There are several national ICT R&D Funding projects are available by ministry of Information technology, Pakistan.

The list is available at http://www.ictrdf.org.pk/

The MapReduce++ is the project of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore by Dr. Umar Saif related to simplified processing of unstructured data on large computing clouds. The similar project launched by Google MapReduce in 2004 to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers.

The project Hadoop is the implementation of MapReduce and  software framework for writing applications that rapidly process vast amounts of data in parallel on large clusters of compute nodes.

The Cloudera company which is successful in providing the services and software based on Hadoop for the management of the cloud.

Microsoft OUTLOOK Email Settings.
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To add the account in the outlook >

Tools -> Account Settings
Select the New to add a new account and select the POP3 or IMAP (if you want to sync the email with your email client and web mail)

Email Servers >
POP:     pop.googlemail.com
IMAP:    imap.googlemail.com  (to use the imap, enable it by logging into web mail and go to settings)
SMTP:     smtp.googlemail.com

Advanced settings >
POP SSL Enabled and Port: 993
IMAP SSL ENABLED and port: 995
SMTP: SSL and PORT: 465

How you can access the Google Apps webmail
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http://mail.domain.com
to access the email.

http://docs.domain.com
To access the documents.

http://calendar.domain.com
to access the calendar to share it with our team members.

(replace the domain.com with your actual website address.)

This video is simple and excellent explanation of cloud computing by the youngest star, credit by Accenture Inc.

Cloud Computing is an old model (Utility services) of delivering services, which got hype in the market nowadays and consider as future computing services model.

Cloud Computing refers to both the applications delivered as services over the public Internet and the hardware and systems software in the data centers that provide those services.

There are main three (3) cloud deployment models.

1. Private – It refers to cloud deployment inside the boundaries of an organization by using it’s own IT resources.

The Forrester Research article related to private cloud deployment.  Deliver Clouds inside your walls

2. Public – It refers to public internet available for everyone to use those IT services and applications delivered via internet.

3. Hybrid - The mix of both worlds (Private + Public) to deliver the IT services to their internal organization and partners.

Adobe has launched a fantastic tools to check your website compatibility in different internet browsers

without installing it at your computer.

https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.html (requires an Adobe ID)

For Choosing the color combination for the website design is a difficult task.

You can use online tool to choose the color combination for your website.

http://kuler.adobe.com