Sunday, January 26, 2014

Engineering Careers in India

Engineering: The Profession
The shape of the modern world has been credited to the advancements in science and technology. The engineering field has been the major contributory factor towards achieving the scientific marvels of today. Engineers work with structures, tools, machines, metals, chemicals, and various different materials, and use their alertness of mind and creativity to innovate new things or bring modifications to already existing ones.
Enginneeing is not so much a career as an expertise, which opens doors into a vast range of jobs. Engineers probably have a wider choice of the environment in which to work, and of type of job, than any other profession. This is because engineering today is not confined to the obvious spheres of mechanical, chemical and electrical but has vast scope in advanced areas such as thermal engineering, ultrasonics, vacuum technology, polymer technology, telecommunication, computers and many more.
Engineering Areas of work
There are many fields in engineering. The basic purpose of engineering is to design and manufacture the hardware of life. Engineers also repair, modify and construct efficient and economical products, by applying scientific principles to a variety of solutions. They have a hand in the creation of anything in use anywhere. Engineering has several branches, and often the knowledge in one branch can be applied to many fields. Moreover, in any organization or project, engineers from one field work with engineers and specialists of many other fields as well. Some of the major specilizations are as follows:
* Civil Engineering
* Mechanical Engineering
* Chemical Engineering
* Electrical Engineering
* Electronics and Communication Engineering
* Production and Industrial Engineering
* Computer Engineering
* Automobile Engineering
* Telecommunication Engineering
* Instrumentation Engineering
* Mining Engineering
* Aeronautical Engineering
* Agricultural Engineering
* Marine Engineering
* Ceramics Engineering
* Textile Engineering
* Other Engineering Specilizations

The Work of Engineers : Whatever be their branch, all engineers primarily perform the four main tasks of research and development, production, management and maintanance.
Entry into Engineering Job :To work as an engineer, a candidate needs to have BE/BTech. in the chose field of interest.
Eligibility for Engineering Education : Candidates having completed class XII with physics, chemistry and mathematics is elligible to apply for admission to the various engineering colleges. Students can compete on an all-India basis for admission to the prominent colleges like IITs. State colleges of engineering take in students with state domicile, but provide some seats for students from other states.
In some colleges selection is based on the percentage marks got into class XII (in physics, chemistry and mathematics), while some other colleges give admission based on some common test. The IITs administer a Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for the admission to the seven IITs, The Institute of Mines, Dhanbad; and for the admission to the merchant navy course of TS Chanakya and Marine Engineering Institute at Kolkata.

Engineering Course Duration
BE/BTech. : 4 years
Me/MTech: 2 years
Integrated MTech: 5 years [Gets 2 degrees, BTech and MTech]

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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Target data theft affected 70 million customers



US retail giant Target says up to 70 million customers had payment card and personal data stolen from the company's databases in December - 30 million more that it first thought.
Target said the thieves took credit card numbers, names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.
The data breach began on or around 29 November, known as Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
The company said customers would have "zero liability" for any fraud losses.
But this hasn't stopped some customers suing Target, claiming that Target failed to notify them of the breach before it was first reported and did not "maintain reasonable security procedures" to prevent the attack.
"I know that it is frustrating for our guests to learn that this information was taken and we are truly sorry they are having to endure this," said Gregg Steinhafel, Target's chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Target is offering one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to all its US customers.
Data-stealing code Security researcher Brian Krebs, writing about the breach in December, said sources at credit card payment processing firms had told him the thieves had installed data-stealing code on to card-swipe machines at tills in all 1,797 Target stores.
The thieves stole data between Thanksgiving and 15 December, said Target. This data is often sold on to criminals via underground marketplaces.
The largest ever credit card breach at a US retailer took place in 2007 when cyber-thieves managed to steal information related to almost 46 million credit and debit cards from TJ Maxx and Marshalls.
The thieves amassed the huge cache of data over an 18-month period after penetrating the retailers' computer network.

source : BBC News

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New Gmail messaging feature causes privacy concerns

Users of Google's Gmail service will soon be able to send messages directly to other Gmail accounts, regardless of whether the recipient has shared their email address.
The new feature will include everyone signed up to both Gmail and Google+, the web giant's social network.
The change has caused concern among some privacy advocates, who say people could be contacted by strangers.
Messages from Google+ connections will go directly to Gmail users' inboxes
Google says it will make it easier for users to communicate with friends.
But privacy campaigner Marc Rotenberg, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, called the new feature "troubling", and compared it to a privacy flaw in a previous Google product.
"There is a strong echo of the Google Buzz snafu," he said, referring to an early incarnation of the company's social network, which initially made a list of Gmail users' contacts available publicly online.
'Easier to connect' Gmail members will see a list of their Google+ connections when they begin to type a name in the 'To' field of their messages, even if they do not know the email address of the person they are attempting to contact.
The update was announced on Google's Gmail blog on Thursday by product manager David Nachum, who said the change would make it "easier for people using Gmail and Google+ to connect over email".
Users will have the option of disabling the new feature and can choose to allow only those within their 'Circles' to contact them.
However, the default setting allows anyone on the network to get in touch without prior consent.
Address hidden Mr Nachum said that all users would be alerted to the new feature and how to change the default setting, within the next few days.

Messages from Google+ connections will go directly to Gmail users' inboxes
He also explained that email addresses will not be visible to a Google+ connection until a user replies to that person's initial message.
Google's update to Gmail messaging is the latest in a series of moves designed to bring its email service and social network Google+ closer together.
Users signing up to Gmail are now automatically given a Google+ account, unless they choose to disable it.

Source : BBC  News

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Best books in Market Now

Sales of printed books fell by £98m last year - a drop of 6.5% from 2012.
A total of £1.416bn was spent on paperbacks and hardbacks in the 52-week period up to 28 December, according to Nielsen BookScan data.
The total number of printed books sold dropped even further - falling 9.8% to 183.9 million. A rise in the average price partly made up for the shortfall.
The continued growth of the digital e-book market is in part responsible for the large drop in sales.
Recent consumer data figures showed more than two million UK users joined the digital book market in the first nine months of 2013.
However, The Bookseller said the fall in value of the book market was also due to the slowdown in sales of EL James's Fifty Shades novels.
In 2012, the author's trilogy sold in record-breaking numbers. At its peak, the series accounted for almost half of all novels bought in the UK.
James's sales for 2013 totalled £1.4m, compared to £47.3m in 2012, when the trilogy sold 10.5 million copies.
Despite the overall market slump, the average selling price of a book reached a nine-year high, rising 21p to £7.70.
Sir Alex Ferguson's My Autobiography was the best-selling book of 2013, shifting 803,084 copies, while the hardback version of Dan Brown's Inferno was the best-selling novel, with 640,676 copies purchased.
Meanwhile, supermarket chain Sainsbury's has announced it is to stop selling printed books online by the end of February.
"We see that the online opportunity lies in digital products, with physical music, books, games and films sold in our stores," a Sainsbury's spokesperson said.
"This move is in line with wider industry trends towards on demand entertainment, and part of our focus on the fast-growing download and streaming market."

Source : BBC  News

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How to Make Money in Stocks - Getting Started

How to Make Money in Stocks Success StoriesA Guide to Putting CAN SLIM Concepts into Action
By Matthew Galgani, Co-Host of IBD’s weekly radio show and Editor of the IBDextra! Newsletter | Publisher McGraw Hill

For decades, the CAN SLIM Investing System, developed by IBD founder William J. O'Neil, has been helping people from all walks of life build a better financial future. But where do you begin?

  • What are the first “must-do” steps?  
  • What checklists and routines can you use to build good investing habits right from the  
  •  Start — and help make sure you stay both profitable and protected?
  • If you’ve been investing, but have struggled to get the results you’re looking for, what
  •   key changes can you make to start capturing bigger gains?

You’ll find the answers in How to Make Money in Stocks — Getting Started, the latest addition to the best-selling How to Make Money in Stocks series created by Bill O’Neil over 25 years ago.

Whether you're a new or experienced investor, you’ll discover a step-by-step game plan to help you approach the stock market with growing confidence and success.


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