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[Singapore][Competition] Students’ Digital Scrapbook Idea Wins Microsoft Imagine Cup Championship 2012

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Over the weekend, inventive students across Singapore came together for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Championship 2012 , an annual competition that showcases the inventiveness, maturity and thinking amongst students across the world. Conceptualized and organized by software giant Microsoft , the event is now considered somewhat as the Olympics version of student technology competitions.

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[Singapore][Event] InnovFest 2012

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Held on April 18-20, 2012, InnovFest 2012 is an exciting festival of innovation-related activities featuring innovative technologies, dynamic startups as well as award-winning innovators and entrepreneurs. Organized by NUS Enterprise , the annual event hopes to see some 450 participants – including entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and technology professionals – converge and connect.

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[Infographic] The State Of IT Security

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You’d be surprised how bad IT security can get. According to Verizon, who has been tracking how many data breaches occur in the United States since 2004, in 2011 there were a total of 855 incidents resulting in the second highest number of compromised records lost since they started tracking. Here are some other interesting statistics: - 81-percent of data breaches result from hacking, - 94-percent of data compromised involved servers (and not personal computers, despite what paranoid IT s

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