Posted on Saturday, 4th July 2009 by Neeta
One of my acquaintances asked me recently, Is this the right time buy a netbook? I looked at him quizzingly and tried to figure out what’s there in his mind. The question reminded me that netbooks sales are still rising sharply and probably its the only segment in PC market which is registering the positive growth.
Posted on Thursday, 2nd July 2009 by Neeta
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I have interacted with many experts in CRM/ERP development and implementations. Almost all of them opine that CRM has limited scope in Capital goods industries. They are not quite right. CRM, Customer Relationship Management was developed primarily to focus on customers of consumer goods, Telecom and Banking industry. Today also the almost 80-90% CRM implementations have been in these sectors only. CRM as of today has not been fully accepted in EPC, Capital goods and Core sector companies. Continue reading…
Posted on Wednesday, 1st July 2009 by Neeta
Parents are quite perplexed about their choice for CBSE or ICSE curriculum. Both are equally good. No comparison can be drawn. I have gone through syllabi of both of them. The two curriculum give equal emphasis on fundamentals. Continue reading…
Posted on Sunday, 28th June 2009 by Neeta
Working long hours on computer has become unavoidable option for all computer professionals. Even management consultants and corporate workers cannot do away without logging equivalent amount of hours in front of desktops. With advent of computers in our normal working life, we have been exposed to many diseases which are outcome of sedentary life style. Today there are serious questions whether a young computer professional would be in a position to live out 10 years of working long hours on computer by putting in 10 hours daily. The answer is no.
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Posted on Sunday, 28th June 2009 by Neeta
How many times you have wished if you could zero in on the most relevant results you are looking for in Google search, right in the first instance. But rarely does it happen. When you are searching for some specific information, you inarguably get your desired results after two or three trials. We all know this fact for sure, nothing is wrong with Google search engine. It is only how we frame our queries that determines the quality of our results. Continue reading…
Posted on Sunday, 21st June 2009 by Neeta
Computer Science or the Information Technology profession has retained its Numero Uno positions amongst all other disciplines of engineering for over last three decades. Barring a few die hard fanatics who have their own reasons to go in for some core branches, the top cream all over world has graced computer science departments. This fact continues to amaze me. Though I am one of the graduate in core professions of engineering who passed out from one of the premier Indian Institute of Technology, I have deep respect for all professions.
Posted on Friday, 19th June 2009 by Neeta
It was only few days ago when I learnt about free antivirus suite being launched by Microsoft. Frankly speaking I didn’t believe it I thought there must be something else to it. Microsoft already had a product Live OneCare which could not generate any interest amongst avid users.
Posted on Thursday, 18th June 2009 by Neeta
XP has been the most stable OS from Microsoft’s stable. Even after two years of Vista usage and expected launch of Windows 7, XP just refuses to die its natural death. All other predecessors of Windows operating systems from Microsoft’s stable have slowly and gradually faded away from the scene but XP is live and has just got fresh lease of life from Microsoft. Continue reading…
Posted on Thursday, 18th June 2009 by Neeta
Last decade has witnessed proliferation of private professional colleges in all nook and corner of the India. We all know how good some of these colleges are. Supreme Court’s adverse observation on proliferation of these institutions and dilution of standards should be viewed as eye opener for regulators.
Posted on Wednesday, 17th June 2009 by Neeta
Apple’s activation servers have been burdened with more than expected activation requests of iPhone 3.0 operating system from existing users. Apple had probably again underestimated its user base. Same scenario unfolded in July 2008 when iPhone 3.0 went on sale. Apple should have been smart enough to size the activation requests.
