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S'pore spam rate crosses global average
News Country's spam levels surpassed the global rate of 89.4 percent in July, after dipping below earlier in April, according to MessageLabs' latest security report.
Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Singapore, spam message, social networking, Symantec Corp., Germany, Web Address
S'pore facility delves into plastic electronics
News Japanese materials firm Nitto Denko sets up research site in Singapore; pumps US$6.6 million to develop integrated organic electronics with three partners.
Tags: R&D, Investments, Components, Nanyang Technological University, Electronics, polymer, Singapore, Institute Of Materials Research, data storage, partnership
Microsoft aims to build a better thesaurus
News Borrowing techniques used in machine translation, a team of researchers in Redmond believes it has found a better way to serve up synonyms.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile applications, Microsoft Corp., machine translation, Intranet, Wikipedia, TechFest, product development, researcher, Microsoft Surface
Quickly delete every nth row in Excel
Techguide Susan Harkins explains how to use AutoFilter to delete specific rows in a worksheet.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Row, Column, MsgBox, OrderID, Microsoft Word Override Word, Microsoft Corp., Goto, Clear, Microsoft Excel
10+ keyboard shortcuts for entering special characters in a Word document
Techguide If you prefer to enter special characters yourself on a case-by-case basis, it's handy to know a few keyboard shortcuts.
Tags: Microsoft Office, keyboard shortcut, keyboard, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, dialog box, technique, window, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
Scientists use virus to help build battery
News Researchers have used a genetically-modified virus to assemble materials for an energy-efficient battery, which they say could be used in hybrid cars.
Tags: Components, Battery, Carbon Nanotube, Nanotube, carbon nanotube network, biology, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Power supplies, surge suppression, virus, scientist
US researchers claim vast data-density increase
News The density achievable with the technology could potentially enable the contents of 250 DVDs to fit onto a surface the size of a coin, according to one of the researchers.
Tags: Storage, R&D, Photovoltaics, polymer, Storage, DVD, Semiconductor Manufacturing, University of Massachusetts, electronic media, photograph
Quantum holographic storage: It works
Techguide Feat shatters long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter.
Tags: Storage, R&D, Electron, Storage, Quantum Corp., Hologram, 3D, Robin Harris, Robin, laser
Create a risk contingency budget with Expected Monetary Value
Techguide Learn how the Expected Monetary Value technique provides a formula for determining the right amount of budget to apply to the risk contingency budget.
Tags: Risk Management, IT budgeting, IT project management, Project management, Contingency, C, Impact, Risk Management, Project, Risk
Protecting yourself from vishing attacks
News First there was phishing and now there is vishing. Here's an FAQ for consumers to learn more about the latest scam techniques that uses your phone.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Cellular phones, Phishing, Phone Number, PBX, Attack, FTC, phone, e-mail, network
Strategies for learning programming languages
Techguide Learning another programming language can help bring your development career to the next level. Justin James shares techniques that have and have not worked for him.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Personal development, Ruby, Language, C, C#, Justin James, Programming, programming language, knowledge
Google's vision improving for image search
News Researchers at Google believe they have found an accurate method of using reams to data to make computers "see", and identify, images of famous landmarks.
Tags: Search, Google Picasa, Google Inc., Image, clustering, computer, photograph, image search, Miami, vision
Use Wingdings to add graphics to Access forms and reports
Techguide You can insert a symbol or picture into a form or report, but embedded graphics consume a lot of resources.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Error, Microsoft Corp., Code, MsgBox, keyboard shortcut, Graphics, vbOKOnly, Alan Wood, Insert
Word scraps speed up data entry
Techguide If you often work with small nuggets of content that you need to reuse, Word scraps may be the right option for you.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Cell, Financial Company, Chances, data entry, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, dialog box, desktop
Define your project's vision with this exercise
Techguide The Vision Box exercise is a powerful way to help define the vision of the ultimate product, motivate the project team, and generate enthusiasm among stakeholders.
Tags: IT Management, Product, Exercise, project manager, Windows Guru, product development, CEO, vision, marketing, technique
