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Apple Likely to Unveil New Laptops
10 October 2008Apple Inc.next week is expected to unveil new laptop computers — including a model that sets a new low price point for the company — as it sets its sights on one of the fastest-growing categories in the business.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company issued invitations to media and analysts on Thursday for an event Tuesday that [...]
E-Business Strategies
1 October 2008Business Process Outsourcing:
The focus of this practice is on outsourcing of IT and business processes.
The markets covered in this practice include application development and maintenance outsourcing, product engineering outsourcing, CRM outsourcing, HR outsourcing, Finance and Accounting (F&A) outsourcing and logistics outsourcing. [...]
Microsoft Bus
29 September 2008Microsoft recently started bus service for employees at Bangalore. Employees can start work from the bus itself and their office hours counts from the time they start work in the bus. Same way total working hours of the day calculate based on at what time they stopped work in the bus. Traffic jam in Bangalore [...]
Child Labour
28 September 2008Initiatives towards Elimination of Child Labour – Action Plan and Present Strategy:
The problem of child labour continues to pose a challenge before the nation. Government has been taking various pro-active measures to tackle this problem. However, considering the magnitude and extent of the [...]
Fruits and Vegetables: Eating Your Way to 5 A Day
13 September 2008Are you taking the 5 A Day challenge? You may be if you find yourself:
• Snacking on raw vegetables instead of potato chips
• Adding fruit to your cereal at breakfast
• Using the salad bar when you go out for lunch or to the grocery store
• Loading up on juice instead of [...]
Variety of Stamps
11 September 2008•Airmail – for payment of airmail service. While the word or words “airmail” or equivalent is usually printed on the stamp, Scott (the dominant U.S. cataloguing firm) has recognized as airmail stamps some U.S. stamps issued in denominations good for then-current international airmail rates, and showing the silhouette of an aircraft. The other three major [...]
Testing Measurement
9 September 2008Someone has rightly said that if something cannot be measured, it can not be managed or improved. There is immense value in measurement, but you should always make sure that you get some value out of any measurement that you are doing. You should be able to answer the following questions:
•What is the purpose [...]
Indian Languages
9 September 2008India is a country of diverse culture. It has 22 official languages and over a thousand spoken languages.
Individual mother tongues in India number several hundred. According to Census of India of 2001, 29 languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, 122 by more than 10,000. Two languages have played an important [...]
Safe Eyes
4 September 2008During a recent visit to an optician, one of my friends was told of an exercise for the eyes by a specialist doctor that he termed as 20-20-20. “It is apt for all of us, who spend long hours at our desks, looking at the computer screen.
Step I:-
After every 20 minutes of looking into [...]
Donate blood
2 September 2008Your blood donation may be even more special than you realize:
A single donation from you can help one or more patients. This is possible because whole blood is made up of several useful components. These components [...]
