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25
Jan

YouTube reached four billion page views per day!

As Reuters reports, with reference to service representatives, YouTube is registered a new record - more than 4 million hits every day. This figure rose by a quarter over the past eight months. This growth is due to the promotion of mobile versions of the service and the involvement of professional-level videos, according to YouTube.

In this service earns only three billion page views per week. As pointed out by Reuters, in just the past year on the display advertising Google, which owns YouTube, has earned $ 5 billion

Representatives of the service indicate that users upload every minute for 60 hours of video. In May 2011 this value was 48 hours.

December 20, 2011 the number of hits on YouTube for the year reached a trillion. If the current number of daily hits to continue, then a trillion in 2012 will be reached in August.

YouTube was acquired by Google in 2006 for $ 1.65 billion, one billion daily views of service achieved in the summer of 2009.

27
Dec
Android-smartphone will never be faster than iPhone

A former trainee told why Android-smartphone will never be faster than iPhone!

Student Andrew Mann (Andrew Munn), student software development in a U.S. university and past internship at Google, explained why the touch interface Android-smartphone and tablet continues to slow down even after the transition to 2 - and 4-core, and why he will never be faster than iOS.

Android-smartphone will never be faster than iPhone

Android-smartphone will never be faster than iPhone

The fact that iOS all tasks associated with processing applications and drawing of the interface have the highest priority. In other words, when an operating system click "throws" all tasks to a single and directs resources for drawing graphics. And after it returns to the interrupted business.

In the same drawing Android interface has the same priority as any other processes. The fact that the company Google, said Mann, started to develop a platform in 2005-2006. (Ie, before, was announced iPhone), intending to compete with BlackBerry. Therefore, the source Android does not have any touch screen - but only a keyboard and trackball.

It is noteworthy that failed to correct the situation and the appearance of graphics hardware acceleration in Android 3.0 (Honeycomb): device interface still works in much the same as the iPhone three years ago, sums up the future developer. To solve this problem you must change the approach to programming Android and rewrite all the applications for the platform, says Cult of Mac. It may take at least a year - in other words, do not ever happen.

20
Oct

How does Google Make Android Against Siri in iPhone 4S

When iPhone 4S launched, people were not attracted by its same shape with iPhone 4. And better attraction is Steve Jobs's charisma and the power of iOS 5, one of the most prominent, most useful feature is Siri. As a voice recognition feature, Siri is not just identify user and execute the command, more interesting is that Siri can talk to user. Siri is equivalent to a virtual phone assistant. This is not only reminiscent, Google will add a similar feature confrontation with Siri in the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich, because Siri existing is the decisive factor that users choose Android or iPhone.

 

Although so far the rumors about Ice Cream Sandwich, and there is nothing in the speech recognition or a virtual assistant on the information, but we can not say that Google is not making efforts in this regard. On the contrary, Google has updated Android voice function through mergers and acquisitions and technology. According AndroidAndMe, Google voice recognition technology put into development after Mike Cohen joining Google in 2004. In the 10 years prior to joining Google, Mike studied the same kind of voice communication in another company. Currently Mike has helped Google launch Voice Search, Voice Actions, though it is not same powerful to Siri, Google definitely have more experience than Apple in the development of speech recognition applications.

 

In addition, Google also acquired a company called Phonetic Arts at the end of 2010, this company can provide users small tools of voice input and output, and improve automated voice conversation function. And Phonetic Arts company was acquired, its employees directly assigned to Ice Cream Sandwich on the development work, so we certainly have every reason that Google has been thinking about how to create a virtual Android phone assistant.

 

Whether google will truly create a virtual Android phone assistant or not, we can only look forward to it . Only in competition, more useful software can be developed, such as different mobile phones, different software (best ipad converter mac , video editor, dvd creator, ipad video converter, etc.), different application tools , different apps, etc. Company can make profirt, Users will also have more convenience.

1
Dec

Google is going to fight with Amazon in online books market

The most famous search engine site is going to measure themselves with the online booksellers Amazon and Barnes & Noble to market books in electronic submission.

Even before the end of this year Google will open a virtual shop window for buyers from the U.S., and next year - and for the rest of the world, says a source with the reference to "person with knowledge of the company's plans." As the project has not yet officially presented, the source wished to remain anonymous.

By project privecheny book publishers, so that the range of the store will be similar in the hundreds of thousands of items.

While Google expects to use its position in the world of search engines to challenge the dominant position in the Amazon e-books, Apple luring some potential buyers of e-books Amazon Kindle to your device iPad, which is also suitable for reading (although there is another view ) . According to the Credit Suisse Group AG, competition will lead to the fact that the market share of Amazon books in a digital representation of the five years to drop to 35%. At the beginning of the year it was equal to 90%.

A Google representative confirmed the company has plans to open an online bookstore, but did not go into details.

Source: Bloomberg