Google get smalller in China
Google loses market in China…
China’s largest Internet portal Sina have replaced Google’s services with its own technology. This is a real setback for Google’s presence in the country.
Google has lost market in China since January last year, when the company that it will not longer agree to censor the content to comply with the Chinese government’s rules. Google have also accused China of blocking the e-mail service Gmail, which, however, is denied by China
Google is one of the few companies that have stood up to China, but according to Google, it is not just China that censor, they claims that more than 40 governments worldwide use of large-scale censorship of information via the Internet.
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YouTube start to using HTML5
Googles YouTube will start using WebM… Will this be the death of Adobe Flash?
The war between Adobe (Flash) and Apple, because Apple’s continued refusal to flash in their system, has probably no one miss.
Many have believed and claim that this going to be flash’s death, and Adobe has been fighting for their flash as their program. Adobe flash is the biggest one on the market.
But there are also quite a few, including me, who said that Apple’s refusal to Flash will not have too much significance to flash to be or not be on the Web in coming years. This is because of YouTube video clips, archival work in flash.
But now it’s perhaps over …
Google has announced that all new videos uploaded on YouTube from now will be encoded to the open format Webm. But for YouTube, to konventera all video-clips, that is already on the site, will take time, so flash will still be an important part of YouTube for some time foreward.
Google has also announced that they will end with their own “Google Video” this service never have a real breakthrough. On May 15 they shut down this service.
Browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Opera are already prepared for WebM while Internet Explorer and Safari have to install a plugin to run the video in this format
To read the latest news and updates from the WebM project click here
Android Honeycomb Source Code Available
the source code for Google’s Android operating system version Honeycomb is available
Computer manufacturer Asus is the company that have uploaded the source code Android Honeycomb, even before Google itself.
Asus has recently launched their new pad, Transformer, and when it made the the source code the Honeycombs kernel available.
On their site, they say that is version V8.2.2.6 and the file is a 97 megabyte zip file. The entire code for Android 3.0, you will not get, but probably enough to interest developer to start developing for other devices than Transformer.
Asus haven’t done anything wrong, they simply followed the rules under the GNU General Public License (GPL), there it actually says that the source code of a product must comply with or be made available.
Google itself has not released the code and the have even delayed the delivery of the operating system to developers. The only thing thatis been around software development kit for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, that has been available since late February.
Nexus S, how good is it?
Google mobile Nexus S, how good is it?
Very good if you listen to the reviews and look at all tests made, Engadget even went so far as they Gave it reviewed ,” The best Android mobile ever made ”
Nexus S is a clean Android phone without any superimposed interface, and that means that you will get the latest updates first.
Nexus S is very fast, and Android 2.3 it also faster than previous versions. But Nexus S have get strong criticism that it dont have space for a micro-sd card, so for those who buy a Nexus S may simply be content with a built-in memory of 16 gigabytes .
Google Chrome 11
Google Chrome 11 coming soon…
At first glance, Google’s new Chrome 11 appear to function similarly to previous versions: a clean, simple browser that is significantly faster than most competitors.
But under the surface are there some interesting new features. The most intressting features is support HTML5 röstinmatnings API, a demo is available on HTML5 Rocks. It shows you how this could work right now – talking into the microphone, and your words appear in a text box – but more dynamic applications will proberly not be too far away.
Chrome 11 have also adds support for GPU-accelerated 3D CSS Transforms, which makes it possible to do more complex sites with minimal impact on your CPU usage. It is however surprising that Google is investing in 3D features. Chrome have earlier ther old icons with a flatter, more stylized version. And of course there are the usual pile of bug fixes, performance and other technical optimizations.
Google Declares War On Content Farms
Last week Google made one of the biggest changes to its search results so far.
This means a dramatic effect on many sites that rely on traffic from Googles search-engine.
Google changes their algorithms all the time to get that the most relevant sites will come top of search results.
Usually it is small changes that few people notice. But this tiome is a much more radical change – according to Google are 12 percent affected of the changes.
The pages that appear to be most affected are so-called content farms* – sites based on content that will draw much traffic from search engines.
Huffington Post and AOL are examples of companies that have been accused of using this tactic.
Lots of people are not happy, and on WebmasterWorlds forum are people express their dissatisfaction over the change, and one disappointed site owner writes “My good. I just lost 40% of my traffic from Google today” .
But not everyone is unhappy with Google’s changes, Google’s algorithms are a zero sum game, and many other sites-owner are happy over this changes.
* In the context of the World Wide Web, the term content farm is used to describe a company that employs large numbers of often freelance writers to generate large amounts of textual content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by automated search engines. Source Wikipedia.
Gmail get safer
Google make your mail safer.
Now, if you want.. can log in to your account with your login password and a Verification-code that will be sent to your mobile phone.
Google gave company-users this option in September last year. Now, can normaly user that wants, use the same function. It will ensure that your information safe even if the password is side-tracked.
For the two-stage validation to work for it then to have with their mobile phone. If you have a Google Account can activate it your account, under ManageAccount.
Internet is not open
China have blocked Linkedin.
Chinese authorities block Linkedin as part of the fight against the so-called “jasmine revolution. Users in Beijing who were trying to reach Linkedin was shown an error and Linkedin have confirmed the blockage.
Chinese authorities keep the internet in an iron grip. Politically sensitive content is regularly down and blocked.
I have in a eraly post writing about Googles problem in China, to read about click here.
Recent weeks have become tougher restrictions, as a result of mass protests in the Middle East. And now is anything containing the word Jasmin blocked in the search engines
Previously, both Facebook and Twitter blocked. The entire Internet has also shut down several times in different regions, sometimes for months.
The blocking of Facebook and Twitter have done to national social networks have become increasingly popular. And in the current situation, China has the world’s largest Internet population, 457 million users.
Microsoft’s is a major competitor than Facebook says Google
Google’s outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt is disappointed that Nokia chose Microsoft as a partner.
Around the same time he acknowledges Bill Gates’s creation as the main competitor in the foreseeable future.
- At present and for a long time, Microsoft is our main competitor. There is no doubt about it, “says Google’s outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt.
He will soon hand over as CEO to one of Google’s two founders – Larry Page – and himself take a step back from the light as chairman. But at the Mobile World Congress takes Eric Schmidt good time to answer questions from the large public. Perhaps to compensate for its otherwise unusual closed-communication policy.
Eric Schmidt comments on Bill Gates word for for 21 years ago: “Information at your fingertips”. Was entirely correct. But it has taken this long for technology to get there.
At same time that Eric Schmidt celebrates the visionary genius of Bill Gates and Microsoft he also says that Facebook and Twitter is not a competition to Google and in the same time he praises both Facebook and Twitter for there contributions to social networking.
Working at Google
Would you like to work for Google?
Then you need to hurry up and post your resume, Google received 75 000 applications in only one week. But then you should have in mind, that Google has gone out with they need to employed 6000 people during the year and with their strong brand name is it not to surprising.
But it is certainly the largest number of candidates that had search job on Google since May 2007. In 2010 Google hired 4500 people and 2007 6 300th
In a blog post said Alan Eustace, research manager at Google, that 2011 will be the year when they will hire more employers.
According to the Financial Times, Google now looking for people with an entrepreneurial sense, instead of just really smart people.
Would you be one of those Google show interest in it is no guarantee that you will get the job. you can expect to make up to twelve interviews… So good luck to everybody
Android 2.4 or not?
There have been many smart phones in the first quarter of 2011 with Android 2.3.
But the operating system will get an update to 2.4. Already in April, Google is expected to finalize the next version, which claimed to have only one major function, namely to provide support for applications that are customized for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and dual-core processors.
The fact that all the information around the Android 2.4 does not come directly from Google has caused many to distrust the data. The Website DownloadSquad say they believe more that Android 2.4 will instead be 2.3.3 or 2.3.4.
Still, are not all smartphones on the market today received the Android 2.2 or 2.3. Several manufacturers of smartphones are still optimizes 2.2 for their models and some have chosen not to update at all. Sony Ericsson for example, has said that the Xperia series, will not get Android 2.2 it will jump straight to 2.3 or 2.4 with the upcoming Sony Ericsson Arc and Neo.
A problem that already exists today is that consumers do not know which models will be updated and need to chance when purchase. Generally, the more expensive models are maintained better, while the budget variations are more uncertain. The manufacturers can not guarantee future updates, but users are in great hope for the best.
Future apps from Google
Google is constantly working to develop new apps, some are beneficial while some are completely unnecessary, but can be fun to watch. Here are a few that they work with at the moment, if they ever will see the light, I dare not answer.
Google Body Browser
Google does not want to restrict their searches to only the Web. Google Body, students can explore the body’s anatomy right in your browser. The service requires Google Chrome 9 or Firefox 4 to operate the service using Webgl for 3d graphics.
Google Flu Trends
Check with Google when the next influenza outbreak. With this service, we can see when the risk of infection is greatest.
Google Listen
Do you read RSS feeds often, it can sometimes be boring to read all the posts you follow. Then you can use Google Listen that reads out the latest news on your browser.
Google Mars
Are you interested in how Mars looks like there is also a search for it on Google, based on images from NASA.
Google Public Data Explorer
Do you have a penchant for statistics, so will you get your fill satisfied on the Google Public Data Explorer. Here are lots of statistics on the world and different countries.
Google Goggles
Google Goggles lets you search for places, products, artwork and more. Take a picture of something you want to know more about, Google will looking up for information by identifying what the picture depicts. Works best with Google apps for various mobile phones.
Google Books NGram Viewer
Google Books NGram Viewer is a side product from Google Books, which lets you search for how many times a particular word has been used in various journals published between 1950 to 2000.
Google Image Swirl
Google Image Swirl lets you explore images based on their relationship instead of a list. This is a great way to find images that are similar, even if you do not use an exact search term.
Aardvark
Aardvark is a query engine that I’ve written about before, its allows you to ask a question about anything, and one expert in the field will answer you. You can also itself become an expert in one or more areas.
Google Scholar
To find a specific article can sometimes be anything but easy. With Google Scholar you can search through a huge database of academic articles published over the years.
Google Moderator
Do you have a question or concerns you would like to have an opinion about, then you can consult Google Moderator. The service allows users from all over the world to answer your question, and users can then vote for the best answer.
Google solves your storage online
Dont you have enough space for your mail, document and photo on the web?
Google Web services comes with free storage. With Gmail, you get up to seven gigabytes for their email and on Google Docs and Picasa Web Albums are you get one gigabyte for each service.
If you want to get more space, you can use Google Storage that allows you to purchase additional gigabytes, which you can use free of Gmail, Google Docs and Picasa. An expansion to 20 gigabytes costs five dollars per year and 200 gigabytes costs $ 50.
If this is not enough for you! Google Storage can offer you up to 16 terabytes (16 000 gigabytes) of storage. Pricing is quite linear so if you need maximum space it will costs you $4,096 per year.
Google Storage still have a problem with a limitation. One uploaded file can “only” be one gigabyte.
Desktop notifications are now working in new Gmail
This is not my post, The auther is Stan Schroeder that writing on Mashable (The text is copy straight over) Thanks Stan Schroeder
If you’re one of those folks who has to keep checking your Gmail inbox for new messages every two minutes, here’s a cure: Gmail now lets you receive desktop notifications for new chat messages and/or e-mails.
To turn the feature on, click on Settings in the upper right corner of Gmail, scroll down and choose whether you want to be notified of chat messages, e-mails, or only important e-mails.
The new feature is HTML5-based and currently works only in Chrome, but Google says it’s working to make notifications part of the standard web platform.
Desktop notifications are nothing new and we’ve seen dozens of third-party apps that do it (GWatchman, for example, is a good choice), so if you don’t want to be dependent on Google Chrome, you can use one of those. Still, it’s nice to see Google recognizing this feature as important and integrating it into Gmail, which is still being improved upon at an amazing pace, with new features showing up almost on a weekly basis.
Planned downtime is not for Google.
The clause for planned outages have been removed from the Google Apps service.
Most of the companies that offering cloud services have a clause in the agreements relating to service interruptions due to planned maintenance. Google has now deleted the entry under the service agreement for its Google Apps customers.
- Unlike most other suppliers we do not plan any downtime for our users, even when we upgrade our services and maintain our systems, “said Matthew Glotzbach, product manager for Google enterprise products.
In practice, we trust Google so much that they have redundant systems that can handle the necessary maintenance without the services affected by rain.
It included all the downturn in its term, even those that are less than ten minutes. If uptime falls below 99.9 percent in a month Google will replacing the customer with three days extra time.
In 2010 was Gmail available 99.984 percent of the year, an average of seven minutes of downtime per month.
Have google steel JavaCode from Oracle?
Oracle has been submitted document to a district court in northern California. They accused Google of having copied the Java-code line for line, to their operative system Android
Google answer is, that the company neither has infringed or may be held accountable for violating Oracle’s copyright. The company also denies Oracle’s announcement that the code has been copied.
In same time Google accusing Oracle to be edited or deleted information on its copyright to a number of functions and files in the code that it refers to. Oracle requires in its atmosphere both damages and that Google, by court order to prohibit further infringement on Android.
The trial begins October 31 next year, according to a recent decision by the judge in the case, William Alsup. Prior to the case this will being discussed at a conference on 18 November.
10 Largest IT flop in 2010
Buzz
There was no bigger buzz surrounding Google’s try to challenger Twitter. After a launch, which was lined with issues surrounding user privacy, this was never any successes.
Apple Ping
Apple succeeds with almost everything it takes for itself in recent times. Almost. The social music service, Ping, did not to success. A social network that only works in iTunes, and have not led to greater usage.
Google Wave
Google Wave was supposed to revolutionize how we communicate with each other. The service was a mix of email and chat, almost no one understood how it could be used. Google Wave was closed just three months after launch.
Privacy on Facebook
Despite Facebook’s rapid growth the company has big problems to protect user privacy. The service has also been hit by several incidents and bugs that made it possible for third parties to collect private information about users.
McAfee’s False Alarm
Security company McAfee did a smash gaffe when released an update to one of their programs, that rated as a system file in Windows as malicious. The result: thousands of Windows computers crashed and the users had serious problems getting the computer to function normally again.
Palm Pre and WebOS
Palm hoped that Palm Pre and its operating systems, WebOS, would be a worthy contender to the iPhone. Sales have unfortunately gone so bad that most analysts do not even mention Palm Pre in their reports.
Surf Boards with Android
2010 was the year when surfing on Android-plates would take over. Even so, Apple iPad dominated sales, accounting for 95 percent of the market. The only real challenger is Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Iphone 4 Antennagate
Whether antenna problems Iphone 4 are justified or not, but Apple has a snap on the nose that shows how much the company’s customers expect from its products.
White Iphone 4
After months of promises from Apple, it has still not been a white model of Iphone 4th The latest bid is that it will be released sometime this spring. It might be better to drop the plans completely and instead go for a white model of the iPhone 5
Microsoft Kin
Microsoft attempts to create a socially mobile phone was doomed from the start. The only thing you could call “socially” was that you could use facebook on the phone. Microsoft Kin was closed just six weeks after launch.
Richard Stallman condemns Google Chrome OS
Open source icon Richard Stallman does not like Google’s web-based operating systems.
Google has start to demonstrated the Web-based operating system OS Chrome but, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, does not like what he sees.
According to Richard Stallman are Google forcing users into what he calls “senseless data management”, it writes The Guardian. The criticism is directed to that our information is stored on servers we do not control which may have unforeseen legal consequences.
Richard Stallman, says, we have as individuals a shelter if we store our information on our own private computer. We store information on our company’s computer, or in the cloud on Google’s servers then we are uprotected claims Stallman. Stallman also think that the problem will grow.
But Stallman thinks, many people will go against sensless data management, and say thet the user will be the losers.
The user that put their information in the cloud will give access to their information to any goverment to without presenting a remand order.
Microsoft Office 365 do not take Google Docs serious
One of Microsoft’s executives have said in a statement said that their cloud is more business-aligned than Google.
Last month, Microsoft released Office 365 which includes Exchange and Sharepoint. The company denies that it has been designed to compete with Google’s web applications, but Eron Kelly as head of Microsoft’s department of marketing of enterprise applications, says that many corporate users have come to Microsoft after testing Google Apps.
- Googles Docs are missing important features, such as delegating access thats allows a user to handle your personal calendar. Although Active Directory integration is lacking, “says Kelly.
- I think Google has an interesting consumer service. They have given this service a name and it makes people interested, “continues Kelly.
One of Google representatives, Andrew Kovacs dismiss such claims.
- The truth is that our business is accelerating and our re-investment rate of profits is greater than 90 percent. More companies are switching to Google than Microsoft.
Firefox starts with silent updates
Mozilla comes with a function for silent updates in the next version of Firefox, where the browser automatically updated to the latest version without user intervention.
This functionality will be included in the next version of Firefox, version 4. But only for the Windows version of the browser. According to Mozilla, Mac and Linux will still get updates like today.
For Windows users who want to retain control over whether an update should be done or not, will it be possible to set the silent update to active or not. But for the really big updates, such as from version 4.0 to 4.5, the browser will still ask for permission, regardless of settings, said Alex Faaborg, developers of Mozilla in a forum post.
Unlike Google’s Chrome, which started the trend by removing the end-user from updating equation, September 2008 has no way to turn this off.
