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With regards HR Mohan Chairman -- eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======= -- CSI eNL wishes its readers a Happy 2013 -- Welcome to the Home of the Future -- The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 from Gartner -- The top five in-demand IT certifications for 2013 -- 14 global cybersecurity challenges for 2013 -- Security Resolutions for 2013 -- SaaS in 2013: Companies and Trends to Watch -- 13 E-Commerce Trends for 2013 -- Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving -- The Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2012-2017 -- Computer Engineering: Feeling the heat -- 10 things to try when applications won't work with Windows 8 -- Use Real-time Compression to Reduce Storage Cost -- Five amazing things made reality by M2M technology -- The trouble with hurried solutions -- The White House’s long-awaited Digital Strategy -- Understanding the Three Most Common Open Source Licenses -- Open Source Compliance in the Application Development Space -- Discovery Channel - Global Warming, What You Need To Know: (1 hr 27 min 32 sec -- Nature: 2012 Review of the Year -- eBook: A Data Quality Primer -- eBook: Clearing the Air -- eBook: Conquering the Cloud -- (IN)SECURE Magazine -- eBook: "Modern Malware for Dummies -- Video: Google's Larry Page Talks Privacy, EU Troubles in Rare Interview -- Video: Defending the Data Center -- Video: TED Talks: How do we consume data? (08.08), may 2012 -- Opportunity -- Announcements -- 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: Hacking Exposed 7 Network Security Secrets and Solution, 7/e (TMH) -- Book: Digital and Analog Communication Systems (Wiley) -- Book: Software Testing: Principles and Practices (Pearson) -- Book: Bioinformatics Programming Using Python (Shroff Publishers) -- Book: Persuasive Reports and Proposals (Universities Press) -- Book: Leadership Skills (Universities Press) -- Book: Rigorous Software Development: An Introduction to Program Verification (Springer) -- Book: Windows Networking Tools: The Complete Guide to Management, Troubleshooting, and Security (CRC Press) -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter InfoQuiz–2013-01-01 =============== TWELVE Prizes to Win – FOUR Prizes of Rs. 500/- each and EIGHT books 1. Name the song video which made history as the first ever video on You Tube to reach 1 billion views. 2. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-01-01.pdf 3. “An idea can change your life” is the tagline of ------ 4. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-01-01.pdf 5. The popular “Linux For You” magazine is now known/renamed as ------ Answers to be provided to ALL FIVE questions. Question 2 & 4 are to be picked from the page 7 of the CSI eNL at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-01-01.pdf Email your answers by 31st Jan 2013 to csi.infoquiz@gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2013-01-01”. Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. There are TWELVE 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. EIGHT prizes will be in the form of books which are briefly reviewed in this edition of the newsletter. They are being offered by Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd (www.tmhshop.com/), Wiley India Pvt. Ltd (www.wileyindia.com), Pearson Education (http://www.pearsoned.co.in), Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd (www.shroffpublishers.com), Universities Press (www.universitiespress.com), Springer (www.springer.com), and CRC Press (www.crcpress.com). Answers along with the winners’ info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2012-12-01 =============================== Texting/SMS, Ajit Balakrishnan, Google Glass, Pope Benedict, Section 66 (A) Rs. 500/= from SRA Systems: Deepak Mangal (Mathura) & N. Thimmappa (Bangalore) Rs. 500/= from VictoryMind Edu Services: Liny Varghese (Kochi) & G.Jose Moses (Rajahmundry) Book from Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd: Ch. Sravanalaxmi (Visakapatnam) Book from Wiley India Pvt Ltd: Shalini Aggarwal (New Delhi) Book from Pearson Education: Nadeem Ahmad (Darbhanga, Bihar) Book from Shroff Publishers & Distributors: Guru Dutta Padhy (Pune) Book from Universities Press: M Venu Gopal (Visakapatnam) Book from Digital Empowerment Foundation: Bijoy Ketan Panda (Bhubaneswar) Book from Springer: Pramod Kumar Jha (Hyderabad) Book from CRC Press: T.U. Peter (Chennai) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.