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Google introduces phone services By Maggie Shiels  Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley The new service will be available to existing users first Google has strengthened its mobile services with the debut of a service called Voice that could be a challenge to Skype and other phone firms. It lets customers make cheap international calls and gives them a speech-to-text feature for voicemail. The services are available thanks to Google's acquisition of phone firm GrandCentral which gives users a lifelong universal phone number. "This could be big. Google is seen as disruptive," said analyst Jon Arnold. "They are a wild card in telecoms and wireless but this is Google and they are very smart at what they do. "The core of Google's business is search and for a long time the industry was concerned about the GrandCentral acquisition. What was the fit? What was the motivation? It will be interesting to see where they ultimately go with this," said Mr Ar

Prevent Cyber crimes-Which is in your hands           In this fast forwarding digital age, every one must be very alert, specially home users are under threats so they need to be more secure.   To solve or to prevent such problems BBC team introduces security software to prevent you from such threats.      read the  BBC team exposes cyber crime risk 

Driving monetization with ads that reach the right audience Advertisers spend more money on campaigns that reach the right audience; helping them do that should drive more revenue to your websites. This week we're announcing plans to provide interest-based advertising across AdSense publisher sites to help achieve that goal. In the past, advertisers have taken advantage of  contextual  and  placement-targeted  advertising on AdSense publisher sites. With this enhancement they'll also be able to reach users based on their previous interactions with them, such as visits to the advertiser website, as well as reach users on the basis of their interests (such as "sports enthusiasts" or "travel enthusiasts").  Over the next few months we'll start offering interest-based advertising to a limited number of advertisers as part of a beta, and expand the offering later in 2009. Whether the advertiser's goal is to drive brand awareness or increase responses to t

Google Android could give new life to old PDAs by   Brad Linder  Mar 4th 2009 For years, people have been pointing out that you can Linux can give new life to old PC hardware. Just because your old Pentium 1 desktop doesn't run Windows Vista very well doesn't mean it's useless. Just throw a low profile Linux distribution like  Xubuntu  or  Puppy Linux  on there.  As PDA and cellphone software gets more capable, it's becoming clear that the same principle applies. Case in point, the Dell Axim X51v PDA was discontinued a few years ago. But it's capable of running the latest build of Google Android if you can shoehorn the operating system onto the PDA. The Axim has a 624MHz CPU and more storage space than many modern cellphones. As you can see in the video, it supports Android's touch features, and works with the on-screen keyboard.  The hacker who  managed to load Android  still hasn't gotten WiFi and power management feautres working. But it's still a pre