Dear all, The CSI eNewsletter for Jul & Aug 2012 (combined issue) is ready and can be accessed http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2012-08-01.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 -- eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======= -- The Open Data Center Alliance -- 10 tips to gain control, drive innovation and lower costs with OSS -- eBook: Personal Positioning for Engineers -- Special resource CD for mechanical simulation -- 113 Design Guidelines for Homepage Usability -- 10 highly valued soft skills for IT pros -- Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis -- Tips on choosing a programming language to learn -- Smart SOA Tutorial -- Recovering from information overload -- When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them -- Spam trends in today's business world -- Verizon's 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report -- How code signing works -- Seven steps to better brainstorming -- 2012 State of Global Open Innovation -- 10 Ways Your Smartphone Knows Where You Are -- How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo: Steve Ballmer and Corporate America’s Most Spectacular Decline -- US$10K worth of HP Products to be won - Join competition now -- The Internet Society Community Grants -- Video: Being a Real Leader! -- Food For Thought (Contributed by Mr. B. Sundaram) -- 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: Fiber-Optic Communication Systems and Components (WileyIndia) -- Book: Cracking IT Campus Interviews (TMH) -- Book: Computer Architecture and Organization: From 8085 to core2Duo & beyond (Pearson) -- Book: Requirements Engineering (Springer) -- Book Summary: The Negotiation Book: Your Definitive Guide to Successful Negotiating -- Book Summary: Conflict 101: A Manager's Guide to Resolving Problems So Everyone Can Get Back to Work. -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter InfoQuiz–2012-08-01 =============== TEN Prizes to Win FOUR Prizes of Rs. 500/- each, FOUR books, TWO free one month access to Business Book Summaries 1. Name the Indian monthly magazine dedicated for “Open Source”. 2. Think : IBM = Think Different : ------. 3. Expand: I18n. 4. Recently, anonymous sources within the United States government admitted that the United States and ------ (another country) were indeed the authors of the Stuxnet worm. 5. Which company had designed and made the Nexus 7 tablet, launched by Google recently. Email your answers by 25th Aug 2012 to csi.infoquiz@gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2012-08-01”. Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. There are TEN prizes to win. TWO prizes of Rs. 500/= each by SRA Systems (www.srasys.com) and TWO prizes of Rs. 500/= each by VictoryMind Educare Services. FOUR prizes will be in the form of books which are briefly reviewed in this edition of the newsletter. They are being offered by Wiley India Pvt. Ltd (www.wileyindia.com), Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd (www.tmhshop.com/), Pearson Education (http://www.pearsoned.co.in) and Springer (www.springer.com). Other TWO prizes are free one month access to Business Book Summaries from EBSCO Publishing (www.bizsum.com). Answers along with the winners’ info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2012-06-01 =============================== -- NoSQL, advertisements, 6th Jun 2012, .app, password -- Rs. 500/= from SRA Systems: Piyush Mittal (Erode) & Aparna Sinha (Indore) -- Rs. 500/= from VictoryMind Edu Services: M. Divya (Tiruchirapalli) & Indermohan Singh (Ludhiana) -- Book from Wiley India Pvt. Ltd: S. Selvasundar (Chennai) -- Book from Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd: Anupriya Dhankhar (Rohtak) -- Book from Pearson Education: Vasudeva (Mangalore) -- Book from Springer: Sunil K. Pandey (Ghaziabad) -- Free access to “Business Book Summaries” for one month from www.bizsum.com / Ebsco Publishing: Sandeep Shetty (Bangalore) & Parameswaran D (Trivandrum) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.