- Document - Effect of environmental context on ICT adoption among rural-based small and medium enterprises in Malaysia

Title:
Effect of environmental context on ICT adoption among rural-based small and medium enterprises in Malaysia

Author(s):
Mathivannan Jaganathan,

Rosli Mahmood,

Shuhymee Ahmad, and

Ismail Ahmad
.

Source:
Advances in Environmental Biology.

Document Type:
Report

Abstract :

The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of the
environmental context on the adoption of ICT among rural-based small and
medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Two hypotheses were formulated
to answer the objectives of study; (i) there is significant relationship
between information intensity and ICT adoption, and (ii) there is
significant relationship between competition intensity and ICT adoption.
A quantitative research design based on the questionnaire survey was
used to collect the data. A total of 1000 questionnaires were mailed and
167 usable responses were received. The findings reveal that both
information intensity and competition intensity had positive significant
relationship with ICT adoption among rural-based SMEs in Malaysia.
These findings may be of help to rural-based SME owner/managers and the
policy makers in finding solution for the successful implementation of
ICT. Key words: Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), ICT adoption,
environment, information intensity, competition intensity

Source Citation
(MLA 7
^th
Edition)

Jaganathan, Mathivannan,
et al. "Effect of environmental context on ICT adoption among
rural-based small and medium enterprises in Malaysia." Advances in Environmental Biology (2014): 563+. Academic OneFile. Web. 16 Aug. 2016.

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Ten Free Wireless Hacking Software

There are lots of free tools available online to get easy access to the WiFi networks intended to help the network admins and the programmers working on the WiFi systems and we at Team Techworm have picked the top 10 of those for ethical hackers, programmers and businessmen.

Internet is now a basic requirement be it office or home as it is majorly used in smartphones besides computer. Most of the times people prefer to use wireless network LAN which is much easier and cost effective.

It has been observed that the neighborhood WiFi hot-spots are visible on user’s device however one can get access to the same only by cracking password with the sole purpose of using free internet. Also in case of big firms where all the employees are connected through a wireless network admin might want to keep a check on the network traffic and hence even they need tools to crack the network.

Vulnerability in the wireless LAN is majorly due to poor configuration and poor encryption. Poor configuration includes the case of weak password mainly done purposefully by the network admin to check the network traffic. Poor encryption is dangerous as it is related to the 2 security protocols WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and WPA (WiFi Protected Access) and WPA is again of 2 types WPA1 and WPA2, WPA was introduced in 2003 as WEP protocol was easy to crack. The tools used to hack the network is used either for the

• purpose of sniffing the network : as is the case of network admins and
• cracking the password: used by programmers to rectify the trouble shooting and by the people who want to use internet free of cost. It has been seen that based on this concept there are around 10 tools together which can be understood to hack wireless LAN.

Aircrack

Most popular wireless password cracking tool, it attacks 802.11a/b/g WEP and WPA. This tool manufacturers also provides tutorial for installation of the tool and its usage for cracking the password. Prior to using this tool it is essential to confirm that the wireless card can inject packets as this is basis of WEP attack. This can be downloaded from: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/

2) Cain & Able: This tool intercepts the network traffic and cracks the passwords forcibly using crypt-analysis attack methods. It also helps to recover the wireless network keys by analyzing routine protocols. Can be downloaded from : http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

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CoWPAtty

This tool is an automated dictionary attack tool for WPA-PSK. CoWPatty is simple to use however it is slow as tool uses the password dictionary for generating hack for each word contained in the dictionary by using the SSID. Can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cowpatty/

Airjack

This is a Wi-Fi 802.11 packet injection tool. Mostly used to check for the “man-in-the-middle (MiTm) flaws” in the network and mitigate them. Can be downloaded from : http://sourceforge.net/projects/airjack/

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Source:http://www.techworm.net/2015/02/top-10-free-wireless-network-hacking-tools-for-ethical-hackers-and-businesses.html

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I’ve always believed that Excel is one of the most powerful software tools out there. It isn’t just the fact that it’s spreadsheet software, which is by its nature powerful anyway. No, Microsoft Excel 2013 itself has such an awesome collection of built-in tools and features that it has beyond any doubt, become one of the most useful tools for so many things. In this article, I plan to show you how powerful formulas and conditional formatting can be, with three pretty useful examples.

We’ve covered a number of different ways to make better use of Excel, such as using it to create your own calendar template, using it as a goals management tool, and other unique ways that you can use it to manage your life. Just read those articles and you’ll see just how powerful Excel can be.

Much of the power really lies behind the formulas and rules that you can write to manipulate data and information automatically, regardless of what data you insert into the spreadsheet.

Digging Into Excel

With the right information, you can create a system that automatically calculates and recalculates results and reports from that raw data. Today, I’d like to dig a little further under the surface and show you how you can use some of the underlying formulas and other tools to make better use of Excel.

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One of the tools that I think people just don’t use often enough is Conditional Formatting. With the use of formulas, rules, or just a few really simple settings, you can transform a spreadsheet into an automated dashboard that shows you a lot about the information in the spreadsheet at just a glance.

To get to Conditional Formatting, you just click on the Home tab, and click on the “Conditional Formatting” toolbar icon.

Under conditional formatting, there are a bunch of options. Most of these are beyond the scope of this particular article, but the majority of them are about highlighting, coloring or shading cells based on the data within that cell. This is probably the most common use of conditional formatting – doing things like turning a cell red using logical less-than or greater-than formulas.

One of the lesser used – or known about – conditional formatting tools is the icon sets option, which provides you with a great set of icons you can use to turn an Excel data cell into a dashboard display icon.

I discovered this once I upgraded to Office 2013 and used conditional formatting in Excel 2013. I checked out the icon sets and saw these cool LED indicator lights that I had only really seen before in some of the factory automation displays I’ve programmed. When you click on “Manage rules”, it’ll take you to the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager. Depending on the data you selected before choosing the icon set, you’ll see the cell indicated in the Manager window, with the icon set you just chose.

When you click on “Edit Rule…”, you see the dialog where the magic happens. This is where you can create the logical formula and equations that will display the dashboard icon you want. In my example, I monitor time spent on different tasks versus my budgeted time. If I’ve gone over half my budget, I want a yellow light to display, and if I’m over budget, I want it to go red.

As you can see, I’m not really budgeting my time too well. Almost half of my time is spent way over what I’ve budgeted.

Time to refocus and better manage my time!

Original article: Source:http://www.india2z.com/2015/07/3-crazy-excel-formulas-that-do-amazing.html

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Microsoft Word 2013: Combine and Merge Multiple Documents

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