According to these notes from Google’s Analyst Day Power Point presentation, GDrive is definitely on the horizon. This new service will let you store just about any file and access them from anywhere. Like other Google services (Video, Maps, etc.), GDrive will most likely have a basic (free) membership along with a variety of upgrade (paid) options.

"With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today." — excerpt from Analyst Day presentation notes.

Source: ZNET
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The new Quad SLI technology features four of NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs with an NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 motherboard.

The Dell Inspiron XPS 600 Renegade system will be the first system to ship with the NVIDIA Quad-SLI setup. Fancy demos for graphics enthusiasts you might think, but the concept was live and working. Dell's Dimension XPS 600 Renegade system is based on Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 955 and the nForce4 SLI X16 Intel Edition chipset. The upgraded system will run at 4.26GHz maximum, according to Dell.

The technology could also be used for high end graphics, CAD, and engineering applications.
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Samsung soon will unveil its new portable music player on Sunday in a direct challenge to the now iconic iPod.

Samsung's new flash memory MP3 player, called the YP-Z5, will be released first in the United States on the home turf of its rival. Europe will have to wait until late March and Asia until May to see the new contender for dominance of the lucrative MP3 market.

YP-Z5, priced at $199 to $249, is designed as a head-on challenger to Apple's newest iPod nano, which costs $149 to $249.

YP-Z5 is capable of storing up to four gigabytes (4GBs) of music files, with its rechargeable 24-hour battery life providing music play that exceeds other digital music players.

Source: Yahoo News
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Google, the number-one search engine in the world, today announced Google Mini, an enterprise search appliance.

The concept of Google’s enterprise product line is to support companies with internal search requirements.

Companies can now add search capabilities to their website or network and index up to 50,000 pages and documents and costs only $1,995,it is the most affordable solution.

According to industry reports, Google serves approximately 3,000 corporate clients. Unfortunately, the company declined to comment on specific figures. The search company has also doubled its revenue from corporate customers last year.

Though Google is safe in the enterprise market, Oracle also announced its enterprise search appliance called Secure Enterprise Search, which is expected to compete against the search giant’s offerings. There’s no news of enterprise search appliances from Yahoo! or Microsoft.

Source: Google
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Google Inc. is switching its servers to run on AMD Inc. chips instead of those made by Intel Corp., according to a Morgan Stanley report.

Google, which has more than 200,000 servers, has started to buy AMD Opteron processors with almost all new purchases.

As AMD processors are cheaper than Intel's recently it has been winning over many corporate customers.

The switch may also come as a blow to Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini, who sits on Google's board. Advanced Micro, the No. 2 maker of computer processors behind Intel, last quarter took more than 20% of the market for the first time in more than four years.

Source: Forbes
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Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe according to Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Microsoft will also integrate the new "better" search engine into Windows Messenger and Hotmail but not in Windows Vista.

Microsoft's goal is not just its initial offering but would go beyond finding URLs and instead focus in on the specific information sought by Internet users.

For example, he said, potential home-buyers might find a group of houses in the price range and with the precise amenities they are seeking.

Or a surfer might find a restaurant with the kind of menu a diner wants in a particular geographic area.

Source: Yahoo | Reuters
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Microsoft is releasing a software update to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. This update changes the way in which Internet Explorer handles some Web pages that use ActiveX controls. Examples of programs that use ActiveX controls include the following:
Adobe Reader
Apple QuickTime Player
Macromedia Flash
Microsoft Windows Media Player
Real Networks RealPlayer
Sun Java Virtual Machine

After you install this update, you cannot interact with ActiveX controls from certain Web pages until these controls are enabled.

You may also experience problems in the Google Toolbar after this update. Google is expected to fix this problem for Google Toolbar users. This problem affects Google Toolbar versions before version 3.0.129.2. you can download the latest version here.
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Here is a interesting way to take your photos in different angles, this tripod can stick any surface that you can think of.

This new invention is a sort of anti-tripod called the MonsterPod. The $30 MonsterPod has no telescoping legs, clamps, or straps. Instead, it sticks to surfaces via a “viscoelastic morphing polymer”—if that means as little to you as it does to me, imagine a giant wad of extra-sticky Silly Putty.

MonsterPod sticks to almost anything that has a hard surface; in addition to the golf club, I watched it stick to the side of a piece of wood (shown right), the underside of a table, and a metal pole. The MonsterPod attaches to the tripod mount on a compact digital camera (because of weight concerns, MonsterPod’s makers don’t recommend using it with an SLR or other large-body camera) and can be molded to fit almost any form.

Source: Digitmag
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Do you think Microsoft Windows Desktop Licensing has been a bit of a mystery to you - Mystery Solved.

In order to simplify the complex Windows Desktop Licensing procedures, Microsoft is shipping a free USB drive pre-loaded with Windows Licensing Guide, FAQs and more.

To get your own Microsoft USB drive, you need to fill the online form and answer the following questions:

1. There are two legal ways to acquire a full Windows Desktop license, through your hardware vendor (OEM/System Builder) or Full Packaged Product.

2. Volume licensing covers Windows Desktop operating system upgrades only.

3. OEM operating system licenses live and die with each PC - they are not transferable.

*This offer is available in the U.S. only while supplies last. Limit one per customer.
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Microsoft will soon release five versions of the Windows Vista out of which three versions of Vista, will be for home users, two will be for businesses.

The five Windows Vista versions are: Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista ultimate, and Windows Vista Business.

Windows Vista Business
Regardless of the size of your organization, Windows Vista Business will help you lower your PC management costs, improve your security, enhance your productivity, and help you stay better connected.

Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Enterprise is designed to meet the needs of large global organizations with highly complex IT infrastructures. Windows Vista Enterprise can help you lower your IT costs while providing additional layers of protection for your sensitive data.

Windows Vista Home Premium
Whether you choose to use your PC to write e-mail and surf the Internet, for home entertainment, or to track your household expenses, Windows Vista Home Premium delivers a more complete and satisfying computing experience.

Windows Vista Ultimate
If you want all of the best business features, all of the best mobility features, and all of the best home entertainment features that Windows Vista has to offer, Windows Vista Ultimate is the solution for you. With Windows Vista Ultimate you don't have to compromise.

Windows Vista Home Basic
Windows Vista Home Basic is designed to deliver improved reliability, security, and usability to home PC users who just want to do the basics with their PCs.
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Microsoft plans to receive the service of Passport authentication in the family of services web Windows Live by 2007, renaming it to Windows Live ID. Microsoft Live ID seems will be based on the new InfoCard technology.

Sources familiar with the situation say Windows Live ID is part of up to three-dozen "Live" services currently in development. Some of these products would piggyback on top of preexisting services -- like Windows Live Local Search Free Call, which enables users to call businesses directly from search results.

Gates provided the first clues to the existence of Windows Live ID at the RSA Conference, when he said InfoCard was intended to replace Passport and would make password-based authentication obsolete.

Source: BetaNews
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Adobe today announced new services for Adobe Photoshop CS2 at PMA 2006, the US photography trade show.

Lexar has developed a smart image acquisition plug-in module for Adobe Bridge that will let users directly download images from multiple cards at once.

HP has developed a new HP Photosmart Professional Photo Printer which synchronises automatically with Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Adobe is collaborating with Logitech to create a innovative tool NuLOOQ navigator. The NuLOOQ Professional Series has a suggested retail price in the U.S. of $149.99 and will be sold beginning in March. The NuLOOQ tooldial can be purchased separately online for a suggested retail price of $49.99 at www.logitech.com/nulooq. A 30-day free trial is also available for download at the NuLOOQ Web site.

Source: Adobe | Fobes
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Campfire lets you share files in real-time with anyone else in the chat room. Upload a file once and everyone instantly gets a link to download it. The latest three files are listed in the sidebar for quick access. It's a great way to share a file and discuss the contents of the file at the same time.

Open a Campfire chat room for an event and let everyone in the audience share notes, debate the topic, post links to reference materials, and share their thoughts in real-time. The speaker on the stage isn't the only one with something to say.

Link: Campfire, Examples
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Photocasting is a new way of sharing pictures online and also has an option to add voice to the picture. It works just like a podcast, you 'subscribe' to an Album using iPhoto by clicking on the Photocast link on an Album. The next time you sync your ipod, the photo album will be downloaded to your iPod! Best of all, if that Album is every modified with additional photos, they will instantly appear next time you sync.

Source: BubbleShare
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Goodmail is offering a service eliminate unsolicited email spam and phishing frauds.

Goodmail charges the sender $2 for sending 1000 email messages, the sender gets guaranteed delivery for email and also promise that it will stand out in the user's inbox. For this service the recipient pays nothing.

Paying these fees means that these email messages will not go through any spam filters, and are guaranteed to arrive in recipient inbox with a stamp of authenticity. These services are meant for those organisations that sends a lot of email and do not want their messages to be treated as spam.

Deals with AOL and Yahoo users have landed Goodmail Systems on the high-tech map and offered the strongest validation for its product.

Goodmail Consumers do not risk losing messages to spam filter. Users who wish to send mail to systems, such as AOL, that support Goodmail don't have to use Goodmail to send it.

Goodmail's customers have to prove first that recipients wants their email, and Goodmail checks the sender's emailing behavior and manages the quality of the email through a system that makes it easy for recipients to complain about spam messages. Too many complaints from recipients and the senders lose their accounts.


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