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Professional Education Scholarships 2012 - For 1st year BE, MBBS, BDS, B.Arch, BUMS, BAMS & BHMS

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS - 2012 For students seeking Admission to 1st year in Professional Courses - BE, MBBS, BDS, B.Arch, BUMS, BAMS & BHMS On merit basis through Karnataka CET 2012 only Eligibility Criteria Students who have passed 2nd PUC science or 12th std science and CET 2012 exa

70% seats for Minorities in second shift of Polytechnics

As per the latest directives from Govt. of Maharashtra 70% of the seatsin the second shift of Polytechnics (Diploma Engineering) will be reserved for Minorities. Muslim Students who have secured less percentage but are interested in doing diploma can apply for these seats. Please pass on this mail t

Microsoft's Surface is ready to take on iPad

LOS ANGELES - Microsoft introduced its own line of tablet computers at a much-hyped Press event in Los Angeles, marking a major strategic shift for the software giant as it struggles to compete with Apple and re-invent its ageing Windows franchise. The new tablet line, named Surface, includes a cons

Microsoft’s Surface is ready to take on iPad

[caption id="attachment_1196" align="alignright" width="300"] Microsoft Surface[/caption] LOS ANGELES — Microsoft introduced its own line of tablet computers at a much-hyped Press event in Los Angeles, marking a major strategic shift for the software giant as it struggles to compete with Apple and

Minority Dept: Scholarship target for 2012-13: 75 Lakh Pre-Matric, 9.5 Lakh Post-Matric

New Delhi: The Ministry of Minority Affairs has set a target of distributing 75 lakh Pre-matric Scholarships to the students belonging to Minority communities (from class I to class X) during the current FY 2012-13. Thus this target is more than double the number that was set as target during the l

Merit Cum Means Scholarship Last Date 30-9-2012

Merit-cum-Means Based Scholarship of Govt. of India for the MinorityCommunities Students pursuing Technical and Professional Courses. Last Date Sunday 30 September 2012. So hurry! Your dreams are waiting for you. Government of India is offering the Scholarship for students pursuing Professional and

Free coaching for Muslim aspirants for Civil Services exams

Hyderabad - TheHaj Committee of India(HCI) has invited applications for free Civil Services examinations (IAS and allied sevices) coaching for Muslim candidates to be held at Haj House, Mumbai. The 15-month coaching programme is slated to begin on August 25. Prof S A M Hashmi, coaching programme dir

Du to offer the UAE’s fastest 4G broadband from next month

Dubai: Du has announced it will begin offering a 4G 100mbps broadband service from next month, the fastest available in the UAE, according to chief commercial officer Farid Faraidooni. The new service will more than quadruple the 24mbps fastest speed previously offered by the telco. Etisalat curre

Apple’s war with Google heats up

(Reuters) / 9 June 2012 When Apple Inc kicks off its annual conference for software developers on Monday, all the power players in the Apple universe will be on hand, save the one that is in many ways driving the agenda: Google Inc . More than ever, the consumer electronics juggernaut finds it

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Internet switches to IPv6, for breathing room

A new Internet standard giving the global network more room to grow came into effect on Wednesday, a move that users probably won’t notice. The switch occurred at 0001 GMT Wednesday, when Internet operators switched to a new standard called IPv6 that allows for trillions of “IP” numbers or addres

LinkedIn acknowledges password breach

[caption id="attachment_1056" align="alignright" width="300" caption="LinkedIn acknowledges password breach"][/caption] The professional social network LinkedIn said on Wednesday some of its members’ passwords were stolen after reports said more than 6.4 million accounts were breached. “We can con

LinkedIn acknowledges password breach

The professional social network LinkedIn said on Wednesday some of its members' passwords were stolen after reports said more than 6.4 million accounts were breached. "We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts. We are continuing to investigate t

Pre-Examination training for Minority Candidates for UPSC/KPSC Examinations

Scheme of Pre-Examination Coaching for Minority Candidates for UPSC/KPSC Civil Service Examination 2012-13 NOTIFICATION - Dated 5 June 2012 The Directorate of Minorities, Government of Karnataka intends to sponsor students from Minority Communities for Pre-Examination Coaching for UPSC/KPSC Civil Se

Facebook face-offs pepper divorce cases across India

MUMBAI:FacebookCEOMark Zuckerberghas not marked his relationship status as "married". His wifePriscilla Chanhas. He has no picture of them as newly-weds on his page, she does. It's fine for the couple after the billionaire-founder of the world's most popular social networking site tied the knot abou

Google adds feature to help China searchers

Google has fired a new salvo in a censorship battle with Beijing by adding a feature that suggests alternatives for search terms that might result in blocked results. Google's announcement Thursday did not mention of Beijing's extensive Internet controls. But it comes after filters were tightened s

Around 400 Muslim students clear IIT-JEE 2012

New Delhi: This was just a dream until some years back. The presence of Muslims in such top layer entrance tests like IIT-JEE was just negligible. The successful Muslim candidates could be counted on fingers. This year, around 400 Muslim candidates from across the country have cracked IIT-JEE. This

A User’s Guide to Finding Storage Space in the Cloud

One day, you’ll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put information, photos and music on a floppy disk, a memory card or a USB fob to carry it from one device to another. You’ll tell them how it was called sneakernet becaus