China says no limits on use of Google’s Android
Google’s Android operating system has got a clean chit from China’s government!
According to the government’s remark on Wednesday, Google’s android phone will face no limits on its use by China’s phone companies as long as it complies with Chinese regulations.
The Chinese government has assured that the dispute over the web censorship would not affect their relationship. Google Inc. had postponed the launch of its own smart phone in China following its Jan. 12 announcement that it will no longer censor search results.
While many other companies in China are also developing Android-based phones, penalizing Google could hurt their market too.
At a news briefing, Zhu Hongren, a spokeman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said, “As long as it fulfills Chinese laws and regulations and has good communication with telecom operators, I think its application should not have restrictions.”
Google Chrome 4.0 stable version released for Windows
Google has released a better, stable version of Google Chrome 4.0 browser for Windows.
The extensions, about 1,500 of them, were already released in December last year for the users of Chrome 4.0 bowers beta version. However, now the gallery is available for all the Windows users. While the extensions are already available for Linux, the process is still under development for Apple Mac. It might be released in another year’s time.
Ian Fette, Google’s Product Manager ensured that the new extensions use a multi-process technology that’ll ensure they do not slow down the browser or cause a crash.
Indeed extensions are among the most popular features that have gained Mozilla Firefox such huge popularity, allowing the users to add functions and other helpful shortcuts for common tasks.
Google claims that its new release Chrome 4.0 browser is much faster and boosts the speed by almost 42 percent over the last stable release. Chrome 4.0 has been tested faster than Mozilla Firefox 3.6 in three of the four tests.
The stable version of Chrome 4.0 can be downloaded from Google’s website.
Google, Apple in high-tech battle
The relationship between Google Inc. and Apple Inc. is now transforming into a power struggle as both the ambitions and ideas of the technology trendsetters increasingly collide with each other!
As both giants, Google and Apple are in a race to tap the mobile market, realizing it as key to success and sales, the high-powered phones for web-surfing has become the centre point of their brewing battle.
And not only this, the rivalry is fast spilling into other products, including web browsers, computer operating systems and digital music amongst others.
With Google announcing its plans on Tuesday to sell its own cell phone, the rivalry has been refueled.
Google, with its newly launched phone called Nexus One, is aiming to woo the audience providing them an advanced phone than the iPhone and Blackberry.
Google launches Nexus One phone
As per the speculations, internet search giant, Google Inc, revealed its very own smart phone on Wednesday. With this, the internet giant is aiming to boost its position in the emerging mobile Internet market by exerting greater control over the new generation of Web-surfing devices.
This smartphone, dubbed as Nexus One, will be sold directly to consumers.
The sleek touchscreen phone is Google’s boldest venture outside its traditional Internet business. This will also be the first time that an 11-year-old company will sell a consumer electronics device bearing its well-known brand.
However, despite a positive response to Google’s new phone, analysts say the phone is not as revolutionary in design as Apple Inc’s iPhone was at its time. Despite various favorable reviews from across the globe, experts also noted that the phone doesn’t have any major revolutionary features different from others in the market that run Google’s Android software.
The Nexus One ships immediately and exclusively from Google’s online store for $179 with a two-year contract from Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA, or $529 without a service plan.
Google plans to launch its own phone
According to the latest press reports, the internet search giant Google is aiming to strengthen its presence in the world of mobile telephony with its plans to introduce its very first high-tech phone sometime soon with the dawn of the New Year.
According to the Wall Street Journal reports and other sources close to Google, the Mountain View, California, based giant is expected to release a phone called ‘Nexus One’ that runs Google’s Android operating system.
It also added that the company is aiming to sell the phone directly to consumers, skipping mobile service providers.
Until now, Google has always been dependent on other companies, like HTC, Samsung or Motorola, to provide network support and hardware.
According to the reports, the new phones will be manufactured by Taiwanese phone maker HTC. Incidently, this company has already produced a lot of phones that use Android.
Google plans Android event in January
Amid wide spread speculation that Google plans to release its own smartphone, the internet giant announced its plans on Tuesday to hold a press event next month about its Android mobile phone operating system.
The Mountain view, California based internet giant Google has sent invites to the press, asking them to attend an “Android press gathering” on January 5 at the company’s headquarters.
The invitation said, “With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we’ve seen how a powerful, open platform can spur mobile product innovation. And this is just the beginning of what’s possible.” However, it did not provide any further details about the event.
This invite, however, comes amid all the speculations that Google is prepared to release its own brand smartphone called “Nexus One”. This phone is expected to be sold directly to the customers without any tie-up with any of the telecom carriers.
The device is also being tested by the Google employees internally.
Facebook COO nominated to Disney board
The Walt Disney Co. announced on Wednesday that chief operating officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg has been nominated to serve on the board of directors of the US media and entertainment giant.
In a statement released by the company, the vote on Sandberg’s nomination and the re-election of the other 12 Disney directors by the Disney shareholders is due at the company’s next annual meeting, to be held in San Antonio, Texas, on March 10, 2010.
Robert Iger , the Disney president and their chief executive said, “Sheryl has been at the forefront of a technological revolution that’s opened up a world of new possibilities for consumers and which has greatly affected the way we do business.”
He added, “Her unique insight, born of great practical experience, will be of considerable value to Disney’s shareholders.”
Sandberg, 40, has served as COO of the social networking giant, Facebook since March 2008. Earlier she was the vice president of global online sales and operations with Google.
Google pays no tax on £1.6 bn earning in UK
Believing the media reports, internet search giant, Google Inc. has not paid any tax on its £1.6 billion advertising revenues in Britain last year.
According to a report published in the Sunday Times, “Google, the Internet giant whose informal corporate motto is ‘don’t be evil’, did not pay any tax on its £1.6 billion advertising revenues in Britain last year.”
As per the report, the Mountain View, California based internet giant legally avoided paying more than £450 million in corporation tax to HM Revenue & Customs in 2008. The company succeeded as it diverted all its advertising earnings from customers in Britain to its Irish subsidiary.
Citing accounts filed with the Companies House in the past week, the daily newspaper reported, “Google’s 2008 UK corporation tax bill amounted to just £141,519, and that was tax on the interest generated by its cash pile in UK bank deposits.”
Google gets digital foothold in France
The Internet search giant on Monday began scanning the half a million books from the grand Municipal Library of Lyon. On a contract to scan them within ten years, Google’s effort to digitize the world’s books got a fresh motivation, despite fierce resistance to from the French authorities.
The Lyon library, whose books are municipal and not national property, announced the offer for the digitisation project in 2006. Mountain View California based Google was the only one to come up with a formal bid.
The French government on the other hand has also given mixed statements, vowing to protect France’s heritage from private interests on one hand, and also not ruling out a project deal with Google on the other!
On Monday, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President said the country’s government would spend 750 million euros to digitally scan “the content of our museums, our libraries and our cinematographic heritage via a public-private partnership.” However, Sarkozy did not mention who the private partner would be.
Meanwhile the European countries have started their own projects to rival Google in scanning books. The EU site Europeana and the BNF’s Gallica offer portals to view old works scanned online.
Google fined $14,300 a day
A Paris court slapped Google Inc. a fine of $14,300 per day or euro10,000 as it ruled that the internet search giant’s expansion into digital books breaks France’s copyright laws.
The Mountain View, California based company shall be fined everyday until it stops showing literary snippets.
Besides the daily fine, the largest search engine company was also ordered to pay $430,000 or euro300,000 in damages and interest to French publisher La Martiniere, which brought the case on behalf of a group of French publishers.
Alexandra Neri, Google’s attorney said that the company shall appeal against the ruling.
This decision of the court may further obstruct Google’s from realizing its 5-year-old goal of scanning all the world’s books into a digital library accessible to anyone anywhere with an internet connection.
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