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by Popa Adrian Marius

Google buys another thousand IBM patents

September 15, 2011 in News

In July, Google bought 1030 patents from IBM to bolster its patent portfolio. Now, Google has done it again with a second purchase of, this time, 1022 patents from IBM. The transaction, which appears to have taken place on 17 August, was discovered by the SEO by the Sea blog, and was confirmed by a Google spokesperson talking to a Bloomberg reporter.

The patents in the new deal include mobile patents such as Cellular telephone communication and Location updating, and search patents such as Audible presentation of a web page, dynamic hyperlink text and balancing browser bandwidth use. There are also Java-related patents including “Mapping Enterprise Java Bean attributes to a database schema“, and scripting patents such as “Scripting language blocks to support multiple scripting languages in a single web page“.

It is estimated that – with this new transaction, the acquisition of Motorola Mobility, other patent purchases and Google’s own patents – the search engine company now has around 20,000 patents in its arsenal. At the start of the year, Google had only 809 patents.

Google has begun deploying some of those 20,000 patents in defence of Android partners by transferring patents to them. It moved nine patents to HTC earlier this month to assist it in its defence against Apple; the patents were previously owned by Motorola Mobility and OpenWave Systems. HTC has already deployed these patents in a new lawsuit accusing Apple of infringement. What its plans are for the patents which aren’t related to mobile technology is currently unclear.

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by Popa Adrian Marius

Google and Intel team up for x86 Android

September 15, 2011 in Android X86, News

Google and Intel have announced they will be working to optimise the open source Android operating system for Intel’s Atom processors. To date, Google has supported ARM processors, and although there have been unofficial ports of Android to x86-based processors, this is the first time that Google has officially taken part in the effort to run Android on Intel hardware. The announcement, made at the Intel Developer Forum, was described as building on the companies’ joint initiatives to enable Intel architecture support for ChromeOS and Google TV.

The arrangement will mean that future versions of Android, such as the currently version-numberless Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), will include x86 support and Intel-specific optimisations which would allow Intel to offer better low-power performance. Google’s Andy Rubin said: “Combining Android with Intel’s low power smartphone roadmap opens up more opportunity for innovation and choice. This collaboration will drive the Android ecosystem forward”.

At the announcement, Intel demonstrated a smartphone based on a 32 nm Medfeld SoC (System on a Chip) running Android 2.3 as a reference design. AnandTech were given a demonstration of the Medfeld smartphone, which is expected to arrive in the market to compete with the next generation of ARM-based SoC’s like the quad-core Kal-El from NVIDIA.

Timetables for other releases were not discussed by the new partners; a recentIntel presentation slide noted that Android 2.3, Gingerbread, would be available on the Atom E6xx in January 2012. It appears, from the announcement, that Android is now Intel’s preferred operating system, at least for smartphones – a position previously held by MeeGo until Nokia disengaged from the project. Whether this new partnership will have an effect on Intel’s commitment to MeeGo is unclear.

News via H-online http://h-online.com/-1342751

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by Jancsi Farkas

Google developer day 2011

September 8, 2011 in News

From the Google website:

Google Developer Day will come to eight cities around the world in 2011, bringing you the future in web and mobile technologies. These one-day events feature advanced technical content on Google platforms and products from the teams that work on them.

Join us for the latest developments in Android, Chrome, HTML5, Cloud, and more in a city near you.

The list of  participating cities around the world is the following:

  • SAO PAULO - Sep 16
  • BUENOS AIRES - Sep 19-20
  • MOSCOW - Oct 10
  • PRAGUE - Oct 18
  • TOKYO - Nov 1
  • SYDNEY - Nov 8
  • TEL-AVIV – Nov 13
  • BERLIN - Nov 19

For more info, check out this page.

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by Jancsi Farkas

Google+ for Android

July 8, 2011 in Applications

Seems like Google+ finally is open for everybody who has a Google account. While you can register and start creating and using your circles from your desktop, there is also an option to use it from your phone.

Android Market has an Android version of the application, which says: “Real-life sharing rethought for mobile.” and “makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most. With your permission, Instant Upload automatically puts the photos and videos you take into a private album in the cloud, so you can share them anytime, from anywhere. And no matter where you are, the stream lets you stay in the loop about what your friends are sharing and where they’re checking in.”

A video of the application is embedded bellow:

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Unfortunately is not available for my country (Romania), but for countries where is available, can be installed from here.

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by The Admin

Google Goggles learns Russian and gets a new view

June 22, 2011 in Applications, News

Some of you may already be using the new optical character recognition (OCR) and translation of Russian in Google Goggles that we previewed at last week’s Inside Search event. Starting today, we’re pleased to introduce some additional new features, including a map view of your Search History and the ability to copy contact and text results to the clipboard. We’ve also changed the results interface to make it easier to view and navigate through your results.

Russian optical character recognition (OCR) and translation

Since Google Goggles first launched in 2009, it has been able to recognize and translate text in a number of different languages, as long as the language used Latin characters. With the launch of OCR for Russian, Goggles is now able to read Cyrillic characters. Goggles will recognize a picture of Russian text and allow you to translate the text into one of over 40 other languages. Russian OCR is also available for users of Google Goggles on the Google Search app for iOS. Очень полезно!

Map view of your search history

If you’ve enabled search history on Goggles, your history contains a list of all the images that you’ve searched for, as well as some information about where you performed the search if you chose to share your location with Google. Sometimes this can be a pretty long list, so we wanted to give you another way to sort and visualize your Goggles results.

We’ve added a map view, which shows your Goggles image search history on a map so you can quickly zoom and pan to find a query from a particular location.

Copy contact and text results to clipboard

Finally, imagine that you wanted to grab a URL or telephone number from a sign and email it to yourself. Now, Goggles gives you the option of copying the recognized text to your phone’s clipboard, allowing you to paste the test into a number of applications.

To try these new features download Google Goggles 1.5 from Android Market, or scan the QR code below with your phone.

Source: here.

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