Google announced it will start testing a new broadband network that will deliver speeds of more than 100 times faster than traditional broadband.
The Internet search giant is aiming to link up with states and municipalities to build and test a fiber-optic network that will offer download speeds of about 1 gigabit per second. Google said that speed would be fast enough to download a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes.
[Source: CNN Money]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
There comes a point in many epic stories where the hero must team with its erstwhile rival to take on an even greater threat. For Apple, that time may be now. A report in BusinessWeek suggests that Apple may be in talks with Microsoft to replace the iPhones default search engine, Google, with Microsofts own offering, Bing.
[Source: MacWorld]
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Today, we’re happy to announce that Similar Images is graduating from Google Labs and becoming a permanent feature in Google Images. You can try it out by clicking on “Find similar images” below the most popular images in our search results. For example, if you search for jaguar, you can use the “Find similar images” link to find more pictures of the car or the animal.
via Official Google Blog: Similar Images graduates from Google Labs.
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Posted by Teb Locke
Google never says how many servers are running in its data centers. But a recent presentation by a Google engineer shows that the company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future.
[Source: Data Center Knowledge]
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Google Inc. is launching a new service for booksellers next year called Google Editions, which will let readers buy books and read them anywhere on gadgets ranging from cellphones to possibly e-book devices.
[Source: Wall Street Journal]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Microsoft Office to go online — for free
Posted by Jon Fortt, senior writer
July 13, 2009 9:30 AM
The last version of Office didn’t include a free online version. The next one will. Image: Microsoft
It’s too early to say Microsoft has checkmated Google in online documents – the latest version of Office hasn’t shipped yet. But the sleeping giant in Redmond has clearly woken up to the Internet threat.
Get this: Microsoft – the king of paid software – will announce today that it is going to give a version of Office away for free online. Both the online and desktop versions are scheduled to arrive in the first half of next year. Yes, you read that right. The latest version of its ubiquitous productivity software, dubbed Office 2010, will come as both a piece of software you can buy for your computer, and as a service you can access in your browser. [UPDATE: Microsoft says it will support the Firefox and Safari browsers as well as IE.]
For free. From Microsoft.
via Microsoft Office to go online — for free – Big Tech – Fortune Brainstorm Tech.
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Posted by Teb Locke
The Official Google Blog announced the Google Chrome OS on Tuesday, July 7th. The key aspects of the operating system are
“speed, simplicity and security”. Netbooks running the Google Chrome OS should be available during the second half of 2010.
7/07/2009 09:37:00 PM
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
via The Official Google Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html)
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To Aid Mexico, Google Expands Flu Tracking
New York Times
By MIGUEL HELFT
Published: April 30, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has released a new version of its Flu Trends service that is tailored for Mexico in the hope of helping health officials and others track the spread of swine flu in that country.
Google Flu Trends, which was first released in the United States, in November, tries to track the incidence of flu based on the ebb and flow of searches for keywords related to influenza. The company called its Flu Trends for Mexico experimental because unlike in the United States, it does not have historical surveillance data to validate that its search data correlates to actual infections.
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