As you probably know almost all global markets (especially the emerging markets) are correcting and all of them have corrected sharply. It doesn’t matter whether you are from India or China or USA, the recent fall in stocks would have affected you.

I’m sure that you must be in a panic situation now even I’m in a panic situation. So that made me to write this blog post. I started investing in Stock Market back in 2005. But I didn’t make any significant amount of returns. In fact I have booked losses several times in range of 5 to 20% and then quit the stock market for some time. But I decided to enter stocks again back in January and started building a portfolio. I started with Mutual Funds too but when the markets fell sharply. I asked myself “Why should I invest in Mutual Funds when the Stock Market is attractive?” that made me to invest directly in stocks. And I began to buy quality stocks on every dip. The result: the stock market crash never ended it and it’s falling day by day. And I’m sitting at a loss of 10%. (more…)

Identity theft has become much more than a minor inconvenience. In response to this threat, Congress passed the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005, which states anyone creating bogus web sites and/or sending fake emails with the intent to defraud consumers could be fined up to $250,000 and be jailed for up to five years. However, true identity theft protection comes from identity theft prevention.

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Whether it is an administrator struggling to meet the uptime guaranteed in a service level agreement, or a developer working to meet a delivery deadline, both developers and network administrators have wrestled with web server configuration since Microsoft first introduced Internet Information Server (IIS) many years ago. While there will still be plenty of challenges for both administrators and developers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 has made many tasks easier by overhauling the way in which IIS 7 handles configuration. From shared configuration for web farms, to xcopy deployment there are many changes in IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 to be excited about.

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