ON2 Technologies is said to be the leading developer of the video compression technology. And Google eyed an advantage with the technology for the Google products, and is now currently in a deal to acquire it.
I am not actually interested of how much is the deal, which according to the report is in per stock basis that will worth a $106.5 million. What I really wonder is that how can Google use this for their own products.
We all know that Apple has rejected the Google Voice to be part of the ever popular iPhone. The reason of the Apple’s action is not clear, and caused the media to speculate.
One of the speculations over the issue is that Google Voice product and similar products like with that of Skype directly compete with the AT&T’s own wireless voice service. And the addition of Google Voice to the iPhone under AT&T will result into the degradation of their own product.
Google’s office at the Hyderadab was temporarily closed on Tuesday and Wednesday by the company because one of its contractual worker was found out being positive with the H1N1 virus.
The said office employed 250 workers. 95 of them were being screened for the H1N1 virus and four of them are urged to remain in the hospital while their samples are being tested.
No wonder that Microsoft is trying to do some steps to directly compete Google. Although Google is doing the same to Micrsoft but it seems that Microsoft is so serious about it that there came a time that Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo just to get its technology that might kill Google.
Google has made a move to directly compete Microsoft on its Office suit, but that of Google’s is based online and you can accessed all the docs you made by simply logging into the Google docs.
So, everyone is already expecting that Microsoft might do what Google did. And just recently, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Office 2010 will include the web-based Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. And there’s one note, these apps will be available to everyone for free.
Google is currently working for the release of its own Google Chrome OS that can be used to power netbooks. Unlike the Windows of Microsoft, Chrome OS is totally free. With this, the price of the netbooks will be lowered by more or less 15 percent.
In other words, it will be better to use the Google Chrome OS for the netbooks not just in price but also in speed, portability and compatibility.
While the events in Iran is ongoing, lots of contents are published in Youtube, blogs, Twitter and other social networking websites in Persian language. So, the introduction of the new capability of the Google Translate to translate contents in Persian language is of great timing.
The Chinese government asked Google to disable search features in its Chinese search engines that made available Western porn websites and other websites considered as inappropriate (gambling, and websites that contains vulgar contents) to Chinese users.