Google is preparing a translation service using humans
August 5, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Google is preparing a translation service using humans
The company is testing a platform to translate documents in the language of their choice, thanks to genuine translators.
Nowadays,many Internet sites offer automatic translation to convert a Web page or office document from one language to another. However,they are used very little by companies because of lack of effectiveness.
Aware of expectations, Google - which for its part, proposes an automated service called Google Translate - decided to use translators made by Real Human beings. Read more
With JavaFX, SUN tackles Flash and Silverlight
August 2, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
With JavaFX, SUN tackles Flash and Silverlight 
Sun has delivered its first base and executing its first software development kit for JavaFX, a technology based on Java, dedicated to the rich Internet applications.
It was waiting for a long time. Sun Microsystems has finally announced that a preliminary version of JavaFX, SDK (Software Development Kit), a development kit for its new scripting language JavaFX Script. It will develop rich Internet applications and multimedia, including audio, video, dynamic Web pages, and so on.
The strange spherical Microsoft PC in action
August 2, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
The strange spherical Microsoft PC in action
It resembles a crystal ball … but this is a prototype computer designed by researchers at Microsoft Research. Consisting of a touchscreen, Sphere is pilot with the hands.
Microsft spherical pc
Those who say that nothing ever comes out of research labs and development for Microsoft to be their own expense. At the 2008 edition of DemoFest (1), researchers at Microsoft Research unveiled yesterday in Redmond a prototype surprising: a computer consists of a touch screen-shaped ball which pilot with the hands.
Google and Yahoo! looking for cold places for their data centers
August 1, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Google and Yahoo! looking for cold places for their servers
To store all data circulating on the Web, the Internet giants need to build centers where work of thousands of computers on the verge of overheating. They must therefore target areas where fresh
energy is cheaper.
The drive-in has been razed. The Presbyterian church not far has suffered the same fate. Council Bluffs, a small town in Iowa, saw land in 2007 an army of excavators. Soon, a huge data center.
Google is going to engage in venture capital?
July 31, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
The search engine which originally was a start-up, would be on the verge of creating his own investment fund to invest in innovative start-ups.
According to the site of the Wall Street Journal, the Internet group Google is on the verge of setting up a venture capital fund to invest in innovative start-ups. This structure, according to the same source, should be headed by the vice-president of business development American, David Drummond, and Bill Maris, a longtime friend of the wife of Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. 
For now, the search engine did not confirm the information. This is not the first time a manufacturer of computer sets up this type of structure: the Intel founder, telecom equipment manufacturer Motorola and Nokia mobiles each have their own structure respectively with funds Intel Capital , Motorola Ventures and Nokia Growth Partners.
