Google does a Jai ho! – provides assistance for the Indian Loksabha elections
Google has launched the India Elections Centre in English and in Hindi for Lok Sabha 2009 election. People from across India can use the centre to do the following: Confirm their voter registration status; Discover their polling location; View their constituency on a map; Consume relevant election-related news, blogs, videos, and quotations; Evaluate the status of development in their constituency across a range of indicators; Learn about the background of their Member of Parliament and this year’s candidates.
Get the latest election news, MP profiles, constituency statistics, candidate quotes, polling booth locations and more, all personalized to your location. Just specify your city or town, and get election information relevant to you.
Visit the Google Lok sabha elections page for more information.
Google released the version 2.0 of the AJAX APIs Playground. Of the new changes, the most obvious is the sweet new UI, other new features are: Break points (simulated in Javascript); Firebug Lite in output for debugging; Line numbers in code editor; Ability to edit HTML of samples
More info: AJAX APIs Playground
Sync Iphone or any phone with Plaxo!
Did you know? that you can sync your contacts in a secure way between any of your mobile phone and Plaxo … :) well now you do..
Plaxo has a partnership with Synkia to provide synchronization from mobile phones to Plaxo. Synkia supports 420 syncML phones plus iPhone, Blackberry, Palm phones. Last month in feburary, Plaxo partnered with SYNKIA and expanded mobile sync options. Jo Mosaku, Executive Director, Business Development, Synkia AS said,
“In announcing this partnership; we are proud to be a part of Plaxo’s broader strategy to support open standards, such as SyncML. Synkia is “cloud” computing for the mobile phone era and works across multiple mobile handsets, softphones, territories and is carrier neutral. Synkia’s platform seamlessly provides phone back up/synchronization for the widest number of mobile devices available today, which is further enhanced by Plaxo’s rapidly growing network of connected people. Your contacts will always be up to date on your mobile device after syncing with Plaxo”.
Plaxo users, who have accounts at Synkia’s online mobile backup service, will be able to synchronize contact data between the two services. This will extend distribution of contact data from Plaxo to the mobile phones of its users and will enable the synchronization of contact data on mobile phones with Plaxo and vice versa. Plaxo will strongly urge its users to backup data on their phones with Synkia and Synkia will advertise Plaxo to its users.
‘I’m extremely happy to announce our partnership with Plaxo’ – says Morten Sundstø, the chairman and founder of Synkia – ‘People store more and more data in their mobile phones which increases the importance of online phone backup services. The agreement with Plaxo will give Synkia a privileged position on the market of such services in the US’.
Sign up and get a SPECIAL DISCOUNT for Plaxo users! When you backup your phone at Synkia you will be able to synchronize your contacts with Plaxo address book. Don’t wait, try it now!
Now that’s good news to all the people who would like to stay updated with their contacts on the phone :D
Here are some interesting facts from ifixit.com while stripping down the Google phone:
Samsung wins the touchscreen deal and is also the one who supplied touchscreen equipment for Microsoft’s Zune HD. Broadcom gets it place in the nexus one phone as the supplier of Bluetooth and wireless chipset( same as in an Apple for iPod touch) and finally there is the LED flash which is smaller than a dime :).
Windows 7‘s so-called “GodMode” is actually a shortcut to accessing the operating system’s various control settings it seems like there is lots of hidden feature in Windows 7. A function called ‘God mode’ shows an overview of all elements of the Control Panel. So you might find all the option easily than using the regular way (Start> Control Panel). The Developers from Microsoft say you can use the functions at your own risk.
How do you enter God mode?
Simple, to enter “GodMode,” you need to only create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Here is a sneak preview:

Image credit: – BoredatWork :) lol…. nice name and thanks for the image!!!

Not very long ago we told you about the beta release of Microsoft office 2010 and also gave the link to download office 2010 for free. Now, Microsoft has announced the prices of the new Office 2010. we’ve got the details below. This is purely a product key that can be purchased, for people who have purchased a PC with Office 2010 already installed. So you can easily convert the trial version or the beta version to full version of Office.
If you want to try Office 2010 then there is always the possibility of the English beta version to download. The beta was within seven weeks more than 2 million times downloaded, these are about 40,000 downloads a day.
Version Boxed Product Product Key Card
Office Home and Student $ 149 (103 euros) $ 119 (82 euro)
Office Home and Business $ 279 (194 euros) $ 199 (138 euros)
Office Professional $ 499 (327 euros) $ 349 (242 euros)
Prof. office. Academic $ 99 (68 euros)
Here is the price list comparison between different versions of Outlook

New Delhi, Jan 06: After the Mumbai terror strikes, anti-India elements in Pakistan are now planning an attack on Indian computer networks, intelligence agencies have warned.
Already Pakistani hackers are trying out a dry run against Indian networks through popular websites registered there after the Mumbai terror strikes, Home Ministry sources said here on Tuesday.
“Every time the relations between the two countries dampen, Pakistanis start attacking Indian computer networks and this has increased after the Mumbai terror attacks,” a Home Ministry source said.
Pakistani hackers have created websites such as the www.songs.pk, which are infested with software to hack data from the targeted computers, it said.
“The website www.songs.pk has over 12 lakh Indian users who are downloading stuff from these websites daily,” said a cyber expert in the Ministry.
With these websites being highly popular, it will take only a few minutes for the hackers to take command of over 12 lakh computers in few minutes and the number of such computers can multiply in every minute, sources said.
“Instead of the existing less harmful virus, new ones such as Botnet and Zoombie can be easily released into the Indian computers, which later on replicate and make the entire server vulnerable,” the expert said.
“Nowadays new virus and worms are detected while downloading songs from these websites, which could be just a dry run to manage a bigger attack,” he said.
Government websites have been highly vulnerable to hacking and they have been intruded many times by the Pakistani hackers.
“Most of the time, these cases are not reported as the server is based in Pakistan and we cannot do anything in this regard,” the expert said.
The anti-virus software, too, cannot work in such situation as the virus used in such cyber wars are usually new and the anti-virus software cannot identity and detect it, he said.
“If anti-virus software cannot identify the signature of the virus coming through Internet, it will not detect it and as a result the virus will be downloaded in the computer in spite of such software available in the network,” the expert added.
Source: Zee News.

