Internet has substantiated to be an awesome information source. All you need to do is surf the web and dig out relevant information with about almost anything and all credit goes to more and more induction of websites and portals to the internet sphere. From dates and updates to views and news and from online shopping to socializing over the networks etc, the span of internet oriented stuff has been able to engulf every aspect of life.

Internet is also massively used to ask questions and get answers to every day issue and problems. Answerbag, answers dot com and eHow are some of the portals which give this facility to users. Maybenow has been able to capture a unique statue among its competitors due to the availability of live help and support feature.

MayBeNow Web portal also offers free dedicated area to experts who can offer help in their area of expertise. All in all, this live help ask questions get answers portal allows you to get real help, from real people in real time.

If you’re searching the Internet for an online mortgage loan company, you’ll find many offering mortgage loans including, VA mortgage loan, FHA loans etc, but they all are not for you…. so be careful. Choosing the best among many of those offering mortgage loans online is a bit tricky but not difficult. You must know that there’re several types of lending companies, i.e. : direct lenders, brokers and mortgage auction sites. Here’re few tips that’ll help you finding one meeting your requirements.

• Identify your needs, i.e. you want to make a purchase or refinance?
• Know the approximate loan amount and property value.
• Answer questions online regarding your needs.
• Compare different mortgage loan companies.
• Select the one meeting your exact requirements.

Google is definitely looking forward to expand its course of action with mobile advertising after having Android in hand. Here Mashable talks about it like:

While there has been much talk that online advertising will decline in the current/coming recession, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, seems pretty bullish on what will happen with mobile advertising this year.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Google executive went against the predictions that mobile ads wouldn’t hit $1 billion in revenue until 2012. Reuters reported Schmidt as saying, “It’s the recreation of the Internet, it’s the recreation of the PC story, and it is before us — and it is very likely it will happen in the next year.”

He went on to say that he felt mobile advertising was nearing its tipping point because of features such as location-based advertising. By his theory, it will be situations such as people looking for a nearby restaurant because that will be “a very, very good business.”

Can such searches truly carry an entire industry past the magical $1 billion dollar mark? I’m doubtful, personally. Mobile advertising is going to be a very different beast from online advertising due to the very nature of the screen. On a full-sized computer monitor, I can train my eye to look around and through the ads to the point I hardly even register they exist any more. The problem on a mobile phone is its limited size. Everyone seems to think this supposed new ad boom is going to be some sort of wonderful new revenue stream. All I see it doing is annoying me thoroughly.

Google Chrome is not lively says TechCrunch:

Here’s what they said:
First up is Google Analytics, which doesn’t track Chrome usage separately from Firefox (why Firefox?) for now, even though other services made the change immediately. Since Chrome is a two-year project and shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone at Google, the cynic in me thinks they will wait until they have a few points of market share:

Q. Will I see Google Chrome listed as a browser in my Google Analytics reports?
A. Because Google Chrome was not launched externally until today, we haven’t yet changed Google Analytics to recognize it when you segment by browser within reports. However - this will change in the coming weeks (until then, the browser will show as Firefox). We’ll let you know when the change happens.

Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/03/google-chrome-not-so-lively/

Microsoft has confirmed that it will add several new privacy features to its forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser that will allow users to cover their digital tracks while surfing the Web.

“Users should be in control of their information. That’s at the core of privacy,” wrote IE 8 program manager Andy Zeigler in a blog post Monday. Ziegler used the post to confirm that IE 8 will include four new privacy features when it ships later this year.

InPrivate Browsing will let users control whether IE 8 saves their browsing history, cookies, and other Internet data. InPrivate Blocking will inform users about sites that can track their browsing history, and will allow them to block such activity. InPrivate Subscriptions will let users choose which Web sites to subscribe to or block.

Read more from source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210200838

Malware has managed to get off the planet and onto the International Space Station (ISS), NASA confirmed today. And it’s not the first time that a worm or virus has stowed away on a trip into orbit.

The attack code, which space news site SpaceRef.com identified Monday as “W32.Gammima.AG,” infected at least one of the laptops used on the station, an international effort headlined by the U.S. and Russia.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Kelly Humphries declined to identify the malware, saying only that antivirus software detected a worm on July 25.

Read more from source: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9113654&intsrc=news_ts_head

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that many publishers have started to notice that their Google AdSense ads are not showing up when someone accesses their pages via the Google cache.

For example, a recent Google cache copy of my personal blog does not show the AdSense ad at the top right of my blog. It simply does not render on the page. Typically, it would show to the right of the linkedin logo.

Some theories are that it is related to the Allowed Sites AdSense feature, but I don’t use that for my personal blog. Others just think it is a temporary Google bug. Time will tell.

Source: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/018100.html
More at: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3731841.htm

University students are to be taught the art of computer hacking, it has been announced.

The MSc ethical hacking and computer security course will give postgraduate students “detailed knowledge of electronic attacks”.

The University of Abertay, in Dundee, says its course will teach participants to identify vulnerabilities in computer systems and come up with methods to protect them. It is the first course of its type in the UK.

By becoming “ethical hackers”, the course’s graduates are in a position to work for computer companies and other large firms to protect networks.

It is predicted graduates could be earning up to £60,000 annually within a couple of years of completing the course.

Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, head of the school of computing and creative technologies, said years of “complacency and ignorance” in the industry meant there was a lack of security experts. He said: “There’s an enormous shortage of people with relevant skills to work on the security side of this industry.

Read more from source: http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHfCWjObjaU7_F38vxsLFg79Q0nA

A new version of laptop XPS M1330 of about 15.4 inch by Dell . This new laptop has weight less than six pounds, features a 1-inch profile, which involves a high definition widescreen 15.4-inch display, slot-load optical drive, DirectX 10 capable graphics, touch sensitive media buttons, and HDMI support. This dell machines can be personalized with three different colour choices - standard Tuxedo Black, optional Crimson Red and Alpine White.

It also comes with an optional Blu-ray drive, noise cancellation earbuds and a travel remote that can be stashed away in the ExpressCard card slot. It also provides a standard Wi-Fi wireless networking, and optional Bluetooth wireless and mobile broadband with a choice of wireless carriers.And can be connected to any network

It is hoped that the Wireless technology will be helpful to prevent car collisions and provide health monitoring in the upcoming  years  according to research.

Cars will be  built with sensors that automatically detect  emergency services after a crash, or prevent collisions by alerting vehicles of sudden braking, while handheld scanners could check food barcodes for allergy information, Ofcom’s Tomorrow’s Wireless World report said.

The  wireless technology  is growing with the upcoming needs of people and the electronics and is hoped to be  adapted in the  next 10 to 20 years. The research about wireless communication is  now “integral to our lives”, with mobile subscriptions outnumbering the total UK population by 10 million.

The researchers are said to prepare this type of technology  for future demands on the UK’s radio frequencies, or spectrum, that wireless services use.