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Information security: is ‘technical solution’ enough?
 INFORMATION security is being considered as the most critical technical area for almost all the organizations these days, specially with the prevailing global security circumstances and widespread accessibility and sharing of...
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The best form of defence
 Using a computer without taking protective measures is a huge gamble. As security threats continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, anti virus scanners, firewalls, anti spyware tools and security suites...
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Webwatch
 HERE is a way to look at the the field of evolutionary theory in a whole new light. In more than 20 books, the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould made science popular and understandable. This link is a record of how...
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I-Terms
Three-tier application: A 3-tier application is an application program that is organized into three major parts, each of which is distributed to a different place or places in a network....
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Demise of a ‘necessary evil’
 DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is one of 12 industrial chemicals to be outlawed under the United Nation’s 2001 Stockholm convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), which formally came into force on 17th May,...
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Sci-fi destinations to become reality
 Travel of the future to destinations on terra firma, underwater and in the space might soon become closer to reality than just science fiction. On the drawing boards are billion-dollar projects...
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Blow out your desktop with Mandrake Linux
 If you are tired of your never-ending war against viruses, adware and you are fed up with the regular installations of critical updates and security patches to keep your Windows system...
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New horizons for stem-cell science
 The stem-cell technique is a tool of biotechnology and genetic engineering which has recently generated tremendous excitement among medical and research communities who hope to benefit from this technology....
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36 per cent of software used worldwide is pirated: survey
 Some 36 percent of the software installed on computers worldwide in 2003 was pirated, representing a loss of about 29 billion dollars to companies, a survey showed....
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Solar storms may have torn away Mars water
 Solar storms, like a big one that affected Earth last year, might have torn away the water that used to cover parts of Mars, Nasa scientists have said....
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WWF digs deeper to fight Indus Delta’s degradation
 At a five-day workshop on biodiversity organized by WWF-Pakistan with a vision to develop a conservation plan for the Indus Delta ecoregion, the participants deliberated over the problems and proposed solutions...
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Govt to provide free IT education
The Sindh government has initiated steps to provide computer education, training and Internet facility free of cost to people, especially students , and employees of government and semi-government departments, by setting...
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Written in the web
Travel writing is a fine art and an accepted literary genre that is read with great enthusiasm. Writers who are gifted with an ability to understand what they see can breathe...
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Byteback
 New science forum PakSEF E-forum has started a second e-forum due to the recent high volume discussions on religion and science. It is called the Islamic Science Forum(www.yahoogroups.com....
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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:...
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Cool gadgets
 3mega pixel cam-phone A NEW mobile by Samsung Electronics is equipped with a three million pixel digital camera. This picture displays its front and back design....
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