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Google trialing 1Gbps fiber Internet across US
Feb 11th
Google today upturned the US Internet business by promising Google Fiber for Communities. The “experimental” service will give between 50,000 and 500,000 users 1Gbps fiber optic service, or more than 20 times faster than the fastest readily available Internet access in the US. At peak speeds, it would be enough to download a full HD movie in about five minutes and could support such exotic content as 3D video webcasts.
The trial service would be used by Google to test very high-bandwidth Internet apps and would even be used to help other companies, as Google plans to test new techniques for More >
Social Networking Gets Smart, Gains Location Awareness:Google Launches Buzz
Feb 10th
Google has been an innovator for years now. They fundamentally changed the way we searched for items on the Internet, and for many, they have changed how one perceives email. Gmail and Google (search engine) are both best-in-class tools, and the Android operating system is seriously challenging iPhone OS and webOS. Needless to say, the world pays attention when Google makes a move, and it’s making a huge move this morning in the social networking space.
During a press conference today at the company’s Mountain View headquarters, Google Buzz was introduced. This is the first web-based tech to be introduced by More >
Google working on live speech-based translation phone
Feb 9th
Google are apparently developing a live, speech-based translation system that would allow multi-lingual phone conversations to be interpreted in real-time. The technology – which Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services, reckons will “work reasonably well in a few years’ time” – combines voice recognition, speech-to-text and voice synthesis, all of which are separately available from the search giant but not yet in a combined fashion.
“Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that’s what we’re working on. If you look at the progress in machine translation and corresponding More >
