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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised India’s economic growth forecast for 2010 to 9.4%, continuing to surprise the government and other economists with its optimism.

IMF has upgraded the India growth forecast for the third consecutive quarter. This growth forecast is against an higher than the predications by the Indian Finance Minister which was around 8.8%

As many of us know Google offer great services for all levels of users. Be it is your personal usage, home business / small business usage or enterprise use, they have one or multiple solutions for every category of users. In this article, I will be writing about the potential use of Google for your business, especially on how you can run “almost free” web infrastructure.

To have a website with your own domain name, you will have to buy one. You may choose to use one of the popular domain registrars or even Google itself. The cost of the domain name normally ranges between $8 to $15. Some domain names would be lower than this and others might be higher. I am taking the domain name ciso.in for examples in this article

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A funny video on Google Buzz.

An amazing video about the iPad Keynote

Thogh I was not a great fan of Mac, it looks like I am going to get this one.

Today morning I visited the Apollo Clinic in Salmiya for visiting the pediatrition as my son was not well. The nurse in the reception greeted me and asked if I have an appointment. As I did not have an appointment, I had to wait for sometime to get my child's health file from the filing room.

Meanwhile, I have been asked to pay 8 KD as the consulting fee. As I did not have the currency, I have used the debit card over the KNET. Immediately after the request was approved, the recepionist has entered my card number to their computer including the expiry dates. Opps.

Are they allowed to store my credit / debit card data? Being someone in Information Security and specially in the credit card security, I am bit worried that these people may get into trouble.

Many times, the card data being captured are not securly stored by these companies as it requires more investment.

 I was at Ruby Tuesday (near aqua park) with my wife and our lil' kids sometime back. The restaurant had amazing decor and is fabulously lit. You get the nice sea view if you are rightly seated.