Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Google Health is switched off
Google has invited the remaining users of its Google Health Health Service strongly to 31 December 2012 to copy all data from the health service. The year, all remaining data will be gone. Both Google and Microsoft offer U.S. citizens tools to copy the personal health record from Google Health to Microsoft HealthVault.
In June 2011, Google decided the end for Google Health. Launched in 2008, the supply could not meet Google's high expectations and remained with less than 10,000 users of magnitude below the set targets. The criticism from privacy advocates, a search engine aggregiere medical data, Google could not refute convincingly.
For the final of the offer described Google as a complete personal health record as a ZIP file is stored locally or directly Microsoft HealthVault can be passed. If the user login it into Google Health found no data in their medical records, they had completed a successful migration, Google explains the procedure.
Apple VS Google in economic data
Apple and Google are already a few years fighting for world supremacy of consumer technology. Their operating systems dominate the market for mobile and tablets, and in terms of sales and value of their products already said pretty much everything. Today we will talk about the real value of the companies and on the overall measure both its position and its success or failure.
The vast majority of people who follow the latest technological, and read so many news both Google and Apple are interested in technological warfare. Which of the two do get the best screens, the finest mobile, those with better battery and especially who gets to have the best software in the devices. Rivers of ink have been written about his fight on maps, on sales of each and their respective trade policy with respect to the price and quality of their products.
But shareholders, who are played for real money when a company does poorly or well, are indicative that usually give more accurate the assessment.
It is true that Google sells more smartphones than Apple, but this does not indicate that the Korean company has better health than his rival California. In fact the battle on Wall Street is leaning toward Apple.
The Cupertino went public on December 12, 1980. That day each share was sold for $ 22. Those who invested in the long run that time became one of the best business in Wall Street history. Today, if you eliminate the three divisions of Apple shares, those shares are trading at $ 529.69, an increase of 19,150%.
Google went public instead much later, as it is a younger company. The Mountain View sold its action the first day, August 25, 2004, to $ 85. Those shares are now worth $ 702.70, representing an increase of 725%.
As we see today, Google stock is more expensive than Apple, although this is not the only one that investors use when measuring the ability of each to generate money. In fact, this year, Apple's shareholders have been on top. Despite the 30% drop in Apple's stock from its highest point, still have a gain of 39% for the end of 2012. Meanwhile, the Google brand in 2012 has a gain of 9%.
To these data we can add that Apple is by far the world's most valuable company, worth almost 500 billion dollars. That's more than twice the valuation of 230 billion dollars from Google. In addition, the Cupertino trading at 44.2 times its profits per share, excluding special items, the company said S & P Capital IQ. Correspondingly, the Google brand listed on 32 times.
For all that Apple continues to lead, because it is still very profitable for everyone to invest in it, because it is a safe bet. In fact, Apple's earnings to give short-term investors 29.1 billion dollars and 92 billion additional dollars in long-term investments, virtually impossible for another company.
So, ignoring those who are risking their money, we can see that Apple still has an iron, and it is quite possible that as a result continue to lead the technology market for long.
Google escapes an antitrust suit in the U.S.
The U.S. government will, according to media reports, no effort competition complaint against Google. After some voluntary concessions of the Internet group could the ongoing investigation for about two years to be set later this week, the Wall Street Journal. The most serious accusation of competitors, Google has penalized them in the search results in favor of their own services, be off the table, wrote the New York Times.
Was one of the concessions that Google will rely less on restaurant reviews and travel stories from other web sites and facilitate the exchange of advertising campaigns to other search engines, reported the website Politico and the New York Times. In addition, the Internet company will not enter into exclusive deals only for the use of its search engine to websites more. Official figures were not there.
Most recently, Google CEO Larry Page, media reports had not personally in the negotiations with the U.S. competition watchdogs. According to earlier information, the head of the FTC, Jon Leibowitz, Google had indeed threatened with a lawsuit and competitive concessions demanded. However, there has been considerable concern in the authority with regard to the prospects of success of such an action.
Google has. In the U.S. with a market share of approximately 67 percent of a dominant position in the search engine business A lawsuit against Google in the U.S. would be the biggest competition case in the IT industry since the actions of the U.S. government against Microsoft in the 90s.
Should the FTC actually decide against a lawsuit, for the Google antitrust issue was not conclusive from the table. The Internet company is in fact made in Europe by the European Commission in a competitive examination under the microscope. In Europe, the market share of Google is even higher than in the U.S.. In Germany, even about 95 percent of all search queries on Google are served.
As part of the agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission monitors Google should probably change his handling of the patents that belong to the basis of technical standards. Here Google will inevitably have to sign an undertaking, it said. On examination it is about the allegation that Google competitors withheld licensing of such patents from the arsenal of the acquired phone manufacturer Motorola and have used in court against its competitors. Google will have to commit themselves to award licenses for the standard patents on fair terms - what is already common in the industry.
Google takes Paketbox providers
By search engines and mobile platforms Google plans to expand the online shipping and industry Primus Amazon to compete. This corresponds with the 17 million dollar acquisition of Canadian startup company BufferBox, reported under the other of GoogleWatchBlog.
BufferBox is comparable with the DHL Packstation service that only packets that give the BufferBox mailboxes and not let the BufferBox can be equipped by all parcel services. After delivery of the package, the customer receives an email with a PIN with which he can pick up his delivery to the box.
Yet the BufferBox service of just two years old startups in the sample phase and the end of 2012 is free. Moreover BufferBox stations are available only in Toronto. The Bufferbox-founders celebrate her blog the acquisition by Google - especially now a financially strong company can accelerate the expansion of the shipping service.
Google CEO meets with U.S. antitrust guards
Google CEO Larry Page has taken action in person, according to a media report in negotiations with the U.S. competition watchdogs. Page had on Tuesday met with the Federal Trade Commission Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is completing its investigation into the search engine Primus, reported the news agency Bloomberg. Google wants to convince the FTC that the company had not infringed the competition rules, it said, citing people briefed.
According to previous reports, FTC chief Jon Leibowitz Google had indeed threatened with a lawsuit and competitive concessions demanded. However, there are significant concerns in the authority with regard to the prospects of success of such an action. Google negotiating a week ago about a deal, Bloomberg wrote now.
In the run for more than one year investigation, it is all about the accusation of competitors, Google them at a disadvantage in its Internet search engine in favor of their own services. The Group counters that he operate the search engine for users and not for other online services. Google is also made in Europe by the European Commission in a competitive examination under the microscope.
Foray into the Fiber Hood
Google wants to develop with gigabit network connections a new business. Experts cast doubt on whether "Google Fiber" can expect.
So far, Google is known for online services of all kinds. But now, the group ventured on a new business: Network services. In Kansas City for the first time Google has installed fiber optic lines with the stunning data transfer rate of one gigabit per second - 100 times larger than the average bandwidth in the U.S. of 11.6 megabits per second.
Google Chrome for OS X sandbox
The Apple operating system was the latest desktop platform, the Chrome did not have a sandbox for Flash Player. In the Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS versions of the browser, Google had incorporated this technique some time ago.
The Chrome developer Scott Hess reported that Google has been working since 2010 in collaboration with Adobe on the protection of Flash Player for Chrome. The sandbox is a very secured area to protect the operating system from the exploitation of security holes.
U.S. Google last a complaint for abuse of dominant position
Narrows the siege against Google. The Federal Trade Commission U.S. (FTC, for its acronym in English) is finalizing an investigation that could recommend the filing of a complaint against the computer company for abuse of dominant position in the market for Internet searches.
According to several sources have said there is an internal memory FTC recommended sue Google for abuse of dominant position. The U.S. agency launched an investigation for months for this purpose which is expected to end in late November or early December.
This is not the first research that opens against Google. This past July, the search engine announced an agreement with the European Commission to avoid a hefty fine for abusive practices, but the deal has not been closed yet and details are unknown. In July, the Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the agreement with Google would have a global reach.
Behind these investigations are one company, Google rivals in travel services, online shopping, and entertainment, which have accused the search engine favor one over other pages, pages that are owned by Google.
Chrome and Opera with new betas
Google has released a new beta version of its browser: Chrome 23 beta brings the track support the possibility to split HTML-5 video into chapters, add descriptions, metadata and subtitles.
Google will continue with two new APIs developers interesting tools at hand: The Media Source API detects the speed of the Internet connection and fits abzuspielendes video for a smooth frame accordingly. With the Peer Connection API allows audio and video streams without additional plugins from the browser to build in order to perform, for example, audio or video calls.
Opera 12.10 beta version puts the focus on his browser Apple users. So now even retina displays and operating system features of Mac OS X Lion Mountain as the Notification Center or the parts function are supported.
For users of Windows 7 or 8 brings Opera with an improved touch operation. Moreover, now Google's SPDY protocol network is supported, which should be faster and more secure than HTTP - it encrypted by default with SSL.
New interfaces like the Context Menu API with which you can add context menu extensions facilitate the work of developers.
Iran blocked Google and Gmail because Islam hostile Video
Iran has announced to block in response to the anti-Islamic video "Innocence of the Muslims," the search engine Google and the mail service Gmail. The Guardian reported, citing a government censor. From the announcement, the blockade will apply until further notice, however, was not the result, whether it is temporary or not. Reason for this move is Google's refusal to take the heavily criticized Trailer from Youtube. Google and Gmail will now be blocked because they are viewing the links to the movie. In other countries, the video portal Youtube itself had been locked.
Now announced the blockade of two popular services but fits with Iranian plans to decouple the country from the Internet and set up a national network. In recent days, in a first step, all government offices were connected to the new Iranian power. By March 2013, the process to be completed, according to the Economic Times, which is still not clear whether it actually a complete decoupling of the country will be accompanied by the Internet. It could also simply the connection of important institutions of the country are cut off from the global network.
Microsoft warns Google
The current display is likely to be understood as a continuation of Bingiton campaign in the beginning of the month Microsoft users had requested, the results of both machines compare with any search terms directly with each other. Covering that www.bingiton.com website is not readily achievable from Germany because the country and mucking speech recognition by Bing. Those who still want to catch a glimpse of it is, ironically, in the Google Web cache find. Even the accompanying video is also available.
Google is infringing Skyhook patents for position determination
The company Skyhook Wireless Inc. sued Google because the search engine and Android manufacturers allegedly nine patented technologies of the provider of wireless location data illegally exploited. It is the second time that Skyhook Google pulls into court, because two years ago, there were patent disputes around the positioning using wireless information. Eight of the patents at issue Skyhook now since the last court transitional get issued as patent observer Florian Mueller wrote in his blog, Engadget has published the 28-sided application.
Among the disputed patents for geolocation are several methods to detect based on GPS position information changes of wireless access points. Two others deal with the estimation of the position based on the Wi-Fi signal quality.
Google News: New Metatag for news
Sometimes make the headlines of news stories the algorithms of Google News is not easy. That with the message "NRW pirates make proposal on copyright" is about the pirate party, they should still can infer from the context of copyright, but what is at stake in "Attack of the sex cam"?
Thus, even with such headlines an assignment is possible, Google has now introduced a new metatag news_keywords intended to help Google News on better assign content. The words contained therein must occur anywhere in the headline or the article, but should describe the content. An article in Google's Help Center describes its use in detail.
Maps for Amazon Kindle Fire
Google finds the term "Amazon Maps" maps especially in the Amazon, but for the owner of a Kindle Fire, the term may soon also be a mapping service of the manufacturer Amazon. This has quietly signed an agreement with Nokia to use its card services can, as Reuters reported in late August, citing inaugurated circles.
Now the next, very specific reference to Amazon's intentions come to light: The Kindle Developer Portal, a new Maps API Amazon has emerged, which can be taught about the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD mapping functions. Although the API is currently open only handpicked developers - you can apply for this release on the web.
But Amazon now openly declared that API should pave an easy migration path for developers who already use the Google Maps API in Android. This is to the Kindle tablet can render both interactive maps and customized overlays, for example, with business locations in default map or as a satellite image.
Google Apps soon not for Internet Explorer 8
Google has announced the end of support for Internet Explorer 8 in conjunction with their apps. Windows XP users will be characterized in the future have to change to another browser if they want to use Google services like Mail, Calendar or Reader. Because Microsoft offers its browser since version 9 no longer for Windows XP.
Google is following its policy, with each generation of browsers to drop support for the latest third-oldest version. Soon after the release of Internet Explorer 10 on 26 October is when you call a Google app in IE 8 appears therefore a reference to upgrade your browser.
Getting closer to the end of 2001 published operating system, also shows a blog entry by Adobe product manager Tom Hogarty, the presents for the next version of Photoshop also the end of support for Windows XP in prospect.
Acer uses Google for competitive system under pressure
The U.S. company Google to one report, have put the Taiwanese manufacturer Acer Android smartphones because of a planned with a different operating system under pressure. Acer have therefore canceled the idea of smartphones Cloud Mobile A800 with the operating system Aliyun, reports the Wall Street Journal. After presentation of Alibaba, the manufacturer of the popular operating system in China, Google has threatened to withdraw its Acer Android License. Acer a manager who declined to be named, had confirmed to the newspaper industry.
Although Android is a free operating system that anyone can use without manufacturer approval of Google, this is not for the additional apps like GMail, Maps, and especially access to Google's App Store Play. All this gives manufacturers only after validation by Google. Which would be open to any interested indeed free, but here Google has a means of pressuring the manufacturers. Threats of this type conform but rather a distortion of competition, like for example, was often accused of Microsoft and Intel. So had to pay Intel 1.06 billion euros in 2009 fine to the EU.
Alibaba is a major Chinese online retailer where Yahoo was involved until recently. Aliyun comes to smartphones, Haier and other Chinese manufacturers. It does not support locally installed apps, but only runs web apps - like the now set joojoo.
An Android device without the Google apps can be sold hardly except the manufacturers implemented their own solutions. Sun Fire Amazon's tablets come with its own app store. Particularly in China, there are quite a few tablets without Google Apps, which are to be installed to access alternative Chinese app stores. Also stores like Androitpit sometimes found preinstalled. All these stores carry but less than Google Apps. Buyer the slimmed devices can remedy thus, is to get the Google Apps from CustomROM circles, but retailers and manufacturers is not the way open.
Google introduces Java converter for Objective-C
As a new open source project Google released the code converter J2ObjC, the Java source code in Objective-C is to translate for iPhone-/iPad-Apps. The Java code to yourself to be directly in the build of an iOS application integrate with subsequent processing of the generated Objective-C code was not necessary.
However, these are not a Java emulator. Support is only writing code below the user interface, such as the application logic or data requests. The user interface code must still be written and Apple's iOS SDK use (or Androids API for Android Apps or GWT) in Objective-C or Objective-C + +.
Java classes are converted to Objective-C classes that directly access the iOS Foundation framework. Support is Java 6. Most runtime features, including exceptions, and anonymous inner classes, generics, threads, and Reflection JUnit tests and build tools such as Maven and makeup as well as Apple's Xcode development environment supports the command line tool as well.
Google closes vulnerabilities in Chrome for Android
In the recently published version 18.0.1025308 its Chrome browser for Google Android 7 includes classified as moderate vulnerabilities. For each of the explorers got a reward of $ 500. The blog post describes the error only in general, and the bug database reveals nothing about her.
Two vulnerabilities affect cross-application scripting (UXSS), so use of weaknesses in the browser for a XSS attack (XSS). Appropriate URLs with the scheme "file" could apparently due to two further errors authentication data (credentials) to share, and a bug granted JavaScript code to access Android APIs.
UXSS a gap had been recently discovered in the desktop version of Chrome. In March 2012, Google paid the Pwnage participants Sergey Glazunov for a record bonus of $ 60,000.
In another blog post, the Chrome developers say that they have improved the security of the sandbox, and the browser is better protected against malicious web applications. The new function using the "technology of the user ID-isolation" and will be automatically enabled for users of Android 4.1. How does it work exactly, and whether they will be retrofitted to older versions of Android, is not given in the post.
Clara Schumann and his piano, in the Google doodle
Clara Schumann, his piano and his eight children are now the protagonists of Google searches, through a new doodle to decorate the seeker, once again, your homepage. The reason this time is the 193 anniversary of the birth of German pianist, one of the most important nineteenth century. For his immense talent and the legacy he has left Clara Schumann in music history, Google has decided that this woman should become part of your list of honorees historical personalities through their almost mythical doodles, changes logo search for a day that changed the letters of the Google logo by an original illustration, video or interactive animation. And to Clara Schumann, Google has chosen one of its static doodles, a colorful picture representing the famous artist, also wife of German composer and pianist Robert Schumann, surrounded by eight small-certainly, the eight children he had with the pianist and astonished composer who observe the skill of Clara Schumann at the piano keys.
Clara Wieck, maiden name of Clara Schumann, was born on September 13, but the year 1819, in Leipzig, Germany. Today, 193 years later, Google has decided to pay a special tribute to this woman, whose father, Freidrich Wieck, piano teacher, dreamed of bringing into the world a musical genius. The woman who now plays piano in a doodle that takes the place of the letters of Google was started from small field of music, directed by his father who started his career as a concert pianist.
Clara Schumann was a true child prodigy. He made his debut at age nine in the Hall of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, two years later, at eleven, the pianist at piano keys-doodle today introduced its first full piano recital at the age of 12 and embarked on a concert tour throughout Europe that made him reap significant success in the big cities and especially in Paris, gaining public recognition, over the years, the praises of great artists such as Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Paganini.
The doodle today, plus a tribute to a great artist, also be seen as a vindication of Google the role of women in music, choosing a woman as Clara Schumann, equipped with an unquestionable musical talent to take over for Today all of your logo. Before Clara Schumann letters that crown the Google search box has been devoted to the 46th anniversary of the first episode of Star Trek, the original series, the pedagogue Maria Montessori, the media American cook Julia Child, the pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart or Viennese painter Gustav Klimt. Special mention deserves the Olympic series of doodles that Google devised to pay tribute to the 2012 London Games.
Clara Schumann, besides playing the piano and care for their eight children, he composed 66 pieces: music for solo piano, songs for voice and piano, chamber music and orchestra, no easy task for a woman of the nineteenth century also had to face innumerable problems and personal tragedies such as the separation of their parents, the premature death of some of their children and the suicide attempt and subsequent death of her husband Robert Schumann.
Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann met when the pianist came home to study with the Wieck Clara's father. The artist now feted by Google with one of his most tender doodles had then only eleven years, but gradually consolidated a solid friendship with Friedrich Wieck's pupil, eleven years her senior. Gradually, the friendship between Robert and Clara became more and both pianists began a love affair that was not so simple. Long absences from Clara Schumann, who spent periods away from home offering piano recitals throughout Europe, and the strong opposition of the father of the pianist protagonist of today's Google homepage difficult romance between the two artists, who married, finally One day before Clara Schumann fulfilled 21 years.
But Clara Schumann was not only women who accompanied Robert every day to Schumann for rest of his life. The German pianist musically influenced significantly by the fact that her husband would become a highly regarded composer, urging him to expandiese their sights and not limited to the creation for piano. Clara Schumann recommended her husband to devote himself to composition for orchestra, played in public works of Robert and inspiration for much of her husband's work.
Google: 500 million Android devices activated
500 million Android devices have now been activated worldwide, and more than 1.3 million come every day, Google's Android chief developer Hugo Barra said on Google+. Counted here are the smartphones, tablets and other devices such as cameras, the user activates the Google Play Store, so are devices without Store access as soon available also in Germany Amazon Kindle Fire HD or many China-cost devices are not even counted. Google's ex-CEO Eric Schmidt had reported on a Motorola event last week of only 480 million units, he obviously had no daily figures.
The monthly statistics on the distribution of Android versions and screen sizes, the current version 4.1 Jelly Bean meanwhile rose slightly from 0.8 to 1.2 percent market share - still bad enough. It looks better in the previous version 4, which is now running at 21 percent of the devices, which is an increase of five percentage points. Only about four percent of the devices have Android 2.1 or older. Developers can use the features of Android 2.3.3 now use on almost 82 percent of the units.
At the screen sizes grow "normal xhdpi" most of 17 to 22 percent, which are smartphones with displays from about 4.5 inches upward. Tablets ("xlarge-MDPI" the 10-incher are, "large-ldpi/mdpi/hdpi" the 7-inch) have a share of only 7 percent - have the Google Tablets overslept, Schmidt was then also last week, when he said that among the 1.3 million daily activated devices were only 70,000 tablets, or about five percent.
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