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November 2009

Green Building Jobs shall be in Demand.

Energy Efficiency and Energy Savings are the cool words which the consultants rip off during their presentations. Those of us who have been in the corporate world might have attended many a presentations on saving energy and fuel, Green Building etc. In fact there are many programs going on where lots of money have been [...]

Microsoft Starts Sending Office 2010 Beta Invites.

Microsoft’s Office 2010 launch may be a bit far away but MS has been sending Office 2010 starter beta invites for free, recently. As it happens with every invites the pickings are on random basis but surely on can increase the chances of getting selected by filling up this 3 minute survey.

Firefox galloping, Internet Explorer slows down.

Internet Explorer is steadily losing its market share to Firefox and Google Chrome. According to data published by Net Applications, Firefox celebrated its 5th anniversary by attaining 25% market share in the First week of Nov 2009. This is a celebration time for Firefox. Despite Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows OS and Google dropping [...]

Marketing, Production and Engineering, to go ERP way in the End.

Old organizations which are rich in their own culture find the progression to complete ERP solution quite difficult. What all major ERP solution is that these organizations should shun their age old rich procedures and systems and adapt to the so called “Best Practices”. But is it the right strategy? I have been confronted with [...]

Indian Power Sector update Nov 2009

India has so far achieved only 17000 MW of capacity addition against some 78000 MW planned in 11th Five Year Plan which will be ending in March 2012. Country needs huge investments to the tune of $250 Billions in the coming 7-8 years, even if it strives to maintain 7.5% growth rate. Projections for the [...]

Beginners’ Commands on Windows Command Prompt.

Present generation has been born and brought up on Windows, Mac and Linux GUI. Most of us are not aware of even the basic MS-DOS commands. But these are words which are required to be typed in exactly the way they are to get the response. This is the only way in which one communicate [...]

Installing WampServer 2 on Windows OS alongside IIS.

WampServer 2 is the latest release and is new version of WAMP5. WAMP for the beginners is an acronym for Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Earlier WAMP5 was the packaged version of all Apache, MySQL and PHP5 for installation on any Windows OS environment. With WAMP, developers found it quite easy to install PHP, Apache [...]