Trutap is an instant messaging application for mobile phones enables mobile phones users to access all their instant messaging clients from there mobile phones although this Trutap is not available for Iphone. Trutap supports MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Rediff Bol and Jabber instant messaging services. Trutap is also planning to add more IM services to the service over the coming weeks, including MySpace, Gadu-Gadu, LiveJournal IM, Bonjour, Groupwise, IRC, XMPP, Sametime and Zephyr.

Bloggers who use My Opera or Wordpress - for blogging Trutap also supports both of these services.so you can post updates and photos from your phone. To start blogging from Trutap just add your account details in the usual way - go to ‘My Web’, choose ‘Set up account’ from the Menu, enter your blog details and you’re all set.

Trutap is a Java based application so this makes more compliable with a wide rang of mobile phones. 

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Google has rolled out a new feature for it’s Gmail users. Gmail users now can send free SMS from their chat window to any mobile that is capable of accepting text message. The new feature will be available through Gmail Labs which can be accessed via the settings tab in Gmail.

How to send free SMS using the Gmail

Enable the Text Messaging in the chat by Going to Setting–>Labs options in your Gmail account.

To send an SMS Gmail user simply has to enter the mobile number and press enter it will ask you to save the mobile number and name of recipient.

Google assigns the Gmail sender a persistent pseudo-phone number so that the SMS recipient can send SMS messages back to the Gmail user at a later time using a consistent identifier

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On October 2008 Microsoft announced that it’s latest version of Office suite program will also be available from the browser also. The Browser version of office is a light weight version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Microsoft is using JavaScript/ HTML and Silverlight to deliver Microsoft Office through the browser. As Microsoft Office comes to browser users will be able to create, edit, read and collaborate on Office documents.

This new integration of Office with browser will offer it’s users a seamless, synchronized experience across the devices that they use to work smarter, faster, and better. Office Web applications will make that a reality. Microsoft will offer this service with ad funded and as a subscription based service. Business customers will use these services as a hosted subscription service and through existing volume licensing agreements. Microsoft will show a private technology preview of the Office Web applications later this year. The pricing model hasn’t been announced yet.

First Look: Office 14 for Web

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ASUS has launched the ASUS P552w PDA phone powered by Glide – an innovative touch-responsive user interface that makes navigating and performing tasks on a mobile phone more intuitive and interactive. ASUS P552w is Equipped with a 624MHz processor, 3.5G HSDPA connectivity, GPS and seamless Google integration.

ASUS P552w enables users to perform a variety of navigational action such as selecting, zooming, scrolling and flipping. easily through simple flicks of their fingers. Incorporated into Glide are also applications that enable users to access a wide range of functions such as looking up the latest news, checking the weather forecast, viewing photo slide shows and listening to music within a few finger taps.

ASUS P552w uses 624MHz CPU that is one of the most powerful CPU used by PDA’s. The ASUS P552w also features 3.5G HSDPA (3.6Mbps) connectivity for the fastest Internet browsing, file sharing and TV program-streaming experience possible. Furthermore, it offers Bluetooth, WLAN 802.11b/g, GPS, USB and other connectivity standards to enable easy data transfers to and fro from other devices.

ASUS P552w includes deep integration to Google Maps. The ASUS P552w’s also include a feature known as ASUS SMS Location Link. With this exclusive feature, users at two different locations can locate each other easily by sending each other SMS messages. Clicking on the URLs which are automatically embedded in the sent messages will link the phones up to Google Maps, which will then provide the users with clear directions on how to get to each other’s positions.

The ASUS P552w comes pre-installed with applications that allow users to get an easy handle on entertainment. The most exciting of these are EziPhoto and EziMusic.

Mr. Edward Wang - Business Head, Mobile Communication Business, ASUS (India) said

The ASUS P552w is equipped with a 624 MHz processor which makes it amongst the fastest PDA phones currently available in the Indian market. The unique ASUS Glide interface takes the touch screen experience to new heights. The phone has features like EziMusic and Eziphoto which make it a complete entertainment package. The ASUS P552w will create a revolution in the phone market in India with its power packed features and greatly enhanced user experience.

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Microsoft has launched a new developer portal for software developers. DevLabs will help software developer communities to learn about the new software’s as well as try these software’s from Microsoft.

S. Somasegar senior vice president in Microsoft’s developer division Said

DevLabs - a site dedicated to these software innovations for the developer community.  This is a portal where we can share not just some early thinking, but early bits, and let you play with them and help us determine the direction that these projects should eventually head.  While many of these projects will come from teams within Developer Division, this is an outlet for all innovations coming from Microsoft focused on you, the developer.

The purpose of this site is not to get your feedback on the next release that we are working on – we already have opportunities to do that today through our CTP and Beta programs (and thank you for that feedback!).  Most of these are projects that aren’t as solid in exact deliverables yet.  Some of these projects will turn into features in our existing shipping products, some we will open-source for the community, others we will decide to not pursue.  You are the ones that can help us determine what best suits your needs.

There are four projects that are available on the DevLabs site currently:

• Small Basic: Small Basic is a simplified programming language and environment to help teach programming to beginners.
• PEX: Pex (Program EXploration) is an intelligent assistant to the programmer. From a parameterized unit test, it automatically produces a traditional unit test suite with high code coverage. In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs.
• PopFly: Microsoft Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications.

• CHESS: CHESS is a concurrency testing tool for finding and reproducing concurrency Heisenbugs in your code. CHESS can find assertion violations, deadlocks, livelocks, data-races, and memory-model errors. CHESS works both for managed and for unmanaged code.

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Yahoo is discontinuing its latest version of Yahoo Messenger from Windows Vista Operating System. Some months back Yahoo has launched Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista. According to Yahoo because they want to focus on delivering one Windows experience that is optimized for all Windows users.

As I see Yahoo is just want to develop Yahoo messenger that works consistently well in all windows operating systems not just in Windows Vista. Currently Yahoo Messenger application is based on Windows Presentation Foundation and Yahoo will continue with this technology in future version of Yahoo Messengers also.

If you’re using Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, you can continue to use it however we will not add any more features or provide product support. To enjoy full Yahoo! Messenger functionality including photo sharing, webcam and chat rooms, we recommend downloading and installing the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0. This latest version of Yahoo Messenger is also available in Local Languages like in India it is available in Hindi.

Source: Yahoo! Messenger for Vista version is no longer available

Download Yahoo Messenger for Windows Operating System

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There is an interesting case that I want to share with you.

I am not sure if you guys are aware of it but last year researchers at Google released a paper at the Usenix conference titled “The Ghost in the Browser”.

The paper outlined research efforts at Google that spanned several months analyzing websites, their content, and the amount of malicious code discovered within the sites.

It was discovered that the URLs that Google generate as search results, a big number of those are malicious and it might harm the user’s computer. To keep its users away from such malicious URLs, Google start flagging these websites, by posting a warning sign; this site may harm your computer.

There is a big probability that if you are using Google search engine, you might have came across such scenario. There is a similar scenario that I came across and I would like to share it with you.

I read this on Suman kumar’s blog that Google has flagged Canon India website canon.co.in as potential malicious; Canon India’s Website is an Attack Site?

Google Search Result

I did a search for canon.co.in using Google, found out that it has been flagged as harmful and there is a warning against visiting it.

I ignore this warning, and click on the URL; it took me to another page explaining clearly that this site harmful and you can access it at your own risk but there is no way Google will let you in.

Read more…

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SanDisk has launched SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives protected with McAfee’s anti-malware technology.  These drives will add an extra layer of protection in enterprise USB flash drives.  When ever any file is copy into the Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives McAfee heuristics and antivirus engine automatically loads and start scanning the data.  Currently all Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives protects all data with advanced hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption and users can set passwords to their Flash drives. A combination of data encryption and strong password makes it extremely difficult for unauthorized users to access data should the drive be lost or stolen. Lifecycle of all Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives can be managed remotely, lifecycle includes password recovery and renewal through the network, remote termination of lost drives, central back-up and restore, and central usage tracking. This means data is not lost when a drive is lost, and IT administrators can provision a replacement flash drive with user files stored on the network.

Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives carry a database of malware signatures and rules that adds a extra load on the USB drives and most importantly the user s has to regularly update malware database. SanDisk also not confirmed the nature of update would be used to update malware database, may it could some thing like the McAfee’s existing USB-based scanning product, VirusScan USB, which works using the U3 software environment

Roy Ramati, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Division at SanDisk,Said

SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise is an ideal solution for the mobile workforce and for IT departments concerned with data security, because it allows employees to have access to data everywhere and yet be fully protected. McAfee’s technology to our security solutions for the enterprise enables our customers to extend their security perimeter to mobile storage.

Prices for the anti-malware SanDisk Cruzer should be announced in the coming days

Source: SANDISK OFFERS McAFEE ANTI-MALWARE TECHNOLOGY IN SECURE USB FLASH DRIVES

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On Tuesday 21, October 2008 Security company McAfee announced it will take Initiative to fight against cyber criminals. The initiative is anchored by a multi-point plan that includes calls for action from law enforcement, academia, service providers, government, the security industry and society at large to deliver more effective investigations and prosecutions of cybercrime.

Dave DeWalt, McAfee president and chief executive officer,Said

Cybercrime is a growing problem that negatively impacts everybody. While a lot has been done to combat cybercrime over the past decade, criminals still have the upper hand. The chances of getting caught for knocking off a convenience store are several times larger than robbing an online bank. This must change.

McAfee is also creating the McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime Advisory Council. This global group of independent experts will be chaired by former White House Cybersecurity Adviser Howard A. Schmidt. Professors Ian Brown of Oxford University and Lillian Edwards of Sheffield University have agreed to join the council as well, as has Parry Aftab, founder and manager of WiredSafety, the world’s largest and oldest cybersafety help group.

Apart from the Advisory Council, McAfee is also announcing a new McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime Grants program and Cybercrime Response Unit.

McAfee Multipoint Plan to Fight Cybercrime

At the cornerstone of McAfee’s initiative to fight cybercrime, the company unveiled a multipoint plan.  Key elements of the plan include the following:

• Education and Awareness
• Legal Frameworks and Law Enforcement
• Innovation

Read the entire McAfee Multipoint Plan to Fight Cybercrime

Source : McAfee, Inc. Launches Major Cybercrime Initiative

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Google has 37 more languages to their sites, now with addition of languages Google will be available in 38 Languages. Google Sites will use your browser settings to determine the language to display, and if you would like to override this setting, go to the "User settings" page linked from your "My sites" page.

Google also has made some improvements in their sites like they have shifted the toolbar that has being used for creating and editing the web pages to the top of the pages and site setting toolbar is also included in this. The list page now offers a default sort option via the "customize list" dialog, and the recent list items gadget has more sort options. We also added the ability to opt out of change notifications for changes you make on the "User settings" page.

Here are the 38 languages we are supporting with this release: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English (UK), Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Source : Google Sites goes international

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