Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra has returned the file appointing income tax officer G.R. Sufi as the state’s chief information commissioner (CIC) because it did not have the clearance of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). Sufi, an income tax officer, was recommended for the post last week by a panel headed by Chief Minister [...]
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Kashmir governor returns information commissioner’s file
February 3rd, 2011 |
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Banker admits giving information to WikiLeaks
January 19th, 2011 |
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Former Swiss Banker Rudolf Elmer (55) admitted sending confidential client information to the tax authorities.
Elmer, who claims he gave WikiLeaks information about 2,000 offshore accounts, has denied threatening his former employer Julius Baer bank.
Facebook Backtracks on Sharing User Phone, Address Information
January 18th, 2011 |
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Facebook has temporarily suspended a move to share user mobile phone numbers and addresses with applications. – Facebook has temporarily backed away from its decision to allow
applications to access users’ mobile phone and address information.
The decision to share the information touched off days of
controversy as privacy advocates and security pros aired concerns the
feature could be abused. According …
Facebook Developers Get Access to Mobile Phone, Address Information
January 17th, 2011 |
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Facebook is now offering applications access to users’ mobile phone and addresses, though sharing must be approved by users. – Facebook’s decision to offer applications access to users’ phone numbers and
addresses has put the company in the crosshairs of yet another
privacy debate.
quot;We are now making a users address and mobile phone number accessible
as part of the User Graph object, quot; blogged Jeff Bowen, a…
HP, GE, Harris Heat Up Health Information Exchange Development
January 12th, 2011 |
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HP gets a $30 million contract to build an HIE in Texas, while GE and KeyHIE expand a health information network in Pennsylvania and Harris takes the HIE reins in Florida. – Amid a flurry of new HIEs
(health information exchanges) around the country, on Jan. 12 Hewlett-Packard announced
a 52-month services deal with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to
create a statewide Medicaid HIE.
HP is the principal IT provider for Medicaid in 21 states.
HIEs p…
Technology resolutions for 2011
January 6th, 2011 |
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A new year has just begun. And if you’re like many of us, you may already be well on your way to forgetting any New Year’s resolutions you made during an evening of revelry. But when it comes to your life with technology, a sobering fact remains: bad habits can cost you. The good news: [...]
PDF- The Need to Know Certain Fraction of Information Prior to Acquiring a Utility Posted By : fiterkill
January 6th, 2011 |
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So what particular fraction of information should you have, which is before you go ahead and purchase a pdf converter for document conversions into various formats?
Importance of Creating Database Posted By : ScottBradley
January 3rd, 2011 |
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You may already have a database but the chances are it only has personal data and not the key information you need to collect. The secret to creating email strategies that work is in identifying the key points (often called “touch points”), which are the dates, times, events when you can contact you customers with relevant information.
firesheep a new threat for facebook users Posted By : Michael Jone
December 31st, 2010 |
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Its never been easier to steal information from web surfers. Eric Butler, a software developer has created a Firefox plugin called Firesheep, which allows anyone to hack into a Facebook account, with an automated process. He presented it at the ToorCon (a hacker conference in San Diego, USA) to demonstrate how fragile our security on the Net. Its easy and fast. To do this, it takes advantage of specific weakness, for example when cookies are not encrypted.
India Software Development Posted By : Meenu Kapoor
December 30th, 2010 |
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IT here means Information Technology and not Income Tax, contributes to a significant part in the national domestic product. India is considered one of the biggest service provider of software development where top notch Indian IT companies have been catering to the specific requirements of Fortune 500 firms.
Information technology goes global: Tanks in the cloud
December 29th, 2010 |
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Computing services are both bigger and smaller than assumed
CLOUDS bear little resemblance to tanks, particularly when the clouds are of the digital kind. But statistical methods used to count tanks in the second world war may help to answer a question that is on the mind of many technology watchers: How big is the computing cloud?
This is not just a question for geeks. Computing clouds—essentially digital-service factories—are the first truly global utility, accessible from all corners of the planet. They are among the world’s biggest energy hogs and thus account for a lot of carbon dioxide emissions. More happily, they allow firms in developing countries to leapfrog traditional information technology (IT) and benefit from advanced computing services without having to build expensive infrastructure. …
Stuxnet Variants Will Wreak Havoc on More Information Systems in 2011
December 28th, 2010 |
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Stuxnet may have damaged as many as 1,000 centrifuges in a single Iranian facility, and variants will target other non-PC devices, security researchers said. – The Stuxnet Trojan may have knocked out as many as 1,000
centrifuges at Irans nuclear facility earlier this year, according to a
security paper. Experts said it heralds a new breed of Trojans that will attack
more devices that arent computers in 2011.
quot;We need to think above and beyond ex…
Outstanding Free Downloads for Windows 7 Posted By : Brian OConnell
December 23rd, 2010 |
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The information age is coming into it’s own. Free downloads are prone to crashing normally considered unstable, undependable and frequently infested with malware. This trend has begun to be challenged by a rising number of safe, professionaly developed free Windows utilities.
Minister criticizes computer tax hike
December 20th, 2010 |
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Minister for Telecommunications and Information Society Jasna Matić has criticized the ten percent increase in VAT on computer hardware. The tax, which now stands at 18 percent, “reflects a lack of understanding of the significance which the information and communication technologies bear for the enhancement of the country’s competitiveness, living conditions and work of public enterprises”, she said.
Protecting Videos, PDF File, EBooks, etc. from Thieves- How? Posted By : wiletritz
December 16th, 2010 |
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Any person who has put in great deal of hard work and efforts to create a digital information product to be sold online would not want thieves to reap the benefits of his share. So when such a data is created and made available online to be sold, such creators need giving thoughts to deciding on certain ways via which they are able to secure their information from being burgled on the Net. It is extremely easy for such thieves to actually steal content that belongs to you. Here are certain astonishing figures for your information.
Constant Contact – Essential info Information Posted By : kayla15210
December 12th, 2010 |
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Constant Contact comes loaded with features, where you can decide the look of your email by merely selecting an already made group of professional templates. Surely their templates were created in order to reach the needs of diverse enterprise markets, plus they are editable in the process.
HealthPass Launches Online Information for Health Care Tax Credit
December 6th, 2010 |
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The new guidance includes information clarifying that a broad range of employers meet the eligibility requirements. – HealthPass, a New York City-based nonprofit commercial health insurance
exchange for small to midsize businesses, announced that it has posted on its Website
information on the just-released Internal Revenue Service final guidance on the
small business health care tax credits. The small-business …
“WikiLeaks won’t reveal information on Mladićâ€
December 4th, 2010 |
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Serbian Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić stated on Friday that he had misgivings that WikiLeaks could reveal important information about whereabouts of Ratko Mladić. “I am skeptical that certain important information could be made public. The data that have been revealed so far refer to talks with officials and impressions about certain politicians rather than concrete information on Mladić,†the minister, who is the president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, said.