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Rival firms offer 100 percent hike, IT pros jump ships

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Bangalore: Vishal Dubey (name changed) is delighted at his luck. An oracle database expert, he has just landed a job at Accenture for double the salary he was getting from Wipro, where he was working as a contract employee. Only six months ago, Vishal like many other IT sector employees couldn’t have dreamt [...]

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VS2010 – My First ASP.NET MVC2 Web Application

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Today, I installed VS2010 Ultimate and tried my hands on the first ASP.NET MVC2 application.
My Application Name was “My Performance”, Here is how the solution looks:

Now started the interesting part. As I did in ASP.NET MVC1, I just clicked “Run”…
And here is what I got:

The error list looks like below:

Oho…
So – I [...]

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The worldwide IT spending is on pace to decline this year

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Source : SiliconIndia
The worldwide IT spending is on pace to decline 5.2 percent this year. However, the IT industry will return to growth in 2010, with IT spending forecast to total $3.3 trillion, a 3.3 percent increase from 2009, according to research firm Gartner. In Asia Pacific, IT spending is expected to grow by five [...]

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Banks may increase interest rates on real estate loans

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The Reserve Bank’s direction to increase provision for commercial real estate property might force them to increase interest rates on realty loans in the coming months. These loans consist of lending to builders for construction of commercial properties like offices, malls, entertainment zones and hotels, reports Rupee Times.
An official from Union Bank said, "Banks were [...]

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London Dreams – Management Lessons

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CareerFruits Rating: Must Watch
‘London Dreams’ –  The story revolves around two childhood friends Arjun (played by Ajay Devgan) and Mannu (played by Salman Khan) who have some music lineage in their family history. Arjun dreams of being on stage as a performer in the music industry, to live up to his grandfather’s unfulfilled ambitions. Mannu [...]

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Windows 7 pirated version available in Indian market

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Source: SiliconIndia
Windows 7 is yet to be officially launched in the Indian market, but the pirated version of Microsoft’s new operating system is already being offered by several retail shops in major metros and can even be downloaded for free from various internet websites.
Software piracy has been the biggest concern for [...]

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the “Will Code for Green” Developer Contest

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http://willcodeforgreen.gnomedex.com/ 
Bing and Gnomedex are sponsoring a “Will Code for Green” developer contest. Make the world a little better, win US$10,000 and be featured at Gnomedex. Create a green app using the Live Search API (search results, phonebook, video, images etc.) with any tech platform or language.

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Microsoft Contributes Open Source Linux Drivers for Hyper-V

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Microsoft has contributed 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel community. The code contribution, a Linux device driver, will be published on CodePlex, and will be immediately available to the Linux Community and customers, enabling any distribution of the Linux operating system to be virtualized on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. For more, check out [...]

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MSN Soapbox is shutting down

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MSN Soapbox is shutting down. Another good move from MS. MSN will no longer offer Soapbox. It was really an overhead and confusing offering.

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Why Projects fail

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An eye opener from my friend Sajad.

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