Google Apps for education had a big year. This emphasizes the push of Google for cloud computing. This push brought about a 99.9% up time for certain Apps by Google. 2008 is considered an action packed year for Google Apps education edition. Cloud computing by Google Apps has been discussed with relevance to the business context. Now it is clear that, this is quite applicable to the field of education as well.

There are various factors which make Google Apps Education quite important. This includes a 7.276626 email accounts, shared calendar and the collaboration tools directly from the browser. This is provided by Google free without any advertising for students, faculty and other staff members.

Google Apps education edition could be integrated with various application programming interfaces. This could be integrated with open Standards as well. Various add-on security as well as compliance tools are available at a reduced cost, up to around 66% discount. This also makes available Google video for education.

With this, Google is trying to change the way, students are educated in schools. The educational properties highlight the benefits of the education edition of Google Apps. The properties are designed to show the relevance of this Google Apps edition for changing the education method in schools.

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According to the recent news from the world of webmasters, search engine giants, Microsoft and Google has been sued by a company called Cygnus Systems. This is over the patent of icon Software infringement. The leading company Apple is also involved in the list of companies sued by Cygnus.

The company had already claimed that it holds the patent rights on a feature used by browsers. This feature for common file preview is being used by operating systems for showing the snapshots of files to users, before being opened. The company’s court filings, declare that Windows Vista, Google chrome etc are using this feature.

The company has the rights for the System and the patent of the management of the iconic software. The company had applied for this in the year 2001 and the US Patent and Trademark office granted this in March 2008.

The company is now investigating on some other potentially infringing products, which they have already identified. It is expected that the company will be trying to file suits against several other companies apart from Google, Apple and Microsoft. The company will be publishing this list in a short while when they go for court filing against them.

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The Mystery team which had enrolled in the Lunar X prize competition almost a year back has recently revealed their identity. This happened in a conference which was conducted in the NASA Ames Research Center.

This company called Next Giant Leap consists of various members coming from different areas like aerospace, academic and other business communities. They have declared that their first year marked some great recruitment involving quality team members. This was aimed at achieving their goals. Their world class team had assembled to take a step towards the winning of the Google X prize. This will eventually establish NGL as a commercial level services company.

When this goes public, the company believes that, they will be having a team of experienced participants and various innovative and small scale companies.

The company consists of Microsat Systems, Inc, Draper Laboratory, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aurora Flight Sciences, Busek Co.Inc. Their specialization is hence wide spread and more innovation oriented. They have a great academic partner and have a strong confidence when trying for the X prize, which is in fact something big from Google. This is why the CEO of the X prize foundation finds it good to make this secret go public for the benefit of the team as a company.

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Google has taken out chrome from Beta recently. After this, Google has come up with a helping hand to consider browser security. Google is providing the Browser Security Handbook for ensuring this.

This resource is primarily aimed at the application developers. Browser engineers and other researchers working in information security area could make use of this handbook. This will provide a proper insight into the major security concerns of the Internet Explorer and other browsers including Opera and FireFox.

Google considers that most of the security flaws happen because of the failure from the part of the web content developers and other engineers. Hence, Google has taken an attempt to fight against this absence of information, which it considers a major reason for the security problems.

Google is trying to make the web safer for use by the internet lovers. With this aim, they are issuing this book to the public. This is a 60 page document. It provides proper information on various security features and other characteristics which are common to all browsers. Implementation tips are provided to the application developers as well. This will help the future engineers when they work on the security enhancements from the browser side.

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Google has recently declared that they are committed to Network neutrality. They have announced that, their search results will never be biased towards the source, ownership or the destination of the content in the web pages.
Broadband providers are asked not to allow the traffic to be directed on the basis of any of the above. They should be allowed to upgrade their network including edge caching, but they should never be allowed to prioritize the results displayed to the users.

Google is a supporter of various methods to enhance the web performance. This includes edge caching which will store the data in a temporarily manner. However, Google doesn’t consider this as a violation of their network neutrality concept.

Google has made it clear that, they don’t have any opposition towards the collocation or caching policies of the broadband providers. None of the agreements made by Google for collocation wants it that the traffic from Google search engine needs to be prioritized over other search engine results. Google warns that, the policies followed by the broadband providers should not affect the open internet or the innovation of the internet in a positive manner. This is why Google is committed to the neutrality of network.

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Usually when you search for results using queries with the help of search engines, you will get details including web pages and URL links.

A recent patent application from Microsoft describes how images could be displayed as web pages to the searchers, when search results are being shown. This patent application also considers how images could be displayed to the users, if there is more than one image in a single page.

The search engine will determine the importance of each image in the website using automated process. Based on the features of the image, the dominance will be evaluated. If different images have same dominance, one that is more relevant to the query will be considered for display. The features generally considered include the size of the image, the location of the web page etc.

For this patent, Microsoft explored different image level features as well as page level features. This even included the features from a website level. Thus, images will help in determining the page rank by the search engines. As a result, this will change the interests of website users, especially search engine users when using Microsoft search engine patent in getting images for their searches.

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If you thought you were the only one who turned to Wikipedia in times of need you’re not alone. There are many individuals who need to refer to Wikipedia on a daily basis to know about things, learn more, or simply read. It’s become a trusted name and there are way too many hits they get each day. In order to take the Wikipedia experience a step further, now you can refer to wiki even on the move because what you’ve been silently hoping for is now a reality. Here’s your access to the newly launched official mobile site.

Of course there’s no dearth of information sources but the old soul will always take a look at Wikipedia. The best thing being your mobile version has been kept basic and simple just the way wiki users like it. To make the surfing experience even more pleasant, there’s the spoken Wikipedia link which is likely to ensure that the article will be read t you whenever you look for any information. Certainly makes the website even more appealing in today’s cutthroat SEO competition. Of course, it’s just the start but it’s certainly a space that you should be watching, to make things on the go so much easier.

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Local web pages in the personal computer of users could be a main place for attack through internet. Mailing websites like gmail will not be able to do something which will prevent internet attack from directly affecting user’s desktop by sending downloadable pages to the local machine. The security policy implemented by Google chrome has various security features which prevent the attacks that can happen through the downloadable pages. This will help users to be safe from attacks through pages downloaded with Chrome and opened with other browsers.

Chrome will use the mark of the web technique to mark a website so that when other browsers like Internet Explorer sees the page, will consider the page as unknown site.

If the user has a default browser, pages downloaded by Google chrome will be launched using the same default browser. This page will be allowed to view like any other web page, by bypassing the security protection that is integrated in the site. This will help an attack to be successful as well. This case is seen in many browsers, but chrome has successfully implemented their security policy 101. Chrome has provided a facility, wherein the browser will ask for confirmation before downloading the pages.

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For those webmasters who are trying to make their website social, will now get Google Friend Connect in a beta version. The recent post regarding this reveals that, this service will help webmasters to include social features in their websites. This will be possible with some simple copy of code, without having to perform advanced coding or other technical knowledge.

Many people want to socialize with the help of internet. For them, Friend Connect will provide the facility to simply sign in, create a customized profile after which look for those individuals who have the same interests. People will not have to go for creating a new account, since this service is built in a fashion that, users will be able to use the username and password provided in Google, Yahoo and AOL. Users could otherwise create a new profile or import one if they have set up one in social networks like Plaxo or Orkut.

The main goal of Friend Connect is to help in an open and social web. People will get an instant chance to interact with one another on the websites which they wished to visit for long. The developers of this community expect other webmasters to use this in their websites, thereby encouraging more and more user interaction in the web.

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