The Microsoft Translator web page widget allows you to bring real-time, in-place translations to your web site. Users can see your pages in their own language, without having to go to a separate translation web site, and share your page with friends in multiple languages. Microsoft Translator widget was introduced earlier this year at the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas. The widget can be placed on a website so the page that you visited cab quickly translated to the languages that you like without reloading the page. After the launch, the widget was only available by invitation. Now several months later, Microsoft widget (beta) is made available to everyone. To get a Microsoft Translator widget head to http://microsofttranslator.com/Widget/.

On the website you would have the enter the URL and the language of your website (where you’re placing the widget on). What’s more, you get to customize the Microsoft Widget by its width and also choose 8 different colors. There is also a preview available on the same page that shows how your widget looks like. As of now, A total of 19 languages are supported and the widget contains a button to the page to share it via the mail. The message included a link to the original page and the translation.

Google Earth‘s Indian rival is here! Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took a huge leap into satellite imagery of geographical regions with the launch of `Bhuvan’, India’s mapping application website. Similar to Google Earth or Wikimapia, Bhuvan goes a step ahead. The application allows users to zoom far closer than the aerial view from a chopper.

Here’s is an inside look into Google Earth’s Indian competitor.
Bhuvan is a web-based 3D mapping tool which uses images taken over a year by ISRO’s seven remote sensing satellites, including Cartosat-1 and Cartosat-2.

The application will allow users to have a closer look at any part of the subcontinent barring sensitive locations such as military and nuclear installations. The satellites can capture images of objects as small as a car on a road.

This would provide a user with images having resolution up to 10 m. The degree of resolution showcased is based on points of interest and popularity, but most of the Indian terrain is covered upto at least six meters of resolution with the least spatial resolution being 55 meters.

Like Google Earth, Bhuvan will allow users to view cities and other places of interest looking perpendicularly down or at an oblique angle, with different perspectives.

Features:
– Provides Measurement tools for Horizontal distance, aerial distance and vertical distance
– Provides Shadow Analysis; sets the sun position based on the given time creating shadows and effects the lighting on the terrain
– 2D and 3D image data of Indian Cities, Towns and Villages with information on Soil, wasteland and water resources.
– Bookmark places.
– Population and other factual data about places.

The link to the official website is : http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/

We need to wait and see if it can score higher than Google earth. :)

WordPress 3.0, named “Thelonious.” was just released.

In the new version, there are couple of new features. After merging with MU + Wordpress, there is an option of having a single installation for multiple blogs. I’m going to start reviewing Wordpress 3.0 shortly.

Here is a short video:

Here are some new features I noticed after installation:
– Wordpress is now more SEO friendly,
– New TwentyTen default Wordpress theme
– MU + Wordpress, multiple installation of wordpress
– Custom Wordpress Menu
– Quick Upgrade for plugins

The cars which drive around in many places photographing the streets of the world for its StreetView service. Google acknowledges that is has been collecting personal data submitted by individuals via the unsecured wireless networks, and the data was collected by mistake by the Google cars. It was during an audit conducted at the request of German authorities about securing data collected  by the street view car this flaw was discovered.

“It is now clear that we have collected in error with sample data via Wi-Fi open”. ‘Once we became aware of the problem, we fixed our Street View cars and isolated data on our network, we then disconnected to make them inaccessible’

“The team of Google engineers worked hard to earn your trust. And we are highly aware that we have failed miserably in this case. We are deeply sorry for this mistake and are determined to draw all possible lessons “, said Alan Eustace, vice-presidents Google engineering on thecompany’s official blog .

In total, Google estimates the amount a total data of600 gigabytescollected since 2006. Google also issued a letter, you can view it here.

Google made its first steps into the smartphone market with the Nexus One phone launched on January 5.

To sell this phone, the company had decided to use its own online store in the United States. The service will now pause, to make way for traditional retailers as is the case in Europe.

In the US, if you’ve been waiting for the Nexus One for Verizon Wireless’ network, head over to http://phones.verizonwireless.com/htc/incredible to pre-order the Droid Incredible by HTC, a powerful new Android phone and a cousin of the Nexus One that is similarly feature-packed.

The company did not indicate how many of Nexus One phones had been sold since the release of the device in the U.S., but acknowledged that only geeks had used its online store to purchase the product, which proposed unit price reduced with a fixed operator T-Mobile, with or without reducing network compatibility AT & T and T-Mobile.

“It is clear that many consumers want to touch before buying a phone they want and also choose from a wide range of packages,” said the engineer Andy Rubin, the official blog of the group.

BBC reports, IPv4 address depletion has been raising for several years and finally, a detailed figure of WHEN exactly is out. So far only about 300million IPv4 addresses are available and according to the current rate the end of IPv4 would be on September 9, 2011, and all the IPv4 addresses would be used up.

In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks of net addresses to give out, estimates suggest.

Reported that the rapid growth of mobile devices is the main reason for depletion of IPv4 addresses, this problem has come faster than expected. You can get in touch with your Internet service provider and ask the settings to enable IPv6.

The only way to solve this problem is to switch to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which provides more addresses.

From March this year, we know Wikipedia is undergoing some major facelift, and today they announced a new interface design and some new features.

New version of Wikipedia will have a new navigation bar, make reading and editing, discussion easier, a more powerful editing tool bar, links Wizard feature can help you make the link to the article key words, and search box location change has been fully upgraded.

Wikipedia also has a FAQ about the new design, if you want to take a look at it. You can visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?title=Special:UsabilityInitiativeOptIn and for some of the users, the new design is already visible when you visit wikipedia.org.

Here is a screenshot:

Do you like the new design?