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Google released a new version of their chat client Google Talk titled Google Talk Labs Edition. If you want to take it for a test ride you can download it here.

But before you download. Here are my opinions about it after I installed it today.

The looks of the client are somewhat different from it’s predecessors and are pretty much fresh.

The downside is that you cannot send or recieve files using this new GTalk messenger.

A detailed update soon. Keep coming back.

While most of us are still stuck with dual-core microchips (if that), Intel is prepping to launch a six-core processor in the second half of 2008. While the company currently offers a few four-core, or quad-core, models of its chips, most currently-sold machines still come with the more affordable dual-core CPUs installed.

The six-core chip is code-named Dunnington and will be built using the same 45nm process that Intel is using for its just-released Penryn-class chips. Another key feature is the chip’s large level of level 3 (or L3) cache, 16MB, which is one of the memory buffers between the processor and RAM that are used to speed the overall performance of the chip. Most current Intel chips don’t use any L3 cache, instead using only L2 cache: L3 has historically been limited to server-class computer chips, though AMD’s Phenom chip has 2MB of L3 onboard. (Bottom line for those who don’t understand any of this stuff: This chip ought to be blazing fast, at least on paper.)

The bigger question now becomes what Joe Average might actually do with six cores of processing power available to him. Numerous performance benchmarks have shown little real-world advantage in moving from two cores to four, even in high-end applications. Users who spend most of their time browsing the web and replying to email will find even less of a performance boost. That said, other computer components tend to get faster and more capable alongside new CPUs, so a Dunnington-based computer ought to feel very fast at booting, loading applications, and running complex processes like spell-checking a large document. Running an antivirus scan in the background which bogs down most computers should be no problem on a six-core CPU, too.

Expect Dunnington to arrive first for desktop PCs later this year. Intel hasn’t said whether laptops are part of the plan for the technology, but given quad-core’s limited introduction on notebook computers, I’d expect this to remain hard to find in a portable format for some time. More details as they emerge.

Not long after Steve Jobs thumbed his nose at Flash Lite for the iPhone, Microsoft says it’ll go ahead and license the pared-down version of Flash for its smartphones.

For chatters using the Windows Mobile version of Internet Explorer, that’ll mean fewer Web pages that say “This browser does not support Flash,” along with more embedded Flash videos and interactive graphics. (The Windows Mobile version of Opera already comes with Flash Lite support.)

Flash Lite is a relatively bare-bones version of Adobe’s desktop Flash player—and as such, it can’t properly render Web pages built with the latest and greatest version of the Flash development tools.

But Flash Lite on the mobile Internet Explorer will be better than nothing, which is what iPhone users are essentially stuck with when it comes to browsing Flash-embedded Web pages on the iPhone’s Safari browser.

The iPhone does have a dedicated YouTube application that lets you watch “Leave Britney Alone!!!” and “Don’t Taze Me, Man!!!” over and over. But embedded Flash videos are all over the Web, and it’s pretty sad that the iPhone—the “Internet in your pocket,” as Jobs put it—still can’t display them.

Earlier this month, Jobs said that Flash Lite “is not capable of being used with the Web,” while the desktop version of Flash would run too slowly on the iPhone. However, Sir Steve doesn’t seem to have any stop-gap measures up his sleeves.

Anyway, it’s not clear when exactly Windows Mobile users will actually get the Flash Lite plug-in for IE. One would think that a simple software update would do the trick; however, Windows Mobile OS updates have often taken months to trickle down the pipe.

In the initial span of time for the use of Internet, the terms “computer conferencing” and “web conferencing” were generally used to specify to group discussions that were conducted within a message board (through posted messages) i.e. they were not live. But with the advancement of technology, the term has grown to refer particularly to “live” meetings, while the posted message variety of discussion is called a “message board”, “forum”, or “company bulletin board”, since these days live discussions are more effective. The concept of web conferencing is one of the most efficient, easiest and cheapest means for meeting with small audience or large audiences at the same time and that too within your budget .It enables people to talk to a number of participants simultaneously and get their responses immediately.

Audio conference call service systems significantly reduces conferencing costs Tele conference calls involve telephone solutions only - no internet or web-based technology. It reduces overall business travel expenses and eliminates potential risk factors to employees. Instead of the deployment of the complete or process redevelopment or network face-lifts; a network add-on is often simpler and more effective. Conference call rates are cheap and even allow timely, productive and effective communications between employees, businesses, investors, suppliers, and customers on a 24 by 7 basis without any hassles or disruptions.

Web conferencing provides a great combination of the advantages of the Internet together with voice conferencing to enable you to carry on online meetings and events like a face to face meeting with the aid of audience response tools, visuals, and other features with ease making your events and meetings productive, more interactive, entertaining and engaging through inexpensive conference call.

Conference calling, using standard telephone equipment and speaker phones, was a new way to reach out and connect with distant clients. In the initial span of time for the use of Internet, the terms “computer conferencing” and “web conferencing” were generally used to specify to group discussions that were conducted within a message board (through posted messages) i.e. they were not live. But with the advancement of technology, the term has grown to refer particularly to “live” meetings, while the posted message variety of discussion is called a “message board”, “forum”, or “company bulletin board”, since these days live discussions are more effective. Now, companies can save significant travel expenditure by using tele conferencing – get connected with 5, 10, or 50 co-workers, clients, or customers.

One needs to have an internet connection for web conferencing. Web conferencing requires application software that enables any user to communicate with other conferencing people using internet. This application is provided by a “host” company which charges for using it. The people involved can exchange their ideas, information and data easily and the presenter can get the feedback immediately from all the people concerned simultaneously. This can be either an application that is downloaded on each of the attendee’s computers or an application that is web-based where the attendees simply have to enter a “URL” or website meeting address to enter and participate in the conference or live meeting. These web applications use either Java or Flash technology for their functioning. For many individuals and businesses entities, conference calls alleviate the unnecessary cost and troubles of travel by providing a platform to contact different people at the sane time.

Organizations that have attained a high level of information security can bring down such spending by 2008. Conversely organizations, which have not been able to reach a certain level of security or have not invested enough, may have to spend a greater part of their budget on security during the next few years.

In 2006, the number of companies, which have been spending more than a million per year on computer security and spam, has almost doubled. In spite of that they continue to suffer from internal and external security violations owing to employee carelessness and increased hacking practices. They experienced intra company attacks such as theft, sabotage or global destruction in computer networks. It is therefore important that the companies devote more attention to avoiding cyber crime.

The solutions to most IT problems lie in implementing appropriate technology efficiently and effectively. Organizations that suffer routine attacks and threats must be more mature in rooting out the problems. Security should be given executive attention, treated like a business issue, and not just a technology problem.

A layered defense is the best defense against security attacks. They overlap on the computer networks to detect and react to security violations. If multiple security measures are deployed, companies can detect a far greater number of attacks than with fewer controls. This way cyber crime can be held back more effectively.

Nowadays, we find functional convergence in security products. This refers to collating formal, collaborative strategies of cumulative security products of an organization to deliver benefits through reduced risk severity, increased operational efficiency, and reduced costs. The practice is to combine firewalls, antivirus, antispam, and host intrusion prevention into single products to provide a one time fully managed security.

Since time factor is important in deciding when to adopt a new security technology, an early investment on a technology may increase the risk of an immature technology, while too slow investment can enhance the risk of being left behind making the organization vulnerable.

Thus the above discussion points at the importance of computer security, which should be handled carefully and judiciously for maximum results.

Just a few years ago, web-based learning through PCs was seen as revolutionary. Companies could put their orientations and ongoing trainings on line and all employees would get standardized learning. Soon, with the spread of wifi, router-based, and satellite wireless networks, people could tap into this type of training while on the run. A salesperson could get trained in the latest marketing presentation while riding on a plane to her or his next destination. Or a person could get oriented to their new job from home before the first day they work.

Now, web-based trainings have taken another step forward due to the technology involved in internet-enabling devices besides computers. There are some obvious examples of how this might work. For example, your TV may be connected to the internet in a way that allows you to tune in to a training or conference as easy as changing to a specific channel. You could use your DVR and truly get the most out of the conference.

There are also less obvious but still valuable examples of the potential of internet enabled devices. For example, an internet enabled printer could tap into web-based trainings in helping you maximize the quality of photographs before printing them. You could learn how to crop, sharpen, lighten, etc. your photos by having an online guide that directs real-time information to a nearby computer. That web-based guide, because the device is internet enabled, can actually know what you’ve just done and direct you about whether that was correct or not. If you have an internet-enabled all-in-one device, you could also learn how to scan and fax for maximum results.

There are even some far out, but truly interesting ways this technology could be used. In the kitchen, internet-enabled appliances could actually teach you how to cook as you go, sending information to a nearby monitor about when food is done, or ready for the next step. An internet enabled coffee maker could use web-based training to help you brew perfect coffee that responds in real time to the fineness of the ground beans, the temperature of the water, or the density of the resulting beverage.

In all of these examples, web based learning would take place in real time, and could lead to new skills being developed. And in each example there is also the potential of tapping into live help. In the first example, a guide could catch you up with whatever youd missed in the conference if you arrive late. In the internet enabled printer example, live help could assist you when a document presents particular difficulty the person on the other end could see what is going on in real time. In the third example, a cook could teach people how to cook her or his recipes almost like he or she is there even checking the temperature and other information from their remote location.

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of web based learning and internet enabled technology is the ability for people to do things together even when they are far apart. Literally hundreds of people could be part of a web based conference that helps them learn the latest uses for an internet enabled device. Or, your friend, relative, or teacher who knows how to do something you don’t could provide you with web based learning where they can see and react to your input on an internet-enabled device.

Latest version of Adobe Flash Player which happens to be version 9 supports H.264 video support. HD6DVD high definition video players, Blu-ray all these make use of the same standard

It makes use of ActionScript 3.0, which is a very powerful object-oriented programming language of the Adobe® Flash® Player runtime environment. Using ActionScript 3.0, developers can Develop rich Internet applications (RIAs) based on ECMAScript.

It also has a New virtual machine, which was built from ground zero to support the next generation Action scripts.

Other features include Increased performance and Enhanced security. The Optimized compiler and the new virtual machine will ensure the ActionScript 3.0’s execution to be atleast 10 times faster than earlier. As a result of which the application startup time decreases (Adobe claims to have seen 50% reduction in the start up time and memory usage). There is alos improvement in the text readability department, smoother scrolling of large text blocks with optimized text rendering routines.

For end users it’s all about safe browsing. Adobe has enforced a lot of securtiy components for data, applications, content and URLs to safeguard sensitive data.

According to Adobe this new player also supports High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support, as well as hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback. H.264 playback enabled Adobe Flash Player will be supported by the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and applications developed with Adobe AIR software, including Adobe Media Player.

If you a publishers who often puts up video content on the web, now you can deliver high quality video content on the web and let your viewers enjoy it.

Apart from Windows, Adobe Flash Player 9 for Solaris now available. Adobe delivers Flash Player 9 for Solaris Sparc and Solaris x86 platforms. And also Flash Player 9 is available for Linux, extending its reach to the broadest audience to date.

Here is the Adobe Press Release.

USB, has been one of the biggest and most widely used success story in the history of computing. When the USB’s came into existence, the slow serial and parallel cables used for transferring and storing data was replaced by faster technology, which came at a cheaper cost and with an added advantage of low power usage.

USB 1.1 was replaced by much faster USB 2.o, which by all standards is faster. The USB fans were all happy about it, but they have more to celebrate about now. USB 3.o should be out in the market sometime soon and yes it definitely will be much faster and efficient than its predecessors.

USB 2.o had capacity to handle bandwidth upto 480 Mbps but with USB 3.o, the bandwidth is roughly scaled up to 4.8 Gbps, which accounts to 10 times faster than what the USB 2.o had to offer.

This new standard was recently demonstrated, and the demonstration made use of a optical cable. Best features - it is compatible with older USB formats and it’s better power efficiency techniques will help decrease the load on portable devices. This is a good sign for me as my “Reliance Netconnect” can longer now ;).

Possibly in the works: Better ability to charge devices over USB, some of which still require an A/C adapter or two USB connections to draw enough juice.

Specs are planned to be delivered early next year with commercial availability for 2009.

Are you losing sleep on the thought of your competitors using your next major concept? A new software program is available that you can use to prepare confidentiality agreements and thereby save on legal fees. This is a customizable program called ConfidentialityWizard from Neustel Software and helps users to prepare highly specific terms of agreement. For business owners who need to create non-disclosure agreements, this is a very handy tool.

Although cheap versions of various form agreements can be found on the Internet, none are as flexible as ConfidentialityWizard, claims Michael Neustel, who is a U.S. patent attorney and also the creator of this program. Instead of getting a lawyer to prepare a single form, which would involve a high fee, users can prepare an unrestricted number of confidentiality agreements for $99 by using ConfidentialityWizard.

Chairman and CEO of Dell, Michael Dell recently launched the company’s new line of desktop and notebook computers aimed particularly at businesses that have lesser than 25 employees. This line called ‘Vostro’ has features like data backup, network setup, and PC maintenance that will greatly aid such organizations lacking IT specialists.
Vostro in Latin means “yours”. The name is indicative of Dell’s attempt to provide small businesses with products that are simple and inexpensive and are also supported by highly effective service.

Vostro computers do not have any trial ware or limited versions of software that require re installation later on. For the first year, free versions of customized support tools will be available on these computers. These tools include the following: Automated PC Tune-Up, which makes maintenance tasks very simple; Dell Network Assistance, which greatly facilitates network set-up and repair; and Dell DataSafe Online, which helps in online data backup. Moreover, 6,500 Dell employees have been assigned to provide technical support for Vostro users.

At a meeting recently, Dell remarked that entrepreneurs have been for too long forced to incorporate solutions intended for either consumers or large corporates into their highly specific environments. He said that Vostro will empower owners of small businesses by allowing them to choose exactly those IT solutions that will enable them to be successful.

The Vostro line has four notebooks with screen sizes varying from 14 to 17 inches. The price of notebooks starts at $449, while that of desktop PCs starts at $319. In late August, a performance desktop is expected to hit the market. Visit the following site for more information on products: www.dell.com/webelieve