Windows 7 Confirmed for 2009 Release

Microsoft has finally updated the release plan for its upcoming operating system. In a press release the Redmond company mentioned that Windows 7 “will be available to customers in time for the holiday shopping season,” with Windows 2008 R2 set to come about around the same time.

However, reports suggest that Microsoft is working with manufacturers to have Windows 7 installed in OEM PCs by this summer, in time for the crucial back-to-school season in September. The release dates were confirmed in the official Microsoft blog by Windows 7 manager, Brandon Le Blanc.

Early feedback from the Windows 7 release candidate, which came out late last month, convinced Microsoft it could commit to a 2009 launch, Veghte said. the engineering team has been busy analyzing the feedback, fixing bugs, and working hard to improve the overall experience. Many of your suggestions helped us refine the new and improved taskbar, the behavior of Aero Peek, Touch, Windows Media Player, and much more.

Veghte also plans to show a demo of how Office 2010 will take advantage of some of Windows 7′s features. Those that have both products will also be able to drag an Office file from a Jump List directly into an email, a big time-saver.

Feedback are in many different forms. Typically it consists of comments customers share. However, some of the most valuable information actually are automatically when people just use Windows. PerfTrack, for example, is a telemetry system that provides us with invaluable real-world performance data on over 500 different Windows scenarios. The exciting aspect of PerfTrack is that it represents what people are really experiencing “out in the wild”. Performance is a very important to both the engineering team as well as to their customers and they strive to continuously improve this area.

Gmail launches automatic email translation tool

Gmail, Google’s email service, has launched Message Translation, a service which automatically translates 41 languages. Google is already able to translate web pages into almost any language, but so far has not yet cracked email translation. At present though, Gmail is already available in 52 languages, including non Latin alphabet based languages such as Mandarin and Japanese. As expected, this new feature will be 100% free.

Once the lab is enabled under settings, whenever you receive an email in another language than your own, Gmail will help to translate it. A header will show up at the top of the email that will say “Translate message to: ______” and you can pick whichever language you want. To enable this feature, you need to enable the automatic message translation feature in Gmail Labs. Go to Settings, click on Labs, check the entry named ‘Message Translation’ and click on Save Changes button.

If you have important matters that require accurate translation, it’s best to turn to people who have an understanding of all the subtle nuances of the language. Translation services are becoming more important in the global economy and the excitement and buzz generated by the rumoured email translation service is proof of this.

Dell plans to launch smartphones in China

Dell, the world’s second-largest computer maker behind Hewlett-Packard, plans to enter the lucrative but crowded smartphone market by year-end with an initial rollout in China. A spokeswoman from China-based software maker Red Office confirmed that the company is designing the phones’ operating system for Dell. The analysts said that the roll-out of devices would first occur in China, followed by the United States and Europe.

Dell’s move comes as many of its rivals, including Acer, enter the increasingly competitive smartphone market, going head to head with major brands such as Apple, Nokia, HTC and Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry. Suggestions that Dell may offer up a smartphone first flared up at the beginning of the year when some analysts said the company could make an announcement at the 3GSM or the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona in mid-February.

Many top electronic makers typically design their products in-house but rely on contract manufacturers such as Hon Hai and Singapore-based Flextronics (FLEX.O), who have large production facilities in lower-cost countries.

Goldman Sachs had written in research notes released to clients that Dell is “likely to launch its first Android smartphone in 2Q09.”Local Chinese media reports, citing unnamed sources, said Dell was looking to work with China Mobile to distribute its handsets in the massive Chinese market, but company officials were unavailable for comment.

Verizon EVDO iPhone

Apple has been scouting out EVDO and CDMA Engineers for months in their online iPhone job postings. A leading Apple blog posted a rumor that the iPhone — which is currently available in the United States only through AT&T Wireless — could be coming to Verizon, in a form of CDMA/EVDO version, perhaps as early as January 2009.

Apple originally wanted to go with Verizon for the iPhone. Some of the original disagreements included “not carrying the iPhone at Best Buy and hardware reliability. AT&T was a second choice.

Cleve Nettles of 9to5Mac wrote, “We’ve fielded a couple of tips (some more sketchy than others) about EVDO iPhones floating around Cupertino in the past, but today’s tipster seems a little bit more sure of himself.  Besides having some Verizon insider credentials, he seems to know way too much about Verizon-Apple politics”.

AT&T is the exclusive US carrier for the iPhone until 2010. If Verizon persuades Apple to make a CDMA iPhone, not only that the AT&T exclusivity will be gone, but the giant GSM carrier will probably lose many customers who are unhappy with its services but have signed a contract agreement only to get an iPhone.

Disadvantages of PPC Advertising

PPC is one of the best way to market your product or site or anything you need. But there are many Disadvantages too for the PPC. They are very important not to follow them. You can see it in the following:

PPC campaign depends a lot on the keyword research.  If the wrong keywords are used for campaign their would be no traffic or very little. Sometimes the high priced keywords are too generalized which deliver lots of traffic but generate no conversion.

You’ll find that costs are usually rising nowadays per click. As more companies compete, the “law of supply and demand” naturally will increase bids over time, similar to an auction in a way.

In a recent survey 85% of people said they tend to ignore sponsored listings. That means for every 100 people doing a search on Google (and other search engines), 85 of them are going to ignore your ad no matter what it says. People learn to quickly tune out advertising and marketing and they’ve certainly done do with PPC. If your website was ranked in the top 10 or the organic listings (the ones you don’t pay for), your listings wouldn’t be ignored.

Advertisers are known to be victimized by click fraud in pay per click advertising. Publishers sometimes generate lots of click through software or some other unfair mean and thus manipulate the campaign to receive more commission. If not savvy enough, advertisers may not suspect such a fraud for a long time.

Quick loss of placement in favor of someone else willing to pay more than your budget allows.Stuck with the model – when the search engine adapts to a new scheme you “must” meet/match their Terms of Service and/or changes.If PPC is the only service used – you will never be an authority web site on anything – and authority defines – market trust, and your credibility. PPC never allows the web site owner to truly fault find problem areas of the web site. PPC favors big business with large marketing budgets.

Latest News on MS Office 2010

Microsoft has been having a pretty hard time with software leaks lately, and it’s unclear if they’ll be able to get this under control. Never-the-less, it does get them good publicity in the technology realm, so it’s not entirely a bad thing for the Redmond software giant.

Microsoft has confirmed to Ars Technica that the next Office release Office 2010 is coming in 32-bit and finally in 64-bit versions.
64-bit OS is the future but App support has been a bit thin so far. A company spokesperson said that Microsoft will follow its regular development pattern, and allow the public to get their hands on working beta copies of the office applications package.

The Office 2010 ribbon gets the flatter Windows 7 look (like the Windows 7 taskbar); there are no major changes visible in most apps, although you can spot new icons for the indent settings on Word’s Home tab (they look more like moving a text box) and text orientation in Excel. There are few visible differences in the new version of Word so far; just a couple of icon changes on the ribbon.

The technical preview of Office 2010 won’t be available until July, but when Microsoft used it to show improved integration with Windows 7 at its TechEd conference this week we were able to find out more about some of the new features in the desktop apps as well.

With the Windows 7 release you can finally upgrade to Office 2010 unless Microsoft charges an arm and a leg for the Office 2010 upgrade.

Which is the Best Browser in 2009?

A browser is a program that enables you to view the Web on the Internet. If you need to view a site like the one you’re reading now then you are using a browser. You may not even know which browser you’re using! Well! It will normally be that little blue “e” icon you click on to search for things. This particular browser is called “Internet Explorer”. It is the most common browser used, and there are many people who are still using Internet Explorer, thinking there is no other! But there is! And better ones!

Opera is old player [in] world of browser and competent to become favorits. When trying this version I the was him of I will continue to use this browser. I compare with a few browser in the reality Opera 10 can quicker.

Firefox has a tabbed interface: pop-up blocker/built-in multiple search tools: and built-in RSS reader, it handles nice and is always stable. The spellcheck for text boxes uses the familiar dotted colored lines under words . although the others has this feature. If you need an Extension for something, the Firefox extension capabilities are powerful, elegant and easy to use. It’s also offers many theme’s. I have been using Firefox since day one and compared to the other’s, it is in a class by itself although Opera does come extremely close.

Google Chrome is browser joining minimalis desain with sophisticated technology so that can be faster accessed a website, peaceful and easy to use. Ad for using this browser have time to confuse because appearance this browser like browsing at full screen mode. That visible only tab and address bar. Seen to be this browser will become threat for third above browser. Although still in beta version, Have competent to be used.

Browsers are like vehicles. You want to travel fast, with lots of cool features, security and in style!

Important Addons for Google Chrome

Google Chrome Backup

This add-on creates backups, restores and manages Chrome profiles. All history, bookmarks and related stuff are maintained very easily with this add-on.

Get it here!!!

ChromePass

ChromePass add-on recovers usernames and passwords that are stored on Google Chrome browser. Simply install this add-on plugin and retrieve all the details.

Get it here!!!

Portable Chrome for USB Stick

Tiny version of Google Chrome ideal for carrying in your USB memory stick. Light and zippy with all core features of Chrome.

Get it here!!!

Dual View Plugin

This plugin splits the viewing pane into two halves and lets you browse two sites simultaneously.

Get it here!!!

PageRank and Alexa Rank Status Checker

Page Rank and Alexa Rank are two popular ranking systems available to check the popularity,authority etc. of any site on the internet. Now you can check Page Rank and Alexa Rank on your chrome browser by simply installing a chrome plugin.

Get it here!!!
GooglePedia Extension

Once the plugin is installed, it shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your google search results and clicking on the links in the article triggers new google searches.

Get it here!!!

For more details, you can view this video to get more knowledge on Google Chrome Addons:

The Best and Useful updates from Twitter

Twitter updates are used to communicate all the birthday wishes to political opinions. But there are special shine if the update status was used to do extraordinary things, wedding news, and more.

The following are 10 of the most extraordinary and creative uses of Twitter updates. These updates have been incredible in the news, pushing the limits of what the update status can do, and have fundamentally changed people’s lives.

• The Tweet Mars
• Status updates for a good cause
• Breaking news of the first
• The job offer
• Interview with John McCain
• The first update
• Preventing tragedy
• The Egyptian case arrest
• Tweeting the uterus
• The proposal of marriage

Facebook Profiles Inserted in Yahoo Search Results

Yahoo Search has a new feature that automatically displays Facebook profile photos in its search results. Well, if someone enters your name on Yahoo, you can find it in your profile photo in the Faceook Search Listings. These changes in Yahoo after CEO Carol Bartz to Yahoo seem to be interesting and are likely to interest and impress the crowd as well as the search.

Whenever a Facebook profile is in the search, the person’s public profile image, as well as an additional line with the basic commands on Facebook (add friends, sack, send and Friends) will be displayed. According to Yahoo, Facebook structured shared this data with the Search Monkey app by semantic markup to make its presence in the public pages.

The person in the public profile picture would be visible to the viewer. This would of course only happen with the profiles to the public or search engine indexing. Facebook has this option only during the end of 2007, so that users who have registered before or have not yet their accounts recently updated. The Facebook profile owner at any time be able to emerge from this index will be. It would all depend on the preference of the user.

The thumbnail images are directly comes from Facebook’s servers and not cached by Yahoo! – That is good thinking, because if you update your profile picture on Facebook is now displayed in Yahoo! Online search.

The Facebook integration is one of the few who are on the Yahoo Search for all users to update. Others are LinkedIn, Yelp, Yahoo Local, CitySearch, Zagat, and Wikipedia.