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PKP Iyer is Senior Editor at Excellone Technologies as well as Java Development India.
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- The Passing Away of a Legend!
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] The tragic demise of the legendary Pop Singer Michael Jackson has shaken music lovers the world over. Michael Jackson reigned supreme over the pop music scenario for well over two decades. His singing style and supreme dancing skills enthralled people and skyrocketed Michael to fame and riches.
- Advantages of Investing in Mutual Funds
[Investing:Mutual-Funds] Bank Deposits have become less attractive for investments due to a fall in interest rates offered and the imposition of deduction of tax at source on the interest earned on bank deposits. For the Indian investor looking to earn attractive return on investments, the best route today available is to invest in mutual funds. Mutual Funds are by far the best option on account of several factors.
- Call Centres - The Thriving Enterprise
[Business] Call centres function either on a stand-alone basis or in a networked manner. Call centres are generally linked to a corporate data network, including main frames, microcomputer and LANs. Call centres today depend on the voice and data pathways into the centre, through a set of new technologies called CTI, or computer-telephony integration. A varied range of businesses use call centres to interact with their customers.
- Ten Tips to Enjoy Your Cooking
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] Do you cook? If yes, do you really enjoy your cooking? Most probably you have relegated cooking as a daily must-do drudgery, a boring chore that has to be gone through.
- Freeware and Shareware
[Computers-and-Technology] The Internet world is full of shareware and freeware. Just choose the operating system, the type of software you need ant Pronto! The freeware is all yours.
- Why You Need to Clean Your PC Registry?
[Computers-and-Technology] Windows Registry must be necessarily edited and cleaned periodically, if you want your PC to perform optimally. The Windows Registry is where Windows stores information it might need to retrieve later. The registry contains profiles for each user, the applications installed on the computer and the types of documents they create, what hardware exists on the system, and the ports being used.
- Era of Open Source Software
[Computers-and-Technology:Software] Of all the open source operating systems, LINUX heralded an era of freedom from licensed softwares and signalled the end of the road for monopoly softwares from the giant Microsoft. With the arrival of LINUX and its many versions, users got themselves liberated from the shackles of Windows operating systems and soon found that they could edit and tinker with LINUX to generate new versions of the famous OS. Linux has gained an unexpectedly large amount of interest in the home market over the past two years.
- Music - The Great Healer
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Ancient civilizations believed that music had great power of healing. The Ancient Indian sages who created both Hindustani and Carnatic music based on Ragas, believed that each Raga had unique powers of healing, depending on the nature of illness of the listener. But whether you believe in the healing power of music or not, you would not dispute the fact that listening to soft music during times of stress, is always soothing.
- RSS Feeds - The Convenience of Autoupdates
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:RSS] According to Wikipedia, RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format. Typically RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for internet surfers to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be channelled into special programs or filtered displays.
- The New Satellite Navigation System
[Communications:GPS] The new Satellite Navigation System,known as GPS or Global Positioning System is here and people are going crazy about it. You can find GPS in automobiles, mobile phones, Laptops, PDAs and Smart phones. It is a great new way to move around.
- The Sheer Beauty of Poetry
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Poetry] Poetry is the ultimate symbol of the refinement of the human culture. "Spontaneous Outflow of Emotions" Shelly defined poetry thus. Wordsworth said "our sweetest songs are that which tell of saddest thoughts".
- Business Ethics-The Vanishing Quality
[Business:Human-Resources] While business activities are on the upward trend, the concept of Business ethics is doing a vanishing act. In this rat race for acquiring wealth, man, not only the businessman, is throwing to the winds all those benchmark qualities and characters that had been handed over to him over the generations.
- Review of "Dasavatharam"
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] The much-awaited 'magnum opus' of India's legendary actor, Kamal Hassan, the movie "Dasavatharam' finally got released in theatres all over the world. The much-hyped film, which was made at an all-time high budget, had been delayed for release of because of a number of nuisance petitions against it's release. Finally all hurdles were released and the Kamal Starrer got released on the 13th of this month.
- Astrology - A Science?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Astrology] Astrology is thriving from times immemorial, playing on the hopes and anxiety of mankind to know about tomorrow. Based on the planetory positions and their reported influences of the human beings, this pseudo-science has been taking the mankind for a ride all these years. People practising this weird art, have been claiming that this is a science.
- The Need For Philosophy in Life
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Philosophy] Where does Philosophy come in a normal life? Is there any need for Philosophy? Many a ordinary person would have asked himself this question several times.
- Manage Your Anger!
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Stress is really a part of everyday life. While you cannot eliminate it altogether, the best thing to do is to manage it .
- The Indian Stock Market Scenario
[Investing:Stocks] The average Indian stock investor is really in a state of panic. The directions and trends of the Indian stock market has faced sudden reversals in the last six months.
- The Art of Writing
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Writing is an art. The really great writer is a person blessed by natural talent, the gift of God.
- Is Sexuality in Marriages Over-Emphasised?
[Relationships:Sexuality] According to the Cambridge Online Dictionary, Sexuality has been defined as"someone's ability to experience or express sexual feelings". If this definition is accepted , it becomes implied that as far the relationship of marriage is concerned, the man and the woman , need to have abilities to experience or express sexual feelings, in addition to the act of sex itself. Here the important thing to note that while the actual act of sex, the intercourse, may suffer a frequency drop as the marriage progresses and the couple gets older, the expression of sexual feelings needs to be there always, if ...
- All About Embedded Systems
[Computers-and-Technology] Embedded Systems are the crucial components of the modern compacted devices with multifunction capabilities. Embedded systems are specific computer programs that combine the functions of specially designed softwares and hardwares and are completely encapsulated by the devices that they control. An embedded system has specific requirements and performs pre-defined tasks, unlike a general-purpose personal computer. An embedded system is a programmed hardware device. A programmable hardware chip is the platform and it is programmed with particular applications. Embedded systems are a combination of hardware and software which facilitates mass production and a host of applications.
- Key Enterprise Application Integration Facts
[Business:Productivity] Enterprise Applications Integration and their development would be dictated by the business processes that have been the key drivers of this segment for sometime now. Service Oriented Architecture would be the basic structure which would help integrate such high end enterprise applications as Entrepreneur Resource Planning or ERP.
- A Website For a Company
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] The Internet and the World Wide Web have caught the fancy and the imagination of the world, cutting across national borders and transcending the limitations imposed by racial differentiations. Graduating from a mere communication medium, Internet has become the hub of trade, commerce and high-volume business. Knowledge Dissemination and education have become full-fledged and flourishing activities through the Internet.
- Business Performance Management
[Business:Management] Business Performance Management (BPM) is gaining currency all over the world as an important segment of ecommerce and web business enterprises. Business performance management is what today helps companies to gauge their business performance through a set of processes. Business performance management is considered as a quality tool for business intelligence. BPM is focused on business processes such as planning and forecasting.
- Introduction to Web Browsers
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Web Browsers have come a long way from the days of the first internet web browser, Mosaic and the like. The monopoly of the Microsoft-authored Internet Explorer has been decisively broken and terminated possibly, forever. Web browsers today have progressed from being a mere internet-exploring tool to being a multi-purpose ,multi-pronged application that brings several advantages to the web visitor.
- Good Franchising Practices
[Business:Franchising] Business Franchising has become very lucrative. Business Franchising is defined as a way of doing business and clearly it is not a business in itself. Business Franchising has won acclaim as a marketing tool helping to aggressively promote a particular brand.
- Stock Market - The Indian Scenario
[Investing:Stocks] The stock market is a really nice place to invest your hard-earned money. Provided you know all the ropes. The Stock Market is no place for the tender-hearted and the weak-kneed.
- Twenty Twenty is Here to Stay
[Recreation-and-Sports:Cricket] Cricket too has joined the big league of entertainment sports . Evolving from the boring slow five-day form cricket known as Test Matches, Cricket playing countries first launched the 50 overs per side form, known as One Day Internationals. This was a huge success with the West Indies dominating the first two cricket world cups in 1975 and 1979.
- Depression - A Dangerous State of Mind
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Are you melancholic always? Are you blaming yourselves for every nasty things in life? Are you losing confidence in facing people? Are always being alone? If the answers are yes, you are an ideal candidate of depression.
- The Need For Sense of Humour in Life
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] What is life without a sense of humor? Man would be nothing but a reasoning animal without it. Many a life has been inspired by the ability to laugh in a tough situation and smile at the miseries of life.
- Internet Services
[Communications:Broadband-Internet] A new breed of internet business enterprises was born with the growth of the internet as the most preferred medium for communication and business activities. These new pioneers mushroomed across the globe, anticipating a spectacular rise in the number of clients wanting access to the Internet and related services. The new class of business enterprises, popularly known as Internet Service Providers were engaged in fulfilling the needs of the millions of internet users by providing them secure and speedy access to the Internet.
- Art of Living
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Progress and development have deprived mankind of the much-needed relaxation of the mind. While we all care about the occasional respite to the body, we rarely go in for mind-relaxation.
- Data Mining
[Computers-and-Technology] Data Mining is defined as the extraction of required information or knowledge from large databases. This is a powerful new technology with great potential to help companies focus on the most important information in their data warehouses. The tools related to this new technology predict future trends and behaviors, allowing businesses to make proactive, knowledge-driven decisions.
- Video Conferencing
[Communications:Video-Conferencing] Video Conferencing has seriously eroded the necessity for physical meetings. With high-quality streaming videos and audios available over the Broadband Internet, virtual meetings have become almost as good as physical meetings.
- Software Development Outsourcing - Destination India
[Computers-and-Technology:Software] Software Development has assumed extreme significance in the light of the global demand for new IT solutions and IT-enabled services. Appropriate software development gives the right amount of impetus to the functioning of the web sites and the quality of services they render. Software development is a in itself a daunting task, requiring thousands of skilled professionals to put in hours of research,experimentation, testing and trials.Skilled manpower, technology and infrastructure are essential to software development , apart from the demand from the IT industry. It is here that offshore outsourcing plays a major role.
- Wireless Broadband Internet-EVDO
[Communications:Broadband-Internet] EVDO is the abbreviation for Evolution-Data Optimised or Evolution-Data Only. It is the new emerging standard for wireless transmission of data via radio signals. This technology is presently used for wireless broadband access of the internet.
- Threats to Internet Security
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Security] With increasing usage of the internet, the threats are also on the increase. Viruses are unleashed everyday. Antivirus programes are developed constantly to battle the invaders in the form of viruses.
- Silicon Valleys of India
[Computers-and-Technology:Software] California, US, in the early seventies saw the mushrooming of semi-conductor and computer industries. The high concentration of these industries in the Santa Clara valley in California, led journalist Don.C.Hoefler to coin the term 'Silicon Valley' in 1971.
- SEO - Search Engine Optimization
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] We hear a lot about Search Engine Optimization or SEO these days. Most people not directly connected with the Internet, especially on the online marketing solutions side, have only a vague idea of what SEO is. Search Engine Optimization is an important marketing strategy by which the visitors on the Internet are directed to a particular website to buy products or services.
- Cancer - Transcending the Trauma
[Cancer] Cancer, according to recent reports, kills more people than do road accidents and air accidents put together. Cancer has become the single most dreaded killer disease, striking more and more people. World over there has been a whopping increase in the number people being afflicted with Cancer.
- Importance of Page Ranking by Google
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] Every website worth its name is today swearing by Google Page Rank. To put it simply, Google Page Rank is a tool developed by Google, based on clearly defined set of algorithms, to determine the importance of a website or a webpage. PR or Page Rank is determined by the number of websites linking to the particular website.
- Smart City Kochi
[News-and-Society:International] The state of Kerala has been switching between rule by the left parties and the Congress-led parties, every five years , almost as a ritual. While political pundits call it the 'Anti-incumbency factor', in reality we know that the people of Kerala, with a much-vaunted high literacy rate, think, talk, eat and breathe politics. This extreme political awareness influences their political mandates too.
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