Cloud computing

I don't think that I can find a Software Professional who is not aware of this technical phrase  'Cloud Computing'. It is the current talk of the town.

This article on 'Cloud Computing' describes about the term, how Google and IBM would probably dominate the world in this area and its consequences.

Personal data on Facebook at risk

A news published on the BBC website has reported with proof, that how the personal information of the Facebook users can be hacked and used for any other purposes.

An application written for Facebook can gather the user's personal data as well as his/her friends', when it is added to the user's profile. That means, you can't stay secured by not adding any applications to your profile; You details ca be stolen when one of your friends adds those malicious application.

Read the full story here.

Schedule delivery of mails in Outlook

There is a nice feature in Outlook 2003/2007, which makes it possible to delay the delivery of a message. This should be very useful in many occasions but one simple situation is when we want to send wishes to a person on his/her birthday or anniversary. We don't have to worry about whether we are away from the computers on that day, the message will be sent by the server on the scheduled time (this will work only when outlook is connected in exchange server mode).

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