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With regards HR Mohan Chairman -- eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======= -- Mobility disruption: A CIO perspective -- Confessions of a CTO: 7 Dos and Don'ts for bringing your existing enterprise apps to the iPad -- Minding your digital business: McKinsey Global Survey results -- When IT Services are Free, Guess the Consequences -- Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance -- The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success -- From Big Data to Big Business -- Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development -- The Future of Big Data -- 5 Must-Have Tools For Virtualization -- Google Data Center Now Open for a Virtual Tour -- Google’s Green Data Centers: Network POP Case Study -- eBook: Mobiles for Social Impact -- IT's 6-step guide to adopting consumerization -- Is Your Database Ready for Your Company's Future? -- Soundtrack to history: 1878 Edison audio unveiled -- R&D 100 Awards -- Microsoft Surface: Cheat Sheet -- The Emotional Computer -- Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research (2011) -- Video: How to make a video - Production & Post Production in 4 parts -- Video: Consumerization of IT: A view from the real world -- Podcast: Panel discussion on '66A of IT Act' -- Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2012) -- The Resume Dictionary -- 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: Software Testing: Applications And Product-Testing (TMH) -- Book: Cloud Computing, 2nd Ed (Wiley India) -- Book: Mobile Cellular Communication (Pearson) -- Book: Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It (SPD) -- Book: The Database Book: Principles & Practice Using ORACLE Database System (Universities Press) -- Book: NetCh@kra: 15 Years of Internet in India (Retrospectives and Roadmaps (Digital Empowerment Foundation). -- Book: Computational Social Networks: Tools, Perspectives and Applications (Springer) -- Book: Business Analysis for Business Intelligence (CRC Press) -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter InfoQuiz–2012-12-01 =============== TWELVE Prizes to Win – FOUR Prizes of Rs. 500/- each and EIGHT books 1. Which popular mobile application has recently completed 20 years? 2. Who is the author of the book “The Wave Rider A Chronicle Of The Information Age” 3. Name the project of Google which puts a small computer display in a person’s field of vision and uses the augmented reality technology. 4. Name the celebrity whose Twitter handle is @pontifex 5. Under which section of the Indian IT Act, two women were arrested recently in Mumbai for posting comments on Facebook on Bal Thackeray. Email your answers by 5th Jan 2013 to csi.infoquiz@gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2012-12-01”. 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), Digital Empowerment Foundation (http://defindia.net/), 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-2012-11-01 =============================== Flavors of Android, 12, Titan, PadFone, SanDisk Rs. 500/= from SRA Systems: Suresh Kumar (Palwal) & K. Geetha (Chennai) Rs. 500/= from VictoryMind Edu Services: R.Jayakanthan (Chennai) & Rahul Kumar Vishwakarma (Damoh) Book from Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd: Chhaya S. Gosavi (Pune) Book from Wiley India Pvt Ltd: S.Vajjiravelu (Vellore) Book from Pearson Education: S M Fazal Hussain (Lucknow) Book from Shroff Publishers & Distributors: I.S.Hephzi Punithavathi (Madurai) Books from Universities Press: V. Lakshmi Prabha (Coimbatore) & M. Omkar Sharma (Siddipet, AP) Book from Springer: N. Balakrishnan (Bangalore) Book from CRC Press: B. Sundaram (Chennai) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.