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"Pivot" is an application developed on a .NET client. It's aimed at simplifying interactions with massive amounts of data. It's kind of a visual search which works in a data set. It links to the mass data deeply and give a much batter targeted data stream to user.

Example: If you have 50,000 magazine covers and you're looking for only music covers, it will sort out only music covers. In particular, if you're looking for only female pop star covers, you can do that, too. It will search much deeper to give a much more accurate result. It can be linked to any kind of data and represents it to you in visual form.

It's much better seen than described in words, just like the search itself. Just check out the Microsoft video (Silverlight required) and afterwards head over to the Pivot site to absorb all the technical details:

This prototype is currently available by invitation only from Microsoft’s download site.

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Today is an exciting day! The much awaited Microsoft Office 2010 is out now in public beta. Microsoft announced the availability of the public betas of Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for business customers. If you’d like to be one of the millions of people who thrilled, try, test and give feedback on the latest and greatest, you can download the betas at www.microsoft.com/2010.

This is an exciting and significant milestone in Microsoft History because it means that for the first time, anyone can download Office 2010!

(New Microsoft Office Branding)

The Microsoft Office brand will sport a new look too, reflecting technology innovations in Office 2010. The re-design includes an updated Office logo, a new orange color palette for the Microsoft Office brand, and updated icons for Office 2010 applications that make it easier to quickly identify the Office products you work in.

So head on over to www.microsoft.com/2010, download the Beta. We'll keep you posted on new Developments and updates of office 2010.

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.


Google today announced a new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform, Google Wave. In simple words Google Wave is a set of all communications tools like email, chat, photo-sharing, and Collaboration features. collaborative editing features so people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

Users will be able to create 'waves,' where you can add documents and collaborators to it. The system will feature concurrent rich-text editing, as well as email and IM-like messaging functions. Combination of the all will create a much batter coloration, productivity tools, create a in house social networks and micro-blogging. so as result it can be replacement for email and other collaboration tools right now available in market.

Google is also making a set of APIs available to developers . These APIs will give developers the ability to create extensions for the core product, & Wave's features can be embed on other sites. One extension is already available from Google Wave is a Twitter extension, and Google will also offer the ability to integrate OpenSocial gadgets into Wave

Today Google Launches directory of OpenSocial Apps with verity of 12505 apps available.


Google is behind the OpenSocial & it's vs Facebook Platform which is also a successful for developers and users. Here OpenSocial can gain much more development because it aimed to give developers a common& Open environment that application publishers could develop & publish widgets to with one set of code, deplorable across Google sites, MySpace, Hi5, Netlog, Orkut and numerous other social networks.

Right now OpenSocial having 12505 Apps in the portfolio led by MySpace 8620, Orkut 2517, H5 1252, Ning 249 & Netlog with only 10 apps with different category like Business, Dating, Music, Video, Photos, Utilities, Sports, Travel, Games & Events

OpenSocial would allow for user data to be transmitted from one site to another. But it's not data portability that all thinking. It's just App portability that developers can deploy in different websites. Of course open Technologies like oAuth, OpenID are adopted by leading companies so OpenSocial.

Lots of things are happening via OpenSocial. Google led the Google Friend Connect & Google profile which is created on Open Social Platform.

Kindle Dx is now available in Amazon web Store, At $359, it's quite a bit pricier than the regular Kindle but it has many new features. let's see features on the fly.

Features at glance:

• Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines

• Lightweight At 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback

• 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots

• Get books delivered in less than 60 seconds; no PC required

• Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images

• 25% longer battery life; read for days without recharging

• Take your library with you; holds over 1,500 books

• With the new text-to-speech feature, Kindle can read every newspaper, magazine, blog, and book out loud to you, unless the book is disabled by the rights holder

Kindle's Basic Web browser works well to read simple, text-centric Web sites such as Google and Wikipedia plus Transfer MP3 files to Kindle to play as background music while you read. You can quickly and easily transfer MP3 files via USB by connecting Kindle to your computer & after connecting Kindle will appear as a removable mass storage device.

Kindle also provides Large selection in over 275,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available you can get New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $9.99

Kindle supporting formats like Kindle (AZW), TXT, Audible (formats 4, Audible Enhanced (AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; PDF, HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion. Conversion is a very good feature from kindle DX where you can convert documents like unprotected Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, TXT, RTF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PRC and MOBI files.

If you would like to download your personal documents for free, or if you are not in a wireless area, you can send attachments to "name"@free.kindle.com to be converted and e-mailed to your computer at the e-mail address associated with your Amazon.com account login. You can then transfer the document to your Kindle using your USB connection. For example, if your Kindle email address is xyz@Kindle.com, send your attachments to xyz@free.kindle.com

Or to read Kindle books on your iPhone or iPod touch, simply download free Kindle for iPhone application.& with Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your reading location across your Kindles and your iPhone so if you read few pages on your iPhone then start reading right where you left off when you return to your Kindle.

Some rumors seem to suggest that Apple is working on a Mac Tablet or a large-screen iPod Touch.If these are true and the price of Apple tablet is somewhere close to the Kindle DX, you may prefer the Apple device over Amazon since iPod Touch has a colored touch screen, Wi-Fi support, a full functional web browser and you can get beyond reading like podcast, Tv shows.

With Help of Google latitude user can share location with friends. Yes till now you can able to share the location with friends only but now Google developed some application that allow to share the location publicly with anyone.

Till now user can use Latitude via mobile and iGoogle that lets you share your location with your friends Only, not with others who are not your friends and people were asking "What if I want to share my location with people who are not my Latitude friends?" To answer that, Today Google launch some application which enables user to share the location with anyone. Well it sounds cool. Let's see what application Google develop?

Google Talk Location Status (beta)

Share your Google Latitude location as your status message with all of your Google Talk or Gmail chat contacts, including anyone that can already chat with you so it will Automatically updates your status message with your current city's name as you move. What it means?

Simply if you're in New York then in your Google Talk, it will show the city name which is New York as a Status message.

But here, Your current city is shared with all of your Google Talk or Gmail Chat contacts openly so even if you hide from some of them in Google Latitude it will not work. For example, if you hide your location from a specific friend in Latitude, that friend may still be able to see your location in your Google Talk or Gmail chat status message if you have your location status enabled.

don't wanna share your location?

What if you don't wanna share your location? What if you don't wanna let your mom know that you're in pub? So to stop sharing location in your status message you have two options.

• Simply Disable the app entirely by going to http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/status

• Or Clear your status message or change it to another saved or custom message to temporarily stop sharing your location as your status message.
  

To start using it again, you'll need to select it from your recently used status messages or use the "loc:on" shortcut.

Google Public Location Badge:

The Google Public Location Badge lets you publish your Latitude location on your blog or website. You can choose to show just the city that you are in or you can have your device's location detected automatically, using GPS, Wi-Fi, or cell tower ID, which provides a more specific location. You can also use a KML or JSON feed to create a custom experience in your own application. you can receive an email reminder that you are sharing your location publicly with your badge. You may choose to receive emails one, never, weekly, or monthly.

Here also your location will be shared publicly and you will not be able to control who can or cannot see it.

Don't wanna share your location?

Here also your location will be shared publicly and you will not be able to control who can or cannot see it. here the case is different. To stop sharing location the only way is that you disable the badge entirely or change its settings by going to http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge

But Once you create and publish the embedded badge HTML code on your website, anyone with access to your website could copy the code elsewhere so that your location is still accessible even after you remove the code from your site so to stop publicly broadcasting your location, you must go back to http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge and disable it as I already said and you may also want remove the code or feed from your site or application.

According to Google, These applications are only available in the US for now, but they'll soon be ready for all the same languages and countries that Google Latitude supports.

google.com/latitude

To use Google Latitude first you need to Join Latitude via Mobile or Web

For Web user: add Latitude Widget to your iGoogle Page. For this Google Account needed.

For Mobile User: Go to your Mobile Browser and open google.com/latitude or get the link via Text message & if Google maps is working on your phone then you can use Google Latitude on your Phone. Supported platforms & mobile devices as under:

• Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1

• iPhone and iPod touch devices (coming soon)

• most color Black Berry devices

• most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices

• most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smart phones)

On demand scanning from Panda Cloud Antivirus

The program uses Panda's proprietary cloud computing technology, which they call "Collective Intelligence", to detect viruses, malware, rootkits, and heuristics. It takes advantage of "millions of users," according to Panda, to identify new malware almost in real time. Panda says that Collective Intelligence can classify new malware in under six minutes, and that it handles more than 50,000 new samples per day. The Cloud Antivirus works by classifying threats into executables that must be scanned immediately, and non-executables that are checked at a lower priority when the computer is idle.

Panda decided to offer the Panda Cloud Antivirus for free, in exchange for using consumer data to build the Collective Intelligence database, said Pedro Bustamante, senior research adviser at Panda Security.

The new program reportedly takes up around 50 MB on the hard drive and eats around 17 MB of RAM when in use. That compares well against the industry average that Panda provided of 60 MB, and Bustamante said that they're aiming for 12 MB of RAM when in use.

Cloud computing may make sense from a system resources point of view, but what happens to system security when the computer isn't connected to the Internet? "The model we've implemented is to break down the traditional antivirus to client and server, so when the user is not connected they keep a local cache copy of Collective Intelligence, including detections for what Collective Intelligence sees is spreading through the community," he said.

Panda Cloud Antivirus is for Windows XP and Windows Vista, with planned support for Windows 7 when it's released. Bustamante added that it will stay in beta as it's being accepted by users, although they hope it will leave beta by the end of this summer.

• Any collaborator can edit the sheet
• Only you can edit
• You and specific collaborators can edit