[LIS-Forum] CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Apr 2011

[hrmohan at vsnl.com]

Dear all,

The 21st issue (Volume 2. issue 5) of CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Apr 2011
is ready and can be accessed at

http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2011-04-01.pdf

and also at the CSI KM Portal

http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter

For the archives of this newsletter, pl.  visit
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm or
at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives

You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the
information presented in the mail.

With regards
HR Mohan
Chairman, Div IV, CSI & eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras
http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/

Contents
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-- Reducing Organizational Risk Through Virtual Patching
-- 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report
-- Information Pioneers
-- Top 50 Green and Environmental Engineering Blogs
-- Microsoft Azure tutorial: A look at the cloud platform
-- Business Intelligence Buyer’s Guide – 2011 Edition
-- Data Deduplication Background
-- Why Cloud Backup: Top 10 Reasons
-- How to Compare Server Online Backup and Recovery Service Providers
-- Avoiding the Hazards of IT Consolidation
-- Quantum computer slips onto chips
-- TheSportsMirror.com Internship & Training Program
-- ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme
-- Happiness -- It’s All in Your Head
-- Modern Panchtantra Story
-- ICT News Headlines & Briefs
-- Announcements
-- Book: E-Business: A Management Perspective
-- Book: Innovation Management - Strategies, Implementation, and Profits
-- Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know
-- Book: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
-- About the CSI-eNewsletter
-- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter
-- eNewsletter Committee


InfoQuiz–2011-04-01 (Six Prizes to Win – Four Books and Two Awards of
Rs. 500/- each)
======================================================

1. Name the machine, powered by 90 32-core IBM Power 750 Express
servers with a total of 16 terabytes of memory which had recently won
$ 1 million in the Jeopardy game show defeating the champions Ken
Jennings and Brad Rutter.
2. "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage which
began as the caption of a cartoon by    ------.
3. InstaCompute and InstaOffice are the cloud offerings from ------.
4. Name the $99 handheld device which delivers the joy of information
by offering three million Wikipedia articles.
5. Name the web tool for language translation launched by the former
President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, recently at the WWW conference which
has an ambitious task of offering web based translation services to 18
Indian languages.

Email your answers by 20th Apr 2011 to csi.infoquiz at gmail.com with
subject “infoquiz-2011-04-01”.  Please provide your name, designation,
company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the
contact phone nos. after the answers. The first person to answer
correctly and one randomly selected lucky winner will be awarded Rs.
500/= each by SRA Systems (www.srasys.com). Oxford University Press
(http://www.oup.co.in) & Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd
(http://www.shroffpublishers.com) will present the books which are
briefly reviewed above. In all, there will be SIX prizes – TWO cash
prizes of Rs. 500/- each and FOUR prizes of one book each. Answers
along with the winner info will be published in the next issue.

Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2011-03-01
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Twoosh, Oh My God, Claude Elwood Shannon, qubits, Epson

Awards of Rs. 500/= each from SRA Systems to Mr. P. Kumar from Chennai
and to Ms. A. Brindha from Thoothukudi.

Books from Oxford University Press: “IT Strategy for Business” to Ms.
Femina from Chennai & “Entrepreneurship” to Mr. T. Srikanth from
Hyderabad.

Books from Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd: “Testing in 30+
Open Source Tools” to Mr. Naveen Aggarwal from Chandigarh & “Nothing
is Absolute” to Mr. G. Sivashankar.G from Jagatsinghpur, Orissa.



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