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Google has recently added the Ocean in Google Earth feature in its Google Earth Product. With ocean in Google Earth, you can: Dive beneath the surface and visit the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench Explore the ocean with top marine experts including National Geographic and BBC Learn about ocean observations, climate change, and endangered species Discover new places including surf, dive, and travel ... Full story

One of the most awaited projects - $20 laptop computer was formally unveiled Tuesday at Tirupati in India. However there are questions whether the "Sakshat" (as the device is called) can be made and sold at that price point. The officials responsible for the "Sakshat" laptop are promising it will be available for $10 six months after it goes into mass production. The laptop was ... Full story

Google has quietly put up a restrictions on numbers of users which you can use with Standard Edition (which is free). Google Apps Standard Edition is now (effective from mid January) limited up to 50 users for new registrants. The old registration howeevr will get the complete quota of registrations. It may be noted that earlier Google Apps Standard Edition (GASE) can be registerd for up to ... Full story

Want to try Anti Virus Software for free? Here are few links of leading anti virus software who offer free trial versions. If you try before you actually purchase and start using the software you can evaluate the products in use before you purchase. TIP: Always use only one antivirus software in your PC. Installing two software may cause damage to your software and may require ... Full story

IE8 Release Candidate (RC) available today for public download today in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server customers. This is announced by Microsoft at their blog You can find and download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx IE8 Release Candidate is effectively complete and done. There have been many Reliability, Performance, and Compatibility improvements over IE8 Beta 2. The RC comes consumer-ready clickjacking protection. "IE8 ... Full story

A nasty worm called Downadup worm has infected millions of computers and continues to spread. This many security experts believe is precurser of the evil deeds to come. According to US software protection firm F-Secure the computer worm is known as Conficker, Kido or Downadup had infected more than nine million computers by Tuesday and was spreading at a rate of one million machines daily (wow). ... Full story

Carol Bartz is named as Yahoo CEO today. The current president Sue Decker who had been considered by many to be in line for the top job will resign after a transitional period. Bartz, previously led Autodesk (a omputer-aided design software company) as CEO for 14 years. Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) the Sunnyvale-based company was looking for a new CEO since founder Jerry Yang, stepped down in ... Full story

Microsoft today released a Security update MS09-001 rated as Critical to patch the vulnerabilities in SMB that could Allow Remote Code Execution "This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution on affected systems. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could install programs; view, change, or delete ... Full story

Our readers are sending more examples of Google sites. This is another example of an excellent site created using Google Site. This is the site (in Spanish Language) for a Tennis Club: http://www.tenismesalazubia.com/ Full story

Earlier a to view a PDF file received in Gmail will have to be downloaded and opened in Acrobat reader. But now you can view PDF file in Gmail itself.Now opening up a PDF in Gmail will not open your native PDF viewer (which is relatively slow-to-load), and instead will send you to the document reader built into Google Docs. Clicking ... Full story