 and 11.00 (TMH)
-- Book: Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for
Developers (Wiley India)
-- Book: Know Your English (Vol. 2): Words Frequently Confused
(Universities Press)
-- Book: Introduction to Soft Computing: Neuro-Fuzzy and Genetic
Algorithms (Pearson Education)
-- Book: Cloud Enterprise Architecture (CRC Press)
-- About the CSI-eNewsletter
-- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter
-- Volunteers to CSI-eNewsletter

InfoQuiz–2013-05-01
===============

1. What is Bitcoin
2. MariaDB is an open source database developed based on ------
3. The combination of Smartphone and Tablet in a single device is
known as ------
4. Angry Birds : Pigs = Angry Anna : ------
5. Graph Search, recently introduced by Facebook considers FOUR core
points and they are:
People, Places, Photos and ------

Answers of InfoQuiz-2013-04-01
========================================

Yahoo!, Azim Premji, Calligraphy, Variety, BlackBerry

CSI eNewsletter -- 2013 Mar & Apr (Combined Issue)

The CSI eNewsletter for Mar & Apr 2013 (combined issue) can be accessed at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-04-01.pdf

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Contents
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-- The Organization of the Future, and it’s Impact on IT
-- The legal and commercial risks and issues to consider
when managing emails
-- Google Apps v. Office 365 summary: Which is better
-- 10 considerations for BYOD cost/benefit analysis
-- What Is Crowdfunding And How Does It Benefit The Economy
-- Scientists use 3-D printing to help grow an ear
-- Video: India 3.0 IT And Education
-- Internet freedom in a world of states
-- What ails India inc’s executives?
-- Inspiring interview with Dr. Vinton G Cerf, Father
of Internet
-- eBook: Definitive Guide to Next-Generation Threat
Protection
-- Apple fan launches new blog, YouTube channel
-- Virtual learning spaces
-- 7 Innovative Solutions to CAPTCHA User Attention
-- Webinar: Information Optimization and the Disruptive
Power of Big Data
-- Video: Insight Into Depression – Sadhguru (11 min 30 secs)
-- Evaluating Agile and Scrum with Other Software
Methodologies
-- Priming Kanban
-- Top 40 CRM Vendor report
-- Researchers achieve breakthrough in spin storage
-- The CS Cloud Computing Special Technical Community
(CS CCSTC)
-- Video: IT and Masses in India
-- Mark Twain Awards for Travel support
-- Cicero's philosophy
-- Announcements
-- ICT Events
-- ICT News: Voices & Views
-- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance
-- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves
-- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures,
New Initiatives
-- Book: Estimating Software Costs (TMH)
-- Book: Internet Marketing: An Hour A Day (Wiley India)
-- Book: Know Your English (Vol. 1): Idioms and their stories
Universities Press):
-- Book: Listening Skills (Universities Press)
-- Book: Semantic Web Services (Springer)
-- Book: The Art of Agile Practice: A Composite Approach for
Projects and Organizations (CRC Press)
-- About the CSI-eNewsletter
-- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter

InfoQuiz–2013-04-01
===================

1. “Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web” is now
known as ------.

2. Name the 1st Indian to sign up for the Giving Pledge,
a forum of wealthy people to pledge for Philanthropy

3. Which course taken by Steve Jobs helped him to excel
in his products at Apple?

4. Three Vs of BIG DATA are Volume, Velocity, and ------

5. RIM (Research In Motion), the company which makes
BlackBerry range of smart phones has been
renamed as ------


Answers of InfoQuiz-2013-02-01
========================================

5th Feb 2013, MIT (JSTOR), Google, Graph Search,
Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud

CSI eNewsletter -- 2012 May

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Contents
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-- Internet Hall of Fame
-- Machine Learning Lectures by Professor Andrew Ng, 
   Stanford CS Dept
-- Multilingualism and the Internet
-- Protection Against The Advanced Persistent Threat
-- Data Classification; a scalable approach to managing 
   sensitive data
-- Unified Storage For Dummies: Oracle Special Edition
-- ERCIM News
-- Video: All your devices can be hacked
-- Securing Data in the Cloud--10 Critical Questions to 
   Ask Your Cloud Provider
-- Insight Guide: Commercial Business Insurance
-- 2012 web security report
-- Demystifying social media
-- Can India lead the mobile-Internet revolution
-- Competing through data
-- Cloud Benefits 101: What’s In It for You?
-- 10 critical ERP upgrade mistakes
-- Five cloud-based PM tools to suit a wide range of 
   projects
-- 10 ways to look your best on social media
-- Fraud alert: Phishing — the latest tactics and potential 
   business impacts 2012
-- Young Innovators Competition
-- Video: Robots that fly ... and cooperate
-- Open Government Platform – OGPL
-- Video: PowerPoint presentations How Not To Make
-- How To Succeed As An Executive
-- Announcements
-- ICT Events
-- ICT News: Voices & Views
-- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance
-- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves
-- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, 
   New Initiatives
-- Book:  Drupal - The Guide To Planning and Building 
   Websites (Wiley India)
-- Book: QC 10, QTP 10 and Automation Framework – Automating 
   Automation (TMH)
-- Book: Software Engineering (Pearson)
-- Book Summary: The Power of LEO: The Revolutionary Process 
   for Achieving Extraordinary Results
-- Book Summary: Growth or Bust!: Proven Turnaround 
   Strategies to Grow Your Business
-- About the CSI-eNewsletter
-- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter

InfoQuiz–2012-05-01 
====================

1.  “Software gets twice as slow every eighteen months” is known as ------ Law.
2.  Bangalore is the first city to get the 4G services in India. State True or False
3.  Google : Google Drive = Microsoft : ------
4.  ------ beat Nokia to the top position in the global handset market in the first quarter of 2012.
5.  ------ became the first Indian IT company to cross the $10 billion (revenue) milestone.

Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2012-04-01
========================================

Google, Niklaus Wirth, Alan M Tturing,  Lady Gaga,  D is for Digital

CSI eNewsletter -- 2012 Jun

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Contents
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-- Are you making the most of your company’s ‘software layer’
-- Video: A primer on 3D printing
-- 14 key points to evaluate BI platforms
-- Ten Easy Steps for Email and Web Best Practices
-- 2012 IT Skills and Salary Report
-- CIO challenges - Bringing your iPad to work
-- Video: A Vision of Students Today
-- Business case for automating open source code management
-- 10 Hacks that Made Headlines
-- Big Data for the Masses
-- Standard Units of Measure for IaaS
-- Twelve New Programming Languages: Is Cloud Responsible?
-- The impact of cybercrime on business
-- Compromised websites - An owner's perspective
-- Minding your digital business
-- The social side of strategy
-- Facebook Bible - Everything You Need to Know About 
   Facebook
-- Video: Cooking like an engineer
-- Enterprise 20/20
-- Son and Father exchange letters
-- Indian Brains
-- Announcements
-- ICT Events
-- ICT News: Voices & Views
-- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance
-- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves
-- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, 
   New Initiatives
-- Book: Cloud Computing for Dummies (Wiley India)
-- Book: Web Developer’s Cookbook (Tata McGrawHill)
-- Book: Cryptography and Network Security: Principles 
   and Practice, 5/e (Pearson Education)
-- Book: Guide to Teaching Computer Science: An 
   Activity-Based Approach (Springer)
-- Book Summary: The Business of Being the Best: Inside 
   the World of Go-Getters and Game Changers.
-- Book Summary: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas  
   Emerge From Small Discoveries.
-- About the CSI-eNewsletter
-- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter

InfoQuiz–2012-06-01
===================

1. Carlo Strozzi is the developer of which lightweight, 
open-source relational database which does not use SQL 
as its query language.

2. Google has recently filed a patent to replace 
ringtones with ------.

3. World IPv6 Launch by Internet Society was on ------.

4. ------ is the most applied-for Top Level Domain 
recently unveiled by ICANN) at $ 1,85,000 per registration.

5. ------ is the most popular password followed by 123456

Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2012-05-01
========================================

• Page’s Law, False, SkyDrive, Samsung, TCS

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CSI eNewsletter -- 2012 Apr

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10 Essential Steps to Portfolio Management

10 ways to secure browsing in the enterprise

Video: Digital humanitarianism

Video: The secret structure of great talks

The Seven Types of Power Problems

A Guide to Modern IT Disaster Recovery

Top Learning Trends for 2012

End-to-End Encryption: The PCI Security Holy Grail

Google's Research Awards Program

The in-depth guide to data destruction

CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats

9 Secrets to Hassle-Free Data Management – Guide

Creative Commons: Law & Etiquette

Using QR Codes for Your Small Business

IT risk assessment frameworks: real-world experience

Programming Methodology Lectures by Professor Mehran Sahami, Stanford CS Dept.

The IPv6 Implementation Action Plan

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Gartner Report: 2012 Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms

As 60th Anniversary Nears, Tape Reinvents Itself

Apple Invents a Killer 3D Imaging Camera for iOS Devices

Listening to employees: The ‘Beyond Bureaucracy’ M-Prize winners

Interactive Health Tutorials

ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship

Book: iPad in the Enterprise – Developing and Deploying Business applications

Book: Java Programming

Book: Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards

Book Summary: The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others

Book Summary: 10 Steps To Be A Successful Manager

InfoQuiz–2012-04-01

1. The paper “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” presents a prototype of a search engine. Name it.
2. "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster” is known as ------ Law.
3. The year 2012 is being celebrated as the 100th Birth Anniversary of which computer pioneer?
4. Who has become the first person to surpass 20 million followers on Twitter?
5. Name the new book recently written by the co-author of the famous book “The C Programming Language”, Brian W. Kernighan

Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2012-03-01

Recycle, Steve Jobs, Tulip Telecom, Motorola, Facebook

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