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CRM Outsourcing: Is It Worth It?The State Bank of India has been involved inCommunity Services Banking since 1973. Besidespersonal banking, their serv

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Digital Leisure l Touched by TechAgent 001It was a bright, but cold, wintermorning. As is customary, Iawoke, switched on my moni-tor (my PC is always

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Let’s face it—tactical first person shooters are adime a dozen. In fact, they’re a dime a thousand,with each new game more stereotyped than theone bef

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152DIGIT FEBRUARY 2006The Korea Times, January 16, 2006Police, Army Robots To DebutIn Five YearsTHE INCURABLE KOREAN desire to be at the forefront oft

CNET News.com, January 17, 2006Are Virtual Assets Taxable?COULD YOU BE taxed for income you receive by selling thingsthat don’t exist? News.com’s Dani

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155DIGIT FEBRUARY 2006DRUNKEN SURVEYThe DireConsequencesOf IT StressFirst it was our jobs, thenit was our spouses, andnow (as if we didn’texpect this)

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22DIGIT FEBRUARY 2006PulseThe numbers say it all:thus far, Microsoft hasreleased 54 patches forWindows XP after therelease of SP2. So if youformat you

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Starry, Starry NightHow long has it been since you visited a planetarium? Ayear? Two? Celestron’s SkyScout, which landed the“Best of Innovations” awar

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38DIGIT FEBRUARY 2006Digital Passion l Tech ShackRobert Sovereign-Smith and Nimesh ChandiramaniTechnology elicits different reactionsfrom people. Most

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February 2006 • Volume 6 • Issue 2ChairmanJasu ShahPrinter, Publisher and Editor Maulik JasubhaiPresident and Publishing DirectorL SubramanyanEditoria

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48DIGIT FEBRUARY 2006Digital Passion | Geek DreamsImaging Chaitanya SurpurThe EntertaibleThe brainchild of a Philips research teamlocated in Eindhoven

50DIGIT FEBRUARY 2006Digital Passion l In SightRobert Sovereign-SmithMost of us have our favourites when itcomes to games. A few of us are crazyenough

Remember, OpenGL gets its name from “OpenStandard Graphics Library,” and is not opensource software as many people mistakenlybelieve. Open Standard me

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Nimish ChandiramaniThink about how yourbrain gets clogged whenyou’re halfway into aproblem. You know enough tokeep you going; but you don’tknow enough

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Jayesh LimayeOur shootouts reflect apattern: features andperformance are alwaysgetting better, andprices are always falling. It’s nodifferent this tim

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105DIGIT FEBRUARY 2006A ConditionalFormatting ProblemSay you’re having a problemgetting your conditionalformatting to work as desiredwith information

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116DIGIT FEBRUARY 2006Create Your Own E-BookDeepak DhingraYou’re probably aware of e-booksand e-book readers. An e-book isnothing but an electronic fo

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125DIGIT FEBRUARY 2006Digital Business l Smart BusinessPhilip Malayilbout a decade ago, we were awed at theclimactic sequence in Mission Impossible(th

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