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Saturday, July 01, 2006

Chat50: Connects cellphone and VoIP phone

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Chat50 speaker phone is a mobile audio peripheral that connects to a wide variety of devices and provides crystal clear, hands-free audio communications.
Connects cellphone and VoIP phone
The Chat50 can be used to connect the following devices:

* Internet telephones, such as Skype or Vonage
* VoIP softphones, such as Avaya, Cisco, Nortel
* Web conferencing applications, such as LiveMeeting, Sametime, WebEx
* Instant messaging with audio chat
* Audio playback with media players, such as QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player
* PC-based gaming with TeamSpeak

The Chat50 costs $179.

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Friday, June 30, 2006

Vonage V-Phone: Portable USB Device Launched

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Vonage has launched the Vonage V-Phone, a portable and multifunctional USB device that enables users to make calls to phones anywhere in the world from any PC with high speed Internet access.
Vonage V-Phone portable USB device
Vonage V-Phone portable
USB device

The Vonage V-Phone currently supports Windows platform and does not require any setup. Vonage software comes preloaded on the V-Phone and updates itself on the devices 256 MB flash drive. The USB device comes with a standard 2.5 mm stereo earpiece microphone that is compatible with most cell phone headsets.
"Vonage is pleased to offer our customers the convenience of making phone calls wherever they are, simply by plugging into any laptop or PC with a high speed broadband internet connection," said Daniel Smires, senior vice president of Engineering.

When customers surf the Internet at a Wi-Fi hotspot, they can plug in their V-Phone and make calls. With its plug-and-play feature, the V-Phone is ideal for business travelers, students, or anyone on the go. Users can check their voicemail from any computer and send voicemail attachments directly to an email account or BlackBerry.

Vonage said it partnered with Ubistar and SJ Labs to develop its new product. The company offers $14.99 for 500 minutes, $24.99 for residential unlimited and $34.99 for business unlimited. Calls to Canada and Puerto Rico are considered local and Vonage has reduced international rates with no connection fees. The V-Phone costs $39.99 with an additional $9 activation fee.

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Visual Task Tips: Preview Windows Taskbar

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Visual Task Tips Technology
Visual Task Tips is a lightweight shell enhancement utility. It provides thumbnail preview image for each task in the Windows Taskbar, as seen in the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista. It is compatible for Windows XP.

Its Limitations are:

* You see Black or incomplete previews and screen corruption for Some applications draw themselves in unusual ways to improve performance. These included Microsoft Word, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows Media Player, Autodesk 3DS Max, Java applications among others.

* Currently Visual Task Tips does not show actual previews for minimized windows. In fact, it show a cached thumbnail preview copy if one is available, otherwise it show nothing.

The Installer is just 89.9Kb and can be downloaded.

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Google Checkout: Google Online Payment Screenshots and Video Tour

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The Search giant Google has launched an online payments system Google Checkout which aims to compete with auction giant eBay. To open an Google Checkout account all you need a credit card.
Google online payment
To start with all you do is a product search on Google to find stores that accept Google Checkout and look for shopping cart icon in the sponsored links on the right side of the page.

Google account shopping cart
Merchants participating in Google Checkout
display a small shopping cart icon as part
of their advertisements on search pages.


Also you can visit the merchants website to do shopping and choose Google checkout as the method of payment doing checkout. Google handle the transaction and you are not required to provide your credit card information to the merchant again.

Google account shopping cart
When a customers clicks on the advertisers link,
they are given the choice to choose either
traditional payment methods or Google Checkout.


The Great advantages of using Google to handle payments are:

* You can shop multiple online stores with your single Google Account that will work with all store that supports Google checkout.

* You can keep track of all your transcations in one place with Google Account.

Google commission is 2.2% plus $.30 per transaction. For every dollar they spend on advertising, merchants will get $10 off the cost of processing orders they receive.
Google account shopping cart
If an item of the merchants website is not eligible for Google checkout payment, the icon will be greyed out and cannot be clicked.

In order to become Checkout affilliate you need the following things:

* The federal tax ID number (or a credit card and an authorized Social Security number) for your business.
* A copy of your return, cancellation, and shipping policies.
* A shopping cart on your business website to accept online orders.

Google Account Tour
Google Account Accepted Stores
Google Account Online Help

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Mobile Phone With Built-in Breathalyzer

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Mobile phones with built-in Breathalyzers are set to hit the U.S later this year.
Mobile Phones with built-in Breathalyzers
LG Electronics has comeup with LP4100 brand of Mobile phones with built-in Breathalyzers, So after a night of too much to drink, you can pull out the device to see if you are fit to get behind the wheel.

Users blow into a small spot on the phone, and if they have had too much to drink the phone issues a warning and shows a weaving car hitting traffic cones.

"So they test it and it says don't drive so they leave their car or call the taxi," explained Sung Mee Cho of Seju Engineering Inc.


The cellphone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book bosses, moms, friends if the breath analyzer records a blood alcohol level over 0.08.


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Adobe Macromedia Flash Player 9 Released

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Adobe Macromedia Flash Player 9 has come out of beta and it is available for download. Adobe Flash Player is well known for its high performance and lightweight which delivers powerful user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and other devices.

Flash Player 9 builds on the innovations of Flash Player 8 by bringing even more power to the runtime through ActionScript 3.0, an important update to the ActionScript language. ActionScript 3.0 delivers a robust programming model, ground-breaking performance, and compliance with the ECMAScript standard. The language provides a familiar syntax, compelling new language features, and up to 10 times faster performance so you can rapidly build a new generation of rich media and rich Internet applications.

Flash Player 9 new features now deliver more power and performance with its new ActionScript 3.0 and has New virtual machine offer better security and performance enhancements.

The auto-update notifications will be turned on so that the users will know when a new upgrade is available for download.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Microsoft: Launch Code Sharing Site

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Microsoft expected to officially launch a community building Web site where it will share code with developers.

The site CodePlex where Microsoft will provide programmers with tools available under its Shared Source licenses. These licenses allow people to view the source code of products.

Popular products already available on the site include Microsofts Atlas AJAX development tool kit and Iron Python beta 1.

The launch of the code-sharing site is one of several moves Microsoft is making to adjust to the growing popularity of open-source software and development practices.

By making the code to their tools available, software vendors hope to entice developers to become familiar with the products and, potentially, purchase more functional versions or buy support.

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Google GMail: Access from Mobile Phone

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Google has launched a service in UK that allows Mobile users to access Google GMail and News from their phones.

Google GMail access from mobile phone
Google GMail


Already available in the US, the service, which is being launched across the UK, France, Germany and Spain allows users to access the new services via a mobile phone browser.

Users can access Google News, which provides stories on Business, Science/Tech, Sports, Health, and Entertainment from their mobile browser by clicking the link from the search engines home page.

To access email, users can visit gmail.com through the web browser on their mobile and sign in to their gmail account as they would on the web.

Users without an account or personalised Google homepage on their PC will need to create one before using the service on their mobiles the company said.


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Monday, June 26, 2006

Google Index: Schools File Injunction

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Catawba County Schools in North Carolina obtained an injunction to remove private data containing names, social security numbers and test scores of 619 students from Google Index as it was available to find and read online until late Friday before the pages were apparently removed.

Catawba County Schools chief technology officer Judith Ray the information was stored in the system’s DocuShare server, which required a username and password to access. She said that one of the students on the list had a presence on the Web. Googles web spider latched onto her name in this document.

"One of the students on the list had a presence on the Web," she said. "In Googles effort to get information on her, one of its spiders latched onto her name in this document. We were not aware that password-protected sites are set up like that. To our knowledge, Google could only cache unsecure information that did not require a password or username."


In a statement, Google said its crawler does not have the ability to enter passwords. The students personal information was discovered last week when a relative of one of the students performed a Google search.

This could have been avoided if they had Robot.txt in its web directory or by placing NOARCHIVE, NOCACHE, NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW in the Meta tags of each page.


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Microsoft Office 2007: Free test drive

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Microsoft is trying to allow people to try out the its next Office without the hassle of installing beta software or replacing their current version.

The real time test drive does not require product installation or download—it's the fastest way to try out 2007 Microsoft Office system programs. In just minutes you can start exploring Microsoft Office through your Web browser on your own

"The online test drive offers the perfect opportunity for everyone to experience an easier and better way to work," Microsoft said.


The following are Included in the test drive:

* Access 2007
* Excel 2007
* InfoPath 2007
* OneNote 2007
* Outlook 2007
* Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
* Outlook Web Access
* PowerPoint 2007
* Project Professional 2007
* Publisher 2007
* SharePoint Designer 2007
* Visio 2007
* Word 2007
* Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
* Project Server 2007 (coming soon)
* SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft Office release out for a test drive


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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Cell Phones Usage: Dangerous during thunderstorm

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Doctors have warned against using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather, as a 15-yearold girl was struck by lightning while she was using her cell phone in a London park last year.

The girl however survived but lost some hearing in the ear to which she was holding the cellphone. She also suffers from physical, cognitive and emotional problems. She has no memory of the incident because the bolt sent her into a cardiac arrest.

The doctors explained that if somebody is struck by lightning, the high resistance of human skin results in the lightning being conducted over the skin without entering the body. This is known as flashover and has a low death rate.

"This rare phenomenon is a public health issue, and education is necessary to highlight the risk of using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather to prevent future fatal consequences from lightning-strike injuries related to mobile phones," three British doctors wrote in Saturday's issue of the British Medical Journal.
Here are some tips on how to avoid in getting hit and Lightning Safety Tips.


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Google Videos: Free Movies and Shows for Everyone

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Google the Internet search engine gaint, is offering free television shows and movies online to attract more users and advertisers and there by to increase its revenue.

Google videos now includes popular television shows like "The Charlie Rose Show" and classic movies such as "Billy the Kid" are available to view for free are sponsored by advertisers. Usually these videos sell for as much as US$14.99 in the video market.

The free videos are displayed alongside a small text ad and the logo of the advertiser. Sponsors include computer maker Hewlett-Packard and online video rental site Netflix. Users can also click to see video advertisements from the sponsors.

"Googles move shows we are in the middle of a clear shift to more and more video-linked Web services," said Jankees Ruizeveld, who helps manage the equivalent of US$2.2 billion in equities, including Google shares, at Optimix Vermogensbeheer NV in Amsterdam. "Video Web services will become increasingly important, which means extra infrastructure capacity is needed and as a result big investments will be necessary."


Google videos billy the kid
Google Videos offer Free Movies and Shows for Everyone



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