Origin of the concept of “Internet of Things” MIT Auto-ID Center The phrase “Internet of Things” was coined some 20 years ago by the founders of the original MIT Auto-ID Center, with special mention to Kevin Ashton in 1999 2 and David L. Brock in 2001 3 . The term “Auto-ID” refers to any broad … Read more
INFORMATION SECURITY “ To catch a thief, to prevent from theft, think like a thief”. The idea is that if as a security professional you don ̳t know what threats you are facing from crackers/hackers, you will never be able to build an efficient security system. In fact many a times in movies you would … Read more
INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SECURITY Two hundred years ago, you probably would have made a living in agriculture. One hundred years ago, you most likely would have worked in a factory. Today, we live in the Information Age and almost everyone has a job somehow connected to information stored in digital form on a network. During … Read more
Voicemail Before email and instant messaging became ubiquitous, voicemail was a popular method of electronic messaging. Even though most people prefer text-based messaging systems, voicemail remains an essential component of any PBX. Comedian Mail One of the most popular (or, arguably, unpopular) features of any modern telephone system is voicemail. Asterisk has a reasonably flexible … Read more
Building an Interactive Dialplan The dialplan we just built was static; it will always perform the same actions on every call. Many dialplans will also need logic to perform different actions based on inputfrom the user, so let’s take a look at that now. The Goto(), Background(), and WaitExten() Applications As its name implies, the … Read more
Basic Task List Introduction Installation Prepping The Database Database Migrations Eloquent Models Routing Stubbing The Routes Displaying A View Building Layouts & Views Defining The Layout Defining The Child View Adding Tasks Validation Creating The Task Displaying Existing Tasks Deleting Tasks Adding The Delete Button Deleting The Task Introduction This quickstart guide provides a basic … Read more
Install Composer Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. First, download a copy of the composer.phar. Once you have the PHAR archive, you can either keep it in your local project directory or move to usr/local/bin to use it globally on your system. On Windows, you can use the Composer Windows installer. Install Laravel Via … Read more
Delhi Emerges As Largest Startup Ecosystem In India: Report Delhi has emerged to be the largest startup ecosystem in the country. The current cumulative private market value of the startups in Delhi stands at $50 billion, higher than that of Bangalore and Mumbai. The report ‘ Turbocharging Delhi-NCR Startup Ecosystem’ which was released by TiE … Read more
US-based cab aggregator Uber has elevated its India head Amit Jain as Regional General Manager for Asia Pacific region. After the promotion, Jain will be responsible for the operations in countries like Australia, New Zealand, and North Asia. Currently, he is the President of Uber India and South Asia. Reacting to the elevation, Jain said: … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg apologises to European Parliament for breach of users’ Facebook data, failure to crack down on fake news Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg apologised to the European Parliament on Tuesday for the “harm” caused by a huge breach of users’ data and by a failure to crack down on fake news. But Zuckerberg’s appearance failed … Read more