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Celebrating 20 years of the World Wide Web
Twenty years ago, in a research establishment in the Swiss Alps, a British-born computer scientist dreamt up a new way for academics to share information around the globe.
Little did he realise that his invention would break out from the confines of academia and give birth to the world wide web.
Two decades on, there are over 200 million websites and over one trillion unique URLs. An astounding 1.6 billion people use the web worldwide, and here in the UK the figure stands at over 70 per cent of the population.
To celebrate this milestone, we're looking back on how and why the web came into being, taking a look at how the web's key technologies have changed since the early '90s and investigating how it has affected our society and culture.
Illustrate how vividly things have changed, we'll take a snapshot of the web at four stages in its development – at five, 10, 15 and 20 years old. And to complete our commemoration of the web at 20, we've consulted an expert to find out just how different it could look in another five years' time.
Microsoft Plans Free Version Of Office 2010
Office Web will be accessible at no cost through the software maker's Windows Live portal.
In an effort to keep pace with the growing number of free or low-cost desktop productivity tools available online, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said Monday that it plans to introduce a Web-based version of its
In an effort to keep pace with the growing number of free or low-cost desktop productivity tools available online, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said Monday that it plans to introduce a Web-based version of its
The free, online products will include the Office word processing application, the Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation software, and OneNote message pad. They'll be available directly through Microsoft's
Windows Live portal and launch directly within a user's browser. The move allows Microsoft to protect its flank from Web-based software from Google and from free, open source-based offerings, such as IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s Lotus Symphony product.
Capossela said he doesn't believe Office Web will cannibalize the desktop version of Office, sales of which to consumers were down 30 percent in Microsoft's most recent quarter. "We haven't taken the approach where the Web apps are a duplication of the client apps," said Capossela. "We try to make them incredibly good for the device you are using," he added.
For instance, the Office Web version of PowerPoint will not contain the desktop version's high-performance video editing tools. "If you use Office on your PC, you're going to want to take full advantage of what your PC can do," said Capossela. The Web apps on the other hand will offer some features that won't be found on the desktop versions, such as the ability to embed tags into documents and post them on blogs.
Microsoft also announced that businesses that purchase volume subscriptions to Office will receive access to the Office Web apps at no additional charge.
Microsoft has about 90 million such customers. It also has roughly 400 million Windows Live users. "There will be almost a half-billion users who will have access to Office Web at launch," said Capossela.
At its Worldwide Partner conference in New Orleans, Microsoft also revealed on Monday that Office 2010 has reached the technical preview stage, meaning the software is available for selected professionals to download and test. The company expects to ship a
Google's My Location Comes to Desktops
If you have been using Google Maps on your phone, you might be aware of its cool My Location feature that pin points your location (usually within meters, if your phone is GPS enabled). The feature has now made it to the desktop version of Google Maps, according to a recent post on the Google Maps blog.While the location awareness of your desktop might be quite poor as compared with your cellphone, it still is a fun feature addition. My Location needs a supported browser for it to work. It uses the W3C Geolocation API, which is supported by Google Chrome 2.0 and Firefox 3.5. IE users will need to install Gears for the feature to work.
It is also slightly tricky to actually find out where and how to activate the My Location feature. If you tried and didn't find it yet, let me explain.
To activate the feature, you will need to click the button in the top left corner of the map between the map zoom control and the map pan control. The image below should clear up things anyway. Once activated, Google Maps will center the map to your approximate location. If your location can be determined accurately enough, Google Maps will show it on the map with a blue circle (as shown in the Mobile version).
Survey: Many businesses plan to skip Windows 7
Although plenty of businesses skipped Windows Vista, a significant number of corporations have no plans to quickly move to Windows 7, according to a new survey.
The survey, which received feedback from 1,000 IT administrators, found that nearly 60 percent have no current plan to adopt Windows 7. The survey, conducted by Quest Software's ScriptLogic unit, received the 1,000 responses from 20,000 surveys it distributed.
Just over a third of survey respondents said that they plan to deploy by the end of 2010, while 5.4 percent said they expected to move to Windows 7 this calendar year. Some 59 percent of those that responded said they have "no plans to deploy at this time," although certainly some of those might still move to the OS
Microsoft is expected to finalize the code for Windows 7 later this month.
"This survey highlights the impact the economy has had on IT, with thirty five percent of respondents saying they've saved money by skipping upgrades and delaying purchases," said Nick Cavalancia, vice president of Windows management at ScriptLogic. "This is likely a reason why IT administrators will put off a Windows 7 migration."
The survey found the top two barriers to adoption were lack of time and resources (offered by 42 percent of respondents) and application compatibility (given by nearly 39 percent of those surveyed).
ScriptLogic helps companies manage their Windows systems and security.
BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY GETS FASTER WITH BLUETOOTH 3.0
From its annual All Hands Meeting in Tokyo this week, the Bluetooth SIG formally adopted Bluetooth Core Specification Version 3.0 High Speed (HS), or Bluetooth 3.0. This latest iteration of the popular short-range wireless technology fulfills the consumers’ need for speed while providing the same wireless Bluetooth experience – faster. Manufacturers of consumer electronics and home entertainment devices can now build their products to send large amounts of video, music and photos between devices wirelessly at speeds consumers expect.
Bluetooth 3.0 gets its speed from the 802.11 radio protocol. The inclusion of the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) provides increased throughput of data transfers at the approximate rate of 24 Mbps. In addition, mobile devices including Bluetooth 3.0 will realize increased power savings due to enhanced power control built in.
“Like Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights, this latest version was ‘born to go fast,’ said Michael Foley, Ph.D., executive director of the Bluetooth SIG. ”Utilizing the 802.11 radio was a natural choice as it provides efficiencies for both our members and consumers – members get more function out of the two radios they are already including in devices, and consumers with Bluetooth v3.0 HS products will get faster exchange of information without changing how they connect. We are excited to expand the possibilities of the PAN.”
This newest version of Bluetooth technology builds on the inherent qualities of the current 2.1 EDR version, including Simple Secure Pairing and built-in, automatic security. And as with all versions of the Bluetooth specification, Bluetooth 3.0 HS provides developers, manufacturers and consumers with the benefit of backwards compatibility, enabling both the expansion and enhancement of this technology with every new specification release. Once products reach the market, the easiest way for consumers to learn which devices are compatible with other Bluetooth enabled devices is to visit the Bluetooth Gadget Guide.
Applications:
With the availability of Bluetooth version 3.0 HS, consumers can expect to move large data files of videos, music and photos between their own devices and the trusted devices of others, without the need for cables and wires. Some applications consumers will experience include:
- Wirelessly bulk synchronize music libraries between PC and music player or phone
- Bulk download photos to a printer or PC
- Send video files from camera or phone to computer or television
Availability :
The Bluetooth SIG’s formal adoption of the specification is only the first step in the product lifecycle. News out today from wireless chip manufacturers and Bluetooth SIG member companies Atheros, Broadcom, CSR, and Marvell shows the second step – getting silicon solutions to device manufacturers – is already underway. End products for consumers are expected to be in the market in 9 to 12 months
Technical Specifications :
This new specification release includes several major enhancements (learn more here – page requires member login):
- Generic Alternate MAC/PHY (AMP)
- 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL)
- Generic Test Methodology
- Enhanced Power Control
- Unicast Connectionless Data
About Bluetooth® Wireless Technology:
Bluetooth wireless technology is the global short-range wireless standard for personal connectivity of a broad range of electronic devices. The technology continues to evolve, building on its inherent strengths – small-form factor radio, low power, low cost, built-in security, robustness, ease-of-use, and ad hoc networking abilities. More than nine new Bluetooth enabled products are qualified every working day and 18 million Bluetooth units are shipping per week. There are over two billion Bluetooth devices in the marketplace and that number climbs daily, making it the only proven wireless choice for developers, product manufacturers, and consumers worldwide.
About the Bluetooth SIG:
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), comprised of leaders in the telecommunications, computing, consumer electronics, automotive and network industries, is driving development of Bluetooth wireless technology and bringing it to market. The Bluetooth SIG includes Promoter group companies Ericsson, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba, along with over 11,000 Associate and Adopter member companies. The Bluetooth SIG, Inc. headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington, U.S.A. For more information please visit www.bluetooth.com.
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Twitter Favorites from Favstar.fm
Twitter always had a functionality to mark a tweet as “favorite”. However, I personally never even bothered to use it that often because it just didn’t have any good use. I only used it more like a “tweet bookmark” tool to save certain tweets which I wanted to come back to later.But it looks like that Favstar.fm is going to change the way Tweet Favorite is being used. Favstar is looking at twitter favorites more like a social vote. So basically their main home page currently shows tweets that has been voted (a.k.a favorite’ed) a certain number of times. If you sign in via your Twittter login information, favstar also gives you a whole range of functionality, including the ability to follow people from directly from Favstar.fm and see what tweets your friends are favoriting. Also, by signing in it is very easy to see who is favoriting your tweets which in my opinion is an excellent insight for any twitter user. 
Feedly - RSS Reader Review
Read Me First: I was initially writing this post to do a review of my favorite RSS Reader - Feedly. But I sort of ended up explaining the whole concept of RSS which took out nearly half of this article. If you already know what RSS is you can skip the first portion of the article and jump right to my RSS reader review of Feedly. However, if you are not an active user of RSS, I’d urge you to read what I have to say about RSS.
Well traditionally most non tech-savvy people browse the web in a very old fashioned way. They fire up their browser, enter the URL, click enter and they are on! And they do this everytime they are hungry for new information/news. Well visiting websites manually to check for news does serve the purpose and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. However as the web has evolved in the last couple of years and more and more information is cluttering up the web - it has brought in a new problem, which is “information overload”.
The concept of RSS is exactly the same. You sort of pick the sites/blogs that you like and mostly visit at all times. You know for sure that you’ll keep on coming back to these sites everyday to check if there is anything new on there. But do you know that most of these websites offers something called “RSS” that actually lets you to subscribe to that website for FREE? Yes, thats right! And every time they have a new article or information the news gets delivered to something called a “RSS Reader”.
Now RSS Readers doesn’t necessarily has to be a software that you need to install on your computer. There are also many web based, and simple browser based RSS readers that just works fine, in fact great! Personally I’m a huge fan of Google Reader, which is google’s web based RSS reader. But there are also other desktop RSS reader that you can install on your computer and have access to all your feeds (your subscriptions). My favorite RSS reader for desktop probably would be - FeedDemon . But anyway I sort of dedicated this post to my current and most favorite RSS reader - Feedly!
Background of RSS :
OK, now let me start this post with a simple question - How do you normally browse the web for the latest news? Do you like to go to specific websites individually (e.g. Techcrunch, Mashable, CNN) or do you go to some of the news aggregator sites like Google News, Techmeme, Yahoo News? Or Maybe you prefer the news to come to you via sources like Twitter, Friendfeed and RSS.
Well traditionally most non tech-savvy people browse the web in a very old fashioned way. They fire up their browser, enter the URL, click enter and they are on! And they do this everytime they are hungry for new information/news. Well visiting websites manually to check for news does serve the purpose and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. However as the web has evolved in the last couple of years and more and more information is cluttering up the web - it has brought in a new problem, which is “information overload”.
There are now so many web sites on the web today that you can’t even remember their names straight without scratching your head. And relying on the main stream media like (CNN, BBC, ABC), too much doesn’t always bring you the right news at the right time.
Ask yourself, when and how did you hear about the Iran election issues first or say the tragic death of the king of Pop - Michael Jackson? Most likely your answer would be either from friends, social media or from the blogosphere. Because on both occasion the main stream media was kind of late to cover the story. But I don’t really blame them; Due to their corporate ‘red-tapes’ they have less flexibility when it comes to bringing on the news at the right time. This is the reason why, many people (like myself) keep ourselves attached to the blogosphere quite a bit.
Anyway going back to the original topic - How do you keep track of all these big/small websites that are out there? Like for instance, I am interested in Technology, Gadgets, Search & a few other things. In order to keep tabs on my industry I need to keep an eye on about 100 different blogs/websites. So everyday early in the morning, if I can quickly scan over all the stories/posts that these blogs has published then I’d pretty much get an idea of whats happening on my industry. And because web is not like the old media, morning is not the only time I’m checking for news. A new story may pile up every 10 minutes depending on what you are interested in. If i were to check all these 100 different sites everyday even once at a time and go through all their stories then I probably won’t be able to do any other job because even thinking of opening 100 websites from my bookmarks really scares the hell out of me!
This is exactly where RSS comes in pretty handly. RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication is basically a technology that sort of makes it very easy for you to ‘digitally subscribe’ to a website or a blog. It works exactly like a newspaper/magazine subscription. For example - if you like a particular magazine a lot (e.g. Readers Digest), you may just buy it at a book shop every month physically (just like browsing a website manually for news), or you can be smart and just subscribe to it! So the benefit of subscribing is - you don’t need to ‘remember’ when to go and get the new issue and you will always get it at your convenience (they usually ship the magazine to you).
The concept of RSS is exactly the same. You sort of pick the sites/blogs that you like and mostly visit at all times. You know for sure that you’ll keep on coming back to these sites everyday to check if there is anything new on there. But do you know that most of these websites offers something called “RSS” that actually lets you to subscribe to that website for FREE? Yes, thats right! And every time they have a new article or information the news gets delivered to something called a “RSS Reader”.
RSS Reader is like one-way email program. It has the ability to receive things, but it can’t send anything out. So basically using your RSS Reader, you are going to subscribe to your favorite blogs/websites that you visit frequently. Your RSS Reader then keeps track of all those websites for you and automatically displays all the latest news all in one single place. So you don’t need to go to 100 different websites, but you can just open one program (Your RSS Reader) and get all the updates there!
Now RSS Readers doesn’t necessarily has to be a software that you need to install on your computer. There are also many web based, and simple browser based RSS readers that just works fine, in fact great! Personally I’m a huge fan of Google Reader, which is google’s web based RSS reader. But there are also other desktop RSS reader that you can install on your computer and have access to all your feeds (your subscriptions). My favorite RSS reader for desktop probably would be - FeedDemon . But anyway I sort of dedicated this post to my current and most favorite RSS reader - Feedly!
Official Google Twitter Accounts
Everyone loves twitter and it seems like Google as a company is not an exception on this case. Earlier today Google posted a list of all their official twitter accounts.Karen Wickre who is from Google’s Blog & Twitter Team writes:
Like lots of you, we’ve been drawn into Twitter this year. After all, we’re all
about frequent updates ourselves, and there’s lots happening around here that we
want to share with you. Of course, we enjoy watching, and contributing to, the
tweetstream (we hope you find our tweets useful, too). Because there are many
programs and initiatives across the company, we’ve got a number of active
accounts. Here’s a list of the current ones. We’ll update this list from time to
time.
Here is a screen shot of the list since it was last updated:
I initially counted a total of 44 twitter accounts on that list, but according to Techcrunch, Google may have missed one of their own account from the region list. So that makes the total account 45!
Its really great to see that a company of Google’s size is open to change and adapting new (3rd party services). I mean just think about it, they are one of the biggest media company out there, why should they even care about monitoring and contributing to the twitter space?
Twitter has millions of users now, and its growing at a rapid rate. I think its really important for the companies to realize the importance of establishing a relationship with their customers. Undoubtedly twitter really makes this process very easy. Hopefully we will see more and more companies using twitter effectively in the near future.
Apple iPhone OS 3.0 Ninja Tips & Tricks
Get the most from your iPhone or iPod Touch with 3.0 firmware update with these tips for better Web browsing, app access, keyboard tricks, and the lowdown on free AT&T Wi-Fi access.
The iPhone 3.0 firmware update, recently released from Apple, includes a host of new features that make the iPhone and iPod Touch more powerful and easier to use. It runs on all iPhone models: the new iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 3G, and the original iPhone, as well as the iPod Touch.
We've rounded up tips and tricks for making the most of the iPhone enhancements, including how to get the most from the keyboard, simplifying mapping locations and dialing the phone, and using the iPod.
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Shine A Light On Spotlight :
Spotlight is one of the nicest new features of the iPhone 3.0 operating system. The iPhone stores tons of information, more than an off-the-shelf desktop computer a decade ago. That information was often tucked away in hard-to-find corners of the Calendar, Contacts, Mail, or Notes apps. Applications were often hard to find; they sprawled on nine screens (11 in the new iPhone 3.0), and they were difficult to organize.
iPhone 3.0 lets you search for information on the iPhone quickly, simply by typing a search term into the Spotlight iPhone application.
The easiest way to get to the Spotlight application is to tap the hardware home button twice, slowly, holding the button down after the second tap. Another way to access Spotlight: Go to the home screen, then touch the screen and slide your finger right.
I find Spotlight most useful as an app launcher, but by default the apps aren't the first things that come up in iPhone search. To change the order that Spotlight displays search results, select Settings, then General, then Home, then Search Results.
Remember that location, it's difficult to find. Yes, the settings for the search app are difficult to find -- let's savor the irony together.
You'll see a list of searchable locations. Delete the ones you don't want to search by unchecking them, and change the search order by grabbing the icons on the right side of the screen and moving them up and down. I've made Applications the first set of search results, because that's what I'm most interested in searching.
Comfort zones: Windows vs. Linux
Where's your comfort zone? Windows, Mac, Linux? An unintellectual, emotional attachment to an operating environment often determines what consumers buy and may determine whether Google Chrome can ultimately compete with Windows.
In the consumer laptop space, specifically Netbooks, there isn't much hope for a Linux-based operating system like Google Chrome in the near term. So, first the bad news.
Market researcher iSuppli released a report Friday that I agree with. It begins with the usual, saying that Google's Linux-based Chrome operating system sets the stage for a battle of the Titans (Google versus Microsoft). But what it said after that affirmed my own convictions (and echoed comments I had heard before from other analysts).
"The small penetration of Linux in Netbooks is not due to any technical shortcomings," said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst, compute platforms research for iSuppli. "Because the vast majority of people who buy Netbooks are consumers, who do not have a high degree of knowledge of the key players in the OS market, they are going with the names that they know. And in PCs, that name is Microsoft."
The report continues: "For Google to be successful, it needs to promote and position its brand so that non-tech-savvy consumers will be comfortable buying a Netbook running its operating system rather than one from Microsoft. This will be a major challenge."
In other words, it's hard to move people out of their comfort zone, particularly if the alternative is fractured like Linux. But there's a silver lining for Google's OS. The comfort zone is shifting. If consumers spend more time on a social-networking site (Facebook, Twitter) or a Web-based productivity environment (Google search, Gmail, Google docs) that becomes their comfort zone (the so-called "cloud") rather than the Windows, or Apple, desktop.
Of course, that's all just theory unless something else happens. What's that extra something? Give consumers a high-profile, respected brand like Google packaged with a slick Netbook and more than a few more could break their ties with Windows (because it becomes irrelevant). Particularly if the price is right.
It's been done before. A charismatic device like the iPhone proves that. In that case, consumers left the tenuous comfort zone of their interface-challenged cell phones in droves and embraced the iPhone.
But this doesn't happen often. And you need a very big, truly innovative company like Apple or Google to pull it off.
Bing and Google: Users Are Willing to Try New Things
According to the latest data from Compete, Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, is still going strong, though even a month after its launch, the majority of Bing’s users still switches back and forth between Google and Bing. About 66% of Bing’s users also use Google search, and this number has held steady over the last few weeks.
30% of Bing’s users also use Yahoo Search, and about 4% use AOL Search. The most interesting aspect of this report, however, is that Google’s users seem to be far more interested in trying out a new search engine than users of other services.
The Google OS Becomes Reality: Google Announces the Google Chrome OS
Just after we heard a number of rumors about the possible arrival of the rumored Google OS this week, Google actually went ahead and announced that it will indeed release its own operating system – the Google Chrome Operating System. For now, Google plans to aim this OS at the netbook market. The OS will only become available for consumers in the second half of 2010, but Google promises that it will open-source the code later this year. According the the announcement on the Google blog, the OS will run on standard x86 chips as well as ARM chips, and Google is already working with a number of OEMs to bring devices that run the Google Chrome OS to the market.
10 Things We’re Dying to Know About Chrome OS
This week the blogosphere was abuzz with the late-breaking news about Google’s new Chrome OS, a combination of the Chrome browser and windowing system running on top of a Linux kernel. But more important than what’s being announced is what hasn’t been said. People already have a lot of questions about the Chrome OS and the answers may ultimately determine how well it succeeds as a true competitor to both Microsoft and Apple, as is being widely speculated. We’ll explore some of those questions in this post.
10 Things We’re Dying to Know About Chrome OS
This week the blogosphere was abuzz with the late-breaking news about Google’s new Chrome OS, a combination of the Chrome browser and windowing system running on top of a Linux kernel. But more important than what’s being announced is what hasn’t been said. People already have a lot of questions about the Chrome OS and the answers may ultimately determine how well it succeeds as a true competitor to both Microsoft and Apple, as is being widely speculated. We’ll explore some of those questions in this post.
Free: It Works, It Cries, It Bites
Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (available for free in text form and as an audio book), is stirring controversy and a spicy conversation around the blogosphere. The current wave of discussion started with a critical review by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker. In his review, Gladwell defends journalism and goes negative on “Free.” Seth Godin, who till then had stayed out of the debate, penned an instantly classic Godin post titled “Malcolm is wrong.”
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followed on TechDirt with an insightful post in which he attributes some of Gladwell’s confusion to the way that Anderson wrote the book. Masnick says that the book does not provide enough details on the mechanics and applications of Free. (I haven’t read the book, so I can’t comment on that.) Fred Wilson joined the conversation with a sharply delivered post on Freemium and Freeconomics. He gives examples of the kinds of Free that actually work.
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Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday
It’s hard to imagine anything more far out than the suggestion that the founders of Twitter be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, especially since the people who invented the internet never were. But that’s what Deputy National Security Advisor, Mark Pfeifle, argues this week in The Christian Science Monitor, because of the company’s role in supporting the ongoing uprising in Iran. Pfeifle isn’t the only one making this argument, either.I think the idea is serious enough to warrant some closer consideration. I think those little narcissistic bites of information and the platform people publish them on are serious enough to warrant taking this opportunity to consider what it all really means. You might assume that these most recent platitudes are just about Twitter’s celebrated role in Iran – but in fact there’s a lot more going on. Twitter is changing the human experience in important ways, for those fortunate enough to experience it.
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Apple iPod touch 8 GB 2nd Generation LATEST MODEL
The iPod touch has always been an amazing iPod. And with its groundbreaking technologies–including a Multi-Touch screen, the accelerometer, and 3D graphics–and access to hundreds of games, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. It comes in 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB models with new volume controls and a built-in speaker. Play hours of music. Create a Genius Playlist of songs that go great together. Watch a movie. Surf the web. View rich HTML email. Find your location and get directions with Google Maps. Browse YouTube videos. And shop the App Store for games and applications.
Music:Music on iPod touch not only sounds amazing, it looks amazing, too.
Touch Your Music:
Remember what it felt like to flip through your CD or record collection? Cover Flow brings that feeling back. Just turn iPod touch on its side and flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. Tap the cover to flip it over and display a track list. Tap again to start the music. Even view the lyrics while you’re listening.
A Musical Genius:
Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The new Genius feature finds the songs in your library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. You can listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even refresh it and give it another go. Count on Genius to create a mix you wouldn’t have thought of yourself.
Fill It Up:
Fill up your iPod touch with audio and video from your iTunes library. All you have to do is choose the playlists, videos, and other content you want to sync, and iTunes does the rest.
The iPod touch feels even better in your hand, thanks to the stunningly thin, contoured enclosure made of polished stainless steel.
Just turn iPod touch on its side and flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. Click to enlarge.
Carry hours of video with you, and watch it on a crisp, clear 3.5-inch widescreen color display.
In Control
While watching your video, tap the display to bring up the onscreen controls. You can play/pause, view by chapter, and adjust the volume. You also can use the new volume controls on the left side of iPod touch. Want to switch between widescreen and full screen? Simply tap the display twice.
Sync and Go
Need some entertainment for your next flight or road trip? With iTunes on your Mac or PC, you can sit at your computer and choose the movies and TV shows you want to sync to your iPod touch.
Games
With its groundbreaking technologies, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand.
Get in the Game
Developers all over the world are creating exciting games unlike anything you’ve ever seen on an iPod or mobile device. Many games come alive with stunning 3D graphics and immerse you in the action with the advanced technologies in iPod touch. There’s even a built-in speaker, so you can hear all the action.
Fingertip
ControlMany games for iPod touch use Multi-Touch to give you precise, fingertip control over game elements. Use your finger to drag your pieces around the board in chess or dice games. Or pinch to enlarge or shrink your view, rotate your character left or right, or just tap to make a selection.
Tilt, Turn, and Go
The built-in accelerometer actually responds to your movements, so you can tilt and turn your iPod touch to control the action. It’s perfect for racing games–where your entire iPod touch acts as a steering wheel–and for tap-and-tilt games like Super Monkey Ball, in which your character rolls to your movements.
The App Store
Even if games aren’t your thing, there’s an iPod touch application for you. Thousands of applications in almost every category–entertainment, social networking, sports, photography, reference, and travel–are a tap away at the App Store.
Developers all over the world are creating exciting games unlike anything you’ve ever seen on an iPod or mobile device. Click to enlarge. 
The built-in wireless capability in iPod touch gives you access to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, where you can choose from millions of songs with a tap.iPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device.
30-second preview of any song, then tap once to buy it. Your music starts downloading instantly, and you can keep tabs on its progress by tapping the Downloads button.
Sync it Back
When you connect iPod touch to your computer, the music you bought on-the-go syncs to your iTunes library. If you’ve partially downloaded a song to iPod touch, your computer completes the download automatically.
iPod touch at Starbucks
If you have an iPod touch, an iPhone, or a computer with the latest version of iTunes, you get free Wi-Fi access to the iTunes Store and to Starbucks’ Now Playing content. Stroll into a participating Starbucks, and you’re connected automatically.
Home Screen
Get instant access to whatever you need on your iPod touch.
Customize Your Home Screen
Arrange the icons on your Home screen any way you want. Even move them to another Home screen. Create up to nine Home screens for quick access to the games and applications you download from the App Store and to your Safari Web Clips.
Go Home
No matter where you are on iPod touch, you can press the Home button to return to the Home screen. You can go back to what you were doing at any time.
Add Apps, Web Clips, and More
Whenever you download an application from the App Store, a new icon appears on your Home screen. And if you check the same websites every day, just create Web Clips and you can access the sites directly from your Home screen with a single tap. Not happy with how they’re organized? Reorder them any way you want by dragging them around the screen.
Safari
iPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device.
Browse Anywhere
The iPod touch is the only iPod with 802.11b/g wireless access to the web. Whenever you’re connected via Wi-Fi, you can access your favorite websites to read news, check scores, pay bills, and go shopping.
Search and Find
iPod touch syncs your bookmarks from your PC or Mac, so you can access favorite sites quickly. It has Google and Yahoo! search built in, so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for on the web.
Zoom with a View
Get a closer look at any web page by zooming in and out with a tap or a pinch of the Multi-Touch display. View websites in portrait or landscape. Rotate iPod touch 90 degrees and the website rotates, too.
Clip it.
If you check a website frequently–a favorite newspaper, blog, or sports site–why not create a Home screen icon for it? Make Web Clips with Safari, and your favorite sites are always just a tap away.
Mail
Email on iPod touch looks and works just like email on your computer.
See it All
iPod touch supports rich HTML email, so images and photos appear alongside text. And you see email attachments in their original formats, not stripped-down versions. Rotate, zoom, and pan in more than a dozen standard file and image formats, including PDF; Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; and iWork.
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Microsoft throws Bing into Hotmail mix
Microsoft has integrated Bing with Hotmail, a month on from the release of its fancy new search engine.
The company announced the new feature yesterday, which allows users to add Bing image and video search results directly into Hotmail messages.
RegAd Redmond had been piloting its “Quick Add” feature in Windows Live search. The software giant said on the Windows Live Wire blog that users could now easily add restaurant reviews, movie times, images and other stuff sourced from the interwebs with just one click of the mouse.
Search results are now streamed on the right-side of the Hotmail window and can be added into outgoing emails or replies.
However, it only pulls in a few results. If you need to run through an exhaustive list of images, for example, then the system will guide you over to Bing, which doesn't provide a useful button to add your result back into Hotmail once you've tracked it down.
Also, the Quick Add menu remains a static feature when composing email in Hotmail. Users can't minimise it, but those in the know can work around it with a special browser extension.
As for availability, Microsoft has only rolled out the new tool to Australia, Canada, China, India, the US and the UK so far. ®
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The company announced the new feature yesterday, which allows users to add Bing image and video search results directly into Hotmail messages.
RegAd Redmond had been piloting its “Quick Add” feature in Windows Live search. The software giant said on the Windows Live Wire blog that users could now easily add restaurant reviews, movie times, images and other stuff sourced from the interwebs with just one click of the mouse.
Search results are now streamed on the right-side of the Hotmail window and can be added into outgoing emails or replies.
However, it only pulls in a few results. If you need to run through an exhaustive list of images, for example, then the system will guide you over to Bing, which doesn't provide a useful button to add your result back into Hotmail once you've tracked it down.
Also, the Quick Add menu remains a static feature when composing email in Hotmail. Users can't minimise it, but those in the know can work around it with a special browser extension.
As for availability, Microsoft has only rolled out the new tool to Australia, Canada, China, India, the US and the UK so far. ®
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Google's new platform Chrome aims to show Microsoft's Windows the door
It is the technology industry's equivalent of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. Google, the web upstart founded 11 years ago, has announced it will go head-to-head with Microsoft with an operating system (OS) – the programs that make a computer work – for machines ranging from handhelds up to desktop computers.
If Google can get enough people to buy computers running its new Chrome OS, it will cut into Microsoft's two biggest cash cows: Windows and its Office suite of programs, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft, which once spoke of "cutting off the air supply" of a web-based rival, Netscape, has woken up to find a new threat reaching for its throat.
The confrontation has been expected for years – despite Google's insistence it had no such ambitions – but it still caught observers by surprise when a Google spokeswoman confirmed to IT news service IDG that it plans to announce this week the names of computer makers in Taiwan and China signed up to work with Chrome OS, and said that it will show off Chrome's user interface later this year.
The challenge to Microsoft is implicit, yet also direct. In a blog post, Sundar Pichai, Google's vice-president of product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director, explained that "the operating systems that browsers [used to access pages on the web] run on were designed in an era when there was no web". That is a swipe at Windows, which dates back to the 1990s. Pichai and Upson also promise that with Chrome OS, "we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS" to ensure that "users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates" – another swipe.
An operating system is the set of programs that makes a computer act as it does: the same computer can run Windows, Apple's Mac OS X or the free Linux operating system. Each computer will then behave differently, and do different things; but connecting to the internet is key for all. So even if Google's dramatic attack fails, it still wins.
The reason is its dominant position as a search engine – a key activity – and in selling adverts against search ("AdWords") and web pages ("AdSense"), which is how it makes money. As Nick Carr, an author and journalist who has studied Google for books such as The Big Switch, observes: "For Google, literally everything that happens on the internet complements its main business. The more things people and companies do online, the more ads they see and the more money Google makes.In addition, as internet activity increases, Google collects more data on consumers' needs and behaviour and can tailor its ads more precisely, strengthening its competitive advantage and further increasing its income."
Chrome OS will be based around the Linux operating system, and will initially be offered on "netbooks" – the small, cheap laptops that have seen explosive growth in the past two years due to their size, weight and price. Data from IDC suggests that while the PC market as a whole shrank by 6.8% in the first quarter of 2009, netbook shipments kept growing (from a low base) to 9.5% of all computer shipments. If any significant share of the market moves to Chrome OS, Microsoft will lose the Windows revenue and revenue from its Office products, which won't run on Linux. That could slowly bleed the giant to death.
Not everyone is convinced Google will succeed, however. Michael Gartenberg, a consumer devices analyst at Interpret, based in Los Angeles, was unimpressed. "Folks who have never seen it, used it or spent five minutes with it are claiming it's huge threat to Windows.(If that's the case, wouldn't it also be a threat to Apple and Mac OS, an argument I've not seen this morning?)" He added that history doesn't run in favour of Chrome OS's principles: "Consumers have overwhelmingly rejected Linux-flavoured netbooks for Windows-capable machines that they could actually accomplish things on, such as run PC applications."
He thinks that the aim is to distract from Microsoft's next version of Windows,release of latest version of Windows 7, which will be released, due this October: "By creating of lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt this morning (after all, every PC runs web-apps really well and no one is looking for devices that web based only for the most pat). they hope to take the attention and lustre off Windows 7."
It may in fact be rival Apple that determines whether Chrome OS succeeds. Its iTunes music playing, organisation and purchasing program is installed on around 100m computers, more than half of which are Windows machines. If Google can persuade Apple to provide a version that runs on Linux, people may move over to Chrome OS. Otherwise, leaving behind their music collections the dearest digital property many of them own, might be too much. Still, Google has a good chance of getting a hearing: Eric Schmidt, its chief executive, has been on Apple's board since 2006. Perhaps Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, should start worrying now.
Microsoft Offer Free Visual Studio Learning Pack
Microsoft Developer Network has released Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0.
Microsoft created Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0, a software
package, to help students learn about computer programming. It consists of five
main components.
5 Key Features
1. Sort Designer Control is a supplementary teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular computer sorting algorithms.
2. Search Designer Control is a teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular data search algorithms. It supports binary and sequential searches.
3. Visual Declarative Designer is an intuitive variable declaration tool designed for novice programmers.
4. Assistant Class Designer is a visual class designer for novice programmers.5. Visual Programming Flow Chart is a supplementary teaching tool designed to help students understand program control flow.
About Microsoft Visual StudioMicrosoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft.
It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.
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Download Yamaha Fazer Wallpapers
Yamaha launches its new 153 cc, Yamaha Fazer, bike in India.
Yamaha Fazer 153cc is priced at a price of Rs 72,000
(ex-showroom in Delhi). Yamaha Fazer is available in four colour variants as
Lava Red, Midnight Black,Flaming Orange and Electric Blue.
Forbes magazine launched in India
World famous Forbes magazine has launched in India.
The Indian edition of Forbes magazine is launched by the Network18 Group. Forbes India is a fortnightly and Cover price Rs 50.Website:
http://www.forbesindiamagazine.com/index.php
Google Launching OS, Firing Torpedo Into Microsoft (And Apple) Hold (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL)
Google will launch its own operating system in the second half of next year, finally launching a direct assault on Microsoft's crown jewel.
(It has been headed here in all but name for the past two years. But last night it finally declared war.)
The OS will initially be targeted to netbooks, then broadened to all PCs. It will be a combination of a Google Chrome browser and a Linux kernel. It will be a different project than Android. It will be designed to be simple and fast. It will also, presumably, be free.
Google's blog post announcing the browser is below. A few points:
A year of development is a long time, and it shows how complex an undertaking this will be. Announcing the product a year early is also a major break with Google tradition and shows how much Google needs help from partners in this endeavor to be successful. (An OS that is distributed only by downloads won't work. It needs to come loaded on the machine. This has been the big problem with Chrome so far, and Google needs to address it.)
Success is far from guaranteed. Google's browser initiative, Chrome, has been a fun little science project, but as a product it has been a flop. The same can be said for almost all of Google's non-search products. If Google wants to have a chance at success in this business, it needs to focus on it with the same intensity it once put into search. This will be challenging for Google, which, for the last several years, has had the luxury of dabbling in whatever it pleases.
Assuming the OS is free to both users and OEM PC makers, Microsoft will need to soup up the free version of its own Windows 7 OS for netbooks (right now, Microsoft's plan is to ship a crappy free version of 7 and try to get users to upgrade. Eventually, if Google starts to gain traction, Microsoft may need to panic.)
This is classic disruption. Disruptive technologies do not immediately replace existing technologies because they are better. In fact, in the beginning, they are worse. They're just simpler, cheaper, and more convenient. They appeal to the low end of the market (in this case, netbooks), which doesn't need all the bells and whistles that the high-end needs. They initially gain share in the low end, and the incumbent doesn't care about losing it because it's low-margin share. But then... the disruptive products get better and more fully featured and they begin to migrate up to the mid-market. And the incumbent is forced to retreat to the high-margin high-end. And then, eventually, the disruptive product becomes mass market and the incumbent becomes a rickety old colossus that crashes in on itself.
Microsoft needs to forget about competing with Google on search and start figuring out how to defend its crown jewels against this assault. It won't be easy. But blowing $10 billion going after a business they don't have to be in while ignoring the front-line invasion Google just launched will be disastrous.
Apple needs to worry, too. Not as much as Microsoft, obviously. But Apple sells integrated hardware and software devices. And if free software begins to take over the world, that will increase the price advantage that Apple's competitors already have.
All of this is at least a year away. That's a decade in the technology business. But it will be the story of the year...
Bing Translator
Do you ever come across a situation where you need to quickly translate a page or some text which is not in the language that you speak? Then you should really give the new Bing Translator - http://www.bing.com/translator a try.
Bing Translator currently supports about 15 languages including - English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Arabic, German, Italian, Japanese Korean, Russian, Spanish and many more. If you have previously used any translation service like Google Translate, then you probably already know how to use it. Bing Translator has a very easy to use interface, just dump some text or a URL in the left hand box on the page and select the source language (auto-detect is default) and select the language that you wish your text/website to be translated to and finally click translate!
This neat thing about this particular translation tool is - if you are translating a website, bing automatically opens both the original and the translated page side by side in a frame. If you click on a particular section of the page it also highlights that portion of the page in the translated version. So in terms of usability, I personally find Bing Translator awesome. However Google Translate supports more languages at this point of time but I’m sure that Bing will catch up with them in no time.
So if you ever need any translation done try Bing Translator!
Google's Chrome OS puts pressure on Microsoft
Google Inc.'s plan to introduce a free operating system for personal computers opens a new front in its longtime battle with Microsoft Corp.
Already rivals in search, e-mail and word processing, the two technology titans are now poised for combat over the key software that runs PCs.
Undaunted, Microsoft spent heavily on a search overhaul last month - renaming its engine Bing - and in the process elicited praise from many analysts for its improvement in design. Still, it's too early to say whether the revamp will transform Microsoft into a more serious challenger to Google or prove to be another expensive mistake.
Spencer Tall, managing director at Allegis Capital, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto that invests in technology companies, said Google's initial attempt with Chrome OS isn't likely to deal much of a blow to Microsoft. Any inroads Google makes, he said, will take years, if it happens at all.
"Microsoft fights wars of attrition - they never give up," Tall said. "Does Google have that fortitude?"
Google's Chrome OS is to be based on its Chrome Web browser, which was introduced nine months ago. Outside developers will be invited to work on the code, with the finished product made available in the second half of 2010.
Short term, Le Tocq said that consumers will take time to adopt something to which they aren't accustomed.
Already rivals in search, e-mail and word processing, the two technology titans are now poised for combat over the key software that runs PCs.Google announced its operating system, Google Chrome OS, late Tuesday, saying in a blog post that it would initially target netbooks, the portable low-cost computers that are popular for getting online. Eventually, the system would be refined for desktop computers, a market that Microsoft dominates through its Windows franchise.
Almost immediately, Silicon Valley started handicapping the impending high-profile duel. Could this be what finally brings Microsoft down?
If history is any guide, Google's success is far from certain. Indeed, both companies have repeatedly invaded each other's turf, usually to limited effect.
Google, in Mountain View, controls 65 percent of the U.S. search market, according to online measurement firm comScore Inc. Hoping to steal some of Google's thunder, Microsoft unveiled its own search engine in 2005, but it has so far failed to gain much traction, fielding only 8 percent of all queries in May.
Undaunted, Microsoft spent heavily on a search overhaul last month - renaming its engine Bing - and in the process elicited praise from many analysts for its improvement in design. Still, it's too early to say whether the revamp will transform Microsoft into a more serious challenger to Google or prove to be another expensive mistake.
Meanwhile, Google is trying mightily to chip away at Microsoft's desktop software such as word processing, e-mail, spread sheets and calendars. Google's sales pitch is that its products are online - unlike Microsoft's, which must be downloaded - and they are therefore accessible from anywhere.
Earlier this week, Google said that 1.75 million companies use its rival services, called Apps, which come in free and paid versions. But the numbers fall far short of Microsoft Office, which rules the business desktop market.
Spencer Tall, managing director at Allegis Capital, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto that invests in technology companies, said Google's initial attempt with Chrome OS isn't likely to deal much of a blow to Microsoft. Any inroads Google makes, he said, will take years, if it happens at all.
"Microsoft fights wars of attrition - they never give up," Tall said. "Does Google have that fortitude?"
Google's Chrome OS is to be based on its Chrome Web browser, which was introduced nine months ago. Outside developers will be invited to work on the code, with the finished product made available in the second half of 2010.
Success will depend on persuadingflipF computer makers to dump Microsoft Windows, on which many currently rely, for Chrome. Getting such agreements would better position Google to lure consumers to its other products.
"From Google's standpoint, it wants to consolidate its hold on the desktop and that means nudging Microsoft out of the way,"
said Chris Le Tocq, an analyst with Guernsey Research.
The rivalry has left bad blood between the two companies. Google executives often allude to Microsoft's antitrust conviction in 2000 and tried to thwart Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in turn, once famously vowed to bury Google CEO Eric Schmidt and to "kill Google" after an employee disclosed plans to resign and join Google, according to the employee's sworn testimony in a court case.
The rivalry has left bad blood between the two companies. Google executives often allude to Microsoft's antitrust conviction in 2000 and tried to thwart Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in turn, once famously vowed to bury Google CEO Eric Schmidt and to "kill Google" after an employee disclosed plans to resign and join Google, according to the employee's sworn testimony in a court case.
Google and Microsoft declined to comment for this article.
Google's executives cast their new operating system as a speedy alternative for people who spend most of their computer time online. It's similar to how they touted the Chrome browser, which has gained less than 2 percent of the market compared with 66 percent for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to Net Applications.
Short term, Le Tocq said that consumers will take time to adopt something to which they aren't accustomed.
"Does it mean that corporate America should be throwing out its PC operating system?" Le Tocq said. "No."
But longer term, he said the free Chrome OS puts pressure on Microsoft's core businesses, which is based on charging for Windows. Offering a reduced price version of Windows with fewer features is one counter move Microsoft may have to make, he said.
"It leaves a gap and Google is stepping into the gap," he said.
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