Google Chrome, the open source video

May 2010, Google made ​​its Global IP Solutions for 68 million dollars. June 2011, Google acquired the technology makes it open source and is preparing to make it usable through specific APIs. And this is a crucial step, because it is the turning point that opens to the birth of the true anti-Skype VoIP communication between Web applications arrives , forget the client software and Google is in the navel of their own development.

The stated goal is to bring capacity in Chrome Real-Time Communications (RTC) via simple API that any developer can go to use . JavaScript and HTML 5 to be a part of the other, the project will be supported by enough to Google that Mozilla and Opera to create a new service which is conveyed by the usher browser with an alternative network to Skype and can serve as a counterpoint to Microsoft projects in the field.

Two codecs used in open framework for audio transmission: ISAC for broadband connections, and iLBC for connections are under-performing; one hand, the codec used for video transmission: VP8 , a project made ​​in Google already widely discussed in the past months due to problems of quality and intellectual property .

Skype has also used the Global IP technologies to the fourth version of the client, but later chose his own way by leveraging the solution SILK (Super Wideband Audio Coded). After Google acquired the group and its codecs and began to develop WebRTC it now intends to bring to your browser. The consequences are primarily intended to reverberate in Gmail, whose skills could be spread quickly to video. Besides Gmail, however, there is more: the API will make the system available to developers, who can then use the code to create new ideas.

At the moment not yet been provided details of the implementation time of new technology but Google promises to lead to want of Chrome (WebKit using) in a short time . Forcing, however, even Skype to a similar move in response to the threat coming. It does not mean that Skype can not have to have proper weapons to protect their empire when WebRTC represent a serious threat to the network now owned by Microsoft.

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Nokia alliance with Microsoft and new smartphones

Nokia unveils new models and try to raise its head: now the stock market has risen by 3.85% although in absolute terms the action of the Finnish mobile phone maker halved again expresses prices year to date, and if we start from March 2010 is worth almost a third (just under 12 euros then, little more than four today).

The models presented in Singapore on a number of the group, Stephen Elop, ranging from the cheapest ones (aimed primarily at emerging markets) to your smartphone N9, which should arrive in distribution during 2011. "The reality - Elop said - is that 90% of the world's population does not have or can not afford a smartphone and this creates an opportunity gap. " He added: "For Nokia is starting a new era: the beginning of this year we outlined a comprehensive strategy based on innovation, today we have made ​​important strides in establishing a new path of innovation," he added.

The move to Windows, with first products expected to arrive later this year, will be gradual and the intention is to keep alive even Symbian and Meego (born agreement with Intel). Today Nokia launched three new models of mobile phones with Symbian Series 40 (Nokia C2-02, Nokia and Nokia C2-03 C2-06) and the Nokia N9, running Meego (born agreement with Intel). Less than a month ago, Nokia had suffered a deep slide, with losses exceeding 17% in one day, because of the company's decision

to cut the estimated results for the second quarter and did not deliver the target for the entire 2011. At that time Nokia had said it expected second-quarter sales for the division telephones substantially lower than the range previously set between 6.1 and 6.6 billion euros, mainly due to lower average prices and volumes to the previous estimates .

Nokia and globally in the smartphone segment in the first quarter of 2011 was exceeded by Apple in Italy in April was still in front with 32.8% (25.9% to Apple). "With Microsoft we have built an ecosystem to fight Apple and Android," said a spokeswoman for Nokia in Italy, adding that the group "still has room for growth."

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Google will strip, thought to be a virgin

Google has confirmed the investigation by the Federal Trade Commission early yesterday ( Google playing dirty, a survey to see clearly ). The house in Mountain View has received formal notification of the investigation was initiated and has expressed its readiness to cooperate with the authorities in the months to follow , in order to wipe out any doubts about its business model in the fields of advertising and research.

The company has published a posting on his blog, Google Fellow Amit Singhal drawn from, in order to clarify some points that are important, a sort of open letter to its users. "At Google, we always put you in the first place . Our goal is to provide relevant answers as quickly as possible. People seem to like the innovation of our products, in a world where competition is just a click away . However, we recognize that our success has brought increased attention on us . "

"It is still unclear what are the concerns of the FTC . From the beginning we have been guided by the idea that if we focus on you, everything would come as a result. No matter what you're looking for - buy a cinema ticket , find the best burger vendor nearby or watch the royal wedding - we want to give you the information you require in the shortest possible time. Sometimes the best result is a link to another site. Other times it is a news, sports scores , the share of stock, a video or a map . "

"Instant answers. New sources of knowledge. Powerful tools, all free. In just 13 years we have built a model that has changed the way people find answers, and helped large and small businesses to create jobs and interact with new customers ".

" Using Google is a choice and there are many other options available to obtain information : other general search engines, specialized, the ability to navigate directly to the websites, mobile applications, social networks and more. Because there are so many options available to you, we work constantly to make the best research. "

Google believes it has always worked according to some "guiding principles", which enabled it to become what it is today. "The first is to do what is best for you. We operate hundreds of changes to our algorithms every year to improve the search experience . Not all sites can appear at the top of the results page, or even in the first. "

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Samsung brings to Europe the first Chromebook

Debuts today in Europe the stylish Samsung's 5 Series, the first Chromebook the world created specifically for the principles of speed, simplicity and safety for those who live their lives online.

"The idea on which the Chromebook is revolutionary: to expand the common perception of computing. Many people today adopt a lifestyle focused totally on the web and connect from home, while traveling and at work. Instead of starting from an existing model of notebook, and then adapt it to the web, we have created from scratch a project that can meet the specific needs of these people, "said Dinesh Chand, Head of Mobile Computing, Samsung Europe.

The original text of this announcement in the language of origin, is the official version prevails. The translations are provided solely for the convenience of the reader and must return to the original text, which is the only legally valid.

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Apple's wireless between innovation and bug fixes

iPhone OS 5 beta 2 and yesterday was in the air was distributed to developers that are already testing.

Several innovations that are leading us towards the final release of the next fall and that, judging from the work in progress, will be very articulate.

For now we have this 9A5248d, well the burden of 817 MB and installed it as usual with a recovery, since the OTA update might only come with the iPhone OS 5 beta 3.

The main novelty of quetsa version, in addition to the correction of several bugs that plagued such as the keyboard, the lack of backgrounds, clock hours in the wrong settings and various other things, relate to the presence of the possibility of synchronizing wireless, Wi-Fi with iTunes 10.5 beta 2, also made ​​available yesterday, the new logo, probably the final, icloud; IMessage only works between users with the same beta installed.

Several others are new, we completely Fabian explains in THIS post, but the way to Apple's wireless has been undertaken and it seems well under way, and sync wirelessly icloud things were expected for months, maybe years, and now they are coming. Set up is not easy and it takes time to do so. Who has tried the new features, despite all the difficulties of physiological beta has already been noted the progress made by apple and the goodness of these features.

As for battery life - the Achilles' heel of the latest releases and even the beta of iPhone OS 5 beta 1 in particular - seems to have been improved but need a few more days to provide the correct data.

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Tablet, new low cost 8 and 10.1-inch Archos

More news from home Archos for all those who do not want to give the tablet without spending a fortune.

Archos is moving in this direction with new devices from 259 euros and in particular there are two new models, namely the ' G9 80 and Archos' Archos 101 G9.

The first is a tablet with an 8-inch display with a resolution of 1024 x 768 dots, and Google's Android operating system in its version 3.1. As for the heart of the machine will find a dual core ARM processor 1.5 GHz, a physical memory 16 GB of flash. As for connectivity, there will be modules for WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. All at a list price that will start from 259 euros.

The second, the 'Archos 101 G9, has a 10.1 inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 points and operating system Adrnoid Honeycomb 3.1. This model has a dual-core ARM processor and a physical memory of 16 GB of flash type, with the possibility to choose the 250 GB hard drive. and the first case the price will be 299 euros and this' last of 399 euros. Both devices are equipped with USB port and HDMI output.

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Apple's new complaint for the App Store

In the focus this time the open source startup amah and the goal to block the generalization of the term.

Apple has reported a small startup that deals with open source, Amah, for ' use on its website the term "app store", which Cupertino is trying to get the exclusive. The first to oppose the request for exclusive by Apple of the term "app store" was Microsoft, which is put across to the claim of delay on the part of Cupertino to be considered as generic for "store digital applications," so without that distinctive character needed for protection intellectual property.

Then it was Amazon , which had since been reported from Cupertino, to claim the possibility of using the combination of words with the same motivations. Meanwhile, Apple had already shown a willingness to defend the legal use of the term, even denouncing MiKandi, application store for Android that red light boasted the name "app store" in this way has pushed the button of "relevance in the perception public "and avoid using common outreach .

In this the ' attack on the small Amah is more than the fear of real confusion, just the desire to prevent the spread of the coupling of generic terms as if they were to indicate stores applications.

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