Way back when, Microsoft opted for convenience over security and Windows users have been sitting ducks ever since. I'm speaking of autorun/autoplay, a feature in Windows that lets programs run automatically when a CD or USB flash drive is inserted into a PC. For years now bad guys have been exploiting this to automatically infect
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In the given scenario, India continues to struggle to keep up with the growing demands of talent supply required. This very problem gets intensified with non-availability of academic institutions imparting KPO skills or courses to bridge the gap. The competition for Indian KPO companies become stiffer with emergence of other destinations like China, Poland, Hungary,
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Insurance policies are a huge sector in India that is growing rapidly at a speedy rate of 15-20%. The insurance sector is just about 450 billion yet 80 percent of the population in India is not assured. This gives you a glance into the vast growth chances that exists for this segment. The insurance industry
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Popular Myths Often Prove Costly. Here Are Some Tricky Ones That You Must Stay Away From.
IT WAS that year when most investors paid heavily for their costly mistakes. As we step in 2010, there are some lessons to learn and at least avoid the following 10 investment mistakes.
I CAN TIME THE MARKET
As Peter Lynch pointed
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Follow these tips to avoid some of the common blunders in résumé.
Your résumé should not be a boring list of job duties and responsibilities. Demonstrate how you made a difference to the company you worked for. When highlighting your achievements, make sure you mention the following points: how you performed the job better than the
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Friend Stranded in Foreign Country Scam Emails
Summary:
Email supposedly from a person known to you claims that he or she is stranded without money or papers in a foreign land because of a robbery and asks that you send funds urgently via a wire transfer to help the person return home.
Status:
Emails are designed to trick recipients
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"Over the past year or two, the outsourcing industry has been throwing up jobs for Doctors, Engineers, CAs, Architects," says Jacob William of the Bangalore-based Outsource2India, which employs 500 people and offers services in the big-buzz, big-bucks area of knowledge process outsourcing. "Unlike the first wave which was more about entering data and answering phone
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Many in India consider the insurance sector as the secured one but the recent downfall in the premium income of private and public life insurance and general insurance companies clears this myth. The figures came out in the light, regarding the premium income of insurance industry clearly shows that Insurance India is not recession proof.
Downfall
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AHMEDABAD: With returns on investment more than 79%, 2009 calendar year emerged as the best year for investors since 2000. Even as three trading sessions are yet to go, the benchmark Sensex closed on its 18-month high on Thursday at 17360. FII’s have once again proved to be the frontrunners in terms of the inflow,
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BANGALORE: After a long hibernation of 18 months, headhunters are actively out in the market as talent requirements have started trickling in.
The hiring momentum is expected to pick up from April onwards.
Even in a worst scenario, calendar 2010 will create around 50,000 fresh IT/ITES jobs against zero fresh jobs except a very thin campus hiring
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With organisations diversifying their businesses into global markets, work is no longer restricted by geographical boundaries. Today, firms want their employees to be on the move and work across the globe. Are you ready for such a ‘global’ career?
The boundaries of geography, language and culture are increasingly becoming irrelevant as we are headed towards
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Always try to change the default PASSWORD, USERNAME and IP Address of your ADSL Modem. You should know the default PASSWORD, USERNAME and IP Address of your ADSL Modem, here is a list of some well known ADSL Modem’s PASSWORD, USERNAME and IP Address.
Manufacturer
IP Address
Default Username
Default Password
Belkin:
10.1.1.1 or
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India has a growing population of educated people capable of handling high-end knowledge-based work and research. With a huge talent pool, India could emerge as a global KPO hub as the sector requires specialized knowledge in respective verticals. With the mushrooming of engineering and technical institutes in India, there will no shortage of skilled manpower
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Howard Bolnick, who taught insurance at the Kellogg School of Management for 13 years, was in India for a five – day executive development programme on healthcare financing and health insurance, organised by the Insurance Foundation of India (IFI). Bolnick, a past president of the US Society of Actuaries, took time to talk to Sarabjeet
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New York bankruptcy court to hear former owner’s updated rescue plan today.
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), in its efforts to gain control over LyondellBasell, is looking to team up with the unsecured creditors and bond holders of the bankrupt Dutch petrochemicals giant.
Sources close to the development said the move came after the LyondellBasell management filed an
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MARKETING SSENTIALS, MARKETING RESEARCH WORKBOOK
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HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING
Author: John Bramham
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Price: Rs 200
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MANAGEMENT
Authors: Stephen P Robbins and Mary Coulter
Publisher: Pearson
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