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The Rural Development Department of Government of Bihar was facing challenges in identifying eligible beneficiaries of NREGA scheme. As a result, there was a huge gap between money disbursed by government and money received by a beneficiary.

Thus, Glodyne partnered with the government for implementing and managing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme project in Bihar, called e-Shakti. This is a five year BOOT project, which has the potential not only to generate more employment directly and indirectly, but also to transform rural economic and social relations at many levels.

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Pentax pushed rugged photography into new terrains this week, launching a pair of 16Mp compact cameras that promise to perform under the most demanding of outdoor conditions.

The Pentax Optio WG-2 and WG-2 GPS may look like Optimus Prime’s caboose, but they’re built to pull through even the harshest of Decepticon onslaughts.

Along with surviving dives of up to 12 metres, the WG-2s can be dropped from 1.5m, frozen to temperatures as low as -10 degrees C and crushed with a force of up to 100kg.

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The Patras program, used by the German Federal Police for surveillance and tracking of suspects and their vehicles via GPS, has recently been suspended for a while and its servers taken offline due to a breach that was made possible by a most bizarre chain of events.

According to The Local, it all started with a senior official of the Federal Police in Frankfurt am Main wishing to find out what his daughter was doing online. In order to do that, he installed a Trojan on her computer.

But the Trojan was discovered by a hacker friend of hers, and in order to exact revenge on the spying father, he managed to break into his home computer. Full Article…

Health provider Praxis Care has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after losing an unencrypted memory stick.

The stick containing personal information of 107 Isle of Man residents and 53 individuals from Northern Ireland was lost on the Isle of Man in August 2011. Some of the information related to individuals’ care and mental health. The stick has not been recovered, but Praxis has informed all affected individuals.

Praxis had a joint action taken against it by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Office of the Data Protection Supervisor (ODPS) for the Isle of Man.

Christopher Graham, UK Information Commissioner, said: “Carrying people’s personal information around on an unencrypted memory stick is clearly unacceptable. The fact

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No big surprises here. The single-purpose camera is in decline, the smartphone camera on the rise.

New research from NPD finds that smartphones are now responsible for more than a quarter of the photos and videos people take in the U.S. About 27 percent of photographs taken in 2011 were captured by smartphones, up from 17 percent last year. Meanwhile, about 44 percent were taken with single-purpose cameras. Thats down from 52 percent in 2010. Standard cellphones, camcorders, webcams and tablets account for the remainder.

So, a significant decline, and one indicative of a trend thats been emerging for years now: The smartphone as good enough camera.

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