Google has recently launched an API, that raw numeric data into charts, graphs, tables, maps, and plots. Google visualization API let’s users to visualize any stored data, that is connected to the web, as a Visualization compliant data source. previously Data visualization API only support data stored in Google Applications including Google Spreadsheets.

Some features of Google Visualization API

• Embed visualizations directly into your website
• Write, share, and reuse
• Create dashboards and reports over your own data
• Create extensions to Google products
• Use many data sources, one API

Getting started with Google Visualization API

1. To use visualizations, read the Developers’ Guide.
2. Visit the Visualization Gallery and the Gadget Gallery to see what’s available to you.
3. Learn how to make your own data source accessible to any visualization.
4. Read the Creating Visualizations guide to learn how to write new visualizations.
5. Share your visualization with the community.
6. For spreadsheet specific information, read the Spreadsheet Integration section.

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Australian Internet users a good news for you, Now you can access broadband Internet connection through the mobile devices. Broadband Expert is the company that is providing wireless broadband through USB devices.  Accessing broadband Internet as wireless broadband has a number of benefits as compare to the traditional way. Wireless broadband devices are easy to use USB devices that can be easily plugged into your desktop or laptop and you will be able to access the broadband Internet connection as mobile broadband.

Australian mobile broadband providers

You can choose from a number of mobile broadband providers in Australia, which means that you can select from a variety of packages in order to find one suited to your needs. The providers include:

• BigPond Mobile Broadband
• Dodo Mobile Broadband
• Optus Mobile Broadband
• 3 Mobile Broadband
• Vodafone Mobile Broadband

There are three main modem options available for use with mobile broadband, and these are described below.

USB dongles are easy to use, as they simply plug into the USB connection on the laptop or computer, and being the size of a mobile phone are very easy to carry around.

USB sticks are smaller than dongles, making them even easier to transport around, and like the dongle they simply plug into the USB connection on the computer and provide you with Internet access.

Mobile data cards are a third option, but these cannot be used by all mobile broadband users, as they can only be used on computers that have plug and go software installed.

Mobile broadband Q&A

Is it possible to use the USB modem or dongle on different laptops and computers?

Absolutely, you can use your modem or dongle on any laptop or computer.

Will I get a good level of coverage with mobile broadband?

You can get coverage with mobile broadband in any area where there is mobile phone coverage, because the service is provided through mobile phone networks. If the signal in your area is weak, you may experience loss of connection or slow speeds.

Is it possible to use the mobile broadband service whilst abroad?

Yes, the service can be used in many countries. However, there are additional charges involved, and these can rise in the event that you exceed your download limit, so bear this in mind.

Will I be able to access mobile broadband whilst on a train?

Providing you are able to get a mobile phone signal then you can access the Internet via mobile broadband whilst on a train. Again, the strength of the signal that you get whilst on the train will determine access and speed.

Will I need to have a landline in order to have mobile broadband?

There is no need to have a landline in order to have access to mobile broadband as the service is not provided through the normal telephone exchange

Is mobile broadband suitable for online gaming?

Unfortunately the speeds and download restrictions that come with mobile broadband make it largely inadequate for online gaming, and those interested in gaming would fare better by opting for a specialist gaming broadband package

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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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Brightstorm A new online video website offering video based courses to young folks from experience instructors. We can say Broghtstorm is YouTube for courses. This service focuses on key subjects that usually have students in trouble. These include, Algebra, SAT and essay writing. Broghtstorm offers an alternative solutions for parents who are looking for teaching sources. Broghtstorm is also very useful for those folks, want to study from their home.

The courses are divided into episodes so that they appear more like lectures given on different classes. The duration for each in less than 20 minutes to make sure they remain informative without dragging too much time. It charges $50 for one Year subscription and bets to bring out positive results.

The concept seems to very good for me but the website is not very responsive as compare to other online video sharing website. We can expect some more improvements in upcoming days.

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ShowDocument is quick and easy way of sharing and editing any kind of documents. Most importantly users don’t have to register for using this service and after registering they have to confirm their E-Mail address. ShowDocuments work with major file types including PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, and text files. ShowDocument uses a flash based editor for editing documents.

ShowDocuments allows you to upload maximum of 2MB file size. After uploading the documents users can directly start editing the documents. Users can also join the existing session for editing or viewing the documents.

Users can use Pen, Marker,Liquid Pen,Text Box for editing document. When editing is complete users can save their documents in PDF format also. While editing the documents users can also invite their friends for viewing the documents. There is also one chat windows is also there that window is also so that users can also discuss while editing the document.

As I found that while editing the documents and inviting friends for viewing the documents their is no such mechanism like presenter or viewer. Overall ShowDocument is very useful and easy to use document editing service. I think we can expect some more functionality in upcoming days.

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HackAlert is a 24×7 Website monitoring solution that alerts website owners and system administrators if the site has been compromised and injected with malicious code. Operating as a non?intrusive monitoring service, HackAlert leverages pattern?free behavioral analysis technology (combined with signature?based packing analysis) to provide detailed information related to website security status on a constant basis and represents the outermost layer of any comprehensive security program.

Static & Dynamic (Behavioral) Analysis

HackAlert leverages pattern-free behavioral analysis technology to detect and analyze malicious code injected into web pages. The service leverages a static HTML analysis engine which searches for illegal or potentially dangerous links injected into the webpage, and a unique behavioral analysis engine which identifies whether or not the suspicious link is in fact downloading malware to the client PC.

This behavior analysis engine is unique in its employment of a Spyware Behavior Extractor (SBE) which forces even those instances of malware that have been programmed with evasive onboard anti?detection methods to exhibit their malicious behavior. Thereby, HackAlert™ does NOT miss any instances of downloaded malware and provides accurate results, with information capable of proving the origin, destination and certain behavioral aspects related thereto.

Reporting

HackAlert can be used to scan a single URL or a complete website, depending on the user’s requirement.

Reporting Interface – Single URL Monitoring

The HackAlert reporting interface for single URL provides detailed information regarding the malware’s behavioral aspects, identifying the affected web site address and highlighting the injected malicious link or source of the malicious code. In the event of malware being successfully downloaded to the client-side, HackAlert provides details such as the source of the malware, its name and file type and the target directory on the affected computer.

Reporting Interface – Website Monitoring

The HackAlert system’s “Site Monitoring” function leverages a URL Crawler which is able to analyze an entire site’s URL tree to provide a convenient method for monitoring the site in question.The crawler analyzes the website page?by?page, extracting all possible URL links, while at the same time testing whether or not the URL link is in fact active.

The reporting provides complete information in terms of total URLs crawled, clean URLs, suspicious URLs, malware detected and defaced content.

Notifications

HackAlert’s real-time alerting capabilities provide immediate notification and details regarding malware activity. The notification can be sent via e-mail or as a SMS to the user mobile phone, depending on the user’s preference. This facilitates immediate reaction and remediation in the event of website poisoning.

 
An e-mail notification provides complete summary of the scan and lists the suspicious links and points out the malware injection.

Solution Delivery

The solution is delivered as a hosted Software?as?a?Service (SaaS) solution, providing a customizable user interface which allows the user to define the domain/URLs he or she wishes to monitor, schedule the scan frequency, and configure the reporting options. Users may access the solution simply by logging in over the internet.

Sign up for HackAlert’s Free Trial

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Hitwise released the data for the top 20 most popular website in UK for the month September 2008.

Note - the Hitwise data featured is based on UK market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or industry, from the Hitwise sample of 8.4 million Internet users in the UK. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorises websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context.

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On October 14, 2008 Symantec launched two new services  named as PC Checkup and PC Tune-Up. Currently both of these services are only available for Windows XP and Windows Vista. With Symantec PC Checkup and PC Tune-Up both non-Norton and Norton customers benefit with trusted, remote PC help. PC Check up service will cost $29.99 per year while PC tune-up service will cost $69.99 per year.

The service provides comprehensive PC help offerings including a Norton PC Checkup Service (available 24×7) to identify performance problems, provide a custom PC report card and identify hidden spyware and a PC Tune-up Service - akin to an “oil change for your computer” - to boost performance and stability, and make a PC feel like new.

How Both Services Will Work

Customers simply call 1-800-917-9152 to get PC help. Without the hassles of having to drop off or pick up their computer, customers get a reliable way to diagnose and repair computer problems over a secure Internet connection. While the customer is on the phone, a Norton PC expert remotely connects to the customer’s computer to perform a diagnostic check and recommended service. Once the Norton PC expert performs an initial diagnostic service, the customer is not required to wait at his or her computer while the agent fixes the PC problem. The services include:

Norton PC Checkup Service

A Norton PC expert identifies hidden spyware, viruses and performance problems and provides detailed reporting and recommendations on issues affecting your computer’s operation and security.
Price: $29.99.

Norton PC Tune-up Service

It can be frustrating for today’s busy computer user to work on a system with sub par responsiveness. A Norton PC expert fixes problems affecting your computer’s speed and stability and fine-tunes your PC so it starts and runs at optimum speed.
Price: $69.99.

Source : Symantec Launches New PC Help Service Norton Premium Services Take On Today’s PC Problems Press Release

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On October 8, 2008 Google has released Adsense for online Games. According to comScore 20% of internet users play online games this totaling more then 200 Million Internet users. With this large number of users playing online games Adsense advertisers will be able to target Internet users with text, image and video ads. Adsense for online games have some requirements .

Current Requirements:

1. Game plays: Minimum 500,000 per day
2. Game types: Web-based Flash only
3. Integration: Must be technically capable of SDK integration
4. Traffic source: Must be 80% US & UK Traffic
5. Content: Family safe and targeted at users age 13 and up
6. Distribution: Must be able to report embed destination and have control over where games are distributed

Apply for Google In-Game Advertising

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People who love to use Twitter, now they can follow Yahoo Messenger Blog on twitter also. Yahoo Messenger Blog team has just created their Twitter account. Yahoo Messenger team will post product updates, answer questions, and highlight some of our favorite features.

If you don’t know about Twitter, then Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. [According to wikipedia]

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