Recently I was talking with a hardcore pre-sales manager from my firm to get few insights about pre-sales activities. After initial lengthy talk of numerous value additions, value propositions, so on and so forth they make to firm’s bottom line, he finally agreed to touch upon the modus operandi of a pre-sales in IT industry. I did some research later on, and what I learned that a great portion of pre-sales activities consists of responding to RFIs (Request for Information), RFPs (request for proposals), preparing client visits, and estimating the pricing policy for the proposals.
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Recently, I completed my first year of Business Management Education. So far it was a roller coaster journey with few hits and few misses. Nevertheless, the experiences of much hyped education on earth were priceless. After one year my perception towards an MBA degree changed lot, and for good. Here I want to bring two controversial observations:
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The war for browser’s market capitalization seems never ending. Earlier it was between Microsoft and Netscape and now Microsoft’s IE and Mozilla’s Firefox. Like it or Don’t, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still the dominant medium for web browsing. Firefox comes second, followed by Apple’s Safari. According to the April 2008 data from w3school:

• Microsoft IE: 54.9%
• Firefox: 39.1%
• Apple safari: 2%

Major advantage of Firefox is its add-ons, free programs that add special functionalities to the browser. Reportedly, Firefox gives better and faster surfing experience than IE. Some of the biggest advantages I found in Firefox are

• Firefox download manager allow you to manage your download file easily.
• Size of the Firefox installation exe (7.1MB) is half the size of IE.
• Page info and page rank information comes handy when you are a webmaster or a blogger.
• Firefox keeps the HTML file formatting

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The cold boot vulnerability allows hackers to steal encryption keys from dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory in laptops that have been recently powered down. Data from DRAM doesn’t disappear instantly when a system is turned off or enters “sleep” mode. Instead, the bits stored in memory chips decay slowly. DRAMs typically lose their contents over a period of seconds. Encrypted DRAM data can be hacked, once an attacker has the key.
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Live Mesh seamlessly connect you to the people, devices, programs, and information you need. User can install Live Mesh Software in laptop,home computer or in any Smart mobile devices.Any information you put on Mesh will be available from any devices in your mesh.User can put upto 5 GB of files and folders.
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