Although economy is on a recovery track now, most companies, especially small scale businesses are preferring to continue taking all possible measures for minimizing their recurring business expenses. And one of the most critical factors for any business, vocal communication, is one such area where effective cost savings can be done but is also an area where cost cutting is generally ignored.

As conventional telephony systems are cost-ineffective and newer VOIP solutions are limited to PCs only, there has to be a midway solution which would provide the convenience of conventional …

Microsoft Office has been facing a strong challenger in the name of Google Docs for quite sometime but MS Office is the reigning enterprise app suite for years and the situation hasn’t radically changed so far. Early bird advantage and resistance to change are the two factors that are paying off hefty dividend to Microsoft Office till now.

But one space, where things are appearing to drift away slowly but steadily from Microsoft’s grip is the Academic space. Schools and colleges are one of the fastest adopters of Google Apps, thanks …

Continuing with our occasional write-ups on networking concepts, this time around, we will be talking about Private Addressing, a technique which was proposed as a viable solution for the growing problem of IP addresses exhaustion.

What is Private Addressing ?

Private Addressing : An addressing technique used for the purpose of  of assigning IP addresses to network nodes within an office intranet or organization specific network for internal communication & data/resource sharing. It does not require assignment of unique Public IP addresses as the majority of communication remains internal/private and the network …

IT Industry is probably the most dynamic industry compared to any other industry. The basic IT fundamentals keeps on evolving, latest technologies keep on replacing the older ones and ever-increasing competition makes it even tougher for IT companies, from small to large, to keep up with the cashflows, especially in the days of recession.

And the same scenario holds true for IT employment as well. Fast technological advancement always puts across a challenge for experienced IT professionals to keep on updating their skillset and knowledge for sustaining themselves in the industry. …

One of the worst things that can happen to your laptop or Desktop PC is Hard disk Crash. It puts your critical data at risk, takes a lot of time in recovery compared to any other OS level damage/virus issues and often leads you to buying a new hard disk, especially when it has been physically damaged.

We have earlier written about the basic hard drive recovery tips, which talks about early preventive measures and this time, we would talk about software based data recovery that …

In my last post, we talked about surging sales of smartphones and HDTVs and market behaviour
You like rich, warm colors and deep black levels.
You’ll be sitting off-axis when you watch TV or movies.
You don’t watch many TV shows or play video games with static images on the screen for more than a few hours at a time. The possibility of screen burn-in still exists for plasma TVs, though it’s unlikely to happen with current models.
You’re able to control the amount of light in your viewing room — plasma screens are …

Now is the time when the festive mood is taking over the recessive days and holiday shopping is just starting to begin. Online selling hotspots such as eBay are seeing sudden surge in sales and despite economic slowdown, the end customers are finally gaining back the spending capacity and leaving no chance to buy what they were eyeing for.

The bestsellers are most probable to remain consumer electronics as they allure folks from all ages and generally offer most lucrative and festive offers to their customers. Among consumer electronics, smartphones and …

What is Subnetting ?

Subnetting is the process of breaking down a large IP Network into smaller sub-networks for efficient utilization of limited resource of IP address pool. As defined in IPv4 standard, an IP address is a 32 bit address, sub-divided into four pair of octets, which collectively serves as a unique address for any

Why Subnetting is required ?

In early days of networking, the networks used to be smaller and networking devices used to be costly and larger in size. It was hard to predict the future of networking at …