Google unveiled new technologies which Automatically captions in YouTube
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Google unveiled new technologies that will automatically bring text captions to many videos on the site. This the technology can only insert captions on English language speech. This could broaden the appeal of You Tube videos to millions of people around the world. The company said this would be available by the end of the week.
People who do not speak English, Google giving users the choice to use its automatic translation system to read the captions in 51 languages, this enables the users to use the captioning technology to read subtitles in their native language.
You Tube already has several hundred thousand videos that have closed captions, which typically come from broadcast networks that include them in their programs. But Mr. Harrenstien said the vast majority of clips on You Tube do not have captions and the new Google technology will generate them automatically. You Tube is initially applying the captioning technology only to a few channels, most of them specializing in educational content.
The company plans to gradually expand the number of channels that work with the automatic captioning technology. Mr. Harrenstien said that sometimes the auto-captions are good. Sometimes they are not great, but they are better than nothing if you are hearing impaired or don’t know the language.
Google also introduced a related service that gives anyone who uploads a video to You Tube the option to also upload a text file of the words spoken in the video. Google will turn the text file into captions, automatically matching the spoken words with the files. In addition to helping people who are deaf or do not speak English, the captions will make it easier for anyone to search text inside videos and find specific snippets within a video.
Read More Microsoft Next arrival of Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft talks about Next arrival of New Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft New Internet Explorer 9 is working on two of its items from my personal IE9 wishlist, faster JavaScript and the beginnings of HTML5 support.
Microsoft\'s browser honcho has a blog post up in which he talks about what this means for developers. It is a nicely straightforward one, with a chart that shows just how slow IE8\'s JavaScript is compared to the competition, and which even discloses that Microsoft has only succeeded in getting IE9 back in the pack so far it is still the slowest, but by a lot less. Browsers that run on multiple platforms are presumably less likely to get a thorough tweaking to run especially well on one particular OS.
He also said that IE9 will utilize hardware acceleration to render graphically-rich sites faster and better.
Read More Google Hoped to acquire AdMob in the next several months
Google said it hoped to close the acquisition in the next several months. Google, which already sells ads on mobile phones, offers a wide variety of mobile phone applications and makes the Android software that some handset makers use to power their phones. Google is hoping to replicate its success in selling Web ads in the mobile arena.
Google has agreed to acquire AdMob, a fast-growing start-up that developed technology to place ads on mobile phones, for $750 million in stock.
AdMob, Founded in 2006, calls itself the world\'s largest mobile advertising marketplace. Today the mobile has a huge growth opportunity. The opportunity working with AdMob to really accelerate our efforts in an important industry. Google said that the acquisition would help the Internet search company to speed up efforts to develop more effective tools for creating and placing mobile ads on smartphones and other devices, a small but rapidly expanding market.
AdMob, which specializes in placing banner ads on mobile phones, would help cement Google\'S forays in display advertising, an area where it has lagged rivals like Yahoo. The all-stock deal is modest for Google, given it\'s roughly $177 billion market value. But it is the third-largest in its history, behind the $3.1 billion deal for the advertising specialist DoubleClick and the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube.
Read More Sony to release the new netbook Slim Sony VAIO X in India and Sony VAIO X Features
Sony to release the new net book Slim Sony VAIO X in India. It is said to be lightest and slimmest one in the world.
Sony\'s managing director informed that they are targeting to capture 20 percent share of the consumer notebook market by fiscal 2010.
Sony has also launched three new models recently, now they offers new netbook Sony VAIO X in two models VPCX113KG for Rs. 64,990 and VPCX117LG for Rs. 84,990 - both with one year international warranty. The Sony Vaio X is going to be promoted by Kareena as the brand ambassador. Though it has a slim and light, the new Sony VAIO X is can perform close to MacBook Air? Let us see the features of Sony VAIO X.
Sony VAIO X Features:
Read More - Sony VAIO X comes with 11.1-inch LED Backlit display offering 1366x768 pixel resolution which is enough to playback 720p HD videos.
- Graphics support is offered through Intel GMA 500 mobile integrated graphics.
- Boasted as lower power Atom chips, processors support Intel Virtualization as well as Hyper Threading technology.
- Sony packs 2GB DDR2 RAM and 64GB SSD in the base model (VPCX113KG) while other model (VPCX117LG) has 128GB SSD storage.
- It Features Ethernet and VGA out ports, this VAIO X lacks HDMI out.
- Aluminum isolation keypad as proper spacing between keys and will remind you of unibody MacBook Pro keyboard.
- The track pad supports multi-touch gestures life flips, zoom and others.
- VAIO X weighs merely 655gms and is about half an inch thin.
- Battery packed by default offers 3.5 hours battery life in VPCX113KG model but with optional LL battery pack can boost battery life to 14 hours.
- The other VPCX117LG model gets 6.5 hours of battery life and can be boosted to 16 hours with optional LL battery pack.
Reliance announced the launch of Cloud Computing Services in India
Reliance announced the launch of reliance cloud computing services in India based upon the Microsoft platform.
Cloud computing is an up-and-coming computing technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access.
Reliance cloud computing services include infrastructure services such as server hosting, data storage and archival, as well as business applications like e-mail, ERP, workflow automation, document management; IT monitoring and reporting, disaster recovery, firewall services, automatic security updates and may more
This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth. Reliance Cloud Computing Services is available on the pay-as-you-go model. Small and large businesses will be able to address their technology necessities without bearing costs involved in procuring, deploying and maintaining added IT resources. Reliance will provide enterprises and SMBs in India, access to a variety of enterprise scale IT solutions, applications and services on the pay as you go model. Microsoft’s virtualization and management technologies will help Reliance lessen the input costs involved in providing these services.
Read More WiMAX Technology In India will spur growth
A global debate is still on, but most experts consider technologies like WiMAX close to fourth generation (4G) services, offering better speeds than 3G on GSM networks. It is constrained by the fact that it does not provide enough mobility currently and experiments are on in some countries to offer full mobile voice and data service on such networks.
Intel to be in talks with leading Indian telecom companies like Tata Communications (formerly VSNL), Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications that could bid for broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum to be auctioned by the government in January 2010.
Talks are currently centered on Intel offering Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access or WiMAX (which provides for wireless transmission of data and up to 75 Mb/sec speed) technology one of the popular BWA technologies to the operator.
Intel also plans to follow a grouping approach in India to roll out WiMAX-based broadband services in India, similar to its approach to the US and other markets, including Japan, where it has partnered with the likes of Google and Sprint.
The Department of Telecommunications recently released the information memorandum to auction spectrum for third generation (3G) and BWA services.
Last December, state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, had invited bids from potential franchisees to provide mobile WiMAX to its customers in 16 circles last December.
Around 28 companies, including majors like Intel Technology India, Alacatel-Lucent India, Motorola India, Moser Baer Industrial Infrastructure, Huawei, HCL Infosystems, Larsen & Toubro Infotech and TCIL, figured among those who bought the tender documents.
The government hopes that by auctioning BWA spectrum, broadband through wireless technology would spur growth.
Read More Microsoft\’s Windows 7 becomes more popular on first weekend release
Microsoft\'s Windows 7 is consider to be the most successful OS launch. Windows 7\'s first weekend among the public looks very good. A good thing is that the company\'s revenue was attributed to Windows 7 pre-sales worth about $3 billion.
Microsoft also offer deals to students looking to get a copy of Windows and this time around was no exception. Microsoft offered a Windows 7 upgrade to students for $29.99. Students were able to download the discounted OS from a dedicated Website starting October 23rd 2009.
Now Getting Windows 7 on a netbook using a flash drive was possible before, but Microsoft\'s new tool makes it that much easier. The new tool also fits into Microsoft\'s goal of getting Windows 7 on as many netbooks as possible.
As the weekend progressed, four separate issues surfaced, including Windows 7 installs getting hung up and corrupted download files. Two issues involved users trying to upgrade from a 32-bit operating system to Windows 7\'s 64-bit version. Microsoft has posted information and solutions for these issues on this forum thread.
The launch saw some unexpected glitches, and some compatibility issues still need to be resolved. So far, Windows 7 news has seen a mix of positive reviews. However many Windows users around the globe have been itching to get their hands on the new operating system.
Read More Google social search go live as a Google Labs project on Monday
Google now ready to show its new concept for social search, which will go live as a Google Labs project on Monday.
Google Social Search links the concepts of so-called real-time search with Google Profiles and custom search results, allowing searchers to find content created by friends or contacts with Google Profiles.
Google Social Search was developed separately without the Twitter deal in mind,. The opt-in service provides your Gmail contacts and friends on public social-networking services with the content you\'ve linked to your Google Profile, such as blogs, Twitter or Friendfeed accounts, or any number of published materials.Those links will be placed at the bottom of the search results page for now.
Public social-networking content from friends of friends will also be available through this service, with a description of how that person\'s content is linked to your network appearing within the search result.
Read More Twitter teamed up with Indian network carrier company Airtel
Airtel to introduce SMS tweets. Presently, the ‘tweeting’ service in India works only on a web or a WAP site.The SMS service by means of Twitter was earlier launched in several countries including US, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. A year ago, Twitter SMS updates were available in India but later Twitter suspended the SMS updates because of the cost associated with them.
According to the Official Twitter Blog, Airtel subscribers can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free. Users can send tweets from their Airtel mobile phones just for Re. 1. Now Airtel user can check out the Twitter service by texting START to 53000 by means of their handset.
Airtel tie-up with Twitter would be exclusive just for four weeks, indicating that after that period, the service may also be offered by other service providers in India.
Bharti Airtel is offering people in every city, village, remote taluk and even the smallest panchayat, the chance to connect to Twitter with no additional fees.
Read More Google\’s New technology: Wave
Google issued invitations to developers to test its new online tool. The new online tool named as Wave, which marries real time communication with natural language tools.
The new technology lets users create a wave and add people to it. Members of a wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets and feeds from other Web sources. In addition, users can directly insert a reply or edit in the wave. And since it\'s live, concurrent rich-text editing, users can instantly see what their fellow members are typing in their wave. Natural language processing is another Wave feature, which is basically an automatic spell correction system. Wave also features e-mail gateways that link to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Google issued invites to 100,000 developers, who can each ask five other testers to join their wave. Google also has asked developers to create their own APIs for the Wave offering.
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