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Google Android application from Microsoft ( Microsoft Tag )

Anish MM — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:09:10 +0000

Microsoft Tag is similar to QR Codes, however Microsoft is using HCCB bar codes so instead of storing the data using square pixels it uses triangle shapes and colours. The difference is that Microsoft Tags don’t actually store the information. All it stores is a unique ID which it then sends to Microsoft’s servers. This way, you can include much more information, and more variety of information, then if it was just on the tag itself.

Tag is available in the Android Market on your Android phone by searching for ‘Microsoft Tag’.

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Google introduces new Software Goggles

Anish MM — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:15:18 +0000

Google translate introduces Google Goggles prototype which integrates Google’s machine translation and image recognition technology.

Google Goggles allows users to take a screen shot of a or any text via the phone and you can translate in real time with the help of Google Goggles prototype.

This technology uses the mobile phone camera as the source to take screen shot and which is sent to optical character recognition (OCR) engine, recognizes the image as text and then translates to English with the help Google translate.

Presently, this technology can function just for German & English translations. It is not fully equipped to face all the languages yet.

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New Linux OS to Fight iPhone and More

Anish MM — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:25:03 +0000

Nokia and Intel have just announced the creation of MeeGo, a new Linux-based operating system designed for portable devices including netbooks and smartphones as well as other non-desktop platforms like connected TVs and vehicles. The new OS is a combination of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin, both Linux-based computing environments. This partnership is notable not just for combining two different Linux platforms under one roof, but for its cross-platform support of both Intel and ARM chips, the latter currently popular in mobile devices like Apple’s iPhone thanks to its low power consumption needs.

Most probably MeeGo will arrive in the second quarter of 2010 with products becoming available starting in the third quarter.

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Google Buzz Ready

Anish MM — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:51:32 +0000

Google announced Google Buzz. They’re calling it “a new way to share. Google notes that this is not a finished product. They are continuoulsy pushing it to integrate with more and more services. Buzz will also launch as an enterprise product and “will change the way businesses communicate.”

5 key features of Web Buzz:

Auto-following - you automatically follow people you contact frequently
Rich, fast sharing experience – you can share photos that are available via other media sites (such as Flickr)
Public and private sharing - you can post things for the who world to see, or just to specific groups of people
Inbox integration - instead of having email notifications, special Buzz items come into your Inbox and show updates in real-time (using @ replies)
Just the good stuff - Buzz learns from things that you like and hides the things that you don’t

Mobile product experiences

Use Buzz from Google.com – post a Buzz from a geotagged location
Buzz application (iPhone or Android) – See what people around you are saying
Update to Google Mobile Maps – Buzz layer added, allowing you to see nearby Buzzes and lets you post a Buzz along with a picture of where you are.

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Oracle database can be hacked remotely by Researcher

Anish MM — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:09:30 +0000

A computer security expert believes that, the Oracle databases are vulnerable to an attack that would give hackers access and control over sensitive corporate and government database systems, without the need for a user id or password, according to Reuters.

Talking about the flaw after presenting his research at the Black Hat hacking conference in Washington on Wednesday, Litchfield said “It allows an attacker without a user ID and password to take complete control. All firewalls become irrelevant.”

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TCS website hacked

Anish MM — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:44:50 +0000

India’s largest software vendor Tata Consultancy Services’s (TCS) website TCS.com

The hacker posted a “For Sale” message on the site, which is written in both English and French. Ironically, the company produces security systems software.

In last couple of months many popular sites has hacked like twitter and Baidu was hacked in January from Irish hackers.

The hack is believed to be a DNS hijack, which is similar to the breach that Twitter succumbed to last year.

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Paypal blocked personal payments and local bank transfers to and from India

Anish MM — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:33:15 +0000

Techtree reported popular online payment service PayPal shocked several Indians and rest of the world by suspending payment transactions to and from India for more than a week.

More Report : Techtree

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Nexus One Sales Only 80,000 in First Month

Anish MM — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:20:01 +0000

Google managed to sell just 20,000 units in the first week of sales, and now reports from Flurry are suggesting Google only sold 80,000 units in the first month.

Google’s poor sales could be the end result of poor advertising with a small budget compared to the iPhone and Droid. The Google Nexus One is also limited to T-Mobile, but does come unlocked, if purchase through Google’s website.

As compared to first month sales of the iPhone (about 600,000) and the Droid (about 525,000), sales of the Nexus One do appear to be moving along rather slowly. A lot of factors probably contribute to the relatively low numbers, key among them the lack of traditional marketing expenditure (as compared to, say, the $100 million ad campaign for the Droid) and Google’s direct-to-consumer sales approach, which, although innovative, is simply not something the typical mobile consumer is used to.

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Google phasing out support for IE6

Anish MM — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:59:27 +0000

This year not grate for Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. Days after news of the latest security flaw in Internet Explorer, Google is adding fuel to the fire by phasing out support for IE6 for two of its Google Apps products, Docs and Sites (which recently got an aesthetic upgrade).

Google Docs and Sites fully compatible are Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+, Mozilla Firefox 3.0+, Google Chrome 4.0+ and Safari 3.0+.

Google writes:

“Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products — as well as new Docs and Sites features — won’t work properly in older browsers.”

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Upload Old E-mails to Google Apps

Anish MM — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:51:00 +0000

Google has a little surprise in store for heavy e-mail users (and Mac owners): Google E-mail Uploader for Mac. It’s a free app that can archive your old e-mails from Apple Mail, Eudora and Thunderbird on your Google Apps e-mail account.

It’s a great idea; chances are that in the pre-cloud era, you’ve had tons of e-mail stored somewhere in your desktop e-mail client. Now, you can move everything to the cloud in one easy step.

For Windows user, check out the previously available Google E-mail Uploader for Windows. You can only upload your e-mails to Google Apps e-mail accounts, not your gmail.com or googlemail.com accounts.

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